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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
Years in Industry Gave
Author an Insight Into
Workers Struggles
BY SENDER GARLN

BY SENDER GARLIN
ONE Sunday morning in the win
v ter Of 1881 I took the car to
Braddock from Pittsburgh where I
was working on The Coal Dig
ger" the paper of the National
Miners Union.
Braddock was associated in my
mind with the Great Steel Strike
of 1919 led by William 2. Foster.
Always. whenever I saw the words
'Braddock" on the Pittsburgh street
cars, remembered the nutilated
face Of Fannie Sellins as it appears
in Fosters book on the great strug-
gle which he led against the Steel
Trust. Fannie Sellins. an organizer,
had been beaten TO death by steel
company thugs during that ire
mendous strike which brought
more than 100000 workers cut Of
the blazing steel mills.
7 got off the car in Braddock
looked at the address in my hand
and walked to a low. frame build
ing Just off the main street. Up
some rickety stairs I met the land
lady Of the rooming house who told
me that my friend hadn't yet re-
turned from work.
why don't you try to get him
some easier work" she pleaded. "He
comes home from the mill, type
writes for a little while. and then
falls asleep over his machine"
The landlady was telling me
about Paul Peters, whose play
"Stevedore" written in col1abora-
ton with George Sklsr) is now be-
ing presented to ker-audiences
in New York City
MICHAEL GOLD an d Joseph
In Freeman first Influenced him as
a radical writer. Peters told me- ut
was in 1926, just few months after
the New Masses began publication.
Mike was always saying that a
writer should go out into industry,
and his advice came just at time
when I was getting fed ND with an
Office job and the life Of an intel
lectual in New York"
AS q free-lance newspaper man
in Germany Peters had seen the
first Hitler beer-cellar "revolt" in
1923. and was among the first to get
the reports out to the United States.
At the time Peters had organized a
small syndicate Of his own and was
sending dispatches to the Christian
Science Monitor and about dozen
other papers.
EVE years in industry have pro-
vided Peters with first hand
knowledge of the life Of workers in
every part Of this country. And this
knowledge has gone into his writ
ing, His first job was on a Tide
water oil boat, which took him to
Central and South America through
the Panama Canal Zone. He
jumped the boat at San Pedro, Cal,
and got Job in construction
camp in the st. Francisquito Valley
as laborer.
Nearly Killed on Job
eve were building power unit
right at the edge of the desert. and
few days after I started on the
job the dam broke: more than 400
workers were killed. was among
so men who escaped because we
were working up above the dam"
Later Peters worked with a con-
struction gang which blasted out
the debris and started building a
power plant.
His next job was in a knitting
mill near Knoxville. Tenn, which
manufactured cotton underwear.
Peters worked there ten hours a
day for $16 week. His work was
not in textiles, but as q pipef1tter
in connection with the sprinkler
system which was being built
Peters hung on to this Job for
three months and then vent to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
Wednesday
PHILADELPHIA

FRANKwooD E. WILLIAMS. ND, lee
lures on Mental Hygiene in the U.s.sR.
and the UsA," Tuesday Eve, May Is,
515 pm. at Social Service Building Audi
torium, 3ll s. Juniper St. Auspices Pen
and Hammer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
WHAT'S ON
Tuesday

sKLARoFF lectures on Religion In the
Soviet Union" FsU Pelham Parkway
Br.. 217s White Plains Road, Bronx $50
p. m.
HENRI BARBUSsE Br. LID. will hold
discussion on Role Of the LID. in the
Revolutionary Struggle" Max j. Mer-
baum will lead discussion; 884 Columbus
Ave. near 1o3rd St, $3.50 pm. Adm. free.
UNIT 10 Sec. will hold Open Unit
Meeting jointly with Br. l21 TWO. at
sos Stone Ave, $50 pm. Discussion on
1.-THE Communist Party and the Mass Or
ganizstions." All invited.
Wednesday
DEBATE Resolved that the League Of
Nations, World Court and Diplomatic Pro-
cedure Cannot Avert War Speakers Clark
NJ Eiehelberger says 1t can. Clarence
Hathaway says IL cannot. Town Hall
113 W. 43rd st. Adm. soc.
5-DAY MAY Festival and Bazaar. Final
meeting, all delegates, Friday, May 10, $3.50
D m. Room 2o5, so E. 18th st. All Red
Honor Rolls. greetings and ads must be
in at this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15

SCHOOL NEWS TOMORROW
The regular weekly feature,
What's Doing in the Workers
Schools of the U. S." which APP
pears on this page every Tuesday
win he published tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
Easy Come, Easy Co.

IN THE capitalism high
the take" this kind Of governmental
grating unnocd Easy 60" the happyo
lucky slogan of the white collar class.
Today white
there resentment against the grafters Not much but enough
1t this resentment that kicked out Tammany Hail. and that has
reform" administrations in other cities
depression deepns these "reomers'
will exposed Most Of them the
nursery Senator Thayer, and have the habits
The faith in bourgeois democracy
Europe, S rapidly breaking n
mass-sentments that the fascs
IN their propaganda
Mussotni they graft
from government Which only another Of those large brazn lies
with which these rackeeer fool the people.
Hitler Goebbels pack of the
personally by Hitler
former clerk of some sort millionaire as are his chief aids
Every leader with of
private enterprises The system works much in the the
gngers operate here the Nazi leader picks going
the
That's all there is to it; the guns do the persuadng
Mussoinrs gangters the That google
eyed formerly
poorly-pad journalist He today admittedly million
a 1talo Balbo formerly white collar pauper is also millionaire
most Of the keymen in Mussolnis machine.
What Fascism Brings
m despair democracy
fascism. And this what it gets.
capitalism.
the capitalism military
welding the towards dagger and whip the to be
pected that graft will remain
o n
production of the necesssres Of life.
Not the most rabd ater of the able
that wholesale grating Occasionally
specimen Of the old capitalism turned quickly
Of bad habits repeat
bitterly 1t because they the
whose historic mission 1t destroy the
grating system running race
fasciss if graft
enrich themselves Wealth the
loathsom system for which they torture
But Communist leader would be tempted
graft For under this personal wealth nothing
mark OF distinction but handicap
mans % devotion to the task Of building free working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
By MICHAEL GOLD

NEW YORK STATE has pretty racketeering~ case
~ going might wish. It is classic that illus
trates with searchlght how bourgeois democracy works
Briefly, it seems that an influential Republican poll
tican upstate Methodist father and patriot be
ing paid $500 the Associated Gas and Electric Company
gentleman Thayer State Senator, and
which supposed to
companies that they don't steal
too much from the people
letter the which this peoples Senator had
company thanking them for their regular check
humby inung been satisfactory
The Senator predict will be acquitted.
capitalist politicians sends another set Jail graft
1t removing rival racketeer and taking over the
spois.
Bourgeois democracy badly, that
believe will not be punished Besides he has wonderful
defending lawyer the Senator Luk who has been notorious for
years Red batter and fascist.
the that bad Boshek framed
Presbyterian father patriot and Senator The Boh
disguised himself electric company bbed the Senator
patriotic custom tradition Senators
time Boshies And they took the Senator's letter
of thanks and reachrousy turned to the GPU and the
politician, the whole thing plot
against the American flag
That's defense ought put up.
truthful logical defense the he made
against the school teachers in his red-bating days
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15

TOMORROW: Peters describes
more actual incidents of Negro
and white unity. comments on the
Soviet theatre. and tells of prob
lens Of a workers theatre.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
Diamond Track
cams Out for
Little Gems

Westinghouse High Schools
Little Generals" will not be rep
resented on the diamond or cinder
path this season, it was announced
yesterday after a meeting Of school
officials.
The new stadium and track,
which is under construction, will
not be ready for use, due to the
inclement weather, and this was
the reason given for the discon-
tinuing of these sports by Prin-
cipal S. P. Vanderslice.
Buck" Richardson, director Of
athletics and baseball coach, said
he would not attempt having a
team if he had to use a field away
from the school.
Driver Ruled Down
o. L. Driver, coach of football
and track, wanted to continue un'
der any conditions, but he was
ruled down.
His comment on the move was:
1T will take three years to
make up for this years lapse"
Petitions are being circulated
through the school for the con.
tinuing of these sports, but it is
not considered likely that they
will be Of any avail.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
Pickups and
Putouts
By GEORGE A. SIMPSON

By GEORGE A. SIMPSON
Sammy Stein, who wrestles
"Rude" Rudy Dusek In the sec
Ondary attraction ut the wash
ingtOn Auditorium t0night,
threatens TO quit the game and
enter the movies unless he wins
the heavyweight championship
within six months. He failed
in his attempt against Jim Lon,
dos in New York Monday
night Bottle" Cox, local
sandlOt umpire who'll handle
the Griffmen's exhibition games,
leaves Saturday with the van
guard for the Biloxi training
base We can start the base
ball season now. =. Al Schacht'S
in town. Bill Brown picks
ShOIl's to triumph. over the ALL
Star Community Center League
five in the game Saturday night
in Roosevelt gym. ."COI."
Jimmy Lake, local sports an
nOuncer, dates years a. 1894
A. Pr. The "A. r." means
after prohibition. e :...
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
T0P-NOTCH- PIN
ACES MEET =.

Five Of the District Leagues
first 10 high-average duckpinners
will see action tonight when
Lucky Strike visits Northeast Tenn
pie for the only match Of the ma
jor circuit that will involve teams
in the first division. 5~
Ray Won Dreele, the Baltimore
veteran, topping the loop with q
fat mark Of l25-17, the best ever
carried by a District League sharp
shooter for 81 games, and Ed
Blakeney, with. 1887, are the
Luckies' ace rollers, with George
Honey, Ollie Pacini and Frank
Mischou trailing behind with COM
mendable averages to give Temple
a strong defense.
Other matches will see Occi.
dental Restaurant journeying to
Georgetown, Convention, Hall hop
ping out to Hyattsville, Arcadia
visiting Petworth to clash with
Beacon Sign and King Pin enter.
tanning Columbia.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
CQRUM,S
Garden Loses Touch
In Promoting Fights
No Reason For Delay
By BILL CORUM

1can a fellow who can neither give
nor get it, lick q heavyweight
champion Of the world? Yet
there is some money showing here
for the slowed-down phantom OF
Philly, and indications are that
the title holder will be no more
than q 3-to-l favorite at the bell.
Another contributing factor in
the current decline Of the fistic in
dustry has been the misfortunes
of the present management OF
Madison Square Garden the
recognized shrine Of the sport.
The gentlemen just haven't
seemed to be able to do anything
right, and q list Of their trtbula.
tions during the past year would
be as long as Cameras arm.
Consider the case Of this tight.
For no good reason it was post,
poned from last Thursday night
until last night and again set back
a day. All last week it was clear,
warm and perfect for an outdoor
boxing show. AL this week 1t mas
been the reverse.
AS 7 say, there was no real
reason for the weeks delay. Both
fighters were in as good shape
as they are today, and ready to
step in there and get it over with.
But Colonel Fitzpatrick and Jimmy
Johnston guessed it would do bet
ter with another week Of ballyhoo,
of which it has had ample here
abouts through Johnston's and
Francis Albertanti's untiring et-
forts, and it looks now as though
they guessed wrong again. I'd
saw it probably would have drawn
from 5000 to 10000 more a week
ago than it will tonight.
Jinx Pursues Promoters
No, it simply seems to be that
an evil jinx pursues the present
Garden major domos. and that
no matter which way they point
the little pea seems to wind up
under the other shell. But per
hapS in this case the good Lord
is only Furnishing them for having
made this match in the first
place.
I must say for Johnston, how
ever, that he takes it standing.
Outwardly he permits nothing to
daunt his jaunty spirit, and he
is not as young as he used to be,
either. So I, who always have
liked Jim and found him good
copy, felt sorry for him as he
stood in front Of his deserted
ticket offices yesterd ay and
waited patiently for the GUS
toners that did not come.
AS one wisecracker remarked
to a weary looking stranger who
ambled up the street and peered
uncertainty at the yawning door
Of the main ticket office:
"Don't go in there, pardneF,
that's the solitary cell"
eolumnist, writes eUery day in
ztOn Tinles)
The Washington times., 1934-03-01

WA @4AS@A0 ~ WV
Frances Robertson's 372 helped
the victors to clinch the wins. His
doubleheader and eight won the
second game for his team.
Warming up for his duel with
'Bozo'' Bitunyac at Temple Satur.
day afternoon and night, Ollie
Pacini lHechfnger's) banged out
\ 4O4 set. His games were 152,
LOO and 112.
In the Commercial League, the
EYening Star team pounded the
pt1s for q $50 game, the highest
score, ever rolled in the 81 years
Of the circuits existence. Wied-
mans 145 game and 367 set topped
the list of individual featS.
Ticer was the whole show in the
Takoma Business Mems League
at Takonna, coming through with
I 1853 game and Ais set.
Aided by Lauxman's Isl game
md 385 set, Western Electric No. !
established an all-time record with
L s626 game,
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
Mt. Rainier Pin Loop
RECORDS

High team gameNorioles, sss. High
team set-Oroles, 1882. High individual
game. Corcoran. 167. High individual
set, Hoffman. 414. High Epares-Harri-
son, EOS. Nigh strikes-H. Wolfe, As.
High ind ~ual average - Fitzgerald.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
|SEMANN ROLLS
CALF DAVIS
TONIGHT
By DANNY GILL

UnmaSked at last, George l..
Isemann, the former masked mar.
vel of the maplewayS, unhooks
that intricate windup Of his to-
night at the RoSslyn Bowling
Center against the powerful
shoots Of young Gait Davis,
Rosslyn manager, at 8 o'clock.
Isemann represents College Park,
Md, in the suburban Match
Game Elimination Tournament.
Crymes (Wrecking Crew and
Deyer chill BillieS) shared game
and set honors in the Dynamite
League at Arcadia with a 1856 and
358.
AL Woods, who has made the
drives burn with his hot scores
this year, came through again
last night with q 149 game and
400 set to lead the Recreation
League.
Cullens 142 game and Lords
$50 set topped all in the Bankers
League at Arcadia. In the Knights
Of Columbus League, Reynolds
turned in . 143 game and Espey,
q 382 set.
Hazel Jarrett. with a 339 set,
led the Meyer Davis Ladies' Dis
trict League team to a clean
sweep Of it's set with Convention
Hall. Lucky Strike took the odd
game from Petworth; Rendezvous
grabbed the odd game from Ar
cadia and Columbia and Recrea-
ton swept their matches with
Bill Woods and Georgetown, re-
spectively. Catherine Quigley
tossed in q 1873 game.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
Regatta Chieftains
To- Discuss Plans
= AtLuncheOn

Officers and workers of the
Presidents Cup Regatta win
gather at o luncheon meeting
next Tuesday In the offices Of
John A. Remon, Room TOO, 725
Thirteenth st. N. w., at 1880
o'clock.
Reports. of the 1888 regatta
will be made, while motion pic.
lures of the event will be shown.
Discussion will also take place
IN connection with q probable
1884 event.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
CLUB FIVE
AKESOPENER

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 1.
The Old Dominion Boat Club
courtmen drew first blood in the
local city championship series de-
feating the Columbias, $40.
The two teams clash in the
second game Saturday night. The
Tines-Herald quint also upset the
Alexandria De Molay, 32-22.
Tonight the Columbia Fire De-
partment quint will trek to Fred
erick, Md, for a game with the
Shipley Celtics- Director Berman
states the entire squad will make
the trip.
Alexandria High School court
men wind-up their campaign to-
morrow at the armory mixing
with the Western High.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
Hqrmsworth Trophy
Race Not Likely
This Season

NEW YORK, March There
will be no race for the Harms
worth Trophy this year unless
Hubert Scott-Paine, British
motorboat racer, who two days
ago Withdrew from q challenge
to wreSt the supremacy Of the
water from Gar Wood for
Canada, has q change Of heart
within the next "a hours, &C
cording to an announcement to-
day by Leo Z. Barrett, secretary
Of the Yachting Association Of
America,
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
=, ..: -.
Loses in Final

Western led the Washington
Lee quint all the way in winning
28-18 decision, over the Virginia
lads. Brennan proved to be West
ern's ace in the hole by scoring 9
points. Cooper and Eaton, Of the
losers, were next in the scoring
line with their 8 and z points, re-
spectively. It was the last game
Of the year for w. L.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
WILSON QUIN 7
FACES 0LDFOE. .

Wilson Teachers quint Is on
edge for its ome-coming" clash
with its traditional rival, Newark
State Normal, tomorrow night at
8 o'clock at Wilson gym. ......
The women's varsity sextet will
face an alumnae team in q prelirn-
mary. A dance will follow the
game.
The Newarkites have won three
games and the local Two in the
series so far, and every game was
decided in the last few minutes.
In the game at Newark this season
the Wilson Owls lost, 80 to 20.
The teachers close their Sched-
ule Saturday night playing host to
Virginia Medical College from
whom they won, 20 to 20. early
this year.
SARANACS SEEK
saranacs basketball team is
without a game for tonight. They
have a gym. Call Adams 1922.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
CGrRerG-LOUgItrG1s Bout
Is One Fans Forgot
Game At LOUest Ebb

MIAMI, Fla, March t.-Tommy
DAVID Loughran will attempt to
slay Primo (Goliath) Carnera in
the Madison Square Garden Sta
dium here tonight before q crowd
Of approximately $4,000. This viii
be the smallest gathering that has
ever sat in at a worlds heavy
weight championship bout, and
whatever else happens the contest
will go into the records as the
fight the fans forgot.
1T is doubtful if the bout will
gross more than $4,000. # last
minute purchases and the, two
dollar general admissions double
that sum, we think it is all the
fight can possibly hope to draw
$4,000. There we're days not so
long ago when you couldn't get a
heavyweight champion to sign a
three-week contract for that sort
Of money.
IT, Cant Draw Flies
In this way the fight business
finds itself with a heavyweight
title bout-once the staple product
oftthe industry-that can't, as the
saying goes, draw flies. Or, you
might say. next to no champion
ship at all.
II Carnera can't knock Lough-
ran out, and the betting here is
only even money that he will, it
won't have q champion worthy the
name either. Beyond any shadow
okdoubt, my friends, the fight bust
ness Is right now at the lowest ebb
it has known in all the years from
John L. Sullivan, Of Boston, to
Primo Camera, Of Italy.
No one person or group Of per-
sons is. I feel sure, responsible for
the situation. But Camera is not
a popular champion even among
his own countrymen. Built up
with set-ups, the public appears
loath to believe that he can fight
his way out Of a paper bag. I
don't personally know. Possibly
I am overly skeptical, but it al
ways has been my misfortune to
know something, or see something,
about Primo's battles that sent
me away from the ringside won
dering:
But if he doesn't defeat Lough-
ran decisively and with compare
tive ease this evening, then there
should no longer be any doubt
about him in anybody's mind. Be
cause, If he can't beat Laughran,
with all the advantages Of height,
weight, etc., etc., he is no cham
pfon.
j. Held to 81 Favorite
This looks to be the softest dish
Of pie ever set before a heavy
weight king, and I say that with
due appreciation Of Loughran's
talents. Tom is a nice fellow.
But he can't hit and he can't take
it so good any more. And how
lBiH Corun, famous New YorE
TIE WnahSr
The Washington times., 1934-03-01

f0N10u8 WeW VVS71
The Warrington Times)
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
Brodt Duckpinners Check
): Delicatessen's String

aAu good things must to an end.
The Street Delcatessen duckpn team found this out in
10 uncertain terms last night when it's 22game winning
freak was abruptly halted by Brodt last night in the Temple
Haor League feature The hatters made the victory
convincing bv sweeping the set.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
Baltimore to See
Pro Tennis Matches

BALTIMORE. March 1.-Bill
Tlden, Ellsworth Vines, Henri
Cechet. the French star, and other
members Of the professional
;roupe will appear here March 18
md 10, at Carlins Park.
tTilden and Vines played before
/ large crowd here two weeks ago.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
TURKEY SHOOT LISTED

The Stephen Citizens Assoccia-
ton will hold its annual turkey
shoot on Saturday, March 10, it
has Geen decided by the members.
East Riverdale, Md, will be the
site; the hour, p. m.
The Washington times., 1934-03-01
GET FORFEIT

Twin Oaks advanced in the
minor section Of the Community
Center Basketball League last
night When Sanitary Employees
..orfeited.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-30
HOG-RAISING RELIEF
OUTLINED BY RAINEY
Speaker Suggests Abolition
of Direct Marketing.
Copyright, 1884. by United Press

Copyright, 1884. by United Press
WASHINGTON, May 3d.
three point program for relief of
hog producers was proposed by
Speaker Henry T. Rainey today in
an interview with the United Press
in which he took direct issue with
the agriculture department and as
serted that the time has come to
quit coddling the packers"
Mr.. Rainey, dirt farmer" for
years.. warned that hog producers
could not long continue to sell hogs
at present prices and proposed:
l. Abolition of direct marketing.
2. Restrictions on weight of hogs
which may be sold.
3. Reciprocal tariff agreements
under which surplus hogs may be
sold abroad.