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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14

In all this period of changing
moods among the workers our Party
has not recruited one member to
the unit and has not won back its
old members. What is wrong with
F. 81?
/. The unit is not the political
leader Of the shop.
2. The unit as such or the A..
W. U. as such has led no struggles
in any of the departments or gen.
orally in the shop.
8. The shop paper has been
merely an agitator and reporter
instead of an organizer for the
Party in the shop.
One of the comrades from the
factory expressed himself at the
District Plenum in the following
manner:
Our unit meetings are not in
teresting. We are like a bunch Of
reporters, we come together. The
comrade assigned from tn district
or section comes down, asks for in
formation for the shop paper and
We go home"
This is practically all a shop unit
meeting is Is it any wonder that
we have the above situation when
we have not done the following in
this unit?
l. No leadership in the unit has
been developed.
2. The comrades in the factory
are not directly responsible for the
shop paper.
3, No comrade from the unit is
on the section committee.
4. The street unit concentrating
on the shop is one of the weakest
units in the section.
5. No American workers have
been recruited into the Party unit.
In all the years that this unit
has been organized someone from
the district or section has been in
charge" of the unit. There is no
unit buro. There are no political
discussions held in the unit. The
majority Of the meetings are &C.
cupied in collecting material from
the shop. Rather notes" are
taken by the comrade in charge. /"
These notes are written up by the
comrade "in charge" and very often
the shop paper was issued without
the material being reviewed by the
unit members. The shop paper has
gained good deal of influence.
Workers have written letters, and
supported it financially. Also sew
eral demands have been won
through raising them in the shop
paper-but our comrades failed to
crystalline this influence into or
ganization. And one of the chief
reasons is because the unit men,
bers themselves have never written
up the material TOR their paper.
Someone always was there to take
notes
A word on the concentration unit.
1t has been very mechanical
means of making the turn to the
shops" merely assigning a unit for
concentration on certain factory.
The unit which was assigned to this
particular factory is a good example
of this mechanical application.
This street unit meets in the
vicinity Of the factory. For two
years they have been concentrating.
Occasionally they would send COM
rades with Daily Workers. They
faithfully carried out all the leaflet
and shop paper distribution. But
what have they done to help the
work inside-by recruiting into the
Party or Union? Nothing No real
plan was ever given them. No real
instructions on how-and why
concentration. Just - concentrate.
It is no wonder we get such poor
results. If this unit had carried on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14
Taxi Drivers Act; United
Textile Local of
Phila. Endorses

the county board, which included
free fuel, SIS minimum weekly on
G. W A. work which must be con-
tinued, $40 minimum for single
men, no discrimination. A cour9
united front organization vi
formed with George Nfonger, LATIN
Mich, as secretary. The newly
formed Unemployed Council of
L'Anse is taking an active part in
the fight for the Workers Bill.
jamestown United Front
The city of jamestown, whose
City Council Endorsed the Workers
Bill CHR. 1898 this week, is an
industrial center of $4,000 popula-
ton. manufacturing wood and metal
furniture, washing machines, tex
tiles, woolens and dresses, auto
parts, pianos, automotic voting ma
chimes, etc.
Tho action of the City Council of
jamestown was forced by the cor
rect application Of the united front.
The campaign was begun at an
upCu 4bl ujl ih0EbtAtS OdilACh w AiC
Joint Council of Industrial Unions,
which elected a committee 10 secure
Endorsements for the bin GH. r.
1899. Resolutions calling for ae-
ton on the part of the City Coun-
Gil were sent to all local unions in
the city and in all cases the bill
was Endorsed. Only some expelled
S. L. P-ibes of the United Workers
of America unsuocessfully tried to
disrupt the campaign.
When the bill came before the
city council, Leroy BarkstTom Of
the united front committee, @. L.
Anderburg, in the name Of the
Communist Party, T. Monroe, an
A. F. of L. member, spoke and
analyzed the Workers Bill.
The workers responded with thun-
derous applause. The couneilmen,
fully aware of the militant voice
of the workers of Jamestown, had
no other recourse but to indorse the
bill. The city council Endorsed the
bill and called upon its local repre-
sentatives in Congress TO vote for it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14
Mooney Urges Locals
OfAFL tOEndOrseBill
For Social Insurance
Answers Green's Attack
On H. r. 1893; Calls
For Campaign

NEW YORK, Tom Mooney. from
his cell in San Quentin, has again
sent q ringing call TO members of
the American Federation Of Labor
to throw their whole-hearted sup
port behind the Workers Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance Bill
III. R. 1898. Mooney sent his
message through, Louis Weinstock,
National Secretary Of the A. F. Of
L. Committee for Unemployment
Insurance and Relief, who visited
him in his cell last week.
m a recent letter to Wenstock
Mooney wrote the following:
TT gives me great pleasure to
learn Of the struggle yOHr organ
ikstion Is conducting for unem-
plOEnaent insurance and relief.
With millions Of workers and
their families starving at this
time, during an unprecedented
crisis, heartily and unquai-
fiedly endorse your fight for re
lief and insurance, 50 vitality
necessary for the lives Of the
American workers.
MY attention has been recently
called to a warning issued by
President william Green of the
American Federation Of Labor,
which is being sent to all city
labor bodies, local unions. Of the
A. F. Of L., attacking your organ
iSation.
The action Of Mr.. Green and
the resctionary leadership of the
A. F. Of L. in this connection, is
similar to their action in trying
ham string my Defense Commit
tee by warning unions affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor to withhold financial sup
port from the Committee, of
which am the director, and
which has for Is years been con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14
centratiOn Unit
Works Without Plan;
Gets No Results

Al
actiFlty III IAe ilelstipoil iooo VI viie
lactoly["ilele iiuituleoo Va Nv. woi t,s
employed III tiliS factory i'e Vlley
would nave given support 10 Cne
Parry ana tne oiiioh, We nay aS
mace some eIIorbS 10 improve Cile
"ork III tilis AaoVoty utlic'
l. a sucker calnpaiel Is ssarVeo'
Certain demands o. tlle a. "; y
are typed on very SHELL sVlcAeI'
lheSe are nnSCriouVeu 10 Tue men
oers OF Ghe union VINO SUCK tile
up IN Ine various departments,
the WaslroonlS on tne orlIlkn
fountains InacllleS' e.c' ReporeS
nave come oack tilaG Uney are no
ticeo ana having some GOOD ei1ect.
z, Inc comrades Ia tne unit nave
WrlGten Ine renruary Snop paper
themselves. In TACT II was decfoed
al tne unit meeting mat unless tne
nienloeTS OF tne uIilC WroCe One ar
ticles themselves on questions IN the
Silop no paper wouio De issued.
.. "A decision mas peen mace mat
conrsoe from the unit De mace
eoltor Oh the snop paper having 1ull
responsibility 70 see that the COM
RACES WrlVe Ior tne paper ana
eolClng Une paper
=. INC precoilyehCIoh discussion
Is taxing place ae each unit
nieeClLg.
.. Four comrades from the unit
nave Deen instructed 70 JON the A.
r OF L. 10 form an opposition, by
raising certain demands at uhe
closed meetings utlnslng the senu-
lilenG expressed IN favor OIL these
demands 10 form an opposition
group tlnls mas been carried out
oy Two comraoes only so fap.
.; An Auto workers Union affair
Is pelng Helo 10 raise finances 10
cafry on d real recruiting cam
pa.sn III etie factory
:. One conraoe from the section
IS put IN charge OF the union work,
paying particularly attention to
OldS snop'
Q. a snoek troop OF the league has
Deeil alil1eo 70 90 concentration
WIS al Cile factory
some plans winch are yet TO be
iuIiiieo'
l. a neLaoer OF tne unit TO be
on ' ir section coinmlttee.
70 increase the union activity
e oroaueIing out from the lecture
ioshi ~ union meeting. a
g Deealieo DEMANDS ior the on
poslCioii group rs me a. +. OF l..
De worked out and put up. u
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14

last meeting.
In L'Anse, upper Michigan, where
Henry Ford owns big saw mill and
dominates the town, the Baraga
County Board of Supervisors was
forced by demonstration of the
workers and farmers to unani-
mously indorse the Workers Bill.
The demonstration was organized by
the county committee of the United
Farmers League, and g. w. A. and
unemployed workers took part. The
court room was jammed with work
ers.
All of the demands of the work
ers and farmers were Endorsed by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14

which have Just Endorsed the Work
ers' Bill CHR. 1899 and sent let
ters to Chairman Connery Of the
House Labor Committee, where the
bill is now resting, and to Green,
Lundeen and their local congress-
men, include-Carpenters' Local
1918; Painters Local 997 Hosiery
Branch No. of Langhorn with 300
members, affiliated with the Full
Fashioned Hosiery Workers; Suit
case and Bag Makers Local So;
Molders' Local No. Is, and Paper
hangers Local 3O6. The Office
Workers Union Of Philadelphia also
Endorsed the Workers Bill at its
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14

pages by so per cent in its next
issue, and will also increase its press
run by the same amount. The New
York headquarters Of the A. F. Of
L. Committee for Unemployment In
surance and Relief is | Union
Square, Room 716.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14

Quoting the fight for my free
dom"
More than 200 A. F. Of L. locals
have already endorsed the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
snce Bill III. r. 1899. as well as
three state declarations of labor af-
filiated with the A. F.. Of L. More
than so of these locals have en-
dorsed the bill since it was intro
duced in Congress a month ago by
Representative Lundeen Of Mime
sofa.
At the last meeting of the Ma
tional Executive Of the A. F. of L.
Committee, held in Philadelphia,
plans were made to broaden the
campaign for support OF the bill.
Thousands of A. r. of L. locals are
being circularized and individual
members of the A. F. of L. are be-
ing urged to write letters to the
Congressman of their respective dis
tricts demanding that they support
the bill on the floor Of Congress.
AS the result OF widespread sup
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14

port being given the A. F.. Of L.
Committee for Unemployment In
surance and Relief by the rank and
file in the A. F. of L., the "a. F. Of
L. RANK AND FILE Fedora
ZIONIST" organ of the Commit
tee, will increase it's number OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14
By p. V. CACCHINE

A few weeks ago, a certain com
rade met a member of our organ
ization and asked how the rear
guard Of the movement was pro-
crossing. She was referring to the
Workers Ex-Servicemens League.
Our comrade remarked that what
to her was the rear guard, the Fas-
cistS considered the vanguard OF
their own movement.
This feeling in regard to our Or
ganization prevails throughout our
entire Party Our comrades have
not yet become politically conscious
OF the Importance of organizing this
section Of the masses, which con-
'sists of approximately eight million
ex-servicemen. OF these eight mil
lion, over four million are Veterans
Of the World War. In New York
City, there are about four hundred
thousand ex-servicemen and Of these
over 100000 Of them are World War
Veterans.
Part Of the Masses
Who are these ex-servicemen?
The prevailing opinion is that they
are a separate part Of the popula-
ton, but the truth of the matter
is that they constitute a group that
is representative of the entire work
ing masses.
Among them we find textile work =
ers from the New England States.
taxi drivers and street cleaners
from the large centers of popula-
ton; miners from the coal regions
Of Pennsylvania. Ohio, Illinois Ken
lucky, Tennessee and the other
mining states of the nation; work
ers from the stockyards, ranch la
oorers from the western states.
fruit pickers from the far wastern
states, lrlmberjacks from the big
woods, longshoremen and marine
workers, BARRIERS, small shop-keep-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14

The first speech was made by
Comrade x. He delivered the speech
in a very fine manner that had all
the comrades greatly interested.
Comrade x said: Comrades,
Lenin has said that we will never
be able to win the great masses
for q revolution unless we Rave a
trained body Of professional revo-
lutionists. We must all of us try
to become professional revolution
lists.
What does this mean? This
means that We have got to keep
our eyes open all the time and
spread our ideas wherever we are.
at all times.
Il have seen many of our com
radeS in trains and street cars and
I never see them carrying any of
our revolutionary literature prop
erly displayed, such as a newspaper,
or magazine, etc. And we must
also have some leaflet or pamph-
let with us that we can leave be-
hind for some other worker to pick
up. When reas my paper in the
train. or when waiting for train
I display it prominently because
there is always somebody near
curious enough to look into our
paper.
During National Defense Week
We had very good leaf1et. 1t was
a long leaflet printed on both sides
but it was very good leaflet. for
3 change. l left this leafiet in the
train next to a worker who looked
very well off and the type who
would be least interested in our
literature. This worker was reading
his own pepr but when he noticed
the leafiet ne picked it I'D and
started to read it. He read for
minute or so and then put on his
glasses ana started to read the
leafiet again. He not only read this
leaf1et, but he studied it.
watched him and it took him
Is minutes to go through that
leafiet. Then he carefully folded the
leaflet and put it deep into his
coat pocket. When this worker got
up 70 go oat followed him, al
thoNgh 1t was not my station. On
the platform spoke TO him. I said
l had noticed he had read the
leafiet and that I had also hap
pened 30 pick up the same leafiet
and that it appealed to me very
much. He replied he thought 1t
was very good.
l asked him If he had ever read
am other literature put ont by the
same people and he said no, but he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-14

The following two speeches de-
livered by workers at Section pre-
Convention discussions are very
instructive. They show some Of
the virtues and deficiencies in our
. day 10 day work, as actually ex-
perienced by rank and file com
rades. All workers are urged to
send in similar contributions to
the Party pre- Convention discus
sion. taking mp in detail actual
experiences in carrying through
the line OF the Party.
These two speeches were deiiv-
cred at the convention Of Section
Ia, District 2, last Sunday, March
IL, and were submitted by Com
rade J. r., Unit 80, Section IA.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-02
BITTER BATTLE WAGED IN COURT
BETWEEN LOS ANGELES JUDGES

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2. U.P)-
The insanity hearing of Louis
Rude Payne, 20, convicted young
axe-slayer, was continued today
despite legal uncertainties created
by an embattled trial judge, ruling
that the case was a mistrial.
Prospects of supreme court in
tervention receded when Associate
Justice Emmett Seawell said his on
ly purpose in asking for a state
ment in the case was to make clear
that he was not Superior Judge
Harry F. Sewell, the trial judge.
In a scene filled with high drama
and explosive oratory, Judge Sewell
ruled that the trial must be re-as-
signed because evidence was taken
during his absence yesterday when
another judge presided.
Sewell IS removal had been order
ed by Judge Fletcher Bowron, in
charge of the criminal courts divis-
ion. Bowron acted after Presiding
Judge Frank c. Collier filed an af-
fidayit, charging Sewell with being
intoxicated on the bench last May.
Sewell rejected demands that he
resign.
Judge Bowron was a spectator as
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-02
PRESIDENT To
ARR|VEFR|DAY
At PORTLAND
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
United Press Staff Correspondent

Othteu IICSS Stdll SOliCoPohuChs
ABOARD THE USS NEW OR
ROOSEVELT, Aug. 2. (By Radio
ROOSEVEELT, Aug. 2. tBy Radio
to the United Press)-The Seagoing
part of President Roosevelt's IS $4,000
mile vacation and inspection tour
approached it's close today as the
cruiser Houston brought him near
the oregon coast.
Under the present schedule the
Houston and its convoy, the New
Orleans, will reach Astoria, Ore,
early tonight.
Arriving at Portland Friday
morning, the President will leave
the Houston behind and will board
a special train which will carry
him directly to the great Bonne-
vile Power and Navigation project.
He will be joined by Mrs. Roosevelt
and by Louis McHenry Howe and
Stephen Early, his secretaries, at
Portland.
Before leaving the ship, Mr..
Roosevelt plans to extend thanks to
the navy for the part it played in
carrying him to American possess
sions in the Atlantic and the Pa
cific.
The President is we'll pleased with
the results of his trip, now in its
fifth week. He plans to be back
in Washington before the end of
another, inspecting federal public
works. and the midwest drought
belt on his way eastward.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-02
ACTION ON CHAMBERS BUDGET
POSTPONED BY CITY COUNCIL

Following a thorough checkup OF
the estimated city budget for the
current fiscal year, the budget pre-
Sented to the city council by the
chamber of commerce at last
night IS meeting will be given due
consideration. With the board sit
ting as an equalization body start
ing August 13, at which time the
city budget will come up for con-
sideration, the chamber Of COM
merce budget will be definitely dis
posed of by the council on August
II, H. w. Tyler. president OF the
chamber was told by the council
last night.
The 1934-35 chamber of COM
merce budget as presented by Ty-
ler to the council last night was
tentatively set at Slab. OF this
amount $155.20 represents cash on
hand; $3,275.80 estimated member
ship dues and $4,000 to be received
from the city for the current year.
Tyler and other members of the
chamber directorate addressed the
council pointing out that the
chamber finance committee felt
the estimated budget was set at the
lowest possible figure to insure ef-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-02
GERMANY PLANS REFERENDUM ON
ACTION ELEVATING NAU CHIEF
Move Considered To Be Mere Formality In
View Of Additional Power Granted Hit
Ter And Strength OF Nazis.

"The law which permitted the
leader to take over the reich pres
ident IS duties went into force a.
the moment of death.
"The German people will give
the reich president a state funeral. -
Wilhelm F'rick, minister of in
terror, announced period of ma
tional mourning.
Orders were sent out that flags
should fly at half mast for two
weeks on all military buildings and
ships.
Officials and public servants were
ordered to wear mourning bands on
their left sleeves.
Werner Won Blomberg, defense
minister, Goebbels announced, or
dered all army officers to wear
mourning two weeks. Those of the
first, third and sixteenth regi-
ments, with which Hindenburg
was associated, will wear mourning
four weeks.
The guard of honor for linden
burg's bier was drawn from the
third.
Goebbels finished his announce
ments after talking 10 minutes.
An orchestra played the old SOL
dier song.
81 Had A Comrade. -
The new phase of the third reich
had started.
For the first time in his 16
months in office Hitler was in
charge not only of the Nazis and
the police but of the treaty limit
ed army of 100000 that is regard
ed as the finest in the world.
1t had been admitted that the
reichswehr, which was under Hin
denburg as commander in chief and
to a man was for him, could have
crushed NaziSm.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-02
Mx R1~1
S,,sx.n.Nsushf sIsafssa.. Ia.
HITLER MOVE
DEEMED WISE

PARIS, Aug. 2. U.P-As govern
ment officials dispatched kilograms
of coincidence to Berlin at the death
of President Won Hindenburg, OBJ
servers generally agreed that Chan
cellor Adolf Hitler had executed an
adroit move by assuming presiden-
tial powers.
Hitler IS prompt action, observers
believed, banishes the dangers that
might have arisen in selecting
successor to Won Hindenburg. The
opinion was that the reich IS 'Ffueh-
rer" apparently had gained the
support of the powerful reichsweh>
The newspaper Midi commented
that the reichswehr did not seem
possessed of a "capable candidate
to replace Hindenburg as a media
tor and therefore its only alterna-
tive was to place its confidence in
Hitler.''
The semi-official newspaper, LIE
Temps, declared that Hitler's ac-
ton today made him "the only
master and god of the German
people,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-02
BY FREDERICK OECHSNER
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1884, BY United Press
BERLIN. Aug. 2. - Adolf Hitler
took sole command of the German
government today at the moment
that President Paul Won Hinden-
burg died. Hitler became presi-
dent-chancellor.
1t was announced the offices
would be merged
Authoritative Nazi party leaders
believed Hitler would seek life
office as "reich leader for the
German nation and people,
They predicted a referendum to
the people between August 10 and
August 26, seeking confirmation.
The merger was legaliZed at a
cabinet meeting last night by a
special law possible under tI
emergency powers of the Nazi die
tatorShip.
1t was provided that Hitler per-
sonally would designate that his
successor substitute as chancellor
president in case of his death or
his absence from his duties.
The Nazi machine functioned
with utmost precision.
Hindenburg died at 9 a. m.
At Gas Paul Joseph Goebbels,
minister of propaganda, announc-
ed over the radio:
German people! Reich Pres
ident Hindenburg at 9 a. m. passed
into eternity
At 10:15, rs minutes after Hin
denburg's IS death, Goebbels an
nounced Hitler was president.
Explains Law
He explained:
"In consequence of law passed
by the cabinet last night the lead
er takes over all the powers of
president.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-02
TWO LOCAL
MEN HURT IN
CAR ACCIDENT

Walton johnson received a lac
Grated scalp and Willard Shroyer
painful injuries to his right hand
in an automobile accident which
happened on the Calexico highway
near Heber last night, according
to a report received here this
morning.
The car, driven by johnson,
struck some soft dirt at the side
of the pavement and overturned
The injured men were treated at
La Solana hospital.
No one was injured and but minor
damages caused to two automobiles
which collided a half mile west
of this city on the San Diego high
way at o'clock yesterday afternoon
according to a report filed at the
state traffic office.
This states that car driven by
Geneva Kellner, El Centre, had
slowed down to make a turn when
it was bumped by a car driven
by Mrs. Iva Anderson, also OF this
city, who was following the other
car.
Reports at the sheriff's office
state that two cows were injured
in accidents which happened late
yesterday and this morning. The
first animal was struck at the
New river crossing near Seeley at
GAS o'clock yesterday evening and
had two legs broken. The other
animal was injured at o'clock
this morning on the Calexico high
way south of the Hill ranch.
r. w, McCredy reported at state
traffic headquarters today that
while returning to El Centro or
the Calexico highway early this
morning he ran into herd of cat
tie on the highway about mile
south of this city killing a COW ano
calf. The dust stirred up by the
herd was so thick, the report stat
ed, that McCredy was unable tc
see the stock until he was in then
midst, and he could not prevent the
accident.