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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
Two. Head Calls on Members
To Aid German Party York

1.-THE principles of the TWO. call
for service of this organization to the
working class. All members of the
Order should come themselves, and
work for a mass participation of
workers in the anti-Hitler meeting at
the Bronx Coliseum, Sunday night,
Feb. II, 7 P. M, which will be at
the same time a demonstration of
the mass indignation of New York
workers against Hitler terror and for
the release of Thaelnann, Dimitroff,
Torgler, as well as method Of gath
ering financial support for the Com
munist Party Of Germany, since all
proceeds of this meeting will be given
in full to the German Party for its
work"
A very exceptional program is in the
last stage Of preparation. One num-
Der will be a "poem-dance" called
Underground" by John Bovingdon.
The program committee states that
since the purpose Of the meeting is
to raise funds for the Communist
Party Of Germany, there will be no
free admissions to anyone at this
particular meeting. The Workers
Book Shop, so E. 18th Street an
nounces that tickets are going very
rapidly Workers who have not yet
bought tickets, are asked to make
themselves available of the 10 cent
reduction by buying tickets in ad-
vance. Prices are $10o, and 40 cents
in advance. so cents at the door.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09

NEW YORK.-Direct support OF
the struggles Of the Communist
Party of Germany, is the only way
q real effort can be made to fight
Hitler.
This was the keynote of state
ment of Max Bedacht, general sec
rotary of the International Work
ers Order, which has over 10000
members in New York City, calling
all members of that organization to
participate in the Support the Ger
man Workers Revolution" meeting
Sunday night, Feb. II, Z P. M. at
the Bronx Coliseum.
His statement reads in part:
"H;tlerism in Germany is a last
attempt of lettering capitalist rule
to save itself from the rising tide
of revolutionary workers. Hit,er's
methods of accomplishing his task
Is terrorizat;on and murder against
the working class, poyronis against
the Jews, and creation Of a ma
tional;stic hysteria in favor Of i'm
perialistic war. The only force
within Germany defying this terror
and continuing to develop and to
organize the forces If the pro.etar-
ian revolution is the Communist
Party of Germany. ANY real effort
to fight Hitler and his fascist rule
must therefore take the form of
direct support to the activities, eff
forts, and struggles of the COM
munist Party Of Germany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
Austrian Socialist
Buildings, Paper,
Raided by Police
Communist Party, Long
Underground, Fights
Fascist Tide

VIENNA, Feb. 8. - The Austrian
fascist government of Dollfuss, active
ly supported in Vienna BY the Social
ist Party as a lesser evil" than the
Nazis, took further step toward
complete fascism by taking over the
buildings OF the Socialist Party, and
the plant of their newspaper, "Ar-
better Zeitung."
The Communist Party and press
have been illegal for many months,
and has carried on an underground
struggle against both fascist groups
and the Socialist supporters of Aus
TRAN fascism.
Meanwhile, Dollfuss is Withholding
his appeal to the League Of Nations
against the Nazi efforts to capture
Austria until the British and French
governments have studied his case
and advised him what attitude they
will take in the League. A 200-page
document on Nazi activities was pre-
scented today to the British foreign
Office.
Steel-helmeted police, with fixed
bayonets, occupied the main Socialist
centers in Vienna today, assisted by
soldiers. The work was carried out
by orders of Emil Fey, leader in the
Heimwehr, who is vice chancellor. and
in control in the absence of Dollfuss
in Budapest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
DOumergue Forming
Cabinet Supported by
Reoctionary Parties
political Truce" is New
Premier's Condition in
Heading Govt
DEMANDS OBEDIENCE
Communist Party Calls
For Fight on Fascism

PARIS, Feb. 8.-Fascist-re-
dictionary elements, exploiting
the deep discomfort Of the
French masses, have put the
hard-bitten "non-partisan" re-
dictionary CASTOR Doumergue,
into the saddle in France.
He is still in process of forming
his cabinet, but he is reported to have
assurance of support from party lead
ers commanding $50 out of COS dep
uties' votes for a -dictatorial re-
gime.
He received this support on the
basis of demands that he be given
broad powers and unguestioning
support from former premiers; that
a political truce" be agreed to I'M
til the end Of this year, and that
the Chamber approve all his de-
nands.
His cabinet is certain to be COM
posed of leaders of the right-wing
parties, including former premiers In
the kind OF national concentration
administration" which the French
ruling class uses in time of emer-
gency threatening its irtrse sts.
The deep-going crisis, which has
increased unemployment, cut wages,
crushed the workers, middle classes
and farmers with taxes, and reduced
the social service, leaves the French
Continued from Page u
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
Taxi Strikers
Betrayal Laid
TOMr.P anken
Men Stampeded; Many
Refuse to Return
Without Union

NEW YORK. - With Mayor La
Guardia spouting threats against
haclmen who refused to return to
work before an agreement was rati-
fled by vote of all the strikers, a
large number of taxi drivers massed
around the strike headquarters on
4lst Street near Ninth Avenue, to
sign up in the Taxi Drivers Union,
determined not to return to work
without an organization. The strike,
however. is over, betrayed by Morris
Ernst. Judge Panken and other So
cialjsts and liberals.
The committee of thirteen had re-
fused to sign an agreement to return
to work before the proposition was
taken before the drivers. The MAYOR
then let it be known that If the
agreement was net signed BY 4 in the
afternoon he would proceed to nego-
tate with other grouDs - groups
which do not represent the men
WHO we're on strike.
Along with this the mavor tossed
out threats of blacklist. The union
men said. however, that through their
organization thew would smosh IA
Guardia's blacklist rlans and urged
all drivers to ret behind the drive
for rnion organization ct once.
I'VE must go back ORGANIZED" said
the Manhattan ORGANIZER for the
union, upon learning that a large
number of driver7 had been STAN
peded back to work.
At meeting Of the committee Of
10 Tuesday night, ]. Buitenkant, at
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
Tories Demand
.BritainPrepare
For New War
Baldwin Puts Armament
Responsibility on
Role of u. S.

LONDON, Feb. 8.-Stanley Baldwin,
conservative leader and former pre-
mier, threw the blame for the war
danger in Europe on the United
States, and both he and Winston
Churchill called for immediate pow
erful increases in British ornaments,
In a debate on ornaments in the
House Of Commons yesterday.
Baldwin declared that British dis
cuSsions of arms agreements were at
an end, and that sit will be our duty
to make ourselves as competent as
we may" for the time when sane
tons EARNED conpulsion) may have
to be enforced" He said the chief
reason for armament in Europe was
that the U. S. Congress refused to
support Wilson.
Churchill made four demands Of
the government: to denounce the
London naval treaty and build up
the navy; to create an air force at
least as powerful as that Of any other
country; to mobilize industry for
war; and work out plans to coordi-
nate the whole state and national
economy for war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
Secret Trials Given
Prison Graft Heads
By Fusion Gang

NEW YORK-Neither the public
nor the press were permitted en-
trance to the departmental trial yes
terday of Deputy Warden Daniel
Sheehan, who worked hand-in-hand
with the gangster and politician con-
trolled Welfare Island penitentiary.
David Marcus, deputy Correction
Commissioner, announced that visi-
tors would be excluded from similar
trials of Warden Joseph a. Mccain
and DR.. Abraham Norman, to take
place next Thursday.
Both Mccain and Norman were
involved in the filth and graft at Wei
fare Island-only a small part of
which was uncovered by MacCor-
mick's publicity raid.
All three officials, who were bla-
family attacked by the Fusion ma
chine in the early days following the
prison raid, are to be questioned
secretly, IN order that whatever in
formation they divulge concerning
higher-ups both in the Tammany and
Fusion machines may not reach the
ears of the public.
This entire secret procedure is a
reversal of the policy previously an
nounced in connection with these
cases. The reason given for the
change is that the grand jury inves-
tigating the Welfare prison scandal
demanded secrecy.
The entire investigation, which
began with so great campaign of
ballyhoo, has now dwindled to almost
nothing. The metropolitan news
papers are devoting only brief items
in hidden corners to the matter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
Initiation Certain
In Roosevelt Plan,
Sen. ThomasStates
Infiationist Finds Roose-
velt's Policy Is
Satisfactory

WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-Infiation
is surely on the way, and Roosevelt's
money policies are on the road by
which it will arrive, Senator Thomas
of Oklahoma, author of the famous
amendment to the Agriculture Ener-
gency Bill, which gives Roosevelt the
power to expand the currency, de-
clared today
Every dollar of the currency has
been cheapened, he declared, although
he admitted that there had hardly
been any increase in the amount of
money in the hands Of the masses.
This has resulted in cut in the real
wages of the entire working class.
Roosevelt has the power to go
ahead, and ! am sure he will, as
fast as it is desirable" Thomas said,
referring to further depreciation Of
the buying power Of the dollar.
He admitted that wages will lag
far behind rising prices, thus effect
ing further wage slashes and degrad-
alton of the living standards Of the
masses, but he held forth the promise
that this condition would not last
long" though how it would be ended
he did not say.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
Dies Bill Passes
House Committee
Organizations, Ira d e
Unions Protest

NEW YORK.-The National Com
mittee for the Protection of Foreign
Born issued a call yesterday to all
mass organizations and trade unions
to protest the threatened passage of
the Dies Bill, aimed at FOREIGN born
workers, which passed the House Of
Representative Immigration Commit
tee and comes up before the body
today
Immediate action must be taken to
defeat this bill which provides for
the deportation of any "undesirabl9"
aliens. Telegrams Of protest should
be sent at cnce to President Roose-
welt. the local Congressman at Wash
ington and Senetors. Cories should
be sent to the National Committee,
Room 43O, 80 East 18th Street. N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
Jobless Seamen Stop
Scabs from Boarding
Struck Munson Liner
100 Police Unable To
Get Strikebreakers on
Ship in Baltimore
BULLETIN

BALTIMORE, Md, Feb. 8.-The
seamen's strike, which held the
S. S. Munsomo from sailing, spread
today to another ship, the S. S.
Greyiock. A large detail of police
were called out as seamen massed
along the waterfront under the
leadership of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union, which is leading
the strike.
BALTIMORE, Md, Feb. 8.-Two
hundred seamen frustrated an at
tempt of the company to bring scabs
aboard the struck steamship Nun
Somo.
One hundred police were modified
at the dock and attempted to bring
scabs through the picket line at 4
am. this morning. An emergency call
was sent out by the Marine Workers
Industrial Union which is leading
the strike and in two minutes two
hundred seamen were at the dock and
stopped the scabs from going aboard.
Later police were used to let go
OAAS Ai41So eiA4S4 ollAP WOO bOHCQ OQb
into the stream with no scabs aboard
her.
Try to Break Strike
The Munson Line, with the help Of
the government, is now making des-
perate efforts to check the struggle
already started on the Munsomo
from spreading to other ships of the
company. The crew of the Munsomo
came out four days ago in Baltimore
demanding their back wages. This
demand has been won and in addi-
ton the men forced the company to
pay them for three days at double
rates for delaying their wages.
After winning these demands, the
men voted to continue the strike in
support of the demands which were
presented at the company Office in
New York. Since then the ship has
been tied UP solid, and twenty men
from the Munsomo joined the NV
III.
The demands that the Munsomo
crew are now fighting for have also
Continued on Page ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
Three Thousand In
Oklahoma Demand
Social Insurance
Nebraska County Heads
IndOrse Jobless
Insurance Bill
OKLAHOMA CRY. okla., Feb. 8.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Feb. 8.
Three thousand workers demon
strated here on Feb. 5, at Rock Island
Park, demanding an extension Of
CWA jobs, adequate relief, and en-
actment of the Workers Unennploy-
ment Insurance Bill
Eight hundred workers marched
three miles to the capitol A mass
meeting on the steps Of the capitol
was he'd, and a committee elected
which took twelve demands of the
unemployed to the governor, Alfalfa
Bill" Murray.
The governor passed the buck and
made flirnsy excuses. The demon
stration was militant and the work
ers were encouraged.
Workers Bill Endorsed
OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 8.-The Doug
las county commissioners, after dodg-
ing the unemployed workers demon
stration on Feb. S, saw committee
the following day and endorsed all
but one of the demands of the IN
employed Councils.
They signed and Endorsed the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
CONTINUED on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
Mass Pressure for
CWA Jobs Felt in
Senate Amendment
But Roosevelt Drives for
Liquidation of
Projects
DAILY worker washington Bureaul

DAILY Worker Washington Bureaul
WASHINGTON, Feb. "a pro-
posal to increase the S950,00O,000 APP
preparation by the House for CWA
and Federal Relief to $2,500. 00o, 900
was launched in the Senate today
and Immediately it struck a stone
wall of opposition by the Roosevelt
Leadership.
Senator Wagner, New York Demo-
crat, argued for the larger appropri-
alton on the basis that it Is impera-
tive to avoid catastrophe" On the
basis of the most optimistic predic-
tons, Wagner said, mo more than
100000 of the unemployed win
be absorbed in private industry BY
the end Of the year :. (. If we aban-
dan the CWA Gas planned In the
$950000,00J appropriation we will
still have at least 100000 unem~
ployed at the end of the year"
Senate Passes Hayden Amendment
Senators Cutting of New Mexico.
and LaFollette of Wisconsin, both
Progressive Republicans, are backing
the additional appropriations. They
were joined by only a few other Sens
ators. The Senate was held In ses-
sion late, but indications we're that
the vote might be held over until
tomorrow.
Earlier today the Senate adopted
the Hayden amendment to continue
compensation to CWA workers and
their families for injuries and deaths
suffered in line of duty.
Senate approval was given, how
ever, at a moment when very few
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
Red Press Builders Cain Ne,U
'Daily" Readers in Factories

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Feb. IA newly
organized Red Press Builders group is
obtaining good results in the drive
to increase the circulation of the
Daily Worker among workers in the
Industrial plants located in South st.
Louis.
These workers have been previously
ne~lerted end the Daily Worker is
something new to most of them. The
sales in South st. Louis now reach
SO and 10 for the daily and Satur-
day edition, respectively. While this
number is still small, the increase is
steady, and by March LIST, the MINI
mum sale of the daily edition is ex-
pected to reach 100.
Workers on the c. w. A. projects
in South st. Louis have been reached
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09

with the DAILY" and number of
them have been drawn closer to the
Communist Party through the paper.
Packing house plants are also can
vassed with the Daily"
Detectives in the railroad yards
chase away workers canvassing with
our paper, but the work goes on,
and more railroad workers are now
reading the DAILY"
The Daily Worker is also being
sold to Post Office clerks, whose dis
content with the Roosevelt admins
tration is constantly increasing.
BY May 1st, the end of the Daily
Worker circulation drive, st. Louis
pledges to obtain 300 new subs for
the daily edition and 500 new subs
for the Saturday edition of the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
Sterilization of All
Negroes in Reich
Demanded by Nazis
Similar Moves Now Be-
ing Made by Southern
White Ruling Class

BERLIN. Feb. 8.-Immediate ster-
ilization of all NEGROES in Germany
and the children Of Negro and Ger
man parents wss demanded today by
Heinz Schroeder. fascist eugenics
authority" writing in the Nazi
newspaper "Deutsche Zeitung."
Schroeder declared there were in
Germany at least 900 children of Ne
gro and German parentage. These
children are German citizens and
could marry later with additional
racial mixtures resultino," he dec
Jared adding 1--WE have enough nom
Abrams in Germany at present"
Schroeder's proposal further ex-
poses the glazing chauvinist and
aimed at wreaking venoeance on the
Nazi sterilization law. Passed under
the pretense of sterilizing the weak
minded and incurables, 1t is actual'y
aifed at wreaking vengeance on the
opponents of the bloody fascist re-
gime end on Negroes, Jews and other
minority groups.
NEW YORK.-With the increasing
fascination of American democracy
various proposals are being made fer
the use of sterilization as a weapon
against the working-class. and esne-
cially the Negro masses. Sterilization
laws are already on the statutes Of
81 states. Last week, the wonen's
advisory board to the mayor and
aldermen of Savannah. GEORGIA, ed
vocated the passage of a sterilization
law in that city. The committee
plans to launch campaign for a
State sterilization law. It is clear
fiat such a law would be used AGAINST
the Negro masses and white workers
rallying to their defense against the
increasing fascist lynch terror.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
OuseCOnnnnittee
Takes Up Jobless
Insurance Bill
Deane Bill, Employers
Substitute, Gets
Long Hearing
BOSSES PLAN HEARD
Will Discuss Workers
Bill ''Later''
By MARGUERITE YOUNG

By MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, Feb. g.
The House Labor Committee,
which has before il the Work
ers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill, heard testimony
today on the employers sub
stitute designed by Albert L.
Deane, President of the General
Motors Holding Corporation.
Asked specifically, ARE you con-
sidering the Workers Unemployment
Bilp'? Chairman Conney Mass.
Dem) of the Labor Committee, told
this correspondent, eyes, that bill is
before u.s."
Asked when he would hear spokes-
men for the Workers Bill, Connery
said he didn't know. He gave as
5urance, however, that he would hear
testimony on the bill. -a
Boosting that he appeared as an
industrialist and that he proposed
Job insurance-not unemployment
insurance" Deane made an elaborate
and involved presentation today Of
his "Deane Plan"-a big business
unemployment reserve" plan which
would deny practically every one Of
the fundamental features Of the
Workers Bill. Deane himself said
it would apply only to IS per cent
Of the working population.
JoblesS Barred
The Deane program, 1t developed,
IS not insurance at all. It would
require the few workers receiving
nnything under it to work for what
they received. on public works prof.
Gets, at wages of just half Of the
"avera7e, normal wages.
Funds for these wares" would be
obtained from employer contributions
under complicated system of exact
ing premiums" from EMPLOYERS who
failed to snread- the-work. 1t would
make no guarantee Of any amount
to anv iobless worker.
AS Deane proudly explained: ut
does not set I'D rules or regulations
as to production, wages, terms Of
employer. etc, the effect would be
job insurance in contrast to unem-
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
Staten Is. A.F.L. Union
Endorses Jobless Bill

NEW YORK-Staten Island local
AIT, International Association Of Ma
chinists and Mechanics, has added
its name to the growing list Of A. F.
of L. and independent trade unions
that have endorsed the Workers IN
employment Insurance Bill.
In a resolution that states that
private and public charities have
proven complete failures in caring
for the millions of unemployed. the
union members have petitioned for
the Workers Insurance Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
Hill, Marine Worker,
Up for Trial Today

NEW YORK-Oscar Hill, marine
worker, arrested during the telegraph
workers strike on framed-up charge
of "felonious assault" will be up on
trial this morning before the labor
hating Judge Rosalsky in General
Sessions Court, Part 8, Franklin and
Center Streets. Hills arrest was part
Of the police attempt to break the
strikA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
Tomorroao's Daily to
Stir Workers Against
ROOseUeIt's ling Ois m

NEW YORK. - Glass conscious
workers throughout the country
are preparing for mass sales Of
tomorrow's special ten page anti
war edition Of the Daily Worker
as a counter attack to Roosevelt's
lingo drive starting on Feb. 18th.
Special features in the illustrated
anti-war edition will expose to the
American masses the war-pre-
paredness character of Roosevelt's
National Defense Week." and will
call for concrete action by the
American workers to defeat Roose-
velt's most recent war plots.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09

bankers union ocaSand
left with me is that they all walking
They know that calamity
industries calamity
1t about what how they will
Perhaps there people Brockon
all about but they Certainly
the banker and the manufacturer the industrial
called, who the city
than newborn babe
will be told in a subsequent article
Wages Below Living
This city simply all
dropped to below living going out of business
because workers cannot afford to buy dropped
until banks tired of being saddd with are not
bringing in rent almost 1000 away in the
past few years from those who shaved em
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09

earned good money fifty and sixty dol
lars week for some of the skilled ones;
stores we're stocked with goods
Today most Of the factories are still humming
to the tune of busy machines; most of the stores
are still open though not heavily stocked; work
ers still buy though not as much yet over factory
and shop, over worker and manufacturer, hangs
dazed atmosphere.
This city, typical New England industrial
town, is functioning, but ii q dazed bewildered
manner.
have talked with workers and clerks small
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09
s c.w.A. Workers Fr3zen, 1 Dies

NEW YORK.-One C.W.A. worker
died, and five others were taken to
the hospital after working in the ex-
IRENE cold at Marine Park, Brooklyn.
The workers are not permitted to
build any fires, and spies have been
placed on the tower of The old Wilt
ney mansion in the park, to see that
the warkers do not leave the Job
in order to warm themselves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-09

for Immediately undertaking tremendous actions to
these comrades IOhO so herOtcdLEy fighting
in the vanguard of the COrld prOLetaiat In cOnnec-
ton Uith these actions the call is sent out to the
American working class to support the fund created
By Party to assist the york of the German Com
Runist Party. The campaign to raise this fund IUE