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The Washington times., 1934-06-13
WILL ROGERS
Says:

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June 13.
Well the latest papers record
the fact that Mr.. Tugwel went
through o. X. They tried him
for being a menace" and he
come clear.
1 am glad of that, its a
mighty hard thing to tell now
a-days whether an idea Is revO-
lutiOnary, or downright con-
servative. TugweIl proved that
he had at one time been a
"dirt" farmer. 1 think that's
what got him clemency with
the jury. A soldier returning
from q popular war don't carry
as much sympathy aS a dirt"
farmer, or for that matter even
a prairie land farmer, where
there amt no dirt.
(CopWr1ght, 1884, by McNaught
Syndicate. Iue.S
The Washington times., 1934-06-13
Farley Will Attend
CQrner1-Rner Finht

When the battle of the cen.
tury" comes off tomorrow night
in Madison Square Garden, one of
New. York city's former boxing
commissioners will be there with
lot of other fight fans.
The former boxing commissioner
IS none other than James A. Far.
ley, now Postmaster General and
chairman of the Democratic Ma.
tional Committee. "Big JIM has
arranged to see the Carnera-Baer
fight.
The Washington times., 1934-06-13
Tydings Bill Grants
Islands S23,862,75O
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
The Secretary of the Treasury
would be authorized to allow the
Philippine Islands $23, 1862, ,750.78
by terms of the Tydings Senate
Bill passed by the Senate today.
The amount, according to the
bill, would equal the increase in
value resulting from the reduc-
ton of the weight Of the gold
dollar. or the gold equivalent on
January 81, of the balances main
tanned by the Philippines govern
ment in United States banks for
its gold standard and its treasury
certificate fund, less interest.
The Washington times., 1934-06-13
Senate Group Plans
BLOW at BOOtIeqqeI
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
At the request of the Secretary
of the Treasury Morgenthau the
Senate Finance Committee today
favorably reported the Harrison
joint resolution to protect revenue
by regulation of traffic in con-
tainers of distilled spirits, giving
the Treasury secretary the power
to prescribe regulations on the
use and reuse of bottles as liquor
containers and is intended to pre-
vent bootleggers from refilling
such bottles with illegal spirits
for retail sale.
The Washington times., 1934-06-13
Dance Features
Merchants RQLLy

ALEXANDRIA, Va, June ia
dinner dance attended by over $50
guests was given last night by the
Retail Merchants Association Of
Virginia, which convened here yes
terday for a two-day session.
The business session opened TO-
day at 9:45 with the report Of the
president. E. w. Broidy. of Rich
mond. Va. Following the election
of officers the session will close
with the annual golf tournament
at the Belle Haven Club.
The Washington times., 1934-06-13
Senators Hit Back.
At German Default
Inv InternationaI NeWa Service

BY international News Service
The Senate Finance Committee
today approved an initial reprisal
step against Germany as a debt
defaulter by approving the Harri-
son resolution to withhold pay
ment of claims by Germans under
the awards of the mixed claims
commission until Germany pays
reparations to this country. Ap-
proximately $1O,OO0,OOO is due to
Germans in reparations claims.
The Washington times., 1934-06-13
u. s. to Join Fete
To Honor Cartier

A House joint resolution to in.
sure participation by the United
States in an international celebra-
tion to commemorate the fourth
centenary of Jacques Cartier,
French explorer, and the compile
ton of restoration of old Fort
Niagara was passed by the Sen
ate today.
The Washington times., 1934-06-13
SET
TO PREVENT
OPEN SHOP
General Construction Tie-Up
Threatened As Conference
Ends in Deadlock

Girding itself with its only
weapon Of defense "a general
walkout - labor today was pre-.
pared for a crisis tomorrow in its
battle with Washington building
contractors.
That contractors on the Fed
eral construction projects here
will throw open jobs to nonunion
as we'll as union carpenters ap-
peared q certainty.
Union carpenters in Washing.
ton went out on strike May for
$1.3712 and a six-hour' day. They
voted down two proposals Of con-
tractors, one for $1.25 an hour
and an eight-hour day, and an
other for $1.25 an hour and a
32-hour week.
$1.1O An Hour Offered
Out-of-town contractors, follow
ing the lead Of members of the
Master Builders Association here,
will give jobs tomorrow to any
men willing to work for $1.10 an
hour and an 8-hour day. In max
ing public their declaration, con-
tractors carefully avoided use Of
the word open shop, but their
policy has been construed that
way by union leaders here.
It was definitely learned that
26 trades will be pulled" from
construction jobs tomorrow morn
ing if any carpenters are hired at
$1.10 an hour. A union carpenter
accepting a job at this rate auto
matically becomes a str ike
breaker, and thus contractors hir-
ing them fall into the classified
ton Of .'open shop" builders.
More than so pickets have
been assigned by the carpenters
union to police those spots where
non-union workmen are likely to
be hired tomorrow morning.
No Police Call
Chief of Police Major Ernest
w. Brown said today he had not
been requested by either side Of
the dispute to call out an extra
guard of police to insure peaceful
negotiations tomorrow.
o. c. Rickard, president Of the
local carpenters union, said the
pickets will be brought out to
discourage Strike-breakerS from
taking jobs. He added, however.
that what acts the pickets would
resort to is questionable.
Charges were made today by
Richard A. Dickson, president OF
the Central Labor Union, that
contractors here "are unlawfully
withholding money from carpen-
ters." He asserted that in their
bids for work here, contractors
specified $1.371a would be paid to
carpenters, and that they are u1-
lawfully withholding the differ
ence between this scale and that
offered now.
Ruling Cited
According to Mr.. Rickard,
Comptroller General McCarl has
made a ruling to the effect that
the money saved by this method
cannot be returned to the Gov
ernment.
The contractors, therefore, are
holding the money themselves,
Mr.. Dickson charged.
Commissioner George Allen con.
tinued his last-minute efforts to-
day to stave off definite breach
between the contractors and their
employers. At conference in his
office, Albert Caya, business agent.
and o. c. Rickard, president Of
the local union, refused to bulge
from their original stand Of
$1.371a an hour for their men.
Following this conference the
commissioner talked with out-of-
town contractors.
The Washington times., 1934-06-13
Appeal By Bolivia
Meets u. S. Rebuff
International News Service

International News Service
The United States today re.
jected Bolivia'S appeal to with
draw the recently proclaimed
American embargo against the
sale of arms and munitions to
Bolivia and Paraguay, now en-
gagged in sanguinary conflict over
Gran Chaco possession.
The Washington times., 1934-06-13
Senate Approves
Medal for BrOnte
International News servic,

IHUCNHdUIUIIuI INUWS
The Senate today passed the
Johnson joint resolution authoriz-
ing the President to present the
Distinguished Flying Cross to
Emory B. Bronte, Of San Fran
cisco, for his work as navigator on
the second successful flight from
California to the Hawaiian Islands
in July, 1927.
The Washington times., 1934-06-13
April Auto Sales
jump 200 Per Cent
International News Ser

International News Service
Automobile sales during April
this year were more than 200 per
cent higher than during the same
period a year ago, it was indi
Gated today as the Department OF
Commerce issued its monthly re-
port on automobile financing.
The Washington times., 1934-06-13
TODAY's PROBABLE LINE-UPs
DOuble-header
First Game at $50 p. NJ.
WASHINGTON

GRIFFITH STADIUM, June 13.
Luke Sewell. veteran catcher, re-
turned to the lineup today as the
Griffs met the Chicago White Sox
in the first game of a double
header. It was his first appear
ance since March when in that
month he was injured when a foul
tip off Joe Vosmik's bat dislocated
his finger.
Earl Whitehill was the Griff
pitcher in today's first game,
while Ted Lyons was the White
Sox choice. A crowd of about
5000 was in the stands as UNI
pire OrmsbY called play ball.
The Washington times., 1934-06-13
Lighthouse Tract
GiUen City As Park

BY International News Service
President Roosevelt today signed
a bill providing for conveyance OF
an abandoned lighthouse reserva-
ton within the city limits to the
city of Erie, Pa, for public park
purposes. The reservation in
cludes q tower and other build
ingS.
The Washington times., 1934-06-13
TUO Washington Men
Get Rank in Reserves

PhareS Oscar Sigler, of the 1900
block Of Harvard st. N. W., has
been appointed a captain in the
Army Reserves, and Edwin John
Laragay, of the 3100 block Four
teenth st. N. W., a first lieutenant,
the War Department announced
today.
The Washington times., 1934-06-13
Garbage Disposal
Contracts To Be Let

Arlington county board mem
bers today were to let contracts
for disposal of trash and garbage
for the coming fiscal year. Bids
were opened at a recent meeting,
but action was deferred pending
investigation.
The Washington times., 1934-06-13
FERA AIDS OKLAHOMA
b. International Newa S

BY International News Service
The FERA today advanced
$500, 900 to Oklahoma for drought
relief, In addition to other assist
ance already given.
The Washington times., 1934-06-13
In The Times Today

FIRST SECTION
The Washington times., 1934-06-13

WASHINGTON FORECAST
Fair tonight and Thursday: not much chang
In temperature. Full report on Page 49,
MEAN TEMPERATURES
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
German Acts
To Sabotage
Textile Strike

PROVIDENCE, R. T., Dec. 49,
Francis German, vice. president of
the United Textile Workers of
America acting over the heads of
the striking workers of the Hamil-
ton Wooden Mills at Southbridge
has ordered them to return to work
tomorrow.
The workers are on strike be-
cause the company refuses to take
back all the union workers, and
insists that 200 scabs be retained.
In calling off the strike the ma
tional officials are ordering the
Southbridge workers to accept dis
elimination, which will virtually
spell the smashing of their union.
Francis German is to speak in
Webster, Mass, today and a COM
mittee of prominent citizens" of
Southbridge is to see him on say
ing the plant for the city, Since
the strike was called state troopers
have been brought into the city.
The workers have maintained large
picket demonstrations, determined
that the strike will not end until
every union worker is taken back
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
Bv Ben Gold

The fight to save the Scottsboro
boys from death at the hands OF
the Southern lynchers, the fight to
save brave Angelo Herndon from
death on the chain gang of Georgia,
lis the direct concern of the entire
working class and of the great ma
jority of the population of the
United States, which feels in one
form or another the oppression Of
an exploiting capitalist minority.
Haywood Patterson and Clarence
Norris are threatened with death
in the electric chair. The date set
by the lynchers is Feb 8. The de-
cision of the Supreme Court of the
United States as to whether it will
hear the appeal may be handed
down within a few days.
The decision on the living death
facing Angelo Herndon is aso before
tine Supreme Court of the United
States.
Decision Rests With Masses
But the final decision rests with
the masses. Only through mass
action will the Scottsboro boys be
taken out of the clutches of the
Southern bosses. Only mass pres
sure will free Angelo Herndon from
the sentence of 20 years on the
chain gang.
The fight Is now in its most cru
Icial phase, The masses must use
every available resource at this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
NAILS PLAN
NEW MURDER
III. Neumann, Form Ell
Leader in German
C.P. Faces Death
Especial to the Daily worker,

ZURICH, Dec. % (By Wireless
Heinz Neumann, former secretary
of the Communist Party of Ger
many, has been arrested by the
Swiss police in Zurich. The MUIR
derous Hitler government has de-
manded his extradition on the lying
ground that Neumann was involved
in the Buelowplatz affair (Albert
Kuntz' triaD and in the murder of
the Nazi degenerate Horst Vessel.
If Neumann is turned over to
Germany, his fate is certain. No
one here doubts that he will imme-
diately be subjected to torture and
execution. In order to save Neu-
mann from being murdered by Hit
ler's Nazis, immediate action must
be taken by all mass organizations
as well as individuals to bring pres
sure to bear on the Swiss police.
"Neumann must not be returned to
Germany is the slogan raised by
the World Committee for the Vic
Tins of German Fascism. kilograms
and letters, the Committee urges,
should be Immediately forwarded
to the following address: Bundesrat,
Schulthess, Geneva, Switzerland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
Ben Gold Calls for Support
OF Scottsboro Defense Fund

present moment to insure victory.
The International Labor Defense,
which has conducted so energeti-
cally a campaign of mass action,
utilizing every possibility of legal
tactics at the same time, which has
saved the lives of the Scottsboro
boys for so many years, which has
snatched Angelo Herndon for a
brief time out of the Southern hell,
must be backed up now with every
available resource of the masses.
With mass pressure. And with
funds.
Funds Needed
Funds are sorely needed. It is
unthinkaole that at this time the
working class and their sympa-
thizers will allow any obstacle to be
put in the way of fight so glori-
|ously conducted up to now.
The International Labor Defense
must have $4,000 Immediately for
the Scottsboro- Herndon Defense
Fund. I am confident that the
working class, employed and unem-
ployed, and especially those organ
lied in the unions. and all the
masses OF the people, will answer
the call with the speed which the
present critical moment makes so
urgent.
Send funds at once to the Scots
boro- Herndon Defense Fund, Inter-
national Labor Defense, Room $40.
so East 18th Street. New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
MILLS FACES
DEPORTATION
Fight Launched to Save
Communist LIE d er
of Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 23.-
The Federal government has re-
newed its attempt to deport A. w.
Mills, veteran fighter for the work
ing class and at present District
Organizer of the Philadelphia els
trict of the Communist Party. Mills
has been ordered by the inmigra-
ton authorities to. report to Ellis
Island by Jan. 2, 1885, for deporta-
ton.
Mills was taken to Ellis Island
two years ago, when immigration
officials invaded the offices of the
Central Committee of the Commu-
mist Party in New York City and
placed him under arrest, shortly
after the First National Hunger
March to Washington, D. c., Of
which he was the organizer. Mass
protests forced his release at that
time, although he was placed I'M
der $1,000 bond.
The main charge against Mills is
that he was the organizer of the
first National Hunger March. The
organized protest of the workers
against unemployment and starva-
ton forced certain concessions from
the government, and the arrest Of
Mills followed.
Mills had also earned the hatred
of the bosses and their government
for his activities of many years in
the struggles of the American work
ing class, as an organizer in Chi
cago, Buffalo, Detroit New York,
and in the Pittsburgh coal strike
and other actions by the workers
against starvation, imperialist war
and fascism.
The renewed attempt by the gov
eminent to deport Mills is directly
connected with the intense sharp
ening of the class struggle in this
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
Move To Steal
Votes in Silk
UnionCharged
MOVE TO STEAL

MOVE TO STEAL :. :. :. :. "
PATERSON, N. j., Dec. 2S.-Ei
Keller, Manager of the American
Federation of Silk Workers here
and group of officials supporting
him, at an executive board meeting,
yesterday, took a step that will en-
able them to steal the elections in
the broadsilk department OF the
union.
Having been overruled by the
Joint Board in their attempt to find
objection with the election commit
tee elected at membership meeting
two weeks ago, Keller and his group
at yesterdays executive board meet
ing decided to ignore the decision
of the higher body, and instead
railroaded through motion to
place the conduct of the election in
the hands of the organization COM
mittee of the unon. The committee
controlled by the reactionaries in
cludes many of the candidates
against whom the membership is at
present in revolt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
Labor Defense Opens
Research Department
In n ew York Office

The New York District of the.
International Labor Defense has
opened a research bureau whose
function will be that Of obtain
ing all information and facts
pertaining to the struggles Of
workers in a defense Of their
rights.
At the same time the research
bureau issued a call to all work
ers who are interested in research
activity to aid the work of the
bureau. 1t points out the value
Of this type Of work to those
who are anxious to understand
and acquaint themselves with
workers defense as a necessity
in furthering their own under
standing Of the workers move
ment.
The plan as outlined by Harry
Austin. who heads the bureau, is
ito include the mass activity of
all workers in this manner !.
that workers when they come
across articles, speeches, quota
tions, in newspapers, magazines,
bulletins, periodicals. etc. which
have to do with workers defense,
should mail all this to the IN
ternational Labor Defense. $40
Broadway, New York City"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
Zinoviev, Kamenev
Among Those Jailed
In KirOv Murder
lspselaI 70 tn. DAILY worker

MOSCOW. Dec. % by Wire
less) In addition to those per-
sons handed for trial to the
Military Collegium of the Su-
preme Court of the U.S.S.R. in
connection with the assassina-
ton of Sergei Kirov, the Com
missariat for Home Affairs has
ordered the arrest Of the follow
ing participants of the former
zinoviev anti-Soviet group:
Sharov. Kuklin, Faivilovitch, Ba-
kayev, Vardin, zalutsky. Gorshe-
min, zinoviev. Bulkh, Gertik. Ev-
dokimov, Kamenev, Fedorov,
Kostina and Safarov.
Because of less sufficient evil
dence concerning Fedorov, Safa-
row, Zinoviev, Vardin, Kamenev.
Zalutzky and Evdokimov, which
did not yet warrant their being
placed on trial, their cases were
handed over for consideration by
a Special Council under the aus
pices Of the Commissariat for
Home Affairs, in order that they
might be exiled administratively.
The investigation of the remain
der of those arrested continues.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
SACRAMENTO
COURT TRIES
TO PACK JURY
l8 Workers Tortured in
Jail, ]. L. D. Attorney
Tells Judge

SACRAMENTO, Calf. Dec, 23.-
Further attempts by the prosecution
and court officials to tamper with
the jury were exposed by the de-
Tense yesterday in it's battle against
the frame-up of eighteen workers
here on charges of criminal syndi-
calism. The move to railroad these
workers was seen by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense as part of
the nationwide attacks initiated by
the U. S. Chamber of Commerce.
the Hearst press and government
agencies on the working class and
directed particularly against its
vanguard, the Communist Party.
The eighteen defendants, men
and women, we're arrested in the
joint vigilante and police raids on
workers homes and headquarters
during the West Coast longshore
men strike and the General Strike
in San Francisco. The vigilante
terror followed and supplemented
the betrayal Of the strikers by the
A, F. Of L. bureaucracy.
Held for Fighting Oppression
The defendants are charged with
membership in the Communist
Party and advocacy of It's program
against unemployment, starvation
(ynching and Negro oppression. i'm.
perialist war and fascisrn. If con
victed the workers would be giver
long sentences, and this would be q
signal for sharper attacks against
the whole working class movement
The Importance attached by bis
business to their prosecution is at
tested by the huge mobilization al
the trial Of welI-known agents anc
paid pen prostitutes of the capital
lists, Red" Hynes of the notorious
Los Angeles 'red squad" and
red squad" and scores of stoo
pigeons brought here to strengthen
the frame-up with perjured testi-
mony against the defendants anc
the Communist Party.
Cites Fantastic Threats"
With the threatened collapse Of
the original frame-up, District-At-
torney McAllister, defeated in the
last election but still in charge Of
the prosecution. sprung new
frame-up with fantastic story thai
death threats" had been made "by
reds" against himself and one Of
his hand-picked jurors, Mrs. Nix
This woman, although not residing
in the state the year required under
the law for jury service was called
on one of the jury panels. The
capitalist press played up Meal.
listers story, but failed to mentor
its reputation by the defense.
A similar attempted frame-ur
engineered by McAllister collapsed
some time ago, when the announced
kidnapping" of a prosecution wit.
ness was revealed by the local pres.
as a hoax concocted by McAllister
Jury Tampering Revealed
A sensational exposure of Jht
methods Of selecting prospective
jurors for the trial and of attempt.
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
Writer Dies in Crash
While Bringing Gifts
To Strikers Children

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 49,
Dan Desouza, reporter of the
Washington Star, and president of
the Washington Newspaper Guild
was killed in an automobile acct
dent while on the way to Newark
with an automobile load of Christ
mas presents for the children OF
the striking Ledger workers.
William Peske, the driver. also a
member of the Guild, was injured,
but was discharged after being
treated at an emergency hospital.
Desouza. one of the most active
leaders of the Newspaper Guild, was
one of the members of the delega-
ton. headed by Haywood Broun,
national president of the Guild,
which walked out in protest from
the recent MIRA. hearing in Wash
ington.
The accident occurred at Hayatts-
vile, near Maryland, when the car
struck a truck stalled on the high
way.