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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11

I ranks, they are uniting with the
white laboring masses against their
common oppressors. They are tax
ing an active part in the fight
against American Imperialism. The
bourgeoisie is afraid the rebellion is
growing among the millions of Ne
gro toilers, among the workers and
the peasants. They are taking all
possible measures to liquidate the
growing fighting forces of the Ne
gro and the white workers. Against
both is arrayed the terror of the
white rulers
Cork goes on in his letter, re-
citing various examples of the terror
employed against the Negro and
white masses in this country. He
tells the details of the bloody events
of Camp Hill, Ala" he speaks CT
the courageous action of the Ala
bama sharecroppers organized in
spite of terror and lynch law, he
writes of various battles in which
police and the National Guard have
shot down and murdered workers
in various strikes, showing that the
terror is equally fierce against all
workers, Negro and white. Then he
continues:
1.-The American section of the
MOP.R. (the international Labor
Defense) has awakened internation-
al interest in the Scottsboro case.
For the first time since the Ameri-
can Civil War, the merciless ex-
ploitation of the Negro working
masses by the ruling classes of the
United States is being published
throughout the world. In Soviet
Russia and in England, in France,
Cuba, in Sout America and in
countries on every continent, thou
sands of demonstrations, partici-
pated in by millions of workers, have
shown and are continuing to show
their solidarity with the American
working class, with the Negroes OPP
pressed by the white imperialists in
America, demanding the liberation
of the innocent Scottsboro boys and
the cessation of the white terror.
Urges Stronger Scottsboro Fight
"The Scottsboro boys are suffer-
ing in the prison. They are con-
stantly being reminded by their
keepers that the electric chair awaits
them. Their guards constantly tell
them their day is approaching.
1T is necessary to strengthen the
agitation throughout the world.
Every meeting, every demonstration
each paper published by the work
ers and their organizations, must
protest against the white terror
which American capitalism is urg-
ing in an effort to suffocate the
growing fight for freedom among
the Negro masses of the United
States. The proletariat of the en-
tire world protests against the exc
cution of their brothers. The capt.
talists, and the capitalist culture,
cannot be expected to be humane
The proletariat must protest
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
''DOIIar Is Worth More
TO Capitalism Than
Human Lives
BY FRANK LEONARD

II any person :. be in any
manner instrumental in bringing,
introducing or circulating within
the state any printed or written
paper, pamphlet or circular for
the purpose of executing insurrec-
ton, revolt, conspiracy or resist
ance on the part of Slaves, Ne
groes, or Free Persons Of Color In
this state against citizens of this
state or any part of them, he shall
be guilty of high misdemeanOr
which is punishable by death
Georgia Statute of 1861, on which
Herpdon was sentenced to the
chain gang.
Angelo Herndon's guilt" lies In
trying to bring white workers and
Negroes in the South together in
violation of Georgias old slave law.
Angelo Herndon was one of the
organizers Of the first all Southern
ScottSboro conference Negroes
and white workers which was held
in Chattanooga, Tenn, in June, 1881
to arouse mass protest against the
frame-up of the Scottsboro boys.
Angelo Herndon was one of the
first men in the South with the
courage to fight for Willie Peterson
tubercular Negro ex-servicemsn who
is now serving a 20year prison SEN
tence on framed-up rape charge
in spite of the fact that the Gov
ernor of Alabama, who eommuted
Peterson's sentence from death to
20 years in prison, himself admitted
There is a grave doubt as to his
guilt"
$4,000 Needed for Appeals
Angelo Herndon is now Temporal
rily free, released in the exorbitantly
high bail of $4,000 pending appeal
The workers of America, under the
leadership of the Communist Party
and the international Labor De-
tense, showed they were worthy OF
a great task when they were able to
raise that heavy bail. Now the sum
of $4,000 is needed for the expenses
of the appeals to be made in the
cases of Angelo Herndon and the
Scottsboro boys. A campaign to OBJ
tain 100000 signatures to petit
ton demanding the liberation Of
Herndon and the Scottsboro boys
and the enactment and enforcement
of the Bill for Negro Rights, has
been launched. Churches, fraterna
organizations, societies of intellectu-
ais, organized and unorganized work
ers, unemployed-all, throughout tht
country, will be modified in this
campaign.
At this time, with the partial VIC
tory of Angelo Herndon's release ir
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Nazi Policies Leading
To Currency Initiation

BERLIN, Aug. 10.-Note reserve
rose slightly as of Aug. 7, to "a be-
cause of a decline in note cireula-
ton, but no escape from the ex-
change crisis was seen.
Completion Of the Anglo-German
exchange accord made no provision
for payment Of private debts now
owing, it was pointed out, so that
no great hopes for resumption of
British cotton trade with Germany
can be held out.
The German finances are notori-
ously doctored to conceal an actual
imitation going on. Rising internal
prices in Germany attest to steady
depreciation in the currency, de-
spite the fact that there has as yet
been no official imitation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11

not only the ruthless monopoly
character of the program, but also
taught the masses that the N.R.A.
would inevitably deepen the crisis.
In contrast to this firm Marxist-
feminist analysis of the capitalist
crisis, how empty and reactionary
now appear the various opposing
estimates of the crisis made by the
Socialist Party, the A. F. of L. lead
ership, the TrotSkyites, MusteiteS,
and Lovestoneite renegades!
The Socialist Party saw in the
Roosevelt program a new capital
ism, a capitalism which was al
ready transition stage on the
peaceful road to socialism"
TrotSlky, revealing in the columns
of the New York Times, organ of
American finance capital, found in
Roosevelt the new saviour" who
would lead American imperialism
out of the crisis at the expense Of
the imperialist powers Of Europe. In
Europe the crisis would deepen,
Trotsky admitted, but in the rich,
powerful America, led by the $50
cial-minded" Roosevelt 90, that
would be different, thanks to the
planning" Of Roosevelt.
The leadership of the American
Federation of Labor, headed by Will
liam Green, of course, found in
Roosevelt and the N. r. A. the
Magma Carta of American labor"
that would lead to a new pros
perity.
And as for Lovestone, his hymns
to the eternal glory of American i'm
perialism, whose alleged might made
it immune to the cancer of capital
list crisis, grew more eloquent than
ever under the inspiration of Roose-
velt's advent.
Today the steady pounding of the
crisis has destroyed these reaction
airy theorizings of social-fascism and
its diverse wings, from Trotskyism
to Norman Thomas
The firm, penetrating Marxist-
feminist line of the Communist
International alone remains the
tried and tested guide of the work
ing class in its struggle against
capitalism. The Communist Party
alone correctly appraised the
course of the crisis in its rela-
ton to the Roosevelt program.
THE capitalist press, with William
L Green and the Socialist Party
New Leader" were busy debating
whether the San Francisco general
strike has national or local signi-
ficance.
Comrade Browder ripped this re-
dictionary tripe to pieces by boldly
and truly proclaiming that the San
Francisco strike had international
significance
This is the key TO the coming
political developments in this coun-
try. American Imperialism faces
growing revolutionary storms. A
stage has now been reached in the
capitalist crisis where the slightest
demand of the workers for better
conditions undermines the founda-
tions Of the whole capitalist rule.
This brings the capitalist state
power as an active antagonist into
the smallest strikes.
The American masses are coming
face to face with the capitalist state
power as their hated enemy.
In America, stronghold of world
capitalism, the revolutionary crisis
natures. The struggle for bread,
for life, becomes a struggle for
power. The question Of the smash
ing of capitalism and the seizure
of power is becoming an organic
part of the fight against the en-
ployers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Fishermen Dump Catch
Into the Sea i'm Protest

DOURNAzEZ, France, Aug, TO-
Breton fishermen, rofnantici2ed in
bourgeois literature, were the heroes
of struggle never mentioned in
polite novels.
They threw their nights Sardine
catch back into the sea, refusing
to accept starvation prices for their
labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
New Crisis Outbreaks
Loom AS Mass Poverty
Grows, Production Falls
Capitalist Press COnceals Recent Sharp Drop in
On-Unemployment, Cost of
Living Due for Further Rise
BY MILTON HOWARD

EVIDENCE has appeared the past few weeks that Amer
lean Imperialism is lettering the edge of new down.
ward plunge, a renewed ntensfcation of the crisis.
The capitalist press has deliberately played down the
highly significant development that within the past few
weeks there occurred sharp drop in the total activity
of American production drop which has exceeded the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
Jailed for Telling Truth

BERLIN, Aug 19.-Plain talk put
a Bielefeld worker in Jail today.
He declared that Hitler was a
homosexual as much as was Roehm,
and ought to be shot likewise.
Evening star., 1934-03-04

Paul May. Belgian
Ambassador to the
United States. and
Nine. May leaving St.
Patrick's Cathedral in
New York after attend
ing the solemn high
mass of requiem for
King Albert l of Bel
gium. A. p Photo.
Evening star., 1934-03-07
National Guard Leader Sees Dillinger
Gang Bribery.

LIMA, Ohio, March 7 R.-Dis-
closures of stealthy but fruitless in
vasion of the county prosecutors office
and of evidence indicating a bribery
attempt today accompanied the muir
der trial of Harry Pierpont, John
Dillinger henchman.
Brig. Gen. Harold M. Bush. in
charge of National Guard forces here,
coupled these disclosures with a
statement that politics and an alli-
ance with the underworld have made
Lima a very dangerous place" He
did not identify the object of his re-
marks.
Pierpont's trial on a charge OF first
degree murder in the Staying of Sheriff
Jess Sarber last October -, when
Dillinger himself was freed from the
Allen County Jail. went into its Sec
ond day today with eight men and
four women tentatively seated in the
jury box. The city remained nervous
from a burst of machine gun fire last
night.
National Guardsmen. testing new
machine gun in range at the court
house. caused the temporary alarm.
Gen. Bush declared Prosecutor E.
M. Botkin's Office on the tenth floor
OF the old City National Bank Build
ing was entered through a jimmied
door early yesterday and carefully
searched. Nothing was obtained. as
Botkin has not kept important trial
records there, Bush said.
Bush said his investigators also un-
covered evidence that one of the spe-
cial deputies on duty in the jail, where
Pierpont is held with Charles Makley
and Russell Clark, had been offered
81 900 to smuggle a gun into the Jail.
Evening star., 1934-03-07
|D|LL|NGER SEARCH
| IS JOINED BY j. s.
Bank Officials Now Doubt
Bandit Took Part in
HoId-up.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March THE Federal
Government joined today in the hunt
for elusive John Dillinger, escaped
desperate.
Dillinger. seen" in hundred diff
ferent places. but found nowhere. has
been on the loose five days and is the
object of one Of the greatest man
hunts in recent years.
Two attaches at the Crown Point
Ind, jail. from which Dlllinger made
mis- movie" escape. were arrested late
yesterday, charged with aiding and
abetting
One was released later on his own
recognizance by Judge William Muir
ray. He is Deputy Sheriff Ernest
Bunk, fingerprint expert of the Jail,
of whom Judge Murray said:
I'm satisfied there was nothing off,
color In Blunk'S performance. He
didn't have any nerve-that's all that
was wrong with him.
Turnkey Sam Cahoon, "a, is the
other guard under arrest.
The Federal Government entered
the case because Dillinger violated the
Dyer act in transporting a stolen
automobile from Indiana to Illinois
after his Jail escape
Authorities were guarding Cook
Countys banks against possible raid
by the bandit leader and fugitive
members of his squad.
Gov. Paul McNutt had before him
a report of the management of the
Crown Point Jail He said he could
not remove Sheriff Holley. pointing
out the power was vested in the Coun-
ty Circuit Court
The head of the Lake County Com
missioners called on Sheriff Holley
to resign ''for the good Of the Demo-
cratic party" but the woman sheriff
promptly refused.
Dillinger was reported seen in Ma
son City. Iowa; Chicago, Youngstown,
Ohio. and Buffalo. N. Y, Monday
night, not to mention his supposed
appearance at Sioux Falls. S. Oak,
Tuesday morning to rob a bank. Off,
cials at Sioux Falls. however discount
ed the idea that Dillinger had been
there.
Mrs. Elaine Burton, an acquaint-
ance of John Hamilton, Dillinger
gangster announced through her at
torney that she had not posed as Dill
fingers wife and interviewed him be-
fore his escape. The deputy sheriff
who previously had identified her
through her picture said they couldn't
be quite certain.
Evening star., 1934-03-07
What's What
BehindNews
In Capital
Business Men Keep
Fingers Crossed in
Applauding.
BY PAUL MALLOi,.

TINE business boys applauded Mr..
Roosevelt's new N. r. A. pro-
gram. but only to be polite.
L They had their fingers crossed.
They could read between the
lines and see the suggestion that they
might have to forego profits to create
employment. and unless they did SC
voluntarily. Mr.. Roosevelt would i'm
pose a shorter work week on them.
Their prirate comment ran
something like this: He congratu-
ldteS us With one hand and pulls
our nose uith the other" and "he
smiles at you so chdrmingly uhen
he hits you that you do not realize
you haze been struck until the
S1Ueiling comes"
They took heart flom the fact Mr.
Roosevelt was slightly indefinite
They hoped he was merely talking
and would hesitate to carry out his
implied threat
They probably will be doomed to
disappointment in the end.
Evening star., 1934-03-07
us, S,|NSURANCE lob
MAY co TO BURTON
Local Banker Considered
for Place on Federal
Deposit Board.

Clarence F. Burton, new president
of the Washington Mechanics Saw
ings Bank of this city, was reliably
reported today to be one of three men
under consideration for the important
Federal post of member of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation, to
succeed Edward c. Bennett of Utah,
who is resigning.
Other candidates are understood TO
include Henry S. Buick of Kansas
and a prominent man from New York
State, whose name so far has been
kept a secret.
Burton last Saturday succeeded
Ezra Gould as head of the Washing
ton Mechanics Savings Bank, which
has been enlarged 10 absorb first the
Mount Vernon Savings Bank and
next the Franklin National Bank.
The Mount Vernon opened Monday as
headquarters Of the Washington Me-
chanicS.
Burton is native of the District of
Columbia and has had wide expert
ence, as lawyer, certified public ac-
countant. business man and banker
His rise in Washington affairs has
been rapid recently. and it is known
that he has made a very favorable
impression on Federal officials during
negotiations looking toward absorp-
ton Of the Mount Vernon and the
Franklin, two unlicensed banks, by the
Mechanics Bank, which never has
been restricted
Burton. if appointed, would become
one OF the three directors of the Fed
eral Deposit Insurance Corporation.
The other two members now are Con-
troller of the Currency j. F. T. O'Con-
nor OF Los Angeles, Calf, and Leo T.
Crowley Of Madison, Wis.
Evening star., 1934-03-07

to you for correction before it was
printed?" asked Rogers.
1T was Yes. sir"
You did make certain corrections
but you did not correct this testi-
! mony'
! That is correct"
Questioning Foulois further about
the radiograph. the committee brought
out that a telegram quoting the same
language was sent to Wright Field
by Brig. Gen. H. Conger Pratt, Air
Corps officer.
The first witness in open hearing
s1nce the committee began its House
ordered investigation of War Depart
ment expenditures since 1926, Wood
ring was placed under oath and re-
minded of the testimony by Foulois
before the Appropriations Committee.
Originally it had been understood that
Foulois referred to changes in speci-
hcations calling for slower speeds,
shorter ranges and lower ceilings.
Denies Point FlatIy.
did you make any such changer"
o~hNo AS OcC2AtdllNC 4SOSCAo, ONuIO.
crat. Of New Hampshire
No, sir" Woodring replied.
How do you account for Gen. Fou-
lois testimony"
Il can't account for it. can hardly
believe he said it,"
Woodring said he had refused to ap-
prove purchase of the airplanes by
negotiated purchases.
AS a result of conferences, the
Assistant Secretary continued, new
plan" for procurement was drawn,
calling for competitive bids.
The specifications were not brought
to my Office" he asserted.
Proposal Is Rejected.
The final proposition submitted to
tn. industry, Woodring said, called for
planes to be purchased only from COM
panies whose planes already had been
tested by the Army or Navy. The
judge advocate general Woodring
said. subsequently held that did not
constitute competitive bidding.
With $4,000 in its pocket to pay
expenses, the committee yesterday in
augurated its investigation Of the de-
partment'S purchases and leases COW
ering the last seven years.
All afternoon the subcommittee,
headed by Rogers, sat in executive
session to hear Walter Beech, Kan
san, testify he could build airplanes
better than any the Army had bought
in recent years. But, he said, his Of
fers had been turned down.
Meanwhile. another military sub
committee. Of which Representative
Hill, Democrat, of Alabama, is chair
man, was arranging to start its study
of leases. First considered will be
that held by the Mercur Corporation
on the Port Newark, N. j., Army base.
Representative Hartley. Republican.
of New Jersey, is ready to present evi-
dence which he says will show that
lease should be Cancelled.
Evening star., 1934-03-07

law DEGREES that the Commissioners
shall make the appointment upon
recommendation of the board.
Prior to the 1926 act, administra-
ton of District welfare institutions
was less centralized than at present
officials explained At that time
members Of the Board of Charities
were appointed by the President and
confirmed by the Senate, although
operating under the Commissioners
The secretary to the board had less
authority than the present director
Of welfare
Commissioner Allen feels the need
OF the counsel Of Board of We'll
fare, but believes District officials
should have more freedom of action
IN meeting current problems.
Other Plans Progress.
Progress in other plans for a reor-
ganization of the welfare system was
reported today. Mr.. Allen announced
30 additional case workers would be
employed at once on emergency relief
Recently so new workers were added
to the force under direction of Leroy
A. Halbert, emergency relief direc-
tor, bringing the total Of case work.
ers and aides to 100. 1t had been de-
cided to increase the number SO that
not more than 100 relief cases would
have to be handled by any case
worker. This was decided after q
survey Of the situation by Arch Man.
del, field agent of the Federal Emer-
gency Relief Administration.
Another step being planned is the
establishment of Is new branch sta
tions of the Emergency Relief Divi-
sion. Locations now are being sought
by Capt. Howard F. Clark, executive
of the District Civil Works Admins
tration; Director Halbert and William
c. Cleary, secretary Of the Work.
planning Committee of the District
c. w. A.
Indications were that there will be
some changes made in the personnel
of the relief organization. Odicially
the only statement was that Halbert
would be given every opportunity to
continue in his capacity as director
of emergency relief. There were ru-
mors that, while he would be retained
there may be a realignment Of his
duties.
A new director Of the Board Of
Public Welfare is to be appointed thi,
month. In keeping with . decision
reached voluntarily last Summer
George S. Wilson, welfare director
will submit an application for retire
ment March 10 when he reaches thu
age Of IS. His successor Is to be
named at once. - .'.'''
Evening star., 1934-03-07
Fails to Get Results.

The bald truth is the NJ R. A. has
failed to accomplish its purposes
under the existing set-up. 1t has not
caused enough employment to meet
the situation, and prospects are it
will not, if it goes on as it has been.
Industry will pick up sharply for
March and April. A steady improve
ment in employment will be accom-
plished, but probably not enough to
absorb any considerable portion OF
existing unemployment.
To do so, industrial production
Mould hare to increase anywhere
from % to 40 per cent. The best
economists beliepe that is unlikely.
So some other method Of increasing
private employment undoubtedly will
have to be adopted. The shorter
work week with no reduction in pay
and without substantial increase in
prices affords simple method. AT
least, that is the theory behind the
move.
Fear Delay in Profits.
The Wall Streeters Immediately
forgot their worries on the Stock Ex-
change bill and started fretting about
the new presidential program.
As realists. they hardly expected
business generally would voluntarily
hazard its income by affording extra
employment for idealistic purposes.
They rather anticipated a Federal
program fixing various reduced hours
of labor for various industries, run
ming probably from 80 to SO hours.
That led them to the fearful con-
clusion that profits may be delayed
for the present.
Evening star., 1934-03-07
NORMAN DAVIS LEAVES
FOR STOCKHOLM WORK
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 7.-Norman Davis,
United States Ambassador at-large
departed for Stockholm today, ending
q six. day ''unof1cial" visit to London.
II don't know now whether will
return directly to America or stay in
Europe" he said. 1T all depends on
the development in the disarmament
situation, whether I am needed at this
time"
In Stockholm, Davis will devote
himself to his assignment as chairman
of the International Committee Of
Creditors reorganizing the Kreuger
interests. BY the time he Is through
there, it is expected France will have
responded to the British disarmament
plan. He is likely to return here to
discuss it with British ofdciak.