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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Painters General
Strike Looms Here

NEW YORK.-A general strike of
painters doomed here following an
announcement by the Master Paint
ers Association that after July 30
the 7-hour day will be abolished and
the SO wage will no longer be the
union standard.
On July 80 the Master Painters
will lock out all union men in an
attempt to beat down the wages
and increase the hours.
Aiding the bosses in their move to
defeat union conditions, Phillip
zausner, who recently rode into
Office as secretary treasurer OF
Painters District Council 9, by stuff
ing the ballot boxes, failed to isue
call for a general strike, but in
stead issued leaflet calling for the
locals to take stand" on the sit
uation. zausner wants the men,
bership to think that the lockout
edict came as a susprise and that
he is against it. But the lockout
is part of a deal made by Zausner
and the Master Painters in Decem-
Der, 1888, when zausner promised
the bosses the 8-hour day and the
81 an hour rate providing the bosses
promised to support zausner's re-
election.
: Zausner had turned the whole
matter over to the locals, where he
hopes by gangster methods like
those used in the recent elections
to divide the workers and defeat
the strike movement.
Must Be on Guard
The painters of New York must
now be on their guard more than
ever before. Their very existence is
at stake. The only correct answer
to the lockout is the general strike
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Gang Tries
To Lynch
Henderson
Especial to the Daily worker

VINELAND, N. j., July 23.-An
attempt was made last night by a
mob of "vigilantes" and klansmen
to lynch Donald Henderson and
Anthony Berra, organizers of the
Agricultural and Cannery Workers
Industrial Union here.
The lynch attempt, melted by
rich farmers and the local press,
was thwsrted only by the quick ar
rival Of about 25 workers and small
farmers, who rushed to the aid OF
the organizers beseiged in their
house by the lynch mob.
Local police refused to send pro-
lection to the house when appealed
to by the organizer, who was barri-
caded inside of the house. The
Vineland City police said they had
no forces" and the borough police
refused to send forces because Hen
derson house is "out of our juris-
diction."
Henderson's only child, a boy
eight years old, was so frightened
by the mob that he had to be re-
moved to the home of friends after
wards.
The International Labor Defense
has already organized large group
of local workers and farmers, all
armed, who have volunteered to go
at a moments notice to the defense
of workers and their leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Bbsse Cable Asks Immediate Funds for Thaelnann Defense
u.s. BANKERS PLAN LOAN TO BOLSTER HITLER RULE
BrOUder, StacheI,
Viii Speak Friday
At ThGeImGnn Rally

NEW YORK.-Friday, July AZ,
is New York Thaelmann De-
Tense Day. On that day a mass
demonstration for the freedom
of Thaelmann and farewell
banquet for Will Muenzenberg,
for ten years a member of the
German Reichstag and leader
of the German masses. will be
held at the open air arena Of
the Bronx Coliseum, East 177th
Street.
The Workers Laboratory the
alter is rehearsing a special
Thaelmann play; the w I. r..
band will play, and the united
choruses will sing.
The speakers are Earl Brow
der, Mother Bloor and Jack
Stachel. Muenzenberg will speak
on the situation in Germany
today and the outlook for work
ing class victory.
Admission is 35c at the door,
and Csc in advance.
Muenzenberg banquet tickets
must be returned or settled for
not later than Thursday, July
36, noon, at headquarters of Ma
tional Committee to Aid Vic
tins of German Victims, 879
Broadway. THIS is VERY I'M
PORTANT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
ReichStag Fired By
NaziiS,SaySS.A.Man

LONDON. July pa Nazi Storm
Trooper who. fled from Germany
following the bloody June 80 events
has fully confirmed previous reYela-
tions of the responsibility Of Hitler
and Goering for the Reichstag fire
in a statement published today in
the Daily Herald.
1t will be remembered that the
Nazi regime which is now seeking
to murder Ernst Thaelmann, leader
of the German working class and
head of the Communist Party,
utilized the Reichstag arson to de-
mand death sentences against Ernst
Torgler, German Communist leader,
and the three Bulgarian Commu-
nists, Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff
"a move that was defeated only
by the worldwide mass protest.
The refugee Storm Trooper, E.
Kruse, with membership No. 134,522
in the Storm Troopers, declare that
he is the last surviving member
of the Reichstag fire gang Kruse
is now in Switzerland. He is said
to have been a personal servant of
Ernst Roehm, late commander of
the Storm Troopers, who was among
those murdered by Hitler on June
30 The Daily Herald gives his
story, as follows:
"Kruse says that on Feb. 10, 1888,
Roehm, Heines and Ernst. all later
shot in the cleanup, had selected
a group of eleven reliable S. A.
[Storm Troopl men, who were sum-
moned to secret meeting at which
plans for the arson were explained.
Every one was sworn to secrecy and
was told to await further orders.
One S. A. man named Lobike re-
fused to take the oath and was
taken away and never heard of
again.
"Kruse gives the names of all the
other nine men, and explains how
van der Lubbe 1.-THE Dutch youth
who was later beheaded on charge
Of having set the firel was told he
would be arrested and sentenced to
satisfy public opinion, but later
would be released secretly and sent
10 America with a large fortune.
Ten sworn nlcn had to take two
rehear32ls, for which they gathered
in the cellars OF Ccer;ng;s Presi-
dental palace General Goering is
Prussian Minister, walked through
the underground passage to the
Reichstag, and were shown the
places where they would have to
place inflammable material.
"Kruse says that of the thirteen
men involved, one after another
mysteriously disappeared, except
Roehm, Heines, Ernst and two S. A.
men, one named Nagel, friend Of
He.nes, and himself.
cat the end of June, Roehm
threatened to reveal the truth Of
the fire II hiGcr dssoended the
Storm Troops, and it was merely
by the chance that he, Krusa, was
not in Roehm's house on the night
/ OF June 80 thai he succeeded in
escaping the Leaders LHitlersl
| vengeance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Forged Communist Leaaet" Circulated By
San Diego Fascists As Prelude to Raids
Communist Party Issues
Exposure of Faxed
Provocation

SAN DIEGO, Calf, July ga
most vicious provocation against
the Communist Party here is
the form of forged leaflet is
being circulated by the fascist
League Against Communism"
Purporting to be issued by the
Communist Party and signed by a
fake notary public, Mary S. john
ston," "a true copy Of original
hand-bill," the leaflet with in
tentionally mis-spelled words. calls
upon "all workers, teachers and
students, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Born E. to arm-fight-rape-loot,
burn-overthrow all forms of gov
ernments."
Using the fascist methods of
Hitler in the Reichstag fire, where
an arson plot was falsely attrib-
uted to the German Communists,
these California fascists sought to
incite an attack on all Commu-
nists.
Just as in other cities on the
West Coast where police worked
hand with fascist hood
lums in smashing workers meeting
rooms and burning and looting
San Diego police raided the Work
ers Center, 852 Eighth Ave, and
arresting all Communist leaders on
sight. Preparations to raid the
center followed Immediately on the
issuance of the vicious, provocative
leaflet.
They arrested Paul Shapiro,
Young Communist League organ
izer, and Ray Be7quist, National
Student League organizer. Both
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
How Frisco Strike Betrayal Vas Planned

is one Joseph Patrick Ryan-Na-
tional President of the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's Association.
In trying to select the most inn
portant and characteristic of his re-
cent utterances one suffers from an
embarrassment of riches. Perhaps
the statement most indicative of the
defeatist conspiracy-pract i c ly
without parallel in the annals of
the American labor movement-to
deliver mass strike movement into
the hands of its class enemies, is
that contained in Ryan's telegram
to Mayor Rossi published in the
San Francisco News for July 20:
"As one good pal to another,
wish ] were with you. II will all
come cut all right"
Little comment is needed on this
effusion. 1t is directed to the
mayor whose police shot and killed
two members of the union OF
which Ryan is president. and
wounded 80 more by gunfre upon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Greater Speed Is
Urged in Ohio
Signature Drive
Especial to the Daily Worker,

CLEVELAND, Ohio, July %. -
The secretariat Of the Communist
Party in District today issued an
urgent appeal to all Party members
and sympathetic work is not to
slccken for an instant il the drive
for 5000 nominating pstition sig
natures NEEDED to assure Communist
candidates OF a place on the state
ballet. The deadline for submitting
the petitions to state authorities is
August l.
Every Communist and every
sympathetic worker must realize by
now the need for immediate action
to get Communist candidates on the
ballot in this state. There is only
one way to get those signatures
thct is to 50 out and get them from
among the tens of thousands Of
workers snd farmers who have been
aroused to fighting pitch by the re-
cent -e'icf murders il CleYels nd. by
The Federal governments apathy to
the drought-suffcrers. by all the
crushing applications of the New
Deal which have ground worker and
poor farmer alike deeper and deeper
into economic misery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Strikers Use
to Bar
Scabs' Work
Want Workers to Keep
Truce AS Bosses
Open Traffic
MARINE STRIKE HOLDS
West Coast Unions Take
Vote on Forced
Arbitration
STRIKE SUMMARY

Labor misleaders tricked Oak
land teamsterS to return to work,
but west coast longshoremen and
seamen continued their strike as
the Roosevelt Board hallyhooed
heavily fer arbitration. On the
scene are 1000 regular troops.
In New York, Joseph P. Ryan,
reactionary longshore union head,
announced his glee at the OUT
come of the San Francisco gen.
eral strike.
The prediction was made by
Butte, MONT mine union heads
that by August 1, $4,000 other
workers would join the 5000
miners and smeltermen who have
been on strike for the past three
months.
Five hundred additions heavily
armed National Guardsmen were
moved into Minneapolis to aid
pclice in guarding scab trucks.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI. july %.
After quiet weekend, follow
ing the brutal shooting Of strik-
ers and sympathizers on Friday,
today was marked by further ma
neuvers by Father Francis J.
Hass to settle the strike.
At the same time despite no APP
parent efforts by strike leadership
TO spread the strike, the workers
left their Jobs and the laundry
End dyeing workers voted to strike
tomorrow morning.
City truck drivers we're called
cat by the unicn, which threatens
TO tie up garbage collections. Ire
mendous sentiment exists for tire
spreading of strike, but the lead
ers are obviously holding the
workers back.
Mayor cambridge and Police
Chief Johannes, in the name Of
law and order, are providing con-
voys today for trucks, openly sid
ing with truck owners. Governor
OISOu CndISCo OOAdAAiCS WIN ~
spcnsibiiity for the shootings OF
Friday. The National Guard is
being kept eff streets hut is ready
in Fair Grounds and Armories
fer use, however, if needed.
MINNEAPOLIS, July 23.-
Truck strike pickets stopped
movement of all city garbage
trucks here today.
The pickets blocked the
road with a long line of cars.
While Governor Olson has
more than 4.OCo additional National
Gusrdsmen and naval reserves
ready to move ioto the strike zcne,
tCortlnucd on Pc9e p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24

though there is no honor among
the members of the cabal which
conspired to go along" with the
general strike demanded by the
resolute workers of the ten mari
time trades unions headed by Harry
Bridges in order to betray it.
The potent drug that is distilled
by the process of determination with
the great has gone speedily to the
heads of the real leaders of or
ganized labor" Fawning on Farley,
wrangling with Wagner to divide
the ranks of labor, shaking hands
with General Johnson and giving
slavering approval to his fascist de-
nunciations of Communists and all
honestly militant working c,sss
leaders from whom Ryan, Vande-
leur and Company were unable to
ALLEVIATE the rank and file of work
ers, these 'gentlemen's gentlemen"
of the American robber class are
making some revealing statements.
First on the list of loose takers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Says Trial
May Begin
AtAnyTine
u. S. Committee Urges
Quick Response To
Paris Appeal

NEW YORK. = An urgent
appeal for intensified protest
actions and the raising of
funds for the worldwide fight
to rescue Ernst Thaelmann
and other anti-fascist fight
ers, who are in imminent,
daily danger of murder at the
hands of the Nazi butchers, is
contained in a cable from Paris
received in this country yesterday.
The cable is from Henri Bar
busse, noted French author and
leader in the fight against fas-
cism. 1t is addressed to Alfred
Wagenknecht, Secretary of the
National Committee to Aid Vic
tins of German Fascisn, and
reads as follows:
Immediate financial remit
lance to Paris Liberation Com
mittee essential. Situation in
Germany such that Volksgericht
(Hitler's bogus Peoples Courts")
may any moment begin trials of
leading anti-fascists. Thaelmann's
life threatened. He lives today
but who can tell about tomorrow.
Therefore several definite under
takings we have decided upon
must be carried out Immediately,
for which large sums of money
are necessary. We call upon all
to aid their utmost at this critical
moment"
The National Committee added
its appeal to that of Barbusse and
the Paris Committee, saying:
THE National Committee calls
upon its city affiIiates, all other
organizations, professionals and
all sympathizers, to put forth
special efforts to secure contribu-
tions, at shop gates, in neighbor-
hoods, in meetings or organiza-
tions. so that remittance may
be sent to Paris Immediately"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Party Leaders
To- Hear StacheI
On Coast Strike

New York district functionaries
of the Communist Party will hear
Jack Stachel, of the party's central
committee, speak on the lessons of
the San Francisco general strike
and the attack on West Coast Party
organizations at meeting to be
held at Z p. m. tomorrow at Man
haitian Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth st.
Among those who have been in
vited to attend the meeting are unit
organizers, members of section COM
mittees and committees, MEM
BEES of the district committees of
the party and the Young Commu-
mist League, members OF the Dis
trict Discipline Committee, secre-
taries of leading fractions; party
members who are full-time func-
tionaries in trade unions, unem-
ployed and mass organizations; ma
tional party functionaries, language
bureau heads and editors OF all party
papers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Police Hurl Tear Gas
AT Tool Plant Pickets

PARKERSBURG, w. Va.-State
police hurled tear gas bombs and
used their clubs wildly today in
attacking large group of strikers
at the plant of the Ames Baldwin
Wyoming Tool Works here.
The State Troopers had been
called to the scene last night, fol-
lowing the walk-out of union MEM
bers last Friday. Todays attack,
in which several strikers were badly
hurt, followed several unsuccessful
attempts of scabs to gain access to
the factory gates.
Machine guns have been set up
on the company's property.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Sell-Out Leaders Openly
Reveal Role of
Treachery
By BILL DUNE

SAN FRANCISCO, July %.
Many if not most of the be-
trayals in American labor
struggles have been more or
less accidental or organized
on the spur of the moment.
The San Francisco betrayal
was planned in advance. 1t was
deliberate.
The real leaders of organized
labor Mayor Rossi of San
Francisco and the press call them
have begun to talk. Secrets are
being told. There is wonderful
atmosphere of good fellowship even
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Huge "Free Thaelmann
Meet" Held In Paris

PARIS, july %, A monster
Free Thaelmann" meeting was
held in the Sale Wagram here last
Saturday night.
Henri Barbusse, and representa-
tives of the Communist Party OF
France and the Confederation Cen
eral du Travail Unitaire French
T. U. U. L., addressed the huge
gathering of anti-fascists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Communist Estimate Is
Confirmed by A. F. L.
Misieaders

unarmed pickets. 1t is directed to
the mayor, whose police protect
the fascist bands now beating up
striking members Of the LILA.
If Harry Bridges and the mari
time trades strike committee do
not have photostatic copies made
of the San Francisco News story
and distribute some $4,000 of them
to waterfront workers, they are
far less able than we think they
are. If Ryan thinks he can set
away with this kind of stuff mere
ly because General johnson de-
nounced Bridges in his speech yes
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Urge Mass Turnout
Intensified Actions
For Thaelmann Day

NEW YORK. - Spurred by in
creasing threats to the life of Ernst
Thaelmann, New York anti-fascists
are rallying to the plans for
giant Free Thaelmann" meeting
and farewell banquet to Will Mu-
gutenberg, outstanding anti-fascist
editor and publisher, at Bronx Coli
scum, East 177th Street, this Friday
evening in National Thaelmann
Day.
"Thaelmann's Day must serve
to raise the campaign for the lib
eraticn of Ernst Thaelmann and
all anti-fascist prisoners, to
much higher level" declares an
appeal issued by the Anti-Nazi-
Federation of N. Y. ION this day
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
Butte Mine Union Head
Predicts That $4,000
Will Strike By Aug. ]

BUTTE. Mont, July 23.-The
prediction that 5000 workers in
the Butte section would join the
miners and smelter workers in a
general strike before August l was
made today by Reid Robinson,
secretary of the union of 5000
copper miners who have been on
strike for almost three months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24
German Workers Singing
Societies Demand
Freedom of Thaelmann

PHILADELPHIA, July %. =
resolution demanding the safe re-
lease OF Ernst Thaelmann, and of
all other imprisoned victims Of the
Nazis was adopted yesterday by the
Regional Convention of the Arbei-
er-Saengavereine German Workers
Singing Societies) of the North
eastern United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24

Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-24

Continued on Page 81
The Washington times., 1934-12-31

&OS~s R@- w.
Almost 10 years after his elec-
ton to the Speakership, Polk
was elected to the Presidency
and took office on March 4,
1845, and served until March 3,
1849.
Strangely enough, Polk was
elected as Speaker to succeed
John Bell, another Tennessean.
Bell was elected Speaker on
June 2, 1884, to succeed Andrew
Stevenson, of Virginia, who had
resigned.
Bell and Polk were the only
Speakers from Ten11e eSSee.
Byrns wiU be the third one to
lead the House.
Those who know him are con.
fident that Mr.. Byrns will not
take too seriously the fact that
he is the first Speaker from
Tennessee to follow Polk and
thus have Presidential aspira-
tiOns himself.
Although strange develop
ments may occur, it is doubtful
whether Mr.. Byrns will witness
a repetition of the history that
occurred in the Polk case.
Representative Floyd Thurs
ton, of Iowa, one of the few
Republican members returned to
the House bv the State where
the tall corn grows, has returned
to Washington.
ThurSton, 1Uh0 is likely to be-
come fairly strong among his
Republican colleagues WaS
elected by a 5000 majority.
Of the election he AYERS:
''It is a simple thing to de-
The Washington times., 1934-12-31
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

stamp that story on clay, print
it on papyrus? Nobody knows.
But there it stands today, the
deepest truth in our human
record-the tragic, immortal
story of a spirit that would not
go on with life.
Each day there come to my
desk stories like that. You, too,
know them in the flesh. They
live on your street; they work
in your office.
Perhaps you yourself are one
of them. People who cannot
free themselves from the past
who will not take their place
in the march toward Tomorrow.
Lives broken by some tragedy
of death or upheaval. Mothers
whose children have died or
married, leaving them to make
a new existence for themselves.
Men who have lost their place
in the scheme of things.
Weak spirits who dare not
grow up but cling frantically to
childhood memories.
Before them lies that Future
which is open to every man
a new chance. But to seize that
chance they must give every
thing they have and THEY
MUST NOT LOOK BACK. For
to look back means death.
Death as real as any decompo-
sition of the flesh.
The spirit that lives in Yes
terday has no place in Today or
Tomorrow. The body it inhabits
becomes a husk-an empty con-
tainer-A PILLAR OF SALT
OLD STORY
The Oldest story on earth
and the truest. At some time
each one Of us lives that story
turns with sick heart from
tomorrow, reaches hungrily back
to the dead past. Never were
there more Of such yearners
than now.
THE good old days"-we look
on them as wistfully as Lots
wife looked on her ruined Sodom.
But the good old days are over.
They will never come again. Nor
can we live on their departed
glory. If we try to we become
pillars of salt.
GO ON! TURN BACK ON
THOSE USELESS MEMORIES.
THOSE DEAD DELIGHTS AND
REGRETS! WIPE YOUR TEAR
BLINDED EYE S.. MOVE
YOUR GRIEF-NUMBED FEET
LIFT YOUR PARALYZED
HEART! THEY'LL FE E L
AGAIN; THEY'LL FIGHT
AGAIN AND HOPE AGAIN IF
YOU'LL GIVE THEM A
CHANCE. GET GOING...
AND DON'T LOOK BACK!
Copyright. 1894, King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1934-12-31

to make his statement and two
to explain what he meant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was
about the only one who could
stand having his utteranceS
broken up into sentence quota
tions, and every once in a
while even he doesn't sound so
sensible in short Snatches.
Take, par Uor) example, one
of those newspaper columns Of
quotations Of the week" which
has just dropped on to my
desk, after a three-hour hunt
for it on my part. Granted
that some of them wouldn't
stack up very high even if they
were quoted in full, they can't
all be as fatuous as they
sound:
What the world needs more
than anything else is a revolu-
tion-but it must be a revolu-
ton of love"-Gen. Evangeline
Booth.
sex to me is something very
high. It is q divine thing, and
it is romantic-and that is the
way I feel about it. And I
think that is what I mean to
the public. Allure, in a high
way, because that is the man.
ner in which I have portrayed
it."-Mae Murray.
(Miss Murray got four SEN
tenceS and still didn't quite do
herself juStice-or maybe she
did,
Life does not come all in
one piece like cheese: it more
resembles linked sauSageS, o
series of events on Q string
Harold Bell Wright.
zone has q horrible suS