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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Butte Copper Strike
Must Be Spread tb
Montana Power Co

power lines in order. With an un<
failing supply Of electric power, petty
officers of the company and few
scabs are able to keep the mines
and plant in operating condition.
The shutdown Of the Montana
Power Co. would absolutely guar
antee the winning Of the strike.
The A. F. Of L. leaders and every
worker fully realize this, yet every
effort OF the workers to extend the
strike to this key industry is blocked
by the leaders.
Weak Picket Line
The old WORKOUT arguments are
being used that nothing along this
line can be done without the sane
ton of the International union and
that the strike is only the concern
Of the employees Of the Anaconda
Copper Mining Co. Typical of this
attitude built up by the A. F. Of L.
leaders is the action of the organ
lied railroad employees Of the Butte,
Anaconda and Pacific Railroad,
short line owned by the copper COM
pany, who continue to p er + T m
switching service and transport sup
plies to and from the guards at tbs
mines in Butte and the smelter in
Great Falls.
The Anaconda Copper Mining
Company workers are organized into
the following craft unions all Of
which are 100 per cent out on strike:
Miners and smeltermen, machinists,
boilermakers, ironworkers, electrical
workers, blacksmiths, pipefitters.
carpenters, Steamfitters, stationery
engineers, including pumpmen.
The picket line is so poorly orr
I ganized and weakly manned that
scab bumpers find no difficulty in
going to and from the mine prop
/ critics daily.
The rank and file of the workers
are ready to establish mass picket
lines but every proposal they bring
to the strike committee of Al for
militant action is blocked by the
reactionaries on this committee un-
der the direction of Paul Smith,
/ personal representative of William
I Green, and sent to Montana for
this purpose.
The question of financial assist
ance to the strikers is not an issue,
since at the very beginning of the
strike, in both Butte and Great
Falls, the men won the right to
County Relief and demagogues such
as Senator Burton K. Wheeler and
Representative Monaghan h ave
come out with such slogans as: Not
one striker in Butte shall starve"
The County RELIEF Board is now
trying to make a split between the
strikers and the unemployed by
stopping certain relief jobs on the
plea that they have the extra bur-
den of the strikers and SO cannot
afford to continue other relief work.
Organized F. E. r. A. workers are
arranging a solidarity mass meeting
to expose and defeat attempt to
set the unemployed against the
strikers.
The action of the F. f. r. A.
union and of the Unity Movement
shows that the rank and file is with
the miners. If the Militant Miners
Unions will appeal to the rank and
file in other unions and carry
through its organization of a mass
picket line with the support of the
militants in their own sympathetic
organizations and take the initia-
tive in bringing out the workers in
the Anaconda Power Co., there is
every chance that the reactionaries
will be defeated in their plans to
sell out the strikers in washington
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
'sDefense Attorney Vies
With State in proving"
Crawford's Guilt
BY HARRY HAYWOOD
Continued from Yesterday

DEPLYING to Helen Boardmans
N charges that he helped to send
George Crawford to life-term IN
the Virginia penitentiary, Charles
Houston, attorney for the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, sinks still deeper
into the mire of treachery. The
theme song of Houston's article in
the Nation is this Crawford was
guilty" Vying with the prosecution
in diligence to produce evidence
damaging to Crawford, Houston
puts forward one argument after
another to show that Crawford is
guilty" There was not time for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10

tee: 7 am firm believer in ade-
quate air-power, the same as our
navy, Second to noner Such
adequate air force. ready to strike
swiftly in any direction, to repel
invasion Is economical peace in
surance. The law undertakes to
provide for the mobilization Of our
industrial resources under the
trained business men. in such a way
as to coordinate conflicting de-
mands for the supplies of the fight
ing forces. The best guarantee
Of peace is an adequate army and
navy, supplemented by programs
for industrial mobilization, which
can be readily made available in
the event of conflict"
P. H. Drewry, of Virginia, rank
ing Democratic member of the
House Naval Affairs Committee,
pinch-hit for the battleship spout
ing Chairman Vinson. He pointed
out that the traditional policy of
our navy" is that it should be
maintained in sufficient strength to
support the national policies and
commerce and to guard the CONT
mental and overseas possessions of
the United States. It would seem
that no real American could find
fault with such a policy. Put in
other words. it simply means that
the United States must have a navy
that will at all times be able to
protect the lives and property OF
its citizens, that will be able to
support American interests, and
that will develop its foreign COM
merce. Emphasis mine-S.WD
Drewry followed with the obvious
historically false statement that
the United States has never fought
war Of aggression or for material
gain"
And furthermore, in case anyone
should be so impolitely accurate as
to mention the Spanish American
and World Wars, he continued, III
now becomes necessary" for the U
S. to build about 102 warships, that
is, up to London Treaty strength
lin order that there may be bal
anced power among the nations Of
the world This theory of balanced
and equalized power is now re.
garded as the greatest incentive tt
peace and to the s.abilization o.
world affairs" But anyway, wher
Drewry swung into his wind-uT
passage he got clear of false sound
ing pacifism and the trumped ur
theory of balanced and equalizec
sea-power." He gave his audience
imperialism and with capital I
With a large, intelligent popula.
ton producing from great natura
resources the things which thu
world must have, it is evident tina
the continued welfare and prosper.
ity of the country depends upor
the utilization OF these seacoas
boundaries to build up trade anC
commerce that will be far create,
than any developed. For the pro
lection Of this commerce there mus
be navy equal to any. Our nav!
may be depended upon to do it
part in our history, as it has Away
: done, if the country supports it a
it should"
Mrs. w. E. Ochiltree, the Nationa
President of the American Wa
Mothers, did the lingo mothers
act in radio bedtime hour style
She chirped the following War De
partment lullaby: Good Evening
Everybody
IF it be true that the hand tina
/ rocks the cradle rules the world, j
, must also follow that early teach
ing begun in the cradle will so in
fluence the growing child that h
will be able, when he reaches tn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Organize to Stop Eviction
Speed-Up, Mass Firing at
Greenville, Miss.
INV a Worker CORRESPONDENT

By a Worker Correspondent
GREENVILLE, Miss.-The Chi
cago Saw Mill here is working the
laborers for $l.25 for an eight-hour
day. Due to the speed-up and hard
work in the heat, workers faint on
the job. Two weeks ago 300 men
were laid off and have not yet been
taken back.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10

EDITORS NOTE: This is the
third of a series of articles on
war preparations by Seymour
Waldman, Washington cOFrespOn-
dent of the Daily Worker.
THE post world war orgy
L of nationalism, caused
partly by American capital
SIMS reaction to the refusal of
The Soviet Union to obey the
headlines of the New York
Times and collapse into the
arms of impatient British, Amer
lean, japanese and French finan-
ciers, resulted in the National De-
tense Act of 1920. Jingoism plus a
concerted anti-radical drive directed
by the then Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer NOW a close Roose-
welt ADVISOR produced legislation
designed to keep the country in a
perpetual state of readiness for war
at moments notice. 1t was Amer
lean capitalism's announcement that
it recognized the existence of the
Soviet Union as the greatest threat
to its safety.
The National Defense Act of 1920,
as amended June 4, 1884, aside from
its purely technical and military
provisions, attempted to provide for
the organization Of production in
the nations industries so that a
sufficient number of troops for a
major war may be supplied prompt
ly on the outbreak of hostilities with
all the materials necessary for wag-
ing war. 1t virtually amounts to
mobilization of the basic industries
Of the country.
How Industry Is Modified
Under this Act, the Assistant Sec
rotary of War was ordered to card
index and line up the key produc-
ton facilities of the United States
The essential elements of produc-
tion," says the Industrial Mobiliza-
ton Plan-Revised 1888" are raw
materials, labor, power, finances
facilities (factories), and transpor-
tation. The problem is to assure
the Taost efficient use of these
things" Thus far, responsible Of
ficials declare, about 10000 fac
tories have been contacted by the
Departments travelling war sales
men and visited, inspected, APP
proved, and placed on the key list
of the War Department as ready
to begin war production literally al
a moments notice.
In addition, about $4,000 pa
triotic" industrialists have received
reserve officers commissions. Thus
in the event of war, the dividend
patrioteers will drive their wage
slaves not only as employers bu
also as employers with army office
belts around their well-fed waists.
In Assistant Secretary of Wa,
Woodring's opinion, "a proper car
rying out of the industrial mobili
cation plans formulated in my of
flee will take the profit out of war
and accomplish in large measure tn
purpose of those who have advo
Gated universal draft of property
money, and civilian labor. Ant
such a plan is adapted in peace a
in war to coordinate our economi
life and ration our civilian popula
ton. The plan is there and thu
army is ready should it be callec
upon to act"
Mobilization of Middie~ Class
The bankers and industrialistI
who financed Mussolini's fascist
and Hitler's brown battalions prob
ably never even dreamed of such
elaborate plans as those which &C
tivate and guide the Roosevelt ma,
chine. But blue prints and EN-
ployer-officer conferences are no
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
ATTENTION NEWARK!

All Newark comrades and sympathizers
who can accommodate comrades with sleep
ing quarters on Saturday, July l4th please
notify Jack Rose, 7 Charlton St., Newark.
We must provide for over 400 delegates
from throughout the State who are at
tending the District ratification confer
ence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10

Rights, and tell my story.
81 have joined the International
Labor Defense. 1 am asking all
my friends and all the Negro
people to join me into the /. L.
D., as this is the only way to sue
ceSsfully defend the rights of the
Negro people.
"(Signed) JAMES VICTORY"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10

the NAACP de-
Tense to hunt up
c er t a | n alibi
witnesses f o +
their client, but
there was ample
time for them
to discover" an
abandoned set Of
c + a W f or DIS
clothes in Wash
ington, and to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Reactionary Leader
Block Spreading
OF Strike
special to the Daily WORKER,

BUTTE. Montsna.-In their fail
ure to call out the workers of the
Montana Power Co., which supplies
the electric power to the mines,
smelters, railroads and lumber mills
Of the Anaconda Copper Co., Off
Gals of the A. F. of L. are en-
deavoring to strangle the militant
strike Of the Anaconda copper
miners and smelter workers Of the
Butte and Great Falls sections Of
Montana.
Electricians employed by the pow
er company are working on mine
property day and night, keeping the
period of manhood, to rule wisely
and to his own advantage. One of
the first teachings of cradle days
is embodied in the trite saying, Self
preservation is the first law Of Ma
ture' The eagle feeds, plumes,
teaches and prepares her fledgling,
before she pushes it from her nest
The mother-b watches at the
foot Of the tree and keeps her young
in the branches out Of danger until
she is sure that they can meet the
foe on the ground
But the human mother is even
more careful of her young She
adds her intelligence to instruction
and works out her problem in a
manner that instills confidence
and independence in her child"
The officer who wrote the piece
for Mrs. Ochiltree even put some
simple box office poetry into her
mouth.
Did you ever hold a little
Newborn baby to your heart?
IF not, then you have never
Really played mothers part.
step by step this newborn child
is led along the path Of self
preservation. He is taught to love
to smile, to stand on his feet, tc
walk carefully balanced and erectly
in difficult paths. He is taught tc
avoid pitfalls to use all of his facul-
ties in reaching his desired goal
Both his body and his mind are
prepared for a battle to gain the
best that life holds for him After
he has learned to care for himself
he realizes that he has dependent;
for whose care he must exercise his
every manly effort"
This dear little darling, incubatec
in the belly of a War Department
cannon, carries on in such fashion
until he is big enough to watch tbs
other fellow who is likely to be ar
| enemy, or an irresponsible, careless
scoundrel who may carry gun anc
hold him up in his innocent anc
peaceful pursuits"
The last paragraph of the Olchi'
tree contribution is the familiar
militarist refrain:
IF war should come again w
must have such well trained mer
and officers in army, navy, marine
and air forces that it will clear oul
public conscience of a neglected
I duty If we never have to fight al
/ enemy or meet an aggressor we vii
have given our sons what they de-
serve, a training of mind and body
that will prove to the World thai
we believe that Self preservation il
the first law of nature
! ITO Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Fired, Denied All Relief
After Strike on 10 Cent
AR Hour Job

SELMA, Ala. July 9-Nearly 100
unemployed Negro workers, taken
from the relief rolls and drafted for
road work at wages of 10 cents an
hour, were cut off all relief for a
period Of two to three months after
they had struck against low wages
and rotten working conditions.
Burton, county relief admins
traitor, engineered the system by
which the Negro workers were
forced to work ten hours a day, five
and one-half days a week for 10
cents an hour wages. The Negroes,
who were given back breaking work
in the gravel pit, declared in their
demands that ten cents an hour
was not enough for working all day
in the hot sun"
In each case, relief checks due
to the Negro strikers on Thursday
we're not issued after the strike, and
all will be forced to re-apply for
relief which, the Selma papers
state, will require some two or
three months, and in the mean
time they will be forced to look out
for their own subsistence"
BY a Worker Correspondent
SELMA, Ala am a relief
worker and have been on relief
for the past month. I worked for
the r. r. C. at Is cents a day,
and was cut off when the C. w.
A. came alOng-they never would
give me C. w. A. job.
Now the Alabama Relief Ad-
miaistFatiOn is taking over the
jobs, but the work is so hard that
one can't do it. The Negroes are
pat in the gravel pit and the
white men are on the road cutting
grass.
have a family of four. For IL
hours a week 1 get $3.50. -Four
dollars a month goes for rent, and
with four to look out for, $3.50
won't go far.
Dallas County is taking a
group of miners from the relief
rolls and putting them to work at
10 cents an hour-S5.50 for a ten
hour day, five and a half day
week. They had previously paid
30 cents an hour. Sixty of the
men struck. All were taken off
relief and told that they will not
get any more relief or relief work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
JObless Stop
Akron Eviction

AKRON, Ohio, July 9.-Over 500
Negro and white workers, modified
by the Unemployment Council and
the Communist Party here, gath
cred at the home of Anton Reiner,
an unemployed shoemaker, and re-
turned the furniture to the house
after an eviction.
The eviction took place a few
days after George Missig, county
relief administrator, had made a
statement to a committee of relief
workers that no evictions would
take place, and that the relief Of
flee would take care of all workers
unable to pay rent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Lancaster JObless Demand
Adequate Cash Relief

LANCASTER, Pa. - The Relief
Workers League here will send a
mass delegation to the City Council
today demanding increased cash re-
lief to all unemployed workers. The
committee will demand 81 cash re-
lief to all unemployed workers, ST
for each married couple and $3.50
for each dependent. Workers are
urged to mass at the Court House
at pm. to go to the City Council
Through the struggles initiated
by the Relief Workers League and
the Unemployment Council, the
city relief officials we're forced to
abandon the commissary plan and
institute a voucher system on re-
lief.
On July l the commissary was
abolished, yet the vouchers are foi
starvation amounts. To case No. SO
two unemployed workers on relief
vouchers for so cents were mailed
on July for one weeks food order
To case No. 1892, family of four
a voucher for SIPS for one weeks
food supply was sent on July 6,
Organize to Stop Eviction
The Relief Workers League O
Lancaster urges all unemployed
and employed workers to mass al
the home of lombard, 532 Beaver
ST., July IL, at $3.50 pm. to prevent
the eviction and sale of the house
hold goods Of this unemployed
workers family.
Mr.. and Mrs. lombard and IL Of
their children, the youngest onl!
three months old, are to be evictet
and their furniture sold.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Ala. Negro Relief
Workers Strike on
Forced Ork

lar Tuesday meetings will be held
at this place hereafter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
The War Set-Up in Washington

EDITORS NOTE: This is the
third of a series of articles on
war preparations by Seymour
Waldman, Washington cOrreSpOn-
dent Of the Daily Worker.
The Washington times., 1934-09-12
New Deal Supporters
Lead in Arizona

OENIX, Ariz., Sept. IL.
O.N.S0-Gov. B. B. Moeur gained
on Judge Rawleigh C. Stanford
in their race for the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination as ad'
ditional returns were tabulated to-
day.
On early returns Judge Stan
ford, cowboy lawyer" had piled
ND lead of $500 votes, but with
returns in from more than one.
half of AriZona's widely,Scattered
precincts, Gov. Moeur gained, each
candidate having polled $500
votes.
Both are supporters of the New
Deal"
The result was expected to be
in doubt until late this afternoon
and possibly until the official
count is made.
U. S. Senator Henry F. Ashurst
was assured the Democratic SEN
atorial nomination with 1851
votes against 14,500 for Sidney
p. Osborne.
Mrs. Isabella Greenway made
q runaway race for reelection to
Congress. Her lead over Frank
Hilgeman, Phoenix farm leader,
was 5 to !,
The Washington times., 1934-09-12
Lacy Leads ComStock
In Michigan Upset :

. DETROIT, Sept. IL G.N.S0
In a surprising upset which turned
on the votes of the city of De
troit, Michigan Democrats today
appeared to have chosen a new
standard-bearer-Judge Arthur j
Lacy, of Detroit-in yesterdays
primary election.
With 2T63 precincts out of the
States 3,447 tabulated, Judge Lacy
was holding a lead of $500 votes
over Gov. William A. Comstock
for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination.
Governor Comstock is the first
Democratic gCy~~nor of Michigan
since the Wilson era, and heads
the first Democratic State admin
istration since the turn of the cen
fury.
The Republicans gave an over.
whelming victory to Frank D.
Fitzgerald, secretary of State, for
the gubernatorial nomination.
Frank A. Picard apparently had
won the Democratic senatorial
nomination and in November will
oppose Senator Arthur H. Vanden,
berg, who was without opposition
for the Republican nomination.
The Washington times., 1934-09-12
THIEVES ANNEX
1852 IN LOOT

Activities of sneak thieves and
holdup men last night and early
today cost District residents a
total of 1882 in loot. Seven per-
sons reported themselves victims
of the robbers.
Falling asleep on a park bench
near Fifth and Constitution
Avenue proved the undoing Of one
of the victims, Michael G. Adams,
of the 800 block of Third st. N. w.
He reported he was surprised by
three colored gunner, who took
$23 from him.
Miss Alice Wright, of the 300
block Sherman Ave-, lost an unde'
termined amount of cash to two
young colored purse Snatchers at
Eleventh and v Streets Northwest.
Robbers who broke into the
automobile of Emory C. Naylor,
of the TOO block of Fifteenth St.
N. w., stole clothing valued at
500, and cigarettes valued at $64
we're removed from a delivery
truck parked in the 1900 block OF
Seventh st. N. w., the driver,
Ernest Eddy, of the 1900 block
Wisconsin Ave. N. w., reported.
Three apartments we're entered
during the night by sneak thieves.
From the first, the occupant,
Herbert j. Smith, of the 1900
block Park Rd. N. w., reported
$14 in cash was stolen. A ring
valued at 500 was stolen from
the apartment of Forest A. Han
dack in the 500 block of Third st.
N. E., and jewelry and cash total.
ing SAL was reported stolen by
Mrs. Jane B. Wallace, 2400 block
of Thirteenth st. NJ. w.
The Washington times., 1934-09-12
z ESCAPE BOAT
EXPLOSION

Trapped by flames in a blazing
22-foot highspeed motorboat off
the Naval Air Station dock early
today, two Navy enlisted men
escaped death by plunging into
the water and swimming to shore,
a distance of $50 feet.
The boat, which is used in
emergency cases at the air station
and which patrols the Anacostia
and Potomac Rivers, sank in 10
feet of water before the blaze
could be extinguished.
One of the men, H. R. Ferrel,
a machinist'S mate, suffered super
ficial burns of the face and hands.
His companion, R. A. Beden, first
class seaman, escaped injury.
The fire is believed to have
been the result OF a backfire.
The Washington times., 1934-09-12
Picketing of Bureaus
Banned by A. F.G.E.

NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-With
heated debate, accompanied by
charges that the action was "pre-
poSterous and unjust" the Ameri-
can Federation of Government
Employees today ruled against
picketing or any form of embar-
RAISING the Government in the
presentation of workers griev-
anceS.
The federation, in its final ses-
sion of a three-day convention
here, adopted an amendment to
its constitution to that effect, over
the protest Of a minority group
led by John l.. Donovan, president
of the NRA Lodge and principal in
the famous Donovan case."
Weapon Lost
Mr.. Donovan, who was rein
stated in the MIRA after the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board de-
cided Gen. Hugh S. johnson had
discharged him for union activi-
ties, told the convention it was
''legislating away one of the chief
weapons of labor when it tied its
hands" by preventing picketing.
Going into executive session for
discussions of the amendment the
federation voted overwhelmingly
against the Donovan faction on
the ground that picketing consti.
tuted forceful action against the
United States Government.
Mr.. Donovan told the fedora
ton that his case never would
have come to a successful cen.
clusion had it not been for the
use of pickets. After the action
of the convention, he charged:
1--WE have just accomplished
a distinct diSService to labor. 1t
will constitute an evil precedent
for years to come.
when it comes to a show
down sometime, when Govern
ment workers will need to bring
pressure for settlement of a
grievance, they will find that
they have irrevOcably tied their
own hands,"
The constitutional amendment
was proposed by E. Claude Bah