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The Washington times., 1934-11-22
CQ@d2H4NLS CQRwM,S
a Former Mayor Calls
To Give Us a Grid Tip,
He Likes Fair HARVARD
By BILL CoRUM

NEW YORK, Nov. 22.-Judge
John P. O'Brien, former mayor
Of our town, called me up a few
minutes ago to discuss the week
end football situation.
Judge O,Brien is such a red
hot football fan he fairly sizzles
whenever he hears the thump
Of toe on leather.
James J. Walker, the current
Broadway columniSt of Sussex
Il suppose you know Jim Is writ
ing column for some English
paper, Joe Mckee, the Ford
ham flash of politics, and Flo
relic, of the roundhouSe curver,
may have beer touch keener for
big league baseball.
Wasn't it Walker, who with
his famous and moving dirty
face kids in the street," speech
made Babe Ruth turn the corner
Of right living on his way to be-
come a sedate and saving
burgher? Ask Babe.
But when it comes to foot
ball, the number one fan OF
modern mayors of New York is
Judge O'Brien. So it isn't
strange that he should enjoy
tanning about the game. And
that he should call the writer
when in that mood is just as
readily explained.
We are longtime neighborS
on 1O5th st. and to the folks
up there around 105th and
Broadway, the Judge was, and
no doubt is. a pleasant gentle.
man standing on the corner OF
a sunny Sunday morning.
chucking the babies under the
chin and giving the neighbors
a howdy-do. Not for votes.
For friendship, he being that
sort.
1t wasn't a sense of civic duty
that kept John and the police
department band and glee
club in the Pennsylvania sta
ton for As minutes the after
noon Columbia set out for Cal
ifornia last December.
Resists Temptation
The Mayor confessed later
that he was having a hard
time resisting the temptation
to crawl aboard the Lions spe-
cial and go along.
And of all the population of
our town, it's retiring mayor
was perhaps least surprised
when the final score of the
game came singing over the
wires and through the ether
last New Year day.
Judge O'Brien, you see, is
one of the many who believe
that Coach Little Lou of Co.
lumbia, knows exactly where
the football rabbit is hidden
in the band of his hat. So at
Princeton last Saturday when
the loud speakers barked the
half-time scores, it was not
surprising that the former
mayor should have taken up
cudgels in behalf Of LOUIS team.
All around him spectators
were gloating over Pennsyl-
vania's IL to 0 half time lead,
which is no reflection on Co.
lumbia's popularity. Sports
fans like to see champions
humbled.
But when a gentleman be-
hind the judge piped:
"Well, that was sure thing.
I've known all fall that Co.
lumbia was fading" The former
mayor could stand it no longer.
"Yeah?" he yeaped, "Wel
The Washington times., 1934-11-22
OLMSTEDS IN ACTION

Olmsted Grill baSketerS meet
the Merrick Boys Club five to.
night in the Roosevelt High
School gymnasium at $50. Sox
is scheduling games
for the OlmStedS at North 2622
between s and Z p. m.
The Washington times., 1934-11-22
EXPECT BIG CROWD

DURHAM, N. c., Nov. pa
record-breaking crowd to see one
of the best freshman football
games ever played in this State is
expected in Duke Stadium Satur.
day afternoon, when Dukes Blue
Imps and Cardinals Tar Babies
stage their annual. get-together
The Washington times., 1934-11-22

talk about foot
ball prospects at,
the little Wis
conSin Avenue
school for 1885,
he had to view
t h e situation
with miles Of
grinS.
st. A lb a n S
will be without
only four regu.
lars next year,
namely. Charlie
Soule, big half.
pack, Marshall
Linn, file e t.
VIfI Il
The Washington times., 1934-11-22
HAWKS IN DRILL.

Brentwood Hawk footballers
practice tonight on the Navy
Field at 7 o'clock. The Hawks
play the Maryland A. C. Sunday
in a league game at Duffy
Stadium.
The Washington times., 1934-11-22
Alexandria High Eleven Near
Virginia Section Title

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Nov 22.-Alexandra High football
warriors will try for undspued honors in the Third district
when they collide with Fredericksburg High grid
ders at Baggetts s Stadium at $3.50 o'clock
The Washington times., 1934-11-22
Last Nights Fights

At Barcelona-Varias Milling
lSl, Filipino, outpointed Jose
Martin, 100, Spanish 90.
The Washington times., 1934-11-22
To LOSE
4PLAYERS
BYI935
BIZ GARRETT WATERS

Coach A. R. Middleton, of St.
Adams Prep, was in a jovial mood
today.
For after stopping a moment to
The Washington times., 1934-11-22
BROADCASTS FIGHT

VOL will broadcast the Lou
Brouillard-Al Gamer fight in the
Madison Square Garden in New
York tomorrow night at 9:55
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06

German workers under the Nazis,
the conflicts among the Nazis them
selves, and what may be expected to
happen in Germany during the COM
ing months.
The courage of the German Mill
tant workers, in the face of Nazi
terror, is clearly shown in dis
patch received yesterday from Ber-
lin. 1t tells of large flash" anti
fascist demonstration in Naunym-
strasse, in the worlling-class East
End. Workers on bicycles gathered,
sang Communist songs, attracted a
large group of workers, shouted
anti-fascist slogans in speaking
chorus, and dispersed, before fascist
police could take any reprisals.
That these solidarity movements
will hearten and strengthen this
struggle of the German workers is
inevitable, the Central Committee of
the Communist Party, under whose
auspices the February II meeting
will be held, stated.
A program covering all fields of
proletarian art, will be presented at
this meeting.
Tickets are on sale at the Work
ers Bool,shop, SO East 18th St.,
downtown. Prices are $1.00 for seats
in the reserved section, and 40c in
advance for seats in other sections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
Jacob Panken, Leader
OF Socialist Party,
Caught in Scab Cab

NEW YORK. - Jacob Panken,
leading member of the Socialist
Party, was caught red handed Sat
urday afternoon riding in q scab
independent taxi strikers reported
to the Daily Worker
This strikebreaking act of the
ex-judge, who has been posing as
a supporter of the strike and was
given the floor to speak at Satur-
day nights Madison Square strike
meeting was exposed when
group of strike pickets recognized
him as he entered an independent
cab Saturday on Second Ave, near
Fourth ST.. about $3.50 p. m. Pan
ken entered the cab from the Palm
Casino.
The cab was stopped by strike
pickets. Someone said, That's
Panken. Let him co. And the
car sped on.
Further down the street the car
was stopped again. Piclzets and
workers who were gathered on the
corner insisted that Panken get
out. He refused and was off be-
force the workers were able to pull
the Socialist cut by the scruff OF
the neck, which they had aimed
to do.
you see what a socialist leader
will do" said a worker in disgust
as the scab taxi disappeared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06

NEW YORK.-What can be done
to increase the circulation of the
Daily Worker, provided action is
taken to bring our paper to the
workers, is shown by Section of
the New York District Communist
Party, which trirled its weekly sales
of the Daily" in less than two
months.
On Dec z, this section, which In
cludes Harlem, sod 555 COPIES weekly.
Ths sales now reach 1.T74 copies.
This increase was gained throu7h in
tensive and consistent canvassing Of
workers homes. Section 4 took quick
action to mobilize forces for the cir
cu,ation drive, and exrects to shcw
a still further increase in its sales
very soon.
Sharp Contrast
On Dec. Z, when Section was
selling 555 COPIES, the. sales by Sec
tion 2 amounted to 80 cop,es. The
sales by Section 2 now total 914 COP
les, a negligible gain of 4 coDies. com
pared with the increase of 1919 by
Section in the same period.
The Daily Worker agent in Section
2 declares that he does not receive
any help from the Section Committee
in his attempts to boost the sales of
the Daily" 1t is also significant
that Section 2 has failed so far to
hold a section membership meeting
for mobilizing forces for the Daily
Worker circulation drive
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
Steel Bosses Threaten
To Discharge Men,
Hire Gun Thugs

WEIRTON, w. Virginia, Feb. S. =
Government agents, sent by the M
tional Labor Board, began today to
descend on individual workers Of the
Weirton Steel Mills en- the pratext of
determining whethsr a fair vote was
held" when they were driven into
\ company union.
Instead of permitting the, $4,000
men to meet en- mass and vote, the
National Labor Board is taking this
method of discovering what the men
have already declared in one Of the
most militant strikes Of the past
year. All the Weirton steel plants
were shut tighter than drum by
strike of the workers, demanding
recognition of their own union. The
strike was broken by promises of
the National Labor Board. Later,
the steel company officials terrorized
the men into accepting company
chosen representatives.
Under so-called promise by
President Roosevelt to determine if
the men had "free" vote, the gov
eminent officials are canvassing the
mems homes.
In preparation for this event, new
company gunner have been hired to
terrorize the workers. The thugs
were deputized by the county au-
thorities. New pressure is brourht
against the men in the plant, with
exemplary lay-offs and discharges
telling the men what to expect if
they do not answer properly when
they are cornered in their homes by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
N. Y. Section Triples Sales of
Daily in Less Than ? Months

Section 2 is located in the midtown
area, which provides fertile grounds
fer sp~eadtng the Daily" 1t in
cludes the West Side waterfront, the
needle trades area. In this section
dressmakers are conducting a strug-
gle for better conditions. The gen.
eral strike of the food workers is
centersd in this section. But the Sec
ton has made practically no effort to
reach the striking workers, the
waterfront workers with our Daily
Worker
Outstanding Work
In Section 4, too, the work can be
improved. The Finnish organization
is doing splendid work in spreading
the Daily" Good work is being
done by Units 400, 404, 4O6. 40s, 412,
Al4. Ais. ABS. On the other hand,
rrrit All refuses m take the Daily
Worker for sale. The DAILY" is also
neglected BIZ Units 41s A21, 424, 426.
by the HUNGARIAN. Esthonian and
Spanish organizations.
These units and organizations in
Section 4 and the entire Section 2
are called upon to explain their
neglect of our only American working
class daily newspaper, the Daily
Worker.
We call on the other sections to
report what they are doing to in
crease the sales of the Daily" what
they are doing to put the circulation
drive over the top!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
Seventy-F our Delegates
from CWA Jobs Blast
Roosevelt Relief
2 HOUR INTERVIEW
Demand Immediate Ac-
ton on Workers Jobless
Insurance Bill
By CARL REEVE

WASHINGTON, Feb. s.
Forced by the persistent de-
mands of "a delegates to the
National Convention AGAINST
Unemployment, all of whom
were C.W.A. workers, Federal
Relief Director Hopkins was
finally forced to see all IA delegates
today and listen for two hours while
the delegates made their demands for
DIVA. jobs and for adequate relief.
Hor'-i,,s lacked the picture of AFFECT
helplessness as he dropped at desl-
on the ninth floor of the Walker
Johnson Building, and heard the
damning Indictment by Phil Frank
field, leader Of the delegation and
the other delegates of his and Pres
ident Rooseyelt's relief and C.W.A
policies and actions.
Foplzins rnede r~omises of sex
ploration," of investigation, of look
ing into" ell g-teva noes, but r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
Mass Delegation Forces
Interview With Hopkins
JobIess Convention Closes
With Delegations
to Officials
Especial to the Daily wOrker)


WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.LThe Ma
tional Convention against unemploy-
ment today translated into action its
freshly adopted program, split up in
to nine delegations, which visited the
heads Of the Roosevelt government
and William Green, President of the
American Federation of Labor, and
demanded action on behalf of the
unemployed.
The demand for the immediate
enactment of the workers Unem-
ployed Insurance Bill, for more jobs,
for adequate relief, against dis
elimination against Negroes, youth
and women-for all of the demands
of the unemployed, rang through
the capitol today. Today, pushed
about and patrolled- by numerous
police, the delegations visited the
White House, Secretary Of Labor
Frances Perkins, c. w. A. admins
traitor Hopkins, the German and
Polish Embassy, Robert Fetchner,
head of the c. C. G. Camps, and
Speaker Rainey to protest against
discrimination against Negroes
Earlier in the day, the state delega-
tons visited their" Congressman
and Senators and demanded action
on their demands.
The same day President Roosevelt's
controlling Democratic Administra-
ton passed in the House of Repre-
sentatives the bill limiting relief, in
Guiding direct relief, G. w. A. and G.
c. c. relief, to $o5O,0000o0. Rcose-
welt thus served notice that the plan
to Hquidate the G. w. A. entirely
May /, and limit relief, will be pushed
throu~h. The answer of the unem-
ployed is, I'VE will go back and o.
ganize, and force the enactment of
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill by the hunger regime of
Roosevelt"
In ton:ghts concluding session the
reports of the results of the dele
cations, visit to the government heads
will be reported. The resolutions,
constitution and program of action
will be finally adopted, and a new
national committee of the National
Unemployed Councils elected. The
convention will adjourn tonight, the
delegates departing in cars, trucks
and buses to the thirty-two states
they came from, to carry on the fight
fer the demands and program
adopted and to build the National
Organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
Stock Market Scars
In Billion Dollar
Initiation Advance
Wall Street Making
Biggest Cleanup
Since 81

NEW YORK, Feb. Brushing up
ward in the heaviest trading since the
'nflationary speculative boom of last
July, the Stock Market today added
over one billion dollars to the quoted
value of the stocks and bends OF the
New York Stock Exchange.
Leading mining, railroad, and metal
stocks shot up from l to points most
IF them closing at the highs.
The big monopoly utilities, such as
Consolidated Gas, Columbia Gas, and
others. were also very strong.
The chemical and munit.on stocks,
as well as the aviation stocks were
particularly strong, with du Pont
Chemical, a war explosive stock. soar
ing to the highest levels since 1881.
One stock, the preferred issue of
he Van Raalte Company, a textile
company, swooped up in a spectacular
rush advancing more than "a points
in few hours.
The big merchandising companies,
like Montgomery Ward and Sears
Roebuck, also rose strongly rejecting
The profits that will accrue to them
on the appreciation in their inventory
profits as result of the Roosevelt
50 cents dollar.
Thus, the changers" who
we're denounced by Roosevelt are, I'M
der his program now ralsing in the
biggest profits in three years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
Carmen in
Threat to Strike

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Feb. 5.-Of1eials of
the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen
of America were forced by growing
rank and file pressure, to declare that
if by 2 pm. today the officials of the
Chicago & Northwestern RR. do not
settle grievances, strike ballots would
be sent out. Over $4,000 men are in
Everything is being done by the
union officials and the company to
keep the men from striking, how
ever. The strike ballot is used as a
threat for further negotiations to
settle the grievances at the expense
of the men. The union officials say
if the ballots go out, strike will not
take place before two weeks, which
gives the company plenty of time 70
maneuver.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
5000 CWA Workers
Demonstrate for
JObleSS Insurance
Force LaGuardia City
Officials to Receive
Delegates

NEW YORK. - Five thousand
workers demonstrated at the City
Hal yesterday demendinp that the
LaGuardia administration endorse
the Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill and petition
the Roosevelt government for the
continuance and enlargement of the
c. w. A. program The workers
forced the LaGua~dia administration.
in the absence of Mayor LaGuardia,
to receive their mass delegation to
present their demands. Hundreds
of police were at hand hours before
the workers arrived.
At 1890 a. M. C. w. A. workers,
notably from Dykers Park, where the
workers recently held mass demon
STATIONS on the job, massed at the
Battery. At the same time, workers
on the lower East Side assembled at
previously arranged meeting places
and in trade unions and mass or
CARNATIONS, and converged on the
city hall at noon. Arriving at the
city hall, the workers found that a
speakers stand had been erected for
them. To this the workers said:
Next time we expect LaGuardia to
provide loudspeakers."
The DELEGATES having been elected,
the workers drew aside their ranks
to permit the mass delegation to
enter the city hall
They were Immediately received by
acting Mayor Deutch.
Richard Sullivan, Secretary of the
Unemployed Councils of Greater New
York, in the name of the thousands
Of workers outside, demanded that
the government go on record en-
dorsing the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill, and passing the Work
ers Municipal Relief Ordinance.
"Other Delegates Sullivan con-
tinued, will present their demands
Continued on page Al
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
1000 Fifth Aoe. INRA Individual
Busmen in Vote MERTON Poll
on Strike Action Divides Men
C 0 N d u ctors, Drivers
Protest Lockout
of 20 Men

NEW YORK "A vote for strike ac-
ton Of the 1000 conductors and
drivers and extra men of the Fifth
Avenue Bus Comraay was taken last
night at 57& w. 130th ST., in answer
to the lockout of 26 men who Joined
Local 994 of the Arcalga-nated Asso-
citation of Street and Electric Railway
Employees Union. AS we go to press,
The results are not yet in.
The perspective of spreading the
9trike to the whole transportation sys-
TEN Of the city is listed rs one of the
important points to be considered at
the meeting.
In leafiet issued by the local call
ing for the meeting, the following
demands were presented:
IAN buses to be in garages at
P. M. Monday; drivers woge to be
H1.15 per hour, company to supply
tools and uniforms free; conductors
70 receive 81 an hour; wages for eZ-
ira drivers and conductors to be S25
! week whether they work or not;
mechanics to be given the union
Gale; recognition Of the union and no
suspensions without a hearing before
The grievance committee; reinstate-
ment OF all locked out men with full
pay for time lost"
The firing Of the 26 workers came
after 5 months Of promises from the
National Labor Board that the bus
workers would, be given the right to
organize in a union of their own
choosing.
Said Roosevelt Would Take Care
Of Them
No decision, however, was forth
coming. Mr.. Shea, the A. F. of L.
organizer, promised the men il July
thet they had the right to organize
nd tod them that the Roosevelt ad-
ministrat.on and the N. R. A. would
take care CT them.
The 26 workers were fired, never
theless, for their union activities.
OF the 1000 busmen. there are
about 600 extra men. These extra
men are forced to report every day
where they are kept in the crew
rooms, and then sent home without
pay.
Then men on the line are speeded
up numerically. Spoilers, known az
"shoe-fiies," and inspectors constant
ly hound the drivers and conductors.
The workers demand that these con-
ditions be eliminated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
.llrasOn Line
CreW Strikes
In Baltimore
B e g in Action for
Demands On All
Munson Ships

BALTI1IoRE, Nd, Feb. 5.-Be-
ginning the offensive against the
Munson Line in the demand for
higher wages and better conditions.
the crew of the "AIunSomo" went OIL
strike this afternoon here under the
leadership Of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union.
The "Nunsomo" crew have en-
dorsed the demands for $3.50, pay
for overtime, full crew, and union
recognition, and has authorized the
general committee to present these
demands to the head office of the
company in New York on February
7ch to be enforced on all ships of
the company.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union has been preparing for strug-
gle on the Mun5on Line for the past
three or four months in order to
force the company to accept the de-
mandS of the men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
Browder to Open Nation Vide
Driue to Support German C. p.

NEW YORK.-The huge Febru-
airy IL Support the German Work
ers' Revolution" meeting at the
Bronx Coliseum, will sound a STIR
ring opening keynote to the nation
wide solidarity campaign which it
will launch to raise funds for the
work of the illegal Communist Party
of Germany. All proceeds of this
first meet will be turned over to
the Central Committee of the Ger
man Communist Party to be con-
verted into literature, etc., to
strengthen the German workers in
their struggles against the Nazis.
W.T Describe German C. P. Work
Earl Browder, secretary of the
Communist Party of U.S.A., who
will be the main speaker on Febru-
airy IL, besides describing the meth
DDS by which the German Commu-
nists illegally carry on their agita-
tional and organizational work, will
give thorough explanation of the
situation in Germany, the strength
of the Communist organization and
its supporters, the situation of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
Soldiers XIII.
2 Workers In.
Cuba Strike
Murdered AS Mendieta
ProcIailns Right of
Gree Assembly
Especial to the DaiIy WorserJ


HAVANA, Feb. 5.-Presi-
dent Carlos Mendieta is at
tempting with a combination
Of terrorism and demagogic
concessions to stem the growing strike
wave.
While soldiers were using armed
.orce against strikers in many parts
Of the island, and killed two enc
--9'l-5ed reve~al workers By firinr
into picket line in this city, Men
lieta proclaimed a provisional con-
stitution providing the right of free
assembly" among other paper con-
ccssions.
lockers Of the Cuban Electric
Company, forced to remain in the
ANTS by coldier5 with machine gune
fter the general strike called Fri
FAY, have gone On hunger strike in
Havana and Camaguey this morning.
NILS Strike in Sympathy
An attempt by Mendoza TO hamper
he strike by forbidding all lon3 Dis
tarca telephone calls, thus breaking
communications between the strikers
\ various parts Of the island was
defeated by strike of the telephone
workers union, which forc3d him to
-escind the decree and withdrew SOL
diers posted at the telephone of ices.
Workers in more than. 20 sugar
mills have struck in sympathy with
the railway workers strike, as have
the barber workers in Port Nuevitas.
The bus strike in Havana is holding
solid.
The strike Of 10000 tobacco work
~ lre5 gr0~rn til it exten's all ove=
Cuba, and involves many thousands
more.
The National Confederation Of La
bor hes called a general strike in
Havana, to begin Wednesday, in sym
pathy with the other strikes.
Basista Brides Army
Col. Fulgencio Batista has obtained
4 large fund from the Treasury with
which to buy the loyalty of his army
by paying a campaign bonus" De-
spite the fact that armed soldiers
have manned all the power stations,
most of Havana, as well as many
ether parts of the island, remain
without electric power and light.
The new provisional constitution,
70 stand until general elections to
take place at some vague time in the
'rsrr2, r~1vide fer univc-s0l suffrage,
right of habeas corpus, "due process
e law" freedom Of thought, press,
religion, and peaceful assembly for
legal ends"