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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
Ponce Stop Marine
Park Workers from
Joining Mass Meet
CWA Workers Telegraph
Officials Demanding
IObless Insurance

BROOKLYN, n. Y.-A Gordon OF
police surrounded Marine Park yes
terday TO prevent the C.W.A. work
ers on this project from joining the
City Hall demonstration.
No leaflets had been distributed
to the workers, but the message was
given by word Of mouth from one
worker to another, with the workers
5000 are employed on this project
in Gerrittsen Beach, BroOklyn) were
ready to start out.
The large number of police sur
rounding the park made it impos-
sible for the workers to leave their
Jobs. However, the workers imme-
diately took up q collection and sent
six kilograms to the following gov
eminent officials:
President Roosevelt, Harry L,
Hopkins, Governor Lehman, 4. |.
Daniels, Mayor LaGuardia, Senator
Wagner. The kilograms read as fol-
lows:
I'VE C.W.A. workers of Marine
Park demand the continuation of
the C.W.A. five dollar day, four
day week against further cuts.
lay-Offs. and mbearable working
conditions"
The telegram to Senator Wagner
was as follows:
I'VE 1900 Marine Park workers
endorse only Workers UnemplOy-
ment Insurance Bill"
William Bryan, militant Negro
worker, who was active in organic
ing the workers and in taking up
the collection for the telegram, was
Immediately fired. Bryan had in
sisted that the working conditions
must be improved, that it was i'm
possible to work in the freezing
weather unless fires could be built
and time taken out to warm up
When Bryan informed the assembled
workers that he had been fired, a
meeting was held on the spot and
the workers shouted in unison, eve
demand that Bryan be put back to
work" At this juncture, Bryan was
called into the Office and told that
he could stay on the job if he would
be "a good boy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06

working masses will overcome all Cb-
stacles and create q new Interna-
tional. The present triumph of OPP
portunism is short-lived. The greater
the war losses, the clearer it will be-
come for the working masses that
the opportunists betrayed the cause
Of the workers and that it is neces-
sary to turn the weapons against the
governments and the bourgeoiSie of
the respective countries.
Turning Imperialist War Into Civil
War
Turning the present inlperialist war
into civil war is the only correct pro-
letarian slogan. 1t is indicated by
the experience Of the Commune, 1t
was outlined by the Basic resolution
Q9l2), and it follows from all the
conditions of an imperialist wal
among highly developed bourgeois
countries. However difficult such
transformation may appear at one
time or another, Socialists will never
relinquish systematic, insistent, un-
flinching preparatory work in this
direction once the war has become 8
fact.
Only along this road will the pro-
letariat be able to break away from
the influence of the chauvinist bour.
geoisie, and sooner or later, in one
form or another, will it take decisive
steps on the road to real freedom o.
peoples, and on the road to Socialism
Long live the international brother
hood of the workers united agains
the chauvinism and patriotism of thu
bourgeoisie Of all countries!
Long live a proletarian Interna
tional, free from opportunism!
CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
~ Russian Social-Democratic
Labor Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
AFL Workers Unite
in Laundry Strike
With Militant LWIU

NEW YORK. - Rank and file
members of Local $50 of the A.
F. of L. laundry union, disguised
with tn "picketing" policy OF their
misleaders, consulted the Laundry
Workers Industrial Union for advice
and as a result decided to call q
mass picketing demonstration last
Monday, a. m. in front of the
Quick Service Laundry, 315 e. Goth
Street.
S, ]. Berland, Secretary of the
L. W. I. u, speaking before the
membership of the A. F. of L. local
No. 280 last pMnday, proposed a
concrete plan for the amalgamation
of both unions which was hailed
with enthusiasm by the A. F. Of L.
rank and file.
The L. w. I. U. calls on all work
erS and workingclass organizations
to aid the strikers by coming to
strike headquarters at 143 E. I03rd
St, and by contributing food and
money for the relief of the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
Nazi Consul in Terror
Threat against Non-NGzi
Germans Living abroad

LONDON, Feb. 5.--Anti- fascist
citizens of Germany residing
abroad are being threatened with
Nazi terrorism, the London Times
declared Saturday. The paper pub
lished a Photographic copy of
letter sent to a German citizen IN
Amsterdam by the German Con-
sulate General there. The letter
ordered the recipient to report at
the consulate with his passport
and other papers, adding:
'Tf you fail to follow this in
struetion, the German Consulate
will, unfortunately, be compelled
to insure your appearance by
other means"
The Consulate General also de-
manded that the recipient act as
a spy for the Nazi terrorist gangs
by informing the consulate OF the
addresses Of other Germans named
in the letter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
Defend Fatherland
.OfWOrldP rOletariat,
.UrgeSSOviet Worker
BY Soviet Worker Correspondent

ny SOVIET worker correspondent
MOSCOW, U. S. S. Rim the cap
italistic countries the greater part of
the products of a workers labor is
taken by the capitalist for himself.
Therefore work there is considered as
a curse. But in the SOVIET Union,
where the state power is In the hands
of the working population, work is a
matter of honor and of valor.
We are proud of it that we are
workers. We know that all that we
create, will belong to the working
population, and therefore we try COL
lectively to raise the productivity and
the quality of our work and with this
purpose we conclude among ourselves
treaties of socialist competition. We
help one another and try collectively
to improve the methods of our work.
Possibly in your country the work
ers are also sent to the health re-
sorts and rest-houses, but there these
are only individual cases, while in
our country it is mass phenomenon.
The international capitalists are
preparing a war against our country,
the only fatherland of the world pro-
letariat. Organize defense of Soviet
Union, if it will be assaulted.
Comradely yours;
MENKIN P. I.
u. s. S. r.
Moscow, Maxim Gorky str. 8,
"Vodny Transport.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
american Sean,en in Leni1tgrad
Impressed by Healthy Children

tional seamens Club. With an inter-
prefer he and four other seamen OF
the Scanmail set off for the grand
stand before the former Cars Win
ter Palace to watch the 10th ami
versary celebration of the Russian
Revolution.
"The demonstration started at 10
o'clock in the morning and lasted un-
TIL 4 o'clock In the afternoon. Sailors
from every country in the world
watched with eager and surprised
faces, trying to understand where
the millions of workers and soldiers
came from. They watched we'll
trained soldiers and workers march
through the square, ready to defend
their fatherland from the enemy
which is continually drawing closer.
''The next morning" Johnson con-
tinued, 81 went with an interpreter
from the Seamen's Club to see how
the Soviet workers have progressed
industrially. AT the railroad yards l
saw locomotives that had been i'm
ported from the United States and
Germany. At their sides I saw SUI
perior locomotives made at the new
locomotive factory at LuganSk in the
Soviet Union, the gigantic factory
that will turn out 100 engines year
ly, the largest engine plant in Eu~
rope"
Meets Foreign Visitors
One evening Johnson went to the
Astoria Hotel, Leningrad hotel al
which live many foreign visitors and
technhcianS. There he met an cleo
trical engineer from the United
States who was interested in the con-
ditions Of the American workers.
When Johnson told him of the mis-
cry and hunger in America, the en-
gineer told how during the last six
months the Soviet Union had ad-
vanced economically and socially
Especially since the last bumper crop
there has been plenty to eat for all
the workers.
There are shortcomings, however,
minor shortcomings" Johnson told
the Daily Worker There are not yet
enough street cars. They are always
crowded by workers who in Czarist
Russia could not afford to ride. Now
they use the cars to ride to work In
the morning, and to get to school or
college in the night. But each day
more cars are built, and inside of
! year there will be enough.
One thing that impressed johnson
was the thousands of healthy and
smiling children and youth. 1.-THE
young men and women discourage
smoking and drinking, and it is rare
| ly that one sees any smoking"
johnson said.
"On the morning that I left, I saw
why the workers were husky. and
healthy" johnson concluded. Hun
dreds of trucks poured into Lenin-
grad from the surrounding collec-
tive farms, carrying fresh vegetables
and milk to be eaten by workers, who,
with renewed vigor, Will continue to
build socialism, and keep the
ahead of the rest of the world In all
achievements of the Soviet Union far
! fields
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
BY v. I. LENtN

The european War, which the gov
ernments and the bourgeois parties
Of all countries were preparing for
decades, has broken out. The growth
Of ornaments, the sharpening of the
struggle for markets in the epoch of
the latest, the imperialist, stage in
the development Of capitalism of the
foremost countries, the dynastic in
terests OF the most backward East
European monarchies, were inevitably
bound to bring about, and did bring
about, the present war. To seize
lands and to conquer foreign nations.
to ruin competing nations, to pill
lage their wealth, to divert the at
tention of the laboring masses from
the domestic political crises of Rus
STA, Germany, England, and other
countries, to disunite the workers and
fool them with nationalism, to ami
hilate their vanguards in order to
weaken the revolutionary movement
Of the proletariat, such is the only
real essence, the significance and the
meaning Of the present war.
Upon Social-Democracy, in the first
place, deVolves the duty to make clear
this real meaning of the war. and
mercilessly to unmask the falsehoods.
the sophisms and the patriotic"
phrases which are spread by the rul-
ing classes, the landowners and the
bourgeoisie, in defense of the war
Two BelIigerent Groups
One of the belligerent groups of
nations is headed by the German
bomgeoisie. 1t has fooled the work
ing class and the laboring masses by
asserting that it wages the war for
the defense of the fatherland, liberty.
and civilization. for the liberation of
the peoples that are oppressed by
tsarisnl, for the destruction of reac-
tionary tsarism. In reality. that same
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06

living. One brother works in a G. C.
G. camp and another for the C.W.A.
The father of the family, miner.
has been dead for five years. The
mother lies on her back, paraly7ed,
for over a year. There is no money
to pay for doctor The children
have no clothes to wear.
A marsied sistes of &c wants to
come to New York also to look for
work. Her husband is q miner and
makes barely enough to live on. This
girl, K, whom l met, works at house
work. She receives $50 a month for
cleaning a seven-room house, wash
ing clothes of a family of seven and
minding the three smaller children.
Her only time off is three hours one
afternoon a week. She cannot eat
properly at mealtime. as she is hur-
ried along in order that she may
continue her work sooner.
She was enabled to come here
through loan from the priest of her
church. She was on her way to the
employment office in order to pay
her fee of So. She is afraid to pro-
test to her employer for fear that she
will lose her job. She must send
money home to her folks.
I went to the office with her and
there we met another girl, a friend
of KS, who comes from the same
town. H. is also doing housework.
Her father is small farmer and the
family of seven just have enough to
eat. H. needs clothes and SO has
come to the city to earn, some money.
A large part Of her pay will go home,
too.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
Pittsburgh Hotel
Workers on Strike;
Movement Spreads
y. Y. Demonstrations at
New Yorker, Park Cen
trail, To-day al IL a. IA.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 5.-The
strike of so workers of the william
Penn Hotel is expected to spread to
the Fort Pitt Hotel tonight and to
other hotels before long. as the strike
movement steadily gains strength.
according 10 the Hotel and RestaU-
rant Workers Industrial Union,
which is leading the strike here.
After deliberately sidetracking a
conference on the hotel strike with
the usual N. r. A. policy Of wearing
out the strikers. Mrs, Elinor Herrick,
acting chairman Of the Regional La
Dor Board, finally met with delega-
zion Of New York hotel strikers yes
terday. She promised an "investi-
cation" of the situation after hear
ing the strikers.
g Strikers denounced the strlkebreak-
ing activities Of employment agen-
cies, which are furnishing scabs and
resping a harvest Of profit by charg-
ing eXorbitant employment fees. They
exposed the racketeering and gang
steTiSn of officials Of A. F. of L.
Local 16, which has also aided in
strikebTeaking. 3. j. Fields. secre-
tary OF the Arnalgamated, reported
that over 5000 hotel workers in rs
different hotels were on strike.
The Hotel and Restaurant Work
ers' Industrial Union. anticipating no
results from the Strikebreaking N. r.
A.. completed plans to intensity its
picketing with two mass demonstra-
tons to be held today at II am.
at the Park Central and at the New
Yorker Hotels. The strikers will rally
at two points, at Palm Garden, 306
". SIND ST., and at Seth st. and
Eighth Ave, from which they will
march to the demonstration. At Seth
st. and Eighth Ave the strikers viii
be addressed by Louis Hyman, presi-
dent Of the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union
Preparations for immediate action
10 win improved conditions in cafe
terias throughout the city viii be
made at a mass meeting at Bryant
Hall, Wednesday night at eight
o'clock. Action by the cafeteria
workers will greatly strengthen the
struggle Of the hotel workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
What Has Happened to
Chelsea in Sub Drive?
Asks Unit in Roxbury

BOSTON, MaSs-Recently Chelsea
Unit challenged the Roxbury Unit to
secure Is new subscribers to the Daily
Worker by Feb. 10th. Unit No. l in
Roxbuy accepted the challenge and
has already sent in number of new
subs TO the District Office.
But Chelsea seems to be doing a
little or nothing on its own challenge.
Roxbury Unit wants to know what
has happened to the Chelsea sub
drive.
1t is understood that the winning
Unit is TO be given "a party by the
members Of the Unit failing to win.
Unless Chelsea wakes up it will surely
have to stage q. party for the Rox-
bury Unit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06

the patriotic" bourgeois cliques of
all countries. To repudiate thus task
would, on the part of the class-con-
scious workers, means to renounce all
their striving towards freedom and
democracy, not to speak of Socialism
Socialist Parties Failed in Their
Duties
With a feeling of deepest chagrin
it must be stated that the Socialist
parties of the leading European coun-
tries have not fulfilled this duty Of
theirs, while the behavior Of the lead
erS of those parties-particularly that
of the German party = borders on
direct betrayal of the cause of Social
ism. At this moment, which is of
the greatest Importance in world his
tory, the majority of the leaders of
the present, the Second (1339-1914
Socialist International, are attempting
to substitute nationalism for Social
ism Thanks to their behavior, the
workers parties of those countries
have not counterposed their position
to the criminal behavior of the gov
ernments; on the contrary, they are
appealing to the working class to
identify its position with the po1iticn
of the imperialist governments. The
leaders of the International commit
ted treachery with regard to Socialism
when they votaG for military appro-
priations, when they repeated the
chauvinist C'patriotic') slogans of the
bourgeoisie of their" countries, when
they justified and defended the war,
when they entered the bourgeois cab
inets of the belligerent countries, etc
The point of view of the most in
fiuential Socialist leaders, and of the
most influential organs of the Social
ist press of present-day Europe, is
chauvinist, bourgeois, and liberal, not
Socialist at all, The responsibility for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06

nocent men, women and children are
killed. The gangster ABC's place
bombs under trolleys. Could there be
a worse government than these brave
CubanS tolerate now?
Yet our comrades, under this bloody
terror, are working, they are organ
izing the unemployed, to teach these
masses, and to finally lead them into
a revolution that will give them the
only government to solve all the prob
lens. The Confederation of Labor is
training its unions teaching its young
comrades, who managed to tear them
selves out Of the clutches of Ndachado
and have bravely gone into the ranks
Of the organized workers.
1t is true that this organization
is only less than a half -year-old, but
they are going forward with tremen-
dous speed. What they need is the
solidarity of the American workers,
those who have already gone through
the ordeal of the MIRA, American
workers who can join hands with the
splendid comrades of the sugar mills
Of the tobacco workers, and the
others under the yoke of Yankee i'm
perialism and the terror of Grau.
Comrades, the Cuban workers are
asking your help in solidarity.
The Cuban workers need you in
their struggle for their liberation I'M
der the banner Of the proletariat.
The Cuban workers viii live under
a Soviet Government, for no matter
where they will be, they will have
the same eXploiter, the capitalist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06

DOS, Delman, WeiSman Sass, Morgan
GrosSman, Clarendon, Seymor Troy,
La Presti and Elco.
The Elco Shoe Co. was the shop
where Grover Whalen, as head of the
local N. r. A., issued his strikebreak-
ing edict, ordering the arrest of all
pickets during the recent shoe strike.
In this shop only six voted for the
Boot and Shoe Union.
The ten shops of which the union
was defrauded are the Bressler, An
drew Geller, American Shoe. Wolf
and Son, Grossman, Inc. Cornell
Unity, Premier, LaValle, I. Miller and
the Poulter Delisia.
Federal agents refused to heed pro-
tests of watchers at the Bressler shop
who demanded that the boss stay
away from the polling place. In the
1. Miller shop every worker was given
a card containing his name and the
number on his payroll. The worker
marked the ballot in the presence of
the federal agent, permitting him to
see the workers choice of his union.
At the Poulter Delisia shop $50 work
ers from the Peekskill shop of the
firm were brought down to vote for
the New York shop.
The threat of blacklisting, loss of
jobs and discrimination against
workers voting for the United Shoe
and Leather Workers Union was an
outstanding factor in terrorizing the
workers and robbing the United of
many votes, the union declared to-
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
United Shoe Union Wins 9 Shops
In Referendum; for New Vote

NEW YORK.-The United Shoe
and Leather Workers Union won
nine out Of the 10 shops involved in
the two-day referendum conducted
here last week by the National Labor
Board.
Challenging the results in the ten
shops reported to have shown min
ority vote for the union, the United
Shoe Union in a sharp protest tele-
gram to Senator Wagner, head of the
National Labor Board, yesterday, de-
manded that new elections be con-
Quoted on the ground that fraud,
intimidation and outright terror had
been used against the workers during
the voting.
The United Shoe Union bases it's
demand for new elections in the ten
shops on the fact that voting was not
by secret ballot, but by open mark
ing Of the ballot. The union charges
also that in these shops meetings
were called in advance Of the refer
endum and the workers were Virtu-
ally ordered to vote for the scab Boot
and Shoe Union or the shops would
close down or move out of town. In
most of the shops workers from the
outside were brought in by the bosses
to swell the vote for the Boot and
Shoe Union, Other fraudulent meth
DDS were used.
In the face of intimidation Of the
bosses, aided by the federal agents,
the following shops voted to join
the United Shoe and Leather Work
ers' Union: Herman Grossman, Ka-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
IN WHOSE INTEREST WAS THE LAST WORLD WAR FOUGHT?
SOCIALIST BETRAYED WORKERS IN 1914

borgeoisie, seryile in face of the
Prussian Junkers, with Wilhelm II at
their head, has always been the most
faithful ally of tsarism and the enemy
of the revolutionary movement of the
workers and peasants in Russia. In
reality, that bourgeoisie will, together
with the Junkers, direct all its efforts
no matter what the outcome of the
war may be, to support the tsarist
monarchy against a revolution in
Russia.
In reality, the German bourgeoisie
undertook predatory campaign
against Serbia with the aim of sub
jugating it and tllrottling the ma
tional revolution Of the Southern
SIavs, at the same time directing the
bulk of its military forces against
freer countries, Belgium and France,
in order to pillage the richer COM
petitor. The German bourgeoisie
spreading the fable of defensive
war on its part, in reality chose the
moment which was most propitious
for its warfare, utilizing its latest
improvements in military technique
and forestalling the new ornaments
that had already been mapped out
and approved of by Russia and
France.
At the head OF. the other group of
belligerent nations are the English
and French bourgeoisie, which fool
the working class and the laboring
masses by asserting that this group
leads war for the fatherland, free
dom and civilization against the mil
itarism and despotism of Germany.
In reality this bourgeoisie has long
been buying for its billions, and pre-
pairing for an attack on Germany,
the armies of Russian tsarism, the
most reactionary and barbarous mon
archy Of Europe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-06
NY. Unions in Drive
Against InjunctiOnS
Meet At Irving Plaza
Saturday Plans Fight

NEW YORK.--A wide representa-
ton from trade unions and workers
organizations in the city is expected
at the anti-injunction conference
scheduled to be held on Saturday,
Feb. 10, at / p. M, at Irving Plaza
hall.
The conference is called at the mi
tiative of the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Industrial Union
which has been among the unions
hardest hit by injunctions and
which is now facing a damage suit
prosecuted by the employers equal to
the Danbury Hatters case in the
menace it involves to the existence of
the union.
The conference has been endorsed
by a number of A, F, of L. locals,
the Trade Union Unity Council, the
International Labor Defense, and by
Roger Baldwin, director of the Amer
lean Civil Liberty Union.
The conference call points out that
no union is free from the danger of
this strikebreaking weapon used by
the bosses to rob the workers of the
right to organize. All unions are
urged to Immediately elect their del
egates to assure representation at the
anti-injunction conference on Satur-
day, where plans will be worked out
for concerted action to stop injunc-
lions.