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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
rheFRONT
LINE ALAN sf MAX
ROOSevelt'S
New Program

The Great Politician, Frank
lin ID. Roosevelt, has new bag
of tricks.
The coming elections mean
a lot to him. Not that he is up
for election himself. But lac
wants to make of the cam
paign a sweeping endorsement
of the New Deal policies.
It is not an easy job to rally
the masses OF people behind
a program Of hunger, war and
fascism.
And Roosevelt knows 1t. lie
is too smart to ask the people
to endorse the codes that
meant an increase in profit
and a lowering of payrOlls.
Or the program of cOmpul-
sorry arbitration, of suppress
sion of workers rights to or
ganize, strike and picket.
Or the blowing under" sys-
TEN that has brought misery
to millions of farmers.
A smooth politician does not
say Vote for the empty stom-
achs | have given you. Vote for
the machine gun bullets that |
have poured into your bodies"
And so Roosevelt, campaign
ing for the New Deal, invents
a brand new set of issues which
have nothing to do with the
hunger program that he is ear
rying out.
He asks for the endorse
ment of the three point pro-
gram which he brought for
ward in his last message to
Congress on June S-"security
of home, security of livelihood
and security OF social insur-
anee."
Note that this program was
presented to Congress just as
it was about to adjourn. Not
a single proposal was made by
the Great Politician for put.
ting it into effect. On the con-
trary, he merely suggested that
Congress THINK IT OVER
and when Congress would con-
vene again, Franklin D. would
come before it with complete
recommendations.
The next Congress will not
convene until AFTER cleo
tiOn!
1t is clear that the new pro-
gram is not meant for action.
Like the sweet promises Roose-
welt made before the 1882 cleo
ton, it is meant only for cam
paigning.
Roosevelt plans to sell him
self to the masses through his
demagogic social insurance pro-
gram. And if he succeeds in
winning a large vote for the
Democratic Party on this bas-
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ment insurance benefits be less
than $40 per week plus So for
each dependent. This bill pro-
vides for paying insurance for
loss of wages because of part
time work, sickness, accident, old
age or maternity. The benefits
shall be extended to all workers
and farmers without discrimina-
ton because of age, sex, race or
color, religious or political opin-
ion or utilization, whether they be
Industrial, agricultural. domes-
tic or professional workers, for
all time lost. No workers shall be
disqualified for the benefits of
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Fascist Tops
EPIC Slate In
Race
SCHWELLENBACH TO RUN
WITH SUPPORT OF
Obi BODY

SEATTLE, Aug. 30 Lewis b.
Schwellenbach, reactionary eX-
candidate for governor and Uni
versity regent, has been given the
seat of honor on the Common
wealth Builders, Incorporated"
band-wagOn.
Schwellenbach, when run
ming against Martin for COVER
nor, was Endorsed by American
Legion officials because he was
safer" than the radical, Mar
tin.
Governor Martin appointed
Schwellenbach president of the
University's board of regents af-
ter his defeat, ito keep him out
of politics"
Instead, Schwellenbach at
tempted to make good his boast
to "use the University as a step
ping stone to the governors
chair" plunging the University
into political turmoil and in
trigue that plumbed new depths
in its already black history.
The choice in seeking a win
ming candidate to support lay
between John c. Stevenson and
Schwellenbach, Costigan, EXecu-
tive Secretary of the Obi, stated
in an interview, and Schwellen-
bach was chosen because he has
never before been identified with
any kind of radicalism."
Schwellenbach is an American
Legion Past Commander.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
Spangol, Others Fined
Jailed; Linden
Threatened

FRIDAY HARBOR, Wn., Aug.
30 First heading off the likli-
hood of another strike by mass
arrests of 20 militant fishermen
who had actively participated In
the recent strike, the bosses OF
the fishing industry have again
slashed prices on soekeyes from
the IS cents agreed upon to 80
cents per fish.
Twenty fishermen, 10 Of them
captains Of fishing boats, and
most of them members Of the
Fishermen and Cannery Work.
ers Industrial Union, were ar
rested this week, rushed
through a trial without q jury
and convicted on charges Of
violating a state fish law.
The captains were fined SIS
each and the rest $50 each. Five
paid their fines and the balance
are serving time, from Is to IL
days.
According to the Washington
State law, fishermen must have
been residents of Idaho. Oregon.
or Washington. for a period OF
one year before they are allowed
to fish in the waters OF Puget
Sound.
Spangol Arrested
Captain Marion Spangol OF
Boat Rally, generally looked up
on as the most militant and the
most courageous leader Of the
fishermen, is a typical "violator"
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7CANNERY BOSSES VIOLATE AGREEMENT
Renegade Sinclair Wins
California Demo Primary

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 80 -
Upton Sinclair, renegade Social
list who condoned CALIFORNIA; fas-
eist reign of terror, blaming Com
munists instead of Vigilantes,
and as a result won endorsement
by the breakers of the general
strike, is well on his way to being
Governor of California.
Beating George Creel hands
down, Sinclair topped not only
the Democratic primaries, but re-
ceived more votes than did Gov
ernOr Merriam in his Republican
primary win.
Demagogically declaring he
would End poverty in Califor-
MIA" Sinclair rode to victory
on the same fantastic starva-
ton program of Self Help"
which deluded the unemployed
of Washington in 1932-which
was discredited and discarded
by the unemployed more than
a year ago, and outlawed as a
practical program by the Un-
employed Citizens League and
United Producers.
The UCL and the UPW were
OriginatOrs of the self-help
schemes which covered the ma
ton, and everywhere failed. Scrip
plans similar to Sinclair's have
also been tried in this state
all fiascOs.
In addition to the reaction
airy Merriam, q working class
candidate will face iSnclair in
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Workers Mass In
Defense OF "C.S."
Strike Prisoners

PORTLAND, Aug. 80 - The
grand jury is still considering in
dictments against as workers
who are held on Criminal Syndi.
calism charges in Portland. The
date of trial will not be set until
the grand jury returns all indict-
ments.
Workers and liberal sympa-
thizers in Portland are organ
izing a broad defense camp align.
Petitions are being widely cir
culated calling upon the dis
trict attorney, Lotus L. Lang
ley, to dismiss the charges and
pledging the signers' contin-
ued support in defense of these
workers. Many organizations
have passed resolutions ad-
dressed to the grand jury and
the district attorney.
Irving Goodman and several of
the defendants spoke at a mass
meeting August % pointing out
the basis of these CS prosecu-
tiOns arising out of the recent
maritime strike. Prominent lib
erals coOperated in this meeting,
a civil rights rally. Many of these
liberals served on a committee
which organized protest against
the criminal syndicalism cases
in Oregon in 1881, the last time
these laws were used against the
workers.
All organized protest with COM
mittees from the International
Labor Defense is being directed
to the sheriff of Multnomah
County against conditions in the
Jail where the CS defendants are
being held in the same tanks
with men suffering from syphil-
little sores and tuberculosis.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31

Unemployment insurance is
still the most vital question oil
the day for American workers,
Therefore, it is important that
every worker become acquainted
with the two outstanding FEEDER
al unemployment insurance bills.
HR 1898, or the Lundeen bill,
was proposed in the House OF
Representatives on Feb. 2, 1884,
and is called THE Workers I'm
employment and Social Insur-
ance Act"
It provides for the immediate
establishment Of a system Of
unemployment and social in
surance - insurance for all
workers and farmers in am
cunts equal to average local
wages. 1t shall be administered
and controlled by the workers
and farmers. Funds for such
insurance shall be provided at
the expense Of the government
and employers. A tax shall be
levied on inheritance and gifts
and by taxing individual and
corporation incomes Of $4,000 a
year and over. N otax or contri-
button shall be levied on the
workers.
In no case shall the unemploy-
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
TWO oNE-YEAR SENTENCES
FOR PICKETING CONSULATE

PHILADELPHIA = avage
sentences were given here last
week to Ben Gardner, section or
ganizer of the Communist Party,
and to James Wilson, Negro
worker, for pieketing the Nazi
consulate. Four women defend
ants in the same case were sem
fenced to six months each.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31

mum penalty of five years and
$1,000 fine, reads:
Whoever shall U Advocate,
advise. teach or justify crime, Sc
dition, violence, intimidation or
injury as a means or way of eff
fecting or resisting any indust-
rial, economic, social or political
change, or (2) Print. publish, ed
1t, issue or knowingly sell, circu-
late, distribute or display any
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the finals-Sam Darcy, District
Organizer of the Communist
Party. As leader of the organic
alton which. was the driving
force Of the maritime strike
and without which the general
strike would have been impos-
sible, Darcy is carrying on a
campaign of actual struggle for
the needs of the workers, Of
consistent fight against Fas.
cism and War. The contrast to
Sinclair's verbiage is distinct.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
6 MONTHS ON CHAIN GANG
FOR ANTI-WAR LEAFLET

BlRMlNGHAM, Ala. - SIX
months on the chain-gang, plus
a fine of 500, was the terror SEN
tence handed down here recent
ly to Israel Berlin by Judge Mar
tin, for possession of an anti-war
leaflet.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
Painters Union Journal Hits Wagner Bill,
Urges Quick Passage OF Lundeen Measure

Illustrating the growing file the
American Federation of Labor for the Unemployment
Insurance Bill and against the bureaucracy Wagner Lewis
bill is the following article reprinted
the Painter and Decorator official of the Brotherhood
Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers OF America
The article first Cleveland Citizen is
written by Max Sandin Local 1873 Cleveland Ohio
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31

johnson has appointed that
eminent economist ex-pug Gene
Tunney to a good position In the
NRA set-up.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
KELso WORKERS HELD

KELSO, Aug. 30-Max Farrar
and Arne Pisila are still being
held on $1,000 bond. Attempts are
being made to raise bond and
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World trade drops In all coun-
tries for the past two months.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
.DelegatesH Hit
Dies Bill at
Hearing Today
W Ork ers' Committees
To Expose Gardos
Frame-up

NEW YORK.--A delegation rep
resenting the Committee for the
Protection of Foreign Born and the
international Labor Defense left
here yesterday for Washington
where bills restricting immigration
will be reviewed at open hearings
today and tomorrow.
Two Of the bills which will be
reviewed are proposed by Represen-
tative Dies of Texas. They intend
to restrict immigration for ten
years and cause suppression and
deportation Of militant foreign
born workers.
A bill for the right Of free asylum
in the United States and one de-
signed to facilitate naturalization
of foreign born workers, drawn up
by the Committee for Protection of
Foreign Born will be presented by
the delegation. The delegation will
also expose the arbitrary act OF
the government in revoking the
citizenship papers of Emil Carlos
whose case has been appealed To
the Supreme Court.
Organizations are asked to con-
tact Immediately the Committee
for Protection of Foreign Born
Room 430, 80 E. 18th ST., for fur
ther information and for guidance
in organizing Gardos Defence Con-
ferences in every city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
'ROOSEVEL LAUDS NRA SLAVE CODE AT BOSSES CONFAB
Daily Yorker IN
8 Pages Tomorrow
on Init WOnen's Day

The special supplement Of the
Daily Worker on International
Women's Day viii appear on
Wednesday, March Z, will con-
tain many outstanding features
Of special interest TO women
workers.
There win be a special state
ment from the Central Commit
tee Of the Communist Party on
International Women's Day, a
speech made by Comrade Lenin
at the Second International Con-
gress Of Women that was held
in Moscow in 1921, Comrade
Kuusinen's speech made at the
18th Plenu1n Of the Executive
Committee Of the Communist
International.
Order special bundles Of We'd
nesday's Daily Worker which will
contain this supplement at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
Demonstrate at Pier
Tomorrow Against
Scab Tobacco Cargo
To Rally at Pier 33,
Brooklyn, in Support
of Cuban Strikers
M.W.I.U. ISSUES CALL
5 cam en- Refused To
Load Ship in Cuba

NEW YORK.-All out to
pier 80, Hamilton Ave., Brook
Ign, at 9 o'clock Wednesday
morning! Stop the unloading
Of scab tobacco from the SIS.
Santa Barbara of the Grace Line
which was loaded by strikebreakers
and troops in Havana harborl
This call was issued today by
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union after the receipt of the fol-
lowing cablegram from the Fedora
ton Of Harbor Workers Of Havana:
Grew of Santa Barbara refused
to load tobacco. Boycott tobacco
loaded by strikebreakers. Mobilize
all forces TO await arrival Of ship"
Workers from Manhattan, Bronx
and Harlem can get to the Grace
Line pier, where the Santa Barbara
docks, by taking the Hamilton Ave.
Ferry at the foot Of South Street.
HAVANA, March 5-Supporting
the strike of the tobacco workers
here the crew Of the Grace Liner
Santa Barbara, led by the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, refused to
load cargo of tobacco. The tobacco
was afterwards loaded by strike
breakers, who were guarded by a
heavy detachment of troops. The
ship will dock at Pier SO, Brooklyn,
on March Z.
Calling on all New York workers
TO support the struggle of the Cuban
Tobacco workers, the Federation Of
Harbor Workers Of Havana cabled
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union, 40 Broad ST., New York
City, to mobilize all forces to await
the arrival of the ship.
Dockers' Strike.
AL dock workers and newspaper
employees are striking here today in
protest against the loading and ship
ping OF tobacco that has been
stacked up on the docks since the
Grau San Martin government was
in power. The strike of the long
shoremen and newspaper workers is
in support Of the long and deter
mined struggle of the Cuban to-
bslcco workers for higher wages and
hstter conditions.
The longshore strike has effected
Tie entire waterfront Newspaper
workers have shut down every paper
fE Havana.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
.CWA Firing Is
.HeavyinSOuth,
Factory Cities
Fire 1000 Weekly in
Chicago, $4,000 in
South Carolina

CHICAGO, Ill, March 5.-The
Illinois C.W.A. will fire 1900 work
ers weekly during the remainder of
March, according to orders recently
sent out by Harry L. Hopkins, RooSe-
velt's federal relief administrator
The $500 workers now on C.WA.
must be reduced to lis, 900 by March
80, the federal government ordered.
1t was explained by Hopkins, in
Washington, that this is in accord
with his plans to reduce the ma
tional C.WA. to not more than
1,505 500 workers by March Soth.
Drastic Relief Cuts
At the same time, drastic cuts are
being put into effect in Federal
Emergency Relief. Latest FERA
statistics available show that 1912
families were dropped from federal
relief during the month Of January
In Illinois alone. According to figures
of the FERA, 2l9,315 families in
Illinois received federal relief in
December; in January this figure
had been cut to 1873, 1853, a reduction
(Continaed on Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
BritainSignS Trade
Pact With U.S.S.R.
England to Buy More
Than 1t Sells

LONDON, March 5.-The Anglo
Soviet trade agreement was signed
yesterday by Sir John Simon,
British Foreign Minister. 1t was
then sent on to Moscow, where it
Is to be signed in behalf OF the
Soviet government.
The agreement marks the re-
sumption OF normal trade relations
which were broken of by Great
Britain, at a great loss to British
interests, last summer.
Under the agreement, each coun-
try agrees to give the others trade
most favored nation" status. The
trade balance, which is greatly to
the favor of the Soviet Union, is
to be adjusted gradually over a
period OF years, although Great
Britain agrees to buy from the
Soviet Union more than 1t sells
even after the ratio has been
changed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
Brooklyn Pastor
Aids Drive for
ScOttSbOrO BOYS
Joins Congregation in
Protest Telegram to
Alabama Court

BROOKLYN, N.Y.-The Rev. B.
Carter, Negro pastor of the First
Central Baptist Church in Browns
vile, after much persuasion per-
mitted a Scottsboro protest meeting
in the church on March 2. After
hearing the speakers of the Inter
national Labor Defense, he insisted
on having his name signed to the
protest telegram adopted by the
meeting and, not satisfied with the
small collection taken UP, made a
donation himself, and a second ap-
peal to raise funds for the Scots
boro defense.
In reference to the Negro ques-
ton, DR.. Carter declared in his
sermon the following Sunday:
81 learned more about this prob
lem from one /. L. d. meeting in
this church, than 1 have learned
all my life"
The telegram, which was unani-
nously adopted, was dispatched to
the Alabama Supreme Court and
demanded the immediate, uncondi-
tional and safe release Of the nine
innocent Scottsboro boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06

Winter has come to collect funds for
the Austrian Socialist Party.
The audience of $500 filled the
hall fairly well. though at no time
was the hall entirey filled. Here
and there I caught sight of the
serious, strong face OF some worker
from the factories, not altogether at
ease surrounded by city police.
There were no banners with slo-
gans. At one moment worker in
the highest balcony rose to shout
his greetings to Winter, seeing in
him the representative Of his fellow
workers who had begun to speak
the language of Bolshevism on the
barbados Of Austria. 'Freund-
schaft," he shouted. And the peo-
pie around him were embarrassed.
The worker sat down.
The speeches were remarkable for
their political emptiness, their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
Chicago Bosses Paper
Prints Strike Tactics
Not for Workers Good

CHICAGO. Ill, March 5.-The
Chicago journal of Commerce, a
daily newspaper of manufacturers
and bankers, Is publishing serially
the pamphlet, Problems of Strike
Strategy" of the Red International
of Labor Unions. This pamphlet,
which contains the most effective
strike strategy developed by revolu-
tionary trade union leaders through
out the world, Is published by this
organ of the Chicago bosses for two
reasons. First, because Of the de-
veloping strike wave and the grow
ing opposition to the strikebreaking
tactics of the A. F. Of L. leadership,
the workers are adopting these tao
tics of strike struggle. Second, the
Chicago Journal of Commerce is
developing a campaign for suppress
sion Of the Communist Party and
revolutionary trade unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
Max Winter,
BY MILTON HOWARD

NEW YORK.-This time they had
their meeting without inviting Mat
thew Woll or Mayor LaGuardia.
LaGuardia, however, was well
represented by a heavy delegation
of police, who formed ranks outside
Carnegie Hall, and then watched in
great numbers throughout ali the
lobbies, corridors and in the wings
of the large stage.
1t was the meeting arranged by
the Socialist Party leaders to well
come Max Winter, former Vice
Mayor of Vienna, the first repre-
sentative Of Austrian Social-Dem-
ocracy to arrive here since the
proletariat of Vienna and Linz
marched forward on the eventful
Feb. II over the orders OF their
leaders in heroic, spontaneous up
rising against Austrian Fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
Hands Out Old
Broken Promises
Made to Labor
$500 ExplOiters Of
Labor Told NRA L
Their Instrument
CRITICS IRK HIM
Democracy Is Failure,
in Crisis, He Declares

NEW YORK. - President
Roosevelt delivered a broad
side apology for the N.R.A.'s
batterying down Of the liv-
ing standards of the Ameri-
can workers yesterday. In speech
before $500 capitalists, representing
600 industries, employing 80 per
cent Of the workers under the code,
meeting in Washington, he made
lame attempt to answer the tor
rent Of criticism leveled at the
MIRA. THE team Is before me this
morning." he said, referring to the
leading exploiters in the country,
saying that it was up TO them to
lead the MIRA. TO victory"
Bankers' Congratulations
AS against the growing disilla-
sionment, born of lowered living
standards, the tremendous growth
of company unions depressing the
workers, Roosevelt answered that:
THE willingness Of all elements to
enter into the spirit Of the New
Deal becomes more and not less
evident as it goes on"
To prove his statement he quoted
a telegram from Mr.. Francis Nj.
Law, president OF the American
Bankers Association, who said: "On
this, your first anniversary, please
allow me, in behalf of the countrys
banks, to express our full conf
dence and our courageous efforts to
bring about recovery"
He did not quote the opinions Of
Ford, Budd, or Weirton Steel Com
pany workers, or the millions Of
others under the codes. whose wages
have been slashed and whose Ivy
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-06
Capital loops
Bar Filipino
Delegation
Group Protesting Jail
ing of Workers Lead
ers Is Refused Hearing

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, D. c., March s.
Government police today prevented
a delegation representing the Action
Committee for the Release Of Fill
ipino Political Prisoners from seeing
Pedro Guevara and Camilo Osias,
the two resident Philippine Com
missioners whose offices are In the
new House Office building.
The delegation, headed by the
Filipino leaders, Maxine c. Manzon
md Pedro r. Sajona, came to pro-
Test against the imprisonment OF
Crisanto Evangeista, Guillermo
Capadocia, and fourteen other Fill
Pine worker and peasant leaders
arrested and convicted on charges
Of sedition under an old Spanish
Royal decree Of September IL, 1897
passed by the Spanish imperialists
to suppress the early Philippine
revolution.
Represent 80 Organizations
The delegation, which represented
thirty Filipino and American mass
organizations, brought 5000 protest
signatures of New York, Phila-
delphia and Baltimore workers.
as it possible that we can't even
see our own resident commission