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Moscow Welcomes 2nd more than a year ago. j aid of a secret vote by ballot, velt told his lieutenants in Con* hysteria in preparation for Wednesday to demand the release gress this afternoon that the Thaelmann, Torgler The delegation of Ramsey, business agent of death trials of the “Atlanta of and other three i Wagner company union bill must leaders of the Communist Party of Saar coal miners, one s member ! the A' F. of L. Auto Union. he passed before Congress ad- Six,” planned to take place Germany pre- Schutzbunder whom the Nazis are Group of the Communist Party, one a So- put over his new sell-out journs. It is reported. Roosevelt within the next two weeks, paring to turn over to the execu- . cialist Party member, and one un- | took this action in order to place Mayor LaGuardia of New York, tioner. organized scheme, the government police squads led by the Rev. John By VERN SMITH chance to participate in great politically, all elected by but strikers' the in a position to who wants to put the burden of Picketing the shaft meetings mines, J forclb'y A. Hudson. Assistant Solicitor Gen- of the Consulate, which Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent task of socialist construction with of their suc- | mass indignation after the break the coming stee’ relief on the employed workers began May ceeded in breaking through strike. eral. carried out another series of 23. has been partici- 7 . the toilers of the the wall 4. A U.S.S.R. meeting to * * * and starve the jobless. pated in by thousands of New York MOSCOW June second of isolation and silence that the forced him withhold raids on the homes of Negro and group of 230 members of.the Aus- Sehntihunder? The workers and intellectuals. Trade Class-Brother? Nazis have built up around the he- signing of this settlement. By MARGUERITE YOUNG white workers yesterday, while the trian Schutzbund, the Republican A huge meeting, under the chair- j “new” agreement calls for a 5 per press up unions and other mass organiza- roic leader of the German working Washington boss played the “Red Men- Defense Corps, arrived in Moscow of representatives rent increase, open no guar- (Daily Worker Bureau! tions have delegations protest- manship the of class. They state: shop, ace." No one was arrested. to sent today special Mayor Plans ing the conspiracy to on a train from Nego- the Central Executive Committee | antee against discrimination, and WASHINGTON. D.G., June Forcing his way into the Nazi rush reloye. "We delegates are firmly con- homes of Thaelmann through speedy and the Red Aid, took place in the no guarantee of employment for all 4. —N. several Negro workers. de- a trial They joyfully vinced that govern- R .A. Administrator Hudson to the executioner’s block, and de- were welcomed all enormous station square, filled with the German strikers. manded whether they knew of any Make Masses the way to Moscow. Men and wo- delegates from plants and factories ment gave us permission to see This sell-out acceptance an- Hugh S. Johnson held secret “red in manding the release of Thaelmann was meetings” their neighbor- men workers in the Soviet plants in the proletarian capital. Speakers Thaelmann and speak to him un- by press and other anti-fascist fighters. der nounced the before the conferences today with Wil- hoods and offered to pay them well saluted the Schutzbunders with up- represented the Central Executive the pressure of the tremen- union vote was taken. The act, as * • * Auto- liam W. Irvin, president of to stool pigeons and inform for Relief raised fists and “Red Front” as the Committee, the Red Aid. the Trade dous campaign throughout the Lite Company announced in the on meetings. Pay I T all Communist They S A N B U L.—Athens workers festively decorated train passed Unions, the foreign workers in world for Thaelmann's release.” Sunday press that the plant is to the U. S. Steel Comoration, they Goering’s Mos- were asked if knew' Ben Da- welcomed arrival there through. As the train slowed down cow plants, and the first and second be reopened with scabs—strikers to vis. Angelo Herndon’s defense at- with a roar of protest The Nazi Secret Sendee State and with Assistant Secretary Tax on Employed Is against the in the Moscow station upraised fists group of Schutzbunders. allowed be rehired when needed through an torney, and if they were members Nazi atrocities for Police the delegation to ask of Labor Edward F. McGrady, and demands the and flying banners appeared from All the speeches emphasized that only employment office one week after of any organization with which he release of Ernst and Thaelmann six questions, other Johnson’s No. 1 strikebreaker at Proposed at Banker Thaelmann the train windows. the Schutzbunders guests the p'ant reopens. Strikers ex- ether fighters. were not questions being prohibited. I the New as was connected. Hudson informed anti-fascist At the station were representa- but class brethren of pressed mass opposition to the sell- De.al. union repre- Negro comrade that Meet of the workers sentatives to confer the he had a in City Hall Indignation against Goering and tives of the Central Executive Com- the Soviet Union, "When we demanded the right | out and will meet tonight to vote arrived on Davis, j joining hands national scheduled arrant for w'ho was one of the Nazi regime was expressed not! mittee of the U.9.5.R., 'he Red Aid with them in the of to a?k him whether he was man- down the new proposals. strike for them Reds,” as building so- June 16. well as for Don NEW YORK.—In an atmosphere only by the workers, but among and the Central Council of Trade cialism. handled or tortured, the Nazi po- strong union opposition group Vest, native white organizer. A Pat Cush. National President of !ne It is outwardly calm, but surcharged broad strata of the middle classes. Unions. With these were the first Representatives of the Schutz- lice answered, ‘That Is a political is prepared to fight tonight for all clear that Hudson's threat to ar- i the Steel and Metal Workers Union, with an inner tension created by The newspaper “Anarxartikos.” I group of Schutzbunders, previously bunders stressed the fact that the question and eannot he allowed,'" original demands and to call for rest Davis is pure bluff, as Davis’ growing arrived today ahead of a large del- the momentum of the tin- made a. sharp attack on Hitler and arrived. With the band playing the defeat of the proletariat the delegates asserted. resumption of mass picketing, and whereabouts are well-known to the Goering. Austrian egation which will come in tomor- employed workers’ for and printed a ; • struggles ade- caricature “International," the Schutzbunders w'as due to the lack of revolutionary “We were expressly warned also to initiate a general strike ertire Atlanta police force. quate relief, of Goering caption: ! row. He issued a statement declar- Mayor LaGuardia ad- with the “Any- jumped from the train, and greeted leadership with a definite object. that If we asked any questions through a walkout of To’e~'o Edi- Two days ago. raided dressed a group of one following me should bring ing that "Top workers in the steel Hudson the almost 100, his with handshakes and hugs their Victory', they emphasized, would besides those dictated to ns. we son workers who refused to sign among big gallows mills are welcoming the united- homes of several Jewish members of whom bankers and poli- with him.” comrades of the barricade fights in possible only would also be jailed political their agreement until the Auto- predominated, have been under the as front strike movement." the International Workers Order, ticians "to discuss The paper reported that the gov- Austria. leadership of the Communist prisoners. Llte strikers' demands are ac- demanding to know of Party Meet Wagner Tomorrow whether they ways and means financing relief ernment took extraordinary mea- I They had last been together when of Lenin and Stalin. cented. subscribed to the Daily how work when present city "Finally we got to see Thael- Worker, the fund is sures for the protection of Goering ! under arrest in Czechoslovakia; now' Afterward. The Auto-Lite strikers' delegation William J. Spang, district presi- they got it. who for it. depleted." the Schutzbunders mann. We could not avoid the im- collected who end that he was kept surrounded ; they were met again as free cit- went to their hotel in special motor “tormed the office of the Toledo dent of the Amalgamated Associa- section organizer of the Com- a pression that they had dic- tion (A. F. j-as Police in groups and in rows by cordon of police “as if he had j izens in a free country, the busses, on w'ay also Blade editor and demanded a re- of L.l at Carnegie’s Party, who head of country hailed the by the tated the that Thaelmann Imnist was the guarded all entrances to City Hall the plague." When Goering visited which had not only given them a toilers Moscow, answers traction of the fake strike settle- plant at Duquesne. declined to com- Labor and of who lined the gave us, just fcternaticnal Defense Park, permitting no one enter- the grave of the Unknown Soldier refuge giving greet as they had dictated ment story. ment on the united-front move- questions. to but also was them the streets to them. Jther ample proof of of on May 19. and laid a wreath on it, our questions. ment. but asserted that "organiza- It has been definitely LaGuardia’s fear established another demonstration such as he was guarded by several hun- “But the interview proved that tionally. steel workers are in a that the young white attorney, A. dred On much those of last week, which forced the police. the same day ? ; Thaelmann—in spite of the man- better oosition for a steel W. Morrison, w:ho volunteered his Board of Estimate to appropriate demonstration against German fas- acing situation he is in—refuses to Steel Firms String strike today than they were at the services in the Herndon defense, organized $17,750,000 for relief on Friday. cism was by the workers : knuckle under, his unflinching an- beginning of the strike of 1919.” and turned out to be a stool-pigeon, in front German U.S. Leads Fight Cops Jail of the Embassy in ! Worker swers revealed this. Cush announced that together with Willie Leathers, agent In his half-hour address, La- he and Athens. Wire, James Egan, national secretary provocateur and spy, expelled Guardia further revealed this fear “Thaelmann said: ‘lt is impos- Barbed Arm of from The Greek League the 5.M.W.1.U., and other repre- the Communist Party, are working by stressing the fact that “it is Anti-Fascist on Litvinoff Peace Leaving sible to get along on the food I get has issued an appeal to the toil- Trial of sentatives from McKeesport. hand in hand with Hudson are economical to provide for the un- i here. lit I didn’t buy other food Brad- and ing masses of Greece to protest Thugs With Guns dock, Ambridge. Pittsburgh and responsible employed in proper | with the money my wife sends me, for the raids on the a manner,” in against the Thaelmann Chicago, have homes of order to safeguard the security of “trial” and I could not exist. I get mail only an appointment to- Negro and white com- to agitate for the Plans at Geneva 10 Demonstrators morrow rades. the banker-rule of the city. “A struggle for from my closest relatives. I know with Chairman Wagner of Thaclmann's release. Pinchot Ready to Call the large unit of the unemployed that hundreds of workers wrote me National Labor Board. will * • • Roosevelt's Ambassador Worker* be on our hands for some time,” Again Barred on my birthday recently, but only Out Militia To Cush also announced that the Police Spy Revealed LaGuardia admitted, proposing two Prague Conference Adepts Protest Blocks three were given to me.' 5. leaders tomorrow will Plan; Aids From Attendance Break Strike renew in alternatives for the raising of re- PRAGUE, June 4.—The illegal I “The prison officials then called their united-front proposals Anti-Communist lief: long-term borrowing—or the National Conference of the officially | Hitler Gov't at Trial on Thaelmann to walk up and down to Spang and other rank and file Provocation "pay-as-you-go” system. prohibited National Congress in front of us, to show us that he WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 4. delegates to the A. A. convention in Conn. Against GENEVA. June building bs’-bed who are part of Strike He immediately declared his Fascism unanimously ! 4.—Roosevelt's NEW YORK. Police seized a was uninjured. Thaelmann ignored : Steel companies are the Com- personal mittee of Ten. He preference for the latter method, ’dopted a resolution demanding the ; Ambassador. Norman i wire entanglements around their said: THOMASTON, Conn.. June 4. Davis, today up leadership young worker who was leaving the guards with “The S.M.W.I.U. Is just, as Raymond freedom of Thaelmann. and re- took the (Continued on Pape 2) plants and arming de- Healey, who was expelled solved upon a of the fight against the proposals of preliminary hearing at the trial of guns to termined as ever to carry a from (Continued on Pape 21 manifesto for Thael- machine in preparations on the Young Communist League mann and Rakosi, Maxim Litvinoff. Foreign Minister the ten workers arrested after the steel strike, united front with the organized in a provocateur Hungarian Com- SWISS POLICE ATTACK break the approaching 1931 as and police munist leader, and a of the Soviet Union, for establishing May 26th demonstration at 50 La- was reported here today. Gov- workers in other unions as well a3 spy. was while cooking up message to COMMUNISTS ;it arrested 'he Paris World machinery to guarantee peace. fayette St. While the young work- ernor who mentioned this unorganized workers—not only for an anti-Communist provocation 1 Died Every 62 Hours Conference Against June 4Forty-one Pinchot. in War and Fascism. Davis, supporting Chairman Ar- ers was being taken into custody. ZURICH. activity, that troopers union recognition, but also for the the C.C.C, Camp here. The conference workers were arrested yesterday fol- | hinted state Hunger in New York thur Henderson's proposals for ad- Edward Kuntz, International Labor | out, economic demands of the steel Officers of the camp of lowing clashes with police when and guards would be called claimed that (Continued journment. w'hich were supported by Defense attorney, demanded when he state (of Penn- workers.” Healey was believed to be distribut- on Pape 2) of they demonstrated in front of the said "the in 1934, Says Report the British representative Eden, Deputy Inspector J. E. is to what- In answer to the Iron and Steel ing Communist literature. Wall that city jail demanding the release of sylvania i ready handle Follow- sought to block consideration of the police keep their hands off this may develop." Institute's statement of last night, ing his arrest, however, Healey ad- their leaders. ever trouble The NEW YORK.—A study of tfei SAAR PLEBISCITE Litvinoffs proposals that pacts be young worker. "I hold you attacking independent unionism \ mitted that he was an JAN. 13 person- arming of these company guards on officer in the of the largest hospitals in the made for “mutual assistance" of na- ally responsible for safety Police had arrested leading Com- entanglements taking the ground that the A. A is at- Silver Shirts, was a of the SAARBRUECKEN.—T the of and the wire member city reveals that 139 starved or he an- tions, for transforming the arms this prisoner," Kuntz said, “We are munists earlier in the day when steel towns Pinchot’s tempting to foist itself uoon steel Brown Shirts and was also active nouncement that the Council of the place in in died of malnutrition in 1933, one conference into a permanent peace not through with your department Socialise called an Anti-Fascist are any workers and insisting on the com- in the Khaki Shirts and an anti- 62 League of Nations today approved for state continuing without pany every hours, according to a conference, and the study of the yet. Let me remind you that the meeting. steps by Pinchot to prevent union. Cush asserted: “The Jewish organization. survey by the recommendations of the of them. A. A. made “Better Times,” Com- Soviet definition what constitutes American Civil Liberties Union is Communists attended, but when In steel towns additional >s not the only force that the a publication mittee of Three, setting the date of "an aggressor some steel government of the Welfare nation.” conducting an investigation of po- permission to speak denied to guards are being large barons and the all, the Saar Plebiscite for Jan. 13, 1935, Litvinoffs proposals was | hired and 132 Win inSweepsiakes Council. In 697, cases were were made lice brutality and will institute crim- the representative of the League for bunkhouses and kitchens are being have to reckon with. The S.M.W.I.U. at the ten hospitals. provoked no surprise. after proposals for as well as the unorganized treated his universal dis- inal proceedings against the police Struggle Against War and Fascism ! built inside the mills. workers, —But The majority of the 139 who Observers out armament were rejected by all the and even the honest in How Many Lose? pointed that in they organized a jail demonstra- increasing output, workers the the report states, of capitalist countries. Mills are their company unions, died, were la- spite the opposition of the Com- His proposals (Continued on Pape tion. it was admitted, in who are coerced borers. There were artists, for partial disarmament 2) openly order to into NEW YORK—Approximately 132 also munists, who polled 60,000 votes in were also books, retaining their membership in newspaper men, and rejected. fill orders on their and build these company persons in and around New York actors the last People's Council elections, i in view of the strike. unions, are force* teachers. The of the the Davis’ actions the Lit- reserves the won prizes in the Irish Hospitals majority victory’ of the Germans was a 1 against The steel barons have to contend in vinoff proposals the way open statement in New York of with. We call upon Sweepstakes out of the many thou- men were their forties and' foregone conclusion, but the League leaves the all steel workers fifties, but some were not for the return of Hitler American Iron and Steel In- to unite for that paid $2.60 each for a more Council is not absolutely bound by j Germany Browder Will Speak on Toledo, joint strike action." 20 years old. to Hitler stitute. which claims that the over- Cush also hance of picking a horse in the than the plebiscite vote. the discussion. is striv- met flat-footedly ths ing to cement a united whelming majority of the 430.000 efforts of Michael Tighe. amous Epsom Downs derby anti-Soviet thp Interna- (ands in front in Europe. steel workers want company ingland. Minneapolis Strike union, the S. Steel Struggles shows that U. * The fortunate 132 (Continued on Png 2) are assured of : I corporation and other companies ■ 12.608.50 each Those holding the Nazi Militia Communist are determined, with the help of CZECH GOVT winning horse will win *152.100. Hears Rosenberg Organizer TOLEDO. Ohio. June 4.—Hun- ever anxious to hear the Communist IN DRIVE ON I dreds of | the N. R. A., to force the company $76,050, third $50,700. Auto-Lite and Bingham program on the strike situation. COMMUNISTS second in 50, Illinois Is Held Logan I union on the. steel workers. The The allure Gear strikers are expected to Shopgate meetings are being held at PRAGUE, June 4.—Communist of these prizes is held Demand steel institute declares that “col- out to the workers and middle Conquest Soviets Aiding Strikers attend the mass meeting Wednes- the Chevrolet, Overland, Dura. headquarters were raided and a of for day when Earl American Can, Wheel lective bargaining" under the N. R. classes in England. Ireland and Browder. General Gendron drive on Communists initiated here Secretary of the Party plants. Twenty A. means the company umen. America in order to make them Sreelal tn th» Worker CHICAGO. June 4.—Ralph Communist thousand leafets last week, it was revealed today. “In the public square at Lubeck, will the of have pay for the maintenance of the MOSCOW, 4 Shaw, section organizer of the speak on lessons the been distributed to popularize A Communist pamphlet entitled, April (By Radio).— at * * * hospitals and the congress of the ‘North- Party Minneapolis and Toledo strike the meeting. “Not Masaryk but Lenin,” the Irish —a burden which Under the heading. “Fascist Provo- ern Society.’ the j Communist in Southern Canadian Pacific Cuts was rightfully belongs the unchanging Rosen- Illinois, is being held in Belle- struggles. Detroit Meeting Thursday excuse for the repression, authori- on wealthy cateurs,” “Pravda,” central organ berg, faithful shadow of lists and the most ! ville on a frame-up vagrancy The meeting DETROIT, June 4.—Earl Brow- Wages, Fires Workers ties stated. landlords of Eng- of the Communist Party of the So- responsible leaders of official Ger- charge. His arrest comes a will be held in der, general secretary of the Com- and and Ireland. viet Union, exposes the real sub- many. ! as 1 X delivered a speech before the result the Moose munist Party, will speak on “The stance of the speech of Alfred Ro- regular direct of his militant ac- OTTAWA. Canada (FPL—To ef- (apita troops and detachments of - Temple, comer meaning War Min- ' 3 SCRAP IRON CARGOES FOR senberg, Hitlers personal repre- tions in the Knapp Monarch of the Class in fect a saving of $22,147,000 in op- 700 Textile Workers police and storm troopers. of Cherry and neapolis Toledo," at a | JAPAN IN MONTH sentative for foreign affairs. strike in Belleville. The Com- and mass erating expenses last year, the Ca- Ontario, at 8 Thursday , PANAMA.—Thirty-two cargoes of Rosenberg spoke at Lubeck. out- “Rosenberg once again outlined munist Party and the Young meeting at Finnish (nadian Pacific and Canadian Na- Strike in Troy N. Y.; p. m. 5369 Fourteenth St. scrap iron from Atlantic ports lining Fascist Germany’s program the extensive plans of the ‘inten- Communist League members Workers' Hall, j tional railways slashed $19,919,000 Since Friday’s Weinstone, Other Mills \ passed through the of imperialist sive race of Europeanism,’ which, have been among the most active William Michigan Dis- ; from their nayrolls, the Dominion Affected Panama Canal expansion toward the meeting enroute to Japan in May. East. translated into ordinary human on the picket lines there. called trict secretary, will be chairman. Bureau of Statistics reports. About by the A. F. of L. * * * TROY. N. Y., June 4.—Seven i 6 a “While the British advocates of language, is the program of the The arrest follows closely on 70.000 workers have been eliminated cf where 20,00(1 MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. June 4. of POLICE ATTACK BULGARIAN Fascist Germany proclaim Ger- : seizure of the Baltic countries end •he framing eleven workers in from the two systems since 1928. hundred textile workers the | workers heard Browder, general secretary DEMONSTRATION many’s ‘peaceful’ tendencies, the the Danube territory. Nokomis last week-end and is Earl of Hall Hartwell Co. went on strike at part of the genera) cam- John William- the Communist Party, will speas The proletarian revolution can j SOFIA. June 4—Police charged Geneva Conference and in the Lon- “This program is supplemented same today demanding wage increases. ' paign of against son. district or- here on the "Lessons of the Min- not tak* place | .to r -•nerstration den press. rre nessing a by the usual vulgar ‘philosophy’ terror the Earl Browder without the forcible The strike is expected to spread new ex- struggling workers of Southern ganirer of the neapolis and Toledo Strikes," on of bourgeois State I 'one injury "'as re- 'lemc'.'.etre.tien o' r— plans of mili-1 destruction the to ether textile mill? in the ~ c ■ police headquarters. Illinois. o n mu n 1 s t June 10th. at the Gayety Theatre, machin» and its replacement by vicinity. *|rted to tant Fascism," sayy (Continued on Pane 6) 1 Parly, the workers are mere than Washington and First Avs, • new machine.—Lenin.