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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
WIR to Open
Marine Strike
Feeding Halls

Feeding centers for striking mari
time workers will be opened at four
points along the New York water
front this morning by the Workers
International Relief.
The centers will be located at the
following addresses:
sos West Nineteenth Street.
140 Broad Street.
Is Union Street, Brooklyn.
Twenty-ffth Street and Eighth
Avenue.
All trade unions, workers fraternal
organizations and clubs have been
asked by the Workers International
Relief to begin at once to collect
food, clothing and money and bring
all contributions to the above cen
tiers or to the central Office of the
w. I. R., $40 Broadway.
To aid the marine strike, the w.
I. r. has urged all workers organi-
cations to arrange affairs where
funds will be raised for strike re-
lief. Credentials for those wishing
to collect relief will be issued at the
Broadway headquarters of the w.
I. R.
The Workers International Relief,
working with the Joint Strike Prep
arations Committee, is mobilizing
all forces sympathetic to the work
ing class to support the marine
strike. Cooks, dishes, doctors and
nurses have been secured. Trucks
and cars are needed. Food, clothing
and medicine must be supplied and
money to buy food for the strikers
must be on hand.
"The working class of San Fran
cisco united the longshoremen and
seamen, said a statement issued by
the w. I. R. yesterday. They sup
ported them, they saw them
through. The marine workers
depend upon you to do the same
thing now.
you can set up relief committees
in your neighborhood to support the
marine strike. In your trade union,
language, women'S associations, In
employment Councils, youth and
sports organizations-in all of these
you can set up functioning COM
mittees. Marine workers will gladly
speak at your meetings. On Oc-
tober IL, 10 and IA there will be tag
days to support the strike. There is
SO much you can do to help this
strike.
please send your contributions
to the Workers International Relief,
$40 Broadway, New York City, i'm
mediately. This strike will be won
through a united front Of the
working class"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Mass w elfare
Main Issue,
Anter States
By Milton Howard

lehman is a Wall Street banker
whose firm is now coming millions
in Milk Trust investments. La
Guardia is slick demagogue whose
main job is to act like friend
of the people while ne guarantees
the Wall Street bankers their $780,
100000 annual interest payments.
And the Socialist, Charles Solomon,
promises much, but has fairly we'll
oiled connections with Tammany
and Fusion, and is frightened to
death of breaking any nice CAPT
talist laws, especially when they
concern mortgage and bond pay
ments to private investors"
1t is Israel Amter talking in the
office of the Communist Party Elec-
ton Committee. Tall, lean, with
the energy OF an old veteran in
many class battles, Amter, the
Communist candidate for Governor
of New York in the present cleo
ton, is one of the "Old Guard"
that had the historic honor Of
founding the Communist Party of
the United States, the American
section of the world party Of Lenin.
Talking to him in the office of
the Election Campaign Committee
on the issues and plans for the
coming elections, I thought of him
as I first saw him on windy day
in March, 1880, when I was one of
a huge crowd of thousands who had
packed Union Square to hear him
and Bob Minor and William z. Fos-
ter launch the Communist Party
fight for unemployment insurance
and cash relief.
It wasn't so fashionable" then
to talk about unemployment insur-
ance. The bright professors and
economists of the capitalists, the
liberals and the "theoreticians' of
the Socialist Party were still dream
ing of quick emergence from
what they still call hopefully, the
depression"
1t was then that I saw the New
York police smash into the ranks
of the jobless with swinging clubs
and blackiacks, making a rush for
Amter, Minor and Foster.
Amter, together with Minor, Fos-
ter and Harry Raymond. spent six
months in the hideous Welfare
Island Jail for this Crime" of Ge-
handing food and adequate pro-
lection for the starving workers and
their families.
Yes" he says slowly and earn
estly, ut was we Communists who
first flung boldly into the teeth of
the Wall Street bankers the de-
mand that they cough up some of
their rctten profits to feed this
starving families of the workers. My
running for governor Of New York
is only another phase of the fight
to feed the masses, the fight for
their welfare and their class in
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
SEANEN AND OFFICERS! STRIKE ALL SHIPS TODAY!

To All Saamep and Licensed Officers,
Greetings
The day has arrived. The strike of all seamen
and licensed officers sailing to and from the At
lantic and Gulf ports, goes into effect TODAY
October g.
The following are the demands which have been
worked out by the men and presented to the ship
owners, and to the MIRA:
SEAMEN
For the eight-hour day on all ships and depart
ments, and the 44-hour week.
Seventy five cents hour overtime after eight
hours in all departments
For 80 per cent increase in present USS.B.
manning scale.
For centralized shipping bureaus controlled by
elected committees of seanen.
Against discrimination of Negro and foreign
born workers
Recognition of the Ship Committees and unions
of the workers choosing.
LONGSHOREMEN
One dollar an hour; sx-hour day Time and
a half for overtime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Kharkov Workers Hail
The Third Anniversary
Of Huge Tractor Plant

KHARKOV, Oct. 7 (By wireless E.
On Oct. 1 the toilers of Kharkov
celebrated the third anniversary of
the opening of the Kharkov tractor
plant.
The workers of the plant and the
young engineers have completely
mastered the technique of the COM
plicated manufacture of these trac-
tors.
Now, every six minutes a new
tractor leaves the conveyor belt.
Each day the factory turns out las
tractors, producing during the
three years of its existence 10000
tractors.
During nine months Of this year
the factory produced $1,000 trac-
tors, or 40 per cent more than dur
ing the same period last year. The
annual program for 1884 is already
fulfilled II per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Demonstration
to Aid Spanish
Masses Called

Calling especially on all members
of the Socialist Party and Young
Peoples Socialist League to unite
with them in support of the fight
ing united front of Spanish Com
munist, Socialist and Syndicalist
workers of Spain, the New York
District Communist Party and
Young Communist League yester-
day issued q call for a mass DEM
onstration Of all workers in front
Of the Spanish Consulate, Fifty
Third Street and Madison Avenue,
tomorrow at II noon.
The statement of the G. P. and
Y. G. L. follows:
Forming themselves into united,
solid battalions, the workers and
toiling masses of Spain are fight
ing to prevent the re-establishment
of the fascist dictatorship. Com
munist, Socialist and Syndicalist
workers are welded into a fighting
united front. In 1881, Primo de
Rivera, fascist dictator of Spain,
was overthrown by the revolution
airy masses. Today, the most re-
dictionary forces are concentrating
in order to set up a new fascist
dictatorship that will force the
workers to submit to the hunger
and starvation program of the
Spanish landlords and capitalists.
THE workers are answering this
onslaught with a revolutionary
general strike, in which the united
front of the Communists, Socialists
and Syndicalists has been achieved.
The workers are taking the only
Continued on PAGE q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Speed Drive Funds
For the New Daily
IL ath a W ay Points to
Additional News in
Stressing Campaign
By c. A. Hathaway
Editor, Daily Worker

Comrades:
You are now reading the first
issue of the Daily Worker, appear
ing today, for the first time, in
three editions. This is the National
Edition which you will note, though
still a six-page paper, contains
these improvements: An added page
Of news on strikes and struggles,
stories, new features made possible
by dropping out New York City adj
vertisements and local news.
Your Daily" is today able to
deal with our national concentra-
ton points, with the countrywide
struggles of the working class in a
better fashion. The advance Of the
Daily" is also marked by two edi-
tons in New York which appear
today in eight pages.
This new improved DAILY" will
find It's way to two opposing camps.
1t will reach the strongholds of the
enemy, where each forward step
of the revolutionary movement is
greeted with hatred and dismay.
These lines will be read in the ranks
of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy
scheming the death of the seamen's
strike, by the whole company of
capitals lackeys, by the rich plum
derers and oppressors of the masses,
letting loose increasing terror
against the workers; smashing
strikes and mapping with Roose-
welt the road to Fascism and war.
The rulers will see not only the
present improvements but their
promise. They know popular
daily means a growth in circula-
ton, in power.
In the camp Of the struggling
workers the new Daily" will be
greeted with the JOY that welcomes
reinforcements wherever unem-
ployed masses are fighting for food
and shelter, where white and black
workers are struggling together and
organizing into revolutionary unions
for better life, wherever the
masses are battling the thinly dis
guised oppression of the Roosevelt
new deal there will be a better
fighting spirit.
We have the three-edition i'm
proved Daily" Let it not die in
its cradle
Workers know the improved
DAILY" will add greatly to the def
icit, already $1,000 a week. They
mus know, too, that only the sue
cesSful raising of the 100000 fund
will rescue the Daily" from its
present financial ENHANCEMENT and
make possible it's continued publica-
ton.
The three-edition paper is being
started even though the returns in
the 100000 drive, SO far, do not
warrant il. 1t is being published
because of the faith of the Daily
Worker in its class-conscious read
ers.
The movement has failed thus far
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
PLAN TO TIE UP
SHIPS In COAST
ANDCULF PORTS
Close Shipping Halls,
Fight |. S. U. Move
To Stop Walkout

BULLETIN
More than 1000 seamen, ships
firemen, cooks, stewards and Ii
censed officers, meeting yesterday
afternoon in Irving Plaza Hall,
18th st. and Irving Pl., voted
unanimously TO begin the mari
time strike This morning in New
York under the lsadership CT the
Joint Strike Preparations Com
mit+ee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08

Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Have You Contributed?

Saturdays Receipts ....................S 4O4ss
Total 70 Bate .......................s 14, 01s4i
Press Rim Saturday-65, TOO
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-06
<II"<e>S $
New York Stocks

NEW YORK, Oct. 6. U.P)-Stocks
moved irregularly in a narrow
range with volume light on the
stock exchange today.
A few issues made good gains
for special reasons but the gen.
eral list lost its snap of the pre-
vious session and most shares held
within a one point area. Much OF
Yesterdays rise was attributed TO
short covering. The short interest
in the main list is small and hence
covering is insufficient to set off
a real rally.
General cigar issues were bid up
to new highs. the common at 527s
I'D 2% and the preferred 100 up s..
The company's directors today de-
clared two extra dividends of S5
each and two regular dividends OF
81 each though earnings for the
first 8 months of 1884 mounted
to only s270. Directors said the
payments were to be made out of
accumulated earnings.
Mesta Machine jumped 2 points
to 80 q. new high for the year
when directors ordered a 66 2-3
per cent stock dividend and an
nounced the preferred stock would
ba retired at the end Of this month.
The issue lost half of the gain
before the close.
Radio preferred stock made a
rev high for the year at A up
rs. Buying was said to be for in
vestment on the hope better earn
ings would lead to restoration Of
q dividend in the near future.
Silver issues were firm but dull.
u S. Smelling reached ll3R up
IA. Others gained fractionally.
Word from Washington that the
government planned TO continue
its foreign silver purchases until
the nations silver horde reached
level the value Of which would
be one-third that of gold holdings.
That was taken TO indicate a
good market for American silver
for some time to come. and re-
ports were again circulated the
price paid by the treasury for
domestic silver would be raised.
Steel shares slipped back to-
ward the close but there was no
particular pressure on the group.
California issues were higher in
the early trading and held gains
IN several instances. Pressure has
relaxed as traders are revising
their opinions en- the possible cleo
ton to the California governor
ship Of Upton Sinclair. The betting
stiI fayors Sinclair but his ability
to institute his policies is question
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-06
HEBER
BY JEAN REAvIS
Press Staff Correspondent

Mrs. Luther Wilson and children,
and Mrs. Wilson's mother, Mrs. FL
len Rogers Of Brawley, visited at the
Earl Osborne home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Averitt and
children left Wednesday evening for
the coast after spending several
days at the D. v. Porter home.
Dick Stindt was in town for few
days from Los Angeles, where he is
making his home.
Charles Ewing and George Boren
made a business trip to Yuma
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Rogers were
dinner guests at the ]. A. McInnis
home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Auburg and
son Kenneth were Sunday callers
at the Harry Whelpley home.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Dawson, Mr..
and Mrs. Clinton Sullivan, and
Jean Reavis of Heber were dinner
guests at the Pat Higgs home Sun
day.
Darlene Bradford, little daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Bradford, has
recovered from slight illness OF
the past week.
Mrs. Tom Wood called on Mrs.
Winston White Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Earl Osborne was an evening
caller of Mrs. Bess Chandler Tues
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Holcomb en-
ioyed dinner at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Tom Afflerbaugh in Ell
Centro, Sunday.
The bungalow in which the sec.
ond grade classes of the Heber
school are conducted is being paint
ed this week
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wftcher re-
turned home Sunday after several
weeks visit to Placerville, Lake Ia
hoe and other points of interest.
Heber Sunday school opened last
Sunday with an enrolment of 48.
The pipe is being laid this week
at the school house for connecting
the new water system. A new drain
age system also is being installed.
The work is being done by SERA
labor
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-06
SURRENDERS
To FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT
tContinued From Page u

San Francisco at which he dis
cussed possible ways of raising
money.
Craig and Mrs. Werner were
accused of consulting Clay Car
penter, sItalo receiver, regarding
the payment of certain notes. Car
penter, who was called before the
grand jury, said upon leaving the
jury room that he considered him.
self a government witness.
The indictments charged that
the three defendants worked to-
ward influencing government in
action for McKeon and others in
volved in the Italo fiasco.
I'm accordance with the plot on
the part of the conspirators to
influence said persons Mitchell
and McNabb) to do acts in VIOLA
ton of their lawful duties" the
indictments read, they promised
to bring about dismissal of said
prosecutions without any further
reason for doing so than the re-
ceipt of said sums of money"
Mrs. Werner is the wife of Ed
win P. Werner, who at the time
was city attorney Of Los Angeles.
Many Involved In Case
Ten persons were sent to prison
or fined in the Italo case. Sixteen,
all prominent in Los Angeles and
San Francisco business circles,
we're named in original indict-
ments, but charges against two
were dismissed on grounds they
were not involved in secret prof
its allegedly paid out by the firms
operators, and four others were
acquitted.
McKeon was convicted as was
A. G.. Wilkes Of San Francisco and
both were given prison sentences.
The defendants were accused of
saddling heavy losses on investors
through a system of secret prof
its" and with misrepresenting, in
letters to prospective bidders, de-
tails of the purchase of the Brown
moor Oil company and the McKeon
Drilling company. McKeon was
president of the latter enterprise.
Justice Craig is widely known as
a jurist, lecturer and author After
serving under the District Attorney
John D. Fredericks, he was elected
to the superior bench in 1911 and
in 1920 he assembled to the appel
late bench. He is an established
authority on water rights, having
written several books on the sub
ject.
Mrs. Werner is a power in city
politics and prominent in civic
activities.
The, indictment did not charge
that any bribe offers ever were
made. to either Mitchell or McNabb
or that the asserted conspiracy
ever got beyond the plotting stage.
McNabb and his former assistan.,
Gwyn Redwine, who acted as spec
ial assistant attorney general in
the successful prosecution of 10
former Italo Pete officials, denied
any attempt ever was made to
sway their prosecution of the cases.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-06
SWEETHEART :
SLAYER WILL
De EXECU TED
(ContInued From Page u

for the manacles that chained him
to deputy sheriff, and almost ran
out of the room. He was taken to
"murderers row" Of county prison.
Edwards and Miss McKechnie
we're childhood sweethearts." She
became telephone operator, but he
was more ambitious, obtained part
of a college education, and had his
eye on the Ministry. Miss McKech-
ME was his love until he met Miss
Grain, of East Aurora, N. Y, cul.
tured, skilled in music and litera-
ture, at college. Then his love for
Miss McKechnie began to dim.
Last March Miss Grain and Ed
wards were meeting periodically
for "trysts." Between trysts Ed
wards continued his companionship
with Miss McKechnie. In his own
story from the witness stand, he said
it was natural for a man to seek
companionship in the "other sex"
Then last July Miss McKechnie
informed him that she would be-
come a mother within five months.
Edwards told her they would elope
August l. But the night of July 30
he took her swimming at Harvey's
Lake in the mountains near Ed
wardSville.
They put on their bathing suits in
Edwards car which Miss Grain had
bought for him. Edwards concealed
black jack in his blouse. They wa
ded out; then Miss McKechnie be-
gan swimming. When she swan pas,
him, he allegedly hit her with the
blackjack.
The body was found several days
later. Edwards, arrested Immediate
ly, gave three confessions. In court
he repudiated them all, claiming
that Miss McKechnie died of shock
when her body came in contact with
cold lake water, that he black kjacked
her only to make her death appear
accidental.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-06
SCH|SM NEAR
IN RANKS Of
UNION LABOR
(continued -rom page d

Continued rom page u
same authority. A new vote must
be taken. and a new convention
must be held at Washington, D. c.,
within as days after the present
federation convention comes to an
end, unless the building trades
group accepts the councils ver-
dict.
Immediately after Green had
finished reading, Miachel ]. Nc
Donough, who was elected presi-
dent of the department last week
for three years, leaped to his feet
and announced that he was ap-
pealing the council decision.
But Green was equal to the
situation, and he countered Nc
Donough's appeal by referring both
the report and the protest to the
committee on adjustment. But a
floor fight seems inevitable, as the
committee must report to the con-
vention when the sessions resume
on Monday.
Involved in the most bitter in
ternal dispute within the federation,
one that may produce an open
break. are unions having approx
mately 100000 members, about
evenly divided between the group
supporting the department admin
istration and the three unions seek
ing reinstatement, the carpenters,
the bricklayers and the electricians.
The present convention is the
third round of the fight John L.
Lewis, President of the United Mine
Workers of America, is making
to enlarge the executive council.
The council at present has IL
members, three ex-officio. Lewis
present plan-resolution No. l on
the convention calendar-proposes
to increase the membership to %,
three ex-officio.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-06
RIVER READINGS
Discharge
PROBATION OF GRAPEFRUIT TO
BE ENFORCED UNDER AAA RULES

about 1910 in connection with the
shipment of cantaloupes The
growers drew up an agreement
among themselves limiting the
movement to cars that could be sold
above certain minimum price,
which insured the shippers the
packing and selling costs and the
producers, reasonable return on
their investment of labor and cap
ital."
He then explained that the plan
did not continue because the de-
partment Of justice Indicated
growers for conspiracy in restraint
Of trade and that similar agree
ments have also been unsuccessful
because a small minority would
not live up to the agreement.
In order to overcome this sit
uation. he states, the AAA provides
that the secretary of agriculture
may enter into marketing agree
ments with representative groups
of growers and shippers. If a ma
jority adopt a program, the secre-
tary may license the minority and
force them to abide by the terms
of the agreement.
ut is estimated that there are
100000 producers Of miscellaneous
farm crops operating under some
form of marketing agreement
The California-A Arizona citrus mar
keting agreement has probably been
worth millions of dollars to the
producers of Valencia oranges dur
ing the past six months. 1t is the
hope Of the administration, as well
as those in charge of the agree
ment that it may prove OF very
great value to the grapefruit grow
ers during the coming season.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-06
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Observation-Disclosures
Center Has Meeting

Magnolia Mulberry farm center
met last night in the Mulberry
school where program centerine
on All club work was given.
H. Lee Landerman, assistant farm
advisor, discussed this years Al
club program; George Boaden, the
All program at Davis; Mrs. E
R. Long. Magnolia All plans;
Stanley Boaden, topics Of the state
convention; Virginia Teel, the lead
ers' training school,
Miss Lois wellington gave a
piano solo, musical selections were
also given by Evelyn and Sherman
Nelson; Dan West talked on the
Frazier Lemke bill and Mrs. Dor
othy Anderson, on the activities
of the Mulberry school.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-06
OUNTYlBRIEFS

Grand jury To Meet-The county
grand jury viii meet at the couri
house on Monday morning at 10 o.
clock. adjournment to that day hav
ing been voted at the meeting held
last Monday when a quorum OF
members was not obtained until late
in the afternoon.
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Professional Bldg. Phone 88. Off
Call 76 for Sunland Dairy Ser
vice. Grade A. raw and pasteurized
milk. tt
Building Permit Granted-To R.
w. Wheatcraft for the construction
of porch on a dwelling at 87s
Orange. S25.
Spacious Office for rent. Hetzel
Bldg. 126 South 5th. 26tf
For Farnsworth Guernsey Milk
phone 655, Quality Dairy. Highest
testing herd for 10 consecutive years.
Why not have the best? 17tf
Omega Connolly - Piano studio
Barbara Worth Hotel 24tf
Wcman's Will Filed-The last will
and testament of Maggie Hovley
was filed at the court house yester-
day. 1t leaves 81 to each of her IL
children and the balance of the es-
tate to her husband
Williams Music Studio - Violin
and piano, Mrs. Horace Williams,
A. T. c. L. (Eng). Violin and band
instruments, Horace Williams. 1902
Olive. Phone 1898. 22tf
The finest natural raw milk
is produced by the Vencill Dairy.
All milk bottled and double-capped
on the ranch from their own herd.
Phone 1123-R. 27tf
With the installation of q new
pasteurizer. Quality Dairy can now
give you either raw or pasteurized
milk phone 655. m m Il
Sewing Machines Repaired -
Phone 673. 5t6