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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
PHILADELPHIA Taxi
Strike Ends; Many
Denied Their Jobs
AFL Leaders and NRA
Labor Board Helped
in Betrayal

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9.-Only 400
of the striking taxi drivers of the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. will
be taken back Immediately by the
company under the terms OF the
agreement just reached between the
leaders Of the strike and the COM
pany.
The other 500 face discriminatory
action. The company declared it will
take back 100 week." with the
right to refuse work altogether to
those found guilty of "acts of vio-
lence during the strike"
The strike was ordered broken
originally by the National La
Dor Board. The company was Cor
dered" to take all the workers back
without discrimination. While the
company wanted the strike broken,
it refused to take the men back. A
general transportation strike was
called Of al truckers in the city in
support of the taxi drivers strike.
After three days this strike was
broken by the A. F. of L. leaders
with the support of the Socialist Of
ficials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Daily" to Publish Dimitroff's Courtroom Speech

Bulgarian fascists are savages
and barbarians. What fascists are
not?"
This is the manner in which
George Dimitroff in his dynamic, de-
fiant speech before the Nazi court
in Leipzig countered the attacks in
the Hitler press which had called
the Bulgarian people and Dimitroff
"barbarians."
Dimitroff's speech, interrupted by
frothing remarks from the fascist
presiding judge, Buenger, will be
published in full in the 1o-page
Daily Worker this Saturday, Jan. 10.
Besides Dimitroff's speech, which
will take up one full page of the
issue, the world important resolution
adopted by the 18th Plenum of the
Executive Committee of the Commu-
mist International in Moscow will be
published in this Saturdays Daily"
This resolution, entitled, 'Trascism,
The Danger of War and the Tasks
Of the Communist PARTIES" will state
the position of the Communist In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
u. s. Supreme Court
Gives Crisis Legal
Recognition Finally
Upholds Right of State
to Protect
Mortgages

WASHINGTON Jan. "a decision
handed down today by the United
States Supreme Court warned mort
gage holders that they must be will
ing to accept a moratorium on mort
gage collections at the present time
if the entire debt is to be finally col
lected
Warning the HoE1 Building anc
Loan Association Of Minnesota, which
sued to declare the Minnesota Law
permitting tw1-year suspension Of
mortgages, that it is wiser to relax
collections at present in order not Il
upset the whole economic structure
the Supreme Court declared:
TT cannot be construed that TIL
constitutional prohibition should b.
construed as to prevent limited ang
temporary interpretations with respect
to the enforcement Of contracts !
made necessary by a treat public ca
lamity such as fire food or earth,
quake it is designed for the basi
interest of society /
The decision of the Supreme Coul
hus gives rather belated recognitio,s
70 the existence of the crisis. approve
The active intervention Of the Eat
0ower 10 protect mortgage invest
nents and urges that the whole cap
talist structure will be endangered Il
90 hasty foreclcsing Of MORTGAGES. II
lecision is in the interest Of preserSt
lg the mortgage debt structurn
through temporary suspension
payments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Packing-House Men
Win 10 Pc. Increase
1000 Industrial Union
Organization Follows

SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn.-Under
the leadership of the packinghouse
Workers Industrial Union, the work
ers in the United Packing Co. plant
were granted 10 per cent increase
in wages last week.
A petition containing the names of
every worker in the plant was pre-
sented to the management, demand
ing the increase. When the time
limit set by the workers for the re-
ply expired, the management an
nounced that the increase was grant
ed. This victory has caused the A..
F. of L. members in the plant to
decide to join the Industrial Union,
which has the plant nearly 100 per
cent organized.
Armour Strike Leaders Trial Jan. 10
SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn.-The
trial of the Armour strike leaders,
Morris Karson, VIM. Schneiderman,
and Norman Hurwitz, will be held
on Jan. 10, in Judge Shepley's court.
The first trial Of the arrested strike
leaders was held last month and end
ed in a jury deadlock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Expect No End
to Crisis by 1887,
REC. Reveals
Request for L o a n i n g
Pow er Until Then
Seen as Admission

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Despite
the official optimism of Roosevelt
that the crisis will be over by 1885,
the r. F. C. today gave official in
tination that it does not expect any
let-up in the downward plunge OF
the crisis until at least 1887, by re-
questing the extension Of its loanlng
powers until that time.
The R. F. C. also asks Congress
for another billion dollars Of capital
to permit it to continue its enormous
subsidies to banks, trust companies,
railroads, etc.
If the funds asked by Roosevelt in
his latest emergency budget are
granted by Congress, the total Of
subsidies and direct loans to Wall
Street moncpolies granted by the R.
F. C. will reach the staggering sum
of $6,oOO,oOo,Ooo in the space Of three
years.
OF these huge loans and subsidies
over one billion has gone directly to
bankrupt banks, while another $780,
100000 has gone for the purchase Of
bank preferred stock to protect the
capital of the stockholders from the
effects of the crisis.
Jesse Jones, present chairman of
the R. F. c., chosen by Roosevelt.
recently obtained a $60,o00,000 loan
for his own bank in Oklahoma.
Charles E. Dawes, while Vice-Presi-
dent, obtained an $8o,0Oo000 loan
for his Chicago bank, most of which
Is now in default.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
German Refugee Speaks
For Din'itrof Torgler
At Mass Meet Tonight
Central Opera House
to Be Scene of
Demonstration

NEW YORK.-HanS Baer, ref
ugee from Hitler's fascist bands, will
speak tonight at the Central Opera
House, 9th st. and Third Ave, at a
mass demonstration for the freedom
of Ernst Torgler. George Dimitroff,
Blagoi Popoff and Basil Taneff, four
Reichstag fire defendants.
Among the others who will address
the meeting together with Baer will
be F. Elmer Brown Of the Big Six
Local of the Typographical Union
A. j. Music of the Conference for
Progressive Labor Action and Robert
Minor, of the Central Committee OF
the Communist Party.
Negro 'Lynchee" to Speak
Extending the hand of support to
the German masses struggling against
fascism, will be Norman Thibodeaux
a young Negro who recently escaped
lynching at the hands of Southern
mob.
Reichstag Defendants in Great Peril
"Tonight's demonstration is of the
greatest importance IN the light TO
save the lives of Dimitroff and his
comrades" stated Pauline Rogers,
secretary of the New York Committee
to Aid the Victims of German Fas-
cism, the organization under whose
auspices the meeting is taking place.
I'VE must warn all workers" she
continued, against any illusions
about the not guilty verdict. The de-
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Only 5000 Got Jobs
from C.W.A. Secret
Report DiScIOses
Daily Worker Reveals
Confidential
Figures

NEW YORK-Two hundred and
eight thousand unemployed workers
have been registered for C.W.A. jobs
and only 5000 have been given work
above those transferred from city
work relief, it was disclosed in a
recent meeting of committee of
the Welfare Council.
The report of Fritz Kaufman, a
C.WA. official, to the Welfare Com
mitttee revealed this information.
The official minutes of this COM
mittee Of the Welfare state of Kauf-
mans speech, Ending last Saturday,
Dec. Is, 100000 people had been reg
istered in Greater New York.
The report was that only about 5000
had been employed as yet" This
report is here made public for the
first time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

One week after this Saturdays
10-page Daily" a special Lenin An
niversary issue will be published on
Saturday, Jan. 20, in commemora-
ton Of the tenth year since the
death of the great leader of the world
revolution, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
The teachings of Lenin, which are
being realized this year as never be-
fore with the successful building OF
Socialism in the U. S. S. R. and the
heroic struggles of the German Com
munist Party. will be the main fea-
ture Of the issue. II will include a
special article on the application Of
Leninism to the United States.
Organizations and Party units
should send in orders at once to
ensure an adequate supply of cop
les. Both this Saturdays 10-page
issue containing pinitrofs's speec''
and the Communist international
Resolution and the Lenin Anniver-
sary issue of the Daily Worker the
following Saturday are to be his
torical documents every worker will
want to read and save.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Holmes, Wise Send
New Ruegg Protest
to Chang Kai Shek
ID e m and Safe Release
of Tortured Union
Leaders

NEW YORK. - John Haynes
Holmes, pastor of the Community
Church of this city, Rabbi Stephen
S. Wise, Jewish leader. Horace
Gregory, writer, and Malcolm Cow
ley, editor of the New Republic, have
joined in sending a cablegram to
Chang Kai Shek, demanding the re-
lease of Paul and Gertrude Ruegg,
leaders of the Pan-Pacific Trade
Union Secretariat, imprisoned and
tortured by the Koumintang regime
for their activity in behalf of Chinese
labor, the press in the metropolitan
area has been Informed.
Paul and Gertrude Ruegg have
been in Chinese dungeons for over
a year and half, and are now en-
gagged in hunger strike in protest
against their brutal treatment. Ger
trude Ruegg is severely i'll as re-
suit of the lack of food and harsh
prison regime.
The text Of the cable follows:
Chang Kai Sick,
Marking, China,
We make emphatic request i'm
provernent prison care Rueggs and
special medical attention Mrs.
Ruegg. Also urge immediate safe
release Of both.
(Signed) John Haynes Holmes,
Malcolm Cowley, Horace Gregory,
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
I.L.G.W.U. Heads
Call Police ON
Local 9 Members
Thousands of Left Wing
Refused Admission
to "Elections''
BULLETIN

As we go to press police have
been called by the /. L. G. w. U.
officials to dispense the thousands
of left wing workers massed at
Beethoven Hall, demanding en-
trance to TIE meeting. The officials
have called for election" of new
administration to Local 8. Inside
the hall the rooms are damned
with strcng men and right
wingers. The officials refuse adj
mission to the rank and file. Po-
lice are mingling in the crowd, pre-
pared to aid the right wing offi-
Gals in bloody attack on the
workers.
NEW YORK.-A hastily arranged
of members of Local 8 OF
the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union Monday night at
Webster Hall, at which nearly 800
members were present, adopted q
resolution vigorously protesting the
decision Of the l. L. G. w. U. Off
Gals to GUST the left wing admin
istration from Local 9 and calling
for a struggle to defeat this dicta-
torial action.
The decision of the IL.G.WU. Of
ficials following their farcical trial
reached the offices of Local Mon
day at noon, although the officials
took care to notify the capitalist
press day in advance. The trick
of the officials in springing the de-
cision on the left wing quickly and
proceeding Immediately with calline
a meeting for the election of a new
administration was planned to pre-
vent any mobilization by the men,
sership against the decision.
The Dubinsky clique expects tc
sorce through new administration
Of machine supporters and racke-
teers at a meeting at Beethoven Hal
Tuesday night in order to be free
20 continue their class collaboration
1olicies and destroy union condition,
gainst which left wing leader.
ought.
We will not take this lying down
nd Parnet Ccoper. MANAGER of 10
cal 8. we will fight for our rights
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Unemployed Council
Urges Funds Rushed
For Feb. 3 Convention

NEW YORK-The National
Committee of the Unemployed
Councils calls on all workers Or
CARNATIONS to take up the queS-
ton of special donations, collec-
tions, tag days and affairs and
house parties for the financing of
the National Convention Against
Unemployment to take place in
Washington, D. c., on Feb. ,, 4
and 5.
The time is short, the National
Committee points out, and an in
tensive financial campaign is
necessary if the expenses of
housing and feeding the delegates
are to be raised.
Rush funds to the National
Committee, Unemployed Councils,
80 E. 18th ST., Room 457, New
York, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
us. AirnlaiI
Files Burned
tOHideGraf
Federal ''Clean Up to
Increase Efficiency
of War Machine
By MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)

WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 9.-How
former Postmaster General Walter F.
Brown ordered the burning Of official
records of government airmail deals
and how an aviation company oper-
ator was forced by the Post Office
department to merge with another
bigger company because he was try
mig to carry airrnail too cheap" was
disclosed today in the official pro-
ceedings OF a Senate committee.
Coming at a time when the Roose-
welt regime is intensifying govern
ment war subsidies, especially for
military aviation, this sensational
graft exposure, involving high Off
Gals connected with the Hoover and
Roosevelt regime, uncovers the ex-
IRENE corrupt methods used to speed
war preparations.
The present Senate revelations, in
tended to give the impression Of a
clean up by the Roosevelt govern
ment, are in reality part Of the fever
ish drive Of Roosevelt to increase the
efficiency of the war aviation indus
try.
Hoover, Jr., Involved
The testimony also brought out
that Herbert Hoover, Jr., son of the
former President, represented big
aviation corporation in Washington
at time when that company was
being merged in connection with a
classification of the entire industry,
which resulted in a division of the
whole domestic field between three
mammoth holding groups.
Witnesses before a committee
headed by Senator Black Of Alabama,
Democrat, in short, were put through
. catechiem of corruption in govern
ment and in the aviation business.
Starvation Code
1t was all the more enlightening
in view of the fact that aviation is
a highly organized war industry
which specializes in patriotism, low
wages, staggered shifts and the open
shop. The aeronautical chamber of
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Funds for War to Come
from Public Works
Fund
ROOSEVELT AGREES
Army Also to Get New
Generals

WASHINGTON, Jan. g..
Continuing the unprecedented
preparations for war that have
marked the Roosevelt govern
ment from the beginning, a bill
authorizing the expenditure of
another 100000 Tor the construc-
ion of the most modern type of
Naval deStroyers was presented Gn
Congress yes rday by Representa-
tive Fred A. Britten, Republican Of
Illinois.
Huge Naval Machine
These funds will come in all proba-
5ility from the Public Works Fund,
7 was said, and will provide the
Navy with two additional cruisers,
TWO destroyer leaders, twelve destroy
ers and six submarines; in 1886, with
one plane carrier, twelve destroyers.
six submarines, and then twelve
destroyers and five submarines.
THE six cruisers to be authorized
VIII cost approximately S15,O00,o00
each; the five destroyer leaders will
cost $4,000 600 ecch, the sixty destroy
erS will cost So 100000 each: the one
airplane carrier at a cost of S2O,21O.-
600, and the twenty-nine submarines
will cost $3,90O,000 each. Thus the to-
tai expenditure running over a con-
struction period of approximately
seven years will be s473, 100000.
These added millions will be in
addition to the $6O0,OO0,00O, which
has already been spent for the Navy
in the last six months through reg
ular budget and public works" APP
preparations.
Secretary Ickes, director Of the
P.W.A., has just allocated s7,500, 900
for the building of 100 bombing planes
from public works" funds.
Roosevelt Approves
That this proposal for new es,rz.
nous Naval War preparationsI as
the full support of the Roos .selt
government was indicated by the
statement of Carl Vinson, Demo-
cratic chairman of the House Naval
Committee, who declared that the
Administration is prepared to take
all the necessary steps to put the
plan into effect.
THE measure" said Representative
Britten, lis not in conflict with the
announced naval policy of the Roose-
welt Administration to maintain a
navy in sufficient strength to sup
port the national policies and CON-
merce and organize the navy for
operation in either or both oceans SO
that expansion only will be necessary
in the event of war"
In addition to these feverish prep
arations for war on the part of the
Roosevelt Naval machine, the Army
today proposed to increase the num-
Der Of full Generals in its proposals
to Congress as part of its current war
plans under the National Defense
Act. These changes are result Of
the efficiency measures taken in the
Army last year, when many admin
istration changes were made to gear
up the fighting efficiency Of the
whole military machine.
The Army has also been receiving
huge grants from the P.WA. for
public works" $50,0Oo,0oO having
gone for the building Of army can
tonements, forts, barracks, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Roosevelt Extends
Is P. c. Pay Slash
for U. S. Employees
Had Just Asked for
Partial Return of
Pay Cut

WASHINGTON, Jan s.-FolIowing
quickly on his request to Congress
that the Is per cent wage cut handed
to the Federal employees be partly
restored, Roosevelt signed an execu-
tive order today extending the wage
cut another six months to July 1.
The cut affects thousands of Fed
eral employees and slices about $685.
100000 from their payroll in order to
meet part of the $742,OOO,o00 that the
government pays every year to the
bondholders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
1880 CWA Workers
Win Back Pay After
Protest, in Queens
Still Two Weeks Coming;
We're Shifted to the
Red Cross

NEW YORK.-The demonstration
of 1900 Queens C.W.A. workers last
Saturday in demand for their back
pay won them a weeks pay this
Monday. These workers still have
two weeks pay coming to them.
On Saturday, with their pay al
ready three weeks behind, the C.W.A.
workers demanded payment. They
were finally sent to the Red Cross
and given food. They work in the
city parks near Flushing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Starving Widow Found
With Newly Born Baby
and 3 Young Children

NEW YORK.--A starving and
emaciated mother, Sophie Cooper,
was found by police hu5dled under
the blankets with her newly born
baby. in her home at 141 Troutman
Street, Brooklyn. Her husband had
died four months ago.
When the policeman entered
the cold and dreary apartment,
heated by a kerosene lamp, he
found Mrs. Cooper almost uncon-
scious. The other children, Joseph,
5 years Old. Anna. I, and Edward,
IS months cid, were all lying in a
bed under makeshift covers. There
was no food in the house. The
Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children claimed the
children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Workers Lose Jobs as
La Cuardia's Economy
Plan" Gets Under Way

NEW Mayor Fiorello La
Guardia's economy plans mean starv-
alton for the employees of the five
plants of the Brooklyn Ash Removal
Company, who were fired when the
city took possession of the plants.
The taking over Of the plants were
conducted with the greatest secrecy.
At midnight, in order to forestall any
action by the workers to protect their
jobs, a police squad of a sergeant and
five ununiformed men were dis
patched to each of the five plants
where the workers were put out and
disbanded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
In the Daily Worker
Today

Page 2
Sports, by ST Gerson.
Earl Browder Is Main Speaker
at Manhattan Lenin Memorial.
Page 5
Recovery Measures in Budget
Mask War Aid, Profit Guaran-
tee" by Milton Howard.
"Women's Auxiliaries In Coal
Fields Are Powerful Aid,' by
Tony Minerich.
Page 4
Letters From Needle and Textile
Workers.
Letters From Readers.
"Party Life"
Page 5
"World of the Theatre" by Har-
old Edgar.
"The Labor Press" by Granville
Hicks.
Page
Editorials: Social Insurance In
Congress; The F. S. U. Con-
venticn; Araki's Agent In
Cuba; Hearst and Racketeer-
ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Lawyer Tells Ford
Men to Quit Fight
NRA Won't Act, He Says;
Strikers Are Worn Out

HACKENSACK, N. j., Jan. g.
Striking Ford workers Of the Edge
water plant were told yesterday by
their attorney that their situation
was hopeless before the N. r. A.
and that they had better quit strik-
ing.
Attorney J. Glen Anderson went to
Washington to argue for reinstate-
ment Of the Ford strikers, but he
said he could get no action whatever.
After meeting secretly with the
strikers he declared that the strike
was called off because the men
were weary and tired of struggling"
The strike had lasted u weeks.
Throughout the A. F. of L. officials
worked with the National Labor
Board to betray the men. They were
told that Ford would be made to
comply" with the N. r. A. de-
cisions on collective bargaining"
Instead, Ford was allowed to hire
scabs and blacklist the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
COngreSSmanWantS
us. Intervention in
Milk Strike
Strikers Surprise Scab
Train; Give Poor
Free Milk

WASHINGTON, Jan. e.-shortly
after asking $5OO0OO,OOO for more
battleships. Representative Fred Brit
ten of Illinois today asked Congress
for Federal intervention to break the
Chicago milk strike.
Meanwhile, the members of the
Milk Wagon Drivers Union dumped
six scab milk trucks in the Chicago
River, and the strike spread into the
milk counties of Wisconsin and In
diana. More than $4,000 strikers
are involved. with farmers joining
the strike every day.
A secret Tear train delivering scab
milk was surprised by striking farm
ers and its cargo of milk dumped
into a ditch near Burlington, Wis
consin.
Against Monopolies
/, The strikers are out for higher
prices for their milk, and for the
abolition Of the government milk
code that guarantees the big milk
monopolies a minimum retail selling
price, thus protecting their profits re-
CARELESS Of the demand in the retail
markets.
The big Chicago monopolies, con-
trolled by Wall Street banks, have
been reaping huge profits through
paying the farmers starvation prices,
while charging the city consumers
exorbitant selling prices, in many
cases eight times what they paid
for the milk.
The supply Of delivered milk has
been practically shut off, with the
farmers distributing milk free only
to poor families, hospitals, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
S5OO,OOO,O OOMoreTo
Be Granted Navy In
Huge US. War Moves
LID. Campaign Frees
Frank BOrich, Long
Held for Deportation

NEW YORK.-Frank Borich,
National Secretary of the National
Miners Union, was freed yester-
day after being held on bail for
deportation since the mine strike
last October, according to word re-
ceived by the International Labor
Defense.
His release by J. J. Mccormick,
immigration Commissioner in
Washington, crowns the mass
campaign led by the International
Labor Defense with victory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
What Did They Think of 1t?

2Spge Anniversary
ton OF the Daily Worker thousands their
tact with the central the Communist and the
the
What do these Daily
We want to hear from the thousands workers
Anniversary
What did the the
Mid West think of the special edition?
Write us Have the Anniversary
Edition writel will in
better for the American