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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Thursday

GENERAL MOBILIZATION steve Keto-
Wis Br. LID, Manhattan Lyceum, Sc E
4th ST., pm. For Anti-Nazi Parade in
1 Yorkville,
/ OPEN FORUM Pen & Hammer Club. lis
/ w. 2lst St., $40 pm John Brsnts speaks
/ en- Boy Scout Movement in U5.A."
Adm l5c
MECHANICS OF THE BRAIN (soviet
/ Film illustrating discoveries Of L Pevlow.
West Side Br Fs.U., 2s42 Broadway, at
/ Tooth st., $50 PM Adm. 25c
/ FINAL MEETING all delegates 5-Day
| May Festival e. Bazaar, N. Y. District
G, P, so E, 18th St, Room 2o5. pm.
All delegates from unions, mass organiza-
/ tions. Two. and LID. branches are
urgently requested TO be present.
| SOVIET CHINA - History Of the Six
Anti-Soviet Csmpaigns-Lecture by Conrad
Komorowski Friends Of the Chinese Peo-
/ pie. 1853 W 23rd ST. Room u. Adm. l5c.
EMERGENCY MEETING, Ella May Br
LID, 4l09 18th Ave, Brooklyn, $50 pm.
All members must attend without fail.
Bring your friends Adm. free
LECTURE = civil War and Interven-
ton" in History Of Russion Revolution.
Midtown Br. F.S,U., IL w. 18th St, $50
pm Adm 10c.
MEMBERSHIP MEETING. New Youth
Club, SAT Wyona St. Brooklyn, $50 pm.
Discussion will follow
OPEN MEETING, Edith Berkman Br
LID, at Boro Park Workers Club, 47o4
18th Ave. Brooklyn, $50 pm. Symposium
-''Fasoism Causes War"
Fridoy
MASS MEETING and Symposium on
Schools and the Crisis" at Elsmere Hall,
10th st. and Morris Ave Speakers: l.
Begun, H Clemens, N Phillips Auspices:
Modern Thought Center
DEBATE-Fordham Progressive Club VS.
New York University: Resolved that n r.
A. is a failure for the American People"
N.Y.U. Auditorium, University Ave and
150th ST.. $50 pm
CHINESE TEA PARTY with showing of
film China Express" and q talk on the
Chinese situation, at Chinese Workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
GEORGE WHITE
SCANDALS (Fox)

Dazzling, surprising, amazing,
stupendous, gigantic, unbelievable, I"
says Gregory Ratoff about this
one--but take it from one of the
movie fans that it was unhelievebly,
gigantically, amazingly and surpr1s-
ingly dull, stupid and waste.
Ditto for: Cat and the Fiddle, y
Stand Up and Cheer" wonder
Bar" Roman Scandals" and all the
many stupendous musicals Con-
ceived in daring and dedicated to
the box office"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Scottsboro Mothers
To Be Entertained
By Stevedore Cast

NEW YORK.-The Theatre Union
and the company Of "stevedore" will
entertain Mrs. Mamie williams. Mrs.
Ida Norris. Mrs Viola Montgomery,
Mrs. Josephine Powell and Mrs. Jane
Patterson, the mothers Of FIVE Of the
Scottsboro boys. at the Thursday
performance Of this snti-lynoh play,
Ruby Bates and officials Of the In
ternational Defense will attend also,
A reception will he held on the stage
for the guests Of honor after the per-
Torrance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
COMING OUT PARTY (Fox)

Life among the debutantes of
Park Ave. Early in the picture gen.
erous dad offers daughter $4,000 to
splurge on her coming debut, which
daughter petulantly spurns, to wit:
why dad, $4,000 will hardly buy
my trousseau." Dad: well - all
right, but mind you, not one cent
more than $4,000 The whole
film runs along in this wild way,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10

GUS. His mother is worried be-
cause everybody at first sight takes him for girl
We assure her that eventually he will grow hair
on his chest, be a working-class leader, a real
honbre and nobody will ever mistake his gender
NOW TAKE THIS N.R.A. BALoNEY"
Gomez mother IS, smiles through her glasses
asks to stay to supper She walks back and forth
between the kitchen and the living room explain
ing the life Of Tampa workers. she has worked in
cigar factories since she was 10, and her father
worked in them before her. She was horn in Tampa
speaks good English but better Spanish and alter
mates between the two tongues
Nov take this NRA baloney," she says. Cigar
workers are supposed to get minimum wage under
the oode-$12 a week They get paid by piece-work
but are supposed to get no less than S12 no matter
how few cigars they make. But the bosses get
around that. They pay you for the cigars you
make at low rate; you average, let's say, FIVE or
six dollars week. Then they make you sign a
paper that you received St2. That's lie but you
got to sign the paper or get fred"
YOUNG GOMEZ waits until his mother goes back
to the kitchen and says: After the 1881 strike
the bosses and the government bust UP the To-
bacco Workers Industrial Union It was fine
union with about 5000 members, truly revou-
tionary; and they smashed it, They deported the
secretary. Jose Feras, to Cuba The police raided
the union headquarters, grabbed the membership
list and confscated the funds, thousands Of dollars
contributed penny by penny by the workers, I'm
migration officers visited the homes Of workers who
were not American citizens and threatened them
with deportation if they did not drop out of the
movement
IT can give you an example Of this MIRA stuff"
said Mrs. Gomez coming in from the kitchen, at
Berriman Brothers, cigar factory in Palmetto
Beach, on the Hillsboro River. they actually have
two lines on pay day; for workers who made sl2
or more at piece rates, and one for workers who
made less but must sign papers saying they were
paid s12. One worker protested. He said: You
are robbing me; I am entitled TO S12 the govern
ment says So The foreman says: Yea9 What are
you going to do about it?' The worker says: I am
going to call cop. %. X the foreman
says, here is your goddam twelve dollars-you are
fred"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
IT HAPPENED
ONE NIGHT (Columbia)

A new angle on the rich girl
poor boy-irate father triangle fea-
turing Clark Gable and Claudette
Colbert, whose laughable antics on
and off a trans-continental bus
make pleasant seeing. Clark Gable,
Illustrating the various techniques
used in hitch hiking via thumb
route, is half human in this picture.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
DEBATE ON N. r. A.

NEW YORK-The Fordham
Progressive Club is sponsoring g
debate: Resolved, that the N R. A.
is failure for the American peo-
pie, between the Fordharn Pro-
gressive Club. affirmative, VS.. New
York University, negative, on Fri
day, May Il, at $50 pm, at New
York University Auditorium, Uni
versity Ave. and 16oth St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
PALOOKA Omitted Artists)

The inirnitable, nervous, head,
teeth and eye rafting comic, Jimmy
Durante, is the whole show in this
riotous df wearying) comedy of
boxing life. Won the American
Spectator" medal for being the best
ballyhooed picture of the year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Burnshaw TO Speak in
Indianapolis Nav l3

INDIANAPOLIS Stanley Burn
shaw, poet, critic, and one of the
editors of the New Masses, will
speak on Recent Trends in Ameri-
can Literature" on Sunday evening
May IS, at 8 o'clock at the John
Reed Club, 318 to 322 Columbia Sc
curities Bldg, LAB E. Ohio st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
SOVIET RUSSIA TODAY, May,
1884. 19c.
Reviewed by HELEN KAY

Reviewed by HELEN KAY
A NEW cover, new type, new form,
"A lively makeup, and many we'll
written and pointed articles, make
this May issue of Soviet Russia
Today superior to all former issues.
From the light feature story of
the Kim, Soviet freighter, to the
heavier political problem of Soviet
trade, those desiring information on
Soviet Russia, and wishing to know
how they can help the Soviet Union,
will find their tasks pointed out.
There are we'll distributed num-
Der of articles dealing with the
problems of the organization of the
Friends of the Soviet Union, whose
organ, SRT, is, with general infor-
nation on current Soviet events, the
most important in the month Of
May-Spring sowing, and features
on Soviet life.
The stories by Langston Hughes
and Gertrude Hutchinson are we'll
written, simple, direct. The story Of
kim, Soviet freighter, by Miss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
w H A T. ON

Center. % W. nth St, $50 pm. Sub
scription 35c
CHARLOTTE ToDEs lectures on The
Trade Union Movement and the Recent
Strike Wave" fremont Progressive Club,
665 E. fremont Ave. $50 pm.
NORMAN TALLENTIRE lectures on
workers and war" At Forum Of Br 500
Two, at stuyvessnt Casino, 9th St and
2nd Ave. $3.50 pm Adm. l5c.
LECTURE at German workers Club,
The Role Of the Child in the Class
Struggle" 70 E. 10th St., adm. free.
DANCE and ENTERTAINMENT given BY
the Social Youth Club, Sat. May i2th.
3 pm, 1903 W. gath st. Admission free,
Check Room 2so. Music by John Cusano
and his Harmony Kings
JUST RECEIVED--New books and PAM
phlets on most vital subjects at Workers
Book Shop, 50 z 18th ST., NY.O.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
TWO SOVIET PICTURES. THE Forty
First" and "a Jew at War" shown at
Carnegie Lecture Hall, Schenlev Park,
oakland Friday, May 18th. Adm 35c;
for u c. members 20c. Auspices: Unem-
ployment Councils
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10

John Strachey, Grace Llmpkin,
Granville Hicks. He is continu-
ally talking about problems that
arise in organizing the workers.
He remembers every victory Of
the Tampa cigarmarkers and ev-
cry mistake. We must not make
that error again, he is always
saying. His activity. in terror
stricken Tampa makes It neces-
sary to conceal his real name.
We shake hands with his wife
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
PHtsburoh. Pa.
PhiLadeLphin. Pa.

SYMPOSIUM Republican. Democratic,
Socialist and Communist candidates will
present program for the Crisis In Educs
lion" Harry M. wicks. Communist can.
,didate for Senate will speak, Friday. May
II, 8 pm. Lulu Temple. Broad & Spring
Garden SITS, auspices Unemployed Thea
tres Council, Admission 25c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
RISE woRKERs wANT PIANO

NEW YORK. The Irish Workers
Club, 107 w. Tooth St., needs
a piano. Any comrade who can
contribute one should communicate
with the clubs secretary, John
O'Rourke.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10

THE NAME is LEWIS-JOHN L."
A History 81 Labor Faker. BY
Tom Myerscough. Printed by the
Author. go Fifth Avenue, Pitts
bmgh, Pa Price 3 cents.
Reviewed by
PAT TOOHEY
THE appearance Of this pamphlet.
written BY Tom NyersCough.
president Of the National Miners
Union. meets a long felt need in
the struggle Of the rank-and-file
miners to cast of the sinister hold
of this agent Of the coal operators
and labor faker extraordinary. If
there is any one qualified to trace
the rise OF Lewis. cover his back
ground and expose the stencil sur
rounding his administration Of the
United Mine Workers Of America
and stranglehold upon the coal min
ers Of America, it is Tom Myers
cough, who not only from general
knowledge but from experience.
knows the matter all too we'll.
Myerscough was one Of the first to
experience the expulsion power b.
Lewis, nearly twelve years ago. at
a time when Lewis was tightly con-
solidating his power and authority,
after recently coming TO power, by
every crooked, corrupt, and I'M
thinksble method imaginable. which
is closely traced in detail in the
pamphlet.
The pamphlet. which should be in
the hands of every coal miner. de-
! tails the rise of Lewis from a local
off1ce-seeker for years In Panama,
| H.. but always repudiated by the
miners Of even his own local, on up
/ to his wrestling of the International
/ Presidency of the Union without
undergoing at any step the necessity
Of being elected by the miners to
any position. 1t exposes the nefar-
ious methods by which Lewis climbed
to the head, with the personal and
| financial support Of Mr.. Al. Hamil-
ton, a fiscal agent Of the U. S. Steel
Corporation, who was Lewis patron
saint from the cellar to the top
Upon reaching the top in 1919,
Lewis at once commenced his reign
of destruction Of the union, SELL
out to the employers, and terroriza-
ton Of the rank and file, His role
In the 1919 national strike, his div
iding the soft and hard coal miners
and destroying the national agree
ment, which meant the miners
! everywhere in the country struck at
one time. This national agreement
was won through generations of
sacrifice and struggle by the miners.
His further splitting the union and
the miners ranks by deserving the
miners in Somerset and Fayette
Counties pa, in Maryland, Utah,
New Mexico and elsewhere, and his
refusal to allow the miners Of Ala
bama and Kentucky to strike, for
which he received according to
Farrington) 100000, is recounted.
His final touch. in 1925, when Mellon
and Bethlehem Steel abrogated the
/ jacksonville Agreement, and his
complete smashing Of the union in
1 the struggle Of 1928, fulfilled the.
mission Hamilton entrusted to
Lewis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
By JOSEPH FREEMAN

GOMEZ, delegate to the state convention Of the
Communist Party recently held in Miami,
asked me to look him up when got to Tampa.
found him living above garage on a tree-lined
street in Ybor City with his wife and yesrold son.
Gomex is Is, works in an office, wears close
cropped hair above sensitive, serious, intelligent
face. He reads everything and asks questions about
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
By MICHAEL GOLD

IT is little late to comment the recent May Day dem
onstration in New York and yet there something
historic about that event.
Joseph North in the current New Masses and Sender
Gan and Others in the Daily Worker described the day.
but there something lacking from all reports that perhaps no
writer
the spirit Of such mighty demonstrations the physical feel
the
the marching bands playing the Inter-
the shouting kids the talk on the side
of factory windows all Of
meanngf flashes of event half million
beating faster because there is mighty thing
springing life the skyscrapers
Shakespeare might describe May Day like this The working
Journalist copy lnotyper within few hours
of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
New Faces
Wanted. a ProIetarian Shakespeare

AS too much TO describe How can one
IA tell about the sailors
needle trade the
the councils working women
uniforms the poetasn athletes their suits the
the shouting
shoulder with their white
repeat only oetaTian Shakespeare will know
the epic emotion of like
Gus parade bayhoo but demonstration hmantys will
better life and this there mingled JOY
the grim courage that is needed in the present
And most of them young of
for May Day BEFORE
believed in this thing
And this left feeling responsibility
Communism is its being
the historic has struck
ganizng than
Now than bit needed
waiting for reaper The basic task Of agitation put
scientific
fumbng There can be amaeuism
enormous and responsible tasks being
American waiting for clarity
for better life
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
The Biggest May Day Yet

the biggest May there has been in New York Even
the little rnts who report such things for capitalist
papers forced to admit this True they Topped off over hum
people their estimates said there we're $4,000
demonstrators TO- but blind would have
around Union Square
such lies longer Nobody completely be-
the capitalist longer and the people who
marched in or great undoubtedly amazed at
staggering Justification next day in the capitalist press
There that is the most durable thing in the
mion-dollar pervt it destroy It
permanently Their May lies only add another item in the ball
that will finally tip against them and their false doarwor
shipping system
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10

I EVILS methods of perpetuating
l. his control and reign, is briefly
but adequately covered in the pam
phlet. Thousands of miners well
know these methods Of brazenly
stealing elections wholesale; Of
stuffing ballot moxes; of changing
election returns by chemicals; of
buying votes by booze, Doodle and
bribery; Of arbitrarily ruling off any
oppositionist who may be naive
enough to aspire for office; of
swindle, robbery and thievery. His
widespread use of explosions, not
only against individual members,
but Of entire district organizations
kansas, Nova Scotia, illinois, who
may resist his betrayals. his fascist
methods, his collaboration with
mine bosses to blacklist active min
ers, his entire working class
policy is explained. His packed con-
ventions, packed with sluggers and
gunner. who come from non-exst-
ent C'blue-sky") locals "exonerated"
for years from dues payment, who
attack, slug, and if necessary, shoot
any oppositionist delegate, and who
always overwhelm the genuine dele
gates, assure always a real Hitler
Reichstag atmosphere in such Con
ventions."
Lewis succeeded in climbing the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10
Almost Million Sympathizers

WHAT impressed one about this parade ndubtabe
that within the the Communist Party has taken
loyalty of great of Americans
figures optimistic and partisan but could not
after watching the reaction those
march, million
people sympathetic Communist Party
There close 100000 people in and around Union Square for
have another 100000 along the
line of march, and most cheered the parade
Cut these half and that 100000 people in all
cpated appauded May Give each
these under his her influence which
usually the with active and intelligent enough to be
Communist, you million people
labor the point fact is this May Day brought
thousands Of who demon
May Day doubt that
influence doubled in York during the
year
A Parade of Youth
THERE we're noteworthy was
It young; the the 30
thousands college students
of the
marching factory groups, youth predom
The workers and nteleetals turning Communism
parade estimate
They marched without spirit smile Phisne
that parade these line only
their bureaucrats had threatened them with fines
other did They
scripts many
their spirit filed collective
roty daring that such wonderful thing action
New Faces
ANOTHER feature
"A for the Communist May ossecton Of the
working population thousands
American workers year
technical marched with their
several hundred writer's and artists in line; the world for
the first time demonstrated side pro-
1etariat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10

Joseph Freeman dlo oaDS' INC pauy 10 alSo Serl-
Gus. His mother is worried be-
cause everybody at first sight takes him for girl
We assure her that eventually he will grow hair
on his chest, be a working-class leader, real
honibre, and nobody will ever mistake his gender
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-10

THE NAME is LEWIs-JOHN L."
A History 81 a Labor Faker. BY
Tom Myersceugh. Printed by the
Author go Fifth Avenue, Pitts
bmgh, Pa Price 3 cents.
Reviewed by
PAT TOOHEY
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-08
'DIMOND SHOWS IMPROVEMENT.
 BARTLETT SAYS
Former Secretary to Dele. gate Arrives to Join
 FILA Staff Here

Delegate Anthony J. Dimond had shown vast improvement following his recent operation in Washing ton, D. C., before he left the Na- tional Capitol on November 23, de- clared E. L. Bartlett, who arrived in Juneau last night to assume his position as Assistant Director of FILA in Alaska.
 MT. Bartlett, who has been sec retary to Delegate Dimond since the latter assumed office two years ago, will make his headquarters in Juneau and will be joined in two or three months by Mrs. Bartlett and their small daughter, who &C., companied him west. They are now visiting friends in Spokane, Wash ington and from there will con- tinue to Los Angeles, California to visit Mrs. Bartlett's mother, Mrs. V. L. Gaustad.
 FILA is going over splendidly throughout the States, from the East Coast to the West Coast, MT. Bartlett declared. People are par ticularly enthusiastic over the modernization and improvement of homes, under the provisions of Title I, and many are taking ad- vantages of the facilities of FILA. he said.
 On his way north MT. Bartlett stopped over for several days in Ketchikan where J. E. Pegues, FILA Director for the Territory, was in- troducing FILA and assisting the civic committee, headed by Lester O. Gore, to get the Better Homes Campaign started. He accompanied MT. tPegues to Juneau on the mo- torship Northland, and is tempor- arily making his home at the Cas- tineau Hotel
 Previous to his position as secre- tary to Delegate Dimond MT. Bart lett was on the editorial staff of the Fairbanks News Miner and is well known throughout the Terri tory.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-08
YOUNG TEACHER AT FORT YUKON
 TAKES OWN LIFE
Juneau Friends of Gertrude Keturi Shocked at
 News of Suicide

Gertrude Keturi, 22-year-old pri- mary teacher in the Territorial School at Fort Yukon, committed suicide Friday morning, according to word received this morning at the office of A. E. Karnes, Terri torial Commission of Education, from Anna Hughes, Principal of the Fort Yukon school.
 The radio message stated that the reason for the tragedy was unknown and that she would send details by letter.
 Miss Keturi came to Juneau last spring with Miss Lovetta Gusky, fellow graduate from San Jose
 Teachers College in California, and during the summer the young won- en were employed here in the Juneau Ice Cream Parlor. Both were highly recommended as teach CTS by the college and by Lester D.
 Henderson, former Territorial Com- missionr of Education. Miss Gusky was given a teaching position at Bethel
 Miss Keturi, who received her A.B. degree in education in 1888 spent her early girlhood in Flat,
 Alaska, where she lived until she
 completed her grammar school edu-
 cation. Her father, Oscar Keturi
 and an uncle, Gus Notila, are still engaged in placer mining near that
 community She attended Broad
 way High School in Seattle and the High School of Commerce in Detroit, Mich, before attending
 college.
 Friends of the former teacher in
 Juneau were at a loss to account for her taking her life as she seemed of a happy temperament
 and was delighted to return to
 Alaska when she received her posi-
 tion with the Territorial Schools
 last September. She left Juneau for Skagway and made the trip to Fort Yukon down the Yukon
 River from Whitehorse.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-08
KETCHIKAN BETTER
 HOUSING PROGRAM
 STARTS WITH BANG

With $6,000 worth of loans from Ketchikan banks under FILA pro- visions reported by Lester O. Gore, chairman of the Better Homes Committee in the First City, with in two days ending last night, the campaign in that city got off with la bang, according to John E. Pe- gues, FILA Director for Alaska, who returned to Juneau on the mo- torship Northland.
 MT. Pegues has spent the last week in Ketchikan getting the FILA program introduced and hold ing meeting with the property owners and business men, similar to those held in Juneau recently. "The people there are enthusiastic over the possibilities for improving their homes under the provisions of FILA" Mir Pegues said.
 Every bank in Southeast Alaska, except the Banks of Alaska in Skagway and WrangeI, are now qualified to make loans under the modernization program of FILA, according to MT Pegues. He will leave next week for Skagway to confer with E. A. Rasmuson, Pres ident of the Banks of Alaska, on the matter of bringing the Skag- way and Wrangell banks in.
 To assist the Ketchikan Better Homes Campaign, Harry I. Lucas, Executive Assistant to the Director of FILA, will leave Juneau on Mon- day and on his return north, will stop over in Petersburg for a short stay to get the better hous- ing program started there, MT. Pe- gues announced.
 During their absence E. L. Bart lett, Assistant Director, will be in charge of the Juneau office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-08
Foreign Credits
 Seized
Italy Makes Move to Stop Gold Flow-Order Is
 Given Citizens

ROME, Dec. 8.-Forcible conver- sion of all foreign credits held by citizens has been ordered by the Cabinet in a final attempt to halt the gold hemorrhage from the Bank of Italy.
 All citizens have been ordered to turn over to the National Insti- ute, for foreign exchange, all foreign credits for which they 8ill be given lira at the current rate of exchange. The Institute then can use the foreign credits instead of gold to pay for imports.