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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-22
The Closing of Schools and
the YCL Convention

TN IRONIC contrast with the announced
L graduation of 1856 students from the
College of the City of New York is the
decision of the Board of Higher Education
in New York to discontinue the issuance
of free text books in the three city col
leges there
ut was decided" the announcement reads, "st
meeting of the Board of Higher Education to
request no further funds for text books in the
budget"
The touching solictude of the Board of Higher
Education for the city budget is equalled only by
its callousness toward the thousands of students
who will be compelled to forego the benefits Of
higher education" through inability to purchase
the required books,
Mr. Mark Esner, chairman of the board,
Inmates that this bit of sef-sacrifice the part
of the board will the city approximately s35OoO
It is as clear as day that this decision is COM
petely in line with the whole policy of the capital
list class to cleanse" the universities and schools
of all working class students through raising the
financial requirements for attendance. 1t
The cleansing" of the universities, coupled with
savage attacks on the revolutionary students and
their organizations is part of the plan to create
even better base for faScism in the universities
than exists now by still further reducing the proper
ton of working class students,
This development emphasizes the necessity Of
winning the youth away from the fascist schemes
of the bosses and for the revolutionary program of
struggle against capitalism.
In this connection the Seventh National Con-
venton of the Young Communist League, which
opens in New York City today with huge mass
meeting at the ST. Nicholas Arena, is of tremen-
dous Importance. The Young Communist League,
as the best helper of the Communist Party in the
struggle for Soviet power and the transmitter of
its revolutionary influence among the broad masses
of youth is playing and will continue to play 8
decisive role in the mobilization of the youth for
the struggle against fascism.
The deliberations of the Seventh National Con-
vention will occupy itself to great extent with
an analysis of the rapidly developing tendencies
to the fascination of the youth organizations and
schools, exchange of experiences in the struggle
against this trend and the formulation Of policies
for strengthening the struggle against it.
All workers and their organizations should
turn out to greet the delegates to the
Seventh National Convention this evening at the
st. Nicholas Arena. ,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-22
N. Y. Delegation
Hits failing of
z in AfghaniStan
Asks Release of Curmuk
Singh, Prithvi Singh
from COnsuIs

NEW YORK.-A delegation rep
resenting Is New York organiza-
tons Wednesday visited the British
Consulate and the Turkish Con-
sulate, representative of the Afghan
government in New York, to protest
the brutal treatment and continued
imprisonment of Gurmuk Singh
and Prithvi Singh, two Indians who
have been held in jail in Kabul,
Afghanistan, for more than nine
months without having charges or
proceedings brought against them
A small army of LaGuardias
finest" met the delegation at the
Turkish Consulate and prevented
many of the delegates from enter
ing the building, giving as a reason
that the building was private prop
erty." The protests of the delega-
ton finally resulted in commit
tee Of three being permitted to see
the Vice-Consul, who stated lin
English) that he was unable to I'M
derstand or speak English. After
the protests and demands of the
delegation had been made. he
stated that he would transmit them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-22
''Break the Connection
With England Is
the Aim
BY SEAN MURRAY

THERE is big battle going on in
Ireland for the freedom of the
country from British rule. The
Irish people in this struggle look to
the workers of America for assist
ance in their fight. They look for
the aid of all American workers,
but particularly to those of Irish
birth and extraction who have in
the past stood behind the Irish
cause.
1t has come to a serious state of
affairs in Ireland. Either forward
to united and free Ireland or
backward to greater misery and en-
slavement-such is the situation
now facing the masses of the Irish
people. We must make certain that
our march is forward.
The 1921 treaty" settled nothing
in Ireland Quite the reverse. 1t
carved the country into two states.
1t put England as overload over
both. 1t imposed millions of dol
lars of tribute annually to England
from the Irish farmers and workers.
1t made the Irish pay for the police
and judges who had been their enc
mics in the independence struggle.
1t imposed oaths of allegiance to
the English monarchy on all polit-
ical representatives. of the people.
1t handed over all political and
economic power, not to those who
fought for independence-the work
ers and small farmers-but to those
who fought against independence,
who stood by imperial England, the
big businessmen and grass lords.
The arrangement was foisted by
armed force on the masses of the
Irish people with the Irish capital
lists leading the fight for the i'm
perialist side.
The whole rotten structure is now
tottering. The people cannot live
lnder such yoke Of national and
social enslavement any longer.
They have stopped taking oaths of
loyalty to King George and paying
tribute to land stock holders. They
are gathering their forces for a
great effort to end once and for all
English imperialist interference in
Ireland and get the country united
under one government.
ITO break the connection with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-22
Irish People Look to US. Masses for Adm Struggle

THE only reliable forces in the
fight for a free Ireland are the
toiling masses of the nation On
these we must consciously build our
movement and take direction of af-
fairs out of the hands of the
lawyer politicians, spokesman of the
propertied classes who have always
deserted at the critical hour, made
compromises and betrayals. The
shameful land settlement of
O'Brien and Redmond in 1903, the
Home Rue sell-out, the 1921 treaty,
are instances of betrayal within the
memories of most of us. This
served to show that dependence on
middle class nationalist for lead
ership leads to nothing but disaster.
"Only the Irish working class re-
main as the incorruptible inheritors
of the fight for freedom in Ireland"
said James Connolly, the revolu-
tionary working class leader exc
cuted in 1916.
I said at the outset that we are
facing critical state of affairs in
Ireland. This is no mere figure of
speech A 1884 edition of the Car
son Volunteer movement is being
organized-this time in the south
ern part of Ireland. The upper
classes, seeing the capitalist sys-
tenn tottering all over the world,
are in danger in Ireland by the
growing movement for national lib
Grafton. They have organized a
fascist force, copying the methods
of Hitler in Germany and Musso-
lini in Italy, the two lapdogs of i'm
perialism. All the forces of ascend
ancy and privilege, including the
British ruling class, are behind
them. The DeValera government is
letting them do what they like,
holding back the working masses
who are against them and failing
the Republican workers who will
not idly stand by and let bloody
fascism plant its dictatorship over
the Irish people.
Surrender for Fav0rs
The declared aims of the O'Duffy
Blue Shirt Fascists are: Surrender
to the English imperial demands in
return for business favors; destruc-
ton of the Republican movement,
of the workers trade unions, of the
Communist Party and the estab-
lishment of a fascist dictatorship
as in Germany. This is the hell of
misery and poverty by which the
Irish capitalists hope to preserve
their ill-gotten wealth and priv
leges in Ireland.
Against the menace every Irish
worker at home and abroad must
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-22
by Limbach

wages, heavy duty and war training
requiring great bodily exertion, and
their refusal to serve, but also whole
corps have lately been disbanded
and their supposed leaders put into
concentration camps.
In Berlin einickendorf, at the
end of May, a group of Storm
Troopers gathered for presentation
of colors. The whole troop was COM
posed of candidates" that is, Of
men who had only recently joined.
The leader and his adjutant we're
old Nazis. All had been arranged
for festive act, a military band
was present, as we'll as a large
crowd of eager onlookers.
When the flag was unfurIed,
instead of the expected swastika,
it bore red flag with a hammer
and sickle. The leader, red with
rage, drew his revolver and COM
manded the men not to move
from their places. Onlookers were
prevented from leaving. A large
number of Storm Troopers were
arrested.
Among the working classes and
the middle class there is growing
discomfort, due to the steep rise in
food prices, and the difficulty in OBJ
tanning foods usually imported.
Everybody in position to do so is
stocking up with food and clothing.
New suits and overcoats disappear
from the stores rapidly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-22

the A. A. rank and file candidates and the rank
and file program must be put forward.
The Tighe machine, the Committee of Ten, have
shown that they do not represent the steel workers
but the contrary, the will of the employers and
their government. They must be cleaned out of
leadership and swept aside. The steel workers will
hsv to elect their own rank and file unity commit
tees in every mill and take the struggle into their
own hands
only the S.M.WIU. is a fighting union, at every
step representing the interests of the steel workers
The sMWIU. should be built into mass union
Of the steel workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-22
Iris h Workers Clubs
Can Help in Fight
for Freedom

be reused. A powerful fighting
movement of the working class
must be built up. Connolly, the
disciple of the great Karl Marx, and
Padraig Pearse, Republican nation
alist, formed united front against
the fascist imperialists. Let us get
the points of agreement which unity
the workers and organize the fight
for them. This is Redism. To be
sure! Whosoever is scared at being
labelled a Communist cannot fight
for Ireland today. The Irish Com
munist Party is the successor of
Connolly, of the Irish Citizen Army
and the Irish Socialist Party of
which he was the leader. 1t is the
combination of the best traditions
of the United Irishmen, the Fenians
and Irish Republicans. 1t is draw
ing, as only it can, the Orange
workers of Ulster into the fight for
free Ireland A united front be-
tween the Labor, Republican, Com
munist and Orange workers against
fascism is the need of the hour. Let
us get busy and create it. There is
no time to lose.
The Irish Workers Clubs in the
U. S. A. are the place for every
Irish worker. The political bosses
here in America are the greatest
curse Of the Irish masses. Only
working -class organizations can de-
stroy their influence and bring the
Irish workers to an honored place
in the labor movement of America.
The grating labor bosses company
unions and political racketeering
outfits must be replaced by power
full, honest labor unions under the
workers own control, led by the
trusted fighting men and women
from their own ranks, and by the
Irish Workers Clubs which will
serve as the centers of political and
social enlightenment for the Irish
working masses. This is the only
way to safeguard wages, jobs, and
do away with long hours of work, to
unite the Irish workers in common
effort with those of all other ma
tionalities and colors, to roll back
the drive Of barbarous capitalist re-
action which is heading for fascism,
to help Ireland gain freedom, to
achieve the end of generations OF
heroic sacrifices for Ireland, to end
the rule of millionaire imperialism
in America itself
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-22
For a United Fight for the
Steel Workers Demands

THE betrayal of the steel workers is now
being completed.
Mike Tighe and other officials of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers have left Washington,
leaving everything in the hands of Frances
Perkins, Secretary of Labor. They put for
ward in Washington the Green proposals for COM
pulsory arbitration board of three appointed by
Roosevelt, to be in entire charge of settling dis
putes' and of elections of the workers represen-
tatives in the mills
The steel workers can now see what they are
getting from the Green proposals. rairoaded through
the recent A. A. convention by Tighe and the Com
mittee OF Ten.
The Green-Tigh Committee of Ten machine
has sold the steel workers into the hands of the
iron and Steel Institute. The burning grievances
which caused the steel workers to prepare for strike
all remain. The terrific speed-up continues to take
years off the lives Of the steel workers Wages re-
main at level far behind the constant increase in
prices. The company unions continue to execute
the will of the companies inside the mills. Ter
rorism in the mills has increased.
These are the results of the Green tt CHE Com
n1ittee of Ten betrayal The A. A. officials, hand
In glove with the Roosevelt government have
dropped even mention of the economic demands of
the steel workers.
THESE are the fruits of the policy of the Tighe
machine and the Committee of Ten based on
the theory that the interests of the steel trust and
the steel workers the same This class coopera-
ton policy has trcked the steel workers out of their
economic demands
But the steel workers have been only temporarily
defeated. The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union class struggle union, is in the field point
Ing out to the steel workers that only the policy of
fight against the whole program of Green and
Tighe and the Roosevelt government the program
of the steel mill owners, will win something for the
steel workers.
The steel workers must now rally around the
call Of the S.M.WIU. for united action in the mills
The splitting tactics of the Tghe- Committee of
Ten machine must no longer divide the steel work
ers. On the basis of their economic demands for
higher wages, against the speed-up, against the
company unions, the steel workers must organize
united action committees-of both unions and I'M
,rganized-in every mill and prepare immediate
struggle for these demands This is the only road
whereby the steel workers will make any gains
Inside the Amalgamated Association the rank
and file should continue the fight, on a program
for unity with the SM.WIU. and with the I'M
organized steel workers. program for prepar-
ing strike action In the November elections Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-22

concerned about making their for
tunes" than freeing their country.
They only want as much elbow room
as will enable them to have labor
ers to make profits for them and
servants to attend them. They,
that is, the Irish capitalists-have
deserted the fight for independence,
because they are afraid that in a
really independent ireland they
would not be the top dogs. They
are afraid that the working masses,
having dislodged the English, would
not go back to their slums and
novels, but take over the rulership
of the country and set up workers
state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-22
10 the Afghan government.

to the Afghan government.
A no less impressive committee of
police and plain clothes men
awaited the delegation at the Brit
ish Consulate. Here they tried to
permit only two to enter, but were
finally compelled to let five see the
Consul. The British Consul, a very
suave gentleman, professed to have
nothing whatsoever to do with the
case and tried to get the signatures
of the delegates. Through this trick
he hoped to get the name and hand
writing of an Indian representative
on the delegation for the British
police records. The delegates re-
fused to give their signatures.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-22

England" is the slogan of Wolfe
Tone and the United Irishmen.
This is what our efforts are directed
to at this moment.
Those Against 1t
But not all the Irish are for the
independence of their country. The
big fellows" are dead against it.
They have made money out of the
English connection" The sale of
every small farm, every eviction for
debt over the past 80 years, has
helped the growth of a class of cap
italists and specializing sharks. Our
respectable middle class are more
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-22
BRITAIN'S NAVY PROGRAM

LONDON, June 21.-Great Britain
will launch a naval building pro-
gram along with Italys project to
build two new $4,000 ton battleships,
it was announced today.
The first installment Of the pro-
gram will include three 5000 ton
cruisers, three submarines, and a
number of smaller craft.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-22
Disband Many Storm Troops
As Discomfort Shakes NaziS

BERLIN (Via mail by under
ground route) The mood among
the Storm Troopers is getting more
and more dangerous for the Fascist
government. Not only individual
Storm Troopers are expressing their
growing discomfort because of low
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-22

a ppea ar CO n
c erned about
t h e S e matters.
The report Of
Mendieta's COM
mission on the
debts to the
bankers is for
in t ern al con-
sumption. Roose-
welt, who rules
through M e n
dieta, will take
are of tho
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-22
On the
World Front
- BY HARRY CANNES -
Notes on Cuban Loans
Graft in High Finance
stirring Up Peace"
UncOnquered Communists
Ry HARRY CANNES

MALL STREET bankers
" haven't the slig htest
fears that the Mendieta gov
eminent will repudiate the
S6O,OOO,OOO loans to Machado.
They understand Mendieta as
we'll as they did the bloody
Machado. The Cuban people over
threw the corrupt and murderouS
regime of the Wall Street mercenary
Machado in order to get rid Of
slavish exploitation and the whole
sale tax robbery to pay the Wall
Street bankers. Mendieta has to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-22
"Trained People"

ROOSEVELT, getting a degree at Yale
~ University yesterday, philosophical
noelIouylv
The daily worker., 1934-08-01
- - Fuchs

might as we'll ask why the sports
columnists (in New York, for in
stance, who have enough ideas to
fill the Grand Canyon on every
conceivable subject, did not expati-
ate on the unionization activities
of the ushers in the ball-parks and
in Madison Square Garden. And
we might ask why they all en-
shrouded themselves in silence when
an usher in Madison Square Garden
was fired for his union activities
when, on the other hand, they have
gloriously told us all about the Six
Hundred Millionaires who control
that prize-fight emporium.
But, it will be remembered,
when Benny Friedman was hired
at $4,000 a year to coach the
City College football team, for the
announced design of arousing a
''rah-rah" spirit among the stu
dents and thus combating the III
sidious RED Propaganda" prop
agaDda against war and fascism),
which was undermining their
good American characters" then
the sports columnists expanded
themselves in describing Benny's
exploits on the football field and
pointing out what a prize he was
and that if anybody could give
The daily worker., 1934-08-01
tDaily Worker Midwest Burean

CHICAGO, July 31.-Negro and
white workers, massed together in
united ranks, smashed through
every Jim Grow regulation on the
Jackson Park Beach Sunday.
Every force opposed to real strug-
gle against white chauvinism, from
the Negro reformists with their cry
of don't mix with the whites" to
the gangsters and police who had
attempted to stir up race violence
at previous solidarity beach parties,
stood helpless before the mass fra
termination and good fellowship that
marked a large beach party held
to demonstrate against segregation
on the beach.
More than 800 persons, Negro and
white, joined in mass games on
what was formerly the "lily white"
part of the beach. Groups con-
stantly walked back and forth
across the old color line"
Gates were made Saturday in the
fence that had always been the
color line" the direct result of tre-
mendous sentiment for the entire
removal of the fence as a symbol of
Jim Crowism.
South Park police, who had last
week threatened to smash any
party Of Negro and white workers
The daily worker., 1934-08-01
CHICAGO WORKERS
WIN FIGHT AGAINST
BEACH .JIM-CROWISM

on the beach, were modified over
a hundred strong, but did not dare
to interfere. They had attacked
two previous beach parties of sim
liar nature, arresting more than 40
Negro and white workers and stu
dents.
The South Park Board was forced
to reverse its policy and promise its
non-interference only after a storm
Of protests from workers, intellectu-
ais and organizations had poured in
upon it following previous arrests
and threats to use every bit of force
it had to smash the unity of Negro
and white.
This Sunday there was not one
single bit of trouble. This gave
the lie to claims of the cops that
previous arrests had as their pur-
pose the prevention of race riots"
The unanimous sentiment of
workers questioned by the Daily
Worker on the effect of the beach
party was that it marked a great
stride in breaking down the separa-
ton of Negro and white workers,
and that it was a clear proof of
the correct policy of the Young
Communist League and the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights, the
organizations which called the af-
fair.
The daily worker., 1934-08-01

City College a winning football
team he was the one.
HARL RASI, Secretary of the Mid
v west District of the Labor Sports
Union, reports another illustration
of the use of athletes by the bosses.
He dispatches a picture from the
st. Paul News. It shows the foot
ball team of the Moorehead state
teachers college, headed by their
coach dressed in National Guard
uniforms and pointing rifles at the
Minneapolis strikers. They have
been brought over to help break the
strike.
Rioters" says the News, will
no longer be able to deride the
National Guard as mere babes
in the woods with pop-guns.
Capt. Nenzek (the coach) is now
showing the boys fine points in
the field of war"
The thought is clear. 1t is war
in the intention of the bosses-war
to the death. In Minneapolis alone
one striker was murdered and 66
wounded when police fired on them
less than two weeks ago,
THESE football players are par
1 ticipating in the progressing fas-
The daily worker., 1934-08-01
us. Army Has
Contract With
Death Bus Co.

NEW YORK-Army officials had
awarded a contract for the trans
portation of 10000 young men to
Civil Conservation Camps at Camp
Dix, N. j., to the Rialto Bus Cor
poration, the concern that owned
the bus in which nineteen persons
were killed in Ossining was allowed
to operate carrying only $4,000 in
surance on each bus, when the con-
tract specifically called for $4,000
insurance minimum. The Army Off
oials, however, had awarded the
contract because it was the lowest
bid.
The lives of the C.C.C. boys were
further endangered by the long
hours of which the Rialto drivers
were forced to endure. Drowsiness
had recently caused an accident in
New Jersey on July 8, when forty
seven boys were almost killed or
injured.
Army Officials who awarded the
contract until October had kept
their eyes shut to the hazards. They
expressed surprise" when told of
the low insurance and accidents.