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The Washington times., 1934-04-25
At FAST
TEMPO IN
GAMES
BY GARRETT WATERS


They came to conquer and they
conquered!
That's exactly what the reju.
venated Boston Red Sox did to
the harried Griffmen yesterday in
an opening game before $4,000, in
Guiding President Roosevelt, who
threw out the first ball.
And they didn't let little thing
like rain stop them. They began
making runs in the rain and they
kept on making 'em after the rain
ceased.
The fans, in the meanwhile, Suf.
fered. The score was 5 to 0. The
Griffs, as the victims, looked bad,
making their first official start
before the home folks.
Lefty Walter Stewart began on
the mound for Manager Cronin.
He went all right until forced to
stop because of the rain. Then
Pilot Cronin withdrew him from
the box for the reason that he
figured Jack Russell's supposed
"sinker" would continue to keep
the Sox at bay rather than Stew"
arts speed and slow mixers.
Plan Fails
The plan failed. Russell gave
up three runs in the fifth, and
retired in favor Of General Alvin
CroWder, in the sixth, who granted
one more run. Bob Burke followed
Crowder in the box.
Bobby pitched fair to middl1n'
ball in the eighth and ninth, but
not quite middlin' enough to keep
the Sox from scoring their last
markers of the day. They pushed
this run over the pan in the
eighth on successive hits by Wal
ters, Welch and Werber.
The game ended when the Griffs
went down weakly in the ninth,
one, two, three, before the master
full pitching of Johnny WEIGH, the
rookie highlander, who has made
good with a vengeance this spring.
The fans departed realizing that
they had seen their favorite team
in action at it's worst. Surely an
event like that won't occur again?
Surely, the boys will be in bet
ter form today, tomorrow, the
next day and so on down the line?
Waal, it's a question. Maybe so,
maybe not. The next fortnight
might offer an idea.
SOx Surprising
Now a bit about the Red Sox.
They're decidedly the surprise
team Of the league so far. And for
the simple reason that the dope
sters figured this spring that Man
ager Bucky Harris would get the
expected good pitching from the
great staff at hand, but not the
hitting, the fielding and the gen.
eral au-round high standard Of
play.
But the team, on the whole,
has fooled everybody. Besides bet
ter than average pitching for this
time Of. the year, the Beantown
entry is getting more than its
share Of hits, is playing its head
off in the field, while the spirit is
such that promises to carry the
performers far in this, the early
part Of the campaign when vic
tories mean just as much as later.
Werber, Reynolds Good
Bill Werber and Carl Reynolds
particularly are going well, both
as iitters and fielders. Added to
this the young hurler - Johnny
Welch-who threw" so effective.
ly out there yesterday, is living
up to every inch of faith Man.
ager Bucky Harris pinned in him,
once the new campaign began.
Maybe the Sox will be that
threat Boston fans have waited
for after all. At the least they're
offering the Griffs an example Of
what it takes to win, which ex.
ample can't be overlooked at the
moment, because Of the manner
in which history is being made.
The Washington times., 1934-04-25
CORBETT FAVORED

SAN FRANCISCO, April 25.-
Young Corbett III, former welter.
weight champion, was made q
10 to z favorite today over young
Terry, of Trenton, N. j., when
they meet next Monday night.
The Washington times., 1934-04-25
WARWICKS TO DANCE

The Warwick Athletic Club will
hold a "tacky" dance Saturday
night at the Chevy Chase ball
room. Music win be furnished by
Buddy Hilton orchestra.
The Washington times., 1934-04-25
Nothing on the Ball

Forsooth, as those 16 Boston
hits testify, our beavers had alb
solutely nothing on the ball ex'
cept their own fingerprints.
The less said about 'em the
better.
Meanwhile Bucky Harris put
on an exhibition for the ediflca'
ton of his fellow townsmen Of
what looks to be q pretty well
The Washington times., 1934-04-25
SEEKING OPPONENT

Arlington A. C. wants an un-
limited opponent for Sunday. Call
Manager Ferguson at Cleveland
$685..
The Washington times., 1934-04-25

Rooms some with privilege of
eating at the family table, can be
the WANT AID SECTION Of this news.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-01
Vets At Capital
Call for Support
In Fight for Bonus
Urges Wires Be Rushed
To Senate Demanding
Action on Bill

WASHINGTON. May 81. - AS
more than one third Of the veterans
who took part in the recent Ma
tional Veterans Convention are still
staying on in the capital to con-
tinue the fight for the passage of
the Bonus, q call has been issued
to all supporters of the vets fight
to send flood Of letters, kilograms,
to Congressman and Senators de-
handing consideration Of the Bonus
Bill at once.
All rang and file veterans are
urged to get in touch with Veterans
Rank and File Committee. 1410
C" Street, N. W, Washington,
D. c., for reports Of the Convention
and for instructions for future
work.
The Senate Finance Committee
and the President should be inne-
distely wired to, demanding passage
Of the Bonus Bill.
The vets staying on at the capital
appeal for support. Street meetings
are being held in various cities to
pass resolutions to send to Roose-
welt on the passage of the bonus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-01
Chicago, ILL.,, Activity Is
Led by Mabel Byrd,
Negro Leader
BY SASHA SMALL

DESCENDING to the call Of the
IN American Section of the Inter
national Women's Congress Against
War and Fascisin to be held in
Paris July %, to 80 of this year,
women's anti-war committees and
conferences are already at work all
over the country mobilizing women
from every walk of life for the
struggle against war and fascism
and preparing for the election of a
representative delegation from the
United States. -
Chicago: A strong committee with
Mabel Byrd, the Negro woman who
resigned from her position in the
N. r. A. in protest against jim
crow discrimination, as chairman,
has already established neighbour
hood committees which are can
wasting all women's organizations
in their locality, concentrating ON
all factories in this same territory,
churches, etc. Neighborhood con-
ferences will be held, some of them
back yard meetings, where the Con-
greSs will be popularized and prep
arations made for the Chicago re-
gional conference which will take
place at the end of June. A special
Subcommittee for work In the
Southern Illinois coal fields has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-01
To Pick Delegates Here
For W rid Fig hit
Against Fascism

ing on ali, farm women to join in
this movement.
New York: In addition to two
large industrial conferences - one
Of all sections of the Needle Trades
involving members Of the Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers
Union, women from unorganized
shops and members of the N.TW.
III, and another involving all
women workers in the metal trades
called by the Steel and Metal Work
ers Industrial Unions-a monster
rally will be held on June IS organ
lied by the N. Y. Womens subcom-
mittee of the American League,
$4,000 leaflets announcing the rally
are now being distributed, 5000 calls
have been distributed and 5000
copies of the June issue of FIGHT
are now being sold
An anti-war affair will be held
the afternoon Of June 3 at Webster
Hall at which the members of the
Group Theatre now perferming
Men in White" will present one
act play about Dimitroff, and Fe
Aft will dance. This affair is only
one part of the program planned
to raise the quota of $4,000 this
New York Committee has set itself
to finance the delegation. The New
York City-wide Conference at
which the delegates viii be elected
will be held on July 7th,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-01
Cops, Legion Thugs
Slug, Gas 1000 as
Relief Men Strike
Seattle, Wash, Walters,
Cooks Strike at
Relief Kitchen

SEATTLE, Wash, May 81.
Swinging clubs and lackiacks,
firing tear gas and guns, police
"vigilantes" and hired American
Legion thugs attacked 1000 workers
and 22S striking cooks and walters
at the relief kitchen of the Wash
ington Emergency Relief Admin
stration here Monday.
The cooks and walters walked out
on strike, demanding at least S. a
week and a six-hour day. They have
been working from to IL hours and
getting three meals of wretched food
and 81 week.
In the police attack, vigilantes
and thugs hired by the VERA
grabbed Harold Brockaway, chair
man of the Downtown District
Council Of the Unemployed Citizens
League affiliated to the National
Unemployment Councils, and after
beating him, turned him over to the
police.
Tear gas and guns were fired at
the 1000 workers who were demand
ing food and backing up the strike.
of the walters and cooks. After the
tear gas barrage, the wind shifted
blowing the gas at the attacking
police and thugs.
Scabs are being recruited from
the ranks and by the American
Vigilantes, fascist organization OF
Seattle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-01

employers affected hereby shall be
regulated by the respective codes
applying thereto. Any board Of
arbitration created by Section s
hereof may inquire into all com
plants for violation Of said codes
with respect to hours of employ
ment, and shall file its report with
proper federal authorities.
The term employees" as used
herein shall include truck drivers
and helpers, and such other per
sons as are ordinarily engaged in
the trucking operations Of the bust
ness OF the individual employer.
Any dispute as tn an Interpretation
Of this section shall be referred to
the regional labor board for deter
minatiOn.
The present wage scale of each
employer for the various classes of
employees, until and unless changed
by agreement between employers
and employees, or the representa-
tiVes of employees, or by arbitration
as provided in Section 6 hereof,
shall remain in force and effect for
at least one year from date hereof.
How did this happen? What are
the mechanics Of a process which
can turn victory for 5000 workers
and potential victory for a huge
section Of the working class-into
defeat overnight? How is it that
with the employers on the defensive
and the workers and their organi-
cations masters of the situation one
day, the strikers go to bed and
wake up to find themselves defeated
and bound with the CALLING chains
Of compulsory arbitration the next.
with chains whose very link bears
the tag Revolutionary Trade
Unionism a Ia Trotskyism?"
(The next article will deal in
more detail with the class forces
involved in the Minneapolis Strug-
gle and the process by which a
general strike situation was turned
into deliberate surrender to the
authorities, the employers, N.R.A.
and compulsory srbitration.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-01

siderable publicity has already been
given to the work and the regional
conference which will be held on
June Doth. Six shop papers issued
by the Communist Party have given
special space to this work.
Hartford, Conn: The local
women's anti-war committee, COM
posed of members of peace societies,
working women, teachers, etc. is
arranging a large mass meeting
early in June. Special efforts are
being made to reach the women
workers in the ammunition plants
in the surrounding territory to help
them organize anti-war committees
in these plants:
Pittsburgh: The Pittsburgh COM
mittee has chosen Fayette County
in the heart of the coal mine region
for special concentration: Calls
have been sent to all trade unions
in this region, unemployed councils,
peace organizations and prominent
liberal women. Special leaflets and
copies of the June issue of Fight
are being sold in front of the West
inghouse plant, Heinz plant, and
Kensington Aluminium.
Detroit: The local women's COM
mittee under the Craftsmanship of
E. Brotsky of the Women's Auxi-
liary of the MESA. will hold their
regional conference to elect dele
gates on July It'll. In Dearborn
special leaflets have been issued and
distributed to the women in q large
plant making auto bodies calling
on them to organize anti-war com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-01

mittees. Social affairs inviting the
wives of auto workers and the
women in the auto plants are being
arranged. The Dearborn commit
tee marched in the National
Youth Day Parade with banners
announcing the Paris Congress. A
Polish Women's Committee Against
War and Fascism has distributed
1000 leaflets in house to house can
wasting appealing to the Polish
Women to organize the fight against
war and fascism and inviting them
to the Detroit conference.
Milwaukee: has functioning
committee composed of representa-
tives from trade unions, women's
clubs, language organizations, men,
bers of the Socialist Party, teachers,
etc. working on local anti-war
conference.
Duluth, Mimi, will hold a re-
gional conference on June 18th to
elect delegate to the Paris Con-
greSs. Many organizations in
GLIDING farm organizations will par
ticipate.
Gleason Wise. several places in
Nebraska, northern Michigan, Colo
RADIO and the Dakotas have estab-
lished anti-war committees among
the farm women. They are holding
meetings popularizing the Paris
congress and organizing the farm
women against war and fascism.
Representatives from these COM
mittees have sent special articles to
the Farmers National Weekly call
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councils, in the Chicago region are
being reached for this work and
special attention is being given to
the stock yards.
Cleveland: Preparations for re-
gional conference on June 8, with
preparatory section conferences are
already under way. 1000 copies of
the call issued by the American
Section have been distributed with
a special call to the women Of
Cleveland attached. Back yard
conferences baby carriage parades,
neighborhood canvassing commit
tees, mass meetings, are under way,
all arranged by the Cleveland
Women's Committee Against War
and Fascism, composed of represen-
tatives from trade unions, peace
societies, housewives, language or
CARNATIONS, Negro women's clubs,
etc.
San Francisco and Los Angeles:
calls have already been sent to 230
organizations by the women's COM
mittee of the California section of
the American League Against War
and Fascism with committees
elected to follow up the calls. Spe-
cial concentration points are the
Cannery and Agricultural Workers
Industrial Union in San Pedro and
the wives of the striking longshore-
men in San Fransico Two thousand
leaflets have already been dis
tributed announcing the preparatory
which will be held on
June 2, at the Cultural Center, $50
S. Spring Street, Los Angeles. Con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-01

of class forces with flying colors,
colors borne by the 3,7OO National
Guardsmen modified during the
truce" by this friend of the work
ing class for use against the strikers.
The exposure and defeat Of Olson
should have been the central polit-
ical objective of the Minneapolis
struggle. This was the basic neces?
sity for winning the economic de-
mands for the Drivers Union and the
rest of the working class. Had Gov
ernor Olson dared to send single
soldier against the strikers and their
supporters the working class Of
Minneapolis would have answered
with a general strike. He would have
been driven from Office. His up
ward climb on the backs of the
workers and farmers would have
been stopped for all time.
AS it is, Olson is more firmly en-
trenched. The frightened employers
have been given breathing spell in
which to reform their battle lines.
The Central Labor Council dema-
gogues were never put to the test
of actually modifying strike action
in support of the auto drivers. They
heave a sigh of relief and wipe the
beads of cold sweat from their
brows. Illusions in regard to N. r
A. have been strengthened.
The Shameful Settlement
Everything is lovely and the goose
hangs high-everywhere except in
the homes of the auto truck drivers
and the unemployed workers who
bore the cruel brunt of the struggle.
Here is the decisive section of the
shameful settlement:
IN the hiring and discharging or
laying off of employees, seniority
rights shall prevail, except for Just
cause"
In the event that any employer
affected hereby and its employees
or their representatives cannot
agree upon a wage scale or condi-
tons of employment, such employer
shall submit such subject or sub
iectS to said Minneapolis Paul
regional labor board, for arbitration.
And also in the event that any dis
pute between said members of local
union No. STA and any employer
affected hereby shall arise with ref
erence to sections %, "a or 81
hereof, said parties hereto agree to
submit such subject or subjects to
said board of arbitration. The board
agrees to then Immediately appoint
two nominated employers, two NOM
mated employees of local union No.
574, one labor board member and
an industrial member of the board
to such arbitration group, said ar
bitratiOn group so constituted to
name a seventh neutral member.
Hearing on any arbitration herein
before referred to shall be called
within five days after the appoint
ment of said arbitration board
When arbitration Is completed, the
board of arbitration shall report its
decision to said regional labor board,
which shall Immediately make a
final order In the premises in ac-
cOrdance with the said decision of
said board of arbitration.
Hours of labor prevailing In the
various business of the respective
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-01

been established. Its chief work will
be to develop the movement among
the Ladies Auxiliaries of the P. M.
A. In addition to working women,
housewives, peace society represen-
tatives, several prominent Chicago
women are on the committee.
The Chicago Committee attended
the National Conference of the
Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom in Milwaukee,
to bring the program of the Paris
Congress before the floor of this
organization and to urge the mer-
ging of their international Congress
in Switzerland this summer with
the International Womens Con-
gress in Paris.
Glenna Stannard, one of the
members of the Chicago Committee,
who is engaged in P. w. A. work,
reported that girls and women on
many of the projects are working
on sheets, bedding, and hospital
supplies. When the possibility of
their being involved in war prep
srations at this moment was ex-
plainad to them, they expressed
great eagerness to help in the work
of the Chicago Anti-War Commit
tee.
One of the factories selected for
special concentration is a rayon
mill where over 600 girls are at this
moment engaged in making gun
cotton. Every Saturday afternoon
U. S. government trucks call for
the weeks work.
An the trade Unions, unemployed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-01
Riot Squad Fails to Break
New Haven Jobless Ranks

NEW HAVEN, Conn.-Riot squads
were called when delegation of
several hundred single unemployed
marched on the City Hall here de-
manding relief Mayor Murphy,
former A. F. of L. organizer, self
styled friend of labor" passed the
buck on the demands.
The newly organized Unemployed
Protective Association, affiliated
with the Unemployment Councils,
with headquarters at S57 Grand
Ave, has grown from membership
of 10 to 225 in the past two months.
The Association demands 81 weekly
cash rlief for single workers, $40
plus SO for each dependent to fam
lilies and enactment of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill Oh.
r. 1899.
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ers' necks in reprisal under such
circumstances, dared only to publish
a laudatory editorial obituary.
The WelI-organized Minneapolis
working class, which has q splen-
did tradition OF struggle, had the
opportunity of inflicting a severe
defeat upon the employers, substan-
TALLY improving their wages and
working conditions and strengthen
ing the entire labor movement. The
struggle would have spread to st.
Paul where the workers are even
better organized and in the present
period when there is such ferment
among all sections of the working
class and big battles are the order
of the day, the effect of such q
powerful movement on the rest of
the American working class is in
calculable.
Near General Strike
The truce" was agreed to, and
the shameful settlement made be-
fore even the full strength of the
auto truck drivers union had been
brought into play-to say nothing
of the working class reserves. Com
pare the Toledo situation with the
Minneapolis settlement"
One soldier sent in by Olson, one
worker injured by troops, would
have meant a general strike, victory
for the labor movement, exposure
and moral defeat of Olson and the
Farmer-Labor Party administration.
But this is what the Trotzkyite
leaders were afraid of. If this is
not so, why did they allow Governor
Olson, during q truce-which in the
military sense is supposed to stop
all troop movements while it lasts
to mobilize the National Guard
while negotiations were going onP
Honest and capable leadership
would have demanded the demobili-
cation of the troops before one word
was said about settlement of the
strike. This was not done. Nego-
tlations we're carried on, the sur
render was arranged with Governor
Olson while he held over the heads
OF workers the threat of military
invasion.
The Trotzkyite leaders, thinking
in terms of the Central Labor Coun-
Gil officials instead of in terms of
the great mass of militant Mime
apolis workers, quit cold like the
palookas they are.
The working class reserves had
not even as yet gone into action
when the fatal truce" was agreed
to. 1t spelled defeat.
Fruits of Victory Given Away
The auto drivers and their work
ing class supporters won on the field
of action in the street and on the
picket lines. Their Trotskyite lead
ers and Olson's puppets in the Cen
trail Labor Council called off the
battle and gave away the fruits of
victory at the conferences with
Governor Olson, the employers and
N. R. A. representatives.
Governor Olson, one of the most
dangerous enemies of the working
class, and the whole Farmer Labor
Party bureaucracy, thanks to the
policy of cowardice and capitulation
Of the American representatives of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-01
Picket Ship in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA May 31-Sea-
men are picketing the S. S. Ulysses,
an Atlantic Refining Co. oil tanker,
which arrived here from the port of
Arkansas Pass, Texas, where the
crew struck under the leadership of
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union. The ship came in with a
scab crew, 81 men short" All at
tempts to get scabs to move the ship
from Philadelphia failed. An en-
gineer coming from New York
promptly returned when he learned
that the ship was on strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-01
On the
Strike Front
Unemployed Support
Distillery Strike

PEKIN, Ohio, May 31.-The IN
enjoyment Council of Pekin is sup
porting and actively taking part in
the strike of the 500 workers of the
American Distilling Co., who went
on strike on May % for union recog-
milton.
The Corn Products workers, who
are also organizing a union, are aid
ing the strikers picket the plant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-01
NetO Orleans JobIess
March on Food Dep;
Cops Seize Workers
BY a worker Correspondent

BY Worker Correspondent
NEW ORLEANS, La, May ga
few hundred hungry people went
to a warehouse to ask for -four and
five squad cars of officers came and
arrested them for the simple reason
that they wanted to get a sack Of
-four so they might have bread for
themselves and children. They had
asked at the Office Of the N. r. A.
and had been refused until they be-
came desperate enough to 60 to the
warehouse where ordinarily, there is
stored at least a carload of -four
and meat.
The men on Transient Relief are
being used as strike breakers and
there is a move afoot to use the men
on E, r, A. relief for the same pur-
pose.