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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03
DOIlfuSS Announces
Natural Law Rule,
Constitutions End
Proclaims Unrestrained
War on Workers and
Their Organizations

VIENNA. March 1.-THE Dollfuss
government today announced Off
cially that it had scrapped the Aus
TRAN const t'ltion. and would govern
by natural law"
This announcement appears in the
Official Gazette, IN which Robert
Hecht, constitutional adviser to DOLL
fuss, announces in large type that
1.-THE law Of state necessity has its
roots in natural law and stands
above the constitution.
"The energetic gentlemen heading
the government will, of course, have
greater respect for natural law than
for a written constitution"
Thus the fascist government OF
Dollfuss gives notice that 1t binds It.
self by no rules Of any kind in carry
ing out it's campaign of complete
suppression of the working class and
all its organizations.
The Dollfuss government an
nounced it would publish the ar
better Zeitung," formerly official
organ Of the Social Democratic party
as a fascist organ under the direc-
ton of the official Austrian News
Agency.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03
N. Y. Workers Will Mass
Today at Nazi Consulate
In Thaelmann's Defense
Demonstrate I:3O PM,
By Thousands at
II Battery Pl.

NEW YORK. Today, one year
nee Ernst Thaelmann, beloved lead
or Of the German Communist Party,
was thrown into Nazi dungeon in
Berlin, workers throughout the world
will mass in protest demonstrations,
demanding his release.
In New York, a gigantic dem
cnst-ation Is called to gather in /.
front Of the German Consulate, IL
Battery Place, at 1880 pm. today,
o demand his freedom, to hur1 in
the teeth Of the Nazi butchers the
american workers hatred Of their
bloody prosecutions.
The call for this demonstration is
issued by the Young Communist
League, in response to an appeal of
the Internc tional Labor Defense, and
its parent body, the International
Red Aid, to make the week of March
3 to 10 a week of gigantic mass ac-
lions throughout the world for the
freedom Of Thaelmann.
TORONTO, March 2-Leo Gala
her, international Labor Defense at
torney who fought for the acquitted
Reichstag fire trial defendants in
Germany, and is here now to defend
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03
Metal Union Halls
Aluminium Strike
Urges To Beware of NRA
Labor Board

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March IA
statement of solidarity and support to
the Mellon Aluminium strikers have
been addressed to them by the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial Union.
Signed by Pete Chap, acting sec
rotary Of the union, the statement
reads:
1.-THE Steel and Metal Workers IN
dustrial Union greets your strike and
pledges support. We urge you to be-
ware Of the NR.A. and its National
Labor Board. Experience of thou
sands Of strikers in Weirton Steel,
Ford Edgewater plant as well as in
Chester, Budd Auto plant, and in
other places, clearly show that the
National Labor Board is an instru-
ment Of the employers, expressly used
to break strikes against the interests
Of the workers.
"CloSe ranks firn1Iy and stay out
until the company grants your de-
nands. Your strike is inspiring steel
and metal workers throughout the
country. Your strike can and must
be wont" .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03

by Hall johnson for the Quartette for
sing other Negro work songs, as well
as Negro spirituals.
Bob Lewis, of the Group Theatres
Men In White" will present group
Of revolutionary numbers including
"The Red Hamlet"
It will be known
Sunday night whether or not ENOUGH
money has been raised to pay for the
new printing press Of our revolution
airy movement. BRING your personal
donation to the banquet! See that
your organization makes It's donation
ut the banquet. Or mail T. in to
Press Committee, P. o. Box 1856. sta.
D., N. Y. c. Out Of town or7aniza-
tons are urged to come to quick sup
port of the revolutionary press. Ncw
Workers. individuals, and representa-
fives of organizations, do your part
towards the press by making the
BANQUET, Victory Banquet" Tickets
for the banquet will be sold all day
Sunday at the Business Office Of the
Daily Worker, until 5 o'clock, at the
box Office at New Star Casino after
6 o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03
Strikers Hold Picket
Lines During the
Negotiations
1000 VOTE STRIK E
''We'n Go Along with
BOard,'' Says Union
Official

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March
2.-The N.R.A. Regional Board
here reported that representa-
tives of nearly 5000 strikers
at the three plants of the AIu-
minum Company of America, con-
trolled by Andrew Mellon, agreed to
order the men to return to work to-
day pending negotiations" Of the
strikers demands.
The action was taken after a con-
ference between the strike leaders,
Mellon company officials, and heads
Of the Regional Board.
While the negotiations were going
on, however, the strikers marched on
the picket lines and kept the alumni
mum plants shut. The only ones al
lowed to go in we're maintenance
men, who obtained permission from
the union and were given cards to
pass the picket lines.
An order Of the NRA. Regional
Board to the men to return to work
Immediately, similar to the agree-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03
Philippines Offered
Fake independence
Bill Binds Islands While
Flattering Native Land
lords and Bosses

WASHINGTON, Mar. p A
philippine independence" bill,
embodving certain amendments to
the Hare Hawes- Cutting Act, was
presented to Congress today with
a special MESSAGE from President
Roosevelt urging its passage.
It meets the demands of the
Filipino masses for independence
with scheme to grant indepen-
dence in not less than IL years,
and to allow for negotiations
on the disposition of U. S. armed
forces and naval bases in not less
than IS years.
The bill contains a few conces-
sions to the Filipino bourgeoisie,
which rejected the Hare-Hawes-
Cutting Bill. These are designed
to win support of the Filipino
landlord-capitalists for the United
States in the coming conflict with
japan. Meanwhile, its economic
clauses are expected to rivet down
the financial subsection of the
islands to Wall Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03
Empowers Natl Labor
Board To Step Into
All Strikes
FOR INJUNCTIONS
Aims To Keep Workers
From Stopping
Production
Br HARRY CANNES

NEW YORK.-With the support Of
President Roosevelt and William
Green, president of the A. F. of L.,
the Wagner National Labor Board
bill, the most dangerous strikebreak-
ing instrument yet devised by the
Roosevelt regime, is going to Con-
gress for consideration.
In his statement in support of the
bill Senator Wagner declares that it
is aimed mainly at company unions
and to "equalize the bargaining power
Of employers and employees"
An examination Of the bill shows
it carries to more vicious length
the results felt by the workers from
Section la Of the N.R.A. Every pro-
capitalist measure is concealed as a
favor to labor.
Throughout, the bill virtually makes
strikes illegal, and sets up machinery
to smash strikes, though it contains
the following lip-service acknowledge
ment Of the right to strike: Nothing
in this act shall be construed so as
to interfere or impede or diminish in
sny way the right to strike"
How, It Hits Strikes
Yet every provision Of the Wagner
bill is aimed at preventing or smash
ing strikes when they actually take
place.
The bill provides that the National
Labor Board shall step in under any
conditions where "the free flow of
commerce is interefered with" or
where a situation has led or tends
to lead to labor dispute that might
burden OF affect commerce or obstruct
the free flow Of commerce"
While ostenSibly declaring for col
lectiye bargaining" the bill sets up
government agencies and empowers
the Federal Courts to institute Gem
pulscry bargaining" in all strikes. The
results will be that what the $4,000
Wireton Steel Co, the Ford and Budd
CONTINUED on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03

the restraints Of illegality issuing
leaflets for g general strike in all the
large factories, the following state
ment of Otto Bauer, leader Of tho
Austrian Socialist Party, reveals with
what desperation the Socialist lead
ership was trying to stop the workers
from taking the road Of general
strike and armed struggle against
FasciSm. This statement of Otto
Bauer was made to the representa-
tives Of the press OF the whole world
while the class battles were still rag
ing on the barbados of Vienna and
Linz:
ave offered to make the greatest
concessions that democratic party
ever made.
"We let Dollfuss know that If he
would only pass bill through Par
lament, we would accept a measure
AUTHORIZING THE GOVERN
MENT TO GOVERN BY DECREE
FOR TWO YEARS WITHOUT
ANY PARLIAMENT on two condi-
tions, etc. tour ernphasis)
Il arranged for them the workers
of Linz TO be told that II We 10
Vienna could submit patiently 70
a search for arms, they must try
to do the same. Apparently tbs
message arrived too late"
And then the final confesskeu
that he tried to Join Dollfuss As
crush the workers struggles, In his
own infamous words:
when 1 heard that the sase~
tric workers had gone out In spons
taneous strike, asked our Finance
Minister and Vice Governor 10 gc<
in touch with Dollfuss or Prea-
dent AikIas at all costs TO
ARRANGE FOR JOINT ACTION
TO STOP THE IMMINENT
FIGHTING"
Bauer offered himself and his
Party to the Fascist Dollfuss for
joint action against the striking
workers and their brothers on the
barricadesi It was over his head and
against his orders that the Austrian
working class took to the general
strike and armed struggle The Com
murist Party alone called upon tho
workers TO strike tbs blow assAnss
Fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03
Jones Tells
of Gun Rule
On Docks
Marine Editor Scores
NRA Code for Seamen
and LOngshoremen
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)

(DelIy WOrkcr washington bureau
WASHINGTON, Mar. 2.-"Under
your MIRA, we have machine guns
on the docks in Boston and we have
men who try to walk ashore on strike
driven back aboard by guns showed
into their CUTS"
Thus Hayes Jones, editor Of the
Marine Workers Voice, today told
NR.A. officials one reason why the
Marine Workers Industrial Union els
heartily opposed to the NR.A. and
has been from the start" Jones and
other independent union spokesman
indicated the shipping code as the
field day for critics came to close
at NR.A. headquarters.
The four day hearings piled up
such a mountain Of discredit and dis
approval Of the MIRA. that Admins
traitor General Hugh S. johnson ap-
peared personally to wind them up
with a speech asserting that "prac-
tically all of the critics express their
unqualified support of the MIRA"
1t is true that Communist and mill
tant union spokesman were the only
critics who launched basic attack
upon the purposes of the New Deal
but the General was absurdly inaccu-
rate in claiming unqualified support. ="
Only little earlier on the same plat
form Jones had asserted, 1.-THE func-
ton of the whole shipping code is
- Ioc4,o,, tI,a o,,fxy woo Y,rY, tI7s x-nflv =
ers have-the strike. The National
Labor Board is just a stepping stone
to Government control Of labor unions
-fasc:srn."
Heap Disdain on N.R.A.
And literally scores and scores OF
others, representing little business,
professional workers, and labor, both
ORGANIZED and unorganized, had heap
ed reports Of disbursement and
despair upon the MIRA. in general
as well as in specific cases. A Detroit
tool and die makers representative
had exposed the stimulation Of the
labcr-spy business by the N.R.A., say
ing that the name, Representative
Carl Weideman of Minnesota (the
same who recently introduced a
us-stalling bill for the leadership
Of the veterans OF foreign wars) ap-
pea-ed on the letterhead Of a labor
spy company in the auto industry.
In addition to rejecting nationwide
discomfort and preparations for new
CONTINUED on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03
1000 Hudson Auto
Body Men Strike
For HIGHER Wages
Entire Floor Walks Out
In Detroit Gratiot
Plant

DETROIT, Mich, March 2-The
entire second floor of the Hudson
Gratiot plant where auto bodies are
manufactured cult work yesterday
morning they vent back to work
when the company Offered conces-
sion. The nature Of the agreement
is not yet known.
The Auto Workers Union distri-
butsd leaflets couing on other depart
ments to strike for the same demand
in a united front struggle of A. p. of
L. members, Auto Workers Union
members, and unorganized workers.
The Hudson Jefferson plant closed
today because Of lack of auto bodies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03
Mr. AL Heads
Order Men Back.
''Negotiate'' Later
Capitalism Bankrupt, -
Says Professor Counts

CLEVELAND, March 2. - A new
social order where 1.-THE new collec-
tive economy will be administered in
the interests Of the great masses who
do the work of the country" was
advocated by Professor George s..
Counts of Teachers College, Column
bia University, at the Progressive
Education Association Conference to-
day.
THE rising generation must be
told that the system of private capt.
oalism has been shown to be bank
lurt," said Counts, who is member
Z the commission of the American
Historical Association and author Of
.cvaral books praising the Soviet
educational system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03
Wagner Bill Conceals
A Devastating Attack
OnAllLaborStruggles
OsmGt's Conviction Is
Reversed by TYash'ton

NEW YORK.-The conviction Of
Corporal Robert Osman of Brook
lyn who was found guilty by a
court martial in August, 1881, Of
communicating military secrets
to persons said to be Communists
was reversed by the federal gov
eminent, 1t became known yes
terday. Osrnan was sentenced to
two years in prison at hard labor
and a fine of ten thousand dollars
by an unfair and prejudiced court
martial. He is now held in a
Panama prison. Osman will be
retired.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03

immediate restoration of free
dom of assembly, press, collective
bargaining, and of strike.
Immediate liberation of all anti
fascist prisoners!
Down with the death penalty
and martial law!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03

NEW YORK.-The following is the
full text of the call issued by the
illegal Communist Party of Austria
in its paper Die Rote Fahne" to the
workers in the big factories and cleo
trical plants of Vienna and Linz. 1t
will be noticed that the date is two
days before the first outbreak of the
general strike. This leaflet calling
for general strike against Fascism is
in remarkable contrast to the ap-
pended statement of Otto Bauer,
leader of the Austrian Socialist
Party, as given to the world press
during the days Of the open class
battles on the barricades.
February 10th, 1888
OUT ON GENERAL STRIKE!
The shops in Liesing and Atz-
gersdorf are already on strike. All
Social Democratic shop chairmen
from there are arrested. In Inns
brusk, the Socialist headquarters
and their printing plant have been
smashed by the fascists. There
( have been bloody collisions. The
Heimwehr bandits have armed and
modified their bands throughout
the country, by agreement with
DoiIfuss.
They are demanding commissars
In place Of the provincial govern
ments, and the Social Democratic
municipalities. In more than 20
Social Democratic municipalities,
commissars are already appointed.
They are demanding conmissars
for labor exchanges, social insur-
ance administration, and also for
the factories.
BEAT FASCISM DOWN BEFORE
IT BEATS YOU DOWN!
Down tools at once! Strike! CAN
out the troops around you!
Elect committees of action IN
every shop, to lead the fight! Out
into the streets! Disarm the fas-
cists! Arms into the hands of the
workers!
GENERAL STRIKE!
Immediate dissolution Of all fas-
cist organizations!
Down with all the fascist COM
missars.
Down with the fascist admins
tration Of the Chambers Of Laborl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03

DOWN WITH THE HANGNIAN
GOVERNMENT!
Communist Party Of Austria
Section of Third InternationaD
VHTHILE the Communist Party of
W Austria was breaking through all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03
VOLUNTEERS WANTED

to act as waters, mattresses and
ushers at our PRESS BANQUET
SUNDAY. MARCH 4th. at New
Star Casino. Please apply today
at Daily Worker Store, IS E. 18th
ST., City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03
5OO,OOOMen
Fired Friday
of hheCWA
Plan To Fire 1,1O4,O 900
in March by ROOse-
welt Orders

NEW YORK.-Following up the
Roosevelt plan for the cutting down
Of unemployment relief, the federal
government announced yesterday that
another 100000 C.W.A. workers will
be fired in the four weeks Of March.
Yesterday another half million C.W.A.
workers were fired. According to the
Announcement Of Federal Relief d.
rector Hopkins, there were yesterday
2,609 500 C.W.A. workers still on the
C.WA. rolls.
This figure was arrived at by sub
tracing the nearly one and one half
million C.W.A. workers fired within
the past few weeks, from the sup
posed figure of four million which the
C.w.A. claimed to have on its rolls
before the firing began. The figure of
four million total who were on the
C.W.A. rolls, is highly inflated. There
have been one and one half million
fired off the C.W.A. rolls within a
month, under Roosevelt's plan Of
cutting relief to the jobless to almost
nothing.
The reduction in C.wA. forces dur
ing March, announced by Hopkins, is
as follows: March End, C.W.A. forces
reduced to 2,609,500; March 9th, re-
duced to 1881, $50; March 16, reduced
to 100000; March 81, reduced to
1877 050; and on March 18th, reduced
to 1,5o5,500. This schedule calls for
the firing OF 100000 in the month
Of March.
New York C.W.A. Unpaid
NEW YORK.-The Central Regis
tratlon Bureau at South Ferry under
the Department of Public Welfare Is
in an upheaval. C.W.A. men are sup
posed to get between $30-S35 a week,
and women from $20-$22, some have
been paid, but many have not been
paid for the last two weeks. The
clerks receiving $12 a week, employed
under the E.W.B. which is city de-
partment, appointed by Deputy Com
missioner Ben Howe, have not re-
ceived any wages in eight weeks,
There is tendency to call strike
there. The new method Of handling
these men is to alternate them in
cheap lodging houses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03
Raise $l,OOOfor
Defense. of the
ScOttsbOrONine
Langston Hughes, Gag
ney, Help; Columbia
Students Protest

SAN FRANCISCO, March r.
Over $1,000 was raised for the
Scottsboro defense at an auction
sale of art works presided over by
James Cagney, fast-talking screen
star. All items were donated by
their creators, including several
drawings by Cagney. The auction
was arranged by Langston Hughes
noted Negro poet and author and
president of the League of Strug-
gle for Negro Rights.
BALTIMORE, March 2. - Protest
wires are flooding President Roose-
welt, the Alabama Supreme Court
and Gov. Miller of Alabama from
scores of organizations, clubs, lodges
and churches in this city. The long
shoremen were the first to respond
in indignant protest against the
fraudulent ruling of Judge Callahan
denying a hearing, in his court, on
the International Labor Defense mo-
tons for new trials and reversal of
the lynch ve-dicts against Haywood
Patterson and Clarence Norris, two
of the Scottsboro boys.
A protest meeting was held here
last night at the Longshoremen Hall,
COZ Pratt St. Arrangements are be-
ing made for giant meeting at
New Albert Auditorium on Pennsyl-
vania Ave, next week, with either
william L. Patterson or Richard B
Moore as the main speaker.
The powerful upsurge of the SCOTS.
bo~o movement, based on the struggle
for Negro national liberation, will be
integrslly linked with the fight
against the disbarment of Bernard
AIDES, I. L. D. attorney who is in the
forefront Of the struggle against
brutal Jim Crowisln and oppression
of the Negro people.
Columbia Students Protest
NEW YORK. - Ruby Bates anc
Lester Carter, chief scottsboro de-
Tense witnesses, addressed a SCOTS.
boro protest meeting of 400 students
on the Columbia University campu:
yesterday afternoon, under the aus
pices of the Columbia Social Prob
lens Club. The meeting unanimously
edopted protest resolutions to be for.
warded to Judge Callahan, Gov
Mile end President Roosevelt, de.
handing the release of the Scots
boro boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03

ment accepted by the leaders, wcs
voted down last night by over 1000
strikers at meeting.
DR.. Thomas s. Baker, chairman Of
the NR.A. Regional Board, who took
a leading part in the negotiations, is
president Of the Carnegie Institute OF
Technology and a director Of the
Forbes National Bank Of PITTSBURGH,
which has close relations with the
Mellon interests against whom the
strike Is directed.
Form National Union
The strike (terrned a Holiday by
the leaders Of the union) began We'd
Continued on Page q
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See editorial on Page and more
news On Page 4. }
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Austrian Communists and Bauer: Historic Contrast

strbuted Strike Call While
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St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-09-06

introduced February %, 1884.
Rejected March 20, 1884
2S. Resolution providing for COM
promise settlement of tax claim
with the West Indian Sugar Fac
tory Ltd.
introduced and adopted Fehru-
airy %. 1884
Approved March Ia. 1884.
20. Resolution providing tor the cleo.
ton of Commission of three 90
to proceed TO Washington d c..
to confer with the President Of the
United States and the Secretary
of the Interior regarding The Is
land of ST Croix
introduced and adopted April
%. 1884.
Approved June 2. 1884.
80. Resolution providing that funds be
made available to defray the ex-
penses of a Commission appointed
by Colonial Council Bill No. 20.
introduced and adopted April
%. 1884,
Approved June 2, 1894.
81. Draft of amendment to the Budg-
ct for the Municipality of St. Creix
for the fiscal year 1884.
Introduced and adopted June 7,
1884
Approved June 18, 1884.
%. Draft of an ordinance to establish
United States coins and currency
as the legal standard of value in
the Virgin Islands of the United
States. etc.
Introduced June z 1884.
Approved June 80, 1884.
SO. Resolution providing for the ap-
pointment of committee to sub.
NIT recommendations with respect
to fire protection in the Municipal
ity of St. Cloix.
Introduced June z. 1884.
Approved. ...........
ARNOLDM GOLDEN
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-09-06
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE}
COLONIAL COUNCIL
FOR ST. CROIX
FOR ST. CROlX

Continued from Tribune September 9Th
% Resolution to the ongress of the
United States with regard to the re.
peal Of National Prohibition Laws
introduced and adopted Decem-
Der 20, 1884.
Approved.
23l Draft of an ordinance to provide
funds for materials and equipment
for Civil Works Administration
projects.
Introduced and adopted Deem
Der 20, 1888.
Approved January 3, 1884.
"a Draft of an ordinance to regulate
aud coutrol the manufacture and
sale of alcoholic beverages in the
Municipality of ST. Croix. and for
other purposes.
Introduced December 20. 1888
Adopted June Z. 1884
Approved June 9. 1884
25. Resolution re vote of confidence in
the present Administration
introduced and adopted January
"a, 1884.
Transmitted January %, 1884.
26J Draft of an amendment to the
Budget for the Municipality OF St.
Croix for the fiscal year 1888 1894.
Increase to Maintenance Colonial
Council and Municipal Committee.
Introduce February 28. 1894.
Withdrawn February 28, 1894.
27. Draft of an ordinance to create
corporation to be known as the
Virgin Islands Company and to
establish and define its powers,
and for other purposes.