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 have been to weaken its influence to the decision Rsfu anything which appeared in that paper the city's affairs Had The have been did happen?
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 apparently thinks that veraciy is matter of therefore the only who tells the truth is the quote the words of the immortal Dryden
 they
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-01
Lewis USurps All
Wage Negotiations
With Bosses, NRA
Continued from Page II


be a disagreement between the opera
tors and union representatives in
Washington Feb. 18th, then the solu-
ton of our difficulties naturally rests
upon the N. r. A."
ut is also the opinion OF the Com
mittee that formal demand be made
upon the next joint conference by the
members of your Scale Committee for
increased wages" the report CONT
nued.
Twenty-one page nlineographed
summaries of the convention and re-
port Of the Scale Committee were
sold to the delegates today at one
dollar a piece. Many of course could
not buy it.
John L. Lewis, International head
OF the Union, making the concluding
speech before vote was taken on the
Scale Committees report, said:
I'VE must not unduly influence or
unduly Cypress our great federal
government" Then hardening back
to Miss Perkins plea to the miners
yesterday, Lewis continued here is
an opportunity for labor to offer a
constructive contribution"
The Convention will end this after
noon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-01

plans have been made for q thorough
house to house canvass to help put the
subscription drive over the top.
These and other new subscriptions
secured in the early stage Of the drive
for 10000 new daily subs and 10000
new readers for the Saturday edition
show that workers are ready to sub
scribe to our Daily Worker provided
they are Systematically approached.
What is your District, section and
unit doing to help put the circulation
drive over the top2 What is your
mass organization, trade union doing
to spread our Daily" among the
workers?
Answer these questions by getting
into immediate action, approaching
your friends, your fellow workers, ask
ing them to subscribe to our only
American worlzingclass daily news
paper, the Daily Worker.
Chicago Conference
Chicago will hold Daily Worker
Press Conference this Sunday, FEB. 4
10 am, at the Peoples Auditorium
PAST West Chicago Ave, to mobilize
broad forces for the subscription drive
All workingclass organizations are
urged to have representatives at this
conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-01
Workers Push Drive to Bring
Daily" Into Basic Industries

NEW YORK.-The call by the Cen
trail Committee of the Communist
Party, U. S. A., to root the Daily
Worker in the basic industries is be-
ing answered with real effort in this
direction in various parts Of the coun-
try.
Canvassing in this early stage of
the Daily" circulation campaign
among railroad workers in the small
town Of Weslsyville, Pa, resulted in
the securing Of subscriptions from five
Negro workers on the New York Cen
trail Further results are expected as
the canvassing in this territory will
be intensified.
Reaching Textile Workers
Middletown, N. Y, is producing
some real shock brigaderS in the SUBJ
scription drive. The numerous textile
mills in Middletown and surrounding
towns, such as Port Jervs and Walden
are being canvassed with the Daily
I'VE have made some good contacts
already" these shock brigaders write
land we hope to obtain new subscrib-
ers among the textile workers very
soon"
SiSseton. S. D.. sent in three new
subs, showing that the comrades there
are losing no time in putting the Daily
Worker circulation campaign on a rea,
active basis. Faribault, MINI, sent in
two new subs. In Dillenvale, Ohio
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-01
Phila.TOHOld Daily
Celebration Friday

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. sO.-A
mass meeting and entertainment at
which c. A. Hathaway, editor-in-
chief Of the Daily Worker, will be
the leading speaker, will be held
here this Friday Feb. 2, 8 pm. al
the Girard Manor Hall, Gil w. Gil
rard Ave.
This event, celebrating the 10th
victorious year Of our Daily" is ex-
pected to be the starting point for
placing the Daily Worker circulation
drive in this city on an unprece-
dented broad mass basis.
An outstanding Program arranged
Tor this event includes a dramatic
production by the John Reed Club
an oratorio by the local Freiheit
Gesangs Ferein, and Rotations by
members of the New York Artef
Theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-01

were used for scabbing and break
ing up strikes"
There are millions Of young
workers who belong to capitalist con.
trolled sports organizations where
they are taught to be enemies Of
their own class. The revolutionary
working class, though as yet not
sufficiently realized the Importance,
have long realized the necessity OF
worker sports as a means Of draw
ing in the young workers in labor
sports clubs where they would be
given the opportunity to learn and
indulge in their favorite sports and
at the same time be taught the prin-
ciples Of working class solidarity and
Of the class struggle"
THE Labor Sports Union is the
only working class sport organization
in this country which has undertaken
the important task Of drawing in the
young workers from the bosses
sports organizations, like the A. A. u.
the community centers and settle
nlents, into the clubs Of the L. S. U.
so far or labor has not yet
penetrated the ranks Of the bour-
geoiS controlled sports organizations.
The result is that the vast majority
OF the young workers still belong 20
and are under the influence of the
enemies Of the working class"
Nevertheless, the A. A. q. has
been aware Of the edstance OF It's
enemy, the L. S. o. In order to
combat its growth. the A. A. q. has
succeeded in making many states
adopt laws prohibiting the L. s. o.
from holding various athletic meets
without first taking out q permit
from the A. A. o."
"The Metropolitan Workers Soccer
League, the soccer department Of ths
Eastern District OF the L. 8. q.
through a relentless struggle against
the domineering U. S. F. A., has
succeeded in drawing in many teams
from the U. s. F. A. in spite Of its
corrupt leadership which has done
Its darndest to destroy the FIRST
workers soccer league OF this coun-
try. The M w. s. L. will becoms
the largest and most powerful Sn
the United States"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-01
Strong United Front
WiU Yin Strike, Says
Old Hotel Worker

(By a Worker Correspondent
I was up Sunday, Jan. %, to
the Hotel and Restaurant Work
ers Union, Local 1l9 F.WIU9
At this time the strikers from the
New Yorker Hotel were holding a
meeting to discuss their strike.
Many Of the workers don't know
which union called them on strike.
The hotel workers have many
unions: International, Geneva As
ISOLATION and AmaIgamated Food
Workers, Besides, there are the
employment agencies which are
combined with all these organiza-
tons.
Year after year these organiza-
tons have been robbing the work
ers. The Food Workers Industrial
Union has the only right to fight
to unite and improve the condi-
tons Of the food workers.
Now the hotel workers are fight
ing the strongest chain in the food
service business. This demands
that all the workers get together
in a solid united front and smash
down any attempt of the leaders
Of the International and Amalga-
mated to keep our ranks divided.
). MILLER, an old food worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-01
LynChed Negro Was
Transferred From
Tampa Jail 3:15A.M.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, Jan. 81
Governor Scholtz ordered HilIsbor-
ough County officials today to make
a complete investigation Of the
lynching of Robert johnson, Negro
worker, yesterday, after he was
handed over by Deputy Constable T.
NJ. Graves to lynch gang travelling
in automobiles, The governor de-
clared:
eve do not condone the crime OF
lynching in Florida"
Five Negroes were Iynched in
Florida last year, four OF them, in
Guiding three women, in a bunch.
No one ever has been arrested or
punished for these crimes, which
the governor states are mot con-
dOned" In Florida.
While johnson was taken out of the
Tampa city Jail by Deputy Constable
Graves on warrants charging petty
larceny, the white ruling class is now
raising the cry Of attempted rape"
aga tine victim Of their lynch ter
ror. -. here has been a slip-up in
the usually efficient lying propaganda
of the bourgeoisie. Thus, the Interna-
tional News Service reports Johnson
was arrested for beating a white man,
cigar worker; while in the United
Press dispatch the male cigar worker
is transformed into "a white woman
cigar factory worker; and the Asso-
ciated Press reports that he was
charged with petty larceny, but held
for investigation" for an alleged at
tack on white woman.
1t was revealed today that Johnson
had been removed from the Tampa
city jail at the unusual hour Of 3:15
am. The deputy constable gave no
explanation for this.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-01

Virtues CnaC ne was inspired
by this column (that makes us
feel good) to send in an article
which very carefully analyses the
revolutionary position on sports
Very gently Sol asserverates that
Lenin, himself, had surveyed the
field Of sports and had advocated a
powerful movement of workers ath-
letics.
Sol quotes him: Physical culture
and sports in the hands of the bour-
geosie Is an implement that can be
used against us. Physical culture in
the hands Of the proletariat is a
powerful weapon for our cause"
And while the Soviet Union under
the banner Of Lenin moves steadily
forward with the development of
mass athletics such as no nation and
no society has ever known before,
the stink Of the decaying bourgeois
controlled athletic organizations here
becomes stronger and more unbear-
able.
stTHE entire educational system,
L beginning from the kindergarten
to the university, is used by the
ruling class to serve the capitalist
system" Sol writes. Sports and
athletics are utilized to make the
millions Of sport loving young work
ers better servants to the rule of
the eXploiters. Their aim in sports,
as they themselves admit, is "Amer-
icanisnl," Loyalty" Efficiency" and
Defense" Their "Americanism"
means lynchings and discrimination
against the Negro masses, terroriz-
ing and persecution OF foreign born
workers and the suppression of
the Communist movement. Their
Loyalty" means to be loyal to the
bosses and their strikebreakers. "Ef-
f1ciency" means to work harder and
produce more profit for the exploit
ers. Defense" means to prepare
better soldiers for the next imperi-
aliSt war.
ONE instance, one in the hun
" dreds, will show how hypocr-
tical and false the bourgeois slogan,
Sports for SPORTS sake" is for sports
is used by the capitalists as a weapon
against the working class. Members
OF the New York A. c., inspired by
the boss leaders, offered to police
commissioner Whalen their help to
break up the first unemployed DEM
onstration at Union Square In March
1880. I could site you many other
instances where company sport clubs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-01
Big Vote for United
Shoe Union Expected
In Referendum Today
Arcadia Hall Meeting To-
night To Join Forces
of Shoe Workers

NEW YORK. Two events
Of outstanding Importance to
shoe workers are scheduled
for today. At special polling
places set up by the National Labor
Board outside the factories, shoe
workers Of 10 shops will cast their
vote for the union OF their own
choice, the United Shoe and Leather
Workers Union.
Tonight at Arcadia Hall, Brooklyn,
plans for consolidating the forces of
the shoe workers and bringing into
The union those organized groups still
outside the United Shoe and Leather
Workers Union will be made at a
special membership meeting called at
the request OF the Coordinating Com
nnittee TO effect amalgamation of the
shoe workers.
The referendum vote, which was
part Of the decision Of the National
Labor Board in connection with the
ending of the recent general shoe
strike. will register the demand OF
the Overwhelming majority fthe
shoe workers for the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union.
Bosses Intimidate Workers
Soon after the announcement that
q referendum vote would be held, q
shop committee meeting was called
BY Mike Miller, owner of I. Miller
Company in Long Island City. Miller
admitted that he opposed the refer
endum but ordered the committee to
zee TO it that the Boot and Shoe
Union "goes through" When COM
mitteeTnan raised the question Of
wares he refused to discuss it.
Speaking for the workers Of the
7. Miller Co., q committeeman en-
phatically declared that the shoe
workers would vote as the bosses
wish.
At the Novelty Slipper Co., similar
intimidation took place when the
owner, M Goodkind, and an agent
of the Boot and Shoe Union called
the workers together at meeting
and virtually ordered them to vote
for patriotic union" meaning a
bosses union. The workers applaudec
for 20 minutes after a spokesman fol
the workers arose and denounced the
the Boot and Shoe Union.
we all know which union we want
and it is not the Boot and Shoe. ]
know that in saying this 7 risk my
job, but am taking this chance as
my duty" said the worker.
1t was learned today that a repre-.
sentative Of the Associat ton appeared
at the Regional Labor Board today
demanding that elections in the slip
per shops be postponed.
VOTING SHOPS
The following shops are expected
TO voge today: Bressler, American
Shoe, Clarendon, Wolf and Son,
Kadas, Weisman- Sass, Morgan
GrOssman, julius GrOssman, Her
man Gresham. Andrew GeIIer,
Elcc. On Friday the following
shops viii vote: Cornell Unity, Dan
Palter. Delman, La Vale, LO Pres
IT, /. Miller, Premier and Seymour
Trey.
All workers OF JneSe shops who
vent out on strike but have not been
re-employed or are now working else
where, are entitled to vote. Polling
places are being established in the
vicinity OF the plants.
Shoe workers are urged to go
directly from their polling places
&c the important meeting tonight
at Arcadia Hall, 9IS Halsey ST.,
Brooklyn, where the Coordinating
Committee will report. Member
snip books arc required for admis-
sion to the hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-01
Delegates at Feb. 3
JObleSS Meeting
From All Sections
(CoRtinued from Page u

Philadelphia, Pa, has elected del
egate.
The Paving Cutters Union locals
"a. F. of L. at Tenants Harbor,
Vinalhaven, Long Cove and Rock
land, Maine will be represented.
The five Texas delegates come from
Fort Worth, Breckenridge, Hamlin
and Houston and represent the Com
mon Laborers' Association of the
Rangers, Federal Labor Union of
LaborerS, Hamiln Workingmens AS
ISOLATION and the Unemployed Coun-
ellis. One of these delegates is an
Oil worker, one a carpenter (nember
Of the A. F. OF L., one a railroad
fireman (member of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and En-
gineers).
Cleveland Has SO Delegates
The Unemployed Council at Ash
land, Wis, is sending paper mill
worker and the United Front I'M
employment Committee Of Worcester.
Mass, a carpet weaver. An electrical
worker will represent the United
Workers League of Sioux Falls, South
Dakota.
AS we go to press a telegram in
forms us that representative dele
cation of 80 workers has left from
Cleveland, Ohio, for the convention.
Tonight in the st. Nichola S
Arena, So w. Goth ST., will be held
the New York send-off meeting for
the large New York delegation. The
delegation from New York leaves on
Friday morning at seven O'Clock from
20 East Goth st. The New England
delegates also en- route to Washing
ton, will speak at the Arena meeting.
and accompany the New York dele
CATION to Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-01
Anti-NaziS Jailed
For NRA Exposure

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3l.-Police
broke up an anti-Nazi demonstra-
lion and arrested Is demonstrators
last night. while the Friends of
New Germany" the American
branch Of the Nazi Party, held a
dance in { swastika- draped hall a
few doors away.
The sergeant who ordered the ar
rest said it was because a placard
az the demonstration, called by the
American League Against War and
fFascism, read, IN. r. A. is Breed
ing War and Fascism."
Permit or no permit, they had
no right to criticize the N. r. Az
be said after sending in riot call.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-01
Amalgam' ted Heads
Send Hotel Bosses
Secret Agreement
Continued from Page ~


ing no demands for wage increases.
ore sending the workers back TO the
present miserable pittance they are
receiving in the hotels. The "pres-
ent scale of wages" from which they
ask no reduction are, with few ex-
ceptions, little or no wages. Since
hours are nearly unlimited in the
hotels, the requests for "no increase
from the present hours" is farcicaI.
The agreement completely disre-
CARDS the conditions of the hotel
workers who responded to the call
Tor the general strike in the revolt
against the present slave conditions
IN the shops, and out Of bitter resent
menJ a'aipst the SlNve N. R. A. hotel
code, by which the hotel owners pro
pose to beat the wages down still
further.
Ten hotel owners have agreed TO
sign up with the union on the basis
Of this betrayal, it was learned yes
terday.
As We go to press, strikers are mo-
olh5lng to demand the Strike Com
mittee, which is now in session, act
quickly to annul the agreement and
caH upon strikers Of each shop to
formulate economic demands to be
made to the hotel bosses.
Nearly 5000 enthusiastic. cheering
hotel strikers gathered in the lower
hall Of Madison Square Garden
Tuesday night, filled the hall with
their cheers for the continuation and
spreading Of the strike, and wildly
applauded any mention of mass pick
etlng. AS the meeting opened. nearly
LOU MOTEL strikers coming from Bry-
ant Hall, where they had held a
meeting at the call of the Industrial
Union, marched into the Garden and
were welcomed by the strikers with
cries OF Long Live the Unity of the
Hotel Workers."
I At the close Of the meeting. organ
lied in mass formation, the strikers.
under their own shop signs, marched
out to hold a mass picketing DEM
onstration at all hotels on strike.
Officials of the union and repre-
sentatives of other organizations ad-
dressed the strikers. Not a single
rank and file striker was given the
floor. All the speakers talked in gen.
eralities about the strike situation,
falling to touch on the concrete de-
mands Of the strikers. The rene
gades, Cannon and GitloW, who are
IN the leadership of the strike, also
spoke of recognition of the union,
but made no mention Of the economic
demands or the next steps TO be
taken in the strike. Mention of the
betrayal agreement was carefully
avoided. This line was followed by
A. j. Music, Mary Fox of the Social
list Party and Haywood Broun, who
also spoke.
The Hotel and Restaurant Indus
trial Union called on the strikers
yesterday to strengthen their ranks,
repudiate the betrayal agreement,
work to spread the strike to every
hotel and restaurant and tie uu every
hotel from the basement to the top
floor.
we are determined to establish
unity OF the strikers over the heads
Of the officials and to demand the
election Of broad rank and file
strike committee. We call upon the
workers to repudiate any agree
nents made without their sanction
and approval. The "a chword Of
the strike must be ee.idarity and
unity" declared the Industrial
Union leaders at strike headauar
tiers yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-01
JapanAims To Beat
US. Sea r,Says
Navy Chief to Diet
Continued from Page y

is being conducted with the psrtj-
cipation Of combat and bombing
planes, warships, submarines and
troops. The air force is said to be
the largest ever assembled here.
It left this morning under secret
orders for ten days of advanced base
operations. The air force includes
Squadron V.P. 10 which recently flew
here from San francisco. covering
the huge distance in less than "a
hours.
The naneuyers will include expert :
ments in the laying of the latest
depth bombs.
Japan Renews Bid to U. S.
TOKYO, Jan. 31.-Japan's re-
doubled maneuvers to win the U. s.
TO its side before it launches its at
tack on the Soviet Union were en-
phasized again yesterday, when Kat
sui Debuchi, until recently Ambas-
sador to the United States, urged
reasons for Japanese American CO.
operation in China and Manchuria,
before the Japan-America society In
Tokyo.
He pointed TO the fact that the
chief American-JapaDese trade rela-
tons were the exchange OF cotton for
ilk, and declared that even in China
lhe trade interests Of the two coun-
tries were complementary. He urged
American capitalists to take part in
the exploitation OF Menchuria.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-01
IA City Workers Fired
From BLanShGrd Office:
Some on Job SinceI92O

NEW YORK. - Fourteen civil
service employees, including ac-
countants, telephone operators
and clerks. were fired on Mon
day from the Office of Paul Blan-
shard, Commissioner Of Accounts.
who himself holds down salary
Of $4,000 a year. The discharged
workers, some of whom have
been in the service since 1890,
were informed Of their dismissal
in letters which they received
Monday morning.
In addition to the dismissals at
Blanshard's Office, 10 workers
were removed from city hospi-
tails. Not a word of these frings
appeared in the metropolitan
press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-01
BilIfOr 100 WarShips
Passed By House
Continued from Page y

upon ourselves for our protection and
defense" Vinson Grated in tones re-
miniscent Of Southern evangelism.
He called upon his fellow members
to authorize nearly a billion dollars
for warships and war planes so that
when the American delegation sits
down at the 1885 Naval Conference
it shall mot be at the mercy of those
other two delegations (Japan and
Great Britain)".
Other developments on the Wash
ington war front were:
Chairman McSwain OF the House
military affairs committee made it
understood that his committee soon
would begin consideration of the war
department general staff's program
calling for the construction of 1000
airplaneS and the addition of 400 Of
ficers and $500 men in the Air Corps.
McSwain yesterday hoisted the fas-
ciSt banner by introducing a bill
which would authorize the organ
i2ation of a Junior Air Corps Re-
serve. This new arm of the service
would train boys between the ages
Of is and 81 to operate fighting ships,
las of which are contemplated in the
S95,00O000 war plane bill attached
to the Vinson Bill as an amendment
The Senate naval affairs committee
yesterday unanimously recommended
the Vinson Bill after only one session
devoted mostly to the same admirals
who racited their act before the
House Committee.
The most curious demagogic note
Of all the House discussion was the
proposal of Dirksen, Republican. IL
linoiS, for an appropriation of $4,000
to set up an Under Secretary of
Peace in the State Department. to
coordinate the Vinson Bill.
And no one laughed at him.