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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19

carried. They might have been
wOrkers-maybe strikers" they
said. They all wore leather jack
cts.
They got away, they said.
where were the pOlice?" we
asked. They shook their heads.
We went across the street and
into the building. We went all
through the rooms, both floors,
and nobody there.
Soon the police came, four car
loads Of them, sirens shrieking. 1t
had been about ten minutes since
the rock throwing. They did not
question the witness nor start pur-
suit. They went right on into the
Western Worker and Workers
Bookshop and finished what the
'hoodluns" had begun. They
smashed every window and every
piece of furniture in the place,
knocking glass and pieces Of
chairs down into the street.
BRANDISH CLUBS
They brandished clubs and
chased everyone across the street,
even reporters. But Herbert Lord,
p, they insisted on hustling in
side the building. When he came
out his head was bleeding. II
didn't do nothing" he declared.
When they got through there
the police raced up to the Work
erS' School at III Haight st. We
followed. Police did not have to
do much smashing there. Twenty
men or more ('I guess they we're
hoodlums," said the cops), had
driven up in cars and done a
Thorough job. They wore leather
jackets and heavy gloves and
carried rocks. They didn't leave a
piece of the place intact except
the poster that stared out the
window about america Today"
SEES "THE FUN
ONE OF THE FIRST TO AR
RIVE AT THE SCENE-EVEN
BEFORE THE REPORTERS
WAS HUGH GALLAGHER,
GENERAL MANAGER OF THE
MATSON NAVIGATION LINE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19

IN THE background of the murder and
strike-breaking of the bosses and gov
eminent on the Pacific coast loom the war
preparations of American Imperialism. In
the strike of the longshoremen and all
marine crafts American capitalism sees a
threat to its war preparations.
American imperialism does not even con-
ceal that it is preparing for The arena OF
the next imperialist war is on the Pacific. 1t is
on the Pacific where the differences between the
mperialst powers have reached the breaking point,
making an armed clash inevitable
For this war American imperialism is feverishly
preparing 1t is building bigger navy, it is re-
equipping and mechanzing its army, it is increas-
ing it's air fleet it is strengthening its naval bases
on the Pacific. But in modern such war
preparations in themselves insufficient. Ameri-
can imperialism wants to be sure that its is
absolutely secured. 1t wants to be absolutely GER
tain of the smooth running of its industries pro-
ducing war materials and, above everything else,
it wants to be guaranteed of the uninterrupted
shipping and transportation of war materials and
man power.
American capitalism is therefore determined not
to tolerate any possible interference from labor
organizations in such vital and strategic war
INDUSTRY as marine transport on Lne facHlC coast
The bosses are stubbornly determined to prevent
union control of the hiring halls that is, for the
union to determine who should load and
unload their ships, at time when they pre-
pairing for war and especially during time.
Similar it is with the seamen and all other marine
crafts.
The bosses do not feel so sure with union men,
even if their organization is officially controlled
by the trusted patriotic, conservative and sane"
leaders of the American Federation Of Labor. What
if these trade union longshoremen and marine
workers should refuse to load and transport their
troops, munitions and other war materials? What
guarantee have they that these union longshore-
men and marine workers will not come to realize
that imperalist is against their interests and
the interests of the workers of all countries and
refuse to load and transport ships in time Of war?
This already has happened in some ports on the
Pacific. What guarantees have they that this will
not be repeated in the next war?
No matter how willing strikebrea>ors the A. F.
of L. leaders proved to be- yet the bosses are not
certain, that these leaders will be able to control
their men and prevent the anti-war strike actions
Of the marine workers. The longshoremen may
strike, as they do now in spite of their leader
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
Des Moines Strike Solid;
Enlarged Strike Committee

DES MONIES, Iowa.-The Unem-
ployed Citizens League here, with
$50 members, elected five workers
to the rank and file committee of
IS which is leading the strike of
1000 relief workers, now entering
the third week of their strike for
a 24-hour work week on all relief
jobs. IL hours weekly for single
workers, and support of the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill.
A mass meeting held Friday ap-
pointed a committee to seek the
support of the Workers Unemploy-
n1ent Insurance ELL.
A mass meeting held Friday ap-
pointed a committee to seek the
support of the A. F. of L. rank
and file workers.
James Porter, Communist, and
John Nordquist, member of the rank
and file strike committee are still
in Jail following their arrest Tues
day on charges of criminal syndi-
calism. Bail has been set at $4,000
each.
The CITY Council passed an ordi-
nance prohibiting all but seated per-
sons in the Council Chambers. This
is done in an attempt to bar work
ers from Council meetings following
the packing of the City Council last
week when the striking relief work
ers presented their demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
General Strike ShOlUs
Growing Need for the
"DaiIy" Circulation
Militant Trade Union
Leaders Urge Quick
Action

NEW YORK-'Tf ever
anything showed the neces-
sity of doubling the circula.
ton of the Daily Worker and
of getting at least 10000 new
readers by Sept. l." says
Jack Stachel, acting secretary
Of the Trade Union Unity League,
1T is the San Francisco general
strike. With the capitalist press
shouting every kind of sensational
lie about the planned start Of the
revolution in California, with the
New York Times reporting that
Communists are shouting in high
glee because the young and old Will
suffer, we have an unmistakable ex-
ample Of the tactics employed by
the bosses in their attempts to sup
press the struggles of the workers
and to villify the standard bearer Of
the working class-the Communist
Party and the Daily Worker. Only
if the Daily Worker becomes a part
Of the arsenal Of the worker can he
meet the attacks of his enemies. It
can become a part of this arsenal
only when every Party member,
every militant trade unionist, every
sympatnizer. puts his efforts into
this circulation drive"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
1000 Defy Thugs
In Fight for Rank
And File Control
ALL. Workers Declare
That Gangster Rule
Must End

CHICAGO, Ill, July 1.-TWO
thousand workers, fifteen hundred
A. F. of L. members roared their
determination to support the fight
of the rank and file of the Ameri-
can FeoeratiJl of Labor against
gangster control of unions at a
great open air mass meeting here
last night.
Attempts to smash the meeting
which was called by rank and file
members of Painters Local sci.
were crushed by the militant &C
lions of the workers present.
Faced with the mass determine
ton of the crowd, the racketeers
who had slugged and beaten mill
tant members at union meetings.
crawled off across the street with
out daring to attack.
Frank Robins, of Local 521, risked
slugging and even murder to expose
the racketeering gangster rule of Al
Green over the local, and told in
details Green's record as a slugger
and murderer.
When the driver backed his truck
into the crowd again he was sur
rounded by angry workers demand
ing that he leave while he still
could walk. He left.
Sam Hammersmarth, chairman
of the meeting, an ex-member of
the executive board of the Chicago
Federation of Labor and now can
didate for State Treasurer on the
Communist ticket, directly chal-
lenged the gangsters to show their
strength.
Where are these brave men who
beat up our union brothers in meet
ings, who are courageous when they
outnumber those they attack" he
shouted.
The gangstecs kept quiet, huddled
into a little group across the street.
| Rumors had been widely circu-
lated throughout the west side that
Green's gangsters would mobilize to
smash the meeting, using every
weapon and device possible. 1t is
certain that there would have been
an attack and probably bloodshed,
if the meeting had been smaller or
the workers less determined to pro-
tect the speakers.
When the A. F. of L. meeting was
over, the Young Communist League
rut up speakers on the same corner.
Gangsters that had not dared to
face the mass Of adult workers with
its fighting spirit, tried to redeem
their regulations by "heroically'
throwing eggs at the youth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19

WHO HAD COME ALL THE
WAY FROM HIS OFFICE WAY
DOWN TOWN. JUST HEARD
ABOUT IT." HE SAID. "JUST
RAN UP TO SEE WHAT WAS
DOING" (Our emphasis-S.GD
That Gallagher, the general man
ager of the Matson Line, was not
the only one who knew that the
raid was coming off, is proved by
the following Associated Press dis
patch in the Times of July 18th:
"The first indication Of the con-
certed drive against radicals came
from Charles Wheeler, vice presi-
dent of the Mccormick Steamship
Line, who said in talk at the
Rotary Club here today that the
raids would start soon. He in
timated government consent had
been obtained for the raids"
UERE you have it workers of mill,
III mine, dock, field and Office !
Fascist attacks upon labor centers
and militant workingclass leaders
cold blooded, premeditated, fascist
attacks, by government consent
This is a huge forward step in
the development of fascism.
A defeat Of this type of attack is
a step in the defeat of fascist re-
action. Unless we defeat these at
tacks, labor of all shades of opinion
will have its centers smashed, its
leaders jailed and will be left 6
helpless victim of the exploiters.
The moral is plain.
The widest united front of all
workers and all honest elements
in the population against this re-
action must be built. Socialist
workers, Communist workers,
workers in the A. F. of L., indie
pendent unions, Trade Union
Unity League organization, must
unite to defeat these attacks.
Or else-the alternative is fas-
cism and the destruction of all
labor organizations and every right
that labor has fought for in decades
of bitter class battle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
$4,000 Attend
Funeral of 2
Killed by Cops
Send Greetings To Men
at Frisco From
Funeral
Especial 10 the Daily worker

Especial TO the Daily Worker
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 10
Twelve thousand Negro and white
workers attended the protest a.
mass funeral in the heart of the
Negro neighborhocd of Mrs. Will
lians and Arsentini, murdered By
Cleveland police at the Charity
Office last Friday
Over five thousand marched to
Harvard Cemetery, a distance Of
five miles, behind the bodies Of their
dead comrades and a huge banner
reading: They asked for bread
Mayor Davis gave them bullets.
Additional thousands OF workers
in $50 autos and trucks followed
marchers to grave. All traffic on
Central and Woodland Avenues was
at standstill for hours as the mighty
mass of Cleveland toilers, in grim
determination, paid their last re-
spects to dead comrades and pledged
with clinched fists to carry on the
fight for which they gave lives
Speakers included Chairman
Males, Negro worker, of the I'm
employed Council; Onda. Italian
Buro; Spelta, Communist Party:
Murphy, League Of Struggle For
Negro Rights; Comrade williamson
spoke at grave.
From the funeral the workers sent
a telegram to Frisco General Strike
Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
lO4, 489 Apartments
Empty, Thousands
Homeless in N. Y

NEW YORK FP9-The home
less thousands of New York may
be glad to know that 1O4,4 Man
haitian apartments are vacant.
That is what recent survey of
the New York City Housing Author
ity has revealed.
Almost 10000 of these apartments
have not been occupied for more
than two years. More than three
fourths of the vacant apartments
are in the slum areas where two
and three families have been forced
to double up in the effort to make
ends meet.
And recently a highly skilled
building trades worker, facing evic-
ton, killed himself and his wife.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19

Ben Gold, National Secretary Of
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union ITO the members Of
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union, which is leading the
fight for higher wages and better
working conditions in their indus
try, the Daily Worker is an indis-
pensable instrument. The Dubin-
skies, Hillmans and other mislead-
ers fear it as their nemesis. In
strikes, as in the San Francisco gem
eral strike, it carries on an undying
struggle against the terror of the
bosses and their police and mill
tary agents. 1t must be inscribed
among the duties of every member
Of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union to work withoue
stint toward getting 10000 new
readers by Sept l and in doubling
the circulation Of the Daily Worker
by the end of the year"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19

against Bridges and other foreign
born workers. Here, undoubtedly,
Madame Fanny Perkins was in
Yolved up to her neck.
The military precision with which
the surprise raids were organized
indicates that the military manuals
learned by rote at West Point have
not been entirely lost on the minds
of West Coast army officers. The
coordination of forces points clear
ly to the fact that the attack was
carried out in a military fashion
and under central command. The
United Press correspondent is
forced to admit in a dispatch of
the 18th:
Raids were conducted efficient
ly in San Francisco Oakland and
Richmond.
hopping up after the vigil
ance committees" police con-
Quoted sorties of their own. They
arrested more than 800 suspected
Communists, aliens and agitators.
All were charged with vagrancy.
There was nothing to show po-
lice and citizens conducted CO.
ordinated drive, BUT ACTIVITIES
FITTED SMOOTHLY TOGETHER
Emphasis mine.-S.G0.
Evelyn Seeley, special correspon-
dent of the World Telegram, de-
scribes the events in the following
fashion on the 18th:
We here having sandwich at
the Maison Paul. that runs
through Market st. to Grove,
when mattresses began rushing to
the Grove st. exit to see what was
happening. We followed them,
went on out and across Grove st.
to join the crowd that stared
across at the office of the West
ern Worker, Communist news
paper.
GLASS FRONT SMASHED
It's plate glass front was
smashed, the shattered glass
scattered all over the sidewalk.
People in the crowd told us that
"a gang of hoodlums" had driven
by and done it with rocks they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
Seattle General Strike
Terror in 1919 Shows
How Labor Can Defeat 1t

Communist leadership of struggles
Throughout the country.
The cry of "Bolshevism" no
longer a magic word for the bosses
to blind workers who see how the
Bolsheviks have made the Soviet
Union the only land in the world
where workers rule, where unem-
ployment for workers is unknown.
With fifteen long years of con-
tinuous struggle and accumulated
experience, Of crisis, OF sell-outs by
labor misleaders-with all this be-
hing them the workers of San
Francisco today will not allow
themselves to be defeated as easily
as they were in Seattle in 1919.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
2,OOORepublic Steel
Men Demonstrate
For Recognition
Especial to the DAILY workerl

Especial to the Daily Workerl
WARREN. Ohio, July 1.-TWO
thousand Republic workers of the
Warren and Niles Amalgamated
Lodges marched yesterday, protest
ing the refusal of the Republic to
recognize their union. The parade,
Joined by 300 organized unem-
ployed, led by the Unemployment
Council and the Trumbull County
Action Committee, shouting: Turn
the lockout into a striker and
THE unemployed won't scab"
A mass meeting of 5000 in City
Park was addressed by Louis Leon
ard, International Secretary-Treas-
urer, and Clarherty, both of the
A. F. of L., who praised the MIRA.
Steel Labor Board and the govern
ment, and expressed belief that the
Republic would surrender without
strike.
Before the parade started, the
Trumbull County Unemployed and
Relief strikers held a mass meeting
and sent delegation to the County
Commissioners which won promise
of relief whether they worked or
not.
This meeting was held On the
same grounds where A. A. men as
sembled for their parade, and hun
dreds of workers heard BALLET, OF
the Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union, who was the last
speaker. BALLET pledged S.M.WI.U.
support and urged no confidence in
the International or local reaction
airy officers and the NR.A. Steel
Labor Board. He proposed that the
lockout be turned into strike
and the establishment of picket
lines Immediate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
Canadian Workers
Hit Strike Terror

VANCOUVER, B. c., July "A
mass meeting held last night in the
Royal Theatre. attended by hun
dreds of workers, protested the
murder of San Francisco workers
and the sending of troops against
the strikers. The meeting was
called by the Canadian Labor De-
tense League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
Election Head
Asks Speed in
Illinois Drive
Nominating Meet Called
in 10Th Congressional
Dist. of Wisconsin
DAILY worker Midwest Bureaw

CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 10. = I'VE
must increase the speed of our
work in collecting signatures at
once if we are to place our Commu-
mist candidates on the ballot in IL
linois," A. Guss, Illinois State cam
paign manager stated today.
Guss pointed out that while many
successful nominating conventions
have been held in different congress
sional districts, the work of filing
nominating petitions is tagging
dangerously.
The campaign committee is
greatly alarmed at the neglect of
this work" Guss said. There is no
excuse for us to fail in getting
working class candidates on the
ballot. Every worker, every work
ers' organization, should take this
question as their own, personal re-
sponsibility."
The election campaign committee
issued a special appeal to young
and unemployed workers to take an
active part in this work. All election
campaign headquarters will be kept
open day and night, and workers
are urged to give all their spare
time to canvassing.
Guss pointed out that the task of
getting the required number of sig
natures is not impossible, or even
difficult if the work is carried out
correctly.
I'm one congressional district in
Chicago" he said, "the petitions are
almost completely filled out. This
shows what can be done if we take
the question seriously.
"On the South Side, Claude
Lightfoot received $4,000 votes in
the last election. In that district we
need only to collect 5000 names to
place our candidates on the ballot.
1t should not be difficult to get that
number, but it will require inten-
sif1ed work.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, July ia large
election auto parade will follow the
Cook County Communist Nomina-
ton Conference called here for
Saturday, July 28th. The parade
will drive several miles through the
strikes, to mobilize support for a
city wide Red Sunday July 20.
The conference is to begin at 1870
pm, Saturday at Peoples Audi
forum, PAST w. Chicago Ave. A full
workers slate for county Offices will
be nominated. When the conference
closes, the parade will begin.
Sunday will be a Red Sunday, a
day fo- the collection of signatures
to place Communist candidates on
the ballots, All workers and work
ers' organizations are asked to elect
delegates to the conference and to
participate in the auto parade and
signature collection.
IRONWOOD, Mich, July 10
Following on a successful state
nominating convention, Lne CO1n-
munist Party in Wisconsin, has is
sued a call for Tenth Congress
sional district Convention, to be
held in Ashland, July goth at l pm.
The tenth congressional district
embraces practically all of northern
Wisconsin. This convention will
adopt an election program for the
tenth congressional district, and
map out campaign to reach every
corner of the district. The call
urges all workers and farmers or
CARNATIONS to participate in the
convention and to help in the prep
arations for it. Walter Harju, can
didate for Lieutenant-G Governor of
Wisconsin, will make the keynote
speech.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19

Roy Hudson, National Secretary
Of the Marine Workers Industrial
Union; The general strike in San
Francisco shows the need Of inme-
diately getting 10000 new readers
as the first step in doubling the cir
culation Of the Daily Worker.
Against the lies and provocations Of
the bosses and their press, the
Daily Worker is the only straight
forward journalistic weapon and or
ganizer the workers have. 1t must
be brought to these workers. These
workers and all workers throughout
the country, employed and unem-
ployed, must understand the Daily
Worker. To the members of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
say-let each one of us get at
least one steady buyer or subscriber
for the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
IHh LYNCH PRESS

The LYNCH PRESS
Reproduction of a number Of front page car
toons in the California press All of them picture
the reds as the traditional bearded, bomb throw
ing creature. BY this lurid propaganda these
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-06-13

was dark, q Mexican--that another
like him was coming from the ship
and then stark drama took the ST.
lence and the still shadows.
For Sonya Savarin. fighting for
her life, anne out of her saddle, saw
Darkness sailing away In a panic of
fright, his empty stirrups flying
felt the sand giving under her stub
born feet, saw the ship loom large
as her captors brought her. strug-
Cling, to it-felt her hands held be-
hind her. She was lifted up and
put over the side into the gray
leather seat, a strap vas buckled
tightly around her. The man who
had first approached her climbed
into the pilots seat, the other
squeezed In somewhere at her back
and side, the engine roared for a
moment, the plane quivered, surged
ahead, surged faster, Its tail came
up, and almost Immediately the vast
spread of the desert began to drop
away beneath.
With a gasp stifled on her ashen
lips Sonya Savarin was away among
the stars.