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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24
DockerS' Strike Is
Stronger as Mass
Picketing Starts
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Workers Aid Relief
Fund of Strikers

NEW YORK. MASS picketing was
organized by the strikers at the
Tietjen-Lang and Fletcher Dry
docks in Hoboken yesterday, for the
first time since the shipyards strike
started six weeks ago. We'll show
them there's strike" was the senti-
ment expressed by the shipyards
workers when they read the state
ment of the Todd Shipbuilding Co.
and the United Drydocks that they
knew Of no strike at the shipyards.
Denial of the strike was made by
the powerful shipyards companies
after the N. r. A. had failed to break
the strike and turned it over to the
National Labor Board for this pur-
pose.
The workers met at their strike
hall yesterday and their anger against
the A. F. of L. policy of preventing
mass action reached a high pitch
They were stirred to action wher
they read the leaflet Of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union, en-
titled why Stand PATTI" exposing
the strikebreaking character of the
National Labor Board and urging
mass picketing to clean out the scabs
With great enthusiasm the strikers
voted to form mass picket lines al
the docks at 4 o'clock that same day
The A. F. Of L. officials were obliged
to go along, unable to check the
aroused workers.
The action of the shipyards strik-
ers marks a turning point in thu
strike, and it is expected that sim
liar steps will be taken in the Brook
lyn yards. It is the result of the
continued hammering of the Indus.
trial Union that only by this policy
will the strike be won. The Indus.
trial Union is winning greater pres
tige among the workers here, as /.
evidenced in the action of the strik.
ers in posting the leaflet Of the In
dustrial Union on the board and pro.
tecting it from being torn down.
Another significant development II
the shipyards strike yesterday wa
the action Of the Brooklyn Navy
Yard workers in contributing to thu
strike relief fund of the shipyard
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24
DimitrOff, Others,
Innocent of Arson,
Wander LubbeS Says
"Why Doesn't the Trial
End?" He Exclaims
In Court
Special Gable to the Daily Worker

Special Gable to the Daily WORKER
AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER
(via Burich, Switzerland, Nov. 23.-
Suddenly coming TO life, Marinus van
der Lubbe, Nazi tool in the Relchstag
fire, made an impassioned speech
today when the trial moved back
from Berlin to Leipzig and declared
that the Communist defendants were
absolutely innocent.
A sensation was caused in court
when Van der Lubbe arose suddenly
and made a long speech to the pre-
siding judge, in which he asked:
How long is this trial to last? First
in Leipzig, then in Berlin, again In
Leipzig. I have oeen in prison for
eight months. I demand verdict.
Everything has been explained; why
doesn't the court pass sentence?
have said that have set fire to the
Reichstag alone" Van der Lubbs
spoke rapidly, sometimes almost pas
sionately. Buenger, presiding Judge.
declared that if Van der Lubbe wants
rapid verdict, he must name &C
completes.
Speaks In Dutch
Van der Lubbe replied that nobody
can possibly believe the guilt Of Tor
gler or the Bulgarians. He spoke In
Dutch and the interpreting was OBJ
viously faulty and incomplete. Thus
it is evident that the statements made
by detectives that Van der Lubbe
made a confession In fluent German
on the night of the fire, was abso-
lutely untrue. Van der Lubbe cried:
Sentence me to death, or 20 years
Imprisonment, but finish the trial
Neither Torgler nor the Bulgarians
had anything to do with the fire,
Why insist on experts? 1t is not
difficult to set fire alone in 10 or Ii
minutes. 1t is perfectly clear thai
set the fire alone. but the fire !;
not the sole question, it seems, be-
cause attempts are being made u
drag in other considerations"
Replying to question, Lubbe sale
that he consulted nobody before the
fire. -Four times he repeated GIVE
me my SENTENCED" The presiding
Judge insisted that Lubbe should
name accomplices, but the latter re-
peated that he has told the truth
and has no accomplices. Lubbe's re-
plies are clear and suffer only from
bad interpreting.
Quizzed by Dimitr0h
Dimitroff, Bulgarian Communist de-
clared that he cannot understand how
Lubbe could set the fire alone. Lubbt
interrupts with the remark: Setting
fire is not complicated. Why shouldni
manage it alone. The guilt ques'
ton is different one. I can only
repeat that Dimitrof and the others
are not involved"
Presiding Judge asked Lubbe why
he acted as an incendiary. Lubbt
declared that he cannot explain IL
few words, but there are many prt'
vate reasons. When Dimitroff asked
Lubbe if he set fire in cooperation
with the Communists, Lubbe denied
it, but said that he set the flrt, but
not with the Communists.
"All assertions against the Commu-
nists and Nazis are wrong. Setting
it, but said that he set the fire, bu
attended circumstances are compli'
Gated"
Lubbe evaded the question as *
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protect the investments of the
Wall Street banks comes from
the savings in Postal Savings banks,
the Farm Credit Administration
funds which were to go to aid the
mortgaged farmers, and the Federal
Deposit Insurance FUND. Apout
$500 600 goo of such funds are avail
able for the purpose of preventing
Wall Street banks from losses IN their
bond investments.
More Taxes
Following this announcement, Buo-
get Director Douglas today warned
the country that new, heavier taxes
must be levied in order to preserve
the credit of the government" Inc
credit of the government" is phrase
which means the soundness and
safety of the Wall Street bank IN
vestments in government bonds. The
Roosevelt proposal for new taxes TO
"preserve the government credit
are. therefore, a demand for more
sacrifices from the masses to protect
Wall Street bond investments.
PAYS Bond interest
The Roosevelt government mas
segregated about $4,000, 100000 al
ready for the support of Wall StreeV
bonds, mortgages and loan payments.
tt slashed the federal employees sal
aries and veterans compensation by
5000 600, 900 to help pay bond interest
to the Wall Street bond holders. Tne
government is now faced with the
necessity of raising more FUNDS &c
continue these subsidies to the BOND
holders.
The Roosevelt government, now
ever. is faced with the necessity OF
keeping the gold price high, while a!
the same time keeping the BOND
market from collapsing, process
which is economically impossible.
Britain Prepares Fight
Rooseyelt's imitation policy aroused
more open threats of reprisal TO-DAY
than have been heard for some time
A group of British business men mas
petitioned the Bank of England 1oi
more aggressive financial reprisais
against the Roosevelt government
AS the Roosevelt government drives
ahead toward an infiationary ATTACK
against its imperialist rivals, It is
certainty that the international cur
rency war will flare to heights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24

yesterday, which will prove to every
terrorist group the growing solidar-
ity Of all workers, whatever their
color.
THE line Of march will be up Lenox
Ave, from 18th st. to 136th ST., east
to Fifth Ave; north to 18th ST.,
then we turn west to Seventh Ave.
go down to 125th st. and finally re-
turn to 131st st. and Lenox Ave.
where Negro and white leaders OF
the revolutionary movement will adj
dress the demonstrators"
Young Pioneers on roller skates
with placards on their backs de-
handing the immediate release Of
the Scottsboro boys, are organizing
fContin.ed on Page ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24
'Daily" Campaign
Success Depends
On Tag Days!

Under the leadership OF the Ma
y tional Miners Union, the New
Mexico miners marched to a smash
ing victory against the coal barons.
Despite brutal terror they triumphed
In their demands for better working
conditions, for the release OF Herbert
BENJAMIN and other working class
leaders from the capitalist prisons.
ny exposing the terror against the
D miners, by rallying working class
aid for them, by pointing out correct
strike tactics, by supporting whole
heartedly their militant union, the
Daily Worker played leading role
In the miners victorious struggle.
WHAT are you doing to provide the
" Daily Worker with the financial
sinews for continuing to deliver
smashing blows against capitalist OPP
preston?
The Daily Worker National Tag
Days start today. Here Is your
chance to march with the Daily
Worker in the vanguard of the mill
tant working class to further VIC
tories in the strike struggles, to VIC
tory in the battle to save the Scots
boro Boys, to victory in the fight
to crush fascism.
March shoulder to shoulder with
the Daily Worker National Tag Day
Army. Contribute! Take an active
part in the three tag days, today,
tomorrow and Sunday!
March to victories with the Daily
Worker!
Thursdays receipts .......$ 463.57
Previous total ............. 26,638.7o
TOTAL TO DATE. ...$27, lO2.27
rs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24
new TAX BURDEN FOR MASSES AS BUDGET CRISIS GROW
Thousands to Protest
Reichstag Frame-Up
Trial at Coils cum

NEW YORK. - Thousands of
workers will gather at a mass
protest meeting to be held Sum
day, Nov. rs, at I PM, In the
Bronx Coliseum. The latest news
from the Reichstag trial will be
flashed to the meeting. Funds
collected will go to aid the vic
Tins of German Fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24
Havana Workers
Demand Release of
ScOttsbOrO Boy S

HAVANA, Nov. 23.-Young work
ers and students massed In
demonstration for the release OF
the Scottsboro boys here last night.
They broke plate glass windows OF
the American-owned Grace and
Ward shipping lines and threw pa
pers on which they had printed:
eve DEMAND IMMEDIATE
FREEDOM FOR THE SCOTS
BOKO NEGROES!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24
Harlem Demonstration
To Score Lynch Danger


against the threat
ScottsbOro and their attorneys
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24

this year Consists of 1,180 pools OF
grain alone, not counting other
products, and money. Comrades Sta
lin, Molotov, Kalinin and Kagano-
yich inquired In detail regarding the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24

per cent, compared to october last
year. The average monthly eff
cheney Of labor, owing to the intro
duction and mastery Of new equip
ment in gigantic factories and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-24
Roosevelt Supports
Bonds With Postal
Saving, Relief Funds
Great Britain to Meet Roosevelt Attack-Gets
Ready for Reprisals in Initiation Fight
for Foreign Markets

WASHINGTON, Nov. >23-The Roosevelt government to-
day threw Treasury into the market to support the Wall
Street bond market effort to stem the swiftly
developing credit crisis.
The funds which the Roosevelt government is using to
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TOTAL TO DATE. 71o2.27
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-24
~ALL In THE SAME BOATp

Probably no phrase uttered by
the American people during recent
days, has been so often spoken as
the one quoted above. "All in the
same boat" Every newspaper has
printed it, your friends and ac-
quaintances so remark. 1t is a for
tunate spirit. II preserved, il means
great blessings for us.
This sentiment has been much
absent from our life since the World
War ended. At that time people be-
came sick and tired of constant ap-
peals for public service. They were
weary of drives, of solicitations to
give, of requests for cooperation.
They wanted to forget they were all
in the same boat. paddle your own
canoe" became the national slogan.
The trouble with padding your
own canoe, is that all the canoes
get so tangled up in the jostling race
to reach the goal, that a lot of them
are sunk. There is so much confu-
sion and turmoil that few of them
make any real speed, or reach their
Obiectives.
The power of either a nation of a
community like Milford is Vitiated if
that group of people work individ-
ually for their own ends alone. Peo-
pie are pulling in contrary direc-
tions, and in their divided effort no
force is obtained. But now if you
can take all those jarring, contrary,
and conflicting energies, and get
them working on the same ends, all
this dissipated power is harnessed
to accomplish one end, and it be-
comes irresistible.
The recent bank holidays are go
ing to illustrate that truth. So long
as the American people were pad
ding their own canoes alone, every
one for himself and the devil take
the hindmost, the country got no
where. But the bank holidays con-
vinced the people of the need for
united action. The government at
rejecting this feeling,
became able to act and act fast. We
already see large results, and shall
soon see still greater ones.
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-24
THE FIRST OF APRIL

Every generation of boys must
have it's experience in running err
rands for left handed screwdrivers.
Perhaps no boys education is COM
plete until he has tried to pick up a
purse nailed to the pavement. There
by the youngster at least learns that
things are seldom what they seem.
Many wives used to fool their hus-
bands regularly on April first, and
usually before breakfast. When hu-
INFLATED by such a hoax, the hus-
bands firmly resolved to be more
wary next time. But as next time
comes again, they are still inno-
Gently ready to be bluffed once
more.
The people thus made game of
may console themselves with the
thought that wise and philosophical
persons have their minds on too
lofty themes to bother with such
child's play. Yet the reason why
they are fooled may not be so much
because of superior wisdom, as be-
cause of lack of mental alertness.
And anyway, when people are fool
ing each other, they are not crouch
ing about their troubles.
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-24
DEPOSITS FLOW IN

The measures already taken to
strengthen the country's banking
system have resulted in a great tide
of deposits flowing into the reopen
ed banks. At Philadelphia the bank
officials said that money and checks
were coming in so fast that these
deposits couldn't be handled through
the regular channels. The same
story is reported all over the coun-
try.
The great amounts of gold and
currency coming back into circula-
tion should create a new basis for
credit, and provide loans to expand
business. The country has been
partly stalled by the fears of the
people, and now all signs indicate
that these fears are losing their
paralyzing force.
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-24
HITTING THE BILLS EYE

From the stone steps of the Ma
tional Capitol at Washington to the
most remote sections of the United
States ring the praises for the new
President of the Nation. In his in
augural address he denounced the
big bankers, and on the following
day he issued orders for the subse-
quent bank holidays. The entire
policy of pouring money from the
government treasury into financial
rat-holes was Immediately checked.
Congress was convened for the pur-
pose of carrying out the new poll
cies announced by President Roose-
welt.
The New Deal is here, and every
body likes it. In Washington every
body has hopes that the depression
and the panic will be chased around
the corners.
There is no question but what
President Roosevelt is proceeding
with great courage. The people of
the National, irrespective of their
party preferences, are lined up for
their government and their Presi-
dent.
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-24
PRESIDENTS RALLYING CRY

When President Roosevelt talked
TO the American people in their
quiet homes, urging them to sup
port the governments banking pol
icy, to have faith in the banks which
the government has indorsed by per-
mitting them to open, he addressed
one of the greatest audiences that
ever listened to such an appeal. AS
the bank holidays affected every
body, nearly everyone who has a
radio was listening with all his ears
to this voice from the high seat of
power.
This message has had a powerful
influence. The effect is already seen.
1t calmed the fears of hysterical
persons. 1t explained banking mys-
teries 10 many who previously had
only vague ideas of the processes
going on behind the grated ratings.
II showed doubters the true answer
10 their questionings.
The President is the chosen leader
of the people. We must rally to
support him, as the soldiers rally to
back up their commander. An army
that won't follow its leader is not
much good, but when its members
act as unit under wise direction,
its foes take to their heels
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-24
HOW BANKS OPERATE

President Roosevelt's radio ad-
dress on banking, calling on the
people TO back up these institutions,
was particularly helpful, since he
explained things that many persons
fail to comprehend. AS he may have
meant to intimate, some people
seem to think that when they de-
posit money in bank, it is simply
put into a vault waiting for them TO
ask for it.
If that was all there was to bank
ing, there would be no banks. Money
tucked away in vaults earns moth
ing. That money must be put to
work, used to buy bonds which pay
interest, and much of 1t loaned to
business to help it operate. A bank
must earn money on its deposits, or
no motive exists for opening any
bank.
But when the bank earns money
on such Investments, they can not
all be turned into cash in a minute
without some loss. Banks keep on
hand large amounts of securities
which can be turned into cash quick
ly, and used to pay depositors. But
banks can't be expected to pay out
all their cash all at once. If peo-
pie want the prosperity that good
banking system makes possible, then
they will have to stop boarding,
and give their banks a chance to
operate normally.
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-24
STOCK EXCHANGE REOPEN

The re-opening of stock exchanges
is one more step back to normal
conditions. But many people who
trade in them should listen to words
OF old fashioned caution. They
should not forget the dizzy days of
1929, when people bid many securi-
ties up to twice to 10 times what
they were worth. They should med
itate on how these values fell there
after, like old Humpty Dumpty from
his wall, bringing down the coun-
try's business in one grand smash.
Conditions today are of course
vastly different. The water has
been squeezed out of securities that
they look as if they had been dried
out in a Sahara desert. Millions of
spectators are in a chastened and
humble frame of mind. But how will
it be, if the old gambling fever
should rise again?
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-24
Milford. Friday, March q, 1888
THE End or FEAR

The era Of fear has passed, they
say at Washington, as they get word
from all over the country of re-
opening Of banks without excitement
or hysteria. 1t would seem that the
apprehensions that have paralyzed
the activities of the nation so long.
had been pretty well quieted.
1t may be said that the reason why
millions of people have failed to buy
goods, is not because of fear, but
because they had no money. If they
had had money, they would have
spent it for food, clothing, and rent
There are said to be large num-
bers of people whose secure incomes
would have permitted them to buy
in a normal way all along, but who
have failed to do so. They have
scrimped and saved, fearing some
catastrophe the nature Of which they
could not define. Their fears have
tended to bring on the disasters
which they wished to avert.
If these timid folks would take
courage and buy goods in a normal !
way, as they well could, a new i'm /
pulse of activity would communi- |
cate itself to our industrial life
The business world has been the
scene of many abuses, which have
had tendency to shake confidence,
and thus restrict credit and para
lyze trade Many Of these prac-
tices have been voluntarily aban-
doned, while others will be stopped /
by the strong hand of the govern |
ment. We can go ahead with far
better courage as respects such haZ
ards. ..4-.A,. .-.-.1.4. -.. -.--,,4a.
Fear closed many perfectly sound |
banks, which could have liquidated !
in full if they could have had time to
realize on good investments. But
the demand for great amounts of
cash all at once was impossible to
comply with No people ever accom-
plished anything by listening to ir-
rational fears. The pioneers who
crossed the stormy ocean and tanned
a wilderness would never have got
ten anywhere if they had yielded to
such promptings.
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-24
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA;
TRAGEDY

Southern California is a beautiful
land. and its residents look at it as
kind of earthly heaven. But moth
ing is wholly perfect in this world
of mystery. The dwellers in this
favored land thus have had to pay
for their blessings by taking some
chances Of earthquake damage, from
which a part of that favored terri
tory has now suffered severely.
The sympathy of the nation has
been offered to the victims of this
though their suffering
will be tempered by the mildness of
their climate. This sympathy should
be accompanied by tangible help for
all rendered destitute by this ca
lamity.
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-24
NATURE IN HOSTILE MOOD

In the main the force that we call
Nature seems friendly. The energy
released by sunlight, rain, and soil
fertility provides us food and all
other comforts. But at times Ma
ture seems to break out in an ugly
and hostile mood, as she has just
shown by destructive earthquake
losses in Southern California, and a
tornado in Kentucky and Tennessee.
But such disasters can not be laid
off wholly on Natures broad back.
If people build houses in such a
fiimsy way that it hardly seems as
if they could stand through the
winds of an ordinary storm, they
need not say that Nature is their
enemy if they crumble under some
severe strain. 1t is not best to trifie
with Natures turbulent energies.
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-24
LINCOLN CITY

On Friday evening the Ladies' Aid
met at the home of Mrs. VIM. Dono-
van and the following officers were
elected for ensuing year: president,
Mrs. Winnie Harder; vice-president,
Mrs. India Calhoun; secretary, Mrs.
Cleora Donovan; treasurer, Mrs.
Jennie Messick; pianist, Mrs. Julia
Walls; parsonage committee, Mrs.
Bessie Morgan, Mrs. Nexie Dawson
and Mrs. Mae Johnson; flower COM
mittee, Mrs. Eva Donovan, Mrs.
Maggie Derrickson and Mrs. Naomi
Johnson. Meeting adjourned with
an invitation to meet with the Union
Aid at the home of Mrs. John Gov
erdale, on Friday evening, March
31st, with Mrs. Maize Wilson. Mrs.
Bessie Morgan and Mrs. Mae John
son committee for the social hour.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boyce Short enter
tanned over the weekend Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Locates and daughter,
Edith, of Wilmington.
Miss 0nolee Donovan, daughter of
Mrs. Lizzie Satterfield, and Emory
Short, of near Georgetown, were
married at Denton, Md, on Saturday,
March 18th. They will make their
home near Georgetown.
Miss Blanche Short is spending
the week in Philadelphia as the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. John Beck.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Pierson, of.
near Dover, were guests of her sis
ter, Mrs. S. A. Donovan, and fam
lily, on Tuesday.
Miss Edith Hurd has returned to
her home at FELTON, after three
weeks stay with her aunt, Mrs.
Frank Vadakin and family.
VIM. NAPLES, Jr.,. spent the week
end with relatives at Selbyville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Cook are spend
ing the week with their daughters
at Arlington and Manasgrean, N. ].
Rev. and Mrs. J. F. Willis, Mrs.
Kate Beardsley and Miss Minnie J.
Reed spent last Wednesday in Will
mington.
The handsome new property of
Mitchell Jones, two miles south of
town, is completed and they will |
occupy it on Wednesday of this
week.
Mrs. Anna Burris returned to her
nome on Monday from visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. L. f. Burris at Milford.
Services as follows on Sunday:
Class, 10 a. M: church school, II
/. m: preaching, 1880 p. m.
Slaughter Neck: Church school,
0 a. M; preaching, II a. m; even
ng service, 1880 o'clock.
Cedar Neck: Service at 2:30 p.
n. Rev. j. F. Willis, pastor.
Lawyer German HILL. of Cam
ridge. Md, will speak in the NJ e.
,hurch on Sunday night, March 26.
The Milford Board of Education
meets in business session the second
'riday of each month.