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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-24
ASSEMBLY May BE
'KIDDED' TO Death:
TROUBLES mounting
House Manages to Obtain Bare
Quorum After Roll Call
Shows Only S.
SENATORS STILL ARE IDLE
Resolution Declaring Itself in
Legal Session Is Adopted
by Lower Body
SENATORS STILL ARE IDLE
BULLETIN

Having adopted . resolution
declaring itself legally qualified
to vote on the impeachment Of
state officers, the state house OF
representatives Tuesday recessed
ut sos p. M, for an indefinite
period.
The recess was taken pending
the "call Of the chair with the
agreement that members were 70
Be given five days notice. Mem
bers thereupon began TO leave
for their homes and the impeach-
ment committee prepared to be-
gin its work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
NEW NRA APPOINTMENTS SPEED HOOK-UP To WAR DEPT.
They Haze Billions Of Dollars
for Unemployment Insurance!
AN EDITORIAL

days poured exactly
s14OOOOOOO into preferred
Congress celebrating another sOOOOOOO to the
in addition to the regular appropriation Of $oOOoO00
The RIG chairman 100000 900 from the
eminent for his private bank in Oklahoma told the House Banking
Committee yesterday that the will another
bankrupt banks within the
Roosevelt is spending at the rate Of $6oo00Oo000 yer
But be cannot find single Federal Unemployment
ANGEL He cannot find security
jobless budget says
Meanwhile all the promises dwindng
and there workers get jobs at starvation
left pauperism and hunger And already the
The millions of oess awakening to bitter establishment with
whole Roosevelt NRA-C'WA-P.WA. promises Of jobs.
They beginning
months bring them understandable misery suffering.
That
series of fake unemployment b-to
growing fight for Federal relief
Roosevelt Enthusiastically billions! 1t
could easily set huge Unemployment
toling forced so!
The millions of jobess looking
Convention Against Unemployment be held February
must give to them The
Bill which will be the the
life and death needs of the starving jobless millions!
The jobess rising relief Party the
Unemployed Councils, must plunge struggle
organization of the millions Roosevelt starvation
programl
Organize the sending delegates Washington
ton Against Unemployment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18

What General johnson failed to
announce, however, is that Colonel
Montgomery served as Secrets Of
the recent War Policies Commission,
under Hoover's Secretary of War
Hurley. 1t was this Commission
which, among other things, recon-
mended to Congress that upon the
declaration of war there shall be i'm
mediately available to the Congress
accurate and detailed estimates con-
corning the man-power and material
needs of the Military and Naval
Services, together with detailed
studies and recommendations con-
corning the most applicable methods
for modifying the necessary men and
procuring the required munitions.
Col. Montgomery is also a partner
of the New York accounting firm Of
Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Mont
gomery, and a member Of the Adj
ministratiye Board of the School Of
Business of Columbia University The
"war policies" Colonel served as
chief of the organization and meth
DDS section in the office of the d.
rector of purchases. of the Army Cen
eral Staff; was organizer and men,
Der OF the War Department Board of
Appraisers and was War Department
{Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
AL. Chiefs Craft White,cash Planned by NRA.

their pay plus 500 initiation fee for
the privilege of working on the Mel
lon fire escape" better known as the
Cathedral of Learning" of the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh.
Borrow Money.
Hungry, destitute workers were
forced to borrow $40 as an install
ment on initiation fees to pay to
union officials before they were al
lowed to get a C. w. A. job on the
Mellon structure. They were then
compelled to sign a contract every
week, promising to bring half of their
pay to the union officials. If they
failed, they were not given a work.
ing card, and the G. w. A. would
throw them off their job.
On Monday Harry l.. Hopkins said
that he would direct Eric F. Biddle,
Pennsylvania state c. w. A. direc-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Communist Writer ,
Rem, Is Sentenced
by High Nazi Court
Author of ''After War;
Openly Admits He Is
i'm German C.P.

BERLIN, Jan. 17.-Ludwig Rem,
famous German writer and author Of
the anti-war books WAR" and "After
War" was sentenced by the Nazi
Leipzig Supreme Court today to two
and a half years imprisonment for
his working class activities as a
member of the German Communist
Party. Rem openly admitted in
court his membership in the Com
munist Party.
During the World War Rem served
as an officer at the front where, as q
result of the wholesale slaughter and
suffering in the trenches he expert
enced a revulsion against war and
came to realization of It's inevita-
bility, under capitalism. He later
turned to writing, his war" earning
international acclaim for his realistic
account of the horrors Of imperialist
war.
He became increasingly revolution
airy and in 1923 joined the German
Communist Party. He was a prom
inent contributor to the Communist
paper "Aufbruch," founded by a
group of ten army officers, including
one who had repudiated the Nazi
Party. Renn's writing for this pub
LEGATION was the principal charge
made against him by the Nazi court,
which tried him on a charge Of high
treason.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
House Passes Two
Billion Mortgage
Guarantee Bill
Treasury Reports Huge
Spending for the
Banks

WASHINGTON, January 16.-With
all the Administration forces mobi-
lied to crush any opposition, the
Roosevelt plan to guarantee the in
terest and principal or $2,000,000, 00C
worth of farm loan bonds held by
private investors and banks were
rushed through the House today. A
move to make the income from these
bonds taxable was defeated.
This means that the Roosevelt gov
eminent has added another two bill
lion to the national debt, beyond the
81 billion figure set as the maximum
by Roosevelt in his budget message
Under the new bill, all private
holders of mortgages upon which
they cannot collect interest payments,
will be enabled to exchange these
mortgages for U. S. governemnt bonds,
which will be fully guaranteed as to
interest and principal
The Treasury reports reveal that
during the last week the Govern
ment has handed out a total OF
$238,000,000 through the RIG,
P.W.A. and other government bodies
Only one quarter of these funds went
to- ordinary government expenses.
The rest went to banks, railroads, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Roosevelt Cuts CWA Wages
Through Shortening Hours
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)


WASHINGTON, Jan. i7.-PreE-
dent Roosevelt today announced his
formula for cutting C.W.A. wages.
The number of hours worked will be
shortened SO that the present pitifui
total salary will be sliced.
He announced that Federal Emer-
gency Relief Administrator Harry L.
Hopkins is preparing a plan for cut
ting hours on C.WA. jobs wherever
the latter are higher than the wages
paid under the MIRA.
Backing up MIRA. Administrator
Johnson's recent outburst about the
necessity of bringing down the C.W.A.
wages to coincide with certain wage
rates being paid under the MIRA,
Roosevelt treasures the rich farmers
and industrialists, especially the cot
ton planters and the lumber kings.
The C.W.A. rate has been 40 cents
an hour in the South, Is cents in the
intermediate area and SO cents in the
North for thirty-hour week. At the
time Of General Johnson's outburst,
Hopkins informed the press that C.
w. A. wages in many sections of the
South averaged only 81 week be-
cause of lnclement weather However,
even ST week is higher than 're-
covery" wages being paid under many
N.R.A. codes.
Hopkins present funds will be ex-
hausted on Feb. II, Roosevelt also
announced. Around that date the
administration will ask Congress for
S350,O00,000 to last it until May /,
when the "tapening off" process will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18

tor, to investigate"
Mr.. Biddle, as the Daily Worker
published in previous article on
this graft scandal, knew all the time
what was going on and permitted it..
Now it is revealed this same "in-
vestigator" gave cushy c. w. A..
job to former bank official con-
victed and sentenced of robbing the
bank. Besides condoning wholesale
grating by A. F. of L. officials, Mr..
Biddle was helping his political
cronies drain the slim payrolls of
the c. w. A. in Pittsburgh while
hundreds OF thousands of starving
workers could not get work.
Biddle got substantial justification
for his actions in the statement is
sued to he Pittsburgh press on Mon
day by Roosevelt's chief relief direc-
tor, Wallace, weherein wallace said:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Will Not Free
AcquittedFour,
Nazis Declare
DimitrOff Too Dangerous
An Opponent, His Aged
Mother Is Told

BERLIN, Jan. 1.-THE Nazi
murder regime will not release
the three Bulgarian Commu-
mist defendants, despite their
acquittal by the Leipzig Supreme
Court of completely in the Reich
stag fire. This statement was made
today by the Nazi Ministry of the
Interior to Dimitroff's aged mother
who called at the Ministry to ask
that her son be released, in accord
ance with the verdict of not guilty
wrested by the worldwide movement
from the Nazi court.
Acquittal does not mean release in
the Third Reich" Mrs. Dinlitroff
was hrutally informed. Moreover,
Dimitroff, who made Gen. Herman
Wilhelm Goering dance with rage
while testifying at the Reichstag fire
trial, was by far too dangerous an
opponent Of fascism to be set free,
Mrs. Din1itroff was told in so many
words. The Hitler regime, the Min
istry's spokesman declared, feared the
effect Of his eloquence and dialetical
skill if he should get outside the
borders Of Nazi Germany.
Dimitroff's mother was accom-
panied to the Ministry by Leo Gal
.agher, American lawyer, and Miss
Dorothy Woodman, an English
woman, but neither were admitted
The aged woman, who travelled ali
the way from Bulgaria, to aid the
worldwide fight for the release OF
the three Bulgarian Communist lead
ers and the German Communist
leader, Ernst Torgler, broke into
tears at the end of the interview
and had to be supported by Gal
lagher and Miss Woodman in leaving
the building.
Four Defendants in Grave Danger
The three Bulgarian Communists
are still in prison at Leipzig, where
they are held incommunicado, not
| even permitted to see each other
Dimitroff is seriously i'll as a result
of his long imprisonment and the
rigors of the Reichstag trial, which
lasted a month and half.
Ernst Torgler has been handed
over to the Nazi Secret Police and il
in a Berlin prison, and faces new
trial on charges of high treason. The
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
NaziS Behead Two
More Communists
Workers Murdered for
Resistance i'm 1881

DESSAU, Jan. 1.-Two Commu-
mist workers were beheaded at dawn
today under the recent Nazi decree
invoking the barbarous axe execu-
tons of the Middle Ages.
The two workers were recently
sentenced to death by a Nazi court
on charges of connection with the
killing of a Nazi storm trooper in
the Province of Anhalts in 1881,
when workers resisted an invasion
Of their district by Nazi storm
troopers.
In drive to wreak vengeance on
its political opponents, the Ma
tional Socialist Party is digging up
all cases of workers resistance to
the Nazis during the frequent armed
clashes in 1881. Many other work
er have been sentenced to death
in this connection, on charges of
numbering" Nazis who were shot
in street battles between Nazis and
anti-fascist workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Churchill Asks Force
In Air Increased to
AnsWer US. Money Var

LONDON, Jan. 17-Winston Chur-
chill, British Conservative leader,
commenting on President RooSevelt's
drive for furthening cheapening the
dollar in the trade war with the
British pound, called for British air
force at least equal to that of the
nearest power able to reach Britain
by air.
British papers commenting on the
successful flight of U. S. naval
squadron to Hawaii had previously
pointed out that the flight demon
strated that bombing planes could
successfully cross the Atlantic.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE St.
Lawrence waterway treaty was at
tackled in Congress yesterday as pro-
viding "a military avenue through the
United States" for Great Britain.
Opposition to the project was based
on the knowledge that Roosevelt's
currency and tariff war policies were
naturally leading to an armed con-
flict with Britain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
US. Prepares
Blood Bath for
Cuban Workers
Gallery Calls for Armed
Intervention; General
Strike Starts Today

HAVANA, Jan. 17.--Jeffer-
son Caffery, Wall Streets rep
resentative in Cuba. met with
U. S. Navy officials today to
make preparations for armed inter
vention against the revolutionary
struggles of the Cuban masses in re-
sistsnce to the new regime of Pres
ident Carlos Hevia, whose Inaugural
ton as President to succeed Grau
San Martin was marked by a MUIR
derous attack on demonstrators in
front Of the Presidential Palace in
which four persons were killed and
scores wounded.
General Strike Called
A general strike has been called
by the Communist Party and the
revolutionary trade unions against
the reaction, to start Thursday.
Throughout the island, workers are
responding to the call of the Commu-
mist Party for armed resistance to
the reactionary coalition of Hevia and
Army Chief of Staff Batista. De-
mands for the resignation Of Ba-
tista are growing in volume. Strikes
are already in progress in a large
number Of government departments,
completely tying IN postal and tele-
graph services and other activities.
Indignant students, protesting the
shooting down Of workers and stu
dents on the day that Hevia was
inaugurated as president, demon
strated today before the Presidential
Palace demanding punishment of
Col. Batista, who gave the order to
troops to fire into the crowd.
Many Workers Walk. Out
Answering the call for general
political strike, workers in many
plants came out today. Striking en-
ployeeS Of the U. S-owned Compania
Guiana de Electricidad, which was
seized by the Grau regime a few days
ago before Grau was ousted by the
Revolutionary Junta," announced
they would sharpen their struggle Il
the new government fails to carry
cut Grau'S promises for q raise ir
wages and better conditions. Workers
in the company's power plants al
Cienfuegos and Santiago filed new
demands on the government anc
prepared to join the general walk
out on Thursday. Jefferson Cafsery
Is reported to have sent a secret re-
port to Roosevelt, analysing the sit
uation and advising immediate armed
intervention.
Employees of the Department OF
Agriculture, which President Hevis
headed under the Grau regime
threatened to strike against the mill
tary dictatc-~hip, and denounced Ba-
tiSta as a maker and breaker Of
presidents"
Bourgeois Rift Widens
School teachers demonstrated a
Santiago today against the new gov.
eminent and refused to dispense wher
frcd on by troops.
The rift is growing in the bour.
geois camp and in the armed forces
with the navy and sections of tht
army reported to be supporting An
tonic Guiteras, Grau Minister of thu
Interior, whose candidacy for pres.
fdent was turned down by the "Revo.
lutionary Junta" as the result of furi.
Gus protests by the students. Guitera.
is reported to be organizing a count.
er-revolt against Hevia, and was IL
conference last night with leaders O.
various political factions.
Ammunition was being hurried,
rushed today to various strategic
points at the order of Col. Batista.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
France Ready to
Accept Nazi Plan,
Paul BOnCOur Saws
Bankers Give Finances
To Japanese Purchases
of War Materials

PARIS Jan. 17-French Foreign
Minitser Joseph Paul-Boncour in
dicated In the French Senate last
night that the government is willing
to accept the Nazi proposal for a
ten-year non-aggression pact with
France, with a measure of arms
equality for Germany.
The revelation came as q surprise
to most members Of the Senate in
view of the recent governmental full
limitations against the German pro-
posals, rising many times to an &C
tual threat of war against Germany
The development shows that the
sections of the French bourgeoisie
who are demanding that the govern
mental seek an agreement with the
Nazis for q strengthening of the
anti-SoViet front are making head
way.
In connection with the anti-Soyiet
front, French financiers are also
studying a scheme to finance Japan
ese Imperialism in its proposed wal
of intervention against the Soviet
Union.
PEIPING, Jan. 17.-One thousand
Japanese-M anchukuo troops attacked
the Chinese garrison near Leng Men
Su Pass in the Great Wall last Tues
day, in a new invasion Of North
China.
The japanese pushing their pene-
tration into Chahar province, also
occupied several villages claiming
they belonged to the japanese puppet
state of Manchukuo.
Marking authorities, who are con-
Quoting a savage war against the
Chinese Soviet Republic and the rev.
lolutionary masses of Kuomintang
China, have instructed the Kuomin-
tang commanders in the area tt
avoid any conflict with the japanese
invaders.
KEARNEY, N. J.-Five Japanese
four of them in the employ Of the
japanese government railways, were
arrested here today charged with
photographing the Pulaski Skyway
the Newark Airport and other point;
between Jersey City and Newark.
The five, accused as Japanese spies
were grilled by the police for severa,
hours. but were subsequently re-
leased in the custody of Takeo Nj
who guaranteed their appearance in
Kearny court tomorrow. U. S. immi-
grafton and army officers will be
CONTINUED on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
BY DAN SINGER

WILKES BARRE, Pa, Jan. IT.
Mass resentment is growing against
issuance of the injunction against the
striking miners. Eighty-two officials
of the United Anthracite Union were
served with court subpoenaS today to
appear in Luzerne County Court
House.
A meeting of 400 miners at Par
sons Of the Laurel Run Collie1y Of
the Delaware and Hudson Coal Co.
voted unanimously for q demonstra-
ton at Court House on Jan. q, and
voted to ask the convention tomorrow
to take similar action. Mass picket
ing completely closed down the
LOOMS and Lance Galleries OF the
Glen Alden Co, this morning,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18

for Industrial Democracy, to take
the job on Roosevelt's payroll.
Borders leaves behind him in Chi
cago a record Of splitting the unem-
ployed movement, and a record of be-
trayal of the unemployed. AS sec
rotary Of the Unemployed Citizens
League he refused to engage in united
front struggles with the Unemployed
Councils for more relief. Borders &C
cepted relief cuts without trying to
mobilize the workers for fight.
Borders action follows similar steps
taken by Paul Blanshard of New
York, who resigned from the Social
iSt Party to accept a position with
LaGuardia's administration; and Up
ton Sinclair, who left the Socialist
Party to run as a candidate on the
Democratic ticket Of California.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Senatorial Committee
Holds Secret Session
AS Trade War Grows
AFL Heads Evade Stand
on Latest Initiation
Moves
HOUSE GETS BILLS
Roosevelt Plans to Be
Rush ed Through,
Reports Show
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker. Washington Bureaul

kDaiy NOEheF, washington 0uTeduJ
WASHINGTON, Jan. IT,
Bills embodying the Presidents
demand for dollar devaluation
at so to go per cent. of its nor
NAL. statutory value, fer seizure Of
all Federal Reserve Banks gold, and
for the cstab r
100000 fund for manipulating the
price Of gold in fore4e4 EX--.-l {
have been introduced in both Houses
of Congress.
How eager the politicians are to
put the thing through is indicated by
the fact that squabble for the
dubious honor of taking charge of it
developed between two House Com
mittees, each claiming jurisdiction.
Speaker Rainey ruled that it should
go to the Coinage Committee, a minor
Committee VIGOROUSLY lightweight in
personnel. This committee, which
yesterday reverently heard the prime
demagogue, the Rev. Charles E.
Coughlin, declare, its Roosevelt of
revolution!" decided today to conclude
deliberations in private. They ex-
pect to be ready to report the meas
ure for action within a couple OF
days.
Also behind closed doors, the Senate
Banking and Currency Committee
today heard Secretary of the Treas
ury Morgenthau's and Attorney Cen
eral Cummings ideas on the subject.
No Money Pact
Reports that the United States
would seek some understanding with
Great Britain to avoid sharper econ
omic warfare as result of the eX-
change manipulation feature were
routed by President Roosevelt. He
said no such conversations were
(COntinued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Borders, Socialist,
Gets Juicy Job for
Roosevelt Regime
Takes Government Job
With Federal Relief
Administration

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. IT.
Carl Borders, Socialist and former
secretary of the Unemployed Citi-
zens League Of Chicago, has accepted
a Job with the Roosevelt government
to do field research work for the
Federal Relief Administration. Bor-
ders resigned from his position as
Midwest Executive Director of the
Socialist organization, the League
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Jobless Turned Over
500 and Half Their Pay
to Union Heads

''The purpose of the C. w. A. is
not to give work to the most needy"
Wallace revealed further that the
purpose was to take workers from
relief rolls.
Here is how Biddle did it. A GER
tain gentleman by the name of David
w. Charles, who formerly was an Of
fetal of the Merton Title g. Trust
Co. in Ardmore, Pa. helped himself
to some Of the banks cash. Work
ers' saving deposits we're robbed. The
deal was so raw, Charles was tried
by jury Of IL men, found guilty,
(Coatinued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Full Text of Lenin's
Letter to U. S. Masses
in Saturdays DAILY

The special edition of the Daily
Worker devoted to the 10th ami
versary of the death Of Lenin will
publish for the first time the COM
plete text of Lenin's famous Let
ter to the American Workers"
It will also contain an article by
Alexander Trachtenberg, editor OF
the English translation of Lenin's
collected works, explaining the
conditions under which Lenin
wrote his direct appeal to the
American workers and will indicate
the parts left out Of Lenin's let
Ter when 1t was last published
here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
Communist Worker Is
Murdered i'm Nazi Jail

DORTMUND, Jan. 17.-Stephan
Kaptur, Communist worker SEN
fenced to death in connection with
the killing of Nazi storm trooper
in 1881, when Nazis invaded the
working-class quarter here, was
secretly murdered in Jail to block
an appeal against the death SEN
tence. The Nazis gave out story
today that he had committed sui
eide"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18
C.W.A. Not for Needy,
Says Relief Director
Wallace
BY HARRY CANNES

NEW YORK.-While Roosevelt's
Federal relief administrator, Harry
L. Hopkins, took steps to whitewash
the huge G. w. A. graft and racke-
teering scandal on the Mellon
Cathedral of Learning" in Pitts
burgh, the workers mulcted by their
A. F. of L. leaders were organizing
for a fight against the racketeers.
administrator Hopkins announced
Monday that Washington would in
vestigate. Hundreds Of workers ex-
posed the fact that the Pittsburgh
Carpenters District Council was
forcing them to hand over half of