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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Organized Mass Action
Will Protect Workers
Against Decision

they are quite willing to retain the
plum of employee contributions
PROVIDED they can amend the
Act in line with the other features
of their private schemes. And they
are quite confident that by threat
ening the repeal Of the Bill alto
gether they can eliminate the "ob-
jectionable" features.
Their confidence is based on their
experience with our Grand Lodge
officials in the wage cutting nego-
tiations Of the past few years; their
acceptance Of mediation in settle
men of grievances in recent strike
ballots; and their abandonment Of
all use of the railroad unions as or
ganizations of struggle.
The only protection we railroad
workers have against the repeal or
destruction Of the Pension Bill is
our own organized strength. The
rank and file must get into action
Immediately over the heads of our
officials, if necessary, before this
case goes to the Supreme Court.
Resolutions of protest against the
decision of Judge Wheat and the
inaction of our union leaders should
be passed in every lodge. Joint pro-
test meetings between lodges and
Pension Chapters should be ar
ranged. Delegations from such
lodge and protest meetings should
be organized to visit senators and
representatives. Petitions should be
circulated; protest kilograms should
be sent to Roosevelt and Eastman.
More than this, we railroad work
ers must take the OFFENSIVE.
The Pension Bill must be improved
in the interest Of railroad labor
We must prepare to win these i'm
as we won the Adamsor
Bill in 1917, BY STRIKEi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Mooney
Again Ignored
By Roosevelt
DAILY Worker washington Bureau,

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.-Once
more President Roosevelt has cold
shouldered Tom Mooney, although
twenty-one Senators in recent
months signed worker demands for
immediate release of the framed
labor leader. MONEYS appeal to
the U. S. Supreme Court is sched-
uled for argument next Monday.
John w. Jenkins, chairman Of
the Tom Mooney Defense Commit
tee Of Washington, went to the
White House to try and see Roose-
welt, and was informed by Marvin
H. Mcintyre, one of the Presidents
secretaries, that the executive
couldn't be connected in any way
with matter which he considered
solely in the Jurisdiction of the
state of California.
Il wore out pair of pants and
a pair of shoes running from the
Senate to the White House, carry
ing letters from Senators to the
President" Jenkins said today, "and
then, in two minutes time, I re-
ceived an answer that the Presi-
dent, who sent twenty-six battle
ships to protect the sugar barons
in Cuba couldn't send one turnkey
to San Quentin to turn an inno-
cent man loose
jenkins attempted to tell Nc
Intyre it was Presidential action
in response to worldwide workers
demonstrations that prevented ex-
ecution Of Mooney, setting a prece-
dent for action by Roosevelt now;
but he didn't get a chance. He also
vainly tried to have Roosevelt view
the motion picture, THE Strange
Case Of Tom Mooney" The film
will be shown at a Mooney defense
benefit performance here on Nov.
19, in the Knights of Columbus
Hall, 10th and K Streets, N. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Grain Harvest
Sets ecOrd
In the U.S.S.R.

MOSCOW, Nov. 4.-The celebra-
lions Of the 18th anniversary of the
victorious october Revolution will
take place on the eve of the largest
grain collections in the history of
the Soviet Union and with the
triumph of the collective farms
overwhelmingly assured, the latest
reports from the grain centers re-
veal.
As result of the organization OF
the collective farms and their ire
mendous material success in raising
the living standards Of the farmers,
the entire toiling peasantry is a
devoted supporter of the Soviet
Government.
Reports from industry also reveal
that the Soviet Union as a result of
its victories in industriaIzing the
country will be second only to the
United States in the production of
pig iron,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Children Demanding
Thaelmann's Release
Barred at Consulate

A group OF more than 80 delegated
Young Pioneers, representing the
children's section of the Interna-
tional Workers Order, the Mittle
Schulz and other children's organi-
cations, picketed the German Con-
sulate in New York on Saturday
morning, in protest against the i'm
prisonment of Ernst Thaelmann
and all other victims of fascist
terror.
The children elected a delegation
to see the consul. AS the delega-
ton was going up to the consups
office, they were kept from entering
by a guard. The consups secretary
then appeared and announced that
the consul would not see them.
The delegates then assembled in
a nearby park They resolved to
report their visit back to their
troops, and to enlist more thous-
ands of working class children in
support of Thaelmann and all anti
fascist fighters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
200, 900 Railroad Men
Deprived of Pensions
by Supreme Court

BY Special R.R. Corr 7spondent
CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 4.-The de-
cision of the District of Columbia
Supreme Court made october oath,
that the Railroad Retirement Pen
sion Act was unconstitutional, can
be directly laid at the door of the
Grand Chiefs of our 81 standard
railway unions and the officials of
the Railway Employees National
Pension Association. Heads of both
these organizations are opposed to
mass union action and rely on ia
vors" from Congressman and gov
eminent officials in return for labor
votes.
Everyone familiar with the agi-
tation centering around the passage
last Summer admits that it was
the rank and file demand for this
legislation in the form of personal
visits to Congressman, protest reso-
lutions and kilograms which finally
forced it through the closing ses-
sion of Congress.
Yet between the time President
Roosevelt signed the. Act in July,
1884. and the time when Chief
Justice Alfred E. Wheat declared
1t unconstitutional, the m G h y
power of railroad labor YVES DELHI
erately kept inactive, unalert and
unprepared for this counter attack
of the roads. Congressman Keller.
addressing the National Convention
of the Pension Association as late
as Sept. 10th made the statement
that there was nothing to fear in
Washington and that all the rail-
road workers had to do was to trust
their leaders. This, in spite of the
fact that the roads had already filed
their brief against the ccnstitu-
tionality Of the Bill and the finan-
cial journals were predicting just
Wat happened.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05

AS for the union officials, not one
voice was raised in warming; not
one mass meeting was held to pre-
pare to fight back, and the roads
were given every assurance through
acceptance of compulsory arbitra-
ton in questions affecting wages
and working conditions, violations
of agreements, ETC., road by road,
that the strike power Of the half
million organized railroad workers
would under no circumstances be
set in motion as it was to force the
passage of the Adamson Act in
1917.
The roads objected to the Retire
ment Act on the following grounds:
inclusion of all railroad employees
as beneficiaries; application of the
Act to those employed one year
prior to the passage Of the Act; in
clusion of prior service" in COM
putting annuities; and the two-thirds
payment assessed on the roads.
Judge Wheat has laid the basis
for the repeal of these objection
able" features in his decision. He
declares the Act unconstitutional
because it covers persons not en-
gagged in interstate commerce such
as clerks, maintenance-of-w aymen
and others in sections of the in
dustry not covered by strong unions.
In this way he opens up the posi-
bility OF depriving 100000 railroad
workers of the benefits Of the Act.
Judge Wheat (speaking for the
roads,, next attacks that section of
the Act whcih provides that all
workers in the employ of any road
during the year preceding the pass
age of the Act are eligible for pen
sions. He states that the roads
discharged $4,000 men during this
year and that to include them
would be an undue hardship. He
further seeks to rob any of these
workers who might be re-employed
from their prio" service earnings
as basis for computing pension
benefits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Chicago Relief
Cut and 10000
W Orkers Fired
District Supervisors
Say Further Cuts
May Be Necessary

CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 4.-Twenty-
six thousand relief workers are be-
ing given lay-ofTs, direct relief is
being slashed IS to SO per cent, and
still further work relief cuts are
being planned here, the Illinois
Emergency Relief Administration
announced yesterday.
Indignation against the relief cuts
is running so high that case work
ers are afraid to leave the offices.
Resolutions protesting the cuts
signed by the entire stats Of four
relief stations have already been
sent to the relief authorities.
The work relief employees have
been delayed, and are notified that
they will be called back, but the
official letter to the District Super
visors states that not all will be
recalled, and that further cuts may
be necessary"
The cut in direct relief went into
effect Friday as a direct slash in
the grocery orders, with no increase
in the food baskets.
Leo M. Lyons, Cook County re-
lief administrator, in announcing
the slash in confidential letter to
the district supervisors, instructed
them to prepare for further slashes,
In answer to these attacks, the
Chicago Workers Committee on
Unemployment, the Rank and File
Committee for Unemployment In
surance and Relief and the Unem-
ployment Councils and other or
carnations have called upon all en-
ployed and unemployed workers to
Join in the united front demonstra-
ton on Saturday, Nov. "a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Union Continues Long
Fight Against World
Button Plant Lockout


Workers employed in the World
Button Works, ia Fourth Avenue,
locked out on October %, are still
out. The manufacturer has been
manuvering for long time in an
attempt to smash the union. How
ever the workers ranks are firm
and they are determined to smash
the lookout.
The World Button workers are
members Of the Independent Cellu-
loid and Plastic Novelty Workers
Union of 800 Broadway. On Satur-
day. Nov. 18th the union will hold
a dance at IL West 18th Street for
the purpose of raising funds to con-
tinue the struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
jailed on Literature
Charge, 4 Are Freed

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. A.
Fanny and Andrew Poole, two Negro
workers, who were arrested with
five others in a raid two weeks ago
and charged with possession of
radical literature, were released
along with the other workers on
Saturday when the charge was lis
missed.
One Of the workers, Pete Tulney.
was re.rrested on charges Of
criminal libel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Workers Join the C. p.
AT Election Meeting

LUDINGTON, Mich, Nov. A.
Four workers out of So attending
small campaign rally here applied
for membership in the Communist
Party after hearing local Communist
candidates explain the election pla-
form and program of the Commu-
mist Party.
The following night, at another
campaign rally, enough workers
were enrolled in the Communist
Party to start a unit here with a
total of ten members and the
promise of quick growth in menu
bership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Finnish Federation
Raps Ohio Newspaper
On Election Issue

ASETABULA, O., Nov. 4.-The
District Committee of the Finnish
Workers Federation and local Fin
nish organizations have addressed
protests to the management of the
Ashtabula Star Beacon against the
publication of the names Of workers
in this city who have signed Com
munist nominating petitions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Z. S. Reports
Further Rise
InLivingCost

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. = The
cost of living for the worker and
his family rose during September
for the fifth consecutive month,
and unemployment continued to
grow in 80 of the country's leading
industries, the United States De-
partment of Commerce revealed to-
day in its monthly survey Of cur
rent business.
Not only has the cost Of living
risen in the recent months, but the
advance for September was the
sharpest since August 1888, the sur
vey revealed.
"The cost Of living of wage
earners advanced during Sep
TENDER for the fifth consecutive
month" the survey states. Every
component Of the index advanced
during the month except the
price of gas and electricity. Food
prices rose A per cent. The sec
ond largest increase was in
housing. The average of all items
rose 1.8 per cent, which was the
sharpest increase since August
1888"
This advance in food prices
brings the food cost index rs per
cent higher than it was eighteen
months ago when Roosevelt took
Office.
On employment and wages, the
survey stated:
Declining manufacturing out
put in September was accom-
panied by a contra seasonal de-
cline in the number of factory
employees and a larger relative
drop in payrolls."
The survey attempts to gloss over
the rapid growth of the crisis by
fixing the blame for the drop in
jobs and payrolls on the textile
strike. In the same paragraph,
however, the report goes on 10
state, employment was lower in
go industries surveyed monthly"
Industrial production durin g
September was unchanged for the
second successive month, but de-
clined further after allowance is
made for the usual seasonal in
crease. Manufacturing output was
lower for the month, both actually
and after allowance for the sea-
sonal trend" the report showed.
Contributing to the decline were
substantial reductions in the tex
tile and auto industries and smaller
relative losses in iron, steel, lumber,
leather and shoe, the survey re-
vealed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
Queens C. p. Watchers
Must Report at 5 A. NJ

The Communist Party Election
Campaign Committee in Queens
yesterday called on all Communist
polling place watchers to report at
5 am. tomorrow at one of the fol-
lowing four headquarters for last
minute instructions and assign
mentS:
Long Island City, 4206 9th Street.
Astoria, Workers Center, $500
Astoria Avenue.
Woodside, 1920 Roosevelt Avenue
Corona, 102-09 saith Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
NEGRO COMMUNIST
ON PENNSYLVANIA
ELECTION SLATE
Morris HI. Wickman Is Staunch Fighter for
Negro Rights and Is Leader in Struggle
of Workers in Keystone State

PHILADELPHIA Pa, Nov. 4.-Morris H. Wickman,
Negro Communist candidate for Congressman in the First
Congressional District of this State is typical Of the proe
tartan leadership which the struggles of the Negro working
class have evolved through long and bitter experience
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05

CaDisaIist Politicians Pass Laws
TO Destroy Feed. Communist
Public Officehoidsrs VIII Fight
to Destroy the a. A. A.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
100000 AWARDED
UNDER LEvEY WILL
100000 Trust for Widow;
Nephew Gets 100000.

Cash requests totaling 100000
were apportioned in the will of the
late Louis H. Levey, printing COM
pany founder, filed in probate court
today
They are 100000 to Marshall T.
Levey, a nephew; $4,000 to Miss
Edna Levey, a grand niece; $4,000
to John w. Kern, Democratic mayor
atty nominee; $4,000 to the Art
Association of Indianapolis; $1,000
to william C. Kern; trust fund of
$4,000 and four Liberty bonds to
Louise L. Rugg, household employee;
$4,000 to Alfred GloSSbrenner,
business associate; $4,000 to Mrs.
Richard Tinker, Bolton, Conn, a
step-daughter, and $4,000 to Mrs
Blanche Ross. Madison, Ind, sis
ter-in-law.
The widow, named executrix, will
receive benefits of a trust fund OF
s40O 900 and all household effects
She will receive the fund income
during her life and upon her death
it will be distributed: $4,000 to the
Scottish Rite: 100000 to the Meth
odist hospital; 100000 to Wabash
college and $4,000 to the James
Whitcomb Riley Memorial Associa-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
Held in Escape Plot

ny CNitCU ITCSS
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, Sept IA
Two youths were arrested today on
charges of smuggling saws and
other tools into the Noblesville Jail,
permitting the escape of five
prisoners three weeks ago.
Both suspects, Floyd Michaels, %,
and Robert Lowell, 81, have con-
fessed, Sheriff Frank Hattery an
nounced. He said Lowell admitted
buying the hack saws in Anderson
and that Michaels purchased pair
of pliers for Willie Mason, murder
suspect and one of those who
escaped.
Both Michaels and Lowell had
spent several weeks in the jail with
the men they assisted to escape.
Mason was awaiting trial on charges
of killing Lester Jones, indianapolis
policeman. Two of the prisoners
later were recaptured, but Mason
and two others are still at large.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
Striker Is Threatened

Charges that she had been threat
ened by an armed mill worker were
made today to James Watson,
municipal court prosecutor, by Miss
Cannon Viles, 241 Beauty avenue,
a United Textile Workers of Amer
lea striker at the Indianapolis
Bleaching Company, 900 West Wa
bash street.
Her charges were substantIated
by Mrs. Frances Mayhem, 210 Beau
ty avenue, Miss Viles' mother, and
Miss Aurelia Aues, 1921 West Michi-
gan street, companion.
Mr.. Watson said that he would
investigate the charges and issue a
warrant for the arrest of the mill
worker if the accusations we're
proven.
Earlier in the day, police we're
told a tear gas bomb had been
thrown at the home of a textile
mill worker.
Mrs. John Ford, 1923 Churchman
avenue, said the bomb exploded
against the side of her house shortly
after midnight following the sus-
picious activities of several men rid
ing in an automobile past the house.
The house had been stoned previ-
ously, she said.
Police brought the bomb to head
quarters.
Armed deputies are being used by
the company to protect workers,
Charles A. Young. plant manager,
admitted yesterday. He refused to
state by whom the company guards
we're deputized.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
DEAN JURY BOX
STILL UNTITLED
Taking of Testimony May
Not Start Until Monday,
Is Indication.

Welding of the chain of, evidence
by which the state expects to send
Edward Foggy) Dean to the electric
chair on charges of participating IN
the machine-gun murder of Police
Sergeant Lester Jones will not be-
gin until tomorrow or Monday. it
appeared as the trial entered its
fifth day today.
The state and defense appeared to
be no more satisfied with the pro-
Spective jury than on Tuesday when
eleven veniremen had been accepted
tentatively.
A third special venire reported to
Special Judge Clyde H. Jones this
morning. Twenty five. additional
veniremen were supenaed as Joseph
Ebaugh, Cumberland, the last of
the original venire, entered the jury
box for examination in place of Or
vile Miller, 2918 North Delawre
street, challenged by the defense.
BY noon today, all but four of
the third venire had been excused,
and it was planned to call a fourth
venire.
Ralph j. Pierson, 1882 North Ewing
street, was excused by Floyd Mat
tice, chief deputy prosecutor, on a
peremptory challenge, the fourth
used by the state. John Shaugnes-
sy, Al North Dearborn street. a
boilermaker, was examined and ap-
peared to be satisfactory to both
sides.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
Attacks LII Arthur
By Times special

BIZ Times Special
LIBERTY, Ind. Sept. 14.-"The
only thing wasted in President
Roosev-- s agricultural relief pro-
gram was the Squeal of slaughtered
DIGS and Senator Robinson picked
that up to use in his campaign OF
tear and misinterpretation.'
This was the challenge last night
by Earl Crawford. Milton farmer and
banker and Speaker of the house oil
representative. in an address here.
Mr.. Crawford branded as mali
cious lie" the charge of adminiStra-
ton critics that the hog reduction
plan was a waste of farm surplus
while thousands starved.
Not one ounce Of those 6,OOO'OOO
pigs slaughtered last winter was
wasted" Mr.. Crawford said. They
we're used to feed the people whom
the Hoover policies had left 10
stsrve."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14

A roughly dressed but emphatic
deck storekeeper. William O'Sulli-
van, told the inquiry that it was
common knowledge that many
stewards used the inf1ammable
cleaning fluid, which was easier to
apply than the paste which is APP
proved by steamship regulations and
by the Ward line.
Assertions that the lifeboats were
in such condition that it was risky
to put out from the ship in them
were made by Joseph Spilgas, a sea-
man who had charge of the boats
on the starboard side. He charged
that the tankS-neceSSary to keep
the boats upright and af1oat when
loaded-were almost ruSted through
and that there would have been
holes in them if the rust had all
been scraped off before coat of
lead paint was applied.
Before the inquiry adjourned until
Monday, it had added the following
testimony to its puzzling and con-
fused picture of how and why the
fire started on the Moro Castle and
how it spread SO rapidly:
1. The liquid cleaning or polishing
fluid was of a type which probably
would spread the fire quickly as
wind and the forward movement of
the vessel swept the fire through the
decks, in the opinion of O'Sullivan.
He also said an enamel, which would
spread the fire, was regularly used
on the ship and about 200 gallons OF
it were in a store room.
2. An explosion" in the engine
room was reported by Charles An
cello, a seaman, who said he be-
lieved it was a dynamo or generator
exploding some time after the fire
was under way.
g. John Kempf, New York fire.
man, said he awakened at 12:45
a. m. and smelled smoke. He ran
out and helped turn a hose on a
smoking elevator shaft. The time
given was about two hours earlier
than most witnesses said the fire
started, but Kempf insisted it was
correct.
4. Fire drill and lifeboat drill on
the ship appeared to be an uncer-
tain sort of business, according to
several witnesses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
U. S. TROOPS
NOT TO ENTER
STRIKE ZONE
Situation improved, Says
Chief of Strife Torn
Rhode Island.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
PROVIDENCE, r. l., Sept. IA
The aid of federal troops in strike
torn Rhode Island will not be asked
unless there is a change in the sit
uation, Governor Theodore F. Green
announced today.
The situation has improved and
unless there is a change there will
be no occasion for calling on the
federal government for troops" the
Governor said.
His announcement came after po-
lice were assigned to guard reser-
voirs at Cumberland, Pawtucket,
Central Falls and other towns when
it was discovered that twenty-five
sticks of dynamite had been stolen
from a cemetery at Manville, near
the scene of fatal rioting in which
textile workers fought national
guardSmen.
Rumors of Communist plot &C
companied the disclosure of the
dynamite theft, particularly because
strikers were said to have threatened
W OlOW uP u1lO "a JlCo 4lAA1ol1lA45 pAo11O
at Saylesville, one of six plants
closed last night.
In Woonsocket, where two we're
killed and scores wounded in wild
rioting and looting, and in Sayles-
vile, where other scores were
wounded, the Rhode Island militia
ruled with bayonets and rifles.
For the moment peace prevailed,
but commanding officers prepared
for renewal of fighting. They be-
lieved agitators were circulating
among textiles strikers and sympa-
thizers, goading them to new vio-
lence.
The toll of three days of rioting
at Woonsocket and Saylesville stood
at two rioters killed by national
guardSmen. sixteen wounded by
militia bullets and an undetermined
number of rioters and guardsmen
with heads broken by clubs, and
bruises inflicted by rocks and other
missiles. The total of these may
reach as high as 200.