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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Bob Minor and Jones
Arrested in Attempt to
Block Strike MeeI

PEKIN, Ill, July 9.-Police yes
terday arrested Robert Minor, vet
eran Communist leader, while he
was making a speech on the N. r.
A. at a meeting here.
Ernest Jones, secretary of the
st ate Committee Unemployment
Councils was also arrested and
jailed on charge of resisting an
officer" The arrested were ordered
before Mayor Reyburn M. Russell.
who later offered Minor his free
dom on the condition he leave
Pekin Immediately.
Minor refused, stating that he
will not surrender his rights to free
speech and promised to hold anoth-
er meeting and fight out the issue
before the working population.
Minor was Internationally re-
leased. Jones is in jail. The real
cause of the arrests is the confer
ence on the corn products strike to
be held today. The Mayor is at
tempting to lay the basis for smash
ing the strike.
L want no agitation Just now"
he told Minor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10

munist leaders at the trial, who
challenged fascism and its right to
rule; they def1ed them, exposed
them and used the trial Of them
selves as a springing board to
broadcast to all the world Commu-
mist ideas and the Communist way
out for the people of Germany.
The world Communist movement
had produced such men as Taneff,
Popoff, Torgler and Dimitroff.
Fascism Uses Chauvinism
Fascism grew on the oldest and
vilest instrument of capitalist So
and chauvinism. 1t
its gangsters, cut-throats
and bourgeois scum and led them
to def1le the Jewish people, rape
Jewish women, ravish corpses in
and commit the most
revolving acts against young Jewish
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10

erred neither in batters nor ia
pitchers.
THE American League team pre-"
1 sents an aggregation Of batters
who are terrors. Sentiment has
evidently not entered the choosing
here. The boys are 300 hitters
whether they are good looking or
not. Gehringer, Manush, Ruth and
Gehrig lead the list. Men like
these have caused many pitcher
to depart this life, happy in the
thought that in the beyond the
worst that can happen is that one
will be forced to listen to lectures
by the w. G. T. U.
And in the National League.
Frisch, Traynor, Medwick and Guy"
Ter will be the first to step to the
plate. One can hear Mr.. Gomez
not only sharpening his arm, but
also calling upon the prayer which
many pitchers have for use in the
box.
1T will be remembered that Mr..
i Ruth is leaving the pastures at
the end of this season. To the sem
timental it must be good to see that
he is going out with his boots on
that is, still considered q star.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
NaziS Hide Fate
of ThaeImann
Continued from Page II

paper marks. The result has been
tremendous increase in prices. and
with the great scarcity of food
munger is beginning to rack millions
OF German workers.
Numerous arrests are taking place
IN Berlin and other cities, but M
names are being published.
The historical speech of Rudolf
hess has served to increase the
war danger, and while in itself a
desperate, confused appeal for an
allance with France, is at the Same
time the most dire threat that tho
Nazis are better prepared for war
IMAM ever before, and are ready to
plunge Europe into the bloodiest
slaughter as means of saving Ger
man fascism.
one OF the most significant fea-
lures OF the speech was the fart
That the Nazi butchers give not tbo
sllghtest proof of the so-ca1Ind
plot which they used as a IRE
text to butcher their own bench
men. In fact, Hess's speech admits
mat dozens who knew notbing
ABOUT any plot were merciIessIS1
outchered as Disciplinary" meas
ure TO attempt to strengthen the
fascist regime. He declared in his
speech: --''
1 consider it my duty to en-
phaSlze that not all of those who
were punished were afflicted with
unnatural psychopathic character
lstlcS. 1 believe that one or another
may have become guilty through a
tragic chain of circumstances. In
those hours in which the question
10 be or not to be- hung in the
balance OF the German people, how
ever, the extent of the individual
guilt could not be considered.
In case of military mutinv
every tenth man is punished ire
SpectiVe of whether the bullets
strike the guilty or the innocent. ]"
This is an admission of whole
sale and insane butchery of their
own forces on no other pretext than
that they feared the growing mass
resistance of the rank and file of
the Storm Troopers and wanted to
set a terroristic example in their
furious attempt to stem the growing
discomfort.
Hitler who is at the present time
in the Bavarian Alps, taking a va
cation is reported making ready for
long sea voyage. The destina-
ton of his trip has not been an
nounced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
1000 Workers Strike
2 Detroit Relief Jobs;
New York Workers Out
Governors Island Men
Appeal for Help on
Picket Line

The Relief Workers League and
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union today appealed to all
all workers to mass on the picket
line at the ferry to Governors
Island. All pickets should report
to the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union headquarters at lao
Broad st. today at am.
NEW YORK-Workers from the
Governors Island P.W.A. project
met at the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union hall yesterday to plan
strike action on the job to demand
pay increases, opportunity to make
up lost time, and a stop to the
planned mass layof.
Word was received by the men
that all 500 employed on the island
at S12 a week would be fired and
their places filled by unemployed
seamen at the Seamen's Institute.
About 200 of the men were fired
yesterday. The remainder are to
be fired by the end of the month.
Army officers and time keepers
intimidate the men and kept
them from walking off the job yes
terday, one officer saying to some
workers: There are guns and bull
lets here, and we'll use them"
Col. Clark, into whose hands a
copy of the strike call had fallen,
called police headquarters and the
ferry landing swarmed with cops
as the men walked off to the strike
meeting. Three riot cars were on
duty and scores of detectives pa
trolled the area.
The 500 workers on the Island
are Disseminated against, no chance
is given them to make up lost time,
orders are posted on the Island that
any worker belonging to a dues
paying organization will be fired.
Any workers talking organization
are placed under military guard,
The workers are forced to do
skilled work at laborers wages. Men
are made to wash the officers cars,
to do repair work on automobiles,
and to wrk in the officers homes.
The work in the main part is road
building on the military project.
Under C.W.A., and now under P,
WA, millions of dollars are being
spent on Governors Island for war
preparations.
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But it would be wrong for us to
minimize the tremendous difficult
ties that still face the German
Communist Party in this situation.
Truly the basis for proletarian
power is rapidly maturing.
This wild Hitler fascist reaction
was met by the great German Com
munist Party and its great leader,
Ernst Thaelmann, who led until he
was tracked down by the fascist
bandits. Thaelmann is not only the
conscious leader of the anti-fascist
forces in Germany, Thaelmann is
a product of the international Com
munist movement. Thaelmann is "a
leader of all the oppressed against
fascism and against international
capitalist imperialism whether in
Germany or in the PARKWAY colo
MES of imperialism.
AS a longshoreman in Hamburg
Thaelmann came in contact with
Chinese, Indian and African sea-
men, he knew all their problems
as Seamen; he understood their
struggles for national independence
in their own countries. Thaelmann
raised high the banner of interna-
tional solidarity, of the unity of
German, English, Chinese, Ind:Sc
and African seamen.
Thaeimann Defended Scottsboro
Boys
In 1881 at Hamburg, Germany, a
Great May Day demonstration was
Continued on Page g.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Efforts To Bail
HillSbOrO II Are
Blocked By Court
Property Owners Put
ting Up Bail Ordered
Investigated

TAYLOR SPRINGS, Ill, July o.
Property owners who offered TO put
up their property to provide bail for
the Hillsboro Eleven we're under in
yestigation today by the court, as
Montgomery authorities continued
to raise every possible obstacle to
prevent the release of the II UNI
employed leaders.
Since such Investigations of
property bondsmen is not custom
airy, it is evident that what is under
investigation is the political beliefs
of the bondsmen and their SYM
pathies with the defendants.
Judge Jett, who was forced last
week by the mass protest to order
reduction of bail from $4,000 cash
bond each, to 5000 each, declared
today he would be unable to rule on
the eligibility of the bondsmen
until Thursday. States Attoynev
Hall also used the demand for in
Vestigating the bondsmen" as 9
method of preventing the release
of the II on bail.
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Thugs Slug Jersey
Farm Strikers
Continued from, Page y

attackers and wrested the hose from
the pumps.
State militia have been called out
and at least Is troopers are ex-
pected soon.
Ten workers were arrested and
placed in the improvised Jail on
Seabrook's ice-house, where they
were kept for two and a half
hours in a temperature six degrees
below zero.
The workers were blackjacked by
imported thugs who rushed them
to their houses on the farm, but
the workers seized all implements
available and returned the attack.
When pickets were seized, the
strikers formed special groups to
liberate their fellow-strikers
Fight Red Scare"
The strike against the Seabrook
Farms, the largest farms in the
East are for the maintenance of
contract Seabrook, the owner,
signed in April for 30 cents an
hour wage. Seabrook has an
nounced that he will restore the
Tbs cents an hour scale previously
in force. The strike is led by the
Agricultural and Cannery Indus
trial Workers Union, with Donald
Henderson, Elinor Henderson, Wv
ian Dahl, playing prominent parts.
All attempts of the rich farmers
led by Seabrook to isolate the
leaders from the strikers by vi
cious ''red-baiting" propaganda
have failed dismally. An elected
Strike Committee of Fifteen is
leading the strike, with Negro
workers playing a leading role.
Mass protest meetings will be
held in Bridgeton this afternoon
and tonight.
McGUFFEY, O., July 9.-Several
hundred onion pickers working on
the large farms here were at
tackled in pitched battle here by
deputy sheriffs in the fourth day
of their strike against the 10
cents an hour wage scale.
These strikers are barefooted
and live in the greatest poverty.
Twenty-seven pickets were ar
rested. A burst of machine gun
fire was sent in the direction of
group of pickets, but thus far
it is reported that none was hit.
Several pickets were dubbed into
insensibility when they sought to
talk to scabs being carried into the
place.
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provocative statement of Commits
sioner Organ indicates that the
Mayor supports the fascist terror
ism Of the Police Commissioners.
This delegation therefore demands:
81. The Immediate removal Of
Police Commissioner Organ.
20. The immediate cessation of
police terror and intimidation of
workers and their organizations.
80. The right of all workers or
CARNATIONS to hold entertain
ment for members and friends
without police moIestation.
a. Official recognition of the
right of peaceful assemblage.
IS. The arrest of the detectives
responsible for the murder of
Fletcher Bey, and immediate ar
rangements by the city for the
support of Fletcher Bey's family.
IS. The appointment of a com
mittee of representatives from
workers organizations to investi-
gate the responsibility for the
above record of police terrorism.
"a. The immediate arrest of
Detectives Waterson and O'Con-
neil, responsible for the beating of
Patsy Augustine and Jack Schnei-
der"
The statement was signed by the
I. L, D., the United Action Com
mittee, the Unemployment Coun-
Gil, Trade Union Unity Council
United Council of Working Glass
Women, Furniture Workers Indus
trial Union, Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union, Food Workers In
dustrial Union, Fur Workers Indus
trial Union, National Committed
for the Defense of Political Prison
ers, City Council of Associated
Women'S Clubs, Workers Interna-
tional Relief, Association of Office
and Professional Emergency EN-
ployees, and Relief Workers League
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tionary leaders of the various Cen
trail Trades and Labor Councils,
along with Green, are trying to
sabotage the calling Of the general
strike.
1.-THE rank and file members in
the locals must instruct it's dele
gates that immediate action should
be taken without delay. The State
declarations of California, Washing
ton and Oregon should issue joint
statement to the entire labor move
ment for moral and financial sup
port. The strike should be spread
to the Eastern Coast and the Gulf
ports.
Brothers!
THE outcome Of the San Fran
cisco strike, will effect the entire
working class. Local unions all
over the country should adopt soli-
darity resolutions in support of the
West Coast strikers. Money should
be sent Immediately to the strike
committee. Green's telegram to
Seattle should be repudiated.
THE concerted action OF the
rank and file will defeat the organ
lied power Of the San Francisco
bosses. The rank and file must be
on guard against any agreement
made by high officials behind the
back of the strikers. The A. F. Of
L. Committee and all affiliated or
CARNATIONS pledge themselves to
support the general strike of the
West Coast workers and do every
thing in its power to win the strike"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Strike Spreads; Move
To General Strike on
Work Relief

DEROIT, Mich, July 9.-About
1000 workers on two relief projects
here struck Friday against new cuts
of from two to seven hours which
reduce wages from 50 to 81 a week
and further lowers the starvation
rates.
The Wayne University project and
the Hamtramck G. E. r. A. project
both struck on the same day. The
strike sentiment is spreading
throughout the county. The River
Rouge project today elected a COM
mittee to see Ballenger, the relief
supervisor, and threatened to strike
unless the cut is taken back at
once.
The Hamtramck project is out
solid, all the Negro workers joining
the strike. This action was in an
swer to the attempts Of the relief
officials to drive the men back to
work by spreading propaganda that
"a per cent of the men wanted to
work, but are being held out by 16
per cent.
On Sunday a special meeting
held by the relief workers unani-
mously condemned this propaganda
of the relief officials. Today at
Wayne University, A. F. of L. Off
Gals tried to keep John Pace, sec
rotary of the Relief Workers Pro-
tective Association, from speaking
and tried to SOW confusion and
Generalization into the workers
ranks by making move to walk
ut of the meeting in order to en-
courage the press publicity that the
men do not want to strike.
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ties Union.
eve are convinced" said A.
L. Wirin, of the Civil Liber-
ties Union, that there has been
wholesale and inexcusable denial to
workers of their right to vote for
union officers Of their own choice"
Wirin declared that although his
organization is traditionally I'M
willing to interfere in the internal
affairs of labor unions, it is
ready to do so where the evidence
of discrimination is overwhelming.
The Civil Liberties Union had Of
fered to send impartial observers to
the polls, it was revealed in the
statement, but the offer was re-
iected by the officers of the district
council who are under the control
of Philip Zausner, whose racketeer-
ing of the union the rank and file
Is now trying to break,
Herbert D. David, American Civil
Liberties Union official acted as an
unof1cisl observer however, and
later reported that;
THE election was marked by
vicious intimidation and fraudulent
voting. So reckless were the forces
seeking to elect zausner and his
followers that voting machines were
closed hours before the official end
of the voting at five o'clock while
remaining voters clamored for their
turns at the machines. The legiti-
mate voters had been barred be-
cause the Zausner forces had re-
corded SO many fraudulent votes
that they equalled the total regis
tered voting enrolment.
Scores of remaining honest
voters were thus prevented from
voting" David's report declared.
AT one polling place during the
first forty minutes of voting, the
greater portion of votes cast by a
mob of Zausner supporters who
stormed the booth and who voted
early and often and were able to
prevent any check by the watchers.
At many of the polling places,
Zausner voting officials accompanied
the voters behind the curtains of
the bachine and even voted for
them"
Afidavits supporting these charges
were submitted to the American
Civil Liberties Union by painters.
In Local 442, $50 votes were re-
ported in the first hour although it
was conservatively estimated that
one minute at least was required
for going through the voting routine
and checking union cards against
the lists Of the watchers. Numerous
watchers swore that individuals
voted three and four and, in one
case, ten times. In Local 261, the
Union asserted that the certified
list contains only 1859 members
while 1,105 votes were registered on
the machine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10

Comrades and friends:
Hitler came to power in
Germany to carry out the
aims of German finance cap
ital and operated with the oldest,
lowest and most reactionary forces
Fsscism has now brought Germany
to the brink of economic and social
catastrophe. 1t dug up the scum OF
bourgeois society as its leaders and
tried to set up q barrier between
the capitalist regime to protect it
from the new rising social order in
Germany, hoping with these corrupt
forces and the most barbarous
methods to save German capitalism.
The capitalist regime took this
scum of bourgeois society, the Hit
lers, the Roehnls, Helldorfs, etc,
and said to it: Lie, frame up, kill,
murder, torture, rape, vilify, deflle
and SANDER Hitler and his fascist
bandits organized the greatest crime
in all history to frame up the lead
ers Of the Communist Party of Ger
many. They accused the Commu-
nists of burning the Reichstag; they
flung into the face of the civilized
world the vilest lie against these
leaders. But the trial of the Com
munist leaders proved a boomerang
upon them. These fascist bandits
figured not only without considering
the reaction of human society to
such a vile deed but also without
considering the courage and hero
ism of the Communist leaders and
the working class movement of the
world, The whole world was aroused
by the mastery defense of the Com
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NOTHING serious will be
~ settled to shake the Caes-


NOTHING serious will be
~ settled to shake the Caes-
ars out of their graces =
though the less stanch among
them may pale at the thought of
so much money going to any other
cause but that of the Association
of INDECENT Baseball Magnates. No
tangible championship is on the
block. 1t will be an airy honor that
will be won and the honor will dis
appear as soon as the teams are
dissolved, and remain only as some
sort of reference to the players.
The profits will go, it is said, to
the Association of Professional
Baseball Players. There is nothing
like charity to give anything
sweet hue,
IT is now vouchsafed that the
line-ups will be as the people
wanted them, though it seemed in
the beginning that the people had
voted for naught. Messrs. Terry and
Cronin, it seems, have thought bet
ter than of flouting the wishes of
the faithful. Like all impressarios
engaged in professional athletics
they had disregarded the idea of
giving the fans what they want as
fantastic and had published line
up according to their own theories.
To judge from the line-ups, the
game will be a hot one, and the
customers know their business, if
the players are the ones they
picked. 1t is astonishing how
capable the simple fan may be
sometimes, contrary to the belief
of managers and promoters. In
this case, we see that they have
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Continued from Page y

ers Industrial Union were urging
the men to strike the ship 100 per
cent. All throughout the afternoon
police, under the direction of Cap
tain John J. Lang, patrolled the
district to the pier. A police motor
cycle drove into the crowd, attempt
ing to move the pickets from the
street.
For hours the pickets, in a ire
mendous chant, shouted the slo-
gans: Don't Scab," Strike, Don't
Unload the Scab Cargol"
Placards carried by the workers
said: "Seamen of the Virginia, Don't
Scab!" Refuse to Unload the SIS.
Virginia"
The chief officer of the Virginia,
Mr.. Sullivan, sitting at table in
his cabin behind gin and whisky
bottles, was obviously worried about
the picket line in front of the dock.
Say Ryan Forbids Strike
Nervously he told reporters that
everything was OK, despite the
fact that his crew was deserving
him.
The ship is due to sail with many
passengers on Saturday. Organic
ers of the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union are preparing to hold
the sailing of the ship by bringing
out the entire crew on strike.
Longshoremen, members of the
International Longshoremen's Asso-
citation were told by their delegates
not to strike. These orders came
from Ryan," the men were told.
Members of the rank and file
committee of the International
Longshoremen's Association were
urging men to set up their own
committee and strike over the head
of Ryan.
During the afternoon, an aged
man, the father Of an oiler on the
Virginia, attempted to go aboard
the ship to tell his son to come
out on strike, but he was stopped
at the pier door by police. He was
not permitted to see his son.
Following the demonstration at
the waterfront the pickets marched
to 14th st. and 9th Ave-, where they
demonstrated in front of the office
of Joseph P. Ryan, head of the IN
ternational LongShoremen's Associa-
ton. The pickets demanded that
Ryan call the East Coast lockers
on strike.
1t was learned later that Ryan
had left New York shortly before
the demonstration. His office was
closely guarded by police and even
newspaper reporters were followed
by a cop on duty when they went
into the building to get a statement
from Ryan.
mfr. Ryan has left no statement
for the press" said his secretary.
He is tired and he has gone away
to rest"
Green's Strikebreaking Statement
SEATTLE, Wash, July 9.-Wil-
liam Green, fresh from his be-
trayal of the struggle of the steel
workers, has sent a telegram to
the Seattle Central Labor Union
categorically instructing them to
become aggressively active in op-
posing sympathetic strike" in sup
port of the marine workers strike.
Green's strikebreaking telegram.
printed in the Seattle Voice of Ac-
ton. of July 6, follows:
"The Central Labor Council at
Seattle must not either counte-
nance or favor sympathetic
srike on the part of workers not
involved In the longshoremen's
controversy.
1.-THE Central Body would be
violating laws of the A. F. of L.
if it either directly or indirectly
gave comfort and support to
such a sympathetic strike. A
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1000 Picket West Side Docks in N. Y.

great injury would be done the
cause and good name Of organ
lied labor and no substantial as
sistance would be accorded strik-
ing longshoremen.
Public opinion will not sup
port workers who engage in
sympathetic strike and who vio-
late contracts in doing so. l urge
the Central Labor Council to be-
come aggressively active In op-
posing sympathetic strike.