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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07

ers were so sympathetic to Hath
away that the Chief thought it best
not to interrupt again and the
meeting continued very orderly.
Hathaway explained the role OF
the Communist Party, its aims and
methods, very frankly and the
workers met it with very enthus-
iastic response. The longer Hath
away talked the more determined
the workers became that Hathaway
would not be interrupted. Hathaway
ended his speech by saying that
the Communist Party would gain a
strong foothold in Atlanta and that
this meeting was proof of the fact
that they could hold successful
open meetings and that they would
continue to do SO.
The solidarity of Negro and white
workers that was expressed at this
meeting was severe blow at the
whole jim Grow system in the south
and especially at the Khan and their
police guard.
Farmers Come From 80 Miles Away
A number of Negro and white
farmers had come from 30 miles out
in the country to hear Hathaway
speak. They we're filled with en-
thusiasm and determination. They
remarked that they had never
heard a speech talked like that,
and went back to their conlmun-
tiles spreading Hathaway's message
to the other impoverished share
troopers and small farmers.
The meeting unanimously en-
dorsed the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill CHR. 1899 anc
pledged to continue the fight tc
force Congress to pass this bill.
w. E. Washburn, recording secre-
tary of local No. 81 of the Electrical
Workers Union, acted as chairman
G. w. Weaver, president Of the
Painters Association of Georgia
(Negro), introduced Hathaway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
PhiIa. Unemployed
To Demonstrate
To Demand 40 Percent
Relief Increase

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May g.
Jobless workers under the leader
ship of the Unemployment Councils,
will mass at the County Relief Blu
reau, 1850 Cherry St., on Thursday
May 10th, to demand a general 40
per cent increase in relief.
Thousands Of workers we're added
to the lists of those unemployed
and without relief when all L. w. D.
work relief workers were fired on
April 30th, when all work relief was
closed down.
Pennsylvania. the state with q
larger number of unemployed
workers on the relief rolls, and with
q greater unemployed population
than any state in the country, has
spent it's last dollar of relief appro-
priations, and has failed to appro-
pirate additional funds for the I'M
employed; meanwhile, political buck
passing between the federal relief
administration and the demagogic
Governor Pinchot. The entire well
fare of the unemployed is now left
to the haphazard met" profits from
the state liquor system, but these
expected profits from the liquor
traffic have failed to materialize.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Atlanta, Ga, Negro
and White Workers
In May Day Meet

ATLANTA, Ga, May GA crwod
of 800 Negro and white workers
heard Clarence Hathaway, editor
of the Daily Worker, speak on THE
NR.A. and Labor Unions in the
South" at the May Day meeting at
the Bethlehem Church of God. This
was the first May Day mass meet
ing that was ever held in Atlanta
and the workers greeted it with
great enthusiasm, especially Com
rade Hathaway's speech.
Chief of Police Sturdivant, with
10 uniformed cops and number
plainclothes dicks were on duty at
the church to protect the people
against possible disorders The
workers were orderly but very de-
termined so the police thought it
best not to provoke any trouble.
When Hathaway exposed the
growth of fascism in this country
and linked up the xxx. with the
fascist organizations, Chief Sturdi-
want came to the defense of the
Khan. 1t was like stepping on the
Chiefs pet corn. He interrupted
Hathaway to say that he could not
attack the Khan. Hathaway replied
that he would insist on exercising
his right of free" speech. Hath
away continued his attack on the
fascist organizations, thoroughly
exposing them. In ending his attack
he referred to the Silver Shirts.
Black Shirts. and those in Night
Shirts" and the audience responded
with prolonged applause. The work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
linOisMinersSmash
Thru Terror to Hold
Big May Day Parade
May Day March Follows
Election of Two Reds
To City Council
Daily Worker Midwest Bureau)

Daily Worker Midwest BureauD
CHICAGO, May 6. - Workers of
Benld, Ill, on May Day smashed
through the traditional policy Of the
city administration barring all rad
ical meetings. For years, police
have broken up even indoor meet
ings, and lately have been threaten
ing to smash any outdoor meeting.
Six hundred workers marched
through the city streets on May Day
in the greatest demonstration ever
seen in this coal mining community.
Bill Frame of the Communist Party
was cheered when he brought for
ward the seizure of power and the
dictatorship of the proletariat as the
only working class way out of the
crisis.
Fifty thugs of the state and county
police were on hand but did not
dare to interfere with the march
ing workers.
1t was a real united front parade,
with workers from the International
Labor Defense, the Communist
Party, the Progressive Miners of
America, and many other organ
izations participating.
The carrying through of this May
Day demonstration is great victory
for the workers of Benld. Macoupin
County has long been noted as the
stronghold of reaction and capital
ist terror In the past every ex-
preston Of militancy by the workers
brought swift, vicious attacks by the
police, mine thugs, and local fas-
cists,
This victory follows close on the
election of two Communists to the
City Council of Benld by united
front workers ticket.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Custom TaiIOrS
Win Shop Strike
Force Chicago Boss to
Take Back Union Man

Daily Worker Midwest Bureau)
CHICAGO, May g. The first
strike of the season in the custom
tailors' trade was won here Thurs
day Led by the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union the work
ers of Ed Gordon's Custom Tailor
Shop. 113 N. Michigan Ave went
out 100 per cent to demand rein
statement of workers fired for
union activity, the right to organize,
and regular weekly pay day.
Before the day was over, the boss
settled, granting all the workers
demands, and taking back all the
strikers. This strike was the re-
sult of the organizational campaign
being carried on by the N. T. w.
I. U. among custom tailors.
The solid front of the workers
{ I'd their militant picketing quickly
forced the boss to come to terms.
The settlement grants the right to
belong to the union, the weekly pay,
md reinstatement of the fired
yorker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Bridgeport S. P. Is
Forced to Endorse
Social Bill HR 1898
Rank and File Demand
Forces Action by City
Central Body

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, May g.
Mass pressure from below in the
Socialist Party forced the endorse
ment of the Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance Bill
III. R. 1881 at the last meeting of
the city central Committee, which
was attended by Mayor McLevy and
his whole reactionary clique 1t is
now probable that the Bridgeport
Common Council will also endorse
this bill since the city administra-
ton will, in view of the action taken
at their party meeting, vote for its
endorsement.
This same meeting was marked
by clashes between administration
leaders and rank and file workers.
McLevy and his group was accused
Of doing nothing but sit in their
offices and warm their chairs. The
arguments became so bitter that
Brewster, Superintendent of Public
Works, threatened to strike rank
and-filer, who was reproaching the
administration for its do-nothing
/ policies.
A clash also broke out between
the Mayor and Jack Bergin, who
, had led the relief workers out on
strike only to betray them by his
vacillations and his high ambitions
Che is telling the unemployed
workers that he needs their support
in order for him to run for Mayor
at the next election. McLevy at
tackled this Socialist" Commits
sioner of Education on the grounds
that his first duty was to the So
cialist Party and that he should
have first brought it to the atten-
ton of the Party and then the mat
ter would have taken its regular
legal course.
Out of McLevy's own mouth do
we get the admission that the in
! terests of the workers are not the
interests OF the Socialist Party
Your first duty, Bergin, is to the
Socialist Party" In other words to
lead workers even though there was
no intention on the part Of Bergin
to put up q militant struggle to
win the demands of the relief
workers, is not to the interests OF
the Socialist Party leaders. McLeyy
and his group serve warning to the
rank and file workers and others
that they will not stand for any
struggles on the part of the workers
in Bridgeport.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07

health amt been very good, but
I'm going to work in the I. L. D
till the last breath leaves my body
I'm going to make it so that other
colored mothers won't have to &C
through what I went through"
Mother Patterson was born in
Elberton, Ga. She also comes from
a family of sharecroppers. Hell
mother died when she was about
seven years old, and she went tc
work in the fields at that age. She
married when she was about IS
she thinks, and is the mother of II
children. Only six of them are
living today. She has gone through
a lifetime of miserable toll. Otter
she worked in the fields while
carrying her children up to the day
they were born. Her husband
Claude Patterson, is like her, ar
active fighter in the I. L. D. He
has q reputation in his community
of being absolutely fearless and is
known by the good" white folk a;
"biggity niger"
MY husband, Claude, never did
take no foolishness off'n white
folks" she told me, proudly, and
Haywood is just like his pa. Amt
afraid of nothing or nobody" She
told of the time her husband tried
to kill his planter boss, who attempt
ed to cheat him out of his cotton
When the law" tried to organize
a mob to put this Negro in his
place" the planter, fearful Of losing
a valuable hand" told the mob not
to interfere between him and his
"niggrs" because he was able tc
handle his "niggers" himself.
Patterson was determined to send
his children to school and when the
planter objected, he moved away
with his family to Chattanooga. He
told his friends that he was through
with plouglling cotton and that even
If he only earned a couple of dol
lars a week in the city he would
at least be able to see cash.
In 1881, the year his boy was ar
rested, he was only making four
days week on his job, and the
combined earnings of the whole
family was scarcely enough to feed
them. Haywood Patterson quit
school to go to work because, he
told his mother, that he was tired OF
going to school in overalls.
He said, I'm big enough to help
you and pa out now and I'm going
up North where I can make more
money" He said, Put some starch
in my overalls Ma. 50 that I can
lock clean when I get there"
That's the last I saw of my boy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07

said Mother Patterson, til I saw
him in jail"
AL of these mothers, in spite of
years of toll and bringing many
children into the world, are fine
looking women. These are work
ing class women and a comparison
between them and triple chinned-
poodle dog following women of the
parasite class show the ones who
are to survive and who are capable
Of making the world a fit place in
which to live.
Mother Williams, the youngest of
the Scottsboro mothers, is only "a
years old and looks even younger.
She was born in Atlanta, Ga, and
was brought to Chattanooga by her
parents when a baby. She went to
work at the age of IL, quitting
school before finishing the third
grade. She married at IA, and is
the mother of 10 children, seven of
whom arc living. Her husband died
when she was still carrying her
youngest baby.
Her boy, Eugene, was only IS
when he was arrested at Scottsboro,
charged with rape. When he left,
he told his mother he was going to
Pittsburgh where his uncle lived,
and that he would soon get work
and send her money.
These mothers, in spite of the fact
that they have had very little
formal education, have plenty of
native intelligence. A talk with
them blasts the vicious lie spread by
Pickens and Walter White of the
N.A.A.CP. that these mothers were
ignorant and did not try to bring
their children up properly.
According to Du Bots, Schuyler
White, Pickens, Robert Vann of
the Pittsburgh Courier" and
others, these mothers are Ignorant
and depraved" because they had toe
much sense tc trust the fate of their
boys to these agents of the lynchers
Even today, the leaders of the MA
A.C.P. are conniving with the
Southern lyrchers to try to force
the boys through torture to repudi-
ate the LID. and let them handle
their case Protests by the thou
sands must go to Deputy Warden
Dan Rogers of Jefferson County
Jail in Birmingham, Governor Miller,
President Roosevelt to stop the tor
ture of these boys.
Workers and those sympathetic
should know that the families of
these mothers can use children S
clothes and shoes if these are sent
to the District LID. office, 80
Broadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Mothers, Still Uncowed
In Struggle, Fight for Their Boys

The story of the toilworn lives
Of the five mothers Of the Scots
5oro boys who are now in New
York, and who will go to Wash
ington on Mothers Day, May Is,
10 demand Of the president that
their innocent boys, for three
Tears in the shadow of the cleo
rio chair, be freed, is continued
today in the interview by Otto
Hall, below.
a mass send-off for the Scots
zero mothers will be held under
Re auspices of the International
5lbor Defense in St. Nicholas
ina, Friday night, May IL.
BY OTTO HALL
-other Powell was born in
57srta, Ga, and was one of
mily of ten. Her family, also,
fere sharecroppers, and she has
worked ever since she was old
enough to remember. When she
was a very little girl, hardly big
enough to put her hand on top of
i table, she was sent to the big
1ouse" to help in the kitchen She
as SO small she had to stand on
a box to wipe dishes and iron
2--othes. A few years later, she was
sent to the fields because there
we're other little children to take
aer place in the kitchen. At four
5een she plowed with two mules.
This was a plenty big enough job
or a full grown man.
She was married at the age of
3 to, a sharecropper on the same
Plantation. She had graduated
INTO a life time school of misery
and hard labor. She is the mother
Of seven children, and is a widow.
Her boy Ozie was only IA years
Old, when he was arrested. Like
the others he had gone away to get
work He had to help take care of
ais mother and older sister, who
was sick. AS a result of the hard
work she had to do as child,
Mother Powell's health has always
been poor.
All Are Fighters
I listened to these mothers tell
their story and could feel with
them a burning indignation against
a vicious system that make beasts
OF burden out of human beings.
These mothers are all fighters. Suf-
fe-ing, oppression and living in one
of the champion lynch states in the
country has not cowed them in the
lest.
Mother Patterson, whose son has
been condemned to die three times
by the lynch courts, said, Il get
SO filled up when I think about my
boy I can hardly hold myself. My
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
400 Demonstrate in
Rockford for Demands

ROCKFORD, H., May 4.-Over
400 workers demonstrated here on
May Day, raising demands for more
adequate unemployment relief, pas
sage of the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill CHR. 1899, for the
freedom of Tom Mooney, the Scots
boro boys and Ernst Thaelmann,
German Communist leader, and
other anti-fascist fighters in the
Nazi prisons and concentration
camps.
Resolutions we're adopted and
sent to Gov. Rolph Of California
Gov. Mile. of Alabama, and the
Na5i Ambassador at Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Starvation Relief
In Billings, Mont
Bv a Worker CORRESPONDENT


BILLINGS, Mont.-Comrades, do
any of you have to have an inves-
tigator every week to sign your
grocery list for grub and SOW belly?
Enclosed are prices Of articles and
remember, one and all, they buy
the cheapest that can be got. 1
have worked in the Commissary
here and I know. Commissary
prices are potatoes, &c a h.; eggs,
14c; bread. 10c, while at the Miracle
Market potatoes are 100 lbs. for Csc;
eggs, 10c; bread, &c. The rest of
the prices for groceries are like
these.
We have made wonderful gain
in our work last week. We have a
bunch now that will fight buzz
saw. The slackers have been
pushed out. We have been ap-,
preached to come back and lead in
this work, and watch us go.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07

as well, are urged to endorse this
Bill and take steps to further
its immediate passage by Con-
gress.
See tOmorrow's Daily Worker
for an important article by c. A.
Hathaway, Daily Worker editor,
explaining the meaning and sig
nificance OF the Farmers Emer-
gency Relief Bill as proposed by
the Communist Party. Today's
paper, containing the Bill, should
be carefully preserved, together
with Comrade Hathaway's article.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
EndAAA, Communist drtyDematlds
Proposing Real Farmer Relief Bill

the agrarian program OF the Party
which it put forward in the last
national elections.
1t is a program that would re-
lieye the farmers Of the intoler-
able yoke Of Wall Street and
mortgage bank domination, pro-
tecting all farmers and their fam
lilies from eviction or foreclosure.
The Communist Party proposes
that the passage of the Farmers
Emergency Relief BilI' become the
immediate rallying cry of all or
CARNATIONS defending the inter
ests of the small and middle farm
ers. All organizations in the cities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07

NEW YORK. - Calling for the
immediate repeal of the Roosevelt
A. A. A. program as a program
which has benefited a few large
landlords and rich farmers while
it has only intensified the misery
of the vast majority of the farm
population, the Communist Party
has just made public its proposal
Of new Farmers Emergency
Relief Bilf' to take the place Of
the present Roosevelt Agricultural
Adjustment Act.
The Communist Party Bill for
the farmers is historic document
which contains in concrete form
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Socialist Workers Aid
And Attend United Front
Nav | Meet in Albany

ALBANY, N. Y, May 4.-Strong
united front sentiment Of rank and
file members of the Socialist-con-
trolled Workmen's Circle, forced the
officials of that organization to per-
nit the United Front May Day
meeting here to be held in their
hail, after police had prevented the
holding of the meeting in the Sons
of Italy Hall and influenced ether
hall owners to refuse their halls for
tho meeting.
AS the meeting opened, Socialist
workers and members of the Work
mems Circle focked to the United
Front celebration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
ChrysLer Raises It's
Dividends 1000;
Has S23,OOO,OOO

NEW YORK.-As news comes
from leading auto centers Of the
calling off of strikes by A. F. of
L. locals, it was announced to-
day that the Chrysler Corpora
ton, manufacturers of automo-
biles, doubled its usual dividend
payments to stockholders.
The annual rate Of 81 share
was doubled today to 50. The
dividend payment amounts to
about 100000 a year and goes
to Wall Street investors and
spectators.
The corporation revealed cash
holdings of $23,813.00o compared
with S12,6O9,OO last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Shoe Shop Wins
Strike in Phila.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-One hun
dred and twenty workers in the
Baylin Shoe Company here returned
to work yesterday morning, having
won their strike and forced the boss
to keep his agreement with the
United Shoe and Leather Workers
Union.
The strike was called when the
boss, having incorporated the bust
ness, refused to recognize the union
agreement and fired three workers
who we're organizing protest against
this action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
900 Demonstrate in
Madison County

MADISON, Ill, May 4.-Over 600
workers from all over Madison
County assembled at the City Park
in Edwardsville, ILL.,. for the first
May Day demonstration ever held
in the county seat of Madison
County.
Delegations from 10 towns, men,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07

bers of the Madison County Fedora
ton of Unemployed, etc. came in
trucks and buses to protest against
the attempted forced labor schemes,
and to demand that the county au-
thorities indorse the Unemployment
Insurance Bill (H.R. 1889 and give
a so per cent increase in relief.
A parade started by local Social
ist leaders on the basis Of a permit
granted by the authorities with the
provision that no Communist ban
ners or slogans be carried ended in
6 flop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07

Tell your friends and shopmates
about the Daily Worker. Let them
read your copy. Ask them to sub
scribe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07

''TO protect and aid tenants, share
troopers, and operating owners of farms
by insuring their continued possession of
their farms and by providing for that
abundance of agricultural crops and live
stock which is essential to the welI-being
Of farmers and industrial workers.
Evening star., 1934-07-09
C0UGHLIN'S RIGHT
TO TALK DEFENDED
Preacher, However, Says Ap.
plause Has Turned His
Views to Arrogance.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July e.-Rev. Charles
E. Coughhn'S attractive sincerity" +"
Rev. John Haynes Holmes said in a
sermon yesterday, has been trans
formed into insufferable arrogance
through the applause of multitudes.
Holmes praised Father Coughlin s
''insistence that, as a moral and
spiritual teacher. he has not only the
right but the duty to handle the great
social questions of the hour"
Here he is true to the best tradi-
tons Of the Roman Catholic Church, 1"
said Holmes. "and true to the spirit
of Christianity. Every minister. Cath
olic or Protestant, is freer today to
discuss politics and the state of the
Nation because Of this radio priest.
In this amazing priest we see the
immessurable public perils as well as
the practical possibilities of the radio. ="
Through realization of his power
with millions of persons Father Cough
lin turned from righteous indigna-
ton" to open prejudice and emotion
and passion, Holmes said.
Evening star., 1934-07-09
BREAD PRICE SAME
AS CODE STARTS
Johnson Names Official to
Act in Case Of Price
Cutting.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
The baking industry began operat-
ing under its N. r. A. code today TO
make ,,read. Americas chief staple,
fuil-hedged Blue Eagle product.
Housewife buyers of millions OF
loaves daily were known here to be
watching closely the possible effect
on prices OF the new wages. working
hours and trade practice rules ex-
tending to the industry's 25,00o
bakeries. What will happen to prices
remains to be seen.
Hugh S. johnson held the opinion
that competition is so keen and the
number of establishments SO great
that little likelihood exists OF the
development Of q price structure
detrimental to the consumer or OF in
ordinate profits Of the industry"
AS a further safeguard" johnson
named Karl Hauck OF the N. r. A.
Consumers Advisory Board to be
''full-time adviser to the administra-
ton member Of the code authority In
order that studies may be made of
costs and prices In various market
areas where destructive price-cutting
appears and the Intervention Of the
administrator is requested" ~
The industry itself. through Henry
Stude of Chicago, chairman of the
National Bakers Council, advised
johnson it was "raring to go" under
the code.
Representatives OF several big
Washington bakeries said today there
had been no change in the prices of
bread or cakes due to the new code.
A number of bakeries advanced the
price Of cakes several weeks ago.