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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
By GEORGE WISHNAK

Business Manager of the Daily Worker
IT HAS been year now since the Daily
Worker appealed to its readers and
sympathizers for funds necessary to its
continuance and expansion The $4,000
collected last year was sparingly used,
going to meet outstanding obligations, as
well as to cover emergencies caused by
the sharpening crisis in the United States.
At time when strike waves pile one upon the
other when the threat of war takes on an ever
more menacng Tone when Fascism undisguised
leaps from the dark ambushes Of reaction the prob
lens and responsibilities of revolutionary press
grow daily greater 1t becomes next to impossible
to operate long-term budget without sacrificing
some OF the organizing possibilities of workers
newspaper.
Daily Must Meet Nep Deal Attacks
In order to maintain its role in order to
tight, vigorously and coursgeousIy, the hydra
headed enemies that mushroom from the rank soil
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
ICREEN DECLARES WAR ON MILITANT AL WORKERS
Browder In Appeal
Spurs N. Y. Toilers
For Herndon Rally
BY EARL BROWDER
General Secretary, Communist
Party, U. s. A.

The Herndon meeting in the
Bronx Coliseum on Wednesday
which is at the same time a COM
memoration of the death of Sacco
and Vanzetti, and a mobilization in
the struggle for the lives and free
dom of the Scottsboro boys, Angelo
Herndon, Ernst Thaelmann, and in
defense of the West Coast victims
of the fascist reaction, is one of ma
tional importance.
At this meeting, the workers Of
New York will extend a mass
greeting to Angelo Herndon, heroic
Negro organizer, who has just
been released on $4,000 bail from
Fulton Tower Jail.
This meeting must not only be a
greeting. 1t must be mass pledge
by the workers of New York, for an
intensified fight to secure the COM
plete freedom of Angelo Herndon
and the Scottsboro boys, for a
f1ercer fight against fascism and
fascist lynch terror.
I urge every worker and every
sympathizer in New York to pledge:
mo more Sacco-V anzetti murders, !"
by coming to this meeting. Express
this pledge in action. Come pre-
pared to make a contribution for
the Scottsboro-H erndon Emergency
Defense Fund of the International
Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Rank and File
Urge Spread
Of Bus Strike

CHICAGO, Aug. 19.-Bus drivers
of the Chicago Motor Coach Com
pany continued to picket the
garages of the company today in
the four-day old strike against the
firing of twenty-four union mem
bers of the A. F. of l.. who acted
as organizers, against company
unionism, and for recognition OF
their union.
A powerful mobilization of police
surrounded the garages and ter
ninals as the pickets took up their
pests.
While it was obvious that a
majority of the drivers are not out,
there seemed some possibility that
the strike movement may take hold
and become effective in tying up
the Motor Coach Lines.
The Rank and File Committee of
the union distributed leaf1et yes
terSay urging militant mass picket
ing and the spreading of the strike
to all surface lines and IL" work
ers.
Although there is some talk by
A. F. of l.. leaders about calling
all transportation workers out on
strike, no such call has been issued
nor will it be issued unless the rank
and file of the union force them to
it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Broavder Writes Thomas for Prompt Action
On Unity Pledge Made at Youth Congress

NEW YORK. - Citing Norman
Thomas's speech before the Amer
lean Youth Congress at New York
University last Thursday, in which
the Socialist Party leader indicated
he was in favor Of establishing a
united front on specific issues be-
tween Socialists and Communists in
America, Earl Browder has sent a
letter to Thomas urging prompt &C.
ton:
The letter follows:
THE Central Committee of the
Communist Party, U. S. A. has
taken note of your speech before
the American Youth Congress on
August l6. Your statements APP
proving of the united front of all
anti-fascist fighters in the Ameri-
can Youth Congress, your approval
of the united front in France be-
tween the Socialist Party and the
Communist Party. your endorse
ment of the Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance Bill, H.
R. 1898, and your expression of
hope for and opinion of the pos
sibility of the realization of the
united front in the United States
between the Socialist Party and the
Communist Party on these and sim
liar issues are greeted by the Gen.
trail Committee of the Communist
Party of the U. S. A. as factors con-
siderably increasing the possibilities
OF progress towards building a
united front, if these statements
are really followed up by practical
arrangements for real mobiliza-
ton of the workers for united &C
ion.
In connection with this, we fur
Their note the August 4th manifesto
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
LegionWould
Decree Death
for Militants

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 49,.
Death for those advocating Com
munism-that's what leaders of the
American Legion have advocated at
their convention in session here.
Besides a resolution asking that
deportation proceedings be trans
ferred from the Department of
Labor to the Department OF Justice
and an expected resolution for the
establishment of an American penal
colony for Communists and militant
workers in Barren Islands, Alaska,
the convention has brought in a
series of fascist proposals which in
clude new definition of treason
in the second degree" punishable by
Imprisonment up to 100 years.
Treason by this definition would
cover circulation of literature
advocating class antagonism, the
teaching of doctrine inimical to
the state" or the meeting of three
or more persons to commit such
acts. The project is to procure the
passage of such legislation in Cali
fornia as the beginning of a ma
tional drive.
A resolution condemning Secre-
tary of Labor Perkins for not de-
porting Communists seized in bay
district raids was killed after she
assured them by phone that she
was not lax in deporting aliens. An
attempt to petition Congress to re-
Scind recognition of Russia also
failed, though a resolution was
passed commencing the American
Federation of Labor for it's anti
Soviet announcements voiced by
Matthew VOL, and for expelling
radicals from it's membership.
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Continued on Page 81

becomes more pressing. Further de-
lay will strengthen the enemies of
the workers.
The Central Committee Of the
Communist Party, U. S. A. has fur
ther noted your statement that the
National Executive Committee of
the Socialist Party will consider the
proposals of the Communist Party
at its coming meeting in September,
as well as your indication of OBJ
form of demands being made in So
cialist Party circles for laying down
stacles to favorable action in the
conditions for the united from.
With a view to the quickest pos
Sible overcoming of all obstacles,
we propose a preliminary meeting
TO discuss these questions before
the meeting of your National Ex-
ecutive Committee, with the aim of
eliminating as far as possible in adj
vance all such obstacles. This be-
comes especially important in view
of the seeming difficulty of obtain
ing prompt decisions on these ques-
tons by your Committee in order
to overcome those technical and
other difficulties mentioned in your
speech. Such consultation. if pos
sihle, should be between spokesman
of the two Parties, officially au hor-
lied to negotiate, but if this is not
possible, we are prepared to consult
with individuals not ofncially authr-
lied as yet to formulate binding
agreements.
May we urge upon you the i'm
portance of a prompt response?
"Fraternally yours,
EARL BROWDER,
General Secretary, Com
munist Party, u. s. A"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Green Fights Rank and File
A N E 1T RIAL

WILLIAM GREEN Federation Labor
" and the Executive l.
upon the rank and file of their
Inns is the real meaning of the statement issued
Green urging holy crusade against Communists
PROBABLY one OF the
members ever made by who himself
aimed at Communists aione campaign of ter
rcrs against any A. F. of L. uionist
genuine struggle against the employers
movement-the Greens, ilk
Green's statement
the rank file spirit of
revolt against the corrupt policies of clique
al the mead OF which is William
Francisco Green's eyeand he shnks
horror In Frisco the file longshoremen
eceo their own strike committee
own demands that eliminated the
the rank and e showed their latent
OUT against the seout policies of the odne
strikes have
and fLe took matters into their
me rcst of the national Textile
Workers for cotton under pressure of an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
a n s
Ote'Under
Bayonets
Results Withheld While
Propaganda Dept.
'Arranges' Them
BULLETIN

BERLIN. Aug. $50 great Is
the opposition vote to Hitler, that
even the partial returns made by
the Ministry of Propaganda of the
Nazi regime show that in Berlin
out of 81 per cent of the precincts
S46,175 voted yes, while 1859
voted no.
Over 179,8OO ballots were 'in-
validated" which means either a
vote for Ernst Thaelmann or
slogans against fascism.
BERLIN, Aug. Extreme ter
ror, and in many places brutal vio-
lence, marked the fraudulent plebis-
cite today in which German voters
were threatened to vote Yes for
the proposition that Hitler is to be
Reichsfuehrer, the supreme dictator
of Germany. Prisoners in the Nazi
concentration camps, at the point of
bayonets, were forced to declare
their approval Of Hitler.
More than 40,000.000 votes were
said to have been cast, but the final
results will not be announced until
midnight, when Hitler is expected
to greet the great show of con
fidence' in him, manufactured in
the Ministry of Propaganda, which
counts the ballots.
So vicious have been the threats
against the voters, that the entire
capitalist world was forced before
hand to acknowledge that whatever
official results may be announced,
they must be considered valueless
either as evidence of the actual vote
cast, or of the confidence of the
German people in Hitler. The Paris
press declares that the vote was
unanswered" before the ballots
were cast. Whatever the actual out
come, only the wishes OF the Nazi
butchers of Germany will be made
public
Only 30 Seconds to Vote
In order to prevent voters from
using the ballots to protest fsscism
or to write in their vote for Ernst
Thaelmann, imprisoned leader of
the Communist Party of Germany
who was put forward by the Com
munist Party as the central figure
in the fight against fascism, the
Nazi polling officials allowed the
voters only 80 seconds in which to
mark their ballots. Those taking
longer were under suspicion and in
many places terrorized and threat
ened.
In the last November plebiscite,
hundreds Of thousands of workers
and other anti-fascists at the great
est risk wrote slogans on their bal
lots against Hitler and Fascism.
Free Ernst Thaelmann' Down
with Fascism!" Long Live Soviet
Germany" were some of the slogans
written into the ballots at that
time. Many workers were arrested
and imprisoned for these deeds.
Early in the day, huge numbers
of armed police and picked Storm
Troops, secret police (Gestapo),
(COntinued on PAGE ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
BY CARL REEVE

NEW YORK-The United Textile
Workers Convention. in its con-
Guiding hours. voted to strike in
the silk, rayon and WOODEN and
wo-sted industry, in addition to the
cotton textile industry.
Date for the walkouts in these
industries is left to the executive
boards of the union departments
and the executive board of the
U.T,W. In the cotton textile in
dustry the convention earlier voted
inst-ucting the executive board that
it must call the cotton textile strike
before Sept. l.
In all approximately 850OoO tex
tile workers are invo.ved, including
$4,000 in silk and rayon, 10000
wooden aid worsted workers; $4,000
synthetic rayon workers and the
rest in the cotton textile industry.
REEVE Opposes Strike in silk
Russell Wood, president of the
Pennsylvania Silk Workers Fedora
ton. told the convention that the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
100000 is NEEDED!
Funds Must Be Raised Immediately Monthly Dfci
of Daily for Past Year-Launching NewY Daily Worker
and Improved National Edition in October Necestates
Immediate Action

Of the New Deal the Daily Worker can only go
forward. To turn back, or hold itself in check be-
cause Of financial limitations means the betrayal Of
those purposes to which paper is dedicated
There can be no turning back nor can the only
American daily newspaper for workers fail to meet
each new development of capitalism's open warfare
on the rights living standards and security Of the
working class
Within reasonable limits, the Daily Worker must
be in position to expand and improve before
events can occur which will further endanger the
growing organizatonal unity Of American workers
100000 Deficit Must Be Met
The cost OF operating the Daily Worker grows
with each added page, with each new reader with
each new feature and addition to the staff For
the past year, the Daily Worker has incurred an
average deficit of $4,000 per month-s6O600 in ALL
This deficit Is smaller than the Of the previous
year, due to increased income from circulation and
advertising, but 1t is imperative that it be met at
once.
In the matter Of improvements the establish
CONTINUED on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Acts After
W ar Threat
ByJapan
Prepares for Armed Ac.
ton as Preliminary
to Road Seizure

SHANGHAI, Aug. 19-Instigated
by the japanese war lords, the
Manchukuan puppet government
today broke off all relations with
the Soviet Union. This drastic step
follows hard upon open threats of
war against the U.S.S.R. published
in the Japanese press, and whole
sale series of arrests of Soviet citi-
zenS employed on the Chinese
Eastern Railway.
Though the Soviet Union has
never recognized Manchukuo, deal
ing directly with the Japanese gov
eminent on the question of the
proffered sale of the Chinese East
ern Railway, the Foreign Ministry
of Hsinking, capital of Manchukuo,
today issued provocative state
ment which will further speed the
rapid war moves of Japanese inn
perialism along the Soviet border.
Pending satisfactory settlement
of the border incidents no diplo-
matte channels are available to adj
just future armed incidents along
the Manchukuo-Sovie frontier. A
protest is being made by the Man
chukuo authorities against Soviet
guards firing upon four Mancnukuo
steamers navigating the Amur
River, as well as Soviet military
planes flying over Suifenho.'
The statement that mo diplo-
matte channels are available to adj
just future armed Incidents" in
dicates that the Japanese puppet
government is preparing for some
armed action preliminary to the
seizure of the Chinese Eastern Rail-
way and war against the Soviet
Union.
Follows Open Threats
The Manchukuan provocative ac-
ton comedies with declarations
that open threats will be made
against the Soviet Union by the
Japanese foreign office.
A spokesman for the Japanese
foreign Office declared to an Asso-
ciated Press correspondent on Sat
AANNJ OAAoV VIC OdPdllCSC SONCIll-
ment "is considering the possibility
of sending a general warning to
the Soviet Union"
Food trains on the Chinese East
ern Railway have been completely
halted by the Manchukuan authori-
ties, and Tass (Soviet official news
agency declared that this virtual
elimination of food cars would
cause the Soviet employees of the
railroad great hardship.
The assistant stationmaster of
the GER. at Hardin, Soviet citi-
zen, who has been imprisoned since
Aug. 4, has gone on hunger
strike.
The rapid moves to war against
the Soviet Union, which are now
reaching a critical point, followed
the complete refusal of the Japan
CONTINUED on PAGE q
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of the Bureau Of the Labor and
Socialist International, which re-
cognizes that:
apanese imperialism has
taken new offensive, has con-
luered the three northeastern
provinces Of China and united
them into puppet state under
its domination, and is arming it
self for an attack on the Soviet
Union, while constantly repeating
its provocations. ImperiaIist forces
In Germany and Poland are wait
ing for this moment in order to
begin war of plumber against
the Soviet Union. Only the most
energetic struggle against the i'm
perialist and fascist forces can
save Europe and the world from a
new war.
Although this manifesto OF the
L. S. I. does not specifically men
ton the problem of the united
front, it is clear that without a Sc
rious effort to realize such a united
struggle, the document would be re-
duced to empty demagogy.
In view of the extreme sharpen
Ing OF this war danger, shown in
the current news from the Far East
revealing Japanese imperialism
plans for seizure of the Chinese
Eastern Railway as the beginning
of an attack against the Soviet
Union, in view of the mounting
wave of struggle against Hitler fas-
cism in Germany, in view of the
rising threat of fascsm in the
United States, typified by the Cali
fornia terror and the growing use
OF martial law and supprsssive
measures against strikes, the need
for concrete agreement for action
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
A. F. OF L. RANK AND FILE
HEAD DENOUNCES GREEN'S
STATEMENT

NEW YORK. - Louis Weinstock,
head Of the American Federation of
Labor Rank and File Committee for
Unemployment Insurance, stated
yesterday that the declaration OF
the A. F. of L. Executive Council
against Communists" was actually
the beginning of "a holy war
against militant delegates who will
oppose the Green policies at The
coming state conventions OF the A.
F. of L. ard the annual convention
of the Federation itself in October"
WeinstccS promised a more de-
tailed statemen. of the position O.
the Rank and File Committee to-
day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
35 Fired After Food
Strike in CCC Camp

LAUREL, Miss, Aug. 19.-Thirty-
five c. c. c. workers we're fired from
Camp Covett here last week after
a food strike. The c. c. C. camp
workers struck early last week.
Other food was given them with
the order to eat it. When thirty
five still refused to touch the food
end demanded decent healthful
food at all meals, they were given
q hurried court martial and dis
charged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Strikes in Five Industries
Voted by Textile Convention

silk workers will walk out on strike
regardless of the vote of the con-
vention. Frank Schweitzer. who
related to the convention how diff
cult it had been previously to in
duce the Paterson silk workers to
accept 3 per cent cut in wages
without striking, declared, IF strike
action is not taken in the silk in
dustry our union will be destroyed"
Schweitzer, as chairman of the
resolutions committee, brought in
the motion to strike in the silk in
dustry at the same time as cotton,
or before Sept. l. An amendment,
however, left the date to the ex-
ecutive boards of the departments
and of the UT.W. executive board
in all depa- tments except the cot
ton textile.
In the prolonged debate on
whether TO strike in the silk in
dustry, Emil Rieve, Socialist Party
leader, virtually acted as Mac
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Demands
Expulsion
Of Reds
Red Scare is Designed to
Terrorize Opposition
At Convention

AL Ian III I, N. D.,
Aug. 19.-In the most vici-
GUS attack on the rank and
file of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor known to
recent labor history, William
Green, president of the A. F.
OF L., announced a war on Com
munists" and all members who
come into conflict with the Fedora
ton leadership.
Green's statement is seen as the
opening blast in the national cam
paign of the reactionary A. F. of
L. leadership to terrorize the mill
tant rank and file in preparation
for the Federation's national con-
ven ion in San Francisco, at which
thousands of rank and filers hope
to see expressed. their deep resen9-
ment at the sell-out policies of their
chiefs.
Already three International
unions in convention have in
tructed their delegates 10 fight for
the Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill at the A. F.
of L. convention, and many locals
have prepared resolutions condemn
ing the reactionary policies of the
Greenwich machine.
It is against this growing ex-
preston of rank and file militancy
that Green raises his new red
scare"
His statement, patterned closely
after the fascist speech of General
johnson in Berkeley, California,
during the San Francisco general
strike, declares that Communism is
not so much concerned with eco
nomic Improvement. 1t is organized
for the purpose of political revolu-
ton. It sees in every strike an
opportunity for the purpose of
oyerthrowing the existing order, to
promote revolution and to destroy
capitalism and establish Soviesism.
Three-Point Program
Declaring that "the philosophy of
Communism is in direct conflict
with the philosophy of trade union
ism and the American Federation of
Labor the statement calls for
holy war upon Communis. S and
trade union militants. Three points
are proposed in the fight against
the A. F. of L. rank and file, the
first of which is expulsion from the
unions, the second the use of police
authorities against militant rank
and fllers, and the third, recon-
mendation of deportation for allen
Communists"
Denying that the recent growth
of sentiment among the members of
the A. F. of L. against the Execu-
tive Council and it's sell-out poll
cies have alarmed the leadership,
the statement declares that q. the
Executive Council is in no way
alarmed over the situation created
as a result of the activities of the
Communists.
Aimed at al Opponents of Green
That the statement is aimed at
anyone who opposes Green and his
clique is amply testified by the Ian
guage of the document when it de-
clares that /. +. they (the Com
munists) avoid going SO far as to
make it clear that they are Com
munists and are engaged in fur
thering Communist propaganda"
This it is pointed out, is directed
sgains5 anyone, of any political
opinion, who fights the policies of
the A. F. of L. leaders on any
rueStion
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
IL CCC Workers Fired
After Protesting Food

NARROWSBURG, N. Y, Aug. 10.
Twelve young c. C. C. workers
were handed "dishonorable dis
charges" from Ten Mile River Camp
So here last week after they had
protested against the poor food.
The young workers had organized
protest in the mess hall at supoer
time when Captain Sidney Riley,
camp commander. entered and or
dered court martials for the leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
ARTISTS UNION TO MEET

NEW YORK.-The Artists Union
viii have its first cultural meeting
under the new reorganizationa1
plan on Wednesday evening at IL
West 18th st. Charles f. Ferlin
will speak on Artists in the Soviet
Union"
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\ - DAYS ONLY are left in which to raise
II the $4,000 needed for the appeals Of
Angelo Herndon and the Scottsboro
Boys. Up to Saturday only SS,O66 of this sum
had been raised Rush contributions to Inter
national Labor Defense, so z. 18th Street, New
York City. See blank on Page Four Of this issue.
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.oo Entered second-clsss at at
York. Y. March g. 1879
Nogales international., 1934-02-17
POPS CONTINUE TO LEAD
IN BOWLING TOURNAMEN

Captain L. r. Gambee'S Soda Pops
continue to lead in the Elk bowling
tournament. The Pops took three
out of four points from Captain
Virgil Walkers South Paws We'd
nesday night and would have taken
all four If Louie Eppstein of the
Paws had not gone on rampage
and made seven straight strikes III
the final game. The Pops now have
won 10 points and lost 2.