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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-14

Committee, which announced that a
total of 1874 delegates had been seated
from the National Shoe Workers As
ISOLATION, the Shoe Workers Protec-
tive Union, the Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union, the Salem
Shoe Workers and the Brotherhood
Of Shoe Workers.
Disfranchise 5000 Members
Although members OF the Provision
al Committee, sent to New York to
check up on elections prior to the
the Shoe and Leather Workers In
dustrial Union 5000 members after
convention, had individually conceded
a check up Of shops on list COM
piled by the union enumerating work.
ers per shop, the Credentials Com
mittee conceded only 5000 members
to the Industrial Union, and per-
mitted only % delegates to be seated.
The action of the Credentials Com
nittee resulted in disfranchising 5000
members of the Industrial Union on
the technicality Of lack Of time to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-14
JURY FINDS
I Z AMI
NOT GUILTY
Shallow Frameup Falls
Despite Judges Open
Prejudice

NEW YORK. - Athos Ter
zani was acquitted yesterday
afternoon of killing his anti
Fascist friend Anthony Fierro,
by a jury in Judge Thomas Downs's
court which deliberated only thirty
two minutes. 1t was victory won
against heavy odds, since the judge
had been openly hostile to the de-
Tense during the two days Of testi-
monygiving.
The acquitted r Terzani, who was
accused Of shoe Fierro at d Khaki
Shirt meeting in Columbus Hall, AS
toria, last July IA, met with the OBJ
vious displeasure Of Judge Thomas
Downs.
In his charge to the jury, Downs.
along with his paralleling the rail-
reading speed OF Judge Callahan in
the Decatur Scottsboro trials, also
forgot" as did Callahan, to instruct
the jury correctly on an acquittal
verdict until it was demanded by the
defense.
. Norman Thomas, Socialist leader
In court with his wife, when ques-
toned on his opinion of the judges
charge to the jury, stated: 1T was
certainly fair"
After the verdict was delivered by
the jury, Judge Downs few into a
frenzy when newspaperman, Forta
Vellons., cartoonist for the liberal
italian daily, La Stampa Liberia, and
defense witness, applauded the YER
dict. Downs ordered Vellona brought
before him.
81 have had enough lying in this
court" said the judge heatedly when
Vellona explained that because he
was in the rear of the room he had
not heard the warning of the court
against applause.
Vellona said he had not heard the
courts admonition, and tried to ex-
plain that he was hard of hearing
, since he was beaten over the head
by Khaki Shirts when Fierro was
Continued on Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-14
Negro, White Workers
Forced to Wait
Hours in Cold

NEW YORK-Four thousand
Civil Works Administration
workers, most of whom were
Negroes, angered after being
forced to wait for hours in the
cold before receiving their pay,
and after having been sent from CITY
office to city office, yesterday broke
their lines, overpowered the police on
duty, smashed in the doors OF the
C.W.A. branch office at Hubert and
Collister SITS. and demanded that they
be paid their back wages inn1s
diately.
The men said that since MONDAY
they had been sent to three different
places for their money. first at goth
st. and York Ave, again at 1874 Madi-
son ST., and finally at Colhster and
Hubert SITS.
Some had paid out several subway
fares in their attempts to get their
money, others not having the fare,
had been forced to tramp many miles
over the city to get the small wages
due them.
The amount due ranged from
$3.50 TO $40, the men said, and were
the first pay checks they were to re-
ceive under the C.WA. Most of them
have worked three days a week since
Nov. 81 at S. per day for which they
have not yet been paid. This is ex-
planned as being due to some mis-
understanding" as to whether the
money due is to come from the city
relief funds or from the C.W.A.
For more than an hour the WORKERS
demanded their pay. While they were
being paid scores of police, several de-
The struggle finally quieted down
only to break out again in the after
noon when another contingent OF
workers again stormed the offices de-
manding their pay.
Two police emergency cars were
detailed by the police to remain al
the scene throughout the day to awe
the remaining workers into sub
mission.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-14
Roosevelt toEndAn
Civil Works May /;
Silent on Insurance
:Tapering Off of Jobs
by Zones" Begins
on March LIST
DAILY Worker washington Bureau)

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. Is. -
Unemployment Insurance was not
even mentioned at the White House
today though 1t was announced that
all civil works projects will end, at the
latest. by May l. The present C. w.
A. plan involves a tapering-off by
climatic zones to begin on March l.,
so that the works program will cease
somewhere between April Is and
May l.
President Roosevelt will ask Con-
gress for about $350,000,00O to carry
his C. w. A. program between Feb
ruarv Is, the date when the $780,
100000 fund will be exhausted, until
May l. Nothing was said about what
VIII be offered the many millions
who will be permanently and tenn
porarily unemployed on May /, or
those millions not given C. w. A. jobs
before that time.
Allotments from the So 300, 900 900
public works administration fund, a
substantial part OF which went for
war preparations, will be dispersed by
January 1, 1t was stated today at the
P. w. A. offices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-14
25NCWAMen Fired
AS $50 White Collar
Workers Get Jobs

NEW YORK.-Twenty-five hun
dred Civil Works Administration
workers in Nassau County were fired
yesterday, the Park Commission
stating the C. w. A. lacked" the
funds with which TO buy materials
and equipment for the workers.
without definitely saying that any
Of those fired would be re-employed,
Lewis L. Delafield, G. w. A. admin
istrator, said that it was hoped" that
TOO would be again given work. For
the remaining 1900, it is not known
what can be done with them" he
said.
Thousands Seek Jobs
In New York City, 1900 workers
gathered at the city offices of the
C. w. A. in the Port Authority Build
ing, Ill Eighth Ave, and another
1900 storned the 9th Regiment Ar
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-14
Leipzig Prosecutor
Repeats Old Lies in
SummingUp atrial
Dimitroff Not Allowed
to Point Out False
Claims of Speech
Special TO the Daily worSer)

special 10 the Daily Worker
AT THE G E r M A N
BORDER, Dec. Is (via Zurich,
Switzerland The Nazi pros
ecution felt the eyes of the
entire world on it today as it
began to sum up the false and
cooked-up charges Of setting fire to
che Reicf.stag on the basis Of which
IT intends to send the four fearless
Communist defendants George
Dimitroh, Ernst Torgler, Blagoi Pop
nf and vassil Taneff-to their death
, at the hands of the Man executioners.
Self conscious before the accusing
n1asSed protest of the workers and
lnteHectuals of the entire world,
forced into a defensive position by
the brilliant court statements Of the
Communist defendants and working
class witnesses, the prosecution, in its
last clustering effort to justify its
case, revealed to the entire world the
complete bankruptcy of its charges.
Despite this, however, its enraged de-
termination to kill Dinftroff, Torgler,
Tanef and Popoff, together with the
many workers who turned their court
testimony against the Nazi hangrnen,
remains as strong as ever.
Naxi Prosecution Sums Up
The main event in today's proceed
ings at the Leipzig trial was the
speech of the Nazi public prosecutor
\ Werner, who began with an attempt
TO prove the fairness" of the frame
\ up proceedings by stating that never
IN q supreme court had witnesses
been given such an extensive trial"
Continuing his speech with smoke
screen words about the necessity OF
conscientious investigation" Werner
unconsciously brought home the true
cause of the lengthy proceedings: the
fact that the frame-up which the
Nazis had originally planned was so
crude that it had been forced, by
the vigorous and aggressive defense
OF the Communist leaders, to extend
the trial in order to answer charges
levelled against the Fascists, and to
give the murder frame-up the SEM
blance Of legality.
When Dimitroff, intrepid Com
munist leader, attempted to inter-
rupt Werner in the midst of his
long prepared speech Of false
charges and obvious lies, he was
Immediately silenced by the judge,
who ruled that the prosecutions
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-14
5000 Industrial Union
Members Are Denied
Representation

the basis of admitting all shoe work
ers, regardless of skill, craft, color,
race, nationality or political affilia-
ton, on the shop basis of organiza-
ton with full rank and file control.
A big ovation greeted his declara-
ton against compulsory arbitration
and against affiliation with the A.
F. OF l..
1.-THE T.U.U.L.," he declared, unit
ed us with other militant industrial
unions in a program of class strug-
gle"
The program concluded with a call
for the organization OF the unem-
ployed and unorganized workers, for
unemployment insurance and the ed
ucation OF the membership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-14
Convention at Boston
Applauds Attack on
Arbitration
BY CHARLOTTE TODES
(SpeciaI to the Daily Worker)

BOSTON, Mass, Dec. 13.-Fred
Biedenkapp, general secretary of the
Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial
Union, addressed the Amalgamation
Convention at its afternoon session
and was vigorously applauded by the
delegates after his speech outlining
the Industrial Unions program for
New Shoe Union which the Amalga-
nation Convention proposes to form.
The entire afternoon session was de-
voted to speeches by the officials Of
the participating unions In the con-
vention.
Earlier in the day the convention
heard the report Of the Credentials
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-14
Salem Communist Vote
Jumps from so to 586

SALEM, Mass, Dec. 13.-James
Reilly, organiser OF the Communist
Party unit here, running In the
election held Dec. S for councillor
at-larse, was given $50 votes in .
field Of 20 candidates.
This Is an increase Of 10 times
over the vote given the Communist
Party at the presidential election
when Foster was given 60 votes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-14
UnbaidSince Nov u
Workers Smash in
Doors, Battle Cops
8 C.W.A. Workers Are
Killed on Road Job

GRAND JUNCTION, Col, Dec.
12.--Nine Civil Works Administra-
ton workers were killed here in a
landslide which took place on
a scenic road being built under the
C.W.A. The road was being carved
out of cliff side 0verhanging
Monument canyon. The eva.
workers were dynamiting for the
road when the landslide occurred.
A tenth C.W.A. worker was re-
ported missing in the blast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-14
Many Organizations
Respond to Call of
World Committee
NEW YORK. - Responding
to the call of the International
Committee for the Relief of
Victims of German Fascism,


Victims of German Fascisrn,
numerous workingclass organ
izations here are actively pre-
pairing for a mass demonstration to
demand the release Of Dimitroff, Tor
gler, Popoff and Taneff, before the
German consulate, II Battery Place,
next Tuesday, Dec. 10, at IL noon.
Headed by the Communist Party,
which is nobilizing it's entire men,
bership in New York City, as well as
throughout the country, for the inter-
national day of protest, numerous
other workingclass fraternal organiza-
lions have announced mobilizations
Of all their members for the German
consulate demonstration. Among
these organizations are the Trade
Union Unity Council, the United
Councils of Working Women, the In
ternational Labor Defense, the Inter
national Workers Order, Scandina-
Wan, Greek, Russian, Jewish and
ether workers clubs of different ma
tionaYties, and many other smaller
groups,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-14
Metal Workers Vote
15-Minute Strike
Against Nazi Terror
Hitlerite Propaganda
Driven from Shop
by Stoppage

NEW YORK.-Seventy-five metal
workers, employed at the silver plate
shop of Lehman Brothers, 1877 Grand
ST., voted yesterday to stop work for
Is minutes at pm. of Tuesday, Dec
10, in protest against the murder
trials at Leipzig of the four Commu-
mist defendants, Dimitroff, Torgler,
Popoff and Taneff.
Steel, Metal Stoppage
NEW YORK.-The executive board
of the Silver Local of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union, rep
resenting 500 workers in II different
shops, decided unanimously at its last
meeting to call a 15-minute Stoppage
of work on Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 3 pm
The stoppage will be a protest against
the Nazi frame-up trial In Leipzig,
and a demand for the safe release of
the defendants.
The Executive Board also decided
to send protest kilograms to Hitler
Hindenburg and to Ambassador Lu-
ther in Washington.
Drive Mari from Shop
NEW YORK--When workers at
the Continental Silver Co., BAT Fifth
Ave-, discovered that one of the work
ers in the shop had brought Nazi
literature to work in order to try to
spread 1t among the 100 workers en-
ployed there, they immediately
stopped all work and sent the Shop
Committee in to see the boss, inform
ing him that they would not start
work again until the man was fired.
The committee enforced the will of
the shop workers in short order, and
the Nazi was driven from the shop.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-17
MALLORCA WILL BE ITSELF

THEODORE PRATT. the young American
writer, who was expelled recently from
the Spanish island of Mallorca because the
Mallorcans didn't like some things ne said
about them in a magazine article. has returned
to the United States complaining that NAL
lorca has lost its big chance TO cinch fat
share Of the worlds tourist trade.
Mallorca is a pleasant little Mediterranean
island where folk live much as they did in
the days Of Columbus. During the depression
American and English travellers found 1t
pleasant place to stay, particularly so since
its scale Of prices was abnormally low.
AS Mr. Pratt remarks, the island had the
greatest chance in her history to become
permanent world tourist center"
However, the chance seems to have gone.
The Mallorcans saw that all tourists were
exceedingly rich by Mallorcan standards, and
prices began to go way up
Furthermore. as Mr.. Pratt points out.
the Malorcans tried to deal with foreigners
with the customs, ways Of thinking and stub
born point Of view of practically a medieval
age AS result, the tourists are disllusioned
and the big rush is over.
Now all this wouldn't be worth discussing
at any length if it were not for the fact that
Mr. Pratt's complaint illustrates so perfectly
point of view that has become all too COM
mon in the modern world
According to his point of view, an onrush
Of tourists is the highest blessing that any
out-of-the-way and picturesque spot can de-
sire. way of life that has remained I'M
changed for centuries. and that has provided
its simple people with real happiness and con-
tentment, may be destroyed in the process
but that is a minor matter.
Let the dollars pour in and all is WELL
no matter how the existing framework of So
ciety is twisted out of shape.
This sort of thing has happened all over
the globe. 1t has debased such an earthly
paradise as Tahiti it has rubbed the glamour
off of Bali. it has helped to spoil African des-
ert towns and Swiss mountain hamIets and
American seaports and Asiatic trade capitals
1t has ruined the lives of innumerable simple
and trusting people
Now, at last we find a spot which seems
to be having the good fortune to escape from
It. Mallorca, by chance or by design, is cold
shoudering the tourist trade.
And there is type of mind to which this
seems nothing but blind stupidity and vast
misfortunel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-17
CONSUMERS DUTY

ENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON seems to
- have way of saying something sensible
every time he opens his mouth: and his recent
speech at Baltimore urging his fellow couh-
trymen to trade at stores which display the
blue eagle contains few paragraphs that are
abundantly worth consideration
The campaign will work he pointed out
only if consumers everywhere use their dollar
to support blue eagle institutions But he was
entirely right in adding that we should not vet
put pressure on concerns which haven't got
the blue eagle. Their delay may be due to per-
fectly justifable reasons, and until We under
stand the situation fully we must be careful
not to condemn them.
And his closing remarks deserve FREQUENT
repetition:
What we need beyond all that-in this
crisis and all the rest of the time and every
where's justice, and common sense patience
sincere and long-suffering effort to under
stand the other fellows trouble and problems
and whole-hearted attempt to help him
solve them"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-17

escaped: and finally. it notably increases the
cost Of living.
The latter is a major objection, since Tie
sales tax usually is resorted TO in crisis when
the masses are hard pressed and their normal
purchasing power reduced
To this verdict of history against the sales
tax may be added considerations derived from
logic and common sense. The vital principle
Of taxation Is that the chief burden should
fall on those most able TO pay revenue to the
state
The sales tax stands squarely on its head
by taxing those least able to pay and usually
at time when their normally inadequate in
come is reduced to minimum.
If our income tax law were revised so that
the wealthy were compelled to pay in proper
ton to the benefits they derive from the pres
ent system Of society, there would be little
need for resort to so fallacious and oppressive
device as the sales tax
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-17
THE MONROE DOCTRINE

IN Senator Key Pittmans plea that the his
toric Monroe doctrine be strapped. on the
ground that it has outlived its usefulness.
there is an idea that Americans might very
profitably consider seriously.
Senator Pittman points out that the pur-
pose OF the Monroe doctrine was to prevent
European interference with the development
OF independent nations in the new world;
and at the present time, he remarks, that
danger is quite negligible
Latin America realizes that fact, and &C.
casionally suspects that the Monroe doctrine
is kept alive chiefly to cloak imperialistic ven-
lures by the United States in lands touching
the Caribbean sea.
1t is his belief that formal announcement
that the Monroe doctrine no longer is needed
would do much to promote good feeling to-
ward Uncle Sam by his neighbors to the
south.
And while most Americans might not be
ready to scrap the historic doctrine entirely. a
restatement Of its aims to prove that America
plans no further interference with the internal
affairs of other nations might prove an ex-
ceedingly valuable step
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-17

By Z. 7. Maddox
What excuse or reason can be
given for not applying the NRA
minimum hour wage to the great
army of unemployed men who are
working on city, county and state
made work? I, in a family of five,
work two days and receive bas-
ket worth about $3.50, which is
about half enough Tor my familys
needs.
This unemployment was forced
upon the people by unsound and
unwise government policies and I.
for one, take no blame 10 myself
for our present predicament. Look
up my record and you will find
that up to the depression I have
a good record for work performed.
We are all in the same boat and
this idea of calling $3.50 worth of
groceries for two days work char
ity' is, to say the least. disgust
ing Many people WHO live on the
township baskets get only half
enough to eat. Give us a new
deal.
To increase the basket size may
increase costs. but the more this
depression costs this nation, the
more vigilant we will be to pre-
vent another like it. Therefore,
say let the minimum hourly
wage be applied to the man who
works for the public. for he de-
serves as much consideration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-17
Making 1t Very Safe

THO make it even safer. other
Il deputies in another car trailed
them. But when a very lonely point
in the road was reached, the trail
ing car was ordered to go back
home. And, by a strange coin
cidence, very soon after that two
machines filled with armed men
closed in on the car and demanded
the prisoners"
Shamblin. the sheriff, and his two
deputies carried guns. Moreover,
they were triply armed. for they
wore badges which identified them
as the representatives and guardians
OF the fair name of the sovereign
state Of Alabama. They were sworn
to defend its well-known reputation
for fair play and even-handed
justice to all.
1t would be fine to record the fact
that in the veins of Shamblin and
his deputies there flowed the blood
which was shed almost three
quarters of a century ago in defense
Of the romantic and glamorous
doctrine of states rights.
A saga could be written OF the
manner in which they shot 1t out,
although outnumbered. with the
thugs who were minded to rape the
reputation Of the great and sover-
eign state of Alabama.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-17
LWlched Either Way

TN the Scottsboro case 1t frequent
l. ly was said not only in the south.
but IN many Of the northern papers
as well. that the strange verdict
could be attributed to local anger
against lawyers hired by the Com
munist party There was a DISPOSE
ton TO add that. even if the verdict
had been a wee bit monstrous. one
must expect rancor and retaliation
against the presence Q: outside agi-
tators.
Why didn't these men 60 back to
New York. where they came from2
After all. the south knew how TO
handle this problem. with which It
had wrestled so long and so earn
estly. we love our darkies. and
we understand them
But in the present case Interna-
tionai Labor Defense attorneys Of
fered their services. but the pris-
oners and the relatives of the
prisoners refused TO accept them.
AT least, that was the interpreta-
ton set upon the situation by Judge
Foster.
1t seems difficult to understand
just how the great and unterrifed
commonwealth of Alabama aims to
deter Negro defendants from ac-
cepting the aid of Communist law
yerS when a mob promptly kills two
men who rejected I. L. D. counsel
And the story of Shamblin, the
sheriff, is curious throughout. In
deed, it is being extremely charita-
Die to the forces of law and order
in the sovereign state of Alabama 10
refer to the killers as "a mob"
Shamblin says that he decided TO
move his prisoners from Tuscaloosa
to Birmingham for safekeeping."
He chose to take them in an auto
mobile along an unfrequented road
late at night. For protection he
included two deputies in the party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-17

+ ONG before physicians had any
- idea Of the virtues of cod liver
oil in relationship to health and
prevention of disease, it was used
by fishermen along the shores OF
the Baltic and North seas.
Before modern scientific medi-
cine, cod liver oil was prescribed
for rheumatism, tuberculosis, and
all sorts of wasting disorders.
In 1917, articles began to be
written indicating the immense
value of cod liver oil for the pre-
ventiop of ricketts,. In ricketts, there
is softening of the bones, due TO a
failure of the body TO use calcium
and phosphorus properly.
Strangely, there was apparently
no ricketts, in England until the
development of window glass. To-
day it is recognized that the rays
Of the sun. which produce vitamin
D in the human body will not pass
through ordinary window glass.
Cod liver oil is especially rich in
vitamin D, and therefore is of