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Fighting Bob Minor, at 50, Is Hailed by His Comrades Page Two DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER !, 1034 Fighting Bob Minor, at 50, Is Hailed by His Comrades Revolutionary LEADERS HONOR MINOR AT 50TH ANNIVERSARY BANQUET Group Urges j DR. EMIL EICHEL ! Red Election Picnic DENTIST Veteran Gets 1150 E. 93rd St.. New York City | Renewed Fight j Cor. Lexington Ave. ATwater 8-M3B j j Hours: 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. Sun. # to 1 j ! Member Workmen’s Siek and Death I C. P. Acclaim For Thalmann Monday Will Launch Benefit Fund Mooney, Many Others Three Months’ SHenee Greet Workingclass Shrouds Anti-Nazi N. Y.Party Campaign Dr. Maximilian Cohen Dental Surgeon v Career of Struggle #> »4g , ifjffp - ' wLv d Leader’s Fate f*%’ Carnival Program To Feature Mass 41 Union Sq. W., N. Y. C Inauguration After 6 P M. Use Night Entrance By HARRY RAYMOND NEW YORK—Calling for renewed of Drive—Three-Day Election Festival 22 EAST 17th STREET NSW YORK —Robert Minor, vet- efforts to pierce the veil of silence Suite 703—GR. 7-0138 eran revolutionary leader, member that has overhung Ernst Thael- Begins Today on Staten Island of the Central Committee of the mann, German Communist leader imprisoned for the Communist Party, the world's great- last eighteen NEW est revolutionary cartoonist, was months in a Nazi dungeon, the YORK.—The Red Election Carnival and Picnic ar- Dr. S. A. National Committee Cherno^f greeted by more than a thousand j to Aid the Vic- ranged by the New York District of the Communist Party GENITO-URINARY | ) t:ms of German Fascism yesterday friends and comrades at a fiftieth for Labor Day, Monday Men and Women L anniversary’ banquet arranged by declared in a statement that it has will officially open the election cam- get Ave., N. the New York District Committee been unable to information on paign, with I. Amter, candidate for Governor, making his 223 Second Y. C. the condition OFFICE HOURS: - 7:30 P.M. \ of the Communist Pa:ty at Irving j of Thaelmann for al- II most three months. first campaign speech. SUNDAY: 12-8 P.M. Plaza Hall on Thursday night. j Tompkins Square 6-7697 S Members of the Central Commit- “Not a single bit of information The Election Campaign Committee of the Communist has been received ' the Party, concerning the Party yesterday called on - tee of Communist some safety all work-i founded the Party fifteen or whereabouts of Ernst ing class organizations, clubs, trade to whom Seen at the The park can be from ago, shops, speakers’ table are: (1. to r.) James Workcr, who was chairman of the event; Earl Thaelmann in the last eighty days,” unions, to reached years workers from the etc., attend this affair Grand Central or Times Square on Ford, organizer of Harlem Section, Communist Browder, general secretary of the statement said. masse, bringing of artists, writers—all gathered to the Communis! en the banners the Astoria subway to Ditmars Ave., LirriNSKY Party; Ben Davis, Jr., editor the Negro liber- Party, Detailing the organizations, in DR. JULIUS hail the great working class leader, of IT. S. A., who was the principal speaker the various organiza- order to turn Astoria, L. 1., thence buses to the ; Clarence tions this a Offlcft Hours: S-10 A M.. 1 M P.M who won for himself the name of ator Hathaway, editor of the Daily and, next to him, the guest of honor. which have made fruitless ef- picnic into demonstration of park. B.M.T. Avenue support of and Second PHONE: DICKENS 2-MIS Fighting Bob in many an election forts to make contact with Thael- the the mass organiza- L can be taken to get to Ditmars campaign, climaxed last year when mann, and steps to be under- tions of New York for the election Ave. 107 BRISTOL STREET campaign he was candidate for Mayor of New department taken, the statement continues: of the Communist Party. Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Ares., Brooklyn of the Central Commit- The picnic and carnival York on the Communist ticket. tee of the C.P.; Jack Stachel, acting “Neither the Pairs World Com- will be Staten Island C. P. held at North Beach Picnic Park, Festival The commemoration of the fif- { secretary of the Trade Union Unity mittee to Aid Hitler Victims, the NEW YORK»-Three-day vacation N.T.W.U. Calls for Unity of Unions Astoria, L. I. The John Reed Club, tieth birthday of this man. who has League; Charles Krumbein. New International Committee for Lib- and festival has been arranged by of Labor Sports Union. New Dance been and great ; York organizer C.P., eration Thaelmann, the Inter- the Communist Party Muerkant still is one of the district of the ( Covfini’cd from Page 1) , with a proposal for the holding of Group, W.I.R. band and many other of Staten Dr. Harry leaders of the proletariat in this and Hugo Geliert, artist. a joint conference. national Labor Defense nor the Island for the Labor Day week-end, National Committee have been organizations are cooperating in today, tomorrow Dentist country, was a special event. It was the strike and fight for the vic- “This Joint Conference shall dis- of and Monday, at Many Telegrams j able to secure a single word of making this picnic the outstand- the characterized as such by Earl ! tory of the textile workers. cus*! ways Scandinavian Summer Home 796 EASTERN PARKWAY the and means for es- news as to ing event of the season. A political Browder, secretary of the | Telegrams and letters poured into the fate of Thaelmann Camp at Annadale Beach. The Kingston general “The enthusiastic response of ! tablishing such unity and soli- obstacle race has been prepared, Corner Are. who, in a speech the hall all during the evening. ar.d his fellow prisoners since the as proceeds will go to support the elec- Communist Party, the textile workers to the strike darity on the basis of a common well as a DEcatur t-0695 Brooklyn, N. T. They came from William Z. Foster, Saar workers’ delegation saw public funeral for Hitler, tion made at the banquet table, said: I call indicates that the masses of program for one strike, one campaign. ! chairman of the Central Committee j strike Thaelmann in June. and mock elections. This is only a In program “It is a special event not only textile workers, Negro and white, leadership, part of the musical various of the Communist Party, and from j one set of demands, so “We small the extensive program because we take the pleasure of who, for years having been sub- present a must break through this attractions will be featured, such as as far away as from | as to united front to the arranged for the day. the greeting Bob Minor, but also be- j Moscow, the jected to the most ruthless ex- employers. silence of the Nazi prisons and 1.W.0. Symphony Orchestra, | editorial of Dancing from 2 p.m. to midnight cause we are celebrating the fif- staff the Trud, central owners, torture camps. A flood of reg- Workers Theatre, and the speakers organ ploitation by the mill are Case of Paterson will be one of the attractions teenth anniversary of our Party. | of the Soviet Trade unions. militantly fight for istered letters should be addressed while will include Robert Minor and Dr. Simon Trieff determined to “In the particular case of Pater- and talk Bob Minor we One came from the California dis- to Dr. Franz Guertner, Minister of plays dances will be presented Michael Gold. Buses leave St. When we about their demands and end the mis- son and Lodi, N. J„ where by the Workers Laboratory Dentist are talking about the history of the trict of the Communist Party. But the Justice, Berlin, by thousands of Theatres George Ferry today at 2, 5 and 7 erable conditions which prevail in danger of two separate strike com- and a group of Party. not an j the one that received the most stir- organizations and individuals de- girls from the 1934 p.m.; Sunday from 10 a.m. on the 2300 - 86th Stre«t Communist So it is the industry. It indicates that the mittees exists, which will Follies, party.’’ | ring applause was a special delivers’ tend to manding to hear from Thael- under the direction of the hour. Tickets can be obtained at ordinary birthday workers no longer believe this can weaken ranks, the National New MAyflower 9-7035 Brooklyn, N. T. greetings from j letter from Tom Mooney. the mann and demanding to know Dance Group. Admission will the Workers Bookshop and the Speches bringing be achieved by further reliance Textile Workers Union proposes to be 25 of working letter prison, where he is incarcerated. cents. Brooklyn Scandinavian hall. various sections the The from which upon arbitration schemes and al- achieve the desired unity of Minor were | was action class to Robert made censored in the first sentence lowing their struggle to be post- by means of merging the National "Protests should accompany -WILLIAM BELL by Clarence Hathaway, | by prison authorities, said: these letters against toastmaster poned. Textile Workers Union organiza- the arrest of the Daily Worker; James the anti-fascist committee which Classified | Optometrist editor of “My dear Comrade Minor: Arrogant Stand of Bosses tion with the locals of the United outstanding Negro Communist entered Germany a few ago and Ford, “Greetings from this San “Tile arrogant stand of the em- Textile Workers on the basis of days Restaurant Garden leader in America; Max Bedacht, to inquire as to the safety of all FURNISHED ROOM Sunny, reasonable.
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