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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-06

the floor by the vote of the farmers
at the meeting.
II represent more than $4,000
workers and farmers" she said.
Our committee represents the
small impoverished farmers. Now
we shall consider the angle of the
working class consumer.
''The plan for taxing butter is to
start the tax at l cents per Id. on
butter fat and raise 1t gradually
to 5 cents Id. 1t was stated here
yesterday that this tax would
amount to about rs cents per fam
lily per month. All consumers will
share equally in this. The Rookie
Teller, Morgan and Mellon fam
lilies will pay just as much tax
per lib. as the unemployed or part
time employed worker. Since the
working class consumer is in the
vast majority, it is he who will
have to bear the brunt of this tax.
Butter will be taxed completely
out of his ability to purchase it.
"And this is proposed in the face
Of conditions as revealed by the fol-
lowing report issued by the U. s.
Bureau: The percentage
Of school and pre-school children
that are undernourished rose from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-06
Court Declares I
Sam Stein Guilty
One of Four Arrested ss
Scottsboro Rally

NEW YORK, April Sam Stein
one of the four white and Negro
workers arrested when police broke
UP the Mar, II Scottsboro demon
stration, was found guilty Tues
day by Judge Earl Smith in Magis-
trate's Court at 161st st. and Brook
Ave, of refusing to move on when
ordered"
With workers packing the court
and openly registering their pro-
tests to the verdict the Judge i'm
posed a suspended sentence on
Stein.
Stein, acting in his own defense
with the aid of Attorney Alexander
of the International Labor Defense,
denounced the police attempts to
disrupt the growing unity of Negro
and white workers.
Trial of the other three defend
ants is set for next week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-06
Musicians Union
Leaders in Fight
Against Self Govt
X efuse TO Carry Out
Demands Voted on
by Membership

NEW YORK.-Since the members
Of Local 802, American Federation
of Musicians have continued their
militant 13-year fight for local auto
Monty (self-government) their Off
Gals have spent sleepless nights try
ing to figure out the best methods
of breaking the spirit of the men,
bers, victimizing the rank and file
leaders, and killing the fight for
local autonomy.
The newest tactic of Eddie Can
AVIAN and his understrappers (gov-
erning board should make every
thinking musician take action
against such infamy. The govern
ing Board fatty refused to carry
out the demands of the unanimous
membership vote of March 10, and
conduct a special meeting on April
2, for consideration of the bylaws
revisionS. The bylaws committee
therefore arranged to hold meet
ing at the Lyceum across the street
from the local They notified every
member OF the local.
The governing board sent out a
letter of intimidation to all the
members telling them that they
would be disciplined or expelled if
they attended the meeting.
Use Spoilers
Fearing the success of the meet
ing they put Jimmy Caravan in
front of the Lyceum to rat" on any
member who entered the building.
George (Sellout) Bremen used the
more filthy method of spreading
false rumors on the floor of the
union He kept away quite a few
weakened members by telling them
that the meeting was illegal.
The honest member should ask
himself the following:
l. Does anyone fight against
autonomy better than Weisman
and the yellow" board members
who voted unanimously with Can
AVIAN for delay until June, and for
expulsion and discipline for mem
bers who went to the meeting?
2. Does Weisman represent the
members who elected him when
he voted against the resolution
passed unanimously by the mem
bers March 10?
3. Who are the leaders who
boldly face all the obstacles and
cannot be intimidated?
4. What right has Joseph Weber
to deny members of 500 the con-
stitutional rights of all citizens of
free speech and free assembly?
5. Why is the N. r. A. Labor
Board silent?
The musicians must solidly pack
the next membership meeting April
9 and militantly support the actions
Of those leaders who have been in
the forefront of the fight for auto
nomy to date.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-06
4O,OOOPhHo. Children
Su ffering Lack Of
MIX, Expert States

PHILADELPHIA, pat the
conference today where Secretary
of Agriculture Wallace proposed
to destroy 10 per cent of the
country's milk supply, a leading
expert in child welfare, Alexan-
der Fleisher, showed today that
10000 children in this city are
now suffering from anemia and
starvation due to lack of milk
and food.
He also showed that milk con-
sumption has dropped more than
80 per cent in the last four years
since the crisis began.
This means that at least per
cent Of the school children are
suffering from lack of milk.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-06
Workers Pack Court,
Force Release of Roth

NEW YORK, April Sc. Roth and
Mary Smith, who were beaten and
arrested on March 9 in Tombs court
for protesting the arrest of the nine
workers who were on trial for dem
onstrating before the Home Relief
Bureau, were given suspended SEN
fences yesterday by Magistrate Au-
gust Dreyer.
Workers packed the court room
during the trial, and many teie-
grams protesting the arrest of Roth
and Smith were sent by workers
delegates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-06
Call Newark Laundry
Conference SUNDAY

NEWARK, N. 1.-THE United
Laundry Workers Union is calling
a conference Of all trade unions and
mass organizations Of Newark for
Sunday, April 8, at l pm. at the
Ukrainian Hall, 50 Beacon St., New
ark, N. J.
The wages granted by the Fed
eral and State Codes for inside
laundry workers are 271a cents per
hour, maximum Of IS hours per
week. but the code permits the
bosses to work them at 1O-hour
per day maximum. This means
that the workers are sped up for
Is or 80 hours during the first
three days. For the balance Of the
week most Of them are laid off
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and there would have been a diff
ferent story.
But We did not concentrate in
starting the actions in this key
Pittsburgh plant"
Eagan said that one of the short
comings Of the union, which a de-
termined effort is now being made
to overcome, is the recruiting of
Negro steel workers into the union.
Out Of about 5000 members only
around forty were Negroes, Eagan
stated. The union is now paying
more attention to recruiting Ne
groes, who are concentrated in the
heaviest work in the largest mills.
The union has led AZ strikes
and won many Of them, he stated
More work in the Amalgamated
Association, the A. r. of l.. Union,
especially in connection with the
April II A. A. Convention. is nee
essary, The prestige of the union
is high among the workers.
The marine workers of Norfolk.
Va, present to this convention a
new Party unit on the water front
of Norfolk, the oldest member being
thirty years old" said the del
egate from the Norfolk water front,
a Negro marine worker. "On May
First We aim to turn our demon
stration into a strike meeting for
the demands of the marine workers
on six docks, as a result of the work
of the Marine Workers Industrial
Union"
Organizes Against War Munitions
The Norfolk delegate told Of the
beginnings made in the water front
work by the fight for the demands
OF the unemployed. The M. w.
I. U. won relief for the unemployed.
Then work was carried on in the
International Longshoremen's Asso-
citation and the struggles were led
so successfully that in the I. L. A.
local whole rank and file slate
was elected as officers of the I.
L. A. local, Norfolk is an important
war industry town, with Navy yard,
powder works, and other key war
industries"
I'VE are going to fight and fight
to win the demands of the long
shoremen and marine workers now
so that we will be successful and
not have to say later, we made that
shortcoming and we made this
shortcoming.
L. S. N. R. Wins Relief for Negroes
A young Negro woman delegate
from Pittsburgh described the
struggles of the L. S. N. r. for the
rights of the Negro workers in
Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh restau-
rants, she said, even in the Negro
section on the Hill, the Jim Grow
is increasingly practiced At ar
open hearing conducted by the L. S
N. r. the Mayor Of Pittsburgh was
invited to hear the demands of the
Nero workers He refused to come
but sent his secrtary. The workers
both white and Negro, booed this
politician off the platform because
of his chauvinistic remarks. The
L. S. N. r. has won relief for more
than sixty families on the Hill who
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South. and of $1,000 for Negroes
in the North, with further differ
entail against Negro women of SO
per week in the South, and SO in
the North. Negro child laborers he
would limit to S. per week, South,
and 81 per week, North.
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1875 per cent in 1927-1929 to oil per
cent in 1929"
Continuing amid applause, Bertha
Marshall said:
Mr.. Wallace admitted here yes
terday that the profits of the dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-06

include permission regarding pos
sibilities Of developing solidarity be-
tween the white and Negro workers.
He gave as an example the wrong
tendencies in the struggle in Har-
lem for jobs for Negro workers,
where some comrades opposed the
demands for shorter hours for white
workers and did not understand
that this fight was a part of the
fight for the solidarity of the Negro
and white workers. Comrade Hey
wood said, the most dangerous
form Of petty bourgeois nationahsm
influences within the Party is not
its open expression. 1t is concealed
and hidden forms Of petty bourgeois
nationalism that are the most dan
gerous, the kind that does not dare
to come out in the OPEN but works
under cover. How? Through subtle
insinuation, fostering distrust and
suspicion among less developed COM
rades, as to the integrity of the
Party and its leaders in regard to
the Negro question Yelled infer
enceS are made that leading Negro
comrades, those who are seriously
striving to carry out the line of
the Party among the Negro masses,
are captivating, are Uncle Toms.
The difficulties of the Party, all
shortcomings are made use of too,
for the purpose of disruption and
factionalism. An example of this
is seen in the activities of Comrade
Noel Of Detroit. The G. @. has
definite, conclusive information that
Comrade Noel has established him
self as hidden center around which
petty bourgeois national tendencies
in the Party gravitate, a center
where all such sentiments find ready
support, where less developed COM
rades who have tendencies in the
direction of petty bourgeois nation
alism find the greatest encourage
ment and support.
Scores Descriptive Activities of
Comrade Noel
This activity of Comrade Noel is
not confined to Detroit. but seeks
to influence other comrades in other
places. Comrade Noels activity
served only the purpose of de-
moralizing our Negro comrades, of
making it impossible for the mobih-
zation Of the Party forces for the
carrying through of our work. 1t
serves, indirectly, our class enemy;
such activity has no place in our
ranks The question of Comrade
Noel is not only a question of petty
bourgeois nationalism. It is cues
ton Of political dishonesty, Of
double bookkeeping, of factional-
ism Of the worst sort and most un-
principled kind which has no place
in the ranks of our Communist
Party. The Convention must de-
mand clear-cut open answer from
Comrade Noel in regard to his dis
ruptive and factional work, as well
as frank self criticism as regards to
his petty bourgeois national views.
In such situation, where our Party
is being subjected to the most vi
cious attacks by the class enemies
at such time the Party cannot
tolerate such disruptive activity in
it's ranks"
At this point there was stormy
applause by the delegates.
Such Tendencies Aid Class Enemy
Comrade Haywood then gave as
warning to Noel the example of
a former Party member, Padmore,
who could not shake off his petty
bourgeois past and tendencies, and
whose wrong line finally brought
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-06
DR.. Motion Endorsed
Drive for Lower Pay
For Negro Workers
Bosses In Nation Wide Wage-Cuting Drive on
Harrassed Negro Toilers
BY CYRIL BRIGGS

BALTIMORE April 5.-Secret support by Dr. Robert
R. Motion Negro rfomst head of Tuskegee Institute Ala
bama Of campaign by Southern and Northern manufac-
turers to further cut the starvation of Negro workers
under the discriminatory N R. A. dfferentia codes is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-06
Action Demanded bv
Steel Workers at
malgamated Meet
Amalgamated Association Leaders Try to Squash
Delegates Demand for Struggle
BY FRANK ROGERS

CLEVELAND The District Six Organizing Conven-
ton Of the Amagamated Association a. F. of L. steel
union) held last Saturday, March 31st at Monroe Bch
shows the growing mitancy Of the steel workers for strike
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-24
Mother or fBenson To Stand By Her Son
(Continued from Page II

My principal worry" Mrs. Ben son, whose home is in Wassaic N. r., said, lis for Earl's health. Dr. Kirschbaum advised me that he should rest and be free from wor- ry for whole year. I am very much afraid that all the present worry and questioning may result seriously as far as Earl's health Is concerned"
 Injured Tn Fight
 Benson was released from St. Mary's hospital in the middle of March, having been brought there a month before after he received a fractured skull in a fight at a Bank street tavern. It was the head injury, Mrs. Benson said, which Dr. Kirschbaum claimed made necessary rest and quiet for Earl.
 Love and affection for her son in every word, Mrs. Benson paint ed g vivid picture of her son as dutiful, kind and obedient. She said that he Is a registered phar- macist and had been at one time employed at the Pickett Drug Co. here. He has not worked for more than q year, she. continued, and had divided his time between Wassaic and Waterbury.
 GrandmOther Very III
 Mrs. Benson said that her mother, 80-year-old Mrs. Alice Butts, who came to this city from New York state Sunday, is dan- gerously i'll with worry over Earl's safety and health. All that her mother has had for nourishment since her arrival here, she said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-24
Big Manhunt Begun
 To Find DiIlinQer
(continued from Page n

The search, in which even In- dians of the Lac De Flambeau and La Pointe reservations took part, pointed today toward this wide open, roistering border town, only q few miles from the scene of yes- terday's battle between Dililnger's gang and officers.
 After yesterdays hot pursuit of three of the gangsters from Man ttowish, Wis, to St. Paul, with the gunmen battling a deputy sheriff and stealing a motor car en route. the report today indicating that they had doubled back through the north country sent hundreds of of ficers pouring again over woodland roads.
 Housewives Bolt Doors
 In isolated farm houses house. wives bolted their doors, although Dillinger always has shown an ec- centric consideration for noncom- batants. Lonely country stores were closed and the whole countryside watched their roads apprehensive. ly.
 A score of brawny lumberjacks, armed only with double bitted axes and contemptuously unafraid of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-24
GLORIA AGAIN IS
 AFTER DIVORCE
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(Continued from Page 1.)
 Douglas Fairbanks for the winter sports at St Moritz while Miss Swanson was adamant in remain- ing at home in the interest of her career,
 Both had their way. Farmer left and Miss Swanson remained. Al- though her attorneys had insisted the separation was only temporary, rumors persisted that the hus- bands departure meant estrange- ment. Their daughter, two years old this month, has been in the care of 8 governess in Europe for some time. Friends believed Miss Swanson would insist on custody of the child.
 Farmer met, wooed and won the actress in Europe. They were in- troduced when she went aboard for holiday after her divorce from the Marquis, the present hus- band of Constance Bennett. She was married to Wallace Beery while a promising young actress and later married Somborn, a res- taurant operator. who died recent ly.
 Before leaving for New York. Miss Swanson had been seen fre- quently in the company of Herbert Marshall, English actor and hus- band of Edna Best. Gossipers i'm mediately pried into the possibility of romance but both Marshall ana Miss Best denied their marriage was tottering. Miss Best recently returned to England but Marshall remained to continue his motion picture work here.
 New York, April "A - (U.P.)- Gloria Swanson admitted to-day that she had consulted her attor- ney concerning a divorce action against her fourth husband, Mich ael Farmer. Thus she verified re- ports that have been current along Broadway and Park Avenue for weeks. Miss Swanson refused to comment on reports that her mar riage had been wrecked by her friendship with Herbert Marshall. English actor. Marshall is is New York and he and Miss Swanson oc- casionally are seen together. Edna Best, Marshalps wife, recently re turned to England with their child.
 ''The rumors that a divorce was impending have consistently de- nied," Miss Swasson said, "but there is no use of that now. I have thought about the matter for a long time and have decided that our marriage was 9 mistake. When you find that you have made q mistake, 1t seems to me there Is no use to continue It."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-24
CHURCH PAINTING
 | IN MATHIS STUDIO
|Oil Work of Immaculate
 Conception Interior Draws Praise

One of the largest oil paintings ever done in the city Of Watefbufy 10 nov adorning the walls of Gun ther E. Fl. Mathess new studies at 73 East Main street. The painting, the work of a local artist. depicts the interior of the lrnmaeulate Conception church and takes up one entire wall. It will be used as . background by the well known and veteran photographer and phote-engraver in his studio studies.
 The new Mathes plant is conn plete in every detail. He has divided it into two sections, the one to pho. tegraphy excleusiveiy, the other to engraving. The former includes q reception camera, and developing rooms, as we'll as Mir Matiles own pffice. The camera room IS capable of seatinE as many os 200 people for group photos.
 The engraving plant is set in the rear of the studios, we'll away from the photOeraphy department. The latest and most efficient equipment has bee abtained by Mir Mathes to enable him to continue his efficient service.
 Miss Lena Gugliotto will continue as MT Mathes' capable secretary and assistant in photography.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-24
Ferriter Renamed
 City Market Master
Public Mart to Reopen MOnday--NO Change in Regu-
 lati0ns- City to Save on Appointment

Patrelman James Ferriter was to-day named master of the city public market by Mayor Frank Hayes. The public market will open next Monday, the mayor an- uounced. This information has been awaited by the hundreds using the municipal marketing space and now having been released will start off, it is believed, an ava Ianche of business at the place on Meadow street.
 The market master, Patrolman Ferriter, was in charge of the site on Meadow street last year. Mayor Hayes, in again naming him, stated that he had done so as the result of numerous requests from the farmers who have used the mar ket space.
 That the city of Waterbury will save considerable expense by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-24
MERCHANTS ARE. READY FOR SALES
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' T-f---s1 V -- ' H. ' " !.
 Therefore, the merchants coop erating in the Waterbury Day Thursday, have arranged to place at the disposal of the buying pub lie an allotment of bargains that will net need 2 second glance to
 There is nothing unusual about the event. It is really a common sense plan. The merchants appre- ciate that in order to have more turnovers, they must have sales. With the money received from sales, they can purchase new or- ders to i'll depleted shelves. The money goes into the manufacture of goods, merchandise, articles Of wear, articles of other necessities, etc, and wOrkingmen and women are given jobs. So the plan is sim. pie, isn't 1t? Because eventually the money spent for bargains such as will be offered Thursday, will come hack through the medium of the pay envelope. That is the se- cret of prosperity and good times.
 Everyone knows that times are better right now than they were q year ago. And don't forget, sum HWY WStA SSo R1S084hG WCdtuSE ID just around the corner. The stores cooperating in the Waterbury Day Thuraday have stocks of Stimmer bargains that will be breath -ta aking upon examination. Everything needed in the household, needed for wear, from socks to ( straw chApeau will be on display at tre- rnendously reduced prices.
 The idea .is to get down town as early as possible to avoid the rush and get hrst chance at the many bareainF offered. Stores that arc cpop perating in the event will have special banners tp attract the shop parss attention. ,romorroW's Denp- crat will carry q series of afa- npunceme1lts from Ilierchants co. opefatinG n Waterbpry Day. F is a''gSestea to thosa plfnninz te
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-24

, the city gangsters' machine guns, left Hurley toay to join in patroi- ling reads leading to the Canadian border.
 The desolate nature of tiie coun- tryside and the few passable roads, made worse by snow and slush, in- creased the difficulties of the search, but also made 1t impossible for the outlaws to maneuver with the speed they have shown on pre- vious occasions.
 The terrorized countryside has been fully aroused to the dangers of the gang at liberty, realization made vivid by the activities of the outlaws in communicating auto mobiles, kidnapping drivers, raiding roadhouses and threatening with death all who oppose them. The free and easy manner in which Dillinger and his present five or six companions have used their machine guns has put every farmer and backwoodsman on guard to protect his own home. Outrages May Undo Him
 Police believe that the outrages committed by the. gang, despite courtesy shown several persons by Dillinger, may result in the final undeing of the outlaws. The point out that the men of this wooded region are crack shots, that they know how to handle rifles and have them always close at hand. If one of them gets a shot at Dill finger or any of his gang, they be- lieve, the chances of a miss are slim.
 The federal men held three girls whom the gangsters deserted and had scattered the desperate group which they were unable to capture. The agents added the name of George Babe Face" Nelson to the list of men wanted in connection with the gangs activities.
 Nelson. they believed, was the tiny, blond machine gunner who felled Federal Agent w. Carter w. Baum, ace investigator from Washington and two other men when the agents appeared at a re- sort where two gangsters were communicating an automobile. Baum died from his wounds.
 The man believed to be Nelson and another desperado were thought to have escaped westward toward Duluth, Mtnn.
 Dillinger and two others escap- ed from the lodge to the south west.
 Two other gangsters who escap- ed from the lodge in a department of justice automobile were believed in hiding somewhere in northern Wisconsin.
 Six Women Are Held
 In Madison the federal agents brought their total of women held on harboring a criminal charges to six. The three girls captured when the agents finally entered the little Bohemia lodge yesterday morning refused to give their names. They were brought to the jail here last night.
 One girl, a pretty brunette wore riding brooches, leather jacket be- ret and riding bootss Another. a little blond, was captured in flimsy pajamas. The third wore a red sweater over blue pajamas. They still wore these same clothes.
 Agents also held Evelyn Fres- chetti, Dillinger's sweetheart, woman named Bernice Norton in St Paul and Mrs John Steve, said to be a sister of John Hamilton, Dillinger's lieutenant.