The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1934, Page 1

Fill Madison Square Garden Tomorrow, 1 P. M.; Greet Hunger Marchers at Communist Rally! ] AT WEEK-END AFFA’ TION RALLIES, CALL FOR FUNDS! Yesterday's Receipts Total to Date ....... IRS, DANCES, ELEC- $909.41 $30,941.57 Press Run Lester 4) 900 No. 263-2 Vol. XI, Daily Q& Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1934 WEATHER: Cloudy and warmer. NEW YORK CITY EDITION (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents MARCHERS IN GARDEN TOMORROW Dye S ye Strikers Win Picketing Right . After Clash With Police ‘SCOTTSBORO MARCH IN HARLEM TODAY PATTERSON AND NORRIS WANT ILD. Mass Pr etek t Parade for Scottsboro Boys in New York Today The International Labor De- fense Committee has announced the following assembly points for the Scottsboro protest parade which will start at 1:30 p. m. from 126th Street and Lenox Ave- nue, Organizations from Harlem, Yorkville and the West Side of Upper Manhattan are to form at 126th Street, east of Lenox Ave- nue. Organizations from the Bronx are to form on 127th Street, east of Lenox Avenue. Organizations from midtown and downtown Manhattan and from Brooklyn are to form at 128th Street, east of Lenox Ave- nue, NEW YORK.—Only a few weeks remain in which to defeat the Tuling of the Alabama Supreme Court decreeing December 7th for the legal murder of Haywood Pat- terson and Clarence Norris, two of the Scottsboro boys, the Interna- tional Labor Defense warned yes- | terday in calling for the greatest mass support for the city-wide | ‘wm Yount, B Poona, Bios, Mere, Pootahey, Ape Ren par ncmny Beowlntnny are, sone Fran an Mom ME mt by of STATE OF ALABAMA Boano. oF Amanistmarion nemo a few tha, Senda. Uoitin engtawns lov Vathean, Taal and Carrara I Reotndus, CONFIRM REPUDIATION OF LEIBOWITZ Wasrewnbsns Vat Vb Boe: 18S GU. Catening, Mer Hy, Man Wen drerens thot J be rapsemen tact de Mo oats, by ba De eee soy Alyy BBS nema t tia SI Bak foe. brasnne, I RR, ag nancach This is a photostatic copy of a letter received by Joseph Brodsky, chief counsel of the International Labor Defense, from Haywood Pat- | terson and Clarence Norris, | GAS ATTACK 18 REPULSED IN UNION CITY [Employers . 21 and Union| Men in Washington To Negotiate BULLETIN (Daily Worker Washington Burean) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 2.— Vice-President Francis J. Gor- man of the United Textile Work- ers (A. F. of L.) joined the Na- tional Textile Labor Relations Board today in its efforts to end the New Jersey-Pennsylvania dy- ers’ strike. Despite this, the negotiations between board members and sep- arate groups of employers and strike representatives apparently were deadlocked late in the af- ternoon. At this time, Federation of Silk and Rayon Dyers’ representatives, led by George Baldanzi, left in a body reporting they had “nothing to say.” Government officials said there was no “hitch” and that the union spokesmen would return for a night conference but refused to predict agreement. Meanwhile the board conferred with owners, By George Morris (Daily Worker Staff Corespondent) UNION CITY, N. J., Nov. 2— After ¢ Fe ee eine i es || Krumbein Appeals | To All Communists To Come to Garden Charles Krumbein, district or- ganizer df the Communist Party, yesterday issued a personal ap- peal to every member of the Communist Party in New York City and to all Communist sup- porters to attend the election rally at Madison Square Garden. “An overflow meeting at the Garden tomorrow afternoon,” Krumbein said, “will be the best possible manner of expressing our support both of the Commu- nist candidates and of the heroic Hunger Marchers. “I especially appeal to all members of the trade unions and other mass organizations of workers in New York City to at- tend this meeting. Make it a memorable one in the history of the New York working class!” | DEPORTEES — TAKEN OUT NEW YORK. — John Ujick and) Chris Popoff, held for deportation | | at Ellis Island, have been released | | the Commitee for the Protection of | the Foreign-Born learned’ yester-| | day. | The action of the Ellis Island OF SOLITARY from “solitary,” a representative of | ROOSEVELT EXTENDS AUTO CODE 90 DAYS Hitietowa “Merit Clause’ | Continued Without Public Hearing | | | | | | | By Seymour Waldman (Dally Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 2- Without a public hearing President Roosevelt today extended the auto code including the notorious open- shop “merit clause” which permits employers to hire and fire at will. | The extension runs ninety days to Feb. 1, the peak of the produc- | ler season. The President's action bluntly ignored a promise given by General | Hugh 8. Johnson last Winter that the code would not be extended without a public hearing. President | William Green was “out of town,” jand the American Fedezation of | | Labor offered no protest or explana- tion, although Green promised en workers the code would not be ex- tended with the “merit clause.” At the same time Roosevelt an- nounced he is voting for the re-elec- | |tion of banker Governor Herbert | H. Lehman of New York, who, said | the President, “has made good.” He did not, of course, mention Lehman THOUSANDS 1 CHEER THE WHO MASS Amter to PSE aa i From Station W O R| n : . | At 7:45 This Evening | | Tune in on WOR, 710 Ke., to- night at 7:45 p.m.! | GARDEN RALLY WILL GREET I. Amter, Communist ca date for Governor of New Yo State, will broadcast from Sta- tion WOR tonight at 7:45 p.m All workers are urged to listen in and to tell their friends to listen in, to Amter’s pr of the Communist election plat- form, particularly because it will be the only broadcast that will be made in the New York Dis- trict by a Communist candidate. “made good” partly by having al- | Mi A A : i" F A § | lowed Albany police to attack peace- | | ful hunger marchers a couple of \days ago. | The New York District Committee IN ALBANY MARCHERS AT CAPITOL Peeks skill Police Prepare To Attack Worke on Arrival BULLETIN PEEKSKIL Police Comm! declared tha marchers would not be pi to hold any of their scheduled mectings here today. “They will be given the same treatment th: »” he said. “We'll meet them with police clubs. If any bleed is shed, the blame will be on the marchers.” The Hunger Marchers are scheduled to appear at mass meetings in Peekskill tomozrow night at 6 o'clock. ALBANY, N.Y.) Nov. 2—Flanksd by a heavily-armed police guard, with every available policemen lining the route of march, 300 State Hunger Marchers paraded to the State Capitol building late today demanding immediate appropria- tion of Winter relief. Many of the heroic litle army still marks of the savage police attacks, when they were ambushed at the Dunn Memorial Bridge on Tuesday night Scottsboro protest march and dem- two bitter battles at the | authorities followed an account of | It was the third time since Sept.|/of the Communist Party yesterday -——7 onstration through the streets of Harlem this afternoon, starting at 1:30 o’clock from 126th Street and Lenox Avenue. The I. L. D., which has full charge of the defense, at the same time appealed for funds to push the ap- peals for Patterson and Norris in| the U. S. Supreme Court, with which the I. L. D. attorneys have already filed an application for re- view of the appeals. Both Patter- son and Norris, in a letter dated Noy. 1 to Joseph R. Brodsky, chief counsel of the I. L. D., declare that | they want Walter Pollak, outstand- ing constitutional attorney, and Os- mond Fraenkel, noted appeals law- yer, to argue their appeals, under the supervision of the I. L, D., in the U. 8. Supreme Court. “This is my last and final decision and will not be changed with my consent,” declare each of the boys, with the additional statement that “all ar- rangements to the contrary are hereby cancelled.” A photostat of their letter appears in this issue of the Daily Worker. Many Organizations Join Call The I. L. D. warning was supple- mented by scores of New York or- ganizations, which issued urgent calls to their members and sympa- thizers for a mighty mass outpour- ing this afternoon to halt the legal lynching and smash the conspiracy, engineered by Samuel S. Leibowitz, renegade defense attorney, and a group of Harlem Negro misleaders, acting in concert with Alabama lynch officials to scuttle the defense at this critical moment, In a call issued yesterday by its New York District, the Communist Party called upon every member and sym- pathizer of the Party to “demon- strate, march for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys, against lynch- ing and Negro oppression—against the lynchers and their agents.” Appeal Issued to Needle Trades Workers A similar call for action was is- sued to all needle trades workers by an emergency joint board meet- ing of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, held Thursday night to discuss plans for today’s demonstration. The union distrib- uted 10,000 leaflets yesterday in the needle trades market, and held special shop meetings appealing to the workers to turn out in full force for the demonstration. It predicted that thousands of needle trades workers will take part in today’s action. The joint trade board meeting unanimously voted to send telegrams to President Roosevelt, the U. S. Supreme Court and Governor L. M. Miller of Alabama demanding the freedom and safety of the nine innocent boys. Appeals to their memberships to support the demonstration were also issued by the International Workers Order, the Associated YOUNGSTOWN HAS ELECTION UNITED FRONT YOUNGSTOWN, N, Ohio, Nov. ae \In the heart of this steel and coal Hoagie Socialist and Communist local organizations have agreed upon a united front ticket in the coming elections, The Communist and Socialist local organizations here have agreed to support the Communist Party State ticket and the Social- ist Party County ticket. This is a result of the fact that the Socialist Party has been ruled off the State ballots and the Com- munist Party has been ruled off the County ticket. Wilson and Albert Beatty for the Socialist Party and Joe Dallet and John Steuben for the Communist Party, states: This agreement would be im- possible if it were not for the fact that the Socialists and-Com- munists of Trumbull County are already uniting their forces in a common program of struggle... this unity of action is the pre- requisite for united action at the polls. This unity must not end on Nov. 6, but the united front must be strengthened after the elections and must be felt in all the struggles of the workers.” Communist Candidate Is Grilled for Eight Hours By Probation Officers Henry an and Joseph Fros*, arrésted while picketing the Hotel Pennsylvania Wednesday in a Hunger March protest, were called to the probation office yesterday and grilled for eight hours and fingerprinted. The two workers were paroled Thursday in the custody of their lawyer until Monday morning, when they will come up for sen- tence at the Jefferson Market Court. Tenth St. and Sixth Ave. police court following his arrest, Communist Party member, and sta‘ed that he was the Commu- nist candidate for Congress in the Thirteenth District. Forbes is sec- retary of the Downtown Unemploy- «Continued on Page 5) ment Council, A joint statement signed by Fred | Forbes, when questioned in the | proudly acknowledged that he is a/ 1,000 PICKET IN ELEVATOR MEN'S STRIKE The frantic efforts of Mayor La Guardia to curb the strike of the building service employees led by local 32 B of the Building Service Em- ployees International Union, which tied up Manhattan's garment cen- ter for the last two days, prevent- ing thousands of workers from go- ing up to work, resulted in nego- tiations between the Union and the building owners, which were being conducted late last night at the of- fices of the Real Estate Board of New York, 12 W. 41st St. as the Daily Worker went to press. Mayor La Guardia was reported “sick at heart” over the possibility that the strike might spread to be city-wide, Meanwhile there was no let-up in the efforts of the union in getting a hundred per cent settlement in the territory affected. More than 1,500 pickets were on duty yester- day, according to Arthur L. Harck- ham, secretary of the union and chairman of the strike committee, with 25 flying squadrons speeding through the district, lending help wherever needed. Attending the parley at the real- tors’ offices were James J. Bam- brick, representing the local union; George Scalisi, of Chicago, on be- half of the international board of the union; Edward McGuire, union counsel; Lawrence B. Cummings of the Real Estate Board; Ben Golden, chief examiner of the Regional La- bor Board; A. J. Portenar, of the Department of Industrial Relations of the State Department of Labor, and Mayor La Guardia. Early in the day the Mayor con- ferred with William Collins, repre- sentative of the American Federa- tion of Labor. In the afternoon he met with Cummings, Golden, Bam- brick, Scalisi and Louis Adler, a representative of the Garment Cen- ter District Owners’ Association. It was at the afternoon meeting that the conference with the employers Was arranged. Union Merger Proposed Propssing the merger of the two unions and the establishing of com- plete unity in the industry as a means of helping toward the “com- plete victory for the strikers,” a del- egation was sent yesterday by local 1 of the Independent Building Ser- vice Employees Union to local 32 B, according to Lee Holt, business agent of Local 1. When approached for verification of statements published in the press (Continued on Page 2) Colonial Piece Dye Works in Union City, in which police used clubs and tear gas, strikers won the fight for |the right to mass picketing. About | | twenty-five workers were brutally | beaten. After the battle, a large USS of strikers massed outside he police station and forced sedan of the right to mass picketing. . . PATERSON, N. J., Nov. | afternoon negotiations between the Federation of Dyers and employers were renewed at Washington, George Baldanzi, president of the} Federation of Dyers, and Judge Joelson, the union’s counsel, went to Washington. By this time they were accompanied by five union members representing the striking locals. These are: Charles Vigoritto and John Payano of Paterson; Louis Vesbazani of Passaic; Roy Falvado of Garfield and Jack Smith of New York. With the exception of the last, who is a business agent, all are shop workers. ‘The union made it clear prior to the departure of the delegates that no power is given them to settle. They can only bring the proposals to the membership for approval. All Shops Closed The Paterson situation remained unchanged, with every shop shut down. Today a few large picket lines were stationed at plants where it was reported that attempts were made to move goods to outside scab- operated plants. The strike is beginning to take serious effect on the broad silk branch, and many looms are ceas- ing operation because no dyeing can be done. Tomorrow at three o'clock the silk weavers on strike will hold a mass meeting at their union hall to hear a report of the Executive Committee's action on their request for a membership meeting to take measures for a general silk weavers’ strike. Today, at the strike hall, a de- tective was ejected. When asked (Continued on Page 8) Pioneers Will Picket Nazi Consulate Today In Thaelmann Protest A troop of Young Pioneers of America, Communist children’s or- ganization, will be part of the picket line which will parade before the German Consulate at 17 Battery Pl. at 10:30 this morning in protest against the continued imprisonment of E-nst Thaelmann. The activities of the Pioneers, however, will not end for the day with their appearance at the Ger- man consulate. They will join with other pioneers at 2:30 in the Scotts- | boro parade in Harlem which will start from 127th St. and Lenox Ave. 4 2.—This | mistreatment at the Island in Wed-| nesday’s issue of the Daily Worker. | Ujick and Popoff, who were among | a large number brought in by a spe- cial deportation train last Monday night, were placed in solitary con- finement as a punishment for mak- ing a collection among the depor- tees with which to purchase to- | bacco, ete, for penniless workers who had arrived from the West. Joining the mass fight against the “New Deal’ deportation wave, two | unions last night made contribu- | tions to the work of the Committee \for the Protection of the Foreign | Born. They were Local 2090 of the} Carpenters Local, A. F. of L., which jdonated $10, and the Alteration | |Plumbers, Steamfitters and Helpers | Union, which contributed $5.64. Labor and fraternal organizations | are now electing delegates to an/ anti-deportation conference, Mon- day night in Room 611, 80 East |Eleventh Street, at 8 o'clock. Fight Kowalsky Deportation DETROIT, Nov. 2.—Federal im- migration authorities are continu- jing to hold for deportation to the Soviet Union, Joseph Kowalsky, Michigan district organizer of the Polish Chamber of Labor, despite | the absence of an extradition treaty between the United States and the USSR. Rakosi Denied Own Lawyer In Early Tria PRAGUE, Noy. 2—The Ministry of Justice of the fascist Hungarian Government has just refused the famous Bratislav lawyer, Dr. Kle- mentis, permission to act as the de- fense counsel for Matthias Rakosi, imprisoned anti-fascist leader.’ He was informed that the indictment against Rakosi had already been drawn up, that the trial would take| place very shortly and a “suitable” lawyer be provided for Rakosi. This openly expressed determination to hold the trial in typical court-mar- tial manner, to refuse Rakosi even the elementary right of choosing his own lawyer, is only another proof that the reactionary Goemboes ad- ministration intends at all costs to prevent him from obtaining his freedom. Rakosi has already spent more than eight years of torture and mis- ery in the prisons of Hungary, but |instead of releasing him, the gcv-| Jernment has uncovered ‘new “evi- dence” which will be used to frame him for another, and in Rakosi's| {weakened state, a fatal term of | prison. Letters and cablegrams| must be sent to the fascist officials} of Hungary if Rakosi is to be saved ‘from certain death, |30 that Roosevelt came out openly for the banker class. Roosevelt announced his clear (Continued on Page 2) Anti-Union Drive Basec ‘On USS. Ruling NEW YORK.—The National As- | sociation of Manufacturers has be- | gun a drive to outlaw strikes and |smash trade unions “on the basis of settlements by the National La- |bor Relations Board which prohibit coercion in the A. and P. con- troversy.” turers Association issued Friday in New York city, brazenly declares } that the National Labor Board pro- posals on the A. and P, case lay the basis for their drive against the trade unions, The statement of the Manufac- |turers Association urges state legis- latures to enforce the Labor Rela- tions Board ruling by enacting six | strikebreaking provisions, the making illegal of sympathetic strikes; to make picketing illegal }when “intimidation” is used; to |make illegal all contracts “requir- ing a person either to join or not © join a trade union”; to make it lillegal for “any association of em- ployers or employes to expel, sus- \pend, fine, or otherwise punish members refusing to participate in an illegal strike or lockout” and to |“require written consent” for de- |duction of union dues from an em- \ploye’s wages. | The statement of the Manufac- turers Association is an open admi, called upon all New York wor! to greet the heroic Hunger March- ers at the gigantic election raliy in Madison Square Garden tomorrow {afternoon at 1 o’clock. | | | | mands. including | ‘The statement of the Manufac-|M™ittee of the The marchers, after holding mass meetings in several cities on the return from Albany, will ma:ch into Madison Square Garden at 2 o'clock. The marchers will hoid a mass meeting in Poughkeepsie at three o'clock this afternoon and will pro- ceed to Peekskill where a mass meeting will be held at 6 o'clock to- night. At the close of the Peeks- kill meeting, the marchers will pro- |ceed to Camp Nitgedaiget, Beacon, N. Y., where they will stop over night. The statement by the Distirct Committee of the Communist Party said: “The New York Distri Communist calls upon all New York workers to greet the Albany Hunger March- ers in Madison Square Garden and to give their support to their de- Their relief demands call for an immediate special session of the State Legislature where legisla- tion providing for adequate Winter relief and unemployment insurance | should be passed. Marchers Hailed “The Communist Party hails the heroic Hunger Marchers for their splendid courage and for their un- dauted spirit and determination in the face of the open fascist attack by the Lehman administration act- ing through the Albany police. “The Communist Party gre: prompt and energetic respo: ct Com- the of workers and_ intellectu: sup- |} port of the Hunger Marchers, and points out that it was the tre- mendous protest against the fasc! attack, and the solidarity which workers throughout the country are | extending to the Marchers, that Party | sion of the fact that the A. and P. | compelled the State Administration company and the N. L. R. B. are |to permit the marchers to hold their heading the anti-union drive of the | jconference and march te the Capi- employers. |tal. The growth of this mighty sinogrEhanQanta OETA | wave of protest and solidarity C. P. Calls Members (force the State Administration a i. the Albany officials to release t To Aid in Last-Minute Election Canvassing 100 arrested Hunger Marchers to grant the demands of the more 12n 2,000,000 unemployed in New | York State; for an end to the te: The District Secretariat of the ror and hunger program of the Communist Party yesterday called | lbankers and their representative, on all members of the Party, all Governor Lehman. sympathetic workers and all mass | organizations to see to it that no|tee of the Communist Party again single item of election campaign | appeals to you to attend the elec- literature is undistributed by Tues- |tion rally and protest meeting at day morning. Madison Square Garden on Sunday “Every niece of camnai¢n ‘tero- |afterncon at 1 o'clock. ture, leaflets, pamphlets, stickers,| “Leading Communist etc. should be disvo-ed of over the |for office, including I. Amter, Wil- week-end. Respend in full force liana Burroughs, James W. Ford, for the house to hcuse canvassing. | Fred Brieh!, Ben Gold, M. J. Olgin, Stay on the job until there is not |and I. Begun will address the mest- a single niece of litereture ‘ett. Tt |ing tomorrow. is wasted if it is not placed in the | “Bring your friends and shop- hands of workers before election |mates. Jam the Garden tomorrow day.” jand vote Communist on Tuesday.” “The New York District Comm‘t- | candidates | “he Police Chief Smurl had ordered all available policemen to line the route of march. The heavily armed Police patrol! the headquarters which the unemployed had set up in a downown office build State troopers with, full equip patrolled the capitol area swarmed over and the capitol grounds, ‘kers Cheer Marchers he: r paraded four abreast through streets lined with cheering workers, along South Pearl Street, and up State Street to the Capitol, led by I. Amter, Commu- nist candidate for Governor, a Ne= gro worker and a woman. Assem-< bled at the Capitol steps were a heavy guard of s‘ate troopers. De- spite this provocation, several thou- sand workers crowded the Capitol lawn to greet the marchers. With | the marchers standing on the steps, the workers joined in singing “Soli< darity.” The marchers did not im= mediately enter the Capitol, but stood confronting the trooners, who carried extra large night sticks. The delegation which the petitions to the Governor's Secretary be ise of Lehman’s re- fusal to come to Albany, was headed by Richard Sullivan, I. Amter, Na- | tional Secretary of the Unemploy- ment Councils, and Communist can- |didate for Governor of New York State; Vance Russel, leading rank and file member the Amer‘can Federation of Labor; Vladimir Isaacs, from Seneca Falls, and Rose Belkowitz. Sullivan Slugged Richard Sullivan, secretary of the United Action Conference on Work, employment and of the State Hur ker wer ed and slug- g Sullivan ed in the custody , Joseph Tauber, of the International Labor Defense, |The Negro worker was slugged and released court room today witnesses dents testified to the ‘tings which the marchers at the hands of Police Chict Smurl’s blue-coated gangs, Workers were forexd ft. tun & gauntlet of s. Others vere ipped n: and “flayed on the . Negro workers, who come ced a large part of the delegae tion to Albeny, were actcrded the most brutal treatment. Collection boxes which the marchers carried were rifled by Albany’s blue-coated thugs. Still lusting for the blood of jthe marchers, whom they embushed Memorial Bridge the volice slugged i} thei~ h’ood-coake@ |banda7es drinped fresh btood. A delegetion went to Thacher with the “9 cdo not reconvene un’ Sullivag comes back to le2d the Convention.* The delegation headed by Sam cht, (Continued on Page 5).