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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Reports to Washington
Show Swiftly Grow
ing Movement
ALL OUT BY TODAY
UTW Leadership Talks
of Adjustments
With Bosses
BY Seymour Waldman
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

WASHING TON, D. c.,
Sept. 4.-"All of the 100000
members of the United Tex
tile Workers CA. F. of L. will
be out on strike by Wednes--
day." Francis J. German, spe-
cial strike committee chair
man, announced today to the press
in Washington strike headquarters.
our next work is with the unor-
gained. We're not calling off any
strike. We're calling. them on.
This is a strike to win strikes" he
added.
In a strike press bulletin, Cor
man reported the general textile
strike "a tremendous success, on
the basis "of detailed returns re-
ceived in strike headquarters"
Reports issued by George A. Sloan
president of the Employers Cot
ton Textile Institute) in New York,
showing mills running are, Of
course, Mr.. Sloan's expression of
hope. I expect him to whistle to
keep up his courage"
The pile of strike kilograms from
scores of localities throughout the
country, reporting workers strike
enthusiasm and picket activity,
continued to mount.
"One of the interesting features
Of the strike is the participation of
eX-service men. Let us remember
that most eX-service men are work
ers. We count on ex-service
men being with us everywhere, -
German said.
Concerning talk here OF Settle
ment" Of the strike by the National
Labor Relations Board. German
limited that board mediation" of
the strike is not out of the pic
ture. We've made our proposals to
Chairman Garrison, we're in touch
with him, and we'll be glad to meet
with the employers" German said.
The reference to the proposals"
made by the U.T.W. strike commit
tee to the NLR.B. meant the four
adjustments" including compul-
sorry arbitration, which German,
without authority from the U.T.W.
conventions, advanced last week as
a basis for ending the strike. His
mention of the employers recalls
President Thomas F. McMahon's
Sunday remarks to your CORE
spondent that the U.TW. leaders
will not stick to the specific de-
mands made in New York by the
recent U.TW. convention.
In view of Germans strike claims
of "a tremendous success" and his
announcement that I'VE are deter
mined to crush despotism in the
textile industry and today's reports
of operations in every section
should make it clear that our OBJ
jective will be achieved" it would
seem that there is no earthly rea-
son for disregarding the conven-
tons specific strike demands on
hours, wages, Homage, shifts and
other matters except the U.T.W
leadership's policy to sacrifice the
rank and file militancy for con-
tinued liberation, cooperation and
cement from the employers
and the government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Arms Inquiry
Shows Wilson,
Zaharof Link
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)


WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 4
Cross examination of Henry r.
Carse, president of the Electric Boat
Company, by the Nye-Vandenberg
Senate Committee, which opened its
public hearings today, into the ma
tional and international business
practices of armament and NUM-
tons corporations, added some new
Exhibits" to the familiar story of
the National Defense" activities of
patrioteers who hold power in every
capitalist country.
Carse, whose company is now en-
gagged in constructing the subma-
rines for the Roosevelt big-navy,
imperialist war preparations pro-
gram, revealed the details of his
firms working arrangements with
Vickers, Ltd, the dominant, British
armament concern; the intimacy of
Sir Basil Zaharoff, internationally
titled munitions power, with Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson; the stupen-
dous profits and commissions paid
to sales agents; the official navy
connections of Vickers and Electric
Boat; and other not unexpected
revelations protruding from the in
exorable imperialist continuity be-
tween 1914 and today.
The Nye-Vandenberg resolution,
Senate Resolution 206, ordered the
investigating committee to consider
''the desirability of creating a gov
eminent monopoly" of the manufac-
ture of war instruments.
Tied Up With Morgan, Rockefeller
Carse informed the committee
which Nye announced will meet for
three weeks, that his firms main
Offices are at 40 Wall Street. Plants
are located at Groton, Connecticut,
and Bayonne, New Jersey. Wall
Street banking connections include
the Central Hanover Bank & Trust
Company, the Rockefeller-c controlled
Chase National Bank, the Morgan
controlled Guaranty Trust Company
and J. P. Morgan's London branch,
Morgan, Grenfel & Co.
Assisting Carse were Lieutenant
Lawrence Spear retired, U.S. Navy
for some years president of
Electric Boat; Henry R. Sutphen,
president; and U. S. Senator
w. Warren Barbour, New Jersey
manufacturer, member of the COM
mittee who was appointed by Gov
ernor Larson on December /, 1881
to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Dwight w. Morrow, part
ner in j. P. Morgan.
The high spot of the mornings
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
STRIKERS CLOSE MILLS
To TIE UP TEXTILE AREAS
Main Demands
In the Strike

The textile workers, 10000
strong, from Maine TO Ala
bama, are fighting for the fol-
lowing main demands as
adopted by the recent cOnven-
ton of United Textile Work
ers' Union:
~ Hours: Two shifts of 30
hours per week with no ex-
emptions.
~ Differentials: The estab-
lishment of four minimum
wages: Unskilled, S13 per 30
hour week; semi skilled, S18
per 30-hour week; skilled,
$3.50 per 30-hour week; highly
skilled, $50 per 3O-hour week.
81 Machine Load: The re-
vision of all work loads on the
basis of reason and ordinary
common sense.
az Recognition of the Union:
Reinstatement of all workers
victimized because of union
membership.
MOTE: For detailed statement of
wags demands for each category of
workers and machine loads in each
department see the Daily Worker Of
Tuesday, September ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Silk Workers
Move to Join
Textile Fight

PATERSON, N. j., Sept. An a
statement issued today to the Daily
Worker, two members of the Broad
Silk Executive Board "a. F. of L.
Moe Brown and L. Valgo, declared
that the silk employers assurance
that the silk workers would not
strike was a little premature.
A call to all its members to take
immediate steps to form a united
strike front with the textile work
ers now out, regardless of all union
affiliations, was also issued here
today by the Office of the National
Textile Workers Union.
Referring to the union agreement
which the employers claim protects
them from strike, they said,
This is a national strike. It is
the silk employers who have
broken the agreement, for al
ready two-thirds of the silk work
ers are working under wage cuts"
Brown and Valgo stated.
1--WE urge the silk workers to
join the textile strikers and make
it general strike. We urge that
mass meeting be called at once
Of all silk workers here to frame
cur local demands and to join the
nation wide textile strike
THE National Textile Workers
Union, in merging with the silk
workers, has taken a vital step
toward the unity of all workers
in united front against the
Bosses"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Jury
II
OfVagrancy
Militant Workers We're
Arrested in Raids;
LID. to Appeal

SACRAMENTO, Cal.-Twelv e
verdicts of guilty and 10 acquittals
were handed down by jury here
in the trials of the "a leaders of
the working class movem n t
charged with "vagrancy" following
their arrest in raids during the ter
ror reign at the time of the San
Francisco general strike.
The convictions will be appealed.
the International Labor Defense
announced.
Those found guilty face the max
imum sentence of six months. They
are AL Hougardy, section organizer
of the Communist Party and con-
gressional candidate in the coming
elections; Pat Chambers, organizer
OF the Cannery and Agricultural
Workers Industrial Union and can
didate for the U. S. Senate; Caro-
line Decker, of the C. and A. w.
1. u; Mike Plesh, Martin Wilson,
section organizer of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense; Lorraine Nor
man, Harry Collentz, Lee Hung. A..
G. Ford, F. Kirkwood, A. M. Pruett,
and Algie Williams.
Thirteen workers, three of them
women, and including Chambers,
Hougardy, Collentz, Plesh, Decker.
Huns, Wilson. Ford, Kirkwood, Nor
man and Nora Conklin, and Jack
Warwick, face charges of criminal
syndicalism.
A special Criminal Syndicalism
Defense office will be opened in
Sacramento by the International
Labor Defense, it was announced.
The original indictments on GRIM
NAL syndicalism charges were OBJ
tanned before the Grand Jury had
seen the complaints or listened to
the evidence, it was revealed. On
a demurrer filed by Leo Gallagher,
1. L. D. attorney, four of the six
counts in each case were dismissed.
District Attorney Neil McAllister.
however, is busily engaged in
amending these counts. The de-
PENDANTS face from one to IA years
on each count.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
n. T.W.U. Urges Strike
Action by Independents

ssnd especially 10 all members Of
the independent unions to Join the
general textile strike for a 30-hour
week, 6-hour day, against the
vicious stretchout system, and for
adequate wage increases.
THE general strike Is the only
effective way to wipe out the kill
ing stretchout that is being ex-
tended in every textile mill at the
present time. This general textile
strike is the only effective answer to
the N. r. A. National Labor Board
that has forestalled or crushed one
militant action of the textile work
erS after another, thus helping to
maintain starvation wages and
miserable working conditions in
every textile mill
Textile workers can win this gen.
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Sept. A.
The National Textile Workers Union
today issued statement to indepen-
dent unions whose conservative
leadership decided against indepen-
dent unions joining the strike. The
N. T. w. U. calls on all members
to strike solid in spite of their
leaders. The text of the statement
follows:
Textile Workers: Now is the
time to strike, is the motto.
Members of A. F. T. o. of Fall
River; Independent Sheeting Work
ers of Salem; American Indepen-
dent Textile Union of Pawtucket;
Textile Workers Protective Associa-
ton of Lowell; Independent Tex
tile Union of Woonsocket.
THE National Textile Workers
Union appeals to all textile workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Letters to the Daily Yorker
Indicate Driue Enthusiasm,

The enthusiasm which is sweep
ing the country for the 8-page Daily
Worker-and for the drive to raise
the $4,000 which will make this
new paper possible-is illustrated in
the content of the letters which
have arrived in the Daily Worker
contest: why Workers Should
Read the Daily Worker"
a.. :. l cannot hesitate to do my
bit to help it along" writes one
who axis that his name not be
used. "for only in this way can l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05

show my appreciation for what it
has done for me. -.
II, as an individual worker, found
it necessary to turn to the Daily
Worker. In no other paper was
I able to find the answers to the
economic problems as they con-
cerned me. The Daily Worker
helped me to interpret from a work
er's point of view. was finally
led to the conclusion that l could
no longer sit passively by during
the evictions and hunger and wait
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Need 5000 Signatures
For Illinois Communists

CHICAGO, H., Sept. 4.-Fifteen
thousand signatures are needed to
place candidates of the Communist
Party on the ballots in Illinois. The
deadline has been extended to Sept.
10th, when all signature lists must
be turned in to the Communist
Party campaign headquarters, room
10, 201 So. Wells Street, this city.
An intensive drive to fulfill the
quota of signatures is necessary if
the Communist Party candidates are
to be placed on the ballot. Less
than a week is left. Party units and
sympathetic workers in mass organ
izations are being urged to intensity
their efforts Immediately. j..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
By HAROLD J. ASHE
Former State Secretary, Socialist
Party of Cal.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 4. =
Indicating the continued decay of
the Socialist Party is the latest &C
ton of John c. Packard, until re-
Gently national executive COM
mittee man and even now State
Executive committeeman of the So
cialist Party
Packard, following in the heels of
the primary which resulted in Sim
clair's nomination as Democratic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
California Socialist Leaders
Climb on Sinclair Ra1,d,UagOn

candidate for Governor, announced
his endorsement of Sinclair.
This action of Packard's was not
unexpected. Sinclair consulted with
Packard last Spring while he was
writing his Epic pamphlet, and even
refers in the pamphlet to Packard
as one of his supporters.
Unlike j. Stitt Wilson. Packard
waited until after the primaries so
that he would know where his main
political chance lay. Wilson, on
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
5000 of 10000 Work
ers Out in Lowell, With
Mass Picketing
U.T.W. CHIEFS STALL
Strike Spreads Fast in
SOuth-Gastonia
Tight Shut
Especial to the Daily Worker,

LOWELL, Mass, Sept. A.
Six thousand Lowell tex
tile workers out of 10000
struck at the first shift this
morning, including IS per
cent of Boot and 80 per cent
of Merrimack Mills, the larg-
est in the city while the Nashua
and Lawrence Manufacturing Com
panies we're so per cent crippled.
Nashua loom fixers came out
solid, encouraging others to come
out, and picketing will be increased
to bring out the rest tomorrow
morning. About so per cent of the
wooden workers struck, but the silk
mills are still operating with nearly
full forces. The Talbot Wooden Mill
in Billerica came out with 500
workers. Picketing at all mills be-
gan at am. with groups of so to
100 at each mill entrance, but po-
lice drove picketers away from the
Merrimack gates.
Club swinging cops drove hun
dreds of enthusiastic but insuffi-
GENTLY organized pickets away from
the Boot plant gates in Lowell at
the afternoon shift.
Proposals by the Textile Workers
Protective Union for united front
action with the U. T. W., which
has less than half as many mem
bers as the Protective in Lowell,
were refused by Malloy and Welsh,
Local U.TW. officials. Malloy,
invited by red-Scared Protective Of
ficials to speak at Protective mass
meeting Monday evening with $50
workers present, spent his entire
time using solidarity phrases but
praising the U. T. w. as "the only
organization" He failed to men
ton strike preparations.
The worker who exposed NAL
loy's phrases as empty talk was
elected chairman of the strike COM
mittee chosen today at Protec-
tive meeting where ESQ workers
elected a. rank and file strike COM
mittee and captains Of the picket
lines.
U. T. w leaders stalled off a
meeting called for IL this morning
where reports on the strike situa-
ton were to have been made. U.
T. w. workers can prevent this sort
of evasion by their officials by
electing rank and file strike COM
mittees from each mill to cooperate
with the Protective committees
which raise the same demands as
the U. T. w.
The Lowell Courier Citizen edi-
torially hints that Lowell should
follow Haverhill in forming a vigil
lante committee to run reds" out
of town.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05
Close Every
Textile Mill
In the Nation
An Editorial
THE textile strike is swet

ing the textile areas of
the nation from Maine to
Alabama with tremendous
power.
The stored-up militancy
and determination of the
workers, held in check by the
A. F. of /. leaders during
months of fruitless srbitra-
ton maneuvers, is now break
ing through all barriers as
the workers. picket lines close
down mill after mill.
George A Sloan, of the
Cot ton Textile Institute,
Whistling to keep up courage
in the face Of the tremendous
sweep of the strike, makes
Exaggerated claims on the
Number of mills and men
Pstill working. Obviously, the
bosses are interested in check
ing the spread of the strike
by spreading pessimism
among the workers. At this
stage this is one of their chief
weapons.
But Mr.. Sloan convenient
ly forgets one simple fact: a
mill open today is a mill
closed tomorrow!
Those workers still in the
mills are not satisfied work
ers. They are not less mill
tant than the hundreds of
thousands already on the
picket lines. They are still in
the mills only because of the
lack of 100 per cent organi-
zation in all of the $500 tex
tile mills, and because of the
weakness of the strike prepa-
rations. The U.T.W. leaders,
instead of theoretically pre-
pairing the strike almost
unanimously demanded by
the delegates to the recent
U.T,W. convention, preferred
to spend their time in Wash
ington maneuvering with the
bosses and the N.R.A. Off
Gals. For those reasons some
mills are still operating.
The strike is one day old.
Already more than a half
million men and women are
in the streets. And the strike
is spreading. Every hour the
strike gathers strength and
new forces as the picket lines
sweep from mill to mill. This
is the answer to Mr.. Sloan's
efforts, aided by the capital
list press, to spread defeatist
propaganda in the interests
of the bosses.
Our advice to all those
prone to accept Mr.. Sloan's
predictions is simply this:
don't Drag too early; Watch
this strike spread!
Already more workers are
involved than in anyprevious
strike. The next few days
will see the textile workers
of the country standing solid,
100000 strong, in united
fight for their demands.
The Communist Party
nevertheless emphasizes that
the sweep of the strike can
only develop to its maximum
power if and when the work
ers themselves take over the
job of spreading the strike.
Workers in the many un-
organized mills require lead
ership. They are disconnected
and militant. They are not
scabs. But they might not
strike if left to themselves
due to lack of organization
and to lack of strike expert
ence.
The job now is to reach
these workers, to organize
them, to draw them into the
strike. They will enthusiast
tically respond to the call of
workers from neighboring
mills.
The Communist Party
urges the following immedi-
ate measures to guarantee a
100 per cent strike:
~ Mass nickel lines in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-05

10000 New Readers by September
means 10000 Additional Recruits
for Organized Glass Struggle!
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fsp.eial 70 the Daily worker

Especial TO the Daily worker
FALL RIVER, Mass, Sept. A.
In mass picketing of Fall River
Mills, thousands cheer strikers and
boo scabs. The mills are rs per cent
tied up.
Two strikers were arrested. Scab
cars were oveNurned by angry
strikers.
ATLANTA, Ca, Sept 4.-Squad-
rons of striking workers throughout
the South sped from mill to mill
today in trucks and other vehicles
closing one mill after another where
insufficient strike preparations had
left the workers in doubt as to what
action they should take.
The success of these mass marches
of striking pickets is evidenced by
the fact that despite seriously made
quate strike preparation in many
sections here, more than 100000 of
the 100000 mill workers are already
out of the mills with more joining
every hour
The preliminary reports of the
employers reporting less than so per
cent effectiveness of the strike are
belied by the latest reports from the
strike centers which depict a rapidly
paralyzed textile industry here.
GASTONIA, N. c., Sept. 4.-Strik-
erS here have closed mills 100 per
cent, and are sending special groups
to neighboring mills to close them
down.
Joined by similar flying strike
squadrons from Charlotte and Shell
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a pSBU DUTY YUUsUUU DItDB UILUs
Yesterdays Receipts .....,........ s306.ss
Total to Date .......-..-.......-.s1, 944.33
Press Run Yesterday-5O,O0O
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The Washington times., 1934-01-06

making baskets; and several abo-
rigines cooking around a fire.
The display has curious his
tory. 1t is principally based on
the first drawings known to have
been made in lower Louisiana.
In 1892 an architect and en-
gineer known as A. DEBATE, ap-
parently connected with the
French military forces occupying
the territory at that time, visited
q village of the AcolapiSsa tribe
of the Choctaws, located near
Lake Pontchartrain not for from
the Mississippi River.
He Pictured Village
DtBatz made a pictorial record
of the temple and one Of the
huts in the village, appending a
written explanation which was
translated into English at that
time as follows:
Temple of the SavageS, con-
structed Of posts in the ground,
covered win mats Of cane, and
The Washington times., 1934-01-06
SCHOOL BONDS
START ROW

Despite a conflict between the
PWA and bonding attorneys over
the procedure to legalize an issue
of $275, 900 in bonds, the Prince
Georges county school construc-
ton program is to be pushed I'M
mediately, announces N N o s
Orem, superintendent of schools.
Meantime, bids for a four-room
and auditorium addition to the
Laurel High School, costing about
100000, are to be advertised by
the school architects, and opened
at a meeting of the board OF edu-
cation January %. at noon.
Bids are being asked also for
SITS, 900 in bonds, bearing 4 per
cent, to be opened the same day.
The PWA and attorneys are tif-
fling over certification OF the
bonds, it was disclosed.
The Federal Government is de-
manding that a certificate OF
legality be issued before they en-
ter a par bid for the bonds, a bid
officials have agreed to enter,
while the bonding consultantS de-
clare the usual practice is to bid
pending a declaration of legality
after the bond bid is awarded. A
temporary opinion upholding the
legality Of the bonds has been
given Mr.. Orem by the bonding
company, he said.
The Washington times., 1934-01-06
SCHOOL TERM
GUT BANNED

Arlington county public schools
will operate for a full term and
there will be no reduction in the
salaries of teachers, it was au-
thoritatively declared at Arling-
ton Courthouse today.
Revenues from taxation for the
public schools of the county will
not be sufficient to operate for
the full term but the school board
can borrow sufficient money to
carry out their plans. However,
there is a probability that the
session of the legislature which
opens next week will give aid to
the various schools of the State
and this relief will be extended
to Arlington, it is said.
Higher taxes as far as the
school departments share is con-
cerned will be sought in the next
budget, Fletcher Kemp, superin-
tendent of schools, and the mem
bers of the board declare. The
tax levy this year was insuffi-
cient, due to delinQuencieS.
The need Of the schools will be
increased in the coming session.
officials said, due to the increase
in school population AT present
the registered pupils of the county
total $500 and it is expected next
term will see enrolment Of 5000.
The schools of the county are
rated as the highest in the State.