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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16
Fire 100000 C.W.A.
Men In BOOsevelt's
Rehabilitation Plan
Perkins Discusses Fake
Unemployment Bill as
CWA Is Cut Down
By MARGUERITE YOUNG
Daily Worker Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON. Feb I5.-Half Of
MI workers on federal projects Of the
Civil Works Administration through
ont the country-a total Of about
$50 OO0-Were tossed back into the
ranks Of the unemployed today To-
morrow 10 per cent of those on all
non-federaI projects in Lower Cali
fornia and Southern Texas and Flor
ida will be fired and soon afterWard
the same number in Louisiana and
Alabama total Of about $500. A
quarter of q million workers in all
are affected at once by the firing
program.
Thus begins what the Roosevelt
government is pleased TO call de
mobilization" of the G. W A. 1t is
intended to abolish every C. W, A.
lob BY MAY /. It is stirring workers
to demonstrations and protests
throughout the country, but these are
being ignored here. It was said today
BY federal official that no reports
of protest have come in, and That
there doesn't seem to be any re-
SeuJIUelb GDWdIQ Lllto vi gamma NASAA'
Fire Skilled First
Former announcement Of details Of
the rehabilitation were withheld
but 1t was learned that one plan
under consideration is to drop those
workers who are under union wage
scales first. and then those who were
both unemployed and not on relief
rolls when taken on G. W. A. Jobs
The preparations went forward as
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
held forth in the closing sessions OF
hsr labor legislation" conference
with representatives Of state govern
ors. American Federation of Labor
hngpins and guests specially invited
to the party by Perkins.
The only federal legislation dis
cussed was the Wagner-LeWis bill
which provides no federal unemploy-
msnt insurance whatsoever. The
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill, which is pending IN
Congress. again was ignored, en-
phasizing the purpose Of the confer
ence to head off the swift mass move
ment for genuine unemployment in
elrance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16
CAPITALISTS Begin
Massacre Of Best
Captive Workers
GalIovs Rise; Soldiers
Slaughter W orker
Prisoners

VIENNA, Feb. l5.--The systematic
massacre Of the flower of the work
ing class Of Austria has begun. The
thwarted and infmiated capitalist die
tatorship is carrying out savage re
prisels on its worker captives.
Fire CAPTAIN WeiSsl, who led his
company against the government, and
himself manned machine gun, was
summarily hanged last night
On the scaffold, he proudly detied
his murderers. 1.-THE only reason you
have caught me is because We did not
have time to arm ourselves sufti-
GENTLY" he declared. II am a reVOlu-
tionary Socialist. I will fight Doll
fuss to the end"
Forty are held for the hangInan at
Lin
At Wolfsegg, in the Trauntal coal
mining region, fascist soldiers turned
on a band Of captured workers, and
maSsacred them TO the last man
Ga1ows have been erected In many
parts OF Austria. Dollfuss has an
nounced that every captured leader
81 the fighting workers viii be turned
over to the hangman.
Robert Kalab, young Viennese
bookbinder. is now awaiting eXecu-
ton.
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C ontinued from Page u

sistanoe to overwhelming forces.
Their ammunition was rapidly be-
coming exhausted. without any means
OF replenislment
Tine whole proletarian belt Of
Vienna was a battlefield.
At nigiltfall, the workers had re-
captured the Karl Marx Hof, Eu-
ropes greatest tenement, which had
been taken earlier in the day by the
fascist troops. Once again, machine
guns blazed from the windows and
balconies of the battered block, a
eat section OF 1t in ruins.
Fight Under Hail Of Shells
The great factory and proletarian
tenement garden city Of Floridsdorf
was a shell-battered ruin, but the
fighting continued under a hail of
shells.
just behind Floridsdorf firing
blazed from the Kaisermuehle, a
great mill which the workers held
against Q barrage Of shells which be-
gan ut pm.
In Simmering, Ottaking, Hernals
proletarian sectors of the outer ring
Of Vienna, fierce resistance continued
all night. The roar of cannon and
the sound Of shots made the night
a horror. In moments of lull, one
could hear the cries of the wounded.
Build Trenches
at Jedelshof, the workers had
tablished an especially strong de-
sse position, and they and the
eist troops confronted each other
hastily built trenches.
lie F'uchsenfeldhof, workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16

to lead worker sportsnen to secure
these gyms and athletic facilities il
is necessary to have the LS.U. lead
them in the struggle evolving around
sports.
TN order 10 broaden out as
pointed out above, the New England
board of the L.S.U., in cooperation
with the national board, has
planned tour that will cover every
nook and corner of the district and
attempt TO establish L.S.U. clubs
over The entire district The details
of this tour will be announced later
in this column
Anyone, individuals or teams, who
wants information about the forma-
ton Of clubs in this district, or are
interested in joining up with the L.
S. u, should communicate immedi-
ately with Emil Tyrainen, 234 Pine
ST.. Gardner, Mass, who is acting
secretary of the New England board.
Go to it, New England! You've got
our full supportl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16

apartment house in Needing, resisted
the assault Of the state forces through
the night
The staff Of the state Insane
asylum, the Steinhof, joined the
workers and fired on soldiers and
police from the windows wounding
several.
BIackened Ruins
While street fighting continued in
a hundred working-cl regions Of
the city, a force of workers, outnum-
bered, retreated to a high hill near
the town, and began to throw up
breastworks and preparing machine
gun emplacements.
This morning, great sections of the
city were masses Of blackened ruins.
When, this morning, it became i'm
possible to hold the Gotthehof tene-
ment, and other working class homes
nearby, the workers retreated to the
nearby Kargan district, and contin-
Ued their resistance.
Martial Law in Tyr0I
The Tyrol, a region with few in
austriai workers, q stronghold Of fas-
cism, Austrian and Nszi, was placed
under martial law last night, indi-
eating that the workers there, too.
were taking part in the nationwide
anti-fascjst resistance.
At Linz, where a fascist attack on
the workers center brought forth the
resistance which marked the opening
engagement Of the fascist war on the
workers, there was ample evidence OF
the heroism OF the workers.
Lone Machine Gunner
The workers center stands in q
rear court, surrounded by high builds
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16
Philadelphia Pushes
Plans to Reorganize
Labor Sports Union

PHILADELPHIA to reor-
ganize the Labor Sports Union here
are being pushed rapidly ahead fol-
lowing the meeting Saturday of six
teen representatives of Philadelphia
workers organizations, from the
Strawberry Mansion and Downtown
Workers Clubs, the international
Labor Sports Club, Nature Friends,
Soccer League Comprised of eight
teams) and the International Work
erS Order Youth Branches.
In addition to the Soccer League
which is the only sport organized on
q competitive basis, some of the
clubs are participating in basketball,
wrestling, boxing, gymnastics, ping
pong and adagio dancing. Baseball,
tennis, and track and field sports
will also be organized.
"We have definitely in back Of
our mind in Workers Spartakiade
to be held in Moscow this summer, :"
reports A. Goldstein, assistant Or
ganizer I'VE ask all individuals
and organizations interested in any
branch of sports to attend our Or
ganizational Committee meeting on
Saturday, Feb. II, pm, at 1925
Germantown Ave. We especially in
vite all Negro workers and organi-
cations to affiliate themselves with
the only non-discriminating, work
ing-class sports group in Philadel-
phia."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16
AUSTRIAN WORKERS VALIANTLY HOLD OUT AT MANY
POINTS: ALL CZECH WORKERS STRIKE

ings, accessible only through q pass
sgeway. AT the street level is the
largest movie house in the town,
The workers concentrated here
and fought for many hours against
the powerfully armed state forces
They defended themselves with rifles
and reYolyers.
A single machine gun, which only
one worker knew how to operate, held
the attackers at bay until a fascist
sharpshooter, firing from q nearby
church steeple, killed him.
20 Await Gallows Sentence
Today, 20 Of the workers leader;
are awaiting sentence to the gallow;
at the hands of drum-head court
martial Five hundred other worker;
are under arrest, awaiting an I'M
known fate.
Still others undefeated, continue tc
fire in heroic last stands in variou;
parts Of Linz, fighting from houses
and barrieades in the proletarian sec
tons Of the town.
A fascist con1missar has assumed
authority over the town.
Workers Hospital Shelied.
When government artillery began
Smelling a workers hospital in Linz
one nurse was killed, and many doc
tors, assistants and patients injured
before they could be taken to the cell
lar Of the hospital.
The doctors and nurses Joined che
socialist workers in fighting the
troops. They were finally forced to
retreat to the woods outside the town,
when their leader, Herman Schrangen
was killed Sixty were killed and
hundreds wounded in this one en-
gsgement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16
World WOrkingcIass
Masses To Support
Austrian TOilerS
Continued from Pags u


Union Council, and the Labor Party.
1t proposes united mass demonstra-
lions, election Of protest delegations
IN shops and workers organizations,
protests in Parliament by representa-
ives of the political parties, the or
ganization of a British workers dele
CATION to so to Austria, and prepare
ton for a general strike in case OF
intervention by any of the imperialist
powers.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 15.--More than
1000 took part in a mass demonstra-
ton Of solidarity with the Austrian
workers here yesterday.
ZURICH, Feb. 15.-Demonstrations
in each of which more than 1000 took
part, in solidarity with the Austrian
workers, took place in this city, and
in Bern, Schaffhausen, and Basel
yesterday and Tuesday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16
Metal Workers Strike
In Newark Factory

NEWARK, N. j. - Twenty-one
workers are striking at the Federal
Metal Products Co. here under the
leadership of the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union.
The strikers are demanding the re-
instatement OF discharged workers
and a 20 to 80 per cent increase in
wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16
Working Women
of Vienna Are
Heroic Fighters

VIENNA. Feb. 15.-When. after
hours of smashing bombardment
with howitzers, the fascist state forces
invaded the great Goethehof workers
tenement, they discovered that its
worker garrison consisted almost en-
tirely Of women and children.
Many of the men had fallen.
Others had gone on to defend ether
positions. The women. who had
fought like lions beside them. refused
to give up their homes, and con-
tinued the fight.
When the George Washington and
the Indian tenement blocks were
finally surrendered, it was largely
women, grin-faced and many carry
ing bandages after many, hours OF
terrific fighting, who marched out.
Some carried children.
Women Man Machine Guns
At the Bebelhof tenement. workers
wives and daughters lnanneA the ma
chine guns, which poured whitening
fire on the states uniformed killers,
firing from the railway yards.
No one knows how many women
fell fighting beside their husbands
and fathers in every part Of prole-
tartan Vienna. Wherever men de-
Tended their home districts 1t was the
women who carried the ammunition.
reloading the rifles and revolvers, fed
the fighters and took care Of the
wounded.
Often the women stood shoulder
to shoulder with their men in the
front lines, firing,
Women Marched to Prison
In the fall Of several working class
tenements, which the workers had
turned into forts in self defense. hun
dreds Of women and children
marched out, to be surrounded by
troops with bayonets, and taken Oft
to prison.
Even as they marched out OF, their
wrecked and shattered homes. proud
still in defeat, motorized machine
gun companies were rushing past to
attack their husbands and fathers,
who still defended other working
class strongholds nearby.
The George Washington and In
dian tenements are in the so-called
American Quarter" of Vienna, where
workers two years ago made a gigan-
tic demonstration in defense of the
Scottsboro boys, when the American
Ambassador attended the opening Of
the George Washington tenement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16
300 Marchers Fight for CWA Jobs in New York Demonstration
NeeV England Gets Set

THE labor sports in New York and throughout the
country has in the past few years enjoyed little
growth The Labor Sports Union has broadened out little
adding organizations and including activities its
program of workers athletics
But the New England section to be in slump
The L. u there has fallen behind its status several
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16
ANNA. SCHULZ ON 1.-THE GERMAN
STTUATION,,

SUPERIOR. Wis. - Anna Schulz. former
secretary Of Ernst Torgler, will speak here
on Sunday, Feb. 49, This mass meeting is
to be held under the auspices OF the Com
munlst Party, the International Labor De-
Tense and the Minneapolis COMMITTEES 70
AID Victims 81 esgEsn sisssism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16
HAYES JONES WILL SPEAK

F.s,U, Marine Worker Delegate, lust re-
turned from the Soviet Union, will speak
on IAN American Marine Worker Examines
Working Conditions in Soviet Russia" to-
night, at $50 pm. at the Prospect Park
Branch. F.s.U.. iO7i Bergen st. IN. Nostrand
AVE., Brooklyn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16


fuss regime, which has turned heavy
artillery on the working class districts
OF Vienna and other cities. The
demonstration is called by the Phila-
delphia district of the Communist
Party, with the support OF many
other working class organizations.
Solidarity Meets in Minneapolis
Sunday
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI. Feb. IA
The Communist Party is organizina
two solidarity meetings in support Of
the Austrian workers revolt against
fascisrn. The mass meeting will be
held Sunday afternoon, 2:30 o'clock
at the Humboldt Hall, 1917 Glenwooc
Ave, NJ, and at the same hour al
the Metal Workers Hall, 1923 Cedar
Ave, s.
Invitations have been sent to So
cialist Party and Farmer Labor Party
locals to join with the Communist
Party in a united front, and to send
speakers to the meeting.
Protest Actions in Baltimore, Phiia.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 14.-Damon-
STATIONS in solidarity with the Aus
TRAN workers are being arranged ii
this city and Baltimore.
In addition to Saturdays demon
stration at Reyburn Plaza, at
o'clock, mass meeting will be held
Friday night, Feb. % at one Of the
largest halls in the city.
The Socialist Party in Baltimore
and Philadelphia has been approached
with an invitation for a united front
struggle against fascism Leaflets
have also been Issued addressed tc
the members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16
RUBEN BERGER OF N.r.wI.U.

member Of the Trade Board Of the
Needle Trade Workers Industrial Union will
speak on THE Meaning OF the New Gched-
ules for Dressmakers" followed by discus
SIGN from the floor, at an Open Forum to
be held on Sunday, Feb. 10 at sos Cleve-
land St.. Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16
NEGRO AND WHITE AGAINST
FASCISM

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 15.-A mass
meeting of the workers in this city
in support Of the fight of the Aus
trian workers against Fascism will be
held here Friday. Feb 16 at pm
at the Richmond Beneficial Hall
Jackson and Second SIS.
This meeting will be the first meet
ing called by the Communist Party
Of this city All workers Of Rich
mond, unemployed and employed
Negro and white, are called upon tc
come 10 this meeting and demon
strate against the bosses war prep
arations and the growing Of Fascism
in this country,
The speakers at this meeting will
be A. Holt, section organizer of the
Communist Party; W. r. Friend and
T. H. Stone from the Unemployment
Council OF this CITY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16
ROBERT MINOR mol sprAK

The subject is 1.-THE Growth OF Fascism
in the United States" at the Social Gull
ture Youth Club, 275 Broadway, Brooklyn,
near Marcy Ave.) at $50 pm. tonight,
Feb. Is.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16
Workers In Many
Cities Meet for
Austrian Workers
(Continued from, Page y

the only solution to the present social,
economic and political problems of
the American working class.
This lecture will take place at the
Fifth Avenue High School AUDITOR
UNI, 1900 Forbes ST., on Monday, Feb.
10, at 8 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-16
STEEL UNION pROTEsTs

Lie ulnO1l WHICH earned through
stoppages in its shops against Ger
man Fascisin, in this critical hour is
calling upon all its members to Join
in the mighty protest against the
numbering Of our class brothers in
Austria We call upon all our mem
bers and workers in the metal shops
to organize themselves and march in
a body to the meeting at Madison
Square Garden tonight
JERSEY WORKERS no MEET
NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 15.-There
will be a mass meeting to protest
against the Fascist terrorism in
Austria on Sunday night, Feb. 10, at
8 pm. at Krueger's Auditorium, IS
Belmont Ave.
Rebecca Grecht OF the Communist
Party and Harry Cannes of the Daily
Worker will be the main speakers.
On Saturday morning, q delegation
OF workers from Newark. representing
various worl5ing-class organizations,
will so to New York TO protest to the
Austrian Consulate against the Doll
fuss Fascist Dictatorship
In all these actions, the locals Of
the Socialist Party are being invited
to participate in united front soil
darity against Fascism.
NEW YORK. resolution of pro-
test against Austrian fascism, and
greeting the heroic struggles Of the
Austrian working class, was passed
last night by the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union, New York
District, n Fifth Ave-, in the name
of its 10000 members.
A mass meeting at Arcadia Hall
Halsey st. Brooklyn, tonight will alsC
be held. The union also gave its fuI
endorsement TO the Communist Party
meeting at the Coliseum, in The
Bronx.
A motion protesting against thu
recent police brutality against the
anti-fascist demonstrators before the
Austrian Consulate was also adopted
and sent to Mayor La Guardia.
CLEVELAND, Feb. l4.-The work
ing class Of Cleveland will rally II
four mass united front demonstra.
tons Saturday in solidarity with the
Austrian workers struggle against
fascisn. The demonstrations have
been called by the District Commit
tee Of the Communist Party.
Demonstration Saturday In
Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. -Phila.
delpfia workers viii demonstrate
this Saturday afternoon, ] O'Clock, al
Hepburn Plaza, in solidarity with the
heroic struggles of the Austrian work
srs against the bloody fascist Doll
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Evening star., 1934-07-22
KENTUCKIANS SEE
N. R. A. PROSPERITY
Tobacco Acreage Contracts
Signed for Total OF
$2,538,000.
By The Associated Press

b. the Associated Press
LEXINGTON Ky. July 2i--Ths nks
to the A. A A. Kentucky's tobacco
growers are looking forward this year
TO the start of new deal for those
who raise the States principal money
crop
Boiled down. the new deal" they
have been promised hy the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration is simply
this. more money for less tobacco and
less work.
So confident are the tobacco grow
ers Kentucky--leading tobacco center
IN the Nation--in the efficacy Of the
plan worked out by the A. A. A. that
they have, almost TO man, signed
contracts making them eligible for its
benefits. As an example Of the ap-
proval which the growers have given
the plan, almost 100 per cent of the
hurley men in Franklin County alone
have signed reduction contracts.
Dawn of New Day.
After many lean years in which
they received hardly anything for their
efforts, the growers generally believe
a new day and new era is dawnlng
for them. Whether they are TO be
disilluSioned cannot be determined un-
til the annual tobacco sales get under
way later in the year.
Simply speaking. the new deal" pro-
gram for. the tobacco growers is an
adherence to the economic law of sup
ply and demand. BY reducing the
supply of tobacco approximately one
third of what 1t was last season, Ken
lucky growers hope to raise the price
proportionately.,, The demand mean
while. is expected to be greater.
Fay for Non-Production.
Not only from higher prices will the
growers benefit, but they also viii re-
ceive, and already are receiving. pay
for taking tobacco lands out of pro-
duction. In other words, they are, in
measure. receiving crop insurance.
Figures compiled at the University
of Kentucky experiment station, from
where the plan is being directed,
show that under the tobacco control
program, 14l 900 acres of tobacco of
all types have been taken out of pro-
duction in the State. OF the total,
$4,000 acres formerly were planted in
hurley, 10000 in dark air-cured and
Is 900 in fire-cured. This leaves the
anticipated crop in the State for this
year, of all types, at 336,00 acres.
For the acreage they have taken out
of production, Kentucky farmers re-
ceived an average rental price of Sl8
an acre from the Federal Government,
or a total of S2538 600.
Evening star., 1934-07-22

hour with an average for the e5-mile.
nonstop run between Chicago and
Milwaukee Of 7ss miles an hour. a
regularly scheduled passenger train on
the Milwaukee Railroad today smashed
all known records for sustained high
speed By = steam train.
Racing against time from Mayfair
III. to Lake, Wis q distance Of SO 2
miles. the train maintained an average
speed for the distance OF GIL miles
an hour.
Elapsed time for the entire s5-mile
trip was / hour minutes.
Ofhcials OF the railroad said the
trip vas not stunt. nor an attempt
against records established by the new
Evening star., 1934-07-22
NEW BLAZE OCCURS
AT SEABRO0K FARM
Warehouse Filled With $4,000
Peach Crates Is Ignited,
With $4,000 Loss.
By the Associated Press.

BR1DGETON. N. j., July 21.-The
second of two fires Of unknown origin
at the Seahrook Farm last night de-
Etroyed large warehouse filed with
$4,000 peach crates. with an estimated
loss of more than $4,000.
Before dawn yesterday empty bar
racks built to house 500 men burned.
Charles F. Seabrook. owner, esti-
mated that loss at $4,000
County Detective Albert F. Murray,
who IS investigating both blazes. said
he believed they were of incendiary
origin. Flames were found in four
different places in the barracks, while
the blaze in the warehouse began in
the northwestern corner, apparently
from the inside. watchmen said.
A watchmsn said he saw unldenti-
fed prowlers at the peach packing
plant yesterday evening and tele-
phoned Murray. When he next
looked at the warehouse it was in
flames.
Evening star., 1934-07-22

"streambned" trains, but was under
taken with the view Of seeing Just
how fast the trip could be made safely
with standard equipment.
Engineer william Dempsey. 81. a
veteran OF IS years service. was az the
throttle. HIS only instructions were
to make the trip in 10 minutes, If
you can DO it safely"
Evening star., 1934-07-22

England States yesterday caused
grave alarm 10 farmers and foresters
as the drought frightened its grip on
the section. The Weather Bureau re-
ported no rain of consequence was
likely for three or four DAYS.
Despite a let-down in the fires
burning through the Cape Cod area.
motor patrols reconnoitered the for
est outskirts and woodland roads on
sharp lookout for new blazeS.
Heavy air and thick fog obScured
visibility Of vigilant towermen who
could see only two and half miles.
Scores of men fought conffagrations
in New Hampshire. where the For
estry Department said so fires had