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St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-06-12
MIRA

Senator Harry F. Byrd. Democrat Of
Virginia. says he believes the MIRA is
a political menace to the administration.
In an executive order President
Roosevelt susDends minor NRA provi-
sions TO permit many so-cslled service
trades and industries to sdopt local
codes of fair practice. Industries and
trades affected by he order are thUse
such as hotels. restaurants. laundries.
ard cleaning and 1yelng plants. Major
provisions on wages and hours are re-
tanned.
Exercising for the first time his tariff
making powers under the National
Recovery Act Pre- sident Roose welt places
MIRA tariff on japanese cotton rugs In
order TO protect textile manufacturers
in this country and shut out ruinouS
japanese competition.
Administrator Hugh S Johnson re.
veais that all of bis original four chief
deputies have left the MIRA. Kenne IN
M. Simpson, division administrator was
the last to go Following his rpsigna.
ton Leonard S Horner. deputyla6minis.
traitor in charge of machinery and allied
codes, rendered his resignation.
The Pathfinder.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-06-12
Radio News

Washington. The stock exchange con.
troll Bill reached the end of long dispute
strewn pathway through Congress TO-
night with fina! approval bv both hou.
ses. House and Senate. without record
votes and little debate accepted the con-
ference report comOrising controversies
between the two FRANCES and the mea.
sure was dispatched the White House
for the Presi dents signature.
London. President iRlos velt's war
debts message to Congress was branded
as blackmai in influential quarters to.
night A government spokesman admitted
that the message aroused violent indig-
nation. The cabinet decided to refuse
even a token payment en- June 18th IN.
less such payments explicitly exonarate
Great British of charges IF default.
The decision was believed communicated
to Washington.
independence. Kansas. Jr. Manion.
President of Sinclair Plpeland Company.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-06-12
Tuesday. June 18th 1894.
EDITORIAL

We understand that Governor Pc arson
will come to ST, Croix on Friday. The
rumor is persistent that his days as
Governor are numbered.
1t would not be surprising. The fight
against the Governor is a three cor nered
one. 10 Harlem. New York. Mr.. Cas-
per Hostein, at one time the Governors
friend. is leading the offensive. At St.
Thomas Hon. Lionel Roberts made life
and work uncomfortable for the Cover
nor. Now that he has clasped DR..
Pearson's hand the fight is being carried
on by Roberts former co-workers and
the Democratic club The Governor has
able friends in St. Thomas. but they do
not fight in the open for him.
10 Christiansted the officers of the
Democratic Club lead the offensive. Here
also the Governor has friends but, his
friends do not defe nd him.
Governor Pearson has strong support
in Frederiksted, that is. numerically.
The old Governor is saddled with all
the dislike and the hatred entertained
by different factions against officials
of his administration. Some functionarie
would be thrown out of office headlOng
If large section of the public could
exercise it's will. The Governor stands
between these groups of people and the
objects of their hatred and so senti-
men. for his removal continues to deve-
lop.
These are the conclusions that must
he reached by any ope who understands
the local political situation. The Cover
nor's avowed enemies usually admit his
good will for the people but. often, in
seeking support. his new political asso-
ciates bring him new enemies and rein
forced opposition.
And now, if all the news we hear is
true, the Governor will soon say good
hive to st. Croix, May his success.
snr be the ideal our people are seeking,
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-06-12
ST. CROIX TRIBUNE

Published iaily except Sundays { Ho
days at 53 Company St. Christiansted
st. Croix. ". U. S. A. by ST. Croix
Cooperative Society
Enteredas second class matter on July
st 1922 at the Post Office at Christian
sted,o st Croix. VI. u S. A. under the.
Act of March 3rd. 1879
r D. C1A8G4T. Eiitr
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-06-12
Random Notes

A large asse mblage of people We're in
the public market last night where a
meeting under the auspices of the Roose.
welt. Garner Democratic Club was con-
Quoted. The news having been circulated
that Postmaster Berg would speak. a
number of persons who are not usually
at political meetings went out TO hear him
because he has come from Washington
and should know much. Since his return
to St. Croix he has been. to say the least,
silent.
Morris e. Davis Preside ut. general
of the Roosevelt Garner Democratic Club
was the principal speaker. He read Sec
tions from the Bylaws OF the Virgin Is.
lands Company. launched heavy criticism
against the local administration and as.
sured the audience that DIR. Paul M.
Pearson will lose his position as Cover
nor of the Virgin Islands.
WiIfred Benjamin. secretary of the
Club and James Joseph. me mber of the
club also made hot speeches. A Puerto
Rican spoke in the Spanish Language.
Three cheers were given for the re-
turn of Judge Wilson.
The demand for ice in Chistiansted
greatly exceeded the supply yesterday.
The need was promptly met by truck
load from Frederlksted where there
are two ice factories.
A new lumber shed is being construct
ed by the firm of Rob.. L. Merwin &
Company. the former shed being destroy
ed in the recent fire which originated in
No. 80 Strand Street and wiped out pro-
perry in excess of 500. 900 90.
Henry Rohlson's art class will meet
in the SteepIe Building tonight.
Black clouds sail over Christianste
but up to the present there has not been
enough rain to go below the surface of
the earth. Hot days and dust continue to
annoy Us.
Due to engine trouble the mails from
Fajardo have been forwarded via the
boat to St. Thomas and may be looked
for about 1:30 this afternoon
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-06-12

Due to engine trouble the mails from
Fajardo have been forwarded via the
boat to ST. Thomas and may be looked
for about 1:30 this afternoon
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-06-12

Black clouds sail over Christia nsted.
but up to the present there has not been
enough rain to GO below the surface of
the earth. Hot days and dust continue to
annoy Us.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-06-12

Henry Rohlson's art class will meet
in the Steeple Building tonight. II
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-06-12

The demand for ice in Chistiansted
greatly exceeded the supply yesterday.
The need was promptly met by truck
load from FrederIksted where there
are two ice factories.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
NaziS Plan Forced
Consumption of
Labor in Germany
Jobless To Be Forced
Into Barracks to
Cut Down Relief

BERLIN, May 10-Conscription of
labor in slave labor camps is now
being advocated by the Nazis on a
wholesale scale. 1.-THE transition to
general compulsory labor service
must now be vigorously prepared"
declared Col Hierl State Secretary
in the Labor Ministry, speaking for
Hitler at the National Congress of
Labor Corps Instructors and Com
manders.
There already exists, under the
name of voluntary labor camps"
concentration centers where 200 900
men are forced to work on Nazi
military projects.
Col. Hierl now forecasts that
wholesale labor CONSUMPTION is now
being considered by the Hitler
regime. This is the method by
which the Nazis expect to solve"
the unemployment question, and to
cut down unemployment relief.
In the Nazi forced labor camps,
barracks have been built. The men
are put in prison-like uniforms and
are under the severe and terroristic
discipline" of Nazi officers.
Men are now forced into the labor
camps by withdrawing their unem-
ployment relief. The Nazis, by this
method, have been able to cut I'M
employment relief payments by 70
per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11

coming straight from their own mouths and printed
in their own paper
They say that the men on the Southern Steam
ship docks are satisfied. This is a lie The workers
these docks would be striking today against the
miserable conditions if the shipowners and the
A. F. Of L. officials had not been successful in
keeping them in an unorganizsd condition.
Joseph P. Ryan is now in the South to help
the local officials to further dsorganize the dock
workers, to break the strike His agents trying
to break the strike the West Coast.
Don't let him do it. longshoremen. He will pose
as your leader. And then ne will betrsy you The
official paper Of the A. F. Of L. in Houston, shows
what these So-called labor leaders are up to-
Set up your own Economically elected dock
committees. Elect broad rank and file strike
committee in each port. Do not allow Ryan or
other officials Of the A F. of L. to act as your
spokesman.
Drive these takers from your ranks. Take the
situation in your own hands. You will win through
rank and file control of the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
Rally to the Defense of the
Alabama Strikers!
Continued from Page y


and guns the National Guard, the police and
special deputies are trying with terror and murder
to enforce the DEGREES Of Roosevelt and the steel
trust.
The responsibility for these murderous attacks
on the Alabama workers for the death of five
strikers lies directly at the door Of President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt
THE Birmingham police chief cries: Wipe out
L Communism" But this is not the issue in
Alabama. The issues are wage cuts and civil rights.
The CRY Of Communism is used only to Smoothe
over to justify the attacks on the workers who
are fighting against the wage cuts. The immediate
aim of the Communist Party in Alabama is not
the institution of Communism; cur comrades are
energetcaly supporting the fight of the workers
against wage dfferentials, for higher wages.
This red scare" is designed to conceal the use
of the methods of Hitler, fascist terror against
the workers. The bloody attacks the Alabama
strikers directed in the first place against the
Negro workers, are fascist in character They are
indication of the rapid tempo of fascist growth
under Roosevelts NR.A. The fight for the defense
of the Alabama workers, for their right to strike
and picket is the fight against the advance of
fascism in the United States
Every worker, every farmer, every honest anti
fascist must rally behind the Alabama workers
They are fighting heroically. But they cannot win
this fight alone. 1t is a national fight against
Roosevelt against the step-by-step advance toward
fascism embodied in his NRA.
Workers and farmers Demand the right of
the Alabama workers to organize, to strike and
picket, to speak and to assemble
Demand the abolition of the diferential wage
scale in the South!
End all forms of discrimination against Negro
workers on the job! End the Jim Grow!
Demand the immediate and unconditional
release OF all militant workers arrested by the
fascist gangs Of the steel trust!
Demand the immediate withdrawal OF the
National Guard troops, the steel trust gun thugs
and the police from the strike area!
Demand the death penalty for the murderers
Of the five Alabama strikers!
Call mass meetings of protest. Send kilograms,
resolutions and letters at to President Roose-
vet Hugh Johnson, Governor Miller at Mont
gomery Alabama and to City Commissioner W.
o. Downs at City Hail. Birmingham, Alabama!
Organize the masses in solidarity with the
Alabama strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
The Longshoremen's Strike

I ONGSHOREMEN in the west and south
IL ern gulfport towns, striking for decent
wages, fighting heroically for bread and
butter for their wives and kddies, have
won the admiration and respect of the
toiling population throughout the country.
They have repulsed police and gang
ster attacks in Lake Charles, louisiana They have
tied up ports of Houston, Galveston and Beaumont
tighter than a drum. They have stopped the I'M
loading of coastwise cargoes at Corpus Christi They
have tied up shipping along the whole of the West
Coast
Indeed, the longshoremen are we'll on the way
to winning their demands
But in order to clear the path ahead of them,
in order to assure themselves victorious concu-
sion of the strike, the ongshoremen must know the
hidden enemies within their ranks. They must so-
late these enemies and drive them from their midst
These enemies are Joseph P. Ryan and the lead
ers of the International Longshoremens Association,
officials of the American Federation of Labor.
Never was more brazen strikebreaking scheme
concocted than the one devised by these gentlemen.
Joseph P. Ryan is now in the gulfport region.
Before he left New York he told newspaper men
that he going South to lead the strike
But what he is actually doing in the South is
revealed in the May 4 issue of the Houston Labor
Journal weekly paper advocating the principles
of the A. F. of L.
Week after week this so-called labor paper urged
the lockers not to strike. But now that they have
gone strike over the heads Of the A. F. of L.
Leaders, the editors of the Labor journal became
frantic in an attempt to break the strike
The leading editorial of the May issue Of the
Labor Journal says: The shippers and steamship
companies the first to suffer- but in the end
the heavier burden will fall on the workers them
selves. Strike benefits poor substitute for
regular income"
Think of it, Such a statement coming from
the mouths of those who claim to be the leaders
of the struggles of the working class
But that's not all The worthy A. F. of L. edi-
tors openly advocate open shop policies on hte
Houston docks.
THE spectacle of union workers idle and facing
want because of strike that might have been
avoided, while -unionists in the same work draw
regular wages and satisfied invites insidious
comparison" says the editorial.
And then the editors go on to compare:
THE workers Of certain companies, notably the
Southern Steamship Company who not af1li-
ated with the international Longshoremens Asso-
citation are not affected by the strike. They retain
their Jobs draw regular pay and to all appearances
are satisfied"
Here's the strikebreaking policy Of the leaders
Of the A. F. Of L., not as someone imagines 1t. but
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
Hitler Welcomes
Japan War Lords
Mitsusita Says Fascists
and Japanese Bosses
Have Same Aim
Especial to the Daily Worker)

LONDON, May 10 (By Radio)-A
group of japanese officers arrived
in Berlin Tuesday, led by Vice
Admiral Mitsusita On the same
day Mitsusita was received by Pres
ident Won Hindenberg.
In an interview with a represen-
tative Of the Nazi newspaper "An-
griff," Mitsusita emphasized the UNI
usually friendly nature of the re-
ception afforded to him and his
colleagues by Fascist Germany and
stated:
Il hope at the banquet given by
the German-Japanese society, your
hearty reception will receive special
significance owing to the participa-
ton of representatives of the lead
ing organs of the National Socialist
<Fascist) Party.
I'VE Japanese are watching de-
velopments in Germany with great
sympathy and joy because of our
strivings are very similar to the
strivings of the National Socialist
Party"
After the reception by Hitler and
Goering the Japanese officers left
for London.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
A Gentleman and a
Scholar

THE appointment of Joseph McGoldrick
L to the post of City Controller left va
cant by the death of Major w. Arthur
Cunningham in no way changes the anti
working class complexion of the Fusion
administration nor the anti-labor policies
which have distinguished its activities
since it first assumed office
The appointment was described by Mayor La
Guardia as mon political" The metropolitan
papers Immediately TOOK this up for special en-
phasis, bssing their cheers on the fact that Nc
Goldrick is independent Democrat" The New
York Post, which for two days previous to the ap-
pontment of McGoldrick had been lamenting that
the Fusion gang was going Park Avenue" turned
right about face yesterday in editorial called
Congratulations on the New Controller"
His (NdcGoldricks) influence" the Post declared,
'may succeed in swinging the La Guardia admin
istration away from Tory economy back to the
common mans viewpoint"
All Of this is nothing but concerted attempt
TO pull the wool over the eyes of the New York
workers. The plain facts of the matter are, both
La Guardia and McGoldrick have admitted, that
the same subservience to the banks and the same
encroachment on workers rights and living condi-
tons will mark the new controller that stood out
in his predecessor. eve will proceed without in
JerrupCl0n SAID La GQarQla lnmedlaCely a1Cer Gne
appointment. And McGoldrick added: "I welcome
this chance to carry out his (Cunningham's) pol
icies, which helped to work out"
No better proof of this is the fact that Nc
Godrick's first official act to pay s5,O00,O00
to the Wall Street banks and Of his first Of
ficial statements promise to attend to the
city's economy program"
Thus have the continuation OF the wage
cuts, the reductions in school and health and fire
inspection budgets, while the bankers keep getting
their millions Fusion's silver tray.
All this ballyhoo about McColdrick being a gen
tleman and scholar, "a man of liberal outlook
and human sympathy" is just bunk McGoldrick
like the others in the Fusion government like their
butter and know which side Of the bread to hold
out to the bankers.
Both Fusion and Tammany were Matched from
the same rotten egg, the capitalist system. The
masses of New York can expect nothing from them
With elections in the offing the New York
must begin to mobilize to utilize this par
amentary struggle to register their protest against
the fake liberal La Guardia administration
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
Pittsburgh Irish
Club Hears Murray
Communist Leader To
Speak in 4 More Cities
Before Departure

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 10.-An
enthusiastic meeting of Irish work
ers in Gladstone school, Hardwood,
on Monday, heard Sean Murray,
leader of the Communist Party of
Ireland, speak on the revolutionary
movement in Ireland John Laffey
presided. Terrence O'Connor, ex-
perienced fighter in the Irish Re-
publican movement. outlined the
aims of the Irish Workers Clubs,
and the urgent need Of assisting
the building of the revolutionary
movement in Ireland.
Over 20 workers Joined the club
and a large amount OF literature
was sold. The club proposed to hold
another mass meeting in the center
of Pittsburgh on May "a, at which
Sean Murray will speak on his re-
turn trip to New York.
Comrade Murray is scheduled to
speak in the following cities: Cleve-
land, May 1912; Detroit, May 14-15;
Chicago, May 1920; ST. Louis, May
% and %.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
Support the Morning
Freiheit'' Campaign!
Statement by the Central Committee,
Communist Party, U.S.A.)

THE Morning Freiheit," organ of the
i Central Committee of the Communist
Party for work among the Jewish masses,
is conducting a campaign to raise $4,000
fund. This sum is necessary to cover part
of the deficit and to secure continuation
of the paper in the coming summer
months.
1t is the duty of every worker to support this
campaign, to help raise the fund that will secure
the further existence of the Morning Freiheit."
This is duty the workers to themselves to
their class interests for the Morning Freiheit" is
indispensable in their struggles for better life.
The NRA has lowered the standards Of living
of the masses and prepares to vctimze the working
population still more, in order to secure bigger
profits for the few masters of finance capital. IN
employment is actually destroying the lives of the
masses. Fascsm grows apace. War preparations
are made with feverish haste Anti-semitism, this
hideous instrument of capitalist reaction and fas
csm lifts its head Nationalist propaganda is ram
pant Among the Jewish masses, the Jewish nation
asts zionists fascists strive to increase their in
fuence in order to bind the toiling population to
the chariot of the bourgeoise and thus weaken the
revolutionary struggle.
The Morning Freiheit" in the forefront of the
revolutionary struggles is powerful organizer and
propaganda among the Jewish masses. 1t conducts
a valiant struggle against the miSleaderS of labor
who have made common cause with the bosses to
keep the workers enslaved under the Blue Eagle
The Morning Freihet" which has been conducting
relentless war against social-fascism in all its
manifestations, has been entrusted by the Commu-
mist Party with the specific task of combating the
influence of the most powerful and most degraded
organ of the Second International the Jewish Daily
Forward-and it is carrying this fight courag-
eously and ably
lie 1Ose p1aec
paper, but it is difficult to build new one, The
workers must keep their paper alive, to increase
It's circulation and thus insure its existence
CENTRAL COMMITTEE
COMMUNIST PARTY, USA
EARL BROWDER, General Secretary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
USSR Joyous
Over Jewish
A IL t o n o IN Y
BirO-Bidjan's Resources
Open Perspective of
Great Development
Especial to the Daily WORKER

MOSCOW, May 10 CBy Radio -
Reorganization of the Bro Bidjan
district in the Far East into a Jew
ish Autonomous Region, was de-
cided on by the Central Executive
Committee of the Soviet Union.
The settlement of toiling Jews in
the Far East, in one of the richest
districts, Bro Bidjan, was started
in 1928, according TO the decision
of the Central Executive Committee
of the Soviet Union. This decision
Of the Soviet government was then
greeted by the great enthusiasm of
the Jewish masses, foreSeeing the
possibility of converting this dis
trict. under favorable conditions,
into Jewish autonomous unit.
The difficulties in settling this
little inhabited district have been
overcome by the Jewish population
with great stubbornness. They dis
played great firmness and began
energetically to carry on socialist
construction to make BRO Bidjan a
future Jewish autonomous unit.
Has Great Natural Resources
BRO Bidjan is rich in enormous
forests. The soil is suitable for any
grain crop. It is exceptionally rich
in minerals supplying gold, graphite.
coal, magnesite and other valuable
minerals.
During the Second Five Year Plan
the practical problem is raised of
constructing a big metallurgical
plant on the rich mineral reserves
Of BRO Bidjan.
The enormous perspectives of BRO
Bidjan are very obvious.
The toiling masses of all nation
alities in the Soviet Union joyfully
greet the appearance of the Jewish
Autonomous Region among the
state units of the Soviet Union.
This great act of the Soviet Gov
eminent will also meet a hearty well
come among the friends of the So
Wet Union abroad especially among
the Jewish workers suffering from
Fascist persecution.
The conversion of BRO Bidjan
into a Jewish Autonomous Region
will greatly increase its develop
ment. The organization of the Jew
ish Autonomous Region is one more
concrete step forward of the Len
iniSt-Stalinist national policy