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The Washington times., 1934-01-18
CANCER VICTIM
TAKES POISON

Miss Amy Crance, 70. patient
at the Home for Incurables since
May, 1881, said to have been
under treatment for cancer, ended
her life today by swallowing
poison.
Miss Crance was found in her
room by a nurse, Mrs. Ina Var
ner, with an empty bottle, which
had contained the poison, beside
her body. It was discovered later
she had bought the poison at a
drug store yesterday.
Miss Crance had no relatives in
Washington, police were told.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
Annual Prayer Week
To Start at HOIUQrd

The annual week of prayer at
Howard University will be opened
Sunday morning with prayer SER
vices by Prof. Reinhold Neibuhr,
of Union Theological Seminary,
New York City, the committee on
Religious Life announced yester-
day. In the afternoon President
Mordecai w. Johnson will lead
discussion at a forum in Clark
Hall.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
Unit
Will Fill Vacdncu

Applications to fill a vacancy in
the Bureau of Plant Industry, De-
partment of Agriculture, will be
accepted by the United States
Civil Service Commission unil
February z, 1t was announced by
the. commission yesterday. The
duties will be to direct agricul-
tural exploration in foreign coun.
tries. The entrance salary ranges
from SIS, 800 to Sc, 400 per year.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
PAYS FRATERNAL VISIT

Arthur B. ]. Williamson, Master
of the Fourth Degree, Knights of
Columbus, together with otner
ranking officials for this jurisdic-
ton, will pay a fraternal visit
to Spalding Council tonight. A
buffet supper will be held follow
ing the meeting.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
Fraternity Chief
Feted at GU. Dinner

H. G. Wright, grand secre-
tary and treasurer of George
town University's chapter of the
Delta Sigma ri fraternity was
entertained at dinner and
smoker at the Fairfax Hotel last
night. Wright has been making
his annual inspection tour of
the fraternity's Sc chapters.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
OBSERVE HDASSAH NIGHT

Junior Hadassah Night will be
observed at Adas Israel Synagogue
tomorrow night at 8 O'Clock. Rabbi
Solomon H. Metz will conduct the
services and Miss Rose Kruger,
president, will speak on the or.
ganization activities.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
NRA To ENDURE,
GEN. JOHNSON
PREDICTS

The National Recovery Admin
tStrGtton NTH its "Blue Eagle" and
Its codes is one of the main bull
1ndrkS of the Neto Deal. 1t rep
TeSentS the most ambitious at
tempt eDer made By the Federal
Government to recognize conflict
ing intreStS of capital, labor and
the consuming public.
In this article. one of q series
OF tnterDietpS tDith men Dho are
carrying out President RooSeUelt'S
UGSt reconstruction program, NRA
Administrator Hugh S. Johnson
gtUeS his otDn personal interpret1-
ton OF a Laboratory experiment"
tnUolUtng millions OF people.
BY PAUL C. YATES
Copyright. 1888. by International
News Service)
Part OF the all-embracing sys-
tenn Of partnership between capt.
tai. labor and Government set up
under the National Recovery Act
will be retained permanently, Gen.
Hugh s. Johnson, NRA Admins.
traitor, predicted today in an in
terview with International News
Service. He said:
"SOme Of it is good and de-
serves to live. Some of it is bad
and deserves to die"
The dynamic johnson, one Of
the most forceful and picturesque
figures in the New Deal, warned
against the small-tine chiselers
and the big-time profiteers. He
said:
''Ninety-five per cent Of the
complaints now being made
against NRA are by small busi-
ness firms that don't want to
pay decent wages. Most of the
chiSeling is by small firms"
SMALL CHISELERS
Turning to the dig industrial
establishments which employ
large numbers Of workers, he
stated:
"The NRA offers means
which 1 regard as highly effec-
tive for preventing exOrbitant
profits.
1--WE are not in favor Of
profit control by Government
fiat. But If there should be
. REPETITION of 1928 tendencies,
with swollen profits going to
encourage speculative frenzy or
to finance unusable plant ex-
pansiOn, we would have the
machinery with which to ex-
erciSe control.
eve would call in these in
dustries and ask them If they
wanted to commit suicide. In
my belief. they would listen to
reason"
johnson revealed that he plans
to oppose any legislative revisions
of the National Recovery Act at
the present session of Congress.
The Blue Eagle vas described
by johnson as "a laboratory
bird" Due to the desperate
crisis forced upon the country
by the collapse of rugged in
dividualism," johnson explained
the NRA necessarily became
"vast laboratory of method
Called Prejudiced
After months of toiling, blus-
tering, cajoling and performing
miracles in the way of codifying
reluctant industries and recalcit-
rant labor groups, johnson said,
Extremists among the indus
triaIists accuse us of being par
tial to labor, while extremists
among the labor groups say
we are partial to industry.
interpret that as a pretty good
sign we are keeping impartially
to the middle of the road"
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
Baker Is GiUen Post
On Trade Publicity

Joseph L. Baker, for six years
secretary of the Democratic con-
gressional committee, has been
appointed publicity director of the
Federal Trade Commission, it was
announced yesterday.
Charles S. Hayden, veteran
Washington newspaperman, has
been appointed secretary of the
committee,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-20

overcome the disunity In the textile workers ranks;
they tried with the other workers TO make the
strike 100 per cent effective Always their objective
was and remains: Victory!
Even you, Mr.. German, cannot deny the good
work of the Communists in the strike, because our
work. the work of hundreds of Communists, is
known to tens of thousands of textile workers from
Maine to Alabama. They know that we have worked
despite your ISLANDERS and the attacks of the reac-
tionary strikebreakers, to hold solid ranks in the
strike until the workers demands are granted
NOW because the victory of the strike is in danger
~ we address this open letter to you as the head
Of the U.T.W. Strike Committee. We wish to dis
the present position of the strike and the steps
which must now be taken to guarantee the Veto
rious conclusion of the strike
What is the position of the strike, now in its
third week?
Most important, the strikers ranks are still
solid. The opening up of small mill here or there
does not represent break in the strikers ranks
for with each mill opened another is closed by the
workers flying squadrons and picket lines
Moreover. even the few small mills which have re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-20
Student Leagues Join
To Lead Anti Fascist
Demonstration Tod ay

NEW YORK.-The National Stu
dent League and the Student
League for Industrial Democracy
will Join this morning in leading
united front demonstration of
workers groups in connection with
the arrival of 300 Italian students
from Fascist schools aboard the
liner Saturnia. The liners dock,
wncrc the demonstration is to be
held at 9 o'clock, is at 57th and
West Streets.
The demonstration will call on the
italian students to protest against
Fascist rule in their native country
and urge them to demand the right
of workers to organize. The DEM
onstration will also demand the re-
lease of G-amsci, Terracini and all
other working class political pris-
oners held in Italian jails.
Other groups which are to take
part in the demonstration are the
Labor Sports Union, the Young
Communist League, the Federation
of Italian Workers Clubs and the
youth section of the American
League Against War and Faseisn.
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opened have been reopened by military force and
with skeleton crews. And the employers can't make
cloth with bayonets and machine guns
NEVER has such large section of the American
~ working class gone through strike, with such
brutal terror directed against it, and still held its
strike lines firm.
Armed thugs and underworld gangsters have
been pressed into service by the mill owners. Local
police and shers have dubbed and gassed strikers
by the hundreds. National Guardsmen have been
called out in practically all textile areas and with
bayonets, rifles and machine guns, they have en-
deavored to break the strike.
Fifteen strikers, up until today, have been
cruelty murdered Dozens more lie in their beds,
lowering between life and death. The toll of dead
and wounded gives to this textile strike the char
acter of
And yet, Mr.. German. the strikers ranks are
still solid.
pUT how long the workers hold out in the
face of such terror unless they are aided by the
remainder of the working class? The wide sweep
of the terror yesterday-w ate~vle Me- Little Falls,
(CoufiDued o, PINE y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-20
Two Governors Act To
Extend Aid to Mill
Owners
By Carl Reeve

DAILY Worker staff Correspondent
BOSTON, Mass, Sept. 19.-Sev-
eral thousand workers mass picketed
the Sayles Finishing Mill at Sayles-
vile this morning as National
Guard troops with drawn bayonets
protected the strikebreakers. The
mill remains crippled. National
Guard troops from Woonsocket
were concentrated at the Sayles-
vile mill in the strike breaking eff
fort.
A concentrated strike breaking
campaign has been laun C h d
throughout New England under the
slogan of Protection of the Work
ers' Right to Work" The mill own
ers are sending delegations" of
workers to the Governors which
consist of bosses and stool pigeons
and "petitioning" for the opening
of the mills. The Governors of
Rhode Island and Massachusetts,,
who are close to the mill owners
and participate in the well-organ-
lied strike breaking scheme, then
make statements that they will pro-
teet the workers, meaning the pro-
lection of scabs.
Newspapers Play Down Strike
Workers are being terrorized in
many cases into signing these So
called petitions, which are being
manufactured as basis for break
ing the strike with the use of troops
and thousands of armed guards. The
newspapers for two days have been
playing down the strike as a part
Of this weeks trike-breaking drive.
They now have smaller headlines
on the first page or only stories on
the inside pages. They are trying
to give the workers the impression
that the strike is over and to spread
decentralization. TIL intensified
Red" scare accompanies this
weeks strike-breaking drive.
Most New England papers last
night and today completely sup
pressed my f1fteen-minute state
ment of the Communist Party'S
position, in the delegation to Gov
ernor Ely and quoted only Ely's
statement he would not talk to q
Communist.
U.T.W. Heads Follow Owners
The U.TW. leaders, by refusing
to hold union meetings and by not
taking organizational stops tc
strengthen the strike; by making
agreements with city, state and po-
lice officials to limit picketing; BY
spreading rumors of individual set.
Elements not based on the nationa
demands; by relying on Washington
maneuvers instead of mass picket.
ing and mass actions-are goine
along with the strike breaking
moves of the mill owners.
The Sayles mill was opened, un.
der Governor Green's protection
with drawn bayonets of troops, with
heavy barbed wire entanglements
with machine guns on the roofs Of
the mill, vomit gas bombs in stack
near the mill gates.
Picket Lines Spread
The militancy of the workers wa.
manifested today in the mass pickle
lines not only at the Sayles mill
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-20
Strike Gains Despite
Refusal of German
To Issue New Call
BY Seymour Waldman
DAILY Worker Washington Bu7eau)

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 10
U. T. W. Strike Chairman Francis
J. German this afternoon substan-
tiated reports that he and the A. F.
Of L. officialdom plan to stall the
textile strike by announcing that he
will not call out the strike-eage
dye. synthetic rayon, carpet and rug,
and allied trades workers until next
Monday, if at all. His remark that
he would certainly" confer with
Secretary of Labor Perkins if she
asks him to, following the compile
ton of the Winant report, lends
credence to the growing belief that
Roosevelt arbitration is in the off,
ing.
IF anyone is called out I believe
it will not become effective until
Monday German told the press,
shortly after the U.TW. Executive
Council meeting.
Favors Individual Settlements
German informed reporters that
the Executive Council had APP
proved the attitude Of the strike
committee and had given the COM
mittee discretion to make indivi-
dual or group mill settlements"
George Googe, A. F. Of L. repre-
sentative in the South, phoned in
from Atlanta during the press con-
ference. He reported:
"EiCbfpon mills Cpo,,aJ u, Eoor
gia under heavy guard. All these
workers are in mills where we had
little or no organization. They are
operating with a small percentage
of workers. Between five and six
thousand workers returned out of
$4,000 who were idle. The union
ranks are remaining solid, although
most of the State Council officers
have been locked up. Because of
the prevailing martial law we can't
find them. Under martial law we're
unable to even hold mass meetings,
but the morale of our people has
not been shaken. Most Of the
trouble which the Governor blamed
on the flying squadronS, is due TO
the undercover agitation of labor
detective agencies. I will appeal to
the Governor to raid their head
quarters and drive them out"
Conjectures Of observers and
newspapermen covering national
strike headquarters in the Carpen-
ters Building ranged from the view
that deal between the U. T. W.,
the employers and the corporations
! dominated Winant Textile Inquiry"
Board is in the wind, to the opinion
that the U. T. WA F. of L. lead
ership desires to keep the strike
4, within conciliatory (artGtration)
control chat is, from the feared
rank and file picket line controD,
until the momentarily expected re-
port of the Winant Board should
be followed promptly by a summons
to the U. T. w. officials and the
employers to repair to Hyde Park.
Strikers Send kilograms
News of this situation has evil
IDENTIFY grape-vined to the picket
lines. FESTIVE over the strike lead
ership's slow motion tactics, the
strikers sent numerous kilograms to
Continued on PAGE q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-20
NeVVS of Strike
In Brief

German, U.T.W. strike head,
fails to cali 10000 allied trades
workers out in sympathy strike,
though workers declare for
strike.
Members of nine National
Guard regiments in New York
circulate statement protesting
strike duty.
Bridgeport National Guard
members visit Communist Party
offering solidarity with strikers.
More troops modified in strike
areas.
BayOnets, tear gas, fail to
open most important Southern
mills as picket lines remain
firm.
Picket dies of bayOnet wounds
in Charlotte, n. C.
Mass picketS close more Penn
sylvania mills despite police at
tacks.
Lowell, Mass, officials launch
wild Red scare" and terrorize
militant workers.
Philadelphia employers 60 to
courts for injunctions against
pickets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-20
General Strike Planned in Paterson and PaSsaic;
Strike Breaking Driue Seethes in Ne,O England;
Tgilante Bands Organise to Aid Mil Owners
M ain Demands
In the Strike

The textile workers, 100000
strong, from Maine to Ala
bama, are fighting for the fol-
lowing main demands as adopted
by the recent convention of
United Textile Workers Union:
(1) Hours: Two shifts of 30
hours per week with no exemp-
tions.
" DifferentiaIS: The estab-
lishment of four minimum
wages: Unskilled, S13 per 30
hour week; semi-Skilled, S18 per
30-hour week; skilled, $3.50 per
3O-hOur week; highly skilled, $50
per 30-hour week.
(3) Machine Load: The revi-
sion of all work loads on the
basis of reason and ordinary
common sense.
a. Recognition of the Union:
Reinstatement of all workers
victimized because of union
membership.
(NOTE:-For detailed statement Of
wage demands for each category of
workers and machine loads in each
department see the Daily Worker Of
Tuesday, September ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-20
C.P. Marks
18th Year
Tomorrow
n. Y. Workers To Rally
Ina Bronx Coliseum
on Anniversary

NEW YORK. Workers from all
over this city will gather at the
Bronx Coliseum tomorrow evening
to celebrate the Fifteenth Ami
versary of the Communist Party.
The hall will be decorated with
banners and placards bearing greet
ings from numerous organizations.
Both the International Workers
Order Symphony Orchestra and the
Workers international Relief Band
will perform.
Clarence A. Hathaway, editor of
the Daily Worker, will speak on the
history of the Communist Party
through fifteen years of growth and
development. He will describe the
birth of the Party, the time when
thousands of workers broke with
the opportunist policies of the So
cialist Party, and trace the illegal,
early, formative years, the fight
against sectarianism and factional-
ism.
Hathaway will also trace the
major campaigns and struggles led
by the Communist Party, and tell
of the achievements and invaluable
leadership given by the Communist
International, the results of the
Open Letter that orientated the
Party membership towards the
shops, the results of the Eighth
Convention, and the tasks facing
the Communist Party.
Charles Krumbein, district or
ganizer, will tell of the advances
made in New York Short speeches
will be made by I. Amter, Com
munist candidate for governor in
the coming elections; Steve King
ston, member of the District Com
mittee; Rose Wortis Of the Trade
Union Unity Council and John Lit
tie of the Young Communist
League.
Delegates will be sent by forty
workers organizations including
local unions affiliated with the
Trade Union Unity League, indie
pendent unions and the American
Federation of Labor. Many fra
.ernal clubs will be represented.
The Communist fractions within
a number of mass organizations are
recruiting members from among
their most active forces, as birth
day gift" to the Communist Party
on It's Fifteenth Anniversary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-20
A N E DITTO RIA L

textile workers themselves are won.
More specifically, so there be doubt
to our stand, the Communist Party will fight with
all its energy to aid the textile workers in winning
the following demands (the demands as worked
out by the u T. w. convention):
81. Hours: two shifts OF thirty hours per week.
with exemptions.
az Diferentials the establishment of four
minimum wages.
Unskilled-S13.00 per thirty hour week.
Semi skilled-S1S.00 per thirty hour week.
SkiIled-S22.50 per thirty-hour week.
Highly skled-S30 per thirty hour week
49, Machine load; the revision of all work loads
the basis of reason and ordinary COM
sense.
a. No discrimination against any workers be-
longing to the organization; reinstatement
of all workers victimized because of union
membership; recognition of the union"
Every Communist Party member, from the first
day of the strike, has been guided in his work by
this one aim: The victory of the textile workers
strike the basis of the demands adopted by the
workers at the u. T. w. convention.
Our members everywhere aided in closing the
mills; they joined the mass picket lines; they par
ticipated in the flying squadrons; they worked TO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-20
Striker, Gouged With
BayOnet, Dies of
Wound i'm Charlotte
BY Harry RAYMOND
DAILY Worker STAFF Correspondent

DAILY Worker staff Correspondent
CHARLOTTE, N. c., Sept. 10
Gouged with a bayonet yesterday
afternoon while doing picket duty
in front of the Knit Products Mill
at Belmont, N. c.. Ernest K. Riley,
10 years old, Of Mount Holly, died
at $40 o'clock this morning in the
Presbyterian Hospital here. j. T.
Brown, "a, of Belmont, who was
bayoneted in the back when troops
charged the Belmont strikers, is in
the same hospital in a serious con-
dition.
The bayonet attack came when
strikers maSsed at the mill entrance
in peaceful picket formation. Sew
eral squads of the 105th Engineers,
Co. B. of Morgantown. were or
dered by officers to Geploy and force
the workers off the road. They
charged viciously across the road
with fixed bayonets, drove the strik-
ers into the houses across from the
mill, arrested several persons and
left Riley and Brown lying on the
road with great gaping wounds.
No Effort to Stop Blood
The two wounded strikers we're
later put into cars and taken to the
Charlotte Hospital. Riley's life could
have been saved, workers report, if
proper first aid had been applied
to his wound before he was taken
to the hospital. Blood poured from
wound in his leg, where main ar
terry was severed, and no effort was
made to stop the blood flow until
he arrived at the hospital several
miles away. It was too late then.
A doctor at the Presbyterian Hos
pital informed me that if a tourne-
quet had been applied to the wound
ed workers leg, at Belmont his life
could have been saved.
Meanwhile two additional COM
panies of troops were ordered into
the Belmont-Gastonia area this
morning, but the thousands of pick
cts were there as usual enraged
over the bloody killing.
Form Vigilantes Group
Last night 300 merchants, middle
class farmers, preachers and local
officials met in Belmont and formed
the nucleus Of a fascist vigilante
organization Each member pledged
himself to give active support in
defense of the inalienable right of
man to work" Leaders of vigil
lantes declared they would recruit
their band to the strength of 1000
before nightfaI.
Sheriff Clyde Robinson of CASTOR
County, who is in command of the
scores of deputies who have been
haunting and threatening strikers
since the strike began, was seized by
a crowd of Belmont pickets late
yesterday and dragged from his car.
GuardSmen with cooked rifles took
the frightened sheriff from the
pickets and he left Belmont under
heavily armed escort.
Plan Martial Law
Governor ]. c. B. EhrinighauS was
said to be considering the declara-
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-20
n. Y. Troops
Protest Duty
In Strikes


NEW YORK. - National Guard
members in nine regiments here
have drawn up statement declar-
ing their opposition to any kind Of
strike duty against pickets and call
ing upon all National Guard troops
to refuse strike breaking duty in the
textile strike.
The statement, now being dis
tributed in the armories in the form
of leaflets, is signed by the Joint
Anti trikebreaking Committee of
the 14th, list, 165th and 369th In
fantry; 105th, 258th Field Artillery;
212th, 245th Coast Artillery, 1o2nd
Engineers and 102nd Medical unit
all Of the 9th Division.
1--WE did not enlist to become
strikebreakers," the Guardsmen
say in their statement. 1--WE call
upon all other Guardsmen of New
York to follow us and resist being
used as strikebreakers. We, the
enlisted men of New York Ma
tional Guard serve warning to
Government and the mill employ
ers that we will refuse to carry
out orders to force textile workers
back to starvation wages"
The statement points out that Col
onel Hewlett, commander of the
1O1st Cavalry, Brooklyn, is president
If tho Wotarfnrd Mills in OueI1
Mass. and calls upon the guards
men everywhere to fraternize with
the strikers on the picket lines
1.-THE strikers are our union brothers
fellow workers, and guard buddies,
the statement says, and calls upor
the men in every battery to wirt
protests to Lehman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-20
.C.P. i'm Sweden
Gains ~ Seats
In the Riksdag

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. 10.
The Communist Party has won
AZ seats in the Riksdag, incomplete
returns showed yesterday.
They had only nine seats in both
houses in the previous Riksdag.
They had only nine seats in both
houses in the previous Riksdag.
The Social Democrats made gains
but failed to obtain a ma jority or
bloc sufficient to outvote the re-
Gently formed coalition of bour-
geoiS parties.
The Social Democrats have to con-
tinue to depend upon the Agrarians,
with whom they cooperated in the
past months, to an increasing ex-
tent. Their hostility to the Com
munists has increased rather than
decreased in the face of the bour-
geois coalition.