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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-22
Cuba Doctor Strike
Leader Is Murdered
Continued from Page II

forces for the establishment Of a
workers and farmers government.
The shooting of Or. Borge was due
directly to government order to the
police to protect all who scab and
remain at work despite the strike.
Mass discomfort is growing within
government organizations among the
rank and file. Against this the gov
eminent is preparing the sharpest
reaction this week. The discomfort
in the army and navy is forcing All
about face in the Mendieta regime
plans, but the Communist Party Is
calling on the soldiers, sailors ano
students not to trust to these prom.
ises but to prepare to fight.
The strike of the doctors and
teachers indicates a movement of the
petty bourgeois towards the prolet-
ariat under its hegemony.
The Lenin Memorial meeting last
night at the Institute, under the
auspices Of the Young Communist
League was held legally for this
first time, with masses of workers
attending.
NEW YORK. - President Carlos
l.Iendieta, Cuban president installed
with the help of Wall Street. has
issued a statement promising to pro-
tect American investors. His bid fol-
recognition was favorably received by
Roosevelt who has promised action
within few days.
The American capitalist press
unanimously favors Mendieta as a
faithful servant of the American
bankers, sugar and public utility In
terests in Cuba.
l. L. ID. GreetS Cpban Trade Union
Congress
NEW YORK.-In an open letter to
the congress of the Confederation
Nacional Obrera de Cuba in Havana,
William L. Patterson, national secre-
tary of the International Labor De-
tense, pledging the support of the /,
L. D. to the Cuban workers in their
heroic struggle, called on all Amer
lean workers to intensity their
struggle in support of the Cuban
workers, and to strengthen their
struggle against the attacks OF the
Roosevelt Wall Street government.
I'VE call on American workers In
shops, mines and factories, exploited
and ground down by the brutal cap
ltalist tyranny which Expresses the
Cuban workers, to strengthen their
Eight by a determined struggle In
support of their Cuban brothers."
says the letter.
I'VE call upon the oppressed Negro
people Of the United States, held in
bondage as an oppressed nation, to
ink their struggle against their
struggle against white ruling class
oppressors with the struggle Of the
Cuban people against the same OPP
rressors.
I'VE can on all toilers to demon
strate their solidarity with the
struggles Of the Cuban workers by
a mass protest against American i'm.
perialist terror and intervention II
Cuba, in meetings, resolutions, ant
demonstrations addressed to Presi.
dent Roosevelt, Secretary OF State
Hull, the Cuban Ambassador al
Washington, and all Cuban con.
sAlatss thrQughQAt the eQuptryH
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-22
o. Day, Framed Negro
Worker, on Trial To-day

NEW YORK.-The case OF Oscar
Day, Negro worker, framed on a
charge Of robbery by the white land
lord for whom he worked, Mr.. Mako
WITT, comes up for trial this morn
ing in the General Sessions Court,
Part I, Center st.
1t is urgently necessary that the
courtroom be crowded with workers
to prevent this innocent Negro
worker from being railroaded to a
long prison term.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-22
10000 Honor Lenin's Memory
In 3 N. J. Meetings Saturday
George POlCerS Up
For Trial To-day

NEW YORK.-George Powers, mill
tant iron worker, arrested April 81,
1882, for leading an unemployed dem
onstration to City Hall, will come up
for trial today at 10 am, at the
General Sessions Court, Part 8. Frank
lin ana Centre SITS.
Powers, charged with '.inciting to
riot and aSsauIting officers" has been
up seven times, but his case has been
continually postponed. Workers must
pack the court in his defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-22
Cyril Should Read This
BY TED ROBERTS
Batting for ST Gerson)

FELLOW the bench pointed out to George Palmer
an American correspondent in Russia the best centre
forward in the u S. s. Palmer was in the works of the
big dynamo plant where the topic of discussion switched
working conditions in the plant to football The game
referred to played at the Dynamo Stadium where more
than 5000 spectators who in majority of cases PLAYED the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-22

ScheduIe Tor the week Of Jan 22-29.
JAN 22-Lyceum Boys VS.. YorkviIIe
Jan. ELMO. No. asa VS.. Young Worker
Jan. 2S-TremOnt Prog. VI. Two. No. 4Oo
Jan. 25-Spartaous VS.. Red Sparks
Jan. 2e--Y.C.L. No. 2 VS.. American Youth
Jan. 31st is the last day any team NAV
enter the L.S.u Basketball League
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-22

Needle Unions Members
Of Party To Meet Today
Party members Of the Needle
Trades Union are called to . special
fraction meeting On Monday, Jan.
2, at pm. at Manhattan Lyceum,
&c Z. Fourth st, Every member is
expected to be present without fail.
DISTRICT ORG. DEPT,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-22

Mass meeting tonight, pm, at ais Leno1
Ave, near 1Slst St, to hear the reports Of
delegations sent to Commissioner OF Publit
Welfare and Colonel Delehanty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-22
HARLEM DAILY WORKER CHORUS

The first rehearsal Of the Daily Worker
Chorus, Harlem Section, will take place
tonight, at pm, at Two. headquarters,
AIS LenoS Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-22

Hans Baer, refugee from a Nazi Coneen.
tration Camp, will speak tonight, at Civic
Theatre Han, Liberty Ave. and 1I4th st.
Richmond Hill. Jean Silver, classical violin
list, will also render musical program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-22
Calvert A. C. Five Leads
L.S.U. Basketball League

NEW YORK.-ResultS Of the fitst
week of tournament play in the Labor
Sports Union Basketball League are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-22
LEFT WING, LOCAL p, TO HOLD

Left Wing Of Local % will hold a specia
group meeting tonight. right aftel work, 81
Memorial Hail, 344 West Seth st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-22

NEEDLE TRADES UNEMPLOYED COUNCIL,
TO MEET
This Needle Trades Unemployed Council
calls all furriers to q meeting to be held
night, at 8 pm, at the Freiheit Gesangs
.erein Hall, 1904 Southern Boulevard, Bronx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-22
MEETING TO WELCOME JAPANESE
COMRADES

A group Of Japanese Esperantiss seamen
viii be welcomed at meeting Of Workers
Esperanto Group, $50 East aist st., tonight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-22

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Dentists Quit
St. John Clinic
over Dismissal
Nun Gives No Reason
for Mismissal of a
Member of Staff

NEW YORK.-The entire dental
staff of st. Johns Hospital, Long
Island City, has resigned in protest
at the recent dismissal of one of the
staff, who was discharged with no
notification of the charges against
him. The staff is protesting his
discharge and the fact that the
staff itself was not consulted in the
matter or given any notification of
the discharge.
The group gives its services with
out charge to the workers who apply
at the clinic.
The members of the clinic pre-
sented petition protesting the dis
charge to Sister Hilda, in charge
of the clinic. She refused to accept
the petition or state the reasons for
the arbitrary dismissal
The dentists have called on
dentists and physicians throughout
the city to aid them in this fight.
The medical staff at st. Johns is
looked to especially to take con-
crete steps to aid them. The mem
bers of the group have urged that
dentists of other sections support
them by refusing to join the staff
of the clinic.
To prevent any suffering because
of the action of the dentists, ar
rangements have been made that
all workers holding the yellow clinic
ticket of the st. Johns Clinic may
receive free attention at the offices
of any of the dentists who resigned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Reports Gains
in Flop Houses
of Job | e S S

NEW YORK. - Forty per cent
more men used public and charity
lodging houses during the month of
June this year than during the same
month a year ago, according to
statistics issued yesterday by the
Welfare Council of New York City,
Despite warmer weather 1896 job
less men braved the horrible con-
ditions in the flop houses-a drop
of only 10 per cent from May and
only 10 per cent from the wintry
month of March. At this time of
the year most unemployed men pre-
fer park benches.
The huge increase of 40 per cent
this year is due to the continued
wersening of living conditions, rising
prices of rent, and the firing of
thousands of single workers from
work relief rolls by the city.
An increase of 1922 daily in the
number of homeless transientS was
reported by the Welfare Depart
ment as well as a rise in the num-
Der Of unattached persons receiving
aid from the Home Relief Bureau.
In spite of the seasonal change only
8 per cent less women were lodged
during June than May-an unusu-
ally small decrease, the department
admits.
Commissioner William Hodsons
comment on these statistics was his
usually demagogic statement that
New York City is not Sinking its
responsibility" coupled with a warn
ing to unemployed men and boys
throughout America to "stay out of
New York"
The filth-ridden flop houses are
the last resort of the jobless, the
final barrier to actual starvation.
Hodson's Boosting of the "respon-
sibility' which the New York City
government has accepted, is an in
suit to the unemployed workers and
step toward further demeralizing
relief" conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14

tent to leave the Valhalla above to
others? Did it creep into their
stories that Cozy Dolan is still col
Letting salary from the Giants?
Or about a certain occasion, a few
years before the war, when Muggsy
tried to buy a game?
EVEN a man who was a friend of
Ia Rebinson's, Hugh Bradley, of the
Post, writes of the literature on his
demise that "some of the gushing
tributes perhaps would bring a
scornful chuekle if the newspapers
were sold elsewhere than at subway
stations" What he means is that
the gushing tributes" are primarily
for the benefit of suckers. If not
for the suckers professional base
ball and similar arts would have
few heroes. I hesitate to point
this out, lest betray a secret, but
it is a deep-rocted axiom among
sports writer's that no fan is as
comically sentimental and weak
headed as the baseball fan. Say
it amt So" the question put to
Joe Jackson, is the motto they have
officially given him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Special Membership
Meeting of Section 4
Called for Tonight


NEW YORK.-A special mem
bership meeting of the Harlem
Section of the Communist Party
will be held tonight at 1880
o'clock in the Finnish Workers
Hall, Is w. 126th st.
Questions of the greatest i'm
portsnee will be discussed and
all members of the section are
instructed to be present, and to
come on time. To allow full dis
cussion, the meeting will not
start later than the stated hour.
Unit organizers will check up
on the attendance of the men,
bers of their units.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Bronx Jobless
Cut Red Tape,
Win Rent Pay

NEW RK-Rent vouchers
without the usual red tape have
been won by the mass pressure of
workers from the lower Bronx
Home Relief Bureau on 10th St.
After a series of struggles organ
lied by the Unemployment Coun-
ellis, SOB E. 136th st.
Under the leadership of the
council, workers had conducted
mass picketing and had refused to
leave the relief station until rent
vouchers were granted. Inyestiga-
tors were sent out after regular
hours by the bureau officials to
find homes for the workers.
About two weeks ago Helen
Lynch, Unemployment Council
leader, and two other militant
workers we're framed and given jail
sentences for picketing by Magis-
trate Margolesky. Helen Lynch was
held for several days in solitary
confinement until the International
Labor Defense acted and she was
transferred to regular status.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Plan Terror
ToFightC
in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 13.-Fear
of the growth of the Communist
Party and its influence is revealed
in the latest report of the Ministry
of the Interior which reports that the
government arrested more than
1,60O people for militant activity in
1888.
Deliberately lying and slandering,
the report states that the Commu-
mist press is constantly melting at
taekS on public buildings, water
works and railroads. 1t does this in
the attempt to conceal the terrible
misery of the peasants and laborers
here as the wealthy landlords grind
profits out of them.
There have been many strikes
led by the growing Communist
Party, which raises the slogan of
the agrarian revolution and anti
imperialist revolution against the
yoke of the imperialist bankers,
who dominate the life of the coun-
try,
Following the example of the
more powerful imperialist countries,
Argentina has created a special ter
rerist police squad sto fight Com
munism."
The white slave traffic, in which
all the government officials have
an interest, continues, and the gov
eminent officials are seeking to as
sociate this vile traffic with the
Communists. But the masses are
increasingly following the Comnu-
mist leadership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14

DY NO sensible estimate was the
- late Wilhert Robinson anything
but an insignificant figure. The
metaphysicians of the sports pages
may write lyrical tear-jerkers about
him, but the sum and substance of
his contributions to humanity re-
main nothing. He played on the
Baltimore Orioles, he was eighteen
years manager of the Brooklyn
Dodgers-wlat an epitaph! Let us
add to that-he once made seven
hits in seven consecutive times at
bat!
The newspapers made him, as
they have made every professional
sporting character. He was eigh-
teen years manager of the Brook
Ign Dodgers-and he won only two
remnants. But the excuse given
in the newspapers is that he was
never allowed the money to buy
players. 1t is a commentary on
the sport of professional baseball.
He could not win any pennants
because he did not have the money
to buy players! In their eager
ness TO make him a figure, there
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Competition Stirs
Daily Worker Drive
Continued from Page y

Is all I have to say now" And
that's saying a mouthful, Mike!
Though poets and novelists may
come from Indiana, workers remain
in the Hoosier state to fight for
their class interests. Avery Karn
has built sales up in Richmond to
so copies daily and is certain that
he'll make it 100 before snow flies.
Sells to MunitiOn Workers
From campus to cannon factories
might be the title of a story on
how three New Haven comrades are
building the Daily" selling it to
,he painters and carpenters work
ing on the university buildings, as
well as on busy corners and before
such plants as Winchester and Sar-
gesnts.
1t may only be bicycle built
for one, but Harry Davis, Lancaster.
Pa, Daily Worker Agent, bought it
to show Champion Sub-getter Bill
Murray what makes the circula-
ton wheels go round. At that, he's
going to have to keep his feet off
the break, because Comrade Muir
ray is the kind of worker who uses
a three day vacation to step out
and sell IS copies of the Daily"
in addition to picking up eight sub
scriptions. Harry, however, sleeps
with his pants clips on and is re-
ported to have voice that can
be heard three blocks in any diree-
ton.
Florence Wayne is from Missouri
and she knows that even workers
who are not fully class conscious
will buy the Daily because it
carries news the other papers don't
dare print. She is concentrating
on the packing plants in Kansas
City and is asking the workers to
write letters and articles about con-
ditions. In this way she expects
to popularize specific issues and
build this interest into desire to
read every issue.
Determined to Win Metal Workers
Workers in the MeKeesport tin
mill may not know about the
Daily" but they're going to learn
lot in the very near future, be-
cause Gust Mikades and another
comrade are ordering bundle to
sell before the gate and they ex-
pegt to show an increase after the
first fou- days. Its not that work.
ers don't want to read our Daily"
writes Comrade Mikades, but too
many don't know it exists" We're
"a hearty agreement with this OBJ |
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Gebert Asks ActiOn
in District to Place
Party on the Ballot
Organizer Urges Efforts
Be Redoubled to Get
Signatures

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. 13.-"Our
Party will never be able to explain
to the working class of Chicago and
Illinois why we were not able to get
on the ballot if we do not collect
the signatures necessary to do So"
william Gebert, district organizer
of the Communist Party, declared
today in urging redoubled efforts
for the collection of 10000 NOM
mating signatures.
With the nominating petition
drive entering it's final stagt today,
only 200 lists out of a $4,000 total
have been returned, A, GuSs, State
campaign manager, reported. There
are now 10 days left before the
deadline for submitting the petit
lions to State election authorities.
I'VE must place the collection Of
signatures on an emergency basis,
Gebert's appeal said. I'VE have
the masses of Chicago workers look
ing toward our Party, waiting TO
see what our actions will be. We
can and we must place the Party
candidates on the ballot, and 1t can
be done if every Party and Young
Communist League member feels
himself personally responsible for
collecting signatures"
Guss urged workers not to retain
petitions in their homes or neigh
borhood organization headquarters,
but to rush them to State campaign
headquarters at 101 S. Wells st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Tenants Push
Rent Strike on
Sugar Hill
Delegates of IA Build
ings Pledge Support at
Mass Meeting


NEW YORK-The militant rent
strike conducted by 235 tenants of
four apartment buildings in the
Harlem section known as Sugar
Hill may soon affect other build
ings in the vicinity, it was indi-
Gated at mass meeting of the
striking families on Friday evening.
Delegates from fourteen other
houses attended the meeting, called
by the United Tenants League to
pledge their support and their eff
forts to bring occupants of neigh
boring buildings out on strike.
The buildings thus far involved
in the fight for reduced rents and
physical improvements are 281 Edge
comb Avenue and TAG, 772 and 8O5
st. Nicholas Avenue. Only three
families have failed to join the
strike. The strike executive COM
mittee declared that it would con-
tinue its activity despite the fact
that all its members have been
served with dispossess notices.
When delegation of the tenants,
interviewing representatives of the
Som Leasing Corporation, man
ayers of the buildings, pointed out
that the corporation rented better
houses to white tenants for less
money, the spokesman for the cor
poration replied, eve get as much
as we can"
Among the active leaders of the
strike are Ben Davis, Jr, editor of
the Negro Liberator.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14


Dor Assembly, did not so much as
mention the problem Of strike which
is the burning issue facing the de-
legates.
In his report, presented in writ
ten form to the delegates, Mac
Mahon was forced by pressure of
the rank and file to take notice of
the strike question, but here also
he emphasized control by the inter-
national officers of the union.
The wage and hour demands are
taken up in different section of
MacMahon's report under a report
of a committee appointed by Mac
Mahon to make recommendations.
The committee advocated to es-
tablish the following scale: "revi-
sions of the Cotton Textile Code"
Hours, two shifts of 80 hours per
week with no exemptions. Differen-
tials: The establishing of four min
imum wages: Unskilled, $13; Semi
skilled, $18; Skilled, $3.50; Highly
skilled, $50" On speedup the recon-
mendation is: Machine load. The
revision of all work loads on the
basis Of reason and ordinary COM
mon sense"
Mrs. Clifford Pinchot, wife of
Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania,
addressed the convention and said:
Mr.. Pinchot is very proud of the
fact that last year in Fayette
County in the coal mine strike
when miners were shot down by
deputy sheriffs, that he called out
the National Guard twice to pro-
tect the miners constitutional
rights and privileges"
The National Guard helped break
the strike, and the workers are now
saddled with company unions.
A letter from Mollie Dewd, local
organizer of the United Textile
Workers in Huntsville, Ala, where
textile workers are out on strike,
was read to the convention. The
letter said, in part:
To-day hear that the business
men on the Chamber of Commerce
of Huntsville have threatened the
job of the public welfare worker If
she gives a loaf of bread to the
strikers, much less anything elese. i.
"They are still boldly threatening
our lives and send me word every
day that they are coming after me
that night to take me for a ride
just like they did Dean. And you
need not discount that they will do
it.
They say as soon as they get
rid of us they will put the workers
back in the mill at the point of a
gun If necessary"
The convention will reconvene
this morning at $50 o'clock in
Town Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14

left it, the club was one of the
richest in the big league circuit.
1T SHOULD be observed that most
of the garlands that are set on
his head have to do with his ami
ability. He was, one learns, an
other of those elevated souls who
never lost without a smile. This
personality touch is always used
when denizen of the caves leaves
this best of all possible worlds. Look
back upon the eulogies of the late
MeGraw, whose delicacy of de-
meanor and expression earned him
the nickname of Muggsy. Indeed,
one can still smell the incense.
Muggsy too was an old Oriole and
SO celebrated when he went to his
grave.
But how many of those who wrote
about Muggsys future stay in VAL
halla wrote about Muggsys con-
necticns with various Florida real
estate deals? Or about Muggsy's
connections with the gamblers who
think the Polo Grounds is a VAL
halla enough for them and are con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Haas, Dunnigan Rewrite
Plan To Suit Employers
in Minneapolis Strik e
Especial to the Daily worker)

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 10 Hsss
and Dunnigan have rewritten their
plan for the settlement of the
truckdrivers' strike to suit the en-
ployers, according to latest reports.
These reports stated that the en-
pIoyers and mediators fully agree
upon such plan which also has
the approval of the labor relations
board in Washington.
Over 5000 trucks are in opera
ton now, which is q bigger num-
Der than the one which prevailed
before Olson's so-called restrictions
against employers refusing to &C
cept the Haas proposals. In nor
NAL times about $4,000 trucks are
run. About $500 of these permits
have been issued largely to people
who own their own trucks, and
who agree to abide by the Haas
Dunnigan proposal, not necessarily
signing with the union. The others
are special permits for necessities,
interstate commerce.
Many of the large firms move
their material by hiring small
truck drivers who have permits.