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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
All Organizations Urged
to Send Delegates to
April IA Conference

pones the meeting for two hours
and prolongs it to such an hour
that will make it impossible for
us to successfully carry out our eve
ming mass meeting in Madison
Square Garden. This decision Of
the Police Department upsets ar
rangemerts already made involving
over 100000 workers.
we wish to inform you that the
hundreds of working class organiza-
tons involved in the United May
Day Committee which is arranging
for the demonstration, and also the
New York District of the Commu-
mist Party cannot accept this sched-
ule,
"Our organizations have already
been notified of the time of the
parade, and Of the mass meeting
on Union Square, and it is too late
now to revise the whole plan. We
consequently are obliged to insist on
the original application from l pm.
to pm
The May Day Arrangements Com
nittee urges workers groups to send
delegates to the Great United Front
May Day Conference, to help or
ganize mighty May Day demon
stration of 100000 New York work
ers. They call upon women in the
neighbornood and in the shop; Ne
gro workers, Jewish workers and
workers of all creed and color tc
join in the mighty May Day land
slide of united ranks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
Nazi Admits
Torture OF
ThaeInann
5000 Hear Delegates
of Paris Workers Report
on Berlin Visit

PARIS, Mar. 16 (By Mail).
Eight thousand Paris work.
ers last night heard the re-
port of a workers delegation
elected by the workers of ID
large Paris plants under the aus
pieces of the World Committee
Against War and Fascism, to visit
Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the
German Communist Party, in the
Berlin dungeon where he is kept by
the Nazis. They had returned, hav-
ing been unable to see the German
leader.
But what they were told by one
of the many NaZi officials they
interviewed confirms the fact,
previously made public, that
Thaelmann has been subjected to
brutal tOrtures by the Nazis.
They demanded to see Thael-
mann, saying that alarming reports
have been spread that he is serious
ly i'll.
But Thaelmann is better now,
said State Councillor Schmolz, in
perfect French to the delegates
Immediately he discovered his slip
Redeemed, and tried to correct him
self and said he meant that Thael-
mann was well.
The delegates, Clement Laiteau, a
worker from the st. Denis gas
works, and Maurice zenine, a ply
sician, were finally told that they
could not be recognized unless they
were recommended by the French
embassy.
The French embassy refused to
have anything to do with the
workers, thus showing how ready
the French government is to assist
the Nazi butchers against the
workers.
why do you want to see Thael-
mann, more than anyone else?" all
the Nazi functionaries asked.
Paris Workers Paid Expenses
Because for us he is the repre-
sentative of the political prisoners
in Germany" answered the French
workers.
Where did you get the money
for your trip" they were asked.
They answered that the money was
raised by 1000 gas house workers
and 5000 railway workers of, Paris
who had elected the two worker
delegates.
Finally, after four days of making
the rounds of all official depart
ments in Berlin, the delegates were
definitely told that the Nazis would
not let them see Thaelmann.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
United Front Committee
Sets Time at / o'clock;
Rejects Police Plan

NEW YORK.-The May Day ar
rangements committee announces
that Union Square has been pro-
cured from 1 pm. to pm. on
May First, for the use of New York
workers who will pour out of shops,
factories, and neighborhoods, to
flood the metropolitan streets on
International solidarity day.
Union Square with its long tradi-
ton as the focal point of demon
strating revolutionary workers will
once again feel the throb of tens
Of thousar Is of marchers thunder
ing their rning demands on May
Day.
The May Day Arrangements Com
mittee cal upon all workers
groups, uni ms, clubs, councils, to
elect delega ,es to the United Front
May Day Conference to be held on
April IA at l pm. in Webster Hall,
119 E. 18th st.
Police Commissioner Ryan has
been inforled of the May Day plans
in the application for use of Union
Square. In a letter to the Com
missioner, the May Day Arrange
ments Committee stated as follows:
Some time ago, we applied to
Captain Day Of the 18th Precinct
for Permit to use Union Square
from l pm. to pm. on May First.
Captain Day referred us to the
Chief Inspector of Police with whom
we filcd an application.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
Detroit, Pittsburgh Lag in
Orders for May Day Edition

er struggles, has ordered only $4,000
copies, a drop of 10000 from the U.s.
900 order it placed for the Tenth
Anniversary edition. Where is the
actual carrying out of our slogan,
Double the Tenth Anniversary edi-
ton orders? Detroit should order
$4,000 to fully accomplish this slogan
in practice.
The inadequacy of Detroit's $4,000
order is thrown into sharper relief
if it is compared with Seattle's or
der of $4,000 copies.
Pittsburgh, too, which ordered
only 1000 copies of the May Day
edition, has dropped from the over
10000 copy order it placed for the
Tenth Anniversary edition.
New Jerseys 10000 order is tenta-
tive; it has set itself a quota of
10000, of which this 10000 has al
ready been definitely ordered.
The tagging districts ought to
wake up, get into action, immedi-
ately. There is little time left. Put
into action the slogan of doubling
the Tenth Anniversary edition or
dersl Achieve the half-million-
copy goal throughout the country
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02

With a little over month left
until May 1. the business Office of
the Daily Worker yesterday made
known the following orders which
have been placed for the special "a
page half-million-copy May Day
edition:
New York, 100000; Chicago, 35,-
900; Cleveland, 10000; Philadelphia,
10000; Detroit, $4,000; Seattle, 49,
600; Denver, Boston and New Jersey
10000 each; and Pittsburgh, 1000,
These orders, together with smaller
one which have come from differ
ent parts of the country, have raised
the total of May Day edition copies
order to well over $4,000 SO far.
Several districts, however, still lag
behind in their activities for the
preparation of a half -million-copy
sales on May LIST. These include
districts which have already ordered
bundles as we'll as several from
which no word has yet been re-
ceived.
Detroit, for example, national CEN
ter of the automobile industry,
where thousands of workers are
rapidly, despite the A. F.. of L. and
N,R.A, sell-out, preparing for great
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
Workers Take Over
JugOslav Fascist
Meeting in Chicago
(DaiIy Worker MIDWEST Rurear

DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)
CHICAGO.-Revolutionary work.
ers took over the floor at a meet
ing of 600 workers last Sunday at
18th st. and Ashland Ave, called
by the fascist Jugoslav Central Or
ganization, and had two resolutions.
against Jugoslav fascism passed by
the assemblage.
The first resolution, addressed to
King Alexander of Jugoslavia. de-
manded that the fascist terror there
be stopped and. that all class war
prisoners be released. The second
demanded the removal of the local
Jugoslav Consulate.
After priests and others had
given reactionary talks, militant
workers took the floor and. though
one was thrown from the platform,
had both resolutions passed mani-
mously. Many of the fascist lead
ers then ran from the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
Z. S. Workers Elect Delegates
To Visit MoscoU for May Day

NEW YORK. The campaign of
the Friends of the Soviet Union and
the trade unions to elect at least
ten workers in various American
industrial centers as delegates to
the Soviet Union, is making head
way. Thus far. the prospects are
that the following delegates will be
sent:
Westinghouse worker fro m
Pittsburgh.
Chemical worker from Lancas-
ter, Pa.
Textile worker from Paterson.
Negro lOngshOreman from Nor
folk or Baltimore.
Textile worker from Philadelphia.
Metal Worker from New York.
Textile dyehouse worker from
Lodi, N. ].
Textile worker from Pawtucket.
Miner from So. Illinois.
Radio worker from Camden,
n. ].
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02

The delegates will sail from New
York City on April IA on the lie de
France. They will attend the his
toric May Day celebration on Red
Square, Moscow, as guests of the
Soviet trade unions. Then they
will make tour of investigation
through various socialist cities, in
dustrial centers and collective
farms.
The F.S.U. emphasizes that there
is no more effective way to bring
home the truth about the Soviet
Union to the American masses than
to elect such delegates. Hence the
emphasis placed upon the election
of the delegates from basic indus
tries and from big industrial plants.
All who wish to help in the cam
paign for delegates are urged to
send the funds collected in to the
NatioreI Office of the Friends of
the u Union, 80 E. 18th St.,
New - hk
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
Noted Soviet Flyer
Injured By Crash
In Rescue Attempt
Levanevsky, Mattern 5
Rescuer, Forced
Down By Ice


MOSCOW, April 1, (By Radio -
F. A. Levanevsi1y. Soviet aviator who
last year rescued James Mattern,
was slightly injured when the nine
passenger plane he was plotting
crashed on it's way to the rescue of
the SO remaining members of the
Chelyuskin artic expedition who are
camping on an ice-floe in the Boring
Sea.
A radiogram from Professor
George A. Ushakov, leader Of a
rescue expedition, reports: IT flew
with Levanovsky from Nome, Alaska,
to Cape Van Karen, Siberia. The
weather changed suddenly at Cape
Oman. Within five minutes a
dense fog came down. Wishing to
break through and go back, Levan-
evsky assembled $500 meters, but
could not get above the fog. Within
ten minutes the plane was coated
with ice and started rapidly losing
speed and falling. The pilot sue
ceeded in keeping the plane on an
even keel, but was forced to land
ing. The undercarriage was carried
away as we struck land, and the
plane bounced twice before coming
to a stop. Levanevsky's face was
injured, the others are unhurt. That
we are all alive is due to the self
control of the pilot"
Accompanying Ushakov and Lev
anevsky was Clyde Armistead
American mechanic. The two Rus
slams came to Nome by way of New
York, buying two big planes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
Red Flag Flies
On Grave of
Austrian Hero
DOllfuss Has TO Cancel
"Patriotic Parade
In Vienna

VIENNA, April IA red
flag flew yesterday on a pine
tree over the grave of Kolo-
man Wallisch, Mayor of Bruck,
leader of anti-fascist fighters,
who was hanged by the Dollfuss-
Heimwehr terror court, after work
ers twice attempted to demonstrate
at the. grave in Leoben.
In Klagenfurt, one of the first
juries set up to try workers arrested
after the anti-fascist fighting re-
fused to convict two workers for
distributing leaflets attacking the
Dollfus s-Heimwehr government
This occurred despite the fact that
according to the fascist jury sys-
TEN judges and jury consult toge-
ther. Despite the acquittal, one Of
the workers was held for a second
trial.
Jury Lists Purified"
In preparation for mass jury
trials of workers, the jurors list is
being combed by special order, to
remove from it all men under 40
years, and all whose conduct as a
citizen is not irreproachable." In
Vienna alone, 1900 persons are to
be brought for trial before these
juries.
The twice postponed parade OF
the Patriotic Front in Vienna has
been put off indefinitely. The
reason is that the government has
made no progress toward the Co
ordination" of the workers in the
capital, and Dollfuss dares not ven
ture to address them. The "cele-
bration" has taken place in most
other centers in Austria.
Seventeen hundred Vienna police
men have claimed the right to take
over the homes of workers in the
fine model workers tenements of
Vienna. Already 300 workers fam
lilies have been evicted to make
room for policemen and their fam
lilies.
Balance Sheet of Terror
The balance sheet of terrorist
Justice" against the insurgent
workers of Austria, up to March Is,
excluding the hangings, are as fol-
lows: six workers sentenced to hard
labor for life, six to 20 years, ten
to Is years, six to II years, four to
10 years, and seven to 5 to 8 years.
The courts-martial have imposed
sentences at hard labor totaling 500
years.
The management of the Austrian
federal railways has announced that
1000 more railway workers are to
be laid off, in addition to mass lay
offs in recent months, which have
brought the force down to $4,000
workers. The layoffs are to be
based on militancy and political ac-
tiyity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
Sen. Copeland ''Crinee Program" Bills
Designed to Suppress Militant Labor
MEASURES SPONSORED BY RED BATTER WILLIAM R. HEARST
y RED BATTER WILLIAM R. HEARST

prosecuted under antitrust laws.
But this, said the attorney general
was designed primarily to prevent
and punish capitalistic combinations
and monopolies, and because of the
many limitations engrafted upon the
act by interpretations of the courts,
the act is not well suited for pro-
secution Of persons who commit acts
of violence, intimidation, and ex-
tortion. the accompanying statute
is designed to void many of the en-
barrassing limitations in the work
ing Interpretation of the Sherman
(anti trust) Act"
Senator Stephens told the Senate
that crime has reached very large
proportions" and that based on
that and other considerations as
welI,' the bills were introduced.
The other considerations, it is very
well known here, are the rising
strike wave and labor's fight to en-
force its right to organize and bar
gain collectively.
Other bills passed by the Senate
without a record vote would make
it unlawful for anyone to flee from
one state to another for the purpose
of avoiding prosecution (bold face)
or the giving Of testimony in certain
cases." would amend the Federal
kidnapping act to declare that cit
shall be presumed" that anyone
missing for three days has been
kidnapped" and that anyone aid
ing in transporting him beyond
state boundaries should be subject
to prosecution for kidnapping;
would make it a felony to transmit
or aid in the transmission of any
letter or message from any federal
penal correctional institution or any
inmate otherwise than in accord
ance with the rules and regulations
governing" this; would make it a
crime punishable by $4,000 fine and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
Last Week's Ne,O Sub, 62O;
More Forces Needed in DriUe

NEW YORK.-A total of $40 new
Daily Worker subs were sent in by
the Districts during the week end
ing March %, decline of 40 from
the $50 sent in during the week
ending March 81.
The decline was on daily subs,
only 278 coming in last week,
against 432 the week before. New
Saturday subs last week totaled 342,
an increase of ia over the 228 that
came in the previous week.
The following table shows the
number of new daily and Saturday
subs each district sent in during
the week ending March %, COM
pared with the number obtained in
the week ending March 81.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
Daily Worker Washington Bureau.

(DdIly Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, April Five Of
the thirty anti-labor bills in the So
called Copeland crime program
bills designed to suppress militant
and union action by labor under the
subterfuge of putting down racket
eering and gangsteism-were passed
by the Senate without a record vote
last week, Friday the White House
announced President Roosevelt is
pushing the whole program.
Louis Howe, political advisor and
secretary to the President, informed
nswspapermen that the President
wants all those anti racketeering
bills passed.
These measures are sponsored by
William Randolph Hearst, the red
batting publisher They were in
PRODUCED by DR.. Royal S. Copeland,
Tammany Senator.
Also pending in Congress are a
number Of "anti-sedition" bills,
aimed direct, according to their
sponsors, at the Communist Party
and other radical groups.
Without public hearing and with
short but telling discussion. the
Senate rushed the bills through
yesterday with all quietness and
dispatch. One of the bills thus
passed is so openly anti-labor that
even American Federation of Labor
officials to day privately confessed
it is very dangerous" These
measures call for mass protests
direct to Copeland and to the
Speaker of the House, which must
pass them before they can become
law.
One Of the bills approved by the
Senate declares:
ANY person who, in connection
with or in relation to any act in
any way or to any degree affect
ing, burdening, hlndering, des-
troying, sitting, or diverting trade
or commerce, commits or threat
ems to commit any act of violence.
intimidation, or injury to a person
or property, coerees or attempts
TO cOerce any person, firm, asso-
citation or corporation to Join or
not to join an association, firm.
corporation or group. or coerces
Or attempts to coerce any person,
firm, etc, to do an act which such
person, firm, ETC., has legal right
not to do. :. shall, upon conviction
thereof, be guilty of felony"
Quick to admit that this bill
would be used to suppress union or
ganization as well as militant group
protests, etc, the A. F. of L. off,
Gals compared it with the Lever act
Of the world war days, used precisely
this way and worded similarly
though less drastically, and repealed
in 1922.
Senator Stephens, reactionary
Mississippi democrat, defended the
bill by telling the Senate that the
attorney general appeared before q
secret meeting of the senate Judi
ciary committee and urged enact
ment. In memorandum the at
torney general explained that "anti
racketeering" formerly had been
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02

ten years imprisonment to use a
dangerous weapon" to forcibly
resist, oppose, impede, intimidate or
interfere with any official inspector,
agent or other officer or employee of
the United States engaged in the
performance of his official duties"
Democratic leader Robinson of
Arkansas called for enactment of
the whole program, and democratic
Senator Ashurst of Arizona repeated
that the attorney general 'vehe-
mently urged the passage of the
bills"
Without exception?" asked Sena-
tor Walsh of Massachusetts.
yes without exception"
Typical of the bills aimed direct
at radical activities is one by
Representative Mcleod of Michigan
(DetroiD, to make it unlawful
for any person to advocate or
advise the overthrow, or to write,
or knowingly to print, publish,
utter, sell, or distribute any docu-
ment, book, circular, paper, jour-
nal. or by transmission by radio
in or by which there is advised
the overthrow by violence or by
physical injury to person or prop
erty of the government of the
United States"
This bill provides a 5000 fine and
five years imprisonment, or either
for use of the mails for such mate
rails, and would take citizenship
away from naturalized citizens
Mcleod told your correspondent
that he has little hope of enact
ment of this bill at this session OF
Congress. That conforms to the
general impression around the
capitol. However, this bill, similar
to a host of others already intro
duced, is but natural follow-up of
the anti-labor measures now being
pushed by Roosevelt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
SWEDISH TAXI DRIVERS ON
STRIKE

STOCKHOLM, Sweden.-The taxi
drivers of Upsala have been on
strike since March 8, against wage
cut from As crowns to IS crowns
and the abolishing Of the percentage
system. The cab owners are work.
ing as scabs. The refornist leaders
of the gas station workers union
have refused to permit a sympathy
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
TERROR IN CzECHosLovAKIA

PRAGUE.-The nationwide pro-
test movement grew in intensity
last week as the trial of 618 Young
Communists, the greatest mass trial
in history, approached. All are
charged with engaging in forbidden
party activities.
Of the 81 workers tried last week
for organizing strike demonstrations
among the quarrymen in Skutec, 40
were given sentences varying from
two to ten months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
OPEN FIRST CONCENTRATION
CAMP IN SPAIN

MADRID. - The Lerroux-Roblesi
governments newest fascist move
was uncovered last week.
1t was learned that the first Of
a series of concentration camps for
political prisoners was to be opened
soon on the Canary Islands.
The first consignment of political
prisoners. 200 in all, we're to be sent
there this week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
GERMANY SHIPS ARMS TO
SPANISH FASCISTS

MADRID.-The approaching at
tempt at Fascist coup d'etat" be-
came more manifest last week with
the discovery of a consignment of
machine guns, revolvers, and other
arms aboard the Spanish ship, La
rache, in Cadiz. The arms, adj
dressed to a leading fascist here,
were from Germany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
New Daily Subs New Sat. Subs
Mar. g Mar. u Mar. % Mar.21
TOTAL a7s 4sa s42 22e

The above chart shows that had
it not been for the sharp gains
made by Districts and 8, Cleve-
land and Chicago, respectively, on
new Saturday subs, our last weeks
total would have been at very
low point.
This means that most of the dis
tricts are not intensifying the CAM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
Ills Workers to Union Sq for May Day Meeting

1--WE have since been notified by
Captain Day that the Police De-
partment has granted us the use of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02

Union Square from 8 to pm. We
feel that this grant is tantamount
to denying of the permit, as it post
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02

MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1884
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-02
By Blosser

full Of cheer. Now. run along and find her. She'll be glad to meet you all"
 Wee Windy then rushed to the well. "i want to wash. so I'll look swell" said he. 'I like to look real nice when on girl call
 
 It wasn't long until they saw the little girl. Twas Margery Daw. "Oh. goody. goody." she exclaimed. "J hope you've come to play.
 "I have teeter log right here. The big plank for 1t is real near. couldn't life the plank. so 1 have had no ride today
 wen get 1t quickly as we can.' two Times yelled. and off they ran. The plank was leaning 'gainst a tree. Be careful" one lad cried.
 And then they lifted it up high and started back. Said Windy. "f am really very thrilled. because think we'll get a ride"
 Copyright ig34. NkA Service Incl (ibmncy tries bie tuck 0n tie tceter-tOster in the next story.l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-02

The iadybug's fine home was saved, and my. how little Dncy raved about the way that he'd thrown ater on the roaring blaze.
 I'm just as proud as can be. because I fooled you aIl.' said he. You thought. instead of working. I would stand here in daze."
 "Weli. we'll admit you did your share, but. after all, twas only fair" said Scouty. We all helped. but we are not the bragging sort.
 ''As far as I'm concerned, 'twas grand to have q chance to lend a hand. You call what you have done real work. TO me twas just good sport"
 The laAybug then said. T don't know how to thank you. so l won't. You all know 1 appreciate the fine thing you have done.
 s'Instead of burned down 10 the ground. my little homes now safe and sound. Now ] will tell you where to so to have a heap of fun.
 Right down the road, not far <xom here, you'll find . lass who's
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-02

(ismnry tries bia tuck m tlhe ieeier-tOtter im the next sfOFg.l