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for relief for the unemployed forcing the bosses by
gigantic mass demonstrations to grant some measure
of relief constantly fighting against the cut in relief
leading the fight for unemployment insurance
The Communist Party in the lead fighting
against wage cuts when William Green and other A.
F. OF l. leaders sat down and signed an agreement
with President Hoover in $780, allowing the bosses to
slash the wages of the American working class so
per cent
Under the Roosevelt regime, only the Communist
Party pointed out what the MIRA would do-that it
would help the big trusts, the Rockefelers Morgans
Fords, MELONS, and that it would hurt the workers
The Communists declared that the NRA. promises to
the workers lies that only by organizing their
own forces and struggling mtantly would the workers
win improvement in their conditions, and union recog-
milton.
RE Communists now in the leadership of
- the San Francisco general strike?
Certainly every Communist in the city of San Fran
cisco m the whole country is in the front of the
sEsels dshng = teToe tbs bosses 70 srspt ths work
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the workers fighting for will establish the workers
in stronger position than before. They do not
want the workers to gain anything. They want the
workers to go down in defeat They to insure
troll the conditions of the workers. The most
nching the most loyal the most pe1severing fighters
against the bosses and for the demands of the workers
are the Communists That is why when the bosses
want to smash the strike they arrest $50 workers in
San Francisco and charge them with Communism That
is why the rich boodsuckers who live in wealth and
luxury while the workers sarve organize their vigantes
their fascist murder gangs to attack the Communists
The bosses feel that if they smash the Commu-
nss the best fighters of the workers. then it will be
easy matter for Vandeleur and his gang of betrayers
to end the strike with victory for the bosses.
1t becomes thousand-fold clear that the Com
munsts the vanguards of the workers interest this
strike, as they in all strikes in which they take
part.
The Bosses in order to insure their profits in order
to keep the workers wages low in order to preserve
their slave rights of hiring and firing at will will go to
any murderous length, and particularly against the
Communists,
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Comment Secretly Aids
Mob Raids on
Communists
AIDS PROVOCATION
Roosevelt Hasn't Any
Objections, Perkins
Interview Reveals
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)

WASHIN GTON, D. c.,
July 18.-Definite informa-
lion that the Department of
Labor condoned in advance
the raiding of union and rad
ical headquarters and the ar
rest of hundreds in San Fran
cisco yesterday came to your co.,
respondent today.
Secretary of Labor Frances Per-
kins denied this but at the same
time admitted that her forces Gin
vestigated" Harry Bridges, militant
leader Of the striking longshoremen,
to see whether he was deportable.
They found that Bridges is here
legally.
Official Strike Breaking
These high spots came out in a
day filled with evidence that the
Roosevelt governments policy in
breaking the American labor move
ment's greatest struggle to date is
now open Hitleresque suppression
Today'S developments included:
/. President Roosevelt messaged
"the public" that he has confidence
that common sense will prevail -
Continued on Page q
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ers' demands. The Communist Party members the
first to declare to the workers that it is the bosses
that raise the of instruction and revolution
this strike to beudde the issues to try to terrify the
workers that the Communists want something different
than what the workers want This lie is deliberately
spread.
The Communist Party never conceals its main goal
and its day-to-day struggles In the San Francisco
strike the Communist Party members are not fighting
to achieve the revolution in this general strike The
Communist Party the workers hold their ranks
solid. to fight against all betrayas and to stick to win
that for which they out-the right the dock
ers to control of the hiring halls union recognition
improved living conditions.
The Communists declare that the granting of these
demands should be the basis for ending the strike
nothing less and nothing else.
Why do the exploters of labor yell that this is
lutionary, that the Communists are the culprts who
want the workers to win the objects of the general
strike? Because the bosses fear the strength labor
They do not want to grant the workers the slightest
concession They fear The general strike it wins what
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the West Coast strike.
A delegation of the provi-
visional committee yesterday called
on Norman Thomas and Harry
Ladder, head of the League for In
dustrial Democracy, to invite them
to speak at the meeting. No answer
was forthcoming because of the alb
sence of both from the city. A def
mite reply was expected some time
today.
The Central Trades and Labor
Council, at its executive committee
meeting Monday night, ignored the
communication from the provisional
committee requesting it to join
forces with the labor movement in
a common demonstration of solidar-
ity at Union Square Thursday.
When interviewed earlier by COM
mittee, James P. Quinn, secretary
of the Central Trades and Labor
Council, declared that the A. F. of
L. had received no request from the
strikers Of the West Coast nor any
instructions from william Green to
take such step. The executive
committee of the Central Trades did
not even consider the question at
its meeting on Monday night.
In no wise disheartened by this
splitting tactic of their bureaucratic
officials, thousands of New York
rank and file members of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor prepared
to take part in the demonstration
under the leadership of the A. F.
Rank and File Committee.
The committee called on all labor
organizations today to send wires
of protest against the raids and at
tacks on left wing headquarters to
the Governor and Mayor and to de-
mand also immediate withdrawal of
troops from the strike area. The
committee wired the General Strike
Committee in San Francisco urging
the committee to join in the protest
against the attacks on left wing
headquarters, pointing out that this
attack was designed to split the
unity Of strikers and weaken the
strike.
The New York Trade Union
Unity Council yesterday called on
all of its members to support the
provisional committee demonstra-
ton and urged them to take part in
it.
The United Shoe and Leather
Workers Union also issued call to
It's membership yesterday to sup
port the demonstration.
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See S. p. on
Strike Unity
Committee Proposes
Joint Action for the
Frisco Strikers
tpalIy work.r Midwest Rureau,

CHICAGO, Ill, July 18.-Under
the slogan Of Support the West
Coast strikers" the Communist
Party and Young Communist
League District 8 today called for
united action of the entire working
class in a mass demonstration in
Union Park, Ogden and Randolph,
Saturday, July 81, l pm.
AS this article is being written, a
delegation from the Communist
Party is visiting the Cook County
Committee of tie Socialist Party
and the Young Peoples Socialist
League to ask their participation in
this solidarity demonstration.
Delegations will also visit trade
unions and locals of the Socialist
Party to get their support.
In South Chicago, the Marine
Workers Industrial Union is plan
ming a demonstration in support
of the Great Lakes Tug Boatmen's
strike when the next ship arrives
from Buffalo.
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GRAFTON of Labor, today be-
smirched the general strike
of San Francisco, declaring it a
local strike without national sig
nificance" without any authorize
ton" by the A. F. of L.
His statement, seized eagerly by
the capitalist press as a weapon to
poison the opinions of the masses
of the country against the heroic
$4,000 coast strikers, was timed,
apparently with the greatest DELHI
Grafton, to coincide with the in
tensif1ed efforts to split the Strike
Committee, giving the reactionary
A. F. Of L. officials a platform
against the left wing rank and file
members.
COndOnes Terrorism
At the same time, Green's state
ment comedies with the open bar
rage of terrorism against the Com
munist Party and all radical mass
Va . oAAAAooAOAio al Odll
iustifying this terrorism and the
calumnies of the ship-owners that
the strike was engineered by out
siders."
Green, who gets $4,000 a year
from the workers of the A. F. of L.
for representing" them, had not
one word to say in his statement
on the demands of the strikers or
one word of criticism of the en-
ployers, or the calling of the Ma
tional Guard against the strike. He
did not express any desire that the
strikers win their demands.
Urges Return to Work
Disavowing any intention of CIV
ing the thousands of striking A. F.
of l.. workers the slightest assist
ance in their fight with the mil
Continued on Page g.
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Big ThaInann
Meet July "a
In Chicago, Ill.
Demonstration July 20
at Nazi Consulate
in New York

CHICAGO, Ill, July 18.-Chicago
anti-fascists are organizing a giant
United Front meeting for the free
dom of Ernst Thaelmann and thou
sands Of other anti-fascist fighters
in Germany who are in daily, i'm
minent danger Of secret trial and
speedy execution by the new Hitler
Peoples Courts" which were set
in motion last Saturday for the
openly admitted purpose of organ
izing new blood bath in Germany.
The meeting which will be held
July "a, will be addressed by DR..
Kurt Rosenfeld, former Socialist
Minister of Justice in the PruSsian
Cabinet, AneuTin Bevan, Welsh
miner and member of Parliament,
and Will Muenzenberg, former
Communist member of the Reichs-
tag.
The Chicago Committee to Aid
Victims of German Fascism, which
has been an important force in re-
peated struggles of Chicago anti
fascists at the German Consulate,
is arranging the meeting.
he present situation in Ger
many will be discussed.
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W Orkers Act
TO Support
Frisco Strike
Seamen Walk Off Ship
in N. Y. in Support
of West Coast Men

NEW YORK-Declaring solidar-
lty with the great general strike on
the West Coast, Is seamen walked
of the SIS. President Harrison. a
Dollar Liner, in this port yesterday.
The men who walked off are
members of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union.
A. Parrett and c. Frazer, two
seamen who were arrested aboard
the President Adams and lodged in
the Hudson County Jail in New Jer-
sey, charged with assault on the
high seas because they led a COM
mittee which presented demands to
the captain of the ship, have been
released from Jail.
The ship committee reports that
the crew of the President Adams
CONTINUED on Page 81
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Nevs Flash
Especial to the Daily worker)

Especial to the Daily Worker)
DETROIT, Mich, July 18.-After
their delegation had been muzzled
and then kicked out of the Office
Of County Welfare Superintendent
and P.W.A. Administrator Ballen-
ger, Detroit police this afternoon
attacked militant picket line OF
TOO relief workers who were demon
strating outside.
The picket line was part Of a
demonstration of $500. Mounted
police rode brutally into the crowd
of Negro and white workers, men,
women and children with them,
while cops on foot chased after
them with drawn clubs, displaying
revolyers.
One Negro worker was trampled
down by a mounted policeman and
then taken away in police car.
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a fight to keep the Lieutenant
Governor Ole Olson from taking
over the reins of Office in compli-
ance with decision of the State
Supreme Court. He hes called
1900 National Guardsmen and
state militia.
LANCER was convicted of steal
ing money from Federal relief
workers for political purposes. His
conviction was upheld by the State
Supreme Court, who ordered him
out of Office.
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Almost 10000 Out
In Textile Mills
Turnout Alabama
tspeeial 20 the pallr worker,


BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 49,
The textile strike is spreading in
the state, with $500 workers out at
Huntsville after mass picketing
closed the Fletcher Mill yesterday,
while special deputies with rifles
and machine guns failed to stop the
pickets.
Other main strike centers and the
approximate number of men out
are: Florence, 2,100; Birmingham,
1900; Gadsen, $780,; Admission,
$500; Alabama City, 1900.
These, together with the strikers
at Jasper, Cordova, Albertville, Gun
tersville, winfield and other towns
brings the total number to about
one-half of the states $4,000 tex
tile workers. Over 10000, it is
predicted, will be out by the end
Of the week.
Picketing is going on at the Avon
dale Mills here.
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Bergof Strikebreaking Agency Is Securing N. Y
for Men To Scab on Vest Coast Strikers

NEW YORK.-HoW workers here
are being rounded up for strike
breaking activities in San Fran
cisco was described by Georges An
spake, a former A. F. of L. man, who
reported his experiences to the Pro-
visional Committee in support of
the West Coast strike yesterday.
Anspake told of having been
stopped at 23rd st. and Broadway
and asked if he wanted a farm job
in San Francisco. Transportation,
maintenance and Sc day were to
be provided. Suspiciously Anspake
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1000 Seattle
WOrkersHa
9 Scab Ships
Repel Mounted Police ;
Officials Try To Stem
Gent Strike Demand
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
SEATTLE, Wash, July 49,
Every available policeman was
given a baseball bat at police
headquarters, this afternoon. and
ordered to Pier Al, where strikers
were hating trucks driven by
scabs.
SEATTLE, Wash, July l8-Strik-
ing marine workers and sympathiz-
ecs numbering 1900 stormed pier Al
here today to halt the loading OF
nine ships by scab labor.
The strikers were attacked BY
guards equipped with tear gas
bombs.
The workers quickly got out from
under the clouds of rea. gas. re-
formed their ranks and began pick
citing pier 40, where ships were also
being loaded by scabs. They hurled
many of the bombs into the water.
Police, in attacking the strikers,
used a specially equipped auto
Continued on Page p
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What the Role of the Communist Party Frisco General Strike
WHY the Savage Attack on Communists in
W San Francisco?

WHY the Savage Attack on Communists in
W San Francisco?
All the fury, all the venom of the West
Coast slave-driving class, of the rich para
sites and their hangers-on of the Roosevelt
regime, is aimed at the Communist Party.
Why at this stage of the inspiring San Fran
cisco general strike do the capitalist dogs
bark and tear most furiously at the Com
munist and militant working class fighters?
What the role and function Of the Communist Party
in the West Coast strike in all the battles Of the
American working class against their exploiters?
For nearly five years now, the American capitalist
class has been starving nearly 100000 workers and
their families, who unemployed. They have been
mercessly slashng wages in order to protect their
profits. The Roosevelt government speeded up this
process through the NRA, STOPPING to the most lurid
lies in order to fool the workers into accepting the
vicious MIRA. codes wage cuts worse conditions
From the very beginning of the present drastic eco
sonae crisis the Communists xsrs y the he'd nghsur
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entered the transportation bus, and
was informed by the other men
who had already been picked up
that it was job scabbing on the
longshoremen. The Bergoff De-
tective Agency was assuring them
plenty of protection.
Anspake exposed the scab herder
to those in the bus and 70 the crowd
that gathered, and the rat finally
closed the door and ran off. An
spake warned the workers: THE
buses are patrolling the parks and
the Bowery to pick up men for
ke-breaking."
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Bosses Reign of Terror
Aims to Smash Strike:
Govt Aids Gang Raids
MussOIini's Cops Jail
3 u. S. Strike Leaders
Of " ord Cruise Liner

GENOA, Italy, July 1S.-Mus-
solini's fascist police arrested
three leaders of the crew Of the
American Dollar world cruise
liner President Hayes last night.
after $50 members of the crew
struck in sympathy with the
seamen and longshoremen at
Saa Francisco
The seamen first struck al sea
on Sunday morning, delaying
the ship ten hours. YESTERDAY
they struck in port and the Of
ficers of the ship, unable to
handle the situation, called "a
the Italian fascist harbor militia
and police, who boarded the shin
and arrested three strike leaders.
The ship sailed for Marsellles
last night.
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Radio Men Voting By
Short Wave To Spread
Strike to Seven Seas

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1s-The
general strike spread to the seven
seas today with radio men aboard
ships voting by short wave radio to
join the walkoUt.
The radio men are members of
the American Radio Telegraph AS
ISOLATION.
Principles upon which the strike
vote was taken were short waved
al over the globe. Members of the
Association picked up the message
in far away ports and sent their
votes back to Frisco over radio.
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Call for Delegates
To Farewell Banquet
For MuenZenberg

NEW YORK-All workers and
anti-fascist organizations are urged
to elect delegations to the Free
Thaelmann" Rally and Farewell
Banquet for Will Muenzenberg, in
ternatianlly famous anti-fascist
leader, at the Bronx Coliseum, East
fifth Street, Thursday evening,
July 81.
Tickets for the banquet are go
cents and are being sold in adj
vance. Admission ticlsetS, without
the banquet, are Is cents in adj
vance and IS cents at the door. The
banquet and rally will be held in
the open air, with provisions for
shelter in event of rain.
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Governor LANCER, Who Stole Relief Money for
Politics, Calls State Troops To Keep Control

BISMARCK, N. D., July ia
Flaw and order" governor who re-
fuses to obey the law has pro-
claimed martial law throughout
the state Of North Dakota in an
effort to hold on to his remunera-
tive office in the face of a Su-
preme Court ruling for him to
quit.
The unlawful law-enforcing gov
ernor is William H. LANCER, who
has instituted. q reign by might in
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Today we must lay the ground
work for tomorrow's history. The
spread of the Daily Worker today
means a strong, well-organized
force Of militant workers, capable
Of stamping the dictates of the
proletariat upon tomorrow's pages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
By BILL DUNE


SAN FRANCISCO. CAL,
July 1S.-Gangster and police
terror, timed to coincide with
the efforts of the reactionary
union leaders to bring about
a split in the marine strike
forces by jamming through
special resolution dropping all
demands and turning every
thing over to arbitration,
swept through the Bay counties yes
terday and all last night.
Arrests are variously estimated
from two to three hundred. At
this writing it is impossible to
give exact figures. Directed at the
Communists, the raids, sluggings.
complete wreckage of halls and
homes, smashing Of all typewriters
and equipment and mass arrests
carried out by uniformed police.
special attachments of Legionnaires
reinformed by Bergoff gunner,
failed of their purpose. All night
long special patrols spied on hotels
and rooming houses looking for
outside agitators." They found
none. The Communist Party dis
trict workers are all still on the
job.
Large amounts Of literature are
being distributed, including a special
edition of the Western Worker.
Eleven places were raided and
wrecked yesterday and last night.
Latest figures are 200 arrested last
Continued on Page y
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Union Square to Ring
With Cries Of Solidarity
For Vest Coast Strikers
Thousands of Rank and File Members of A. F.
of L. To Attend Despite Refusal of Officials
To Cooperate in Meeting

NEW YORK.-Tens of thousands of workers are ex-
peced to hrong Union Square Thursday at pm to voice
their solidarity with the Frisco workers the great general
strike final plans for the demonstration completed
today by the New York Provisional Committee in Support of
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Green DenOunceS Coast
Strike 'Unauthorised,' y
Condonirlg Boss Terror
Disavows All Intention of Aiding Coast Strike
in Scab Arguments; Weinstock Flags
Statement i'm Wire

CHICAGO, Ill.,, July 1S.-In strike-breaking state
ment whose servty to the employers at time of nation
wide strike struggles has parallel in the history of Amer
lean labor William Green President of the American Fed
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Every worker throughout the country should know
that the attack against the Communists concerns them
because the bosses feel they successful smash-
ing the most militant leaders of the workers. they can
then turn their fire against every other section of the
working class.
That is what Hitler did that is what Mussolin did.
In order to protect their interests in order to fight
back the fascist attacks in the United States, every
worker whether Socialist, A. +. of L. members unor-
gained matter Of what religion should pro-
test against this brutal terror
WHO Are the Communists?
w The Communists part of the working class
They are the marine workers. the miners, the steel
workers, the shoe and needle workers farmers intel.
lectuals worker who convinced that the capi-
tast system is bringing misery to the entire working
Glass; and that it is necessary for the working class to
organize its revolutionary working class party to
fight for the every day needs of the workers and ul
tmatey to replace the capitalist system by the rule Of
the workers. The Communists will and cannot b
Continued on Page ~
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Especial to The Dany worker,

BAOAA pOhCC EdauGu tElc UcduHG6E-
tiers OF the Communist Party here.
Especial to the Daily Worker)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 49,
The majority of the workers are
enraged against the vandalism be-
ing practiced against the Conn
munist Party by police and fas-
cist mobs. The prestige of the
Communist Party is higher than
ever.
A mass movement TO defend the
Communist Party against attacks
has begun.
Stories in the capitalist press
saying that striking transfers
were part of the raiding parties
is not true They we're plain
clothes thugs, some of whom were
planted among the teamsters.
Vigilantes ordered the Western
Worker printer not to print any
Communist material, but this will
not stop the appearance of the
special strike issue.
All facts indicate that the mem
bers of the raiding parties are
members of Mayor Rossi's Com
mittee of 500.
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Shippers Want Cow
Board To Name Headf
of Unions
STRIKE HOLDS FAST
Vandeleur and Casey
Maneuver With Bosses
To Break Strike
BULLETIN

PORTLAND, Ore, July 49,
Forty workers were arrested and
a quantity Of literature seized
when police raided the headauar-
tiers OF the Communist Party here.
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WHO Are the Communists?

(Contiat,ed on Page ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19

Rush Cash or Liberty Bonds to International
Labor Defense. 80 E. 18th ST., New York City.
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