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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Aluminium
Strike Ties
Up Plants
But ALL. Heads Ignore
the Main Demands
of Workers

NEW KENSINGTON, Pa, Aug
Fifteen thousand workers of
the Andrew Melons Aluminium
Company of America we're on strike
today, with 1890 out in the three
local plants at New Kensington
Arnold, and Logans Ferry. The
walkout was called by A. F. of L.
leaders, their hand forced on one
side by the mass pressure Of the
rank and file members of the Alum
mum Workers Union, and on the
other, by the company's refusal to
consider any agreement.
The three plants here were shut
down by the company at IL pm
Friday night after mass picket lines
at each gate effectively halted pro-
duction, but on Saturday morning
and during all day only a handful
of pickets were called out by A. F.
of L. leaders at factory entrances.
Special deputies, carrying long
riot clubs, are already in evidence
on the streets, two shop foremen
having been beaten up when they
attempted to enter the plant.
Recognition has been raised as
the central issue by Dave Williams
and Boris Shishkin, A. F. Of L. lead
ers, but the agreement for which
they are negotiating. in Williams
own words, would include IAN open
shop agreement with an anti-strike
clause inserted"
This agreement now put forward
by Williams is not the one which
was drawn up by the workers over
month ago. At that time their
demands were: wage increases aver
aging approximately IS per cent,
and certain back wages owed the
workers; seniority rights; recogni-
ton and the checkoff, the latter to
go to the local unions; and no dis
elimination against union members.
Williams agreement includes only
the checkoff, to go to the National
Council, and seniority, and was
turned down by the workers a
month ago.
Strike Sentiment Strong
The actual strength of strike SEN
timent was indicated in the COM
plete shutting down of all plants,
without any strike preparations
having been made or strike com
mittees established.
Imminent danger faces the work
ers on two sides, at present, and
threatens the success of their solid
strike. The control of the strike
is in the hands Of the A. F. of L.
leaders. who can call it off when
ever they choose, as there is no
broad strike committee in charge
of all action.
The other danger is also due to
the lack of a broad strike commit
tee; that because of poorly organ
lied picketing the powerful Alum
mum Company may take advantage
of this to smash the strike through
force of strikebreakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Japan Presses Plan to Ruin Railway

During this same period, Is train
accidents occurred due to malicious
dismantling of the rails, and result
ing in the breaking of 81 locomo-
tives, and in 20 trains being broken
or considerably damaged.
Precisely at this time, the anti
Soviet campaign of the Japan
Manchurian press was sharply in
tensified. In an editorial entitled
sBlackmailers Do Not Abate,"
Pravda writes: There is nothing
accidental in all this coincidence. On
the one hand, corresponding Jap
anese circles, taking advantage and
seeing that the real power of Man
churia remains in their hands, strive
to ruin the Chinese Eastern Rail
way and to take it by Starvation" !;
while on the other hand the press
is preparing public opinion for the
seizure of the railway by force The
white guard japanese newspaper
Kharbinskoe Vremia," for instance,
openly writes that the question of
the Chinese Eastern must be 'natur-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
USSR Bares
Famine Lies
In Nazi Press
Soviet Union Sees Them
as Moral Preparation
for Intervention
Special to tn. Daily workerl

MOSCOW, Aug. 12-The latest
attempts of the entire Nazi press
throughout Germany to feature
famine" in the Ukraine sections
of the Soviet Union and calling for
expeditions of relief to the starving
Ukrainian peasants" have been
bluntly denounced here as nothing
but moral preparation for interven-
ton in Soviet affairs and an effort
of the Nazis to bludgeon votes for
Hitler in the coming elections
The Nazi press screams in big
headlines of Il 100000 Starving in
Kiev," and other similar wild tales
Of mass starvation, calling upon the
German masses to contribute re-
lief" for these districts.
Record Harvest
Actually, the Soviet harvest has
been Of record proportions. despite
the drought. thanks to the enor-
nous success of the collective
farms. The German harvest, on
the other hand, has been a miser-
able failure, and the heavy taxes
levied by the Nazis have made life
for the peasantry miserable. In
addition, the huge tariffs levied by
the Nazis in the interests of the
big agrarians are steadily raising
the cost of living in the cities.
The latest statements of the
Agricultural Commisaliat show that
100000 hectares of grain were
moved by July 30 as compared
with the bumper crop of 10000, 900
last yea at the same period.
Plot Intervention
Professor H. j Muller of the
University Of Texas, who has just
completed a tour Of tho Soviet grain
regions ridiculed the reports Of
famine" or starvation
while the prevailing drought
also hit the Ukraine and other
sections of Russia. the outlook is
Continued on Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Group Acts
To Elect ALL
Rank andFHe

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 12.-The
fifty-fourth convention of the
American Federation of Labor to
be held in San Francisco in October
will find the reactionary policies
of the bureauc. attic top offlcialdom
receiving their most serious chal-
lenge in years. This became clear
as a result of the conference of the
National Executive Committee of the
A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee
for Unemployment Insurance and
Relief held here yesterday and 10
day The meeting Of the N. E. C
of this rank and file body had as
its task the preparations foc the
A. F. of L. convention and for the
National Conference of the A. F. Of
L. trade union committee which
will be held simultaneously in hall
directly across the street from the
A. F. of l.. convention.
Plans for a campaign to secure
the election of rank and file dele
gates to the A. F. of L. convention
were worked out and resolutions
adopted On the most burning issues
facing the American workers fol
presentation to the convention. II
was pointed out that at last year;
convention one rank and file dele
gate, Suny of Philadelphia, sue
ceeded in presenting the militant
position on number of questions
despite all the maneuvers of tbs
bureaucrats.
This year it is expected there
will be numbe.' of such delegate,
to put up real fight on the floor
Present at the conference are lead.
ers Of the rank and file movement
from New York. Cleveland. Detroit
Youngstown. Akron, Toledo, Chi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
WORKERS PREPARE
FOR MASS RALLIES
TO HEAR HERNDON

NEW YORK.-New York workers
and the outstanding leaders of the
revolutionary movement are pre-
pairing to pay tribute to the heroic
young Negro leader of the working
class, Angelo Herndon, in two mass
welcome meetings in this city.
Next Wednesday nights meeting
at the Rockland Palace, 155th
Street and Eighth Avenue, will be
Herndon's first public appearance
since the tumultuous welcome given
him last Tuesday evening on his
arrival at the Pennsylvania Station,
following his release on BAIL pend
ing appeal, from the Georgia hell
hole where he was imprisoned for
nineteen months.
In addition to the thousands of
Negro and white workers and in
tellectuals who will attend this
meeting, Herndon will be greeted
by Earl Bronder, general secretary
of the Communist Party; James w.
Ford, organizer Of its Harlem Sec
ton; Anna Damon, of the national
Office of tho International Labor
Defense; William Fitzgerald, Joseph
Brodsky, Israel Amter and others.
Ben Davis, Jr., Herndon's former
attorney and editor of the Negro
Liberator, will be chairman of the
meeting.
On Aug. %, anniversary of the
murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, COM
memorated by the I. L, D. as Ma
tional Scottsboro Day, Herndon will
speak at the Bronx Coliseum, East
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13

ally solved by. /. war against the
U.S.SR.i
Efforts of Japan Futile
Do the people of Japan seriously
think that the noisy abuse of the
newspapers and the threats of those
scribblers, who are extraordinarily
brave while at their inkstand, will
attain their aim? Futile expendi-
turel Futile painful effortsl These
painful efforts look like the grimaces
of jugglers. They are presenting the
ruling circles of Japan in a ridic-
ulous aspect.
The Soviet Government puts the
question of the Chinese Eastern
Railway bluntly and to the point.
1t is common knowledge that the
negotiations for the sale of the rail-
way commenced upon the initiative
of the U.S.S.R. The Soviet Gov
eminent agreed to sell the Chinese
Eastern, which is a commercial en-
terprise in Manchuria belonging to
the U.S.S.R. The proposal came as
a result Of the invariable striving
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
yAzE PLAN THAELMANN TRIAL TO SHIFT CRISIS BLAME
Districts Enter Socialist
Competition in Daily Drive
Two Areas Go Over Top and Six More Are Near.
ing Quotas AS Campaign Is Speeded To
Double Circulation

THREE weeks remain in which to reach the quota of 900
readers for the Daily Worker With two Districts
the top and six nearing their reader quotas every
effort must be made to speed activity in the Sections Units
and Fractions, well among the mass language and
fraterna organizations and trade unions.
All Districts will therefore socialist competition
remaining the intensified the
petors this quotas
quotas and percentages of readers o
competition continued after
September when it becomes the
cuation of the Daily Worker January
call the Committee This circulation cam
must be linked with the financial
ECRI ARI1 NJ soc COArpr 1cN11
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Philadelphia Negro
Fighting Eviction,
Framed on Charge

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. II.
George Johnson, Negro, has been
found guilty Of framed-up charges
of assault and battery, and of may
hem, and held without bail. be-
cause of his part in a struggle
against eviction from his home.
johnson. who is a leader in the
Unemployment Council in North
Philadelphia, was not at home when
police and constables came to evict
him. He arrived on the scene later,
after 5000 workers had gathered
about his house to stop the evic-
ton. The eviction did not take
place, Johnson, however, was ar
rested and has been found guilty.
The International Labor Defense,
which defended johnson in court, is
appealing for new trial.
The arrest of johnson was one
of the sparks that set off the out
pouring of Negroes into the streets
Of North Philadelphia on Aug. /.
This display of resentment among
the Negro people of the neighbor-
hood which the white press has
chosen to designate as race riot"
was in reality the result of a
long period of terror by the police,
wholesale evictions. discrimination
in relief, brutal olubbings, JIM
crowism in the theatres and stores.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Coast Terror
Protested by
Law Leaders


NEW YORK.-Violations in Cali
fornia at the constitutional liberties
of freedom of political belief and
freedom of person from lawless ar
rest" were protested Saturday by
distinguished lawyers in state
ment made public by the Amer
lean Civil Liberties Union.
Those signing the protest in
Guided among others: Charles F
Amidon, retired judge of the United
States District Court of North
Dakota George w. Anderson, re-
Morris L. Ernst and Arthur Gar
tired judge of the U. S. Circuit
Court of Appeals, Boston. Charles
c. Birmingham, N. Y. City Professor
G. Birmingham, N. Y. City; Professor
School; Clarence barrow, Chicago;
field Hays, counsel for the Amer
lean Civil Liberties Union; Dean
Charles H. Houston, Howard Uni
versity Law School, Washington,
D. c.; Henry T. Hunt, general
counsel to the Public Works Adj
ministration, Washington, D. c.;
Francis Fisher Kane, Philadelphia
Prof. Karl Llewellyn, Columbia Law
School; Prof. Jerome Michael,
former special assistant to the U. S.
attorney general and now professor
of law, Columbia Law School;
James F.. Minturn, retired Justice
of the Supreme Court of New Jer-
sey, and now dean of John Mar
shall College of Law; Walter Pollak,
New York City; Prof. Tyrell Will
Jams, Washington University.
American constitutional liber-
ties" the statement said in part,
are precious. They have become
more precious in the measure that
such liberties have been wiped out
in other countries. Constitutional
liberties are in danger in Cali
fornia."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Hopes Planned Attacks
Will Make USSR Give
Up Share Of Road
Especial to the Daily worker


MOSCOW (By Radio, Aug. 12.-
Newspapers have published here to-
day the report of Rudy, manager of
the Chinese Eastern Railway, tes-
tifying that Japano- Manchurian
circles still continue their tactics of
running the railway. Rudy points
out that the attacks upon trains,
stations, barracks and bridges of the
Chinese Eastern continue, due to
the absence of guards, who are un-
der japanese control.
During the eight months of this
current year, 81 attacks were COM
mitted upon stations and barracks,
116 employees were kidnapped, nine
bridges were damaged, rs persons
killed and l02 injured, the majority
of whom were workers and en-
ployees on the Chinese Eastern.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Painters Stand Firm
as Employers Seek
Aid of Labor Board

NEW YORK.-With the rank and
file of District Council 9. Brother
hood of Painters and Decorators,
standing fast in their fight for a
six-hour, nine-dollar day, Philip
zausner, usurper of the District
Council secretaryship, yesterday
made Q, gesture of unwillingness to
accept Regional Labor Board medi-
alton. The demand advanced by
the District Council is nine dollars
for a seven-hour day.
Philip H. Gladstone, chairman of
the Association of Master Painters
declared, however, that his group
planned to call meeting to con-
slider the proposal of Ben Golden
for the Regional Labor Board
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Sabotage, kidnappings
Mark Japan's Terror
Rule in Manchuria

of the Soviet Union to improve
Japano-Soviet relations, which are
artificlally aggravated by adventur-
Gus circles Of japanese imperialism.
Three factors at least are needed
in that agreement SO that the sale
shall take place. First, there must
be the wish to sell the railway. The
Soviet Government expressed this
wish clearly and unambiguously,
striving to consolidate peace in the
Far East. Secondly, there must be
a wish to purchase the railway. 1t
is common knowledge that the Jap
Manchurian side formally ex-
pressed their readiness to commence
negotiations with the U.S.S.R. con-
corning the purchase of the Chinese
Eastern Railway. Thirdly and I'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
SOCIALIST DESERTS STRIKE

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. = At the
time of an attempted strike of
workers on the relief gardens here,
Jack Shaw, organizer of the Amer
lean Workers Union and member of
the Socialist Party, signed an agree
ment with the chief of police to
leave town for year. The strike
which he deserted had been called
under his leadership
Shaw now has a government job,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13

177th Street, Bronx. There he will
be greeted by Clarence Hathaway,
editor of the Daily Worker; Harry
Haywood, national secretary of the
League of Struggle for Negro
Rights; Robert Minor, Ben Gold,
Ben Davis, Ruby Bates, star Scots
boro defense witness; Gil Green of
the Young Communist League, and
others. Nat Stevens, District Sec
rotary of the I. L. D., will preside
A torchlight parade to the Coli
scum will precede the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
'COEBBEIS SEEKS
TO ACCUSE REDS
FOR NAZI PLIGHT
Judge Says Others Fear
Results of Framing
Workers Leader

ZURICH, Aug. IL. = In
formation that Joseph Goeb-
Pels, Hitler's propaganda
Minister, intends to use the
fhaelmann trial in the So
called Peoples Court for an
Intensified drive against the
Communists on the ground that
the growing crisis in Germany is
"due to the Communists sabotage"
was received today by the National
Committee To Aid Victims of Ger
man Fascism.
The information was conveyed to
prominent American by a lead
ing Nazi judge.
This Nazi Official also informed
the American now visiting Germany
that the Nazis are deba ting
whether to risk an immediate trial
Of Thaelmenn in face of the grow
Ing inner difficulties. the bad
harvests. the peasant resistance to
taxes. the increasing strikes. and
the bad international situation of
Germany resulting from the Nazi
policies.
The Goebbels clique favors the
utilization of the Tha elmann trial"
growing influence of the Commu-
mist Party Another group, it is
hS weapon against the constantly
reported, fears that TIaelmann's
popularity among the German
masses is too great to risk such
a move.
Goebbels is more powerful, how
ever, and it is likely that the Nazis
are planning a sudden. quick trial.
with specially prepared evidence"
to be launched in the press at a
given signal. and with quick ex-
ecution verdict as the result.
The decisive factor will be the
volume and strength OF the world
protest, particularly that coming
from the United States. as the Nazis
are very sensitive to their position
in the eyes of the American masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Conference on Thursday

OUHItItHCt Oh IHuISudy
BROOKLYN. - An Emergency
Scottsboro- Herndon Conference will
be held Thursday evening, at the
Boro Park Cultural Center, 1880
56th Street, Brooklyn.
The conference will be addressed
by many outstanding leaders in the
fight for the freedom of Herndon
and the Scottsboro Boys. All
organizations in the section are
urged to send delegates, and help
raise the $4,000 fund to carry the
appeal for the ten Negro youths
to the U. s. Supreme Court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
CzechcsIovak Workers Protest

! PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia. - De-
lmands for the freedom of Thael-
mann and all anti-fascist prisoners
were voiced and forwarded to Ber-
lin from the factory nesting of the
celuloid shop in Turc. Sv. Martin !;
general strike in Humenne of 1900,
Thaelmann protest strike of work.
ers in the Firnla Barta in Poltar:
protest strike of $50 workers in
Mira: protest strike of 220 workers
in one department of Cvernovka,
Bratislava; fifteen minute protest
strike of brick makers in zvolen;
protest strike of 200 farm work
ers in Levice: protest by lumber
workers in Spis. In Kezmsrok 1900
workers in a SPORTS meet protested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
To Get 10000 Names

SEATTLE. Wash. Aug. 12-
Orders for 500 SIGNATURE lists to in
clude 10000 names have been sent
from Seattle to the National Com
mittee to Aid the Victims of Ger
man Fascism. Volunteer workers
to secure signatures demanding the
release Of Thaelmann are being re-
cruited
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Rally in Philadelphia

hdIIy IN PhIIadeIphla
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 12.-Phila-
delphia workers will greet Angelo
Herndon at the Workers Press Pic
mic, Sunday, Aug. 10, at Old Berk-
les Farm, Washington Lane, west
Of Ogontz Avenue, West Oak Lane.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13

A Red Builder on every busy
street corner in the country means
a tremendous step toward the
dictatorship of the proletariat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
10000 At Paris Thaelmann Rally

10000 At Paris Thaelmann Rally
PARIS. = On July 20 the Free
Thaelmann Committee called a
Meeting in Wagram Hall which TO-
GOO workers, professionals and in
tellectuals attended. Immense en-
thusiasm prevailed and all speeches
were interrupted with repeated
mass shouting for Thaelmann. The
speakers were Henri Barbusse,
Marcel Cachin, the famous attorney
Moro Giafferi, the Socialist Party
secretary, Dupont, and Prof. Rivet
In the following days. numerous
free Thaelmann meetings were held
throughout France. At these meet
ings more than 100000 signatures
Of workers and sympathizers were
gathered upon petitions demanding
Thaelmann and all anti-fascist
prisoners in Germany be freed.
Tho National Congress of the
French section of the Proletarian
Free Thinkers, which just adjourned
in Paris. directed telegram to
Berlin demanding to know where
Thaelmann is. whether he is safe,
demanding his release.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
Only $2.l93

Contributed to date to the $4,000 defense
fund for the appeals of Angelo HerndOn and
the ScOttsbOro boys. Only 10 days are left
See blank on page four of this issue. Rush
contributions to International Labor Defense,
so E. 18th St.. New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13

Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13

10000 New Readers by Sept. 1st.s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
DISTRICTS! FORWARD IN SOCIALIST COMPETITION!
Percent

ote:-Tables Of the contest will be published week
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-07-12

Thursday night the little fellow took
seriously i'll and had TO be moved to
the Memorial hospital. He has been
suffering from Diabetis the past five
months. J. c. Draszt took them to
town.
Miss Irene Barge was a business
caller at Chick Draszt's Wednesday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Andelaines were
shoppers in Plentywood Friday. Miss
Jennie Barge went along with them
to see her little brother, in the hos
pital
A heavy frost July 5th done much
damage to gardens, potatoes and
some field corn.
John Wilson called at Carl Lind's
Sunday morning; then in the after
noon Carl and John visited at the
Jens Lind home.
Ralph and Vernon Adams went
with Cutriss Broyles and Joe Hat
field to Glasgow to celebrate the 4th.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Haskamer
and two children and Erling Shea
and mother from Great Falls are WIS.,
iting at Jonh Skeis a few days. They
are also visiting relatives north OF
Raymond, before returning west.
Miss Marie Ertner, who has spent
the past couple of years in Milwau-
kee, Wis, arrived this week to
spend a month visiting at her par
entail home in the Two Tree COM
munity.
Don Logan and Einar Serum went
to Plentywood Saturday. Don stay
ed over to be with his wife. over the
week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Draszt, Chas,
Draszt, Mrs. Jack Barge and Jennie
and Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Glover were
visitors and shoppers in the County
seat Saturday.
Gordon Robertson who has been
the Wanso mail carrier for several
years made his last trip Saturday.
MIR. and Mrs. John Pace returned
recently from Chicago, where they
attended the Century OF Progress.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-07-12

G. L. Ingeil. candidate for County
Commissioner, wa visiting 1t He
serve and Brush Lake Friday
Among those visiting and shop
ping in P~Eentywood from this ON
munity during the past week were:
Mr.. and MB. Ed Engerbritson and
daughter, Edith. Blanche Sherry.
Frank Bucklin, ar and Mrs Baldur
Jensen, Ted White, Nj. and Mrs.
Lars Breasted. Art BlAse. Mr.. and
Mrs.. Forrest Matkin and daughter
and r. ]. Sherry.
Rex Otis. Clyde Potter and Bert
Daley were Visiting in Glasgow =
few days last week
County Supt. q Schools. Henry o.
Raaen, candidate for reelection was
4 Redstone visitor last Thursday-
Mrs. p. Martin and children were
visiting At the r. J. Sherry home =
few days tho firSf part Of the week
Mr.. and Nn- Bert Daley. Sally
Owen and Dan Owen were dinner
guests at the c. C. Johnston home
1t Plentywood Sunday
Mr.. and Mr.. George 6tringer Of
P~lentywood were visiting at the Pete
Beverage home last Sunday.
Mr.. and Ms. G. L. Ingeli and