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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30

"At one time we debated the
question of whether the rise of fas-
cism meant defeat for the working
class. Now the question has be-
come so clear that no worker can
fail to understand the correctness of
the position of the Communist
Party.
Two days ago I saw the vigilante
bands going from house to house,
registering workers, asking ques-
lions about their position on the
strike.
81 saw these paid agents of cap
italisrn combining together with
thugs from the underworld. with
corrupt small business men.
They were so brazen about it
that they sent out moving picture
record of this first big organized
fascist mobilization against the
working class
What is the significance of this
fascist attack against the workers of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30

link up our struggles with our
brothers in Central Europe.
Some time ago it was said that
fascism was something foreign to
America The Communist Party
pointed out differently. The Com
munist Party pointed out that the
policies of the New Deal were in
themselves long step toward
fascism.
To-day the development of fas-
fascism is clear in America. Nowhere
can it be seen better than in Cali
fornia especially in San Francisco.
Tremendous Significance
"The general strike in San Fran
cisco was an event of tremendous
significance. The events which took
place during those days are educat-
ms millions of workers throughout
the United States, Out of these
events workers are learning what
fascism means-and also how to
fight it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30

incides with the vicious attack on
the rank and file of the A. F. Of L.
on Friday, when, acting as po-
lice agent, William Green, presi-
dent Of the A. F. of L., announced
q forthcoming 'purging' of the A.
F. of L. of all militant union
members. 1t fits in with mass ar
rests, martial law and open MUIR
der by the government machinery
from coast to coast Of workers
fighting FOR highev wxges and
recognition OF unions OF their own
choice.
Growth OF Fascism
1.-THE employers and the A. F. of
L. leadership are faced with the
fact of growing militant rank and
file activity in the A. F. Of L. ranks,
as we'll as the joining by thousands
into unions of the Trade Union
Unity League and independent
unions. They hope, with the use
of such rulings as this one of In
spector Valentine, to reduce unions
to police unions, to the level of
unionism under Hitler and Musso-
lini
"The Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union, in the name of
Continued on Poge 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Communists Party Leads Fight Against
Advancing Fdscisn1 Broavder Declares

California?
rs it a sign that the working class
Is defeated, that capitalism is sta
bilizing itself?
Sign Of Deepening Crises
THE activities of these storm
troopers is a sign that the crisis of
capitalism has struck to the very
heart of capitalism.
"Fascism is the panic-stricken
effort of the capitalists to beat down
the working class. understanding
that capitalism is living through its
last days.
you may think from what is said
in the capitalist press that fascism
registered a victory in San Fran
cisco. True, the official family OF
the American Federation of Labor
were able TO break the strike. The
workers received blow delivered
jointly By the A. F. OF L. leaders,
the vigilantes and tho government
forces. But it would be mistake
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Continued on Page 81
Jail Crouch
And Weaver
In Virginia


RICHMOND, Va, July 29.-Paul
Crouch, district organizer of the
Communist Party, and James
Weaver, Trade Union Unity League
organizer, were arrested in Danville
yesterday and jailed on charges of
'4vagrancy" in a police attempt to
behead the movement among the
textile workers in joining the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union.
Crouch and Weaver will be tried
today. A movement has already
been started throughout the state
demanding their immediate and I'M
conditional release and demanding
an end to all restrictions on at
tempts of the workers to organize.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30

training.
Training of this new police
squad begins today. 1t is well
known that LaGuardia and his
Police Commissioner have been in
creasing the equipment of the
police lin anticipation Of labor
troubles"
With relief appropriations cut to
the bone, and with unemployment
and wage cutting steadily on the
increase, the LaGuardia admins
tration is getting ready to repeat
here the shootings and terrorism
of San Francisco, Toledo, Minnea-
polls and New Orleans.
The basis for a campaign of ter
rorism against all militant workers,
particularly Communists, has al
ready been laid by LaGuardia in
mis- organized press drive to dis
credit the leaders of the unemployed
movement as yellow rats"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
LaCuardia's 1000 RHemen
To Start Terror Drills Today

NEW YORK. Continuing the
policy of the rapid mill
tarization of the New York police
force. Police Commissioner Organ
Yesterday ordered the establishment
of new special police regiment of
/ 200 police armed with machine
guns. rifles and armed motor cars.
Coming right on the heels of the
announcement of police regulation
of trade union representatives,
Organs announcement indicates
the beginning of a planned cam
paign of police terrorism against
the labor movement in New York
as the signal for the extension Of
the Pacific Coast terrorism over the
entire country.
Begins Tomorrow
The personnel of the new police
regiment, which will have separate
status for any emergency" will be
picked from police having military
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Drivers Call
For Ousting
Militia
Frisco Dockers Stand by
Seamen-Marine
Strike Solid
DOckers Stand by Seamen
{ Special to the Daily Worker)

Especial to the Daily WOrker)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 29.-Sec-
rotary Cox of the International
Longshoremen's Association, follow
ing meeting of the strike COM
mittee, told newspaper men, you
say that the longshoremen will not
return to work until members of
other maritime unions have return
ed to work"
A mass meeting of longshoremen
will be held tonight to take up the
issues and the question of acting
on the waterfront which result
from this decision.
The strike of the longshoremen
continues. No union iongshoremen
are working on the piers.
Seamen, firemen. cooks, stewards,
masters and mates will not return
to work until settlement is-reaeh-
ed for all the maritime crafts.
Hanford, Cal, is the latest town
to organize an Communist or
ganization ito drive all radicals out
Of town" Assistant District Attor-
ney Leslie Gillen is displaying a
paper entitled "the Armory Bull
letin," taken from a national
guardsnan, published by "a group
of guardsmen to point out the
grievances of individual soldiers and
to fight against the use of guards
men in industrial disputes" which
he will hand over to guard officials
as "subversive publication"
Six more Communists, all men,
bers of the editorial staff of the
Western Worker, have been arrest
ed in San Francisco in a raid on
private house.
The first foreign born worker to
be deported is August zuerta. Cases
continue to be dismissed or pun
ished by up to 60 days in the county
jail, but all actual Party members
are being held for jury trial.
Alameda county is "purging
public libraries Of Communist books
and Contra Costa county is striking
all known radicals from relief rolls.
Santa Clara county officials are
modifying against group of 100
deported from Fresno county and
en- route to San Jose. The San
Francisco Chamber of Commerce
has asked all members to sign a
loyalty pledge promising to help
crush all revolutionary attempts
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, July %
Floyd Olson, Farmer-Labor COVER
nor, declared today that he will not
consider withdrawal of the national
guard troops, which he called out
against the striking. truck drivers
The truck drivers union today de-
manded the withdrawal of the
troops and the lifting Of martial
law. The Communist Party had is
sued a leaflet Friday demanding
withdrawal of the guardsmen.
1t was reported today that orders
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Big Painters
w ak Out Will
Start Too ay

NEW YORK.-A general strike
involving around 10000 painters
will commence this morning. The
action follows a lockout declara-
ton of the Master Painters Associ-
alton, which says that the paint
bosses will no longer pay the pres
ent scale of SO for Z hours work.
While it is a fact that the paint
ers of District Council had an
agreement with the bosses for the
above scale, it was never insisted
upon by the Zausner crowd, which
is now leading the District Council
as the result Of an illegal election.
Thousands in the trade worked far
below the scale.
This new proposal of the bosses
would throw increased misery on
the backs of the painters, a large
number of whom are unemployed.
The present strike grows out of
the desire of the rank and file of
the union to take the situation in
their own hands and out of the
hands of the corrupt zausner lead
ership.
At meeting held Saturday at
Irving Plaza Hall under the
auspices of the rank and file, paint
ers laid plans to set up rank and
file strike committees to lead the
struggle.
The Alteration Painters, Decor
ators and. Paperhangers Union of
Greater New York has issued call
to all its members to strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30

vi I'll S t Be
Licensed"
Green Is Responsible, -
Say Leaders of TUUL
and Communist Party

NEW YORK. = Registra-
ton of labor representatives
at police headquarters and
approval of them by police
authorities for recognition as
responsible" union spokes-
men have been ordered by the
liberal LaGuardia administration
in drastic move to apply the
Roosevelt governments and the
American Federation of Labor Lead
ership's program for terrorist sup
preston of militant unionism.
The police department on Satur-
day directed all responsible"
unions to supply their representa-
tives with letters bearing their
photographs and an Endorsement by
Chief Inspector Lewis j. Valentine.
When oficials notified all boroughs
to this effect. militant unions had
received no request to file identi-
fication Of their representatives.
Green Responsible
Charging President William
Green Of the A. F. Of L. and fed
eral government officials with knowl~
edge and responsibility in the
move, the Trade Union Unity
League and the Communist Party
Immediately modified to combat it.
Earl Browder, General Secretary
of the Communist Party. declared:
This is an attempt to estab-
liSh the police passport system in
trade unions-tO establish police
unions. 1t is direct importa-
ton of the methods of Czarist
Russia against Labor. 1t is fas-
cist measure against the rank and
file of all unions.
Undoubtedly ii was initiated
with the approval of William
Green and his official family, in
line with the announced policy
of governmental control OF trade
unions as the only way to choke
eff the rising strike wave and pre-
Ntttt Aait IAuA anu illC 1IOIU
trolling the unions"
Delegates Pledge Fight
Trade Union Unity Council lead
ers, emphasizing that the drive is
directed against every militant
member of A. F. of L. unions as
well as against independent unions,
sent drectiyes throughout the
country for a campaign against it.
A conference of about 200 A. F. Of
l.. rank and fllers and delegates Of
local unions, meeting here on Sat-
urday to man cut a program Of
struggle for unemployment insur-
ance, was notified that all delegates
agreed to take the fight back to
their lccels.
This is no local matter" said
Stschel. Acting Secretary of the
T. U. U. L. ut emanates from
william Green. Undoubtedly
Mayor LaGuardia approved it and
federal authorities are in on it.
IT can be smashed. The A. F. Of
L. loca's will repudiate it,
Police Orders
The police department showed its
hand by issuing a teletype notice
to all precincts. explaining it has
asked responsible" unions to secure
the police credentials. The an
nouncement said the purpose was
TO eliminate the employment and
(Cnl1finucd IN Pnne Al
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
SIGN RAKOSI PROTEST

NEW York; protest against
the project of the Hungarian gov
eminent to place on trial once more
Matthias Rakosi, Hungarian Com
munist leader who has just COM
pleted an eight and half year
prison term, was sent yesterday by
the international Committee for
Political Prisoners to John Polonyi,
Hungarian minister at Washington.
Among the signers of the protest
were Roger N. Baldwin, Clarence
barrow, John Haynes Holmes, Emil
Lengyel Arthur Garfield Hays. Rob
ert Morss Lowest, Charles Erward
Russell ard Norman H. Thomas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Jersey Relief Workers
Present Demands for
Cash to Unemployed

TRENTON, N. j.. July 29.-Two
hundred delegates, representing 5000
striking relief workers and unem-
ployed in rs cities and nine counties
Of New Jersey, marched on the state
relief headqua. tiers here last week.
An elected committee of the
striking workers affiliated with the
United Unemployed and Relief
Association of New Jersey presented
demands for guaranteed cash wages
of SIS a week on all relief work and
cash relief fo- all unemployed.
Relief Administrator Colt, after
refusing to recognize the elected
committee. was forced to promise
that cash relief would be given TO
all unemployed workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
lost of Living Rises
i'm Massachusetts as
Wages and Jobs Drop

BOSTON, Mass, July pa rise
of 9 per cent in the cost of living
in Massachusetts, from June, 1888
to June, 1884, is reported by the
Massachusetts Department of
Labor. Food prices were up fifteen
points and clothing twenty-three.
In the one-month period from
May to Jsne, 1884, factory employ
ment dropped So per cent and
wages were slashed 7.6 per cent, the
department of labor report reveals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
&C. P. Is Being Welded
to the Masses Party
Leader Says

(See full story of Muenzenberg
banquet on Page ~.
NEW YORK. = Speaking before
10000 workers gathered at the fare
well banquet for Will Muenzenberg,
German Communist leader, Earl
Browder, general secretary of the
Communist Party of the United
States said.
Tonight, at the gathering which
is sending greetings of the Commu-
mist Party of the U. S. A. and the
American working class to the Gar-
man Communist Party and its
leader. Comrade Thaelmann, we
have to give attention to the events
of the day and the problems which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Jugoslavia
Sees Action
In Adriatic
Fears Mobilization by
Mussolini; Hitler Masses
Troops in Germany

VIENNA, July 29.-Armies of the
capitalist powers surrounding Aus
tria remained on a war footing,
with mysterious troop movements
going on in Germany, as the Won
Starhemberg government succeeded
in putting down the remaining Nazi
insurgents in Corinthia and on the
Jugoslavian border
A check-up on the casualties
showed that previous estimates
were placed too high, there being
now around $50 to 300 killed and
thousands wounded in the fighting,
the major losses being on the side
of the Na5iS, with around ninety
Heimwehr fascists dead.
The heavy war mobilization of
Mussolini is worrying the Jugo-
slaYian government. Fears we're ex-
pressed in Belgrade that the italian
army now modified for war might
be the occasion of more than
700 Nazi refugees fleeing to Jugo-
slavia as a pretext of Selling Jugo-
slsvian territory along the Adriatic,
always coveted by Mussolini.
Press Offers Pretext
Italian newspapers, to justify the
heavy war mobilization on the Aus
trian border declared that though
the present Nazi putsch was de-
feated, the maintenance of troops
nearby was necessary to forestall
another similar attempt.
In Berlin, the Nazi ministry of
propaganda would neither affirm
nor deny the mobilization of Ger
man troops in connection with the
present events.
On advice from Mussolini, the
Won Starhemberg government has
not confirmed the appointment of
the German vice-chancellor Franz
Won Papen as envoy to Austria.
The Italian newspapers regard Won
Papen's appointment as new
tricky move to further the German
Fascists anschluss (union with
Germany move. The italian press
points out that it is move similar
to the Japanese appointment Of an
extraordinary plenipotentisry to
Manchuria, as symbol Of Japa-
nese control and hegemony over
the country.
Aftermath of Uprising
The aftermath of the Nazi up
rising in Austria is growing bitter
ness between German and Italian
fascism, in which the two bandit
powers reveal the criminal deeds of
one another.
For example, commenting on Hit
ler's pose of ignorance about the
pre- arranged seizure of the Chan
cellory which led to the killing of
Dollfuss and the bloody uprisings
of the Nazis, an inspired article in
the Popolo di Romano says:
Hitler has applied the maxim
that the right hand must not
know what the left hand is do
ing. to an unprecedented degree.
"The whole world knew that the
Austrian Nazis were receiving
arms from Germany. Only Hitler
did not know it. Otherwise he
would have taken steps to prevent
it. Every one in Europe knows
who set fire to the Reichstag
building. Only Hitler does not
know it.
Every one knew what Roehm's
private vices were. Only Hitler
did not know. He heard of them
only June 80, and Immediately he
took measures to save German
youth from such mortal danger
Amid great pomp and praise from
his Fascist cohorts, the slain chan
cellor Dollfuss. hangnlan of the
Austrian workers, was buried Sat-
WI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Roosevelt Terrorism viii
Fail To Crush
Communist Party

to think that the workers were
driven back defeated.
They went back only to prepare
for the next big fight.
No Sense of Defeat
THE California workers have no
sense of defeat. To them the battle
has only begun. They have taken
the opportunity to retreat temper
arily and prepare for the next stage
of the fight.
Before this general strike began
the fascists were able to get vic
tories by placing their men at the
head of the decentralization
Casey, Walsh and other leaders OF
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
MINE CUT is REDUCED

AMSTERDAM (By Mail.)-3e-
cause of the growing protest
a t,l0 minsr5 and prepara-
ton for strike against the
proposed 10 per cent wage cut
set for Aug. 1. the government has
stepped in and ordered a reduction
Of the slash to per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
UNIONS In FIGHT.
ON POLICE ORDER.
FOR REGISTRY
Find Regulation Is Fascist Move on Militant
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Guild, Steel and
Food Workers Open Attack

NEW YORK.-The police orders for registering union
leaders sent out by LaGuardas Police Inspector Valentine
aroused the most vigorous protest and
opposition from the ranks of militant labor throughout
the city Among the first organizations to protest the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Why No United
Action Against
Police Terror?

" hydu DeglHS IOIuOTIOh
to train a new police regi.
ment armed with machine
guns "for labor troubles"
A Czarist police system OF
registering trad e unions,
parallel to Hitler and Mus
Solini methods of destroying
the entire trade union move
ment is ordered by LaGuar-
dia's police chiefs.
Does not the Socialist
Party leadership feel it nee
essary to unite the forces OF
the working class against
these sinister fascist meas.
ures? Does this not menace
every single worker organ
lied in trade unions, in the
Socialist Party?
Why then is the leader
ship of the Socialist Party
still indifferent to the pro
pOsaL of the Communist
Party for united front
struggle against this ris-
ing fascist terrorism?
In Minneapolis, strikers
are shot by police and mar.
tial law is proclaimed. Two
workers are killed in Kohler.
Wisconsin.
Still the Socialist Party
has left unanswered three
invitations sent to it by the
Communist Party for discus
sion on ways and means OF
uniting the forces of the
working class in joint action
against this rising capitalist
terrorism against the labor
movement. Why?
THE clouds of imperialist
L war are ready to burst,
The clank of arms sounds
throughout Europe an d
America. Secret prepare
tons for tremendous Army
manoeuvers reveal t n e
Roosevelt war drive.
Why does not the So
cidlist Party respond to
the call for Joint action
against the menace of i'm
periaEist war?
Why does not the So
ciGList Party giUe its
support and cooperation
in confronting the Wall
Street Unr makers Uith a
united IC0rking class on
August /, international
day of struggle against
war and fasctsm?
Why have they ignored the
appeals of the Communists
for joint actions on August
1, when the eyes of the rul-
ing class gauges the anti
war strength of the masses
by the power of it's demon
STATIONS?
Must the Socialist Party
pait until the sound of
marching troops echoes
through our streets?
WHERE is the Revolution
W airy Policies Committee
which proclaims it's elf as
more radical than the elected
leadership, as critical of the
leadership's u mite d front
policies? Why hasn't it shown
the slightest initiative in
forming united fronts, or in
forcing action on the part of
the National Executive Com
mittee? Where are t h e
"militants" who spoke for
unity?
A tremendous UictOry
for the united front has
been lCon in France. "When
one is attacked, the other
wiH defend" reads the
Joint declaration signed BY
the leaders of the French
Socialist and Communist
Parties. Why not here?
Does not the monster of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Demand obess August

sun Nttueu. IOtdI rectiVeu so0NI .1U'
Loans to Bail Fund VIII Be Returned.
Rush Cash or Liberty Bonds to International
Labor Defense, so E. 18th St., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30

Entered as seoond-elsss matter at the Pest ofRcs
New York n. Y, under the Act Of March 9. 1871
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-09-20

Jim Wall, young cowpuncher from
seeks a new field In Utah.
ne meets Hank Hays, who admits he
ing . robber, and tells Wall he IL
working for an Englishman, Herrick
VINO mas located a big ranch in thu
mountains. Hays and others are plot
ting to steal their employers cattle
snd money. Wall saves Hanks life
py eiuHng q gambler out OF shooting
Win Hays and two other rust1ers
happy Jack and Lincoln, Jim Wall
GOES to Herrick's ranch. Herrick an
nounces that his sister, Helen, is COM
inx 70 the ranch. Hays unfolds hts
plan for getting possession Of Her
ticks 1900 head of live stock. He ana
hls iieutenants ride away to drive or
inc nrsf bunch OF cattle. Heeseman
nays rival among the cattle rustlers.
tells wall that Hays was once his
sf1eesemanss) partner and double
crossed him. Herrlck delegates Jim ~
90 TO Grand Junction to meet Miss
Herrick- Jim gets Barnes. 4 vonnr
cowboy, to tell her that he (Jiml t.
aesperado Of the worst type. Barnes
GOES SO. but the girl treats the In
formation lightly.