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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30

dustrisl Union is carrying on a
strike; they are aiding the boss to
obtain an injunction against the
strike without once finding out the
wishes of the workers.
But when it comes to a strike,
after, according to their own admis-
sion, 1000 enthusiastic workers en-
dorsed the strike (there aren't that
many knitgoods workers who are
still misled by the International
officials, they suddenly bethought
themselves of a referendum.
Beware of Traitors
Meanwhile, Ninfo finds 1t neces-
sary to caution his followers to be-
ware of traitors malicious, ire
sponsible elements" in their ranks.
Can anyone be blamed for thinking
In this connection of the burglar
running away with the loot that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Stalin's Answers to
First American Labor
Delegation Reprinted

Did Lenin add new principles" or
abolish any of the "old" principles
of Marxism? No, says Joseph Sta
lin, Lenin developed Marxist the
ory further and fitted it into the
epoch of Imperialism.
Stains instructive discussion,
prompted by questions from the
first American labor delegation in
the Soviet Union in 1927, is made
available through International
Publishers new edition of his In
terviews with Foreign Workers Del
egations," pamphlet which has
been out of print for some years.
Enriching the Marxist doctrine in
new conditions of struggle, "Lenin
contributed to the general treasury
of Marxism something new as COM
pared with what was created by
Marx and Engels and with what
they could create in the pre-impe-
rialist epoch of capitalism" Stain
shows. He defines Leninism ss
Marxism of the epoch Of imperial
ism and of the proletarian revolu-
ton.
Stains discussions on such topics
as the role of the Communist Party
in guiding the workers State, the
League of Nations, ETC., are as in
structive as when they were first
written. The pamphlet costs is
cents from International Publish
ers, 381 Fourth Ave, New York;
Workers Library Publishers, Box
148, Station D, New York, or work
ers' book shops and branches.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
KnitgOOdS Workers
Give Lie to Charge
OF Strike Stabbing
Expose Scab Activities
of Socialist Official,
at Steifel-HeaIy

NEW YORK.-A detailed state
ment by officials of the Knitgoods
Workers Industrial Union today
branded as lie the charge of the
Jewish Daily Forward that Martin
Feldman, an official of Local 155 of
the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, was stabbed by
Communist workers when he at
tempted to distribute leaflets at 408
Seventh Ave.
The statement said, in part:
"A strike is on at the Stiefel and
Healy shop, 498 Seventh Ave. The
strike is led by the Industrial Union.
The International, from the very
first day of the strike, began to
send up scabs, and is helping the
concern to get an injunction against
the striking workers and the union.
A group of workers, some of them
members of the Executive of Local
1855, are coming daily very early, to
scab in this shop. The season for
coming early is to avoid the picket
lines of the strikers.
AS usual, this group of strike
breakers, came about 7 O'Clock to
the building on Tuesday morning.
One of the strong men, who
escorts and protects this group of
strikebreakers, in a very provocative
manner, pushed one of the girl
pickets who was in front of the
shop. Workers in that section,
members of the International, IN
employed workers, who gather on
the corner of the block, came to the
assistance of the girl picket. A
free-for-al fight broke out, outside
of the building and continued in
side the narrow hallway. The guer-
rilla who protects the strikebreakers,
was seen flashing knife. Some
of the defenseless workers, were
slashed and as it seems, Martin
F'eIdman fell victim of the same
guerilla, who in the commotion
could not differentiate between his
friends and enemies.
II % 5S3iOAe Oily EA2ONiA VAAS"o A'@S'h VA
Feldman does not come to shops to
distribute leaflets. Now was anyone
ever hurt by the Industrial Union
for giving out leaflets. In addition
to this there surely was no need for
a committee to come for distribu-
ton of leaflets a. m. when the
garment center begins work at $50
8 am"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
]. B. Mcnamara, Who
Fed Condemned Men,
Denoted to Sweeper

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July
27-J. 3. Mcnamara, who has
already served more than 20
years in San Quentin peniten-
tiary in connection with the at
tack on organized labor follow
ing the Los Angeles Times" ex-
plosion in 1911, has been "de-
NOTED" from his prison Job Of
feeding the condemned men to
tilat of sweeper in the right
wing of San Quentin, the FEEDER
ated Press reveals.
Mcnamara who is known as
the dean of San Quentin" was
shifted from his job, according
to the prison authorities, because
condemned prisoner attempted
to smuggle the special meat
served those who are to hang to
other prisoners.
Warden j. B. Holohan of San
Quentin penitentiary last week
refused to deliver a wire from
the Daily Worker to Tom Moo
ney and Mcnamara asking them
to give their reactions to the
San Francisco General Strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Striking Butchers
To Confer Tonight
On New Campaign
700 Bologna Makers
Keep Mass Picket
Lines Intact

New York-A conference to plan
intensified activity in the eight week
strike of 700 bologna makers will be
held tonight at 8 o'clock in the
Labor Temple. 243 E. saith st.
The bologna makers, on strike
since June LIST, are increasing their
strike activities with renewed vigor.
Demonstrations and mass picket
lines around the struck plants are
daily occurrences. Groups of strikers
are canvassing all retail stores han
ding products of the shops that are
on strike with good effect.
The struck shops are Stahl-Meyer,
Ferris, Frank Firor Provision Co.
and Upgrade Provision Co., located
at 152 Broadway, Brooklyn, 143rd
st. and 3rd, Ave, Bronx. Liberty
Provision Co. at ISL East 4th st.
Carmel Provision Co., IA and liz
East 4th st.
The strike is being led by locals
Oil and 174 of the Amalgamated
Meat Cutters and Butcher Work
men of North America, affiliated to
the American Federation of Labor.
According to the reports of IN
ternational Organizer Meinhardt,
conferences with the struck con-
Germs are scheduled to take place.
Locals of the Food Workers In
dustrial Union, whose members
handle meat products, have in
Structed all shops to cease handling
any of the scab products, after an
official delegation of the strikers
had appeared before the Executive
Board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Mike Gold To Meet with
Hunger Fighter Writers
and Staff V olunteers

All volunteer writer's willing to
take assignments for the Hunger
Fighter are asked to meet in the
John Reed Club headquarters at $50
Sixth Ave, tonight at 8 o'clock.
Mike Gold will be present to give
suggestions. Regular staff meetings
are to be held Thursday nights at
20 E. 10th st. Criticisms by Mike
Gold and other noted writers will
be made on assignments turned In
by the volunteer writers by that
time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
David Dubinsky
Shadow Boxes
KnitgoOds Bosses
Continued from Page y

workers, in order to block the ad-
vance of the militant Industrial
Union.
In many cases the bosses went so
far as to pay the workers initiation
fees in advance to the organizers.
Even to-day, after months of ex-
istence, local 155 of the 1.L.G.W.U.,
the knitgcods local, has not held
any electionsl
The International leaders" were
thus dragged into the field by the
desperate bosses to break down the
favorable working conditions which
the Industrial Union was fostering
in the trade. But they did not get
very far last year The industrial
Union had organized the best part
Of the trade.
In order to hold their shops, the
International organizers conceded
to the bosses a 81 and half hour
week (the Industrial Union was
working on 35 hour week. and a
lower wage scale to correspond. To
the workers, they promised that
this was only temporary in
this temporary manner, they went
through the entire year.
PussyfOo&ing on the Strike
This adequately explains the
strange and bewildering nancuvers
that Ninfo and Dubinsky are resort
ing to. In the press they demand
"a hour work. In leafiet to the
workers they come out for 80 hour
week, They fill the columns of the
"Women's Wear" the Forward
and the Day" with wild stories
about how they are going to get
ready to prepare for strike 1t was
all set for July 18th, when the con-
tract expires. On July 18th, &C
cording to the papers, an enthusiast
tic meeting of 1000 workers unani-
mously endorsed the strike. July
18th came around and no strike. In
stead, cautious statement was
given to the press that the strike
would show up when the factories
started to operate. Then there was
some more shadow boxing this
time with the Regional Labor Board
as umpire everybody apparently
disagreed and still no strike.
Instead OF that, we got another
statement that the strike would take
place after referendum which is
expected to endorse the strike" This
difference to the wishes of the work
ers is truly heart softening. With
out any qualms, they smashed the
local to carry out a jurisdictional
agreement between two rival unions
of the A. F. of L. without consult
ing the workers.
They signed up shops at the be-
hest of the bosses without asking the
workers. They sent scabs to the
SticfeI Healy mills where the In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Leaders Use Fascist
Methods i'm Local 10
of the Garment Union
BY a Worker Correspondent

by worker correspondent
Fascist methods are becoming
the pastime of the officials of local
10 of the TL.G.WU. Just because
a cutter got up on the floor and ex-
posed the Perlmutter clique for
permitting members to be fired
through the reorganization clause
in the agreements he was brought
up on charges.
The charges are: % Deliberately
causing a riot; CD slandering the
officials; 90 calling General John
son a strike breaker
All this happened before the
general strike in Frisco. The union
officials conveniently dropped the
last charge following the Frisco
events.
The Perlmutter clique is PLAN
ming to carry out William Green's
plan of driving militant workers
out of the A. F. Of L. unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Section Heads To Meet
On Campaign Tonight

NEW YORK. A special meeting
dealing with election campaign
problems will be held tonight for
all functionaries Of Section of the
Communist Party at the Spartacus
Club, 269 w. 18th Street. All unit
bureaus, fraction secretaries and
section functionaries must attend.
A three month plan for the work of
the campaign will be presented by
the section director of the cam
paign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30

2o.eoo New Readers by Sept. lst.!
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-02
THE ,uNrAxEp AMERICAN IS A MYTH"

Here is statement by DR.. William Bennett
Munro of the executive counsel of the California
Institute of Technology, that should be firmly inl-
planted in the mind of every American:
1.-THE untaxed American is myth"
mo one who occupies property, owns car
smokes tobacco, drinks beer goes to the theatre,
eats three meals a day, goes through the other
motions of daily life gets by untaxed.
"Yet there are people who think themselves nom
taxpayers when at least ten per cent of their earn
ings go for taxes They are victims of the great
American delusion. Of itself government earns no
money. Every dollar that it gets for its support
must come from some one who does the earning
To do this IL must tax production, all production,
which means that both producer and consumer
share in paying the bills.' t%&a
DR.. Munro might have added that it is the con-
sumner who invariably bears the greater share of
the burden-our industries, much as they would
like to, have no magic means of conjuring money
from air. Every expense of operation, whether 1T
be materials, labor, rent taxes, must be includ
ed in the cost of the finished product. The buyer
always pays. And today, with the cost of all forms
of government soaring, he pays more in taxes for
each dollar he earns than he ever did before
Washington Daily News 'r
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-02

The foregoing state oil a1IalrS
indicates two things First, that
those who oppose governmental
relief contribution in 1880 were
afraid that the very thing that
has happened, would happen,
namely: that the government
would become the national relief
agency.
Second, it shows how fast and
how far we have gone since 1881
in the matter of making our
citizens the wards and the re-
sponsibility of the federal gov
eminent.
The rapidly growing tendency
of our people individually and
collectively, is to expect more
and more, and demand more and
more of the national government;
Just how far this condition will
progress, no man knows, but
MANY persons believe that they
can see exactly where we are go
ing: that after the federal gov
eminent has borrowed a certain
number of billions from its citi-
zens and has reached the point
| where it cannot pay the money
back or can not even pay the in
terest on it without crushing the
taxpayers, the only thing then to
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-02

one of the big problems of business and
industry for which solution must be
found.
Intelligent business men favor liberal
wages for labor Much of the buying pow
or of the country is based on the earnings
of labor. Business is good when labor is
employed and is buying in the country,s
markets. There is limit, however, to the
capacity of capital to meet the REQUIRE
ments of advancing wage scales, as there
is a ,}imit-a very definite <limit--to the
prices the public can or will pay for the
products of labor SO q Tf
Perhaps it is leadership of, both labor
and capital that is needed to settle our
difficulties and get business and industry
to going again in a normal way. There
should be the leadership in both groups
that will find way. There must be m-
Outstanding and cooperation. There has
probably never been time in the history
of this country when business men and IN
dustrialists were as willing to make con-
cessions as they are today; but there is a
point beyond which these groups cannot
90 in fixing wages or other costs OF manu-
featuring or doing business. 1.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-02

& The treaty with Cuba will sartle you when you early
August First under the act it probably will cut the duty
another half pound Already Cuba has been
hacent cut and export quota here Of 100000
Without the quota, she probably would have sold only la
tons-thanks to Filipino eXpansonand collapsed econCmsl
Another tariff slash because of quota restrictions under the
act won't hurt the domestic industry, but will be of it
to Cuba.
Lower duties Cubas leaf tobacco molasses,
and pneappes and seasonal cut fruits and vegetables
being considered. i.-.
WHAT do in exchange? Lower tariff barriers; almost
"tanly textiles lard -four meats iron and steel OIL al
mobiles and other products And big boost in Cuban
chases of American goods which have fallen from $20O
SIS year. (Our tariff boosts have been mO
ing Cuba and she has retaliated savagely)
Thirty asked for tariff treaties and about
being considered big though the list seer
Argentina of those turned down Her emphasis like OF
is agricultural exports.
Negotiations take long time Preliminary conferences p'ea
the exploratory sessions The Tariff Commission CONNIE
and Agriculture departments work them Then tentative
must through Foreign Trade Agreements Committee So
Department and White House Hull is in general charge aided
Special Adviser George N. Peek
Copyright, 1894 NEA Service, lnc)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-02
OUR CHANGING ATTITUDE
,By WICKES WAMBOLDT

do will be for the government to
take over the entire production
and distribution systems of the
United States, putting everybody
to work for the government who
wants work or needs work, and
paying everybody off and buy
ing everybody out with printed
money redeemable in services and
goods produced by the govern
ment.
After we have all got so deep
in debt to one another that we
can never secure enough money
to pay out, then our only hope
Of liquidating is to pay one an
other off with our labor and our
products of which we have an I'M
limited supply.
THEY CONTROL THEMSELVES
1t should be borne in mind that
many highly respectable citizens
are highly respectable simply be-
cause they positively refuse to be
disreputable, and not because
they do not feel at times like be-
ing disreputable.
SEA SERPENT TIME
Should you chance to be at the
sea shore and suddenly be horri-
fled to see rising from the waves
great monster with a head 10
feet long with huge, crashing
jaws, fiery eyes the size Of din
ner plates and blowing smoke and
fire from its mouth and nostrils,
what should you do? MY advice
would be to keep the matter to
yourself: otherwise you might
start another argument between
the prohibitionists and the re-
pealists.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-02
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
THE WORLD AND THE PREACHERS

Rev. Paul Hardin pastor of the Methodist church
at Waynesville, told the Sunday morning congfo-
cation ar Lake Junaluska the Methodist assembly
ground. last week that 'there is such thing as
being on the fence, or straddling moral issue It
Christians are to be effective in the world today"
Lack of decision, according to Mr.. Hardin, is the
great fault of the modern churchman and the to-
tai indifference of the non-professing Christian is
less harmful than the attitude of the avowed Chris
tian who is not interested enough to definitely line
himself up and make his influence felt when mat
tiers of right at stake.
INDIGESTION may be one of the many faults which
NAV be charged against churchmen; but Mr.. Har-
din and those pastors who take attitudes similar
to that expressed by him in his sermon at Juna-
luska are failing to move in direction to correct
that fault
In the first place, he is wrong in assuming that
the mass of the American people are Indifferent
to the churches and the work which they are do
ing. AS a matter of fact, they are deeply and vi
tally interested in the churches, for, if they had
not been, 80 per cent of them would be closed up
today. What church members are calling for, and
what they have every right to expect are-leaders;
not men who stand in the pulpits and tell them of
the worlds troubles, and charge them with being
indifferent, careless, and unchristian. 60
/ We honestly believe that the preachers Of the
country have fallen down on their jobs worse than
any other group of men in the world today And
the one reason they have done so is because they
| have forgotten how to work If there is one mes
sage that we would like to write the hearts and
minds of the preachers today it is the simple word
work" And by work we mean IL to IA hours
of real work every day, visiting, studying, and
making the force of their personalities felt in the
lives of men and women who are members OF
| their churches ~ ca.
/ Unless the preachers, and particularly those
leaders who direct the efforts of the rank and file
of pastors, stress the Importance of real, honest
labor, and demand that every preacher pour his
very life's blood into the work, the world
doomed to destruction. Somehow, however, we
feel optimistic about the situation, and believe that
they will wake up to the seriousness of the situa
ton.
! This criticism is offered in constructive spirit
and with the highest regard for every member oil
the church We have no desire to hurt the feel
| ings of any particular man, or group of men, ou
1--WE ask that each preacher sit down and give this
criticism some serious thought. Let him compare
! his hours of hard, honest work with the hours
which the average grocer, dry goods merchant
banker, mill man, farmer puts In at honest toll
Our guess is that if his hours average up wl:f
the hours of toll expended by these other men, hi
has a live de-awake church, welding a great IN
bfuence in the communicative Stanly News ant
Press. e B.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-02
ALCOHOLISM IS
LONDON Theme
international Congress in
Progress There Hears
of Gains in U. S.

LONDON, Aug. 2.-EighteenI
governments were officially rep
resented among the delegates,
from 20 countries who are assem-
bled here for the twentieth Inter,
national Congress on Alcoholism.
which is meeting to review the,
present position concerning alco-
hol and to discuss methods of in
ternational cooperation against al
coholism.
Many among the delegates are.
"old campaigners" in the cause of
temperance, who have already CIV
en- their wealth Of experience to,
previous conferences.
Governments represented in
cludc Austria, Denmark, Estonia,
France, Finland. Mexico, Poland,
Switzerland, Belgium, Czechoslo-.
vakia. Egypt, Bulgaria, Norway.
and Roumania. The Russian am
bassador to London has also sent.
a representative, as have the high
commissioners for both New.
foundland and South Africa and
the Montevideo ministry Of public
health. g
PROGRESS IN u. S.
A spirited defense of prohibi-
ton in the United States was the
keynote of the address by Guy
Hayler of London at the inaugural
meeting.
Apart from the "dry law" Mr..
Hayler said, "there is no proper
accounting for the lowered death
rate which during the period of
national prohibition in the Unit
ed States equalled yearly saving
of 100000 lives"
Children had been fed, better
housed, better treated, Mr.. Hay
Ter went on. Moreover, whereas
prior to the adoption of the dry
law the membership of Christian
churches had been declining, after
prohibition the reverse was the
case.
Before prohibition, 'the Meth
odist churches of America report
ed loss of $4,000 members, the
Presbyterians 100000, and the
Baptists 1000. Other religious
communities were under similar
disability" Mr.. 'Hayler declared.
Five years later there was a
complete change, Mr.. Hayler said.
"The Methodists heraltled an in
crease of 100000 in membership,
the Baptists came out with 1O4,-
600 and the Presbyterians showed
81 800. Nothing in modern church
history is to be compared with
it." - 90. o..
IN OTHER COUNTRIES
Turning to other parts of the
world, Mr.. Hayler pointed out that
Finland, which like the United
States, has given up prohibition,
is already finding that tan active
liquor traffic is no guarantee of
reduced taxation and that SNUG
Cling has a better chance under
license than it got under prohi-
bition." Iceland and other coun-
tries, he added, are also expert
encing "the disillusionment which
comes as q result of economic and
social dependence on the liquor
traffic" .r$
AS to Germany, Herr Hitler is
a total abstainer' as are many of
his prominent workers, Mr.. Hay
Ter declared.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-02
PATTERN MAKERS ON
STRIKE FOR PAY RAISE

DETROIT, Aug. 2.-CUP-
Five hundred pattern makers IN
so jobbing plants struck yester-
day demanding a 20 per cent wage
increase, Their present wages av-
erage $1.20 per hour.
Herman F. He'll, business man
ager of the striking pattern MAX
ers association, an affiliate of the
American Federation of Labor,
said the strike may spread to au-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-02
COP HOLDS TWO jon,

HAMPTON BEACH. Y
Aug. -(UP)-Patrom,,''
liam (Bill) Elliot holds t~,
at this summer resort, WIZ y
directing traffic, Elliot ste %,,'
to the beach broadcasting = :.
and sings for the crowds ~
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-02
DELEGATES CHARTER SHIP

-, PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2. CUP
The SIND International Eucharis-
tic Congress to be held at Buenos
Aires, October 10 to IA will be
attended by a large delegation of
Philadelphia Catholics, which will
sail on the Cunard-White Star
liner "Franconia" from here Sep
TENDER 15.