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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14
~ A. Il. C.P. Leaders Ordered
Torture, ScottsboroLa Reveal

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 10
The present monstrous torture of
the Scottsboro boys in jefferson
County jail here, is directly linked
to a pact between the leadership
Of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People and
the Alabama lynchers. it was re-
vealed today.
William Pickens, field secretary Of
the N.AA.C.P., visited the boys four
weeks ago in an effort to persuade
them to renounce the International
Labor Defense and accept a lynch
lawyer named by the N.AA.C.P.
Failing in this effort, Pickens,
who was accompanied by three
white Birmingham liberals" had
a conference with the prison au-
thorities.
Almost Immediately the present
reign of terror against the boys was
begun, and they were thrown into
solitary confinement, denied all
comforts sent them by workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14
Thaelmann Beaten When
He Refuses To Answer His
Nazi Inquisitors In Berlin
They Are Torturing Thaelmann!
Demand His Release!
CAN EDITo RIAL)

THE latest the condition of Comrade Thaemanns
health is than alarming The fascist boodhounds,
through daily torture trying to physically break the
leader of the Communist Party of Germany. They think
that if they break him physically they will weaken his
morale and prevent him from appearing before the Fascist court
another Dmrof They that Thaemann he
will the Indictment against the cm
nal bands who rule Germany.
The Fascist degenerae Goerng Hitler g. Co., fearful of Com
indictment the leader the Communist Party
Germany adopting the methods Of the Spanish inqution
Thaemann will break His morale will be high
he physically weakened him. Communism will
through millions workers chained by the brutal Fa
cist regime, will speak
American proletarat together with the workers all the
world voices:
TAEIMANN want Tnaelmann saved for the
of the German revolution for the of the world revoon
in all meetings Party in the trade unions in the
organizations where active resolution
test must be presented against the esta treatment of the leader
the Communist Party of Germany Conrade Thaemann-
must demand his immediate release!
protests the Gran Embassy! Send delegations
Consuae The streets Of America must with
the
THAELMANN MUST BE FREED
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14

throughout the country, and sub
jected to daily torture in an effort
to 'break" them.
Deputy Warden Dan Rogers has
openly told the boys that their
present confinement in solitary
cells will continue until they ae-
cept the defense" of the N. A.
A. C. p, the boys told visitor
who managed to get in to see
them.
It was revealed at the same time
that although it was almost impos-
sible for their LID. defense law
yers, or any relatives or friends OF
the boys, to get in to see them, rep
resentatives of the NA.ACP., in
GLIDING the Rev E. w. Taggart
local head of that organization
have had constant and easy access
to the prison.
The unholy alliance between the
leaders Of the NAA.CP. and Ala
Continued on Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14
Mass Anti-Wdr Strikes S'Ueep Colleges;
$4,000 Students Out in New York
Students United Front
Defy Administrations,
Police in Strikes

NEW YORK. - The anti war
movement in the high schools and
colleges Of the United States reach
ed the proportions of nationwide
mass movement as thousands of
students poured out of their class
rooms at II a. m. yesterday in a
protest strike against war and war
preparations.
In New York alone, about $4,000
high school and college students
went on strike.
The simultaneous strike Of the
students was organized by the Ma
tional Student League and the Stu
dent League for Industrial Democ-
racy, participating in united front
with the full support and coopera-
ton of the American League
Against War and Fascism.
C.C.N.Y. Students Defy AdminIstra-
ton
Defying the threats of the adj
ministration to punish any student
who strikes, 1900 students of City
College in New York massed into
the center Of the campus at II a. m.
to hear student speakers speak
against imperialist war and con-
denim the administration and mem
bers Of the faculty who had done
all in their power to halt the strike.
Hundreds more disregarded their
lecturers in the classrooms and
looked on at the mass below.
Dean Morton Gottschan, attempt
ing to emulate the peculiar be-
haviour of his chief, President Rob-
inson who attacked a student anti
ROTC demonstration with an UNI
brella last Spring, charged into the
students gathered around the flag
pole f1anked by several plainclothes-
men. In frenzied rage he tore the
banners and attacked Edwin Alex
ander, a member of the NSL., who
was speaking at the time.
The angry roar of the students
who surged forward when their lead
err was attacked, halted the Dean
and the detectives from breaking
up the meeting. Several cars filed
with police arrived. The cops
Continued on Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14
CWA Picket Line at Welfare
Department at 10 AM. Today
To Demand Jobs or
Cash Relief for All
Unemployed

NEW YORK.-Mass picket lines,
called by the Committee of One
Hundred of the United Action
Conference Against Unemployment,
will converge in front of Com
missioner of Welfare Hodson's Of
flee at So Lafayette St., at ten
o'clock this morning. The pickets
will demand jobs or equivalent
cash relief for all fired @. w. A.
workers. Picketing will continue
throughout the day.
The Action Committee OF 100,
which met Thursday night, is COM
posed of delegates from many I'M
employed, c. w. A. and other
workers organizations. Five re-
gional committees, one in each bor-
ough, were set up Thursday night.
1t was reported that the picket
ing, for return Of their jobs to
all fired G. w. A. workers, which
the committee has been conducting
at various G. W. A. and relief Of
fees, has brought considerable re-
suits. The Pharmaceutical project
reported that 81 fired workers had
been re-instated and given their
jobs back as the result of picket
ing.
The Regional Committee of the
Action Committee of 100 will call
meetings of all laid-off c. w. A.
workers on all projects, and then
go with these laid-off workers to
Hodson's office to demand their
reinstatement. The Committee of
100 announced that all morgan
lied C. w. A. workers who have
been fired should go to the picket
lines at Hodson's office and there
picket captains will go with them
to demand reinstatement.
The Committee of 100 set up a
committee of five to bring before
the larger committee all cases of
discrimination. Sol Harper, a mem
Der of the committee, pointed out
that the Department of Welfare
has been forced to give a few
Negroes unemployed relief. Har-
per himself was denied relief for
long while as well as G. w. A..
job, but the action of the COM
mittee finally secured him relief.
Harper urged all those who finally
secure relief, to keep up the strug-
gle for the others. He urged all
Negroes to picket the welfare of
flee this morning in the fight for
jobs and cash relief.
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of L. opposition group has ordered
200. The Prospect Workers Club
has ordered 500.
April % and 90 have been set
aside as a Red Weekend. Glass
conscious workers throughout the
country are urged to mobilize for
the largest mass sale of the May
Day Edition on these two Red
Honor Days. Every working class
organization is called upon to mo-
billie its membership to spread the
May Daily" on April % and 20.
Special publication arrangements
have been made so that the districts
will receive the May issue in time
for distribution on April % and 20.
Do your revolutionary part to
spread this edition. See to it that
your organization places bundle
order Get greetings for the May
Day edition. Help reach half
million new American workers with
the May issue of the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14
A. F. L. Leaders Find II
Difficult to Hold
Workers Back
ANDERSON CHEERED
Smith, MESA Secretary,
in Betrayal Role
lspecial 70 the Daily Workerl

DETROIT, Mich, April IS.
Following the meeting of
two thousand five hundred
members Of the Mechanics
Education Society of America
at Deutsches Haus last night four
thousand tool and die makers went
on strike at midnight. The strike
involves eighty-four shops which
have refused to grant the demands
for twenty per cent increase in
wages, the thirty six hour week and
other demands.
The meeting also decided in favor
of a meeting Monday night to take
up the calling Of general strike
affecting all tool and die makers
and the big companies if the strike
is not settled then. The vote to
strike which was overwhelmingly in
the affirmative was taken following
talks by Mathew Smith, General
Secretary Of the Mechanics Educa-
tional Society and John Anderson
militant production organizer Of
loo~. seven. John Anderson, who
was greeted by applause as he came
to the platform, pointed out the
need for a militant strike policy
and carrying the tool and die fight
into the big companies, uniting the
ranks solidly and involving the pro-
duction workers Of the big COM
panies.
Anderson Cheered
Cheering rocked the packed hall
for many minutes as he concluded
his talk with the remark: Lets
give them good fight, and we will
win"
No program, however, was de-
veloped at the meeting to carry
through the policy outlined by An
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14
Soviet Air1nen
Rescue Last g
Off Polar Ice
Stain Creets Heroes
Who Receive Order
of Lenin
Especial to the Daily Worker)

MOSCOW, April IS (By Radio
In last dash over the ice, the last
of the marooned members of the
Chelyuskin Arctic expedition were
Snatched from the fast-breaking ice
foes and carried to the mainland
Thus ends the thrilling rescue OF
100 of the Chelyuskin expedition
members who were marooned since
Feb. 10 when their ship sank
crushed between icebergs.
Upon the news of the final rescue,
the following telegram was sent to
Prof Otto Schmidt, leader of the
expedition, and the other members:
Greetings and hearty congra-
buttons to the valiant Chelyuskin-
ers who cOurageously struggled
against stern nature in the Arctic
and steadfastly bore all the rigors
of the North icebound for two
months.
TN accordance with the request
of the Central Executive Commit
tee of the U.S.S.R., the Order of
the Red Star is conferred on all
the Chelyuskiners, and on Ush-
akOv and Petroy.
"a monument will be erected in
Moscow in commemoration of the
Arctic exploits of the Chelyuskin.
All Chelyuskiners will receive a
bonus amounting to half years
salary"
This telegram was signed by
Stain, Molotov, Voroshilov, Kuib-
yshev and Zhanov.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14
Six Nem York Sections Order
5000 Copies Of May ''Daily''

NEW YORK. = Orders by New
York Sections of the Communist
Party for the Forthcoming "a full
page size edition of the May Day
edition of the Daily Worker are>set-
ting new all-time record in the
history of our Daily"
Six New YORK sections alone have
already placed orders for total of
$4,000 copies. These are: Section 2,
with an order for $4,000; Section 4,
10000; Sections 1, 8, II and IS, with
orders for 10000 each.
Additional Orders
Orders for 5000 copies each have
been placed by Sections 5, 6, 7, IL
and IA. Section 10 has ordered 1000.
The United Shoe and Leather
Workers Union has ordered 1000.
An order for 1900 copies has been
placed by the Cafeteria Workers
Union, affiliated with the Food
Workers Industrial Union. TIL e
Pocketbook Workers Union, A. F.
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Continued on Page 10)
Hartford Strikes
Spread AS Chance
Vought Men Vote
Strikers in Aviation
Industry Continue
Solid
Special to the Daily worker)

HARTFORD, Conn, April 49,
The workers of the Chance Vought
Co. here, one of the airplane fac
tories, did not join the strike of the
airplane workers today because of
the traditional hard luck Friday the
thirteenth. The workres stated.
however, that their demands were
presented, and they will strike on
Monday.
The 1,400 Pratt and Whitney.
Hamilton Propeller and United Air
port strikers remain solid in their
strike, demanding go cents to S1.O5
hourly minimum wages.
The strikers of the Arrow plant
were still in a meeting with the
bosses as the Daily Worker went to
press.
Yesterdays Daily Worker incor-
rectly stated that the workers of
Terry Turbine plant were voting to
strike. Instead, they we're continu-
ing solid in their strike which had
already been called
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14
1000 Auto Parts
Workers Walk Out
In Toledo Factory
ALL. Leaders Try to
Stop Mass Picketing,
Police Active
Especial to the Daily Worker

TOLEDO, Ohio, April 13-Two
thousand workers in the Electric
Auto Lite plant struck today for a
10 per cent raise, recognition Of the
union, seniority rights and equal
pay for workers performing the
same work The strike was called
by the United Automotive Workers
Union at a meeting Of the workers
Thursday night. OF the thousand
workers on the first shift all struck
except about 100. and on the second
shift about 100 scabs went in
The wages for production workers
in this factory is A cents per hour,
which is 10 per cent less than be-
fore the NR.A, and for women
only 81 per cent. The department
struck six weeks ago, but we're sent
back in by the A. p. of L. pending
arbitration on April /. The local
union officials told the strikers that
they can have only six picketS in
front of each gate according to law.
Ramsey, A. F. Of L. union leader,
attempted to settle for a per cent
raise but later told the strikers he
was only feeling out the company"
Police Make Arrests
At 2 o'clock about 1900 strikers
massed in front Of the factory in
binding snow storm to pull out the
second shift. The captain of pick
cts, together with the police drove
the workers across the street on the
excuse that the sidewalk was com
pany property and that the A. F.
of L. was opposed to mass picket
ing anyway
AS result many scabs went in
unmolested. K. Eggert, organizer
of the Trade Union Unity League,
when he attempted, with the sup
port of many workers, to form a
mass picket line was dragged across
the street by police at the request
of the A. F. of L. captain of pickets.
Many Other Strikes
Another worker attempting to
form a mass picket line was ar
rested. but was taken from the po-
lice by militant strikers.
Strikers Of the Electric Auto Lite
demand q large rank and file strike
committee and a mass picket line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14
NJ a n h an
Cabnen Back
Orner, Gilbert
Racketeers Guided By
S. p. Leaders Take
Union Funds

NEW YORK.-Whi1e the capital
list press and the Socialist weekly
New Leader was shouting with &C.
stacy that Samuel Orner and Joseph
Gilbert, outstanding leaders Of the
general taxicab strike, were ousted
from the Taxi Drivers Union Of
Greater New York, Manhattan driv-
erS, meeting at Irving Plaza Hall at
4 am. and S pm, yesterday, voted
full confidence in the two leaders.
Late Thursday group of gang
sters under the personal leadership
Of Max Weiner, petty racketeer,
and Cecil Maurer, who acted as a
strikebreaker in the 1881 dress
strike, both Of whom worked their
way into the union during the sec
ond strike, broke up meeting Of
garage chairmen who came to the
union hall to hear a report from
Orner on the next steps to be taken
to strengthen the union.
Steal Union Funds
1t was also learned that these two
men, along with William Rubin, had
taken all the union funds out of
the bank and had declared them
selves the leaders of the union and
with a force of gangsters had taken
over the union offices on And st.
The garage chairmen, "a in all,
continued their meeting at 131 w.
18th st. with the gangsters absent.
Packing Irving Plaza Hall at 4
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14
Nash Strike
Is Sold Out
In Kenosha
Forced Vote to Return,
But Picketing
Continues

(Speclal TO the DaIly Worker)
MILWAUKEE,. Wis, April 49,
The Kenosha Nash auto workers
yesterday voted 629 to S76 in favor
of accepting the settlement terms
proposed to the 1900 strikers by the
automobile National Labor Board.
The Demands met were not those
originally put forward by the
strikers but were the same as the
Roosevelt Board proposed, with an
additional five percent, which means
1,400 will receive a five per cent in
crease and the balance on strike up
to II and half per cent. About a
thousand men did not vote and the
vote was pushed over by the higher
union officials of the A. F. Of l..
who utilized members of craft
unions, machinists tool and die
makers, etc., to stampede the rest of
the membership. In fact they sep
arated the demands of the skilled
workers from those Of unskilled
workers in the production depart
mentS. The Rank and file fought
nilitantly and brilliantly on the
floor, pointing out that the small
raise will mean little to the men, as
living costs in the past few weeks
have jumped rapidly to absorb the
increase. The rank and file insisted
the strike be continued until all
demands we're won.
The Federal Union Local has 1900
men but only a thousand partici-
pated in the voting. There are at
least another thousand Nash work
ers unorganized who participated in
strike picketing ETC., but being nom
union men, had no chance to ex-
press an opinion in the meeting.
Milikenti, the Chairman Of the Nash
local union, although sympathetic
with rank and file demands, as
sumed a neutral position instead of
fighting agressively. Alth GU g h
honest, he made a big mistake by
acting this way. Because of agree
ment with Racine and Milwaukee
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14
Men In Big Auto
Plants FESTIVE
After Walk-Out
Hunter College Girl,
Unpaid By Relief
Jumps from. 18th Floor

NEW YORK.-Dorothy Scheer,
Hunter College student, at
tempted suicide by jumping from
the fourth story window of the
college, a group of her fellow
students told the Daily Worker
yesterday. She is in a critical
condition at the Metropolitan
Hospital.
The students declared that
Dorothy had been working for
the F.E.RA. at the rate of SIS
a month, but she had not been
paid for six weeks. Her fellow
students declared that Dorothy,
who is an orphan, had been
respondent because of financial
difficulties.
1t was reported at the hospital
that she had a fractured skull
and internal injuries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14
Especial to the Daily worker

Especial 10 the Dally WOrkerl
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, April 49,
The Minneapolis Central Labor
Union of the A. F. of l.. joined the
long list of workers organizations
protesting the arrests and frame up
proceedings of the 37 workers who
were arrested following he victory
of the g. w. A. and jobn : demon
stration in forcing the Cit. Council
to grant all their demands. The
A. F. of L. resolution of protest de-
manded the immediate release of all
the workers and protested against
the proposed ordinance of Chief of
Police Johannes which would pro-
hibit parades, marches and demon
STATIONS.
In addition to the resolution from
the Central Labor Union the paint
ers union, the Iron Workers Union,
and the A1nalgamated Clothing
Workers Union and many others
have joined the flood of protests.
Is Join Communist Party
1WCl1Oy live WOl hGlS JOlllSQ bl1C
Communist Party at three of the
series of mass meetings which the
Communist Party is calling for the
release of the workers.
The defense witnesses proved at
the court that the demonstration
was peaceful until the police at
tackled the workers. Among the
witnesses who have so far been
called by the defense were a former
school teacher, two ex-servicemen,
a carpenter and machinists, all of
whom volunteered to appear as
witnesses.
An attempt is being.made to frame
S. K. Davis, the spokesman of the
delegation, who is also a G. w. A.
worker.
New York c. w. A. Workers Protest
Among the food of protests that
are being sent in by workers and
workingclass organizations through
out the country. Is resolutions sent
by Is New York G. w. A. projects
were received by the court,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14
Huge Loan TotaIIing
$I7,272,OOO Giuen
Railroads By PWA

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 10
The Public Works Administra-
ton today brought its total of
loans" to railroads to $171, 272,-
900 by signing contracts for the
loan of $3,600,0O0 to the New
York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad. Twenty three railroads
have received this huge sum,
which Roosevelt had promised
would go towards giving workers
jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14
Gigantic Mass Pressure
Needed to Save Him,
Says Gallagher
SECRET TRIAL DUE
Quick, Powerful Action
Imperative

PARISH has just been
learned that on the day fol-
lowing the death of Kattner,
stool-pigeon who had been
counted on by the Nazis as a
chief witness against Ernst Thael-
mann. leader of the German Com
munist Party, Thaelmann was
brought before a group of officials
of the Nazi secret police. He was
ordered to tell what he knew about
Kattner.
Il don't speak to Nazis," replied
the working class leader.
The Storm Troopers who held
him we're then given the order to
beat him, and he was fogged with
steel rods and rubber blackjacks
until he was taken back to his cell,
bleeding and nearly unconscious.
Thaelmann, who was arrested a
year ago, is awaiting trial on a
charge of high treason" for being
the leader Of the Communist Party
OF Germany. He is kept in a light
less cell, chained hand and foot, day
and night. No one has been al
Iced to see him for many weeks.
is trial, often postponed by the
n els, who fear giving him a voice,
even in a secret Nazi court, has
been postponed many times. 1t may
BEGIN at any time, and probably will
begin secretly, without announce
ment.
Gallagher Appeals for ThaeImann
DETROIT, Mich, April 49,
"Only mass mobilization and mass
pressure now before the trial begins
can save Ernst Thaelmann, leader
OF the Communist Party of Ger
many" declared Leo Gallagher,
gray-haired fighting labor attorney
In an interview today.
Gallagher, who was present at the
Reichstag fire trial as attorney for
George Dimitroff, is now here on
a national speaking tour under the
auspices of the International Labor
N~NASAApSs AlC DOOhE dO UOQdY on
FaScism in Germany, at a luncheon
at the Lawyers Club for Labor De-
Tense. Tonight he and Mrs. Ada
Wright, mother of two Scottsboro
boys, will be guests of honor at a
banquet at Germania Hall. Sunday
at $3.50 pm, they will speak at a
mass meeting at Danceland Audi
forum, 1859 Woodward Ave.
THE danger to Thaelmann's life
cannot be exaggerated" Gallagher
said. - may be that the govern
ment may try to assaSsinate him on
the ground of attempting to escape.
If they bring him to trial, the fas-
cists will avoid some of the mis-
takes they made in the Reichstag
fire trial Tt will be a quick and
secret trial with the death sentence
decided in advance, and will form
a precedent for similar trials of
other working class leaders.
Only mass pressure throughout
the world can prevent this from
happening, just as mass pressure
Continued on Page 10)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14
Minneapolis CWA
Workers Released
On Reduced Bail
Rochester Relief Men
Strike for More
Pay
BULLETIN

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, April 10.
-Four thousand workers on the
Rochester Monroe County Relief
projects laid down tools today at
the call of central committee,
which is using the strike to put
over higher budget.
The committee told the work
ers to go to movies because I'VE
will take care of everything"
The Rank and File relief work.
ers organization supports the
strike and appeals to workers to
fight abolition of the budget sys-
tenn, and demand wages equal to
CWA.
The Rank and File have issued
a call for mass pcketing Satur-
day, 2 p. m, at Washington
Square.