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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-28
LONG STANDING
|lREAM TO BE
|EALIzED SOON
E,,t Playground Already
Attracting Thousands
to This Region
NJ s. COLEMAN, JR.

r. Asheville Citizen-T Times
r. year 1884 looms as the most
La .s.,nl in the sc years history
4 W. Grea. Smoky Mountains
kstonal PARK. ,... 4s0
lnf : scheduled for this summer
a IT, Z all lands have been turn
4 .rar 70 the government. Since
Vy vSa,vansford tract is the only
lIs;o"S obstacle and because it is
H., that all litigation concern
win soon be ended, the ded-
Es-iCn is seen as a certainty.
.:isr- Roosevelt is said to be
s,Eng preparations to attend this
4 s,oric ceremony.
4 s Meanwhile. more than $500
srs at work in the park, get
!, : ready for the hordes who
nj n yis;, i, in the future.
Tho wear finds a vast program
4 ~, wav in the park. Highways
an, hundreds of thousands of
&Si.rS are being built. Trails have
T. instructed for the pleasure
4 ,mrsts and for the cOnven-
- a. IRE patrols and in many
s,.,-s men are busy laying the
|k,,r,j work that will make the
y; iOy to the American tour
without disturbing its virgin
s beauty.
4 IaE year saw the real begin
i, Of activity in the Smokes.
h. magnificent highway was
PRACTICALLY completed and three
B,sers were started. With the aid
n 5000 youths in fifteen Civilian
fonseryatiOn Corps camps within
! he area, the forest service was
Enabled TO get a real start on its
Forestry program.
/ Last year too saw the number
] I visitors 10 the Great Smokes
Seach $4,000. a fourth more than
tiS.ed the famed Yosemite Ma
ianal park.
4 This year the program will go
b. Many Of the projects will be
ETun to Page Two, Section B
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
Demand Retiring
OF Workers Fired
BY Furniture Co.
Picketing in Jersey City
Friday Morning Will
Raise Demand

NEW YORK.-A mass meeting to
protest against the falling of pick
cts in the Jersey City Miller Fur
niture Company strike will be held
Wednesday, July II, at Irving Plaza
Hall. 1t was incorrectly announced
in yesterdays Daily Worker that
the meeting would be held July 4.
The protest will be held under
the Joint auspices of the Furniture
Workers Industrial Union, t h e
American Civil Liberties Union, In
ternational Labor Defense and the
Committee for the Defense of Po-
litical Prisoners.
To demand the rehiring OF all
workers fired by the Miller Com
pany for union activity, the Furni-
ture Workers Industrial Union
stated yesterday that a picket line
will be set up in front of the es-
Establishment Friday morning.
Mass pressure of the members of
the Furniture Union and other
labor organizations, the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the Amer
lean Civil Liberties Union, has
forced the National Labor Board to
hand down an order stating that
the Miller Company shall rehire all
former employees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
Food Prices Soar; Relief Per
Family May Rise 20 Cents

higher than elsewhere in the United
States. This survey. released on
June u, included such staple food
stuffs as milk, butter, bread, -four
meat, cereals. eggs, cheese and a
few vegetables.
A typical budget for family OF
five, lower than all standards of
health and decency was recently
worked out by the Welfare Depart
ment, providing S3098 for food,
S14O9 for rent, S1.41 for electricity
S173 or gas, S1.0O or household
supplies total Of $780, At the
same time, the average family bud
get TO- relief during May in New
York City was 1851.
Stating that he was opposed to
the double standard on relief under
which single men received $3.50
weekly and single women $3.50.
Corsi announced that in the future
all single unemployed workers on
relic would receive S2.40 weekly.
Since there are 5000 single men and
5000 single women on the relief
lists, the city will save $500 weekly
by the new arrangement.
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LOngShOreBoardIs
Used Against Men
BY BILL dunno
Continued from Page u

called upon the strikers to demo-
billie their forces, call off the strike
and return to work under the guns
of the employers, the police and the
gangs of professional thugs. This
appeal" was really an ultimatum
III the strikers did not submit,
the blame for the employer
ganized violence would be put on
them.
This is the method by which
Rooseyelt's church-snd- state la
Dor relations appointees exercise
their 'impartiar' functions.
More clearly than its activities in
the auto strike, the steel strike and
the the textile strikes, the Roose-
welt administration has shown
its strikebreaking character in the
Pacific Coast struggle. Its acts and
those of its agencies confirm with
the greatest clarity the Communist
Party estimate of the main function
of the government-the guardian of
the interests of monopoly capital
against the working class.
It is because of this that the most
vicious attacks of a fascist charac-
ter are directed by the employers
and their press against the Com
munist Party organizations and
leaders on the Pacific Coast.
Other trades have announced
their determination to call a SYM
pathetic strike if attempts are made
to open the ports by force in Seattle
and San Francisco.
The shipowners are willing to
negotiate with Ryan. They have
done 50. They and Ryan reached
an agreement by which the COM
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most militant character. They now
have capable and honest leader
ship developed from their own
ranks.
American workers in all sections
of the country must be informed of
the tremendous Importance of the
present struggle on the Pacific
Coast in relation to the general
movement against the capitalist Of
fensive, the N. R. A. and its COM
pany union and hunger codes. The
same solidarity in support of the
Pacific Coast strike by other sec
lions of the working class is needed
now as that shown by the thou
sands of unemployed workers who
have taken decisive part in the
This kind of mass support of
the great marine transport strug-
gle, and general strike of all
Pacific Coast workers will smash
the proposed terror drive of the
employers and their government,
win the demands of the workers
and establish q united and pow
erful labor movement in all Pa
cific ports.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
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Continued from Page u
Of consumption, from January to
April, 1884, as compared with the
scame period in 1888, of about 81
per cent.
Prices Up Is Per Cent
On July 5, figures released by
Commissioner Lubin of the Bureau
Of Labor Statistics showed that food
prices advanced during the two
weeks ending June 10, to the high
est point in two and one half years,
and, compared with the index of
967 for June, 1888, present prices
are up nearly 10 per cent" Lubin
said.
To compensate present relief bud
gets with these figures, Corsi an
nouneed that he is lighting" for a
four per cent increase in relief.
Yet even the figures given above,
which are computed nationally, are
not true indication of price rises
for food in New York, On the basis
Of average prices for % foods col
leeted from 81 cities by the con-
sumers' guide of the Farm Admins
tration, food prices in New York are
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a wider scale.
The ruling class that organized
the Wheatland massacre of hungry
hop pickers will not hesitate to turn
its wolf packs loose on the marine
transport workers and their leaders
If they think this will smash the
strike and the unions.
The ruling class that has organ
lied the whole series of murderous
forays upon agricultural workers in
Imperial Valley and invoked the
criminal syndicalism law against
their leaders is preparing to do the
same thing in the Pacific Coast
ports.
The ruling class that keeps
Mooney in prison, that still holds
Mcnamara and Schmidt because it
has never been able to shake their
loyalty to their class, is on the
lookout for new victims.
The ruling class and its agents
who planted the dynamite on Pre-
paredness Day, 1915, and who then
railroaded Tom Mooney for it, will
not hesitate to prepare new and
more deadly frame-ups of working
class leaders.
Must Organize Mass Defense
To organize mass defense corps
for all working class leaders and
the headquarters of working class
papers and organizations, is, under
these circumstances, an elementary
precaution.
But the best answer to the en-
ployers, who are in frenzy ovel
the loss Of their profits and the
prospect of having to face a pow
erful and militant labor movement
from now on, is the general strike
In 1919 there was a general strike
in Seattle. During the war thu
| lumber workers, then organized ir
the I. w. W., engaged in one of the
two mass strikes in this country
in the war period. The traditions
of the Pacific Coast marine work
ers and lumber workers are of the
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police we're expected to escort the
first trucks.
The port is technically open, "
Frank Carmody, representative OF
the Industrial Association, an
neuneed with sadistic glee.
Many in Hospital
The hospitals are reported to be
filled with strikers wounded in the
police attack of yesterday. The
number of wounded. is unknown.
President Lewis of the Interna-
tional Longshoremen'S Association
is leading a move to settle the strike
on shipoWners' terms over the head
of the strike committee.
At a meeting called last Sunday
night to determine who represents
the strikers, the longshoremen de-
cided almost unanimously that the
rank and file strike committee rep
resented them.
Lewis attacked Bridges, militant
chairman of the strike committee.
accusing him of being the chief OBJ
stacle in the way of settlement of
the strike and said that only district
officers had the right to represent
the men.
Bridges replied to Lewis, exposing
how he was conniving with the en-
ployerS to get the men back to the
docks without gaining their de-
mandS.
The strike committee has issued a
statement charging that the en-
ployers do not want to settle the
strike, but are attempting to smash
the union.
Reports from San Pedro state that
the strikers held mass meeting
and made further progress in isolat-
ing leaders of the union who are
attempting to settle the strike on
shipowners' terms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
Won Papen May Be Tried
For Treason, Is RumOr

NEW YORK, July 4.-Uncon-
firmed rumor emanating from Ber-
lin indicated today that Hitler's
vice. chancellor, Franz Won Papen,
may be tried for high treason short
ly. At the same time it was re-
ported that General Won Bredlow,
deposed Reiehswehr minister, earlier
listed as being under arrest, has
been executed.
In Essen stringent measures of
repression have been taken against
all critics of Hitler's recent killings.
Several have been summarily sent
off to concentration camps while
others are believed to be held I'M
der protective arrest. The project
of police in Essen has issued a
warning that the slightest word OF
public criticism will land its author
in the unforgiving clutches of Nazi
justice.
All cafes in Berlin are being
closely watched with view to the
arrest and punishment of critics. As
a result they remain practically de-
serted as do other public gathering
places.
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to settle" the longsheremen's strike
as if this was the only group of
workers involved. 1t wants to tear
out the militant core of the strike.
It's disruptive efforts up to date
have been resisted successfully.
The employers are determined to
prevent the establishment and ex-
istence of a united organization of
marine workers and allied trades on
the waterfront. They will not stop
at precipitating a massacre to ac-
complish this.
AS West so neatly puts it, 1T was
this complication plus conviction
that power in the dominant long
shoremen's union had fallen into
the hands of a rank and file COM
mittee under Communist influence,
that discouraged the shipowners
from further attempts to negotiate
and led them and the supporting
Industrial Association to a de-
termination to open the port by
force"
If the strike could not be dis
rupted by division and official
treachery, then it would be smashed
by armed force.
The employers and their pub
licists now profess to believe that
the danger of a general strike of all
trades has been dissipated by the
recent anti-Red drive, in support of
which Michael Casey, head of the
Transfers Union, and the employer
controlled officialdom of the San
Francisco Central Labor Council
was modified. But the delegates
refused to launch the Communist
batting and expulsion drive that the
employers demanded,
Appeal to Jingoism
The Pacific Coast press, the en-
ployers and the state and local Of
ficials are utilizing the tense situa-
ton in the whole Pacific area, the
vast military and naval program Of
the Roosevelt administration, and
the recent naval maneuvers, against
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the strike. They are appealing to
the specially vicious forms in which
state and national pride manifest
themselves on the Pacific Coast.
They are organizing all union
batting groups of the population
against the strikers-and especially
against the Communists. The strike
cannot be smashed unless the Com
munist Party is attacked, crippled
and its leaders jailed or killed.
The attempt to smash the strike
will proceed about as follows in the
event a general strike does not
force the employers to surrender:
The National Guard and the po-
lice will maintain law and order"
The private armies of professional
thugs, the fascist bands of business
men, underworld elements, etc, will
be turned loose against "the Reds"
There will be raids, beatings, per-
haps killings. Then there will be
mass arrests either under the GRIM
inal syndicalism law or other
charges such as "ineiting to riot
etc.
The employers and the state gov
ernments will stop at nothing to
preserve their ironclad control.
The ruling class that organized
the Everett massacre of members
of the I. w. W., shooting at point
blank range into a beatload of I'M
armed workers, killing and wound
ing many, and then arresting the
survivors, will not shrink from
bloodshed in the present situation,
where its autocratic control of the
key industry of the Pacific Coast
is threatened.
The ruling class and the officer
caste of the American Legion that
perpetrated the Centralia massacre
of lumber workers in 1919, tortur-
ing and haging Wesley Everest and
railroading his heroic comrades to
Walla Walla prison, is now organiz-
ing for the same kind Of murderous
assault on the working class-but on
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panies would discharge men fol
violation of union rules" In othe,
words, anyone opposed to the RyaI
policy of running the union for the
benefit of the bosses would be dis.
charged and blacklisted. These
terms were rejected by an over.
Whelming majority.
The strikers from Seattle to Sar
Diego rejected the proposed settle
ment negotiated" by Ryan for the
following reaSons-any one of which
is sufficient to condemn this at
tempted delivery of the workers tc
the employers:
II The plan made no provision
for grain handlers, seamen, en-
gineers, masters, mates and pilots.
p IT contained contradictory
provisions for collective bargain
ing which made the proposals on
this point meaningless.
81 1t called for separate nego-
tiations on wages for each port
when the strikers we're insisting
on basic coaStwise scale.
A. No provision was made for
longshoremen blacklisted by the
employers.
81 The proposal gave the Tabor
relations" beard autfo~'- = -r-~-
pend and expel workers for viola
tions" CT LIE I.L.A.
Ryan union rules.
81 The proposals contained
nothing in regard to hours Of
labor and payment of overtime.
Acceptance of these proposals
especially point 5, would have turned
the union completely over to the
employers and the government
would have made it a union oper-
ating under fascist provisions, in
other words.
These are the peace" proposals
for which the Communists and the
Rank and File Strike Committee
are being denounced by the employ
ers and their publicists for reject
ing
Rooseyelt's Board continues to try
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
Hitler Reduces Size
OF Storm Troops
Continued from Page u

ing worse, as the gold reserves have
already dropped to two per cent
eoverage, and there is already evil
dent the first signs of increased in
fiation. Wholesale initiation, which
will further wersen the condition
of the middle class and the workers,
is certain in view of the plans of
the big industrialists and finance
capitalists to attempt to increase
Germany's expert trade by whole
sale dumping in the style of Japan.
Police stopped the funeral of the
assasSinated General Kurt Won
Schleicher and his wife. Close
friends had gathered in the suburb
of Lichterfelde, where Sehleicher
was to be buried, when Hitler armed
forces ordered the funeral be
stopped. No reasons were given.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
Unions Mass to Aid
HatterS' Strike at
COnferenceTOnight
TUUC Urges Delegates
from Unions to Help;
Shops Struck 1000

NEW YORK. = The matters
strike committee reported yester-
day that a large number of dele
gates are expected at the Trade
Union Conference to Support
the Strike, which will be held
tonight at Beethoven Hall.
Many A. F. of L. locals are re-
ported to have elected and ap-
pointed delegates and have des-
ignated that sums of money be
contributed from their treasures
to swell the strike relief fund.
The Trade Union Unity Coun-
Gil has issued a call to all unions
affiliated with the council to send
delegates and funds to the confer
ence tonight.
Several independent unions have
also announced that they will give
their support to the strike and will
be represented at the conference.
Every organized hat shop in the
city is struck 100 per cent. The
workers are fighting for wage in
ereases and better working con-
ditiens in the shops. Appeals made
to the National Once of the
United Hatters of North America
for relief funds have been met
with a negative answer. Not one
cent has been sent to Local 8,
which is leading the strike, by Of
f1cials of the National Office.
The strike to great extent de-
ponds upon the support given it
by the New York labor movement.
All unions that have not yet
taken up the question of sending
delegates and funds to the confer
ence tonight should see to it they
are represented.
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based on an action brought by
George F. Stuhmer 81 Co., Brook
Ign bakers, seeking to keep union
workers from picketing grocery
stores selling its bread and cakes.
The court said that such picket
ing was destroying the grocery
business" and that it was an Illegal
secondary boycott
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
Action h.peratiUe---2nd Table
Shows But Slight Gain in Driue
Continued from Page u
by del

during Why gained
during the successful strike, Milwaukee?
North Carolina Minnesota Fort Worth and Boston fol-
low with substantial Denver North Carolina and Minnesota
for the succession.
Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland Chicago, Omaha, North
Dakota, California, Birmingham, Kentucky,
South Dakota have added nothing their
of showing for the past
closely Thursday your
up for this slow startl
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Continued from Page /
was attended by about 200 men and
Furuseth railroaded decision to
accept arbitration.
A. F. L. Men Repudiate Arbitration
Later, at a rank and file meet
ing of 700 International Seamens
Union members, the decision was
repudiated.
The rank and filters demanded an
official full meeting representing
all striking seamen to consider this
or any other proposal bearing on
the disposition Of the strike.
General strike sentiment here is
growing as a result of the violent
efforts by police to open the port.
Delegates to the Saturday confer
ence called to consider such action
are increasing in number daily.
1t is expected that efforts to move
cargo will be resumed tomorrow.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 4.
The U. S. S. Holland, a sub
marine tender, moved up to
the docks with uncovered
guns early today to back up
strikebreaking maneuvers of
Roosevelt's Longshoremen's
Board and aid the police in their
brutal reign of terror against strik-
ing stevedores.
The city's cobole-stone Embar-
cadero, waterfront traffic artery,
took on the appearance of a front
line garrisoned city in time of war.
Droning overhead was a police
airplane, spying on the movements
of strikers and directing foot,
mounted and automobile police who
patrolled up and down armed to the
teeth.
Two men were shot, one is re-
ported dead and scores were badly
injured, following a police attack on
the striking longshoremen yesterday.
Guns roared, tear and vomit gas
bombs exploded and police clubs
swung for over two hours yesterday
as truckloads of merchandise ran
the gauntlet of picket lines from
the piers to the warehouses.
The Iongshoremen fought the cops
with their fists and threw the tear
gas bombs back at them. Striking
stevedores and seamen swarmed
along the entire waterfront and
concentrated their forces in front
OF the Matson Line piers, where the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05

L have just returned from the
patriotic exercises Of the Sons
Of Tammany and discovered
that right under the nose of
the New Deal, when every
man is again king and every wo-
man queen, politics has crept into
the A. A. U. Our forefathers made
this a free country and Franklin D.
Roosevelt amended it with the N.
r. A. but light in the A. A. U.
there has been an inner clique"
which has been running things to
suit itself. Now, it appears, it has
chosen the American athletes who
are to make trips abroad this sum-
mer in secret. This is certainly a
thing one would hardly expect to
find in an American organization.
IT is almost incredible. Involved
in the charge is Mr.. Avery
Rrundage himself, the president
of the A. A. u, a man who has
made a million speeches about
patriotism. am glad to see that
he denies the charge. "The by
laws of the A. A. IT," he shows,
make favoritism impossible. "The
charges are entirely without foun-
dalton. Every individual Sc
lected was discussed at length and
each one was approved unsni-
mOusly."
EAR. CHARLES HUNTER, coach of
w the Olympic Club of San Fran
cisco, is the one who has made the
charges. Until further facts are re-
vealed it is really hard to say which
is telling the truth, although Mr.,
Brundage and Mr.. Hunter, Of course,
may both be honestly mistaken. The
A. A. u, for instance, has always
stood for democracy. Even in the
South it has never allowed Negroes
on its teams, because the Negro
rules with an iron hand down there,
has the best opportunities for prac-
tice, and the white men wouldn't
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uPHoLsTERERs' MEETING THURSDAY
A meeting of tAe Upholstery Section OF
the Furniture Workers Industrial Union
will be held on Thursday, July 5th at
pm. at the union headquarters at BIZ
Broadway, near 18th Street.
At this meeting the problems OF the
united front conference of the Eastern
States DISTRICT in the upholstery trade
will be discussed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-05
MILL CRIPPLED BY HOSIERY
STRIKE

Los ANGELES (F.P) Strikers
at the Mission Hosiery Mills in Los
Angeles we're heartened by reports
thatSthe plant is able to produce
only 400 dozens of good hosiery a
week. Any of the union knitters
normally produced that number of
dozens before the strike. The out
-ef-Stste strikebreakers are desert
ing the mill rapidly, union leaders
say.
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your power and influence to Sc
cure the immediate release of
the eleven Hillsboro prisoners on
a reasonable bond.
This is no time for indecision,
or for attempting to dodge re-
sponsibility. L can assure you
that if you fail to act vigorously
and promptly to check the terror
in Illinois, you will incur the ac-
tive and determined opposition
of those people in Illinois who
are determined that fascism
shall not raise its ugly head in
this state.
Very truly yours,
w. o. THOMPSON.