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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
BY BILL DUNE

NGTON, March 20
President Roosevelt late today called
on william Collins, A. F. of L. or
ganizer in Detroit, by wire to post
pone the auto strike set for We'd
nesday at am. The Auto Work.
ers' Union had predicted that this
step would be taken in an effort to
stop the strike.
Below the surface Of the differ
ence" in inspired press stories be-
tween the President and the auto
barons, between William Green,
William Collins and the auto COM
panies is the deep determination to
use all measures to secure delay,
more delay, and still more delay Of
the strike.
This Is at present the main
weapon for dividing and disrupting
the ranks Of the auto workers. Be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Nazis Behead
Two Leaders
OF w orkers
Two Others Sentenced
To Die by Dortmund
Fascist Court

KOENIGSBERG, March 2o.-Two
Communists paid with their lives
today for their devotion to the
working class struggle.
Fritz LANCER and Walter Seidel-
man, Communists, were beheaded
with the medieval brutality Of the
official Nazi butchers, strapped face
up to an axe in the hands Of a
drunken, silk-hatted and dress-suit-
ed Nazi executioner.
They were officially murdered for
being active leaders of the working
class. The charge was that Nazi
died in a clash with workers dem
onstration in which they took part.
DORTMUND, March 20. = Two
workers, named Volt and Rapier,
have been sentenced to be beheaded,
on the charge of being involved in
the death Of a Storm Trooper. Three
other defendants were sentenced to
Is years at hard labor each.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Roosevelt With Aid of A.F.I. Heads Seeks to
Stop Strike, AS AutoW orkers Are Ready to Act
Reject Roosevelt, AFL Heads Strikebreaking
PROPOSAL Close the Auto Plants NOuU! Strike!

Nine o'clock Wednesday every man
should walk out of the plants Wednesday
should see picket lines of tens of thousands
surrounding the auto plants. Not wheel
must turn!
Every auto worker must be on guard
against last minute treachery. Today every
effort will be made to disorganize the
ranks of the workers. One maneuver or
another will be used to try to postpone and
prevent strike action. A statement may
be issued by the National Automobile
Chamber of Commerce, or by individual
auto manufacturers, by President Roose-
welt, by Bill Green, or by William Collins.
Or there may be one signed by them
jointly. They will attempt to reassure
the workers that something will be done
for them in the immediate future.
But all of this will be done only to de-
lay strike action, to push the strike, when
it comes, into period more favorable for
the companies.
By such maneuvers they will try to do
what they did to the Weirton steel work
ers, to the Budd and Ford auto workers.
Be on guard against such maneuvers
Strike today at 9 A. M.
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Party COnVentiOn viii Discuss
Question Of Automobile Strike

DETROIT, Mich.-"Our Party is
faced with the task of leading the
auto workers in their struggles"
On the eve of tremendous strug-
giles in all the auto plants of De-
troit and Flint, when a wave of
strikes is again sweeping the entire
area, the Communist Party of Dis
trict 7, Detroit, announces the OPEN
ing of its District Convention. Del
egates from auto plants and mills
and factories all over the Detroit
district will discuss their work in
the past period, and establish their
tasks in the coming strike period.
A mass meeting will open the
Convention, just as a mass meet
ing will open the National Conven-
ton in Cleveland. The auto work
ers are intellectually urged to
attend. Keynote speeches will be
made at the mass meeting. giving
openly to the auto workers, the line
of the Convention. The mass meet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Bower Roller Bearing
Men Strike; Others Pre-
pare To Walk Out
MEETS PLAN ACTION
United Front Confer
ence To Be Held
Sunday
BY A. B. MAGIL
Especial to Daily Worker.)

DETROIT, March 20. =
While automobile manufac-
turers, playing their trump
card, are bringing in Roose-
welt to smash strike action,
tens of thousands Of automobile
workers throughout the Detroit area
are preparing to strike Wednesday
at A. M.
The Detroit capitalist press IS
getting out special editions in an
effort to stampede the workers away
from strike acton, and to get them
to place hopes n Roosevelt in line
with the manufacturers policy.
The A. F. of L. officials are play
ing a dirty game. Today's Detroit
Times, a Hearst paper, carries a
big headline: "A. F. of L. awaits
Roosevelt word as next hope to de-
lay tie-up" The story quotes A. F.
of L. officials as saying the tele-
graphic plea from President Roose-
welt would cause them to postpone
the strike.
This is a direct stab in the back
of the strike preparations, which are
being backed by popular sentiment.
The militant Auto Workers Union
today distributed $4,000 leaflets at
the plants calling on the workers
to strike tomorrow for S35 minimum
for 30-hour week; for abolition
of speed-up; the right to orgari-e
in unions Of their own choice; pho
lition Of the spy system and cc-1-
pany unions; no discrimination
against youth, women and Nero
workers; adequate cash relief to IN
employed, and unemployment in
surance.
The leaflets call on the workers
to set up rank and file strike COM
mittees and to carry on mass
picketing. 1t directly appeals to the
A. P. of L.. and the Mechanics Edu-
cational Society workers for united
front action, for one set of demands,
and rank and file strike committee,
with representatives of all workers.
LeafIet Calls for Strike.
The leaflet warns against faith
in the N.R.A. and President Roose-
welt, that put over the open shop
auto code, with its 43 cents an hour
minimum.
Conditions are unbearable,"
says the leaflet. Now is the time
CONTINUED on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21

ing takes place the night Of March
80, 7:30 pm. in the Workers Home
at 1343 E. Ferry st. William Vein
stone, in the name of the Central
Committee will address the dele
gates and give the Communist
Party's position to the auto work.
ers in their struggle.
Housing in Cleveland for these
delegates, as well as all others Is
one of the immediate arrangements
that must be made by the Cleve-
land District. Six hundred homes
are needed to house delegates every
night from April 2 to April 8. These
delegates will be engaged in making
working class history. Cleveland
workers are urged to get in touch
at once with the Cleveland District
Office, 1914 Prospect Ave-, Room
906, to say for how many delegates
they can provide sleeping quarters
for the duration of the Communist
Party's Eighth Convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
C.W.A. Workers Respond to Call
For United Action Against Firing
l Hour Protest Strike
March % in
New York

NEW YORK. on twenty
New York C.W.A. projects yesterday
turned in to the united front COM
mittee $16464, collected from the
C.WA. workers for the expenses of
the Madison Square Garden protest
meeting against liquidation of the
C.W.A. jobs, to be held Sunday
March rs at 2 P. M. In response
to the call Of the United Front Ar
rangements Committee of 100, To-
Gated at 232 Seventh Ave, for a
one-hour protest strike, to take
place on March 20 at P. M, the
G. W. A. workers on the projects
are circulating petitions demanding
continuation and extension of C.
w. A. jobs, and at the same time
collecting funds for the united front
action against Roosevelt's C. w. A.
firing. Other c. w. A. projects
are expected to report on the cir
culation of their petitions today.
The Committee of 100, at its
meeting Monday night, reported
that La Guardia had refused to
take action on the workers demand
that he secure Madison Square
Garden free for the jobless protest,
on the ground that "the C.W.A. will
not be liquidated." Hopkins has
been circulating similar rumors.
However, the official statement of
Hopkins released yesterday, admits
that after March 81, employment
will be provided "only for those
persons in need of relief" Hop
kins further stated that THE hours
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
10, 600 Yin Strikes against Pay
Cuts OF eva; Others Still Out

in Sharon, Pa, and were aided in
their strike by the Relief Workers
League of Farrell. Seven Sharon
projects were tied up. The relief
officials restored the so cents an
hour which had been cut to forty.
The C.W.A. officials agreed that lost
time could be made up. At one
meeting sixty joined the Relief
Workers League.
Stone masons had their pay cut
to rs cents an hour from SIPS. After
a strike, the stone masons won $1.00
an hour.
HARRISBURG, Pa, March 90
One thousand Civil Works Admin
istration employees in Harrisburg
have won their one day strike
against the wage cut of ten cents
an hour. The C.WA. workers, en-
ployed on the State Hospital and
the wildwood Park projects, were
grartsd their demands Of fifty cents
an hour by the county wage board.
The pay will be retroactive to March
first.
Strike Expected In Reading
READING, Pa, March 90 A
strike of ten thousand C.WA. work
Continued on Poge 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
(ConttSated OF Page 81
Budd Workers
Defeat Boss Plans
For Go. Union
Only III Out of 5000
Cast Ballots in
NRA Elections

PHILADELPHIA, March 90
Out OF 5000 Budd Auto Body
Plant workers, only II cast ballots
in the N.R.A. elections today, thus
causing the collapse of the whole
scheme to again drive the workers
into company unions.
This action followed a mass
meeting Of union members in the
Budd Manufacturing Co. plant
where the name of General John
son was vigorously booed.
A meeting Of the Budd workers
has been called for Thursday to
discuss strike. The Central Trades
and Labor Council is discussing
the question of a general SYM
pathy strike Of 100000 in support
Of the Budd workers.
The workers boycotted the cleo
tions primarily because they were
forced to sign their names to the
ballots, which would open them to
victimization if they voted against
the company union.
The boycott definitely shows
that the overwhelming majority Of
the 5000 are definitely against the
company union, and just as def
nitely against the repeated schemes
of the N.R.A. to get them to vote
in the fake elections.
The workers are also protesting
against the firing of 300 of their
fellow employees in the last strike
for militant union activity and
who are not permitted to take
part in determining the question
of forming a genuine union Of the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Roosevelt Urges Con-
tinuatiOn of R.R.
Wage Cut
W ARMS r. r. MEN
Brotherhood C. hi f S
Seek To Smother
Strike Feeling
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
Daily Worker washington Bureau

ny sc MUM w ALTMAN
DAILY Worker washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 2o.-Pres-
ident Roosevelt and william Green,
chief of the NR.A.-tainted Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor today
swung into last minute action to
head OF the impending automobile
strike and a possible cessation Of
railroad work.
RooSevelt'S telegram to william
Collins, National A. F. Of L. auto
mobile organizer now in Detroit
working to stop the strike, request
ing him to postpone" the strike so
that a meeting with him may be
held this Thursday In Washington,
was followed by Green's message
ordering Collins to abide by the
Presidents request. Collins, Of
course, will obey his orders. How
ever, he replied that the decision to
postpone the strike must be made
today at the Pontiac, Mich, confer
ence Of the A. F. Of L. union officers.
Rooseyelt's last minute call to stop
the strike recalls the late President
wilson's tactics in the steel strike
OF 1919, and MIRA. Administrator
General Hugh S. johnson, issued
last Saturday before leaVing for New
York City to confer with the manu-
facturers, that Federation "a. F.
Of u officials have agreed to post
pone aggressive action" In other
words, it is pretty certain that the
administration laid plans last week
to come out at the last minute with
the A. F. Of L. as its strikebreaking
front.
Calls for 10 Per Cent Cut
Roosevelt also issued a formal
statement reiterating his proposal
for a continuation of the 10 per
cent wage deduction for six months
beyond June 80, 1884, despite the
railway labor executives morning
counter proposal to the owners ask
ing for restoration of the basic
wage cut. Fearing that sight is
being lost Of the most important
factor of all, the good of the coun-
try" Roosevelt announced dema-
gogically that "if no agreement is
reached, and in default Of arbitra-
ton, it may be necessary for me,
with due regard to the protection
OF the general interest, to appoint a
Continued on Page a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
YipSel Members
Invited To Open
Y.C.L. Meeting

NEW YORK.-'The Road To-
wards a Revolutionary Workers
Government In America" will be
the theme of the speech Of Earl
Browder, General Secretary Of the
Communist Party, at the general
open membership meeting Of the
Young Communist League tomor-
row night at Irving Plaza, at r.
wing Place and 18th Sts., at 7:30.
All young workers, particularly
members Of the Young Peoples So
cialist League, are invited to attend.
In addition to Earl Browder, John
Little, district organizer of the Y.
c. L., will speak on the problems
facing the Young Communist
League in New York at the present
time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
BAR BOOTBLACKS

NEW YORK-While revelations
of the fat returns for park conces-
sions given by the city here are just
appearing, police yesterday rounded
up II bootblacks in Madison Square
Park and took them before a mag
istrate in Yorkville Court, who sus-
pended sentence but warned them
70 "tav out of the parks henceforth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
CLeUeland Clothing
Plant Workers Vote
against Boss Union

CLEVELAND, O., March 20
Workers in the Jose & Fess Co,
one of the largest clothing
plants in Cleveland, by a ma
jority of three to one, voted
against the company union, and
for organization into a genuine
trade union.
The vote was 1915 for mem
bership in the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, as against 400
for various other forms of rep-
resentation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Left Wing of Local
%, HGWU To Meet
Tonight After Work

NEW YORK-The left wing of
local "a, I.L.G.W.U. will hold final
mobilization meeting for members
and sympathizers on Wednesday,
March 81, Immediately after work,
at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and
18th st.
Tomorrow's elections in the local
will be discussed All dressmakers
that want fighting administra-
ton should attend this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
A. F. Of L. leaders plays into the
hands of the auto companies.

A. F. Of L. leaders plays into the
hands of the auto companies.
If the struggle breaks on wide
scale, the companies prefer that it
be fought On the question of A. F.
of L. leadership and recognition
only.
The auto and metal workers in
volved in this great struggle can
not win unless a fight is made
directly against the A. F. of L. poll
icy and leadership; upon the con-
spiracy to put these workers
directly under their control and
that of the employers and their
government.
Wilson and Gompers failed to
disrupt the great steel strike at the
start because of the militancy of
the workers and their leadership.
Roosevelt and Green will fail when
this decisive factor is present
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
San Francisco DOckers
Vote to Tie Up Coast
Shipping on Friday

SAN FRANCISCO, March ia
strike was voted, to begin Friday, by
the San Francisco Bay district local
Of the International Longshoremen's
Association. Other locals along the
Pacific coast have already voted for
strike. The LILA. officials are
working with the N. r. A. boards in
an effort to avert the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
u. S. Workers! Organize
Immediate Actions! Sdue
Life Of Ernst ThaeIn1a11n
Nazis Dare Not Face
Communist Leader
in Open Court

NEW YORK.-"We have
just learned that Ernst
Thaelmann has been cruelty
ill-treated with whips and
blackjacks. He is chained
hand and foot in a lightless
dungeon. Special storm de-
tachment guards prevent
all communication with the
outside. His wife has been
refused permission to see
him for weeks.
Protest in every form!
Send doctors to examine
him, and workers delega-
tons. Save his life!"
This is the cable received by the
International Labor Defense yester-
day from the international Thael-
mann Liberation Committee in
Paris.
Dare Not Face Him in Court.
The Nad butchers dare not face
Ernst Thaelmann, leader Of the
German Communist Party, in open
court, despite all their perjured
spies and stool pigeons. Like George
Dimitroff, this Co-nn.unN4, alone
cut of from all the world, is toe
formidable an opponent for the
Nazis.
AS the moment for his announced
trial" comes near, they are de-
termdned either to destroy him, OF
to reduce him with constant tor
lures, to cripple his power to stand
up and fight for Communism in
court.
The struggle for the liberation
of Thaelmann is seriously tagging
in America.
Intensity Campaign!
This news from Europe must be
the signal for an immensely in
tensifled campaign. The fight OF
Thaelmann is the fight Of the
leader of the anti-fascist forces, the
leader of the revolutionary working
class, the only power that car
smash the murderous regime of the
NaziS.
"The question of the fight for the
freedom of Ernst Thaelmann is a
question Of the revolutionary honor
of the international proletariat,
says George Dimitroff.
Form Free ThaeImann Commit
tees! Raise the question Of the
fight for ThaeImann In every
union, in every shop, IN every or
ganiEation!
Flood President Hindenburg, in
Berlin, with cables OF burning
protest! Telegraph to the Ger
man Ambassador in Washington!
Crowd the German consulates of
every city with delegations of pro-
test!
Organize mass meetings! Or
ganize demonstrations in every
city and town!
The fight for Thaelmann is the
fight for Soviet Germany!
Free Ernst Thaelmann!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21

of employment shall be no more
than "a hours per week" Hopkins
stated while in New York that only
those in need" will get work r.
lief" and admitted that at least Is
Continued on Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Youth March at Turtle
Greek; Strikes in
Lancaster, Reading

SYRACUSE, N. Y, March 90
C.W.A. workers are striking in Sen
eca, Ontario, Cayuga, Genesee, JEFF
ferson and Broome Counties. Yes
terday 1900 C.WA. workers on
strike in Syracuse and Onandago
County won their demans of so cents
an hour and "a hour week minimum
and are back at work. Six hundred
are out in Genesee County. Six
hundred are reported striking in
Auburn, 300 in Cayuga County. $50
are on strike at Binghamton. Strikes
were already settled with victory for
the workers in Utica, Rome, Auburn
and Syracuse.
1900 Win In Farrell
FARRELL, Pa. - Twelve hundred
C.W.A. workers walked out on strike
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Continued on Poge 81
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-26
Bloodhounds Gentle

Despite his fearsome name that
earned him unjust notoriety, the
bloodhound is the most gentle or
gentle hounds. So gentle, kind and
sentimental, in fact, that managers
of the numerous "Uncle Toms CAB
in" shows found it necessary to Sc
lect great Danes instead of blood
hounds. Larger and more spectacu-
lar, they easily entered the spirit
Of an act that bloodhounds would
walk through without thrill. Their
name, derived from their original
use to track animals which were
wounded and bleeding, is mislead-
ing, for they do not attack upon
reaching the objective of theE
search.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-26

) Hollywood's newest and most
glamorous romantic team makes
its debut in the persons of Con-
stance Bennett and Fredric March
in "The Affairs of Cellini," the
CAV new goth Century comedy, de-
picting the more colorful roman
tic escapades of the great artist
and greater lover Of the 10th Cen
tury Florence, current attraction
at the Carolina: -,
In 1.-THE Affairs of Celllnl"
March portrays the great Floren-
tine Goldsmith of the Renaissance,
who was as famous for his amor
Gus escapades as for his artistic
genius. A hot-blooded adventurer
Who risked his neck countless times
in the pursuit of his passions, Gel
Tni is revived from the pages OF
his own amazingly candid tales OF
his life and loves-for both me
stage play and Miss Meredyth's
screen adaptation are based on the
famous lovers celebrated Autobl-
ography. -,
Constance Benefits role is that
of the Duchess Of Florence, beau,
tiful, philandering wife of ducal
member of the De Medici. AS the
Duke, Frank Morgan re-enacts the
role he created with marked sue
cess in the Broadway stage pro-
duction. Others in the distinguish
ed cast are Fay Wray, Louis Cal
hern, Vince Barnett, Jay Eaton
Irene Ware, Jessie Ralph, John
Rutherford and Paul Harvey.
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