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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
REICH GUARDS
BALK EDIC 7
7 0 DISARM
Misgivings and Unrest
Rule Behind Outward
Appearance Of Calm
Especial 10 the paiIy wOrker)

(SneGial to the Dalty WOEkeNj
BERLIN. Dec. 5 (By wireless, via
ZURICH Whole regiments Of the
Storm Troops and the Schultz Stat
fel Especial Guards are in a state
of alarm and have refused to give
I'D their arms in accordance with
an order issued today to these divi-
sions of the army. A great move
ment is spreading among the wives
of the soldiers and the women are
demanding that their husbands i'm
mediately leave all fascist organiza-
tions.
Furthermore, the expulsion yes
terday of Helmuth Brueckner as
Nazi regional leader for Silesia and
Governor of that province is agl-
tating the entire fascist officialdom,
which recognizes the Brueckner &C
ton as originating out of the deep
whirlpool of bitter rivalries among
the Nazi chieftains. Over the lower
Nazi functionaries. as well as over
the army, there is now lowering
the fear of another purge" like
that of June 80, which reliable
sources report has been set for Jan.
10. after the Saar plebiscite, at the
latest.
The Berlin correspondent of the
"Basler Matchmaker zeitung" has
sent a private dispatch to his paper
which reads as follows:
Unrest. strife and misgiving rule
behind outward authority and calm
Among the many rumors one
finds repeated confirmation that DR..
Goebbels, at a gala affair in Berlin
was hoWled down, and endeavored
in vain to pacify the crowd with
the appeal: But am your old doc
tori"
1T is stated rebellious spirits
among the Nazis are being soothed
by situations and privileges. Goeb-
bells has issued orders that meetings
of Nazi party members must be re-
corded with him. and that their
aims must be carefully examined
before permission is given to hold
them. The radicals of the Nazi
party accuse the leaders with in
creasing openness of betraying their
revolutionary ideals. The Storm
Troopers are being pushed into the
background and are losing influence.
Obstinate rumors circulate that az
ter Jan. 10 repetition of the 30th
of June is planned These rumors
have become louder in the last few
days, since well-informed sources
state that all Storm Troop leaders
of radical trends, or suspected of
secret sympathy for the victims of
the 3eth of June, have been refused
passports to abroad"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
Cafeteria Workers Out
For Increase in Pay

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Dec. s.
Workers of the Balm Cafeteria, 9th
Street above Chestnut, have struck
and demand 54-hour week, and
wages ranging from SIS to $50 per
week as the minimum scale in the
code for the industry provides. The
workers had work week of from
10 to SO hours per week, and wages
of from 800 to $500 per week.
The strike began when Balm fired
four young workers for activities to
organize the workers into the Food
Clerks and Countermens Union of
the A. F. of L. Picketing is con-
Quoted, especially during the rush
hours, and the place is kept empty
Balm refuses to recognize any repres-
entatives of the union. One worker
told the Daily Worker reporter while
on the picket line that ne worked SO
hours one week and received food
allowance of only so cents per day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
3%SALES TAX
VOTED IN OHIO
LEGISLATURE
Only Bread, Milk and
Newspapers Spared
in Measure
BY Sander VOrOs
Especial to the Daily worker)

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 5.-The
Ohio State Senate today passed a
bill for three per cent sales tax
on all purchases excepting only
bread, milk and newspapers. While
levying this tax on the diminish
ing income of the working class
and on the destitute unemployed
army, the Senate deleted from the
bill, as passed by the House, an in
come tax levy graduated to reach
the higher unearned incomes.
The popular resentment against
the sales tax levy was emphasized
by loud applause from tile GAL
leries when Senator Harrison de-
clared that "the bill is a tax on
poverty, collected from those who
can least afford to pay"
A ten per cent relief cut in food
and a twenty per cent cut in cloth
ing for unemployed families which
was voted by the relief administra-
ton for the second half Of Deem
Der was rescinded when the a6-
ministration received news OF the
call for a city-wide relief march on
December %. The Unemployment
Councils are making even greater
preparations for the march to force
other concessions, and for the Con-
gress for Unemployment and Social
Insurance to be held in Washington,
D. c., January S.
A delegation will call on the
County Commissioners tomorrow to
demand additional winter relief OF
$40 cash for families and SIS for
single workers who are unemployed.
Mayor Davis has called for a
public hearing by the City Council
legislative committee for next Mon
day, 2 p. M, on bill proposed in
the Council opposing his ban of free
speech. He has also threatened the
removal of the rostrum from the
Public Square.
The Superior Transportation
Oompany's drivers of delivery
trucks for local department stores
struck today for higher wages and
a union shop, after two weeks of
unsuccessful negotiations. T h e
strike is seriously Gripping holiday
delivery.
All schools in Green Township
have been closed for lack of funds
following the defeat by the voters
of a proposal for new tax for
school funds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
GUILD GROUP
WALKS OUT
AT HEARING
Broun Scores NRA Role
in Jennings Case
at Code Session
BY Seymour Waldman
DAILY Worker Mashin gton Bureaul

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Dec. s.
After protesting against "the ex-
traordinary action Of the N. R. A.
in forcing the reopening of the
Jennings case" Haywood Broun.
president Of the American News
paper Guild, and the rest of a
large newspaper writers delegation
which came to the capital to attend
the public hearing on the News
paper Code walked out of the Rose
Room of the Washington Hotel to
"go back to the picket line in New
ark" They left to rejoin the Strike
against the Newark Ledger's refusal
to deal with the Guild.
I'VE charge definitely that on
this occasion and on several former
ones N. R. A. has allowed itself
to be terrified by the publishers"
Broun declared. He placed the re-
sponsibility. directly at the door of
Donald Richberg, Roosevelt's right
hand man.
Labor Advisor Withdraws
Paul Frederickson of the New
York Times, the labor advisor on
the code, followed Broun, saying,
Il withdraw until the impartiality
of the N. R. A. shall have been es-
tablished'
Morris Watson. chairman of the
Guild Press Association committee,
characterized the code as "a sham
to protect the privileges of the pub
fishers"
The National Labor Relations
Board decreed on Monday that
Hearst's San Francisco Call-Bulle-
tin had so acted as to force the
resignation of Dean S. Jennings, its
chief re-write man, for Guild or
ganizational activities, and gave the
Call-Bulletin ten days grace in
which to advise it of the reinstate-
ment of Jennings.
However, in the time between
Mondays decision and today's
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ScOttsbOrO
Negro Rally
Defes Khan
BY Harry COnnOr

GLASSBORO, N. j., Dec. s.
Breaking through police and Ku
Klux Khan terror in Southern New
Jersey, more than 400 Negro work
ers and farmers held spirited
Scottsboro protest rally in the
countryside near here, despite
threats of riot and violence made
bv a united front Of Negro mis-
leaders and Ku KluXers.
The Negro villages, 80 Acres
and the Lawns" in Gloucester
borough in the heart of one of the
most notorious Khan, counties in
New Jersey, Gloucester County,
took the first step in breaking
through the political domination Of
a handful of corrupt politicians
and Negro misleaders who for years
worked hand in hand with the en-
ployers in subduing the Negro
masses here with the methods OF
Southern lynch terror.
Under the fighting slogan OF
"Defend the Scottsooro Boys, F"
SYMBOLS of the brutal oppression OF
an entire Negro nation, it has been
proved once more that the fight
for the lives and freedom of the
nine innocent boys is inseparably
linked with the struggle for Negro
liberation.
Sharp Discrimination
In the short existence OF these
two Negro farm communities, there
is a shocking record of discrimina-
ton, jim crowism, lynch threats,
Khan raids and flaming crosses
endless oppression. For years these
communities have paid taxes to the
borough and have received nothing
in return. by way of water supply,
sewers. paved streets, etc. Street
lights c-r = fc.'~d c~'.- al0',5 two
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06

Matthew Vol, with the N. r. A.
and the National Civic Federation
Old Guard for Rule or Ruin
Party discipline which the 'old
guard" used to prevent militant and
united struggle by Socialist workers,
together with Communists, is cast
to the winds. They openly declare
their intention of carrying on war
fare against the N. E. c. decisions
and for control of the Party. They
have held fsctional caucuses not
only on a Statewide scale, but with
representatives Of IL States present.
Their is rule or ruin policy; either
Party control, or a Party split. And
the militant" Mr.. Thomas retreats
in fright!
This demonstrs Jon should serve
to teach honest Socialist workers
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receive permission from the State
Executive Committee, or from the
N. E. G. in states where no state
organizations exists. The plans
adopted call for united front with
the A. F. of L. bureaucracy and the
leaders of the various bourgeois
third-party groups.
The Right Wing, disagreeing with
Thomas demagogic trimmings CHS
talk favoring working class unity
sin principle'D and, above all, de-
string complete organizational con-
troll of the Party removal of Senior
and the addition of four of the old
guard on the N E. c.. has de-
nounced the Boston decisions and is
preparing 70 drive the S. P. still
further TO the Right-into an open
united front with Bill Green and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
CoughIin, Backed by Hearst,
DistOrts Mars and Launches
Fire on Militant Workers
Articles in Daily
Will Expose Role
OF Father Coughlin

NEW YORK series of
three articles by Milton Howard,
staff writer, exposing the role of
Father Coughlin, Detroit radio
priest, in building a potentially
fascist movement will be pub
lished in the Daily Worker be-
ginning next Tuesday instead of
Friday as originally announced.
Towards articles will deal
with the history of Father
Coughlin's development as mis-
leader and will describe in de-
tail the powerful financial and
political interests supporting him.
The radio priest reaches mil
lions of workers weekly by his
broadcasts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
BY c. A. Hathaway
EDITOR, DAILY WORKER
Article III.

HONEST Socialist workers, feeling
IL the sharpened attacks against
the workers living standards by the
Roosevelt regime, seeing the fever
ish war preparations and the adj
vance toward fascism, knowing of
the united front achievements on
an international scale, and desiring
class-struggle, united-front policy
here, must now determine their at
titude toward the Boston N. E. G.
decisions and toward the splitting
tactics of the Waldman Right Wing.
The national executive commit
tee, dominated by Norman Thomas
and his misnamed 'militants," put
over policies which, If accepted, can
only serve to curb the growing
united front sentiment among the
workers. In fact, as yesterdays
article -rrTef. tl7e program Of The
Thor,55 e''--'n ---r in r-e''1v tNe
program of Waldman. Thomas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
Cleric Is Organizer
of Fascist Hinged
Movement in u. 8.
BY A. b. MAGH
Especial to the Daily Worker)

ROYAL OAK, Mich, Dec. 5. -
Father Charles E. Coughlin, radio
priest and organizer Of the new fas-
cist-tinged movement, the National
Union for Social Justice, assembled
to new celestial heights of demagogy
in talk last night on capital and
labor in his small chapel next to
his lavish Shrine of the Little
Flower here in this tiny town just
outside of Detroit. The chapel was
jammed with about 1000 persons,
half of them being compelled to
stand. For the occasion Coughlin
brought Bishop Michael j. Gal
lagher of the Diocese Of Detroit, who
had introduced him on Armistice
Day when he first announced over
the radio the launching of his new
movement.
Coughlin is receiving the support
of important financial and political
interests and of the Hearst press,
which has been instigating the or
ganization of fascist gangs to attack
militant workers and their organ
izations.
Mishandles Facts
In the course of his hours speech
Coughlin, who handles facts in the
most liberal manner, slandered the
Communist Party of Toledo-that
same Communist Party which
played such a prominent part in the
struggle of the Toledo working class
last May against the hired thugs
of the Electric Auto Lite Co., and
the armed forces of the government.
The priest declared that a leading
Toledo Communist announced over
the radio that he was Coughlin's
personal representative and was
holding meeting that very night.
Following the example of Hitler
before the Nazis came into power,
Coughlin lifted, without benefit of
acknowledgment, about seventy
five per cent of his speech from
Marxist literature - shrewdly dis
torted in vital places = and then
offered his new movement, which
he calls Social Justice" as the
solution for the problems of the
working masses of the country. More
than any previous utterances, his
speech last night was calculated to
win the support of workers and small
businessmen.
Coughlin also quoted literally
from the Pope's encyclical on labor
issued about three years ago and
from a similar encyclical of his pred
ecessor, Pope Leo XIII, in which
the two popes attempted to stem
the tide of working class organiza-
ton and struggle by demagogically
criticizing the most obvious brutal
tiles of capitalism, and then attack
ing the militant labor movement
and calling for a scheme of class
collaboration in which the working
class lamb would be tossed into the
| lap of the capitalist lion.
Significantly, Coughlin made what
must be interpreted as an overture
to the Socialist Party when he drew
sharp distinction between the
European Socialists, by whom he
meant the pre-war revolutionary
Marxists and the present-day Com
munists, and the American Social
lists. He appealed to "the Socialists
in my audience as people who
would not support the ideas of the
"parlor pinks who sat around sam
ovars and taught that all profits
should belong to the laboring men,
While talking repeatedly about
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here at the Waldorf Astoria in the
grea test assemblage of industrialists
since the crisis began five years ago.
The Congress has been called to
approve the strike breaking Program
For Recovery which the National
Association of Manufacturers will
present to Congress early in
January.
Raymond Moley, unofficial spokes-
man for the Roosevelt government,
in the leading address of the day,
ironically entitled the Goal of Lib
eralism" made the blunt declare
ton that the New Deal from its
very inception, has always been
considered by Roosevelt as a drive
for the preservation of capitalism
and capitalist profits and not in
any sense a program for the build
ing Of a new economic order.
after the collapse of March,
1885," Moley declared, President
Roosevelt restored the capitalistio
structure to something like
working basis. Subsequent meas
ures were intended to re-enforce
this structure"
"BasicaIly, the New Deal was
an effort to save capitalism.
II seemed to me in 1888, as 1t
seems to me now, that this effort
to save capitalism was eminently
wise and Just. BY no stretch
Of the imagination could the vote
of November, 1892, have been in
terpreted as a mandate for the
abandonment of the capitalist
system and the substitution of
another
Thus, with one sweep. the leading
spokesman for the Roosevelt gov
eminent today makes it clear that
all the social promises of the Roose-
welt New Deal understood by the
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United Front Against Bureaucracy Alone Bring Victory

this policy is to be found in the
following statement Of Louis Wald-
man:
"All signs OF the time point to
the fact that the future Of the
Socialist Party lies with the or
ganized labor movement, and not
with the Communists"
1t is from this conception that
the policies of the "old guard" are
built. From this flows their bitter
opposition to the united front with
the Communists and their desire to
build farmer-lsbor party. jointly
with the A. F. of L. bureaucrats and
the bourgeois demagogues of veri-
Gus stripes.
In this statement, of course, there
is an element of truth. Certainly
any working class political party,
to be successful, to have a future,
must win the support of the or
ganized labor movement. The four
million workers within the A. r of
L., as well as the millions still out
(Cortinued ON Pane ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
Progr al Favof
3 n Stugg

how talk of working class discipline,
question of vital importance in
the workers struggles, can be dis
torted by reastionaries into its very
opposite. 1t is made to serve reac-
tionary policies. When socialist
workers tried to join with Commu-
nists in a fight against wage cut,
these gentlemen shouted. "diSci-
pline!" to force them to withdraw.
But now, when they want to drag
the S. P. into the camp of open re-
action. into the very forefront of
the fascist nti-Communist drive
Party Discipline means nothing. BY
such methods they will teach So
cialist workers more than they
think.
The attempted justification for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
THRONGSV|EW.
KIROV'S BODY.
IN MOSCOW
Leaders of Communist
Party Carry Coffin
Funeral Today
BY Vern Smith
Especial to the Daily worker)

MOSCOW, Dec. S (By Wireless) T..
Thousands of Moscow workers
and representative attachments
elected from each factory filled all
the streets leading to October sta
ton, where the body of Kirov ar
rived this morning
The coffin was carried from the
train to the street by Joseph Stain,
v. M Molotov. Klementi Voroshilov,
and other members of the Political
Bureau of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union, after which be-
gan the procession to the Hall Of
Columns of the Trade Union House,
where the body now lies in state.
After the coffin arrived the work.
ers marched with banners and pic
lures of Kirov in black and red
frames and placards, proclaiming
their contempt for the cowardly
blow dealt by the class enemy, as
we'll as their determination to rally
in solid masses behind the Commu-
mist Party policies of building So
cialism and defending the socialist
fatherland.
A typical slogan was: Don't weep,
but wage merciless war against any
who would halt the progress of the
workers and peasants" The crowds
stood and marched through the
snow storm and the first severe cold
of winter.
Tens Of thousands of Moscow
workers have viewed the body yes
terday and today The funeral will
take place in Red Square tomorrow.
According to the decision of the
Moscow Soviet, Dec. 3, 4 and 6 are
days Of mourning in Moscow. These
days all theaters and cinemas are
closed.
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capitulated before the Right Wing
attack, took over the program of
the Right, added few meaningless
trimmings of his own to make the
program more palatable to the more
advanced Socialist workers, and
made this connection the program
of the N. E. C.-the official position
OF the Party.
C. P. Proposals Shelved
The Communist Partys proposals
for Joint struggle against hunger,
fascism and war were shelved for
two years-until the next national
convention of the S. P. in 1886!
Local Socialist organizations desir-
ing to enter into united fort ac-
tions with the Communists were
told that henceforth they must
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
HITLER'S ORDER DEFIED BY NAzI TROOPS
Gassed
In California
Car W alkOut

Los ANGELES, Cal, Dec. s.
Thousands Of street car strikers
and sympathizerS damned on
Eighth Street between Broadway
and Hill at noon today and tied
up traffic Of scab-driven street
cars in the busiest district of the
city.
Large squads Of police charged
into the crowd with tear gas and
swinging clubs, and only after
great difficulty were the demon
stratOrs dispersed.
LOS ANGELES, Calf, Dec. S.
Tear gas bomb-throwing and whole
sale arrest of strikers, is now fire.
quent occurrence in the strike of
Los Angeles Railway workers. as
sympathy actions in support of the
workers by the population is in
creasing.
Strikers have adopted new tao
tics in their determination to stop
traffic. Strikers and sympathizers
assembled at the intersection of
Seventh and Broadway, a very busy
corner in the downtown section, and
refused to move. The crowd in
creased until there were at least
1000, and traffic was completely
halted.
Police PowerleSs
Police we're powerless to move the
crowd for over an hour. Finally
they brought tear gas guns and shot
into the crowd. Scores were sick
ened by the gas, which was shot
without warning. Saturday a SINH
lar performance was staged by the
strikers, and only the preparation
Of hundreds Of police made pos
sible very slow movement of
streetcars, while masses lined the
sidewalks, shouting epithets at the
scabs.
Without warning. police again
charged into the crowds, discharg-
ing tear gas. Many men, women
and children were hemmed into the
intersection, unable to escape the
gas.
A statement issued by the Los
Angeles Section of the Communist
Party to the carmen, declared that
the workers should not expect any
assistance through the mediation of
Mayor Shaw, but on the contrary,
depending upon that weakens the
picket lines.
Directives suggested to the work
ers include: Spreading the strike by
urging the Pacific Electric Line men
to come out; not to permit injec-
ton Of religious. political or racial
differences to split the workers: to
welcome support from all sections
Of the labor movement; not to per-
NIT red scare agitation to take eff
feet; beware of arbitration, or any
similar schemes; not to leave the
conduct of the strike to the Off
Gals, but to elect representatives
for negotiations and other commit
tees, and that all workers should
participate in the strike activity.
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California Transient
Workers Win Increase

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5. The
transient workers, working on the
Los Angeles water pipe line at Mo-
jave, as result of their protests
against the conditions they worked
under are now getting one dollar
a day "and found" to pacify them.
The winning of one dollar day,
where they formerly got Is cents a
day $500 month";, was won be-
cause of the action taken in pro-
testing by group of workers who
quit the camp and spread what was
going on in Mojaye every place they
went.
However, the camp officers will
not allow any organization of any
kind in the Mojave camps.