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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-02
THE EDITOR.

From two days before new moon
until two days after new moon Is
the approximate duration of invisi-s
bility or. dark of the moon"
-
@. How many rounds per min
ute does the Browning aircraft ma
chine gun shoot?
{ A. From 100 to 1900.
7 q. Who was the author. of the
line: sleep knits up the ravelled
sleeve of care ~
A. Shakespeare in Macbeth"
act 2, scene 2.
@. Is the name Of God men,
toned in the book. of Esther?
A. No.
@. What is certified check?
A.. One on which the word "ac-
cepted," Certified good" or ali
equivalent is stamped on the face
with the signature Of the cashier
or paying teller of the bank on
which 1t is drawn. This act Is held
to certify that the signature IN
genuine, and that the drawer has
enough funds set aside in his ac-
count to meet It,, and binds the
bank to pay the check.
II you want copy OF our bull
.letin Lawn and Garden Pools, write
to the Waterbury Democrats
Washington bureau, enclosing i've
cents In postage stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-02

In view of what happened to a certain
treaty in the United States Senate recent
ly, it's bit startling to read in American
newspapers travel ad by the Canadian
Pacific Railway: "St Lawrence Seaway
to Europe. While we object to it, Can
ada's already doing it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-02

Good old Senator Ham" Lewis!
Though his pink whiskers no longer
briste, his principles remain today as they
were some sixteen years ago when he was
the pride of Washington. Speaking be-
fore the Senate last week he declared his
allegiance to President Roosevelt in this
fashion: 81 particularly desire to stress
that it is not sufficient as a justification
for our opposition that we ourselves indj-
vidually may feel that the President is
wrong. The President of the United
States, coming directly from the people,
has the right to be wrong. He may be
wrong according to the estimate of some
other man; he may be wrong according to
the measure of some other community;
but if he is fulfilling the directions of the
people who placed him in office, at the
same time giving him instruction as 70
the methods of relief they seek, however,
wrong it may appear to be to the indi-
vidual here and there, that cannot
be justification for opposition to the
measure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-02

More political rioting in France, but it
doesn't seen to natter AS FrenchmalI
once said: THE more things change, the
more they remain the same"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-02

All vehicles must be lighted not later
than 6 :47 o'clock tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-02

Copyright, 1884, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
Tarrytown, Fisher
Strikers Picket
Despite Leaders
Auto Workers Union
Speaker Applauded
BY Strikers

TARRYTOWN, N Y. April 29-
Fisher Body and Chevrolet workers
militantly continued to picket the
plants here Saturday. in spite of the
attempts of Otto Kleinert, conser-
vative president of the Federated
Automotive Association unicn, and
the unions lawyer, Grady, to call
the uicketing eff. The rank and file
strikers are demanding more vigor-
Gus conduct of the strike leadership.
Mike Walsh, of the Auto Workers
Union, was given the floor at both
morning and afternoon strike NEST
lngs on Friday, and YVES enthusiast
tically received by the strikers.
Grady. the lawyer, raised the red
scare when Walsh spoke, and said
they did not want any outsiders.
But the strikers, who warmly ap-
plauded Walsh, said, "Ke has the
right dope, and we don't care where
he comes from or who he is as long
as he gives us the right DOPE
Walsh advocated mass pic,leting,
that more vigorous efforts should be
made to pull Chevrolet out en- strike,
the election by the strikers OF a
broad strike COMMITTEES, and the
presenting Of the same dcs1Glds to
the company as are beirg edvccatod
by the Cleveland and st. Louis
Fisher Body strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
100000 Mass In
Spain for Fight
Against Fascisml

BARCELONA, Spain, April 20
In one of the mightiest demonstra-
tions ever staged against fascism
in this country, over 100000 workers
massed from four neighboring prov
inces here today. pledging to fight
to the death against any attempt
to establish a fascist regime in
Spain.
Two thousand bonfires blazsd on
the hilltops of the city, as warning
that fascism will not be tolerated
by the working class. as huge pro-
cessions bearing banners for Cata-
lonian national independence and
for revolutionary working class
struggle against fascism, wound its
way through the main streets Of
Barcelona.
Ricardo Sampler. new Premier Of
Spain. a Left Republican" picked
as a fig-ie7f to cover the increasingly
fascist maneuvers Of the zemcra
landlord capitalist government, to-
day designated a new cabinet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
Detroit Bosses Plan Nav
Day Terror; New York
United Front Is Gaining
Mount Machine Guns
In Birmingham As
May Ist approaches

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 90.
- Machine guns are being
mounted by the police, and spe-
cial guards have been thrown
around Jefferson County jail,
where the Scottsboro boys are
confined as the approach of May
First finds Birmingham Negro
and white workers and strikers
in surrounding districts deter
mined to carry through their
May Day demonstration.
Machine guns are being
mounted on all police cars, while
the Offices of the White Legion,
fascist organization, is plastered
with crayoned slogans urging at
;acks on the Communist Party
and the International Labor De-
ense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
WORKERS WORLD OVER PREPARE MICF4TTEST May DA7
RaynOndHeld forGrar,d
Jury for Exposing Thugs
''NO Crime TO Break
Strikes Says Judge
AT Hearing

NEW YORK. The motion to
dismiss the charge Of criminal libel
brought against Harry Raymond,
Daily Worker staff writer, by the
notorious labor spy and strike
breaker George Williams wa S
denied by Judge Lindau in City
Magistrates Court Friday. Raymond
entered plea of not guilty to the
charges on Saturday and was
paroled in the custody of Attorney
Edward Kuntz of the International
Labor Defense. The case was sent
to the Grand Jury.
The decision of the court fol-
lowed three day hearing in which
the whole Shiny criminal nature of
the Sherwood Detective Bureau, an
underworld strikebreaking agency
and forged document mill which is
pressing the charge, was revealed.
Williams and his crony Max
Sherwood brought thu charge
against Raymond in an attempt to
stop the Daily Worker from expos
ing the fact that the Sherwood De-
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
World Nav |
Plans NJ ak e
Bosses Fearful
Frenzy of Arrests and
Terror Fails to Dampen
Outlook for Huge
Meets
BY HARRY CANNES

NEW YORK. - lnterna-
tionally, May Day prepare
lions are driving the capital
lists and their fascist dogs to
a frenzy of arrests in Ar eff
fort to stop or impede these revo-
lutionary demonstrations.
In Austria, despite wholesale ar
rests of Communists and Socialists,
a united front demonstration last
ing for one hour took place Wednes-
day night against the Heimwher
fascist regime in Gmunden, in the
Austrian lake district.
Here Socialist and Communist
workers massed in front of the
home Of Herr Thomas. the new
Mayor, resisted the attacks of the
police and for one hour shouted
their hatred of the fascist regime
and called for united action of all
workers for the overthrow of fas-
cism. This was a preliminary dem
onstration in preparation for May
Day. More than so windows in the
mayors house we're smashed.
Heimwehr and police attacked
with their clubs and fired shots at
the demonstrators. The workers
stubbornly resisted, holding their
ranks for an hour.
In Linz, the city where the Aus
TRAN workers began their armed
struggle in an effort to defeat the
institution of fascism, over 1,00(
workers we're arrested to prevent
May Day demonstrations. Chan
cellor Dollfuss addressed meeting
Of peasants and civil servants. 81
fearful was he of the Linz workers
that he had hundreds of picked
members of the Vienna secret pc.
lice circulate among the throne
gathered to hear the hangman o.
the Austrian workers.
In Havana, Cuba, the bloody Men.
dieta regime, tool of Wall Street
is securing the country to jail Com.
Continued on Poge y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
Socialist Advances Heighten
May Day Enthusiasm in USSR

day of glorious celebration of the
rapid advance of socialism.
For instance, there is the an
nouncement today from far off
Sakhalin that the Okla oilhelds
there started new wells and ex-
ceedsd the production plan by Is
tons by May First.
Largest Plane to Fly
There is the projected first flight
of the largest land plane in the
world, named after Maxim Gorky.
built by popular subscription.
This May Day is the fifth an
niversary of the institution of So
cialist competition, the first shock
brigade having been created by the
Communist youth of the Red Vigo2
factcry in Leningrad, in the sprine
Of 1929 and the first articles Of
socialist competition between the
Continued on Pnge y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
Father Coughlin Revealed As
Secret Speculation in Silver

DETROIT. April %. - Father
Coughlin, notorious demagogue and
campaigner for initiation. who has
been lighting for a revaluation of
silver raising its price to at least
twice its present valuation of A
cents an ounce, was revealed today
as being a secret investor in silver
to the tune of 100000 ounces.
The investment was in the name
of Coughlin's Radio League of the
Little Flower.
If Coughlin's proposals for the
revaluation of silver go through he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
Three C. z. Members Elected
TO Office by L,Jino;s Miners

TAYLOR SPRINGS, III, April ct.
In the recent elections in this
mining town, candidates on the
United Front Workers Ticket has
been elected, defeating the Demo-
cratic ticket. The following we're
the votes cast; for the United Front
ticket l02 votes and 10 for the
Democratic ticket.
The following have bacn elected
as members Of the Eoard c. Trustees
for the village OF Taylor Springs:
Frank Pansciis. Section Organizer
of the Communist Party; Andy Psak,
member Of the Communist Party,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
Plan TO March Again In
A B o d y to
Washington
Especial to the Daily WORKER

BALTIMORE, Md, April 29-
Washington has ordered me to evict
you men at any cost" Harry F.
Greenstein Maryland, State Relief
Director informed about $50 Balti-
more seamen who marched to Re
lief Headquarters Friday to protest
the Government drive to starve out
t h e Seamens Workers Control
Project.
Still not intimidated, the seamen
replied they would remain there in
Greenstein's office week if neces-
sary, until he answered their de-
mand for food and shelter on the
waterfront without forced labor.
Policemen posted throughout the
building fingered their clubs; two
were in Greenstein's office, six out
side in the hall, two at the door
downstairs, two on the street.
Greenstein piled the men with
quotations God bless your efforts
and I want you to know I'm your
friend, but declared more practi-
cally you must re-register and give
up these demands can't do any
thing about them"
Greenstein then left to lay the
matter before a meeting of the State
Relief Commission The men held
a mock trial of Greenstein. there
in his office as they waited for him
to return. He had asked them if
they intended to keep him there
NO the seamen answered you car
do more about having our demands
met outside; but here we stay until
you come back, and as long after
that as necessary. We are not look
ing for trouble, but we will stay
here. You can call a dozen or two
hundred cops-but the only way
they will get us out, is to carry us
feet first"
Greenstein came back with 15C
police and - police wagons. This
government evidently wishing to put
the seamen in the position Of ag-
gressor so tilat the police thugs
could be turned loose.
Before leaving, the seamen put
responsibility on Greenstein and
the relief officials for any violence
that might result from their at
tempt to starve the seamen into
acceptance of forced labor, and re-
duced relief with withdrawal OF
workers control
In orderly ranks, the delegation
marched out Of tie Union Trust
Building Shouting slogans and de-
nouncing Greenstein in his true
colors as . lackcy of the ship owners
the scamen declared they would
hold tlaoir project and march in g
body 10 Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
Striker Is Shot
At Birmingham;
W ak Out Grows
UMWA Leader, Press In
Attack On Influence
of Communists

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April
29.-The shooting of Vance
Houlditch, young striker, by
deputies at the Thomas Blast
Furnace Of the Republic Steel
Co., and the vicious beating up of
Mark Ellis by company thugs, failed
to halt the spread of the strike
movement. Two hundred Republic
steel strikers marched on the Sayre-
ton Coal mine, captive mine of the
Republic Steel Co., and shut it
down.
This march followed by less than
twenty-four hours the distribution
by the Communist Party of leaflets
to the Thomas strikers urging the
shutting down of all Republic enter
prises.
At least fifty per cent of the
commercial coal mines, and all of
the captive coal mines are still
shut down, the coal strikers to
accept the n. r. A. ruling an
nOUneed by Roosevelt, which sets
a lower wage for the southern
coal miners than for the north.
Vance Houlditch, young white
worker, was shot in the right shoul-
der by Deputy G. A. Akin at the
Thomas Blast Furnace picket line,
when the pickets refused to carry
out the order Of deputies to dis
perse. Mark Ellis is former en-
ploye of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Co., and the candidate of the
Communist Party for chief of the
city commission at the last election.
He was attacked and viciously
beaten by thugs while distributing
leaflets to the Thomas strikers.
Ellis had been on the committee
which visited Commissioner w. o.
Downs to ask for a permit for the
May First demonstration. A tense
situation prevails as May First ap-
proaches.
The Sayreton mine, which the
Thomas steel strikers closed down,
had already re-cpened under the
Az 'AO.h. N1AlA5s w oSACCAllCl1u HlOAl
the coal operators, and the UMW.A.
leaders. After the Thomas strikers
marched on the Sayreton, William
Mitch, district U.M.W4A. head. made
public a statement that the Sayre-
ton workers are satisfied and that
there should be no strike in SYM
pathy with the Thomas workers.
Mitch urged all coal mines to keep
open. His statement attacked the
growing influence of the Commu-
mist Party among the strikers. He
said, Unfortunately at some mines
efforts have been made to stop the
operation of such mines in what
might be termed a sympathy strike
Our obligation is to keep the mines
in operation"
Groups OF white and Negro
pickets from the Parish mine of the
Railway Fuel Co., halted and ex-
amined all cars on the highway
including the sheriff's car. Chief
of Police Hollum after consultation
with the heads of the RepIolic
Steel Co., issued orders to stop all
picketing. Many Thomas Co., pick
cts we're arrested yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
A. T. of J.. Rank and
File Painters Support
May Day Unity
A. F. OF L. BAKERS
TO JOIN PARADE
Binghamton Workers
Reject Fascist Plan

NEW YORK.-Proof of the
growing sentiment of New
York workers for one mighty
United Front May 1st dem
orstration against Hunger,
Fascism and War piled up yester-
day with several additional groups
of organized workers coming out in
militant support of the United
Front May Day Parade to Union
Square tomorrow.
The Painters Rank and File Pro-
tective Association of District Coun-
Gil 9, in Call to all painters and
paperhangers affiliated with Dis
trict Council No. to Join the May
Day United Front issued a scath-
ing attack on the splitting tactics
of the zausner Machine, exposing
its use of gangsters to beat up mill
tent members of the union, and
its attempt to force the members,
by fines and threats, to participate
in the Socialist Party May Day
meeting.
Local 499 Supports United Front
Local 400 of the Painters Union
decided at its special meeting April
25 to participate in the United Front
May Day demonstration, as had
several other locals previously. The
painters and decorators will as
semble at 10 a. m. Tuesday at 18th
st. and 9th Ave.
Meantime, the Zausner Machine
circulated all members of Locals
with threatening letter, peddling
the lie that the majority of the
Locals had adopted the zausner
resolution for participation in the
Socialist Party meeting.
A. F. L. Bakers Group For United
Front
The City Committee of the OPP
positionsl groups in four Bakers
Locals of the A. F. of L., Nos. 49,
sos, 507, 500. decided to march in
the United Front Parade and called
upon all bakers, organized and I'M
organized to assemble at Irving
Plaza Hall at a. m. tomorrow to
march in body to the assemble
point of the Food workers at 18th
st. and 9th Ave, together with the
Bakers Women Council which is
also supporting the United Front
The Committee decided to send in
weekly news of the bakers and to
take 80 copies of the Daily Worker
every Monday.
Doctors, dentists, medical and
dental students, as well as members
of the allied professions will as
semble in the Medical Division or
18th St., west of 9th Ave. This is
the first May Day in the history
of the country that these profes-
sions will march with their owr
economic demands.
$4,000 Needle Workers Expected IL
March
Knitgood workers will assemble
on 18th St. The union has urged
all unemployed and partly EN-
ployed workers in the industry t.
turn out
The Joint May Day Committee o
all departments of the Needl,
Trades Workers Industrial Unior
has called all active members from
Continued on Pcge q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
By VERN SMITH
(Spaciai to the Daily yyorker)

MOSCOW, April 20 (By
Radio) May First will be
celebrated this year more
than ever before with a feel
ing of the highest enthusiasm
for the achievements of building
socialism.
With coal production in the
famous Don Basin on April 25 hav-
ing risen to 17o,934 tons a day, ex-
ceeoing the plan; with pig iron pro-
duction on the same day having
risen to 29,813 tons, exceeding the
Plan by IA per cent; with Moscow
factories one BY one announcing
the achievement Of their pledges to
iulill the plans BY May First-with
such news arriving from all corners
OF the country, May Day will be a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
Strike
AS Cleveland
MayDay Nears
Greatest Strike Wave l.
Met By Increased
Boss Terror
BULLETIN

CLEVELAND, o., April 29.-The
Chase Brass and Copper strike was
called of Saturday afternoon at
an emergency meeting of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial
Union. The men decided to go
back to work Monday. Details will
be printed in tomorrow's Daily
Worker.
CLEVELAND, April 29.-Cleve-
land, on the eve of May Day, is in
the grip of the greatest wave of
strikes in its history. Eight thou
sand and four hundred Fisher Body
workers are still out solid. Over
1000 gasoline station employees are
conducting a very militant strug-
gle White Motors is threatening a
walkout on the question of the
CLOSED shop"
The Chase Brass and Cooper
Company strike, involving 900 men,
has been singled out for a vicious
terroristic attack. This strike has
been militantly led by the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
against whom an injunction has
just been issued.
Terror Whipped Up
In face of this unprecedented up
surge of the Cleveland workers, the
bourgeois press is shrieking for ter
roristic methods of suppression. The
Cleveland Plain Dealer ran a front
page editorial on April rs, hysteri-
cally calling upon Mayor Davis to
repeat his famous strike breaking
tactics Of the May Day demonstra-
ton Of 1919. In commenting or
the gasoline strike Thursdays edi-
torial states: I'm a previous term
as mayor Is years ago, Harry L
Davis did several important jobs
settling labor disputes in which he
stepped into the role of represen.
tative of the great inarticulate pub
lie :. This is the best opportunity
for public service which has come
to Mayor Davis in his current tern
The Mayor has one certain
tool at his use. The police are hi;
to command :"
In face Of this open provocatior
the workers are determinedly con.
tinuing their struggles. The A. F
Of L. leadership in Fisher Body il
ceelSing to demoralize the striker;
by forhidding mass picketing snc
conducting the entire strike behind
cicged doors.
Spark Plug" the shop paper Of
the Communist nucleus at the plant
CONTINUED on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30

Frank Pricket, member OF the Com
munist Party ard two rank and file
members OF the Socialist Party, j.
Boggio and Amos Shafer. This
gives a majority on the Board of
Trustees Of the Communist Party,
end tog5thcr with the two rank and
file Socialist, will constitute the
village government.
This is an important victory in
this mining town and the secoad
victory IN the recent elections in
the Illinois coal fields whsre in
Benld Communist aldermen have
been elected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30
Trade Union Section
To appear First In
DAILY On May Day

NEW YORK.-The New York
Trade Union Supplement con-
tanning many feature articles and
news about the New York trade
unions will make its first appear
ance in the Daily Worker on May
Day.
This supplement of two pages
devoted entirely to New York
trade union events and problems
will continue to appear every
Monday after May Day.
Today is the last day for the
trade unions and the trade union
fractions to order special bundles
containing the supplement. Order
your bundles now and spread the
Daily" by tens OF thousands
among the workers on May Day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-30

will clean up profit Of quarter
of a million dollars. Coughlin every
Sunday denounces the Wall St.
spectators.
Coughlin's activities are financed
secretly by Wall Street banking
firms who realize that his initiation
schemes will bring them millions
in speculative profits.
Coughlin's initiation schemes will
mean rising costs of living for the
workers who will see their pay en-
velopes shrinking daily in buying
power.