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The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-10-13

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to relate the most embarrassing
( moment of her life am OF tho
opinion that she would refer 10 sat
urdaN night past while going
through her roniinc with the rest
OF IN, chorus AT The Plantation her
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hold il ia place uulil the number
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i'iriy given by Tie Modcrnites
social club last Friday nighr and
reports mat II was swellcgcnt af-
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by all have you asked for
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feciionery yet?
very SWEEP letter from a little
MISS, who possesses a contralto
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u is swell I'm be glad when
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good enough 10 earn a little space
in your "LOwdown' tSigned.
Fannie Cannon IN bet you
thought | was going to print all OF
the letter didn't you. Fannie ......
well. now that You know that I'm
not guess you can breath easy
and even though didn't say much
about your contralto voice, did
mention you In the ''Lowdown"
the personal message | had 10 con.
vey IL probably In your hands b,
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this little secret also. III
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from The Extensive Modern Dra-
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The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-10-13
This advance sale is


GOOD until November 10th. After that date the tce's VIII
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the city of Detroit dance that night we obtained
the Majestic ballroom for our breakfast dance
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Capitalist Countries
Defaulted Debts To
II Billion Total
War Danger Menace
Aggravated by the
Debt Question

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-A report
Of the United States Treasury, giving
the details OF the foreign loan paw
ments which have defaulted, will soon
be presented to Congress.
Leading capitalist countries OF the
world, including Great P-'tein,
France, Germany, and to 5out''.
American countries, have d. led
in war debt pc--,e-'ts to the ture ~
s11 900 600, 600
The Soviet Union Is the only majo-
power in the world that has an alb
solutely clean record concerning debt
payments, havinT estnbNehed a re-
msrkable record for promptness.
The United States Government IS
using the war debt question as a club
with which to beat down its i'm
perialist rivals. Roosevelt has already
used the debt question as a weapon
in the struggle to get Britain, France,
Germany and japan to reduce their
forces and permit the United
States to increase it's proportional
strength. The whole tangle about
the imperialist war debts is another
factor which is aggrayating the dan
ger OF way
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
u. S. Marines
Land in China
Todd Nanking
IIiviI War of Generals
Spread in North
China

SHANGHAI, Jan. 15.-The
j. S. government landed ma
lines in Foochow Province yes
5erday in a move to crush the
ntf-imperialist, Marking mass
lpsurge following the collapse of the
iukien generals rebellion against the
Ranking regime, as workers and rank
nd file soldiers united to resist the
entry Of Marking troops into the city.
The us. marines were landed on
the pretext Of protecting" American
citizens, despite the fact that the IA
American residents of Foochow were
removed several weeks ago to facil-
itate Markings aerial bombing of the
native population by planes furnished
by the US. and manned by Chinese
flyers trained by US. experts. Mar
ines were also landed from British
and japanese warshiDs in the harbor.
Freed Of rol by their officers.
who have Il before the advancing
Marking arms, soldiers of the 18th
Route Army joined with workers yes
terday in a fierce engagement with
Marking marines. Two of the latter
were killed and several wounded.
Throughout the city anti-imperialist
placardS, expressing support Of the
Chinese Soviet Republic, have ap-
peared. 1t is this development of the
national revolutionary movement that
the imper!alists are trying to crush.
Gen. Tsai Ting-lai, commander of
che 18th Route Army and its only
officer remaining in Foochow, Joined
Naming officials in attempting to
crush the resistance OF the workers
and soldiers to the Marking regime,
which he recently denounced as a
tool of the inperialists, but with
which he is now, dlcker.ng on the
basis of bride offered by Chang
Sof-shek.
The Generals Civil War spread
yesterday with sharp fighting along
the frontiers Of Ningshia province.
where the Ningshia and Chinkhai
warlords are resisting a Marking
army Of $4,000 which is irving to
traverse Ningshia into Chinghai. The
rebel generals are aided by Kansu
militarists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
BY ALEXANDER WRIGHT

NORFOLK, w. Va, Jan. 15-T'he
old Dominion dock, Local 1928, lila,
went on strike here today. The strike
was spontaneous and took the bosses
by surprise. The men struck against
speed-up and abuse by the boss
stevedore, Boussr.
The men walked out and refused to
return to work until he was removed.
Threats of sending scabs from the
C.WA. was circulated around by a
few stool pigeons. But this did not
dent the mems determination and
the company was compelled to remove
him temporarily SO that the COM
pany will have time to give final
decision. At the same time the men
are preparing a set of final demands
to present when the time comes to
settle. The men are back but they
are letting it be known that they are
not nailed there.
This is the second strike on this
dock in less than year. They took
matters in their own hands and went
over the heads of the LILA. officials
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Brooklyn Youths
Force CWA to Give
INN ediate Relief
Young Workers to Go to
Relief Bureaus Today
for Promised Relief

BROOKLYN. N. Y Thirty-five
delegates from the Committee Of
Registered C.w.A. Workers. elected Of
a mass meeting held before the
C.W.A. offices at PA Duffield ST.
Brooklyn. yesterday forced the New
York eva to grant immediate re-
lief to the 300 Young workers whom
they represented.
The mass meeting was held at the
Brooklyn offices of the CW.A. after
Administrator Madden had last week
refused them Jobs and had referred
them to the New York offices. After
the meeting the entire group went to
the Boro Hall office of the Unem-
ployed Council at 1872 Myrtle Ave,
to await the return Of their delega-
ton.
At the New York office the dele
gates were at first refused admit
lance, but at the insistance Of the
delegation were interviewed by Mr..
Healy, secretary to the CW.A. ad-
ministrator.
Healy tried by every means to split
the unity Of the delegation and by
offering brides in the form of jobs
to individuals. He was finally forced
to promise immediate relief to all
young workers whom the delegation
represented. and instructed them to
apply at their respective Home Relief
stations, and that plans would be
worked out to provide projects for
young workers.
The delegation demanded jobs or
relief for all young workers without
discrimination; no discrimination
against Negroes; union wages for all
skilled workers; the right Of workers
to organize on the Job; and payment
of wages when due.
When the delegation reported back
to the workers assembled at the Un-
employed Council at 1872 Myrtle Ave,
the entire group of workers voted to
appear at their respective Home Re-
lief Bureaus today to demand the re-
lief promised. The majority of the
workers will meet at the Home Relief
Bureau at 100 Scher1nerhorn ST., at
IL noon today. All young workers are
urged to be present to back up the
demands for relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Jail $50, Drive 1000 Imperial
Valley Strikers Underground
l. L. d. Calls for Nationwide Protests, Sends
Attorneys, Organizers for Defense

posted all through the valley for the
surrender of the strike leaders.
Mass deportation of Mexican work
erS are being planned by the author
tiles. Among those arrested is an
LID. in Los Angeles, to organize the
defense struggles against the police
terror. Three LID. attorneys are
also in the field.
NEW YORK-Mobilizati of every
LID. district in the country in sup
port Of the struggles of the agricul-
tural workers of the Imperial Valley
of California, is called for in di-
receives airmailed to every district
headquarters by the national office
Of the organization, Saturday.
only organized mass pressure on
national scale can halt this terror
ISM the directives state, calling for
mass protest to be expressed in meet
ings, wires, and resolutions to Sheriff
Campbell, Ell Centre, and Governor
Rolph, Sacramento, Cal.
Protests should demand the inIne-
diate release Of all arrested strikers,
the right to organize, strike and
picket, withdrawal Of armed forces
from the strike field. the right of
Self-defense against terrorist bands
of company thugs. no deportation Of
foreign-born workers, immediate re-
peal of the criminal syndicalism and
other anti-labor laws, and no molest-
alton Of relief trucks on workers en-
tering the valley.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
BULLETIN

BRAWLEY, Cal-P0lice terror
has driven the strike of the 1000
agricultural workers in the Imperial
Valley completely underground. For
four days the strikers have been
working Illegally. All meetings have
been banned and RELIEF stopped.
Hundreds of police are patrolling
the valley. All pickets and any
Americans here are arrested on
sight.
Attorney Johnson was arrested
and given the third degree to force
him to tell the whereabouts Of the
strike leaders. He was finally re-
leased after the police failed to
elicit any Information.
The Mexican and Filipino work
ers are united and militant. Pick
citing continued strong today. and
the lettuce fields are parsly=ed.
Urgent pleas for relief have again
been wired by strike leaders Of the
militant Cannery and Agricultural
Workers Union.
BRAWLEY. Cal, Jan. 15.-Masi
arrests of striking agricultural work
ers here brought the total in Jail
last night to $50, in the attempt of
authorities to break with
terror the struggle being conducted
IN the Imperial Valley by the Can
merry and Agricultural Workers In
dustrial Union.
Rewards Of $500 to $1,000 have been
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Norfolk Longshoremen Strike,
Disregard A. F. Of L. Officials
Strike Forces Company to Remove Abusive Fore
man; Workers Demand End of Speed-Up

both times and refused to take any
orders from M.llner and Co. This
shows what can be done by organiza-
ton and action. This dock should
set an example for all other locals
in Hampton Roads. These coastwise
dock men are fed up on the lies Of
Millner and are beginning to take
steps to better their own conditions.
This was shown when coastwise
local CT the LILA. made Millner re-
turn their money, which he got from
them to present code at the code
hearing on November 9th, and did
not do so.
This local has paid their dues as
LILA, but only got 40c an hour. They
too have gone over the head of Mill
ner and set up their own rank and
file committee to make a contract
with the shipowners independently.
And one company has signed to pay
75c per hour and give the local con-
troll of the dock. Millner sees his
doom in this local and he is trying
to work in one of his tools by the
name of Anderson, who was SO rotten
that he was kicked out of local 1913.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
81 Workers Die in the
Minneapolis Shelters

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.-The New
DEAF for the Minneapolis unemploy-
ed single workers was exposed in q
leaf1et issued by the Minneapolis Un-
employed Council, which charges that
81 single unemployed workers living
in the Mission and Salvation Army
flophouseS have died between De-
cember LIST and January 10th.
The responsibility for these deaths
is placed squarely on the shoulders
Of the city administration, which has
repeatedly refused to grant the de-
mands of the unemployed for the
Improvement of the unbearable con-
ditions of starvation and misery
under which the single men have to
exist in the f1ophouses. The Unem-
p1oyed Council calls for struggle
against these conditions, and for the
immediate enactment of the Work.
ers' Unemployment Insurance Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Plan Large Lenin Issue
OF Saturdays "DaiIy"

Concentrating the death of
the greatest leader of the worlds
working class, v. I. Lenin, the
Daily Worker will issue special
enlarged issue this Saturday.
Many articles dealing with Lenin
and the teaching Of Lenin on war,
the trade unions, and other ques-
tions, will feature this issue.
Special arrangements have been
made to have the paper go to
press an hour earlier than usual,
in order that the workers Of the
West may receive their copies on
the day Of publication.
Special orders should be mailed
or wired Immediately. Yne tenth
anniversary edition was sold out
completely. Don't be caught short
on the Lenin Memorial issue.
Rush your orders at oncel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
C. W. A. Union Elects
Delegates TO National
Jobless Convention

NEW YORK-Two delegates and
two altenates to the National Con-
vention Against Hunger were elected
at the regular meeting of the Man
haitian local of the Relief Workers
Protective League.
A job committee has been set up
at the city offices of the C.W.A.
and plans were laid for the setting
up OF a regular shop bulletin to be
circulated among the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Pittsburgh Union Men Forced
To Hand Over Half of CWA Paw
800 Limitation Fee Is
Wrung from JObless by
ALL. Bureaucrats
CWA HEADS CONDONE
Roosevelt Gives Money
for Andrew Mellon
''Cathedral''
BY HARRY CANNES

NEW YORK-On the An
drew w. Mellon Cathedral of
Learning building project now
in the hands of the C.W.A., in
Pittsburgh, graft, corruption, racket
eering is rampant, just as it was in
til Rockefeller Center in New York
The Roosevelt regime, especially
through its Civil Works Administra-
ton, is involved in this graft and
racketeering scandal up to its neck.
Liberal" Gov. Pinchot of Penn
sylvania, and his political machine,
the same outfit that helped break the
soft coal miners strikes, and is at
present engaged in attempting to
smash the anthracite miners strike,
is exposed as using the C.W.A. to
reward, its hangers-on.
Starving unemployed building
trades workers, pleading with the
C.W.A. for jobs on the Mellon job,
were forced to pay hundreds of dol
lars in graft to union officials before
they could get work.
Starving Forced to Pay
Today in Pittsburgh thousands OF
workers who have not had jobs for
months, in some Instances for years,
have to shell out half of their pay in
order to swell the graft fund Of the
carpenters union officialdom.
All this was known to James L.
Stewart, CWA. administrator in Al
legheny County, the industrial king
dom Of the Millionaire Andrew w.
Mellon. Eric Biddle, state admin
istrator of the C.WA., admitted that
he knew of the fact that workers
whose families were starving, who
couldn't pay their rent, whose fam
lilies were in rags, had to contribute
half of the money they received from
the C.W.A. job every week to help pay
the fat salaries of American Fedora
ton Of Labor bureaucrats.
II won't say 1 hayea't heard com
plants Of this situation in my Office"
was Biddles reply when the facts
were brought out to him.
That the whole MA. project at
the Mellon institute of learning" was
. swindle and graft providing polit-
ical Doodle for the Pinchot machine,
was brought out by workers who were
mulcted on the joo.
The Republican organization (Mel-
lon-controlled), along with the Pin
chot leaders, through Biddle and
Stewart, had control of C.w.A. and
used them to employ their henchmen
and to build up their political ma
chine.
In order to get the political sup
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
rs Just the Beginning
of Direct Initiation,
Admits Thomas
PRICES TO SHOOT UP
NRA Used to Hold Living
Standards at Low Level
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan.
15.-Placing direct initiation on
the legislative books, President
Roosevelt today sent to Con-
gress proposals for legislation
that will bring swift, sharp
rises in prices in the United States,
and will enable American finance
capital to manipulate the price OF
gold to meet more quickly other i'm
perialist nations maneuvers in the
intensifyEng fight for world markets.
The transformation of this struggle
into armed conflict becomes a greater
danger.
Roosevelt asked Congress for three
things. all of which probably viii be
enacted soon:
Liberalization OF the American
dollar at level Of between 50 and
go per cent.
2-Seizure by the government Of
all monetary gold in the Federal
Reserve.
3-Creation of $4,000, 900 900
fund with which the Secretary Of
the Treasury shall buy and sell geld
at home and abroad, with express
power to deal In Foreign Ex-
change"
Tremendous Initiation
The program so sets the stage for
tremendous imitation that 1t pleased
Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, leader
Of the inflationists in Congress, to the
point where Thomas remarked:
1--WE are on our way. OF course,
this is not sufficient This Is Just
the outline-but the necessary steps
will follow. You know, it wouldn't
do to put out everything at once
II would confuse the public. We're
taking cne step and letting that be
digested, and then wen take some
more"
Roosevelt expects that an immedi-
ate result Of his program will be
rise in prices: this much official
spokesmen saicitoday. Neither he or
any other administration spokesman,
naturally, has said anything about
increatEng wages to meet these
mounting costs of living. The working
class, obviously, will bear the brunt
Wall Street Cashes In
Many observers forecast a big
speculative boom will result, some
Roosevelt's ability to stop
it even if and when he decides he
would like to. There is in Washington,
however. considerable confusion as to
just how far this may go.
Senators and Representatives were
slow to comment at length on the
program. Both Houses listened to a
clerks reading Of the message In
silence, and went on to other busi-
ness while bills embodying the pro-
gram were introduced Immediately
Continued on PAGE q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
R00SEv Welt GOLD Law, DRIVE TO inf ATION WAR
CWA Officials Aid AL Heads in Huge Graft on Mellon Job
NetU Macy MGneuuers
ShOiU War Is Close

SAN PEDRO, Cal, Jan. 15.-
Clearing the decks for war with a
vengeance, plans for sea maneu-
verS Of the American Navy were
announced today by Admiral Da-
vid F. Dellers.
April 10 will see a series Of war
games, submarines from Panama
attacking the fleet. The giant
dirigible Macon will take part in
these maneuvers. The fleet will
then cruise in the Caribbean from
May to 10, with mimic sea
battle at Guantanamo scheduled
for the 18th and 18th. A New
York review Of the entire fleet by
President Roosevelt, after which
the entire armada will drop an
Choir in the Hudson, will be the
high point of the maneuvers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16

colleague of General johnson.
Arguing before the Judge, Elder
pointed out that Berry, together with
other corrupt officials of this A. r.
Of L. union, organized q conspiracy
with foremen in metropolitan news
papers where these 80 men worked,
and caused all Of them to be fired at
practically the same time. They were
then "blackbaled" from every plant
in the city. Berry intended this as a
threat and warning to other mill
tant workers in Local 2 if they in
sisted on local autonomy to investi-
gate the misrepresentation charges.
An indication was given in the ar
gumentS of opposing counsel that the
case will be long drawn out without
the court permitting introduction of
the most necessary facts to show UP
the racketeering officialdom in the
whole International.
A future article in the Daily Work
er on official graft and corruption
in the Pressmen's Union will appear
as part of the series exposing racket
eering in all A. F. of L. unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Threaten
Retaliation on
Cheap us. Dollar
Predict Gold Bloc VIII
Have to Abandon
Gold Standard

LONDON, AIN. 15.--A sweeping in
classification of the fight of U. S.
and British imperialists for markets
was threatened today by authorities
close to the Bank Of England, follow
ing reports from the U. s. that Pres
ident Roosevelt would cheaper the
American dollar to between so and
so cents.
The cheap dollar, it is predicted,
will force the gold standard of ma
tons into the currency depreciation
battle, forcing them to abandon the
gold standard and initiate their cur
renc!eS to meet U. S. and British
competition for markets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
Injunction Granted As
anthracite Strike Ties
Up Decisive Coal Mines
Few Pickets Out; Officials Leave Strike Leaderless;
Big Concentration of Police

admits that 1000 of its men are out
The collieries of Hallstead, Avon
dale, Bliss, Lance and Maxwell, all
of the Glen Alden, are shut tight.
Less than one-quarter are working at
LOOMS, South Wilkesbarre, Wanamie,
Woodward, Nottingham and Button
wood. Many other collieries are
either closed or only partially work
ing.
Mass picketing occurred only in the
miners won the right to picket the
highways.
Sheriff Kniffen of Luzerne County
issued statement criticizing the
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