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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Elect Militant Leaders in
the Shoe Union

IN THURSDAY, March 49, the members of the
United Shoe and Leather Workers Union are
called to vote for the national officials and general
executive board. Election of leadership is an i'm
portant event in the life of a trade union
AS result of the correct fight carried on by
the militant delegates at the convention led bv the
delegates of the former New York Industrial Union
the Socialist and Lovestone elements led bv
the socialist lawyer, Bearack and Zimmerman were
oeleated and the delegates returned home with
determination to build militant union free from
the influence of A. F. of L. and its policies.
The Socialist leaders and the Lovestonites, de-
leated at the convention continue the struggle for
leading the union into the hands of the strike
breaking A F. of L. leadership.
Norman Thomas and the Lovestonites are united
10 mlSead the workers by telling the shoe workers
that the Boot and Shoe is not the A. F. of l., that
the union will have to affiliate to the trade union
center, the A. F. of L.
These tendencies must be combatted. not only
through exposures, but by assuring leadership for
the union which stands on platform of class
struggle in defending the interests of the workers
on platform of working class solidarity
The New York organization selected as their
candidate for national organizer, Fred Biedenkapp
leader of many struggles Of shoe workers. fearless
fighter for the interests of workers. Communist
Who because of his political beliefs gives the great
est assurance that the program of militant trade
unionism will be carried on in defense of the shoe
and leather workers
Ralph Holmes, a militant worker from Haver-
hill is the choice of New York workers for the post
of secretary treasUer
The Socialist leaders and reformist elements are
united in an effort to defeat those who are for
class struggle program in order to pave the road
for thea r Of T. Fred
norman and Mangeri, Lovestonites with record
of splitting the ranks of the workers. are candi-
dates on Progressive" slate
Workers! Defeat these elements in order to build
a powerful class struggle union.
Vote for Biedenkapp and Holmesl
Inc best guarantee for sound and solid organi-
zatlon nationally as well locally is the election
of Communists and militant trade unionsts into the
leadership.
Such a leadership will be able to mobilize the
shoe workers in struggle for conditions and against
the company union tactics and compulsory arbtra
ton policies of the N. R. A. and the American Fed
Grafton of Labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28

compliance for the time being but no signs Of that
grateful acceptance which is the goal of denagogues
The Wagner Bill has more liberal mixture Of
force with demagogy than did Clause IA.
Here 1t is necessary to make some historical
comparisons which are useful in gauging the direc-
ton in which the Roosevelt administration is travel
ing in its tactics in regard to the sharpening class
struggle. Wilson brought the powers of the federal
government to bear against the steel workers and
coal miners in the great struggles of 1890 Hard
ing moved against the nationwide strike of the
railway shop worker crafts by means Of an injunc-
ton issued by Judge Wilkerson in 1922.
The Communist Party was attacked by means of
the Palmer raids in 1890 In 1922 the Commu-
mist Party convention was raided and whole
series Of prosecutions launched.
These attacks conceded with the new high point
reached by the mass struggles in basic industry.
Roosevelt is operating with far greater powers
handed him than did Wilson and Harding The
crisis has drawn the class lines and made class
relationships sharper than ever before.
Through all the testimony documents state
ments and articles of the officials of the American
Federation of Labor and their Socialist Party allies,
runs the theme song: The Communists are foment-
ing strikes. They are making all the trouble They
are melting workers to resist The inference is
That without Communists the American working
class would lie down and hail the N R. A machine
with their last breath as it rolls over them
Inc wagner Bill will not do the job expected
OF 1t any more than Clause IA did In the process
OF exposing it and speeding up the establishment
with it among workers, without adopting an alarm
ist attitude we must at the same time and with the
utmost clarity raise what is now becoming more and
more central issue for the whole working class
their elementary political rights the right of work
ers to belong to and for struggle independent
OF capitalists and capitalist government their basic
class organizations.
The Wagner Bill with its provisions for what
amounts to compulsory arbitration under govern
ment sanction and supervision is move to extend
the suppressive power of N. R. A. The struggle
against it, headed by the Communist Party and the
T. U. U. L., is basic struggle for which we must
rally the decisive sections of the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28

Communist Party and the Young
Communist League calling upon the
workers to demonstrate against
Fascism in front of the Masonic
Temple
Workers Shout Free ThaeImann."
Fifteen hundred workers gathered
before the Masonic Temple, and
when the cops tried to drive the
workers two blocks away from the
Temple, the workers broke through
the police lines, placing speakers
upon their shoulders and shouting
slogans such as: Down with Fas-
cism," Free Thaelmann," Long
Live the Communist Party and the
Young Communist League of Ger
many" Many of the demonstrators
were young boys and girls, who took
leading part in the meeting.
Although the police tried time and
again to break up the demonstra-
ton, they were powerless before the
militant anti-fascist workers. The
demonstration lasted As minutes.
just as the workers were conclud-
ing the demonstration by singing
the Internationale, the Fascists in
the hall began their ceremonies. A
large Fascist flag with Swastika
on it was lowered and the crew
snapped to attention saluting the
flag. At this point, girls inside the
hall started shouting anti-fascist
slogans, and throwing leaflets
among the well-dressed crowd. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Shout Free Thaelmann'
as Nazis Land
at Tacoma

entire affair was thpown into con.
fusion.
The riot squad arrived with sub
machine guns and tear gas guns.
But the workers held their ranks
and marched away in a solid body,
singing the International and
shouting anti-fascist slogans.
The demonstration had a ire
mendous effect upon the workers of
Seattle. Students of the evening
classes of the Broadway high school
across the street quit their classes
and ran to the windows and out of
the building, during the entire
course of the demonstration. Work.
ers look on the demonstration as q
first step toward mass anti-fascist
action in Seattle. In fact, a parade
through the main streets of Seattle
was hastily called off by the Fascists
because of the demonstration.
After the girls inside the dance
were dragged out shouting Down
With Hitler" the captain of the
Fascist crew said he had never wit
messed a demonstration of that ma
ture before. He said that he would
never take the ship back to Tacoma
and Seattle again, as long as he
would receive reception such as
he did Monday night
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Fascists to Halt
Banquet, Parade
in Seattle

SEATTLE. March 81. A Nazi
naval crew, which sought to make
a goodwill" visit to Tacoma and
Seattle last week, was baked at
at every turn by the mass action
of hundreds of workers who showed
their hatred of German Fascism so
effectively that parade and ban
quet had to be cancelled.
When the German cruiser Karls-
ruhe anchored at Tacoma for a
good will" visit to the Northwest,
it was met at the dock by hun
dreds of workers distributing leaf
lets and carrying banners in Eng
lish and German denouncing Fas-
cism and calling for the release of
Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the
Communist Party of Germany.
Red Flag at Banquet Hall.
The next day, Monday, the crew
was to have banquet at the New
Washington Hotel in Seattle, fol-
lowed by a dance that night at the
Masonic Temple. Monday morning
found huge red flag, on it a ham
mer and sickle and the inscription
Down With Fascism." flying from
the flag pole over the hotel. The
banquet was called off because, the
German officers said, an officer had
died on the ship
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Roosevelt Poses as
Wall Street Enemy
In Exchange Bill
Bill Actually Leaves the
Big Spectators
Untouched

WASHINGTON, March 27-
Roosevelt is again playing the part
OF a fighter against Wall Street in
two letters which he sent to the
sponsors of the Fletcher ayburn
Bill to regulate stock exchanges.
In his letter. Roosevelt asks that
the bill have teeth in it." Actually.
the bill will do nothing to iniure
the interests of the biggest Wall
Street spectators. The bill pro-
vides for the regulation of margin
requirements. In practice, this will
merely mean the squeezing out of
small traders. The big ones will
go on profiting as before. The Ex-
changes oppose the bill because it
reduces trading business from small
traders.
In addition, the bill, for all of
Roosevelt's demagogy, actually less
ems the stringency of the first draft
regarding the registration of corpor-
atoms statements.
In his letter on the Fletcher Ray
burn Bill, Roosevelt repeats the ex-
ploded theory that stock exchange
speculation caused the crisis in
1929. Actually, the Wall Street
spectators have made more profit
during the last IL months of Roose-
velt's administration, than during
the last two years of the Hoover
administration, as Roosevelt's infla-
ton has sent prices upward.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
InfIatiOnary Cut in
Franc Imminent
In Trade Fight
Sliced Dollar, Pound
Cut Into French
Foreign Markets

PARIS, March 27.-The immi-
nence of inflationary devaluation of
the franc to meet the inroads made
on French markets by the devalued
dollar and pound was admitted here
yesterday by leading officials.
Speaking of the fact that more
initiation is required by French i'm
perialism to meet foreign COMPETE
ton, Paul Raynaud, former Minis
ter of Finance, stated in the Cham
Der of Deputies:
IF devaluatiOn was profitable
for other countries, such as Eng
land and America, it was disas-
trOus in other countries"
Calling for more initiation, he
stated:
'The 1928 devaluation does not
vaccinate us against the world
crisis which has undermined the
bases of the strongest currencies
of the world, the pound and the
dollar"
In addition to open inflationary
proposals, French reactionary mem
bers of the Chamber of Deputies are
calling for more pay cuts for gov
eminent employees, heavier taxes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Indian Communist
Leader Dies After
Torture by British
S h altered by Police
Brutality, Lingam Is
Left to Die

LONDON, March 27.-The muir
der of one of the bravest fighters
for the Indian masses, Comrade
Lingam, by the British police, has
Just been learned here.
A member of the Communist
Party of India, he was arrested a
year ago and held in the head
quarters of the Special Branch of
the Bombay police, without charges.
He was so severely tortured that
a few days after his arrest he had
to be sent to hospital, where he
remained five months.
He came out suffering from
tuberculosis, and soon had to go
back. He was so completely ne
elected that soon he was thrown
into the "incurable" section. A
committee of the Bombay commit
tee of the Communist Party at
tempted to keep in touch with him.
but when he died the British i'm
perialist authorities did not even
notify his comrades. His body was
hurriedly taken out and burned.
and the workers of Bombay were
denied even the right to give him
a funeral.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Roosevelt Kills
Bill Restoring
Y ct Compensation

WASHINGTON, March 27.-Be-
fore departing for a ten days fish
ing trip, Roosevelt is eager to COM
plete his announced veto of the
Independent Offices Bill which re-
stores $83,OOO,O0O in compensation
for wounded veterans, and from
five to 10 per cent of the recent
Is per cent wage cut for Federal
employees, it was announced this
afternoon.
The Bill which passed in the
House and Senate will certainly be
vetoed, Roosevelt's advisers said. In
that case, it is practically Ger
tainty that the Bill will remain per-
manently dead.
The Roosevelt administration in
one of its first actions slashed
about $900,000,000 from the veterans
and Federal employees in order to
guarantee the government payments
to bondholderS of U. S. securities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
.Doumergue Raids
Paris Workers as
FaSciStS Buy Arms

PARIS, March 27.-The Dou-
mergue government began a drive to
disarm all workers and their organ
izations today, following testimony
before a parliamentary commission
that reactionary organizations with
fascist leadership are arming them
selves heavily.
CASTOR Bergery, independent, told
the commission that the Jeunesses
Patriotes (Patriotic YOUTH, the vet
Grams Croix de Ecu Gross of Fire.
the Camelets du Roi (Kings Hench-
mem, and the Solidarite Franchise,
all nationalistic, fascist groups, were
arming for fascist putsch.
The governments answer was a
series of raids in the working class
districts, in which a small number
of rifles and pistols were reported to
have been seized. No attempt was
made to search the fascist groups.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Delegation of
Protest Visits
Polish Consul
Demand Release of 81
Workers Leaders
at Lutsk Trial
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, March PA
Negro and white delegation, repre-
Senting many thousands of workers
and intellectuals, today visited the
Polish Embassy, protesting emphat-
ically against the vicious campaign
of terror now practiced upon the
workers and farmers of Western
Ukraine by the Polish government,
and read a resolution demanding
the immediate and unconditional
release of 81 leaders of the Western
Ukrainian working class who have
been in prison since 1880, many Of
whom now face death sentences at
the conclusion of their trial in
Lutsk.
Stanislaw Patek, the Polish AM
bassador, refused to meet the group.
He delegated tight-lipped secre-
tary, who said his name was S,
Poradzski, to accept what you
have" and to inform the little
group that the Ambassador is TOO
busy to see you"
Cops On Guard
Three uniformed policemen in
charge of a captain met the pro-
test delegation at the Embassy door
while John Apostilitis, notorious
strong-arm sergeant of the plain
clothes red squad, known familiarly
to militant workers as Jerry-the-
Greek, hid himself in an inner
room.
The delegation represented the
International Labor Defense, the
United Ukrainian Toilers, the Ma
tional Committee for the Defense
of Political Prisoners, the Needle
Trades Industrial Union, the Inter-
national Workers Order, the Polish
Chamber of Labor, the Russian Mu-
tual Aid Society and the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights.
A. S. CherkoSS, a vice president
of the N. T. w. I. u, read the pro-
test resolution while standing,
directly in front of the Embassy's
large painting of Marshal Pilsudski,
the Polish Fascist dictator. Walter
Riback Of the United Ukrainian
ToilerS; F. D. Griffin of the ma
tional office of the I. L. D., and
Robert Campbell of the L.S.N.R.,
were in the group.
Release Demanded
eve vehemently protest against
the outrageous treatment of our
Polish comrades" Griffin told the
Polish official I'VE are here not
to ask but to demand of the Polish
Ambassador that he cable our pro-
test abroad" he added.
Il will give the statement to the
Ambassador. He will know what to
do with it," replied Poradzski.
I'VE demand the immediate re-
lease of our dauntless Ukrainian
comrades and pledge that our or
CARNATIONS will mobilize the Amer
lean workers and intellectuals. as
well as the foreign born to carry on
an unremitting struggle for the re-
lease and freedom of these militant
revolutionary leaders, and for the
liberation of the workers and farm
erS of Western Ukraine" the reso-
luton concluded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Detroit Sections Lag in Sub
Drioe; action Is Imperative!

DETROIT, Mich.-While some
sections in this district are doing
fairly well in the Daily Worker cir
culation drive, a number of sections
are grossly Understanding the i'm
portance of the Daily" as shown
by their lack of activity in the sub
campaign.
This at time when the struggles
by workers, the discomfort of the
automobile workers, make it more
necessary than ever that the work.
ers be reached with the Daily"
During the first seven weeks of
the campaign Section l secured II
daily and II Saturday subs on a
quota of so and 100, respectively.
Section 2 secured IA daily and
nine Saturday subs on quotas of so
and 100, respectively. Section 3
gained six daily subs on quota of
Is, and not one Saturday sub on a
quota of so. On quota of 30 daily
and go Saturday subs, Section 4 Sc
cured two daily and four Saturday
subs. Section shows a gain of "a
daily and four Saturday subs on a
quota of so and ITO, respectively.
Section obtained IL daily and 10
Saturday subs on quotas of rs and
$50, respectively. Section 8 shows a
gain of only two daily and three
Saturday subs. Its quota is so daily
and 100 Saturday subs.
Week of March Is
In the week ending March Is, Sec
ton 8 did not secure a single sub.
This same section failed to gain
even one sub during the week be-
fore as well. Section 3 failed to
bring in a single sub during the
week ending March 10. The Sec
tons which do show some results,
namely, l, 2, 4, 5 and 7, owe it to
the work of few scattered units.
Dearborn, the home of the arch
exploiter, Ford, Is showing a Ger
tain improvement in the drive.
More intensified activity, however,
is imperative in Dearborn and in
other parts of the district During
the two weeks ending March 10,
only the Dearborn Units in Section
Z were active in the drive.
The Daily Worker calls upon
every section and unit in the De-
troit District to take immediate
steps to put the sub drive on real
Bolshevik basis. Cleveland has
challenged you to revolutionary
competition in the campaign! Cleve-
land is doing good work. Answer
this challenge with the same revo-
lutionary spirit you showed in the
$4,000 drive during which you did
splendid work. Get into action
Every class conscious worker, ask
your friends and fellow workers to
subscribe to our Daily Worker!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Roosevelt Signs
S75O,OOO,OOO Bill
For WarBuilding
Approves Vinson War
Measure Authorizing
Treaty Navy
BY SEYMOUR wALDMAN

daily Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 81
President Roosevelt signed the $780,
100000 five-year naval construction
Vinson bill today under thin paci-
fist cloak.
ut has been and will be the policy
of the administration to favor con-
tinued limitation of naval arma-
ments. 1t is my personal hope that
the naval conference to be held in
1885, will extend all existing limita-
tons and agree to further reduc-
TONS" he declared in formal state
ment announcing his signing.
Roosevelt, however, failed to ex-
plain that "all existing limitations"
(the Washington and London
Treaties) allow the construction of
the warship tonnage and war planes
mentioned in the bill. 1t provides for
1874 war planes and 102 war vessels.
1t is technically true that the
Congress must appropriate money
for the construction authorized in
the Vinson bill. But politically, the
fact is that the Roosevelt machine,
which pushed the bill through with
out a record vote in the house, will
have no trouble in getting what
s1oney it desires.
Roosevelt's remarks on signing the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Austrian Workers
Fired to Give Jobs
To Heimwehr Men
New Taxes Levied to
Pay for Civil War
and Dictatorship

VIENNA March 27-The Dollfuss-
Heimwehr government has issued a
decree that $4,000 Heimwehr storm
troops who were armed for the gov
ernment's murder drive against the
workers must be rewarded by being
given jobs in industry.
The government is keeping $4,000
in arms on state pay, according to
official reports; 10000 are said to
have been demobilized, and industry
is ordered to absorb another $4,000
by replacing one worker in every
Is by Heimwehr man by April /.
The sections of the middle class
who hoped to see Dollfuss relieve
them of property taxes by destroying
the Socialist municipalities are now
finding that instead, they are faced
with more severe taxes than ever,
to defray the costs of the attack on
the workers, and to maintain the
armed forces Dollfuss needs to en-
force the fastest dictatorship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Youth Groups
Called to Meet
in n. Y. TOnite
N.S.L. and LID. Map
Anti-War United
Front Drive

NEW YORK-Answering the call
of the Youth Section of the Ameri-
can League Against War and Fas-
cism, the League for Industrial
Democracy and the National Stu
dent League have mapped out an
intensive anti-war campaign for the
week of April GLIB.
In New York, this will begin with
a parade on the 9Th from the Eter-
nal Light in Madison Square where
a wreath to the memory of the VIC
TINS Of the imperialist war will be
laid, past Morgan's home on 38th
Street to Columbus Circle. Between
April and II, there will be picket
ing Of strategic buildings. These will
be the National Civic Federation.
whose head. Ralph Easley, has been
carrying on vicious campaign
against the student anti-war move
ment; at Morgan's home, the Aus
trian and German conSuIates, and
the Chase National Bank which re-
Gently foated loan for the Hitler
government.
During this period, there will be
mass meetings on individual cam
puses in preparation for the highest
point of the weeks activity, the
strike on April 10. Before this, on
the 18th, a city-wide mass meeting
called jointly by the National Stu
dent League and League for Indus
trial Democracy, will be held.
The student strike against ROTC
and general militarization of the
youth in the United States will be
held from IL to IL o'clock on April
10. In dozens of colleges and univer-
sites throughout the country all
activity is being pointed towards
April 10 strikes.
Youth Anti-War Meet Today
NEW YORK-A meeting of all
youth organizations representatives
in the city has been called for We'd
nesday, March % at which city
youth committee against war and
fascism will be set up. The meeting
Wa w AACANA clO IL WING ldAdy IINl1lR
Place and 18th Street, at 8 pm.
In the last few weeks, number
of youth organizations have beer
set up in neighborhoods and settle
ment houses in the city. This meet.
ing will be the first attempt to CO.
ordinate all these activities and de.
velop a broad youth movement
against war here.
Besides the organizational report
on the immediate tasks facing the
organization, there will be q talk
on the present danger of war by
Norman Tallentire, secretary of the
City Central Committee of the
American League.
The Youth Section of the Aineri-
can League urges those individual,
who will not be able to get creden-
tials before the meeting to partici-
pate as unofficial representatives at
this first meeting.