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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
March on Capital by
Khaki Shirts to Make
Roosevelt Dictator

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. g.
Mussolini had his march on Rome,
Hitler arrived in Berlin, and the
Khaki shirts of America will march
on Washington on October 18th,
Columbus Day, to Hail Roosevelt
as Dictator of the United States.
Art J. Smith, National Com
mander" of the American fascist
organizations, declares that he will
have one million members of the
Khaki shirts march on Washington,
and that instructions have been
sent out to all members of the or
ganization.
eve have informed the President
of our intention" Smith said, "And
orders have been issued to all our
armed units to mobilize for the
march on that date"
While Mussolini and the Kaiser
have endorsed the NRA of the
Roosevelt regime, the march on
Washington by the Khaki Shirts
can't be taken too lightly. Still
the prediction of march of mil
lion men, when the organization
boasts hardly thousand members,
is rather laughable.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Where Are They?

mORKERS promises OF Roosevelt
jobs by Labor Day
Where Jobs? workers want to know They can't find
them.
Where millions jobs promised from s6Ooooooooo
half OF the three Dillon
practically all OF it has gone TO
battesps And only handful OF new JOBS
General forgotten his original promises He
million" jobs But he shy
it. He urges the workers to follow
promises similar to Hler about
more Jobs and the wdand just
for the
keep from fighting against their capitalist
Insurance at the
and the employers To drug them with false
hopes Of that will
the hollow fraud OF RooSevets
six-mll promises
which the Daily Worker
the whole Roosevelt new job program
of jobs have proven to be
false False promises families Strengthen the fight
Tor Unemployment Insurance!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Rate Cut Hardly
Touches Enormous
Utility Reserves

NEW YORK, September 1.-The
Public Service Commission cut
$435,000, from the 100000, 900
hoard of piled up reserves of the
New York utility companies today
by reducing the electric rates of
the greensboro Gas and Electric
Company Is per cent.
The cut, considered an I'M
usually large one, in comparison
with the meagre reductions which
nave been ordered in the past, fol-
lowed on the disclosures of enorm-
Gus profits, dividends, and piled up
SURPRISES.
Meanwhile, the re-hearing on
the 6 per cent reduction ordered
by the Commission in the case of
several of the other largest New
York utility companies was
scheduled for late this afternoon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Utilize Open Shop
Clause Green OK'd,
Roosevelt Signed
$500 st. Louis Auto
Workers Sent Pro-
test to Capital

DETROIT, Mich, Sept. g.
Chevrolet plants of the General
Motors Co. throughout the country
have fired over 100 workers for
joining unions, on the ground that
the NRA open shop clause in their
code, gives them the right to choose
on the basis of Individual merit"
Complaints are pouring in to
Washington from automobile
workers who are bitter at the lat
est action of General Motors. The
drive against union men began when
William Green, now head of the
Labor Advisory Board, originally
approved the open shop clause in
the auto code. 1t was on this pre-
text that President Roosevelt sign
ed the auto code. Later Green is
sued a "protest" against the code
he approved.
Under the code, the Chevrolet
plants are organizing company
unions and forcing the men into
them. Those who refuse are fired.
In st. Louis $500 Chevrolet
workers met and sent protest
message to President Roosevelt.
Sworn statements of workers show
ed they had been fired for join
ing unions of their own choosing.
The men, however, did not protest
against Green's action in approx
ing the open shop.
The telegram to Roosevelt read,
in part: "The company has flag
rantly violated the provisions of
Article of the code by discharg-
ing 100 employees who have been
active in the union, but who have
been careful to avoid possibility of
discharge for inefficiency. Sworn
statements now are in the hands
of General Johnson's representa-
tive in st. Louis"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
N. Y. Racketeers Who Admit Arson, Violence
Are Released by Tammany Judge to Give
MIRA splendid Service"

And what work would there be for
the plug-uglies while their bosses
were behind the bars? You wouldn't
want to increase unemployment,
would you, just when William Green
and General johnson were trying SO
hard to fake the figures of new jobs?
OF course, these boys could do
splendid service" for the NRA. The
judge is right. You got to hand it
to him. Under the URA there'll be
plenty of work for them. And
they've got just the right training,
too. They already got promises Of
good jobs from Grover Whalen. And
don't he know
This everybody understands. Fight
for the good old NRA. Just like
when they took the mugs out of the
jails in 1917 to fight against the
Kaiser ito make the world safe for
democracy"
But some people can't figure out
why the Judge let Little Augie"
Pisano, the big-time Brooklyn rack
En- boss have . private intervias
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Jail Utah Strike
Leader on Criminal
SyndicaliSt Charge

HELPER, Utah, Sept. 2.-Huff, dis
trict president of the National Miners
Union, leading the strike OF thou
sands of miners in the face OF fero-
cious terror, was arrested on the
charge of criminal syndicalism.
State officials are hunting for
Charles Guynn, Paul Crouch and
Charles Wetherbee, now free on
5000 bond, on the charge of riot
ing" The new warrants charge
criminal syndicalism," with a prob
able minimum additional bond OF
$4,000 each.
The general strike, which failed to
materialize because Of martial law
and the terror, is now set for Mon
day.
w, olesale eviction Of miners is
going on.
The arrests on the criminal syn
dicalism charges are the first prose-
cutions of this kind in the history
of Utah.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
BY MILTON HOWARD

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-There are
judges in New York who will not
sentence you to jail for criminal
racketeering. Even if you plead
guilty.
That is, If you will first swear on
Bible that you will support the
MIRA.
Judge Alonzo G. Mclaughlin, Tam
many Judge, friend and fellow mem
Der with ex-Police Commissioner
Mulrooney and Senator Copeland Of
the Tammany machine, released Fri
day three notorious laundry racke-
teers on their promise that they
would support the NRA.
And the strange thing about the
whole business was that the rack
eteers had pleaded guilty. The three
prisoners, Edward Lollo, Morris
Rothenberg and Jacob Mellon, adj
mitted all the charges Of criminal
violence, intimidation, extortion, rob-
berry, kidnapping, arson and smuggling
that had ben leveled against them
by dozens Of small independent
laundry men.
But 1t did them no good. FOR
some strange reason, the Tammany
Judge insisted that they be released.
It had something to do with tho
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Henderson Wins Seat;
Communist Candidate
Polls 3,434 V O t e S

LONDON, Seput. 3.-HarTy Pollitt,
Communist leader, polled 3,434 VIC IS
in the Clay Cross district of Yor
shire, running for parliament against
Arthur Henderson, Labor Party lead
er, who won with 1881 votes.
Although Pollitt's vote was small
compared to Henderson's, its size is
significant in this sure-fire Labor
Party district, against the Labor
Party's strongest candidate, who still
keeps a powerful hold over the So
cialist workers by his demagogic pre-
tense of working for peace as chair
man of the Disarmament Conference.
Premier Ramsay Macdonald, who
went over to the Conservatives in
1881, came and spoke in behalf of
John Moores, Conservative candi-
date, who polled 6,293 votes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
The Lady is for War

THE question delegate the United
still in the hands Of Frances Perkins
the buck the liberal lady Secretary
Labor lady refuse to decide?
Roosevelt governgent recognizes that
to its 1t will
the influence of that Congress- and the
uberap Frances gladly does her part.
with it, She be forced
to let Tom Mann protest powerful enough.
with
we broader and louder
then the workers must look
on doubly important
Perkins with demands that Tom Mann be
let in intensity getting delegates elected especially
make the Congress
workers. build the
the solid foundations
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Judge Frees Gangsers When They Pledge NRA Support

with the States chief witness, who
Immediately afterwards, with almost
comical haste, recanted the most
damaging testimony he had given
against the three laundry thugs.
The MIRA stuff is clear, alright.
But they can't figure this other
thing out.
But everyone knows what fine
Judge Mclaughlin is. Why, isn't the
fact that he is a fellow ammanyite
with the leading members of the
Commission Against Racketeering,
Senator Copeland and ex-Police
Commissioner Mulrooney, proof
enough Of that?
Meanwhile, the judges friend, Sen
ator Copeland, has announced that
he will propose, as the final cure for
racketeering, measure proposing
the finger-printing of all workers in
this country.
Particularly, the radical ones,
those who "endanger the basic prin-
ciples of our government" as a
Senator recently limited.
But that doesn't include the slug
gers, crooks, burglars, kidnapers and
racketeers who have the proper con-
nections,
They are needed for the applica-
~ : - 1A-.... -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Trade Unions Call
Mine Protest Rally

NEW YORK.-Trade union rep
resentatives of the shoe union, whose
pickets were arrested, as well as OF
other unions who are being attacked
under the MIRA, will be present at a
united front conference Wednesday,
at West 18th Street at Q PM, to
plan action for a nationwide protest
against the threatened massacre OF
the Utah and New Mexico miners.
The conference was initiated at the
United Action Conference held in
Cleveland August 1921, and Will
map nation wide struggle to pre-
serve the workers rights to strike
and picket which the NRA is seeking
to wipe out.
All trade unions are invited to send
representatives. Besides there will
be representatives of other organiza-
lions active in support of the strug-
gle for workers rights among these
will be John Dewey, Arthur Garfield
Hays, Alfred Bingham, Roger Bald
win, of the Civil Liberties, and others,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04

through the square began at $50.
Uniformed detachments of armed
factory youth passed in review to
music supplied by a massed band of
four hundred pieces. Then followed
parade of thousands of members
of sports organizations in many col
ored athletic suits.
Thereafter, masses of youth from
all parts of the city marched in
eight columns, completely filling the
square. 1t was a solid stream OF
young workers carrying solid river
of red banners with slogans. Prod
ucts of the factories were held aloft
by the marcherS.
Celebrate Subway Construction
A float representing subway con-
struction, with youth digging and
timbering, was an outstanding fea-
ture. Hundreds Of youth in rubber
boots, raincoats and rubber hats,
carrying tools of subway construction,
were prominent in the march.
This emphasized what the Plenum
of the Moscow Comsomol Committee
reaffirmed two days previous to
Youth Day-the patronage over con-
struction of the new subway and the
pledging of 10000 youth to work on
construction there.
Other sections Of the parade sati-
rized with caricatures tendencies to-
ward bourgeois frivolity, meanwhile
emphasizing study and sports.
Kalinin, Molotov, Kaganovich, Ord
jonikidze, Bubnov, standing on the
tribune, were cheered by each pass
ing detachment. The central part
of the city, as well as the outskirts,
were beautifully decorated, especially
the sites of subway construction,
which bore large pictures of youth
boring, timbering, shovelling in the
subway.
Honor German, Chinese Y. G. L.
Red Square also was decorated
with huge Illuminated slogans, OPP
posite the Tribune, such as Nine
tenth Anniversary of International
Youth Day." Hold High the Banner
of feminist Internationalism There
were huge pictures of Lenin and
Stain.
The slogans on the banners at
tached hailed Stain as the leader
of the Comsomols and gave him
greetings. There were large signs in
Chinese and one in German directly
opposite the Tribune, as a special
honor TO these two fighting sections
of the Young Communist Interna-
tional.
Six huge searchlights at each end
of Red Square made an interlacing
canopy of twelve beams over the
marchers, producing indescribable eff
fects on the low rain clouds and
sheets OF rain. The procession lasted
two hours.
Gifts BY Youth TO Country
The press reports gifts of train
loads of coal, donations to the coun-
try Of machinery, ships, tractors,
autos, locomotives, etc., finished be-
fore the Plan or in addition to the
Plan by the youth.
In the celebration Of Youth Day
in Leningrad, three hundred thou
sand marched through the rain in
Uritzky Square. The whole city was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Unemployed Leader
Killed by Texas
Prison Authorities
Arrested at Demon
stration, Dies of Frac-
tured Skull in Jail
(By telegraph to the Daily Worker)

(By telegraph to the Daily Worker)
DALLAS, Tex, Sept. TT. E.
Barlow, Communist organizer Of
Fort Worth, died from injuries re-
ceived while in the hands of the
authorities of the city of Dallas.
Barlow, was arrested on Thurs
day with Hardy and Macomb, while
protesting the stoppage of relief of
unemployed workers of Dallas, and
at that time was in perfect ply
steal condition. All three were in
the Fort Worth Jail.
On Saturday evening he was
taken to the Fort Worth prison
hospital where he died of frac-
tured skull. All evidence points to
severe beatings by prison authors
ties, and the murder of this mile
tant fighter lies on their hands.
An open air, demonstration, pro-
testing the arrest of the workers,
Barlow, Hardy, and Macomb, was
held on Friday with thousands Of
workers present. Police were on
the spot ready to do their bit, and
the speaker, Hy Gordon, organizer
of the Communist Party, made his
getaway only by fleeing in speedy
car after the meeting.
Workers organizations should
send kilograms demanding the
prosecution Of the murderers Of
this militant workers leader, Com
~sN Es-A --s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04

decorated, festival was held in
Central Park to hear proletarian
writers and poets read their works.
A hundred thousand demonstrated
at Gorky, which is the new name
of Nizhni Novgorod. The Comsomols
OF Kharkov brought a locomotive on
their Red Square with the slogan,
Railroad transport must run like
clockwork." There were also COWS
bearing the slogan, Every Kolkhoz-
mix must have cow"
Forty thousand demonstrated at
Ivanovo. A youth conference was
held at Tfflis, where honors were
awarded to forty shock brigaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
New Jersey Daily
Seller Jailed for
Distributing Paper
End Arrest of Week;
Was Giving Papers
to Steel Workers

HARRISON, N. J.-Marion Laugh
lin, Daily Worker agent Of West Hud-
son, was arrested here on Wednesday
afternoon for distributing copies Of
the Daily" to the workers of the
Atha Works. Crucible Steel plant.
The trial, originally set for the fol-
lowing day, was postponed until
Wednesday, Sept. 6, on request of
Attorney Solomon Golat Of the IN
ternational Labor Defense.
Chief Of Police Brady stated after
the arrest that mot one copy Of the
Daily Worker will be permitted to be
sold or given away in this town"
Local workers report that the police
terror in Harrison has been so great
that it has been impossible to hold
a single meeting, and that Brady
openly boasts about this suppression.
Laughlin is the second Daily Work.
er represented to be arrested during
the week. On Friday Thomas Tori
gian, of Lynn, Mass, was fined $40
after he had been Jailed and beaten
by cops for refusing to relinquish his
post and stop selling the Daily" on
the sd III
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04

MIRA, said the judge.
Visibly trembling with patriotic
emotion, the venerable judge spoke
from his august tribunal. Gazing
down in sorrow at the three upturned
faces Of the gangsters trying hard
not to burst out into ribald laughter,
he said:
81 have no sympathy with the
thought that at q time like this,
with business and trade conditions
as they are and unemployment
still wide, you three men should be
taken away from the conduct Of
your business and lodged in jail.
1.-THE splendid service which you
may do under the NRA in the
upbuilding Of the industry through
the code should not be minimized."
The Judge didn't want to take
them away from the conduct Of
their business" Why, do you think
that anybody can burn laundry
down as neatly a. these three pro-
fessionals? It takes time TO learn
how to do that properly. J..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
THREE MORE
TEXTILE MILLS
SHUT DOWN
Lack of Retail Demand
Causes Piling Up of
Unbought Stocks

UNION, S. c., Sept. 3.-Because OF
the failure of the expected business
to materialize, and because of an
unusual accumulation of manufac-
tured textile goods for which there is
no market, the three textile plants
of the Monarch Mills in this county
will shut down this week, officials of
the company announced yesterday.
Approximately 1900 workers viii,
lose their jobs as result of the Com
pany's action.
The shutdown will be tempo
rary," the officials said, pending the
arrival of orders from buyers.
The shutting down of the Monarch
Mills follows a similar action taken
by at least four other textile mills in
the South within the last few weeks,
involving the jobs of several thou
sand workers.
The closing of the Southern textile
mills is a result of the failure of the
expected retail quantity buying antic-
ipated when the Roosevelt initiation
airy program was to have stimulated
a large consumer demand.
Thus far the main demand has been
restricted to wholesalers who have
been stocking up, not on the basis Of
actual retail orders, but solely in fear
Of rising prices.
With the failure of any appre-
ciable increase of retail consumer
demand, wholesalers have placed
sharp restrictions on all purchases.
Many Will Lose Jobs
The opinion that the textile indus
try has exhausted all the available
demand, and is now heading for an
other sharp slump in business, is
widely expressed among leading tex
tile executives and trade journals.
This will mean the end of thousands
of textile jobs in the very near
future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Lawyers Quote Act
Saying Union Shop
Is Against the Law.
Lewis Had Told Men
Bosses Were Recog-
nizing UMWA

WASHINGTON, Sept. IA bomb
shell was dropped into the coal code
secret conferences by the Appalachian
coal operators association, represent
ing the largest group Of the soft coal
bosses, through legal declaration
stating that the NRA guarantees the
open shop.
Previously John L. Lewis had been
telling the miners that all of the coal
barons we're ready to recognize the
U.MWA., and that this was off,
cially contained in the coal code. A
statement was issued to the miners
by General johnson to the same eff
feet.
At the time, the Daily Worker
pointed out that there was no real
recognition of any union, but simply
a top agreement to deal with Lewis
and other tools of the operators in
the UMWA.
The heavy blasting was done by j.
Van Norman, counsel for the Smoke
less and Appalachian Coal Associa-
ton, in his legal opinion made public
Saturday. After the opinion was is
sued, most of the coal operators
packed up and went home, feeling the
last word had been said.
The most significant section of the
coal operators legal opinion that the
NRA guarantees the open shop reads:
'Under Section (a) of the Ma
tional Industrial Recovery Act an
employer may not lawfully contract
with given labor union to employ
none but its members, that is, to
maintain a closed shop This is-so
because the code provides that no
employee and no one seeking en-
ployment shall be required as a
condition of employment TO
refrain from joining, organizing or
assisting a labor organization of
his own choosing
IF the employer contracts to en-
ploy only members of Union A he
must thereafter dismiss from his
employ any employee who insists on
joining the rival Union b. When
the employer does this he is plainly
requiring the employee as a condi-
ton of employment to refrain from
joining labor organization
of his own choosing. and this is
violation of the statute.
"The agreement of the employer
to employ a worker only on condi-
ton that he belonged to a named
union is manifestly limitation on
the freedom of choice of such work
er as between rival unions and is
violation of the act"
This legal opinion, which shows
how the bosses interpret the NRA and
especially Section (a), is of i'm
portance in all industries, and net
alone for the coal industry.
The open shop drive was strength
ened by the Labor Advisory Boards
approval of the open shop for the
auto industry.
Since that day, open shop develop
ments have moved with express train
speed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Republic Steel Go.
Clippers fer Strike
to Supp Demands
Others in Youngstown
Plant Expected to
Join Walkout

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Sept. 8. =
Republic Steel Co. clippers voted last
night to send q committee to the
company demanding so cents an hour
for an eight hour day, with lunch on
company time.
Other demands we're: y for lost
time, recognition of the workers
committee.
The men made it clear that rejec-
ton of the workers demands means
a walkout. No reply was received
from the company.
The clippers are determined on a
fight to the finish for their demands.
The spirit of struggle is high. The
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union is growing daily. Other work.
ers in the plant are expected to
join the clippers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
NRA NSURES OPEN SHOP, COAL BARONS SHOW
GENERAL MOTORS FIRES 100 FOR JOINING UNION
forgotten Man"
Faints of Hunger;
Refuses Charity

NEW YORK.-Out of work
for months, and not having eaten
for days, Irving Kesseler collapsed
on the sidewalks OF New York in
the Wall Street district.
The Forgotten Man OF pre-elec'
ton fame, only remembered when
he faints of starvation, refused the
aid of charitable" bystanders who
offered him nickels, dimes, and
even bills.
"AIl I want is a job" he said.
A doctor from the Beekman
Street Hospital diagnosed Kessel-
er's condition as plain starvation.
Kesseler declared he had not
eaten solid food for days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Liberal Deception

the New Republic grab to the tail Of the
Blue typical their Wilson
the las World War
special they play Shiny that Green and
Lewis
Republic" the
Roosevelt that
pendent md aggressive trade unionism"
written" Republic editorial 'the
intention maintain mpariay unions
General johnson this attitude
his credit finally
went to side Of labor"
Strike
fighting the
Pckeng declared Illegal under the MIRA Arbitration
strikes NA the begins
And ALL the coal operators quoting the
of the shop positively Illegal
liberals tell the that Roosevelt
finally to the side of labor"
mouthed liberals with dgnifed Critical phrases
supply capitalism with It's popagands and fas
enemies Of the working class paradg thick beneacorA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Britain Is Reported
Preparing to Build
Big Addition to Navy

LONDON, Sept. 3.-The British
government is preparing to call for
the construction of many new war
ships, and to add 10000 men to
the navy, at the Fall session of
Parliament, according to newspaper
reports published here today.
The Sunday newspapers have
taken up an intensive campaign for
bigger British navy, pointing to
the warlike Nazi congress at MUIR
emberg and the Japanese-Amer-
lean naval race as proof of the
need.