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The Washington times., 1934-11-06
FINE WEATHER HAILED
BY DEMOCRATS AMID
REPUBLICAN GLOOM

record smashing vote for off-year election was
indicated at noon today. Millions Of voters trekked to
the polls during the morning to settle bitterly fought
contests throughout the country.
In nearby MONTGOMERY county and Baltimore thousands
of lined the polling places at sunny skies
swept aside the effects of rainy night Democrats hailed
the good weather a favorable
Bitter lastminute fighting marked many of the polls
fiery speeches carried the final blasts of candidates.
In upstate Pennsylvania Providence r. L. and some oher
the country the voting became spirited that
casualties resulted.
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
Fairbanks Makes
Speech for Tingley

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ. Nov. 6
NN.SD.-Douglas Fairbanks sped
toward Hollywood early today
after delivering a speech here in
favor of the candidacy of his old
friend, Mayor Clyde Tingley, of
Albuquerque, Democratic candi-
date for governor of New Mexico.
Mr.. Fairbanks declared:
eff California were lucky
enough to have a man like
Mayor Tingley, he would sweep
the State frOIn San Diego to
Sacramento like a Kansas cy-
clone"
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
Delaware Voters
FlOcking to Polls

WILMINGTON, Del, Nov.
T.N.SO.-With both major polit.
ical parties confident of victory
the small citizenry of Delaware
today braved inclement weather
to register their votes and culmi
nate a hectic campaign.
On the Republican ticket, U. S.
Senator John G. Townsend, jr., OF
Selbyville, an outstanding foe of
the New Deal. is seeking reelec-
ton. Rep. Wilbur L. Adams, of
Wilmington, a Democrat, is his
opponent.
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
Charges Dropped,
Mary Nolan Free

NEW YORK. Nov. 6 G.N.SO.
Charges against Mary Nolan, the
former Follies beauty, formerly
known as Imogene VI ilson, in the
alleged disappearance of $4,000 in
Haze1ton, Pa. today were branded
false, but not before Mary had
spent a night in Jail.
She was sought on complaint
of Frank Keffman, Newark, N. j.,
theatrical agent, who claimed she
took the $4,000 from him after
he met her in the club where she
was working. Early today the
following telegram came from the
Hazelton police:
Charges false. Mary Nolan
not wanted"
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
Fake Bus Tickets
Hold Man for Jury

George Lilly, jr., of Alexandria,
was ordered held for the grand
jury on charges of issuing spuri-
GUS tickets on a bus line by
Judge F. G. Duvall. of the Alex
andria police court. Noel Gar
ner represented Mr.. Lilly and
Albert Bryan the commonwealth.
The grand jury will convene next
week,
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
Political Realignment
Seen in 1034EleCtiOn

and one of his close friends is
the authority for saying that the
President is interested in this
idea of parties which more nearly
represent two schools of thought.
The present parties for a long
time past have been two organi-
cations for the grabbing of pa
tonnage, each party being sub
divided into reactionaries and
progressives. The President is
CONTINUED on Page 4, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
Jury DeadlOcked
In Kidnap Trial

WHEELING, w. Va, Nov. 6
0.N.SD.-A jury which remained
deadlocked after 10 hours DELHI
Grafton in the trial of Thurman
Bowen and Harry Thornton.
charged with conspiring to kid.
nap Mrs. Betty Bloch Harris,
Wheeling heiress, today had been
dismissed by Federal Judge Will
liam E. Blake. No date was set
for a new trial. Bowen and
Thornton were arrested by Gov
eminent agents on October 3,
when an alleged plot to kidnap
Mrs. Harris on the eve of her
wedding was thwarted by care
fully laid trap.
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
Close Senate Race
Seen in Wyoming

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 6
UN.SO "A close race for the
United States Senatorship from
Wyoming was predicted today
after one of the most heated cam
paigns in the States history.
Democratic leaders claimed the
election of Senator Joseph C.
O'Mahoney by majority ranging
from 5000 to $4,000. Republican
leaders declared Vincent Carter
would win by a substantial ma,
jority, but named no figures.
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
West Virginians
Hold Open House

Open house will be held by the
West Virginia Democratic Club of
the District in the ballroom of the
Powhatan Hotel tonight, when re-
turns will be received direct from
Charleston.
Entertainment has been ar
ranged and all West Virginians in
the Capital are invited to attend.
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
GOv.JOhnsOn to Win
In Colorado, Belief

DENVER, Nov. 6 G.N.S0.
Gov. E. C. johnson, was a two
to-one favorite to win over Nate
C. Warren, (RO, in Colorado's
gubernatorial race today. Pre-
dictions were freely made that all
four Democratic Representatives
would be reelected. There is no
senatorial election.
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
BY EARL GOODWIN

While the votes are being cast
today there is lull in the excite.
ment just long enough to talk
about some of the by-products of
all this struggle for political SUI
premacy.
The subject Of a new lineup
of parties is worn out by now,
but it becomes news when the
President of the United States
takes an interest in the subject;
The Washington times., 1934-11-06
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Fair and slightly colder tonight.
MEAN TEMPERATURE
The Washington times., 1934-11-06

Full Weather Report on Page
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
~ O>ccket<
AGQOu
UGhkt1A01:
By PAUL LUTTNGER, MD.

is used to any extent, should have
tow lockers or a double locker for
each worker to keep factory and
street clothes separate. There
should be shower bath with hot
water and soap for every five work
erS. The lunchroom should be sep
arated from the locker room and
work -rooms. No worker should be
allowed to work longer than six
months at time handling quick
silver. The shop committee should
insist that each worker should be
rotated to other work at least once
every six months. Finally there
should be medical supervision for
all exposed workers.
The diagnosis of mercury poison
ing is sometimes difficult. 1t is
therefore, necessary for one who
works with quicksilver to tell his
doctor the nature of his work be-
fore the examination begins. Some
times a clue may be gotten to the
diagnosis of mercury poisoning by
counting a certain kind of white
blood cells, known as lymphocytes,
which are often increased in the
blood of those poisoned by quick
silver. The best treatment of mer-
curry poisoning consists in causing
the bowels to move freely and pro-
noting the elimination of urine by
flushing the kidneys with large
quantities Of water.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
Mercury Poisoning (Continued)

Mercury Poisoning (Continued)
The SHOP committee ought to see
to it that the following working
conditions should prevail: All ap-
paratus in which mercury is used
should be enclosed; hoods with
forced raft and other devices should
be installed to keep the mercury
fumes away from the workman. The
only place to remove mercury vapor
and dust is at the point of origin
by special local exhaust ventilators;
there should be good general VEN
tilation of all workrooms; all floors
should be Of cement or other nom
absorbing material. This is very
important because mercury vapor
can be given of from floors which
have collected mercury dust; all
floors should be washed every night
with water containing ammonia,
which neutralizes mercury vapors.
Lie SIlop CollIllGtee SHOULD also
see to it that the management fur
nishes overalls, gloves and masks
when necessary, to workers who are
exposed to quicksilver fumes. All
workers should also be informed by
ia printed leaflet of the dangers of
mercury poisoning and Of the pre-
cautions to be taken against it.
Every factory in which quicksilver
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
Iron Workers Win Strike

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, June a.
The four weeks strike of over sc
moulders in the Eastern Malleable
Iron Company foundry which
closed down the plant of about zoe
workers, was settled Monday af-
ter partial wage increases and
shop committee recognition was
granted by the company. The
basis of settlement which was ac-
copied by a meeting of the strik-
ers after hearing report of their
strike committee included:
ID The minimum day rate
shall be raised from 40 to 80 cents
per hour. Cd Increases of prices
on piece work jobs shall be from
to Is per cent. 80 All points
in demands for sanitary conditions
granted. (4) Shop Committee is
recognized and members of the
Committees will be paid for al
time lost in conferences with the
company.
The strikers meeting gave 6
rising vote of thanks to the leader.
ship of the Steel and Meta
Workers Industrial Union and tx
Sam Krieger, Communist organ.
izer, for their assistance in con.
Quoting the strike. All former
strikers have become members O.
the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
Strike of Railroad
Section Gang Solid
Issue Now Centers on
Reinstatement

Daily Worker Midwest Bureau
CHICAGO, June 22.-The strike
of the extra gang of the Milwaukee
Railroad at Bellingham, Washing
ton, is still solid. These strikers
have been putting up a militant
fight for conditions on the job sim
liar to that of a regular section
gang. Twenty men are involved in
this action.
The Railroad Brotherhoods' Unity
Movement here today stated that
the company has been forced to put
in a regular section gang at Bell
ingham, thereby granting the de-
mands of the workers.
"Howevre," the unity movement
statement declares: I'm order to
break the militant organization of
the workers and to intimidate work
ers in other departments to prevent
extension of similar action among
the other men where thousands of
similar grievances exist" the COM
pany has refused to reinstate the
strikers.
THE strike now centers on this
issue. The Bellingham unity COM
mittee which is affiliated with the
National Unity Movement, is rally
ing workers in other departments
in support of the strike and is visit
ing lodges of the Railroad Brother
hoods, and United Mine Workers
and Longshoremen locals. In ad-
dition, leaflets are being issued on
the Milwaukee Road in Chicago
calling for solidarity with the
strikers"
A relief committee has been set
up to care for the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
THE QUESTION BOX
Children's Editor:

Children's Editor.
have read the statement of the
Scottsboro boys and have known all
about them from the beginning.
My idea might be altogether diff
ferent and maybe not. I think it is
shame and sin to keep those in
nocent boys in prison for something
they have not done.
My questions are: Why should they
be condemned to die? Did they
commit the crime? They have been
proved innocent. Why are they
keeping them? They are young.
They should be at home; on job,
or in school trying to make the best
of things.
Just because they are of the black
race that does not mean that they
should die. That is not reason.
The International Labor Defense
is trying very hard to set them free.
They have not succeeded so far, but,
practice makes perfect.
My mother and father and many
relatives and friends have worked
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
Mar Morrow
Me-

ing the whites enslaved as we'll as
the Negroes. The wage scale is
very low, so that the factory and
plantation owners can make more
profits The wages are even lower
than those of the North.
But make no mistake. The poor
white in the South is very little
better off than the poor Negro. In
order to keep the white worker con-
tent with his miserable lot, the
bosses tell him that he is better
than the Negro. The bosses don't
care boot about race superiority.
All they really care about is their
profits. And to safeguard these
rSofits, the Negro people are sup
pressed. The bosses encourage
lynching and race hatred. Hatred
keeps the whites and blacks sepa-
rated. The bosses are afraid they
will unite. They know that Negro
and white together would be too
strong power and would9force the
bosses to give up some of their
profits.
The Scottsboro boys were framed
and thrown into jail because they
are poor Negro workers. They are
kept there as part of the bosses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23

failure of leaflets to direct the ac-
tons of the masses makes them
general, abstract and purposeless.
This is especially significant when
we stop to realize that whereas an
agitator or organizer reaches sew
eral hundred, a leaflet can reach
even millions of workers. 1t is bet
ter to round-out our agitation and
propaganda with simple, practical
organization directives TO the work.
ers. as for example, Reject Roose-
velt's Arbitration Pian;" Elect
Rank and File Committees; Fight
for Mass Strike Meetings" mo
Settlement without a Rank and
File Vote" Spread the Strikel No
Delay! Don't Give Company a
Chance to Mobilize Their Forest"
Organize Mass Picketingl" etc.
1t is this important feature, the
incorporation Of organization direc-
tives, that has increased the value
of the editorials of the Daily
Worker. In this way the editorial or
leafet actually guides the masses
in struggle. This is detail Of great
political Importance.
A clearer formulation is needed
than contained in the Manual" Of
the difference between a union
lesfet" as the expression of The
position of the union as an eco
nOE1ic organization" and the Com
munist Party leafet" making clear
the Communist position with regard
to the strike" To>improve its value
as a guide, the Manual should be
theoretically clearer on the differ.
ence between the union and Party
leaf1et than the introduction.
Ito be cOntinued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
Homer City Local
Elects Rank and
File Officers
District Office Trying
To Void Election
by Miners
BY a Mine Worker Correspondent

HOMER CITY, Pau. M. W. A.
local 494 of Homer City, Pa, has
elected rank and file officers. Two
out of three of the officers chosen
are rank and file workers.
Matthew Smith, for Mine Commit
tee man, pulled 100 votes, Mike
Romanik pulled 81 votes for Check
Weighman, John Taylor, the third
comrade, lost out by votes.
The company sucker and the dis
trict Office are trying to protest the
election by using the excuse that
you can't campaign for any candi-
dates. The takers are trying to
throw the militant workers out Of
Office.
This the rank and file will fight,
and demand democracy in the local
union. The rank and file opposition
has gained a few demands.
y 10 cents for ross bars. q IS
cents for Cal of rock. 81 AZ cents
for car of bony. Before the rank
and file opposition won this, the
workers had to put cross bars for
80 cents and load rock and bony for
nothing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23

same machine didn't give us any
guidance at the time when the
super laid most of them off April 9.
The workers refused to go in for
one hour and the super laid most of
the inspectors off for that day. But
they went to the district president,
and John Chinque told them that
the operators can have as many
inspectors as they pleased. So fell
low workers, when us workers burst
the chain, our officials who are the
Lewis machine weld it back to favor
the operators.
Now what we need to do is to
clean up the officialdom and fill it
ir with real rank and file members
from inside the mine, and then we
will have a real rank and file, and
bona f1de union.
We already had the super de-
feated. But our officials won the big
victory back for the super.
So, shall we elect new officials
and have a fighting union, or shall
we keep the same bunch of crooks
and have company union?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
By a Mine worker Correspondent


BESSEldER, Ala. - The unem-
ployed workers in Bessemer are
facing the fact that the welfare is
not supplying enough food, and in
many cases is cutting off relief
orders. We have to make out on
one or two very poor meals a day
The property owners are getting
together to clean all the unem-
ployed. who cannot pay rent, out of
their homes.
The Tennessee Coal g. Iron Co.
has notified all ore strikers families
near the stock ore pile, also the
Sloss- Sheffield strikers near there, to
vacate at once. The idea is to
clear the battle-ground because they
expect trouble when they try to
ship stock ore. All other strikers
families have been ordered to vacate
company houses by June 80. They
were notified by the T. c. I. labor
agent, A. D. Maddox. This is a good
example of the duties of company
union Understanding workers out
of their homes.
Chief of Police Seph Ross ordered
the National Guard to patrol the
streets of Bessemer to terrorize the
citizens. They scatter all groups of
workers on street corners.
Last week National Guardsmen
bayoneted a IA year old boy for
calling them "Tinhorns" and the
boy is still in the hospital, The
main purpose of using the National
Guard is to terrorize strikers and
to smash the picket lines.
A committee from the Unemployed
Council of the International Union
of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers,
won six relief cases and prevented
six evictions this week. Militant
workers in the organization are or
ganizing relief and rent committees
to get relief for all needy cases in
Bessemer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
ViCtimized Miners
Find No Strength in
P. NJ. A. leadership
BY a Worker Correspondent

KINCAID, ul.-After two years
of the most brutal suppression of
the striking PIMA. miners in the
Midland territory, the Peabody Coal
Co. is now master of the situation
thanks to the PIMA. leadership's
rIlicy of no picketing, separate
agreements, and peaceful court pro-
cedure.
The striking miners, still full of
heroic determination to win the
fight. but held back from activity
by the promises Of the PIMA. lead
ership, today find the Peabody
mines operating full blast with U.
M. w. A. scabs, who not only live
all around them, but have grown
so insulting and bold, that today
the strikers are on the defensive
must go armed, and find it neces-
sary to guard their properties with
nightly vigils, much in the manner
of our frontiersmen.
Half of the middle class is with
them. Insult upon insult has been
heaped upon the strikers by the
local and national government. Only
torch is needed to kindle the
Smouldering blaze of resentment. If
only the leaders would give the word
the Toledo strike would be enacted
thousandfold more intensely.
The PIMA. leadership knows that
in the Midland, it is sitting on a
powder key. To drop these strikers
would be great relief, but they
cannot do it openly, so they have
reSorted to every trick in the roper
toire of modern misleader. The
latest distortion painted before the
eyes of the workers. was a demand
for a State referendum on the mine
controversy. This could not solve
the trouble.
Because he has been accused Of
trying to make company union
out of the PIMA, Pearcy openly
comes out and admits that before
they will return to the UM.W.A.
they would rather go into COM
pany union. Only recently he prom
ised the miners that he would re-
turn to the U.M.W.A. if the refer
endum so decided.
The strikers find their hands tied
today. A bit of miserable relief is
doled out by the relief committee,
but until recently, no fight was
made for State relief.
The leadership in and out is
mainly composed of job seekers. The
people must wake up and elect an
entirely new slate from the young
rank and file who have not had
the contaminated experience of the
older leaders. The PIMA. cannot
hope to spread into West Va, when
its own State is unorganized neither
can it grow upon the filthy carcasses
of double crossing leaders willing to
bring in few stray sheep for a
consideration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23

scheme to keep the Negroes and
whites in the South divided against
each other.
The white race will not let the
Negro race fall" Bertha. Because
ii it falls, the white race will fall
also. So you see, this is the con-
Germ of both. Only fighting together
will each be FREQ of their oppressors.
All over the country Negroes and
whites are learning to fight to-
gether.
One thing more. All race superb
ority is bunk. Bosses invented and
encourage it because they've always
found it useful. For example, the
English bosses have always called
the Irish people inferior, said that
they were drunken, illiterate and
unfit to govern themselves. They
say that to the people in India, too.
Hitler, the mad dog of Europe used
the same stunt. The reason in all
these cases is the same. The bosses
want the different parts of the
working class to fight each other SO
the boss can gyp all workers more
easily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
IE@N 8
UeH the Hegu,sp
1SSsssN s ssgss;i ss4s &M
YOU CAN LEARN ABOUT WOMEN
AND FARM--FROM THESE

IN ADDITION to Women and So
cialism" CBebeD, and Women
who Work" (Hutchins), with the
supplementary books listed yester-
day, there are a number Of PAM
phletS dealing with Women'S and
farmers situations and problems.
Similar to the book, but very
brief, is Grace Hutchins' pamphlet,
Women Who Work" selling at five
cents. There are THE American
Farmer" by George Anstron, and
Modern Farming, Soviet Style by
Anna Louise Strong, a pair that
should have wide distribution among
our rural population leach ten
cents. At five cents there's Chill
dren Under Capitalism" Grace
Hutchins). Also her Women and
War
AT penny each is Our Children
Cry for Bread" by Sadie Van Veen
AN Unemployment Council leaflet.
The final chapter of Clara zet-
kin's "reminiscences of Lenin," is
available in pamphlet form at five
cents as "Lenin on the Woman
Question"
Then, by way of furnishing a
concrete picture of what's being
done in Socialist lands, there are
Chinese Toiling Women" 1.-THE
Working Woman in the Soviet
Union" by Sibiriak, at five cents.
collective Farm Trud," as told by
Eudoxia Pazukhina (ten cents).
which will make you laugh, and cry
too, maybe; it gorgeous. Similar
to this is "Kolkozniki," same price.
There's list of IA pamphlets, in
Guiding those mentioned, on collec-
tive farming, in the catalogue of
the Workers Bookshop, which cata-
logue will of course be forwarded
to Comrade B. B. B.
In case of meeting with any of
the moth-eaten old capitalist-in-
splred fish-stories about the ma
tionalization of woman, ETC., have
handy a copy of The Soviet Law
on Marriage" Give cents, which
plainly shows how the kids of the
U. S. S. R. get real break and
no monkey business by bad-tem-
pered or irresponsible parents al
lowed.
Last but not least-a copy of the
Communist Manifesto Ca dime. It
should be read and re-read. Part
II, "Proletarians and Communists.
contains the paragraphs dealing
with family relationships as de-
termined by the bourgeois private
property system.
Don't be afraid to move for
fear of making mistakes: that
would be the greatest of all mis-
takes. If method or argument
plainly does not succeed, abandon
it after fair trial. Clara zetkin
quotes Lenin to this effect: Mon
sense! That danger lie, of
making minor errors-HL.) is pres
ent in everything that we do and
say. If we were to be deferred by
fear of doing that from doing what
is correct and necessary, we might
as well become Indian Stylitas.
Don't move, don't move, we can
contemplate our principles from a
high pillar! According to the
prevailing circumstances, we must
fight now for this, now for that.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
acts About the
SmeIt0r Strike
Ry a Worker Correspondent

GREAT FALLS, Mont. = The
Great Falls smelter closed last week.
The smeltermen were ordered out
by the International "a month after
the Butte miners struck" after they
had filed all orders and stocked
their fabrication plants back East
for at least a year. The smeltermen
did not vote to strike, as had been
reported.
A strike vote was taken some time
ago, but of the 1000 or so men, only
around 600 voted, partly due to the
trickery of the officers, in reporting
that only those with paid up cards
were eligible to vote. They lacked
10 or 20 votes of getting the two
thirds majority required before the
local could call strike.
The smeltermen forced the Local
Relief Commission to promise to
feed all strikers that apply for aid
before they are investigated. Moth
ing was said, however, so I under
stand, about rent, light, fuel, or
evictions, clothing or medical atten-
ton.