The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 29, 1935, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 193% Page 3 TWO JAILED FOR PROTESTING PLAYING OF ‘HORST WESSEL’ WASHINGTON POLICE GangMethods INCITE V IGILANTE RAIDS AGAINST C. P. Anna Rappaport, Crippled Member of Y. C. L.,| Dragged Through Snow After Protest— ‘Ought To Be Raped,” Police Say WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 28. on the part of Washington anti-Fascists, police are gating vigilante committees quarters here and begin a reign of terror. | The plans grow out of an incident occurring at Central | High School. On Saturday the Na- tional Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Hans Kindler, pre- sented with the active assistance of the German Embassy, a program of German music, culminating in the playing of the Nazi song Horst Wessel. been announced, Jewish members of the orchestra protested against the playing of this piece, but were silenced with the threat of dis- missal. Local organizations then sent in resolutions of protest, among these being the Workmen's Circle, the Jewish Community Center, the B'Nai Brrith, the Socialist Party, ete. Protest Nazi Piece As Kindler announced the piece, the voice of a Young Communist League member, Leon Seideman, rang out, “Do not play the Horst Wessel!” Kindler sneeringly re- plied, “Anything else?” Another Young Communist League member, Anna Rappaport, replied, “Do not play the Horst Wessel! It is the song of murderers!” Kindler in- terrupted with, ‘Anyone else?” Anna Rappaport then jumped up and spoke, outlining the evils of Fascism, pointing to the spread of it here. Instantly, the two were arrested by members of the “red squad” who were stationed in the audience. The orchestra then swung into the song, and, though the program was an- nounced as a children’s program, fully fifty adults stood at attention, giving the Hitler salute. The audi- ence arose, and the policemen stood at attention. Girl and Boy Scouts in uniform saluted the Nazi flag which hung over the podium. Some, however, walked out. Farlier in the program Kindler announced that Dr. Hans Luther, the Nazi henchman for the United States, had sent four Bavarians to perform and sing their native-folk- music. Dragged Through Snow Through a twelve-inch layer of snow, the two youths were dragged to police headquarters. Anna Rap- paport, whose courage was not weakened by her being a cripple, continued shouting slogans, though she was under arrest. At head- quarters charges of disorderly con- duct were preferred against the two. Their arrest created a stir at headquarters. Newspapermen learned that “two reds” were in the building, and the Police Department. prepared a reception for the group. Captain Linebarger, active head of the “red squad,” privately told a Hearst newspaperman, a reporier for the Washington Times, that “You fellows ought to do as you did in Californy. Smash their places! They are located here at 810 F Street, N. W., but don’t you go quot- ing me as saying anything about this. Just work quick. We stand behind you.” Wants Vigilante Action Captain Thompson of the Police Department told. the reporters, “Those god-damned Communists! Anarchists, that’s all they are! You ought to tie a rope around the necks of every danmned one of them and throw them overboard.” He then went into great detail, tell- ing the men haw to detect members of the Communist Party, how to kill them witiout leaving any in- criminating clues. Both Linebarger and Thompson assured the news- papermen that if they organized squads to use against the Commu- nists, they should act quickly, and that no one would be arrested as a result of whatever developments took place. He continued, “God damn them! I won't rest until every damned one of them is de- ported or dead.” Referring to Sam- uel Levine, the I. L. D. lawyer as- signed to the case, Linebarger said, “That damned red squirt of a shyster. I know how to handle him. Just watch.” In the squad room a group of po- licemen were discussing the case. “All that girl needs,” said one, “is a good raping.” “Workers distributed leaflets in front of the school when the audi- ence was filing in were dispersed by the police. Despite this threat of terror, the Communist Party and the Young Communist League are proteeding with increasing activity. GERMAN PLANE CRASHES ZURICH, Jan. 28.—Once again a German airplane has crashed near the German-Swiss border, it was learned here today. A few Gays ago the wings of an airplane wer found in (ie courtyard of ‘a Swiss factory, a short time after the noise of an explosion had been heard in the direotion of German territory. The Swiss population. here is of the opinion that the affair concerned a trial flight for a military bombing plane. WORKERS’ BILL ENDORSED OACOMA, §S. D., Jan. 28.—The County Commissioners of Lyman county, South Dakota, endorsed the ‘Workers Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827, at their last regular meeting here. eh When the program had | As a result of action insti- to smash Communist head- Union Labor Backs Sugar | In Detroit Poll DETROIT, Jan. 28—The trade union movement has swung solidly behind the candidacy of Maurice Sugar, noted labor attorney, for Judge of Recorder’s Court. He has been endorsed ley both the Detroit and Wayne County Federa- tion of Labor and the Trade Union Unity League, as well as by in- dependent unions such as _ the Mechanics Educational Society of America and the Society of De- signing Engineers. Among the individual A, F. of L. unions that have so far officially endorsed Sugar are: Electrical Workers Local 58, De- troit Federation of Musicians, De- troit Federation of Teachers, Jew- ish Bankers Union 78, Machinists Union 172, Kelsey Wheel Federal | Local of United Automobile Work- ers, Meat Cutters and Butchers Union (two locals), Metal Polishers Union, Typographical Union, Truck Drivers Union, Laundry Drivers Union, Fisher Body Federal Local of United Automobile Workers, Journeymen Tailors 229, Waiters Union, Bricklayers Union, Carpen- ters Union; Painters Locals 37 and 42, Carpenters Union, Sign Writers Union, Stenographers Union, Brew- ery Workers Union, Milk Drivers Union and the Hoisting Enginee:s Union. Primary elections will be held| March 4 and the final election April 1. Ten thousand signatures |are now being gathered to place Sugar on the ballot. All signatures }must be turned in at the campaign headquarters, 1010 Barlum Tower, by Thursday, Jan. 31. Unions Back Karges Strike In Evansville EVANSVILLE, Ind.., Jan. 28— With the strike of the 100 Karges Furniture Company workers under the leadership of the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union (T. U. U. L.) entering the second week, in- creasing suport is coming from many workers’ organizations in this vicinity. Among the unions to offer support are those of the coal min- ers, railroad workers and taxi drivers. Friday the first mass picket line was organized, in which the wives and children of the strikers took part. Joe Kiss, National Secretary- ‘Treasurer of the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union, has arrived here and is taking an active part in the conduct of the strike. He told the workers that picketing of stores in all cities where Karges furniture is on sale will be organized. Strong measures against. scabs are to be taken, among which is picketing the homes of each, so the neighbors will know them. There is a fine response to the call for strike relief, one local of the United Mine Work- ers having donated $25. A repre- sentative of the local American Legion Post told the strikers that the post is composed of workers, who will not permit themselves to be used as strikebreakers. u In Chicago Are Assailed Police Ransack Home Of Negro Candidate For Alderman CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 28—Sur- passing themselves in their gang- ster methods in the control of Chi- cago elections, the bosses waited less than twenty-four hours before striking at the twenty-nine Alder- manic candidates, nominated at workers’ conferences, who filed Tuesday. Canvassers who repre- sented themselves as being from the Board of Election Commissioners, and who had photostatic copies of the Racz Aldermanic petitions with them, called upon the signers. By threats and intimidation they tried to get these workers to declare their signatures were falsified. Ransacked Home While they were busy in the Eighth Ward, the police were ran- sacking the home of Lulu Edwards, Negro candidate for Alderman in the Second Ward. A heavy mail was received by practically all the candidates, along with many offers. One was offered a thousand dollars if he would get out of the race. This followed close upon the ar- rest Sunday of two young girls who were picked up while collecting sig- natures to place the Communist candidates on the city ticket. They were held for the Red Squad, finger-printed, photographed and subjected to indignities at the hands of social service workers before they were released on bond the day fol- lowing. Hold Protest Mass meetings have been calied in protest. Affidavits have been collected from those solicited in the Fighth Ward as the workers pre- pare to defend their civil rights. Delegations are visiting the Board of Election Commissioners and the Mayor. - The former deny any part in the canvassing of the Eighth Ward. As might be expected, the Chi- cago papers, which howl daily praise of American democracy in contrast to the dictatorship in the Soviet Union, remain absolutely silent about this open violation of every principle of a free and demo- cratic election. “The bosses have over-reached themselves in the Eighth Ward,” said A. Guss, election campaign manager of the Communist Party. “The raw deal given to George Racz by the Capitol Dairy Company, and followed up by, the politicians of the Democratic and Republican parties, have been eye-openers to a large number of voters in that ward. Many citizens who in the past have voted Democrat and Republican are now openly giving their support to the candidacy of George Racz.” Negro Minister Is Held For Protesting Against Jim-Crowism in School CLAIRTON, Pa., Jan. 28—A com- mittee of three, consisting of Rev. Vann McFarland, Negro minister; Al Martin and James Hall, were ar- rested here for presenting demands to the principal of the local high school for abolition of discrimina- tion against Negro students by the white principal. The committee was accompanied by a delegation of about 60 stu- dents, white and Negro, while sev- eral hundred students and their parents assembled in front of the school in a solidarity action in sup- port of the committee. The dem- onstration was organized by the Young Communist League. At a hearing the same evening the Mayor attempted to split the united front anti-jim crow fight by freeing Rev. Vann McFarland, while sentencing James Hall, Negro youth, to thirty days in jail or a fine of $12.60, and Al Martin, white youth, to ninety days or a fine of $300, JAPAN BUYS COPPER SHANGHAT, Jan. 28. — The Japanese have already begun to buy up copper waste at Shanghai. The first cargo of 500 tons has already left for Japan. For Jobless in the Mid-West MITCHELL, S. D., Jan. 28.— Every unemployed worker's home here is fortified against the sub- zero cold wave with an ample supply of coal—through the prompt action of the unemployed under the lead- ership of the Davis County Farm- ers’ and Workers’ League. At the last meeting of the Farm- ers’ and Workers’ League, report after report was made by the job- less workers and poor farmers of hhow coal orders were denied them by the County Commissioners. Chil- dren suffered in unheated homes as the wind-swept plains were blank- eted under snow in _ sub-zero weather. Adopted Plan After the reports were made, the workers adopted a plan of action. All those needing coal were to mo- pilize at the county store promptly at 9 o’clock the next morning, Sat- urday, with shovels and trucks. A committee was elected to inform the County Commissioners that unless coal orders were issued at once, the assembled workers would descend upon the coal yards, take the coal needed, carefully weigh it, and send the bills of the coal merchants to the County Commissioners. This decision was voted unanimously by the assembled workers and poor farmers. Action Was Prompt Saturday morning the entire as- semblage turned out as planned. A committee informed the County Commissioners of the plan of action. Action was prompt. The Commis- sioners immediately issued 1,000 pound orders of coal to each family in need of fuel. Fearing that in the rush some of the workers might be missed through mistakes or deliberately discriminated against, the workers insisted that a committee of their own selection be given the fuel or- ders to deliver to the coal dealers. This too was won. Hundreds of coal orders were is- sued. Squads of volunteers were dispatched to the coal yards by the workers and farmers to supervise the handling and delivery of the coal orders. Every effort is being made by the workers and poor farmers to con- solidate their gains by further strengthening and building the Davis County Farmers’ and Work- ers’ League, PREPARING FOR WAR Child of the New Deal, the destroyer Dale, latest of the Navy's 1,500-ton ships, shown as she began to slide down the ways at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. U ni ty Movement Issues Strike Programas P.M.A. Calls Illinois Convention (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) GILLESPIE, Ill, Jan. 28—The District Board of the| Progressive Miners of America has officially announced the} call for an Illinois District Scale Convention of the P. M. A. to take place Tuesday, Feb. 12, at Gillespie, Ill., Colonial) The Unity Movement in the P. M, A. has} called upon all local unions of thee theatre, 10 a.m. P. M. A. to elect militant rank and file delegates to the Scale Conven- tion. Locals are urged to adopt resolutions in the respective local unions for the Scale Convention to be based on the following main de- mands: 1, Six-hour day, $6 scale, five- day week and improved mine con- ditions. 2. Elect joint rank and file strike committees. 3. Unite all bona fide Hlinois miners against the Lewis-Keck machine, misleading the P. M. A. and against tne imported tnugs and for ONE FIGHTING MILI- TANT UNION IN THE ILLINOIS COAL FIELDS. 4. Close every pit on April 1. No individual agreements. No work pending settlement. 5. Join and support the unem- ployed miners in the Unemploy- ment Councils and the Illinois Workers Alliance in their struggle for 50 per cent increase in relief, for a 30-hour week at 60 cents minimum per hour on all relief jobs. Stop evictions and foreclos- ures on miners’ homes. Demand Passage ot tne Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827 (formerly H. R. 7598). 6. Fight for a district agree- ment. No settlement until ratified and approved by the membership. Local unions likewise must imme- diately proceed towards the election of broad rank and file strike com- mittees to prepare and organize for the strike on April 1. The local strike committees must embrace un- employed miners, wherever possible directly delegates from the Unem- ployment Councils and the Illinois Workers’ Alliance, Women’s Aux- iliaries, young workers—in sfort, the miners in every mine, in every local must prepare for a strike struggle on April 1. In the United Mine Workers of America mines in Illinois, it is nec- essary to raise the demand for a Scale Convention. The provisional WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. All organizations keep Feb. 23 open. Scott Nearing, who just returned from Europe, will lecture on ‘“‘Fas- cism or Communism,” for United Workers’ Organization, Answer the vicious lies of Hearst and his press. Answer the lies of all enemies of the Soviet Union. Come to the Mass Meeting on Friday, Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. at Broad St. Mansion, S.W. cor. Broad and Girard Aves. Prominent speakers. Adm. 20c. Aus- pices, Friends of the Soviet Union. February 2nd and 3rd, Scottsboro Tag Days. All organizations are asked to send volunteers to the I. L, D. Sta~ tions in their territory to help raise funds. Auspices LL.D., 49 N. 8th Street, Room 207. Superior, Wis. Daily Worker Comm. {s holding an affair Feb, 3 at Vasa Hall, 1ith and John Ave. Good program, refresh- ments, dancing. Chicago, Til. Save February 16 for Theatre Col- lective Chauve Souris. A three-hour program of Theatre, Music & Dance, followed by dancing to 3 a.m. Re- member Saturday, Feb. 16, 8:30 p.m. at People's Auditorium, 2457 W. Chi- aes Ave, Adm, 35c., 100 tickets at C, | government of the U. M. W. A. in| Illinois prevents any participation | on the part of the rank and file in | formulating the policies in the or- | ganization. Smashing through this bureaucratic machine to take their fate in their own hands, the miners in the U. M. W. A. locals must de- | mand a Scale Convention and adopt the same resolutions and same de- mands as are proposed for adoption in the locals of the P. M. A. Fight for one united strike com- mittee for the whole State. Only in this manner can the Illinois miners effectively carry their strug- gle on April 1. MINNEAPOLIS SCOTTSBORO PARLEY MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 28.— A conference for the defense of the Scottsboro boys, Ernest McDuffy, Negro lad framed at Anoka, Minn., and for other class-war prisoners was held Friday night at the Phyllis Wheatley Neighborhood House. Another, and broader, con- Of Charges Was Held on Trumped Charge of Killing Strikebreaker MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 28.— The second attempt to frame a worker in connection with the death of the wealthy strikebreaker, Arthur C. Lyman, who died of injuries re- ceived during the truck drivers | strike here last May, collapsed when a jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of Philip Scott. 19-year old driver, who was charged with first degree manslaughter. Mass pressure of the workers had previously forced the state to drop the case against another driver, Emanuel Holstein, who was charged with murder. The jury deliberated less than an hour, although the instructions given by the court and to which the de- fense attorneys objected strenuously, practically ordered a guilty. Army Men Implicated The testimony showed that Lyman, | surance” will be the subject of a an ex-army officer and vice presi- dent and manager of the American Ball Company of Minneapolis was a leader of a group of business men which acted army of several hundred hired thugs in the attempt to break the} aye. strike of the drivers for union rec- ognition and for 50 and, 5214 cents | an hour. The sinister role of the Citizens Alliance and the Law and Order League, as anti-labor and strike- breaking outfits, was clearly brought out by the evidence, as also their | attempts to frame workers in con- nection with the death of Lyman.| Workers’ Unemployment The correctness of the stand of | and Social Insurance Bill H. R. 2827,| the Communist Party and the In- | as it affects the Negro people, who, which | since 75 per cent of the Negro work- sharply denounced the first decision | ers are employed in domestic service of the Defense Committee of A. F.| and agriculture, are denied all bene- ternational Labcw Defense of L. Business Agents not to defend Scott was dramatically confirmed | ance laws other than the Workers’ | throughout the trial, with the piling | Bill. up of proof that the frame-up of Scott was intended as an opening gun by the open shop advocates against the organized labor move-| |where he had been sentenced ment. Defense Organized Rank and file A. F. of L. workers, learning from the experience with the Defense Committee of Business Agents, are pushing the organizing of rank and file defense commit- tees in their unions. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 28.— Nine workers, who during the gar- age mechanics strike here went to the defense of an organization com- mittee attacked by company gun- men, were sentenced last Friday by Judge Clyde White. Walter Bor- deaux, who wrested a gun from one | of the thugs, was given the stiffest sentence, 25 days in the workhouse or $10 fine, with five days or $5 fine | to the eight other workers. NEW HEADQUARTERS CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 28.—The District Committees of the Commu- nist Party and the Young Commu- nist League here will take up new offices in the Standard Building at 811 Prospect Avenue on Jan. 30, John Williamson, District Organ- izer, announced today. DETROIT LINCOLN SPEECH DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 28—On the occasion of the approaching an- niversary of Lincoln’s birth, Ed Wil- liams, leader of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, will speak on “Did Abraham Lincoln Free the Slaves?” on Sunday, Feb. ference is being organized for Feb. 7. 3, at 2:30 p.m. at the Workers Open Don’t miss a chance HUN BEAUTIFULLY BOUND, SIZE THIS PICTORIAL HIST CRISIS IS A LIVING ARY WRITERS. “ . . foreshadows "ide POSTPAID receive a copy. Order Today! to secure a copy of the autographed De Luxe edition of GER and REVOLT: Cartoons by BURCK 248 PAGES, PRINTED ON HEAVY ANTIQUE PAPER, LARGE FOLIO (844 x11 INCHES), BERED AND SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Only 69 Copies Left! EACH COPY NUM- ‘ORY OF THE WORLD DOCUMENT, SUPPLE- MENTED BY 11 OUTSTANDING REVOLUTION- A COLLECTOR'S BOOK! the marching power of the proletarian future.” —LANGSTON HUGHES. eo Send check or money order today. Money will be promptly returned to those too late to DAILY WORKER ®@ 50 E. 13th St. @ N. Y. verdict of | in concert with an|here Wednesday night at 8 o’clock,| the p | | WILLIAM BROWDER TO SPEAK | Minneapolis STUDENTS UNITE Striker Freed O = ACTION PROGRAM AT LABOR COLLEGE Unanimous Decision Establishes United Front | Organization To Head Conerete Struggles In State of Arkansas MENA, Arkansas, Jan. 28.—A united front for work if the State of Arkansas and vicinity was formed recently withe out a dissenting vote at Commonwe College, the labor school near here. Organizations pe pating are the Come monwealth College Association (the governing body of ‘thé - ; of teachershy and the Commue the campus. t loca ction on he Sociali Chicago Rally a Tomorrow Will Hear Browder united front. Sh CHICAGO, Ill., Jan. 28.—‘Forced ‘ . section have org Labor or Real Unemployment In-| southern Tenant Farmers Union 19 put an end to evictions, and one of the organ hat union, Ward Rodgers, has been jailed for quoting jin a mass meeting, the Declaratioy N&|of Independence to the effect that e had a right to change og > institutions. Rod» gers is a member of the State E: ecutve Cor ee of the Sociali Party of Arkansas, When news came of this arrest @ p of Lucien Koch, onwealth College, All persons at the school who are into § and each of the fous I a representative on thé Front Action Committee. ecent events in eastern Arkansag brougfht out the need for such are organized d speech by Earl Browder, secretary of the Communist P: when he addresses a mass m general ty, at Alvin Hall, 5ist St. and Michigan | abo! The Communist Pariy has issued| an invitation to all members of the Socialist Party and the American Federation of Labor, and to the Ne-| delegation made 1 gro people of Chicago to attend the| director of mass meeting. Full discussion will| and two students, each representi follow Browder's lecture. one of the pol: 1 parties, left ime Browder will also deal with the|Mediately to aid in the struggle t@ Old Age} free Rodgers and stop evictions. The purpose of the United Fron§ will be (1) to work with the Southe jern Tenant Farmers Union, (2) t@ build unemployed organizations ig jthe State and aid those already fits under all unemployment insur- | formed, (3) to defend sharecroppers +}and others now in jail for organic |zational activities through united action with the Internatinal Herbert Newton, Communist can- yey culores ie sid the par eecgh didate for City Clerk in the coming} p; i 7 8 | District 21, United Mine Workers of elections, a Negro worker who has! america, to secure autonomy, (5), recently been released from jail,|to support the Chattanooga confer¢ et iF S ; P anes rl ence against lynchings, (6) to build his activities in behalf of the civil) revolutionary student and teachey rights of the Negro people, will als0| organizations in the colleges of thd speak, | State. The United Front Action Commite | tee has charge of all details of ace tion. Criticism of the united fron§ is to be free and democratic bug must be confined to theoretical and tactical questions and must not ins yolve personalities. The whole purs pose of the united front is to bring about united action on specific is® sues and struggles that arise in the State. MAY DAY CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 28.—William Browder, business manager of the |New Masses, will speak here on| Friday at 8:30 p.m. at the Medical | and Dental Arts Building, 185 North | Wabash Avenue on “The Middle| Class Must Choose.” The meeting | will be held under the auspices of | the Friends of the New Masses MOSTOWS Win a FREE Trip to the Seviet Union WHO WILL be the Daily Worker Shock Brigader to stand in the shadow of the Krem- lin and witness the triumphant march of some two million Moscow workers? Hear the roar of solidarity from the vanguard of the world proletariat? 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