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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05

OF Green
Refused
Musicians Also Vote to
Put Letter 'IntO
Waste Basket
tspsciaI to The Daily Worker,

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Oct. Mil
waukee Federated Trades Council
after heated debate has decided to
reject william Green's letter that
asked for expulsion of Communists
from unions. The letter was filed
on motion.
One delegate on the floor said,
Green's letter sounds more like it
came from the United States Cham
Der of Commerce than from the A.
F. of L."
Another delegate asked, "If we
expel known Communists from our
ranks as Green asks, what will we
do about Democrats and Repub-
licans?" Other delegates defended
the Communists, pointing to the
activity and aid of the Communist
Party in strikes.
When Green's letter was filed,
one delegate stated TITS not the
kind of advice we want"
The American Federation of Mu-
Sicians local 8, Milwaukee, decided
to throw Green's Communist
letter into the waste baske )" and
elected committee to answer
Green in a manner that will make
his hair stand up"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Textile Strike
Picket Slain
By Mill Thugs
Especial to the Daily workerl


PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. 4. -
Workers in Bridgeport, near here,
are seething with indigna ion after
an attack of bullets and gas by
private thugs of the Lees Wooden
Company killed Elwcod Quirk and
injured an undetermined number
of workers, including women and
children. The thugs were escorting
several automobile loads of bosses
and scabs from the mills through
a mass picket line, and opened fire
when the workers surged toward
the cars.
Several pickets we're severely
burned by tear gas, while women
and children in nearby houses were
overcome. Quirk was shot in the
stomach while more than 100 work
ers were preparing to give him
blood in an attempt to save his life.
Five of the thugs were arrested and
spirited out to Norristown, as strik-
ers and sympathizers formed angry
determined masses in the streets.
This morning they appeared to at
tend the hearing in Norristown.
The Lees Company refused to re-
hire several of the militant strik-
ers afr tn German sellout, and the
strike was Immediately resumed.
Daily picket lines have been joined
by workers of other industries,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Nazi Courts Described
By Thompson, Member
of barrow Board
By Harry Cannes

NEW YORK. Just returned
from Germany, the prominent
American attorney and member of
the Darrow MIRA. Review Board,
William o. Thompson, told the
Daily Worker yesterday of his vain
efforts to visit Ernst Thaelmann.
imprisoned Communist leader.
"F'rom my interview with Presi-
dent Rem of the Nazi Peoples
Courts, I would say this tribunal is
in reality throwback of the old
Institution, determined to wipe out
all opposition forces, primarily, Of
course, Communists" said Mr.
Thompson.
Thompson told of his meeting
with DR.. Ernst ("Putzi'0 Hanf-
Staengl, Hitler's chief Foreign Press
agent, who came to this country for
the Harvard alumni reunion last
summer.
Interviewed HanfstaengI
"After arranging an interview
with Herr President Rem of the
Peoples Courts" he said which
was undertaken through Herr
Voigt, one of Minister of Nazi
Propaganda Goebbels emissaries, I
wrote a letter to Hanfstaengl. In
that letter I told Hanfstaengl of
the fact that the foreign press, par
ticularly the American and British
carried stories of the cruelty and
inhumanity practiced by the Nazis
against their prisoners. I advised
Mr.. Hanfstaengl that this impress
sion, if untrue, could be removed by
permitting a committee of inquiry
consisting Of representative men, to
visit the camps, and giving them
proper facilities to determine for
themselves exactly what conditions
are in the concentration camps.
"Hanfstaengel never answered the
letter, and claimed he never re-
ceived it, though it was properly
posted. The interview was arranged
through my initiative, nevertheless.
He was somewhat excited and
fidgety. He told me, when I out
lined my proposal to him for an
impartial investigation committee
that he wasn't running a tourist
agency to the concentration camps.
Besides, he said, arrangements were
being made to release some thou
sands of these prisoners and that
this procedure would be disturbed
by such committee.
"All I could get from Hanfstaengl
was an offer by his secretary to
view the Nazi movie, Horst Yves
sell which is the Nazi version OF
the life of the so-called poet Horst
Vessel"
Mr.. Thompson, white-haired,
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Frisco Strike
SellOut Barred
By AFL Heads
BY BILL DUNE
lily Worker Special Correspondent

DAILY Worker Special CoTre5pondenD
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. A.
The main thing that has come out
of the convention of the A. F. of L.
so far, after sessions now in their
sixth day, is the admission forced
from San Francisco and California
labor oficialdom that, contrary to
all statements by President Green
and the Executive Council, and the
press of the employers, the strike
of the West Coast Maritime Unions
and the general strike in San Fran
cisco and the Bay Counties in sup
port of these unions, was not de-
ieated.
Edward Vandeleur, chairman Of
the San Francisco Labor Council
and recently elected president Of
the California State Federation of
Labor to the saith Annual conven-
ton of the A. F. of L. said in his
opening remarks to the convention.
San Francisco, as you know, re-
Gently has had some trouble, but I
am very proud to state to you that
We returned our organizations to
their employment without any
trouble, and that all contractual
relations with their employers were
saved. There was never another
case of that in the history of the
world and it shows the solidarity
and the united strength of labor in
San Francisco, of which no other
city in the United States can boast"
Edward Vandeleur is by no pos
sible stretch of imagination an ac-
tive advocate of the general strike
as main weapon of organized
labor.
Vandeleur does not dare to tell
the working class in the Bay Coun-
ties and the organized workers of
the United States, poorly repre-
scented as they are by the official
delegates to the saith annual con-
vention of the A. F. Of L., some
thing that these workers them
selves do not believe, i.e., that the
strikers and unions on the West
Coast in the Maritime Trades and
those involved in the general strike
in the Bay Counties were defeated.
Now we come to Mr.. Paul Schar-
renberg, Secretary of the California
State Federation of Labor and a
leading light in the Interna ional
Seamen's Union.
Mr.. Scharrenberg stated, accord
ing to the stenographic record OF
the first days proceedings of the
convention:
Il am again happy to report
(Cont,n,ted on Pace n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
ALARAMACOURT
SETS EXECUTION
DATE FOR DEC. 7
LID. to Take Case of
First 2 Tried to U. S.
Supreme Court
MONTGOMERY. Ala. Oct.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Oct.
a. - The Alabama Supreme
Court, sitting in the old Con-
federate slave capital at Mont
gomery, Ala, today denied a
re-hearing on the appeal
against the Decatur lynch
ve-dicts against Haywood Patter-
son and Clarence Norris, two Of the
nine innocent Scottsooro boys, and
fixed Dec. 7, as the date for their
legal murder. The International
Labor Defense Immediately an
nounced that the fight for the lives
and freedom of the boys would be
taken to the U. S. Supreme Court.
The decision OF the Alabama SUI
preme Court followed directly on
the heels of the arrest and frame
up Of two men in the South, on
charges of attempting to bribe'
Victoria Price, the lone State witt
4AG1o VA W4AOoC vi uDDJ- OCQ NUIQt
despite the reputation of her
original ccercsd testimony by Ruby
Bates, Patterson and Norris were
re-convicted in Judge Speed" Call
lahan'S court in Decatur. The two
events dovetail so neatly into each
other as to completely expose the
frame-up nature of the bribery"
charges.
Osmond K. Fraenkel. who ham
died the appeal to the Alabama SUI
preme Court, will be associated with
Walter H. Pollack in carrying the
appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court,
the I. L. D. announced. Pollock
argued the original appeal before
the U. S. Supreme Court, when the
worldwide mass protests forced
that court to order a new trial for
for the nine Negro victims Of
Southern lynch courts.
The I. L. D. appealed to all wok-
ers, intellectuals and organizations
to Immediately intensity the mass
fight for the safety and freedom Of
the boys by organizing mass meet
ings and other protest actions, and
sending protest kilograms and res
olutions to Gov. B. NJ. Miller Of
Alabama, President Roosevelt and
the U. S. Supreme Court at Wash
ington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
A.F.L. Chiefs Call Off
Detroit Truck Strike
Especial to the Daily Worker,


DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 4.-The
A. r. of L. leaders of the Truck
Drivers Union yesterday called off
the strike of $500 truck drivers en-
gagged in transporting automobiles
in Detroit, Flint, and Cleveland,
which started Tuesday afternoon.
Al Milligan, secretary treasurer Of
Local 299, said the strike had been
postponed" till Monday.
Officials of the union will meet
with the employers Monday morn
ing concerning the mems demands,
chief of which is increased wages in
accordance with standardized
rate. The calling off of the strike
was announced after previous fake
announcement by the officials that
nineteen of twsnty-seven companies
had agreed to their terms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05

MADRID, Oct. A call for an
immediate general revolutionary
strike, based on united front of
Communists and Syndi-
calists, is the answer to the nam
ing of a fascist cabinet headed by
Lerroux today.
The eve of the tensest moment
of the class struggle in the history
of the republic finds the reaction
airy concentration government Of
Spain preparing for civil war by
feverish mobilization of its armed
forces. Opposing the troop move
ments, the restoration of the death
penalty, and the outlawing of the
general strike are the widespread
preparations of the workers organ
izations and the revolutionary
parties, concrete measures of unity,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Only Mass Pressure Can
Put c. p. on I'll. Ballot

CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 4.-The Il
linois Supreme Court has refused
an application for writ of man.
damus to force the governor TO
place the Communist Party on the
State ballot. Court actions are ey-
hausted. The issue is definitely up
to Governor Horner, whose opposi-
ton to Communists is we'll known.
His old stand of liberalism is COM
pletely discredited.
Mass pressure is the Party's only
hoped" said A. Guss, Communist
campaign manager. He urged that
protests be sent to Horner and to
Secretary Of State Huges, Spring.
field, Illinois.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Act Is First
Step in Big
Sea Strike
COast-Wide NJ aritim c
Walkout Scheduled
To Start Monday

NEW YORK.-Seamen under the
leadership of the Joint Strike Prep
arations Committee moved yester-
day to close down all shipping halls
and shipping shark agencies along
the entire Atlantic Coast tomorrow
as the first step in the coast wide
maritime strike scheduled to begin
on Monday.
Mass meetings are to be held in
every important ocean port in the
East tonight to rally the seamen
to close the halls.
In New York the meeting will be
held in the open air at South and
Whitehall Streets at seven o'clock
tonight. Similar meetings will be
held in Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Norfolk and other ports.
Want Rank and File Control
The Joint Strike Preparations
Committee announced that while
acting to close the shipping halls
the men will demand that central
lied shipping bureaus under the
control of rank and file seamen
shall be set up in all ports and that
no men shall be hired for the ship
ping companies outside these halls.
Supporting the Joint Strike Com
mittee is the entire membership of
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union, the American Radio Teleg-
raphists' Association, large sections
of the rank and file of the Interna-
tional Seamen's Union, hundreds of
licensed ships officers and the Rank
and File Action Committee of the
International Longshoremen's Asso-
citation.
Meet at Noon To-day
Among the important meetings
to be held today will be a meeting
of longshoremen and seamen at IL
noon at Pier 81 on the West Side
Of New York where the question OF
joint action of seamen and long
shoremen will be taken up.
Yesterday a joint committee Of
licensed officers and radio operators
presented their demands to the
American Steamship Owners Asso-
citation in New York.
TeIegraphists Are Solid
The Radio Telegraphists Associa-
ton, with a membership of more
than 1000, through its president
Hoyt S. Haddock, demanded thai
dangers to crews, cargoes and pas
sengers on vessels of the American
Merchant Marine be eliminated
The entrance of this strongly or.
ganized union of radio officers inte
the maritime dispute and their 10(
per cent endorsement of the strike
set for Oct. 8 has aroused the en-.
thusiasm of the seamen along the
entire coast.
Warns of Danger to Life
Among the demands of the radio
operators are the elimination Of
duties other than radio operating
such as acknowledgements, purser.
operator and mate-operator. These
conditions, according to Haddock
are of such Importance to the gen.
eral public that their continuation
will most likely cost the lives O.
many persons in sea disasters sucf
as the Vestris and the Moro Castle
Elimination of the twelve-houl
day now in vogue on many vessels, 6
practice which also endangers lives
at sea by preventing radio officer.
Continued on Page g.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
NAZTS REFUSED PERMIT
TO AMERICAN ATTORNEY
FOR THAELMANN VISIT
United General Strike Faces
NeuV Fascist Cabinet in Spain

and the directing of the mass re-
sistance into channels of effective
revolutionary strike action.
The present attempt at a fascist
coup d'etat is the climax Of whole
series of provocations centering
around alleged, and admittedly false,
charges of preparing for an armed
uprising and the storing of large
quantities of ammunition by work
ers organizations.
The leading role of the Commu-
mist Party in exposing the fascist
tactics of the bourgeoisie and in
rousing the Spanish masses to the
necessity of waging united war
against fascism from the start is
evident. from its tremendous. growth
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Nurses Ask Support
To Picket Hospital

NEW YORK.-Picketing Of the
Israel Zion Hospital, 481o Tenth
Ave, Brooklyn, was resumed yes
terday by members of the Nurses
and Hospital Workers L e a que
against the dismissal of two nurses
who resisted the inhumen working
conditions to which they were sub
jected.
Officials of the League yesterday
called on all sympathetic workers
in the neighborhood and in other
parts of Brooklyn to join the mass
picket line which will circle the
hospital tomorrow and Sunday
from l to pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Bronx Women Fight
High Prices of Meat

NEW YORK. - More than 1000
workers at a meeting called by the
Upper Bronx section of the United
Council of Working Glass Women
and the Local Action Committee
voted on Thursday to support a
consumers strike against the high
cost of chicken and meat.
Yesterday dozens of meat markets
were being picketed. Strike head
quarters are at 683 Allerton Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Northumberland
Used to Break
Georgia Strike

ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 4.-The At
lanta Georgian, Hearst newspaper,
admitted today that the National
Guard forces in this State are being
used to break the strike of workers
in four iron foundries of the Rome
Stove and Range Company at
Rome.
The newspaper said under a
Rome dateline that "in a secret
night movement 500 State militia
men moved into this north Georgia
community today to bring relief to
iron mill owners whose plants have
been padlocked by bitter eleventh
week strike that has paralyzed the
towns second chief industry"
Bail Reduction Denied
ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. A re-
duction in bail was denied today by
Judge G. H. Howard in the cases of
Annie Mae feathers and Leah
Young, who were arrested at the
Exposition Mill for picketing in the
textile strike and have since been
held in bail of $4,000 each on
charges of circulating insurrec-
tionary literature" the charge on
which Angelo Herndon and the At
lanta six we're seized
The women conducted their own
defense with spirit and determine
ton. Taking the witness stand
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Tigers Yin

DETROIT-The Detroit Tigers
rallied behind the seventh pitch
ing of Lynwood "Schoolboy" Rowe,
pitching ace, today and nosed out
the st. Louis Cardinals in a tense
12-inning battle by the score of 8
to ?. Bill Walker was the losing
pitcher. More than $4,000 fans saw
the League champions play.
The series is now tied at one
game each. The next game will be
played in st. Louis tomorrow.
RHE.
st. Louis. o1l0o0O00O00-2 Z 8
Detroit ...,0O0lO000l001-3 Z Q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Close All the
Shipping Halls
Tomorrow!
An Editorial

a.
Coast there is a tremen-
dous sentiment among the
marine workers for the clos
ing down of the boss-owned
maritime shipping halls to
morrow as the first move in
the strike action.
Mass strike sentiment
among maritime workers on
the Atlantic Coast continues
to sweep on like a great tidal
wave. This wave is swelling,
engulfing and casting aside
Victor Olander and Silas
Blake Axtell, reactionary
leaders of the international
Seamen's Union, and Joseph
P. Ryan of the lila, who
leaped at the crack of the
MIRA. whip and decided to
go into a "truce" huddle with
the ship owners and call off
the strike for which the men
had voted.
A general Atlantic Coast
maritime strike is now on the
order of the day.
Seventeen thousand men
from the ships have endorsed
the call of the Joint Strike
Preparations Committee to
walk out for union conditions
on October 8.
Among these are included
the entire membership of the
Marine Workers Industrial
Union on the Atlantic Coast,
a large body of rank and file
members of the T.S.U., two
thousand members of the
American Radio Telegraphists
Association, hundreds of or
ganized and unorganized
licensed officers, and on the
docks there are the longshore-
men affiliated with the Rank
and File Action Committee of
the International Longshore-
mems Association.
These men are all ready to
strike on Monday. But in the
short period before the strike
goes into effect there is con-
siderable work to be done.
The most important task
confronting the m aritim
workers today is for them to
see to it that thousands of or
ganized and unorganized sea-
men and ships officers are
rallied to the mass meetings
that are being held in all At
lantic ports tonight to take
up the question of closing by
militant mass action all ship
ping halls and shipping shark
agencies along the entire coast
before Saturday night.
This will be the first major
step in the strike action. And
coupled with this the demand
must be raised for a central
lied shipping bureau in every
port under the control of the
rank and file seamen. A COM
mittee has already been
elected to lead the work Of
establishing these halls.
The most important of
these meetings will be held
tonight at 7 o'clock in New
York, the largest port in the
world, at South and Whitehall
Streets. This meeting will be
the starting point for mass
action which will eliminate in
a walkout on Monday.
Abolition of the shipowner-
controlled hiring halls and the
setting up of centralized ship
ping bureaus-this will be the
central issue of the strike. Tt
was the central demand of the
great maritime strike on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Decense Claims Struck ONT

In a decision rendered last June
e the Alabama Supreme Court he'd
upheld the lynch verdicts of the
Decatur court against Patterson
and Norris. Its present ruling up
Continued on Page g.
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.lCont,nasd on Pege -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
Workers and Organization Delegates Greet Daily Worker at Rally Sunday
Have You Contributed?

Yesterdays Receipts ..-~.............s 2Oe.79
Total TO Date 81, 087 81
Press Run Yesterday-46,700
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05

world, at South and Whitehall
Streets. This meeting will be
the starting point for mass
action which will eliminate in
a walkout on Monday.
Abolition of the shipowner-
controlled hiring halls and the
setting up of centralized ship
ping bureaus-this will be the
central issue of the strike. It
was the central demand of the
great maritime strike on the
West Coast. 1t is the most
burning problem confronting
the marine workers today.
The right to ship out of halls
that are under the control of
the men who work on the
ships must be won and can be
won in this strike.
The first action in the great
strike will commence tomor-
row.
Out into the streets all sea-
men, all licensed officers!
Close every shipping hall
on the Atlantic Coast.
Demand a centralized ship
ping bureaul
Prepare to strike October 8!
The Washington times., 1934-04-07
MARY DEWSON
ST|RS VOTERS

In the whirlwind campaign to
stir up women's votes for the No
vember elections, Miss Mary w.
Dewson, director of the women's
division of the Democratic ma
tional committee, today is on a
speaking tour which will carry her
into several States over a period
Of several weeks. ,4+
Miss DewSon is in Missouri ad-
dressing women's Democratic or
ganizations. Next week she will
carry the campaign South to
Nashville, Tenn.
During the following week, she
will address several women'S or
ganizations in North Carolina, and
then probably travel north to
Rhode Island.
Miss DewSon is conducting an
educational program in connec-
ton with her reporter plan"
Next Friday, Mrs. Mabel Fickel,
assistant director Of the division,
will speak in New York city.
The Washington times., 1934-04-07
y. W., FORMS COLE SCHOOL

The Young Women's Christian
Association will start two golf
classes April IL and Peter Jackson,
professional, will serve as in
structor. Tennis and swimming
classes also will start next week.
The Washington times., 1934-04-07
IS SET
On CANDIDATES
Mr.. AND MRS. DIAL

Applications Of all candidates
for mayor or members of the
town council of Rockville must
be filed in his office not later
than midnight April 27, Town
Clerk Franklin Bache Albert an
nounced today.
In addition to stating what
office the person is a candidate
for. the application must carry
the endorsement of at least 20
registered voters of the Rockville
district, Mr.. Albert added.
Terms Of all town officials, in
cluding the mayor and all mem
bers Of the town council, expire
this year. The present mayor is
Douglas M. Blandford, while the
town council is composed of
Thomas M. Anderson, Edgar Reed,
Cook A. Robertson and Curtis l..
Ward.