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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06

has defeated the demands of the workers in such
industries as steel auto, textile etc.
The employers and the Roosevelt government
are still not satisfied with the increase in profits of
the bankers and manufacturers under the N. R. A.
They want to smash the rising strike wave and the
struggles of the unemployed. They want to get out
of the crisis at the expense of the workers There
fore, they launch stronger, more open, drive
against the workers They tighten up the screws
on the workers
President Roosevelt himself announced this In
tensified anti-labor drive in his Sept 80 no-strke"
speech In this speech. Roosevelt announced all of
these anti-labor measures which are now crystal
lized in the manufacturers program. He announced
q free hand to the employers in increasing profits
declared the N R. A. should be organized, new
basis found for wages. He spoke against strikes,
and for less government spending dor the unem-
poyed)
The policies of Roosevelt are the same as those
of the employers. Roosevelt now as in the past,
represents the employers. The new needs Of the
employers are being fulfilled by Roosevelt. The
aHti-labor drive of the government goes forward
wage cuts, company unions, strikes, union
smashing cuts in unemployment relief denial of
unemployment insurance and denial of the elemen-
tary rights of the workers. This is the program Of
Roosevelt and of the bankers.
The broadest united front of the workers-espe-
cially the Socialist and Communist workers. and
workers in the trades unons-should answer the
attacks of the Roosevelt government.
The broadest united front in all localities should
be achieved against wage cuts, for adequate unem-
ployment insurance and relief, against the COM
pany unions, for all the elementary rights of the
workers to organize, to strike and to picket.
Defeat the bankers program of Roosevelt
Forge the united front of all workers and farm
ers for better conditions and for their elementary
rights
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
Protect Your Civil Rights

CHARACTERISTIC of the growing fas-
y citation of the bourgeois governmental
apparatus, the Alabama cities of Birming-
ham and Bessemer, feudal fefs of the
steel barons, have passed the Downs
literature ordinance prohibiting the possession of
radical literature by workers. Under this notorious
law several Negro and white workers already have
been convicted while others are facing prosecution
for possessing copies of the Communist, theoretical
organ of the Communist Party, although the maya
zine freely passes through the United States mails.
These attacks on the workers are supplemented and
melted by the terroristc activities of the revived
Ku Klux Khan and the newly created White Legion
and other fascist instruments of the bosses.
In Sacramento. eighteen militant workers, ar
rested during the vgilante raids the West Coast
last Summer. are now being tried under the Cali
fornia Syndicast law and face long prison SEN
fences for their workngclass activities if convicted.
In Portland, Washington two others, including
Dirk De Jonge Communist candidate for Mayor in
the recent elections, have been sentenced under the
criminal syndicalist law of that State for member
ship in the Communist Party, which is legally on
the ballot in elections in that State.
mist Party, as the devoted vanguard of the working
class these attacks are aimed at the whole work.
ing class. as the Daily Worker has always pointed
out and as shown in the frame-up and arrest in
Birmingham of Leo Carter business agent of the
A. F of L. Butchers Union, and the mass arrests
and police and Ku Klux Klan raids on the homes
of non-Party workers
This widespread drive to destroy the civil rights
of the workers menaces the entire organized labor
movement and the whole working class. 1t is a
challenge to all sincere workers to Immediately
forge the proletarian united front against Fascsm
despite all obstacles thrown in its way by the A F.
of L. bureaucrats and the top leadership Of the
Socialist Party, which at the recent Boston confer
ence of its National Executive Committee again
shelved the proposals of the Communist Party for
united front struggle for the interests of the
working class. Build the united front! Demand
the release of the Alabama and California de-
PENDANTS and the repeal of all anti-workng class
laws the criminal syndicalist codes and such laws
as the Downs law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
This is the first of two articles
on the naval race.)
BY Harry Cannes

Oy 1AdA NdAAtCS
AN ominous quiet has fallen on
n the London naval conversa-
tons. But that calm before the
storm will soon be broken by the
bombshell of Japanese remuneration
of the Washington 1921 naval
treaty. Not one of the powers
could minimize the seriousness of
the situation, the extreme danger
Of war, and the fact that the great
est naval building race in all his
tory is now on.
The cruX of the whole situation
is not the numerical representation
of the question, such as 5-5-3, or
the japanese proposal of equality,
5-5-5. The central issue is the fact
that the Roosevelt regime has
launched the most gigantic naval
building program through the N. r.
A. and the Vinson Bill for the ex-
press purpose of insuring by
superiority of arms the seizure of
new foreign markets, new colonial
plumber, and domination of the
trade routes, especially in the
Pacific and in Latin America.
The New Dealer Roosevelt, what
ever demagogy he may use to the
masses about money changers and
a more equitable distribution" of
the wealth, has made piker of the
openly avowed imperialist, Hoover,
in the verve and speed with which
he builds the most powerful weapon
of international plumber, the navy.
A navy second to none" means
primarily markets second to none"
and colonies and sources of invest
ment and raw material second to
none"
Between the Washington naval
conference of 1921 and the recent
bitter London naval discussions lie
the era particularly of the five
years of the general crisis of world
capitalism.
Tremendous Shiftings
Tremendous shiftings have taken
place on the world scene. For the
purpose of the naval conflicts, the
outstanding factors are: Cd The
rapid development of Socialism in
the Soviet Union, completion of the
first and progress of the second
Five-Year Plans; CD Japanese seiz-
ure of Manchuria and strangle-
hold over North China; go grow
ing conflict between the U. s. and
Britain over Latin America and the
Far East; "a re-establishment in
a modified form of the Anglo
Japanese alliance; 80 perfection of
the German-Japanese alliance
against the Soviet Union: 90 U. S.
establishment of air bases in China
against the Soviet districts; 90 U.
S, strengthening of war bases in the
Far East, and particularly in Alaska
and the Aleutian Islands
The Washington naval treaty of
1921 was triumph for American
imperialism. Strong and powerful
after the last world war, with the
largest navy in the world, with
blood profits soaked out of the world
slaughter, it was able to force
rupture in the Anglo-Japanese ALI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
Ominous Quiet in Naval Parleys
Heralds Storm in Armament Race
by Burck

the main danger to all was the
growth of Socialist construction in
the Soviet Union. The British gov
eminent officials, including the ex-
Socialist, Ramsay Macdonald, long
before the conference, recognized
Japan's special position" in Man
churia. The speciality of this posi-
ton lies in the fact that it is chiefly
war base against the Soviet
Union.
Matter Put to Roosevelt
The japanese militarists put this
matter more or less openly to the
Roosevelt government, and to the
leading American bankers and mill
tarists. For example, we have the
official Japanese naval spokesman
Gumpei Sekine, writing in Current
History, November, 1884, declared;
ut must not be overlooked that
there are active in the Orient at
the present numerous banefuI
forces retarding advancement of
civilization and detrimental to the
maintenance of order. 1t is easy
to talk of peace, but the task of
maintaining peace is beset with
tremendous difficulties"
The "baneful forces" in the eyes
of the Japanese military, of course,
is the Soviet Union and the Chinese
Soviets; and the japanese naval
spokesman talks of the difficulty of
maintaining peace, especially when
it is realized that to achieve its aim
Japanese imperialism must cross
the Soviet border, which is indeed
difficult method of maintaining
peace.
Another Spokesman
Lest the general phraseology of
the naval gentlemen may make my
deductions appear too specific, we
quote another Japanese spokesman.
Kei Fujioka, special correspondent
of the Osaka Mainichi (organ of
the most powerful japanese trusts
on Nov. 8 had a three hours con-
versation with U. S. Admirals Jones
and Bristol. He argued for their &C
ceptance of Japan's claim to naval
equality, and gave the reasons for
it. Here they are:
"Japan's position has under
gone radical change during the
past decade and half, with the
steady eastward march of Soviet
Russia, the independence of Man
chukuo, Jspan's withdrawal from
the League of Nations, etc"
The first reason given is the
progress of the Soviet Union. Mr..
Fujioka distorts the situation some
what. Everybody knows the Soviet
Union has not marched Eastward.
1t has stuck within it's own borders.
Socialist construction in the USSR
has marched eastward. westward,
northwa-d and southwark.
The rupture of the conference
prevented a maturity of these plans,
but the intensified conflicts be-
tween the imperialists growing out
of their failures By no means
lessons this danger as we will espe-
cially find out when we examine the
growing economic crisis in Japan.
"a concluding article will be
published tonorrow.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06

ance. 1t forced the Nine-Power
pact, insuring the open door" in
China, which meant for it possibili-
ties of dominating all of China.
In the 1880 London naval con-
ference, at the beginning of the
crisis, the fundamental relation
ships were changed very little.
What was the situation leading
to the London conversations? The
Roosevelt government had author
lied the building of 100 war vessels.
1t had used the major portion of
the $4,000, 100000 MIRA for war pur-
poses, particularly naval construc-
ton. 1t had passed the Vinson Bill,
with over $500,000,000 additional for
the same purposes. The pretext, of
course, was the Japanese seizure of
Manchuria, and penetration into
the Chinese markets. American
trade with China has been drop
ping heavily, and the Roosevelt
government took the steps toward
war in order to enlarge its markets
for the big monopolies, in order to
insure their plumber of China.
To overcome this situation, and
to advance its plans of aggrandize-
ment, the Japanese imperialists re-
sorted to huge naval building
program, penetrated further into
China.
The japanese Demand
At the London conversations, the
Japanese put forward the chief de-
mand of equality of naval arma-
ments. The japanese naval au-
thorities pointed out that the
United States was building par
ticularly war vessels of attack, air.
plane carriers, a tremendous air
fleet, long range cruisers, was ex-
tending its air bases for an often
slve on the north of Japan. The
American naval delegates fatty re-
Iected the demand for parity de-
claring that the United States in
sisted on superiority and equality
with Great Britain.
The British imperialistS utilized
this conflict for their own purposes.
Previously the British had made
moves for re-establishing the rup-
tured Anglo-Japanese alliance. The
chief purpose of the British was to
act as the main world organizer of
the anti-Soviet front, recognizing
that these imperialist conflicts,
leading to the possibility of war be-
tween the major powers, weakened
the war preparations against the
U. S. S. R.
What went on in London cannot
be known accurately, as all of the
delegates were sworn to secrecy,
and only that was officially given
out which the imperialists wanted
published for the consumption of
the masses.
But we can get a substantial ink
ling of what was said from other
sources. 1t is true that the i'm
perialist conflicts we're too sharp to
have resulted in any agreement
The conference collapsed, with the
conflicts more bitter than before,
with threats of naval construction
and war surcharging the air.
Both the japanese and the Brit
ish put forward the argument that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06

Gil Robes, too, is going over to
the offensive for the seizure of total
itarian power. He has submitted to
the Cortes a motion for the &C
cording of extraordinary powers to
the government in economic ques-
tons, and appointing a commission
for state reform. Robes here takes
up the same proposals made by So
tello before the Parliamentary vaca-
ton. A number of Republicans and
Radicals have already raised pro-
tests against these proposals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06

intensification of the terrorist meas
ures, but the reform" of the whole
state according to their ideas.
1t is expected that Calvo Sotello,
former Minister of Finance under
the dictatorship, and now one of
the leading personalities in the
party Spanish Resurgence, will
issue a manifesto advocating a
ctrong totalitarian state, On the
other hand, it is known that Sos.2llo
intends initis ting an energetic 49,
paign against Gil Robes, and will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06

announce program for this pur-
pose containing the salient points
of Robes program in an intensified
form. The reactionaries compete in
reaction.
Sotello is already endeavoring to
gain a6herents among the deputies
Of the Right. Primo de Rivera, the
son of the late dictator. has also
been asked to join Sotello. He has,
however, preferred to remain at the
head of his Spanish Phalanx" with
an openly fascist program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
Fear Drives
Spanish Heads
To DissentiOn

MADRID, Spain, Dec. 5. The
militancy of the Spanish workers is
mrirored in the growing difficulties
of the ruling class.
For the reactionaries and the fss-
cists, the Lerroux terror is still too
mild. In their fear of the masses,
they are demanding not only an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
FALLS BEHIND LEFTY,

Cannes loses fourth place today
to Little Lefty, though he gets s18,
rlc~2 than any other feature except
Lefty and Burck.
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
|NUSSER IS SEEN
BISON COACH

LEWISBURG, Pa, Feb. 20.-Al'
though the athletic council still
declines to mention names of pos
sible successors to Carl Snavely as
head football coach at Bucknell
University, developments during
the past two weeks point strongly
to the naming of Malcolm MusSer
to that position.
Musser, who is at present var
Sity basketball coach at Buckneu,
has said that he will accept the
job if offered to him. He has
had four years of coaching eXpe-
rience at Bucknell, serving as
freshman coach from 1929 until
the close Of the 1882 season. Dur
ing the last three years he pro-
duced two unbeaten and united
teams, while the third was de-
feated only once.
Students and alumni have given
MuSSer strong support, and the
recent announcement by President
Rainey Of strict amateurism as
Bucknell's policy is in his favor.
Last week, in it's leading editorial,
The Bucknellian, student news
paper, asked the athletic council
to name MuSSer coach.
OF the 100 applicants, the coun-
Gil now is considering less than
ten, and a final decision is ex-
pected within the next week.
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
BADGERS CLIMB
IN BIC TEN RACE

CHICAGO, Feb. 2o.-wiscon-
sins Badgers today loom as the
only remaining possible threat to
Purdue in the Western Conference
basketball title race following
five games last night that saw T.
linois and Indiana dropped from
ranks Of contenders by North
western and Iowa, respectively.
While Purdue was winning It's
seventh game in eight starts by Q
47.to-30 score at Minnesota, Wis
consin leaped into second place
in the standings by scoring
fourth consecutive victory, 80 to
26, over Michigan.
In a contest that was as bitterly
fought as though the champion
ship were at stake, Northwestern
took third place by whipping iii.
noiS, 80 to 25. The score Of Iowa'S
decision over Indiana was 20 to 26.
Chicago stayed in the cellar by
taking a 33-to-3O setback at Ohio
State, Standings:
The Washington times., 1934-02-20

Nobody gives me any at
tentiOn," said he plaintively
and, I might add, not alto
gether accurately.
George Manley, for instance,
is giving him plenty Of attention.
Manley Is the sparring partner
who was not around yesterday
for the. workout. They said he
was still suffering from the et'
fects of a low punch that Car
nera landed the day before.
Had Enough Of Manley
But a few of those whose minds
are skeptical said that it wasn't
so much that Manley needed a
little less of Carnera but that
Carnera had had enough OF
Manley.
The latter is just another
prize fighter, and, besides, he's
been around so long he must be
older than Lands. Nevertheless,
he has hit Camera on the nose
so often that that organ has
become acutely painful to the
slightest touch. The touch Of
Manley's left Is by no means
slight, so everybody is beginning
to wonder whether Manley wasn't
ready yesterday or Camera
merely said that Manley wasn't.
Anyhow, there's more than a
chance that Camera may be a
little "off" the night Of the
2sth, and this time a little may
be q great deal too much.
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
HARK, P|NNEN! !
HIGH SCORES
GET DOUGH

monk" Fraser has again come
to the aid Of the boWlers' pocket
books with the announcement
that he will give away a silver
dollar each hour to the man and
woman rolling high score be-
tween 10 a. m. and midnight,
Thursday, George WaShington'S
Birthday, at his Arcadia.
In the Federal League, which
rolled there last night, Capt. Joe
Roeser (Commerce) stood out
with a 160-game while Lee Brown
shared the spotlight with a 426
set.
whip" Litchfield is still at it.
Rolling with King David in the
Masonic League, he tossed in a
375 set. Gray (Justice) took
game honors with IA.
Rhet Donaldson topped the
Odd Fellows League with a 1870
game and 353 set. Darnell's 139
game and Douglas 372 set were
high in the Sanico League.
The Takoma Church Leagues
high scoring honors went to Rit-
tenhouse presbyterian, No. y,
who banged out a 140 game
and Osborne Catholic Mission)
a 378 set.
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
ID ARE ENTERED
IN BOAT RACES

Ten drivers have entered for
places on the United States four
boat outboard team which will
compete against the European
drivers in the international races
in Florida in March.
Among them are Miss j. j.
Boiler, of Milwaukee; Franck Vim
cent, of Tulsa, Okla; Cal Leeth,
of Cullman, Ala; Clyde Weston
of Granite City, ILL.,; Jackie May.
pole, Of River Forest, ILL.,; and
Horace Tennes, of Chicago. All
are widely known in outboard rae.
ing circles. Maypole was the high
point champion in 1882.
Elimination for the American
pilots for the international series
will be held at New Smyrna, start
ing March /. The four fastest will
qualify for the first brush with
the European drivers there on
March and the remaining series
at Palm Beach and Miami Beach.
The outboard tests will be held at
Miami Beach.
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
IRISH DENY GRID
PLACED ABOVE
EDUCATION

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Feb. 20.-
Charges contained in a Carnegie
foundation report that Notr0
Dame University exploits its foot
ball teams to a commercial end
at the expense Of academic
achievements were denied today
by the Rev. John F. O'Hara, C. 8.
c., vice president, and Director OF
Athletics Elmer Layden.
Replying to the charges Of Presi'
dent Emeritus Henry S. Pritchett,
of the foundation, the Rev.
O'Hara said:
1--WE believe that he has
started with false assumption
that highly publiclzed football
is inimical to the intellectual in
terestS of the university. We wish
to reiterate that II we ever found
1t to be the case we would drop
football without q moments
hesitation"
The Rev. O'Hara's statement
defended the three-year football
agreement between Notre Dame
and the University Of Southern
California, which drew DR.. Pritch-
ett'S fire.
Layden pointed to other similar
long term agreements between
universities in defense Of the
charges.
The Washington times., 1934-02-20

Henry Ellsworth showed 14,482
spectators a lot of good tennis
at the Garden last night. Good
enough, in the opinion Of many
of the experts who watched Slim
hammer Henri Cochet into sub
mission in four sets, to take Frank
Shields, Fred Perry, Bunny Austin
and Jack Crawford on successive
days, and take them with plenty
to spare.
It was a far different Vines who
crushed Cochet under a Ga, As,
.6-3, 6-3 score, and then helped
big Bill Tilden beat Cochet and
Martin Plaa in doubles from the
Vines who lost to Bitsy Grant at
Forest Hills last September.
COchet Plays Well
Cochet played we'll against the
Californian. He said so himself
after the match.
But his speed, II was too
much for me-" was the little
The Washington times., 1934-02-20
8 UNDEFEATED
HEAv|ES IN
TOURNEY

UNIVERSITY, Va, Feb. 20.
With three undefeated entries, the
heavyweight class may be one OF
the most closely contested in the
eighth annual boxing tournament
Of the Southern Conference, at
the University of Virginia, Friday
and Saturday.
Kenneth Stephens Of North
Carolina State, Red Negr1 OF
Virginia Tech, and AL Farrell of
Maryland have lost no bouts dur
ing the winter campaign that
will draw to a close when they
box for the title here on February
% and "a.
Eugene Hourihan Of Virginia,
Joe Oatley of V. M. l., Jim Car
ruth of North Carolina, Charlie
Mowyer of Washington and Lee
and Dick Lewis Of Duke, are
others who have been competing
in the unlimited class, and who
may make a bid for the title in
the tournament.
Not Competing
Platt Lands, who won the
heavyweight title for North Caro-
lima year ago, is not competing
this season. Lands was elected
captain of the Tar Heels, but
failed to return to class last fall.
Negri, Farrell and Stephens
made threats at the title last
February. Negri met Lands in
the final bout. where he lost a
close decision to the Carolinian.
Farrell defeated Stephens, then
lost to Lands in a fast semifinal.
Negri has this season won four
bouts, all on decisions. He has
scored over Carruth, Oatley, and
Hourihan and over Fleming of
Catholic University. w. and L.
forfeited. Though not a hard
puncher, he may have boxing skill
enough to win in this weight.
Stephens has scored knockoutS
over Robert Brown of South Caro-
lima and over Carruth. He also
gained a decision over Mowyer as
well as two forfeits to make him a
winner in all of States meets.
When Tech called off the match
against State last week, Negri and
Stephens were prevented from
trying their skill against each
other.
Only One Fight
Not until last Saturday was
Farrell able to represent Mary
land in the ring. He made up for
lost time by scoring a third round
technical knockout over Meyer,
to indicate he can be counted on
as a leading contender in the
tourney.