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The daily worker., 1934-05-10
1,2OO Demonstrate
For Picket Right
In Buffalo Strike
Strik ers, sympathetic
Workers Mass To
Hit Brutality

Special to the Daily Worker.l
BUFFALO, N Y. May s.-Twelve
hundred aircraft workers. striking
under the leadership of the Aero
nautical Workers Union. and sym
pathetic workers massed today in
Mckinley Square in front of the
City Hall here to demand the end
Of police brutality and for the re-
moval of the armed thugs attack
ing the picket lines. A committee
was elected to place these demands
before Mayor Zimmerman. Police
Chief Higgins and Sheriff Offer
man.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union marched in a body from
their headquarters bearing placards
reading. Marine Workers Support
Aircraft Strike Protest Police
Brutality" and similar slogans.
Speakers at the meeting included
Chancev Cook. President Of the
Aeronautical Workers. Union; Isa-
dore Greenberg. Union Attorney;
McCueston Of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union; Mrs. Wroble,
strikers wife, who was beaten un-
conscious on the picket line, and
Henry Kuhlman, Communist candi-
date for Mayor last year.
The committee elected at the
meeting reported back that the Of
ficials had dodged them and re-
fused to be interviewed. Greenberg
called for the continuing of mass
picketing and for packed oourtrooms
during the trial Of the arrested
pickets.
West, speaking for the Young
Communist League, urged the youth
to support the strike, pointing out
that the strike hampered the war
plans Of the New Deal"
Workers boosd the statement of
the police captain that the police
sympathized with the strike.
Yesterday the foreman Of the
plant and company-paid tools can
vassed the homes of the strikers
in the attempt to recruit scabs. The
company expected two to three hun
dred workers to go back under this
pressure, but only six workers re-
turned to work.
A conference will be called to
rally mass support for the strike
among the workers of the city.
The daily worker., 1934-05-10
YOrkville Anti-Nazi
Meet Will Demand
Thaelmann Freedom
Protest Also Aimed
At Activities
of n. Y. Nazis

NEW YORK.-Anti-fascist
workers of all nationslities
will gather this evening at
1880 at Karl Schurz Park,
86th Street and Avenue A,
to demonstrate against the
Nazi terror, the Imprisonment
of Ernst Thselmann and thousands
of others in German torture camps.
This was announced late yester-
dav by the New York Committee to
Aid Victims of German FasciSm,
which. together with a number Of
supporting organizations, has ar
ranged the anti-fsscist rally. Among
the organizations which have given
their backing and called upon their
memberships to attend the rally, are
the Anti-Fascist Action, the Jewish
Workers and Peoples Committee
Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism,
the National Student League and
other groups.
After trying again to see Mayor
LaGuardia and President Deutsch
of the Board Of Aldermen, the COM
mittee yesterday called on Police
Commissioner O'Rysn. Deputy Com
missioner Fowler informed them
that he was out Of town, and added
that the previous decision to refuse
8 permit for the parade would have
to stand. He continued on the same
line he had taken in previous inter
views about Invading enemy terri
tory" and inviting disorder" Fow-
Ter added this time, that many of
the Nazis in Yorkville we're armed,
declaring that in searches revolvers
had been found in their homes, but
that the police we're unable to do
anything about this, since they had
produced licenses.
The demonstration tonight. which
follows q series Of preparatory meet
l1gs and rallies throughout the city,
Is being held on the anniversary Of
the burning of Marxist and other
books by the bestial Nazi regime in
Germany. Members Of all working
class organizations and groups,
trade unions and youth organiza-
tions, are urged to attend in mass.
The daily worker., 1934-05-10

bape RUIN vent OF tn e
Babe, began the decline of Frank.
Patten, by his emphasis on base
ball, served as one Of the most ac-
tive prcpagandists for the indus
try; and in the end the one really
captivating figure created by base
ball captured the interest of most
of Patterns readers. In the 1920's
youth grew up old and quickly esti-
mated the false content of Patterns
and Alger's scenes; and for ath-
letic idols they had live characters.
In the 1920's the ballyhoo of the
newspapers in the sports field
reached its zenith. The Dempseys.
the Ruths, the Oranges, the Bobby
Jones were puffed to the limit. The
World Series and Ruths honners are
still front page news; and after the
Dempsey-Tunney fight in Philadel-
phia, for instance, the sedate New
York Times devoted two streamerl
on it's first page to the result.
Even today the Babe is still q
hero. When he hit two hOmers
less than a week ago every sports
page in New York, and, for all
know, throughout the country,
featured the news in the head
lines, and followed quickly after
with the information that he was
now tied for the lead in both
leagues. He has been buried year
after year and I myself have
mourned him in print twice, but
he still remains the glamorous,
incompatible Babe, getting $751;
600 year and worth it, if we
consider, like the baseball mag
mates, what he draws in at the
box-office.
The great debate over the Give"
ball, which might have been ex-
pected to lower the standing Of
home-run hitters in the judgment
of the baseball fans, never affected
his popularity.
LIE will go, of course. eventually, as
III we all go, but, I think, unlike
Frank Merriwell and the Alger
stuffed ones, he will not be forgot
ten. (Who reads Merriwell and AL
ger now?
The history of sports after the
proletarian revolution will perforce
chronicle his deeds. Chr1sty
Mathewson, whose pitching is hard
to belittle. was not his equal either
in color or in value at the box
office. Ty Cobb has received many
a laurel, but Babe is a better all
around man than Cobb was. Ruth
was once, too, superior pitcher
and as a right fielder he is second
to none. They used to couple his
name with McGraw's as having
done most for professional baseball.
But McGraws contributions were
puny n comparison with his. Nc
Graw was Q, hard-boiled soul who
could think baseball. Babe Ruth is
a synonym for baseball.
The daily worker., 1934-05-10

ing that both these individu-
ais had so far been over
looked by the worthless of the
pen. They had produced
heroes, for more than a third
of q. century, for nearly all the lit
ersture- -flanished boys in the coun-
try.
Every week these boys trudged to
the nearest cigar or stationery store
to buy the latest installment of the
exploits Of the dsshing Frank or to
pore over again the inspiring tale
of the fiddler or bootblack who was
honest, persevering and industrious
and married the boss's daughter, to
become a millionaire in the end.
More boys pictured themselves in
the romantic shoes of Merriwell or
of one of Algers heroes than those
who pictured themselves as John l..
Sullivan. Alger wrote books on end
and Standish or Patten produced a
book a week for 20 years.
Patten, however, intended to write
his own memoirs and as a biog-
raphy would have detracted from
the shine and selling power of his
effort, my idea met with his mis-
givings. Eventually I dropped the
project. Patten never wrote his
autobiography and I contented my
self with merely writing a piece
about him in the New York World.
I did not hear about him again till
I came across a publicity release,
for his radio debut, in the New
York Times a couple of weeks ago,
which quoted my old article in the
World. The saga of Merriwell was
being established on the air-waves.
IT is a saga that is now unr1is-
takably hollow. 1t has the
medieval vaporings of a credulous
life of a saint. One can see that
the radio impresarios have chosen
the subject unerringly. Merriwell
and the Alger heroes are exactly the
type held up as beautiful examples
by the beautiful characters who
control this country. They served
to fill the minds of impressionables
with golden dreams of what virtue
and thrift can accomplish. Wealthy
men we're honest and troubled in
their volumes and always repaid
kindly deed. Lofty men, those
blessed with more than their share
of worldly goods never lacked the
welfare of the community at their
hearts. The villains we're rarely
men Of any station in life; mostly
they were recruited from the work.
ing class. 1t happened, furthermore,
that not only did the poor boy rise
to eninence on his own account but
usually the end of the book proved
that he was actually Of aristocratic
parentage. Neither Patten nor Al
ger ever ventured to give any kind
of authentic picture of the life con-
temporary with their heroes. Their
figures were the boldest clay Yet,
Patten told me that he sent Merri-
we'll to Yale because he considered
Princeton and Harvard the seats Of
the aristocracy.
EEERRIWELL, of course, was prl-
iW marily an athletic hero. He was
the greatest baseball player, foot
ball player, basketball player rover
Aa lan..n. hhnt nrrn,. 1iNnd II wa 6
The daily worker., 1934-05-10

that time Peoples Commissar of
Nationaities). The dictatorship of
the proletariat already achieved, the
decree stated:
"The workers have been freed
from the tyranny and caprice of the
capitalists, for from now on the
control of the enterprises and fac
tories by the workers has been
established All that is living and
vital has been freed from hated
bondage.
Now there remain only the
nationalities of Russia, who have
suffered and still suffer from op-
preston and tyranny. Their free
dom must Immediately be worked
for, and it must be brought about
resolutely and irrevocably."
A book recently published here by
International Publishers-A. Rysa-
koff's "T-he National Policy of the
Soviet Union"-iS indispensable for
anyone who desires to understand
the policy and actions of the U. S.
S. r. in this field. 1t sets forth the
principles which guide the country
and which are necessary to those
who would combat white chauvin-
ism and petty bourgeois nationalsm
in the United States.
In his Introduction to Rysakoff'S S
book, P. Glading declares that "One
would have to be quite naive to ex-
pect the League of Nations [mem-
toned by Lord Marley above-E.R,1
to appear as the champion of OPP
pressed national minorities in gen.
eral. The League of Nations
is itself an imperialist device for
depressing and deluding the ma
tional minorities in the colonial and
mi-colonial countries"
The Grass imperialist nature Of
the League of Nations activities
makes the new Soviet decree in re-
gard to Biro-Bidjan particularly
in this period of the spread of world
reaction, when the Nazi terror at
tacks the Jewish people with relent-
less cruelty and virulence) of notable
import to all struggling minorities
From its very inception, the So
Wet Union has striven with all it'
energies to stimulate and encourage
the native talents and creative as
pirations, economic. political cul
tural, of its many nationalities
American writer's like Joshua
Kunitz, Joseph Freeman, Loui'
Lozowick, Harry F. Ward, Avran
Yarmolinsky, Ella Winter and num-
berless others who have travelled
widely in the U. S. s. r. have giver
ample testimony to its success il
this field.
To the great number of nation.
alities which today proudly TAXI
part in Socialist construction a.
autonomous republics in the Sovie
Union, leading the revolutionary
advance of the world proletariat
the autonomous region of BRO
Bidjan is now added, a beacon lighr
to the oppressed Jewish people ir
a decaying and malignant capitalist
world, proof that only under So
cialisrn is real freedom-not the
freedom to which every exploitel
and pervert gives lip-seryice-pos.
siole.
The daily worker., 1934-05-10
Arrest 3 in YOnkers
Strike Of Teamsters
As Cops Fire on Men

YONKERS, N. Y-Pohce here
arrested three strikers Tuesday
after a scrimmage broke out be-
tween the teamsters and drivers
who have been on strike for a
week, and the police.
The excuse Of the police is that
the strikers hurled rocks at q
truck of the Delaware Coal Co.,
which was being driven out by
a scab and which was guarded
with two policemen. The officers
fired at the group of strikers and
made three arrests.
The daily worker., 1934-05-10

due to him, I
believe, t h a t
e v cry b o Y
wanted to be q
pitcher on the
baseball t e a m.
1t was not until
Babe Ruth be-
came the home
run king that
t h e m o d e
changed to bat
ting,
With the adj
The daily worker., 1934-05-10
Seamen's Article by
Marguerite Young To
Appear Tomorrow

The third article Of the series
Labor Rouses the Waterfront, "
which deals with the conditions
Of waterfront relief in Baltimore
before and after workers control.
scheduled to appear today, was
unavoidsbly delayed, and will
appear in tomorrow's Daily"
Following this article, the fourth
in the series, who's Who in the
Sesmen's Movement" will ap-
)ear.
The daily worker., 1934-05-10
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The daily worker., 1934-05-10
Workers Strike at the
Brooklyn Robe Co.

NEW K-The Bathrobe
Workers Union is conducting a
strike against the firm of Goldstein
Robe Co.. 103 Thatford St., Brook
lyn, because of a refusal to grant
wage increases.
Tomorrow after work there will
be an important meeting of the
bathrobe workers at Irving Plaza
Hall.
The daily worker., 1934-05-10
81 , ;2XSI
WILLIAM FUCHS
FYankMerriqVeIIVS BabeRuth
WILLIAM FUCHS

ONCE proposed to Gilbert Patten the original Burt L.
Standh the author of the Frank Merrwe series, that
write his biography. At that time biography Of Horatio
Ager Jr was nearing publication and of Paten would
have been successful complement. 1t indeed surp%s
The daily worker., 1934-05-10
Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE

AMERICAN LEAGUE
st. Louis ITO 900 2o5-s IA 8
New York 004 400 o0o--s I /
Weaver. Wells. Knott, Blaeholder and
Hemsley; Van Alta, Uhle and Dickey.
Detroit 022 900 000--4 . 4
Boston 040 010 00x-5 ! 8
Larking. sorrell, Hogsett and Cochrane;
Rhodes, Ostermueller and Legett. Hinkle.
Chicago 0o2 041 010--8 Is 0
Washington 900 900 100-1 l
CASTOR and Ruel Burke, Prim, Idnke
and Klumpp.
Cleveland 900 100 III o. IL 3
Philadelphia Ill 900 0lo Is 9 !
Pearson, c. Brown, Hardner and Spen-
Ger, Myatt' Marcurn, Dietrich. Kline and
Berry.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 900 900 ooo-o o
St. Louis 121 900 0ox4 10
Salveson, Castleman, Smith and Man
cuso; ]. Dean and V. Davif.
Brooklyn 1o4 o02 02o-- 9 Is 3
Chicago 033 o40 0ox-l0 20
Beck Perkins, Lucas and Lopez, Ber-
ress; Bush, Root and Hartnett.
Boston 2lo o30 112--10 1s .
Cincinnati 010 o10 100 IL 2
Brandt and spohrer; Kolp. syl johnson,
Benton, Lindsey, shaute and lombard.
Philadelphia 002 010 201--6 II
Pittsburgh 900 900 200 7
Davis, and Todd; Lucas, and Grace,
Padden.
The daily worker., 1934-05-10

Dear Parents: that your child pint
quart Of milk eats fresh fruits vegetables every
special value
These the protective foods which
May count help every
those of preschoo 100 hwe
hearing from defects lungs limb
mentally and emotonally adjusted life.
Very truly
"HAROLD G. CAMPBELL,
Superintendent of Schools"
The daily worker., 1934-05-10
SECTION 3 MOBILIZATION

NEW YORK.-All members of
Section 8 must come to West 18th
st. and 18th Ave. at IL noon today.
The daily worker., 1934-05-10

MASS MEETING ON c. P. CONVENTION
CLEVELAND, May "a mass meeting
on the Eighth National Convention Of the
Communist Party will be held Friday
pm, at i4,101 Kinaman Fl., under the
auspices Of the Communist Party, Section
8 Discussion will follow Admission free
The daily worker., 1934-05-10
5000 Cheer Vets in
n. Y. As Men Leave
For Wa gtOn

(Cont1nued from Page y
The daily worker., 1934-05-10
Reign Of Terror in
Birmingham, Two.
Killed, Six Jailed.

Continued from Page y
The daily worker., 1934-05-10

HERRIWELL, Of course, was pri-
W mariIy an athletic hero. He was
the greatest baseball player, foot
ball player, basketball player, rover
and boxer that ever lived. 1t was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-24
ChuckleCorner
GII,LIGIGs By Randall Abcrnctlly

l .4@s q J :
 Girls used to buy lipstick on their. own judgment; now they leave 1t to the boy friends taste. Among the girls I think divine is one who's not the clinging vine.
 Many fals get rid of flat tires by giving them the air. Girls who use cuss words are hard to swear by. Among the girls I'll never wed Are those who're. always sick in
 bed.
 Baseball psychology; A lot of fellows trying for . HIT with a girl score an ERROR when they detect the RUN in her stocking.
 And the girl with "a lot on the bali' must have lot of curves. The gal who takes me riding late Has got to have Ford V Eight.
 Some girls are worth their weight in gold-digging.
 It takes@backbone for girl to wear backless dress. Among the girls whom I think
 sweet
 Are those who have such little
 feet.
 Then there's the. girl who never runs after. boys. She takes e min a walk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-24
Can't Neglect Teachers

The unpaid schoolma am. has become familiar spectacle. In Chicago, after four very lean years, she has finally been given her money; but in some other cities she has rot, and in great many more she has had to take drastic reductions, or has been given only part of what is owed her What has been happening to her ln these hard years? Does she look on the society whose youth she is instructing with the same enthusiastic eyes that beheld 1t Ill 1929?
 Nobody can speak for all the teachers, of course. But once in while teacher speaks for herself, and what she has to say can make disturbing reading. In the current issue of "The Nation," Chicago teacher tells how she felt when that city finally borrowed money from the REC and paid up.
 She got, at last, her four years pay. By the time she had settled all her debts she had just S94 left = all that she had to show for four years work at a sup posedly good salary. As she says, she was luckier than many of her colleagues She had not gone hungry, or lost her home, during the depression. T lost only my ln- ssurance, my automobile and my sell respect" she writes. q did lose one thing -luOIG, UuC lIldC lG liOC CO DC ACSA SSeSu my faith in the status quo. Few of us are the sweet complacent, non-thinklng 100 percenters we used to be-" And this new attitude, which the teachers got through working without pay, she says, has been passed on to their pupils.
 A few days ago pupil asked her if any big fortune had ever been made "by not stealing" Four years ago she would have answered in the traditional school book manner. But now? "Now," she says, T have seen the Board of Education in ac- tion. l have seen its members - coal merchants and real estate dealers-bend- ing school policies to their own profit. l have seen the instructions of the United States Chamber of Commerce to reduce Educational appropriations wherever possible.
 "I have heard myself called red" for .laring to believe had earned my salary and was entitled to it couldn't answer that boy honestly and patriotic ally at the same time" Pondering over this attitude, and reflecting that this young woman cannot be the only teacher who has reached such conclusions, one ls forced to the belief that organized society can hardly do more suicidal thing than permit it's schoolma'ams to go unpaid during time of great social stress.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-24
It Never Pays

Crime does not pay. How many times did radio listeners hear these familiar words during the course of very inter esting series of broadcasts some months ago. It was merely byline, but it had just been illustrated so convincingly by the radio drama that it's truth must have been brought home to millions of Ameri- cans. The recent revelations in the tragic Lindbergh Kidnapping case prove the claim. Crime does not pay.
 The alertness of New York city gas station attendant led to the arrest of an alien whom police believe is actually the one person accountable for the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. It wasn't just luck on the part of the police that the gas station man noticed the gold certificate he was given by customer and took the plate numbers on the car.
 That was routine work in which every police department in the country was aid- ing. It was very easy matter then for the forces still actively pushing the Lind bergh case to swoop down on their prey. It was an unexciting end to one of those crimes that attract so much attention and then seem destined to pass into the limbo Of unsolved mysteries. It was the fact that the principals were so well known that caused the Department of Justice to exert every effort available to trace down those responsible for the crime.
 We should be proud of our enforcement agents for the part they have played m this case. They have been both kicked around and praised for their part. They shed criticism, and glory and plodded along the path before them. Sooner or later they knew they'd unravel the skein of tangled leads. It should be one more convincing argument that crime does not nay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-24
So They Say

Within the last months 12 15 people have been dismissed from the staff of the relief admin istration for political activity. William Hodson, N. Y. public welfare comrns- sioner.
 We are preparing for at least a month of struggle to win the textile strike Francis J. German, chairman, United Textile Workers.
 There is little chance for to become cock sure and self-satisfied.
 Helen Hayes stage and screen star.
 This is certainly not the partnership that was held out to industry when the MIRA formed. Roger A. Selby. president of the Shoe Manu- lecturers association.
 I appeal to every woman in Britain to say to her husband or son every morning: "Be careful, come home alive," Major Leslie Hore- -Belsha, Great Brtans min- ister of transport
 And if ones fet cannot touch the grass Ones head touch to the sky;
 And watch the whole round world Like water flowing byi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-24

Washington, Sept. 24-Some of the young economists of the New Deal are not taking seriously glowing reports listing the ad- ministration's recovery accom-, plishments.
 AS window dressing and cam paign thunder, they observe pri- vately, the citing national emergency council chairman did a clever job.
 But as realistically objective analyses q current economic and business conditions, Richberg's effusions, they say, are full of great and gaping holes.
 It is not charged that Rich berg deliberately distorted facts and conditions--as far as he went.
 He merely did some canny manipulating.
 For example:
 Richberg declared that ap- proximately 4,000,000 more per- sons were employed in June of this year than had work in March, 1883; that total pay rolls in the manufacturing industries were 37h per cent higher than in June, 1888, as against an ill., crease of 9.6 per cent in the cost of living; and finally that the index of corporation profits bad risen from a deficit of 6.9 in tlfe first quarter of 1893 to a profit of 32.2 in the second quar- ter of 1894.
 These figures are correct.
 BUT-It is considered sig nificant that Richberg should his comparison instead of July. If he had used July, a far less favorable showing would have resulted.
 TRUE PICTURE
 It is the contention of the above mentioned bright young men that the true picture of bus mess today is far from the rosy scene so persuasively painted by Richberg.
 They concede that the upturn he records took place. But that, they say, is now past history.
 The last two months, they as- sert, witnessed a marked busi- ness recession, in certain lines so much so as to bring condi- tions ,back to the January l.. 1883 ebb of the Hoover regime.
 They cite such facts as the following to suppfiort this view:
 Last months federal reserve