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Mass Today
In Orleans
To Assemble in Martial
Law ZOne-Demand
Adequate Relief
tspecIaI 10 the pailr workerl

NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug. S.
Following a successful Aug. DEM
onstration, when 1000 unemployed
Negro and white workers, led by the
Unemployed Council, demonstrated
before the relief station for the
con inuance of relief; against the
cutting of thousands of "unemploy-
aoles" off the lists; against i'm
perislist wars; demanding all war
funds for the unemployed. The I'm
employment Council, Imported by
the Communist Party, has called a
mass demonstration before the City
Hall tomorrow at IL o'clock, noon.
For more than a week New Or
leans, under partial martial law.
has seen one side of the City Hall
barricaded by National Guardsmen
called out by Huey Long to protect
his right to the loot-to his share
of the graft from the city treasury,
gambling houses and houses of
prostitution.
The other side of the City Hall
has been harricaded by the regular
police force of $40 reinforced by 500
extra police sworn in to protect
Mayor Walmsley's right to the loot.
While these two fac ions of the
Democratic Party are fighting over
the lions share OF the loot-unem-
ployed workers by the thousands
are sinking further into starvation
conditions. Tens of thousands of
workers are denied the right to
vote. Particularly the Negro and
white workers are disfranchised.
Daily more and more workers
who are denied the most elementary
democratic rights are turning to-
ward the Communist Party and
revolutionary mass organizations
for leadership.
Utilizing these antagonisms be-
tween the factions of the capitalist
(COntinHed nm PINE 01
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ton in regard to what were the
principal issues in the strike.
The basic issues of wages. hours.
working conditions, and the union
shop versus the closed shop as it
appeared In the central question OF
hiring halls, are set forth clearly.
The statement destroys the inspired
contention that the San Francisco
strike had Instruction as its pri-
mary purpose. A proletarian poem.
startling in its thrilling defiance, is
published on page three.
Last night an anti-war meeting
was scheduled for Polk Hall in the
Civic Auditorium. The police, acting
in accord with recent ruling of
the City Council that no me- ~
of 'seditious" character should
be tolerated in MUNICIPAL buildings,
prohibited the gathering.
But volunteer ushers. passed out
cards giving the new place of meet
ing at 1888 Mission Street and with
really working class discipline the
audience assembled there to listen
to speakers with whom the police
did not dare to interfere.
Day by day the wrecked head
quarters are being reopened. There
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
MASS DEMONSTRATION
TO GREET HEROIC NEGRO
OUT UNDER $4,000 BAIL
He Will Reach New
York Tomorrow-Stops
At Cities On Way

NEW YORK. Angelo
Herndon, released on $4,000
bail Saturday from his tor
ture chamber in Fulton
Tower, Atlanta, Ca, will ar
rive in New York at Pennsyl-
vania station at 6:35 p. m.
tomorrow night, the International
Labor Defense announced yester-
day.
The l. L. D. called on all work.
ers, Negro and white, to demon
strate at the station in a monster
welcome for the heroic young
fighter against hunger and fsscism.
for unity of black and white
workers.
Demonstrations Of welcome and
solidarity, which all workers were
urged to attend, are also being ar
ranged as the train passes through
Washington, Baltimore, Philadel-
phia and Newark.
The train will pass through the
stations in these cities at the fol-
lowing hours daylight saving time):
Washington, D. c., 2 D. M; Bal
timore, asa; Philadelphia (3Gth
Street, 446; North Philadelphia
4.57; Newark, GIT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
BY A. B. MAGIL
Especial to the Daily worker)

DETROIT, Michigan, August s.
An auto worker, an outstanding
fighter in the ranks of labor, will be
the Communist candidate for Gov
ernor of Michigan in the coming
elections.
john Anderson, leader of the
Progressiyes in the Mechanics Edu-
cational Society of America, indie
pendent union of tool and die
makers in the automobile industry,
was today chosen to head the Com
munist Party ticket in this State.
Anderson who has become widely
known Tor his struggles in behalf of
the rank and file OF the M. e. S. A..
was nominated at the two-day State
nominating convention of the Party
held yesterday and today in Fin
nish Workers Hall.
Another auto worker was chosen
to head the Congressional slate
when Phil Raymond, National
Secretary OF the Auto Workers
Union, was nominated for the U. S.
Senate.
Other candidates chosen were
for Lieutenant Governor, John
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
Auto Workers Are Nominated
On Mich. Comm unist Ticket

Maxi, unemployed worker from the
copper region in Northern Michigan;
Secretary of estate. John Rose,
farmer facing long prison term on
a charge OF criminal Syndicalism for
having led a struggle against fore
closure; Attorney General, Lonnie
Williams, Young Negro worker;
State Treasurer, Mary Himoff of
the Young Communist League;
State Auditor, John North. one of
the leaders of the Auto Workers
Union in Grand Rapids.
The leading Congressional candi-
dates we're Frank Sykes, Negro
worker, Earl Reno, Leo Sillzowski
and John Pace, Secretary of the
Unemployment Councils and the
Relief Workers Protective Associa-
ton, who will run in Dearborn
against Mayor Clyde Ford, Henrys
cousin.
One hundred and twenty seven
delegates from many organizations
in all parts of the State took part
in this, the most important election
convention in the history of the
Communist Party of Michigan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
Speed of Recovery Due
To Masses Support,
Says Bill Dunno
BY BILL DUNE

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. s. The
speed with which the Communist
Party here is emerging from the
conditions Of illegality and semi
illegality forced upon it is probably
the most striking evidence of the
popular disgust with and hatred for
the recent eXcssses of the fascist
elements financed by the Industrial
Association and other organizations
Of the employers.
1t is uncomfortable that the Com
munist Party should have been able
in SO short a time to resume open
activity in such important sectors Of
the class struggle as the fight
against fascism and imperialist war.
after the coastwise raids. arrests
and beatings, without wide base of
support among the working class
and also among large sections of
the lower middle class.
Outstanding among the recent de-
velopments are:
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wv estern Worker" Out,
Meetings Are Held
Despite Ban

are, Of course. no guarantees that a
new wave of fascist terror will not
wreck them again. But the. Com
munist Party is working. 1t is on
the JOB.
All Of this is possible because the
waterfront workers defeated the at
tempt of the employers and their
press to split their ranks. The Gem
munist Party did a good JOB regard
less Of what might be called the
ignorant enthusiasm OF some young
elements that resulted in some use
less arrests. The important parts
of the Communist Party machinery
remain intact.
A left wing conference of mari
time workers from up and down the
Coast will Re held about the middle
of the month. 1t will ADOPT a
program for workers on 1000 miles
of waterfront.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
Truck Strikers Cigar Makers
Get Terms at Strike in York
III ard Labor And In PhiIa.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. s.
I'll. workers in the Royalist Cigar
Co. are on strike against unbearable
conditions and against wages of 81
to Sc per week. The bosses have
sent post cards to the strikers offer
ing them police protection. The
officials Of the International Cigar
Makers Union are trying to defeat
the strike.
The code for handmade cigars
and stogies graduates the wage-rates
from a twenty-five cents an hour
minimum to 81 cents an hour. Those
making the Glass C or higher priced
cigars are TO get four cents an hour
more wages, as a minimum.
The code will enslave those get
ting job, and throws out of work
large numbers of cigar workers.
The code was made by and for
the manufactures without any
tobacco workers being present, and
the workers have a right to strike
against the low wages provided in
the code.
In York, Pa, 5000 workers were
locked out and 5000 more were
faced with lockout by the county
cigar manufacturers association. In
York, the president of the Interna-
tional Cigar Makers Union, 1. NJ.
Orburn. ordered the workers to ship
out scab-made cigars from the plant
OF T. E. Brooks. The wo. kers defed
this order. They were attacked and
gassed by the police.
Orburn, not satisfied with his
scabbery in York, is calling on the
Royalist cigar WORKERS in Philadel-
phia to scab. The workers refused
to listen to Orburn in the Royalist
plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
u. S. Bombers Assist
In Anti-Soviet Drive

SHANGHAI, August 5. - Assisted
by bombing plan ssuadrons organ
lied by American military special
lists, troops of the Chang Kali
Shek Marking government are
reported to have repulsed the Red
Army which was nearing Foochow
on the coast.
American battleships rushed to-
ward Foochow on the news that
5000 workers and peasants in the
Chinese Red Army were nearing the
seacoast town in the Kiangsi prov
ince.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
S.M.W.I.U. ADOPTS
BROAD PROGRAM
TO BUILD UNION
Vote To Affiliate With
the TUUL Act for
Class War Prisoners
Especial to the DAILY Worker

Especial to the Daily Worker
PITTSBURGH, Pa. Aug. s.
Pat Cush was reelected ma
tional president of the S. M. w.
I. u. by a vote of acclamatiOn.
Jim Egan was reelected national
secretary, also by acclaim. In
accepting the post, Cush declared
that he would rather be presi-
dent of fighting, militant union
than of the United States"
Nathaniel Douthit, of Buffalo.
was elected first vice-president by
unanimous vote of the convention.
Other vice presidents elected:
were: Joe ballet, Youngstown;
Pete Chappa. Pittsburgh; Charles
Rivers, New York; Frank Rogers,
Cleveland; Brown, Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Aug. s.
Farmer-Labor Governor Floyd Olson
has issued another ultimatum indi-
eating that If the strike of the 5000
truck drivers is not ended by to-
night at midnight, drastic action OF
the National Guard against picket
ing will follow.
The National Guard has taken
1854 persons to the military stock
ade, 1t was announced by the mill
tary authorities today. Six pickets
were sentenced by a military court
martial to hard labor from 30 to 90
days in Jail.
The employers demand that a
settlement must include a clause
giving preference to Strike breakers
in re-hiring. This would mean a
wholesale blacklist of strikers.
Leo Holscher, a breaker,
shot and wounded two unarmed
pickets, Earl Collins and George
Schirts. with a shotgun on Satur-
day. The photographs Of the
shooting were suppressed by the Ma
tional Guard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
Brodsky Posts Bail
Especial to the Daily Worker)

ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. 5.-Angelo
Herndon was released from Fulton
Tower prison at p. m. Saturday,
on $4,000 bail raised through a
mass campaign of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense.
The bail was posted by Joseph r.
Brodsky, chief counsel for the I. l..
D., who Immediately left for New
York with Herndon, accompanied
also by the Rev A. J. Martin, Negro
minister Of Atlanta.
Herndon is being brought to New
York by circuitous route to fore
stall any attempts by the Southern
lynchers and their agents to inter-
fere with his passage.
A strong force of deputies was on
hand at the jail when Herndon was
released, evidently the result of the
mass campaign directed at Cover
nor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia,
demanding protection for Herndon.
At the train, also, special rail-
road detectives had been assigned.
Jail Mates in Farewell
AS he left the gates of the prison
where he had spent nineteen
months of torture, fellow prisoners,
black and white. crowded the Jail
windows in an affectionate demon
stration of farewell. yelling good
bye and good luck" to the heroic
young Negro Communist.
Despite the urgines of the dep
uties, Herndon insisted on turning
back and shouted back greetings
from the sidewalk:
"Thsnksl Be Brave! Heads upl
Good luck"
This was ir striking contrast to
the sneering remark of the turn
key: Hope to see you back for
good!"
Not to have my head confined
in small place seems strange
and wonderful" were Angelo
Herndcn's first words on driving
away. Gee, the air smells good"
Immediately, still BREATHING
deeply OF the fresh air and turn
ing his head about to see the world
about him after the long months of
foul prison air and solitary con-
f1nement, he went on:
Nov that l am free again
want to thank the I. L. D. and all
the friends and sympathizers for
their militant revolutionary fight
in forcing the fascist ruling clsss of
Georgia to release me on bail. 1 am
filled with deep enthusiasm and
| joy over this victory. I can scarcely
find words to express myself ade-
quately. This is Just the beginning
OF the fight for my ultimate free
Com. which Is at the same time
fight against fascism and the grow
Ing intolereble lot Of the workers.
I've Must Fight for the Others"
We American workers must now
tighten up our ranks in militant
struggles that must free the Scots
boro boys, Thaelmann. Mooney. and
all class war victims and even-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
Scottsboro Defender
Stresses Need for
Widespread DAILY

THE fight to save the Scottsboro
4 boys, Angelo Herndon and all
class-war prisoners can be greatly
intensified through the spread of
the Daily Worker. Twenty thousand
new readers by September l means
10000 additional fighters in our
ranks-means broader front for
organizing 4 powerful defense move
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
1900 Join
InParade
At Circle
BrOwder and Is Others
Speak - Resolutions
Are Adopted

NEW YORK.-Anti-wa and anti
fascist slogans filled the air from
Columbus Circle to Madison Square
Park as 1900 workers, students and
professionals marched in stirring
parade organized by the American
League Against War and Fascism
Saturday.
At Madison Square Park $4,000
persons heard short speeches by six
teen leaders of political organza-
tions, peace. youth, church groups
and trade unions. A resolution call
ing for a united militant struggle
against imperialist war and fascism
and demanding the release of Ernst
Thaelmann and all anti-fsscist pris-
oners in Germany was adopted with
thunderous Aye at the park.
Earl Browder, general secretary of
the Communist Party, made STIR
ring call to all Communists, nom
party and Socialist workers TO unite
against war and fascism.
The leading slogan Of the Com
muniSt Party is unity" he said,
Unity against imperialist war, Unity
against fsscism-for united actions
of concrete struggle. This great
demonstration today shall be made
the beginning of united move
ment not only in New York but
throughout the country. Let all
workers go back to their organiza-
tons and raise the slogan for a
united fight against war and fas-
cism.
Unite Communist workers, So
cialist workers and non-party work
ers into broad organization based
on program upon which all can
unite, like the American League
Against War and Fascism, for a
militant struggle against war and
fascism.''
Marchers Cheered
All along the line Of march thou
sands of spectators who lined the
sidewalks cheered and applauded
the paraders and shouted slogans
with them. The contingent of nurses
dressed in white uniforms and
holding large banner in a position
parallel to the ground, aroused a
storm OF hand-clapping all along the
route. Nickels, dimes and quarters
were freely thrown into the banner
to aid the fight against war and
fascism.
War Funds for JobIess
Working class songs. slogans call
ing for the freedom OF Angelo Hern-
don, the Scottsboro boys, Tom
Mooney. Thaelmann, and demand
ing all war funds to the unemployed
and united fight against impe-
rialist war and fascism were heard
all along Eighth Ave. and in the
park.
In addition to the resolution
adopted, two kilograms we're voted
to be sent-one to Hitler demand
ing the release of Thaelmann and
all other anti-war anti-fascist pris-
oners, and another to Roosevelt
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ment. A mass
circulation for
the Daily" adds
pressure to our
legal struggles in
the courts. This
would also in
sure its sale and
distribution in
many cities and
some S t a t e S
where it is now
greatly hamper
ed by the police
ar1rf 4@-L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
BY TOM KEENAN,
(SnecisI 10 the DAILY Worker)

NOpEOioA ~ AhC Doiss UNAAN-f
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 5.
Calling for an intensive
campaign to weld unity
among all steel workers over
the heads of Mike Tighe and
the treacherous A. F. of L, lead
ers, with special activity to draw
in all Negro, young and unemployed
workers, and immediate formal af-
f1liation with the Trade Union Unity
League, Jack Stachel. representing
the TUUL., this morning address,
ed the National Convention Of the
Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial Union.
To-day there can be no doubt, :"
declared Stachel, "as to which pro-
gam, that of the A. F. of L. and
the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, or that
of the T.U.UL. and the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
provides the correct road for the
steel and metal workers"
The formation of a strong, ma
tional mass union he set forth as
the immediate task in the fight
against the steel bosses, his remarks
greeted on many occasions by en-
thusiastic applause from the 1875
delegates present.
IL Resolutions Passed
only such program" he con-
cluded, "can win better wages and
conditions"
Seventeen resolutions have al
ready been passed by the conven-
ton, which is now engaged in the
adoption of the constitution, cover
ing the following subjects.
A program of action for steel
workers and one for metal work.
ers.
Intensified work among the
youth, and to organize all women
in the industry.
Concentration on the immedi-
ate task of organizing the Negro
workers.
Demanding the passage of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill.
Educational work throughout
the union.
Fuller utilization of the official
organ, "The Steel and Metal
Worker"
Endorsing the U. S. Congress
Against War and Fascism in Sep
TENDER.
FIGHT FOR CLASS-WAR
PRISONERS
Demanding the immediate re-
lease of Tom Mooney, Of Angelo
Herndon, and the Scott,.boro bows.
and the dropping of all charges
against Egan, Franafeld, ami the
Ambridge franle-up victims.
Supporting the right to work
bill for protection of foreign born
which is now before Congress.
Mobilization for the fight against
injunctions.
Aff1liating with the Trade Union
Unity League.
Demanding the release of Ernst
Thaelmann.
Final adoption of the constitu-
ton, the election of officers. and
the adoption of few additional
resolutions will complete the ses-
sions of the convention.
BY ANDREW OVERGAARD
and TOM KEENAN,
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. SIN
contrast to the last convention of
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No Arrest in Lynching
As Cops Blame Negroes

SHREVEPORT. La, August s.
No arrests Of lynchers will be made.
police officials announced yesterday
following the lynching of Negro
Authorities say that the Negro,
Grafton Page. thirty years old, was
lynched by band of other Negroes
because he attacked Negro girl.
Page was beaten to death by knotted
ropes.
This slanderous lie is an open at
tempt by Southern white rulers to
absolve themselves from all blame OF
persecution OF Negroes and put
themselves in the position OF a
guardian to keen peace between
the Negroes themselves.
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1900 TO STRIKE TODAY

CHARLESTOWN, w. Va, Aug. 5.
A strike of 1920 lumber camp
workers will take place tomorrow
unless demands for recognition and
wage increases are met, it was an
nounced by the State Federation of
Labor yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06

No reader of the Daily Worker
truly appreciates the value of its
organizing force until he is doing
everything in his power to increase
its circulation.
JOSEPH R. BRODSKY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
Strik ebre aking
Unity of Green
And LaGnardia
AN EDIT RIAL

Mayor LaGuardia was
characterized as "a staunch
friend of the principles as
represented by the American
Federation of Labor" in Viii
liam Green's invitation to the
Mayor to be the main speaker
at the A. F. L. Labor Day
meeting in Chicago. mo ex-
ecutive in this country is held
in higher esteem and regard
by labor than Mayor La
Guardia," said Green.
The rank and file in the A.
F. L. have shown in no un-
certain terms in the past
week that they consider La
Guardia otherwise. The wave
of protest from the members
Of the A. F. L. locals, and
from all workers organiza-
tons, has forced LaGuardia
to revoke his order for police
control of trade union leaders.
A mass protest has swept
through all New York trade
unions against LaGuardia's
strike breaking rifle regiment,
which is aimed directly
against strikers and unem-
ployed workers.
The A. F. L. leaders and
LaGuardia however, truly
have everything in common.
Green and LaGuardia are
both past masters at the
strikebreaking art ; this is the
common principle represented
by both Green and La
Guardia.
Green stabbed the San
Francisco general strike in
the back, disowning the San
Francisco workers when they
faced martial law and fierce
terror. LaGuardia played the
leading role in the breaking
of the taxi workers strike.
Greenwich and company
are leading red baiters. They
raised the red scare in order
to defeat the demands of the
auto workers, the steel work
ers. La Guardia, used the
red scare with good effect to
split the taxi strikers, and
against the unemployed work
ers.
Green deserted the workers
to the most ferocious govern
ment terror. He did not make
move to mobilize the unions
to fight the slaughter of
strikers. Instead he spoke
against strikes in principle
and abandoned the strikers to
rife fire by troops in Toledo,
Minneapolis and San Fran
cisco. LaGuardia uses the
same terror against New
York workers. He sent police
to club starving unemployed.
Now he prepares rife fire
against strikers.
The A. F. L. leadership in
vites LaGuardia to speak at
this moment for a definite
purpose. Green wants to
bolster his damaged prestige
by inviting a prominent Tib-
eral. LaGuardia, under at
tack by the rank and file A.
F. of L. workers, needs the
support of Green.
The employers look with
apprehension at the growing
strike movement of the New
York workers. They are try
ing to build LaGuardia up
once more as a friend of
labor in order to put him in
a better position to break the
coming New York c+r;Los
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F. of L. workers, needs the
support of Green.
The employers look with
apprehension at the growing
strike movement of the New
York workers. They are try
ing to build LaGuardia up
once more as a friend of
labor in order to put him in
a better position to break the
coming New York strikes.
The rank and file inside the
A. F. L. must become alive to
these maneuvers. LaGuardia
must not be allowed to get
away with his rifle regiment
land his anti-labor policies.
Green and Co. must not be
allowed to cover up their own
'strikebreaking acts.
Through the organization
of rank and file groups in the
A. F. of L. unions the Sight
must be developed against
both the Greens and LaGuar-
dias. Both typify the same
strikebreaking, aati-working
class policies.