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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
Carpenters Local, A. F. L.,
Demands Thaelmann Freedom
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)

DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)
CHICAGO, June 27.-The follow
ing resolution demanding the re-
lease of Thaelmann and to be sent
to Hitler was adopted by Carpen-
tiers Local 504 of the A. F. of L.:
1--WE, the members of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America, Local 5O4, as
sembled at our regular meeting
Monday, June IS, 1884, protest
against the Imprisonment and
brutal treatment of Ernst Thael-
mann and the anti-fascist prison
ers in Germany.
I'VE demand the immediate and
unconditional release of Ernst
Thaelmann and the anti-fascist
prisoners.
1--WE demand the abolition of the
murderous Peoples Court, which
offers no defense whatever to anti
fascists.
I'VE demand a public trial for
Thaelmann with lawyers and wit
neSSes of his own choice We de-
mand safe conduct into and out of
Germany for such lawyers and wit
nesseS.
I'VE demand that physicians Sc
lected by his friends be permitted
to treat Thaelmann.
I'VE demand that committees
from other countries be allowed to
visit him.
I'VE further demand that all ter
ror against anti-fascists in Germany
be Immediately stopped
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
The 9th Year Of the International Labor Def Tense

inevitably mean more and more ar
rests of militant fighters. Hence
the building and strengthening Of
the I. L. D. becomes of major i'm
portance to the effective struggle of
the working class.
Mcnamara and Schmidt
The I. l.. D. now has many cases
to occupy its attention, what with
the Scottsboro boys, Mooney, Hern-
don and the many others, but there
is one case that will have to be
attended to much more energet-
ically than in the past. This is the
Mcnamara Schmidt case.
This case grew out of the bitter
labor struggle in Los Angeles in
1910. AS result of the dynamiting
of the Los Angeles Times Building
both men are doing life sentences.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
Board Aids Thugs
In DOckerS' Strike
Continued from Page y

picketing on Friday and the i'm
mediate calling of general strike.
Two locals of the A. F. of L. have
already endorsed the general strike
call. The Central Labor Council at
Its last meeting was forced to hear
and discuss proposals for the gen.
eral strike offered by the Unem-
ployed Citizens League.
Roy Hudson, speaking yesterday
at Local 1916 of the I. L. A. in
Everett and at meetings of long
shoremen in Seattle, was received
with great applause. He warned
the men to beware of Ryan's agree
inent. The longshoremen supported
Hudson's call for national unity
conference of marine workers to be
held in Baltimore, Sept. and 2.
At both meetings at which Hud-
son spoke resolutions were adopted
demanding the freedom of Ernst
Ihaelmann, imprisoned German
Communist leader. The longshore-
men sent delegation to the Ger
man Consul to present the resolu-
ticrl,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28

the story of his life and gave
an account of all his move
ments on the eve of Satur-
day, May II, when the crime
is alleged to have been committed.
Victory's testimony, given under
the questioning of Maurice Sugar,
noted labor attorney, retained by
the International Labor Defense,
was one of the high points in
trial remarkable for the complete
ness of the defense and the clear
cut character of the frame-up
against him.
Son of a full-blooded Indian
farmer and a Negro slave, Victory
told how he went to work at the
age of seven. At 13 he was already
a timer at the McKeesport Tin
Plate Mill, McKeeSport, Pa, work
ing there continuously for 10 years
till he was drafted in the army. He
saw action on three fronts, the Ar
gonne Forest, Chateau Thierry and
the Hindenburg line, and went over
the top three times.
His account of his movements on
the night of May IL corToborated
in every detail the testimony Of
about Is witnesses who preceded
him. In relating what happened to
him after his arrest May IA, he
told how a detective at the Con-
nors st. Station had pointed a gun
at him and threatened him, though
he didn't even know what he had
been arrested for. At the main po-
lice headquarters detective had
said to him: you black son Of a
bitch, if you don't tell the truth,
I'll whip your head"
Attorney Sugar placed nine char
acter witnesses on the stand, most
of them white, who testified to the
high reputation Victory enjoyed in
the community in which he worked.
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
Frank Schemanske, in cross-exani-
nation, made several attempts to
discredit Victory's character, but
failed. He tried to introduce the
element of race prejudice by asking
whether Victory hadn't once asked
white woman whether she
wouldn't hire him to clean her
apartment. This question was ruled
out when defense attorney Sugar
vigorously objected The prosecu-
tons last stand proved to be a
boomerang. Schemanske called two
dicks in an effort to disprove state
ments of Victory and James Spain,
Negro defense witness, that they
had been terrorized by detectives.
Sugar ironically asked one of the
dicks 1.-THE police never point guns
at prisoners, do they, they never in
tirnidate or beat them up, they
never swear at them, do they?"
The large crowd in the court
room laughed outright.
tomorrow Sugar will make his
plea, with SchemanSke allowed a
rebuttal, after which Judge Stein
will charge the jury. The jury con-
sists of six men and six women,
largely middle class in composition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28

labor movement and many mill
tants from disastrous blows. Dur
ing his many years in prison, Nc
Namara's conduct has been splen-
didly incorporating. He has
clearly demonstrated himself to be
one of the very bravest and finest
personalities ever produced by the
class struggle in this country. 1t is
an honor to fight in defense of such
a courageous proletarian battler as
Mcnamara.
Let us, therefore, from now on
begin to rally the masses for the
release of Mcnamara and Schmidt.
We must force open the prison
gates for these class war prisoners
To lead in this work is one of the
many great tasks confronting the
l. L. D
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
Danger Acute, Says
ThaeImann Lawyer
Continued from Page y


Torgler, and the other Reichstag
defendants. You can force the re-
lease of Thaelmann-but there is no
other way"
DR.. Resented explained why he
has come to America.
IT came to act as witness or
expert on the state Of justice in
Germany" he said. "I have been
sent by the international Inves-
tigating Committee in Paris, which
is cooperating with the International
Committee to Aid Victims of Ger
man Fascism.
ST shall participate in the meet
ings of an investigating commits
sion, consisting of prominent law
yers and others, which has given
itself the task of finding out what
is actually happening in Germany.
IT shall show before this commits
sion why the Hitler government has
appointed the so-called Peoples
Courts, which will begin to function
on July g. with Ernst Thaelmann as
one of their first victims. I shall
show that Thaelmann and all those
who come before this court are in
extreme danger Of their lives"
DR.. Rosenfelt, member of the
Social democratic Party since long
before the war, was expelled from
the party for voting as Reichstag
deputy against the building of the
first German cruiser. After being
for period member of the So
cialist Labor Party, he resigned
from that, and now claims no party
affiliations.
He was one of those disbarred,
deprived of citizenship, and of all
property soon after the Nazis came
to power. Since then he has lived in
Paris, conducting a press service in
French and German reporting
events on Nazi Germany.
NEW YORK-Aaron ]. Cutler,
attorney, will act as master of cere-
monies at the public banquet in
Hotel Gotham Thursday night in
honor of distinguished European
and British witnesses who are to
testify before the American Inquiry
Commission which, on July in the
N. Y, County Lawyers Association,
IA Vesey ST., begins an investigation
of conditions in Hitler Germany.
DR.. Kurt Rosenfeld, former Min
lister of Justice of the State of Prus-
STA, will discuss succintly the new
Peoples Court" law by means of
which prisoners are to be rushed to
execution, chief among them being
Ernst Thaelmann, leading anti-fas-
cist fighter, and Ernst Torgler, &C
quilted defendant in the Reichstag
fire trial.
Arrangements are being COM
pleted to broadcast the program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28

Mcnamara has already done %
years and Schmidt 10. Mcnamara
is the oldest political prisoner, in
point of time served, of any in all
the world.
1t is great tragedy that these
prisoners have been so much ne
elected by the working class. They
we're betrayed and forsaken by the
A. F. of L. leadership and even the
revolutionary movement has not
done its duty in mobilizing the
workers for their release.
McNamara's plea of guilty has
been greatly misunderstood. 1t was
not his plan, but was put over in
spite of his objection. In was in
reality brave, if mistaken, act.
Mcnamara made it in the full be-
lief that he was thereby saving the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28

stration against the Nazi warshiu
karlsruhe" has been set for nex4
Monday in the Charlestown court
A demonstration to demand th@
freedom of Thaelmann and TAD
local anti-fascist defendants hal
been called for Monday.
Free Thaelmann Demon
stratiOn in Philadelphia
Saturday 4
PHILADELPHIA, June 27-Pla-
cards demanding the freedom Of
Thaelmann, cessation of the perse.
cution of Jewish people and anti
fascist fighters, flashed from all
most every subway and eel" train
today, brining the message of the
anti-fascist fight to several huns
bred thousand Philadelphia works
erS.
Saturday at pm, a huge FreS
Thaelmann demonstration will be
held at Germantown and Lehigh
AYES, in the heart Of a local Nazi
community.
Arrangements have been made
for an anti-fascist broadcast over'
WPEN Tuesday and Thursdayl
nights at $3.50 o'clock. Speakers will
be F. Hellmann and Harry Wicks.
The Free Thaelmann Committee
of the John Reed Club has ar
ranged a symposium on fascism for
Sunday night, July l, at the club
headquarters, 1856 South 9th st.
Delegation Visits Nazi Consulate
A delegation from the District
Committee of the International
Workers Order called on the Nazi
Consul here Tuesday with a reSo-
luton protesting the Hitler terror
and demanding the freedom Of
Thaelmann. The Consul refused to
accept the resolution, because, he
said, it was not written in polite
language" The delegation retorted
that this language was the only
kind available when dealing with
murderers convicted before world
opinion. So far 10 branches, youth
and adult, of the TWO. have sent
protest delegations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28

then spoke about the sharp polit-
ical situation to which he is return
ing in Ireland. There the forces Of
Fascism, aiming to become the Irish
armed defenders of British i'm
perialism, are gathering, while at
the same time the workers are
seeking powerfully to organize
themselves into militant trade
unions, and whole section of the
Irish, Republican Army has split off
and formed a militant, anti-im-
perialist wing.
ITO carry on the revolutionary
struggle in Ireland, we need espe-
cially to have a strong press" he
said. I'VE must have the greatest
support for our paper, the Irish
Workers Voice. This has already
been clearly seen by the revolution
airy Irish workers in America, and
they have undertaken to raise here
in America $4,000 fund for the Irish
Workers Voice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
BY WILLIAM q. FOSTER

IN its nine years of life the I. L. D.
i has been of real service to the
working class. Its militant mass
campaigns over these years in sup
port of innumsrable class war pris-
oners have not only been an invalu-
able aid in defending these prison
ers, but they have also done much
to educate the workers not only re-
garding the poisonous workings of
capitalist class justice, but also the
whole capitalist system of exploita
ton.
Still greater tasks will confront
the 1. L. D. in the future than in
the past. AS capitalism sinks
deeper into crisis and the capital
lists turn more and more to fascist
methods Of violence and, peraocu-
ton against the workers this will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
HatterS To Talk
Terms With Bosses

NEW YORK the hatters
strike still going strong, the strike
committee decided to accept an
invitation of the hat manufac-
turers association to meet in con-
ference to discuss the demands of
the workers.
The meeting on Monday, which
made the above decisions, also de-
cided to call a strike relief con-
ference of all labor organizations
in the city of Network, Thursday,
at 8 p. m, at Beethoven Hall, 210
E. Fifth Street.
Local 8, United Hatters of Amer
lea, has addressed letter to all
trade unions in New York, urging
them to send two delegates each
to the conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
Protest Meeting in
Harlem Friday Night

NEW YORK. "A Free Thael-
mann, anti-Jimcrowism meeting
will be held this Friday evening at
125th Street and 7th Avenue by
Unit 418 of the Harlem Section of
the Communist Party. Speakers at
the meeting will point out the con-
nection between the fascist terror
against German workers and Jews
with the lynch terror and discrimi-
nation against Negroes in this coun-
try. The meeting will serve to
spread the mass fight against Har-
lem and other employers who re-
fuse to hire Negroes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
New England Farmers
Demand Release of
Thaelmann, BlOOr

HILLSBORO, N. H, June 26. =
More than rs farmers and their
families gathered here and passed
resolutions demanding the release
of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the
German Communist Party, and
Mother Bloor, now Jailed in cup
City, Kansas. p
Farm youth participated in 81 ITS,
and speeches we're made by lElba
Chase. Lewis Feur and John
Korpeka, stressing the need for
unity of workers and farmers in
the fight against Wall Street Steps
to join in the fight for the Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill and the
Farmers Relief Bill we're taken. A
mass poem was read.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
Eggeling, Hathaway at
Thaelmann Meet Tonight

BROOKLYN.-Theodor Eggeling
German anti-Nad sailor rescued
from a Nazi ship by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, will speak at
a Free Thaelmann" meeting to-
night, 8 O'Clock, at Queens Labor
Lyceum, 785 Forest Avenue.
The meeting will also be adj
dressed by Clarence Hathaway, edi-
tor of the Daily Worker, and Otto
Durick. It is called by the Anti
Fascist Action Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
8 Anti-Nazi Youths
Held in $4,000 Bond

BROOKLYN.-Three members of
the Young Communist League, ar
rested in connection with the Free
Thaelmann campaign, were ordered
held on 81 1000 bail each by Judge
Sabatini. Williamsburg workers are
holding series of Is open air
meetings this week to protest this
vicious attack and to further push
the campaign against the Nazi
murderers and their supporters in
this country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
Parade and Demonstration
In Astoria Friday Night

LONG ISLAND CITY. "A Free
Thaelmann parade and demonstra-
ton will be held in Astoria, j.. T.,
Friday night, starting at 1880 from
Jamaica and Steinway AYES. The
demonstration is called jointly by
the American League Against War
and Fascism, the Communist Party,
Sect. 10 of the International Labor
Defense, the National Student
League and a number of other or
CARNATIONS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
Harvard Anti Fascist
Students Sentenced;
Appeal Planned

Especial to the Daily Worker)
BOSTON, Mass, June 81
Seven anti-fascists who demon
strated at Harvard, Thursday
against Hanfstaengl were SEN
fenced to thitry days by Judge
Green in East Cambridge District
Court today.
Two girls, Nora Burke and Shelah
Shugru, were fined fifty dollars.
Sentences are being appealed.
Hearing on the appeal of the
workers and students sentenced
for participating in the demon
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
s Anti-Nazi Pickets
On Trial This Morning

NEW YORK. = Three girls and
five boys, all members of the Young
Communist League, arrested Tues
day while picketing the Nazi Con-
sulate, II Battery Park, will be tried
this morning in First Division Mag
istrates' Court, Center Street. Seven
are charged with "disorderly con-
duct and obstructing traffic. The
eighth is charged with interfering
with an officer" All workers are
urged to pack the court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28

masses. They are beginning to I'M
derstand what the Irish who have
climbed up into the ruling class in
America have done by way of using
their hatred of English imperialism
to bind them to the service of the
American imperialists.
"a great beginning in organizing
this growing ss-consciousness
among the Irish workers of the U.
S. has been made in the building Of
the Irish Workers Clubs. These
can become the centers Of political
and social enlightenment"
The Irish revolutionary leader
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28

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Keep informed of the worldwide
struggles by the working class
cism and war by reading the Daily
worker. Buy it at the newsstands.
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Advertisement

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
Prosecutor Tries To
Inject Race Hatred
In Trial OF Victory
Negroes Testimony Brings Out Clear Cut Char
acter of Vicious Frame-Up
By A. B. MAGIL

DETROIT, Mich. June 27.-Simply and unfalteringly
James Victory Negro gas station worker and world war
veteran framed charge Of attacking and robbing Mrs
Carl Kaye Southernborn white woman today told in court
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
BENJAMIN sPEAKs I'M BRooKLYN

Herbert Benjamin. national organizer
OF the Unemployment Councils, will speak
at mass meeting to protest police bru-
tanty and for H. r. 1898 at the Young
Mems Hebrew Association, Broadway and
Rooney Streets Brooklyn, tonight, pm.
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Continued from Page u

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ROBBERY WAVE
PREDICTED BY
CRIM|NOLOC|ST
Depression and NRA Have
Made Gangs Desperate,
Says LandeSCo.

bN 2 MICA Effea
HOUSTON, Tex, Sept. Dor
ganized crime, made desperate by
the depression and the NRA, is in
constant search now more than ever
before for new fields of plumber and
profit. according to John Landesco,
Chicago criminologist and delegate
TO the American Prison Association
convention here.
Gangsters and racketeers suffered
losses when the depression first
struck their customers" who found
the "pay-offs" greater than profits
and closed shop, he said
1T was then that gangs began to
ascend to heights of influence when
they entered the liquor business to
recoup lost profits he explained.
Prices rose, profits were good, but
the people soon refused to buy at
high prices due to the depression
and profits again dwindled.
THE NRA appeared and set price
codes for the alcohol industry which
resulted in organized crime turning
to kidnapping for profits, but this
racket proceed too risky business
to continue"
Landesco predicted that with the
fading of kidnapping as a profitable
racket and the crime depression
gradually making gangsters more
desperate that wave OF reserve
bank robberies and mint shipments
holdups probably would follow.
Landesco said gangs were most
dangerous when they were in the
dissolution period or breaking up
The members, he explained, scat
tered, but formed smaller gangs
that search for methods of plumber
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-20
JAPANESE SEEK
PROTECTION ON
ARIZONA FARMS
Toxic Informed of Acts of
Vandalism by Bands
of Americans.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept 2O.-Japa-
nese farmers in the strife-torn Salt
river valley appealed to their own
diplomatic agents today for pro-
lection against further terrorism at
the hands of night-riding groups Of
bomb throwers.
The valley, scene of bitter quar-
rel between American farmers and
alleged alien invaders" tenSely
awaited action which both state and
japanese officials were expected to
take in the bombing of two Japa-
nese- LEASED farms.
The bombing was the second act
of vandalism against japanese in
the last week, and led j. Tamura,
secretary of the japanese associa-
ton here, to request aid from T.
Hori, the japanese consul in Los
Angeles, in offering the farmers pro-
lection.
In Los Angeles, Hori reported he
had transmitted word of the bomb
ings to his embassy in Washington
and to Toxic.
I'VE waited for local authorities to
take action and make attempts to
stop the trouble" Tamura said.
Our people must have protection
and we are going to do all we can
to get it,"