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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Negro Worker
His
Body utilated
8 Killers Who Invaded
Negro Dance Are Not
Indicted

MANCHESTER, Tenn, June 25.
Dick Wilkerson, Negro worker,
was lynched near here yesterday
and his body savagely mutilated
following an alteration with a
band of white rowdies who in
vaded a Negro dance.
During the disturbance created
by the rowdies. Wilkerson struck
one of them. The white men then
left the dance, went to Wilkerson's
home and, according to the adj
mission of Sheriff c. D. Huffman
of Coffee County tore up every
thing he had, tore it literally all
to pieces"
Waiting until the dance was
over, the gang seized Wilkerson
and an unidentified Negro and
took them away in an automobile.
Wilkerson's body was found about
IA miles southeast of here.
axe.
Before killing him, the lynchers
had brutally beaten him with an
Eight men were held today
charged with lynching, following
the confession of a 14-year old
boy, the son of one of the lynch
ers and himself participant in
the crime. No move has yet been
made to indict them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

$685.; Texas se.76; Georgia s6.64:
South Carolina Ss.13; Colorado
$50: Oklahoma s4.95.
These relief figures, both the high
est and the lowest, represent con-
tinual hunger and starvation stand
ard of living for the unemployed
millions and their dependents. The
only difference between the highest
and the lowest figures is the diff
ference in the rapidity of the star
vation process.
Coinciding with the advent of the
crisis and its enormous increase in
permanent mass unemployment the
Communist Party issued the slogan
to workers: Fighter Starve!" The
Communists characterized the bat
tie for a living standard of relief
and for compulsory Federal I'M
employment insurance at the ex-
pense of the government and en-
ployers (Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill-H.R. 1898. now be-
fore Congress) as "a fight for the
right to live
That is what the struggle of the
unemployed against the hunger and
terror is. American capitalism does
not grant this righk
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

on a gigantic scale of whole sec
tons Of the working population is
one of the outstanding results of
the crisis and its evidence of CAPT
talist decay.
The depth Of pauperism and its
nationwide scope is seen clearly
from an examination of the relief
expenditures of the local, state and
national government. CThe figures
given here are taken from the report
of G. M. Bookman, past president of
the organization, to the recent meet
ing of the National Conference of
Social Work in Kansas City, Mo-
Mr.. Bookman, speaking of the abb
solute minimum requirements for
unemployment relief-and we shall
see in moment that these require
ments are based on a pauper stand
ard-said:
Should we estimate less than
four and one-half million families
as our relief load for some months
ahead? At an average of $50 per
family per month. this would re-
quire an appropriation of $135,000,-
900 per month for relief. In using
$50 per month per family l have
placed the estimate beyond any re-
lief program yet undertaken. Can
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

istrationl OF this feature of relief
Mr.. Bookman said in Kansas City:
I'VE are still thinking of relief in
terms of few months emergency. s.
And this after four and one-half
years of permanent mass unem-
ployment!
If the unemployed revolt against
being forced to live on faith, hope
and charity-they are, according to
Mayor La Guardia, New York Police
Commissioner Organ, Professor
Raymond Moley and their kindred
in official and unofficial positions
of authority throughout the coun-
try, yellow dogs "skulking rats"
"provokers of police" "scum of the
city" enemies of society,"" etc.
The police pack is turned loose on
them to the applause of the bill
lionaire and multi-millionaire rob-
bers and "oppressors of the poor"
who occupy reserved seats around
the bloodstained arena.
Take look at this pauper relief:
In the States furnishing the
highest average relief per month
per family in January Of this year.
the figures are as follows. New York
S32l6; Massachusetts $685.; Maine
s29.o6; Delaware 1924; Maryland
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
The American Poorhouse and Its Paupers
BY BILL DUNE

an average of $50, after four years
of privation. furnish sufficient re-
lief to provide any degree of safety
to the individuals or to society?
No one will be permitted to starve'
is no longer an ethically sound or
a socially safe program of relief"
There is mass hunger-and actual
starvation. Even the carefully Jug
gled official figures for New York
City admit that 1879 persons died
of starvation in the last year.
The reign of terror against Com
munists and other honest and mil
liant leaders of the unemployed is
intended to make a reduced relief
scheme a Socially safe program"
One-Seventh are Paupers in
New York State
In New York state alone, accord
ing to recent bulletin of the Tenn
porary Emergency Relief Admin
istration. more than 100000 families.
practically one-seventh of the total
population. are living on the pauper
standard of relief.
Note the word Emergency" that
is found in the titles of all these
official Notwithstanding with the
Federal Emergency Relief Admin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
BrOwderW ilSpeak
On SIP. Convention
Reiff, Former Socialist,
Will Also Speak

NEW YORK.-Earl Browder.. the
national secretary of the Commu-
.rist Party, will speak Wednesday,
June 9th at 8 pm. on the Socialist
Party Convention. a Manhattan
Lyceum, Sc East Fourth st.
Donald Reiff, co-worker and
signer Of the Revolutionary Policy
COMMITTEES" platform, who recently
Joined the Communist Party will
speak and Joseph Brandt. organizer
of the Down Town Section. c. P.
will be chairman.
Comrade Browder will explain
how the Socialist Party differs from
the Communist Party, the only
working class Party and will answer
the questions:
Did the Socialist Party Conven-
ton go left, or was their radical
talk cover for their anti-working
class program?
Who are the "lefts" and rights in
the S. P. Convention?
Why does the left" Norman
Thomas support the wagecutting
policy of the N. R. A.. its company
unions and the strikebreaking ar
bitration boards?
Workers are invited to come to
the meeting, bring their friends and
Shopmates and participate in the
questions and discussion period. The
members of the Socialist Party, the
Young Peoples Socialist League and
of A. F. of l.. unions are also in
vited to this meeting where the
Communist position on the abovs
questions will be thoroughly dis
cussed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Carmen to
/ ak Out in
Milwaukee.
JPN Today
Socialist Mayor HOan
Silent on
Strike
BOSSES ARM CARS
Communist Party Issues
Leaflet to Men
Special to In. Daily worker

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, June
Is. = A general electric and
transportation strike is eched-
uled for 400 p. m. Tuesday
A mass demonstration of Mil
waukee workers has been
called for Tuesday at 600
am. in front of the electric COM
pany terminals. This includes en-
ployed and unemployed.
The electric company, in open
provocaticn, is running street cars
through the Milwaukee streets to-
day already covered with armor
plate Snd wired cages armed with
private guards and barbed wire
strung around the company prop
erty.
A committee of workers organized
by the T. U. U. l.. is going to
Mayor Hoan this afternoon to de-
mand his stand on the strike. He
has been silent all the time. A. F.
of L. officials and Federal Mediator
Major John D. Moore are working
overtime to stop the walk-out.
Workers insist that those fired
for union activity be reinstated.
They also demand the right to vote
for the union of their choice. The
company is willing to allow the vote
The Communist Party in a leaf
let points out that the following
additional demands are necessary:
/. For a per cent wage in
crease with a IS cents minimum
hourly wage.
2. Immediate recognition of
the union. No consideration to
be given to the E. M. B. A., since
1t is a company union. A COM
mittee to be appointed with rep
resentaties from the three local
unions in the Electric Co., to con-
slider immediate amalgamation of
one union for all T. M. E. r. & L.
Co. workers.
3. Immediate reinstatement of
all those fired for union activity.
Back pay for all time lost during
this period.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

UNEMPLOYMENT relief in New
y York City and throughout the
United States today-after four and
one-half years of crisis and increas-
ing mass unemployment is still
being handled as if the owners of
the national wealth and their gov
eminent we're doing the unemployed
a favor by preventing them from
starving to death on a wholesale
scale.
The theory is-the typical theory
Of the rulers of system Of produc-
ton for profit only-that the vast
army of unemployed and their de-
pendents to whom the system denies
the opportunity to work, really have
no right to demand and get relief.
When the unemployed, supported
by employed workers, attempt to
enforce this right by organized
might, police clubs thud on unpro-
tected heads, gas bombs hiss, re-
volvers and riot guns flash and
roar. the jails fill with arrested
workers and their leaders. Another
red" plot has been uncovered.
Paupcrism-Sacred Institution
Pauperism has become a sacred
American institution. Pauperization
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

Labor, was resurrected today
by a Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union delegation.
1t is again a living, breathing
entity.
Thomas Elliot, Associate Solicitor
of the Department of Labor, re-
peatedly flushing to the roots of his
hair in embarrassment, heard the
s. M. w. I. U. delegations proposals
and admitted the necessity for them
and their pracmticality, but said he
doubted the ability of the Federal
government to enforce them
The delegation was headed by
Patrick Cush, National President,
James Egan, National Secretary of
the S. M. w. I. u, and William F.
Dunno, of the National Committee
of the Trade Union Unity League.
1t included four Negro and white
workers now employed in the Spar
rows Point bethlehem SteeD S. M.
w. I. U. local.
THE steel companies are prepar-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Demand One
Industrial
Auto Union
Rank, File AL. Auto
Delegates Fight the
Burocrat's Plan

DETROIT, Mich, June Prank
and file delegates to the national
conference Of A. F. Of L. Federal
Auto locals fought on the floor for
the militant program Of one in
dustrial union in the auto industry,
and despite railroading methods of
the Green Collins machine, secured
approximately so votes against a
Green dominated national council
The Green Collins machine resolu-
ton proposes to form national
Council of II members, with full
powers given to Collins, Green's
representative in the auto industry
The machines resolutions commit
tee tried to stop discussion but was
voted down.
Mortimer, of the White Motor
local of Cleveland spoke in favor
of the motion for an industrial
union in the auto industry. to in
clude the Auto Workers Union, the
Mechanics Educational Society. and
all independent unions. Mortimer
declared that there are three loop
holes in the Collins resolution for
a council of eleven:
% The chairman of the Council
is to be appointed by Green.
% The council itself is to have
only advisory power, Collins having
all authority.
go The council is to meet on
Collins call only.
Mortimer denounced the state
ment Of Green that THE auto
workers are not intelligent or expe-
rienced enough to form an interna-
tional now" There was big ap-
plause when Mortimer declared, I'VE
are intelligent enough not to accept
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
c. 2. Proposes
Joint Actions
On Daily Issues
Offer to Meet Newly Elected Executive Committee
To Plan United Actions Against
Wage Cuts, War, Fascism

NEW YORK. - Once again. the Communist Party.
through its Central Committee has issued call to the Ma
tona Executive Committee of the Socialist Party for the
organization of Joint united front actions certain definite
actions against the reactonary offensive of the
Wall Street-Roosevet government
In statement issued today the Central Committee Of
the Communist Party repeats its invitation for united front
actions which addressed to the Socialist Party
vention at Detroit.
Pointing out that the newly elected National Executive
Committee of the Socialist Party composed of those
elements the Party who last year declared that their read
ness to join in united front actions hampered only by the
Od Guard the Central Committee declares that the new
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
PayroHs Fail O.3&,
Job Cain Only O.I%o,
U. S. Figures Reveal

WASHINGTON, June Is
While factory employment
showed a gain of OIL per cent
from April to May, pay rolls fell
off 0.3 per cent, figures of the
U. S. Department of Labor re-
leased today show.
The figures are computed from
reports of manufacturing con-
Germs in 80 important industries.
About so per cent of the wage
earners in all the manufacturing
industries of the country were
covered.
Although the price of clothing
has risen tremendously, a de-
crease in payrolls of 8 per cent
in the clothing and per cent in
the textile industries are re-
ported.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
FarmWOrkerSMeet
Thugs in Attack on
SeabroOk Strikers
T. U. I'LL. Agricultural
Union Won Victory
Recently

VINELAND, N. j., June 3D.
JobIess workers here, led by the
Unemployed Councils, decided to
show their solidarity with the
striking agricultural workers in
Bridgeton by picketing the strike
breaking employment agencies
here.
BRIDGETON, N. j., June 23.-In
an effort to break the Agricultural
Workers Union CTU.UL), which
recently won strike victory against
the big Seabrook Farms, thugs have
broken loose smuggling picketing
strikers here with blackjacks, and
firing shots at the strikers.
Two of the pickets, Danny Nor
rome and Leonard Dramas, were
taken to the hospital unconscious
from the sluggings.
The present strike is the result of
the announcement made by the
Seabrook Farms that the recent
wage increases won through the
strike in April would be withdrawn.
At a meeting of Local of the
Agricultural and Cannery Workers
Union tT.U.UL) more than 400
workers decided to answer by strik-
ing. In the last strike the workers
won union recognition and 80 cents
an hour. The old pay was Is cents
an hour.
GLASSBORO, N. bean pickers
here who were cut in pay from Is
cents per hamper to 1914 cents per
hamper, struck today under the
leadership of the Glassboro Local
of the Agricultural and Cannery
Workers Industrial Union. Two
farms struck; one farm has already
settled, the wage cut withdrawn;
the other farm is being picketed.
The union is organizing delegations
to other farms in the area to spread
the strike; leaflets are being issued
to all bean pickers to strike for the
following demands:
Fifteen cents per hamper. p
No money to be deducted from the
workers for transportation to the
farm. 3-No Intermediary agent in
paying wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

at
Y.C.L. Meet
California Delegates
Arrive After a
Severe Accident
BY HARRY CANNES

NEW YORK-One with a broken
hand and nose, another with ten
stitches in his scalp. and third
painfully hurt, as the result of an
automobile accident, the California
delegation finally reached the 7th
National Convention of the Young
Communist League early Monday
morning on the fourth day of its
sessions. One Of their members, a
young seaman from San Pedro, CAL
ifornia, was forced to remain in a
hospital at Denver, his injuries be-
ing too severe for him to continue
on the trip.
When these badly battered but
undaunted young workers entered
the convention hall they were wildly
cheered.
The introduction of Leo Thomp-
son, a young Pennsylvania miner
organizer. who served more than
two years in Blawnox Penitentiary,
was another occasion for a stormy
outburst of enthusiasm. Comrade
Thompson was viciouSly prosecuted
in prison and came out seriously ILL.
This was his first appearance on
the fighting front again.
Greetings we're brought to the
convention from the Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party by
Jack Stachel and James Ford
After hearing reports on trade
union work and organization by Lou
Cooper and Johnnie Marks the con-
vention yesterday morning resolved
itself into number of industrial
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
(" n @ Strike
Allowed y Says
Mayor Hague
Jers ely City Officia
Backs Judge on the
Arrest of Pickets
(see Editorial on Page 6 Today

(See Editorial on Page Today
JERSEY CITY, June 25.-Mayor
Frank Hague, ardent Roosevelt
supporter and member of the Ma
tional Committee of the Democratic
Party, continues his czaristic attack
against organized labor and the
working class in general.
The no-strike edict stands in Jer-
sey City, he has declared
Ray Singer, %, and Sarah Bile
cher, As, both members of the Fur
niture Workers Industrial Union,
and Lillian Sandry of the Civil Lib
critics Union, we're sentenced by
Judge McGovern in the First Grim
inal Court to serve 30 days in Jail
Their crime" - peaceful picketing
in front of the Miller Furniture
shop, which is on strike under the
leadership of the Furniture Workers
Industrial Union.
The judge refused to consider tes-
timony that when Sarah Blecher
was arrested there was no dis
orderly conduct on her part. Even
detective testified that the pick
cts were orderly, marching Is feet
apart. Mr.. Miller, the owner of the
shop, declared there were $50 peo-
pie in front of the plant.
Meanwhile the battle continues in
the courts, and the union states
that it will continue to picket. Abe
Rottbaum, recording secretary of
the cabinet section of the Furniture
Workers Industrial Union; Abel
Handy, a Negro worker and mem
Der of the general executive board
of the union; Goldie Perlow, Mary
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
BY CHARLES KRUMBEIN
New York District Organizer,
Communist PARTY


Communist Party
THE drive to double the circulation
of the Daily Worker comes at a
very opportune time. With all the
strikes that have taken place as well
as many more in the off1ng, it must
be clear that large sections of the
working class are becoming dis
illusioned with the demagogy of the
New Deal and are taking the neces-
sary and correct steps to improve
their conditions. From this must
follow that these workers are in
terested in more than the struggle
for their day-to-day needs but are
also interested in a more funda-
mental and permanent solution to
their problems.
Role Tremendous"
The role that the Daily Worker
has played in the workers struggles,
in disillusioning the masses in the
New Deal as we'll as showing them
the revolutionary way out has been
tremendous. BY doubling the circu-
lation of the Daily Worker we will
triple and quadruple the influence
of this fighting leader and organizer
of the working class so that it can
CONTINUED on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

Socialist leadership must take
a definite stand Immediately
on all the day-to-day questions
that confront the American
working-class fighting for a
way out of the capitalist
crisis.
The complete statement,
signed BY Earl Browder. General
Secretary Of the Communist Party,
follows:
June 19. 1884.
To the National Executive Con-
mittee Of the Socialist Party;
We addressed your last convention
in Detroit with a proposal for the
establishment of united action Of
the Socialist and Communist Parties
on the burning issues facing the
toilers of this country. Our pro-
posals included the following main
questions as issues around which we
invited you to join with us en-
united front of struggle:
l. For decisive wage increases, to
overcome the declining standards Of
living being brought about by the
Roosevelt New Deal' and the N.
r. A; for a decisive shortening Of
the working week; for driving COM
pany unions out of the industries;
for a bold and energetic strike
movement in every industry to win
these demands: for a decisive fi1ht
within the unions against the poll
cies of Green. Vol. Lewis & Co,
and for building a revolutionary
trade union leadership.
2. For the immediate enactment
OF the Workers Unemployment IN
surance Bill Oh. r. 1899. the only
real social insurance proposal be-
fore the country which has already
been endorsed BY over 1000 A. F. Of
L. unions, by many City Councils.
including those of Milwaukee and
Bridgeport. by the Farmer
Party Of Minnesota, by the unions
of the Trade Union Unity League;
for a vigorous struggle for irnme-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
LynchTriaIofT hdlnann,
5000 Others Next Week
Protest Actions Grow Throughout U. S., National
Committee Calls for Intensified Campaign

NEW YORK. With Ernst Thael-
mann slated as the first victim, over
5000 snti-fascist German workers
are to be tried by the newly or
ganized Hitler lynch tribunal, be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Continued on Page .
NO RELIEF FOR FAMILY
OF SEVEN

NEW YORK.-Ballas Bassassis,
unemployed worker with a family
of seven to feed has been refused
relief because of the fact that the
oldest son, Angelo, refused to re-
turn to the Civilian Conservation
Corps after spending six months
in the G. C. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

ginning July 2, the National Com
mittee to Aid Victims of German
Faseism has been informd by cable.
The National Committee yester-
day issued an urgent appeal to all
workers, intellectuals and organiza-
tons, to energetically intensity the
present mighty mass campaign for
the freedom of Thaelmann and other
anti-Nazi fighters in Germany
Present protest actions, picketing of
the Nazi consulates, mass telephone
calls, sending of delegations, should
be supplemented by immediate
preparation for nationwide dem
onstrations around July 2, the Com
mittee urges.
All anti-fascists and organiza-
tons are urged to get behind the
campaign for one million signatures
and contributions to protest the
Nazi mass murder plans and to de-
fray the expenses of a delegation
of American attorneys to go to Ger
many to defend Thaelmann. Organ
izations are asked to elect delegates
and to be ready to finance their
trip to Germany to visit Thaelmann
and be present at the trial
Signature Lists and Postcards
Ready
Signature lists have been printed
in tens of thousands by the Ma
tional Committee to Aid Victims of
German Fascism. $40 Broadway,
New York City Greeting postcards
addressed to Thaelmann are also
available.
Other material prepared by the
pathy of the American masses for the
distribution include impressive
Free Thaelmann' placards, a four
page leafiet exposing Maxi activities
in the United States, a Rescue
Ernst Thaelmann" folder with a
Call to Action and Program of
Tasks. etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Steel Delegates Breathe
Militancy Into Ashes of
Bill Green's Sell-Out
Department of Labor Officials Embarrassed as the
S.M.WLU. Define Worker-Employer Stand
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau,

WASHINGTON, June 25.-Fhe vital issue of the rela-
lions between steel workers and steel companies supposed
to have been buried quietly in unmarked grave by the
proposals of President Green of the A. F. of L. and suisse
quen actions of President Roosevelt and the Department
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26
Krun1bein Urges Party
In N. Y. to Pass Quota;
Units VIII Act Tonight
District Organizer Says Doubling Circulation
Should Be Simple

immediate action
circulation 10000 by the district
mun all units meeting tonight Units have been instructed
necessary party
into the immediately fractions
will act this campaign Immediately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-26

1000 in Newark Demand
Free ThaeImann"
NEWARK, N. j. June 25.-At the
call of the New Jersey Youth Sec
(Continned on Page g.
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