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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
LGGuardid Aid Bankers
In Driue for 7-Cent Fare

ably vote with La Guardia, thus
dividing the responsibility between
both parties and making it difficult
for either to use it against the other
in future elections.
C. P. Hits Tax Program
Responding to the serious situa-
ton before the masses of New York
City, the Communist Party has
urged the widest united front strug-
gle against the callous playing
with relief Of which the La Guardia
administration is guilty" In a
statement on the relief crisis,
Charles Krumbein, organizer of the
New York District of the Commu-
mist Party said:
"The relief crisis which city
officials now admit is another one
Of the periodic relief crises that
have their roots in the bankers
policies followed by the La
Guardia administration. 1t is a
callous playing with relief Of
which the La Guardia admins
tration Is guilty. Mayor La Guar
dia skips from one relief crisis
to another with one object in view
Ito please the bankers by plac-
ing greater tax burdens on the
masses of the city, to make the
employed workers and small bust
ness people of New York pay for
the expenses of relief while the
bankers get millions in interest
on their loans.
"The Communist Party is un-
alterably opposed to the 7-cent
fare, the sales and payroll taxes.
The city administration lies if it
attempts to say that the 7-cent
fare is the only possible alterna-
tive if the unemployed are not to
starve. There is sum of $780,
100000 set aside in the 1885
budget for debt service, that it,
interest on bankers loans. Hold
that up until federal unemploy-
ment insurance is enacted, the
NuhuAuAllSb a says AhC
bankers can wait very well. While
one and a quarter million people
Of this city live on a semi-starva-
ton level, there is no earthly rea-
son why the bankers must be
paid.
THE Communist Party calls
upon the Socialist Party, the Cen
trail Trades and Labor Council, all
unemployed organizations, every
labor, fraternal, professionals and
small taxpayers organization, to
unite in a wide fight that will
compel the La Guardia admins
tration to back down on their
announced policy of gouging more
out of the already impoverished
masses of the city, The great
bankers, the profit utili-
ties, the small group of million
aires of the city, must bear the
expense of relief. Starving Paul
must not be bled further to pay
starving Peter. The bankers must
pay!"
Further steps in the fight against
the Fusion administrators tax
program will be announced shortly,
the district Office of the Communist
Party stated,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
Framed Negro
SAYS NAACP
Made Threats

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, Nov. IL.
Representatives of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People threatened to pre-
vent the appearance of important
defense witnesses if he allowed the
International Labor Defense to aid
him. This is the charge made in
sworn AFFIDAVIT by Alphonso Davis,
Negro worker who has been SEN
fenced to 20 years on vicious,
fiimsy rape" frame-up.
In accordance with Davis wishes,
the LID. has filed notice Of an
appeal. The LID. is also appealing
the sentence of five years against
William Fisher, white LID. mem
Der, who was arrested Aug. n at a
Davis protest meeting after defend
ing himself from attack by fascists
who invaded the meeting.
Says He Was Threatened
Shortly before my case came on
for trial." says Davis in his affidavit,
Mr.. James M. Pollard, ST., of the
N.AA,CP., came to see me in Jail,
where I was awaiting trial and
urged me to have nothing to do
with the LID, and told me that
unless I got rid of the LID. there
would be number of witnesses who
would not appear in my defense
who knew of my whereabouts on
the day Of the alleged rape.
81 make this statement not only
voluntarily, but with a desire to ex-
pose the fraud perpetrated upon me
by the N.A.A.C.P. through Mr.. J. M,
Pollard @
Davis, in originally accepting MA.
ACP. attorneys, nevertheless in
sisted that Stanley Chmiel, LID.
lawyer, sit with Attorney Nicholson
of the N.A.ACP. throughout the
trial.
Jury Issue Not Raised
Chmiel, in line with LID. poll
cleS IN the ScoCCSDoro ana oCner
Negro cases, suggested to Nicholson
that he raise the question of the
right of Negroes to sit on juries.
Nicholson refused. When Chmiel
wanted him to introduce evidence
as to the character and previous
record Of the alleged rape victim,
the NAA.C.P, attorney objected on
the ground that he was a gentleman
and would not beSmirch the charac-
ter of a white girl
Davis was arrested July 80, on a
charge of having raped" Helen
Lachut, white. Investigation by the
LID. indicated that the rape" was
intercourse the girl had had with
her white sweetheart and an at
tempt to cover up their intimate
relations.
Despite testimony by eight wit
nesses that Davis was at party in
his own home at the time of the
alleged rape, an all-white jury found
Davis guilty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12

MARIANNE, Fla, Nov. IL
The whitewashing of the fiendish
lynching of Claude Neal, Negro
youth, is proceeding according to
the usual capitalist schedule, with
Governor Dave Scholtz of Florida
absolving Sheriff w. F. Chambliss
for his decisive part in the lynch
ing.
Governor B. M. Miller Of Ala
bama has ordered Grand Jury to
wait until Nov. 10 before beginning
an investigation Of the delivery of
Neal to the lynchers by the sher-
If and jailer of Brewton, Ala.
Meanwhile, the Federal govern
ment remains unmoyed by demands
for federal prosecution of the
lynchers under the "Lindbergh
Law" which provides the death
penalty for interstate kidnappers.
The law has been vigorously used
by the Federal government for the
prosecution of the kidnappers of
rich men.
In statement which Governor
Scholtz has had mimeograpred for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
METAL UNION CALLS CONFERENCES IN EAST AND MIDWEST
COmpanyUniOn
Plan Upheld
By u. S. Board

The strike of 118 welders en-
ployed by the United Dry Dock
Shipyards at Staten Island was
broken on Thursday by the de-
cision Of the National Labor Board.
The board decided that the welders,
who are organized into the Ma
tional Mechanic Welders' Local Is,
an independent union, as a separate
union, has no right to collective
bargaining. The welders must use
either the Employe Representation
plan, the company union, or the
Boilermakers' Local 200 CA. F. Of
l. as their medium to deal with
the company, the decision stated.
The decision involved the black
listing of many of the strikers, who
have been out eight weeks. When
the welders went to work Thursday
morning many were not taken back
and told that there was no work.
But the scabs who had been hired
were retained.
At a meeting of the union We'd
nesday night L. Lewis, section Or
ganizer of the Communist Party,
spoke on the role of the N. r. A.
in breaking the strike. The union
membership took a rising vote of
thanks to the Women's Council, the
Relief Workers Union and the IN
employment Councils, who have
aided with relief and in securing
relief from the Relief Buro, and
who have pledged to continue aid
to the blacklisted welders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
Los Angeles
PlansMeeting
For HerndOp

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. IL
Angelo Herndon, young Negro
Communist under sentence of 10
to 20 years on Georgia chain
gang, will speak here on Sunday,
at the Mason Theatre, on behalf Of
the Scottsboro boys.
Word to this effect was received
this morning from Anna Damon,
acting national secretary of the In
ternational Labor Defense. Plans
have already been started for a
later mass meeting on Central
Avenue, in the center of the Negro
district, to further advance the
campaign of mass protest which
must be raised in order to save
two of the Scottsboro boys, Hay
wood Patterson and Clarence Nor
ris, from legal lynching by the
Southern white ruling class on De-
cember 7.
At the same time, Herndon's APP
pearance on the coast will serve to
strengthen the mass campaign for
his own freedom. His own appeal
will also be argued before the
United States Supreme Court at the
coming session.
Just as mass protest must be the
deciding factor as to whether the
Soottsboro boys shall live or Gle,
so in the case of Angelo Herndon
it viii either force the court of
last illusions" to free the heroic
young Negro worker and leader or
allow it to send him back to Ger
tain death for leading Negro and
white workers in the struggle for
,read and security
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
Prepares for War

PARIS, Nov. II. - The cold
blooded preparation of capitalism
for a new world slaughter was
brought home with gruesome force
fuluness here today by the an
nouncement that instructions on
what to do during air raids are to
be printed on the covers of chill
dren'S school books.
The toll of civilian and nom
comhatant life that capitalist war
experts expect in the event of an
other war was indicated by inlme-
date plans to provide gas masks
for firemen. policemen, hospital
stats and others.
Camouflaged telephone exchanges
are to be built for protection from
enemy filters and first aid and dis
injecting stations are to be built
for civilian victims OF air bombs
and possible germ warfare. Public
shelters will be constructed for
homeless survivors of air raids.
Plans are being studied for new
roads to facilitate the evacuation
of Paris.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12

organization in this section of the
industry, was decided upon by the
National Executive Board of the
union at its last meeting held re-
Gently in Youngstown, Ohio.
Office in New York
In line with the convention de-
cisions, the board established the
national office for the metal and
machine building industry in New
York, with James Matles, secretary
of the New York District Of the
union, as its secretary.
The Eastern Conference will in
volve the New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut, Buffalo and Massa-
chusetts districts of the union,
Matles stated Saturday, and will be
held in New York on Nov. II.
The Mid-Western Conference will
involve the Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Chicago and all other locals further
West. This conference will be held
in the beginning Of December in
Chicago.
These two conferences" James
Matles declared, will play an i'm
portant role in strengthening our
position in the metal and machine
building industry, and should de-
eide on an organizational drive in
the industry, the strengthening of
the National Committee, and also
the placing of forces in the field to
help the locals and districts"
Districts Respond
The New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut districts have already
enthusiastically responded to the
call for the Eastern Conference, and
are making the necessary prepare
tons for a good representation, the
union announced late today.
The Chicago district of the union
is taking the initiative in prepar-
ing the Mid-Western Conference.
Bob Brown, district secretary of the
union in Chicago, has informed the
New York office that his district is
working toward having the repre-
sentation of all locals in that dis
trict, as well as the locals in
Minneapolis, st. Paul, St. Louis,
Detroit. Toledo and other cities in
the region at the Mid-Western Con-
ference.
Special Paper
The Steel and Metal Worker, Of
fetal organ of the union, will come
out in special edition at the end
of November, and will devote most
Of it's space to the metal and ma
chine building industry and the &C
tivity of the locals in this section
of the industry.
An urgent appeal was made Sat-
urday by Matles, in the name of the
National Executive Board, to all To-
Gals and districts of the union to
Immediately send their material and
workers correspondence to the Of
flee of the Steel and Metal Worker,
Room 23a, 80 East Eleventh Street,
New York, and to place orders for
large bundles of the paper without
delay
Both conferences, Matles said,
will do everything in their power
to get the International Association
Of Machinists, Brotherhood of Boil
ermakers and other A. F. of L..
unions in the field to cooperate in
bringing about joint action in the
heavy section of the industry for
increased wages and uniOnization,
for struggle for cash relief and I'M
employment insurance for the I'M
employed.
The New York District Conven-
ton of the union, which will con-
vene one day after the Eastern
Conference, will already benefit by
the important decisions which will
have been made by the five East
ern districts at the conference and
will take steps to put these decisions
into life, New York union leaders
stated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
STARVING JoBLEss ARE JAILED

NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov. IL
Nine unemployed workers who de-
manded food we're arrested last
Thursday at the relief bureau at
739 Carondelet Street. One of the
arrested women, who was in weak
ened condition from lack of food,
was kicked in the stomach by the
arresting policeman. More than an
hour elapsed before an ambulance
arrived to take the woman away.
She was in a complete state of COL
lapse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
BRIGGS co. SHOWS PROFIT

A net profit of $1.187,776 or 60
cents a share is reported for the
three months ending Sept. 80 by
the Briggs Manufacturing Com
pany, Detroit auto body makers
whose plant was the scene of a mil
liant strike against speed-up and
company unionism during the
spring.
For the e-month-period end
ing in September, the company's
net profits amounted to $4,825, 576
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12

Large affairs concerts, ban
quets, movie showings, or sy1mpo-
siums-arranged by sections and
districts to wind up the financial
drive by Dec. l will insure the
fulfillment of the district quotas
and the $4,000 fund.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12

At every unit meeting the ques-
ton of the Daily Worker must be
discussed and concrete work for
the week planned to speed the
fulfillment of the unit quota. In
tersify activity to complete the
$4,000 quota by the end Of
November!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
MILLIONS IN BIG
PARADES ON SOVIET
ANNIVERSARY DAY
Austrian Fighters March with Armed Workers
in Leningrad-Singing and Festivities
Highlight of Celebrations
Especial to the Daily wOrker)

MOSCOW, Nov II (By Wireless). Information COM
ing from all parts of the USSR tell that this immense coun-
try of the Sovets met the anniversary of the October Revo-
luton with tremendous enthusiasm The scale of the October
festivities indeed grand 100000 demonstrated in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
ORGANIZATION PLAN
FOR THE DISTRICTS
WILL BE PREPARED
Strengthening of Unions Position in the Metal
and Machine Building Industry Will Be
One of the Main Tasks

The calling of Eastern and Md-Western conferences
of all locals of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union
in the metal and machine building industry the first steps
in the putting into life the decision of the second biennial
convention of the union for the formation of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12

Talk to your shopmates about
the role of the Daily Worker in
organizing workers against the
effects of the New Deal. Make a
shop collection and rush funds for
the $4,000 financial campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12

@AAVAA3 4NONs L. Wy w II =
preliminary investigation
already reveals financial political
scandal surrounding the Special
Financial Company" which rivals
the corruption and administrative
grating Of the notorious Stavisky
affair, which was the immediate
cause of the February fighting.
Despite attempts on the part of
the capitalist press to play it down,
the swindle involves over a hundred
million francs and compromises
such high officials as vice admiral
Dumesnil, chairman of the SIC.
administrative council, and Andre
Dubois, director OF the SIC.
The chief point OF the scandal,
however, is. the deliberate blind
ness and even participation of the
authorities in the blatantly crooked
operations. "LHumanite," organ
of the Communist Party of France,
is demanding the immediate arrest
Of the vice-admiral and other key
men and protests the fact that only
one of the directors, Joseph Levy,
has been arrested
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12

For whole year the Daily
Worker has managed to exist
without a financial campaign.
The present drive for 100000 is to
insure it against possible suspen-
sion resulting from weekly deficits.
Help maintain the two editions.
Solicit for contributions from your
friends, neighbors, shop-mates
and fellow-workers in your trade
union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
NO-Strike Dye Pact
Observation-Disclosures

Continued from Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12

Continued from Page y
continue the same policy of fas-
citation and exploitation of the
working class"
The Communist members of the
Chamber of Deputies today de-
manded of the new government
what steps it intended taking to
improve the economic situation of
the country. F1andin's advocacy Of
Doumergue's. fascist program will
become clearly apparent when he
lays his policy before the Cham
Der Tuesday.
In his last radio speech Doumergue
declared that the faScists killed
in the fighting of February were
not armed. A Parliament Inquiry
Commission now publishes an Of
fetal statement announcing that
the Nationalist were fully armed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
Many Anti-War
Rallies in France

(Continueo from Page y
Evening star., 1934-09-03
BY WILLIAM GREEN,

President American Federation of Labor.
Labor day finds our country midway
In perhaps the most important econ
omic undertakings of our existence
a realignment of forces of industrial
control under Federal supervision.
1t is a time when we are making
decisions which will determine this
issue: Shall we plan for future pro-
duction of abundance for all, or shall
we try to curb mass production into
scarcity channels with luxury for the
few and poverty for the many?
The technical information handed
on to us by past generations and in
ventive power of present day workers
have completely revolutionized work.
The work limit is no longer human
endurance, but the installation of
machines, organization of work force
and orders. Orders for products and
services depend upon incomes of buy
ers. Over 80 per cent Of the buyers
in retail markets are wage earners and
small salaried persons. This Is the
reason why prices correspond to the
rise and fall in pay envelopes.
Power Thesis Fails.
Many Of our economic troubles have
grown out of failure to see that electric
power production heralded a new age
the age Of plenty for all. In the
days of handicraft and production
limited by human endurance, we could
not produce enough or at such low
prices as to make possible comfort
standards Of living for all. There
were well-to-do people and a few
wealthy. The million dollar yearly
incomes came with power production
From 1928 to 1929 each individual
worker increased the amount he
turned out each hour 4 per cent every
year. During the past depression
U929-193D the increase in hourly
output has been slightly more than
4 per cent per year. In this period of
rapid increase in productivity the in
comes going to owners of property
increased sc per cent-over two
thirds. The incomes of factory en-
ployes-those who did the actual work
in turning out the increased prod
uct-roSe per cent.
During the depression years while
output still increased per man hour,
factory incomes declined So per cent
Q929-32) while the income of those
owning property fell 80 per cent.
System Antiquated.
Why this difference? Because the
rules of distribution we're made at a
time when the producer owned what
he made, and have not been brought
up-to-date to provide equitably for
the producer who is hired to work for
a management that sells the product
and determines what part shall be
paid the worker-producer.
Because workers have not shared
proportionately in their increased
productivity, buying power in the re-
tail markets has not been adequate
to sustain the large amounts which
owners of capital have invested. Even
in peak years, no industry operated
at capacity. This means producing
investments had to pay for idle in
VeStmentS.
In an economic structure built on
specialization and ,interrelation, in
equities in distribution of incomes
brings unbalance in production and
distribution of products and services
that wrecks the whole structure. This
unbalance was one of the basic causes
of the collapse Of 1929. Too much of
Evening star., 1934-09-03
PICKETS ACTIVE.
Real Test Expected in Northern
Plants Tomorrow.


BY the Associated Press.
Tensely, the public awaited the
showdown as mill whistles blew In
Southern textile centers.
In many sections, pickets turned
out by hundreds and grimly tight
ened their lines. A motorcade Of
union workers forced 900 employees
of three Kings Mountain, N. c., cot
ton mills from their posts, and
warned they would force the closing
of all IL mills in the region.
Alabama labor leaders predicted
5000 to 10000 more workers will join
$4,000 already on strike in Alabama.
Employers say not more than 1000
more involved.
The President of Tennessee Fedora
ton of Labor says only two plants in
State will be affected by the strike.
Mill centers were quiet.
Leaders of 100000 textile workers
in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New
Jersey ready to form picket lines to-
morrow.
George A. Sloan, president of Cot
ton Textile Institute, says the policy
of manufacturers will be to open mills
at the usual hour on the assumption
the employees desire to work. He
claimed code revision demanded by
union would lead to industrial
chaos"
A majority Of 5000 workers in
eight plants at Cohoes were reported
to be undecided whether or not to
strike.
Evening star., 1934-09-03
new YORK TEXTILE
MAY JOIN STRIKE
Cohoes- Troy District Workers to
Determine Plans at
Meeting Today.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COHOES, N. Y, September s.
Textile workers from the Cohoes-Troy
district were to meet at Green Island
at noon today to determine whether
they would join in the Nationwide
strike called by the United Textile
Workers of America.
Pending the outcome Of the meet
ing, just how many Of the $4,000
workers in this district would join
the strike remained problematical.
Mill operators, however, planned to
open their plants tomorrow morning
as usual. Some of them have already
notified the workers to report for duty.
Joseph r. White Of Cohoes, vice
president of the united textile work.
ers, was expected to return today from
Washington, where he participated
over the week end in the unsuccessful
efforts to avert walkout of workers
in the woolen. cotton, silk and rayon
industries.
John F. Walsh, Cohoes organizer
for the united textile workers, said
that about one-third Of the textile
workers in the district were organized
and predicted that at least 5000 men
and women would 60 on strike.
Manufacturers, on the other hand,
said that only small part Of the
workers are organized and that most
Of the plants are operated oman open
shop basiA-