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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09
Speaker Lauds 'Hitler's
Praiseworthy Effort
in Germany

The address of the Rev. Arthur
J. Brown, ID, LID, representing
the Protestant Churches, declared
that:
eve gladly recognize that a new
spirit of life and enthusiasm has
been developed among the German
people, and If this were all, this
great meeting tonight would not
have been held. What we object to
Is that Hitler's praiseworthy effort
to rehabilitate and inspire the ma
tional life is accompanied by a per-
secution Of Jewish citizens :"
And SO it went-rabidly nation
ahstic and reactionary spokesman
shedding crocodile tears for the
Jewish citizens" ignoring the crime
Of Fascism against the masses of
workers in Germany, lauding "Hit-
ler's praiseworthy effort"
Samuel Seabury summed up,
pompously and mechanically, "the
case of civilization against Hitler
and the Rev. John Haynes Holmes
meekly read the indictment. The
meeting YVES asked to render its YER
dict, and shouted back Guilty"
Then members Of the audience
picked up their top silk hats, canes,
silk mufflers, and filed through the
doors to their waiting cars. The
Jewish war veterans, the Legion
naires marched out, their helmets
glistening under the ceiling arc
lights.
And the workers who had been
n1isled into coming to this meeting
under the false impression that it
would be q real protest against the
Brown Terror, slowly left the hall,
a bit bewildered at this shameless
treachery to their fellow workers In
other lands. They walked to the
subYays. thinking 80.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09

he doesn't get what he wants, BIZ
looks elsewhere. So all colleges, Il
they want free publicity, free ada
vertising in order to attract more
students to their colleges by cham
pion football teams, run into the
DEAL saying, "We got to. It's our
neck or the other We can't exist
without students"
And after looking through col
ored glasses at the world with the
heavy arm of some wealthy alum
nus around his shoulder, the kid
becomes disappointed when he Is
not treated right. He balkS like g.
baby which, crying for milk, can't
get it because nobody's around
when he wants it.
AND for that reason, two Iowa
II football stars, who were ae-
claimed AL American prodigies in
their freshman year, bammed Il
out TO Southern California
where they would be "treated7
wight. A big kick was raised by
Iowa. American stars means
hundred or mere students 10
each star. Southern California
recanted. They had to save their
face. They sent the boys back
telling them, I'VE can't help II.
You should have come here IN
the first place. We're in a bet
ter financial state than those
corn growers"
But exposes or no exposes, COLI
leges are still proselyting and SUBJ
dizing athletes, giving them raw
deals after they are stuck in for
intellectual" mastery, and the bid
for champion building coaches still
goes on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09
7 Negro and White
Workers Arrested,
.Picketing Bus Co.

NEW YORK.-Seven Negro and
white workers under the leadership
Of the League of Struggle for Ne
gro Rights, were arrested last night
while picketing the bus transfer sta
ton of the Fifth Ave. Coach Com
pany at 125th st. and Seventh Ave,
in protest against the company's
policy Of discrimination against Ne
gro workers.
The case was dismissed by Judge
Grodsky when it came up last night
at the Fifty-fourth st. night court.
OF the 1,400 drivers and con-
ductorS employed by the company,
not one is Negro. President Fred
erick P. Wood stated to a delegation
that "our policy has been not to
hire Negroes and we will not change
our policy"
The L. S. N. r. urges all work
ers' organizations to protest against
the discriminating policy and poor
working ambitions for the bus
workers and the arrest. They issued
call for all unemployed workers
to continue picketing the Fifth Ave.
Coach Company at COS West 1S2nd
ST., all next week and to report
for picket duty at the L. S. N. r.
Office, 119 West l35th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09

and autonomy exists for all ma
tional minoritieS.
The presence on the same plat
form of Abe Cahan, representing
the Socialist Party, and the worst
reactionary and fascist elements
in the United States-incIuding
Edward J. Neary, member of the
National Executive Committee of
the American Legion 49, was far
from accidental. 1t was the So
cialist Party leaders official state
ment Of their political preference
in their brand of united front. 1t
was nOre-it was open betrayal
of the rank and file workers In
the Socialist Party. 1t placed the
Socialist Party officially on the
same piatfOrm-not only physic-
ally, at Madison Square Garden,
but politically as well, in the camp
of the Smiths, VOLS, LaGuar-
dia's, Seabury's, Neary's. The s.
P. leadership rejected the united
front with the workers led by the
Communist Party, but jumped
eargerly into the camp Of the
bosses.
This was proved In the speech
Of Editor Cahan. AS he spoke into
the microphone, one could see the
whole tactics OF the S. P. leader
ship in actual practise.
Autographed copies Of the vari-
GUS speeches had been given to the
press before the meeting opened.
read one paragraph Of Cahan's
speech:
1.-THE German Socialists call them
selves Social Democrats because
Democracy is an organic part of
their platform. And the Democratic
regime they established In 1918
lover the head and bloody bodies
of thousands Of workers-of Leib-
knecht and Rosa Luxembourg was
one of the wisest and noblest con-
ceivable shades Of Scheidemann
NoskeD under the absurd and sui
cidal economic system called Capt.
talism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09
USSR Celebrates Advance of Women in All Fields

ity of rights and powers, she is res
olutely accomplishing the portion Of
work allotted to her in socialist
construction, which has opened
prospects before the women of the
Soviet Union. They are marching
in the first ranks of the fighters for
socialism.
"The working women of capitalist
countries present a different pic
ture. The women of capitalist
countries have been set back not
only in the country of Nazi terror
The Social-Democratic lackeys keep
in tune with the Fascists. The
Czechoslovakian minister of educa-
ton, the Social-Democrat Derer, ad-
vises women not to estrange them
selves from fancy work, and those
problems which are determined BY
nature as exclusively womanly'"
Active in World Struggles
Pravds, however, emphasizes that
the growing revolutionary move
ment Of the wide proletarians cannot
be halted; it means the bankruptcy
of fascism. working men and
women refuse to continue to be the
hired slaves of capital. This is bril-
liantly displayed by the heroic fights
OF the Austrian workers and their
wives on the barbados of F1orids-
dorf.
This was also displayed by the
proletarianS Of Paris in the struggle
against the fascists and the police
of France; by the unemployed
women OF Britain, participants in
the Hunger Marches, by the Polish
women weavers, and the Spanish
peasant women.
Are all these not vivid signs that
the idea of Storming capitalism is
ripening in the minds of the mil
lions of the masses of working
women'?"
Concluding the article, Prayda
writes: Against the bloody fascist
regimel For Soviet rule! Such have
been the slogans of the wide masses
of the working women of all capt.
talist countries, demonstrating on
March 8 their readiness to fight.
For the fulfilment of the ma
tional economic plan, for the mas
tering Of technique, for the model
carrying out of the spring sowing,
for cultural, well-to-do hfc-such
are the slogans Of the working
women and the women workers of
the collective farms of the Soviet
Union, guided by the great party
Of Lenin and Stain, for March 8.
Long live the international Com
rnunist Women's Dayl"
An editorial in '1zvestia," organ
Of the Soviet Government, en-
phasizes the great difference in
principle between the proletarian
women's movement and the upper
class" feminist" movement of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09
Continued from Page u

400, 900 women representatives in the
Observation-Disclosures and men,
bers of village, town, regional and
al-Union soviets and their execu-
tive committees. In the judicial
organs, there are more than 100000
women peoples judges.
In the struggle for the master
ing Of technique, for the creation
of a high socialist technical cul-
ture, women of the Soviet Union
occupy a high place. The Soviet
Union actually possesses 10000 wo-
men inventors.
Many have been awarded the
highest orders of the proletarian
state for example, Comrade Cusins
received the Order of Lenin for her
outstanding work on the envelope
Of the stratosphere balloon, q. S.
S. r." Many others have received
this award.
Women Advance in Villages
In the national districts and re-
publics of the Soviet Union, where
not long ago women were still at
the level Of slaves, and served as
articles Of purchase and sale, the
enfranhisement of women Is adj
vancing with gigantic strides.
Among the Khirgiz, 1000 women
were appointed members of the
village soviets in 1888, comprising
30 per cent of the entire member
ship Of the village soviets.
The former poor peasant woman
Kotchevnitsa Tugunbaeva actually
occupies the post of assistant chair
man Of the Central Executive Com
mittee Of Khirgiz. A large number
Of other women occupy equally re-
sponsible positions. In 1880, no
more than 427 women worked in
the enterprises Of Tadjikistan,
while in 1888 there were 1850. In
Tadjik industry there were 1890
women shock brigaders, and on the
collective farms there were $500.
The whole Soviet is summing up
these data Of victory for women
in articles on International Pro-
letarian Women's Day. 'Pravda,"
organ of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union, gives d number
of examples of the participation of
women in socialist construction: It
says:
The collective farm as a system
has awakened to new life many
millions of the masses of women
of the nationalities of Middle Asia,
Kazakstan, TranScaucasia, the Tar
tar republic, Bashkir, Buriatomon-
golis and the far nortn-women
who until recently were slaves,
wearing the veil, bought and sold
as brides, locked up in harems, etc.
Equal Rights and Powers
'The women workers, the women
collective farmers, are getting q
firm footing. Endowed with equal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09
200 Seanlen in
MarchOnCWA.
Housing

NEW YORK hundred sea-
men, under the leadership of the
Waterfront Unemployment Council,
marched on the State c. w. A. Of
fees at 79 Madison Ave. yesterday,
in the teeth Of a driving snoWstorm,
TO demand an end to the graf. ing
and discriminatory practices Of the
Seamen's Church Institute and the
James St Mission, They presented
demands signed by 1900 seamen.
Police On Hand
Arriving at the Seamen's Home
at Goth and West Sts., they found
full mobilization of police there.
Their ranks swollen with other sea-
men from the Jane st. Mission,
they marched to the C.W.A. offices.
The committee of five seamen,
W. c. Custin, James Reamey,
Frank Jones, William Bailey and
Arthur Blair, presented the sea-
mems demands with petitions
signed by 1900 seamen. The de-
mands called for a grievance COM
mittee elected by the seamen to
take up all. cases of grievances; ade-
quate sanitary provisions at all in
stitutes; union wages for all sea-
men who work on relief projects;
free medical treatment; and the
federal government to be resDon-
sibls for Gil relief, seamen to con-
troll the distribution.
Negroes Disseminated Against
The seamen presented cases OF
discrimination against Negroes, who
are not even permitted to enter the
Seamen's Church Institute; and the
beating and ejectAlg of all who pro-
test against the conditions prevail
ing.
Frank James, one of the seamen,
said: 1.-THE federal government al
lows these grating institutes SIS
cents a day for every man on re-
lief. In addition to this, federal
surplus food is given to the insti-
tutes. Yet, the food that is handed
out can be supplied for less than
Is cents a day We demand the
right to administer our own relief
the same as the seamen in Balti-
more are doing after they won the
right through struggle"
Il have been a seaman for %
years. Ever since I can remember,
the Seamen's Church has terrorized
tho non who hove nrctested AGAINST
conditions there. They are permit
ted to maintain their own private
police in addition to having the city
police at their call"
Win Promises
While the 200 sesmen on the
street below shouted their demands,
the committee wrlIng from the G.
w. A. authorities the promise that
all arrangements to supply the men
with new housing without the con-
troll of the relief racketeers would
be speeded. In addition they forced
the c. W. A. to promise that all
cases against discrimination would
be rectified.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09
Nationasic and Jingost Speakers in Demagogic Mock
Trial OF Hitler AntiSemitism at Madison Square Garden

Master, who hath commanded of us
that we love our neighbor as our
selves
And "piously," pouring out verbal
love Unfortunately in grea
swathes, the mockery of this meet
ing continued to its ironic and dem
agogic end.
One can gauge the inherent by
pocriSy and reactionary purpose of
this so-called trial by merely glanc-
ing through the list Of speakers and
the organizations they represent.
One could have predicted this spec
tacle even if one did not have the
speeches of these men, many of
them fascists Of tomorrow-vague,
demagogic. double-edged, false to
the very last word.
Here were some OF the speakers:
Matthew Won, notorious associate
Of Ralph NJ. EaSley in the National
Civic Federation, composed OF open
shop bosses, whose vicious spy ac-
tivities have been instrumental In
the attacks on struggling workers
throughout the country; close as
sociate of Hamilton Fish, whose
connections with the Nazi govern
ment have been exposed in the
Daily Worker.
Alfred e. Smith, Of Tammany
Hall, which has kept the workers
Of New York City living in filthy
and crowded tenements for over a
quarter Of a century; Smith, whose
connection with the Wall Street
banks, leaders of the attacks on the
workers in this country, is openly
known.
Mayor FiOreilo LaGuardia, whose
police only few weeks ago brutally
attacked a demonstration OF Social
list and Communist workers protest
ing against Austrian Fascism.
Abraham Cahan, Socialist editor
of The Forward, which has carried
on q consistent and contemplate
campaign of Islander against the
Soviet Union, the only country IN
The world where complete freedom
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09

The last phrase was the usual lip
service Of the Socialist leadership
to the cause which they have OF
every opportunity betrayed.
But when Cahan came to these
words in his speech, he evidently
remembered who his companions
were on the platform. He aimed
to please. So, instead of even the
hypocritical Ip-Service of his origin
al statement, he went on until he
got to the words "wisest and noblest
conceivable under"-hesitated for q
split second, and lamely finished
existing conditions"
Not long after Cahan's speech
Neary of the American Legion
raucously addressed the meeting
His SNUG and patronizing speech
abounded In such expressions as
''for God and country" ''true
Americanism," intolerance an
bigotry,'' etc. "There are some," he
declared, "who might question the
right Of the American Legion to
participate in a meeting of this
character" There were, Mr.. Neary
There are thousands of Communist
and Socialist workers throughout
the country who, knowing the fas-
cist and militarist aims of the
American Legion, stand indignant
at the hypocritical spectacle OF
American fascists spewing words
with a wink Of the eye, against
the German fascists. Neary wound
up his speech by quoting the pre-
amble to the constitution Of the
American Legion, announcing its
purpose to combat the autocracy
Of both the classes and the masses. -
Mr.. Cahan sat, unruffled, on the
platform.
And the New York Times re-
ported yesterday, most of the
speakers made il plain that
the Indictment and the Judgment
lay against Hitler and HitIerism
alone; not against GerEnany's
form Of government 4<-ss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09

bourgeois ladies.
The proletarian women's move
ment takes the problem of class as
its BASKERVILLE the bourgeois wom-
ems movement is based on the ques-
ton Of sex. International Women'S
Day, writes Izvestia, was instituted
on the initiative of the Oldest and
most loyal fighter of the proletariat,
Clara zetkin, in 1910, at the second
conference of Socialist women in
Copenhagen. instituted precisely as
a "day Of mobilization of the wide
masses Of women against the rule
of the bourgeoisie," as a day Of
revolutionary mobilization of the
women of the proletariat" "isolat-
ing it completely from the bourgeois
movement"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09
Citizen Given RIGHT
to Lynch Negroes
By Miss. Senate
Continued from Page y


vented the Sheriff from deputizine
the girls father for the job, as had
been previously arranged. Senator
Collins told the Senate that the
father had consented with reluc-
lance to let the law take its
course"
Passage Of the bill adds an
other hideous chapter to a case
already bristIing with brutality
and fragrant violation Of every
constitutional right Of the Negro
masses. The three youths, Ernest
McGhee, %, Johnny Jones, 20,
and Isaac Howard, rs, accused of
holding up an automobile in
which the girl and an uncle and
aunt were riding, were speedily
indicted by the grand jury two
days after their arrest on
highly questionable Identification,
rushed to trial on the very same
day and sentenced inside of seven
minutes to hang. The court re-
fused to permit them to obtain
defense counsel and did not even
go through the fake gesture of
appointing defense" counsel from
among the local lynch lawyers.
They were not permitted TO COM
municate with their families, who
live In Memphis.
Even announcement of sentence
usually delayed for at least several
days after verdict, was made or
the same day by Judge John M
Kuykendall of Charleston, who
presided at the lynch trial. Senator
Collins, shortly after the arrest Of
the boys, expressed the fear in 8
speech In the Senate that the triaI
would cost the county $4,000. This
was eliminated by the speedy lynch
trial and the denial Of the right oil
the boys to legal defense in the
capitalist court.
Senator Collins is the author oil
another bill, now before the Senate
which would make every hanging
Of q Negro a public holiday ir
Mississippi. The bill provides that
the presiding judge. ain his discre-
tion," can make public such events
In pressing for his measure, Collins
pledged his family ito let the Law
take its course" providing the Sen
ate agrees to pass his bill. He de-
clared IL Is supported By Cor. Col
hn4 Of MississtppA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09
Cahan, Matthew Vol,
American Legionnaire
Among Speakers
BY EDWIN ROLFE

NEW YORK. ~ Twenty thousand
people filed Madison Square Gar
den Wednesday night to witness a
mock trial held under the auspices
OF the American Jewish Congress,
the American Federation of Labor
and other assorted reactionary and
liberal" groups, called "The Case
OF Civilization Against Hitler"
The meeting, ostensibly called to
protest against anti-Semitism in
Fascist Germany, had the support
mainly Of Jewish petty bourgeois or
gsnizations-as well as of American
u1ilitaristic and lingo groups which
have been instrumental In carrying
on the nationwide persecution of
Che Negro people in this country.
Among these supporting groups we're
many which are even now paving
the way for an equally vicious attack
on national minorities, an equally
brutal anti-Semitism, in America.
The spirit and atmosphere Of the
huge gathering vertically reeked
with the very same nationalism
which has led to the brutal Nazi
regime in Germany.
The f1ag-bedecked spectacle, at
tended by large groups Of steel
nelmeted American Legionnaires,
uniformed soldiers and officers in
tbe o. S. Army, goodly detach-
ment Of well-behaved police, was
mockery Of its self-avowed, dema-
sogic and hypocritical purpose.
This was evident at the very OPP
@ning OF the meeting, when Balm
bridge Colby, former Secretary Of
state in the Wilson war cabinet,
unctuoIsly breathed into the mi
twophone:
we ere piously met" he said. 1--WE
kpw reyerently before the Lord and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09
Officials Refuse
to Free Schneider

NEW YORK.-Immigration Off
Gals refused to release Jack
Schneider yesterday, following the
posting Of $500 cash bond,
Schneider had been out on bond
for two years on a deportation
charge, but was taken back to Ellis
Island and the old bond was re-
voked The Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union placed a cash bond
yesterday, but the officials refused
70 release him.
1t is obvious that Edward Nc
Grady, assistant secretary of the
Department of Labor, is forcing the
issue and is trying TO keep Schneider
locked UP, union leaders declared.
McGrady was head of the Inberna-
tional Fur Workers Association of
the A. F. OF L. before he got into
his new government position.
Schneider, who is a leader of the
Fur Section Of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, had al
ways exposed the strike-breaking
role Of McGrady
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09
Protest On RumOrs by
Fur Workers Union
Brings Action
By MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 8.
Chairman Wagner of the
National Labor Board today
told the Daily Worker final
arrangements for holding the prom
ised election in the fur industry are
now being worked out by a Labor
Board subcommittee composed Of
DR.. Leo Wolman, employe represen-
tatiye, and Lewis E. KRISTEN, en-
piOyer representative.
we placed the matter in the
hands Of the subcommittee yesteA
day" Wagner said. 81 think they
viii act quickly"
The Boards action followed pro
tests by the Fur Workers Indus rial
Union members against reports that
the election was being ssbotaged.
The Board on Feb. Is announced it
would conduct an election to deter
mine which union shall represent
the workers. Since then the A. F.
Of L. union officials, in an effort
to discourage and demoralize the
militant union membership, have
made public statements that there
would be no election, and it has
been said here by authentic sources
that William Green, Of the A. F.
Of L., and the Labor Board. is at
tempting to stall off the election.
These facts were recalled to Wag-
ner. He practically confirmed that
the Board deferred TO the militant
union demands over the opposition
Of Green.
How about the reports concern
ing Green's opposition?" he was
asked.
"well, you know, all our decisions
are not unanimous" he replied.
when will the elections be
held?"
Gas soon as the arrangements are
completed. You know it is not the
simplest matter to insure that the
election will be fair, that thereu be
no repesters, etc. The sub-commit-
tee viii get in touch with represen-
tatives Of the unions"
Irving Potash, Secretary Of the
Industrial Union, later went to the
Labor Board to seek a definite time
for settling details for the election.
He came to Washing. on to inquire
about the election following reports
that the Labor Board would take
some action in the fur case yester-
Gay.