The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Cheers Hail
Red Deputy
At Coliseum
Resolutions Score Nazi,
Minneapolis and
Frisco Terror
$1,000 FUND RAISED
Party Leaders, Anti-W an
Delegates Received
with Cheers

Dc1CSdtCc ANCCOANOu
with Cheers
NEW YORK-More than 10000
cheering workers. gathered in the
outdoor arena of the Bronx Coli
scum Friday night, pledged their
determination to force the freeing
of Ernst Thaelmann and other
anti-fascist prisoners at a farewell
banquet to Will Muenzenberg, CO.
author of THE Brown Book" and
Central Committee member Of the
German Communist Party.
Coming from all parts of the city,
they braved threatening storm
skies and remained for almost five
hours to hear Earl Browder, gen
eraI secretary of the Communist
Party, report on the San Francisco
strike, and to hear other noted
American working class leaders.
Jack Stachel, acting secretary Of
the Trade Union Unity League;
Mother Ella Reeve Bloor, leader Of
the womens delegation which left
for the Paris anti-war congress on
Saturday morning; Euquile Nc
Keithen, share cropper woman
delegate from the heart of the
South's Black Belt to the Paris
congress.
Other speakers were Ernst Hut
ting. national chairman of the
Natur Freunde; Norman Tailentire,
local secretary of the League
Against War and Fascism; Rev.
Wayne White of the Anti-Nazi
Federation of New York, and Al
fred Wagenknecht, secretary of the
National Committee to Aid Victims
of German Fascism. 1t was under
the auspices of the two latter or
CARNATIONS that the banquet was
held.
Cable to ThaeImann
The assembled workers unani-
mously endorsed two cablegrams,
one addressed to Ernst Thaelmann
in his prison camp, pledging "un-
ceasing activity in the struggle
against Hitler fascisrn until you
and all anti-fascist prisoners in the
Nazi jails are liberated The other,
sent to Adolf Hitler, with copies to
the German Embassy in Washing
ton and the German consulate here,
declared that 10000 anti-fascists
hold you responsible for the
life, health and safety of Ernst
Thaelrnann. We demand i'm
mediate release of Thaelmann and
all imprisoned anti-faScists.'
A telegram addressed to Roosevelt
with copies to Governor Merriam
of California, and Mayor RosSi of
San Francisco, demanded the i'm
mediate cessation of all raids on
workers organizations and the re-
lease of those arrested in unwar-
ranted raids" and the stopping of
deportation threats against foreign
born workers. A fourth telegram
demanded that Governor Olson re-
move the troops from Minneapolis.
Stormy Ovation for Muenzenberg
When Muenzenberg arrived dur
ing the chairman's opening re-
marks, he was greeted with
stormy ovation such as few men
have received here. The workers
stood on their chairs. Cries of
Long live the Communist Party of
Germany and cheering hurrahs
drowned the rumbling of two pass
ing trains. Ten thousand clenched
fists were raised in the revolution
airy salute and spontaneously the
crowd took up the strains of the
International.
Joseph Brodsky, chairman and
chief of the legal defense corps for
the Scottsboro boys, received an
Overwhelming reply to his call for
funds, for Muenzenberg to take
back with him for the struggles of
the German workers against fas-
cism. Figures from all parts of the
field usrged toward the speakers
stand, and it took members of the
banquet committee more than
half hour to collect the bills held
up to them by a sea of hands. More
than $1,000 was contributed by
trade unions, units of the Commu-
mist Party, branches of mass or
CARNATIONS, workers clubs, indivi-
duals. One Of the dollar bills, Brod-
sky announced, was contributed
by a member of the police force
here to guard this meeting"
The German workers, through
Ernst Hutting, greeted Muenzen-
berg and through him, Thaelmann
and our other comrades in Ger
many, with revolutionary JOY"
pledging to stand solid in the fight
for Our beloved Soviet Germany"
Il am from Alabama, from the
sharecroppers' union" said Euquile
McKeithen, Paris congress delegate.