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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
NWalkoutAgainst Pay Cut
Imposed by N. r. A.
Wage Scale
DOCKERS STRIKE
Mitch, U.M.W.A. Head,
Sends Miners Back
To Work
Special to the Daily WOrker

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May
4.-Eight thousand ore
miners struck this morning
against a pay cut of five cents
per day, embodied in the N.
r. A. wage scale announced re-
Gently by President Roosevelt, and
for recognition of the International
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers CA. F. of Ii, At the same
time the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union has called longshore-
mems strike for the entire Hamp-
ton Roads area centering in Ports
mouth, Virginia.
William Mitch, district leader of
the United Mine Workers of
America, sent the last Of the coal
miners back to work, thus finally
ending the strike of 21,000 Alabama
coal miners. Mitch sent the coal
miners back to work under an
agreement based on the wage scale
of the N.R.A. announced by Roose-
welt which gives the coal miners al
most dollar a day less than the
scale set for the northern coal min
ers.
In ending the coal miners strike,
at the same time that the ore min
ers walk out, the UMW.A. leader
ship is trying to break up the strug-
gle of the miners piecemeal.
AS soon as the Marine Workers
Industrial Union had called the
longshoremens strike, the Inter
national Longshoremen's Associa-
ton CA. F. of L., officials made a
strikebreaking statement that The
M.WIU. is not affiliated to the A.
F. of L., and our own organization
will be extended to the utmost to
meet the needs of the dock work
ers." The Marine Workers Indus
trial Union has called for unity of
all dock workers to win the strike.
Thirty Negro strikers were ar
rested at the pier of the Seaboard
Airline Railway for refusing to obey
the orders of the police to disburse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Is Face Death
For May Day
Meets In France
Threaten Frame-Up
of Com IN unist
Party Leaders
NEW FASCIST DRIVE
Charged With Resisting
Public Power May IL

PARIS, May 4 (By Radio).
Thirteen workers arrested
after the barricade fighting in
the Paris suburb of Jeanne
dare, May l and 2, face the
death penalty. according to a special
communique published by the gov
eminent today. The Doumergue
government which is helping the
establishment of fascism has already
taken over all measures Of the Hitler
government in its attack against
the French workers.
Not only are these Is workers
faced with execution for their par
ticipation in the May Day demon
stration and for resisting the fas-
cist attack of the Paris police, bat
the leaders of the organizations to
which they belong are subject TO
the same penalty.
The official communique published
in the Journal des Debats makes
this very clear, and opens the way
for framing-up the leaders CT the
Communist Party Of France and the
Red Trade unions in the same man.
ner that Thaelmann, Torgler, Dinli-
troff, Popof and Taneff we're nailed
by the Hitler government.
The arrest of the Is workers grows
out of the protest demonstration on
May End. when over 5000 workers
erected barricsdes to resist the
vicious attack of the police
BY threatening these workers with
the death penalty, the Dcgmergue
government hopes to stop the
sharply developing united struggle
Of all workers against fasci5m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
1000 Demonstrate
In Cincinnati, @.
Workers Defy Splitters
of Labor Movement

CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 4-Cne
thousand workers demonstrated in
Washington Park May Day, despite
police threats and provocations and
the disruptive efforts Of the reac-
tionary leadership Of the ANA gam
ated Clothing Workers and the
Central Labor Council to split the
workers May Day United Front.
After hearing the main speaker,
McDermott of the Communist Party,
who is now Or trial for his activities
in the Butler County strike, the
workers paraded through the main
Streets of the city. Over 300 work
ers and children participated in the
march.
Six hundred copies of the Daily
Worker" and 800 pamphlets we're
sold
The Unemployed Councils, with
the Communist units in their ter
ritory. marched together to the
demonstration at Washington Park.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Smith Ends
Tool andDie
W alk-Out
Socialist Leader Calls
Off Strike; Without
Any Demands Won
BY A. B. MAGn

DETROIT, May follow
ing on the heels of the ending
of the strike of one thousand
workers of the Michigan
Stove Company, the Me-
chanics Educational Society of
America yesterday officially an
nounced the termination of the
walkout Of tool and die makers
which at its beginning on April
twelve involved nearly four thousand
men.
AS in the case Of the Michigan
Stove strike, Matthew Smith, Cen
eral Secretary of the MESA, con-
tinued his shameless demagogic
efforts to hide the loss of the strike.
Smith is quoted in today's press as
stating that the men were returning
to those shops which meet the
minimum wage scale set by the M. E.
S. A."
Approximately ninety five per
cent OF the shops are paying that
SCALE" Smith is quoted as saying
but few selfish shop owners are
preventing the manufacturers asso-
citation from making a general
settlement"
In this way Smith defends the
Manufacturers Association, putting
the blame on a "few selfish shop
owners" and seeks to hide the fact
that the mems demands for twenty
(Conti1,,,ed M, Pooe 0l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
No Cain in
Pay, Admits
Vim. Green
Higher Cost of Living
VOids Any Wage
Increases
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN

WASHINGTON, May 4
"The individual worker in in
dustry made no gain whatever
in real wages from March,
1888 to March 1884" the May
issue of the American Federation
of Labor monthly survey of bust
ness declares today. Corporation
profits, under the New Deal, how
ever, is another story. Continue
ton of the riding trend in profits
is anticipated for the current year.
Dividend payments in March this
year we're higher by Sl5,000,00 (nine
per cent? than in March last year"
The unemployed are estimated as
"over 100000"
Period Of Decline
His (the workers. average wage
increased 81 per cent, but this was
completely offset by a 9.3 per cent
increase in the cost of living" says
the Survey, one of the organs of
the A. F. of L. chieftains who, in
riveting near-coolie codes on Amer
lean labor, have done yoemen work
(Continued on Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
U. S., British, Japanese
Clash OUer World MartS
Is Leading to New Var
U. S. Follows Up Note-Writing by Provocative
Investigation" of Japanese Conditions

NEW YoRK-Head-on
clashes over world markets,
inter1ningled with covert dip
lomatic war notes, bristle in
the Far East as both the
United States and Great Britain
took up the question Of conflict with
Japan on the question of world
trade. Following the British ulti-
matum delivered by President Wal
ter Runiciman Of the Board Of
Trade to Japan, that Japanese goods
are driving out British products in
the empires colonies, the State De-
partment in Washington began q
series Of provocative investigations"
on Japanese competition.
The struggle over markets and
colonial ACKNOWLEDGMENT which is
now coming more openly to the sur
face is the real reason for the bit
ter notes passed between Washing
ton and Toxic. The Japanese in
their recent declaration stated that
Americas heavy shipment Of mill
tary planes TO China, and the loans
to the Chang Kai-Shek govern
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
COmpOSitOrS Strike
Two Jersey Papers
Picket Paterson ''Call''
and Evening POST

PATERSON, N. j., May 4.-One
hundred members of the Typo
graphical Union, Local 1876, struck
last night at pm. and have set up
picket lines in front of Paterson's
only two newspaper plants, the Eve
ming Post and the Morning Call
For a month the local union
membership has been trying to get
the sanction of the National Ex-
ecutive Council for strike action.
The Executivev Council finally sane
toned the strike.
The strikers have set up rank
and file strike committee of IL,
headed by Henrik Berger and have
voted down arbitration. They de-
rnand that the strikers shall deal
directly with the owners of the
newspapers.
The type-setters are demanding
$45 for a 38-hour week, enforcement
of the union rules Especially the
reproduction clause which requires
that all ads sent to other papers
shall be reset and reproved) They
are also demanding no firing or
filming of workers for errors.
Newark press men and linotype
men have pledged full support of
the strike. Members of Passaic Lo-
cal 178 expect to walk out Tuesday
for the same demands.
The papers are appearing in a
curtailed form, since the compa
MES have placed % scabs in the
plants, supplied by a well-known
strike breaker named Flagg, who
is bringing the scabs from White
Plains and Hackensack.
Answering an appeal to the pub
lie to support the strike, Sam Reed,
organizer of the Communist Party.
has called on the unemployed to
help picket the plants The Ma
tional Textile Workers Union has
offered to support the strike.
The Amalgamation Party of Big
Six. upon receiving word of the
strike, issued the following state
ment, 1--WE warmly greet and ap-
plaud the militant action of our
brother compositors of Paterson and
pledge our fullest moral and mate
rial support to their strike. They
are fighting for the printers all over
the country as well as for them
selves and We cannot afford to let
them lose. All good union men
should join their picket line. Every
chapel should post a contribution
list for the support of the strike"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Aero Strikers
Reject Boards
e ArbitratiOn' -
Police Beat Up Mother
Of Eleven on the
Picket Line

BUFFALO, N. Y, May 4.-The
1000 strikes of the Curtiss and
Consolidated aircraft companies
we're to meet tonight to vote on
the proposal of the Labor Board
that they return to work and then
arbitrate. The strikers are in favor
of rejection of the government
boards proposal.
The executive committee of the
Aeronautical Workers Union has al
ready informed the Labor Board
that the union regards the board as
incompetent to conduct such arbi-
tration and will not accept this
strike-b breaking proposal. The same
stand is taken by the Aniline Chem
ical and the Houde Auto workers.
Realizing the spirit of the strik-
ers against the proposed Labor
Board sell-out, the company has
brought in over 1870 police and dep
uties and launched a reign Of ter
ror on the picket line.
One woman, the wife of a strik-
er and mother of IL children, was
seized on the picket line and so
badly beaten by the cops and dep
uties that she is now in the hos
pitaI. She was dubbed uncon-
scious when she refused to leave
the picket line. Women have
been among among the most spir-
tied picketS.
The company is now trying to get
some weak sisters to return to work
Monday. The strikers are guarding
against this.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Fisher Body Strikers Join
ST. Louis Nav Dav Parade

ST. LOUIS, Mo, May So Over
1000 Negro and white workers
marched in the May Day parade
through the heart of the business
and garment industry district, defy
ing the police refusal to grant a
permit for the parade. A group Of
Fisher Body strikers participated in
the march.
The workers divisions converged
at City Hall, then proceeded down
town, joined and followed by thou
sands on the streets. They forced
the removal of the Swastika flag
from the NaH Consulate.
Concluding the demonstration at
the Old Court House, the speakers
launched a huge drive against
Negro oppression from the stand
where chattel slaves were once sold.
$500 copies of the Daily Worker
were sold.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
May First ~
City by City

Reports from various cities and
towns throughout the United
States, indicate that many hun
dreds of thousands of workers
participated in militant demon
STATIONS May First. An incom-
plete list follows:
NEW YORK CITY.-200,OO0 in
Union Square May Day demonstra-
ton; 100000 in parade About l00,-
900 in Madison Square.
PITTSBURGH, Pa.-8,000 in pa
rade and demonstration.
CHICAGO, ul.-20000 in parade;
81 500 at park, according to incom-
plete reports.
CLEVELAND, Ohio.-10,O0O in
demonstration; 5000 in parade.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-5,000 in
demonstration
NORFOLK, Va.-1,O00 in demon
stration.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-30,000 al
Reyburn Plaza for march to hide
pendence Square.
PATTERSON, N. J.-2,000 in dem
onstration; 500 in parade.
STANFORD, Conn.-800 in dem
onstration.
BOSTON, Mass.-2O,O0O in dem
onstration; 5000 in parade.
PORTLAND, Ore.-4,000 in dem
onstration; 800 in parade.
HANCOCK, Mich.-l,200 in DEM
onstration; 300 in parade.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-300 in DEM
onstration.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.-1O,OOO in
demonstration.
OAKLAND, Cal-3,00O in demon
stration.
SACRAMENTO, Cal.-2,OOO dem
onstrate.
LOS ANGELES, Cal-1O,oOO in
demonstration.
STOCKTON, Cal.-5oO demon
strate.
PHOENIX, Ariz.-40O in demon
stration.
COMPTON, Cal.-2OO in demon
stration.
WORCESTER, Mass.-3,OOO in
demonstration.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn-4oo If
demonstration.
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
StrikingOhiOReIief
Men Record Gains
At May Day Rally
Win Full Relief for All
Strikers; Many Join
Communist Party

HAMILTON, Ohio, May with
the strike of the 1900 Federal Enler-
gency Relief Administration work.
ers in Butler County in full swing,
May Day demonstration was held
on the Court House steps. About
$50 workers were present. Amid an
enthusiastic response from the
workers, the strike committee of the
Relief Workers Protective Union
reported on the gains won by the
striking workers-the relief cut in
troduced last week had been abol-
ished, all striking FER.A. workers
will receive full relief for the period
of the strike, and the union will be
represented on the complaint board.
The demonstration was attended
by relief work strikers who had on
the previous day refused afiliation
with the A. F. of L.. and steel work
ers from Middletown.
The climax of the demonstration
was reached when Walter Jones,
speaking for the Communist Party,
said: This May Day ushers in
series of strikes in Southern Ohio.
AS a result of the F.E.R.A. strike,
the workers in the American rolling
mills are organizing for struggle,
and other shops in Hamilton are
spurred on to organization into
militant industrial unions"
Following the demonstration, $50
dren formed line of march and
paraded through the heart of Ham
ilton, shouting slogans against hun
ger, fascism and war, and for a
Soviet America.
After the demonstration, num-
Der of workers, including striking
FER.A. workers from Middletown,
the home of the American Rolling
Mills, joined the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

ment, were the means being used
to undermine japanese trade in the
Orient. The japanese war lords de-
clared they would not tolerate any
further encroachment on the "spe-
cial interests" Of Japan in China.
The United States replied, insisting
on the open door" which means
the right Of Wall Street to pene-
trate China and establish its COM
mercial and military base.
The State Department, aided by
the Department Of Commerce,
pointed out that japanese goods
were rapidly ousting American prod
ucts in the Philippines, Hawaii.
Latin America, and other exclusive
American markets. The object of
this announcement is to bolster up
the Roosevelt war program to in
sure AmeriSan supremacy in these
markets as against Japan.
Official figures published by the
State Department show that Jap
anese sales have increased in the
United States from 425,30000 yen
in 1881, to 492,237,00 yen in Jan
CONTINUED on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

shoremen are understanding that
strike action is the only action that
will win anything for the lockers.
THE longshoremen are inspired
everywhere by the victories won
under the leadership of the Rank
and File Action Committee and are
following the example of the 10000
West Coast longshoremen," said
Farmer.
This strike can be won if in all
ports the longshoremen refuse to
work the scab ships"
The Rank and File Action Com
mittee has pledged its full support
of the strike which is now taking
place in Lake Charles, La, and
Texas ports, and called on long
shoremen in other ports to spread
the strike. 1t also hailed the strike
of the Norfolk lockers who are
striking under the leadership of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union.
I'VE will mobilize all forces in all
ports for solidarity action with the
strikers said Farme'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
5000 Alabama
Ore Miners Go
Out on Strike
4
Series on Struggles
On waterfront Starts
in Daily Worker Mon.

NEW YORK Marguerite
Young's series of articles on the
struggles of the marine workers
will begin in Mondays Daily
Worker.
These articles, which deal with
the fight of one Of the most i'm
portant sections of the labor
movement to administer their
own relief, are of particular in
terest to every worker.
Marguerite Young, who has
been with the seamen since they
began their march from Balti-
more to Washington, has written
q thrilling, factual account of
the life and death struggle on
the waterfront. Don't miss It'll
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Two Negro Girls
Robbed of Wages
Shipped from Baltimore
by Racketeering Agency

NEW YORK.-Two colored Bal
timore girls are stranded in this city
as the result of conspiracy be-
tween local employers of domestic
labor and Baltimore Employment
Agencies to trap Negro girls into
coming to this city for employment
at starvation wages which are never
paid.
The two workers are Bertha Jones
and Cecilia Talbot, who were
shipped to Brooklyn employers by
the Baum Agency of SOB w. Null
berry ST., Baltimore, Md. Miss
Jones was hired by Mrs. S. L. An
ker of 486 Brooklyn Ave-, Brooklyn,
and Miss Talbot by Mrs. Nina
Katz of the same address.
The two workers were told by the
agency that they would be well paid.
Arriving at the Brooklyn address,
without a return ticket, they were
forced to accept employment at $40
a month.
After working month, the two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Action Committee Calls for
Support Of Longshore Strike

NEW YORK-The Rank and File
Action Committee of the Interna-
tional Lonshoremen's Association
issued statement yesterday hail
ing the action of the $4,000 long,
shoremen who are now on strike
in southern ports for better condi-
tons, higher wages and union of
their own choosing.
This strike has not been organ
lied by Joseph P. Ryan or the lead
ers of the International Longshore-
mems Association" said H. J. Far
mer, secretary of the Rank and File
Action Committee, at the headquar-
tiers of the committee at 1893 Broad
way.
1T was called by the rank and file,
who are fast losing faith in the
leaders who hold them back from
taking the only action that will pro-
tect the present working conditions
and win better wages, smaller drafts
and the 1929 working conditions on
the piers
Farmer pointed out that the long
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Longshoremen, Seamen In Action In Many Ports
Norfolk Dock Strikers
Firm on Second Day
of Strike

NORFOLK, Va, May 4.-The
second day of the coastwise long
shore:nen's strike finds the ranks
Of the strikers strong, with the
strike affecting seven docks. Seven
hundred Negro longshoremen are
now out under the leadership Of
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union.
In an attempt to break the strike
police have arrested A pickets in
Portsmouth. The shipowners are
trying to ship scans, especially from
the ranks of the unemployed white
workers. They are also appealing
to crews on the ships to act as
strike breakers.
But when asked to replace a strik-
ing longshoreman, two seamen
walked off the S. S. State of Mary
land.
The strikebreaking role of the
leaders Of the International Long
shoremens Association was made
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Many Rallies to Recruit N. =
Vets for Washington March
Many Contingents Already En- Route to Capital;
T.U.U.L. Urges Unions to Actively Aid Vets

NEW YORK-In response to the
call Of the National Rank and File
Committee of the veterans for an
ex-servicemen's march on Washing
ton for support of their three point
program, many contingents have al
ready left cities in various parts of
the country and are now en- route
to the nations capital. Prepare
tons for the departure of other
groups are going on in almost every
principal city Of the land,
Rank and file members Of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars and the
American Legion are also register
ing IN great numbers for the
march.
The first group of New York City
veterans left for Washington on the
evening of May 1. A second con-
tingent will gather in Union Square
on Wednesday morning, May 8, and
call on Mayor LaGuardia at City
Hall in the interests of the three
points program before starting on
its march. Mobilization and re-
cruiting are at present being car
ried on at the following places:
Central city recruiting headquar-
tiers: 2o3 E. 18th st.
Lower East Side headquarters: SO
E. Third st.
Brooklyn headquarters: SIG Broad
way.
Recruiting Rallies Planned
Mass rallies for the purpose of
recruiting participants for the
march and to gain greater support
from the masses of workers are
scheduled in New York City as fol-
lows:
Saturday afternoon at Union So:
Saturday evening at 125th st. and
Fifth Ave: Sunday, all day and
evening. at Union So, A Browns
vile rally is scheduled for Sunday
as well as other local meetings to
be conducted by Bronx and Brook
lyn posts.
T.U.U.L. Endorses March
In statement signed by Jack
Stachel, acting national secretary of
the Trade Union Unity League, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Move to Expel 38
Michigan Students.
In May Day Parade.
Beaten by CopsTuesday;
Was Coming to Them,
Says Free Press
(SpeciaI to the Daily Worker)


DETROIT, May 4.-Eforts to ex-
pei thirty-eight University of Mich
igan students. who participated in
Detroit May Day celebration, have
been launched by University author
tiles. The University discipline
committee wass cheduled to meet
yesterday to decide what action to
take.
Students, who were organized by
the militant National Student
League, and came to the demon
stration in a truck, we're waylaid
by police. forced to drive into
blind alley, beaten with blackjacks
by cops.
A campaign of Indictment, ap-
proved and aided by President
Arthur G. Ruthven of University,
has been started against students.
Edward T. Cheyfitz. leader of N.S.L.
at University, is being made the
center of attack. Yesterdays Detroit
Free Press carried an editorial
headed: "They Got What Was
Coming" attacking students and
defending police.
The Michigan Daily, student pub
LEGATION, also published vicious
front page editorial, openly calling
for the expulsion Of Cheyf1tz.
Students, under the leadership of
NSL., are organizing movement
to protest the attack on the May
Day delegation and to prevent the
victimization of the participants.
Among students under fire, in adj
dition to Cheyfltz, are Karl Cannon,
Secretary of the NSL. Kendall
Wood, son of Prof. Arthur Wood.
Sociology Professor at University;
Alfred Lee Klaer, student pastor of
First Presbyterian Church, and
Charles T. Orr. teaching Fellow in
Economics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Seamen Gain in Fight
for Own Relief Plan
in Buffalo

BUFFALO, N. Y, May Alive
hundred seamen at meeting held
at the Seamen's Church Institute
voted down proposals of John Eli
son, leader of the A. F. of L., and
Federal Relief Director Ewing to put
over a 80 cent a week forced relief
plan on the marine workers.
The men voted for the Baltimore
plan, whereby relief amounting to
IS cents a day shall be given to the
seamen by the government through
a rank and file committee elected by
the seamen.
When John Ellison, A. F. of l..
leader, got up to speak he was booed
Justify by the men. He was only
permitted to speak when leaders of
the Marine Workers Industrial Union
advised the men to listen to him
and decide by their vote what they
thought of his plan.
McCuisition, Young and Fetzik,
speaking for the Marine Workers
Industrial Union, exposed the forced
Continued on Page q