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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Official Warns of
Communism in Bid
.FOrU.S,- JapanP act
ManchukuO Advis er
Tells Army Men Such
Pact Is Necessary

NEW Notwithstanding directly
to the recent recognition of the
Soviet Union by the United States
George Bronson Rea, official coun-
sellor to the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Manchuoko, declared last
night before a gathering of mill
tary men at the Reserve Officers
Association that American imperial
ism must come to some agreement
with Japan.
Indirectly referring to the claim
Of Japanese militaristS that they
are the last bulwark against Boil
shevism." Rea told the Army Of
ficers:
Does our recent recognition of
Moscow and our agreement to
extend vast credit for the pur-
chase of our materials mean that,
as last resort, we have entered
into gentIeman's agreement
with Communism to coerce Je7an
into recognizing doctrine the
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Chicago WOrkerStO
Demand CWA Jobs
In Union PIX. Meet
Midwest Bureau Daily Worker)

Midwest Bureau Daily Worker)
CHICAGO, ILL.,, March 22.-Rank
and file pressure has forced the
Chicago Federation of Labor to
permit local unions to take what in
dividual action they see fit in con-
nection with CW.A. layoffs. Local
unions of the ALL. are being
visited by the united front Com
mittee Of Action, to mobilize them
for participation in the united front
demonstration through the loop on
March 81.
The March 81 demonstration, for
continuation and extension of the
C.WA. jobs, will assemble at ten
o'clock in the morning Saturday,
March 81, at Union Park, Ogden
and Randolph SITS.
The Committee of Action is also
visiting locals of the Workers Com
mittee on Unemployment Insur-
ance. Local rs Of the Workers Com
mittee has endorsed the March 81
demonstration.
A special meeting of organizers of
the Small Home and Land Owners
Federation of Illinois has called a
city-wide conference to prepare for
the march and will raise the slo-
gans of rent payment by the city
and demand the enactment of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill.
Two hundred organizers of the
TWO. also met in preparation for
the March 81 united front demon
Stration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Big Coliseum Meeting
To Open District Party
Convention Tonight
Browder, Krumbein,
Ford To Speak; Musi-
cal Program Planned

NEW YORK. Signs that the
Bronx Coliseum, TT st. and White
Plains Road, will be packed to the
rafters tonight were seen today as
the Communist Party Of New York
prepared to open its District Con-
vention at 8 pm. with a mass meet
ing and entertainment.
Volunteers for the spectacular
pageant which will be presented to-
night are still needed. These are
asked to report before 6 p. m. to
Comrade Bonn, the director Mem
bers of the I. w. o. Symphony Or
chestra should be at the Coliseum
also at six for final rehearsal.
In addition to a splendid program
of music and pageantry, Earl Brow
der, general secretary of the Com
munist Party; James w. Ford, Ne
gro Communist leader, and Charles
Krumbein, district organizer, will
speak.
Sessions Of the district conven-
ton will open Saturday at 10 am,
at Harlem Casino, 116th st. and
Lenox Ave, and continue through
Saturday and Sunday. Party mem
bers who want to attend must have
their books with them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Strikes in 3
Tenernents Hit
Fire Menace
Plan Mass Funeral of
Harlem Fire Victims
at l PM. Today
By EDWIN RoLFE

NEW YORK.-Goaded on by the
mounting death toll of recent fires
in slum tenements, worker-tenants
of three East Side buildings de-
clared rent strikes against the own
ers, stating that they would not pay
penny of rent until their fire.
threatened dwellings were COM
pletely fireproofed.
Marching up and down before
their typical slum dwellings, pickets
attracted the sympathetic attention
of neighboring ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
all day yesterday. Sentiment thru
out the East Side is so acute against
the flre-menace, so tragically
brought to head by recent fires
in which helpless mothers and chill
dren we're burned alive, that the
possibility is strong that this tene-
ment strike movement may spread
as rapidly as flames through wooden
Stairways.
The three struck buildings are at
221 E. 9Th St., and at 139 and 145
Houston ST., in the heart of the
citys lower East Side slum section.
Similar strikes were threatened in
other parts of the city as tenants,
driven to frenzied fear for their very
lives and noting the failure of the
city administration to act, planned
to take the situation into their own
hands and force elimination of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23

the A. F. of L. proposes is the
pax roma-the peace of death
for the American working class.
1t is program of preparation
for new drive against the work.
ing class, preparation for imper-
ialist war, and another step to-
ward fascism. We are against it.
We shall do our best to expose it
and to arouse and organize Amer
lean workers against it."
Committee Silent
Robert F. Wagner, author of the
bill and chairman of the National
Labor Board, which his measure is
designed to give added strike-stall-
ing and strikebreaking power, looked
on helplessly most of the one hour
and three quarters of Dunne's tes-
timony. So did Senator David
Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts,,
chairman Of the committee and
Senator James j. Davis of Penn
sylvania. The big hearing room was
filled with well-dressed spectators,
decidedly not a working class audi
ence, but even they laughed SYM
pathetically as Dunno piled wit as
well as invective in his denuncia-
ton Of the bill and its proponents.
Afterward several came forward to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
General knitgoods
Strike Called in
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.

PHILADELPHIA, March pa
general strike Of knit goods workers
was called today by Local 1859 of
the United Textile workers. Over
so per cent of the workers re-
sponded. The response proves that
the workers are ready for struggle
Ball Bearing Workers Out
Nine hundred workers In the s.
K. F.. ball bearing plant are still
out on strike,
s At the Cuneo Eastern Press, about
600l -orkers went out on strike this
morning
: Communist Membership Meet
A membership meeting Of all
Communist Party and Young
Communist League members, to
mobilize their forces in the grow
ing strike struggles of the PhiIa-
delphia workers, has been called
for Friday, March 30, at Kensing-
ton Lyceum, Second and Cambria.
All Party and Y. C. L. members
must attend
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Leads to Fascism; We
Will Lead Fight on
It," He Cries

ist"? Dunno then gave official
figures showing how about 1000
OG0 workers have been forced out
of the railroad industry under
that policy, and asked, Nov
where are the blossouiing en-
gincer-capitaiists? Wen, where
are the SHOWS of yesterday?
The only direct answer Senator
Wagner made to DUNES denuncia-
ton Of his bill was this: You say
my bill lines up with big business
they don't seem to appreciate it."
81 have dealt with that at length, .
returned Dunno, "but I'll say again
that I am sure they tthe big COR
porations) will appreciate your bill
later just as they now appreciate
Section TIA of the MIR. A., al
though some of them opposed that
too when it was proposed"
Previously Dunno had declared
that the public opposition of U. S
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Detroit Surges With
Strike Movements
Outside Auto Plants

DETR OF T-Detroit workers
inside and outside the automo-
bile factories are on the move.
Here is the record of strikes
GU side of auto plants in this
city on March II: Two hundred
and fifty thousand alteration
tailors On strike for recognition
at downtown department stores;
the bakery drivers union has
struck the Gordon Baking Co.,
the largest independent bakery
in the Middle West; the sign
writer's union has struck several
second run theatres; coal wagon
drivers have entered the sixth
week Of their strike with most
companies signed up with the
union; fuller Hotel workers are
still out after a month, with VIC
tory in sight; and the highway
truckers pulled two strikes, last
ing IS hours and 6 hours, to eff
feet 100 per cent unionization Of
the roads leading from Detroit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
eva Men Hold Project
Rallies, Giue Out 100, 900
Leaflets; Unions Endorse
Nationwide Protest to
Demand Continuation
of C.W.A. Jobs

NEW YORK. - Thirty-five thou
sand leaflets announcing the Madi-
son So. Garden meeting which takes
place this Sunday, March Is, at
2 pm, in protest against C.WA.
layoffs, were already distributed this
week, and another $4,000 are being
distributed today. Michael Davi-
dow, president of the Relief Workers
League, told the Daily Worker yes
terday.
The Madison So. Garden Rally
at 2 pm. this Sunday will be a
huge ralIying point, to mobilize
thousands of C.W.A. workers, I'M
employed, and union members
and shop workers for the one
hour nationwide protest strike
which has been called for pm,
Thursday, March 20, against Pres
ident Roosevelt's C.W.A. firing.
C.WA. workers in the Relief
Workers League locals are conduct
ing mass meetings, circulating pc
titions and carrying through active
preparations for the Garden meeting
Sunday and for the one-hour ma
tional protest strike which takes
place Thursday, March 20, at 3 pm
In New York this one-hour protest
strike at 8 o'clock will be followed
by mass demonstration at City
Hall Park for C.W.A. jobs at 4 pm
The speakers at the Garden meet
ing Sunday at Q o'clock include
Mary Van Kleeck, director of in
dustrial studies at the Russell Sage
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
BY WILLIAM wEINsToNE

DETROIT, March %. -
While preparations are going
forward for a big united front
conference Sunday, 10 o'clock,
at Carpathia Hall. $500 Elmwocd.
to organize a united struggle of auto
workers for their demands, reports
in the Detroit press today show ell
machinery creased for a sell-out in
Washington. William Green, A. F.
of L. chief, is pleading with Pref
dent Roosevelt to prevent the strike
by Invoking the NR.A. licensing
power"
A steady bombardmen is being
carried on by the press and the z.
F. of L. officials to turn all attention
away from strike action. While
many workers are waiting for tie
outcome Of the washington confer
ence, disgust with the tactics Of the
A. F, Of L. leaders in postponing
the strike, is becoming more audibl".
Among those who have gone through
last years strikes, but who are today
in the A. F. Of L.. disgust in some
cases is expressed in desire to tear
up union cards.
The Auto Workers Union and
rank and file oppositions in the A. F.
Of L. are continuing agitation and
organization work to keep the strike
sentiment at high pitch and to or
ganize the ranks of the men to
break through the grip Of the A F
Of L. off17ialdom.
The rank and file opposition has
issued a leaf1et to the members of
the Motor Products local of the A.
fCon+;x,od ~, paoa Txpol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Organize Fascist Club
In Columbia University

NEW YORK. = Several under
qre duatss of Columbia University,
led by Abraham Rosenbluth, have
formed a "Capitalist Club which
will issue opposition leaflets and
hold counter demonstrations when
ever the Social Problems Club, a
militant organization affiliated to
the National Students League. will
hold a meeting or issue leaflet.
Rosenbluth said he would have
called the club a Fascist Club"
but that ut connotes -Semitism.
and I'm against that"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Secretary Perkins
Flies To Detroit To
Stop Auto Strike
AFL Nash Head Admits
Men Getting Cypped
at White House
By SEYMOUR wALDMAN

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 22.-Pres-
ident Roosevelt is sending Secre-
tary of Labor Frances Perkins, one
of the chief liberal ornaments of
the New Deal, to Detroit, to repre-
sent him personally before the au-
tomobile workers in last minute
frantic attempt to prevent the i'm
patient men from striking. Last
summer it was the strikebreaker
McGrady who was dispatched to
the coal fields to pledge the strike
breaking word of the President. To-
night Miss Perkins, who processes
to know nothing about the AM
bridge murders perpetrated by the
same interests that control leading
auto factories in Detroit, will fly to
the Michigan City to utter what has
become exceedingly thin demagogy.
The strike sentiment among the
rank and file is so strong that it
has made several members of Will
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
35OOCWAMen
On Strike In
Pa.
Fight for Recognition
of Relief Workers
League

LANCASTER, Pa, March 22-The
$500 Lancaster c. w. A. workers
on strike here against wage cuts
voted to send a large delegation to
Washington on March 81, when
delegations from the protest DEM
onstrations and from G. w. A.
projects will present their demands
to Roosevelt for continuation Of the
G. w. A. jobs.
Thirty five hundred Lancaster C.
w. A. workers are out on strike
solid. At the indoor mass meeting
held yesterday afternoon relief and
other committees were elected. The
Relief Workers League of Lancas-
ter sent a committee to York and
Columbia to speak at their c. W.
A. workers mass meetings last
night.
A COMMITTEE Of Technicians,' >
sent here from Harrisburg by the
state government, announced that
they would grant the so cents an
hour demanded by the strikers and
back pay, but refused to recognize
the workers committee.
The men are determined to stay
out on strike until all their de-
mands are granted.
DanvilIe Strikers Win
HARRISBURG, Pa, March a.
Seven hundred G. w. A. strikers in
Danville won their demands fol-
restoration of the so cents an hour
wage and are returning to work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
So Food Order
Arrives Too Late
For Mother of Fire

NEW HAVEN, Conn. F.P)-
Ambulance attendants were car
rying out a dead body when a
charity department investigator
arrived at Mrs. Edward Ceases
flat with a city food order for
81 worth Of groceries. He was
too late. She died on the way
to the hospital from the effects
Of the gas she had turned on.
Struggling to keep herself and
her five children alive, she APP
piled to the city welfare for aid.
When it was too slow coming,
she gave up. Before she lay
down to die, she put her baby
out in the hall in his carriage
and sent another child to visit
neighbor. The other three had
gone to school.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Nails Anti Soviet Lies
of A. F. of L.
Officials
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)

WASHINGTON, March 22.-Be-
fore a worried looking Senate Com
mittee on Labor, which first in
terrupted constantly and then sat
silent, Bill Dunno, of the Trade
Union Unity League, today exposed
the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill,
point by point, as another will-o'-
the-wisp to dance before the eyes
of the working class while the en-
ployers and official labor leaders in
the N. R. A. machinery trick
them further into the swamp Of
starvation wages and mass unem-
ployment."
Showing how the Wagner Bill
would set up new machinery to rivet
upon labor the existing unbearable
relations between employers and
employees and the misery these
bring about, Dunno declared:
The peace that the Wagner
Bill and tn official program of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Police Attack Cleveland
Sherwin Williams Men

CLEVELAND, O., March 22.-Po-
lice attacked picket line here at the
Sherwin- Williams Paint Co. today,
beating up number Of strikers.
Over 500 men are on strike, de-
handing higher wages and union
recognition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
fire death threat.

fire death threat.
The two Houston Street buildings,
one three-story structure with no
fire-escapes on either front or rear,
the other four-story oldlaw tene-
ment. are owned by Manhattan
Playhouses, Inc, 1860 Broadway.
This firm also owns the Sunshine
movie house, which separates the
two buildings, as well as from so to
80 other tenements in New York. 1t
operates a chain Of % theatres,
which includes, among others, the
Hollywood, at Ave. A and Sixth st.;
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Taxi Strikers Parade Thru
Downtown SITS. to City Hall
Mayor Refuses to See
the Striking
Hackmen
STRIKERS MILITANT
Police Brutally Drive
Radio Car Into Men;
Striker Injured
BULLETIN


AS we go to press, concerted
attempt Is being made by the
capitalist press, the company I'M
ion, and by Mayor LaGuardia to
break the back of the taxi strike.
1t is reported that Irving Robbins,
president of the Parmelee COM
pany union, is taking steps to get
warrants for the arrest of Joseph
Gilbert, organizer of the Manhat-
tan local of the Taxi Drivers
Union. LaGuardia late yesterday
afternoon ordered the police to
"queII' the strikers.
LaGuardia, who skipped out
when the taxi men marched on
City Hall, in later statements to
the press said: "What we need is
a real union. Let the American
Federation of Labor come in here"
v.-Guerdia. who first attempted
in collaboration with the Socialist
Panken to break the first taxi
s'rTzc, Is ROW ready to call in the
A. z. Of L. to complete the Job
bcgan by the Socialists.
while the strikers were on the
streets stopping cabs, leaders OF
the union were in the office with
MIR. Ben Golden, Secretary of the
re--fcnai Labor Board, at As
Broadway. The unicn leaders
flat'y refused to accept Mr.. Col
denis proposals that the strikers
return to work, and then take a
vote on the question Of which
organization they care to belong to.
NEW YORK. - Shouting
slogans: eve want recogni
ton of the union" "Dowr
with company unions" ovel
1000 striking taxi driv
ers marched from their strike head
quarters at 10th Street and Thirt
Avenue to the City Hall yesterda.
at l PM.
The strikers, headed by chairman
of the strike hall, Harry Cantor
came to see the Mayor and Launches
a protest against the brutal polio
attacks against the strikers dur
ing last two demonstration. Upol
learning that the strikers wer,
marching on City Hall, Mayor La
Guardia, who in the first strike at
tempted to pose as friend Of thu
strikers, left his ONCE and beat |
hasty retreat.
AS the strikers marched dow
Broadway from Germania Hall
they were cheered by crowds o
pedestrians on the sidewalks.
The demands of the Taxi Work
ers Union were blazing forth Oh
large banners which the striker
carried: I'VE are against compan,
unions eve want recognition o
the union" Down with compan.
unions" were the slogans writer
on the placards.
Long before the strikers arrived
at City Hall, strong cordons of pc
lice were thrown around the build
ing. When the strikers reached
City Hall Park, they were met b
several thousand workers who joine'
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
AutOU Union Rallies AFI.
vi. E. S. Rank and File
1000 at Dodge, Others
at Ternstedt Stop Work
for 5 Minutes
BULLETIN

DETROIT. Mich, March %. -
At / pm. today over 1000 workers
at the final body assembly depart
ment in the Dodge plant stopped
work for five minutes when
worker pulled the switch, stop-
ping the line. In the Ternstedt,
the truckers also stopped for five
minutes. The Motor Products
workers won a 10 to 30 per cent
wage increase when the commit
tee elected at the meeting of the
A. F. of L. local negotiated today.
The threat of strike made the
company come across.
PONTIAC, Mich, March 22.-
A. F. Of L. local leaders here at
the Chevrolet plant. under pres
sure of the rank and file, were
forced to send the following tele-
gram to the A. F. of L. heads now
in Washington: 1--WE will accent
no compromise. Our demands
must be met"
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Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-14
this ip test

OOK at them and your cheeks, too, scithout
l. makeup. Do they possess the natural glow of
health, which comes from a suffciency of rich, red
bloodP If they do, makeup is simple If they don't
read on =. you may find one of the reasons why your
skin is not clear and rosy.
You cannot have red lips, rosy cheeks, energy and
cheerfulness IL your blood is in a rundown condition.
Lack of hemo-glo-bin, the red coloring of the blood,
may also indicate a weakened condition of the body
loss of strength +. poor appetite.
S.S.S. is not just a so-called tonic but a tonic spe-
cially designed to stimulate gastric s~ecretions, and also
having the mineral elements so very, very necessary in
restoring a low hemo-glo-bin content. If your condl-
tion suggests a blood tonic of this kind, try S.S.S.
Unless your case is exceptional, you should soon no
tee a pickup in your appetite your color and skin
should improve with increased strength.
S.S.S. is sold by all drug stores in two sizes the
larger is more economical. @ The S.S.S. Co.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-14
WEDDING ss1 MARCH MURDER
Copyright ~ %~~~ By MONTE BARRETT
By MONTE BARRETT

crime was about TO be committed, or
else he was a fool. The same thing
goes for the people who visited that
room. The person who visited
Franklin openly certainly didn't
know that a crime. was about to be
committed. To do so only invited
suspicion. The man who killed
Franklin slipped in the ear door.
unseen.
And no one saw Webster Spears
enter that study. No n even saw
him In the sacristy. But we know
he left the church, just before the
crime.
That's why I'm going to have
him arrested, without any further
delay. He had the motive, he had
the opportunity. and he was trying
his utmost to stop that wedding.
We've been blind not to see 1t from
the first"
"And Calls Shipley?"
You can't arrest anyone for tell
Ing a lie. That's all I've got on
her, so far. First she tried to pro-
tect Rylle Carmody, then Webster
Spears. But I've been thinking
about that angle. If this girl knows
so much, maybe young Carmody is
in on the secret, too. From now on
I'm going to have him Swallowed"