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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09
For
5 Mothers on
Friday Night
Callahan Signs Papers
For Appeal of Two
Scottsboro Boys

NEW YORK, May IA mass
send-off will be given the mothers
of the five Scottsboro boys, who
are going to interview the President
on Mothers Day to ask the release
Of their boys, on Friday night at
the st. Nicholas Arena, SO West
seth st. John Wexley. prominent
International Labor Defense lawyer
and author of the play, They Shall
Not Die" will be the main speaker
at the meeting.
The writ for an appeal for the
cases of Haywood Patterson and
Clarence Norris has been signed by
Callahan, the presiding judge in
their cases last Fall. The I. L. D.
must raise $4,000 to cover the neces-
sary expenses for the appeal to the
Supreme Court, which must be filed
before May "a.
Organizations and individuals are
urged to contribute as heavily as
they can to this fund to make it pos
sible to wrest the boys from the
hands of southern ruling-class
justice.
The five mothers will be guests
of honor at the performance Thurs
day night Of "Stevedore, +" play por-
traying race prejudice and riots
during a strike on the wharves of
New Orleans.
Thursdays performance of the
play will be for the benefit of the
New York Women's Councils. and
many mothers will be present to
greet these five Negro mothers
whose sons have been imprisoned
end tortured for over three years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09
Group to Visit
City Hall For
Rally Permit
Trade Unions, Others to
Claim Right to March
in Yorkville


NEW YORK, After being shunted
FRONT one office to another at City
Hall all day yesterday, the delega-
ton headed by Pauline Rogers of
the New York Committee to Aid
Victims Of German Fascism, at
tempting to see Mayor LaGuardia
for a permit to parade in Yorkville
on Thursday, was still waiting at
City Hall late in the afternoon.
Prepare Despite Police Ban
Despite this, working class organ
izations throughout the city are or
ganizing their members for huge
anti-Nal rally in Yorkville on
Thursday, to begin at Karl Schurz
Park, Both st. and Avenue A, at
7 pm.
A series of open-air meetings is
being held on May in preparation
for this snti-fascist demonstration.
A meeting will take place in York
vile. May 9, at Both st. near Lex
ington Ave. Other open-air meet
ings on May will take place in the
Bronx at lid ST. and Washington
Ave, in Brownsville at Hopkinson
and Suffer AYES. near the Odd Eel
lows Hall at 106th st. and Park Ave,
on the West Side at 95th st. and
Broadway, also in Harlem, Ridge
wood and downtown New York. A
large indoor meeting has been or
ganized by the International Labor
Defense and will take place at AM
bassador Hall in the Bronx.
All organizations are again urged
to send protest kilograms and dele
cations to Mayor LaGuardia, Ber-
nard S. Deutsch and Police Commits
sioner Organ in connection with
the refusal of the police department
to grant a permit for the parade on
May 10 which will be huge demon
stration for the freedom of Thael-
mann, Torgler and all anti-fascist
prisoners.
All trade unions and mass organ
izations in the city should assign
representatives to go in a mass dele
cation to City Hall today to demand
the right to demonstrate against
fascism on the streets of Yorkville.
These representatives should report
at the Office of the New York Com
mittee to Aid Victims of German
Fascism, $40 Broadway, at 10 am.
sharp today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09
Miners In
Drive For
6 Hr. Day
Progressive Local in
Illinois Calls for a
State Conference
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau

AD0hJ HOAh5l AF2AANEet
CHICAGO, May 8.-Rank
and file action to fight for
the six-hour day and Sc a
day basic scale in the Illinois
coal fields has been initiated
by Local Sc of the Progressive Min
ers Of America. A resolution sent by
this local to locals of District One
Of the PIMA. calls upon every local:
Il. To endorse and circulate a call
for statewide conference of the
miners to prepare strike for the six
hour day, IS per day, around Sept. l,
at the start Of the busy season.
%. To spread our activities in the
United Mine Workers of America
fields. talk to and win the bonafide
U.MW.A. rank and file for joint
strike action. This can be done by
organizing militant grours in the
UMW.A. mines to fight for this
program"
Direct to Local Unions
The action of Local SIS, which is
located in Pana, ILL.,, shows clearly
the long road Of establishment the
miners have travelled. The resolu-
ton completely ignores the top
leadership of the PIMA, and ad-
dresses itself directly to the local
unions.
The resolution states: "The coal
operators, in conjunction with the
MIRA. Labor Board increased our
wages tafter April u about 10 per
cent through the seven-hour day.
While we got this 10 per cent
increase the cost of living went up
from 20 per cent to 30 per cent.
+. 1t is clear that the operators
gave us seven-hour days to forestall
action for six-hour day and Sc basic
scale"
Against Arbitration
"The bitter experiences we had
with the MIRA. the Peabody Courts
and Washington arbitration boards,
show conclusively that we cannot
expect any results from these bodies.
which are only setting traps against
us, but we can win only through our
own mass action and organized
force. 1t is also clear that II we
delay militant action, we will be in
still worse conditions"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09

the war for Czarist spoils and
plumber.
The money was freely Squandered
in graft to Czarist leeches, to Amer
lean bankers, to arms manufac-ur-
ers, and very little, if any, of the
supplies supposed to have been
bought ever reached the shores of
Russia.
While the high financing was 60
ing on, the Russian toiling masses,
led by the Bolsheviks, overthrow
the Kerensky government and
established the power of the Soviets.
When that happened Bakhmeiey,
in November, 1917, could account for
only $7s,6S4, 34793 of the original
loan.
In five months he had squan-
dered over S110,000,O00 that was
never fully accounted for,
BY no stretch of the imagination
could the Soviet Government be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09
Roosevelt Rakes the Cesspool Of Kerensky Loans

these relations was the loathsome
Kerensky debts, closely intertwined
with criminal Czarist finances.
The decision recently rendered by
United States Attorney General
Cummings, falsely declaring the
Soviet Union a "defaulter" because
of refusal to recognize the Kerensky
loans, was the latest provocation.
Arrangements had already been
made for extended U. S.-Soviet
trade. The Export Import Bank
had been established to facilitate
this trade.
Then, on April IA, Congress
passed the johnson Bill, providing
that no government in default on
its deb.s to the United States could
float loans or obtain credits.
The Board of Trustees of the
Export Import Bank, through press
ure Of powerful enemies of the So
Wet Union, those working for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09

world inperialist war front against
the U. S. S. R., halted all negotia-
tons for trade until the debt ques-
ton was settled.
The Soviet Union is now charged
with the juggled Kerensky debt, the
money loaned by the Wilson gov
eminent to the Provisional Russian
government to carry on the Czarist
aims in the world war.
But before the Kerensky regime
could misuse all of the $187, 729, $50,
the Proletarian Dictatorship was
established On Nov. 7, 1917, all
power was vested in the hands of
the Soviets.
What then became of this money?
How was it used? On what ground
does the Roosevelt government have
the audacity to ask the Soviet gov
eminent to pay loan that is so be-
smired with filth, that was so scan
dalously Incorporated by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09
BY JOSEPH FREEMAN

WASHINGTON. D. c., May g.
Ofacia1 Nazi propaganda, poured by
the Hitler government into the
United States, reached new stage
recently when it was showed right
under the nose of Congress itself.
A select list of Representatives and
Senators-a list from which known
liberals, farmer labor men and
Jews were carefully excluded have
received complimentary copies Of
The American illustrated News,
published in Berlin in the English
language and openly addressed to
Americans in a campaign to sell
them the new" Germany. This
latest piece Of Naz propaganda
boils with the usual epithets about
Communists, Marxists, Bolsheviks
and Jews. What distinguishes it
from the flood of ordinary fascist
ballyhoo is its official character It
is addressed by members of the
German government to members of
the U. S. Congress.
The American illustrated News is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09

Czarist and Kerensky scoundrels in
the United States?
The Daily Worker, from evidence
in court records, Senate hearings
and through its private investiga-
ton, is now able to give the real
story of these loans and what actu-
ally became of the money.
On July s, 1917, Kerensky's am
bassador, Bakhmetiev, arranged for
the loan of $187, 729, $50 that was to
be used in the United States to pay
J. P. Morgan g. Co. and other bank
ers and munition manufacturers for
war supplies.
While the Russian workers and
peasants overthrow the Gar to OBJ
tain peace, bread and land. Keren-
sky. through Bakhmetiev and the
Czarist military attaches in his
retinue in Washington we're con-
niving with the American govern
ment to keep the Russian people in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09
Bonus Marchers Pour
Into Capital from All
Over Country

NEW YORK.-More than
1,500 war veterans are reg
istered to leave Union Square
today, May 9, at II A. M. in
the New York contingent
that leaves for the Veterans Ma
tional Convention to be held at
Washington May 10.
With them will go two nurses
from the Hospital Workers League,
who will take care of illnesses and
accidents on the way.
Headed by P. v. Cacchione, chair
man of the City Committee of the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League,
the vets will march to City Hall to
demand that LaGuardia endorse
their Three-Point Program and the
Bonus March to Washington.
The buses will leave City Hall be-
ginning at 2:30 pm. All out to
greet the veterans! All vets to
Union Square at 10 am!
A special fight will be made for
the rights of Negro veterans, who
have been cut off from all relief
and who are jim Crowed by the
American Legion as well as the gov
eminent in the veterans hospitals,
etc. Ali indications of Jim Crowism
on the march to Washington, as well
as in the camp there, will be vigor-
ously fought.
WASHINGTON, May S.-An at
tempt by Roosevelt's Secretary,
Louis Howe, to intimidate the vet
Grams now gathering here for their
National Rank and File Convention
into dropping their fight for the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill III. r. 1899, was re-
vealed here today when Howe
warned a rank and file vets COM
mittee visiting him.
II advise you to stick to the
veteran part of the program and
leave the other part of the pro-
gram out"
Howe was referring to the fact
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09
10000 Textile
Strikers DEFY
A. F. L. Heads
A m Osk e a g Work ers
Stay Out; Police Are
Modified
(SpeciaI to the Daily Workerl

MANCHESTER, N. H, May g.
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Co.
tried to open this morning, follow
ing the strike of the 10000 workers
against the sop award of the Fed
eral Textile Code Arbitration Board,
but in spite of the announcement
of the United Textile Workers Of
ficials that the strike was over, the
workers picketed at the mill gates,
and for the second time defied the
efforts of the U. T. w. misleaders
to break the strike.
To begin with, Horace A. Riviere,
U. T. w. organizer, is going on the
radio to urge the workers to 60 back
Thursday. Then the union officials
are holding series of eight meet
ings at which only strikebreakers
will be allowed to talk. Then the
Governor of New Hampshire, Gov
Winant, calling himself friend
OF the textile workers." has come
forward with plea to the strikers
not to break their word to the mill
management. He did not say that
the only promise made to the mill
management was made by the U. T.
w. leaders to break the strike. He
did not mention, either, the broken
promises of the AInoskeag manage
ment in regard to wages and speed
up.
Demand rs Per Cent Increase
At a special meeting yesterday
the workers unanimously reiterated
their demands for a flat Is per cent
pay raise, and direct negotiations
with company representatives, in
place Of arbitration under govern
ment supervision. AS the vote was
taken, the city's entire police force
had been mustered out to stand
guard over the mills, largest cotton
manufacturing plant in the world,
and last night it was learned that
the Amoskeag officials we're con-
sidering calling upon state suthori-
ties for national guardsmen TO OPP
pose the workers, as they succeeded
IN DONG last summer.
Organizer Riyiere and his lieu
tenants were hooted down time and
again as they tried vainly at yes
terday's meeting, which was at
tended by 5000 men and women
workers, to induce them to return
to work pending another appeal"
to the Federal Arbitration Board
for redress.
Yesterdays action of the Amos
keag workers is particularly signifi-
cant because the governments
board award was expected to have
quoting effect on other textile
centers of the nation, whose work
ers at yesterdays meeting defied the
officials in control and shouted
from the floor, Give us Commu-
mist leadership. The U. T. w. has
sold us out and now President
Roosevelt has turned us down. The
Communists are our only hope
now"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09
Sends Poisonous Propaganda Magazine TO Off,
Gals in Washington; Jews, Liberals Omitted
@ES April stA, 1884
- sa-ssrss' ssrsss

technically magnificent Job into
which has gone the best of Ger
many's printing technique. It con-
sists Of Garages almost newspaper
size. and is printed on the best
coated paper, profusely illustrated
with striking photographs employ
ing all the most effective tricks of
modern advertising layout and
ntoderTlist art. The magazine is
published in Berlin, W. so and is
edited by Karl Bergman. The
editorial box which volunteers this
information adds that its represent
tatives in the United States are the
Hamburg American Line and the
North German Lloyd. These two
steamship companies, desperately
seeking American tourist trade.
frankly put themselves on record
as disseminating official Nazi prop
uganda in this country.
Asks for Views"
Each Congressman who received
a complimentary copy Of the
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09
1000 LOngsho r m IN
Remain Out in Ports
OF Gulf Coast
MOVEMENT SPREADS
Company Unions Scab
In New Orleans

SAN FRANCISCO, May 8.
A general tie-up of ship
ping was expected here to-
day, as longshoremen in the
big ports prepared to strike
at 8 am. tomorrow.
The men are demanding 81
an hour and a thirty-hour
week, in place of the present s5
cents an hour for 4s-hour week.
It is expected that the strike
movement will affect 10000 dock
workers.
Men all along the coast have been
FESTIVE against the leaders Of the
International Longshoremen's Asso-
citation, who recently betrayed a
threatened strike movement, after
receiving word from President
Roosevelt. telling them to call Off
the strike.
The movement to tie up the west
coast piers has developed over the
heads Of the A. F. of L. leaders,
Joseph P Ryan and William J.
Lewis. These leaders are now at
tempting to head the movement, in
order to betray it.
The Rank and File Action Com
mittee Of the LILA. is calling on the
longshoremen to Immediately set up
Action Committees on all the docks
and to take the situation into their
own hands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09
Win Control of Food,
Registration, and
Accommodations
Especial to the Daily worker)

WASHINGTON, May 8. =
The agreement between rep
resentatives of the rank and
file veterans committee and
government officials regard
ing the convention Of veterans
which will be held in Fort Hunt,
Virginia. May IA to "a, was con-
cluded today.
An important addition was made
in the form Of clause whereby the
Veterans Administration will pro-
vide all stationery registration
cards. and mimeograph forms
but "in no case shall there be CEN
sorship Of such material issued by
the rank and file committees.
The final agreement also provides
that the government shall pitch
two tents on or near Pennsylvania
Avenue for registering delegates.
A group Of ten veterans arriving
from California today reorted that
Is more veterans from their state
are on their way to WASHINGTON.
A veterans delegation left Pitts
burgh at noon today. The Cali
fornia delegates reported hunger.
privation and arrest on their way
here. Everywhere. they said. De-
partment Of Justice agents tried to
interfere with the bonus march, in
some eases compelling veterans to
accept forced labor Jobs. In Pitts
burrh. under mass pressure, Mayor
McNair gave the local rank and file
committee a house for recruiting
delegates.
Fraternization between the vet
Grams and workers and farmers en-
route was reported by the arriving
delegates, who said that workers
and farmers shared with them
their meagre resources Of food and
shelter. At the same time, senti-
ment for Workers Unemployment
and Social Insurance is deveIoping
among the veterans who are send
ing resolutions to that effect from
various cities to the rank and file
committee here.
While the convention will not
open till May IA, the veterans,
camp will be opened May 10. Reg
istration and safety committees are
being elected.
The fight against Jim Crowism
has been carried to the point
where the Transient Relief
Continued on Pane ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09
Shipyard Strikers
Protest Scab Plan
5000 March to City
Hall in Camden

CAMDEN. N. j., May s.-The
three thousand striking sllipyard
workers Of the New York Snipbuild-
ing Co, marched On City Hall today
and protested against the proposed
plan of the company to open the
yards with strikebreakers. They de-
manded of Mayor Roy Stewart that
the shipyards remain closed.
Stewart answered that he would
"advise" the president OF the COM
pany Clinton Baroo. against the
opening Of the plant with scabs.
The shipyard workers are on strike
demanding shorter hours. higher
pay and union recognition. This
governments battleship orders are
held up by the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09
Printers Strike in
Paterson Is Solid:
N.T.W.U. Gives Aid
Chicago Compositors
On Strike Too, for
Higher Wages
Especial to the Daily worker)

PATERSON, N. j., May s.-The
printers strike is solid. Picketing
goes on day and night and plans
are being extended to secure mass
boycott Of the scab papers. The
N. T. w. U. is throwing in its forces
to support the strike.
Big Six donated $S3 and also sent
in members to help picket. The
Communist Party in Paterson just
issued thousands of leaflets warn
ing strikers against National Labor
Board arbitration schemes. 1t Is
urging more militancy on the picket
line to help win the strike.
The strikers have formed
Women's Auxiliary Of 40 members
to help picket and mobilize mass
support. Three strikers are coming
up in court Saturday on framed-up
charges Of assault. All organiza-
tons are urged to protest. Albert
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09
BY HARRY CANNES

IRON their unsavory and
L blood-soaked past, the
enemies of the Soviet Union,
now closely connected with
leading bankers in the United
States, with strong ties in
the Roosevelt government,
have resurrected the ghost of
U. S. loans to the Kerensky govern
ment in order to block trade rela-
lions with the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics.
The growing power of the Soviet
Union forced the establishment of
diplomatic relations with the United
States. That was not to the liking
of those who plot war against the
workers fatherland The.f last
straw to impede the furtherance OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09

Weisbord, offering to speak to the
strikers, was rejected as renegade.
Mr.. Britten, representative of the
I. T. u, will speak at the A. F. of
L. county meeting here Saturday
afternoon.
CHICAGO, May 8.-More than a
hundred workers on the Evanston
News Index struck here last night
for higher wages. The workers,
mainly members of the composing
room staff, have a good picket line
in front of the shop.
The Index works under the MIRA.
Advertisements appeared in to-
days Chicago papers offering Jobs
to men in the printing trades will
ing to scsb on the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09
Gin cinnati Metal
Workers Strike for
Recognition, Raise

CINCINNATI, May 8. = Three
hundred and seventy workers of the
Formica Insulation Co., 40 per cent
OF whom are women, struck today
for union recognition and an in
crease in wages. All company ef-
forts to postpone the strike failed.
Ninety per cent of the shop is or
ganized in the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09

charged with the S110,000,000 that
Bakhmetiev swindled. At Senate
hearings he could not account for
it. Neither the money, nor the
supplies supposed to have been
bought with it, were ever sent to
Russia. Congressman L. McFaddon
of Pennsylvania, after the Congress
sional investigation on the Keren-
sky loans, said
ut went to pay the contracts
which the Russian fiscal agent in
Russia had made with business
concerns in this country for muni-
tons, and the bulk of the money
was used for the purpose of pay
in these munitions contracts
which the fiscal agents placed
here. Then the goods did not 90
to Russia, and were sold and
manipulated by Mr.. BsShmetiev,
IConf.~s,.1I -. Doon ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09
USE COMPANY UNIONS
AGAINST STRIKE

NEW ORLEANS, May BIN an
attempt to break the strike of the
1000 longshoremen in the seven gulf
ports and Lake Charles, La. steam
ship owners have given a 10-cent-
an-hour increase in wages to the
New Orleans company unions.
Joseph P. Ryan, president Of the
International Longshoremen's Assn,
took the LA charters away from
two old locals in New Orleans and
gave them to the leaders of these
two company unions. They would
be in the LILA. now, except for an
injunction brought against Ryan by
the old locals.
Ports at Houston, Galveston and
Beaumont are tied up tight. The
strikers, members of the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's Association,
are picketing in a splendid manner.
When an official of the Red River
Barge Line started to unload at
Beaumont. picket knocked him
down. The boss changed his mind.
More Expected Out
Loneshoremen in Mobile, Ala. are
expected to Join the strike, as are
the men in other gulf ports. Mean
while csrgoes from the struck ports
are being diverted to New Orleans.
where they are unloaded and for
warded by freight.
One hundred pickets at Corpus
Christi. Texas, saw to it that no
unloading went on there, while 200
employees of the Southern Pacific
Steamship Co. at Houston decided
not to interfere with the strikers.
The longshoremen are watching
Beaumont as the critical battle
ground. So far. the strike situation
there seems to be in control Of the
longshoremen.
Lake Charles is unloading with
scabs, following the killing of a
young union man, Murphy Humph-
rey, 81.
n. Y. DOCKERS TO MEET
NEW YORK. Supporting the
longshoremen who are striking IN
the southern ports. the Marine
Workers Industrial Union and the
Rank and File Action Committee Of
the International Longshoremen's
Association has called a mass meet
ing at Pier 43, on West Streot. to-
day at noon.
The nesting will take up the
question Of refusing to unload scah
cargo from the southern ports.