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The daily worker., 1934-06-12
French Socialist Workers Join
Communists to Fight Fascisn,

GRENOBLE, France, June Ii
Communists and Socialists united
in barricade fighting here in an eff
fort to prevent a fascist meeting
from taking place, and in demon
stration against faScism yesterday.
Several thousand workers took part
in the fighting, admitted to be one
of the most determined and heroic
struggles against fascism in France
since the February days. For more
than three hours the united rank of
the workers held church, resisting
the police and calling on the SOL
diers to Join them in the struggle
against the fascists.
Fifty people, among them many
police, were injured in the fighting
More than 500 police and gendarmes
were modified for the occasion, as
well as three companies of infantry,
mounted artillery men, engineers
and Alpine Chasseurs. Machine
guns and other firearms were held
in readiness but we're not used.
The police had prepared for the
demonstration on orders of the
Doumergue government which is
protecting the fascist meetings. A
leading fascist deputy, Philippe
Henriot, was to speak here. Led by
the Communist Party, the workers
began a demonstration at the hall
where Henriot was speaking. Heavy
barricades had been erected by the
police before the meeting. In de-
termined attack the workers tore
down the barricades. Socialist work
ers Joined in the demonstration and
in the battle forged the united front
against which the Socialist Party
leaders have been fighting.
The police, however, were able to
drive the workers away from the
hall, They went across the street
and entrenched themselves in a
The daily worker., 1934-06-12
AtPay>AS- YOu,StarVe' Plan

THE meaning of Mayor La Guardia's re-
L lief plans should be clear to everyone
now. Last week he announced he favored
the "Pay as you go" method of raising
funds for the jobless. This was to fore
stall further bank loans from the banks
which get most of the city's money while
their puppet La Guardia is in Office
Yesterday the Merchants Association. in letter
signed by its President, Louis K. Comstock, an
nounced that it agreed with La Guarda This
wealthy group agreed with La Guardia by proposing
a two-cent tax all subway, elevated, street-car
and bus rides.
In this way with the cooperation of the banks,
the wealthy merchants and industralists of the city
La Guardia plans to put over the SEVEN GENT
FARE. for which he has been tockeying since he
was elected mayor last fall
Who will be hit by rise in fares? Not the bank
ers, nor the big merchants who never use the
crowded and hot (and in winter crowded and fresz-
ing) subways and street-cars.
No-but it will hit the underpaid mass Of New
York's workers as well and the unemployed work
ers themselves! These are the people who must and
do use the subWays-to and from their miserable
jobs, to and from their fruitless search for jobs
In other words, two-cent fare tax would be
taken out of the pockets of the very same people
Tor whom the money IS so direy needed. 1t is
undisguisedly AS-YOU- -sTARvE" plan!
I A GUARDIA, true to his undisguised class inter-
ests, is taking advantage of the jobless situation
by attempting to strike new blow against the
tosrs of this city. whose standard of living he has
crushed lower and lower since he became mayor
And it is not surprising, coming from a man
closely tied to Wall Street from a man who
has instructed his police department to club Job
less workers and who has instructed the boss
press of the city to prepare the public for blood
shed"
Unemployed workers-redouble your efforts to
receive adequate relief, but fight with all your
might against the victimizaton of the employed
workers, who are scarcely better off than you are,
for this purpose
Employed workers: Resist this attempt of Fusion
to fost the SEVEN GENT FARE on your already
overburdened shoulders!
Both employed and unemployed workers should
stand solid against LaGuardias new anti-worldng
class plans-from which only the bankers and rich
merchants will profit.
The daily worker., 1934-06-12
Authorize C.P. of France
To Take Necessary
Measures

In view of the struggle initiated
by Doriot against the General Com
nlittee of the Communist Party of
France, the Executive Committee of
the Communist International pro-
posed, on April 23rd, to the Central
Committee of the Communist Party
Of France and to Doriot to put an
end to the internal Party conflict
and to submit the differences to
the examination of the Executive
Committee of the Communist In
ternational.
In making this decision, the
Executive Committee of the G. I. is
activated by the necessity of assur-
ing unity in the Party and the
working class in their fight against
fascism, as we'll as by its desire to
prevent Doriot's isolation from the
masses.
While the G. C. of the C. P. of
France, conforming to the demands
of the Executive Committee of the
G. l., Immediately put halt to
the struggle, Doriot continued his
fight against the C. c. of the c. P.
Of France. To the repeated requests
The daily worker., 1934-06-12

church, using concrete mixers and
other building machinery from a
nearby construction job to set up
barricades. These were held for
three hours by the Socialist, Com
munist, and sympathetic workers.
Down with fascism, and the Dou-
mergue government who supports
the fascist dogs!" cried the workers.
Establish the Soviet Powerl" SOL
diers, sons of the working class, join
us in our struggle against fascism!"
Free Ernst Thaelmann" we're
some Of the slogans which we're
shouted by the workers throughout
the fighting,
Several snti-fascist demonstra-
tions took place yesterday also near
Paris.
The Socialist-controlled General
Federation Of Labor leadership re-
fused to join in a united front with
the revolutionary trade union CEN
ter, the Unitary Federation of La
Dor, against the fascist DEGREES of
the Doumergue government. This
follows the Socialist Party policies
in Germany and Austria in sup
porting the lesser evil" and block
ing the fight against fascisn.
The daily worker., 1934-06-12
On Guard!

OENATOR WAGNER of the N. r. A. La
, Dor Board boasts of his successes. The
latest report of the National Board states
that of two million workers affected by
disputes" before the Board, more than
100000 workers "have been returned to
work, kept at work, or had their disputes
adjusted"
This is another way of saying that more than
ond and half million workers we're trapped by the
strike breaking Labor Board into giving up their
most powerful weapon the strike.
The cases" we're settled. In whose favor? What
did the workers get out of these settlements?" In
every case they got false promises company unions,
no Improvements, and no wage increases.
If the workers had fought out their eases" on
the picket lines in militant united struggle then
they woud have forced the employers to grant
them their demands. They would have improved
their conditions. AS it is the government, operat-
ing through the Labor Boards, acted an efficient
srike-breaker, and protected the interests of the
employers. The workers were tricked
Throughout the whole strike period the govern
ment has been acting deliberately and boldly as
the strtke-breaker for the employers. Roosevelt
broke the auto strike. He trcked the Weirton steel
workers. Now he is trying to save the Steel Trust
from the offensive of the imminent steel strike.
This reveals the class character of the state as
the instrument of the capitalist employers. 1t re-
veals the need for overthrowng the capitalist gov
ernment and setting up workers and Farmers
Government.
Right now in their fight for better wages, the
workers all over the country must be as vgilant
hawks against the strike breaking tricks of the
NJ r. a. Labor Boards. The workers will win better
conditions only if they keep the settlement of their
fights in their own hands on the picket line The
NJ R. A. Labor Boards will only seek to trick them
back under the old conditions
The daily worker., 1934-06-12
PARISH ord District
Flays Doriot's
Factionalism

with the political unity of the Party,
and with the homogeneous applica-
ton of its decisions, demands of
the c. c. that it prohibit Comrade
Doriot from propagating his oppor-
tunistic doctrines, and that it COM
pei this comrade to submit to the
Party discipline
The Political Bureau expressly
requests Comrade Doriot to cease
all propaganda-both from within
and without the Party-of his So
cial Democratic platform which
hinders the united front under the
direction of the c. P. and prevents
the Socialist workers from joining
the G. P.
''The Political Bureau asks Com
rade Doriot to renounce his anti
Party platform, to submit himself
without reservations to the Party
discipline as we'll as that of the
G. c., and to repair, under the di-
rection of the G. c., the harm which
his opportunistic activities caused
the Party and the proletariat.
"(Signed Political Bureau
April s, 1884,
The daily worker., 1934-06-12
special to the Daily Worker)

MOSCOW, June 10, (By RADIO -
The recent Soviet government law
providing the death penalty for
spies was called forth by the in
creasing dangers of war on the
Soviet Union, declared "Izvestia, y
organ of the Soviet government yes
terday. Commenting on yesterdays
government decision which supple
mented the code for crimes against
the state by special articles on high
treason, "Izvestia" organ of the So
vet government writes:
Now, when menacing clouds are
gathering on the international hori-
zon, when alongside of hypocritical
phrases of bourgeois politicians on
disarmament, secret forces are fran
tically working in the preparation
of a new war, new division of the
world. primarily at the expense of
the United Socialist Soviet Re-
publics, the necessity of such law
is clear to everyone regarding things
Scberly.
There is no crime at which cap
italist plunderers and their agents
will stop in order to interfere with
the triumph of socialist construc-
The daily worker., 1934-06-12
SPANISH GOVERNMENTS
FASCIST DEGREES

MADRID, June 1.-THE govern
ment today ordered the closing" of
Fascist centers following yesterdays
clashes with the left in which one
Fascist was killed and three injured.
The powerful Popular Action,
Catholic and Right, the chief Fas-
cist group, was understood not to
be affected by this order, which
came as the political situation gen.
orally was rendered uneasy by the
outlawed farm strike and by Cata-
lonian defiance of the Supreme
Court order annulling the Catalan
land law on the ground that it con-
tanned unconstitutional expropria-
ton provisions.
The Catalonian people were un-
favorably impressed by the grim
naval games" being staged in the
Balearic Islands which include a
mock attack on the Catalan coast.
The daily worker., 1934-06-12
Collective Farm
Victory Shown By
Spring Sowing Gain
228,327,500 Acres of
Grain Sown; 23,750,-
900 More Than 1888
Especial to the Daily worker


MOSCOW. June 10. CBy cable) -
The most recent information of the
course of spring sowing in the So
Wet Union shows new victory for
the collective farms. Kolhhozes (col-
lectives) have once again demon
Strated the force and strength of
collective labor. On the fifth Of
June, 28327,500 acres of summer
grain had been sown throughout the
U. S. S. R. making 93.3 per cent
of the entire plan accomplished,
while sowing still continues in many
districts. This means 23,75O,0 900
acres more sown this year than last.
Spring sowing this year can justi-
fiably be called the most organized
Of all spring paintings under the
Soviet regime.
Kolkhozes have sown 73,030,000
acres against the 170,835, 900 plan
ned. Thus their plan has been full
filled with an increase of 1.3 per
cent. Kolkhozes completed sowing
ten days earlier than last year.
Figures on the planting of various
crops are not less significant than
the general preliminary results Of
sowing. The sowing of beetS was
finished approximately a month
earlier than last year. Cotton plant
ing has been carried out much more
successfully than in former years.
Great successes have been made in
the grain-sowing plan, which has
already been 101.6 per cent fulfilled
throughout the U. S. S. r. and
which continues in several sections.
The plan for sowing wheat has been
1927 per cent filled, and barley SOW
ing is now 1925 per cent accom-
plished
The daily worker., 1934-06-12
JAIL MACEDONIANs

SOFIA, June 11-Over 100 Mace
donian nationalists were arrested
by the Bulgarian Fascist govern
ment and brought here yesterday
for questioning. They we're ordered
to find homes outside of the Mace
donian area.
A search of Sofia for arms will
be launched soon, it was reported.
The daily worker., 1934-06-12
Special Train Taking
CheLyuSkin Heroes to
Mosco,O; Due June 10
BY Burck
sGEISrSSsss: * s:s.A
special to the Daily Worker

MOSCOW, June 10, (By radio).
"A special train left Vladivo-
stock for Moscow last night amid
unceasing acclaim, as many
thousands here bid farewell to
the Chelyuskin Arctic expedition
and their airmen rescuers who
valiantly made their way through
Arctic difficulties TO save all the
stranded members of the Chelyu-
skin crew.
All the cars of the train were
decorated with pictured repro
ductions of episodes of the
struggle of the mastering of the
northern sea-route and of the
life of the Chelyuskinites on the
ice flows The train is expected
in Moscow on the night of
June 10.
The daily worker., 1934-06-12
COMMUNISTS DEMONSTRATE
IN ITALY

GENOA. June lin the very
teeth of the Fascist terror Commu-
nists yesterday staged a demonstra-
ton here as new Fascist head
quarters wes opened.
Police attacked the demonstrators
who timed their appearance with
the singing of "Giovinezza" by the
Fascists.
The daily worker., 1934-06-12
JAIL MANY IN SPANISH STRIKE

MADRID, June IL. - Arrests of
strikers in many provinces were re-
ported today as the outlawed strike
of agricultural laborers continued
The press censorship prevented the
obtaining of figures. The Peoples
House at Castalla was closed by
police,
The daily worker., 1934-06-12
HANG INDIAN REBEL

CALCUTTA, June IL. - Dinesh
Majumdar, Bengal revolutionary
convicted of killing a policeman in
1888, was hanged today,
Majumdar had escaped from
prison once and was recaptured
only after hard fight.
The daily worker., 1934-06-12
MEXICAN OIL WORKERS WIN

MEXICO CITY, June 11.-Mexi-
can Eagle Oil workers went back to
work Saturday after personal medi-
alton by President Abelardo Rodri-
guez had failed to move them from
their demands for a uniform wage
scale and pay while laid up for
injuries.
Their demands were granted.
The daily worker., 1934-06-12
FOREIGN BRIEFS
POLISH COURT SENTENCES
So COMMUNISTS

WARSAW, June 1.-THE Krze-
mieniec Court today sentenced 63
Communists to terms of from 18
months to seven years. Charges
against "a others were dismissed.
The daily worker., 1934-06-12
CALI. NM RI1I.GARIAN ApMs

SOFIA, Bulgaria, June 11.-Police
ordered all arms surrendered within
three days. A penalty of eight years
and a fine of 100000 levas are pro-
vided.
The daily worker., 1934-06-12
LIGHTNING HITS POPE'S
STATUE

RHEIMS, France, June 1.-THE
believers were Mortified today as
lightning split the monumental sta
tue of Pope Urban II, cracking it in
two.
The daily worker., 1934-06-12
CUBAN R. r. WORKERS VOTE
24-HOUR STRIKE

HAVANA, June H. - Railway
workers yesterday voted to stage a
24-hour strike on June Is.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
In Al Parts Of Nation Workers Mass
10 Support General Strike on Coast

to support the strikers Of the West
Coast. Every possible method of
rallying the laboring mass of the
population here is being utilized.
Mother Bloor, heroic battler in the
struggles of workers and farmers,
will speak on the San Francisco
strike at Peoples Auditorium, PAST
w. Chicago Ave, on Friday, July
20, at pm.
The International Labor Defense
and the Trade Union Unity League,
who are holding this meeting, are
calling for thousands of workers to
pack the hall in solidarity with
their West Coast brothers.
Four open-air mass meetings will
be held in the steel region of South
Chicago Friday and Saturday, I'M
der the auspices of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union and the
Steel and Metal WORKERS Indus
trial Union for the same purpose.
The schedule of these meetings
is as follows:
Friday, July 20, 10th st. and Dob
son; 106th st. and Ave. 90"
Saturday, July 81, Goth st. and
Green Bay Ave-; 93rd st. and Cot
tage Grove Ave.
All will be held at 8 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19

the plans and to formulate pro-
fran to establish the right to or
ganize and the betterment of the
economic conditions of the steel and
metal workers.
THE Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union stands for the in
dustrial form Of organization, guar
anteeing the principles of trade
union democracy, rank and file con-
trolled, and recognizes the funda-
mental character of the struggle
between capital and labor, and the
need o fthe utilization of the labor's
most effective weapon, the strike,
to wi ma betterment Of our stand
aids of living.
A Common Perspective
ut is now Immediately on the
order of the Gay that steps be taken
to coordinate all these various
groupings toward the development
of national industrial unions il the
particular subdivisions of the steel
and metal industry, with a common
perspective of the development of
all the various unions toward a
federation of steel and metal unions
with common program, common
principles and common aim.
with such perspective in mind,
we ask all the independent unions
to send fraternal delegates to our
convention where we will pay spe-
cial attention to this problem and
where we ask the delegates from
the independent unions to patti
cipate in such discussion and to
help in the formulating of pro-
gram along the above mentioned
lines.
1.-THE independent unions sending
such delegates in no way bind
themselves to any decisions of our
convention, but will be tremen-
dous forward step in the strength
ening of the relationship Of all the
organized forces in the steel and
metal industry outside of the A. F..
of L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
Penn. Unemployed League
Members Fight Splitting
Tactics of A. w. P. Heads

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Overwnelm-
insly opposed 10 the expulsion and
splitting policies and tactics of The
leaders of the American Workers
Party, the members of the 14th
Ward Pennsylvania Unemployed
Leagues voted not to expel Steve
Fukanez as demanded by the A. w
P leaders. and to fight against any
ct enpt to split the leagues.
The Communist Party of Allen
town issued leaflet to the men,
bership Of the leagues exposing the
real purpose behind the expulsion
policy of the A. w. P. leaders, show
ing that in their determination TO
foist A. w. P. control on he
leagues. they would expel not only
Communists and militant workers
but whole locals.
While the 14th Ward voted 18 to
6 against the splitting tactics of the
A. w. p. leaflet issued by the
Communist Party of Allentown was
read at the regular meeting, and
the membership here also over
whelmingly stated they would fight
any splitting tactics
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
Philadelphia
Demonstration
Saturday

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 18.-
A mass demonstration will be held
here Saturday, at Fourth and Fed
eral Streets, at 6 P. NJ, in support
OF the general strike on the West
Coast. The demonstration is
called by a Provisional Committee
to Support the West Coast strike.
The provisional committee was
set up on the initiative of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union.
All labor organizations were urged
to send their officers to special
meeting which was held last night
at P. M, at IS North Eighth st.
where plans we're worked out for
getting mass support of the strike
in this city.
The district committee Of the
Communist Party has informed all
Party unit organizers to secure
leaflets on the West Coast situ-
alton at the section and district
headquarters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
Muensenberg, appealing for Thaelmann, Says
Hitler Plans Mass Murder Of Anh-Fascists

NEW YORK.-A ringing appeal
to all anti-fascists to answer the
threat of Hitler and Goering
against the lives of Ernst Thael-
mann and thousands of other anti
fascist fighters in the Nazi prisons
and concentration camps, was is
sued yesterday by Will Muenzen-
berg, International Secretary of the
Workers International Relief, and
member of the World Committee
to Aid Victims of German Fascism.
The appeal follows:
"Adolph Hitler, Reichs Chancsl-
lor by grace of the Reichswher,
during his historical outourst in
the so-called 'Reichs az On July 10,
announced new death sentences, new
executions and made known that
every traitor would be shot down
mercilessly. This was the only
portion of his wild shrieking to
which the storm troop leaders as
SiSi4Co W oiiS JOD VI ICClClSt5R
deputies responded with wild ap-
plause.
cat the same time the Hitler gov
eminent officially announced that
the newly-appoin ed courts martial,
which bear the name Peoples
Courts we're to begin their fearful
work on July IA.
Hitler promised to bring bread
and freedom, revival and expansion
of German industry through his
regime. He has fulfilled none o.
these pledges. The only thing that
has been revived by Hitler is The
executioner's trade.
The mass murders which have
already taken place in Germany
The killing of more than 5000 work
ers, the execution of 20 innocent
Germans, the bloodv massacre OF
June 30-do not suffice Tor .Goer-
ing and Goebbels and Hitler. They
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-19
LID. Calls for
Widest Aid to
Frisco Strike
Denounces Murder OF
Organizer, Terror
Against Strikers

NEW YORK.-The following ap-
peal for militant, nationwide sup
port of the General Strike in San
Francisco and other West Coast
cities was issued yesterday by the
National Executive Committee of
the International Labor Defense,
which is supporting the strike strug-
giles with all the resources at its
command
Members of the I. L. d. and all
sympathizers with the workers
struggle against terror and denial
of Their rights:
1.-THE National Executive Commit
tee of the International Labor De-
Tense calls on all its districts, Sec
tons and branches, on every mem
Der and sympathizer, to lend the
utmost material and moral support
to the struggles of the workers of
San Francisco and the Pacific coast,
to help win the general strike.
1.-THE government has moved in
thousands of militiamen, is holding
U. S. Army forces in reserve, has
planted artillery and machine gums,
organized huge bands of thugs
under the name of "vigilantes," to
break the eneral strike Of the work
ers around the Golden Gate, with
mass terror
"One of the first victims to fall
before the bullets of the state forces
in the San Francisco strike was
Nick Bordois, organizer of the Tom
Mooney branch of the I. L. D. in
San Francisco. He was murdered
while carrying out his tasks as ar
I. L. D. member on the waterfront
THE I. L. D. office in San Fran
cisco has been raided and smashed
because the I. L. D. was in the fore
front of tbs struggle, exposing the
terror, organizing mass defense
against it. Similarly the Offices Of
the Western Worker, and other o.
CARNATIONS have been raided and
smashed.
OCAAdALu tAAC WAtAlO1 a w al VI Gil
troops, disbanding and disarming
of the fascist vigilante gangs,
punishment of the murders of
workers, and the right of the
workers to organize, strike and
picket. Address these demands
to Mayor Rossi San Francisco,
Governor Merriam at Sacramento.
Calf.
"Wirc your solidarity to the.
workers on general strike in San
Francisco. 1t will mean much to
the strikers. Back it up with
militant action in their support.
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE INTERNA-
TIONAL LABOR DEFENSE