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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
.arineUniOn
Urges NATL
Ship Tie-Up
Shows This Will Aid
Fight for the Entire
Working Glass

NEW K.-A call for
nationwide tie-up for all shipping
was issued here today by the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
in a statement emphasizing the
fact that the Pacific Coast
struggle involves the whole work.
ing class.
The full text of the statement
follows:
THE West Coast strike has now
become a question of life and death
for every worker in the American
merchant marine - seamen, long
shoremen and harbor workers. Our
wages, working conditions and or
CARNATIONS are at stake in this
struggle. If the organized shipown-
ers win this strike, they will try
to crush every vestige of organiza-
ton in the industry and drive the
wages and working conditions even
lower than they are today.
THE strikers on the West Coast
are fighting against every power the
shipowners and the government can
organize and hurl against them.
Their strength is in the organized
resistance of hte working class. The
general strikes in West Coast cities
show that the West Coast workers
realize that their conditions too are
involved in this strike.
1.-The Marine Workers Industrial
Union calls on the workers on the
ships, docks and harbor craft of all
ports to join in this fight for the
defense Of their West Coast fellow
workers, and for the defense of their
right to strike, to organize, and to
live.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union calls on all ships crews to
get together and take up inmedi-
ately the question ow strike for the
defense of their fellow workers. The
M,WI,U. calls on all longshoremen,
organized and unorganized, to come
out in defense of their West Coast
brothers.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union calls on all seamen, long
shoremen and other workers unem-
ployed in the various ports, to gather
in mass picket lines, to make this
strike effective, to call on long
shoremen and seamen to tie up
every ship in the merchant marine,
to tie up every harbor in the United
States, until these rights of the
working class are won, and the troops
and police are withdrawn from their
brutal strikebreaking job in the
West Coast.
"Longshoremen: Defy the or
ders of your strikebreaking Presi-
dent Joseph P. Ryan. Refuse to
handle the bloody cargo On West
Coast ships. Refuse to load cargo
on any ship until the shipowners
withdraw the troops and police
from the dock strike, and yield
to the logical demands of the
West Coast workers.
"Seamen: Refuse to sail the
ships until the workers on the
West Coast win the demands they
ere fighting for: the right to
choose their own organization,
the right to decent wages and liv-
ing conditions.
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for California must be kept ;
decent place to live in
Basic Interests At Stake

j for q. California must be kept
decent place to live in
Basic Interests At Stake
1t is especially enlightening to
realize that Hearst, the British
batter, deyotes great space in his
Frisco sheet of today to long quota
lions from Sir John Simon on the
British general strike. 1t is the
general interests of capitalism that
are involved in this struggle. Acting
Governor Merriam has stepped into
action under the Hearst lash = or
maybe he did not need it. The
Governor takes up the theme in a
special Hearst Examiner broadcast
from the State Capital last night.
He said:
when the strike was declared
there 1900 to 1400 longshoremen.
Now there are 5000 longshoremen
in San Francisco. They came in
from outside. The entire strike has
been directed from other parts Of
California. The master minds of
the strike are not in San Francisco.
They would not risk their lives
there"
According to the heroic governor
who has just sent 1000 more troops
to Frisco, the unemployed long
shoremen do not count. 1t is also
interesting to note that according to
the governor, there is a price on the
heads Of strike leaders in Frisco.
Perhaps the governor was irritated
by the fact that in practically every
California town of any Importance
and all California towns are inn
portant according to CalifornianS,
there are movements on foot among
all unions and central labor bodies
for support of the West Coast in
one form or another. In Sacra-
mento, state capital, yesterday there
was a mass meeting of from two to
four thousand in town of some
one hundred thousand, at which a
number of hated reds urged finan-
cial and strike support of the Frisco
strikers to the applause of the as
sembled multitude. Acting Cover
nor Merriam may be irritated also
by the fact that the Sacramento
Labor Council is meeting tonight to
take up the question of support of
their Frisco brothers. Agricultural
workers are preparing strike move
ments in all regions where the crops
are ready for garnering A. F. Of
L. organizers have formed recently
union dual to the Agricultural
Workers Industrial Unions. The
press admits frankly that this union
was formed at the request of the
land owners. Accounts sent out by
the press services give no real idea
of the practically complete stoppage
of industrial and commercial activi-
; ties in Bay districts. 1t must be
seen to be appreciated. There is now
an actual division of authority be-
tween the city and state forces and
the representatives and committees
of the central strike committee even
, in the conduct of the daily lives Of
some million and halw people.
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terests of the public" the vast
majority of the population which
it rcbs and exploits every day.
The Communists and the Com
munist Party are in the thick of the
fight, facing the terrorism and muir
der CT the employers. That is where
Communists always are to be found,
defending the best day to day in
terests of the masses. The Commu-
nists have no mysterious, secret
purposes" of which the capitalist
press mutters with such fake warn
ing. The Communis S are workers,
men who are flesh and blood of
the working class, fighting for and
defending the needs of the working
class.
What are the purposes of the
Communists in the present strike?
To see that the men actually get
what they are fighting for,
"THIS is Communist attempt to
l start a revolution and overturn
the government" snarls the San
Francisco Mayor Rossi.
And his cry is echoed and re-
echoed throughout the land by the
capitalist press.
But the Pacific Coast strike is
only the action Of workers driven
TO desperation by the intoIerabIe
miseries which are the lot of men
toiling in wage slavery fer the
Pacific Ceast shipowning slave
drivers.
1t is the conditions of capitalist
wage slavery, it is the hunger of
the workers and their children
and the brutalities of the ship
owners slave markets, the Fink
halls" which have produced the
coastal General Strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
Prepare United Anti>War Protest in Union So, Aug. 1s

by President only hope Of breaking
strike"
Roosevelt Acts
The White House and the De-
partment Of Labor today took pains
to emphasize that Wagneg's jaunt
was requested by the Roosevelt Ma
tional Longshoremen's Labor Board
But this merely brought grin to
the faces of all observers who know
full well that President Roosevelt is
directing all Washington strike
breaking from his battle cruiser,
Houston, at sea. The fact is, it
must have taken pressure amounting
virtually to putting Wagner on the
spot politically to make him take
this ike-breaking assignment, fer
during recent weeks, this Senator,
having seen the strike handwriting
on the wall, has refused several
lesser withdrawing jobs in an
effort to save his political hide from
awakened workers.
The sending Of Wagner to Port
land, instead of San Francisco,
undoubtedly is a maneuver to
create the fiction that his task is
to prevent the spread Of the strike
in Portland instead of to break the
entire coast strike. However, every
one in Washington knows that
Wagner will get in touch immedi-
ately with the whole rike-breaking
apparatus, and will take command.
Communicates with Army
Among the first he will cemmuni-
cate with probably will be Major
General Malin Craig, Army Com
mandant Of the Ninth Corps Area,
and Rear Admiral Yancey Williams,
Navy Commandment of the Mare
Island Station. These military Of
ficers are now intently watching
the situation-ready to spring for
ward with thousands of uniformed
men at the slightest pretext, as of
ficials here disclose in a somewhat
pleased tone.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17

To see that the Fink Halls" are
cxterminated, that the men get bet
ter wages, better conditions, and
their own unions.
1DUT the Communists want a
" revolution" wall the employ
ers and their hirelings.
Certainly the Communists want a
revolution. They want a proletarian
revolution that will smash the rule
of the Wall Street financial monep-
olies, a revolution that will trans
fer power into the hands of the
working class, that will place the
means of production, the factories,
mines, ships, ETC., into the hands of
the people who run them, the work.
ing class.
But the Communists are no.
dreamers, Missionaries. They do not
dream that the present strike can
be wished into a revolution merely
with the aid of wishbone.
In the Pacific Coast strike, the
Communists defend and advance
the proletarian revolution for the
overthrow of capitalism precisely
by defending most tenacicusly the
immediate demands of the strike.
The best fighters for the smash
ing of the Fink Halls" for better
wages and conditions are those
workers who are also fighting for
the smashing Of capitalism. For
it is just such class conscious
fighters who do not fear to cut
into capitalist profits.
The Communists propose only
those measures which will benefit
the masses in their everyday life,
which help to organize the masses,
raise their political development,
speed their liberation from cap
italism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
Fascist Prouocaon Against Communist Party Latest Weapon Of the
american Ruling Class Efforts Smash Rising General Strike

IT IS a CHASTITY joke to see the
! capitalist employers and their
Government servants, the Rossis,
ETC., weep in anguish for the "suf-
ferings of the people" as a result
Of the general strike.
Do not these capitalist employers
rob and plumber these people" for
whom they weep? Do they not rob
the children of milk, skinning the
millions Of workers and their fam
lilies every single day in the year
through their capitalist profit sys-
tenn? Do they not doom 100000
jobless and their families to slow
starvation every day in the year?
Has anyone ever seen any of
these weeping gentlemen sorrow
over the sufferings of the working
class as it faces the daily horrors
of the struggle for a living under
capitalism? What, for example, has
Mayor Rossi ever done 10 alleviate
the hunger Of the jobless in this
city?
Inc pubic Tor which the EN-
ployers and the government weeps
is nothing but the majority of the
population which feels the same OPP
preston at the hands of the en-
ployers as the Pacific Coast workers
feel.
Behind this hypocritical rot
about the welfare of the people"
etc. lies the attempt to hide the
class struggle that RACES through
out all of modern capitalist So
ciety between the piundering en-
ployers and the exploited working
class.
1t is the grossest inpudence
and trickery for the ruling class Of
America, the Wall Street handful
of miIlionaires. to identify their
own class interests with the in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17

The best way that the employers
know to smash the strike is to I'M
dermine the confidence of the
strikers in their real rank and file
leadership. This is the function of
all the red batting" propaganda.
NEWS is arriving of bombs that
~ have been found" of smashing
a Communist headquarters by a
Vigilante Committee" etc.
This is an inevitable stage in all
ruling class propaganda and provo
cation.
Tn planting of bombs" the
provecatien of mob violence, is
always part of the capitalist cam
paign against workers struggling
against the yoke of the capitalist
employers.
But whatever terrorism, what
ever violence there is in the
strike comes from the employers
uAiu tlICai SVtClhIuCiits
1t is the government, doing the
bidding of the employers, which
sends troops, police, svmed dep
uties to assault and murder the
workers.
1t is in this way that the Gov
eminent acts as the repressive
arm of the employers, protecting
the investments and profits of
the employers against the inter-
ests of the majority of the pop
ulation, the working class. 1t is
this which makes the govern
ment the agency which executes
the dictatorship of the capitalist
class over the working class.
1T is of extraordinary significance
that in the campaign of provo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
Fear Secret Trial,
ThaeImann Death

Continued from Page j.
Of Thaelmann and the other
anti-fascist fighters can break
through that silence, and wrest
these proposed victims of the
Peoples Court" from the Nazi
butchers. No rest to the Nazi
representatives in this country
until Thaelmann is freed. Flood
telegraph, mail, telephone, by
mass delegations, by constant
the consulates with protests by
daily picketins protesting against
the Nazi hangmen regime, de-
manding the freedom of Thael-
mann and ether anti-fascists.
PHILADELPHIA, July 16.-De-
flying mounted and foot police
Philadelphia workers carried out
a militant mass picketing of the
German Consulate at noon Satur-
day, shouting "Free Ernst Thael-
mannl" Down With Fascismr
Down With Hitlerl" and waving
host of banners emblazoning
forth the same demands.
Workers militantly resisted sew
eral police charges, and prevented
the arrest of several leaders of
the action. The cops finally
started a frantic grabbing of pick
cts, and succeeded in arresting six
NEW YORK.-The situation in
Germany today and the United
Front Against War and Fascism
will be discussed at a meeting
called by the Left Wing Group
Of the Needle Trades, I. L. c..
at l o'clock noon today at Mem
orial Hall, 344 w. 36th st.
DETROIT, July 16.-PainterS
Local Union No AZ, A. F. of L.
has issued a call to all Detroit
local unions asking them to elect
five delegates to a conference July
az to arrange for the sending OF
delegation to the German Con-
sulate on July %, to demand the
release of Ernst Thaelmann and
other anti-fascists in Hitlers pris-
ons and concentration camps.
The union assigned members tc
visit at least Is locals. Many To-
Gals have already elected delegates
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
Wagner Goes West
To Kill Coast Strike
Continued from Page u

Continued from Page ID
working against the Pacific Coast
general strike.
The War Department served no
tice that the commandant of the
Ninth Corps Area, with headquar-
ters in San Francisco, can send
troops in without consulting Wash
ington, under the guise Of protect
ing the mails against Threatened
interference.
When asked how many soldiers
are available, an official answered
1917, counting in civilian mill
tary training and Civilian Conser-
walton Corps forces, as though it
was assumed these, too, would be
expected to shoot their fellow
workers.
At the same time Federal Relief
officials, pressed by mass sentiment,
promised to feed the strikers. A
spokesman who was in teSaphone
communication with San Francisco
said that relief rolls have not been
increased yet, but he added:
THE Federal Relief Ageney'S pol
lev is to feed the families of strik-
ing wage earners, and we will not
change that. We have plenty Of
money and plenty Of people and a
good set-up in San Francisco, and
we are prepared to do a good job.
We have had no difficulty with get
ting supplies in"
Tension oozed from every corner
of official washington as one news
dispatch after another reported the
great sweep of the strikes effect
iveness. There was note OF
hysteria here in the capitalist press
four-footed anti-strike campaign.
Press Sounds Note of Fear
All washington papers displayed
prominently nationally syndicateo
features as we'll as locally prepared
material hammering two anti
working class themes: that the gen.
eral strike always fails; and that
there is something unjustified in
the very nature of this mighty
weapon and legal right.
The Washington News, one of the
liberal Scripps- Howard chain which
has been virtually Roosevelt organ
ever since the new deal began, let
the cat out of the bag, however, with
the following headline. spread over
the whole width Of a page: Action
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
An Appeal
for
Angelo Herndon
by JOHN HOWARD LAWSON

THERE are only sixteen
L days left in which to
save Angelo Herndon from
the terrors of the Georgia
Chain Gang. A tremendous
effort must be made to
raise the sum necessary to
prevent the further torture
of Herndon.
Two weeks ago l saw
him in Fulton County
prison. He smiled courag-
eously as he talked to
members of our delegation
but in spite of his I'M
failing courage. there can be no
question that Herndon's health is
failing; he has had no adequate
medical attention; he has been
kept in damp cell, into which
water has dripped from leaky
pipes from above.
He is unable to eat, suffering
from nausea, vomiting and severe
cramps. There is a probability
that he has tuberculosis; but x
rays recently taken to determine
his exact condition we're so blur
red as to give no definite indica-
lions. The authorities refuse to
have further thorough examina-
ton by competent doctors.
Adjutant General Linley Camp
(who recently made a perfunctory
investigation of the case at the
request of Governor Talmadge)
told us lightly that he found
Herndon "uppity," and that he
was convinced that this ''impu-
dent niger" was pretending ILL
ness in order to get in the hos
pital.
The attitude of Camp and other
officials shows the brutal prejudice
against Herndon; the same preiu-
dice caused the Judge to set the
unreasonable bail to fifteen thou
sand dollars. In refusing lower
bail, the Judge made the extra
ordinary comment that he as
Sumed it would be worthwhile for
the Russian government to pay
fifteen thousand dollars to keep
Herndox out Of Jail.
The reactionary red baiting rul-
ers Of Georgia want to destroy
Herndon. In his present state OF
broken health, his consignment to
the chain gang is almost equiva-
lent to destruction.
In Alabama the gang of reac-
tionaries is intent on destroying
the Seottsboro boys. Their proved
innocence only increases the
bloody fury of the lynchers.
Every day counts. Money for
Herndon's bail and for the Scots
boro defense must be raised with
out delay. Every worker, every
honest intellectual, should make
any sacrifice to help the Inter-
national Labor Defense in this
urgent task.
NEW K.-The sum of
$4,000 is needed in loans of cash
and Liberty bonds for Herndon's
bail. The bail must be raised
and posted before August 8, or
Herndon will be sent to death on
the chain gang. Loans should be
rushed at once to the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, 80 East 18th
ST., New York City. An additional
$4,000 is needed to carry the ap-
peais for Herndon and the Scots
boro boys to the U. s. Supreme
Court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
knitgoods Workers to
Plan Strike TONIGHT

NEW York; mass meeting
to discuss plans to prepare for a
general strike in the knitgoods in
dustry will be held tonight at s
pm. at Irving Plaza, Irving Pl.
and 18th ST., under the auspices
of the Knitgoods Workers Indus
trial Union, 131 w. 18th st.
Members of the international
Ladies Garment Workers and the
United Textile Workers are espe-
cially invited. Ben Gold, national
secretary of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, will
speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL
LEAGUE MEMBERS.

The District Committee of the
New York Y. c. L. urgently ap-
peals to all League members to
be present at the District Office
-35 E. 18th St., fifth floor, ON
Tuesday, July II. at pm. sharp,
for special work in connection
with the West Coast strike. This
mobilization takes precedence
over all others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
BRAZIL TELEGRAPH STRIKE

RIO DE JANEIRO, July ia
cable and telegraph operators strike
which began in northern Brazil on
Thursday was reported to have tieo
sp all Geographic communication
and shut off newspaper supply.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
Oil Riggers End Strike

KILGORE, Tex, July 1.-THE
strike of 500 rig builders at the
East Texas oil field will end at mid
night. Under an agreement the rig
builders will accept the current
daily wage scale of $40 and $12.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
Bosses Raise Famine
Scare. to Split Strikers
Hunger and Violence Threats Raised By Press
AS Pretext for Military Mobilization
Against General Strike
Especial to the Daily worker

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. July 16-Listen to workers
talk in this part of the country and you understand what
this decisive battle is about Clerks in clothing stores tell
you eagerly they know where you stand, "That
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
Fort Worth Carmen Strike

FORT WRTH, Texas, July Ii
Traction workers went out on strike
here today.
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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-31
COUNCIL TO MEET AS
EQUALIZATION BOARD
LAST TIME THIS YEAR

The City Council will meet to-
night in a special session to act
as a Board of Equalization for
the last time this year, in order to
accommodate those dissatisfied
taxpayers who were unable to
make an appearance during the
recent sessions held by the Board.
Further business to come before
the meeting will be the canvassing
of the returns of the special cleo
ton held on the PWA bond cleo
ton, which was passed by the Ju-
mean property owners Tuesday of
this week.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-31
TWO ARRESTED
ON STATUTORY
CHARGES HERE
Henry Neble and Everett
Kirschoffer Are Held
Over Without Bail

Charged with a statutory crime,
Henry Neble and Everett Kir-
|schoffer were arraigned today be-
fore Judge j. F. Mullen in the
United States Commissioners
Court and committed to the Fed
eral Jail without bail pending a
preliminary hearing.
The victims of the alleged crime
are two young girls, one Is and
the other IA years old Neble' is
said to be in his 30's and Kirschof-
fer is 10 years Old
The attack is said to have been
made last Tuesday night. The
men we're arrested yesterday after
the girls had told their story to
United States Attorney w. A.
Holzheimer. No date had been
fixed today for a hearing.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-31
China ISSUES
HUMANE CODE
FOR An ANIMALS \ |
Loads, Wor king Hours
Feeding Times, Age Linn
FITS Are Set in Decree


NANKrNG, China, Aug. 81. :
In order to check the .ripid de-
crease Of livestock in China due
to ignorance and cruelty, the ma
tionalist government has issued
regulations for the treatment of
draft animals, whether cattle, don
keys, horses or mules.
I The maximum load drawn by
an animal must .henceforth not ex-
coed one half of the weight of the
animal, itself. A load carried on
the back must not exceed one
third.
Prescribing a 10-hour. working
day for all draft animals, the gov
eminent has decreed that three
meals day are necessary -
Grooming must take place once
a day, and no animal under three
or over Is years of age is to be
allowed to do heavy work.