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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
Strikers Oppose Ryan's Plan
Special to the Daily Worker

Especial to the Daily Worker)
SEATTLE, Wash, June 10-After
four days of meetings with the
Northwest Strike Committee. Jo-
seph P. Ryan, president of the In
ternational Longshoremens Asso-
citation. succeeded in signing sepa-
rate agreement for the Alaska ships
on the basis of the old scale of pay,
lila. recognition and wages to be
arbitrated after the longshoremen
return to work. The Everett delega-
ton voted against the agreement.
Newly elected Mayor Smith of Sc
attic threatened the strikers with
violence unless Ryan's proposals are
carried out. Dissenting rank and file
strikers We're refused the floor at a
meeting of 1900, where the agree
INIT was presented.
Firemen, oilers and tenders,
members of the International Sea-
mems Union, refused to give their
support to similar agreement for
the men who are striking on the
ships. An I.S.U. seamen's meeting
ended in an uproar as full author
ity was given to committee Of
three under the pressure of the
I.S.U. leaders, and when members
of the Marine Workers Industrial
Union were ordered from the prem
ises.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11

Don west was born in 1908 in
Cartecay. Gilmer County, in the
mountains of northern Georgia, and
soon afterward moved to Atlanta
He. worked his way through high
school, spent some time at VAN
derbilt College and studied for
three years to be q preacher" He
did land a job preaching in the
town of Sherwood, Tennessee, about
three years ago. But his sermons
on conditions of the workers in
the local mills-brought down on
his head the wrath of the deacon.
who happened to be superintendent
of the same mills. West was fired.
Published Three Booklets
There followed, West said, a
period during which he did organ
national work for the Socialist
Party and continued to write poetry.
During this period he publiShed his
three booklets Of verse. Between
the Plow Handles Grab Grass"
and Deep in Living" He refers to
these poems today as folk poems,
not really revolutionary" But he
adds that fourth small volume of
verss-this time revolutionary verse
lis to be issued by Virginia pub
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
Young Mems Council,
New Fascist Group,
Formed in New York

NEW YORK.-An organization
wholly American" TO safeguard
and transmit to posterity the prin-
ciples of justice, freedom and dem
ocracy,," has been formed under the
name Of the Young Mems Council
of the United States, Inc.
The chairman of the executive
committee is Alva c. Dinkey, an Of
ficial of the Midvale Steel Co.
This fascist organization is ready
to fight if necessary to do So" in
order to defend the Constitution
Dinkey states. Only native-b born
citizens are allowed into member
ship.
Another principle of the organiza-
ton is ito oppose and combat Wig
orously any insidious or unscrupu-
lous propaganda, whether domestic
or foreign"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
ounde by Georgia Terror Don Vest Fights Herndo and atlanta

ems the Atlanta Six, and under
which Angelo Herndon is i'm
prisoned.
Don West is in New York follow
ing his escape from the Atlanta
police and fascist gangs which have
terrorized the Negro and white
workers neighborhoods in a frantic
and bestial campaign to stop the
wildf1re spread of revolutionary
struggle in the South. He left At
lanta on Saturday. June 2. after
the police and the Men of Justice"
"a group similar to the White
Legion in Birrlingham-had spread
word throughout the city that they
were out to get West dead or
alive!"
Born 1908 in Georgia
West told his story yesterday at
the offices of the National Commit
tee for the Defense of Political Pris-
oners, at 156 Fifth Ave. Over six
feet tall, with clean-cut features,
black eyebrows from under which
his bright and alert eyes Loo.
squarely at you, he sat on an i'm
provised desk in clothes which he
told me he borrowed after his hasty
escape from the southern thugs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
Trade Unions
In Actions to
Aid ThaIlnann
Mass TUG Delegation
TO Visit Nazi Consul
in n. Y. Tomorrow

NEW YORK.-An intensive cam
paign for the freeing Of Ernst
Thaelmann. German working class
revolutionary leader, was launched
here with meeting of the Trade
Union Unity Council Friday night,
where a program of action was
mapped out by independent unions
and unions affiliated to the Trade
Union Unity League.
The unions reported the follow
ing activities for this week and ac-
tiyity in the past week:
Needle Trade Workers Industrial
Union; All of next week will be
Needle Week in front of the Ger
man consulate. Picketing will be
carried on every day. Delegations
will be sent up at the same time.
The union has established Thael-
mann corners in some departments.
Two open air meetings with Anna
Schultz as main speaker are planned
in the fur and dress markets. Tele-
grams are to be sent to the Ger
man Consulate and Adolph Hitler.
M tai Union: One thousand,
Free Thaelmann,' post cards have
been purchased. Cables have been
sent to Berlin and Washington. The
campaign is being raised at all shop
meetings, and other steps proposed
by the TU.U.C. are being CARVED
out.
Shoe Workers Union: Decided at
the council meeting that every
union shop is to send kilograms of
protest, to participate in picGeting
OF the consulate. The union has
sent cablegram to Hitler and is
carrying throgh picketng at the
consulate.
Marine Workers Union: Has car
ried through mass picketing in
front of the consulate every day
last week. Gables have been sent
to Washington and Germany de-
manding the freedom of Ernst
Thaelmann.
Food Workers Union: Sent a
telegram to Washington and Ger
many. Committee of three has been
elected TO make further plans for
the campaign.
Furniture workers Industrial
Union: Urging locals to order large
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
1900 WOrkerSCheer
BrOwder'S Toledo
Speech on Strikes
Exposes Role of A.F.L.
Leaders; Is Join
Party
Special TO the Daily WORKER

TOLEDO, Ohio, June 10.-The
appearance of Earl Browder, general
secretary of the Communist Party,
on the speakers platform at the
Moose Hall mass meeting Wednes-
day night was greeted with a thun-
derous burst of applause by the 1900
workers present. The audience rose
and sang the International, and it
was several minutes before the APP
plause subsidized, in the greatest ova-
ton accorded revolutionary leader
here.
Comrade Browder illustrated
clearly the significance and the les
sons to be drawn from the Minnea-
polls, San Francisco and Toledo
strikes. He pointed out to the work
ers how different would have been
the result in wages and other de-
mands If the Toledo workers had
gone on general strike instead Of
letting themselves be sold out by
the A. F. of L. misleaders.
Comrade Browder said THE
workers in Toledo must learn that
every strike, every struggle against
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"A F of Steel Group Bolts
Washington When Told to
o K Company Union Plan
How the NRA Machine Tries
To Head Off the Steel Strike
ROOseUeLt's Strike Medicine Works Like Castor
Oil in WGshingtOn But Not in Mills

Cancellation treatment dramatically
in Minneapolis. Toledo and the
auto and textile industry. Less
spectaculsrly, it has forced this
down the threats OF almost q
million other workers, since the
National Labor Board was created.
The board has Just announced that
it "mediated" 1923 strikes involv-
ing $4,000 workers. In addition. +"
the report boasts, "5s7 strikes we're
averted."
To one who watches the tech
nique at work in Washington it ap-
pears as a simple routine, always
the same fundamentally, though
varied on the surface to meet diff
fersnt situations promise and
threaten; stall and stall again;
meanwhile and most particularly,
delay and confuse the workers
struggle until every avenue of ad-
vance has been posted by govern
ment or employers guard, supplied
with machine guns where necessary.
Johnson "Averts" Textile Strike
When textile workers protested
against the N. r. A. order for a
IS per cent cut in production, and.
consequently in wages, President
Mcmahon and Secretary German
of the United Textile Workers
Union CA. F. Of L. went buster
ing strike threats ell over Wash
ington. But instead OF calling or
preparing a strike, they negotiated
with N. r. A. Administrator Cen
eral Hugh S. johnson. He scoffed
at the demands Of the workers. A
wage increase to make up for loss
OF hours? "Impossiblel" The in
dustry couldn't stand itn-why, sit
would revolt" Johnson Numbered
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
4 More Arrested in
London in Protest
Against FasciSts
Fl Anti-F ascists Beaten.
jailed, Fined; Govt
Protects Mosley

LONDON. June 10.-Four more
arrests were made Saturday as a
Black Shirt meeting at Hackney
provoked a counter demonstration
Conservative politicians. Cabinet
Ministers and non politicals were
still hotly debating the fascist bru-
tality exhibited at Olympia June T.
when anti-fascists were beaten dur
ing peaceful counter demonstra-
ton.
Little comment was made on the
fact that 81 bandaged anti-fascists
nevertheless received Jail sentences
and fines, while no fascists were
tried.
Sir Oswald Mosley denied charges
Of brutality in one breath and with
the next laid the blame for all bru-
tally on the anti-fascists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
Sheriffs Help
Lynch Mob to
Stay 2 Negroes
Negroes Murdered BY
persons Unknown"
Jury Finds

CLARKSDALE, Miss. June 10
Death at the hands of persons un-
known" was the verdict of an all
white coroner's jury who invest
gated" the lynching of two Negroes
handed over to a mob by Sheriff w
T, Haynes and his deputies Satur-
day morning.
Meeting under a flimsy wooden
bridge from where hung the bodies
Of the two Negroes, Joe Love snd
Isaac Thomas, the hand picketeo
jury completely Whitewsshed the
authorities handling of one of the
most outrageous crimes in the state
Greek Rice. District Attorney. who
ordered the bodies kept hanging
until hours after the lynching, de-
clared that he considered the case
closed"
without struggle, without ever
protest, the sheriff had handed
over his two Negro prisoners. &C.
cused Of attempting to assault 8
white planters wife, to a lynch
mob of less than $50 men. At the
inquest. Sheriff Haynes swore hi
Gid not recognize one person in the
mob
An eyewitness. who refused to give
his name for fear Of arrest. tolc
the gruesome story OF the lynch.
ing
Some men suggested cutting
them up because they feared tbs
sheriff would be along. We reached
bridge over small creek neal
Lambert when it was pretty dark
and someone said that was a GOOD
place to get rid of them.
THE Negroes we're thrown from
the car. Ropes we're tied around
their necks. One screamed: oh
lordy, save mel He was knocked
to the ground by blow.
THE crowd dragged them to the
edge of the bridge. Someone
shouted, Push the blacks off the
bridge They were pushed >
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
To Speak at Herndon
Protest Meeting on
Wednesday Night

citation, etc, have also grown. Shop
papers and leaflets are distributed
in great numbers in many parts of
the state. particularly in the larger
cities such as Atlanta, Macon, etc.
This scared the bosses and the So
called old guard Of the state, who
set about to destroy the Communist
influence and the resulting mill
fancy among the toilers of Georgia.
A Stool-Pigeon Appears
About two months ago a young
man named A. w. Morrison, for
mer schoolmate of Don West at the
Berry School, came to work with
the LID. and other organizations.
He volunteered his services in the
Herndon case. This man had previ-
ously worked for the Pinkerton De-
tective gang, and he came to At
lanta with a letter which stated he
was working to break up all mill
continual on PINE y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
T. III III unISt
Party Enters
Ohio Elections
n Ominate Candidate
for Governor; Lead
Fight Against N.R.A.

CLEVELAND, June 81 o. Ford,
formerly Communist Party candi-
date for Mayor in Cleveland, will
head the state slate of the Party as
its candidate for Governor in this
election campaign. Ford will open
the Communist Party campaign
with radio talk over WAY to-
night at TEAS pm. A signature drive
for 10000 signatures will be started
at the same time.
Other candidates will be Yetta
Land. well-known Cleveland labor
attorney, for Attorney General; Jane
Langston, Negro working woman
from Columbus, for Lieutenant
Governor; William Patterson of To-
ledo for treasurer; William Leo. Nc
Dermott of Hamilton for Secretary
of the State; w. C. Sandberg of
Cleveland for u. S. Senator; John
W. Marshall, farmer of Leetonia,
formerly candidate for Governor on
the Communist ticket, and Ben At
kins of Akron, for Congressman-a at
Large
The platform which the Com
munist Party presents to the peo-
pie of Ohio contains the following
major planks: '"The right of all
workers 10 organize. strike and
picket; a law against iniunctions
used against workers; outlawing
Of poV,ananv uv;oxe ,-,Uox. -.
contracts and comtany hiring Of
scabS thugs, and gunner. The
abolition of the criminal syndi-
calist law.
"a law for Unemployment In
surance for all unemployed work
ers as presented in the House Bill,
H.R. $685." The Communists fight
the Wagner Bill and the Governor
White bill as fake devices to de-
feat the struggle for real unem-
Pigment insurance"
Their platform proposes Can
collation. Of secured debts, mort
cages, back rents, delinquent taxes
Of small home owners ard impov-
erished farmers"
"The Communist Party advo-
Gates the repeal of all present tax
laws and in their place enactinc
graduated income tax law on
incomes over $4,000 per year.
Full equality for Negroes" is
another major item With which
the Communist Party appeals to
poor and oppressed people
throughout the state.
The Communist Party will not en-
ter the primaries, nor will it run
any candidates for the judiciary.
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months by relays of inquiSi-
tors recruited from the depths
If the underworld by Hitler, Goer-
ing, Goebbels and other fascist
agents OF the capitalists and land
lords, typifies today the heroic ira
dition of the best leaders and batal-
lions Of the oppressed of all the
world that runs from Wat Tyler of
England; through the early peasant
revoltS in what is now Germany and
Austria; the tradition that includes
the Fenians, Robert Emmett. jim
Connolly and Pearse, murdered by
British imperialism in Ireland;
Thaelmann has that fire of revolu-
tionary tradition which, in spite Of
all the ruling class can do. flames
high again and again because it is
nourished by the deathless memory
OF those who gave their lives for
the first French revolution and that
army Of working class fighters who
died defiantly defending the Paris
Commune in 1871. when all Euro
pean reaction rallied against the
first proletarian revolution Just as it
rallies for fascism today. More
than $50 years ago it was men of
the stamp of Thaelmann who
scourged the navy of King George
III in the War for Independence
our first American Revolution.
Kin to Lenin and Stain
Ernst Thaemann. worker-intel
lectual, organizer and teacher, leader
Of the 1928 Hamburg uprising, has
for his immediate ancestors the
soldiers and commanders of the
Proletarian Revolution in the Rus
sian Empire. He is of the family of
Lenin. Like Lenin and Stain he
Continued on Pare 6)
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numbers of Free Thaelmann" post
cards to be sent to Germany and
Nazi Ambassador Hans Luther, in
Washington. Sent registered letter
to Adolph Hitler demanding Thael-
MAINS release, and letter of
greetings to Thaelmann, Moabit,
Berlin, Germany.
A delegation has been elected by
the T.U.U.C. to present this de-
mand to the German consulate. The
delegation consists of the following
workers: G. Harrison, Rose
Kuntsch, M. Perlow, J, Sirota, j..
Hurting, Ross, VIM. Bliss, j. Santo,
Harry Cantor, Charlotte Todes,
Fannie Golos, Sam Nesin. The dele
cation will appear before the con-
sulate on Tuesday. The T.U.UC.
has also decided to issue call to
all trade unions, independent and
A. F. of l.. to undertake similar
activities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG


DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
CTEEL workers who voted
~ many weeks ago to call a
national steel strike if neces-
sary to enforce their demands
will meet again on Thursday,
two days before the strike
date, to consider a proposal
that they submit everything to
arbitration and virtually agree in
advance to give up their union!
That's how the New Deals ia
vorite strike medicine works. It is
a castor oil treatment-arbitrstion
and Cancellation. AS you might
imagine, it takes some union rep
resentatives to mix this potion.
There we're number on hand in
Washington during the past two
weeks not only big Mike" Tighe
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Threat of 20 Year Term
Faces Organizer,
Now i'm n. Y.
BY EDWIN ROLE

( ESS than a year ago there
~ came to the Daily Worker
a copy of a small booklet of
poems, Between the Plow
Handles" by Don West. The
GEMS were folk-songs and
ill-chants, slight but mean
gful lyrics of the southern hill
2untry. Rebellion smouldered in
en-, here and there one felt the
TX of revolt, but revolution was
! far off.
oday Don West, a Communist,
icing sought on a charge of in
lg to instruction, under an
southern slave-law. conviction
Which carries a minimum SEN
of twenty years in prison
nahum soltcnco of death.
I. is the same charge which threat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
$50 Ships Tied Up in Frisco

SAN FRANCISCO, June TO-
Cargo for overseas ships continues
to pile up on the docks here as the
strike CT the longshoremen con-
tinues.
Over $50 ships are either tied up
at the docks or anchored in the
stream, so effective is the strike in
this port.
Most Of the ships for the Orient
and North Coast ports are diverted
to San Pedro, which is the only
port that is even partially open.
Manuel Cortez has been SEN
fenced to serve 80 days in the
County Jail for distributing leaflets
among the strikers. On the other
hand, complaints of I. L. A. mem
bcrs that Lee j. Holman, ousted
Frisco president of the I. L. A., is
sending letters to strikers urging
them to return to work were dis
missed by the U. S. postal inspec-
tors on the ground that there was
nothing criminal" in the letters.
The strikers who called on Hol-
man to inquire about the letters
were arrested for disturbing the
peace: two we're dismissed and
Michael Cassidy was given a five
day suspended sentence.
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Ship Strikes in Houston
special to the Daily Worker

Especial TO the Dally Worker
HOUSTON, June 1o.-Seamen c
the S. S. Magyar struck here Frid
under the leadership of the Marin
Workers Industrial Union for ii,
code of the M.WI.U. which inclu1e
the 1929 wage scale.
Both employed and unemployt
seamen came out on the picket liz
and forced back a carload of strik
breakers who came from Tenn
Texas.
A leaflet issued by the NV
exposing the strikebreaking re-
leaders of the I.W.W., who r
off the so-called general gulf
IVES widely distributed aionr
w7s-r-ront. The IWW. leadc
are boycotting the Mayan strike.
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Wisconsin c. P.
Convention, July |

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, June 8.-The
State Nominating Convention of the
Communist Party of Wisconsin, to
choose the candidates for the state
election this coming fall, will be held
here on Sunday. July /. at 10 am.
at Liberty Hall, 1856 w. Walnut st.
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OF the Amalga =
mated Associa =
ito n OF Iron,
Steel and Tin
Workers "a. r.
Of L., but also
a committee of
u MON leaders
elected to pro-
tect the ra n K
and file from
such tactics.
But the steel
workers Of the
United S t a t e S
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
FASCIST FINANCES

RIGA. June 10-The new fascist
government today discovered its f.
nancial situation was very similar
to that of Germany and ordered an
embargo on imports unless rrevi-
ously authorized by the Currency
Supervision Commission.
Civil service privileges we're re-
moved today by government order
permitting discharging and remov-
ing of civil employees at will.
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Free ThGeImaJln--DedI 4
Deadly BIOuU to Fascisn1!
1t Is Our Need! 1t Is Our Duty! 1t Can Be Done
The Fight to Free Thaelmann Is the Fight
To Free the German Working Class!
BY BILL DUNE

ERNST THAELMANN, seaman and longshoreman was
taken from the docks of Hamburg demand of millions
of German workers. to become the leader of the Communist
Party.
Ernst Thaemam imprisoned and tortured for fifteen
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
FASCIST CONGRESS

BERLIN, June 10.-Fascists will
hold a Congress at Nuremberg Sept
l and 2, it was announced today.
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united a YES Marguerite Young
have the last
say about this, and they are very
likely to say it yet with the strike.
The Arbitration Treatment
The Roosevelt government had
administered the arbitration and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
Mass Picket
At Pier Six,
Brooklyn,
Noon Today
All Organizations Are
Called to Picket Bush
Terminal Docks
HOUSTON CREW OUT
80 Ships Tied Up in
San Francisco
CSee Editorial on Page SIX

NEW YORK.-The entire
labor movement has been
called upon by the Rank and
File Committee of the Inter
national Longshoremen's As
ISOLATION to come to a mass
demonstration at Pier 6, Bush
Terminal in Brooklyn today at noon
in support of the striking lockers
and seamen on the West Coast.
The demonstration is supported by
the Communist Party, Young Com
muniat League, Marine Workers
Industrial Union. as well as all
unions of the Trade Union Unity
Council, the International Labor
Defense and the A. F. OF L. Rank
and File Committee.
The demonstration will demand
that no ships bound to or from the
West Coast shall be loaded in the
port of New York, snd that the
American Hawaiian Steamship line
shall pay at once the crew of the
Texan. which struck in support of
the West Coast strikers and was
driven off the ship with guns and
denied their wages.
Workers from the Bronx or
Manhattan, going to the demon
stration, can reach Pier Of the
Bush Terminal by taking the 3.
NJ. T. Fourth Ave. Local az 14th
st. to 45th st. in Brooklyn. Work
erS living in Brooklyn take the
p. NJ. 7. Fourth Ave. Local to 45th
st. The demonstration will be
held at 4ist st. and First Ave.
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