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Evening star., 1934-05-16
K|DNAP EPIDEMIC
MEDONPUBL|C
S. S. Van Dine Says Amer
lean SentimentaIity Pro-
teCtS Torture Racket.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated FreSS.
NEW YORK, May 16.-The sen
timentality' of the American public in
its attitude toward lawbreakers was
blamed for such crimes as the Gettle
and the Robles kidnapings yesterday
by S. S. Van Dine, author of detective
best sellers.
Declaring that both the legal sys-
tenn and the psychology of this coun-
try favor the criminal rather than the
victim, Van Dine gave as his own
remedy capital punishment, but
capital punishment actually applied" )"
Il should list kidnapping as No. l."
he said, 'of the crimes calling for
capital punishment.
Would Like Explanation.
"If taking an innocent child like the
Robles girl and shackling her in q
narrow pit for l9 days in an Arizona
desert, while the kidnapers dickered
for few thousand dollars, not know
ing whether OF not the child would
die a horrible death from heat and
starvation-is not crime calling for
swift capital punishment, then l
should like to hear some sentimental
American criminal-coddler explain to
me the moral intricacies of his atti-
tude"
Van Dine paced the floor Of his
book-lined penthouse overlooking Cen
tral Park as he talked. He Is former
California newspaper man and in pri-
vate life is willard Huntington
Wright, art critic.
Now National Industry"
THE reason that brutal and un-
speakable kidnapings, with their &C
compartment of slow torture, brutal
murder, and lifelong misery, have be-
come practically a national industry
which is growing every day in extent
and viciousness, Is the sentimental at
titude of the American public" he
asserted.
There Is far more sympathy ex-
tended to the unfortunate kidnaper
and murderer than to their hapiess
victims"
Referring to the recent San Jose
lynchings in California. Van Dine
mentioned that President Roosevelt
went on the air" to protest. though
as far as I remember. he has not
vet gone Indignantly on the air to
protest against the far more vicious
and far more prevalent crimes OF
brutal kidnapping and torture ana
murder of innocent. decent people"
Coddled Too Much.
1.-THE kidnaper and the murderer
ora coddled far too much" he went
on. He is protected by every possible
technicality and by vast army OF
so-called 'psychiatrists' and tricky
lawyers who have devoted their lives
to the Shiny technique of getting
murderers and kidnapers and tor
turers out of Jail and into the open,
where they can ply their trade again"
Mentioning that there is no death
penalty in California for kidnapping
unless the victim is injured. Van Dine
said that If throwing a man over a
seven-foot wall, injuring his side and
keeping him shackled for days with
court plaster over his face was not
"njuring." he did not know what was.
Van Dine criticized the admins
tration of capital punishment in this
country as being theoretical" and
"law-bookish" 1t is applied in such
small proportion of cases that it
is practically imperative" he said.
and criminals know and count on
this.
Evening star., 1934-05-16
KIDNAPPED TEXAN
FLEES ABDUCTORS
Wealthy Owner of Filling
Station Leaps From
Auto to Safety.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the AsSOclateQ fIesb.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, May 16.-
Leaping from his automobile after he
had been held captive for more than
an hour. Grover c. Cain, wealthy
owner of a string Of filling stations,
today escaped from two abductors
whose announced purpose, he said,
was kidnapping for ransom
Cain leaped from his car when one
of the sbductors struck him over the
head with a pistol. He was bruised
and shaken up when he fell to the
pavement. The abductors righted the
careening machine and drove away in
the car as Cain ran to nearby resi-
dence for aid.
Several residents in the neighbor-
hood were aroused, but, unaware OF
Gains identity or the experience he
had Just gone through, reported to
police that burglars were trying to
break in their homes.
Cain said he had stepped into his
automobile to drive home when the
two men got into the car with him
One of them held pistol on him and
ordered him to drive on, he said
Cain was then forced to drive his own
car at the command of his abductors
until he escaped.
Evening star., 1934-05-16
CANDIDATES RULED OUT
Oklahoma Board Lops OFF "Friv-
olous" Office Seek ers.

OKLAHOMA CITY. May 16 tP.-
The State Election Board yesterday
Topped off two filings for Representa-
tive at large as frivolous" and con-
sented to hear arguments today on
a motion by Representative Will Rog-
ers of Oklahoma City for modifica-
ton Of its order putting second Will
Rogers of Ardmore on the ballot.
L. Tom Rogers, Seminole, and
Henry johnson. TuSsey farmer, were
eliminated as candidates for the Dem
ocratic nomination for Representative
at large.
The board still had under consider
alton the controversy between the two
Jack Waltons, one the former Gov
ernor and the other farmer, for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
Evening star., 1934-05-16
WINS. CHEMICAL PRIZE

NEW YORK, May l6 R.-The
American Institute of Chemical En-
gineers' annual prize for excellence in
the solution of chemical engineering
problem yesterday was awarded to
Robert V. Lukes, 20, of Cicero, Ill.
Lukes will receive an honorarium of
$100. Scott Lyon, Ohio State Univer-
sity, Columbus, and Waldeman A.
Schmidt, oregon State College, Port
land. we're awarded the second and
third prizes of $50 and S25, respect
lively.
Evening star., 1934-05-16
BO0KBINDERS HIT N. R. A.
Validity of Act Attacked in New
York Suit.

NEW YORK, May 16 R.-The
validity of the national recovery act
was attacked yesterday in a suit be-
gun in the United States District
Court by the Bookbinders Trade Asso-
citation, Inc, David Mitnick, as presi-
dent of the Bookbinders Board of
Trade. and others.
The complainants object to inclu-
sion of the bookbinding industry in
the graphic arts code.
As an alternative to a ruling de-
claring the N. r. A. invalid, the COM
plainants asked that the code of fair
competition for the graphic arts in
dustry be declared null.
Evening star., 1934-05-16
LEGION TAX EXEMPTION
FOUGHT BY CITY HEADS
Report to Congress Opposes Bill
That Would Eliminate Levy
on Property Here.

Disapproval of the bill to exempt
from taxation the property of the
American Legion at 1903 K street was
voiced by the District Commissioners
in a report sent yesterday to Senate
and House District Committees.
The city heads stated that proper
ties valued at more than $4,000 900
have been exempted from taxation
here, under the general law permit
ting exemption for property used for
charitable, religious and educational
purposes.
Opposing the special legislative pro-
posal, the city heads argued that spe-
cial exemptions tend to shift the
tax burden from few to the general
public.
Evening star., 1934-05-16
Mexican Mayor Is Slain.

GUADALAJARA. Mexico, May 16
CR.-A group of men. unidentified.
shot and killed Julian Ibarra, mayor
of the town of Jocotepec Monday
night, said dispatches arriving yester-
day. Police said they believed the
killers were members of gang driven
out Of town by Ibarra a year ago.
Evening star., 1934-05-16
SUNDAYS SON CLEARED
Acquitted of Driving While
Drunk Charge by Jury.

LOS ANGELES, May 16 tP).-Paul
Thompson Sunday, son of the evan
gelist, Billy Sunday, stood acquitted
today of a charge Of being drunk in
o motor car.
He was freed last night after the
Jury had deliberated for six hours.
Sunday was tried on the same charge
last month. but the jury disagreed
after standing 10 to for conviction.
Police officers testified Sunday was
drunk and driving without lights when
they arrested him in Hollywood April
16 Sunday accused the officers Of
abusing him and denied he was drunk.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Hathaway tOSpeak
AT Mass Meeting in
Duluth, Saturday
First Speech Here Since
1925; To Tell How So
viets Will End Poverty

DULUTH, MINI, March 81. =
Clarence Hathaway, editor Of the
Daily Worker, will speak at a mass
meeting here Saturday, March oath,
at Camels Hall. on How a Soviet
Government Will Abolish Poverty in
U. S. A"
Hathaway who has not spoken
here since 1925, is well known to
the workers OF Minnesota, the state
where he was born. He first started
his activities in the labor move
ment here; was an organizer in the
A. r. of L. Machinists Union in
Minneapolis; and was president
of the Minnesota State Federation
of Labor.
The mass meeting on Saturday
has been called by the Communist
Party Of Duluth in answer to de-
magogic speech made by Farmer
Labor Governor Olson last Tuesday.
In his speech, Olson said that the
state and the federal government
will abolish poverty by law, and
that at the end of the G. w. A.,
Roosevelt's new relief" plan viii
take care of all the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Out to Party Convention Meet at Coliseum Tonight
Veterans To March
On City Hall Today

NEW YORK. who we're
forced to wait at City Hall last Fri
day for two and a half hours while
LaGusrdia failed to show up, will
march on City Hall again today to
present cases of veteran disability
and need to the Mayor. LaGuardia
has definitely been notified about
this, and he will be expected to
receive a committee and hear spe-
cific cases Of ex-servicemen in need
Of relief and medical aid.
The parade, which is sponsored
by the City Committee of the Work
ers Ex-Seryicemen's League, will
start at p. m. at Union Square.
Veterans will begin to assemble on
the Square at l pm. Then they
will march to the City Hall, rain or
shine.
Their demands are: for imme-
date cash relief for all distressed
veterans; immediate payment of the
bonus; repeal of the Economy Act,
and the enactment Of the Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill Oh. R.
1899.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
80 AL Union Delegated
Endorse C. II. A. Strike.
.JObLeSS Insurance Bill
Unanimously Support
Militant Struggle
on Unemployment

NEW YORK. 1.-The conference
A. F. Of L. locals and minorit
groups in A. F. Of L. locals hel
wednesday in New York City under
the auspices of the Anti Racketeer-
ing Committee in A. F. Of L. Unions
unanimously endorsed the one-hour
strike of the C.W.A. workers to be
called Thursday, March 20, at 4 pm.
Thirty delegates from carpenters
unions, from painters, IL.GW.U,
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
sheet metal, motion picture oper-
ators, delicatessen clerks, electri-
clans, Paper Bag Union, and other
unions and groups, were present at
this conference.
A motion was unanimously car
ried to protest against federal con-
troll or state control over trade
unions. Special reference was made
against the McNaboe bill which is
before the N. Y. state Assembly,
which aims at such state control.
The conference alSo unanimously
went on record in favor Of the
Workers Unemployment and So
cial Insurance Bill, H. r. 1898, and
pledged to push it in all A. F. Of L.
Local unions.
Discussion was had on the func-
lions of the A. F. of L. Trade Union
Committee for Unemployment IN
surance and Relief, the center of
the A. F. of L. rank and file. After
discussion a motion was made and
unanimously carried that the Anti
Racketeering Committee become af-
flliated with the A. F. OF L. Trade
Union Committee for Unemploy-
ment Insurance and Relief.
Plans were laid for further &C
tivity in connection with the fight
against racketeering and for build
ing the Anti -Racketeering Commit
tee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Workers Of Four
Cities Plan Giant
SCOttSbOrO Protest
Ruby Bates, Gallagher
to Speak at New Jersey
Meetings

PITTSBURGH, March az. - A
Scottsboro protest mass meeting
will be held tonight under the
auspices Of the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights at the Fifth Ave.
High School, Forbes st. entrance.
Speakers include Ben Careathers,
Ralph Thornton and Madeline
Gaines.
PASSAIC, N. j., March 22.-Ruby
Bates, star Scottsboro defense wit
ness, will be the principal speaker
at Scottsboro protest mass meet
ing tonight at Kanter's Auditorium,
259 Monroe st.. The meeting is
sponsored by the Passaic branches
Of the International Labor Defense.
PATTERSON, N. j., March o.
Leo Gallagher, International Labor
Defense attorney, who has Just re-
turned from Germany and Canada,
will be the main speaker at the
Paris Commune celebration this
Saturday evening at Oakley Hall.
Gallagher will report on his expert
ences with the Nad butchers in
Germany, where he went to defend
Georgi Dimitroff, one of the four
heroic Reichstag defendants.
The program includes a play by
the John Reed Club Dramatic group
Of Newark, and numbers by the
Russian Mandolin Orchestra.
NEW YORK.-The newly orga-
nized CriSpus Attucks Branch of the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
in Flatbush, Brooklyn, has called a
Scottsboro protest mass meeting
for Saturday evening at the Allen
Memorial Church, 1908 Tilden Ave,
near Rogers Ave.
Ruby Bates. star Scottsboro de-
Tense witness, will be the principal
speaker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23


liam Green's own delegation recog-
nize publicly that the Roosevelt ad-
ministration is using every means
at its disposal to keep the men in
the factories until the passage of
the peak season some two or three
weeks hence when striking will be
disadvantageous,
At $50 pm, the A. F. of L. dele
gate was still closeted with Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Were getting gypped Che used
an unprintable world here" said
Lionel Bentley, A. F. of L. repre-
sentative from the Nash plants in
Kenosha and Racine, Wisconsin,
which are on strike. Just before he
went in with the A. F. of L. dele
cation of eight spokesman to con-
fer with Roosevelt.
John BoStwick, the A. F. of L.
representative from the Fisher Body
plant in st. Louis was more en-
phatic and enlightening.
Strike Could Win Now
1--WE could win hands down if we
went on strike now" he told re-
porters in the lobby of the White
House offices. "A strike is their
only chance of winning anything.
David Lano, A. p. of L. delegate
from Flint, Michigan, who couldn't
withhold his disgust at the strike.
breaking tactics of the administra
ton, actually called for strike il
the delegates are not given a fina
decision tonight. The men are al.
most beyond control. If this con
ference is postponed the men vii
lose confidence in the President anc
the government. The N.R.A. is {
joke and General johnson is {
joke. If we don't get a decision to-
night, the men ought to go on strikl
tomorrow morning"
The Roosevelt Green strike-stall
ing tactics are SO transparent tina
an argument broke out among tn
two dozen delegates right in tn
White House lobby when the Greer
leadership tried to keep out tn
militant elements. John Milkent
the A. F. Of L. delegate from Ken
osha, Wis, protested bitterly at be
ing kept out of the conference afte
he had travelled all the way iron
Wisconsin on the A. F. of L. re
quest to do So
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Bill Dunno Rips Into Wagner Bill

Of injunetiOns against workers and
their organizations; cessation of
prosecutions Of organizers Of the
employed and unemployed; cessa-
ton of espionage among foreign
born workers and attempts to de-
port them for labor activity.
These are proposals that fit the
needs of the workingclass in this,
the fifth year of the worst crisis
in the history Of capitalism, de-
clared Dunno.
He explained how the Wagner bill
Kills Strike Right
He explained how the Wagner bill
proposed the deceptive" measure of
"equalizing bargaining power be-
tween employer and employee
something, said Dunno, that docs
not and cannot exist" under the
present capitalist system. He
showed how the proposed three
public" representative of a new
labor board would act in the inter
ests of employers under "the polite
fiction" that they represent "all the
people" He forecast that the Wag-
ner bill would set up new police
power, providing fines and prison
sentences, to be used against work
ers exercising their fundamental
rights to strike These, he declared
would obtain despite the bills decla-
ration that it does not interfere with
the strike right Moreover, the draft
bill provides that the board could
change anything provided by statute
merely by announcing new rulings
it could, in short, rule by decree. 4"
After showing how strikes can be
effective only if carried out at stra-
tegic moments, he summarized;
1.-THE more important the en-
ployer, the more decisive the in
dustry. the more would the Ma
tional Labor Board under the pro-
visions of this bill maneuver to de-
lay action by workers until the IA
vorable moment had passed. The
American working class does not
need and does not want any such
legislation as this. There is too much
of it now"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Official Warns of
Communism in Bid
FMU.S.- JapanPa
Continued from Page y

United States and the League Of
Nations are too feeble to enforce?"
That the latest move of Japanese
imperialism for Impeachment
with the United States imperialism
in order to change the correlation
of forces in the Far East against
the Soviet Union. The persistent
peace policy of the Soviet Union,
based on the fact that the Soviet
Government is not an imperialist
government and has no desire for
any territorial expansion, has been
the main bulwark of peace against
the provocations of Japanese i'm
perialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
WIRE ROOSEVELT DEMANDS AUTO
UNION BE HEARD AT CAPITAL
Continued from Page y

and all adequate relief for the unemployed
oppage of discharge CWA unemployment insurance
The proposals of the manufacturers and General Johnson do
not meet the workers The proposed arbitration
board is only trick the and prevent them from action
We demand union recognition which the right Of the workers
freely organize into unions choice deal with
the employers all questions hours and conditions through
committees democratcaly elected by them in the departments and
shops
Any other proposition only another device to prevent union
recognition and to stall off strike action which is the only
the situation to the
The delay OF the strike by the F. Of L. officials playing the
of the manufacturers the
spond to the needs Of the auto workers Immediately granted
will to them that the conference conceived
carried through with the sole preventing strike action
favorable again
that only strike action will
The A of L. representatives Washington consisting chiefly
the mghsaaed ocialdom speak
Of 100000 automobile workers.
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD. AUTO WORKERS UNION,
42l0 woodward Ave. Detroit Michigan
CSigned) PHIL RAYMOND National Secretary
:. WILSON, National Organizer.
W. CLIFF, President"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Garden Meeting to
Rally Workers for
March 20 Strike
Continued from Page y

Foundation, and Herbert Benjamin
national organizer of the Unem-
ployment Counils.
The meeting in the Garden, and
the one-hour protest strike, were
initiated by the united front COM
mittee Of 100 set up by q confer
ence Of many unemployed and other
workers organizations.
The demands of Sundays Garden
meeting and the March 20 one hour
protest strike are for continuation
and extension of the C.W.A. jobs
or equivalent cash relief for all I'M
employed, immediate enactment by
Congress of the Workers Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance Bill
(H.R. 1899, and against discrimi-
nation against Negro workers. The
New York united front conference
called on the workers of all other
cities to make the protest strike
March % nation wide and demand
that Roosevelt continue the C.WA.
jobs.
The Relief Workers League, one
of the organizations active in the
united front protest against CW.A
firing, announced through Davidow
that all locals of the League, to-
gether with the C. w. A. and unem-
ployed workers, are meeting Sunday
at one o'clock in the Leagues local
headquarters and marching to the
Garden meeting in q body, DaW-
dow, a G. w. A worker in CanarSie,
was threatened recently with being
transferred by the c. W. A. admin
istration, but the workers on the
lob protested and secured his reten-
ton on the Canarsie project.
The Relief Workers League this
week has been touring projects With
loud speakers, announcing the Gar
den meeting Sunday and the March
20 protest strike to all C. w. A.
workers Open-air meetings are be-
ing held on projects by the League.
In Dyker Park two workers we're
arrested for distributing leaflets,
announcing the Garden meeting,
and were fined $40. Two hundred
workers met at the Dyker Park mass
meeting in spite of heavy police
squad. The League has also held
a mass meeting at the Second Ave.
project.
The Relief Workers League local
on Project IL, at the County Court
House in Manhattan, secured the
reinstatement Of seven workers who
we're laid off. The workers at this
project decided to take part in the
Madison Square Garden meeting
and the protest strike. Strike com
littees are being organized on all
projects for the one-hour protest
strike Of March % at 3 pm.
Womer's auxiliaries of the Relief
Workers League are in process Of
organization on the projects, which
will mobilize the women for the
Garden meeting Sunday and for the
one-hour protest strike.
The conference of A. F. of l..
locals and minority groups in the
A. F. Of L. locals met Wednesday
under the auspices of the Anti
Racketeering Committee in A. F. of
L.. unions, and unanimously en-
dorsed the one-hour protest strike
called for Thursday, March 20, and
the Garden meeting, Sunday, March
Is. at 2 pm.
The A. F. of l.. Committee for
Unemployment Insurance and Re-
lief was to meet last night. The
committee, through David Gordon,
secretary, issued a statement en-
dorsing the one-hour national pro-
test strike at PM. March %, and
Sundays Garden meeting, and
called on ell A. F. of L. members
to participate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
Demonstrate Today AT
Spring and Elizabeth
Home Relief Bureau

NEW YORK. -Downtown work.
ing class organizations and jobless
workers will demonstrate before
the Home Relief Bureau at Spring
and Elizabeth SITS. at II a. m. today
to demand the right of the unem-
ployed to be represented by elected
committees in presenting their re-
lief needs and grievances.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23

lions will appear In tomorroWs
Daily Worker.
NEW YORK-Thousands Of dress
makers turned out at a dozen diff
ferent polling stations in Manhat-
tan, Brooklyn and the Bronx yes
terday to cast their votes in the
elections OF officers Of Local % Of
the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union.
Left wing members of the union,
answering the call Of the Left Wing
Group, which together with the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, had thoroughly exposed the
treacherous and reactionary policy
Of the Zimmerman progressive"
leadership, turned out in full force,
only to find the entire Lovestone
machine and the entire Dubinsky-
Zimmerman clicque leadership had
been modified against them.
While the voting was in progress,
many instances of intimidation and
attempted intimidation Of voters
were reported.
At w. 18th St, it was reported
that more than one ballot was given
to certain individuals. At ST. Eighth
Ave. Zimmerman. Progressive"
candidate for manager, spoke to
several policemen, after which Left
Wing dressmakers, who had come to
cast their ballots for Morris Stamper
and the entire left wing slate, we're
chased away.
A similar incident occurred at the
saith st. and Eighth Ave, polling
station, when Albert and Deitch,
business agents, gave orders to po-
lice to chase left wing dressmakers
from the scene.
The results of the voting were not
vet known when this edition of the
Daily Worker went to press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-23
NURSES HIT PROPOSED SALARY CT,

NURSES HIT PROPOSED SALARY CUT
Nurses and other workers in city hos
pitfalls will hold mass meeting tonight at
Irving Plaza Hall, rIving Place and 18th
St, to protest the proposed salary cut
for city nurses. The delegation which
visited Hospital Commission Goldwater will
report on his reactior