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Final NezQ,s Flashes
GOVT. MAY CONDEMN LAND

Washington, April 3.-(UP)-The govern
ment may resort to condemnation proceedings
to obtain land for low-cost housing developments
projected by the Federal Emergency Housing
Corporation Public Works Administrator
Harold l.. Ickes said today Schemes OF land
Spectators to make killing at government ex-
pense have seriously handicapped the Stun
clearance and housing program so far, officials
said
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-03
HUEY LONG BREAKS OUT AGAIN

Washington, April 3.-IUPJ--SenatOr
Huey p Long, d., La, warming up for his COM
mittee fight tomorrow over Louisiana appoint
ment, declared in the senate today that Col E. r.
Bradley, Kentucky turfman, is the "chief rack
eeter and gambler in the United States" Brad
ley has been subpoenaed as witness in the hear
ingtomorrow on the nomination Of D. D. Moore
as collector of internal revenue at New Orleans.
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Secretary Hull Gables
United States Thanks
To Turkey Over Insult
All Officials at Capital Are Much Pleased Over Turn Of
Affairs-Not Known Yet Just How insult
Will Be Sent Back to This Country

Washington, April 8 - (UP) - Secretary of State
Corde Hull today cabed the Turkish his sin
qualification the expeditions and efficient manner
in which the Turkish authorities had apprehended Samuel
insult and held him for extradton to the United States
Hull also cabled his congratulations and appreciation
to Robert p Skinner American ambassador and members
the embassy staff at Angora for the which had
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-03
-Four Months For
RobbirgH Hen Coop
GiDen Tluo Youths
Mike Pulaski and Joseph Smith Had drudge Agains
Cheshire Farmer, So They Squared 1t By
Grabbing Fifteen of His Hens

Mike Pulaski, AZ, and companion who gave his name
as Joseph Smith, 49, will have the months to think
over whether really worth while to take Is hens valued
at $15 from Cheshire hen-coop the other evening For
that was the sentence passed upon them by Judge Edwin
Dickinson when they pleaded guilty to theft of poultry
charges In superior court this afternoon
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TREASURY BALANCE

Washington. April s. (UP) -
Government expenses and receipts
of the current fiscal year 10 March
81, compared with the correspond
Ing period OF the previous fiscal
year:
'rhis Year Expenses Last Year
81. s4S, 00t. 4t7.bl $3.77ID07. s00.iB
Receipts
50. ao6. 7oi.722s3 S1.592. sa9. tss.bc
Deficit
s2,642.s 200. G052s s2,sB4.s2s. 1850
Cash Balance ..... $A,si7,s70,Bib.3d
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TWO MORE COUCHLIN SPEECHES

Detroit, Mich, April 3.--(UP)-The Rev
Charles E. Coughlin will deliver two more adj
dresses in his 1884 series of Sunday radio SER
mons. He said today they will be given on April
8. and rs. @ p
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EIGHT BODIES FOUND

Havana, Apr. - (upD - Eight
b0dL9s have been recovered today
\ from y garage of the Havana bus
doxupanys burned byn fife believed
se< ~ IN ineepdiexf>
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Markets At a Glance
BY UNITED PRESS

Stocks drift irregularly in narrow range.
Bonds higher; speculative issues firm.
Curb stocks steady In quiet trading.
Chicago stocks quiet and mixed.
Call money per cent.
Foreign exchange firm; sterling strong.
Wheat or IL; corn drops Ia TO IL; oats ease.
Cotton or TO points.
Rubber dips to points.
Silver futures up 2 TO or 3 points.
Bar silver up is at 40 1.S cents a pound.
Copper cents pound.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17

into socisl-fascism, has naturally
spurned the lessons of the Paris
Commune.
AS far back as 1898, Vollmar. one
of the forebears of social-fascisn,
declared at a congress of the Ger
man Party that the French work
ers would not have served their
cause worse if they had slept during
this time"
This cynical utteranee represents
in essence the attitude of present.
day social-democracy to the Paris
Commune. In a tone of utter be-
littlement, Kautsky, the dean of
social-democracy, sees in the Com
mune brief local episode - this,
against Marx high tribute: Before
the eyes of the Prussian army that
had annexed two provinces of
France to Germany. the Commune
annexed the workers of the whole
world to France"
The revolutionary overthrow Of
capitalism, the seizure and destruc-
ton of bourgeois State power, the
establishment of the dictatorship of
the proletariat as the transition
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17

with victory It is plain that with
out a Party capable of mastering
around it the mass organizations of
the proletariat and centralizing the
management of the movement dur
ing the course Of the struggle, the
Russian proletariat could not have
stabilized its revolutionary Dictator
ship"
Today, with the ripening of the
revolutionary crisis, this lesson be-
comes a slogan Of action for the
proletariat of the entire capitalist
world. Onward under Communist
leadership to the struggle for Soviet
power!
The Austrian revolt, which came
but two months after the XIII
Plenum of the E. c. G. l., confirmed
its declaration: THE chief slogan
of the Communist International is:
Soviet power The example of the
U. S. s. R. is the example of Boil
shevism. Only this example shows
the way out, and the way to save
the exploited and oppressed in sll
the imperialist and colonial coun-
tries"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
arts Commune Was.
First Step in Fight
For Soviet Power
Present Task Is to Carry Forward Work of the
Commune by Applying feminist Lessons
in Fight for Soviet Power

was enabled to rally the forces of
reaction throughout France and to
make an alliance with Bismarck
against the Commune. Treacherous-
ly forsaken by the petty-bourgeoisie,
the working class of Paris went
down in bloody defeat-30,000 Com
munards massacred in an orgy Of
rror!-went down in defeat, with
heroism that flames on through the
generations in the hearts of the
class conscious workers over the five
continents of the earth.
I ENIN reduced the weaknesses of
Il the Commune to two main errors: !
undue magnanimity towards the
enemy and halfway steps towards
its own detectives: instead OF
proceeding with the appropriation
of the eXpropriators, it was carried
away by dreams Of establishing SUI
preme justice in the country, based
on the common national task
instead of annihilating its enemies,
it endeavored to exercise moral in
fuence on them
These were the errors inevitable
to the first stage in the development
of the dictatorship of the prole-
tariat; to avoid these errors was to
be the strategy of the international
proletariat in the second stage, the
stage of Soviet power. THE COM
mune has taught the European pro-
letariat to deal concretely with the
problems of the socialist revolution"
Under this slogan Leninism led
the proletariat of Russia in alliance
with the peasantry to victory in Oc-
tober. 1917. Under this slogan the
dictatorship of the proletariat in the
Soviet Union led by the Communist
Party under the guidance of Lenin
and Stain has smashed the coun-
ter-revolutionary efforts at bour-
geois restoration. Under this slogan,
the Soviet Union, Socialist father
land of the world proletariat, stands
before the toilers of the world-the
realization of the aim for which the
Communards died, the lighthouse of
Leninism showing to the workers of
all lands the path to Soviet power.
DUT the epoch of imperialism,
y which is the epoch of proletarian
revolutions, has produced a phenom-
enon in the ranks of the workers,
which acts as brake upon the
locomotive of the revolution. The
labor aristocracy, brought into being
and sustained by a small part of
the super-profits of finance capital,
becomes a strategic base for bour-
geois operations within the workers
ranks. The instrumentality of these
operations is social-democracy.
The social-democracy which de-
livered the working class to the inn
perialist war-mongers in 1914, which
has since betrayed and thwarted
every revolutionary act and inclins-
ton of the masses that have fallen
under its leadership, which has de-
generated from social-chauvinism,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
The Heroic Paris Commune and the Fight for Soviet Power

International ties be-
tween the working class Of
the U.S.S.R. and the work
ers of the capitalist coun-
tries, the fraternal alliance
between the workers of the
U,S.S.R. and the workers
of all countries - this is
one of the corner-stones of
the strength and might Of
the Republic of the Soviets.
The workers in the West
say that the working class
of the U.S.S.R. is the shock
brigade of the world pro-
letariat. That is very good.
1t shows that the world
proletariat is prepared to
continue to support the
working class of the US.
S.R. with all the means at
it's disposal. But this inn
poses a very serious duty
upon US. 1t means that
we must prove worthy of
t he honorable title of
shock brigade of the pro-
letarians of all countries.
1t imposes upon us the
duty to work better, and
to fight better, for the final
victory of socialism in our
country, for the victory of
socialism in all countries
Hence, the third conclu-
sion: to remain loyal to
the end to the cause of
prOtetdridR International
ism, to the cause of the
fraternaI alliance of the
prOletarians of all coun-
tries. (Applause).
Long liUe the great and
HUiHcibLe banner of Marx,
Engels and Lenin! cloud
and prolonged applause).
From Comrade Stslln's re-
port to the 18th Party Congress)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17

Thaelmann as a proletarian revolu-
ZIONIST and as a leader firmly and
faithfully devoted to the Commu-
mist movement to the last drop of
blood.
The rise Of the Communist move
ment and the rapid growth of the
United Anti-Fascist Action under
the leadership of Ernst Thaelmann
was one of the decisive reasons for
German finance capital to support
the coup d'etat plans of Hitler.
The Communists in Germany
know Ernst Thaelmann as the com
rade who for over ten years has led
the Communist Party of Germany.
and who is mainly responsible for
the fact that this Communist Parry
acquired its Bolshevik character in
the struggle against right-oppor-
tunist and lsft-seetarian deviations
on which today the greas fame of
the heroically fighting Communist
Party of Germany is founded.
The Ocial-deIn0cratio workers
know Ernst Thaelmann as the one
who, in the name of the Commu-
mist Party, first offered them a
orotherly hand for joint struggle
against the common enemies.
The German peasants know
Ernst Thaelmann as the savior
from misery who, in the name Of
the Communist Party, announced
to them the Program for Aid to the
Peasants.
The workers of Germany and of
the whole world know Ernst Thael-
mann as one of the foremost lead
ers Of the Communist International
as a passionate defender of the So
vet Union, as one of the strongest
fighters for proletarian internal
tionalism against inperialist war.
who in Berlin and in Paris called
tens Of thousands of workers to
Joint struggle against The common
enemy.
This firm connection with the
working class, this deep love and
unlimited trust of millions Of toll
erS and oppressed for Ernst Thaal-
mann must become a powerful
weapon againsS the base plans Of
the Hitler and Goebbels bandits.
International Action
1t is up to us, who can speak and
write, it is up to us who can move
and fight, to give maximum of
support to the German Communist
Party, to the German Anti-Fascists,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17

stage to the classics society-this
lesson which the Commune teaches
us, this central principle in the
teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin
and Stain are minimized, distorted,
falsified - in essence, rejected - by
the MARIAN" leaders of the Second
International. Rejected, because, in
the words of Lenin, THE Paris
Commune represents the first at
tempt Of the proletarian revolution
to smash the bourgeois State apps-
ratus and to place a proleterian
State form in its place" social-dem-
ocracy is opposed TO a proletarian
State; it is opposed to proletarian
revolution. Coalition with bourgeois
ministries, headship of bourgeois
governments, endorsement of i'm
perialist war budgets, prevention of
proletarian revolutions = these are
the tasks of the social-democratic
leaders.
How deep-grained the social-fas-
cist treschery showed itself in the
Austrian situationl An impov-
erished, crisis-burdened, radicalized
proletariat surging forward for rev.
dictionary action held back by
socialist" leaders that have entered
alliances with a Clerical Fascist
government in a common front for
democracy" The workers. social
democrats and Communists In spon-
taneous united fronts Of struggle
against fascisn, against capitalism
sundered, disarmed, bound over to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
4FL Organizer Tells Why
Officials Break Strikes

THE NRA. has shortened the
hours for printers, cleaners and
pressers, hotel restaurant employees
and BARRIERS, but in 50 doing has also
lowered wage Garner ineomes."-V.
S, Herring, st. Petersberg, Florida.
How the N. r. A. drives all wages
down to actual coolie minimums is
shown by the following report Of
the A, F. Of L. organizer, j. H. Gore
in Helena, Arkansas;
Under the N. r. A. common
labor in the lumber industries has
benefited through the increased
wages, while skilled and semi
skilled were cut to code rates for
the South ard in some instances
even below the code"
The lumber code for the South,
one of the lowest in the whole
country, as it applies to Negro
workers, provide for 20 cent an hour.
Now even skilled workers are driven
to or below this level
The same organizer in Des
Moines who deliberately admits his
strikebreaking, when the rank and
file are ready for action. reports
the following facts about lowering
workers living standards:
THE N. R. A. has raised wages Of
workers in the meat packing in
dustry, retail stores. garment fac
tories, bakeries, cap and hat manu-
featuring concerns, etc, but the in
ereases apply only to those receiving
less than the minimum before the
N. r. A. became effective. Hours
of work have been shortened for
these industries. but this has re-
suited in lower workcr-earnsr in
comes.
From Hamilton Ohio, organizer
Utrecht bluntly reports the follow
ing:
"The n. r. A. has not helped
conditions here. What factories
are doing anything arc still oper-
ating at small wages and long
hours"
And the A. F. of l., leaders de-
clare: We are determined to as
sist the government in the new
deal" by having no strikes.
What the workers in the A. F.
of L, actually think of their strike
breaking leadership, how ready they
are to struggle. would make sig
cling record.
The A. F. of L. officials admit the
auto industry is a powder magazine,
They plead with the bosses to help
them keep the men from striking.
In every city and hamlet where
there is an A. F Of L. In every IN
dustry. cur work is plain. We must
mobilize these workers In rank and
file opposifions to ride over the
heads Of their leaders and into
struggle for better conditions and
against the New Deal program Of
hunger, fascism and war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17

advertised great political and
theological reckoning" with COMMIT
nism in the Thaelmann trial. But
this road, too, will not lead the Hit
Ter government to its goal. The OPP
posite of what they expect, what
they hope to reach by their cam
paign of lies, will happen. Just as
the court did not know Dilnitroff
and underestimate him, so the
Nazi leaders, in their maniacal de-
fusion of grandeur, underestimate
the personality of the defendant
Ernst Thaelmann.
Ernst Thaelnann, as the leaflet
of the illegal Social Democratic
Party of Hamburg correctly en-
phasizes, is high above the morass
of National Socialist lies; and what
the social-denocratic workers of
Hamburg say. many millions of
workers all over Germany and in
the whole world are feeling:
''Thaelmann is a son of the
proletarian class. He is dock
worker, he has never lost contact
with the transport workers, dock
workers and the workers of the
public utilities. He founded the
first trade union youth groups in
Hamburg and already before the
war We saw him as a delegate at
the congresses of the transport
workers trade union"
Yes, Ernst Thaelmann is one of
the strongest purest and most
prominent leaders of the prols-
tartan revolutionary, of the Com
munist movement in the world. He
is child of workers family in
Hamburg and has since his earliest
youth been indissolubly connected
with the proletarian class move
ment in Germany. Since his earl
lest youth he has been in the youth
and trade union movement; during
the world war he was active in
sharp struggles against imperialist
Kaiserdom and its war. Ernst
Thaelmann is an integral part of
the great stream of workers who,
through their experience in the
world war and the dastardly
treason of the social democratic
leaders, turned away from these
leaders and through the Indepen-
dent Social Democratic Party, came
to the Communist Party of Ger
many.
The German and the interna-
tional working cla=S knows Ernst
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17
Day by Day History
of Paris Commune

since it is declared that the banner
Of the Commune is the banner Of
the world Republic"
April /. 1871: Decision that the
highest salary OF any functionary
Of the Commune be the normal
wages Of a worker and in no case
exceed 5000 francs a year.
April 2, 1871; The church is separ-
ated from the state.
April 7, 1871: Versaillese organize
resistance and seize one Of the
bridges over the Seine.
April IL, 1871: Communards de-
feat the Versaillese.
april I6, 1871: All factories and
workshops abandoned by their own
ers ordered registered and turned
over to the workers who formerly
worked there.
April 20, 1871: The Labor Ex-
change is abolished. Night work
in bakeries forbidden. System of
fines abolished Pawnshops abol-
ished as Incompatible with the
rights Of workmen TO their tools
and credit.
May 9, 1871: Fort Of Issy reduced
TO ashes by the VerSaillese
May IA, 1871: West side forts
taken by the Versaillese.
May 81. 1871: Versailles army en-
tiers Paris.
May 20, 1871; The Committee for
Public Welfare appeals to the ctti-
zens Of the Commune to take up
arms in their own defense. Build
ing Of berricades begins.
May 20, 1871: Paris Commune Is
drowned in blood on the last bar
riCade.
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reliable road" of their policies had
to pay for this belief with unspeak-
able sacrifices and an ocean Of
blood.
Social Democratic Support OF
Capitalism
The rejection of the possibility of
developing the revolt of 1918 into
q real proletarian revolution, of
completely disarming the officers
and counter-revolutionsry forces, of
arming the workers, of forming a
Red Army and the rejection of the
possibility of establishing the pro-
letarian dictatorship-all this was
an inevitable consequence of the
policies of the second International
and led social-democracy into its
shameful role as the main social
support of the bourgeoisie, ever
deeper into the opportunist morass
and filth. In the German and in
the Austrian republic the carrying
out of this policy led to the growth
of the reactionary and fascist forces,
and finally made possible Hitler's
coup d'etat in Berlin and the Helm
wehr coup d'etat in Austria. The
heroic struggle of the workers of
Vienna, Linz, Graz and other Aus
trian cities could not any more avert
the terrible results for the toiling
masses of the policies of the Aus
TRAN social-democratie Party.
History Confirms Communist Party
The history of the Austrian
republic and as part of it, the role
of social democracy, confirms with
dramatic vehemence that the de-
cisive factor in the proletsrian class
struggle is and remains the seizure
of political power and its complete
use, without compromise, for the
interests of the proletarian class by
the establishment of Soviet Re-
public. It is great historical
merit OF the Communist Interna-
tional and its parties that for over
Is years they have consistently taken
a stand for this principle and have
persistently and without vacilla-
ton determined and carried out
their policies on this basis.
The Thaelmann Trial
What is planned in the Thael-
mann trialP
The next blow, planned for long
time by the Hitler government, is
directed Immediately at the head
and heart of the Communist Party
of Germany: the leader of this
Party and the leader of the broad
anti fascist united front, Comrade
Ernst Thaelmann.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17

March Is, 1871: Attempt by
Theirs government to steal the
cannon Of the National Guard from
the ramparts Of Nominate and
Belleville, fails. Soldiers fraternize
with the people. Government mill
tsry and high officials fee from
Paris 10 Versailles. Revolutionary
Central Committee of the National
Guard seizes Paris.
March 10, 1871: New government
proclaimed. Elections set for March
22nd. Martial law declared.
March %, 1871: Commune pro-
claimed in Marseilles.
March "a, 1871: Commune pro-
claimed at Lyons. Central Com
mittee decides to set aside one mil
lion francs for the poor. Post
ponement of rent payments until
Oct 1st.
March 2s; The Commune is
elected.
March 2S, 1871: The Commune is
proclaimed in the square before the
Hotel de Vile. The Central Com
mittee hands over its power TO the
Commune. &c delegates elected.
March 30, 1871: The Commune
sbolishes CONSUMPTION and the
standing army and all military
forces except the National Guard
the armed people, All rents from
October 1870 to October 1871 are
RENTED; any rent paid during
this time would be credited towards
the future. All pledges and articles
in the public pawn shops are re-
turned gratis Election of foreign
ers to the Commune is endorsed.
Their right to function is endorsed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17

and to their leader, Ernst Thael-
mann. 1t is our task to expose the
plans of the Hitler government be-
fore the broad masses in ell coun-
tries, in broade1t daylight. We
must completely shatter the Grim
inal conspiracy Of the Nazi leaders
VINO do no. stoop before the basest
and most criminal deed, who only
a few weeks ago ordered the bestial
hutchering Of four dofenseless polit-
iesl prisoners, cur unforgettable
friends and comrades, John Scheer,
Eugen Schoenhaar, Erich Stein
furth and Rudolf Schwarz.
This great and immediate danger
Of murder also exists for Comrade
Ernst Thaelmann and for many
thousands of arrested anti-faseists
who are now in the hands of the
Storm Trop bandits and Of Goer-
ing's murderers.
Therefore we must mobilize thou
sands of shops and millions of
workers in all countries, to demand
the immediate release of Thael-
mann, Torgier and of all anti
fascist fighters who are suffering in
Hitler's prisons, dungeons and con-
centration camps, who are con-
stantly threatened by the bullets
and dagger5 of cowardly muderers,
and who can he wrested from the
murderous Hitler regime by the
powerful development of interna-
'ionsl proletarian solidarity