SUBSCRIPTION RATES; Ynblished lit she ComprortailY Publishing C«.. Inc. da 11* exempt 9rmd*?, a* *6 1, *>rwYwli§r»: Oa* Page Uth Sf City. V V. Telephone ALfonqmn 1-79&8 Cabl* ‘TJAIWORR.’* lr Tear, fS. six months, $8.50; 8 months. $2: t month. Four •Keeptinf of Manhattan JULY 21. I*BB and m-~.il cheeks to th* nail? Worker, IMP R. 13th St.. Now York, N. Y. DailUj-iPbiier fHronfh and Sronx, New Tork City. Foreign and Canada: One year. $9: 8 month*, $5; S rooaths. SB. Strengthen Preparations for Aug. 1 World Anti-War Day BRITAIN, FRANCE SCRAMBLE NEWS BRIEFS STILL BLAZING AWAY —By Burck. Masses Starving Repeal Now Certain. WASHINGTON, July 30 —With 18 states on record for repeal of the FOR SOVIET TRADE AS U. S. prohibition amendment and 17 more in Germany While to vote before the end of the year there is a certainty that one other state will fall in line, making the IS PREDICTED necessary 36 to secure a constitu- Food Costs Soar RECOGNITION tional amendment. Smashing de- feats in Indiana, Alabama and Ar- kansas—three states which the drys Bread Sales Drop 40 Percent in Western France Discusses $22,000,000 Steel Order; claimed were strongholds—have been j,, British Trade Pact Is Hastened ; decisive. Even the most ardent drys Districts; Fat Prices Prohibitive tow admit that the "noble experi- Germany Chief Loser ment” is doomed. The wets now claim MOSCOW, July 20. Mass starvation of the German that they will carry every state In masses is reported by the Paris correspondent of “Pravda,” NEW YORK.—England and France j the union. It is certain that before are making energetic bids for trade ; the year is over the Eighteenth who says that in many districts of Western Germany the con- with the Soviet Union, striving to j PUSH SLAVE CODE Amendment will be killed. sumption of bread has fallen off by 40 per cent. forestall the expected American rec- j The consumption of fats has fallen heavily, ognition of the Soviet Government j Held for Chain Gang. very as a re- suit of restrictions and take trade away both from Am- j TO AID WARSHIP NEWARK. N. J.. 20—Police the on importa- July tions of fats by Fas- erica and from Germany. are holding Albion R. instituted the here Chapman cist government, and a consequent France and Russia are discussing charge he escaped on a that from a PHILA. PREPARES ris? in prices. More than 1,000 shops terms for a $22,000,000 order for steel j BUILDING PLANS Florida chaffi gang, known as Road products, selling chiefly fats have been com- and allied and for a com-. Camp No. 44 near Jacksonville. Chap- prehensive trade agreement involving | Workers Adopt De- pelled to go out of business in the man is alleged to have been serving TORGLER DEFENSE Palatinate. the same time - extensive credits. At j seven years for robbery. He escaped from London that Brit- mands for Hearing in All food prices are rising m Ger- word comes ¦ after serving one year. lsh firms are looking forward to Washington Meeting Lays Plans to many, while the wages of all work- greatly increased business with thr ers are being cut as a part of the with Owsley to Rumania. Nazi economic Soviet Union. A $30,000 contract WASHINGTON, July 20.—T0 speed Finance Trip of program. firm has just been can- NEW YORK, July 30—Alvin M. an American the expenditure of $238,000,003 out At the same time the Russian celled, and in England, the Owsley of Dallas, Texas, former com- Lawyers being placed of public works funds for warships White Guards are especially reason given being that the British mander of the American Legion, taken care of by the Hitler govern- and to hold dowm wages of ship- firm offered better credit terms. sailed yesterday for Rumania, where ißy a Staff Correspondent.) ment. The White Guardist paper building workers, hearings on the has the job of American min- This fact supports the report that Ire PHILADELPHIA, July 20— Send- “Probushdenye Rossy” carries an an- government intends to re- ship construction code w-ere set to ister. He is a notorious labor-hater, the British begin Thursday. ing of two lawyers from this city nouncement that the White Guard sume the partial guarantees of Soviet ku-kluxer and militarist and his ap- Reichstag trial restaurant in Berlin will serve food Bidding for naval construction to sit in on the fire orders which were abrogated at the pointment by Roosevelt is his firs’: Berlin, defense counsel, free to anyone showing a member- opens in a week, when the juicy con- in as seemed time of the British embargo follow- diplomatic experience. assured today a ship card of the German White tracts for 32 will be definitely after ing the conviction of the Metropoli- battleships meeting last in the Bellevue- Guardist organization. The same handed out to rush to completion the night tan-Vickers spies in Moscor. More Dough for Stratford Hotel, called by the Law- restaurant serves its White Guard time, war program of the Roosevelt re- At the same as reported yes- Mrs. Roosevelt. yers Committee for the Defense of customers a full dinner for 15 to 81 terday, the Reconstruction Finance gime. Jews to Sharpen Political Prisoners. pfennigs. preparing to up The shipyard owners are asking NEW YORK. July 30.—Mrs. Fran- Meet Corooration is follow Press Growing A telegram was sent by the credit for Soviet cotton for a 40-hour week instead of a klin D. Roosevelt has another job. Illegal Red meet- Its $5,000,000 Anti-German Boycott ing to the German ambassidor :n purchases in America with a six-year 30-hour week, arguing that the short- She is to edit a “questions and an- Young- Bremen Toilers swers” column in Woman's Home Washington, demanding assurances credit of $55,000,000 for further cot- er work week will delay the war the allowed Companion. In her opening article LONDON. July 20.—Jewish leaders Qermany Despite Terror that the lawyers would be Disarm Storm Troopers orders, program of Swanson, Secretary of in ton the to Committees will .start Loser Navy. declared entitled “I Want You to Write to of 35 countries met In Amsterdam participate. Germany Chief Sw’anson a short immediately the work of raising BREMEN, young report says that the Me” she wants to know the problems plans " July 20.—The A from London while ago that the United States will today to work out to extend funds to defray the expenses of the trade which or sadden and They Still Appear Party, Young Workers revolutionary workers of Bremen principal terms new build a navy “second to none" in “puzzle you” of and intensify the anti-German boy- Saul Waldbaum. who presided at Britain your agreement between Great and the shortest possible time. “what brought joy into life and cott in retaliation against the Nazi j meeting, is one of lawyers have carried out a well-organiacd been agreed Have 3 Organs the the the Soviet Union have Brooklyn shipyard workers who how you are adjusting yourself to the anti-Semitic persecutions. who will go to Berlin in the at- series of raids on the fltorm Troop on, in the terms relating new conditions in this amazing particular met at Central Hall. Brooklyn, July The United States, the Union of in Berlin tempt to thwart the Nazi plans to patrols, disarming and beating a to increased Soviet purchases in En- world.” Workers wives, if j 18th rejected the wage-cutting code they South African States, Egypt, and j lynch the German Communist lead- them. gland. The agreement is expected to might say large number of proposed by the ship bosses and bothered to read the sheet, most of the countries of Europe are BERLIN. July 20. The “Rote ers Torgler. Dimitrov. Popov and go into effect in August, or Septem- some hot about adminis- Four young workers forced their passed a resolution to endorse the things ihe represented at this conference, which : Fahne," illegal central organ of the Tanev. Errol White is the other ber at the latest. tration at by way into a Storm case, held workers' own demands drawn up at Washington headed the is preparatory to a World Party, is coming out reg- attorney chosen. Troop Nazi Germany will be the chief lady's husband, Jewish Communist up the Brown Shirts with a rusty the meeting. Economic be held in ularly with four pages, so much like Jonah Goldstein of the National various deals. In 1932. * * • Conference to loser by these The demands of Committee explained the work of pistol, and took six revolvers from exports to the Soviet Union the shipbuilding London in October. the old legal edition in technical German workers be presented at the the committee to the gathering of them. Tire Nazis did not dare go were more than *110.000.000. France will Dies of Exhaustion. The present meeting is to quality that the reader almost for- Washington hearings a delegation planned professional people, and there was out into the street again for several and Great Britain are making a drive by FORT LAUDERDALE. Fla.. July organize the boycott, and to publicize gets the conditions under which it is from the yards. discussion from the floor. A Phil- hours. to gain this trade, which the Soviet 20, —Captain Alfred Nillson. master non-German products as published. All the efforts of the Nazis Among demands are the fol- substitutes adelphia newsoaperman. Saul Car- Six armed anti-fageists held up Union is glad to give elsewhere. the of the oil tanker Gulf Gem. died last sos goods hitherto imported from to discover the secret printing press case, lowing: night. attributed son of the Ledger pointed out that 207 Storm T;copers in another These deals reflect the growing Physicians his Germany. cn which it is printed have so far of and with booty of 16 Union, the A $24 minimum weekly wage for death exhaustion mars pressure, and the arousing got away a strength of the Soviet to brought about tailed. public were only ef- revolvers. An attempt to storm a which has re- common labor, for a 6-hour day. because opinion, the country of socialism of the six hours’ uninter- The latest issue, on the first page, fective methods of making the news- Nazi barracks, housing 60 Storm by the capitalist 5-day week. Raises for all 1,300 mained unaffected other rupted stay on the bridge of the Rebellious Nazis calls on the German workers to de- papers deal with Fascist terrorism, Troopers, unsuccessful, but the foreign trade, workers, and increases with each rise was crisis except as to its vessel while rescuing the crew of the fend the arrested Communists—three or political persecution anywhere, were able to retire hunger for mar- in the cost of Put Into Prison Camps anti-fascists which the intense living. burning Cities Servioe Patrol. After sentenced to death in Altona, two in instancing the Scottsboro and Moo- without loss. countries is now A guarantee of 40 weeks work each kets of the capitalist that a fierce storm off the coast of Chemnitz, Ernst Thaslmann facing ney cases. building again with large new year, unemployment insurance to be VIENNA. July 20.—Thirteen hun- up Florida kept him on the bridge many trial, and Torgler, Dimifcroff, Popov, Among other means proposed for paid to workers who work less than dred former Brown Shirts are held credits. hours. He wee near collapse when and Tanev with burning the raising money to send the two at- Spandau Prison Nazis At the same time the scramble for 40 weeks sufficient to make up full in the concentration camp near Wil- I his boat docked and died soon after sede, the Reichstag. Another front page ar- torneys. was that of a street cor- Soviet trade reflects the sharp rival- wages, as well as unemployment in- in Luneborg plain, for Kill Red Radio Hero arrival at a hospital, The camp's previous ticle is an exposure of the Hitler ner collection campaign in the city, * mutiny. popu- ries among the imperialist powers. surance for workers laid off. * * bring lation of 2,000 communists and so- w’ork schemes, and an analysis of which would the whole situa- Their intense need for foreign trade, Unrestricted right of the workers the public's atten- BERLIN, July 30.—Comrade Gets Colombian Post. cial democrats has been ! whole economic program as a tion forcibly to becoming ever more urgent under the to organize themselves. No discrim- distributed tion. Since Art Smith's hooligan has been murdered in the» pressure 20.—Sheldon in other camps to make room for : “gigantic fraud.” Schulz crisis, combined with the of ination against Negroes. Abolition of WASHINGTON. July “Khaki Shirts” allowed to make Whitehouse of New York, now min- the rebellious storm troopers. are police prison at Spandau. the working class, is forcing increased speer-up. Old age pensions equal to The third and fourth pages are a public nuisance of themselves all trade, while the negotiations are used two-thirds of regular wages for all ister to Guatemala, a career man who Buch Rutker, organizer of the devoted to an Open Letter of the over town without disturbance by He is the Communist “who stole by country a, trade weapon has been lackeying for who joined the each as workers over the age of 50. United States “Black Reichcwehr.” ~ Central Committee of the Communist the authorities, the sentiment at the the air” and broadcasted a speech against the others. Against discrimination of foreign- imperialism in Latin - America for “black front” of Otto Strasser, ex- Party of Germany, addressed to the meeting was strongly In favor of against the building of the German years, appointed yesterday of having managed The apparently imminent recogni- born workers. Strict observance by was to be pelled aide Hitler, has been spir- sccial-democratic workers of Ger- insistng on the city allowing the armored cruisers, to by the ited away by the Nazis, w’ho tion of the Soviet Government the company of all safety laws, minister to Colombia. refuse many. committee to collect funds publicly take the place of the Socialist edi- is a chief and * * • to reveal Schwartz, Roosevelt administration safety appliances for dangerous jobs his whereabouts. Another article, analysing the posi- to fight Fascism. tor of ‘‘Vorwartz, at the in the British and French time of the the element to be designated by a workers’ elected Harriman Sanity Test. More than 100 Nazis of Munich tion of the revolutionary movement plebiscite against rush get orders before Am- ' German naval program. to Soviet committee. NEW YORK, July 20.—Dr. have been stripped of their uniforms in Germany, concludes that the sit- RADIO FANS erica does. At the same time France Menas and taken camps, No hiring of workers under 16. all G. so-called expert on In- to concentration uation has greatly altered in its favor Schulz was in perfert health when and Great Britain are attempting to Gregory, of violent A “Short-Wave Fan Club” is be- now working under that age be sane bankers, is ex- after a series disagree- since the beginning of May. but that arrested. Two days later he was strike a blow at Germany by taking to completing his ments between Brown Shirt ing organized in New York City, of no given schooling and maintenance at amination of W. Harriman, the work in the factories is lagging be- burned secretly, word of away its Soviet business. Joseph rank and file and their | workers interested in getting Soviet his death in German the cost of the government. Aboli- the thieving banker whom his leaders. | h'rd the other aspects of the move- appearing the lawyer, These sharp attacks programs on the radio. This Club press. of William (Wild Bill) on erstwhile tion compulsory insurance and all J. Donovan is folowers, | ment. will help amateur radio fans to tune "welfare” trying which become more nu- Fakers on Waterfront and charity collections in- to prove crazy so he will not merous every The “Junge Garde,” organ of the in on the Soviet programs, and will side the docks have to stand trial for day, reveal the power- or yards. getting away ful insurgent movement which Young Communists, is also appearing get the English broadcasts from the Relief Trying to Lure Seamen The right of all workers to more million is Anti-Fascist assem- .with than a dollars in rising in opposition to Hitler’s pro- j regularly. The current issue contains Soviet Union published in advance Into A. F. of L. Union ble, strike and picket for higher depositors’ money. After the exam- gram. j a report of the Workers AntiSFas- in various working class papers. All Fund Raised inLondon standards of living above the stan- ination by the doctor the federal cist Congress in Paris, and calls for workers interested should in ft ; get 200 NEW YORK.—More than ißv a Marine Worker Correspondent) dards in the code without interfer- court will decide whether Harriman Get your unit, union local, increased activity of all young work- touch with I. S. Milman, 446 Clare- or mass i Pounds (nearly $1,000) for the relief BALTIMORE, Md.—ln looking over ence from the company or govern- shall be tried or sent to some rest organization to challenge another -1 ers against wage-cuts ar.d for the re- mont Parkway, Bronx, New York mistakes of the International ment. home. lease of workers. City. Topping 2-5520. of victims of the Nazi terror, was the past group in raising subs for the Daily I the imprisoned Telephone at in Kings- Union I see now collected a meeting Seamen’s officials. Hall, London, that I never made a mistake when way England, recently, joined according to a report received here I left that organization and by National Committee to Marine Workers' Industrial the Aid the Victims of German Fascism. Union. The secretary of the Balti- Many Pay Last to the among represen- Harry On platform, more branch of the I. S. U. stands Tribute and W ork of Alan Potamkin Life tatives of the Front outside of the headquarters and United against Fascism, Mar- stops all the old time seamen that German were Lord to be good dues-paying mem- Colleagues, Untimely ley of the Labor Party, Isabel Brown used Workers, Mourn Death Body to Lie in State at Workers’ Center To- Party, bers. His line of bull is almost the of the Communist Ellen Wil- same as the old Wobbly line, only At 33 of Revolutionary Poet and Critic day from 12 Noon Until Funeral kinson, Harry Pollitt, Lord Russel, the Wcbblies were more open. Saklatvala, Prof. J. B. S. Haldane, James Maxtoo. Miles Malleson, E. Hello, Mac: Why don't you come he specialized In and person, comrade, By JOSEPH FREEMAN belles lettres the phasized in a statement issued to the chanfling a loyal a F, Wise, and C. E. M. Joad. Tht up once in a while to a meeting? ; social sciences. Afterwards he spent press yesterday by the Amkino cor- brilliant who pro- coming Harry Alan Potamkin, noted revolu- conversationalist hall was crowded with 2,500 work- Most of the old-timers are ' five years directing the Children’s poration. American distributor of So- fusely and generously poured out new S, be long ; tlonary critic and poet, died late ers, and hundreds more were turned back to the I. U. It won't Play Village, an enterprise in educa- viet films. The statement follows: and stimulating ideas, and a devoted we have job control again, Wednesday afternoon at Bellevue ¦ tive away at the dobr. now until | play. “With the death of Harry Alan fighter for Communism. and we need you old seamen in the Hospital, after a surgical operation •A•Ttffi.vffiL:m Among the speakers was Egon for ulcers, from While Potamkin American has lost its ma- He kept up his work almost to the organization. Gee, you i; be stomach which he still at college, he began his Erwin Kisch, well-known German had suffered for the past literary jor film critic and commentator. end. contributing articles to the revo- one of the best dressed seamen on the three years. . career in the Liberator, with writer, who got away from a Nad Comrade Potamkin entered the hos- a in verse against Potamkin himself lutionary press until he entered the Pacific Coast, and now you are not diatribe Woodrow combined within dungeon. pital on June 25th. Efforts to save Wilson. he an acute understanding of film art hospital. much better than a. bum. You old- his ; Subsequently published by the John life included six blood transfusions. here and abroad verse, stories, and with a human and profound cultural A resolution adopted timers got discouraged too damned , Reed Club upon the announcement is going to make Twenty-six members of the John Reed ! criticism of the theatre, the movies background. In his death the Soviet British Labor Council easy. Roosevelt! Club, of his death says in part: things better, and the government is of which Comrade Potamkin - and books. He was for a number of Union, too. has lost a friend. was secretary, the Workers Film and years the New’ York of “The tragic death of Comrade Urges German Boycott only going to let Americans work on correspondent swJSsBBSBMwHgBi “At all times he gave himself un- Harry Alan his Photo League and o’ the Daily Close Up, Cinema and ¦ Potamkin in early American ships. Experimental selfishly for the promotion and in- LONDON, Worker Staff volunteered their blood. thirties has taken from the revolu- July 20.—Under pres- And, to top off his line, he tells the other film publications. For a time he terpretation of the Soviet kino in from the rank and file, the Three of these their ' tionary movement one of the most j sure worker to just pay a visit to the hall qualified, giving also edited the Guardian. this His untimely death, in National Council of gifted and loyal of its writers. . . . Joint the Trades- get stew, blood several times. The three were part, and he can a as the union Potamkin, always sympa- was no doubt brought to pass Comrade his talents Union Congress, the Labor Party stews day, Robert Hamilton of the “Daily,” Ben | Comrade Potamkin devoted is now putting out two a thetic to the revolutionary movement, because of the sacrifices of time, and energies reserve to the and the Parliamentary Labor Party labor Field and Paul Beach of the John interests of without and there is no forced attached entered it as an active fighter in 1927. energy and health In the struggle of the working class for the have issued a manifesto calling for the stew. Reed Club. the Soviet kino. to He was one of the first members of overthrow of capitalism. boycott of all German goods. many years, The untimely death of this gifted coffin in this union and the Reed Club and various “Potamkin was loved and re- Developed Revolutionary The specifies long I fifty, and secre- revolutionary writer at 33 came as a John held Criticism manifesto a now am over the positions spected by who knew He : of products, to try and i profound shock to all who knew In it. At the time of his all him. “In the John Reed Club, the New list German and calls tary offers me a stew 1 him. he Its executive secretary. will be mourned by thousands and Masses, the Daily Worker, the New on purchasers to call atten- back to the old tame way The John Reed Club, the Film and death was j all the bring me In 1930 he was one John Reed not soon replaced.” Pioneer and in various liberal tion of dealers to the fact that' relief. Photo League, the New Masses, the of the publi- of trying to get Club delegates to the Kharkov con- Amkino is dedicating the latest So- cations for which he wrote he con- they refuse to buy German goods. There are no young seamen : New Pioneer and ether organizations j Join- ference of revolutionary writers, viet film in this country to the mem- sistently developed revolutionary crit- ing Seamen’s Union i and publications with Com- 1 the International which he helped to the pro- ory of Comrade Potamkin. Tliis film, icism and upheld the Communist the present time, and with ! rade Potamkin was are where formulate Trotsky at the! connected gram International Union of “The Patriots,” is one of the best views on art and literature. to Reside in mass laying up of more ships daily, ' arranging the funeral, which will be of the Writers. In the last produced in the U.S.S.R. The dedi- “Despite the fatal illness which the younger seamen gradually join held today n 2 o. m . the Revolutionary France While a> i years life cation will read: “Dedicated to Harry finally took him from our ranks, he Reds Are Councils. Workers Center, 50 East Street. six of his he was a frequent the waterfront Unemployed 13th contributor New Masses, the Alan Fotamkin, whose death is a continued almost to the end to de- They see their real leaders, and Joseph Freeman, of the Reed to the Expelled from There John Daily Worker and the Labor Defender. great loss to cinema art and litera- vote his prolific and brilliant pen Iby their struggles for relief while Club. Alexander Trachtenberg, of to the the He was particularly Interested in ture.” revolutionary movement. While PARIS, July 20.—Leon Trotsky has in the Unemployed Councils Communist Party, and Martha I As a critic, Comrade suffering Intense physical pain, he Millet, speak | worktngclass children, and wrote Potamkin had received permission from the French They see there real leaders, and Young Pioneer, will at i an grasp of tech- gave freely of time and to ceremony. of and prose for the unusual both the his effort government to reside in that coun- when they get a job they come to the The body will lie in . quantities verse nical of the film his New Pioneer as well as songs, plays side and of its po- duties as secretary of the John try. The French bourgeoisie Is tbs the Marine Workers’ Industrial state at the Center from 12 o’clock j litical His and Reed and operettas for the pioneer groups. Implications. reviews Club and participated In vari- instigator of anti-Soviet plots and Union and take out a card and help noon. The body will be cremated. articles always related the two in a ous campaigns of the Communist the protector of guard carry against Despite youth. Harry His revolutionary children's songs all white on the fight rotten his Alan Po- style that was ludd and brilliant. In Party and of accommodations, tamkin had are being sung this summer by the Harry Alan Potamkin other enemies the workers’ food, rotten rotten already achieved a lead- the revolutionary criticism of the film "The writers artists of the John and peasants’ government. Trotsky's treatment, ing place among children at and a num- and rotten ships and rotten the best movie critics Kinderland. he was not only a pioneer but a lead- Reed Club who took pride in his life previous visit to the them today European con- conditions in general in the shipping in the world. His w’ork was known In ber of have been issued er whose original*ideas have deeply mourn his death. We tinent useful in a book of songs already untimely was so to the capital- business. England, France and the Soviet published by the among the first to recognize the feeling and understanding of his had a influence on younger honor the memory Harry ists in their campaigns of Union, New Pioneer. He was marked of Comrade slander Furuseth an 1 the rest of the lead-: as well as in the United States, also co-author worldwide importance and signifi- Communist convictions. critics. Alan Potamkin and pledge ourselves against the Soviet Union, and par- ers of the I, E. U. are doing noth- where he was also known as a revo- of the forthcoming book for children cance of the Soviet film. He consid- Eisenstein and other Soviet direc- With his literary work. Comrade to continue the struggle for a Com- ticularly agaihst the Communist ing for the unemployed seamen but lutionary poet and literary critic. called “Our Lenin,” to be issued by ered his first contact with the Soviet tors, as well as leading film authori- combined, despite his he gave him- of the Soviet Publishers, Potamkin fatal munist culture to which Party Union and the keeping them in fear of deportation Comrade Potamkin was born in ! International film a turning point in his life and ties in this eountry and in Europe, illness, practical activities in various self so wholeheartedly.” . Communist International, that the and from fighting against starvation, j Philadelphia on April 10, 1900. He! i An intelligent, witty and profound ¦ dedicated his talents and energies to considered Comrade Potamkin one of working class organizations. Those The John Reed Club is preparing European bourgeoisie, from "demo- AL. W. IHrBRIDF studied at the University of Pennsyl- ; I analyst of the American and Euro- interpreting It. His analysis of the jthe best film critics In the world. who worked with him knew him as an exhibition of Comrade Potamkin's cratic" France to Fascist Italy, wel- (Signature authorized • vania and New York University where -11 pean film, Comrade Potamkin, waa' Soviet film wert filled with the deep 1 His work for the Soviet film Is em- an Indefatigable worker, a gay and work at its headquarters. comes him as one of their «wa.