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The Washington times., 1934-07-31
POST.
CHARTERED

Numbering a membership Of ap-
proximately 900, another Amer1'
can Legion post was officially
chartered last night.
With elaborate ceremonies, in
Guiding a massing Of colors and
a demonstration by a 30-piece
bugle and drum corps, Govern
ment Printing Office Post No. 33
was admitted to the "fold" at a
meeting held in Harding Hall, the
spacious auditorium in the Print
ing Office Building on North
Capitol Street.
Rice w. Means, department
commander of the District of-Co-
lumbia, officially presented Orville
C. Gaudette, commander of the
new post, with the charter.
The other officers of the post
are Edward R. Dixon, senior vice
commander; George J. Johns,
Junior vice commander; Alex L.
Weinberg, adjutant; Roy S. Mu'
sick, treasurer; Frederick j. Glea'
son, sergeantat-arms; Fred A.
Minnigh, historian; Robert c.
Leachman, service officer; LOUIS
C. Vogt, chaplain, and Francis j.
Murray, news correspondent.
The Washington times., 1934-07-31
STATE To ASK
DEATH VERDICT.
FOR KENT

FTNCASTLE, Va, July 31.-The
state of Virginia will ask the
death penalty for Major Robert
C. Kent, jr., when the wartime
aide to General Pershing goes on
trial for the kidnapping Of Mrs.
Mary Jane Hastings, wealthy
Blue Ridge resort owner.
This was announced today by
Philip Kohen, CommonwealthS
attorney for Boutetort County,
who will prosecute the case,
which is set for September 3.
kidnapping Pressed
Although the Major was also
charged with the Staying Of the
woman in a second indictment,
he will be tried first on the kid
naping charge, which carries the
death penalty in Virginia.
A Federal charge of kidnapping
was dismissed yesterday in Roa-
noke at a hearing before the
United States commissioner. This
action was taken, Mr.. Kohen ex-
planned, as the authorities feel
they have a better chance to
secure a conviction under the
State law.
There is a strong circumStan-
tial case against Major Kent, Mr..
Kohen said, but the murder
charge is weakened by the fact
that investigators have not been
able to determine just where the
woman was slain-in Virginia,
Washington or Pennsylvania.
Charges Denied
Major eKnt denies the kidnap-
ing and Staying, claiming that he
drove the woman to Washington
paid her several hundred. dollars
he owed her, and left here.
Several days later her body
was found in a clump Of bushes
in Pennsylvania, shot through the
head.
Major Kent is being kept IN
the Roanoke jail until the trial
starts.
The Washington times., 1934-07-31
Poet Shot Writing
Note of Farewell

WOODLAND, Calf, July 81.
Lamar Hollinshead, student poet.
was writing a letter breaking off
an alleged affair with JudSon
Doke's wife when Doke shot him.
He died later. This charge was
made by young Hollinshead him.
self in a deathbed statement hith-
erto undisclosed, District Attorney
Chester MacD Donald, of Yolo
county, said here today.
The Washington times., 1934-07-31
Reddens Fighting
Cricket Invasion

DENTON. Md. July 31.-While
other homes along the river ap'
parently have escaped the inva-
sion, that of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Redden on the Choptank, is liter
ally swarming with cricketS, caus-
ing the destruction Of property
and clothing, despite efforts to ex-
termiante them. Three pints Of
the pests have been caught by
the ReddenS.
The Washington times., 1934-07-31
Relief Rent Cash
Policy Is Changed

BALTIMORE, July 31.-Land-
lords of persons on the relief rolls
here will henceforth be forced to
collect their own rents. Hitherto
the Baltimore Emergency Relief
Commission has paid the money
to the landlords, but has changed
this system by voting to give the
destitute the cash with which to
meet rent. Amounts given to each
person on the rolls will represent
one-seventh of the assessed value
of the space inhabited.
The Washington times., 1934-07-31

Assessed value Of property in
Maryland last year was $2,O4s,-
s24,566, q report Of the real estate
taxation bureau Of the Bureau OF
the Census revealed today.
The survey showed that last
year 16 per cent Of taxes were de-
linouent. st. Marys county was
the highest, with so per cent de-
linquency, and Montgomery county
The Washington times., 1934-07-31
Norfolk Factory
Opening Baked

NORFOLK, Va, July 3l.-Judge
Algy, of New York, today denied
q Blue Eagle to the La Fayette
Garments, Inc, which was ready
to open a factory here and give
employment to 400. Judge Algy is
code chief on the coast of the gar
ment industry. An immediate ap'
peal will be made to General Hugh
johnson. City Manager T. p.
Thompson says he will go to
Washington to present the appeal.
The Washington times., 1934-07-31
County Hospital
To Be Discussed

Miss Agnes Duvall, Prince
Georges county welfare worker,
will speak on the establishment
Of a proposed county hospital, at
a meeting of the Exchange Club
tomorrow at Beaver Dam Coun-
try Club.
At present, county patients are
being sent to Washington hos
pitalS.
The Washington times., 1934-07-31
ARyLAND TAX DATAOUT

the lowest, with 3 per cent.
The total tax assessment was
$4S,796,419 with delinquencies
amounting to $7,s99,419.
The State has 172 units which
assess and collect taxes, including
the State, % counties, 148 cities,
towns and villages and one COM
bined city.county form Of govern
ment-Baltimore-which reported
a Is per cent delinquency.
The Washington times., 1934-07-31
OPERATOR INJURED

LURAY, Va, July 31.-Edgar
Rogers, filling station operator
was struck by a freight train two
miles east of Luray last night at
midnight and hurled some dis
tance, where he was found later
by a neighbor. He suffered inter
nal and head injuries and is in
Rockingham Memorial Hospital.
The Washington times., 1934-07-31
WOMEN TO MEET

The Women's Benefit AsSo-
citation of Alexandria will meet
tonight at 8 p. m. in the I. O.
o. F. Hall. Mrs. A. H. Kishner
will preside.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-10

Mother always deserves thoughtful tribute of affection and gratitude her special day of honor. But this year that times getting better and vanish
 ngshe deserves something particularly nice She's had her share of troubles and hard times during these difficult years so make next Sunday a very joyous day for her!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Threaten Leader in
.KnitgOOdS Strike

PHILADELPHIA, April 3 CBy
MaiD Il. H. Feingold, manager of
the Knit Goods Workers Union,
which is carrying on a general strike
in the industry in Philadelphia, re-
ceived a letter threatening to put
him 'fn the cemetery" within AZ
hours. This is the latest step in
the attempt to smash the strike.
The Labor Board failed to scare
or ca jole the union into sending the
workers back to the mills under a
sell-out agreement. The bosses
failed in their slanderous attack
on the union through paid ads in
the bourgeois press. The strike
headquarters were several time in
vaded by hoodlnns who tried to
create disturbances, and who
planted several stencil bombs In the
hall and in the kitchen where the
strikers food was prepared.
All this, however, failed to lessen
the militancy of the pickets, and the
strike is now at deadlock. The
spirit of the strikers is good, and
they are determined to stick and
fight until the strike is won.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05

of the workers, but, as Stain put it,
"at the present time there are no
data, direct or indirect, that indi-
Gates the approach of an industrial
boom in capitalist countries :.
Judging by all things, there cannot
be such data, at least in the near
future :. Because all the unfavor-
able conditions which prevent in
dustry in the capitalist countries
from rising to any serious extent
still continue to operate. / have in
mind the continuing general crisis
Of capitalism in the midst of which
the economic crisis is proceeding,
the chronic working of the enter
prises under capacity, the chronic
mass unemployment, the interweav-
ing of the industrial crisis with the
agricultural crisis :"
Both Fascism and war are being
prepared by the capitalists - but it
will not smother the working class
fight, Browder asserted. Another
laundering cheer met his declara-
ton that 'if the imperialistS ven
ture upon another war, they will
receive q crushing defeat worse than
in the last war Gin which they lost
the largest country of all to the
victorious working class of the So
Wet Union. This time they will
face working class infinitely bet
ter prepared. Such a war will
surely end in the birth of a few
more Soviet Republics"
BOunties TO Capitalists
Showing how the Roosevelt New
DEAF has succeeded in its most vital
ainl-to attempt to bridge over the
difficult period for the capitalists and
begin the restoration Of their prof.
its-Browder gave government fig
ures on the enormous bounties
poured out by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation; on the effect
Of initiation and price fixing in re-
ducing workers real wages, so that
even the A. F. OF L. figures con-
cede it; and on the manipulation
Of the government budget so that
the burden of taxes has been shifted
off the shoulders of the rich onto
the shoulders of the poor. These
things and the official adoption of
the company union" he said, could
not have been accomplished without
the collaboration of the A. F. of L..
leadership. Every vicious IN r. Al
code provision against the workers.
for company unions, has borne the
signature Of Green and Co."
Explains United Front Tactic
Emphasizing the urgency of build
ing the united front from below
with all working class groups and
their allies, Browder explained the
correct application of this tactic.
At the same time he called for
"electing at least few Communists
to Congress from a few concentra-
ton districts" He dwelt upon the
imperative necessity to extend the
work of the Party for the national
liberation of the Negro people. He
insisted that work among women
workers in industry and among
housewives keep pace with the capt.
tslists drawing them into industry.
THE Communists set no condi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05

adoption, especially the thesis and
decisions Of the 18th Plenum of the
Executive Committee Of the Com
munist International, and the draft
resolution prepared for this conven-
ton by the Central Committee. My
report has been for the purpose of
further celebrating these funda-
mental drectives and discussing
some of our central problems con-
cretely in the light Of these direc-
tives. All these tasks set forth in
the documents before us are parti-
cular parts Of the one general task
to arouse and organize the work
ers and oppressed masses to resist
ance against the capitalist program
of hunger, fascination and imperial
ist war.
'They are parts Of the one task
of winning the majority of the
toiling masses for the revolution
airy struggle for their immediate
political and economic needs as
the first steps along the road to
proletarian revolution, to the
overthrow of capitalist rule, the
establishment Of a revolutionary
workers government, Soviet
government, and the building Of
Socialist society in the United
States"
Wild Enthusiasm
All over the big auditorium. dur
ing the above passage, delegates
rose spontaneously and called
Long live our Central Committed =
Long live Comrade Browderr
Long live our Communist Partyr
The intensity Of the enthusiasm
rose section by section, line by line
during the afternoon until, at the
magnificent close of providers
speech-the stirring confirmation OF
an American Communist Party
roofing in the soil of American in
dustry and farming, yet firmly
united with "the most fearless, de-
voted, honest and energetic in the
working class of every capitalist
country, as well as of the toiling
masses struggling for their liberia
ton throughout the world THE
audience broke into hectic, pro-
longed applause, and once more
stood to cheer. They fell silent
again, when Browder concluded:
Above all, do we arm ourselves
with the political weapons forged
by the victorious Communist Party
of the Soviet Union, with the
mighty sword Of Marxism -Lenin-
ism, and are strengthened and in
spired by the victories of Socialist
construction won under its Bolshe-
vik leadership, headed by Stain
Our World Communist Party, the
Communist International, provides
us the guarantee not only of oul
victory in America, but of the VIC
tory of the proletariat throughout
the world
And then wild applause broke
and shook the hall until James w
Ford and Mother" Ella Reeve
Bloor came forward, leading I'll;
singing Of ths international
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
500 Delegates at P Convention Cheer Call to Struggle

groups misleadership and betrayal
of American labor and the en-
ployers' and their governments
drive against employe standards
and at the same time he insisted
upon further exposure, continual,
concrete exposure.
This opening session of the con-
vention was q revelation of the liv-
ing leadership of the Communist
Farty, much of it new rank and file
leadership, girding calmly but de-
terminedly for new, more intense
and prepared push toward
the revolutionary goal. These dele
gates, seated closely at hundreds of
narrow tables in the great hall OF
Prospect Auditorium, weather.
beaten building in once proud but
now crisis stricken residential dis
trict of this industrial city, ap-
plauded spontaneously = and APP
plauded Comrade Browder's own
Living application of Communist
thought" and yet, the greatest APP
plause of all Numbered out to the
fundamental assertions Of the Com
munist demands. Repeatedly, state
ments of the glories of working class
victories in the Soviet Union would
bring storm Of applause that would
last four minutes by the clock and
cease only when the cheering and
shouting broke into the singing of
"Internationale."
Delegates Study Problems
But this audience did more than
cheer, to contribute to this collec-
tive effort. They were studying
these problems with Comrade Brow
der They took notes. They would
settle comfortably back in their
chair, and suddenly sit forward to
record some salient point. The Ne
groes, men and women, scattered
all over the hall, formed a quarter
or more of these delegates. Among
them all, Negro and white, youth
was strikingly evident, and SO were
women delegates. Smoke curled in
small clouds-but here was no
smoke clogged room such as meets
the eye in any Republican or Demo-
cratic convention, for these dele
gates were not machine cogs but
leaders. And they were busy. They
were alert every moment.
Before them on the stage, where
sat the presiding committee, Brow
der stood in shirt sleeves, his slen-
Ger figure looming above the read
ing stand. Behind and above the
committee, the backdrop-a mural
showing mighty worker hurting
the axe of united class struggle to
burst the chains of capitalist OPP
preston. Following his manuscript,
Browder at times leaned forward
and grasped the stand as though
drawn forward toward his audience.
Again, he stood quite erect and
used botn hands to emphasize his
words. AS his language masterfully
applied the MARKHAM combination of
clear general statements with con-
crete examples, and the lightning
OF luminous phrase with homely
sentences. so his delivery fused the
forceful flinging of challenges to
the patient. conversational explana-
tons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
Continued from Page u

stantial gains since the last eonven-
ton held in 1930-at the same time
sharply criticizing where these were
mot enough" He set the detailed
tasks in the building of revolution
airy trade unions and opposition
forces in the American Federation
of Labor and independent trade
unions. He showed how the united
front from below is being carried
through and must be extended. He
explained, with stories to illustrate,
how the fight for immediate de-
mands of the workers everywhere
and of their allies is being linked
and will be further fused with the
fight for the revolutionary over
throw OF capitalism. For these ends
he demanded that the Communist
Party become Bolshevik party
and quickly.
Since the seventh convention, in
1880, which consolidated the uni
f1cation of the Party, and turned it
resolutely toward correct bolshevik
policy of mass struggles and mass
organization" said Browder, "the
Communist Party has trebled its
membership-from 7,545 dues pay
ing members to 24,500. Shop nu-
clei of the Party have increased
from a little more than 100 to 338.
OF these $685. 154 are in basic indus
tries, and more and more of them
are reaching into the decisive fac
tories of these industries. In the
shops in which they are located
there are total Of more than $780,
900 workers. But there is the "se-
rious weakness" that only little
more than l per cent of the workers
have been brought into the unions.
Further specifying where we
have succeeded and where are our
weaknesses. Comrade Browder EN-
phasized that mass education must
go forward with Spokesman who
make always living application Of
Communist thought to the concrete
problems of those to whom they
speak. We must completely over
haul our methods of mass educa-
ton, We must absolutely put stop
to this business of our Party speak
ers copying parrots and phono-
graphs" He demanded, too. that
the key problem" to future growth
of the Party and of the revolution
airy trade union movement-that of
the shop nuclei winning the leader
ship of the overwhelming ma jority
of the $4,000 workers, in the facto-
ries where we already have shop
nuclei, and building and bringing
the best fighters into the Party-be
solved. One trouble, he cited point
edly, is that the Communist shop
nuclei "are not so much secret from
the bosses as from the workers"
At evtsy step Browder laid bare
the intimate relation between the
A. F. Of l.. lesG~~ehip, Socialist
Party. reformist and renegade
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
AT OIL Locals Defy Green, Endorse Workers Bill CHR 1893
Circulate Petitions; Demand Action on
The Workers Social Insurance Bill
City Councils Forced
To Act on
Bill

NEW YORK. - Whereas,
the greedy, labor-hating, la
oor-exploiting political and fl
nancial bosses, assisted by
demagogues and fake labor
leaders, are using every means at
hand to defeat this bill. therefore
be it resolved that the Central La
Dor Union of Gibson County, con-
vening at Princeton in the state Of
Indiana, properly heads and circu-
lates a petition =. demanding the
enactment of Bill H. R. 1898" reads
the resolution adopted by the Cen
trail Labor Union, in endorsing the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill.
The resolution further states, after
outlining a program Of circulating
the petition: That any man or
woman refusing to sign this petition
be branded as an enemy Of the
working class, and their names be
taken and carefully filed away for
future reference" Copies of the
resolution, together with the signed
petition will be mailed to Congress-
men and Senators and to Roosevelt
Defy William Green
In defying the order of Green, the
Central Labor Union Of Gibson
County endorsed the petition, and
called all workers to the meeting.
Added to the long lists of the
thousands OF A. F.. OF L. unions
which have already endorsed the
bill, Local 210 Of the International
Association of Oil Field, Gas Well
and Refinery Workers of Hammond.
Ind. endorsed the bill at the regular
meeting on March 29th. In addition
they too are circulating cards, and
calling upon workers to flood Con-
gress and the Senate with demands
for its enactment.
In Milwaukee, the latest A. F.. of
L. local to endorse the workers bill
is Local 8 Of the Masons and Plas-
terers International Union. In
ANOA O1lodilpOOAA, AdSo,, DIdIICll Al O1
the American Federation of Hosiery
Workers endorsed H.R. 1898.
Hold Conference Of Polish Locals
Twenty-Five delegates, represent
ing $500 members of A. F. of l..
locals in Chicago, met in the hall
of the Bakery and Confectionery
Local 49, and unanimously endorsed
the workers bill. A. F. of L. locals
represented were: the Bakery local
40, Painters local ASS, Carpenters
local BAL, Machinists Local $50,
Amalgamsted Clothing Workers To-
col 38, Hold Carriers local 8, The
Polish Chamber Of Labor, the Tail
ors Educational Society, the Society
of Bricklayers, and the Society Of
Polish Bakers.
In Glen Carbon, H., 3 county
conference to plan the struggle for
the enactment of the Workers I'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05

tons to the united front except that
the unity shall be one of struggle
for the particular demands agreed
upon" He described the united
front tactic. But on this condi-
ton we must be sternly insistent."
And, in spite of all enemies of this
united front, he asserted, the Com
munist Party moves steadily for
ward toward building it," He cited
incorrect application of the tactic
in the recent Cleveland and Dear
born elections, noting that the
Party must not dissolve its own &C
tivities entirely into the broad
movement and lose itself there
Reviews Gains, Weaknesses
Reviewing the achievements and
weakness of the Party work-some-
thing which he insisted he done
regularly, since in this lies "our
strength" - Browder said that an
excellent weapon in this process is
that of continually applying the
Open Letter which was formulated
in the Extraordinary Party Confer
ence last Summer. Immediately
proceeding to apply this self-criti-
cism, he discussed the Bolsheviza-
ton of the Party:
I'VE are trying with all our abil-
tiles to make our Communist Party
into a Bolshevik Party. That
means to master all the lessons
taught US by the first Communist
Party, the most successful one, Gre
ated and led to victory by Lenin
and now successfully building So
cialism under the leadership of
Stain; it means to become party
of the masses; to be party with
its strongest roots among the deci-
sive workers in the basic industries;
a party whose stronghold is in the
shops, mines and factories, espe-
cially in the biggest and most i'm
portant ones; party that leads
and organizes the struggles of all
oppressed peoples, bringing them
into firm alliance with the working
class; a party that knows how to
take difficulties and dangers and
transform them into advantages
and victories.
Moving TOO Slowly
Are we such Psrty2 Not yet.
We have q strong ambition to be-
come such Party. We are making
progress in that direction. But when
we consider the extremely favor
able circumstances under which we
work, when millions are beginning
to move, to organize, to fight, when
only our program can solve their
problems, then we must say that
we are moving forward far too
slowly"
Grounding the party program
once more firmly in the strength
of the international proletarian
movement, Browder continued:
The tasks of our party today, the
tasks Of this convention, have been
clearly and systersatically set forth
in the documents before us for