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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Mayor LaGuardia KnifeS
the City Employees

MAYOR LaGuardia'S much-touted Economy Bill
IVA after four defeats in the state legislature finally
was on the verge of successful passage last night
To anyone who has followed the fortunes of the
LaGuardia measure, one thing will be Immediately
and Enthusiastically apparent:
1t is aimed solely against the
masses of New York City's employees 1t plans
to lower even more drsstcaly the living stand
ards of the city workers, whose wages have been
cut again and again by the Fusion administration
and the Tammany gang which preceded it.
The outstanding purpose of the bill is to put
over new wage-cuts, under the fancy name of ZEN
forced furoughs" on the workers of the city whose
wages are in the lowest salared group. Particularly
the oft-victimzed school teachers will suffer when
LaGuardia's bill goes into effect
BY now the purpose of the squabbng which
held up the passage of the bill should be clear to
all. 1t never, as the progressive" journals
and newspapers tried to fool their readers into
thinking, the pure and noble Knight LaGuardia 60
ing forth to battle the corrupt Tammany Dragon
From the very beginning, the whole fight was be-
tween two corrupt gangs of boss politicians united
in their plans to vctimize the working class, but
fighting like ours over pckings to divide the enor-
nous graft which is part and parcel of the sys-
tenn OF county offices in New York The Daily
Worker alone exposed the character of the Tam
many opposition to this bill BEFORE and now on the
eve of its passage, it does so again.
The Tammany gang in Albany was determined
from the very start to hold on to the county Of
fees one of its greatest sources of political power
and financial graft, which Mayor LaGuardia planned
to take from them in order ID to insure a less
expensive city government for his Wall Street
banker-masters, and 90 to transfer this graft and
political dominance to himself and his own cohorts
Now, after series Of slick, underhand and secret
conclayes, in which LaGuardia, Governor Lehman
and many Of the Tammany boss politicians took
part the differences have been settled the corrupt
spoils have been divided
LaGuardias noble crusade for the Economy Bill
now stands revealed for what it is-a vicious slash
at the living standards and wages of New York
Citys civil service employees in order to protect
the moneybags Of the Rockefeller Morgan banks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05

understanding fascist GoebbeIs as
pensions! Deny it if you dare.
This is your 'innocent" client,
tortured" by the Nazis, gentle
men of the Forward!
Thousands of Socialist workers
feel the lash Of the whip, the hoi
iron of torture, the hunger and
misery of the concentration camps.
But they do not keep silent about
their hated class enemy. They do
not live in villas protected by the
fascist officials SO that they may
write book of memoirs! They are
fighting the fascist monster in the
face Of death and torture!
The working class of Germany,
Communist and Socialist workers
alike, is meeting with deathless
courage the fascist monster. 1t does
net crawl for pensions from Hitler.
1t does not issue polite statements
in which not one word is said
against fes2ism.
The editors of the Forward. the
Abraham Cahans, can continue to
invent their kindergarten bugaboos,
their frenzied lies, their old wives
fairy tales about 'eforgeries." The
danlning truth about the Socialist
leaders cannot be SO easily washed
away. The fascist bloody terrorism
in Germany and Austria are the
monuments of their political treach-
cries. No historical screaming about
mythical forgeries can hide that.
1t is the Socialist editors whose
hands are dirty with trickery, delib-
crate and cunning. But the facts
are too much for them. They cam
not escape that. They stand too
naked as tricksters and political
charlatans unwilling to meet the
real issues, unwilling to face the
terrible results of their betrayals.
Try another forgery" gentle-
men of the Forward. You arr
caught this timel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05

ering today finds himself in the
hands of the Nazis. He is one of
the thousands of Socialist and
Communist victims here. Nobody
knows how much they torture him.
The whole world knows what the
meaning of the third degree is.
World history shows that with the
third degree it is often possible
to break down the strongest per-
sonality and force one to reveal
the most sacred secrets, to confess
the crimes that one never had any
intention of committing. For this
reason there are rules of conduct
among all civilized people that
when one confesses under iurass,
that then he is not subject to
conviction"
So the shyster lawyer is already
getting ready for the verdict of
guilty He is anticipating the con-
fession of his innocent client! The
shyster screams innocent" to the
jury, but he secretly feels the oppo-
site, and he is worried. He already
is pleading eXtenuatirg circum-
stances. He is already making ex-
cuses!
who knows how they are tor
turing him?" weeps the Forward
What a grotesque picture of the
Socialist leader who is now living
comfortably and well in his rich
villa, his Summer home at Bielefaldl
What does this faithful lackey Of
the bourgeoisie know of torture:
Thaelmann is whipped in the Naz
dungeons. Torgler is tortured ir
the isolation Of his dark prison cell
But out of them not one single
word can the Nazi beasts get fol
their satisfaction!
But Severing, the Socialist Min
lister, is now collecting pension
from the Hitler government, money
filthy with the blood Of the Ger
man working class! We dare the
Socialist editors of the Forward
to deny it! We dare them to print
this in their paper. We dare them
to print the fact that Noske, too,
and Loebe, too, all Socialist lead
ers, are at this very moment living
on the fascist Judas silver that
is handed out by them by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05

tensions that they were printing an
article by Severing himself They
were printing earlier citations from
Severing showing how closely he
had always been moving to the
political position of Fascisln,
They were printing these cita-
tons to show how his present
failure to fight the Nazis is moth
ing but a direct, logical. inevitable
consequence of his entire political
career. And this is made as clear
as the sun in the editorial note.
1t is part of the clumsy attempt
of the Forward editors that they are
forced to print this note in their
papers expose"
They must print this Though
deliberately reduced in size to give
the impression that the Communist
editors of the Volks-Zeitung had
also printed it in this small type)
because only in this way can they
even maintain the slightest pre-
tension Of an "exposa." But this
very notice makes them look ridicu-
lous. And they know it.
And that is why they very lamely
and stupidity invent the insane the
DRY that the Communist editors
printed this note only to evade the
libel laws of the Saarbruecken au-
thorities
This is all that is finally left
of the old wives fantasy so Shrek
ingiy proclaimed by the not-too
scrupulous editors of the Jewish
Socialist Forward!
But this is not the end of the
question.
The Socialist editors feel that they
are defending criminal of whose
innocence they cannot be so sure!
So in today's Forward they are
already sounding an advance alibi
for Severing in the event that their
elaborate structure of Communist
forgeries" really turns out to be the
truth! After all the windy indig-
nation at the very idea of Severing
supporting the Nazis, they begin to
apologize for him in advance:
"Let us assume for a moment
that this thing is true that Sever
ing actually wrote, this book that
the Communists talk about. Sew
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Porto Rican Lepers
Demonstrate; Say
They Are Starved

SAN JUAN, P. r., April 4.-De-
claring that they were starved and
denied proper medical care, ten
lepers who escaped from the leper
colony at Trujillo Alto. staged a
demonstration in Baldorioty Plaza,
in the center of this city.
They handed to newspaDermen an
appeal addressed to the legislature,
demanding increased appropriations
and better care. They said they had
complained many times without re-
suit.
Police arrested the ten and
shipped them back to the colony.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
COmpanyUniOnOK,
SaysW eSternUniOn
Head at Hearing
Messenger Boys Give
Facts on Low
Wages
BY C. LANDS

The Communications Code hearing
opened Monday in Washington, with
a provocative speech by the deputy
administrator of public utilities
aimed directly at the delegation OF
messengers which represented the
Telegraph Messengers Union, of ia
w 14th St., New York City. In his
attempt to squelch these young boys
from speaking, he insisted that
order must be maintained.
The first speaker, Roy B. White.
president of the Western Union. adj
mitted that his company controlled
three-quarters of the land lines. Yet
in the face of this statement he
asserted that the w. U. had no
monopoly but only engaged in active
competition. In speaking of the
company union dissertation of
Western Union Employees he dared
TO maintain that the representatives
were Of the employees own choosing
and that they have solved all dis
agreements to the satisfaction of the
employees. The fact that the off,
Gals of Local n, Of the A.W.U.E.
did not even bring up the resolution
for the return of the last 10 per
cent wage cut, a resolution which
had been unanimously passed by
the membership at the last meeting,
gives the lie to this statement.
Mr.. White admitted that the in
crease in pay which will start April
9th is due to the demands of the
workers themselves and not to the
efforts Of the A.W.UE. officials.
Mr.. White concluded with another
bouquet to his company union, say
ing that he is loath to break the
relationship between the A.W.U.E.
and the employees. When asked
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05

continued fromt Page u
by the treacheries that led the
German and Austrian working
class into the trap of Hitler and
Dollfuss.
WHAT then did the Communist
" Volks zeitung print? After an
nouncing the news Of Severing's
book that had already appeared
in two other European papers, and
which had been broadcast on the
German radios by Goebbels, it re-
printed from some of Severing's
earlier speeches and writings.
many of his utterances which.
now in the light of recent events
showed how clearly Severing had
all along been travelling the road
to FasciSm.
1t did not print this as an ar
ticle Of Severing! 1t very plainly
and clearly printed the fact that
this article was a collection of
Severing's actual statements col
lected by the editors of the VoIks-
Zeitung as examples Of what 10
expect from the announced book
by Severing. Never was it hidden
that these quotations were taken
from previous books and speeches
of Severing.
In the plainest black and white
on the leading editorial page of the
issue land it is interesting that the
editors of the Forward deliberately
lie about the size of the type, telling
their readers that the type of this
notice was smaller than the rest of
the paper, when it is exactly as
prominent as the Severing story it.
self makes it clear that the state
ments of Severing are taken from
his earlier books and speeches.
What the editorial in the Volks-
Zeitung says is as clear as day: Re
ferring to the Severing article" it
states editorially:
"Severing in the Deutsche Volks-
Zeitung? The alleged abstract
from Karl Severing's new book
appearing in this issue was origi-
mated in our office. With the ex-
ception Of the introduction, the
conclusion and some unimportant
additions In the text, the article
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Mass Organizations, Trade
Unions Lag in ''Daily" Driue

NEW YORK.-With the exception
of the Finnish Federation and scat
tered members Of other foreign Ian
guage groups, militant organizations
Of foreign-born workers are showing
up badly on the whole in the drive
to gain more subscribers for the
Daily Worker.
The same holds true of revolu-
tionary trade unions and various
mass organizations.
In Boston, for example, where a
Daily Worker conference was held
recently, only mass organizations
were represented out of so such or
carnations, including clubs and
I. L. D. branches. There were no
delegates from the Shoe, Marine,
Furniture, Needle Trades and Dye
House unions.
"The absence of delegates from
most of the clubs, mass Organiza-
tons and unions is no accident"
Boston writes. I'm many cases,
comrades holding responsible posi-
tiOns in these organizations show
by their inaction that they lack
political understanding of the
role the Daily Worker plays in
the lives of the workers as the
crisis deepens."
At this same conference a worker
who is not a member of any organi-
cation but who read the announce
ment Of the conference in the
Daily" came to the conference and
asked permission to attend. After
the conference he pledged to order
a special bundle of the May edition
The delegate from the Scandina-
Wan Workers Club brought in new
subs and also a donation of SIS for
the new press But it is significant
that the Daily Worker is not sold at
single workers club headquarters
including that of the John Reed
Club, during the numerous meetings
they hold.
True Elsewhere
The situation in Boston is moi
exceptional. At time when the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
GOering's MOdesty-
A "NGtiOnaL Problem

ESSEN, Germany.-The over
whelming modesty of Prussian
Prime Minister Goering is be-
coming a formidable Nazi prob
lem.
In last weeks edition of the
National zeitung, the Prime
Minister'S personal organ, there
appear only 81 photographs of
the Nazi violet" They are de-
voted to front views, back views,
side views, top views, and views
from some eight or ten angles.
All were taken at the opening
of new aerodrome.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Protest Cancels
Harvard Invitation
to High Nazi Chief
Hanfstaengl, Hitler :
Close Friend, Has to
Give Up Plan

BOSTON, April A storm of
protests has caused the cancelling
of the proposed visit of Ernst F.
Hanfstaengl, high Nazi official and
intimate friend of Adolf Hitler, who
had been invited to be an aide of
the grand marshal of the COM
mencement exercises at Harvard
University this June.
Professor Elliott G. Cutler, grand
marshal, who had invited the Nazi
announced that he would not come
after all, although last week Hanf-
staengl announced that he had ac-
cepted the invitation and would
surely be there, bringing with him
his Horst Vessel"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
"We'U Be Back
Says Red Banner
on Vienna Block
by Burclz
1t,44Hck

VIENNA, March % (By MaiD.
"A few days ago a great red
banner was hung from an al
most inaccessible tower of the
bombarded Schlingerhof, one of
the great working class cooper
alive tenements of Vienna, with
the inscription: I'VE shall come
back again!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
NEW MONSTER BAFFLING

PORT SAID, April A fifteen
ton monster, washed up on the
Romani Beach on the Mediterranean,
puzzled scientists today. Fishermen
found the sea-monster partially
buried in the sand. 1t measured
more than Is yards and had a
yawning mouth more than three
yards wide.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Nazis Operating in
Buenos Aires, Charges
Argentine Newspaper

BUENOS AIRES, April 4.-Four-
teen teachers, lately from Germany
and CARRIED in brown shirts, have
been found instructing pupils in
Nazism at the private German Hin
denburg-Schule in suburb OF
Buenos Aires, according to the
newspaper Noticias, who have made
this charge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05

UTES OF THE PRUSSIAN
LANDTAG SESSIONS" Capitals
Ours-D. WI
Thus the Communist editors of
the Volks-zeitung made no pre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05

CONSISTS ENTIRELY OF d.
RECT CITATIONS FROM SEW
ERING'S BOOK I'M WETTER
UND WATTERWINKEL,' THE
VORWAERTS, AND THE MIN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Union City Meet

Send US names of those you
know who are not readers of the
Daily Worker but who would be
interested in reading it. Address:
Daily Worker, so E. 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Meetings Are
Organized in
ManyCenterg
Demonstration, NJ c ets
Called in Industrial
Cities
(See page 1 for news Of New
York anti-war meeting, April g.

AAAALNAA-Et
CHICAGO. - Two demon
STATIONS and ten meetings
under the auspices Of the Chi
cago branch of the American
League Against War and Fas-
cism, to which more than so or
carnations are affiliated, will mark
Friday, April 6, the 18th anniver-
sary of Americas entry into the
World War
A demonstration will be held at
II am. on the campus of the Uni
versity of Chicago, with banners
and placards carrying slogans
against war. This demonstration is
called by the newly formed Stu
dents Anti-War Association, and is
supported by the Youth Section of
the American League Against War
and Fascism.
Another demonstration, at $3.50
pm. will be held in front of the
Cribbin and Sexton factory, Sac
ramento and Chicago AYES, where
war munitions are to be manufac-
tured,
Among the other meetings called
for that evening at 8 pm. are the
following:
Workers Lyceum, 27S3 Hirsch
Blvd, speaker Dave Brown, with
Bartel of S. P. chairman; Albany
Park Workers Center, 1926 N,
Kedzie, speaker A. Guss; North
west Side Workers Center, 3911 w.
Chicago; speaker Tom McKenna;
Unemployed Council 1869 Arlnitage
Ave; Workers Center, 4112 Ar
mitage Ave, speaker Mcdonald:
SAB Wisconsin Ave. and 1926 E. 55th
st. Workers Hall.
Force Permit for Boston Meet
BOSTON.-A protest against the
war plans of the Roosevelt govern
ment will be demonstrated by the
workers of Boston at the Parkman
Bandstand (Boston Common) on
April at $50 pm.
New Haven Rally and Demon
stratiOn
NEW HAVEN, Gonna mass
meeting against war will be held
April 6 at pm, in Center Church
Parish House, 211 Temple St., near
the Green, under the auspices of
the New Haven League Against
War and Fascisn. James Nenden-
hall, of Lincoln School, Columbia
University, will be the main speaker
along with other speakers from New
Haven.
On April 10, the League will hold
an outdoor demonstration in Gem
trail Green. At this demonstration
in addition to speakers, there will
be given an anti-war play by the
John Reed Club of New Haven.
Youngstown Rally
YOUNGSTOWN, GA mass rally
against war has been called by the
Young Communist League of
Youngstown for April 6, 7:3O pm,
in Central Auditorium, 225 WI
Boardman ST. Many workers and
their organizations in this steel towrI
have signif1ed their intention o.
taking part in this protest against
war preparations and the lingo
glorif1cation of war which is cele-
brated that day by the bosses, their
press and all their agents.
Union City Meet
UNION CITY, N. J.-Young work.
ers and students, Negro and white,
have been called to an anti-war
rally Thursday, April 5, at 8 pm,
in the Workers Center, 5O4 44th st.
Frank Carlson, New Jersey district
organizer of the Young Communist
League, which issued the call for
the meeting, will be the chief
speaker. Entertainment and dane
ing will follow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Socialist Editors Spin Fantastic Forgery Tale

tcsntinned from, Page u
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-09
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Boston at Cincinnati.
Brooklyn at Chicago.
New York at st. Louis.
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-09
SCHEDULE
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Chicago at Washington.
st. Louis at New York.
Detroit at Boston.
Cleveland at Philadelphia.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-09
Wake Jury Urged
To Continue Its
Enforcement Quiz

RALEIGH, May 9.-(UP).-
Superior Court Judge Henry A.
Grady urged the Wake county
grand jury to continue with re-
newed vigOr investigation of law
enforcement in Raleigh and the
county, in his charge to that
group here this week.
"While you are vested with the
authority to make any inquiry in
regard to law enforcement and
crime, | shall be glad to COOP
erate with you at any time you
desire to confer with me-" he told
the jurors.
Probe of Raleigh and Wake
county law enforcement agencies,
set in motion by attacks from the
city's pulpits, resulted in dismissal
or resignation of two policemen
and two deputies sheriff on the
strength of recommendations of
the last grand jury.
In vestigation by the present
jury is expected to center around
complaint of Patrolman w. L.
Mcneil that he was discharged
unjustly and for political pur-
poses.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-09
By HARRY !
10 i
GRAS()N

NEW YORK-In opinion Hammond
be the head Madison Garden than president
the United He likes everything that with the
Guiding the publicity. ..
COL John Fitzpatrick remain nominal chefor
time least but
take lively interest than Richard F. IIoy whom he
placed chairman of the board directors would
naa hand IN the management OIL the old and new of III
York.
nipped Mount Royal Montreal
while scouting that the
north would take the big town by storm The cold
refrigerator, Hammond
to to the periods himself the
packed that he could
Hockey has been fesaver the Garden and other
Sport Promoters Exit Reluctantly
DIRECTING the Garden headache
who has tackled it, including the late Tex Richard
preparing his death
would think wh would sufficient
the turbulence the their blood Garden
executives bow out unwngy and Immediately begin connvng
regain posts
president corporation
president December
1882 following another series disageemen with William
F. Carey, he said he'd be back. :.,s..
Richard Policies, but Toned Down
AMMoNDS extent the
- of Richard policies, times
probably would
in 1929 had the daddy had voice the matter
Carey had Hoyts addition owning considerable
stock himself insisted that Richard the Garden with the
cheney other business which he
Old ledge, wasn't much of
Richard CLOSE 1912
when the then Captain Hammond military
TEX walked without introduction
Richard aptain have $4,000 invest in
cattle land, and they tell, help Where
put it?'" il
Paraguay and Richard on his
good of the made
made 10
adventure was destined to be Inflated but it was on b,
years later brought business
most showp,ace al ! = Taa4 - - : ~ '' sNS Tvs,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-09
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION

Chattanooga at New Orleans.
Nashville at Memphis.
Atlanta at Little Rock.
Knoxville at Birmingham.