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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Socialist Leader Wadn Epncay Urges Cops Use Clubs Workers

demonstrators, says the propaganda
sheet of the International Harvester
Company, the Daily News, Louis
Waldman, former Socialist candidate
for Governor, was emphatic in favor
ing their employment in outbreaks
like the one at the Garden, which
grew out of a pink rally protesting
Austrian butcheries'."
Louis Waldman was as emphatic
in his insistence on the use Of clubs
as the police are in using them
against strikers on the picket line.
THE police handled themselves
admirably, and did the best they
could with their bare hands to halt
the brawl,' said Louis Waldman,
but they should be equipped with
nightsticks on occasions like that
one"
That message taken to Dollfuss.
whose police have passed beyond the
stage Of clubs, but are using ma
chine guns, howitzers, and the rope
on Socialist workers, should bring
gladness to the fascist murderers.
Here in this country We have the
Socialist leaders justifying the in
creased use Of violence against work.
ers, particularly workers protesting
the murder Of the comrades In Aus
tria.
In order to insure the right of the
fascist Matthew Vol to speak and
besmirch, the revolutionary heroism
and traditions Of the Austrian work.
ers, the Socialist leader, Louis VALID
man is emphatic in his insistance
that LaGuardia's police use clubs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21

PARIS, Feb. 20-The moment when
the terrific war-tension in Europe ex-
plodes into the beginning Of gigantic
world slaughter was brought imni-
nently close last night as Theodor
Habicht, Hitler's personal inspector
for Austria" delivered a Nazi ultima
tum to the Dollfuss government.
The ultimatum, giving Dollfuss
eight days to submit to NaI demands,
was first broadcast over the radio
from Munich, and then presented in
written form to the Dollfuss govern
ment today.
The ultimatum sets noon. Feb. %,
as the moment for a redoubled often
sive of all Nazi forces for the capture
of power in Austria. 1t gives Doll
fuss an 8-day truce in which to con-
sider capitulation.
Puts War on Order Of Day
This demand puts a Europoan war
Immediately on the order Of the day.
Italy has two army corps concen-
rated on the Austrian frontier, with
Immense reserves Immediately in their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
W agner Asks
ScabbingBoard
Be Permanent
Bill Makes Natl Labor
Board More Powerful
Strikebreaker

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 20
Making the National Labor Board
permanent as quassi-judicial
agency, with full power to carry out
its strikebreaking decisions through
the use Of the Federal courts and
suppressive powers. Senator Wagner
has prepared a bill which will be
submitted to Presi lent Roosevelt for
approval in day or two.
AS now constituted, the National
Labor Board is an instrument Of
Roosevelt, which has been extremely
effective in breaking strikes by
making futile and worthless prom
ises to the workers.
The action of the National Labor
Board in th Wierton Steel strike,
in the Philadelphia taxi strike, and
in the Budd and Ford strikes, hava
opened the eyes of many workers.
Now to retain this valuable scab in.
strument, Senator Wagner proposes
certain changes.
The idea he wishes to convey is
that the Board will in the future act
"impartially." Actually It will act
with more force against strikes and
strikers. 1t will consist Of q per-
manent body of five appointed by
Roosevelt and approved by the
House and Senate.
"What we tried to do in passing
the original act" said Senator
Wagner, "was to give labor equality
of bargaining power with the em-
ployer class. In some cases it has
failed to do that. This bill will 60 a
long way toward establishing q
parity"
With q continuation of this type
of demagogy, on which the N.R.A
was originally passed, Senator Wag-
ner hopes to rush through the bill
for maxine permanent thu National
Labor Board
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Bravest Fighters Sent
To GallOws; Soviet
Veteran Hanged
THOUSANDS IN JAHS
Socialists W hitewas h
Dollfuss in Report

VIENNA, Feb. 20.-Austria
is a land of gallows and choked
prisons today, as the Dollfuss
government takes it's savage
revenge on workers who last week
fought back against its new-accom-
plised fascist onslaught.
Kololnan Wallisch, veteran of the
Hungarian Soviets and mayor of
Bruck-an-der- Muir, was hanped at
1870 o'clock last night, alone with
Hubert Russ who fou0ht beside him.
Soviet Veteran Dies HeroicalIy
When Wallisch was summarize SEN
fenced to hang at Bruck, the butch
ers prepared to carry out the SEN
tonce Immediately. Walngch coolly
insisted on his right not to be hanged
for three hours after the verdict. 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Painters, Plumbers and
StOnecutters Locals
Demand Action
MASS FIGHT URGED
Lundeen Fails to Back
Bill Aggressively

NEW YORK.-Two large A.
F. of L. local unions of New
York and one local in Akron,
Ohio, at their last regular
meetings, Endorsed the Work
srs Unemployment and Social In
surance Bill III. R. 1899. The Broth
srhood of Painters, Decorators and
Paper Hangers of America, local
lnion 848, which has 900 members,
unanimously Endorsed the Workers
Bill, and went on record to send a
communication to William Connery,
r., chairman of the House Commit
zee on Labor, demanding that this
committee enact the Bill.
The painters local also voted to
write to William Green demanding
that he indorse the Workers Bill.
The same demand is made on Presi-
dent Lindeloff, of the Painters In
iernational.
The United Association of Plumb
ars and Steamfitters, local /, OF
Brooklyn, Monday night unanim-
Dusly voted to indorse the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. r
1881 and voted to send kilograms to
Congressman Lundeen, who intro
duced the bill in congress and to the
Brooklyn congressman, demanding
enactment of the Workers Bill. This
local has 900 members. 1t was
stressed at the meeting that every
member should visit the local con-
gresham and demand passage Of the
Workers Bill.
The Journeymen Stonecutters AS
ISOLATION, Akron Local Union, en-
iorsed the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill I'll r. 759S) at its
last regular meeting.
The stonecutters local has sent
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21

fascism. One OF the main topics to
be taken up is the need for a united
front Of all workers for the struggle
against fascism.
The meetings will be held in the
following places:
Downtown
Thursday, Feb. 22nd, p. m. Cooper
Union, 9th Street near Third Ave,
Bronx
Friday, Feb. 23rd, 7.3O p. m. Am
oassador Hall, 1915 Third Ave. near
Claremont Parkway.
Brownsville
Saturday, Feb. oath, 7.S0 p. m. Pre-
mier Palace, Snediker and Suttey
AYES.
Midtown
Monday, Feb. 18th, 7.3O p. m. Gen.
trail Opera House, 205 E. 9th st. neal
Third Ave.
Williamsburgh
Wednesday, Feb. 23th, 7.30 .. m
Grand Paradise Ballroom formerly
Miller's Assembly,, 318 Grand St
near Havemeyer, Brooklyn.
Boro Park
Thursday, March 1st, Linden
Heights Community Center, 45th st
and Ninth Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Plan Public Herring
to Push Dies Bill
Through Congress
Workers Organizations
Urged to Intensity
Fight on Bill

(nailv Worker washinrton Bureau)
WASHINGTON. Feb. pa public
hearinq on the Dies Communist
bill will be held soon, Representn tive
Martin Dies. Democrat of TEXAS. told
tire Daily Worker Yesterday. Dies ey-
poets ito push the bill through this
session.
The Dies Bill (H. r. 4112), which
is a deportation measure providing
for "the exclusion and expulsion of
alien Communists" is still in the I'M
MIGRATION and Naturalization Com
mittee.
IT don't believe the Communist
Party will oppose the bill" said Dies.
1.-THE bill doesn't apply to those who
believe in Communism, but only to
those aliens who advocate the over
throw of the government by force
and violence"
will members Of the Communist
Party be allowed to testify If they
so desire2"
Eyes, sure, believe So"
NEW YORK. Widespread and in
creased activity on the part of all
working class organizations against
the imminent passage of the Dies
Bill and other anti-foreign-born
measures is urged in statement re-
(Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Meets in Every Factory
Hail Struggles of
Austrian Workers
RAISE RELIEF FUNDS
A.M.O. Gives 10000
Roubles; Others One
ay's W Ork
Special to the Daily WORKER

MOSCOW, Feb. 20 (By
Radio)-The workers Of the
Soviet Union have met in in-
Vulnerable great mass meet
ings to express their enthusiastic soli-
deritv with the revolutionary workers
Of Austria.
The workers Of the Stain tA.M.o)
automobile plant in Moscow have
subscribed nearly 10000 roubles for
the relief Of the families Of the VIC
tins Of Austrian fascist terror.
In the Eectrozavod plant In Mos.
COW, the thousands Of workers de-
cided to work one extra day and de-
vote the whole proceeds to aid the
families Of the worker heroes Of the
Austrian revolt.
InnumerabIe Solidarity Meetings
In innumerable other MEETINGS In
factories Of Moscow, Leningrad, Kisv,
Kharkov and the other cities, resolu-
lions OF solidarity with the Austrian
workers have been passed, and all
have voted to contribute to the re-
lief Of The families OF the Austrian
worker victims.
In their resolution. the workers Of
the Electrozavod plant declare:
''PrOletarians of Austria, your
heroic struggle has shown the toll
ers Of the entire world that desnite
the betrayals and deception Of the
BOURGEOIS does Of social-f ascis'n,
the worfSlng class has not lost lie
faith In It's strength. Your struggle
showed that the working class can
bring its struggle to victory over
the bourgeOisie. over Fascism, only
when the proletarfan bat'aiOns are
headed by the Communist Party,
leadin~ the masses under the ban
ner Of Marx, Engels, Lenin and
Stain. The proIetarian revolution
Is near! Rally your ranks under
the banner Of the Communist In
ternational!"
''You win Conquer Tomorrow
The resolution of the workers Of
the Stain auto plant says in parti
''The fascists are celebrating their
victory too soon. Let them remern-
Nnr 1905. The Austrian proletariat
not conquered today, but they
certainly win tomorrow"
workers of the Electrosila
1t in Leningrad say in their reso.
luton:
"Our great leader Stain was
right when at the Seventeenth
Party Congress he said that Eu-
rope is on the eve Of revolution.
airy battles"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Hopkins Vague
On Future OF
.FiredCW
Seasonal Factor Nav
Help, He Says AS
Millions Starve
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN

DAILY Worker WASHINGTON Bureau
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 20. -
Intent on forestalling organized mass
pressure by millions of c. w. A. work
ers who face the prospect of starva-
ton on May 1, when the C. w. A,
will be completely closed down by
President Roosevelt's order, Harry l.
Hopkins, G. w. A. and federal relief
head, today repeated his vague for
mula, 1--WE intend to see that the
unemployed are cared for" before the
House Labor Committees Hearing
testimony on the Company thirty
hour f1ve-day week.
Precisely how the C. w. A. workers
are to be cared for don't know, but
one thing you can be sure of, it will
be DONE" Hopkins declared, in the
no one shall starve manner OF
Hoover.
Lundeen Lays Behind
Ernest Lundeen, Farmer Laborite
Representative from Minnesota, who
was asked yesterday by the Daily
Worker why he did not cross-examine
William Green, President of the A. F
of L. oflcialdom, on the Workers I'm
employment and Social Insurance
Bill Oh. R. 1885, introduced by him
self, informed your correspondent to-
day that he had the Bill printed il
the Congressional Record for publicity
purposes.
II told the chairman, this morning
that hope to speak on this Bill
during the hearings. Connery i.
Chairman and, of course, his bill il
getting first attention. I look on the
Workers Unemployment and Socia
Insurance Bill as the final solution
I'm determined to go ahead. Little BY
little we'll see things happen" Lln-
deem said. Well, we shall see what
we shall see.
Connery, former vaudeville enter.
tainer, now Chairman of the Com.
mittee, predicted a march "on Wash.
ington of the unemployed when thu
G. w. A. is demobilized.' His author.
Continued on Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Hathaway to Speak
At 6 Mass Meets On
Austrian UpriSing
Mass to Protest Against
Torture and Hanging
of Austrian Heroes

NEW YORK-In every section of
New York, mass meetings are being
ARRANGED for this and the coming
week to rally all workers for the de-
Tense of the heroic Austrian prole-
tariat, to protest the hangings and
bloody torture Of the Austrian So
cialist and Communists.
Each of the six mass meetings will
be addressed by Comrade Clarence
Hathaway, editor of the Daily
Worker. Socialist, as well as nom
Party workers, members of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor are urged
to attend these meetings to hear the
truth of the Austrian uprising against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
UMWA Heads Make
Deal With Prick Co.
To Defeat Miners
Secret Pact Deals With
Officials Individually,
But Rejects Union

PITTSBURGH. Feb. 20. - Despite
the vote of miners for representatives
of the United Mine Workers of
America, under an election arranged
by President Roosevelt, officials of
the H. G. Prick Coke Co. Ga United
States Steel subsidiary, today signed
an agreement with officials of the U.
NJ W. A. "as individuals and not as
officers Of the union"
The agreement is being kept secret
thus far by Philip Murray, vice-pres-
ident of the U. M. W. A.
The captive mine owners interpret
the agreement as no recognition of
the union. They declare they will
treat with the u M w. A. leaders as
individuals, and not as union repre-
sentatives.
This seems quite agreeable to John
L. Lewis and Philip Murray, as shown
by the secret maneuvres with this
powerful coal company.
In some of the captive mines the
workers we're forced into company
unions.
The miners in the captive mines
owned by the big steel, utility and
ether corporations, carried on series
of militant strikes last summer and
fall demanding 100 per cent recogni-
ton of the U. M. w. A. The Lewis
machine, acting with the coal oper-
ators, helped to break the strike. Fin
ally, Roosevelt promised the workers
that they would hold elections fol-
union representation. When they
elected U. M. w. A. representatives
the bosses now get around it by Sc
cretly arranging with the officialdom
to deal as individuals with the oper-
ators and not as members of the
union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Doctor Sent to
Learn OfHealth
Of Thaelnann
InternatiO nal Groups
Demand to Examine
Nazis' Prisoners
Especial to the Daily worker)

Especial to the Daily WOrker)
PARIS, Feb. 20 (By Cable)-
TREE international organizations
have elaborated in sending a ply
sician, DR.. Cord, to Berlin to make
a physical examination of Ernst
Thaelmann, leader of the German
Communist Party, George Dimitroff,
Ernst Torgler, Vassil Taneff and
Blagoi Popoff.
DR.. Cord has gone as the repre-
sentative of the International Juri-
deal Association, the Inquiry Com
mission of noted international jur-
lists organized by the World Com
mittee to Aid Victims of German
Fascism, and the Internation-l Com
mittee for the Liberation of Thael.
mann, Torgler, Dimitroff, and other
anti-fascist prisoners.
DIR. Cord win demand the right to
make a report to be published
throughout the world on the phys
ical condition of the Communist
prisoners who are held in the dun
geons of the Nazi secret police.
The danger to the life of Thael-
mann increases every day, as the
time of his trial" for treason" APP
proaches.
Having announced that at his
trial the whole program of the Com.
munist Party will be put on trial,
the Nezis would like nothing better
than to find a means to announce
his Suicide" or "1eath while at
tempting to escape"
They know we'll that in Thael-
mann, the great fighting leader Of
the German working class, they will
have to deal with another undaunte6
Bolshevik like Dimitroff,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Three AT. OfL.LOcals
andEnactmentO OF
Social Insurance Bill
Unemployment OesU p
500, 900 In Month of
January, Perkins Says

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 20.
-One-half million more workers
became unemployed in the
month Of January, in addition
to laycffS from C.W.A. jobs, it
was admitted in the official gov
eminent reports of Frances
Perkins, of the Department of
labor today.
The decline in payrOlls in
January below the Dec, 1888,
figure was s5,40O,OO0, the De-
partment of Labor figures re-
veal.
The figures given out by Per-
kins, showing an increase in I'M
Employment were described as
seasonal" At the same time
Hopkins declares that season
al" work is expected to give jobs
to the millions additional fired
off C.W.A. Jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Rakousky, Chief Trotsky Aid,
Seeks to Rejioin C.P. Of USSR
Especial to the Daily wOrker)

MOSCOW Radio)The Soviet newspapers publish
telegram by Christian Rakovy addressed to the Central Committee
stating that he completely and
condonay organzaona struggle
against leadership line of the Party and submits
the decisions of the Party and to its discipline.
the chief lieutenant Of the Trok opposition
him leading the fight
previously occupied high posi-
Ambassador Great Britain
Germany 1925 Trosy banised from the Soviet
still continued his fight against the Communist Party
of the Union from Altai in the USjS~R
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
White Seeks
Curb on Anti
Lynch Fight
N.A.A.C.P. Head Attacks
Mass Struggle at Hearing
On ''Anti-Lynch'' Bill
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
Dafly Worker Washington Bureau)

kDdlly HOIkcT washing IOn 0uNCouJ
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-A DELHI
crate drive to exploit for the treach-
erous aims Of the reformiStS all the
victories radical groups have won In
the fight for liberation of the Negro
people from lynching and every other
form of oppression came right out
into the open today as a Senate Sub
Committee began public hearings on
the Costigan- Wagner "anti-lynching"
bill.
Nine members of the Maryland mob
that hideously lynched George Arm
wood-lynchers whose identity was
first revealed by the Daily Worker"
through the investigation of John
L. Spivak-are to be summoned to
testify before this Committee in its
effort to get publicity for the bill
under conqi>' ton. This measure
lly would provide no guarante"
against lyncn.- ,; it actually would
be a weapon in the hands of the
ruling class against all workers,
Negro and white.
White Warns of Mass Fight on
Lynching
Walter White, secretary of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, sponsors of
the bill, today boldly proclaimed the
object of the "anti-lynching" bill
to thwart the sweeping spread Of rev.
dictionary struggles against lynching
He complained against efforts ito
convince the American Negro that
his hope of justice under the pres
ent form of government is useless, u
and added:
"It is for this Committee and for
this Congress either to demonstrate
that this hope is not futile one OIL
fCnna Esaaa.nl "a Dnnn ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
In the Daily Worker
Today

Page 2
sports, by Sam Ross.
Page
Pre- Convention Discussion.
Page
Letters from Needle Workers.
party Life"
''Dr. Luttinger Advises"
an the Home"
Page
Change the World!" by Michael
Gold.
Murder In Camp Hohenstein,"
by Peter Conrad.
Portrait Of America" by John
L. Spivak.
Workers Group Present Vital
Theatrical Evening.
Page
Editorials.
Foreign News.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
$4,000 Silk, Wooden
Workers for Strike;
Demand Pay Increase

PROVIDENCE, r. L. Feb. 2o-Fif-
zen thousand wooden worsted and
elk workers in Connecticut, across
the Rhode Island border. have de-
clared their intention Of striking for
wage increases, 1t Is reported, The
Connecticut textile workers demand
wage increases equal to the Rhode
Island scale, or an increase Of ap-
1roximately IS per week.
George Sylvia, United Textile
CA. F. Of ID union misleader. has left
FOR Connecticut openly declaring his
trip Is aimed to halt the strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Young Pioneers Call
Children to Protest
Fire-Traps Thursday

NEW YORK.-The Young Pr
oneers of America yesterday called
on all working class children TO
take part in a mass parade of
children to City Hall to demand
the immediate removal Of workers
families out of old tenement fire
traps and into modern apartment
houses, without an increase in
rent. The parade will protest the
deaths of eight persons Give of
them children) in the East Side
tenement fire last Saturday.
Children will mass at 7th st.
and Ave. A at 1890 a. m. Thurs
day, and will march past the scene
of the fire, 40 E. It'll Street and
on to City Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
See editorial on Austria OF
page six of today's issue.

demand my 'hree hours" he said. IT
haven't had time to read today's
papers yet" Having learned all he
could Of the situation in Austria
from the days papers, he marched
calmly to his DEATH
All the hated leaders of Austrian
fascism, headed by President Miklas
and Chancellor Dollfuss, took part
in elaborate military funeral services
for so soldiers and Heimwehr men
killed while carrying out their muir
derous attacks on the Viennese
| workers.
Earlier in the day, state officials
had carried out the destruction of
the monuments erected by the So
cialist municipality to leaders of the
| 1913 revolution.
Ten workers are on trial for their
lives in Graz and six in Vienna, these
last having defended the Goethe Hof.
DR.. Krbec, one of the defenders of
the Goethe Hof, was sentenced to
hang, but the sentence was committed
to life imprisonment.
Long Prison Terms
Savage sentences of many years in
prison, up to life, are being imposed
wholesale by the court martials.
Thousands, damned in prisons and
barracks, suffering constant brutal
tiles and allowed not even the ele-
mentary necessities provided for COM
mon criminals, are awaiting their turn
to face the murder courts of the
Amsterdam state. They are kept in
constant torment, lacking even water
| to drink.
In the Heimwehr barracks and the
state prisons, the captured workers
are undergoing the same kind of tor
lures which the Nazis have made in
| famous.
Workers against whom no evidence
could be found have been released
broken in body from the tortures to
which they were subjected day and
night.
Socialists Whitewash DollfuSs
PRAGUE, Feb. 20.--Even in re-
porting on the inhuman torments
and torture to which Austrian
worker prisoners have been put, the
Socialist Party leadership here con-
tinues its attempt to whitewash the
Dollfuss government which led the
: Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Uses Beating of Hathaway
At Madison Square as
Excuse for Clubs

against workers when they protest a
fascist speaking at meeting osten-
sibly called to protect fascist but
cherry OF the brave Austrian prole-
tariat.
No wonder the Daily News features
this story, as Justification for the de-
mand Of increased violence against
eds" and the entire militant work
ing class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-21
Riot Confines Socialist
Cops Should Garry Clubs
SUNDAY NEWS.

In the absence Of some official
statement from Mayor LaGuardia
on the order banning nightsticks
at the battle Of Madison Square
Garden, Police Com m ssioner
Organ declined to say whether or
not members of his force would be
allowed to swing their billies at
future Red disturbances.
Two delegations presented de-
nunciations and protests over the
Austrian situation yesterday morn
ing at the Austrian Consul Gen.
erals office, 500 Fifth Ave.
(Other picture on back pAge)