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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Sub Drive
Registers
l,5OOCain
New York, Cleveland
Chicago, Other Cities
Have Increases

SUBSCRIPTION activity for the
v past week produced the first net
gain since the drive started, with
f1fty-nine readers over the number
subscribing on June 10. A total of
220 new subscribers were secured
during the period, bringing the
quota standing up to 376 per cent,
or 1904 of the 1000 quota.
The most perceptibIe gains for the
week were scored by New York, BOs-
ton, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia
and Chicago.
Only one District reported a loss
for the week, Kentucky dropping
from 90 per cent of its quota to
zero. Louisiana was the only Dis
trict to remain stationary, with 40
per cent of it's quota. All other Dis
tricts gained for the week.
With plans being made for the
combined Daily Worker and Cen
trail Committee financial drive, it
is highly important that all Sec
tions and Units continue subscrip-
tion actively. New subscribers
offer an additional source of
financial aid. The two drives
should be linked up by the entire
Party membership.
Subscriptions July 31-August 6
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Gets 6 Months ON Chain Gang
For Having Anti War Leafct

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 10
Israel Berlin was sentenced yester-
day to six months on the chain
gang, plus a fine of 500, for having
August First anti-war literature in
his possession. The prosecution and
sentencing Of Berlin marks the re-
newal of the drive by the Alabama
lynch rulers to outlaw the Com
munist Party, the Southern Worker,
and all working class organizations
and papers. The trial" was held
before Judge Martin, in the City
Hall.
Berlin, who is now out on bail
pending appeal, is to be tried again
next Wednesday on the additional
counts of possession, distribution
and circulation of '1ibelous" litera-
ture, advocating overthrow of the
government by force and violence,
and membership in an unlawful
organization advocating overthrow
of the government" Fred Keith,
another working class organizer,
will be tried at the same time on
identical charges. Both organizers
face sentences of one year on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11

murderous chain gang, and fines of
5000.
Since May First when several
workers arrested during May Day
demonstrations were released, the
Alabama rulers have sharpened up
their ordinances against the toiling
masses, black and white, and their
militant organizations. Several new
ordinances, aimed at smashing the
militant labor movement, suppress
ing workers rights of free speech
and assembly, have been passed.
The Birmingham office of the In
ternational Labor Defense has
issued an appeal to all workers and
intellectuals and their organizations
to rally to the defense of the rights
of the Alabama toilers. Rush pro-
test kilograms and resolutions to
Judge Martin, and Police Commits
sioner Downs, City Hall, Btrnin-
ham, Ala. Send protests to Gov
Miller, Montgomery, Ala, demand
ing halt to the fascist terror
against the working-c class and Negro
masses, and the immediate, safe and
unconditional release of the Scots
boro boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Artists Union Meets
For Reorganization

NEW YORK.-A general recor-
ganizational meeting of the Artists
Union was held last Wednesday
evening. It's purpose was to clarity
to the general membership the
necessity of fighting out their eco
nomic problems comparatively and
militantly.
Realizing the difficulty in organ
izing artists and professional work
ers in fight against meek starva-
ton, the Artists Union called this
extraordinary meeting to formulate
demands and to wipe out the shilly-
shallying procedure which has char
acterized the organization up until
now.
The new reorganization meeting
got off to good start, and list of
demands was laid down that got the
full support of the large membership
present. These demands include the
reestablishment of the Public Works
Arts Projects, with a minimum
wage of $3.50 per week; it called
for the maintenance of every I'M
employed artist on the relief roles,
without going thru the Pauper's
Oath, until he was put on the P.
w. A. P. payroll, it called for the
election of supervisors on Arts Pro-
jects from the artists themselves
and by themselves, instead of the
imposition Of a supervisor, with his
own ideas on art, from above. 1t
demanded that lay-offs and wage
cuts be stopped Immediately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Youngstowns Fills Quota

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 1O.-The
Youngstown section of the Commu-
mist Party has filled its quota OF
5000 nominating petition signatures.
Carl Sandberg, State election cam
paign manager, announced today.
The total of signatures checked
and notaried is now 11,700, Sanberg
said, but he estimated that there are
10000 signatures collected and still
in the hands of individuals and'sec-
ton organizations. He urged that
all such petitions be submitted at
once to the State campaign COM
mittee.
In Youngstown and vicinity the
drive for signatures Jagged until a
few weeks ago, at which time only
several hundred had been collected.
Energetic efforts set into motion by
Section Organizer Steuben resulted
in Youngstown's success. The shock
troops" in the Youngstown drive will
be rewarded by a trip to Cleveland
and a copy each of Labor and
Steel" The deadline for all Ohio
signature collections is next Wednes-
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
JObIeSS Council
UrgesJOint Action
Continued from Page y

Council 80 E. 18th St.. N. Y. City.
The text Of the call follows:
THE situation of the workers in
this, the sixth year of the crisis
demands drastic action. Fully 49,
100000 are unemployed with mil
lions without any prospect of OBJ
tanning work. Millions of youth
have never seen the inside of a
factory and are doomed to remain
jobless. The situation of the Ne
gro workers is appalling.
Appropriations for relief are
being cut, the government refusing
to make adequate provisions. But
the same government does not hest
tate to provide billions for war pur-
poses, for the semi-military C.C.C.
camps, etc.
"a winter of bitter suffering
faces us unless we act.
Promises have been made by the
new deal" government. Unem-
ployment insurance was promised
but has not been furnished. Roose-
welt now talks about a program of
security" another promise to keep
us from struggle for our rights.
Facing this situation, the Ma
tional Unemployment Council con-
siders that the time has come for
the broadcast united front action on
the part of all sections of the toll
ing population = the unemployed
workers in shops unions, fraternal
veteran, Negro, farmers, youth or
CARNATIONS, etc. No matter what
may separate us otherwise whether
on religious, national or politica.
grounds = the situation demands
united action on the questions oil
social security and workers rights
if millions are not to starve, If chill
dren are no longer to go without
milk, if the desperation to which
hundreds of thousands are driven
is to come to an end.
1.-THE National Unemployment
Council of the U.S,A. proposes that
a NATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
COMMITTEE be set up, represen-
tative of all unemployed organiza-
tions, of the A. F. of L. unions, in
dependent and TU.UL. unions, pol
itical parties like the Socialist
Communist and Farmer Labor
Party, veteran, farmers, fraternal
Negro, youth. women's organizations
etc. This National Arrangements
Committee to consider the problems
confronting the unemployed anc
part-time workers, the need of un.
employment and social insurance
1t shall weigh the question of 6
national action at the time of the
opening of the 74th session of the
United States Congress in order tt
exert pressure on Congress the Ma.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11

one of these enterprises. Every
champion of the ring has been
tempted to get in. Farmer Burns,
indeed, the old time wrestler, took
it up, and his figure, wrapped in
tiger-skin, used to decorate full
pages in the periodicals.
Usually the ads offered free lit
erature. 1t was free literature that
never stopped coming. Once you
handed your name in you were on
the list for life. Not only on one
list, but on most Of the lists. The
lists were always comparatively ex-
changed between the various COL
leges. You got literature from all
of them.
With every letter from the strong
men, however, the price of the
courses would be reduced. Usually
they started with a fee for para
pheInalia and fee for the courses,
both taken. at great sacrifice. But
as time went on the professors be-
came willing to sacrifice more and
more, both on paraphernalia and
the courses. Eventually you could
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11

devoted to correspondence schools
in dancing or the advertising of art
pictures just arrived from France
Remnants of these alluring pros
poets still parade through the wood
pulps but they have an obviously
comic and ghostly aspect. Business
is Enthusiastically on the rocks.
1T is truth that youths, for it
was to them that the Aliases
mostly appealed, no longer want to
become strong men in IL easy les
sons. They have other things to
think about. The economic crisis
took away all their ambitions to be
lion men. 1t took away their jobs
and took away their money. No
II easy lessons by such correspond
ence schools as advertise in the
wood pulps can be of any use to
them.
THESE strong men courses were,
L to be sure, all fraudulent. Yet,
thousands of people answered their
ads. When Benny Leonard reti,ed
from the ring, he lent his name to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
WARDEN OF MOABIT PRISON HIDES TEAEMANS WHEREABOUTS
BY PREVENTING LEADERS, SIGNING REGISTERED MAIL RECEIPTS
MOines
Workers In
Aid Appeal
Bail Needed for Three
Who Continue On
Hunger Strike

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Aug. TO-
The three workers held in the Polk
County jail here for their activity
in the relief workers strike today
began the eleventh day of their
hunger strike in protest of the ex-
cssive bail of $1,000 each on charges
of criminal syndicalism."
The three workers, Joseph Por-
ter, member of the Communist
Party; John Nordquist, member of
the rank and file strike committee
which was in the leadership of the
strike; and Ira Meade, former
workers candidate for Mayor, were
all in the forefront of the relief
strike.
Carl Burkman, county attorney,
has resisted all attempts by work
ing class organizations to obtain
a reduction in the bail.
Joseph van Nordstrand, chairman
of the joint defense committee set
up by the relief workers and the
International Labor Defense, today
asked that all workers, or property
owners in Iowa who can put up
property bond, write Immediately to
P. o. Box 108, Des Moines, Iowa.
j. P. Russell, farmer-lawyer of
Manson, is acting as defense coun-
sci. Russell, who was Socialist can
didate for Attorney General, was
defense counsel for the farmers who
were charged with criminal syn
dicalism' at the time of the Sioux
City farm strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
y = - - Fuchs

PROFESSOR ATLAS, the strong
L man, toppled over the other day,
and the world paid little heed to
his passing. He received hardly an
obit in the newspapers. He was an
Insignificant man, and he died
grubbily, as many men do. History
will have none of him. He was not
even one in his field. There are
many Professor Aliases, strong men.
He was symbol, though, and
that is why he deserves comment
He was a symbol Of thinking
that has gone into the limbo-a
thinking that had it's academy in
the advertising pages Of the wood
pulp magazines. 1t used to be ia
miliar to every one who read these
shoddy publications in the 1920s.
In - easy lessons the professor Of
fered to make man of anyone.
THE offer usually appeared be-
l tween pages advertising courses
for men DESTROYS of becoming secret
service agents or the best bookkeep-
ers in their firms or between pages
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Gallagher Will SIP eak
At Frisco Mass Rally

LOS ANGELS, Aug. 12.-Leo Gal
lagher and Sam Darcy will speak at
a mass rally at the Mason Theatre
here on the night of Friday, Aug.
II, in the interest of Leo Gal
lagher's campaign for associate
justice of the California state SUI
preme court.
The meeting is being arranged
by Gallagher's campaign head
quarters. In addition to Darcy and
Gallagher, speakers will be invited
from numerous trade unions and
other working class organizations.
The campaign for Gallagher,
along with other Communists sup
ported candidates on non-partisan
tickets, are being carried on in Los
Angeles through numerous neigh
borhood meetings. Lolli Dobbs,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11

get for as low as $40 what had
been initially offered at great sac
rifice for $50. If you gave them
So down they were even willing to
take the $40 in installments.
1t was those who bought the
courses, however, who realized what
kind of sacrifice the professors were
actually making. The courses usual
ly consisted OF pictures of the
professor stretching himself and
bending low, a set Of durnbbells and
sometimes one or two items for
arm and back exercises, and such
physical culture instructions as one
gets from the anaemic tenors over
the radio in the morning.
THE professors themselves had
minds as dull as the minds of
movie magnates or managers of
Broadway hotels. Nearly all of
tffem were illiterate. Upon occasion
l talked with one of them and his
gibberish was hardly human. All
of them boosted of the same thing,
however. 1t was that their tiger
skins were real.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Bronx Court
II IL les for
Segregation

NEW YORK-In an outrageous
decision, unfolding segregation
and disciminative high rents
against Negoes, Magistraet Mar
rion, in the court at 161st st. and
Washington Ave, Bronx, on Thurs
day upheld Bronx property owners
in their drive to eyict fourteen
Negro families from 1636-40 Uni
versity Avenue.
Throughout the trial of Silas
one of the Negro tenants, the
magistrate hampered the defense
preventing testimony by defense
witnesses. The defense attorney
Edward Kuntz of the international
Labor Defense was even prevented
from questioning defense witnesses,
including the city editor of the
Amsterdam News. The magistrate
ruled that the tenant must move
or be evicted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
LID Attorney
And Johnson
Are Arrested

BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug. 10.-Man-
ming johnson, until the last few
weeks district organizer of the Com
munist Party here, was assaulted
by thugs and police last night and
seriously injured. After the assault,
he was placed in Jail and held
without bail on open charges.
Witnesses got in touch with the
international Labor Defense, and
Stanley Schmidt, LID. attorney,
went to the police station to arrange
for bail.
Angered by the prompt action,
Lieutenant Dempsey ordered the
arrest of Schmidt, who was held in
the city Jail until released under
500 bail.
Johnson is now in the City Hos
pital still without charges made
against him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11

tional Arrangements Committee will
propose.
I'VE ask you or your organi-
zation to appoint or elect a rep
resentative to the National Ar
rangements Committee, which
should hold its first meeting in
N. Y. City no later than Sep
TENDER 1.
IF national representatives
cannotbe assigned, we ask that
state or regional representatives
be appointed.
Prominent individuals-prOfes-
SIGNALS, intellectuals in sympathy
with the movement-should also
be invited.
1--WE also invite individuals who
wish to cooperate to communicate
with lis.
United action is our main
power.
Security for the masses is our
aim
National Board, National
Unemployment Council of
U.S.A.
81 Amter, National Sec,
30 E. 18th St., N. Y. City,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Youngstown, Lynn
Double Their Quotas
Of Ballot Signatures
Illinois Campaign Still Slow-Arizona Commu-
mist Party dominates Leader of Unemployed,
Mexican Worker, Pioneer Farmer

LYNN, Mass, Aug 10.-The Com
munist Party Provisional Election
Campaign Committee, operating in
the Seventh Congressional District
in Massachusetts,, reports that they
have gone over the top with big
margin to spare in the signatures
drive to place the Party Candidates
on the ballot. Whereas, 1000 sig
natures were necessary in the entire
State to place the state candidates
on the ballot, this committee alone
obtained more than 300 signatures
on the state nomination papers with
numerous districts in the State yet
to be heard from.
In addition twice the necessary
1000 names were obtained to place
Joseph Leedes, leader of the mill
tant shoe workers of Lynn, on the
ballot for Congress. OF more than
1900 names obtained in the City of
Lynn alone, more than half were
names of shoe workers. The cities
and towns of Peabody, Salem, Re-
we're, Lawrence, Saugus, and Wake
field, cooperated in this work.
Plans for an intensive campaign
are already being put into action
for the distribution of tens of thou
sands of copies of election campaign
literature; numerous rallies with the
use of loud speakers: and the use
of the radio during the campaign.
All workers are urged to cooperate
actively and financially. For fur
ther information write or apply to
the Communist Party Provisional
Election Campaign Committee, Lynn
Workers Center, 10 Munroe Street,
Lynn, Mass.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Committee Urges Thousands
Send Return Receipt Letters
Demanding Leaders Signature
Furniture Union Gets
an Acknowledgement
Signed by Nazi

NEW YORK.-That thousands Of
workers Immediately send regis
tered letters of greeting to Ernst
Thaelmann at the Moabit Prison in
Berlin and demand that Thaelmann
himself sign the receipts, is the ap-
peal just issued by the National
Committee to Aid the Victims of
German Fascism.
This appeal is occasioned by the
fact that a receipt has just been
received from Berlin signed not by
Thaelmann but by the fascist war
den of the Moabit Prison acknowl-
edging a letter of greeting sent to
Thaelmann by the Furniture Work
ers Union of New York.
Thus it is clear that the fascist
officials are keeping Thaelmann in
complete isolation, or are incapable
Of producing him alive.
No Word in Weeks
There has been no word from
Thaelmann in the past few weeks
since the Nazi raids in which hun
Sdreds were killed. He is being
shunted from prison to prison, it
was recently reported.
But the demand of the workers
that he sign the receipts for his
letters is a demand for some def
mite information as to his health
and his whereabouts.
Letters of protest sent to Hitler
in Berlin and letters of greeting
sent to Thaelmann are a powerful
weapon for wrestling the great lead
er of the German working class
from the hands of the Nazi jailers.
All anti-fasciSt fighters and or
CARNATIONS are urged to send regis
tered letters to Ernst Thaelmann,
Moabit Prison, Berlin, Germany,
with demand that the author
tiles send back return receipt
acknowledging the letters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Begin Signature Drive

HARTFORD, Conn, Aug. 1O-As
a result of the meetings addressed
by DR.. Kurt Rosenfeld and Aneurin
Bevan of London actions are being
prepared here to assist in the
Thaelmann campaign. Signatures
and penny collections as well as
further mass protests are being ar
ranged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Send 100 Letters

BUCHANAN, N. Y, Aug 10
Workers here have entered the
campaign for the rescue of Thael-
mann and liberation for all anti
fascist prisoners in Germany. In the
next mails hundred postal cards
will go forward from this small city
to Thalmann, Moabit Prison, Berlin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Y.C.L. SECTION no MEET

NEW YORK = A membership
meeting of Section 2, Young Com
munist League, will be held Mon
day at 7:30 pm, at the Spartacus
Club, 269 West 18th Street. All units
have been urged to arrange their
unit meetings either early Monday
or Tuesday evenings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
LICENSE NOTICES

NOTICE is hereby given that license
number A-8l05 has been issued to the nm
derslgned to sell beer at retail, under the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, at 2O85
Lexington Ave, New York, N. Y, for off
premises consumption.
cooperative Trading Association, Inc,
Zo85 Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Illinois Campaign Still Slow


CHICAGO, Aug. 10. = Signatures
lists for the placing of Communist
candidates on the ballot in Illinois
are continuing to come in very slow
ly. Only 200 were received Tuesday.
The Communist Party State
Campaign Committee today issued
an official statement which declared:
There is real danger that the
Party will not be placed on the bal
lot, unless work is Immediately in
tensified."
South Side Communist candidates
will speak at a great mass meeting
Sunday at Pythian Temple, 1887 S.
State ST., at 2:30 pm. Comrades
Joe Jackson, Herbert Newton and
Doty will be the main speakers.
A. Guss, State campaign manager,
today pointed out that it was neces-
sary for all workers, particularly
trade unionists, to mobilize behind
the Communist ticket, in order to
crush threatened police suppression
of left wing unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Party Nominates in Arizona

PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug. 1O.-With
It's place on the ballot assured, the
Communist Party in this State held
signally successful nominating
convention attended by more than
100 delegates.
Clay Naff, active leader of un-
employed and agricultural workers.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-30
.BOOTLECGERS MADE.
GOVERNMENT TARGET.
Administration Reports They
Are 'chiseIing' on Legiti-
mate Dealers

Washington, Jan. 30.-tP>-The ad-
ninistration was disclosed Tuesday
to be marshalling forces for q war
on bootleggers, reported by federal
agents as flourishing despite repeal
by pumping their wares into legal
trade channels and into dry states.
The house judiciary committee
Tuesday morning arranged to hear
officials of the justice department,
the federal alcohol control admins
tration and the internal revenue bu-
rcau at a secret meeting to chart the
campaign.
These agencies. now at odds as to
the most strategic procedure against
the bootlegger army. are known to be
in agreement Oh an urgent need for
some form of immediate legislative
action.
In all. three measures have been
suggested An effort will be made
to weld them into one.
One Of the officials to appear be-
fore the judiciary committee is AS
sistant Attorney General John S.
Hurley. The committee had before
it a letter from him calling for leg
islation to permit seizure and inn
mediate destruction Of stills and the
confiscation of automobiles, boats
and airplanes bringing illegal liquor
into outlets for the tax-paid product.
He asked more machinery also to
protect dry states under the twenty
first constitutional amendment.
The country. Hurley asserted, lis
flooded with limitations of various
domestic blended and rectified
spirits" all non-tax paid, while an
even more serious situation exists in
the sale Of bootleg liquor under imi-
tation and spurious foreign labels