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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
COnferenceOn
May tOFight
Deportation
Patterson, Stachel and
Noval Urge Defense
of Foreign Born

NEW YORK-A joint call to all
organizations to elect delegates to
a conference for the defense of
Emil CARLOS and for the fight
against deportation and persecution
of the foreign born has just been
issued by the Committee for the
Protection Of Foreign Born, the
Gardos Defense Committee and the
International Labor Defense.
The United Front Conference will
take place Sunday, May 20, l pm,
at the Irving Plaza Hall, 18th St.
and Irving Place. Organizations
should communicate Immediately
with the Committee for Protection
of Foreign Born, Room 430, 80 E.
18th St., N. Y. c.
A statement signed by Jack
Stachel. acting secretary of the
Trade Union Unity League William
L. Patterson of the LID, and Irv-
ing Novick Of the Committee for
Protection of Foreign Born, states
in part:
The Dies deportation and many
other anti-immigrant measures are
pending in Congress. Federal Judge
Gieger has handed down decision
to revoke the citizenship of Emil
Gardos Editor of the Hungarian
Language Daily, vi Elore) for
working class activity In Portland,
Ore, an attempt is being made to
deport militant unemployed
worker, Walter Baer, to Nazi Ger
many.
The mass protest which defeated
the Michigan Alien Registration
Act in 1881, forced the Senate to
defer action on the Dies Bill in
1882, won the Borich case in 1888
and the Creagan case in 1884, must
be raised to much higher level
to defeat these new attacks which
are being made upon the foreign
born with the purpose of dividing
the workers and destroying their
organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Call Conference 8
On Police Terror
Protest Cops Attack on
Workers Club Affairs

NEW YORK.-A conference of
workers clubs to organize against
attacks by police on their dances,
will be held Thursday $50 p.m., at
the Social Youth Culture Club, 275
Broadway, Brooklyn.
Continued raids by police backed
up with rif1e-equipped riot squads.
on the pretext that permits are
needed. have resulted in number
of arrests. Sol Rose and Hy Hodes
will be tried this morning at am
in Bridge Plaza Court. Several
others we're tried Monday, two of
whom are still in jail for lack Of
bail. These cases will come up on
Friday at 9 am. in the same court.
Local politicians fear the workers
clubs because they have drawn
heavily on the Democratic and Re-
publican clubs for membership.
Organizations are urged to send
delegates to the conference and all
workers are called cn to ill the
court both Wednesday and Friday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Steel Men Prepare
For Strike Action
In Baltimore, Md.
SMWIU Organizing for
Return of Jobs to
Workers

BALTIMORE, Md.-Strike &C.
tions are increasing among the
steel workers here, with the shut
down Of the Bethlehem Steel Co.
closing down the steel-rail bust
ness entirely.
Despite the claims of the Spar
rows Point Co. that big orders
were received from the railroad
companies, the mill announced
that it would shut down indef-
initely. Promises that the men
would be taken on in other plants
were made, but so far only a few
of the friends of the bosses have
been given jobs. A similar lay-off
took place at the Bethlehem Steel
Shipyards a few days ago.
The Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union has begun to
take steps to see that the workers
organize action to get their jobs
back at once.
The rail workers have been get
ting a scale of about $1.25 for a
hundred tons of rails.
One hundred and eighty-five
men in the Breakdown Mills have
signed petition for a IS per cent
increase in wages on their jobs.
The S. M. I. U. backed this move
and the company Immediately an
nounced a voluntary increase of
Is per cent, The workers failed
to take the bride and the whole
plant has been organized to force
the whole increase.
Aid Aircraft Strike
Following the appearance Of a
scab ad in the Baltimore Sun,
calling for scabs at the struck
Buffalo airplane factories, COM
mittee of the S. M w. I. U
visited the editor to demand that
this ad be cancelled. The editor
said it was business" but the
ad was withdrawn the next day.
The Union has appealed to the
Baltimore local of the Aeronaut-
ical Workers Union for joint ac-
ton to prevent the shipment OF
scabs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Police Sof-PedaI in Probe
For Killer Of Slain Musician
Cook Up Story About Fictitious ''Negro Mania {;
Musicians Fight for Local Autonomy Goes On

marchers read; Local autonomy
for 800 was Becher's battle cry"
and Local autonomy is our pledge
to Becherl"
Police Do Nothing on Case
The police are, enthusiastically,
doing nothing about investigating
the strong possibility that Becher
was murdered because of his vigor-
Gus stand against the officials of the
union and his fight for local auto
nomy. Instead, after first an
nouncing that the killing of Becher
and wounding of Mrs. Becher we're
the work of a burglar (although this
was not supported by the condition
of the house after the murder, they
have now advanced the theory that
this was, as the Daily Mirror of May
14th put it, "a maniac's crime "
The Mirror goes even further. 1t
states, on the basis of police infor-
nation, that the killing was the
work of "a Negro intruder" and
speaks of this fictitious maniac as of
immense stature with tremendously
long arms and protruding teeth"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16

NEW YORK. - Fellow workers of
the murdered musician, Richard
Becher, men who had fought side
by side with the slain man for local
autonomy in the Associated Musi-
clans of Greater New York Local
802 of the American Federation of
Musicians), attended the funeral of
Elmhurst on Monday although the
union offlcialdom, glad that Becher
was out Of the way, did not officially
take notice of his death at the last
local meeting.
The men who marched-over 200
of thenl-were not only in mourning.
They were determined that Becher's
death, which many union members
attribute to his militancy on the
union floor, will not stop the fight
for local autonomy" as one of their
placards read. This fight has been
going on against the corrupt A. F. of
L. officials, as we'll as the high
salaried outside-appointed execu-
tives of Local 8o2, for many years.
Other placards carried by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
7OOIn Chicago Stock
Yards Strike In Spite
OF Local AFL Chiefs
Industrial Union Urges
Rank and File Control
To Defeat SellOut
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau

1ANdllN M0IkGE NAAuhEAE nAA eau
CHICAGO, IL, May 15.-Seven
hundred workers Of the three Darl-
ing Co. fertilizer plants in the Chi
oago Stockyards went on strike yes
5erday. One Of the plants is COM
pletely shut down, and only a
handful of scabs are in the other
plants.
The workers were called out by
the Amalgamated Butchers and
Meat Cutters, A. p. Of L. union.
About IS members Of the stock
wards Labor Council working in the
plant struck with the others, though
A. F. of L. leaders have done every
thing possible to separate the work
srs of different unions.
The usual style Of sandwich
board picketing by few men is
going on. However, rank and file
strikers took a hand and beat up a
scab herder from an unemployment
agency who brought load Of
strikebreakers to the plant.
Members of the A. F. of L. team
sters union are being kept on the
lob, hauling loads for the struck
plant. Amalgamsted leaders tell
the strikers that something will be
done about that within a few days"
The workers are fighting for 4612
cents an hour, a raise OF II cents
over present pay; against the
speed-up and for recognition of the
union. At one plant the wage de-
mand was granted, but strikers are
still out, demanding back pay at
the new rate.
A group Of strikers visited scab
employment agency and forced a
promise not to send any more scabs.
Darling workers were recruited
into the A, F. Of L. by gangSter tao
tics. Workers we're threatened and
stockyards Labor Council members
had their union buttons torn off.
Practically no strike relief is be-
ing given the workers and many Of
them are going on the streets
hungry.
The Packing House Workers IN
dustrial Union is urging the work
ers to establish real rank and file
control Of the strike through an
elected strike committee which
would include representatives Of
other union groups than the A. F.
of L. The militant clearinghouse
Workers Union warns the workers
that they must raise the demand
for reference of any settlement to
the strikers for decision, for a rank
and file delegation to visit the team
sters' union to urge united action,
and for the establishment and rec
ognition of a shop committee Of all
workers in the shop.
Unless these steps are taken,
representative of the Packing
house Workers Industrial Union
stated, "the strikers will be left at
the mercy Of corrupt A. F, of l.
leaders, and they will be helpless to
prevent a sell out of their struggle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16

SEE IL.
"a fascist moron stops a
string of has-beens and tank
ers, topped by Jack Sharkey,
and thus Mussolini acquires
for the glory of Rome the
heavyweight championship of the
world.
From beautiful CALIFORNIA; sun
kissed chimes breezes into promi-
hence as challenger Americas play
boy Max Baer; and the stage is
set.
"On with the crapioca! The in
ternational, racial and sexual angles
to this coming act must be widely
exploited We are asked by the
promoters and sports writers to
exist (until the fight occurs in
sweaty anticipation Of the CORY
spectacle they hope to present.
Reams Of wordy garbage emanate
from the training camps and 'ex-
perts' typewriters. These experts
can be depended upon not to stress
too much. now that they are hard
at work ballyhooing the fight, the
defeats suffered by Baer and the
bad showingS made by the cheese
champ. For instance, how badly
Loughran showed them both up
What the sports writers hand out
is that only through Baers clever
deception in allowing Camera to
toss him around easily when they
spared together in the movie was
the match made, the inference be-
ing that Baer is likely to win the
title; and who does not want to see
title change hands7
"Once again America will be SUI
preme. How America needs to be
supreme!
THE international angle without
which no promoter is happy is here:
Italy VS.. Ai1lerica-Jew VS.. Italian
for the heavyweight championship!
I will eat your hat! Remember that
other one about Carpenter, war
hero, against Dempsey, slacker9
"Finishing-school girls should turn
out by the sorority house-full. A
huge beetle proved, sinister looking
behemoth against a smaller, col
legiate looking, fair skinned sheik.
What thrill
How can the interests of sport
loving fans be identified with such
an affair as a professional cham
pionShip fight? Joe Cans, the great
Negro lightweight champion, was
sent to an untimely death by the
promoters of the Gans-Nelson bout,
20 years ago. A tubercular, Cans
was forced to torture his body to
make the lightweight limit. Weak
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16

ened by this, he took a terribls
beating. Soon afterward he died
Jack johnson, a great boxer, was
bounded from the United States fol-
showing an interest in a whits
woman. The white chauyinist sports
in the deal which brought the title
back to the white race sent Willard
to Havana to beat him. johnson
was forced to fake and lose in order
to return to the q. S. George God
frey and Harry Wills we're barred
by the color line" in pugilism from
chance at the title. The history
of the manly art" is rotten with
discrimination against Negroes
Boxing has its blacklist, lockout. in.
timidation and exploitation in much
the same form as they are faced by
workers in any industry.
ct is parasites game. Only
the overthrow of the capitalist class
by revolutionary workers can put
real sport in craftsmanship"
Yours for the Revolution,
ABE MosCoU.
DEAR Comrade Fuchs:
" For three months the CITY
Council of the Associated Workers
Clubs has been focusing it's energies
on the organizing of an Anti-War
Field Day to be staged June 2 at
Ulmer Park.
With the assistance of the Labor
Sports Union we have arranged a
program Of track and field events
for women and men, and volley-
ball contest.
I'VE sent entry blanks to all
sports clubs the Labor Sports Union
has contact with. We sent entry
blanks to the National Student
League. We sent entry blanks to
all our workers clubs. We went to
meetings and spoke of this track
meet. We sent letters to your col
umn (Which were published in
forming all workers of this meet.
"And what has happened?
Nothing. To date, May IA, we
have received only two entries.
True, Mac Gordon, of the Z. S.
u, warned us that the entries
would come in late. But so late!
I'VE have only two weeks left to
arrange details for the meet. But
shall we arrange details for meet
that no one has enteredP Such a
procedure is impossible We there
fore wish to advise all workers Of
the facts.
Entry blanks are due May %,
If by May % a sufficient number
of entries have not arrived, we will
either call the meet off or arrange
only for those events for which
sufficient number of entries have
been received.
Comradely,
G. G. Associated Workers Clubs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
"WhaLWM You DO?" Women
Fur Workers Ask OF Perkins

Perkins, since you say over the
radio you are interested in wo-
mem"
Il myself was attacked by
gangsters last Ssturdsy-do you
want to see the bruises, Miss
PerkinsP I too heard you speak
as a woman over the radio -
what will you do2"
Secretary Perkins promises to
make an investigation" She
walked out on the girls inquiries
as to what she would do to stop
her own Assistant Secretary of
Labor, Edward F. McGrady, from
attacking the militant union by
sending its leaders to Jail and
deportation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Legion Wrecks lid
BirminghamOffice;;
50 Miners Are Held
Continued from Page y

a home at 1877 Seventh Avenue
North, occupied by two Negro fam
lilies. of Henry Thomas and Lsrkin
Britt, striking furnace employees.
No one was hurt, however.
Robert Swindle, white miner,
and Jim Lakey, special deputy foT
Debardeleben Coal Company, were
wounded near the Townley Mine
of Debardeleben Company late Fri
day afternoon in an attempt by
mine thugs to dispense the picket
line. Swindle is to be charged with
shooting.
General John Persons, COM
mander Of the Alabama National
Guard, has sent detachment Of
rifemen, machine gunners and gas
squads to Townley.
Persons is head of First National
Bank. with heavy investments in
coal mines. George r. Coles, vice
president of the International Union
of Mine, Mill and Shelter Workers,
has pledged full cooperation to the
mine owners in Keeping the roads
clear" that is, clear for the i'm
portation of scsbs.
Gordy Bice, white miner wounded
by the same volley of shots that
killed Ed England at Red Diamond
Coal Mine, Is now in Hillnan Hos
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16

pital and gave the following state
ment to a representative of the
"On April Is, some of us we're
walking along the road when
deputies Kirkland and Mason, gun
thugs, rode up in a car and be-
gan shooting at us without say
ing word. l regard this as an
open attempt of the bosses to
terr0rize the workers and break
the present strike and to crush
the militant spirit of the workers.
| appeal to all workers not to be
scared and lose their spirit be-
cause some of us were shot but
to unite, both white and Negro,
in q more determined effort than
ever before TO struggle against
the bosses for q decent living.
I'VE must make double efforts
to resist the bosses and fight for
the right TO live"
Four hundred and fifty workers
of Selma Manufacturing Company
were thrown out of work Friday
when the plant shut down. follow
ing the threat Of the union to cal
a strike unless the demands are
met. The chief demand is union
recognition. The plant is owned by
j. F. Ames of Selma, Ala, who has
in past months come forward as
chief exponent of lower wages fol
the south, and especially even lower
legalized wage scales for Negroes
Harold Ralston is out on bond Of
three hundred dollars.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Bakers and Transfers
Strike in New York

NEW YORK. - Teamsters and
bakers of the Dugan Brothers, Inc,
Bakery are striking against the fir
ing of union men. They are de-
handing a union shop and union
conditions.
The strike affects company
branches in Queens village and
throughout the metropolitan area.
In an attempt to break the strike
police have been assigned to ride
trucks driven by scab drivers.
Bakers are striking under the
leadership Of the Amalgamated
Food Workers Union. The team
sters are members of Local 38 of
the International Transfers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
DAILY Worker Washington BurO)

DAILY Worker Washington BurO)
WASHINGTON, D. G., May Is.
Secretary Of Labor Perkins was
confronted today by 40 women
fur workers, protesting against
gangsterism. intimidation and
discrimination. and against COM
bined efforts of shops and Amer
lean Federation Of Labor-Gov-
eminent officials to break the
militant Fur Workers Industrial
Union in such words as these:
MY own husband was killed
by gangsters hired by A. F, Of L,
officials and fur bosses just last
year and no one has been prose-
cuted - what will you do, Miss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
1890 Remington Men
Out During COnfabs

ILION, N, Y, May I5.-The 1900
striking workers Of the Remington
Typewriter Company here will not
return to work while negotiations
are in progress In New York City
between tie company officials and
workers representatives, it was an
nounced by local union officers.
Six thousand workers are striking
in Remington plants in other cities,
and the workers here are in COM
munication with union officials in
those plants, and it is expected that
no one will return to work until
the conferences are over, and an
agreement satisfactory to the work
ers is reached.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Scabs Expelled from
Philadelphia Auto Union

PHILADELPHIA, May 15.-The
Commercial Auto Body Workers
Union, Local 2, announces that
John r. McCaulay, 45S4 G ST., who
scabbed in the Lyter Bros. shop,
and John Giddano, $500 Somerset
St., who scabbed in the Darien shop,
were expelled from the union on
May IL by unanimous vote.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Two. FRACTION MEETS

NEW YcRK.--A very important frac-
ticn meeting OF all Party members OF the
International Workers Order will be held
Wednesday. May Is, 8 pm. at the Workers
Center. 2nd floor.
There will be a discussion on the work
Of the fraction in connection with the
Eighth Party Convention. Rcll call will be
taken. Every one must be nresent
District Org. Department
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Portland sin Tied I'M


PORTLAND, Ore, May 15.-The
longshore strike is so effective here
that the shipowners are unable to
load or unload ships. All attempts
to put scabs to work have been I'M
successful.
Despite the disruptive tactics of
the leaders of the International
Seamen's Union, the seamen are
solid behind the longshoremen I'M
der the leadership Of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union. Leaders
of the International Longshoremen's
Association are working hard to
split the militant section Of the
marine workers away from the main
body of the strikers.
Another rike-breaking move was
made by Mayor Carson and the City
Council. The Mayor and his council
have created a two mile strike zone
on the waterfront where only Off
cial picketS and business is allowed.
He has done this in order to keep
the main body of workers in the city
from their active support Of the
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
1,4OO Men Picket
Pratt Whitney Co.;
Bosses Ads False
ALL. Took Enormous
Sums But Gives No
Relief
BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, DC, May Is
The National Labor Board today
declared the strike Of 1900 air.
craft workers In the Curtis Air
plane Motor Co., and in the Con-
solidated Aircraft Corporation
outlawed. The ruling was that
the strike must be called off on
the ground that the strikers did
not submit to arbitration. The
strikers mass picket line was bru-
tally attacked by police in Buff
falO yesterday, who fired shots
into the crowd of unarlned strik-
ers. Many were seriously wounded
from shots, cIubbings and fire
hose.
The ruling of the National La
Dor Board against the strikers is
added proof that the National La
Dor Board is a strikebreaking ma
chinery. Its government decisions
against strikers alternate with
fascist terror on the picket lines
in order to rob the strikers of
their demands and force them
back to work without recognition.
Especial to the Daily WORKER
HARTFORD, Conn. May ia
mass of more than 1,400 people, in
Guiding many sympathi7ers, came
out on the Pratt Whitney picket line
yesterday. Furthermore, an enor-
nous crowd paraded around the
factory through the afternoon.
Despite the fact that the bosses
put an ad in the Hartford Times,
Saturday, stating the shop woulc
open today, only ten workers went
back. The bosses claim in the after
noon local papers that three hun
dred persons are back, but the
union declared that this is false
The strikers held meeting after
this mornings picketing and Lavista
president of the Industrial Aircraft
Workers of America, called for con
tinuance of the fight. Over fit!
police and detectives, armed will
clubs and other weapons, wert
around the shop, but the worker
were not inundated.
The strikers call on the Daily
Worker to tell New York workers
that the strike is on and effective,
as the capitalist press Of New
York Is carrying ads for scabs.
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TO DISCUSS PLAY osTEvEpoREp

NEW YORK. -"Stevedore" and the Ne
gro problem will he the subject OF the
symposium arranged by the Trade Union
Unity Council to be held Friday evening,
May Is, at the Labor Temple. Second Ave.
at 14th st. at 7.30 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
B A S E B A LII

Newkirk and Glenn; Michaels, Kleinke,
Potter and Fiornce
Baltimore 900 ool 0I0-2 9 o
Montreal 034 400 000-i3 Is
Granger, Krider, Aube and Atwood KIM
sey and Stack.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 20l 30i oS0-1o IS
Chicago 200 DOL o00-- 3 7 3
Huhbell and Maneuso; Root, Timing
and Tate.
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the docks in a peaceful manner
The responsibility for the murders
rests squarely on the shoulders Of
the shipoyners, the police and the
San Pedro city government.