The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 1, 1934, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THU NOVEMBER 1, 1934 Page 2 ILLINOIS JOBLESS | PrisonTerms Spanish Fascists in Frenzy MEET IN CONGRESS Given Polish | Of Mass Torture and Murder | . F ° Anti = ascists, MADRID, Oct. 31.—All the bru- | were leaving the house, after find- al | D E be) P I T E T E R R O R. tality which marks the reign of fas- | ing nothing, when they saw a stair- | \Eye Witness Tells How Police Cornered and Beat Marchers One of the hunger marchers, who, “Finally we were lined up against returned to New York yesterday| the concrete wall. This was the the hands of the white ruling class/ arter eluding the police and State | signal for the police and detectives aeece Ce eee troopers, who held all prisoners at | to set to in earnest. ‘Give them the a field on the outskirts of the city, works again,’ the captain shouted, told a graphic picture of the Police | Seme tried to clamber over the wall, attack. | but it was a drop of 60 feet below, “As we entered onto the bridge,” | 2nd they had to face the rain of Patterson Wants | LLD. for Defense, (Continued from Page 1) | LUTZK, Poland. Oct. 31—Thirty-|cism in Germany and Austria is | case leading ee apartment 24 } bei r i - |the roof. The officer in comman four workers and asants, ar- | being reproduced in the cold-blooded e |’ sted because of Af Galena | murder of revolutionary workers | ordered the owner of the apartment sai ershiP | now being carried out by the savage |to be taken to the station. He, in the Communist Party of West- | mercenaries of the Spanish Govern- | having no political activity what- | ern Polish Ukraine, have been sen- | ment. }ever, and being unused to this The letter to Brodsky follows: Joseph R. Brodsky 100 Fifth Avenue, 800 Delegates Hold Militant Session in Spring- field While Police Surround Hall—Adopt Program of United Action total of 124 years of hard labor in | prison, the three chief defendants Special to the Daily Worker) tenced here by Polish fascism to a} SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Oct. 31—Despite a full mobiliza- | having been sentenced fo 12 years tion of city, county and state police forces, nearly 800 dele- ae Accused of “participation in plot aiming at separating the gates, official and fraternal, gathered here Monday at the | South-Eastern regions from |Po- State Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance. | !@nd by means of armed revolution, Police intimidated incom and delegates, and succeeded in® turning back a delegation from Au- A number of the unemployed up on the | Cc. Yenks, ttee which Horner, rora. | delegates were picked et and held in ji chairman of presented dem was thus ai While the congress was in ses-' sion, about 150 fully armed state, | county and city police and deputy sheriffs were thrown around the hall, and virtually placed the en- tire assemblage under arrest. The police attempted to stop the dem- onstration from the congress hall to | the Capitol to present demands, and continually attempted to in-| timidate the delegates. Police Chief Nuess, together with a detachment of detectives, entered the hall de- manding that the meeting adjourn before 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The mobilization of police full substantiated the statement pub lished in the Saturday edition o! the Daily Worker that the police | intended to stop the congress through terror after a secret: meet- | ing at the Governor's office. Release Forced | | A delegation which was elected to | go to the Governor was met by a large force of police at the Capitol building, but succeeded in inter-| viewing the Governor's secretary | and secured the promise that the Governor would meet with a dele- gation when he returned to the city. The convention, after hearing the | reports of the delegation to the Governor, sent an additional dele- gation to the City Council, which met in special session. The delega- | tion presented the demands of the} congress that they will not adjourn | and the delegates will not refurn unless those arrested were imme- | diately and unconditionally re- leased. These demands were} granted and all the arrested dele- | gates returned to the convention hall. The delegates heard reports of | Karl Lockner, State Chairman, and | Herbert Benjamin, National Or- ganizer of the.. Unemployment Councils. This was followed by | very extensive reports by the dele- gates recording struggles, and a unanimous demand for unification in support of the Workers Unem-| ployment and Social Insurance Bill. | The convention unanimously | adopted a manifesto for united ac- tion and united demonstrations on | Noy. 24, and the National Congress | for Unemployment Insurance to be held in Washington on Nov. 5, 6) and 7. The convention adopted the following resolutions: against the Illinois criminal . syndicalism law, for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys, Tom Mooney, the Hillsboro prisoners, David Poindexter and his four fellow-workers in Chicago, and demanding the release of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the Commu- nist Party of Germany. The convention elected a State Committee of the Unemployment Councils of Thirty-nine, among} them leading militant members of Illinois Workers’ Alliance, women’s, youth, Negro, trade union and un- employed groups. As the convention ended, the delegates marched out of the hall, defying the police forces. F.DR. Says Living Costs Will Grow (Continued from Page 1) prospective public works adminis- | tration projects,. the newspaper estimates of which haye ranged from five to twelve billion dollars; blessed the anti-strike arbitration Proceedings of the National Labor | Relations Board in the A. & P. strike-lockout dispute; announced that he has talked over the foreign sjtuation with Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State under Hoover; refused to reveal until the end of | December just what new deal gad- get will replace the cons‘antly con- tracting. relief machinery; and praised Harry Hopkins’ farm sur- plus program. * President Roosevelt, in repeating | his recent call for further price in- creases, despite the appreciable de- crease in the real wage of the ay- €rage manufacturing worker under the new deal and the unemploy- ment increase of 847,000 (A. F. of L. figures) among industrial workers, | emphasizes the new deal election | tactic of dashing openly to consoli- date the support of the banking fraternity. It is felt that the vot- ers won't go to the Republican Party, capitalism’s other claimant for the honor of representing finance capital in Washington, be- cause the Republican tacticians have made the mistake of calling for even less, relief than is being given. Furthermore, the Roosevelt Administration realizes that the ing delegates, searched cars Hunger Marchers Enter N. Y. Capital (Continued from Page 1) 120,000,000 Americans are riff-raff, and the better elements are like the Police officials. . “We know, however, that the 119,900,000 workers will stand be- hind us.” As the mounting wave of protests swept the country, George Clark, district officer of the State Tempo- rary Emergency Relief Administra- tion, yesterday said that he had been ordered by F.E.R.A. officials in Washington to provide food and shelter now in Albany. for the marchers who are He also said that Representatives of marchers yesterday prepared to place demands for food and lodging with the relief administration while in Albany as they went forward with preparations to hold their conven- tion. Gove-nor Lehman, visited yester- day at his home in New York City by a delegation from the United Action Conference, attempted to wash his hands of all responsibility as telegrams, first sent to the Ex- ecutive Mansion in Albany, had been relayed to him at his home} by his secretary. “I want the delegates to under- stand,” he said, “that neither the national guard nor the state militia were mobilized. It is purely a local matter.” When questioned by James Gaynor, chairman of the United Action Conference, he refused to answer to the. workers’ demands |that he order the immediate release of the prisoners, instruct the police in the capitol area to not molest the marchers, provide food and lodging for the marchers, and pro- ceed to Albany at once to receive the workers’ committee with their relief demands. Z Although police disclaimed re- sponsibility for the attack Tuesday night, ~ eye-witnesses stated chat many of the police had been drunk when they attacked and turned the two marches, one from New York City and the other from the Buffalo azea, into a bloody shambles. ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 31.— Gov- ernor Lehman and city and police officials here resorted to slanderous charges against the Hunger March- ers in order to whitewash the police for the brutal attacks upon two con- tingents which entered Albany yesterday. Police Commissioner William V. Cooke, who was present at the Dunn Bridge attack, said that he was “en- tirely satisfied” with the conduct of the police. “The police will stop the dumping of riff-raff and the scum of other cities into Albany,” Cooke said. “The town is closed to that element. The police have instructions to track down those who escaped through the barriers and run them out of the city. Half of them are not citizens and most of them can’t even speak English.” ‘ Backing up the -savage attack, Acting-Mayor Herzog declared that “we have repeatedly declared that we do not want them here.” Cleveland Jobless Attacked (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 31— Police brutally attacked 2,500 work- ers demonstrating before the City Council here Monday night. The workers, under. the leadership of the Unemployment Councils and the Small. Home Owners. Federation, demanded $40 winter relief for each family and $15 for each single person, enactment of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill and an end to discrimination. The attack was planned in ad- vance by Mayor Davis, who, ac- | cording to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, said: “On previous occa- sions when I was Mayor we set- |tled once for all who is boss of this town,” referring to the 1919 May First massacre, Police rode through the crowd Monday, clubbing men, women and children alike. Mrs. Szabo, the mother of four children, was club- bed and her ankle broken; Maude White, stopping to pick up a fallen comrade, was beaten; Dan Little, a seaman, had his hand broken; a 70-year old worker was knocked unconscious. Retreating before the savage at- jtack, the workers regained posses- sion of the City Hall steps, and held them until the end of the meeting. A committee presented demands to the Councilmen, and wrung the promise that the Negro Bill of Rights would be acted upon at the |Nov. 19 meeting. The demonstra- tors endorsed the Communist can- |didates. bankers understand the danger of disillusioning large numbers of the Today Mayor Davis statement that in the future “I people, before election, in what is am serving notice that demonstra- supposed to be the man’s” party. “forgotten tions such as occurred last night at City Hall will be broken up im- issued aj and of establishing a Soviet order there,” the thirty-four had been |held since Sept. 16 and for over a month were tortured in the notori- }ous Lutzk police prison with its Tkatschuk, Kopecki and all the others. Many of the defendants had been in preliminary imprison- ment since the autumn of 1930. This trial was closely connected with the infamous Lutzk trial which took place in February . of this year, when 56 defendants de- cisively and unwaveringly con- ducted from the prisoners’ bench a struggle against national oppres- sion, a struggle for the right of self-determination |for the Ukrai- nian people. The _ ill-treatment of the defendants, the terrorizing of their witnesses and lawyers for the defense, the fact that the law- yer sent by the French Red Aid was not allowed and the sordid press campaign which was launched against him, the fact that the de- fendants were repeatedly led out of the court-room, and were fre- quently beaten during the trial it- self—all this could not prevent the Lutzk “cross-examination” |meth- ods, the tortures and horrors of the Polish Defensive, from coming to light. The defendants destroyed the web of lies woven by the ac- cusation, and showed by their ac- tion how toilers should behave in court. Polish fascism has not forgotten the first Lutzk trial. At the second trial it tried to avoid the mistakes committed at the first trial. It Was prepared in complete secrecy. Neither the beginning of the trial nor the composition of the court, not even the exact number of the defendants, were made known. But from the little information which the censorship has passed, it is seen that these 34 defendants stood before the court just as calmly and fearlessly as the former 56 defend- ants in February. Carefully authenticated facts ex- pose the horror of the repression directed against the still battling rebels and give the lie to the “atro- jcity” stories of deeds committed by workers, launched in a vain attempt to alienate the sympathy of the} Spanish masses and the interna- | tional proletariat. The hospitals here are packed with wounded men; Closed to all visitors, entrance is denied even to close relations, so great is the fear of the authorities that some of these men will talk and tell just how they were wounded. The land- owners, the Jesuits and the army’s high command are afraid of the |anger that will run through the | world, when the world knows what |is being done in Spain. It is fas- |cism—true to type—which is fight- | ing. with unscrupulous cruelty for | the salvation of Spanish capitalism. Execution in Streets An example of summary execu- tion ig the account of a student named Ayala. He was a very ac- tive member of the University Stud- ents’ Federation of Madrid. The Federation was until quite recently united in its revolutionary attitude, united in its support of the working class. Lately a number of fascists | became members of the Federation. | With them Ayala was in constant conflict. They hated him. They denounced him to the police. A few days ago at about seven }o’clock in the evening Ayala was walking home with his mother and brother. As they came near his home a section of military police (Guardia de Asalto) stopped them. One asked, “Are you Ayala?” “Yes,” he said, “I’m Ayala.” “All right. Pass along.” Ayala and his mother and | brother walked on towards home. | They went a few steps. Then the | guards shot Ayala in the back. He fell dead at the feet of his mother and brother. In a back room on the top floor of Ibiza Street a man was sitting alone in the evening making coffee. From a top window somewhere in that street firing by Anarchists had been reported. The soldiers broke in, “Take Him to Ambulance” They searched the whole house. treatment, resisted. The officer then shouted out to the soldiers, “Take him to the am- bulance.” They understood all right. They told him to walk downstairs. Half-way down they blew his head off from behind. “Take him to the ambulance!” This is the common signal given by the officers for the murder of prisoners — even those only sus- pected, like the man in Ibiza Street. A.few days ago the Cabinet had a stormy session over the question of the death penalty for the con- demned prisoners at Oviedo and Gijon. Meantime the fascist military for- ces at Gijon had taken matters into their own hands. Yesterday they lined up one hundred workers from among their prisoners, and shot them all together, Press Howls for More Blood Afterwards a journalist met the Minister of War outside the Cabinet offices, and said he seemed to be looking very well pleased with life. “I am indeed,” answered the Min- ister. “I have reason. For twenty- four. hours all the news I have re- ceived from all the military com- manders are excellent and satisfac- tory.” These cold-blooded murders and mass shootings are going on con- tinuously. And the Jesuit-Army press is howling far more blood. In Madrid the prisons are full. They are packing prisoners into the horse-boxes at the Madrid bull-ring. In Asturias snow is reported to be the reason why the advance against the mining area has not yet been carried out. The total sup- pression of the miners’ revolt has been announced for “tomorrow” every day for the past week. It is reported—but not actually confirmed—that tanks were sent up from Madrid yesterday. Five million pesetas (about $700,- 000) was granted yesterday as a spe- cial army credit towards the ex- penses of the campaign in Asttrias. It is perfectly clear from all re- ports—even from those of Army of- ficers—that the aim of the Goy- ernment is the physical annihilation of the miners. All reports agree that the wholesale bombing from the air is being carried out solely with this intention, mediately.” The Communist Party is challenging Mayor Davis’ fascist methods with a gigantic mass Parade and demonstration in Masonic Temple, Thirty-sixth and Euclid Sts. at 2 p. m., Sunay. Earl Browder, general secretary of the ;Communist Party, will be the main speaker at this huge election rally. Denver Strike Leaders Jailed DENVER, Colo., Oct. 31—The en- tire police force here was mobilized today, leaders of the rapidly spread- ing F..E. R. A. strike were jailed, gun on the Communist Party and all other militant workers’ organ- izations, as striking relief workers gathered their forces to again throw a mass picket line around the projects in the teeth of a police ban. Yesterday, Henry Brown, a relief striker, was shot in the left hip, several others wounded and scores of workers hurt when the police at- tacked a picket line thrown around the Platte River project after a motorcade of strikers had toured the jobs, pulling out all on strike. The strike was started in Engle- wood, some miles distant in adjoin- ing Arapahoe County after work relief was slashed 51 per cent. Rapidly spreading, Relief Director Shawver was forced to close all projects in the county and place the strikers on direct relief, one of their demands. As the strike took hold a unify- ing committee was set up composed of Carpenters’ Union 1583, Hodcar- riers’ Local 720, Communist Party, Colorado and Denver Unemployed Unity Committee, Unemployment Councils, Relief Workers’ Protective Union; American Workers’ Union, International Labor Defense and t he Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League. The workers elected a mass strike committee to direct all activities. Demands set forth by the strik- ers called for restoration of the re- lief cuts and a thirty-hour week at union wages and conditions; no evictions, shutting off of water, light or gas; no discrimination against Negro, Spanish or foreign- born; right to organize and elect grievance committees on all proj- ects; passage of the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill; and a special session. of the State Legis- lature for the enactment of Winter relief and unemployment insurance as set forth in the Workers’ Bill. The demands and the organizations backing them are set forth in the Oct. 29 final extra edition of the Denver Post. While press wires and news serv- ices stated yesterday that the po- lice fired upon the workers when “radicals threw tools into the Platte River,” the Denver Post states that hundreds downed their tools and some of the workers threw their tools into the Platte River de- spite exhortations by the strike leaders, Police fired directly into the as- sembled workers. As the workers gathered into their motorcade to Proceed back to the city, they were pursued by the police. The strikers increased to more than a thousand, and a mass meeting of several thousand was held at Civic Center. Police again attacked, beating scores. Among those arrested on the and a drive of police terror was be- | picket line was William Dietrich, | Communist candidate for the Legis- lature, DENVER, Colo., Oct, 31.—Police cars with mounted machine guns and loaded with gas bombs toured \the city today and attacked all | groups assembled on the streets. In nearby Englewood, where the |strike is strongest, police descended upon the headquarters of the Colo- 'rado Workers Union and broke up a meeting of several hundred who demanded a march into Denver af- ter police had yesterday broke up a ‘picket line with gunfire. | Lehman Protests _ Are Set for Today (Continued from Page 1) following the savage police attack |upon the New York City contin- ;gent of the Hunger March, and later a repetition of the first as- sault made on the Western New York column, In Harlem, where Governor Leh- man spoke last night at a Demo- cratic rally at 155th Street and Eighth Avenue, five workers’ groups sent a telegram to Lehman in the name of the Harlem workers, de- manding that he issue orders at once for the release of the ar- rested workers. The five organiza- tions were: the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the International Labor Defense, the Young Libera- tors, the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League and the Unemployment Councils. The Metholist Federation for So- cial Service telegraphed prominent liberal ministers in Albany asking them to take immediate steps for providing aid to the marchers. The American Civil Liberties Union, the International Labor Defense, and a group of white-collar workers’ or- ganizations, including the Federa- tion of Architects and the A.O.P-E.E. today prepared to send delega- tions to Gov. Lehman demanding that persecution of the marchers cease and that all be released from jail. From the Bronx, 120 workers" or- ganizations sent telegrams to Al- bany up until midnight on the night of the attack. Countless protests were reported yesterday at the of- fice of the Daily Worker. Among the telegrams sent to Gov. Lehman yesterday was one by work- ers in the needle trades from their ;shop workers. “We the workers of Optimo Shop, 236 West 26th Street, New York,” the telegram stated, “protest against the brutal attack on the Hunger Marchers to Albany,” Among the other protests sent yesterday to Lehman from workers’ organizations in New York City were the following: National Unemployment Council, United Action Conference on Work, Relief and Unemployment. Local 308 A. F. of L. Food Workers Union, I. W. O. branches 112, 521, 49, 20, 56, 1029, 24, 218, 4; Painters Local 490; Architects and Engineers) So- ciety; Bronx Section of the Inter- national Labor Defense; Medical Center Branch, Prospect Avenue Branch and the Morris Branch of and Fascism; Russian Mutual Aid Society; Pristrichorou Society; Fur- niture Workers Industrial Union; Women’s Council 3; Unemployment Council locals; Posts 165 and 191 of the Workers Ex-Servicerien’s League; Rank and File Teachers Union; Otto Korvin Branch of the I.LD.; Communist Party Unit 11, 10 and 24, Section 5; Young Com- munist League, Unit 504; and the Modern Thought Cente>. Committee Protests to Lehman Exception was taken to the Gov- ernor’s statement that the recent Police attacks and arrests in Albany were “purely a matter for the city of Albany” yesterday in a statenicnt presented to Governor Herbert H. Lehman at his New York home by Maxwell Hyde, Quincy Howe and Alfred H. Hirsch, all members of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, 156 Fifth Ave- nue. The statement was presented by members of the National Commit- tee in a joint delegation with the American Civil Liberties Union. The text of the statement follows: “The police of Albany have at- tacked and arrested unemployed workers who, as members of the United Action Conference, were en- tering Albany in order to hold a state-wide conference there and with a view of interviewing State Officials on the question of addition- al relief. “You have been quoted in the press as stating that the affair was ‘purely a matter for the city of Albany,’ We beg to differ with you on this retreat behind legal technicalities. “You are aware of the fact that these individuals were entering Al- bany as the capital of the State of which you are Governor; you know that their intention was and is to interview State officials, not city officials. “As Governor of the State of New ‘York we call upon you to see that those held under arrest in the capi- ital of the State, New York, be 1m- mediately freed, that those injured receive retribution from the city of Albany or from the State, that fur- ther molestation against the groups cease at once, and that they be allowed to convene peacefully in the city of Albany, and to present their demands to State officials.” Form United Front On Immediate Issues In Canandaigua, N. Y. CANANDAIGUA, N. Y., Oct. 31.—The Communist Party and the Socialist Party in Ontario here have formed a united front for a joint fight “for higher local relief, the enactment of the Workers Unemployment and So- cial Insurance Bill, and against war and fascism.” The local organizations of both parties approved the declaration of a joint committee which worked out the basis of a united front. A committee of delegates from both parties will meet soon to arrange for activities under the united front. Ontario County has been the scene of numerous struggles for more adequate relief in which So- .Cialist and Communist workers !the American League Against War fought side by side. New York City. My Dear Brodsky, how very pleased I am on receiving your welcome letter dated October 26, Now I am so very much over- joyed to hear from you I hardly realize of what to say only I can say and mean it from the heart extremely that I have finally made up my what little mind and came to a good conclusion to the very best of my good judg- ment and ability and feeling opinion I have again came to an agreement with you this decision I mean it sincerely from the heart it is only because you have proved your interest in me per- sonally and I feel better satistied letting you handle my case as you trom the beginning up till now you are absolutely the cause of me here today now in your letter you asked me to tell you exactly what happened and what my intentions was, Well, it is true that I signed more papers for Leibowitz the papers that I signed my inten- tion was as I understood for him to continue in the case through the i. L, D, Well, I am crazy as I must admit I just can realize therefore I don’t know whether I signed such papers or not. but I don’t remember nor neither do Mr. Leibowitz and moreover now I have became afraid that Mr, Leibowitz probably may misrep- resent me after having a lot of letters saying that he Rat against. the I, L. D. and are trying to place me under bad circum- stances, And again I am not so familiar with him as I am to you in fact he haven’t never at any time show as much interest in me as you have. And concerning your selecting attorneys for the best job at hand why I should certainly say so if you hadn't selected Mr. Pollack again to carry on the appeal you would have been doing to me a great injustice and I now feel as you does I think that those two at- torneys would be enough to handle the appeal before the Su- preme Court. Now Mr. Brodsky don’t you get the idea that I am believing all those things that are being said about the ILD, I really don’t believe even a word of it, yes, I can recall Mr. Lei- bowitz making that same state- ment before Judge Horton it was the same day that we boys were brought down there in Decatur from Birmingham, Ala, I can- remember that and lots more now I know how you feel over my acting Mr. Brodsky I can im- agine your feeling but you should not actually hold me responsible since I am crazy all time and do not realize now concerning Mr. Chamlee I am very sorry that he refused to give help regardless and that I am with you no mat— ter what may be said and more- over I should say that Mr. Chamlee was unfair with you. I must say again that I want you and Mr Fraenkel Mr Pollack to go right along with the appeal you should know without any tell- ing that I have always want Mr Pollack to handle my case in United States Supreme Court Now Mr. Brodsky I dont know whether I have answered all your questions or not but I do know I have accepted the attorneys you selected to handle my case and I havent for one moment lost faith nor confidence in you and the I, L. D. and again I hope you can and are able to read this as I just can realize. And whatever you do be sure and write me right back on receiving this thanks ever so much for the many kind deeds you did and your offer that any time I need information ask you and you shall be glad to give it I appreciate that a lots and regard- Jess what you are never to stop fighting for my rightfully release mighty good of you to say that Mr Brodsky I shall never forget you let me here from you in the shortest possible time. Your friend always HAYWOOD PATTERSON (Signed) z P. S, I wish that I could find the time to write you niore but I March events. rising all over the country. of Roosevelt “relief.” lions? tions? |who beat us and chased us to the| (Continued from Page 1) attacked an anti-fascist demonstration and all job- less meetings are in danger of attack similar to the With the approach of winter new terrorism is This terrorism rises side by side with the grow- ing unemployment which rises remorselessly as the crisis of capitalism plunges the country into deeper crisis, There are 17,000,000 absolutely penniless men, women and already living on the wretched crumbs A million workers have lost their jobs in the iast few months. Winter will drive thousands more into the streets. How does the Roosevelt government, how do the Governors and Congressmen of the Wall Street parties, the Democratic and Republican parties, propose to meet the needs of these starving mil- What will be their bloody answer after elec- tions, if this is their answer now before the elec- The lines are tightening. The hungry face the profit-bloated parasites, they face the armed forces the young worker, whose name is being withheld, said, “a mob of po- lice swarmed over the truck and yelled, ‘Get out of the trucks, you dirty red bastards.’ The truck was! emptied; as we were pushed and| kicked cut, police rained blows upon cur backs and heads, slugging us, continually. “We were chased by the police, | who struck us continuously, from | one side of the bridge to the other. As we ran to one end of the bridge, | we were met by a solid wall of cops,| other end, where other police were | waiting to beat us. While running up and down, they continued to beat us, chasing us with motorcycles and motor cars, police clubs. Only because they were tired, did they finally stop. Workers were dragged by the arms, the neck, the hair and thrown bodily into a heap. About 30 men were in that piles of unconscious and semi-con- scious bodies. Then one of the cops yelled, ‘Get the hell out of here,’ and we were chased for what seemed miles down the road, while the police clubbed the stragglers.” ‘The young worker displayed an open wound on the head, both legs and back, but explained that he had not received a beating equal to most. Get Subs for the “Daily” During Vote Communist Against Wage the Finance Drive! have several other letters that I | am wanting to write. Answer real soon, I, the undersigned notary pub- lic, certify that I have examined the foregoing letter and state that it is an exact copy of the original letter dated 10-29-34 ad- dressed to Joseph R. Brodsky from Haywood Patterson. Signed FAY SIEGARTEL. Notary Public. Dyers’StrikeGrows; 2,000 MoreWalk Out (Continued from Page 1) same as accepting an infamous- Gorman settlement. Police Are Massed Police are being massed to pre- vent the spread of the strike, All eyes are set on East Rutherford, where a few hundred picke's out- side the Standard Bleachery were dispersed by police, and strikers have announced that several thou- sand are coming back to picket. Sheriff Mort L. O'Connell of Ber- gen County and the Chief of Police are collecting together all reserves to meet the strikers. Further developments point to a spread of the strike to the silk- weavers, Today, at a meeting of the striking silk workers, a de- cision was made to call upon the Union Executive to arrange a membership meeting for next Saturday, at which the question of the general strike in their branch, jointly with the dyers, is to be decided. Eli Keller, Manager of the Silk Union, while reporting to the meet- ing, outlined a serious situation facing the union, with about 1,000 workers in 50 shops now on strike, while at least sixty shops that he knows of are working below the scale. He expressed complete help- lessness in the situa‘ion and stated that the only basic solution for the workers is to organize the bosses into an association. This, he said, would give them an opportunity to hold somebody responsible for re- fusal to abide by the agreement in the industry. As an immediate step he proposed a mass picket line be- fore the shops at which workers are working below the scale. His report was a signal for an outburst of the membership, which denounced the policy of letting the bosses cut wages in each shop, with no organized resistance. It was re- vealed that most of the industry is working under the scale. Try to Throttle Strike The officials argued that now that the dyers are on strike, there was little work in the silk plant and therefore, it would be futile to call a strike., This was repudiated by the strikers, who de- cided that just because the dyers are out, a joint struggle presents the best opportunity. The officials, doing everything in their power to stall the move, argued that more have our wages cut.” This brought forth an outburst of laughter and an expression that it is to be a “donation” to the strikers. It was passed unanimously. ey ee Attacks Communists Anthony Ammirato, head of the Paterson dye local, while speaking et Tuesday's strike meeting, in at- tacking the Communists and mil- itant workers, said: “There are certain elements among you in the picket line and in your ranks who are spreading rumors that we are betraying the strike and not working in your interests.” Referring to his having slapped Sol ‘Walters, member of the Young Communist League, last Saturday while he was distributing a Com- munist Party statement to the strik- ers, he said: “Yes, I slapped that fellow in the face because he be- longs to those elements, and I am proud of it, and I urge all workers to do the same. Use your fists; rip em up; throw them in the river.” After the meeting, Ammirato see- ing Jane Williams selling Daily Workers to the strikers, walked over and said: “I don’t like this paper and don’t want it around here.” “Why?” asked the girl. “Because I don’t like it. It's a Communist paper. My men don’t like it.” “But your men do like it, and hundreds of them do read it. They know it is the only paper giving one hundred per cent support to the strike.” “Well, I don’t like it,” was all that Ammirato could add, while hundreds of workers stood around. 500 Buy “Daily” About five hundred workers bought Daily Workers at this meet- ing. ed Answers Attack The Paterson Section of the Communist Party, answering Am- mirato’s attack, declared: “Striking dye workers, Fellow Workers, Don’t let Ammirato split your splendid solidarity by his use of the red scare. While telling us to be friendly to the police, who beat and arrest you, he urges that you employ gangster tactics against those who are the most devoted and militant in your ranks. He says he is proud of having slapped a member of the Young Commu- nist. League. The crime of this young worker was to distribute a_ Statement in .which the Commu- nist Party pledges solidarity in your fights; tells you to keep up mass picketings; rank and file con- trol; not to permit secret negotia- tions; not to permit a settlement until you vote for it. Nothing is- said of a betrayal by your local officials; but you were all warned of Gorman and his policy. Ammi- rato evidently does not like such advice. He would split the ranks of the strikers against those who* are the most militant and active in your ranks, Don’t permit this. Your enemies are the bosses and~ those in the government who they” use to break your strike. We should unite our ranks, regardless of political opinion, for a solid than a week would be needed for an executive, and eventually a mem- bership meeting; but this was met with a shower of Bronx cheers, It was an uncomfortable moment for the officials sitting on the plat- form when Sam Sheber moved for a 50 per cent cut in their salary of $45 a week for the duration of the strike. The first impulse of the chairman, a $45 a week man, was to say, “You are on strike against wage cuts, yet you insist that we Answer Lehman’s Bloody Ambush! Picket Today! Vote Communist on November 6! An Editorial front against the bosses. The Com- munists have no interest separa’ and apart of all the strikers an all its members are the most ac- tive for a victory in your battle.” aoe Pore Correction In yesterday’s Daily Worker it was incorrectly stated that the workers were offered 64c for 46 hours. The workers were offered 64c for 36 hours. This was a typo- graphical error. x of the Roosevelts and Lehmans, the capitalist state, the police and the troops. T= Communist Party takes its place as the only Party of the working class, organizing the masses against the bankers for immediate cash relief and unemployment insurance. Stop the plunder which the banks reap in the turn them over faces of the rich Lehman is in their blood! Picket the Center Street! Picket the government treasuries! Stop the war funds, and © for the jobless! Force the Leh- mans and the Roosevelts to use the government’s billions for the hungry, not for the capitalists! Workers of New York! Repudiate the capitalist parties, the parties of hunger and terrorism! Send Communist class fighters into the legislative halls of the capitalists, where they can fling into the the demand for bread and security! New York. Let this parasite hear the voices of those whom he plunders while he spills Picket Lehman’s home at 820 Park Ave.! state office building at 80 East meeting tonight where Lehman spexks, at 138th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue! At 10 P. M. picket Lehman’s meeting at 163rd Street and Southern Boulevard! Workers! Farmers! Vote Under the Hammer and Sickle. Vote Communist on November 6 — ‘ t » .