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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
5000 Strike in Fisher
Body; Tie Up Buick
Factory
DILLON is ABSENT
Demand No Wage Cut,
No Speed-Up of Men,
No Firing

l~nefl2l 20 80 INV N1Fkofl
FLINT, Mich, May II. -
Over 10000 workers were out
here today after the strike Of
5000 auto workers of the
Fisher Body plant forced the
Buick Motor Company plant
here to close down. The Fisher
Body plant supplies the Buick auto
bodies.
Both plants were completely tied
up as a result Of the 100 per cent
walkout.
The strike at the Fisher Body
plant followed the slashing of piece
rates by Is to 40 per cent, and a
drive to speed-up the workers. The
workers at the plant, members Of
the American Federation of Labor
Federal Auto Union, went on strike
while Dillon. A. F. Of L. leader, was
in washington.
The strikers demand the follow
ing:
1. No reduction in wages. 2. No
speed-up. g. Immediate re-hiring Of
workers fired for protesting the cut
in piece work rates.
The strike is completely holding
up production of bodies for the
new Model 40 low-priced Buick car,
which the company announced to-
day.
Two hundred workers paraded
through the various departments of
the Fisher Body plant, calling all
men on strike, closing the plant.
This took place following two stop
pages, where men sat down and let
the lines go by without working on
them.
Large picket lines have been
thrown around the plant.
The workers in the Fisher Body
plant in Pontiac indicated today
that they would refuse to work If
the work of the struck plant at Flint
were transferred to the Pontiac
shop.
While the strike was already in
progress, the Automobile Labor
Board held a conference with Knud-
sen, vice-president Of General Mo-
tors, of which Fisher Body is a
at the General Motors
Building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Militia In Tear
Gas Attack On
Kansas .Jobless
W h oil ale Arrests
Follow Attack by
Troops, Police

WICHITA, Kansas, May 11.-Po-
lice, swinging clubs, three companies
Of National Guard infantry, and one
company of National Guard cavalry
led tear gas attack upon q meet
ing Of unemployed and striking re-
lief workers here yesterday. Fol-
lowing the attack by armed troops
and police, SO men and three women
were jailed by the police. More mass
arrests were threatened.
Acting under the orders of Gov
ernor Landon at the request of the
wichita police, relief and city off,
Gals. troops were sent yesterday af-
ter the strikers had successfully re-
sisted the attacks by the combined
force of police and firemen, and had
marched on the relief projects pull
ing out the workers solidly.
The strikers voted solidly for a
walk-out on Wednesday unless their
demands for a living wage were met.
S1lNSllNNAIIf CillO, may II. -
Nearly $4,000 relief workers are on
strike in IA counties in Ohio, de-
minimum wage for all
workers, whether on public or pri-
vate job projects, of so cents an
hour. In Butler County, 1900 work
relief strikers are entering their
third week of strike with the active
of steel workers in Middle
town and Hamilton.
Several thousand workers in pri-
vately owned plants have struck in
other parts of Ohio in support of
relief work strikers. About 1900 clay
workers in the Uhrichsville district,
TOO bakers in Akron, and 400 cement
workers in Osborne have joined the
walkout.
1000 Strike in Des Moines
DIES MONIES, Ia. F.PO-About
1000 Des Moines relief workers
struck when the local relief bureaus
instituted cash payment for grocery
relief with 25 per cent slash in
the amounts received.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
IndustriaIists
Seek tOOutlaW
Strike Actions
Based on Auto Sellout,
Would Strangle Strike
At Start

NEW YORK. - Avowedly taking
their inspiration from the Roosevelt
sell-out of the automobile strike, the
National Association of Manufac-
turers today projected a plan for
strangling every strike at its incep-
ton.
In its essentials, the plan pro-
poses to settle disputes where they
originate in the plant and Sc
cure the adjustment of labor dis
putes without interruption of ser
vice in each plant and industry"
The object of the plan, sponsored
by the Manufacturers Association
and drafted by the heads Of the
Peoria Cordage Co., the American
Rolling Mills of Middletown, Ohio,
the Bridgeport Brass Company, etc,
is to strengthen company unions,
force through arbitration with i'm
partial company representation on
arbitration" boards, localize all
strike actions, force the men to re-
main at work while disputes are
settled" limit settlement only to
the grievances specified, and to pre-
vent all sympathetic actions by
workers in other industries or in
other branches of the same in
dustry.
Worker representation by this
manufacturers plan would exclude
any committee which the workers
might elect, but would limit work
ers' representation based upon the
membership of each organization
claiming to speak for employees in
the industry
Any organization claiming to
speak for employees" can only mean
vesting all power in the settlement
of strikes squarely in the hands of
t h e manufacturers themselves,
company unions, and
placing final decision in the hands
of such bodies as the National Auto
mobile Board as in the automobile
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Open Air Meetings
in N. Y. Monday to.
MATHEMATICIAN
The Communist Party,
TUUL, LID, Issue Call
for Mighty Protest

NEW YORK.-In a combined call
issued yesterday by the N. Y. Dis
trict of the Communist Party, the
Trade Union Unity League and the
International Labor Defense, New
York workers were again urged to
turn out in mass in protest demon
STATIONS in every borough and
neighborhood on Monday, May ID.
against the brutal murder of strik-
ing ore and coal miners by j. P.
Morgan thugs and government
troops in Birmingham, Ala.
In issuing this call, the exact
dates and locations of the protest
meetings we're listed as follows, to-
gether with the speakers at each
place:
Monday noon at seth st. and 9th
Ave.-Andrew Overgaard, secretary
of the Trade Union Unity Council
and Irving Potash of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
will be the main speakers.
Tenth st. and Second Ave. at 1880
p.m.-Alfred Wagenknecht, National
Secretary Of the Workers Interna-
tional Relief and I. Rosenberg, Sec
rotary of the United Shoe and
Leather Union.
Columbus Circle at 7:30 pm
Max Bedacht, National Secretary of
the International Workers Order
and Bill Albertson, the leader of
the Food Workers Industrial Union.
Crown Heights at 7:3O pm. at the
corner of Fulton and Lewis Sts.-
William l.. Patterson, National Sec
rotary of the International Labor
Defense.
Harlem at 7:30 at the corner of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Serve DrasticWrit
Against Alabama.
Ore Mine Pickets.
Ore Strikers Refused
Right to Meet,
or Picket
REIGN OF TERROR
Negro Strikers Arrested
BY State Troopers

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May
9 (By MaiI) Following on
the killing of two iron ore
strike pickets at Ishkooda, by
Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
pany gun thugs, the Jefferson
County Circuit Court has is
sued most drastic injunction for
bidding Republic Steel Co. strikers
from picketing. The vicious injunc-
ton, issued by Judge Richard Evans
outlaws all picketing and strike ac-
tivity of the members or officials of
the International Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers Union. The re-
quest of the steel company for the
injunction was based on the blood
shed carried out by the company
gangsters. The injunction com
mandS and enjoins you (members
of the union) from in any manner
whatsoever, picketing the Thomas
plant of the company or any of its
mines or other plants in Jefferson
County, or the public or private
roads, or approaches thereto, or in
the vicinity thereof"
All picketing in the ore mine fields
has been outlawed.
The officials of the union in a
statement on the murder of the two
Negro miners, at the same time of
fer cooperation" to the national
guard troops which Governor Miller
has called out. The statement,
signed by v. c. Finch, state repre-
sentative Of the A. F. of L. and
George Coles, international vice
president of the union, says in part
THE statements of all the pick
cts, white and colored, are to the eff
feet that they were fired on without
Continued on Pare ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Calls Mothers Day
Hypocritical Gesture
in Face of Deaths

NEW YORK Scoring the "soppy,
sentimental" regard for motherhood,
DR.. Howard w. Haggard of Yale
University pointed out Thursday
that a flower on Mothers Day is
scant satisfaction to the mother in
the face of some 10000 needless ma
ternity deaths in this country each
year due to ignorance.
Speaking before Joint meeting
of the Maternity Center Association
and the Henry Street Nursing Ser
vice at the Waldorf Astoria, he
called the commercialized sentiment
of Mothers Day "a hypocritical ges-
ture typical of people who believe
they can replace a deep obligation
by a shallow sentimental flourish"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
1000 Airplane Strikers
Demand Their Tools Back

BUFFALO, N. Y.-Four thousand
airplane strikers and sympathetic
workers maSSed in front of the Cur
It's Airplane plant here today de-
handing that the company turn
over their tools to them. This is in
answer to the ultimatum of the
company to return to work immedi-
ately. The strikers marched to the
plant from union headquarters.
AS this is written, the strikers are
removing their tools from the plant.
The spirit of the strikers is high
and they are determined to con-
tinue their strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Direct Al Var Orders
OF BottLeship Steel Be
Kept Strict Secret

NEW YORK. = The Inter
national Nickle Corporation and
its affiliated Canadian Steel Cor
poration have issued internal
directiveS to keep secret all in
formation on exports. This is
due to the sharp rise in inter-
national trading in nickle-steel
for battleships.
This information came to the
Daily Worker Correspondent by
an employee of the New York
office of International Nickle.
Fittingly, this Office is located
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
San Francisco SeamenV Vote
Unanimously To Back Up
Strike Of Longshoremen
CretOS of TWO Ships
Strike in Support
of LOngshOremen

SAN PEDRO, Cal, May IL
Crews of the steamships Cas-
cade and Sagadohoc struck to-
day under the leadership of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
in support of the longshoremen's
strike and for the code of the
M. w. I. U.
Six seamen were arrested while
picketing the docks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Trooper Kills Brother;
z Dead i'm Athens Strike

ATHENS, May 11.-A trooper I'M
knowingly killed his brother here
yesterday when governme mt
machine-gunners moved down the
striking lockers, seven workers be-
ing killed, in all. They were killed
for protesting the speed-up insti-
tuted with new conveyers. The
troops. however, could not disperse
the crowd of strikers.
sympathetic strike movement is
growing rs a result of these murders.
Even the capitalist PRESS admits
that they were wanton and un-
provoked. The government, of
covrse, has announced an "inyesti-
9ation-f
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Paris Cops Kill Worker
Who Fights Fa S cists

PARIS, May 11.-One worker was
shot to death and Is others were in
jured Wednesday night when police
fired into group of worker who
were fighting with fascists at Livry
Gargen, suburb of this city. The
police arrested number of workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
WAGES CUT AS RUICK PRICE
DROPS

DETROIT tFP1-With the an
nouncement that Buick is TO sell a
cheaper car came q cut in pay for
oil sanders from IS cents an hour
to S. cents
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Especial to the Daily Worker.)
SAN FRANCISCO, May II.

BAN fhANCIOCO, May IL.
Three hundred and twenty
five seamen representing a
total of $50 from the ships
voted unanimously last night
to declare a strike in support
of the longshoremen.
The seamen voted to strike
under the leadership of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union.
Already the crews Of several steam
schooners are striking and seven
crews from the larger ships have
pledged to walk out.
The seamen have requested to sit
on the longshoremen's strike COM
mittee to coordinate the action
along the waterfront. Very few
scabs are working as the strike gains
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Militant Strike Gains
AS M.W.I.U. Pledges
Full Support
'ON TO THE DOCKSr
StevedOres Break Police
Lines in Enthusiastic
Demonstration
B U L L E T I N

SAN FRANCISCO, May H.
Striking longshoremen we're
aroused to a high pitch Of anger
today when heavily armed de-
taehments Of police brought in
gangs Of strike-breakers to the
piers.
TIL lOngshoremen are strength
ening their ranks to meet the
threat of federal government au-
thOrities to take over the docks
in an attempt to force the strikers
to accept the strike breaking
Roosevelt Arbitration Board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-11
Duke Ruppenthal
to Meet Meyers
Pedigo-D omar Bout Will
Be Semi Windup.

Duke Ruppenthal, clever Mil
waukee wrestler, and Ray (Tuffy)
Meyers, Louisville ring villain, will
meet in a return bout headlining
the Friday night mat bill in Tom
linson hall. Jack Domar, rough
lad from Austin, Tex, will meet
Blacksmith Cecil Pedigo, another
Louisville grappler, in the semi
windup.
The main go was arranged by
Promoter Jimmy McLemore on
Ruppenthals insistence that he be
matched here against the Ken
lucky terror. Meyers paraded his
usual repertory of two-fisted tactics
to floor the Milwaukee mat artist
in their first encounter here several
weeks ago.
In RuppenthaIs last appearance
here, in a round robin tournament
which he won, the pair did not get
together, Meyers being eliminated
before reaching the Duke in the
final bout.
Bob Webb, local mat hopeful, will
be one of the participants in
curtain raiser bout. All matches are
mlddleWeight affairs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-11

THE revival of ping pong swept the country and
crest of the new sports wave rides Jimmy Mcclure the
boy paddler of Hoosierdom He is Indianapolis newest
champion in the athletics sphere and glance at his record
indicates there has not been thing uky about his climb
national fame He annexed city titles state titles and
tonal crowns before visiting Cleveland recently where he
met older and experienced "pingers in the national
championship tourney. And Mcclure moved EN- down.
It's a real accomplishment to be king of anything at
II and Jimmy entitled to all of the plauds that go with
possession paddle throne. He is little King Kong
among the ping pongers Mcclure in the novice class
a year ago and he's leading the parade It's quick
leap to fame the marks of a true champion.
It's rather odd for the city to boast of champion
baseball swatter like Chuck Klein well as the reigning
weder the ping paddle The champions the merrer
That's Indianapolis.
THE jump from the Southern League might have big
outelder 10 10 Iutcheon but he stayed up in the
ne noo Tbs Of 1888 to fon the BROOKLYN
Ohtu ne A NieInpilS ~ Vi 40 ~
brags Tex stop of
put Denton
flourish Stepping into the big leagues Joe found s15O meals popular
p snnst for down in his neck Of the Lone Star state
family Hutchinson played eighseven
Dodgers him transportation to Brook
n In that time he had registered batting average OF
crashed eighteen homers The big 10 10 measures six feet
right Teachers college
may many the American Association but he
big numbers on less than that in the Southern
Bill raucher sports editor of Newspaper Enterprise Association
the south and kept
the following major league selections:
Chicago, York, Pittsburgh, Boston, Gin
cnnati Brooklyn, Philadelphia
Washington, Boston, Detroit, St Louis Cleve
ar
TOUGH The York Yankees
Hal Chase first base
with smallpox The entire
players Richmond Va, it
vaccnated
athletes if the steak is tough
Chicago the Gaia
in So day. after clubbing
Wrgey exclaimed, Here boy! Let the bag
dakhorse Kawtovn Blues of the American
pitcher Bill Shores the other day He
of Hickey fall
A may Shores
Rabbit Maranv big league he injured
leg and confined his He made much noise the hotel
Rabbit the dick and shooed him
Police called and when they entered Maranes
his clutches and the officers
Johnny Anything for laugh Man-
Wlles slant life.
candidate Audley entry
late Mraw The horse full brother OF
the Churchill Downs track record for six
and one-hal furongs
make TOO for
also high bases balls Sxtyseven
ticket total will be 20O0
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-11
~ Plans Banquet
for 100 Athletes

More than 100 members of the
department of physical education
of the indianapolis Y. M. c. A. are
expected to attend dinner to hon
or "Y' athletes, in the "Y'' building
at 7 tomorrow night.
Enos Pray, chairman of the VOL
ley ball committee, as POSTMASTER
will introduce Paul (Tony) Hinkle,
Butler athletics director; Charles
Ray, manager Of the volley ball
team; James Williams, basketball
team captain; Jack Scott, coach,
and Bernard Nall, manager of the
wrestling squad; coach Hiatt and
Bill Ramey of the boxing team;
Tom Smith of the handball team;
Harry Grabner, coach of the GYM
nasticS and apparatus team; Jim
Clark and Russ McIntire of the
swimming team, and Harold Hin
man, track team coach.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-11
Shields FavOrite
in Tennis Battle
Seeded Players Advance in
North South Tourney.
BIZ United Press

BY CHlted Press
PINEHURST, N. c., April ia
round ahead Of his closest ranking
competitors, Frank x. Shields, New
York, Americas No. player, ruled
a strong favorite to win the north
and south tournament today as play
was resumed
Shields two burning rounds yes
terday in which he defeated Byron
Abels, University of North Carolina
star, 60, 60, and Nick AShby, Duke
university, by the same love score,
placed him in the third round with
the best performances to date.
Wilmer Allison, Austin, Tex,
ranked No. 2; Lester Stoefen, Los
Angeles, ranked No. 3; Bryan Grant,
Atlanta, ranked No. 4, and George
Lott Jr., Chicago, ranked No. 5,
moved into the second round when
their opponents defaulted and we're
to see action for the first time today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-11
Eastern Roller
Squad Pressed
Locals One Up on Title
Series Action.

When the Indians and New Bril-
tain resume their intersectional
roller polo series tomorrow night at
TomlinSon hall, the visiting eastern
champions will be fighting with
their backs to the wall, fguratively,
for another win by the locals will
clinch the title for them of worlds
champions"
Indianapolis already has won two
contests of the fve-game series to
one for New Britain. The conclud-
ing game will be played next Sun
day afternoon.
The three games so far played
have supplied great sport for the
fans, the polo being played bringing
back memories of the good old days
at the auditorium, when Higgins,
Hart, Jean and other stars of that
time made polo history.
The locals were far from being
favorites to win before the series
started, and the manner in which
they have turned back the smart
eastern outfit has amazed and
pleased the fans.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-11

They put them on the scales and
their weights were announced: Four
pounds six ounces for red, four
pounds eight ounces for the gray
gamester.
Their handlers held them while
the referee laced on the gaffs -
wicked, curved, steel barbs an inch
and quarter long. The gaffs were
mounted on leather cuffs, which
were strapped on the cocks just
above their own spurs.
The referee stepped back and the
handlers walked to the center of
the pit and, holding their fighters
at arms length, rubbed their heads
together. The cocks fought to get
free as they picked at one another.
The handlers took opposite sides
Of the pit, placed their cocks on the
ground facing one another, and
grabbed them tightly by the tall
feathers. For a second the cocks
stood there, straining to break
loose, like fighting planes a second
before the chocks are removed.
Then they let EN- loose and they
went together with a wild, fierce
drumming and savage, lightning
fast slashes with their gaffs.
(T0m0rrow-The Fights.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-11
BY HENRY M'LEMORE
United Press stan Correspondent

COMEWHERE IN NEW YORK
~ STATE, April 1.-THE old fell
low asked me if I had ever seen a
cock fight and said no, and he
said would you like to and I said
yes, so we got in car, drove bet
tern 200 miles upstate, meandered
in and out of the side streets in a
sorry section of a small town, and
finally pulled up in front of a cheap
beer and hamburg joint.
We walked up 10 the door. an
iron grill snapped back, and some
body gave us the eye. The door
swung open and dirty-faced guy
with an apron on said: "Hoywa
Tom. you'd better hurry cause I got
a chicken going on now and he's
worth a fifty bet" The hamburg
joint, which was just front for
the arena in the back, was a mad
house. There were 400 men and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-11

only room for half that number.
You never saw such a collection in
your life. Buns, rich guys, old
bearded fellows and kids who hadn't
ever handled a razor.
We nudged Our way past the bar,
which served straight applejack and
nothing else, and through a door
into the battle-ground. 1t was some
thing straight out the Police Ga
zette. Rising almost perpendicular
in the dirty, little room was a por-
ridge-bowl of white-washed grand
stand, whose top seats were so high
their occupants all out scraped their
head on the ceiling. From the cob
webby rafters hung two kerosene
lamps, whose pale light barely held
its own with the smoke.
y r.
DOWN in the center was the pit.
II 1t was about twelve feet across
and enclosed by solid fence about
three feet high. The pit was covered
in tanbark, stained dark with blood.
There wasn't seat in the place
when we got in. but the old fellow
had been coming there for twenty
five years straight and they made
room for US right down by the pit.