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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Detroit Conference
to Discuss Program
for Spreading DAILY

DETROIT, Mich.-A special Daily
Worker Conference will be held
here Sunday, April 22nd, 10 am, at
the Finnish Hall, 5969-14th ST., to
stimulate the Daily Worker circula-
ton drive and to make final ar
rangements for the mass sale of the
$4,000 copies of the special May
Day edition.
A new plan worked out jointly by
the management of the Daily
Worker and the District Daily
Worker Committee will be presented
for discussion at the conference.
Many practical and concrete sug-
gestions will be offered to the Party
units, mass organizations and to
individual workers how to increase
the circulation of the Daily"
Every Party unit, every workers
mass organization is urged to send
delegates to this conference. Friends
and sympathizers of the Daily
Worker are invited to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Roosevelt O.K.'s
Measure Against
Right To Strike
Lucy Parsons Tells
Story Of May l, 1886,
in May Day DAILY

"The first May Day demOnstra-
ton? Yes, I'll tell you about it.
1t was what today we call a
United Front"
1t is Lucy Parsons speaking,
widow of Albert Parsons, famed
Haymarket martyr. She will
tell the story of the first May
Day demonstration in Chicago in
1886 in a special interview by
Bill Andrews of the Daily Worker
Midwest Bureau.
This interview, together with
host of other superlative fea-
lures, is to appear in the "a
page May Day edition of the
Daily Worker.
Order your bundle now. Send
your greetings without delay!
Individual greetings will be
printed for as little as rs cents.
Forward to a half million dis
tribution of the special May Day
edition!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
For a Workers Government. For
Workers Freedom Under Socialism.
Declaration Committee Party, Al

where the lives Of the workers rapidly destroyed;
it has put restrictions on the right of the workers
to organize and to strike and it prepares the ground
for total abolition of the right to strike; it has
poured billions upon billions into the treasures of
the bankers, manufacturers and landlords, leaving
the great of unemployed to starve; it has in
creased determinations against Negro toilers to
degree surprising all the records of capitalist bru-
talty; it has let loose reign of terror against the
workers and farmers which finds its most hideous
expression in the lynching of Negroes with agents
of the State aiding and abetting the lynchers; it
has imprisoned thousands upon thousands of mil
liant workers and farmers. All this was done as
the capitalist way out of the crisis; but since this
lowering of the standards of living of the masses is
still unable to do away with the crisis of capitalism
but on the contrary it has met with an increasing
militant resistance of the workers the American
government is moving headlong towards Fascism
and war.
Fascism has for its purpose the crushing of the
workers organizations by means of an open terror
ist dictatorship of capitalism. Fascism is being
Systematically introduced by incorporating the labor
unions into the machinery of the government using
the leaders of the A. F. of L. and the Labor Boards
to break strikes, attacking the militant labor unions
outlawing strikes while at the same time spreading
the most vicious nationalism white chauvinism
and propaganda against the foreign-born masses
War preparations are being made by carrying out
under the N R. A. the greatest naval building pro-
gram in the history of the U. s. A., by mobizing
(C0nfjnyod M Dono
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Steel Workers
FlOut Chiefs
At ALL onfab
Rank and File Defeat
Tighe Machine At
First Encounter

NODCbldl W OdlN
PITTSBURGH, Pa, April "a
Militant rank and file delegates at
the convention of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel g. Tin
Workers, A. F. of L. union, which
opened Tuesday, defeated the ma
chine at the opening clash of the
gathering.
Mike Tighe, president, tried to
introduce Senator Jim Davis. The
convention, led by the Gary, In
diana delegation, introduced a res
luton condemning Davis for his
support to the company unions, and
forced him from the convention
hall.
The fight began with the seating
of delegates from new lodges in
arrears on per capita tax. The ere
dentials committee, hand-picked
by Tighe, brought recommendations
to the convention for the non-seat-
ing of the delegates. Led by dele
gate from Youngstown, the pro-
posals of the credentials committee
to Dust thee questioned delegates
YVES unanimously voted down.
Progressive delegates from new
lodges, joined by delegates from old
lodges, voted against the Tighe ma
chine. Each credential was acted on
separately, taking all afternoon.
Every recommendation of the COM
mittee, not to seat delegate. was
met by a thunderous no There
was not a single yes to sustain
the committee. Even the machine
delegates lacked courage TO face the
ire Of the whole delegation.
There are resolutions before the
convention for lowering the per
capita tax; lowering initiation fees
and dues; immediate presentation
of demands Of the workers, with a
Today ultimatum and a general
strike.
The Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill CHR. 1899 will be pre-
sented from the floor. and there
will undoubtedly be a fight on the
Wagner strikebreaking bill.
There is a danger of overcon-
fidence on the part Of the dele
gates due TO their initial victories.
Only well-organized opposition
can beat the Tighe machine to a
finish. The delegates must meet
in caucus, draft clear opDo-i.iol
program and the tactics of put
ting them over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
U. S. Plans to Co-ordi-
nate Planes, Industry
for War

tDdlly worker washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. April 10. = The
Military Aviation COMMITTEES, headed
by Newton D. Baker, former Sec
rotary of War now big business
lawyer, appointed by Secretary of
War Dern, got down to business
today at the War College.
Consisting of six civilians and five
general staff officers, the Baker
group, ordered yesterday by Dern to
find out whether we have good
military air force or not" will con-
Germ itself also with the problem
of co-ordinating the purely military
with the extensive industrial mobi-
lization plans of the War Depart
ment.
The aristocratic Daughters of The
American Revolution, meeting here
for their forty-third Continental
Congress, today snorted some more
of the militarism for which they are
so well known The ladies' resolu-
ton on a trained citizenry urged
the enlargement of the Citizens
Military Training Camps, The Re-
serve officers Training Corps and
the enlargement of the regular Army
to guarantee and assure the protec-
ton of interests and politics of the
nation and preserve its integrity
against threats of aggression"
The OAR. leadership is generally
close to the owners of American in
dustry. One of the recent President
Generals was the wife of the head
of the Mack Truck Company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Party Line Is Wholly
Correct, Rakovsky
Admits
Especial to the Daily Worker)

MOSCOW, April 18.-Christian
Rakovsky, the chief lieutenant and
close friend of Leon Trotsky, has
addressed long communication to
the Central Committee of the Com
munist Party of the Soviet Union,
soliciting readmittance to the Com
munist Party. He writes:
I'm my telegram dated Feb. II,
1884, stated my adherence to the
general line of the Party, and my
complete and unreserved submits
sion to the decisions of the Party
congresses and to Party discipline.
Il hereby beg that it be consid-
cred that differences of opinion no
longer separate me from the Party,
that I fully and absolutely approve
of the general line of the Party, also
that 1 have broken irrevocably with
counter revolutionary Trotskyism.
"Stalin Personifies Bolshevik Unity
Analysing his errors in detail,
,Rakovsky concludes: THE Party
would not be able to carry out the
enormous task of the radical re-
construction of the economy Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Rakousky, Chief Irotsky Ex-Aid, HaiL
the Correctness Of Stain Leadership
Trotskyism Leads To
Counter-Revolution,
He Declares

Central Committee did not insure
the observance of that revolution
airy, strict, almost military observ-
ance (as Lenin said, which is de-
manded from each Bolshevik Com
munist in carrying out the decisions
Of the congresses and other in
stances.
Stain personif1es this Bolshevist
theological irreconcilability and Or
ganizational discipline and unity in
word and deed. 1t was against these
principles that the attacks of the
opposition were actually directed
when they attacked Stains person.
atty. In my person, one of the last
representatives of the opposition to-
day declares that what we formerly
considered deficiencies of Stains
leadership are its merits.
Trotsky Faction Counter Revolu-
ti0nary
Together With the whole Party
and the working class I repeat;
"Only because by having a
leader with the theological ire
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Deputies Kill Striking
Negro Miner In Alabama:
Auto Men Reject Board
Liars (OHciaIs) Still
Figure 1t Would Seem

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 18
How Secretary of Labor Per-
kins is doctoring the government
reports to give a false impression
of improving conditions in en-
ployment and wages was re-
Vealed today when it was made
public that the Bureau of La
Dor Statistics has changed the
index of average comparison
from 1926 figures to the 1923-4-5
average.
This change makes the pres
ent situation look at least 10 per
cent better in comparison with
the past than it really is since
the earlier years averages are
lower than the generally accept
ed 1926 averages.
This change in the method of
publishing government statistics
was made at the suggestion of
Perkins advisory labor board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Demand the
Release of
Thaelmann
Brooklyn Meet Friday
To Counter Nazi
Meeting

NEW YORK.-New York work
ers will again mass at East seth
St. between Lexington and Third
Ayes. tonight at pm. TO de-
mand the immediate and uncon-
ditio2Gl release Of Ernst ThaeI-
mann, leader Of the German Com
munist Party, now in Nazi dun
geon.
NEW YORK York and
Brooklyn workers will show what
they think of Adolf Hitler when
they mass in an open-air demon
stration Friday night outside the
Brooklyn hall, where the New York
Nazis are to gather to celebrate
Hitler's birthday.
The Nazi celebration is to take
place on Friday, April 20, at 8 pm,
in Schwaben Hall, Knickerbocker
and Myrtle AYES, Brooklyn.
An open-air demonstration against
German Fascism will begin at 7
pm. in a park in front of the hall
1t is called by the Anti-Fascist Ac-
ton, representing 100000 members,
and the Anti-Fascist League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Police, S. p.
X tire at on
Union So. Ban
Revolutionary Workers
To Enter Square at
2 IN. May Day

NEW YORK. Union Square has
been won for the revolutionary
workers of New York City with the
defeat, by mass pressure, of the lat
est conspiracy of Mayor LaGuardia
and the Socialist Party leaders to
bar the United Front May Day DEM
onstration from the Square on May
First.
Tens of thousands of workers will
pour into the Square at 2 o'clock,
May Day, under the banner Of the
United Front struggle against hun
ger, war and fascism.
SIP. Gives Up Square in Mortal
Fear of United Front
The growing sentiment of trade
union and Socialist workers for the
United Front of Struggle on this
Continued on Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Special to the Daily Worker

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 10
Edward England, Negro coal striker,
was shot and killed today by Deputy
N. E. Kirkland and Chief of Police
H. L. Mason.
England was murdered on the
picket line at the Red Diamond Coal
Company, Leeds, Alabama. With
drawn guns, the chief of police and
deputies ordered the strikers to dis
perse. A group stood their ground,
and both gun thugs fired point
blank at England, killing him on the
spot.
This unleashing of terror is the
beginning Of a drive to stampede
the 2l,000 striking miners back to
work. National Guards have been
sent to the Edgewater Mines of the
Tennessee Coal and Iron Co., j.
P. Morgan corporation. The militia
men are armed with pistols, rifles
and machine guns. General John
G. Persons, commander of the Ala
bama National Guard, and a bank
official, ordered out additional
national guardsmen for strike
duty. The militia is supplementing
the 225 special deputies at the T.
9. rs four captive mines.
Sheriff Hawkins, who Whitewashed
the torture of the Scottsboro boys,
advised the sending of troops.
Picketing continues at all mines.
The Red Ore miners of T. C. I.
threaten to strike, demanding $3.50
a day for all outside labor, and SIS
for all inside common labor. They
also demand equal pay and jobs for
white and Negro.
The Communist Party and the In
ternational Labor Defense is de-
handing compensation for the fam
lily of the murdered striker. and ar
rest and conviction for the muir
derers, the deputy and chief of
police.
Communist strike leaders are be-
ing threatened that they will be put
on the spot by officials of the United
Mine Workers of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Bronx Protest
on ScOttsbOrO
Torture Friday
Boys Reveal Threats Of
Murder for Rejecting
NAACP Defense

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. April 10
Constant threats of murder in their
prison cells are held over the Scots
bcro boys in jefferson County Jail
here, it was revealed today as more
details of their torture by jail
wardens we're uncovered by the In
ternational Labor Defense investi-
cation.
CAS- long as that niger lawyer
(Ben David-Ed) keeps coming
down here swelling your heads you're
going to stay in solitary" he threat
ened them.
On another occasion Warden Rog-
ers brandished his pistol at one of
the boys, threatening to kill him.
81 ought to kill you now" he
said. They're going to kill you
anyway, Just like they're going to
burn Patterson and Norris"
Stool-pigeons, openly referred to
as such in the jail, are placed in
the boys cells to provoke them into
fights. 1t was on the basis of such
provocation that the boys were
recently thrown into solitary con-
finement.
I'll always believe my stool
pigeons in preference to you mig
gers" Rogers has boosted.
Recently. when Myra Page, we'll
known writer, visited the boys,
Warden Rogers yelled at them that
as long as white whores come
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Aircraft Strike
Solid; WeinStOCk Is
Told To Cool Heels
M ass Picketing at 2
Hartford Plants Show
Militant Spirit
lspeeiaI to the paiIy Morkerl

HARTFORD, Conn. April ia
me S rike of the 1900 workers of
the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Co
and the Hamilton Propeller, re-
mains solid. Masses of workers are
on the picket lines.
A packed mass meeting at Sons
of Italy Hall, composed primarily
OF youth, with great enthusiasm
cheered the proposals to stick until
all the demands are won. President
Lavista of the Industrial Aircraft
Workers of America, leading the
strike, reported that all indications
show the employers will soon come
to terms. He also stated: IT was
asked to come to a meeting with
Anna Weinstock at nine O'Clock
last night, but there was plenty of
time to meet with misleaders."
Weinstock, government concilia-
tor and tool of the MIRA, has sold
out $50 greenhouse workers at
Cromwell, Conn, sending them
back without the granting of any
conditions, with blacklistings, and
no union recognition. She remains
here in conference with the bosses
and their agents, attempting to sell
out other strikes.
The strike Of the 1900 workers at
the Arrow-Hars and Hegeman
plant, led by an A. F. of L. federal
union, is solid. Hundreds of women
(Contiuued on Pare ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Also Approves Wagner
Lewis Bill to Thwart
Jobless Insurance
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)

WASHINGTON, April 10.
President Roosevelt today
announced that he wants Con-
gress to enact the Wagner La
Dor disputes bill or some sim
liar measure to provide permanent
mediation-a polite name for COM
pulsory arbitration-in labor EN-
ployer disputes. At the same time
he said ne is comforting today or
tomorrow on the Wagner-Lewis tax
bill substitute for Federal Unemploy-
ment Insurance. He did not indi-
cate, however, that he is ready to
call for passage of the substitute.
The executive frankly told the
press ne wants permanent mediation
accomplished by legislation instead
of solely by mis- own executive action.
This represents a retreat in the face
e the workers stubborn opposition
to the auto settlement and further
reveals the strike breaking char
acter of the Wagner Labor Disputes
Bill. Labor having refused to take
the auto settlement arbitration
principle lying down. although it
came direct from the President, the
latter now prepares to have Con-
gress write the same ticket.
In mentioning the Wagner-Lewis
so-called Unemployment Insurance
Bill, Roosevelt clearly indicated he
is aware of the mass demand for
genuine unemployment insurance
and the specific mass campaign now
being Waged for the only bill which
embodies real insurance, the Work
erS' unemployment Insurance Bill
(H. R. 1890.
Proposing no suggestion for
direct Federal unemployment re-
lief, but rather a Federal tax to be
contributed toward state unemploy-
ment reserves, the Wagner Lewis
bill does not apply to the present
unemployed millions.
It only takes effect two years
from now, and then with multiple
Determinations and only through
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Murder of Negro Mine
Striker Opens Terror
Reign in South
MILITIA is CALLED
900 Out; Pickets Go
On to Shut All Mines
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
Daily Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, April 49,
Strike-harried Alabama coal OPP
orators conferred at length today
with Donald r. Richberg. head
lawyer for the n. r. A. and of
ficials announced N. r. A. Ad-
ministrator Johnson personally
will get to work on Solving" the
"crisis" as soon as he returns to-
night. Richberg thought no an
nouncement would be forthcom-
ing tonight. In other words, no
agreement has been reached on
the method to be adopted to break
the rapidly spreading strike of the
Alabama steel workers and ore
miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
DILLINGER AGAIN

SHREVEPORT, La. John
Naughty Boy" Dillinger's picture
adorned the walls of the bank which
he held up here yesterday, bank
officials said, after the elusive ban
dit had copied the bankers game
and robbed a bank.
The bad boy Of the West was
still at large, after he had last week
stolen bullet-prcof vests from a
police station in Warsaw, a town in
one of the western states.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Sterilization Law to
Be Enforced i'm Okla.

NORMAN, Okla. F ourt e n
women and one man will be ster-
ilized under the new state law pro-
viding for the sterilization of the
socially misfit," according to an
announcement yesterday.
Hopelessly insane, third-term
criminals and others who might
become public charges" are sched-
uled for this operation. This is a
similar wording to the law now
being enforced in Germany and
directed against revolutionary
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Murray, Irish c. P.
Leader, to Speak
in N. Y. Tomorrow

NEW YORK.-Sean Murray, of
Dublin, leader Of the Communist
Party of Ireland, will be the chief
speaker at a mass meeting in
support Of Irish national indie
pendence at Bryant Hall, Sixth
Ave. at 42nd ST., tomorrow at
pm.
A veteran of the Anglo Irish
and post-treaty wars, Murray
has been associated with the
Irish fight for independence from
the age of 16.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
All Are Being Led by
The Marine Workers
Industrial Union

pointed out that the eight months
since the National Convention had
proved that we were right then in
our analysis of the MIRA, and its
action in the marine industry.
Analyses N.R.A.
The MIRA. was enacted, Hudson
pointed out, just at that time, and
we analysed it, showing it would
not bring prosperity, would not raise
wages, would not guarantee the
right to organize and strike. On the
CONTINUED on Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Seamen's Mass Strikes
Taking Place, First
Time Since 1923
BY HAYS JONES

DEAL growth of the union and of
IN union activity marked the meet
ing of the National Committee of
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union in Baltimore, April IA and
Is. The committee members and
other active forces of the union
came from seaports and inland
waterways to report on the eight
months activities since the Ma
tional Convention and to plan fur
ther activity for the coming
months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Crowth Of Marine Workers Union
Cited at a Meeting Of Natl Committee

The union leadership decided to
start a drive for 5000 new mem
bers before August, when National
United Front Conference is planned,
to consider strike action on a ma
ton wide scale to force improved
conditions in the industry.
Reporting on the work of the
union, Hudson, National Secretary,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
Baseball Results on Pag, 2

All baseball results will be run
daily beginning today throughout
the remainder of the baseball sea-
son on Page 2.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19
COOperage Plant Walks
Out in Detroit, Mich,
for May Pay
EXPOSE GANGSTERS
Arrest Workers Handing
Leaflets TO Hudson Men
Special to the Daily WOrker)

DETROIT, April i8.-The
strike of nearly 100 workers
at Roberts Brass Mfg. Co.,
manufacturers of auto and
aircraft parts, entered its
second day with all strikers
out on the picket line this morning.
There is only one scab named Doyle
who ran for council in the Dear
born elections last year and APP
pealed for the labor vote. The strik-
ers are led by the militant, inde-
pendent union, Brass Workers IN
dustrial Union
The negotiations committee yes
terday refused to be tricked by the
Automobile Labor Board which
called the committee before it in
an effort to break the strike. Byrd,
A. F. of L. representative on Board,
asked them whether they would be
willing to accept an agreement
similar to that put over in the re-
cent Motor Products strike. He Of
fered so cents an hour minimum,
Is per cent increase on piece rates
and pay for waiting time. The COM
mittee replied by presenting the
demands adopted by the strikers
and declaring it had no authority
to change the demands or to make
any settlement.
The strikers demands are 30 per
cent wage increase, recognition of
the union, "a hours notice to shop
committee before discharge of any
worker, shop committee to be con-
suited on piece rate adjustments.
The union is planning to call a
mass meeting of all brass and
aluminium workers in an effort to
spread the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19

Tonight the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union will celebrate its
fourth anniversary at a banquet at
Manhattan Lyceum, 6S E. Fourth
St., New York City. Earl BrOwder,
General Secretary of the Com
munist Party, will be the main
speaker. Admission Is ~ cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-19

country without adopting an atti-
tude of Bolshevist irreconcilability
to all petty bourgeois deviations and
fluctuations, resolutely suppressing
them. It would ret be able to carry
out its tasks If at the same time the