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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-11
Big Concerns
Grab Claims
In Gold Rush
Unemployed rospectors
Driven Off by Armed
Guards With Guns

MOJAVE, Cal, Dec. 10.-The last
tradition of capitalism has been ex-
ploded here in this little mining
town, following the widely heralded
discovery of a gold deposit here.
Years ago "all men were equal
where gold strikes were concerned.
The poorest among these in a gold
rush might stake the richest claims.
Not so in the year 1884. Here, as
in every other field of endeavor,
money talks and monopoly walks
off with all the rich prizes.
Thousands of unemployed work
ers, transientS, men, women and
children, rushed here at the first
news of the strike. Now they loiter
around the town, wondering how
they will get back to the city. Many
of them hitch-hiked up here; others
came in battered old Fords that
haven't enough mileage left in them
to get them back out of the desert,
Gasoline station owners can't stand
the gaff of furnishing free gas to
the influx, even to get them out of
town again.
So here they huddle in tents and
in old cars and around fires at
night on the edge of town.
1--WE haven't a chance" they de-
clare. big business has it all"
The hotels are crowded with rich
mining men, Nevada Senators and
judges, bankers and spectators. All
land that has any potential value
has been bought up long since.
There isn't a prayer of locating a
claim within miles of the discovery
claim.
Came news of another rich strike
Is miles north of Mojave. The poor
rushed eagerly northward, only to
be met by shotguns. Here, too, all
land is controlled by the big mining
company.
The last illusion about equal OPP
portunity" has been blasted out of
the minds of thousands of workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-11
Sports Group
Assails AAU
On Olympics
Labor Sportsmen Push
Plans for Boycott
of the Games

The Labor Sports Union issued a
statement yesterday which attacked
the decisions of the leaders of the
Amateur Athletic Union not to boy
colt the 1886 Olympic games in Nazi
Germany.
The statement pointed out that
the A. A. U. in sidetracking the is
sue with the help of the Jewish
delegates automatically supported
the decision of the American Olym-
pic Committee to accept the Nazi
invitation to participate in the
games
Last year, when the A. A. U,
passed militant resolution against
American participation in the
Olympics on the ground that the
Nazis we're violating the Olympic
principle of equality and democracy
of sport" the L. S. U. exposed the
insincerity of the position of the
A. A. U.
The L. S. U. even then declared
that the A,A.U, which had always
tolerated widespread discrimination
within its own ranks against Negro
athletes would not carry out a con-
sistent fight against the Nazis' per-
seeution of Jewish athletes.
Despite irrefutable evidence pre-
scented to the convention delegates
that Herr Won Tsehammer- Osten,
Nazi sport Commissar, had boosted
that the Olympics were to be used
as political weapon to win the
sympathies of the people in foreign
countries for the Hitler regime, the
leaders repeated their phrases about
sport having nothing to do with
politics, racial questions, religious
or social disputes"
The L. s, u, the Olympic Boycott
League and the A. A. U. Rank and
File Committee to Boycott the 1885
Olympics have all declared that the
stand of the A. A. U. leaders will
only intensity their efforts to boy
colt the games. The latter organ
izatien will hold a conference next
month to which all New York A. A
U. Clubs will be invited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-11

one. But, as we know, SO strong was
the control of the rank and file on
the conduct of the strike that it
wasn't up to the officials to decide
The bosses soon found that out
themselves, and had to make SUBJ
stantial concessions in order to
settle.
Results proved that it was well
worth the additional three weeks OF
striking. Improvements were forced
on IL points in the contract. The
right to strike in individual shops is
recognized; every vacancy left by a
union worker is to be filed by a
union member; the workers are to
get minimum of two hours pay if
lied to the shop; no new workers
are to be hired unless those in the
department already put in 80 per
cent of the working week. These
and other concessions were not in
the former agreement.
The Communists and the rank
and file elements in the union in
arousing the suspicion of the work
ers against the actions of the off,
Gals from the very start, in warn
ing against settlement without ap-
proval of the membership, have
thereby proven to the workers that
this policy is connected with their
fight for a better living standard.
A stronger and more active rank
and file group in the union would
have therefore meant still better
opportunity for the workers. But
some of the problems before our
Party and the militants in the Dyers
Union and our weaknesses which
were especially evident during the
strike, will be the subject of the
next and final article on the strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-11
Communists Safegurded Dyers Against Split Their Ranks

all demands be left in the hands
of the Textile Labor Relations
Board. But the consequence of the
"truce"-the wage cuts, discrimina-
ton and speedups-were already SO
apparent that the dye workers
rather chose to strike.
Had Hopes in German
! Although German was unable to
avert the strike, still the employers
had confidence in his help during
the strike, and for a settlement,
German injected himself into the
early negotiations, which were in
Washington. He made statements
which were widely publicized in the
capitalist press, giving encourage
ment to rumors that a settlement
on the basis of arbitration will be
made. 1t is due to the work of the
Communists and the militants in
the union that this part of Cor
mans plan was foiled, but the hope
that the employers had in his SER
vices, contributed to prolonging the
strike and to holding back conces-
sions to the workers.
The damage of the U. T. w. Of
ficials did not stop at this, how
ever. They did everything in their
power to prevent the Pennsylvania
and Rhode Island dyers from Join
ing the Sarike. 1t was disclosed that
there are even locals of the dyers
which have not yet been placed un-
der the jurisdiction of the Dyers'
Federation. For weeks the officials
of the Federation promised the
strikers that steps will be taken to
pull the Allentown and Hazelton
workers out on strike, but they
either expected that those workers
will be pulled out through some
miracle, or that German would do
them the favor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-11

rejected in the decisive regions, his
agitation did have demoralizine
effect in small centers, especially
Union City. his own territory. In
Union City most strikers were back
in shops, not settled, before the
strike ended. In New York most
workers returned under a group
shop settlement. These were the
only breaks in the lines throughout
the strike. AS results have proven
policy of individual settlements
would have been a serious mistake
1t should be remembered that the
dyeing industry is basic, and every
plant that begins operating relieves
the tieup in many silk and garment
plants.
In citing the role of the Love-
stonites, we should not forget the
splitting policy of Eli Keller, man
ager of the Federation of Silk Work
ers in Paterson. He worked night
and day to prevent a strike of silk
workers from breaking out at the
same time, although the workers
voted to do so. A joint struggle of
the two unions would have resulted
in better gains for both.
Among the most important factors
to prevent still better agreement
is that the officials of the Dyers
Federation accepted, and proposed
that the workers accept, the I'M
satisfactory agreement of November
10. The proposal was unanimously
rejected when brought to the work
ers, and the officials were booed of
with it. From then on the bosses
saw that they had the cooperation
of the union officials for putting
over contract that may be hardly
an improvement over the rejected
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-11
.uckenbach
Sea Strikers
Hold Ranks
tspeciaI to the paily worker

SEATTLE, Wash, Dec. 10.-Ranks
OF striking seamen of two Lucken-
bach ships in Seattle and one in
Tacoma, remain solid as attempts of
the International Seamens Union
officials to force the men to return
were defeated by the rank and file
committee leading the strike.
Victor Olander, National Seore-
tary of the I. S, U, wired from New
York ordering the strikers to return
to work stating that negotiations
between shipowners and the union
are going on.
Andrew Fureseth, President of the
I. S. U. has arrived at Seattle by
plane from San Francisco, in a
move to break the strike, which it is
feared may spread along the entire
coast.
The strike of the seamen which
started on the Robert Luckenbach,
has already spread to the Dorothy
Luckenbaeh, and to the Jacob Luck
enbach in Tacoma.
The wire sent by Olander read:
I'VE are negotiating in the Ply
mouth Hotel (N.Y.C0. The ship
owners agree to give us $3.50 for
A. BIS and others in proportion. Go
back to work; you are harming the
negotiations"
McGill, business agent of the I.
S. u, called a meeting Friday, to
which the workers sent represen-
tatives, consisting of two from a
department of each ship. OIander's
wire was unanimously rejected by
the seamen. Thereupon, McGill,
seeing that the strike cannot be
broken through Olander's wire, told
the strike committee that he will
call up the general manager of the
Luckenbach Line and arrange for
conference with the strike COM
mittee, At a conference with a
representative of the Luckenbaeh
Line, the workers left their de-
mands and insisted that these must
be granted Immediately, not pend
ing negotiations, as Olander prom
Uses.
Fureseth, it was learned, on his
way here stopped in Portland to
take measures against a strike
there. In a statement issued to the
Portland newspapers he says: THE
shipowners have found from bitter
experience that they cannot get rid
of the reds. If they could give us
Il. S. U. officials) a chance we
could get rid of them"
Despite Fureseth, however, the
I. S. U. crews of the Point San
Pedro, San Luckas and groups of
longshoremen have taken up coll
lections to donate to the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-11
Detroit Workers to Pay
Tribute to Sergei Kirov


DETROIT, Dec. 10.-A memorial
meeting in honor of Sergei Kirov,
member of the Political Bureau of
the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, who was assassinated by a
counter-revolutionist, will be held
Friday, at 8 pm, in Finnish Work
ers Hall, 1868 Fourteenth Avenue,
near McGraw, The meeting has
been arranged by the Michigan Dis
triet OF the Communist Party.
William Weinstene, secretary of
the Party in this district, and other
speakers will tell of Kirovs work as
an outstanding leader of the work.
ers and peasants of the Soviet
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-11
BY GEORGE MORRIS,

| The spreading of the strike to in
clude the few plants outside of the
Passaic Valley, the chief centre of
the industry, was very essential, as,
although they cover only a small
fraction of the dyeing which is done
in the country, they operated night
and day during the strike, and re-
lieved much of the essential require
ments. The workers voted that a
large committee go to the national
office of the U. T. w. and demand
that the outside plants be called
out. But, apparently, this was one
OF the delicate" matters between
the officials of the dyers and the
U. t. w. and was simply sabotaged.
On top of this not one cent was
contributed for strike relief out of
the treasury OF the q. T. w. The
Dyers Federation is also a part of
the A. F. Of L., but although the
strike was in its sixth week, and
the manufacturers announced that
the plants will open with police
protection, William Green did not
even ask for moral support from
the rest of the labor movement.
Another obstacle which made the
correct conduct of the strike diff
cult, were the activities of the vari-
GUS renegade groups. such as the
Lovestonites, Music, Trotzky or Git
low supporters. 1t is only the work
of the Communists among the
strikers which prevented the con-
fusion which these groups brought
in, from seriously affecting the
strike.
The activities of the Lovestonites
and those among them who have
already joined the Socialist Party
(Rubenstein), should be especially
noted, because these being repre-
sented in the officialdom of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-11
Negro Jazz Orchestra
To Tour Soviet Union

NEW YORK. - Luis Rus
sell, well-known Harlem composer
and conductor, has accepted prop
osition to make an extensive tour of
the Soviet Union with his famous
"Old Man River" orchestra during
the summer of 1885. The offer was
made to him by Alexander Basy
Russian impressario, through the
Artists Department of the Soviet
American Bureau which is located
in the RKO Building, Rockefeller
Center, in this city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-11
Trade Unions
And JObIess
in Joint Action
viii S en- d Delegation
to National Congress
on Social Insurance
By A. B. Magil
Especial to the Daily Werker)

NIRNSANA - thr DeAAy WoEAcFJ
DETROIT, Mich, Dec. TO-
Unanimously endorsing a mass
march to the County Relief office
on Tuesday, Dec. IS, second con-
ference of representatives of trade
unions, unemployed organizations
and workers fraternal and social
organizations, meeting at Danish
Brotherhood Temple, ITS West
Forest Avenue, yesterday swung
into action to rally thousands of
workers for participation in this
great demonstration against the
drastic cuts in relief that have been
given the 10000 families on Wayne
County relief rolls.
The mass congress, which was
called by the Detroit Conference
for Unemployment Relief and In
surance, also took steps for the
sending Of Michigan delegation
OF about 400 to the National Con-
gress for Unemployment and Social
Insurance, which will meet in
Washington Jan. ST..
Despite the slanderous campaign
against it conducted by Frank x.
Martel, president of the Detroit
Federation OF Labor, and his clique
In the Central Labor body, thirteen
A. F. OF l.. unions were represented
at the conference.
A number of independent unions
were also present, including the
Mechanics Educational Society of
America.
The A. F. of L. locals represented
included Painters Locals 81 and AZ.
Electrical Workers Local II, Jour-
neymen Tailors' Local 229, Brick
layers Local 2, Bakers Local 20,
Coopers' Local 81, Plumbers Local
81 and the American Federation of
Teachers.
The unemployed organizations in
cluded the Unemployment Councils,
the Forgotten Mems Club and the
unemployed Workers Association
of Flint.
The Socialist Party sent two Of
1lcial observers, one of them its
Wayne County Secretary, Kent.
Speakers Stress Action
The mass march on Dec. IS as
the focal point of all immediate ac-
tlvity was emphasized both in the
opening remarks of the chairman.
Joseph Friedman, business agent of
Painters Local AZ, and in the re-
port Of the secretary, Richard
Kroon, who is also secretary of the
Rank and File A. F. of L. Trade
Union Committee for Unemploy-
ment Insurance and Relief. Kroon
told how the County Welfare Com
mission had refused to grant a
hearing to the executive committee
OF the conference and had rejected
all the demands of the unemployed.
In the discussion delegates
pledged the fullest support of their
organizations to the mass march
and decided to distribute tens of
thousands Of leaflets. The march
VIII start at 2 pm. Dec. 10 at Times
Square.
Support Single Men
A delegation of five from the
strikers at Fisher Lodge, where
nearly 1000 unemployed single men
are quartered, was warmly received
and the conference voted to urge
all possible support to their struggle
against the forced labor conditions
at the Lodge.
Earl Reno, member of the Ma
tional Executive Board of the I'm
employment Councils, spoke on the
National Congress for Unemploy-
n1ent and Social Insurance. The
delegates received instructions for
intensifying the campaign for a
strong Michigan delegation to the
congress,
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-02
The Confessions of an
English Opium-Eater
Have You Read Them? They A


marvelously learned man. writer of the highest
ability, the Engshman Thomas De Quincy, distant
cousin of our American Josiah Quincy who dropped the
aristocratic DE- for democracy's sake.
But for of the perncious drug that cast its shadow
all his e De Quincy might have been the greatest of Eng
h prose WRITER'S greater than Laurence serne whom
Goethe called the greatest
Reading Quinceys Confessions an English Opium
EATER you find difficult to believe than being
could absorb such quantities of horrible drug and live yet
there question to the truth of his statement that he
took habualy daily five thousand drops of audanum, the
form in which he took the opium and sometimes many as
twelve thousand drops his regular daily dose enough to kill
hundred men unaccustomed to the drug
Interesting De Quinceys description of Malay sailor
who his cottage fell upon the floor exhausted
De Quincy, of drugs knew what he wanted and
gave him piece of crude opium large enough to kill six
dragons and their horses The Malay swallowed it ALL
and went his way, cheerful.
In Quinceys day. the horrible danger residing drugs
was not realized as it now governments and men did not
know that death would be preferable to drug slavery
De Quincy declares that in his opium eating days the Of
the drug widespread in England could be bought for
penny two openly in drug store Government had not
yet regulated sale substances that free the mind of past
regrets and future fears and subjects it regrets and fears
infinitely more horrible
It sounds unbelievable but it true that in this country
not long ago. great fortune built by selling mothers
Syrup for children that soothed' them with audanum.
Even workngmen when times bad wages lacking life
hard bear and beer too costly would buy their penny worth
of opium at the chemists shop
Ouincev that he valued opium because of
power over bodily disease and pain but the grander and
shadowy world of dreams He tells of Coeridge whose
unfinished poem Xanadu supposed be the product of
opium dream hiring portes hackney coachmen and others
oppose force his entrance into druggist shop buy
opium When the opium craving became irresistible Coerdge
would push the hired man aside asking him Indignantly Are
you aware my that people known to have dropped
down dead for timely want of opum?'
Arthur Brisbane has written the editorial page
morrows Washington Herald in the March Of Events Sec
tOn an article Thomas de ounceys Confessions that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-02
Presidents Review of Fleet
May Make History
By Nelson Harding
Blu James T. Williams, Jr.

States at this conference in
volved a modification of the
method of limitation. This
sacrifice was of tremendous
advantage to Great Britain.
Having made these treaties,
the United States was commit
ted in the eyes of the world to
build up to the limits fixed by
these engagements. This is
what the British and japanese
have done. This is what the
United States has failed to do.
And the blame for that failure
rests upon Congress, which
until President Roosevelt came
to power had year after year
refused to appropriate the
money necessary to build the
ships which the United States
was obligated under these
treaties to build and which
American defense required
should be built.
U. s. Dropped Behind
During the period extending
from the Washington Confer
ence of 1922 to March 4. 1888,
the United States dropped far
behind Japan and the British
Empire in the replacement OF
ships that became leverage"
Japan laid down six light cruis-
ers, 81 destroyerS and 40 sub
marines. This made a total of
103 requirements by Japan.
Now Japan has projected SO
others. which will give her a
full treaty strength navy of
"under-age" ships when the
Washington and London treaties
expire in 1886.
Since the Washington Con-
ference. the British Empire has
laid down Is light cruisers, As
destroyers and 80 submarines, a
total of 8S requirements. In ad-
dition to these the British have
Is others projected. BY pursu-
ing a uniform policy of laying
down a certain number of ships
each year, the British Empire
will have a navy of approx
mately full treaty strength in
1886.
From the Washington Con-
ference until President Roose-
welt entered the White House,
Congress started construction
on only eight destroyers and six
submarines as requirements for
average" vessels. AS a result
of the building program which
the President obtained from
Congress since March of last
year the building up of the Navy
to treaty strength has finally
started.
To bring the Navy up to full
treaty strength, an additional
101 vessels of over 100000 tons
are still required. 1t is physically
impossible to construct so many
vessels between now and 1885.
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