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the Po*t Offlct BntereC u iceond-elMi matter »t it MAY WEATHER: Cloudy, Vol. XI, No. 119 Hew York, N. Y., under the Act of Merck S, 187». NEW YORK, FRIDAY, 18, 1934 warmer. (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents COMMUNISTS DEFEND RACE EQUALITY IN ALA. COURT General Strike Sec’y Perkins Vague On Looms in Frisco; Terror; B’mingliam Cops Ship Pilots Out Jail’Daily’ Correspondent

Masters and Mates on Sec’y Perkins Blames Boss Court Told Party 2,000 Longshoremen Ocean Ships on Strike T’WlLe.' i . Workers for Strike Unites Negro, White With Longshoremen Strike in London; Violence Workers in Struggle May Spread Strike HIT TROOP THREAT IGNORES MURDERS LAWSON LONDON, May 17.—A strike of BANISH 2,000 Hayes dock workers at against by police! Men on Fery Boats to Wharf, between the London and Striking San Francisco longshoremen defend themselves a brutal attack armed One Does Not Criticize Use Court Forced to Delay Tower bridges, where 90 per cent enp was knocked to the pavement. Another cop, carrying a long nightstick, is pictured at the left picking Vote on Walkont of London’s perishable food im- up his cap, knocked off as the longshoremen met the police clubs with rocks and planks. of Troops Against Passing of Sentence * .« ift j ports are unloaded, is expected to Pickets SAN FRANCISCO, May 17. spread to other docks. By JOHN HOWARD LAWSON strikers are demanding The (Special Worker) A general strike as an that five men who formerly were Mass By MARGUERITE YOUNG to the Daily answer to the shipowners’ employed at clerical work and Industrial Steel Union Jailings (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May threats to bring in have now been transferred to 17.—For first time in federal longshore duty to take the place WASHINGTON, May 17. I the an troops to smash the long- of regular longshoremen be taken After Latvian Secretary of Labor Frances Alabama jim-crow court, the shoremen’s strike loomed here off the job. Launches Preparations program of the Communist Scabs have been brought in by Perkins, asked today to com- j today. the company to unload the ships. Fascist Coup ment on the violence of police, \ Party rang out in Judge Aber- Masters, mates, and pilots of This has aroused the union men, private armies, and National nathy’s kangaroo court today, out who say they will spread the For j ocean-going ships have walked Big Strike Struggles troops murdering: strikers as Ralston and five other and are striking, along with the strike. Hitler Press Is Highly in longshoremen and seamen. point Congres- svorkers militantlv defended them- It is to a where against frame-up reported of ferry Pleased As Terror selves the at- that crews the Calls for Building of sional investigation is being sought Sempt ply Bay are of the steel bosses. boats which Frisco to High Prices Drive on Baltic in the House of Representatives, The trial took place vote on the question of joining the Rages two floors Bronx Meet To $2,000 Fighting declared. “Sometimes violence comes below the cells where the strike. Scotts- Women s Wear Sales (Special to the Daily Worker) from one side, sometimes from the JOHN HOWARD LAWSON :oro Boys are confined in solitary The movement of all ships to the Fund other.” The American author MOSCOW, May 17, (By Radio).— noted -'onfinement. north Pacific ports has been can- Protest Nazi 25 P.C. Below 1933 say playwright, who has been Troops are patrolling the streets of Pressed to whether the terror and Ralston, conducting his own de- celed by the companies. NEW YORK—The preparations for the Daily In- Riga, after the fascist coup yester- in major strikes has not been insti- special correspondent fense, declared in ringing tones: Meanwhile Mayor Dore of Seattle of the Steel and Metal Workers NEW YORK.—Women buyers Worker, with four strike in day, and numerous leaders of the tuted against rather than by labor, together “I am an organizer for the sought the aid of federal troops to j ExecutionPlan dustrial Union for struggle of clothing are now. after one others, was jailed yesterday as revolutionary work- as recognized in the Lundeen reso- Communist Party is actively par- exert violence and terror against the steel industry, and the campaign year of the Roosevelt N. R. A., left parties and part of the reign of terror and lution, Perkins merely said: “I think ts the and Negro the strikers. of the S.M.W.I.U. for a Steel Work- paying 50 per cent more for 25 ers are being arrested throughout attempt to suppress all news. uniting white nothing is ever more unfortunate workers the South in immedi- Will Demand Freedom ers Fighting Fund, were endorsed per cent less clothing, the Jour- Latvia. so of Me Grady to Arrive far as the settlement of industrial ate struggle for conditions, yesterday in a statement by the Na- nal of Commerce reports. Reports from give addi- better Warsaw disputes is concerned than violence iinrmplcym-ut equal Edward F. McGrady, Assistant of Thaelmann, Ger- tional Executive Board of the Trade Reports continue to come in tional details of the Fascist coup in 1 insn—rncr. on either side.” rights for (he Negro people and Secretary of Labor and aid to N. Union Unity League. that show declining purchases of Latvia. On the night of May 16. R. A. Administrator General John- man C. P. Leader statement, issued by apparel result of Even while thus bandying the out- Miner, self-determination for the N-rro The women’s as a the government buildings in Riga, Negro majorities in son, is due to arrive here by plane Jack Stachel, Acting Secretary, de- retail prices. The N. worn anti-labor slur, the Labor Sec- the Black Belt. The. the soaring capital of Latvia, were occupied by Oommunici Parly is pra- today, from Washington. He will NEW YORK.—Protest against the clared that the steel workers, suf- R. A. retail advances, how- retary announced that Edward F. actively price troops. The order for their seizure ticipatin? in and propose a strikebreaking arbitration criminal conspiracy of the Nazi ering a severe attack on their liv- ever, in the last 12 months, even McGrady, Assistant Secretary of In Ala. strike struggles was signed by Premier Ulmanis and Shot building a powerful trade scheme as a trump card for the butchers to rush Ernst Thaelmann, ing standards, are disillusioned with the of declining demand, Labor, who the Administra- union in face War Minister Balodis. They pub- helped movement as part of the struggle shipowners. heroic German Communist leader, the N.R.A. and Labor Boards and brought a sharp upturn in prof- tion break the Pennsylvania Mine summary lished a decree proclaiming the of the working class for the over- Judge Reynolds, of the Federal to trial and death within the A. F. of L. leaders, and are pre- merchandisers. The re- strike last August by tricking work- Dies next mys, will its for whole country under martial law Terror, throw of capitalism, confiscation Arbitration Board, said that if the the ten be thun- paring for strike struggles. striction of the market through to "rely on the President,” has dered by Bronx workers in an open- for six months. Parliament was sus- ers of the factories, mines railroads strike is not settled speedily the National Board Decisions high prices is beginning, how- gone to the Pacific Coast to try his and wealth a to air meeting tonight at Wilkins and pended. of the Southern bour- government will take hand of ever, to pile up unsold stocks hand in the Longshore strike. And Four More Arrested in the Wall Street keep freight moving. Intervale Aves. at 8 o’clock. This sentiment the steel work- Leaders of the left parliamentary bons and oli- ers straggles is in the grow- once more. including the Social-Dem- therefore “we are hopeful.” garchy In order to establish a strikers demanding The meeting will also protest the for seen fractions, Raids, Lawson Wires The are of ing influence of the Steel and Metal ocrat Kalnynsh, president of parlia- Also, Perkins defended General Soviet America as part of the their international union officials in growing fascist terror in this coun- Union, and in world struggle of the toiling try, the mass murders of strikers Workers Industrial ment, was arrested. Pelham Glassford’s activities as Just Before Arrest the recent convention of the Amal- “People’s “mediator” in Imperial Valley masses for Communism.” on Page 2) in Alabama, San Pedro, Galveston, Vets Confab The House,” Socialist (Continued gamated Association of Iron, Steel against widespread protests by Buffalo, etc. headquarters in Riga, was occupied the ED. NOTE.—The following wire Prosecutor Praises A. F. of L. and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.) where, by troops Aisargi, a semi- American Civil Liberties Union and from the Daily meeting, directly fol- and the was received Leaders The called in spite of the reformist character reactionary organization. others. Perkins admitted that Glass- correspondent Birming- lowing the publication yesterday by militarist Worker at of some of the opposition leaders, Opens Today Break Up Political Parties ham, Ala., John Howard Lawson, Ralston was finally stopped and Dockers Strike for the “Daily Worker” of the cabled told to the voice of the rank and file could All political parties were dissolved. (Continued on Page 2) a few hours before his arrest. net make any more speeches news of the criminal Nazi plot, will suppressed. after White Legionnaires whispered not be The government statement declares Daily has learned be addressed by Hans Baer, a ref- The T.U.U.L. statement con- For Bonus The Worker in the ear of the prosecutor. ugee from Nazi Germany; that to eliminate all internal poli- from a telephone conversation to 3 Hours in Phila. John tinues, “The voice of the rank and prosecutor posed the A. F. Norman, Jack Schiller, tical complications it will use "all the I.L.D. that Ed Higgins, a Ne- The of writer, and file was registered in the decisions bureaucracy against means at its disposal.” Score Rooseveit gro miner and secretary of L. the Com- organizer of the Bronx Section of of the A. A. convention to organize New Groups Arriving; coal SupportingSeamen International Defense, The coup was carried out by Ul- the Empire local of the U.M.W.A., the Labor a broad strike struggle for the de- (Continued on Page 2) which is calling the meeting. Men Unite on Three- manis and Balodis, with the aid of who was shot on May 14, is dead. per * mands of the 30 hours week, $1 * or- and police, and the Aisargi. Anti-Soviet Move * A number of anti-fascist an hour minimum wage, abolition of troops ShipoM’ners Are Given Point Program brought to Riga from various parts Bv JOHN HOWARD LAWSON ganizations and other mass or- the differentials (lower wage) le- country. 24 Hours to Meet ganizations are participating. The galized by the steel code for the Following the 50 vets who left of the Tonight BIRMINGHAM. Ala., May 17. Austrian Fighters Committee Railway Stations bridges were At Meet the International Liberation South, and for equal rights for Ne- Wednesday for the Capital on the and Continued tension prevails in of protest occupied and guarded by military Their Demands has urged the holding gro steel workers. This convention present march, another strike-torn area. As a result of the meetings throughout the whole bonus detachments. AH meetings and Union Protest the strikers, two also went on record in support of contingent of vets will leave Union Cooper militant demand of Get Jobs, Health world to wrest Thaelmann from the demonstrations were banned. Provi- officers, Grady (Special to the Daily Worker) the Workers Unemployment Insur- Sq. at 11 a.m. on Saturday. More Jefferson County of Dem- was A to Demand Sam j PHILADELPHIAr May 17— Long- hands the Nazi murderers. ance Bill (H. R. 7598). than 300 have signed up to join sional censorship introduced. Opening Baker, county marshal, and on 27 yesterday re- onstrations should be held immedi- “The National Board of the Steel member of newspapers, and other Arnett, deputy sheriff, were ar- shoremen Pier front of Nazi the march. of USSR Trade of Soviet Union ately in all consulates • * • murder In the fused to load the Flomar, bound for and Metal Workers Industrial publications, were suppressed. rested, charged with the throughout the country. Protests * * * pickets Both the West Coast, and struck for Union, at its special meeting in By SEYMOUR WALDMAN two Negro last week. adopted by meetings should be sent NEW YORK.—Vigorous protest immediately posted SIO,OOO bond Work al Their Trade three hours in sympathy with the Pittsburgh on May 13, mapped out (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) HITLER PRESS SATISFIED be and to these consulates and to the Nazi will voiced tonight against the each. ship’s striking crew their com- plans for the development of united WASHINGTON, 17—Regis- (Special to the Daily Worker) Embassy in Washington and the May Roosevelt government’s encourage- A. Locke attorney for Hill- or Are Sent to Best rades on the West Coast. Polly front action committees in the mills, the Hugh International Longshore- Nazi authorities in Berlin. establishment trations for Veterans National BERLIN. May 17, (By Radio via ment to the anti-Soviet war front man Hawkins, 'St. Clair County Baker, for the of the united File Convention, which Soviet trade and Sanatoria USSR Association organizer, refused front with the A. A. for Rank and London)—The entire German press by blocking by miner, announced he would file in men’s workers, opens at Fort Hunt, to come to the pier. this Saturday gives prominence to the Fascist coup falsely declaring the Soviet Union damage suits against the Alabama Roosevelt to Depend on Va., went well over the thousand “default” on the Kerensky the Daily Worker) a (Continued on Page 3) in Latvia, expressing unconcealed in Fuel and Iron Company as a result (Specal to This morning he issued leaflet mark, the announced to- loans, at a mass meeting in home ,accusing the Communist Party of “Social Commission” ex-soldlers satisfaction. of the massed attack on his MOSCOW. May 17 (By radio).)— day at their Capital headquarters Cooper Union, Cooper Square, four trying to split the ranks of the The obviously inspired comments be- by men in automobiles. All of the 310 Austrian Schutzbund- To Sidetrack Workers Workers Forced to tent on lower Pennsylvania Ave. emphasize that the Nazis of Ger- tween Third and Fourth Ave., attorney has collected ap- ers (armed guard participated longshoremen, and begging the men vet- The who Thirty-eight Negro and white many can only welcome such devel- near Ninth St. in the defensive armed straggles to retain confidence in the I. L. A. Since erans, leadership. Party issued leaf- (Daily Worker Washington Buro) Eat Less NRA, representing the American opments of events in Latvia. The speakers at this meeting, (Continued on Page 2) against Dollfuss’s fascist regime) The a of Foreign Wars let pointing out that Ryan, I. L. A. WASHINGTON. May 17. Legion. Veterans The maneuvers of the Latvian under the auspices of the Friends who came to the Soviet Union were U. S. Report Shows and the Ex-servicemen’s President, worker feverishly to pre- Speaker of the House of Repre- Workers Government, writes the Nazi "Boer- of the Soviet Union are: Maxwell given work in their trades in So- League, 26 representing the Grafting Union Head vent the strike, and that Baker, sentatives Henry T. Rainey an- and senzeitung.” especially their motiva- S. Stewart, Foreign Policy Asso- viet factories here. WASHINGTON, May 17.—Work- American World War Veterans of here, has waited ten days before nounced today that President tion, in many respects recall the ciation, and prominent author: A group of 64 of the Schutzbund ing class families all the League, arrived yesterday. Gets 18 Months Jail speaking of sympathy for the strik- Roosevelt would appoint a joint over coun- Georgia measures and slogans which with Professor H. W. L. Dana, famed members left May 15 for Leningrad. try have had to get along with less One men from the Buffalo ers. and even then failing to order legislative council to sit during hundred the aid of the National Socialists lecturer; Roy Hudson, secretary The heroes of the Vienna barricade groceries since Roosevelt started are on NEWARK, N. J., May 17.—The I. L. A. seamen and longshoremen the Summer and Fall adjourn- Civilian Conservation Camps (Nazis) liberated “Germany from Marine Workers Industrial Union fighting were met by large demon- his N.R.A.-New Deal, the latest re- their way, file leaders de- former business agent of the Iron- to strike ships coming from or going ment of Congress for the pur- rank and parliamentarism.” and Herbert Goldfrank. national strations of workers from Leningrad port on food sales issued by the clared. workers Union, John E. Delaney, to the strike area. pose of considering social legis- This paper particularly welcomes secretary of the Friends of the in a factories who gathered at the rail- U.S. Department of Commerce re- The convention la scheduled to was sentenced to 18 months 24-Hour Picket Line lation. "It’s the most stupen- the crushing of the workers’ organi- Soviet Union. Tim Holmes, of the and pay a way station. Placards and banners veals. open with a preliminary check-up federal penitentiary dous thing attempted.” Rainey zations. and the occupation of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial on charges of failure to were draped over the station in The crew of the Flomar is keep- Also, this report reveals that and conferences of the various $2,500 fine told newspapermen. Roosevelt, by troops. Union, be chairman. ‘ protec- German and Russian greeting the ing up a twenty-hour picket line on grocery sales have shown an 8 per People's House will file income tax returns on said announce his organizations represented. class heroes. thedock. Late last night they pre- Rainey, will increase sales com- The paper goes on to express the tion money collections, totaling Austrian working in a message cent in dollar during Arrangements are being 1929. vented two scabs from sneaking on plans forthcoming first four of year, of hope that the Latvian Government, In sending ir new subs to the $200,000 in 1928 and This group of Schutzbunders will to Congress. the months this pleted for tomorrow's parade the testified they paid board and have succeeded in spread- a during which retail food the after reorganization, will conduct a “Daily” please write the name Contractors work at the Red Putilov Turbine Obviously an attempt to side- period entire camo personnel through large sums to protect them ing strike sentiment to other ships rose 19 per "ent. This means streets In addition policy friendly towards Fascist Ger- and address of the new sub- him Plant. track the mounting dissatisfac- prices of the capital. I from lagor troubles. in port. The crew' of one ship vis- paid money many. scriber clearly. A large group of with the presidential social and that the workers more street meets in Washington and ed- Schutzbunder* ited the Marine Workers Industrial and got less food for it than a year meetings in the camp, the j left for work in the Kharkov Trac- headquarters this morning economic program, the Roosevelt ucational Union ago before Roosevelt took office. purpose of which be to explain tor Plant and other Ukrainian fac- for help in drawing up move, as outlined by Rainey, is will and asked three-point program, will be tories. One hundred and eighteen demands and preparing to strike. also a political maneuver to keep The official report, of the Depart- the of Commerce confirms the held up to the opening of the con- | of the Schutzbunders have obtained They are expected to strike late to- the Congressmen in check during ment New in Moscow factories and , Cuts Mark j work on & vention. Forced Labor the interim months. recent figures issued by the A. P. day. unscrupulous Relief building “The most stupendous bunk Grocery Chain which show a drop Questionable and Jobs. Over a hundred longshoremen, quantity elements, led by (fly-by-night) The trade unions are giving the Negro and white, cn pier 46 have and evasion,” was just one of the of 10 per cent in the of many groceries counter dur- “leaders,” are entering the camp best places in the southern sanato- the M. W. I. U. and are tak- comments heard around sold over the Attack On Y. Joined wth booze LaGuardia N. Jobless riums Schutzbunders requiring the press galleries. ing the past year. and attemptng, and other i to ing part in the preparations to by medical treatment. Eighty of them strike. gave inducements, to divide the men The committee the concentration on bo- recently went to Crimea and the owners 24 hours to reply to their counselling the nus as against supporting the en- ROLLS ON 1 | Caucasus. demands. tire three-point program. This pro- PLAN TO DROP 20,000 FROM RELIEF JUNE Picket Relief Buro Red Flag Flies Near Nazi gram also includes the repeal of the Meatcutters Win Recognition endorsement of Unemployed seamen continue Economy Act and By HOWARD BOLDT slashed the ending of Fifteen thousand to 20,000 fam- and Workers Unem- following But Lose Pay Raise picketing the Federal Relief Bureau. the Farmers aban- C. W. A. by Roosevelt’s pro- ilies on Home Relief will be dropped at ployment Insurance, as Following the Roosevelt A mass delegation yesterday forced Ship Docked Boston Yard and Social nouncement. by June Ist, Commissioner of Wel- CEDAR RAPIDS. la. (FP).—Af- donment of A., reduced the seamen’s institute to permit all proposed by H. R. 7598. C. W. fare William Hodson of New York person of a fel- and On Home Relief, a vicious ter a four-day strike, 1,300 workers seamen who walked out in an eight- Hitlerism, in the federal relief grants to states announced yesterday. For those who BOSTON, Mass., May 17.—A Red Committee to Aid Victims of Ger- low Schwartz, is forced labor system is about to be of the Sinclair Packing plant in Ce- hour protest against rotten food to who calls himself municipalities, and the most re- remain on relief. Mayor LaGuardia Flag, 20 feet by 6, was unfurled on man Fascism together with the Ma- the camp. is introduced. Thousands are sys- return, and this morning there visiting Schwartz upon the has outlined a vast system of forced dar Rapids returned to work. The a 200-foot tower here at the Hossac rine Workers Industrial Union. the veterans cent Roosevelt attack dropped from the re- on were new mattresses for the men. openly trying to rally the unem- tematically labor by which all unemployed company, an affiliate of the Wilson Docks, adjoining the Navy Yards Dr. Hans Luther. Nazi ambassador Thus far he has had living standards of lief rolls. Rents for the jobless A mass meeting last night elected for Fascism. in slashing federal relief will be “classified” according to where the Nazi war ship, the to Washington, is scheduled to come ployed masses remain unpaid in a majority of and workers Packing Co., granted recognition a delegation of five to go to Wash- here no visible success. expenditures for the fiscal to occupation, skilled Karlsruher, is docked. It bore the to Eoston on Saturday for an in- Practically no has relief cases. Medical aid is totally in- forced to work at their the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and ington for a demonstration for sea- Jim-Crowism year ending June 30. 1935. by half will be trade “Drive out Hitler! Free spection of Nazi cruiser. The Hunt adequate. Total expenditures are handed r.ot men-controlled relief. Tomorrow slogans: the shown itself in the Fori Camo. dollars, for the miserable pittance Butchers Union, and promised removed only real for visit is and a billion relief situations limited by the infamous Bankers’ noon a parade wiil start at 312 Thaelmann!” It was reason Luther’s an despite the fact that the Negro out as “relief.” | to discriminate • against workers for with the effort in throughout the country arc rapid- Agreement. In South Second St., and go to the after many hours and to dispel the tremendous enti- white ex-soldiers are staying a crisis. be from ly approaching a a quarter million Most of those to dropped | union activity, but refused t-> g-r.n* Federal Emergency Relief Bureau. greatest difficulty. Fascist sentiment being aroused Virginia town where Jim-Crowism is alone one and systematically the relief rolls will be those fam- Many 1433 Vine St., to demonstrate for A heavy police mobilization is go- among the Boston workers by the supreme. The one case of attempted Conditions on relief nationally unemployed are : a wage settlement. werke- being starved by ilies on Home Relief, Hodson in- the seamen’s demands for better ing on here against an anti-Nazi distribution of leaflets and the prep- Jim-Crowism was overcome satis- are reflected in the present relief what LaGuardia : have been drawing as little as S1 today any set-up in York City. Here as calls “systematic and humane” food and cash relief and seamen demonstration planned late arations for the anti-Nazi demon- factorily without damage done New IjContmued on Page 3) i a week. controlled relief, at the Navy Yard by the Boston stration today. to the camp unity. elsewhere, relief wages have been relief.