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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
The Strike Sweeps Forward!

CLOAN, the textile employers spokes-
~ man, says the strike is a "fizzle."
But it is a peculiar kind of strike
fizzle" that has paralyzed the entire New
England textile industry, is sweeping
forward to close the biggest mills in the
East and in the South.
1t is peculiar "izzle" that starts out despite
all the dilatory, ham strnging tactics of the UTW
officials and their utterly inadequate strike prepara
ton, with 100000 out in the first two days. and
with 10000 strikers out within "A hours after
The fact which Sloan the textile employers and
the capitalists are trying to hide from the strikers
and the working class is the tremendous power of
the strike sweep which gains. momentum every
hourl
The strike is spreading like wildfire! Striking
workers moving in flying squadrons from mill to
mill are modifying the workers who still remain
in the mills for lack of militant leadership to call
them out, And in every case the workers in the
mills respond with JOY and enthusiasm to the strike
call of their fellow workres, The stories from the
great textile centers like Gastonia Charlotte Fall
River, New Bedford prove that
Not only that. Workers in the allied industries
like dye silk wool, cotton and clothing are strain
ing to join their fellow workers now out The Pater-
son workers are already out overriding all the OBJ
jectionS of their union officials The clothing off,
Gals are compelled to talk of a general strike in
the industry, great is the fighting eagerness of
the workers in the unions
No defeatist lies of the employers or their hired
press can talk away the growing force of the walk
out This defeatist talk is a maneuver to demo-
ralize the strikers that will be laughed to scorn
by the militant confidence of the strikers and the
working class
Close every mill! Form mass picket lines! Make
the strike 100 per cent efective Form united front
of all textile workers regardless of union afllia-
ton! Organize defense groups and relief
The strike is sweeping forward
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Banks Received
Billions in Aid
Continued from Page y

AOVPbtftttSO ~ OHt L UHG L
made direct investments of S1,154,-
100000 in the preferred stock of
banks with weak capital structures
in order to protect the capital in
veStment of the stockholders.
In addition the RIG. has made
direct loans to industrial cor
porations for industrial purposes
amounting to $20000,0OO.
Under Roosevelt the bondholders
and stockholders of railroads have
received ben Gifts amounting to
$421 100000 with only IA per cent
repaid to date, the report showed.
Bank Insurance
Speaking of the much-vaunted
insurance plan to protect bank
depositors, the Richberg report de-
liberately evades any mention OF
the information made public by
Controller O'Connor to the effect
that more than S2,500,O00, 900 of
small bank deposits have been per-
manently wiped out by the capital
iSt bank crisis.
Rlchberg contents himself with
mentioning that at present four
small banks with total deposit
liability of only S1,410,00O are now
getting insurance payments. Of the
total deposits involved in the bank
ruptcy of these banks only $415 00C
has been paid back to the depositor
or less than 80 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
France Moves
10 Save Mines
In Saar Region

PARIS, Sept. 5.-Sharpened con-
f1ict over the Saar between France
and Germany has resulted from the
french memorandum issued YES
terday, demanding a Franco-Ger-
man understanding on payment for
the French-owned mines, in the
event Hitler is victorious in the Saar
plebiscite on January 10.
The memorandum states that the
french government demands pay
ment in full for the mines, and the
payment must be made in gold.
Otherwise, says the memorandum,
the French will not permit the Hit
Ter government to take over the
Saar no matter what the result of
the plebiscite.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Nicaraguan Canal Planned
In Roosevelt War Program

through the Panama Canal at a
cost of $1400OO,O0O; second, the
transformation of the Panama
Canal to a sea level canal at an
expense of 81, 1000, 100000; third, the
construction of a canal through
Nicaragua from Brito to Greytown
at a cost of $722,000,000.
Canals Meant For War Use
While army officials try to hide
behind a fake need for canal on
a business basis, they cannot con-
ceal the fact that traffic through
the Panama Canal in 1881 amount
ed to so per cent of capacity. Today
canal traffic is far below the 1881
level. Since the Nicaragua canal
will meet no commercial require
ments, why are the army and navy
men rushing plans for construc-
ton?
The U. S. Army Interoceanic
Canal Board in a report to Con-
gress answered the question bluntly,
declaring that national defense
(read imperialist war; affords an
impelling reason for a second 18TH
milan canal. The prospective theater
of operations of the future naval
operation of the United States can
not be confined to either the At
lantic or the Pacific Oceans. 1t
is necessary that our naval forces
have sure oceanic passage through
the American isthmus."
Canal Site Chosen In 1928
Besides, the professional war
makers add, the Nicaragua canal
will cut the present sailing time
by one and one-half days. In adj
dition a second canal will insure
continued operation during war in
the event of one canal being
wrecked by an air raid or an earth
quake.
The present drive towards realiz-
ing the plans for the Nicaragua
canal is not new. AS early as 1926
an American company contracted
to build a canal through Nicaragua.
In 1849 an American diplomat &C
quired exclusive canal rights for
the United States. Since then
hardly a presidential administra-
ton passed without making some
move to forward the Nicaragua
canal project.
Acquired Naval Base
In anticipation of the outbreak
of the World War, Wall Street i'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Strategic Importance of
Two Canals in Case
of War Is Cited
by Burck

perialism in 1914 saddled Nicaragua
with a treaty providing that the
United States would pay a paltry
100000 for, first, exclusive pro-
prietary rights in perpetuity for the
construction of an interoceanic
canal; second, a 99-year renewable
lease on the Corn Islands for naval
stations; and, third, the right to
establish naval base on any ter
ritory bordering on the Gulf of
FonSeca that the United States may
select.
Former President zelaya, oppos-
ing the canal agreement, soon dis
covered what other Latin American
politicians have learned. Wall ST.
organized and financed a revolu-
ton to GUST zelaya and install q
pliable puppet. The American ma
rines were sent against SANDING
principally to safeguard the canal
for American imperialists
Under the veil of the good
neighbor policy" Roosevelt is only
advancing Observation-Disclosures re-
lationS of the past century to the
logical conclusion of bearing fruit
At this very moment U. S. Army
surveyors and engineers are busy
in Nicaragua. Actually 10 different
canal routes have been considered
through Mexico, Costa RIGA, Pan
anna, Colombia, and Nicaragua
But the period of deliberations is
over. The Roosevelt administration
has definitely determined to build
a canal from Brito to Greytown.
1t is certain that F. D. Roosevelt
will meet any resistance with bayo-
nets after the manner of his name
sake and predecessor Theodore
Roosevelt, who raped Colombia OF
the Panama Canal and then told
Congress about it." It is equally
certain that Nicaraguan workers
and peasants will put up the same
stiff fight that they showed under
Sandino's leadership, but this time
there will be no SANDING to mis-
lead them. Now they are prepar-
ing to follow a genuinely anti-im-
perialist and revolutionary leader
ship, the leadership of the Com
-munist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Recent Naval Games
Were Meant to Spur
War Construction
BY SAMUEL wEINMAN

The Roosevelt administration
used the recent naval maneuvers
as a lever for raising Wall Streets
naval strength. All of the war
games" practice engagements and
"defenses" were deliberately de-
signed to make it appear that the
U. S. Navy was inadequate for pro-
lection against invasion. Thanks to
the cooperation and publicity fur
nished by the capitalist press, the
way was paved for Navy Second
to-None Swanson to embark on a
schedule of twenty-four new war
ships for 1896, including an aircraft
carrier, cruisers, destroyers, and
submarines.
Passage of the entire fleet through
the Panama Canal was one of the
chief spearheads in the campaign
for gigantic ornaments. The Navy
Department boldly broadcast its
plan to transfer the whole feet
from the Pacific to the Atlantic in
4S hours. Now, no one in the Nays
Intelligence Office believed that the
immense chain of vessels could be
showed through the canal in 48
hours. In fact every well-informed
professional militarist knew it was
impossible.
New Canal Wanted
Why then did the Navy set itself
this herculean task2 The answer
is simple. Because the test required
considerably more than the sched-
uled 48 hours, as the naval authori-
ties foresaw, the jingoists in the
Roosevelt administration were able
to raise howl for the improve
ment of the Panama Canal and the
construction of canal through
Nicaragua.
In a frenzied effort to mobilize
a maximum force on an interna-
tional scale for the swiftly ap-
preaching imperialist war the
Roosevelt regime has ordered "full
speed ahead" to fulfill a three
cornered scheme that has been
scores of years in the making. The
U. S. Army has completed plans
first, for third set of locks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Capitalist Violence

AS THE great textile strike approaches
"A the fourth day, it is all too apparent
that all the usual instruments of capital
list terrorism are being prepared to smash
the picket lines and crush the strike
Already the National Guard has been
used to attack the strikers in Georgia.
Reports from New England and Pennsylvania reveal
heavy mobilization of police and hired thugs.
And as preparation for open terrorism, the capt
tslst press in every city is gradually sounding
louder and louder the typical provocatons to VIC
lence against the strike with screaming headlines
about strike riots" and bomb r1lmors"
Against all this advancing violence against the
textile workers the U.T.W. officials are making no
real preparations for defense.
THE textile strikers want bread for their families
and an end to the killing speed-up.
In answer, the government with its police and
National Guard beyonets, is getting ready to shed
the blood of the workers in defense of the en-
ployers' fat profits and investments.
The striking textile workers can meet and de-
feat this terrorism. The first step is to close all
the mills, making the strike 100 per cent effective
with mass picketng In front Of every mill
The organization Of mass defense groups in
volving all workers in turn should be begun at
once on every picket line. The election of rank
and file strike committees to take charge Of all
the picket and strike activities should be started at
once.
Every attempt to mobilize the broadcast united
front on the picket lines should be begun includ-
ing the joining of the picket lines by the unem-
ployed by the families of the strikers and by all
active Sympathizers in every textile center
The threat Of violence in the strike comes not
from the workers but from the employers and their
government The whole toiling population should
be drawn in to denounce the government terrorism
The textile workers will neither be provoked nor
cowed by capitalist terrorism! BY discipline and
unity, with the support of the entire working class
Of the country, with the strike decisions in their
own hands they will sweep forward to victory over
all ISLANDERS, lies, trickery, and terrorism!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06

that many workers here are embit-
tered by the treachery of the U.T.W.
officials who sent the workers back
to the mills after the last strike
with no demands won. 1t urges the
workers to elect their own rank and
file strike committees to prevent
this from happening again, and
calls for immediate strike action in
solidarity with the other mills out
on strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Eight Jailed in Macon

MACON, Ga, Sept. Sight
workers were arrested and over
twenty warrants were issued for the
arrest of other union workers fol-
lowing a clash which developed
when the manufacturers attempted
to open the mills
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
PLAN RELIEF CUT IN CANADA

TORONTO, Canada, Sept. S.
Cuts Of five cents a day in food al
lowance for each person on the re-
lief lists, and Is per cent cut in
both rent and clothing allowances
have been asked of all Manitoba
cities by the Provincial Minister of
Relief hera
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Tear Gas in Augusta

AUGUSTA, Ga, Sept. 5.-The
strikers militancy flared high here
today following a police attack in
which tear gas and smoke bombs
were used against the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
More State Troops Called

COLUMBIA, S. c., Sept. 5.-Ad-
ditional state troops were called out
against the strikers here today by
the governor of South Carolina.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
C. P. Issues Strike Bulletin

DANVILLE, Va, Sept. 5.-The tex
tile workers in the large Riverside
and Schoolfield mills yesterday re-
ceived copies of the bulletin issued
by the Communist Party urging the
workers to join the nationwide
textile strike.
The bulletin, which will be is
sued regularly every month as the
shop paper in the mills, points out
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Bayonets Used On Strikers

GREER, S. c., Sept. 5.-Troops
with fixed bayonets charged work
ing men and women here who were
trying to spread the strike of the
textile workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Atlanta Mill Offers Raise

HtIdHId WiII UHefS RAISE
ATLANTA, Ga, Sept. 5.-The
Fulton Beg and Cotton Mills here
today offered 10 per cent pay rise
to its workers in an effort to stem
the rapidly growing strike sentiment
which is spreading throughout the
entire district.
An army of spies and stool
pigeons has been let loose among
the workers in an effort to stop the
persistent organization of the union
which is going on. The greatest
terrorism against all union activities
exists in the company mill village
nearby.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06

away from the Bibb mill number /
at Macon, Ga.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
Textile Strikers
Win Back Relief

Continued from Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06
On the
World Front
Seven Speeches; One Letter
from Fascist Germany
The Nuremberg Congress
By HARRY CANNES
ev

0VERSHADOWING every.
" thing, overshadowing Hit
Ter and his seven scheduled
speeches at the Nuremberg
Fourth Congress of the Nazis,
will be the spectre of the
100000 officially admitted
opposition votes to fascism in the
plebiscite.
Even in the ranks of the deci-
mated Storm Troops the class bait
tie against fascism is shaking the
Hitler regime, and leading to an
enlarged repetition of bloody June
30th.
The Washington times., 1934-08-11
SPEED Up MALL
IMPROVEMENT 7

Clearance and development Of
The Mall was speeded today as
preparations were made to de-
molish the old heating plant,
cafeteria building, and other struc-
lures between Sixth and Seventh
Streets.
c. Marshall Finnan, superin-
tendent of National Capital Parks,
declared the buildings will prob
ably be razed early this fall. The
work will be started, he said, as
soon as new steam lines can be
run from the new central heating
plant at Thirteenth and C Streets
Southwest, to bull di ngs now
heated by The Mall plant.
Bids for construction of these
steamlines will be invited Monday,
it was announced, and work prob
ably started early in September.
The project is being financed by
a $50,000 PWA grant approved re-
Gently.
The Washington times., 1934-08-11
Census Proves It's Tough
For D. G.. Pedestrians

lation by late estimates of 8,2O2.-
600, has little more than twice
as many cars registered as Wash
ingon. The figure is 331,719.
Mexico City. with 100000 resi-
dents, has 41,431 automobiles, and
Buenos Aires, with a population
of 2,214,O0O, has 61,225.
Alexandria, city of $4,000 in
Egypt, has not many more auto
mobiles than Alexandria, city of
$4,000 in Virginia, U. S. A. The
figure for the Egyptian city is
5,868.
The United States registered
24,057,027 automobiles of total
of 33,562,059 for the world, the
survey showed.
Spitzbergen had the least. 1t
proudly acknowledges one auto
mobile, which is an American
truck.
The Washington times., 1934-08-11
NAVAL RESERVE
To co To SEA

Washington Naval reservists,
numbering about $50 men will
make their annual two-week
training cruise August 25, the
Navy Department announced to-
day. The destroyers, the Badger
and Babbitt, have been ordered
here to take the reservists aboard.
Leaving August 25, the men will
train for a week at sea, put into
New York for a weekend liberty,
September l, and disembark at
Philadelphia, September 7, after
another week at sea.
Accompanying the Washington
unit of the Naval Reserves will be
three Baltimore divisions, one
from Richmond and one from
Pittsburgh. The Baltimore and
Pittsburgh reservists will embark
from Baltimore aboard the de-
stroyers Tattnall and Tillman.
The Washington times., 1934-08-11

Yessir, a Voice of Safety or
something ought to come in handy
in Washington.
For the pedestrian has far more
cars to dodge here, in proportion
to his and her numbers, than do
residents of other great capitals of
the world.
In all Paris, for instance, accord
ing to late figures of the automo-
tive trade division of the Com
merce Department, there are only
168,552 automobiles.
Potential 1eapers-out-of -the-Way
can be computed from the French
capitals population of 2,890,000.
With population less than one
fifth that of Paris, auto regiStra-
tions here come to almost the
total of that city. The Depart
ment of Vehicles and Traffic latest
figures are 165,309.
London, which has total popu-
The Washington times., 1934-08-11
CHURCH PLANS
CARNIVAL

st. Joseph's Church, Second and
C SITS. N. E., will open it's carnival
Tuesday with a parade made up
of children of the parish in cos
tunes, headed by the Boys Inde-
pendent Band. The carnival will
run through Saturday.
The parade will begin at $50
p. m, and the route of march will
be from Second and C SITS. N. E.,
south on Second st. to B St. NE,
east on B st. to Seventh St., turn
ing into Massachusetts, Ave-, west
to Sixth St.; north on Sixth st. to
E st. N. E.; west on E st. to Sec
ond St., and south on Second st.
to the carnival grounds, where the
band will open activities with a
concert,
The Washington times., 1934-08-11

Commissioner Hazen today has
before him the final draft of the
proposed "open bar" liquor regu-
lation which may result in the
tearing down of screens in drink
emporiums and the preparation
of drinks in the open.
The proposed change, presented
by Charles Sand, of the Hotel and
Restaurant Employees Alliance,
through the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board, permits the pre-
paration of drinks in sight of the
customers, who must remain at
least three feet away from the
bar; also the bar tender may not
serve the drink, but must hand it
to the waiter or waitress.
ABC Hearing Proposed
The Board has suggested to the
Commissioners that an open hear
ing on the subject be held. 1t is
understood that proprietors of
two well-known hotels are op-
posed to the change.
Commissioner Hazen said today
nothing would be done until Com
missioner George E. Allen returns
to the city in about two weeks.
1t was claimed by several wit
nesSes that in about 300 small res,
taurants the mixing of alcoholic
beverages is done under conditions
that range from unpleasant to in,
sanitary; that there is no check
The Washington times., 1934-08-11
PVVA CONTRACTS
AWARDED

Contracts totaling $59,316 we're
awarded today under the public
works program for improvements
at Ft. Humphreys, Va, and for re-
pairs to the memorial amphithea-
ter at the Arlington National
Cemetery.
Spence Brothers, of Saginaw,
Mich, we're awarded a contract
for construction of an enlisted spe-
cialists school on the military
reservation of their low bid of
$48,79O.
The Krafft-Murphy Company
was authorized to begin work on
repairing the plaster work at the
amphitheater on a bid of 1926.
The Washington times., 1934-08-11
New open Bar Regulations
Await Boards Action

against the serving of old and used
fruit in cocktails and similar
drinks; that the leavings of beer
in glasses are frequently served
again to the same or even to other
customers; that there is no check
on sterilization of glasses and the
containers used in shaking up
drinks.
The fact that the health inspec-
tors have found a hundred of
these small restaurant owners vio-
lating the health code gives au-
thority to these complaints.
Board Favors Change
Members of the Alcoholic Bev-
erage Control Board are strong
for the change.
Their only reaction is favorable
to taking down the present
screens and letting the bartender
work in full view of everybody.
The District Commissioners, if
left to their own devices probably
would change the reglutions i'm
mediately, but they are not likely
to do so without considerable
pressure, and possibly they will
have to pay a visit to the White
House before they do the thing
they really want to do. The liquor
regulations fall in Commissioner
Aliens jurisdiction and he has
said on more than one occa-
sion that these changes would be
made "only over his dead body"
The Washington times., 1934-08-11
d. G. Park Service
Marks Anniversary

The first anniversary of Wash
ington's parks under the National
Park Service of the Interior De-
partment, was celebrated yester-
day. According to A. E. Demaray,
acting director of the National
Park Service, the record rolled up
for the first II months activities
is a satisfactory one. He said that
Secretary Ickes has paid particu-
lar attention to the Washington
improvement program and has
made first-hand inspections of pro-
posed projects and has allocated
funds for their development.
The Washington times., 1934-08-11
OPENS
NEW WARD

Resembling a mans club more
than a receiving building of a hos
pital for the insane, the new
mems ward at st. Elizabeth's Hos
pital was opened today.
The building, which cost 81
100000 and was a year in con-
structing, is the last word in hos
pitals.
There are a gymnasium, radios
with central control, lounging
rooms, a barber shop and other
conveniences.
DR.. William A. White, superin-
tendent of the hospital, said pa
tients will be encouraged to wear
their own clothing and lead a
normal life in an effort to speed
recovery.
All rooms are sound proofed,
and each floor constitutes a COM
plete unit, with various types of
treatment rooms.
Practically all of the building
has metal in place of wood, so
that those with arson tendencies
will find it impossible to start a
fire.
For those with suicidal tenden-
cies a special section has been set
apart, with grilled windows and
an arrangement whereby all
patents are constantly under the
eye of a guard.
Plans call for the planting of
miniature gardens on all the sun
porches.