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

s\ Bares Fangs AtAlbany || An Editorial The anger evoked among millions of workers over the brutal, bloody and unpro- voked attack on the Hunger | Marchers to Albany, has} helped them gain a signal} victory. These heroic unem- ployed workers, whose blood flowed copiously near the bridge at Albany, have forced the question of unemploy-| MARCHERS OPEN CONVENTION ment relief to the forefront of the election campaign. In! spite of all, they marched | into Albany, New York state capital. | Protest telegrams are) pouring in on the banker- governor of New York, Leh- man, the candidate of the corrupt Tammany Hall machine, and of the Roosevelt | New Deal government. Let | Lehman squirm as fitfully as any capitalist politician is capable of, he cannot get away from the fact that he fs responsible for the murder- our assault on peaceful. un- employed workers exercising their constitutional right of petition and protest. These unemployed were the vanguards of the work- ing class, fighting for the| most elementary democratic | rights, for unemployment re- lief, against the fascist at-| tacks which more and more} characterize the Roosevelt regime and its program of aiding the class of bankers | to which Lehman belongs to| gain profits at the expense of | cutting down relief. It is no wonder at all that Robert Moses, gubernatorial candidate of the Republican Party, tries to slide into of- fice on the slippery blotches of the workers’ blood. Moses, standard bearer of the party of Hoover, killer of the war vets, slugger of the hunger marchers in the early phases of the crisis, | suddenly becomes the “cham- pion” of the unemployed. What these gentlemen won’t | do for votes, in order to benefit the employing class, is not worth mentioning. Let us be clear on the polit- ical forces involved. The hunger march was organized by the United Action Con- ference on Work Relief and Unemployment. It is no ac- cident whatever that the Communist Party leaders, | and Isreal Amter, Commu- nist candidate for governor, played a leading role in mobi- lizing this and hundreds of other struggles for unem- ployment relief. The Communist Party is) the only Party that endorsed the hunger march, that mo- bilized its forces to help the march, that mobilized the protest after the vicious as- sault. In fact, the Communist Party state election program has incorporated in it every one of the demands for which these hunger marchers were so unmercifully and so hor- ribly beaten when they ex- ercized their right to present them to the state officials at Albany. The party of Moses is the same Republican Party which | throughout the years 1929-31 F murdered unemployed work- ers in every part of the United States for presenting similar demands. Only the Communist Party throughout the days of the Hoover regime and now in the Roosevelt regime stands in the front ranks of the un- employed fighters battling for their just demands, for their democratic rights, against the growing fascist attacks. Wasn’t it Governor Mer- riam in California, a brother- candidate of Moses, on the same platform, who shot and murdered striking marine workers, raided workers’ halls, mobilized not only the police but the vigilantes of | said. DURING HUNGER MARCH RALLIES COLLECT FUNDS FOR “DAILY” Yesterday’s Receipts Total to date Vol. XI, No. 262 a *% PROTEST ++ $227.30 - $30,032.16 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Daily Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL) NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1934 WEATHER: Fair and colder, (Eight Pages) 4 The New Deal |Make Sunday Election Rally i in Madison Square Garden a Mighty Protest of Jobless NEW YORK CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents I.W.O. Calls Its Members To Join Scottsboro March ALLENTOWN DYERS TO JOIN STRIKE MASS PICKET LINE AT MILL IN CLIFTON Auto Squads To Close Mills in Allentown, Pa.,| on Monday Morning PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 1.—Auto} squads of strikers to go to Allen- | town, Pa., early Monday morning | to call out the dyers there were ar- | ranged at today’s strikers’ meeting. The National Federation of Silk | and Rayon Dyers has again been | called to negotiate with the em- ployers at Washington. The Na- tional Textile Labor Board asked that the union elect a committee with full power to settle. George Baldazani, Federation, reported that the strik- ers are leaving today. “I told them that we could not have a commit- tee with full power to settle, and our proposals must first come -be- fore the strikers for approval,” he “I don't know if they will offer anything, but, if they do, 1| will bring it before you.” Baldazani stated this while refer- ring to the Daily Worker, and the dye | continual insistence of the Commu- | nist Party that strike control and | settlement should be in the hands of the rank and file. He expressed president of the Dyers’; Nov. 7, the seventeenth | Revolution. | | | | hind to spur drive. —~ | anniversary of October District Buro calls upon every | Party member and sympathizer in Connecticut and Western Massachusetts, especially in Springfield, Norwalk, New London, New Bri- tain and Hartford, cities now trailing far be- Our first duty is to help sustain our greatest weapon in the class struggle. I. WOFSY, C. P. District Organizer, Connecticut. STRIKE SHUTS ELEVATORS IN MIDTOWN doubt if the employers will offer | anything beyond the original pro- posals, which he characterized as “rotten.” Last night, referring to the very much published report that Gor- man predicted the end of the strike this week, and is taking a hand in negotiations, Mr. Baldazani stated: “We don’t know where Mr. Gorman | gets his facts, although we are will- ing to confer when reasonable an- swers are given to our demands. The strike continues. The picket lines are bigger.” Pickets at Rutherford At East Rutherford and Clifton, where bleacheries are located, picket lines are assuming a mass form, and a line of at least 500) moved before the Eureka Print| works. At’ East Rutherford, when | yesterday’s pickets were dispersed, | the police carried a machine gun, wore steel helmets and were equip- ped with riot guns and tear-gas. This, in the minds of the strik- | ers, seems to contradict the high praise given to the police by A. Am- mirato, president of the Paterson local and member of the U. T. W. Executive Council, who said they (the police) were friends of the strikers. No dye plant made any effort to operate today. Pickets were stressed at each to keep a close watch, and at today’s strike meeting the main stress was put on the fact that many are not report- ing for picket duty, and that rain or shine there must be a continual picket line. Ammirato, President of Local (Continued on Page 2) Mr. Ammirato! These Are the Aims of the Communists in the Dye Strike AN EDITORIAL By Al Steele | Mayor LaGuardia announced late yesterday that he would “cooperate with the Regional Labor Board or any other agency” to put an end to the strike of the building service employees, led by the Building Ser- vice Employees International Union, A. F. of L., Local 32B, which has | tied up virtually every elevator in 420 out of 525 buildings in the New York garment center, Close ‘to 10,000 building service | employees, elevator operators, start- ers, watchmen and other employees of office buildings in the area be- tween 42nd Street and 14th Street | West of Fifth Avenue, responded yesterday morning to the strike call, “The situation must not be per- mitted to develop,’ LaGuardia said ominously, “I have asked Mr. Col- lins of the A. F, of L, to see me tomorrow.” LaGuardia had conferred with Mrs, Elinor Herrick, of the Regional Labor Board, and proposed that a truce be declared, the strike called off and that the problems confront- ing the strikers be submitted to ar- bitration through the Regional La- bor Board. When approached on this ques- tion, Mr. Planson, secretary to James J. Bambrick, president of the | union, stated: “We had enough of arbitration with Mrs. Herrick. We have more effective means at our disposal now.” He also stated that (Continued on Page 2) THAELMANN FACES AXE, NAZIS PROVE BERLIN, Nov. 1.—Bearing out the warning of the Central Committee |of the Communist Party, that as the trial of Ernst Thaelmann draws nearer, the so-called Nazi People’s Court would show its real character as a court of execution, is the recent announcement of the Fascist Min- istry of Justice, The statement of the execution- ers asserts that while previously the “People’s Court” has been operating under the “liberal laws” of the former Republican regime, from now | on the death sentence is automatic and obligatory for all those accused of “treason against the state.” This proclamation, which places Thael- mann directly before the execu- tioner’s axe, is a spur of alarm for all anti-facists and workers in all countries, who are under no illu- sions as to the murderous intentions of Hitler and his torturers. Featured and chorused in the fas- (Continued on Page 2) Polish Coal Miners Win Their Demands KATOWICE, Poland, Nov. 1— The sixty coal miners who had de- scended into the shafts in a hunger strike against the dismissal of 300 fellow workers came to the surface today when the owners, Gieche & Harriman Co., granted their de- mands and rehired the entire mine crew. The strikers also forced the re-opening of many unused shafts. (Continued on Page 3) NTHONY AMMIRATO, member of the National Executive Council of the United Textile Workers Union, is carrying on an attack on the activity of Commu- nists in the strike of the New Jersey dye workers, of which he is one of the leaders, Ammi- rato slugged a young Communist, spoke in fayor of driving all Communists out of the strike, and pointed out twenty workers to the police on the Picket lines. He told the police these workers were Communists and at his direction, they were dragged from the picket lines. Ammirato is trying to do everything he can to keep the dye strikers from reading the Daily Worker. What is the program of the Communist Party in the dye strike which Ammirato is so fiercely at- tacking? The Communist Party’s program has been clearly stated every day since the strike began. The Communist Party has as its main concern the quickest VICTORY OF THE DYE STRIKE. Every one of our members is working for the winning of | all the demands of the dye strikers, We have at heart the most effective means of | winning the thirty-hour week; the $1 an hour minimum wage; an end to the stretchout and one hundred per cent recognition of the union, We aim to close down every dye shop in the country and keep it closed until the strikers win these demands and all other demands which they are putting for- ward. This is the aim of the Communist Party in the dye workers’ strike, that is, the aims of the workers on strike. * * - we: is the program of the Communist Party for winning the strike, for victory for every one of these demands? Every dye striker knows, that in order to win the strike, the following program must be put into effect:—1) Mass picketing in order to close and to keep closed, every dye house in the coun- try; 2) Solidarity and unity actions of all sections of the workers in support of the strike, including employed and unemployed; Socialist, Communist and non-party workers; werkers of all political beliefs; dye workers and non-dye workers; 3) Unity of employed and unemployed to force the Emergency Relief Administration to pay adequate relief to all strikers and unemployed workers; 4) | BIG PARADE District 15 Sets ihe | to Pass Quota (Special to the Daily Worker ) NEW HAVEN, Conn., Noy. 1.—The Buro | of District 15, after consultation with all Sec- tion organizers, has resolved to pass quota by IN HARLEM TOMORROW | Will Protest Lynching | of Neal and Terror Drive in Atlanta All members of the International | Workers Order were urged yester- | day by its City Central Committee to turn out tomorrow afternoon for the city-wide Scottsboro mass march | ; and demons‘ration in Harlem, called by the International Labor Defense. The mass fight for the boys is also |supported by a group of. revolu- tionary writers of eight countries, whose appeal appears below. Coincident with the protest ac- tions, the I. L. D, announced that it is speeding the appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court against the legal lynching decreed by the Ala- bama lynch rulers for two of the boys'on Dee. 7. Application for re- view of the appeals was filed with the court by Attorneys Fraenkel, Brodsky and Pollak for the I. L. D. The I. L. D. is now waiting for the government printers to publish the Alabama records for the court. The I. L. D. is in urgent need of funds to push the appeals and the mass fight for the boys, To Protest Florida Lynching Tomorrow's mass mazch will not only protest the Scottsboro lynch verdicts, but the fiendish lynch- ing of Claude Neal, Negro youth, last Saturday in Florida with the open connivance of Florida, Ala- bama and Federal authorities; and the attempts of Atlanta, Ga., au- (Continued on Page 2) Chain Store Fight Spreads To New York The national strike of chain store employes, beginning with the strike of the Cleveland employes of the Great Atlantic and Pacific grocery chain stores, spread today to this city when it was announced by the Grocery Chain Stores Executives’ and Employees’ Association, affilia- ted with the A. F. of L. Retail Clerks International Protective Association, that the Butler Chain Stores were presented yesterday with a demand for a 25 per cent increase in wages, improved working conditions and union recognition. The Butler Chain operates 665 stores in New York, New Jersey and vicinity, employing 2,000 workers. This brings the chain store strike to a new level as the workers in Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin are already involved. The strikes in these chain stores herald a drive to unionize these notorious open shop corporations, —> | Lehman Challenged Tol Answer Workers at Garden Rally The Communist Party last night issued a challenge to banker-Gov- ernor, Herbert Lehman, to appear rally of the Communist Party in | Madison Square Garden on Sun- day to explain why he did not | prevent the bestial attack on the by Albany police. The letter, in full, reads: Governor H. L. Lehman, 820 Park Avenue, New York City. “Dear Sir: “Twenty-five thousand enraged and indignant citizens will as- Sunday afternoon, Nov. 4 at 1 p.m. They will represent all parts of the State of New York. “They will come to protest against the outrageous and un- provoked attack upon the Hunger Marchers on their way to Albany. “These marchers were exercis- ing their constitutional rights of petition for redress of grievances and were calling upon you to con- vene a special session of the State Assembly for immediate appro- priation of $200,000,000 in cash for emergency winter relief and to petition the United States Con- gress for passage of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, (HR. 7598). “The returning hunger march- ers from Albany will march into the hall during the progress of the meeting. We invite you to | licly answer the charges of your direct responsibility for the brutal police attack on these peaceful and defenseless hunger marchers. “You will be granted the floor the moment you appear. The State Committee of the Communist Party will consider that your fail- ure to appear will confirm impli- the delegation of Communist can- didates at your home this m’/2- ing when, at the conclusion of their protest you answered, “Good say. “Very truly yours, “CARL BRODSKY, “Secretary. State Comm., “Communist Party of New York State.” Denouncing the murderous as- sault on the Albany Hunger open fascist attack for which Gov- ernor Lehman bears full respon- sibility, I. Amter, Communist can- didate for Governor, yesterday called on the workers of New York to turn the final election rally next (Continued on Page 2) before the final city-wide election | State Hunger March delegations | _Semble in'Madison Square'Garden- | cation of personal guilt contained | in the answer which you gave to day, gentlemen, I have nothing to | Name of Ham Fish | || On Socialist Party || Ballot in 26th C. D. Checking on an Associated Press report from Washington that Hamilton Fish is listed as the Socialist Party candidate for Congress in the 16th Con- gress:onal District of New York, the Daily Worker yesterday as- certained from the County Elec- tion Commissioner of Putnam County that the Socialist Party is listed along with tne Repub- licak and Law Preservation Party as the parties under Fish’s name on the ballot. When questioned, the State office of the Socialist Party de- clared’ that despite the appear- ance of Fish's namé on the bal- |) lot, Fish had not recéived the endorsement of the Socialist Party in this campaign. Hamilton Fish is one of the country’s most notorious reac- tionaries and “Red baiters.” | GOVERNOR WONT ACT ~ ON DEMANDS : While nearly 1¢ 100 Hunger dtarch- | ers, victims of a savage police attack |as they entered Albany Tuesday | night, lie in the Albany jails, Gov- | ernor Lehman, in answer to the de- | ; mands of a delegation of nine Com- munist candidates, refused to take any steps to free the marchers or meet with their demands, The delegation demanded that he| |immediately order the release of the| jailed Hunger Marchers, order the Albany police not to molest them} in any way, and proceed at once to Albany to meet with the Munger, | Marchers, The delegation of Communist} candidates was composed of Fred} Biedenkapp, candidate for Judge of |General Sessions; Williana Bur- |roughs, candidate for Lieutenant-) |Governor; Isidore Begun, candidate for City Comptroller; Margaret Cowl, candidate for State Senator; blyman; Paul Crosbie, candidate for | Congressman; Mossaye Olgin, can- didate for Congressman, and Ben Gold, candidate for assemblyman. jits demands for the Hunger March- ers in the name of the Communist (Continued on Page 2) | three o'clock today | Western delegation, which gath- : |Carl Brodsky, candidate for Assem-| Marchers on Tuesday night as an) As thewdelegation finished stating| United front of all of the workers against the ter- roristic preparations of the government for police attacks on the picket lines. Against the use of imported armed guards and police against picketing, F To carry out this effective strike action rank and file strike committees should be elected in every dye house to have complete control of all strike ac- tivities in that mill. The General Strike Committee should be enlarged to include more elected dele- gates from the shops. Regular and frequent mect- ings of the shop delegates and the local unions. No settlement of the strike by arbitration or otherwise, until all the demands of the strikers are granted unconditionally. No final setilement of the strike without the vote of all the strikers. With 1,500 silk workers already on strike against wage cuts and discrimination, the Communist Party calls for a broadening of the silk strike, to call out all silk workers. This would strengthen both the fight of the dyers and the fight of the silk workers. . * ’ 'HESE are the purposes of the Communist Party in the present dye strike, WHAT DOES MR. ; AMMIRATO OBJECT TO IN THESE AIMS? WHY DOES HE AID THE EMPLOYERS’ PCLICE AGAINST COMMUNISTS FIGHTING FOR THESE AIMS? Why his scurrilous attack on the Daily Worker, which propagates and fights for these aims? What about the lying statements of the capi- talist owned newspapers and of Mr. Amm‘rato that the Communist Party wants to transform the dye strike into a revolution, into an insurrection to overthrow the government? In the dye strike, our immediate aim is to win the demands of the dyers and not revolution. The Communist Party knows that the misery and poverty now endured by the masses of the workers, which is brought about by the capitalist greed for profits, can only be finally overcome by ending the corrupt, vicious rule of the Wall Street bankers and big manufacturers. We know that not | until the workers set up a workers’ government and | take over the banks, factories, railroads, ete. will | the masses of workers and farmers be entirely (Continued on page 8) Battered Delegates in Session; Gov. Lehman Refuses To Act On Demands of C. P. Candidates 100 Still in Jail as 200 Begin State Parley in Albany ALBANY, , Nov. 1.—At part of the | ered at Gloversville yesterday af- ternoon, after being routed be- cause of the police attack, cam9 down to the Albany city lines af- ter staying in Gloversville over night. They were immediatey surrounded by police; the drivers of the trucks arrested and the marchers held at the City lines, The trucks had the signs on both sides: “In spite of everything, on to Albany.” The action of the police is a violation of the hypo- critical promises made by Mayor Thatcher and Governor Lehman, | (Special to the Daily Worker) ALBANY, N. Y., Nov. 1—Two | hundred delegated State Hunger | Marchers opened a two-day con- vention here today at 77 Division | Street, in spite of the Police terror and in the face of a huge mobiliza- tion of police. Richard Sullivan, secretary of the United Action Conference on Work, Relief and Unempioyment and se! retary of the New York Unemploy ment Councils, opened ihe conven- tion, declaring that a partial vice tory had been won by the jobless, Viadimir Isaacs, leader of the Ontario County relief strike at the close of the C. W. A. last winter ae Sides te of the Ontario Workers’ ‘League, was ted chairman. “The eyes of all New York State are on this con- vention,” he declared, “and the workers will wait for a full report of their delegates when they re- vurn.” Mary Boyd, one of the Negro delegates from New York, against whom the Albany police directed their most savage attack, was | elected secretary. Delegation Sent to Mayor The convention immediately elected a delegation to meet with Mayor Thatcher and demand that the city furnish a hall for a mass meeting, and permit the delegates |to march to the eepitol in a body” to present their demands. Sullivan then put forward the central demands of this march. The demands were a $200,900,000 winter relief appropria ion, and the enact- ment of the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill and the Small Home Owners’ and the Farmers’ Relief Bill. “We will not be stopped, byt, on the contrary, will continue to mobilize to force not only the State governmen‘ but also the Fed< eral government to enect the Works | ers’ Bill.” Sullivan was loudly aps plauded by the more than 200 deli gates who thus far have been able to participate in the convention, with more than 100 in jail, and o hers arriving. Provocations Continue The provocations against the Hunger Marchers continue. Last night at the Travelers’ Aid Society, where Mayor Thatcher agreed to lodge the women delegates, an ate hoes was made to Jim-Crow the {Negro women. A gation of int te women went to the director end forced him immediately to end the practice and to promise to proe | vide good food three times a day for the two days that the delegae tion will remain in Albany. In Lyons Lodge, where the men deles gates were put up, and where at (Continued on Page 2) U.S.S.R. Celebration 'To Be Broadcast Nov. 7 (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 1, (By Wireless), —The great celebraticn of the Oce | tober Revolution on November 7th |is to be broadca-t for foreign ree ception from Red Square. Th broadcast will take place at 7 a. m.. reenwich time, (2 a. m, New York Standard Time), on ® wave length of 25 meters, S