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Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-22
NEW YORK POLICE CONDUCT WIDE
SEARCH FOR BOLD BANDIT GANG
No Definite Clues Obtained To Perpetrators
Of Armored Car Robbery Which Melted
Thieves $427,OOO

be found. Over the highways Of
five states the man-hunt pene-
trated every possible avenue of es-
cape.
But If police had found any clue,
save a possible discovery of empty
money bags discarded by the gang,
they concealed their information.
Every indication was that the out
laws who raided the truck and
fled by automobile and boat with
the precision of actors in a we'll
rehearsed drama had made such
thorough plans that their trail
was already cold.
The holdup plot involved several
ingenious maneuvers to throw po-
lice off the trail of the fleeing au-
tomobiles and there was the pos
sibility that the switch to speed
boats was merely another blind in
tended to cover the back-tracking
of the outlaws to some safe hide
out not far from the scene OF the
holdup.
Somebody made blueprints for
that job,n one police official said.
"This wasn't any ordinary job. 1t
was done by somebody with military
ability and experience. There's no.
body in New York gangs that could
have done it. This is something
new.o
Hint Master Mind
With the grave probability that
they were dealing with a unique
"master mind'' directing their
search, the police were cautious but
determined in their drive to seize
the outlaws.
The task of overpowering the
truck guards, who had already op-
ened the doors to get out, requir-
ed but a few moments. Laborers
at the plant were threatened with
pistols. The money bags were toss
ed into the automobiles, which col
lected the gang and sped away only
to circle back to the waterfront.
Today all of the modern police
devices seemedI to have failed. The
plotter of the crime had anticipat-
ed most of them. The only slip in
execution of the crime-the drop
ping of a sub-machine gun by one
bandit-failed to interrupt the es-
cape. Volleys fired at the fleeing
cars were ineffective.
Police orders to close all ferries,
bridges, railroad terminals, main
highways, had been anticipated by
the bandit leader He merely cir
cled his men back to Gravesend
bay. shifted them to boats and
sped away.
Planes and boats which took up
the search an hour or so later
were handicapped by the fact that
the bandits might easily have
landed elseWhere-Brooklyn, Long
Island, Staten Island. Manhattan,
or even New Jersey-or might lose
themselves among the countless
small boats in the harbor.
William Dempsey, vice president
of the U. S. Trucking company,
said today it was not unusual to car
ry up to half million dollars on
single trucks.
The corporation IS trucks went
about their business as usual to-
day, without any additional out
ward precautions,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-22
MOONEY PLEA
TURNED down
BY MERRIAM

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Aug. %.
W.P)-Gov. Frank F.. Merriam, fifth
California chief executive to whom
Tom Mooney has appealed, today
refused to give immediate consid-
Grafton to Moneys application for
a pardon.
Mooney is serving life term for
the Preparedness day bombings III
which 10 persons were killed in
San Francisco 18 years ago.
THE same matter has been be-
fore four preceding governors and
after lengthy investigation, the ap-.
plication was denied" said Mer-
riam, who is completing the un-
expired term of the late James
Rolph, Jr.
II feel that Governor Rolph
having denied the application, that
there is no immediate demand for
consideration of it for the four
year term to which he was elected.
while this will not prevent me
from giving it consideration, If I
find time and opportunity, do
not feel it necessary to give con-
sideration and decision until l
shall be elected for a succeeding
term"
Merriam is a candidate for the
Republican gubernatoriai nomina-
ton in next weeks primaries. Up
ton Sinclair, Socialist author seek
ing the Democratic nomination.
has promised to free Mooney II
elected.
Meanwhile the labor leaders at
.orneys are planning an appeal 70
the supreme court OF the United
States. based on the rejection by
lower federal courts OF applica-
tions for writs Of habeas corpus.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-22
ROBBERS GET LOOT

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. %. W.H -
Two bandits robbed c. A. Robin
son, cafe proprietor. of $1,000 to-
day as he was leaving a bank
where he had cashed paychecks of
motion picture patrons. The BAN
dts accosted him in parking lot
and fled in an automobile.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-22
Fits IMPROVING

LOS ANGELES, Aug. %. U.P)-
District Attorney Buron Fits, cri-
tically i'll for week of leg in
fection, was reported greatly i'm
proved" today. His physician, DR.
Ellis Jones, expressed the hope
that the prosecutor is we'll on the
road to recovery.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-22
@MlLL-
WYR!S9}s!;E

HSINGKING, (Manchukuo)
Aug. 81. (SpeciaD-No more
monkeyshines in Austria. The
Austrian chancellor has been
visiting Mussolini and learning
a lot. This fellow Benito is
running a free school for die
tators. They all come to him to
learn how to put it over. You
don't have to worry about die
tators in America until Rex
Tugwell passes his entrance
exams at Mussolini's academy.
Yours,
nix R1D,<>
slssG NsNaurht " aaissts, IhA
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-22
Baseball Scores
American League

Az fHlldQelpllld- N II II
st. Louis 900 900 000-0 8 0
PhiladelphH 100 001 00x-2 7 o
Blaeholder, Andrews and Hens
ley; Dietrich and Berry.
At New York Qst game) r H E
Cleveland 900 900 000-0 2 2
New York DOB 402 00x-9 IA 0
Pearson. Lee, Winegarner and
Berg; Gomez and Dickey.
At Boston, r H E
Chicago ............00l 100 0000-2 7 /
Boston 900 0l0 010 1-3 10 !
Tietje and Shea; w. Farrell and
r. Farrell.
At New York (2nd game) r H E
Cleveland ........0l2 10l 1910 IA
New York loo 900 300 10 l
Harper and Pytlak; Deshong
Murphy, Broaca and Dickey, Jor-
gems.
National League
No games scheduled.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-22
National League

No games scheduled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-02

United front of all of the workers against the ter
roristc preparations of the government for police
attacks the picket lines. Against the of
imported armed guards and police against
pcketing.
To carry out this effective strike action rank
and file strike committees should be elected in every
dye house to have complete control of all strike
tivities in that mill The General Strike Committee
should be enlarged to include more elected dele
gates from the shops. Regular and frequent meet
ings of the shop delegates and the local unions.
No settlement of the strike by arbitration or
otherwise, until all the demands of the strikers
are granted Internationally No final settlement
of the strike without the vote of all the strikers.
With 1500 silk workers already strike against
wage cuts and discrimination, the Communist
Party calls for a broadening of the silk strike to
call out all silk workers This would strengthen
both the fight OF the dyers and the fight of the silk
workers.
THESE are the purposes of the Communist Party
in the present dye strike. WHAT DOES MR..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-02
C Owe R N 0 R
WONT ACT
ON DEMANDS

While nearly 100 Hunger March
ers, victims of savage police attack
as they entered Albany Tuesday
night, lie in the Albany jails, Gov
ernor Lehman, in answer to the de-
mands Of delegation of nine Com
munist candidates, refused to take
any steps to free the marchers or
meet with their demands.
The delegation demanded that he
Immediately order the release OF the
jailed Hunger Marchers, order the
Albany police not to modest them
in any way, and proceed at once
to Albany to meet with the Hunger
Marchers.
The delegation of Communist
candidates was composed Of Fred
Biedenkapp, candidate for Judge Of
General Sessions; Williana Bur-
roughs, candidate for Lieutenant
Governor; Isidore Begun, candidate
for City Comptroller; Margaret
Cowl, candidate for State Senator;
Carl Brodsky, candidate for Assem-
blyman; Paul Crosbie, candidate for
Congressman; Message Olgin, can
didate for Congressman, and Ben
Gold, candidate for assemblyman.
AS the delegation finished stating
its demands for the Hunger March
ers in the name of the Communist
Continued on Poqe y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-02
ALLENTOWN DYERS TO Join STRIKE
District Is Sets Date
to Pass Quota
Especial to the Daily Yorker

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov 1.-The Buro
of District Is, after consultation with all Sec
ton organizers, has resolved to pass quota by
Nov Z, the seventeenth anniversary of October
Revolution. District BurO calls upon every
Party member and sympathizer in Connecticut
and Western Massachusetts, especially in
Springfield, Norwalk, New London, New Bri-
tain and Hartford, cities now trailing far be-
hind to spur drive. Our first duty is to help
sustain our greatest weapon in the class struggle.
/. WOFSY,
C. P. District Organizer, Connecticut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-02
STRIKE SHUTS. THAEL MANN
ELEVAT 0 RS FACES AXE,
IN MIDTOWN NAILS PROVE

BERLIN, Nov. bearing out the
warning of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party, that as
the trial of Ernst Thaelmann draws
nearer, the so-called Nazi Peoples
Court would show its real character
as court of execution, is the recent
announcement of the Fascist Min
istry Of Justice.
The statement of the execution
ers asserts that while previously the
Peoples Court" has been operating
under the liberal laws" of the
former Republican regime, from now
on the death sentence is automatic
and obligatory for all those accused
of treason against the state" This
proclamation, which places Thael-
mann directly before the execu-
toners axe, is a spur of alarm for
all anti-facists and workers in all
countries, who are under no illu-
sions as to the murderous intentions
of Hitler and his torturers.
Featured and chorused in the fas-
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-02
Chain Store
FightSpreads
To New York

The national strike of chain store
employees, beginning with the strike
Of the Cleveland employees of the
Great Atlantic and Pacific grocery
chain stores, spread today to this
city when it was announced by the
Grocery Chain Stores Executives
and Employees Association, aff1lia-
ted with the A. F. of L. Retail Clerks
international Protective Association,
that the Butler Chain Stores were
presented yesterday with a demand
for Is per cent increase in wages,
improved working conditions and
union recognition.
The Butler Chain operates 665
stores in New York, New Jersey and
vicinity, employing 1000 workers.
This brings the chain store strike
to a new level as the workers in
Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin are
already involved.
The strikes in these chain stores
herald a drive to unionize these
notorious open shop corporations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-02
MASS PICKET
Line AT MILL
IN CLIFF N
Auto Squads To Close
Mills in Allentown, Pa,
on Monday Morning

PATERSON, N. j., Nov. Auto
squads of strikers to go to Allen
town, Pa, early Monday morning
to call out the dyers there were ar
ranged at today's dye strikers
meeting.
The National Federation of Silk
and Rayon Dyers has again been
called to negotiate with the en-
ployers at Washington. The Ma
tional Textile Labor Board asked
that the union elect a committee
with full power to settle. George
Baldazani, president of the Dyers'
Federation, reported that the strik-
ers are leaving today. Il told them
that we could not have commit
tee with full power to settle, and
our proposals must first come be-
fore the strikers for approval" he
said. 81 don't know if they will
offer anything, but, if they do, I
will bring it before you"
Baldazani stated this while refer
ring to the Daily Worker, and the
continual insistence of the Commu-
mist Party that strike control and
settlement should be in the hands
of the rank and file. He expressed
doubt if the employers will offer
anything beyond the original pro-
posals, which he characterized as
rotten"
Last night, referring to the very
much published report that Cor
man predicted the end of the strike
this week, and is taking hand in
negotiations, Mr.. Baldazani stated:
I'VE don't know where Mr.. German
gets his facts, although we are will
ing to confer when reasonable an
swers are given to our demands.
The strike continues. The picket
lines are bigger"
Pickets at Rutherford
At East Rutherford and Clifton,
where bleacheries are located,
picket lines are assuming mass
form, and a line of at least 500
moved before the Eureka Print
works. At East Rutherford, when
yesterdays pickets were dispersed,
the police carried machine gun,
wore steel helmets and were equip
ped with riot guns and tear-gas.
This, in the minds of the strik-
erS, seems to contradict the high
praise given to the police by A. Am
nitrate, president of the Paterson
local and member of the U. T. w.
Executive Council, who said they
(the police we're friends of the
strikers. No dye plant made any
effort to operate today. Pickets
were stressed at each to keep a
close watch, and at today's strike
meeting the main stress was put on
the fact that many are not report
ing for picket duty, and that rain
or shine there must be continual
picket line.
Ammirato, President of Local
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-02
ANTHONY AMMIRATO, member of the

ANTHONY AMMIRATO, member of the
"A National Executive Council of the
United Textile Workers Union, is carrying
on an attack on the activity of Commu-
nists in the strike Of the New Jersey dye
workers, of which he is one of the leaders. Ammi-
ratio slugged young Communist, spoke in favor
of driving all Communists out of the strike and
pointed out twenty workers to the police on the
picket lines. He told the police these workers were
Communists and at his direction they were dragged
from the picket lines. Ammirato is trying to do
everything he can to keep the dye strikers from
reading the Daily Worker.
What is the program of the Communist Party
IN the dye strike which Ammirato is so fercey at
lacking? The Communist Partys program has been
clearly stated every day since the strike began The
Communist Party has as its main concern the
quickest VICTORY OF THE DYE STRIKE Every
one of our members is working for the winning of
all the demands of the dye strikers.
We have at heart the most effective means Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-02
AN DIT RIAL

winning the thirty hour week; the 81 an hour
minimum wage; an end to the stretchout and one
hundred per cent recognition of the union We aim
to close down every dye shop in the country and
keep it closed until the strikers win these demands
and all other demands which they are putting for
ward. This is the aim of the Communist Party in
the dye workers strike, that is, the aims of the
workers strike.
WHAT is the program of the Communist Party
for winning the strike, for victory for every one
of these demands?
Every dye striker knows that in order to win
the strike the following program must be put
into effect:-1) Mass picketing in order to close
and to keep closed, every dye house in the
try; q Solidarity and unity actions of all sections
of the workers in support of the strike including
employed and unemployed; Socialist, Communist
and party workers. workers of all political
beliefs; dye workers and non-dye workers; 81
Unity of employed and unemployed to force the
Emergency Relief Administration to pay adequate
relief to all strikers and unemployed workers; a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-02
Name of Ham Fish
On Socialist Party
Ballot in Goth C. d.

Checking on an Associated
Press report from Washington
that Hamilton Fish is listed as
the Socialist Party candidate
for Congress in the 10Th Con-
gress.onal District of New York,
the Daily Worker yesterday as
certained from the County Elec-
ton Commissioner of Putnam
County that the Socialist Party
is listed along with the Repub-
licaR and Law Preservation
Party as the parties under Fish's
name on the ballot.
When questioned, the State
office of the Socialist Party de-
clared that despite the appear
ance of Fish's name on the bal
lot, Fish had not received the
endorsement Of the Socialist
Party in this campaign.
Hamilton Fish Is one of the
country's most notorious reac-
tionaries and Red baiters.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-02
BIG PARADE
IN HARLEM
TOMORROW
Will Protest Lynching
of Neal and Terror
Drive i'm Atlanta

All members of the International
Workers Order were urged yester-
day by its City Central Committee
to turn out tomorrow afternoon for
the city-wide Scottsboro mass march
and demonstration in Harlem, called
by the International Labor Defense.
The mass fight for the boys is also
supported by a group of revolu-
tionary writers of eight countries,
whose appeal appears below.
Coincident with the protest ac-
tons, the I. L. D. announced that
it is speeding the appeals TO the
u. S. Supreme Court against the
legal lynching decreed by the Ala
bama lynch rulers for two of the
boys on Dec. 7 Application for re-
view Of the appeals was filed with
the court by Attorneys FraenkeI,
Brodsky and Pollak for the l. l.. D..
The 1. L. D. is now waiting for the
government printers to publish the
Alabama records for the court. The
I. L. D. is in urgent need of funds to
push the appeals and the mass tight
for the boys.
To Protest Florida Lynching
Tomorrow's mass march will not
only protest the Scottsboro lynch
verdicts, but the fiendish lynch
ing of Claude Neal, Negro youth,
last Saturday in Florida with the
open connivance of Florida, Ala
bama and Federal authorities; and
the attempts of Atlanta, Ga, au-
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-02
By AL Steele

Mayor LaGuardia announced late
yesterday that he would cooperate
with the Regional Labor Board or
any other agency" to put an end
to the strike of the building service
employees, led by the Building Ser
vice Employees International Union,
A. F. of L., Local BIB, which has
tied up virtually every elevator in
420 out of SIS buildings in the New
York garment center.
Close to 10000 building service
employees, elevator operators, start
ers, watchmen and other employees
of office buildings in the area be-
tween And Street and 14th Street
West of Fifth Avenue, responded
yesterday morning to the strike
call.
1.-THE situation must not be per-
mitted to develop" LaGuardia said
ominously, Il have asked Mr.. Col
Inns of the A. F. of L. to see me
tomorrow"
LaGuardia had conferred with
Mrs. Elinor Herrick, of the Regional
Labor Board, and proposed that a
truce be declared, the strike called
off and that the problems confront
ing the strikers be submitted to ar
bitration through the Regional La
Dor Board.
When approached on this ques-
ton, Mr.. Planson, secretary to
James j. Bambrick, president of the
union, stated: 1--WE had enough of
arbitration with Mrs. Herrick. We
have more effective means at our
disposal now" He also stated that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-02
Battered Delegates in Session;
Gov. Lehman Refuses To Act
On Demands ofC.P. Candidates
Lehman Challenged To
Answer Workers at
Garden Rally

The Communist Party last night
issued challenge to banker Gov
ernor, Herbert Lehman, to appear
before the final city-wide election
rally of the Communist Party In
Madison Square Garden on Sun
day to explain why he did not
prevent the bestiaI attack on the
State Hunger March delegations
by Albany police.
The letter, in full, reads:
Governor H. L. Lehman,
800 Park Avenue,
New York City.
Dear Sir
Twenty-Five thousand enraged
and indignant citizens will as
senble in Madison Square Garden
Sunday afternoon, Nov. at l pm.
They will represent all parts Of
the State of New York.
They will come to protest
against the outrageous and I'M
provoked attack upon the Hunger
Marchers on their way to Albany.
These marchers were exercis-
ing their constitutional rights of
petition for redress of grievances
and were calling upon you to con-
yene a special session of the State
Assembly for immediate appro-
priation of 5000, 100000 in cash for
emergency winter relief and to
petition the United States Con-
gress for passage of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill,
CHR. 7598).
THE returning hunger march
ers from Albany will march into
the hall during the progress Of the
meeting. We invite you to pub-
licly answer the charges OF your
direct responsibility for the brutal
police attack on these peaceful and
defenseless hunger marchers.
''You will be granted the floor
the moment you appear. The State
Committee of t he Communist
Party will consider that your fail
ure to appear will confirm impli-
cation of personal guilt contained
in the answer which you gave to
the delegation of Communist can
didates at your home this m@Il-
ing when, at the conclusion of
their protest you answered. Good
day, gentlemen, have nothing to
say.
VERY truly yours,
CARL BRODSKY,
Secretary. State Comm,
Communist Party of
New York State"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-02
Especial to The DaIly worker

ALBANY, N. Y, Nov. 1.-TWO
hundred delegated State Hunger
Marchers opened two-day con-
vention here today at II Division
Street, in spite Of the police terror
and in the face OF a huge mobiliza-
ton Of police.
Richard Sullivan, secretary of the
United Action Conference on Work,
Relief and Unemployment and Sec
rotary Of the New York Unemploy-
ment Councils, opened The conven-
ton, declaring that partial VIC
tory had been won by the jobless.
Vladimir Isaacs, leader of the
Ontario County relief strike at the
close of the c. w. A. last winter
and representa- i've of the Ontario
County Workers League. was
elected chairman. The eyes of all
New York State are on this con-
Vention." he declared, and the
workers will wait for full report
of their delegates when they re-
turn"
Mary Boyd, one of the Negro
delegates from New York, against
whom he Albany police directed
their most savage attack, was
elected secretary.
Delegation Sent TO Mayor
The convention Immediately
elected a delegation to meet with
Mayor Thatcher and demand that
the city furnish a hall for a mass
meeting, and permit the delegates
to march to the capitol in body
to present their demands.
Sullivan then put forward the
central demands Of this march. The
demands were a 100000 900 winter
relief appropria ion and the enact
ment of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill and the Small
Home Owners and the Farmers
Relief Bill. I'VE will not be stopped,
but, on the contrary, will continue
to mobilize to force not only the
State government but also the Fed
eral government to enact the Work.
ers' Bill" Sullivan was loudly APP
plauded by the more than 200 dele
gates who thus far have been able
to participate in the convention.
with more than 100 in Jail, and
o hers arriving.
Provocations Continue
The proyocations against the
Hunger Marchers continue. Last
night at the Travellers Aid Society,
where Mayor Thatcher agreed to
lodge the women delegates, an at-
temp. was made to Jim-Crow the
Negro women A delegation Of
white women went to the director
and forced him Immediately to end
the practice and to promise to pro-
vide good food three times a day
for the two days that the delega-
tion will remain in Albany. In
Lyons Lodge, where the men dele-
gates were put up, and where at
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