WORKERS-RALLY TO THE SUPPORT OF THE PACIFIC COAST STRIKERS! STATEMENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY, U. S. A. ** ‘ of the ENTIRE UNITED STATES: F. of L. leaders have failed in every maneuver to themselves, and successfully fighting back. A general by the government forces! Wire protests at once to rORKERSThe fullest support of the heroic struggle of split the ranks of the workers and break the strike. strike of all Pacific Coast workers in all industries Governor Merriam of California against the police the 30,000 Pacific Coast strikers is an immediate task The strikers saw through the strikebreaking proposal can break the terror, win the strikers’ demands, and terror, against mobilization of the militia! Organize of “Labor Board” that they re- go far toward winning the tight for the right to meetings, for every worker and workers’ organization in the Roosevelt’s Relations protest and strong solidarity actions! Pass turn to work without having won their demands, and organize and strike. Marine workers of the East Coast resolutions in your organizations for the right to United States. The Pacific Coast ports are today the rejected it. Now the armed forces of the government and Gulf ports: A strike in solidarity with the Pacific organize, strike and picket! For a general strike of the fight storm center of of the workers of the United and the ship-owners have been hurled against the Coast workers will guarantee their victory, it will Pacific Coast workers! For the spreading of the strike States for the right to strike, the right to organize strikers, with the sanction of Roosevelt’s "Labor strengthen your own position in the marine industry. to the entire marine industry of the country! Support and bargain collectively through unions of their own Board.’’ Four workers are dead. Many are wounded. Workers of the entire United States! Stay the hand the picket lines of the Pacific ports with your organ- choice. The ship-owners, the government, and the A. But the mass picket lines of the strikers are defending of the fascist murderers; stop the killing of pickets ized protests!
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Guards Beat Saved From Gallows No Word of 16 Frisco Dockers jlStk Scottsboro Thaelmann in Former Reichstag Deputy jjjjjjl V Shot; MWIU Calls Boys in Jail Nazi Killings To Speak; Nazi Firing Held in Solitary, Tear Another Communist Is Jfiiijl £; &|!|| « I WSpMgi For General Srike Gas in Cells, Com- Murdered In Cell mittee Finds By Nazis Squads Again in Action By JOHN HOWARD LAWSON NEW YORK.—Richard Scher- Developments In West Coast Strike (Special Daily Worker) to the inger, German officer and former Nazis Hold Emergency BIRMINGHAM, July s.—After a Nazi who turned Communist, was Browder, Hathaway, Ford and Krumbein to Ex* Sixteen persons shot by police gunfire, many seriously injured, long talk alone with the Scottsboro THEODORE reported among those murdered in Congress in boys investigating JORDAN of bloody killings plain Events in Germany; All Proceeds several score suffering from minor injuries following a two-hour and after the the wave during charges made by them, our delega- the past week. Flensburg police attack on pickets. To Go to German Communist Party tion is unanimously convinced that The murder of Governor Frank Merriam announces that he will Scheringer greatly call out Na- they are being shockingly perse- increases the fear that Enst Thael- HOMES RAIDED tional Guard. cuted in jail here. I. L. D. Saves mann, leader of the German Com- NEW YORK.—Has Germany’s bloody week mediation saved Nazir Roosevelt's board sits with the Industrial Association Sheriff Hawkins curtly refuses to munist Party, has been killed in the dom from collapse? Have Hitler and his industrialist mas- and Waterfront Employers Union cooking up schemes to break strike. remove the seven prisoners from bloody wave of Nazi butcheries. L.S. them Bondholders Irked ters successfully entrenched against San Francisco building trades workers reported voting on gen- solitary confinement or permit From Scheringer was formerly a themselves the grow- daily Jordan lieu- eral strike. to have even a few moments of tenant in the Reichswehr who was at German-British Pact ing wave of mass resentment behind the dead bodies of their exercise in the court where other Strike forces suspension of ail work on San Francisco Bay Bridge arrested for spreading Nazi propa- erstwhile henchmen? prisoners get fresh air. ganda in army. in Rincon Hill district. The Gallows the While in jail BERLIN, July s.—Hitler’s Hawkins says, “I feel that they are he fraternized Can Hitler trust the Reichswehr any more than he can Marine Workers Industrial Union issues with Communists and firing squads again went call for general strike being treated alright and I don’t came to see that the only salva- into the storm troops which he dissolved because to in U. S. marine transport. want to be interfered with or dic- action he feared Mass Pressure Wins tion for Germany lies in the pro- today, as repeated see them armed? tated to.” The boys have been in letarian revolution. shootings 23, could be heard at solitary since March the excuse Partial Victory, Fight He wrote an open letter to his These and scores of other burning questions will be being alleged found on Lichterfelde, the military post tickets Shot, Gassed and Marine Workers Union a knife rank and file friends in the Nazi dealt with tonight at Madison Square Andy Wright during exercise hour, on for Release the Garden meeting Goes movement calling on them to quit on the outskirts of Berlin Clubbed Frisco Calls All Andy says he never had a knife, but called by the Communist Party to present its analysis and on Seamen, the Nazi ranks and join with the where wholesale slaughters took it from another prisoner who PORTLAND, Ore., July s.—The Communists. its position on the current German crisis. Waterfront Dockers have already taken place. No names to Strike was attacking his brother with it mass fight of Negro and white Scheringer went into hiding when of the butchered Nazi officials were Scores of workers from Bridgeport, Philadelphia, workers for Theodore Jordan won Hitler came to power but was soon issued; BULLETIN NEW call for a and no list of names of those Newark, Jersey City, Stamford, New Haven and other out- a notable victory this week when recognized and jailed. shot during past days SACRAMENTO, Cal., July 5. $30,000 Needed to the five will flying general strike in the marine Governor Meier was forced to com- Only an intensification of the ever be published, according to the cities will attend. National Guard San units in the Save the Scottsboro mute to life imprisonment the lynch campaign to free Thaelmann can Nazi officials. The meeting is regarded by Francisco Bay region were or- industry was issued yester- death sentence against Young keep him from being murdered in a Party Members Are afternoon to by the Faced with tremendous mass the Central and District com- dered this stand day by Boys and Herndon Negro worker, framed-up by offi- his jail. Workers are being urged discontent, in uniform under arms, ready to the Marine Workers and ominous rumblings of cials of the Oregon and Pacific by the National Committee to Aid in the rank Urged To Volunteer mittees the Communist go into action against the strikers. Industrial Union, 140 Broad of the Storm Troopers August 31 has been set as the Railroad on a charge of murdering Victims of German Fascism to send and among the disgusted Party as one of the * * * St., middle As Garden Ushers most im- to support the strike of date on which Heywood Patter- a railroad dick. class masses formerly Norris, (Continued Page 2) who followed portant political events of the SAN FRANCISCO, July 5. 30,000 West Coast son and Clarence two of A 30-day reprieve for Jordan was on the Fascist rulers, the chief seamen, the Scottsboro will be Nazis The arrangements committee year. —Police guns blazed today on longshoremen, boys, won several weeks ago, when called an emergency congress in masters, mates, pilots, electrocuted—unless the working- sev- of tonight's Madison Square truckers and eral delegations white Flensburg, on importance the waterfront as the Indus- truck drivers. class stops the lynchers from of and Negro the German-Danish Garden meeting called to pre- The of the the Governor 80 delegates trial Board attempted to cut The call, which was addressed to carrying out their determination. workers visited and border. Around were sent the Communist analysis of meeting is further enhanced other the Minneapolis present, though ail workers, organized and unorgan- Angelo Herndon, young Negro officials with demands for 30,000 of Hitler's the German crisis its way through heavy picket of of picked announced by the announcement that ized, in the marine industry, leader of white and Negro un- freedom Jordan. At the end soldiers, the Schutzstaffle, night lines of marine transport to the 30-day period, Jordan was re- last that volunteers are members of the International Long- employed, will be sent to his patrolled the streets. urgently needed to one of the chief speakers will workers and mari- sentenced to death. The commuta- Drivers serve as break the shoremen’s Association, the Interna- death on the chain-gang with- Fight The main questions to be taken up ushers and to aid in the be a leading time has on since tion order of the Governor follows distri- deputy in the strike which been tional Seamen's Union and in the next three weeks unless are the catastrophic crisis facing bution and May the a campaign of furious protests by sale of literature at German Reichstag until 9. Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, he is bailed out. Germany, and what further terrorist the meeting. the Sixteen men were shot. One. a non- workers throughout the state. Strike Pact said: Answer the lynchers and the measures to take in order to stave All party members are time of its dissolution by Hit- striker, E. L. Hodges, wounded urged was “The supreme courts in Alabama and The International Labor Defense, off a revolutionary upsurge against to volunteer. They should report ler. in the hand and stomach. Jerry determied two-month strike Georgia! which has been conducting the de- of the 30.000 Pacific Coast fascism. to their respective section organ- Hart, a striker, was shot in the leg workers in $15,000 in cash or bonds fense, following the betrayal of Communist Party Calls The entire proceeds of the meet- the maritime now liberty Houses in Berlin are being izers or organization secretaries will and W. J. Wilson was severely trades faces the must be raised at once to bail Jordan by local N. A. A. C. P. lead- raided ing be contributed to the il- combined military for arms, and other for in the Garden not later than wounded in the thigh. Johnßeovich, and police forces out Angelo Herndon. ers, declared today that the fight For Re-Strike To victims the legal Communist Party of Germany, of the £sate executioers. 4:30 p.m. for assignment. striker, was shot in the neck. and local governments, $15,000 be for of Von Papen's home it has been announced, to aid it a guards must raised immedi- the unconditional release Win Demands Many shots were fired by police the armed and professional ately to take the appeals in the was raided and searched. It is now in the intensified struggle and strikebreakers Jordan will be continued. The I. L. in the vicinity of Rincon Hill, and hired by the water- Scottsboro and Herndon cases to D. called on all workers and or- declared that the Vice-Chancellor propaganda which German events front papers carry BULLETIN NSL past several houses were struck. employers. The the U. S. Supreme Court. ganizations to send resolutions to will be ousted from his position, National Plenum of the few days have made Governor Frank Merriam further the news of fierce attacks made on Rush funds and contributions Governor Julius L. Meier demand- MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 5. though he will retain his post as Hammers Out Program more necessary than ever. accentuated the reign of terror the members of the ten unions who immediately to the national of- ing the immediate, unconditional —An ultimatum to the Commu- Saar commissioner. Instead of Goe- Browder to Speak against the strikers by announcing are striking for higher wages, better fice of the International Labor of nist not to use any slogans ring taking his place, it is stated by Earl Browder, general secretary release Jordan. Party NEW YORK—Delegates from that he would call out the National working conditions and union rec- i Defense, Room 430, 80 East 11th referring betrayal of the high Nazi officials that Rudolf of the American Communist Party to the colleges throughout the United Guard. ognition, and on the thousands of St., New York City. recent truck drivers strike in the Hess, close associate of Hitler, and will offer a general analysis of Fas- today unemployed will be advisors, States convened at the National Police violence was renewed who refuse to scab and Certificates issued by knowledge that tear gas has been parade against N.R.A. arbitration his chief will be made Vice- cism’s position in Germany and who aid in the militant the I.L.D. for the Bail Chancellor. Student League, 114 W. 14th St., mass pick- Special pumped into boys’ cells and that here Friday, was issued by Wil- elsewhere and the perspective for (Continued on Page 2) eting that has Fund Herndon, guarantee- yesterday to open the second plen- international closed the ports. for they have been beaten. The sheriff liam Brown, President of Drivers Panic Spreads struggle against the .. “The strike is 2,000 ing the return of this as soon as um of the League. on a mile says, “No tear gas has been used to Local 574 and Myles and Grant Panic is spreading among the fascist menace. C. A. Hathaway, front—from Vancouver, B. C. to the bail is released. to editor of the Daily San j my knowledge. Maybe they’r gas- Dunne. population in view of the drastic According repjorts of Joseph Worker, will deal 11 Red Builders Diego, California. All marine traffic Cohen, with the sing them upstairs right now but I The three Trotskyites threat- economic measures being taken by national secretary, there are immediate situation in is tied up. Germany, its Added in Boston; and that the guards saw this hap- don’t know it.” ened gangster tactics if any ban- the Fascist government to meet the 2,725 dues-paying members. causes and possible “Victory for the strikers pen. effects. means Three weeks ago Charlie Weems, ner criticising their actions in the conflicts with other imperialist The plenum will discuss ques- Bundle Jumps 150 better wages and working on the Jamas W. Ford will discuss the condi- Questioned this, sheriff one of the boys, was beaten unmer- recent strike would be carried. powers over retaliatory measures on tions of line and organization and tionsfor all workers. replies, relation of the struggle to free “I’m not interested in how cifully for having a working class They refused to allow a speaker the debt moratorium. Foodstuffs set perspectives for building the he got the knife. He it when Angelo Herndon and the Scottsboro which lost 43 Daily “The ‘Labor Relations’ Board ap- had book. Both he and the Wright of the Communist Party, or any and clothing supplies and running Student League into a mass or- boys to the international I saw him; that’s all I care about.” ganization fight for BOSTON,Worker readers during the in the colleges and high the freedom of (Continued on Page 2) The sheriff similarly disclaims all (Continued Page 2) Page Ernst Thaelmann first ten days of the drive to get on (Continued on 2) (Continued on Page 2) schools. and other victims of the Brown ter- 30,000 new readers in two ror. months, now reveals what acti- Charles Krumbein. district or- vity can do. Us latest bundle ganizer of the Communist Party will order is for an increase of 150 be chairman of the meeting. copies a day. An American Commission Inquires An elaborate cooling system Into the Nazi Terror will It is building Red Builders. A insure perfect comfort within, membership meeting was held the hall. ;vnd weaknesses of the district Exposes them is that more or In response to a call Kurt Rosenfeld they are less law is diabolically designed to make discussed. liberal in Terror “Without Prece- Red young viewpoint. And yet, here certain that the opponents of -he for Builders, ten Fascist Lynch they were sitting workers, five boys and girls, re- as an unofficial Nazi regime can be speedily and dent in the History of Railroad Men Act court in the dignified, colonial effiicently sponded. Besides these enthu- Justice [i -j convicted and executed. hearing chamber of the New York Twaam* Ji He the Civilized Nations” siasts, a newsboy selling capi- ' cites fact that the defendant County Lawyers’ Association. Mass \jAamzliß,' YJWUMI talist sheets at this Party meet- before the so-called "court” cannot For Six Hour Hay By ROBERT HAMILTON pressure, you see, ing, also to makes itself felt choose his own lawyer, and that Party, is slated to face this lynch volunteered sell the even In the most unexpected places. “Daily.” shining lights of the there is no appeal from the verdict court as Public Enemy No, 1 of the Amer- Refugees Testify being EIGHTican bar of the court. He proves that by Hitler regime. He relates Chicago Shops Credit for the first new seated behind a long The witnesses file up to the stand that In Red ; table a the very composition of the court—- Thaelmann has been held in solitary Boston Builder, however, on raised dais. Clarence with the glare of flashlights and goes to Sam Rosen, Dorchester two justices and three reliable lay confinement for over 16 months, CHICAGO, July s.—Aroused into a Darrow, the chairman, slumped camera clicking focused on to the armchair, them. Nazis, appointed by Hitler himself—- with no opportunity to anyone, action by the lay-offs taking Pioneer, who came Boston wearily in his flanked by Some of the witnesses un- see mass Daily Costigan testfied a majority for a death sentence. not even a lawyer. No indictment place in the Chicago shops on the Worker office and an- Senator of Colorado at der assumed names and the chair- nounced that he wanted to join end, Dudley Field Malone, big- Flays Nazi “Laws” has ever been shown him—he is Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, one of Commission had to warn lawyer, man the Not a single one of the guarantees simply being kept prisoner the workers in Machinist Helpers Lodge the Shock Brigade. “I have been shot Democratic at the newspaper photographers until the for due legal procedure judge time is to 915 went on record to a fight reading about the activities of other. against accorded Nazis the ripe hang start taking pictures of them. by capitalist pres- for the 6 the New York Red Builders,” he The well-dressed audience (admis- even the laws of other him. Rosenfeld adds that the hour day on the C.