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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31

young labor from the South has led
to a veritable epidemic of tubercu-
losis among Detroit factory workers,
especially Negroes.
The author of the minority re-
port, DR. I. W Ruskin, told the
press that the incidence of the dis
ease among Negroes is almost twice
that of whites, and the death rate
more than 600 per cent higher"
He laid this difference to the
slums and low housing to which
Detroit Negroes are subjected and
to the heavy manual labor, speed
up and long hours in the foundries
and other such industries which
weaken Negro and white workers
generally, breaking down their re-
sistance to disease, and leading to
their early discard on the capital
ist scrap heap.
Thousands of Negroes were at
tracted to Detroit by employment
campaigns conducted during the
last decade by Michigan msnufac-
turers in an effort to keep the open
shop intact and to force down wage
levels by providing an available sur
plus Of labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Caldwell Series in "DaiLy /"
10 Expose Henry Ford Myth

DETROIT, May 80. Revelations
of a veritable epidemic of 1T. b.
among Detroit factory workers, with
the Negro death rate from the dis
ease more than 500 per cent higher
than among white workers, are con-
tanned in minority report submit
ted to the Wayne County (Detroit)
Board Of Auditors. The board had
authorized an investigation of graft
and inadequate treatment in private
hospitals receiving T. B. patients.
The background for this situa-
ton will be discussed In a series of
articles in the Daily Worker by
the noted author and playwright,
Erskine Caldwell. The series will
begin in Saturdays issue and will
take up in detail the myth of
Henry Ford, the benefactor.
Caldwell is the author of the
plays Tobacco Road" and Gods
Little Acres" besides several
novels.
The report of the minority group to
the auditors strongly condemns the
automobile bsrons for abetting the
spread of tuberculosis, and declares
that the importation Of green" and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Strike Makes Natl
Biscuit Company
Give Concessions

NEW YORK.-A short but power
full one-day strike, Monday, May
%, stunned the giant National Bis
cult Company into giving some con-
cessions to the 1900 workers who
completely tied up the New York
plant, the largest in the country, as
the plants in Philadelphia and
Cambridge, Mass, struck in SYM
pathy.
The company was forced to grant
the right to collective bargaining
and to recognize elected represen-
tatiyes of the workers whenever
grievances arose.
The demands presented were for
equal pay for equal work, equaliza-
ton of work, and recognition of
their union, an A. F. of L. Federal
Union.
The strike was called Immediately
after the bosses refused to negotiate
with the committee, claiming that
the committee did not represent
81 per cent of the workers. -Four
hours after the plant was tied up,
negotiations commenced. especially
after the bosses learned of the walk
outs in the other two plants.
However, the most important
needs of the workers still remain
unsatifled, especially concerning
wages and speed-up. Many work
ers today are still working at So
and SO a week part time.
The bosses, and the N. r. A. Of
flcials have already started arbitra-
ton proceedings on the remaining
demands of the workers. The pur-
pose Of the arbitration is to stall
the workers until their ranks are
weakened and the company is in a
position to effectively resist the
workers. Unless the workers main
tain and strengthen their organ
ization, maintaining the union I'M
der rank and file control, even this
partial victory Will be eliminated
by the bosses working in harmony
with the Regional Labor Board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Ala. FaSCiStS Would
Jail All Readers of.
Worker Literature
Ranks of Strikers in
Republic Steel Solid
Despite Terror
Especial to the Daily wOrker)

Especial to the Daily WOrker)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. MAY 30
Commissioner w. o. Downs an
nounced yesterday he was preparing
an ordinance prohibiting possession
or distribution of any Communist
literature. The two other commits
sioners, Jones and Robinson, an
nounced they would vote for it.
Tt is evident that the commits
sioners are taking their orders from
the fascist White Legion, which is
crcularizing politicians and can
didates on a platform demanding
laws barring outside lawyers" from
appearing in cases in this State. etc.
to prevent embarrassing our courts
and juries," as in Scottsboro. The
Legion also wants to make it a
felony to print and circulate work
ing-class literature.
Three Negro workers arrested
Monday night at an International
Labor Defense meeting were re-
leased today.
Bombing continues in the Repub-
lie Steel Blast Furnace strike. Eff
forts to pin these activities on
strikers have failed. The ore strike
mediation conference has reached
q deadlock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Bronx Tenants Win
Rent Strike

BRONX, N. Y.-The tenants of
1923 Crotons Park East have won
a victory in the rent strike which
they have been conducting under
the leadership of the Crotona Park
East Block Committee affiliated with
the Unemployment Councils. The
agreement now signed calls for rent
reduction of 81 to SO, withdrawal of
eviction notices, no dispossess with
out consultation with the house
committee, and necessary repairs
and new improvements.
The Communist Party, Unit 2e.
Section Is, aided the tenants. help
ing in the picketing, open air
meetings, etc. On Saturday. June
2, at pm, the tenants of the
neighborhood have arranged q VIC
tory affair to be held at the Alter
alton Painters headquarters, 1872
Boston Road, Steps are being taken
to build local of the Councils on
Crotona Park East.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
BrOWder Speaks on
.DarrOwNRARepOrt
At Meeting Tonight
Significance of Toledo
Strike Also To Be
Analysed Tonight

NEW YORK, ~ Earl Browder.
General Secretary of the Communist
Party, will explain the significance
of the barrow report, the response
of General Johnson, and what the
NR.A. now means to the workers Of
this country. at Cooper Union to-
night, under the auspices of the New
York District of the Communist
Party.
The present strike situation in
Toledo will be estimated in its re-
lation to the necessary struggles of
the workers against the bosses as
their oppressive conditions are in
tensified.
Members Of the A. F. of L., mem
bers Of independent unions and
members of the Trade Union Unity
League are especially invited. Ad-
mission is Is cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Roosevelt Cuban
Treaty Provides
Holding War Base
Continued from Page y

plete sway in this area and in Latin
America generally, are manifest in
this document Of Rooseveltisn dem
agogy
A statement issued by the Anti
Imperialist League effectively ex-
poses the basic hypocrisy of this lat
est blast Of the good neighbor" tao
tics Of Roosevelt.
Statement of Anti Imperialist
League
Behind the new treaty with the
puppet Cuban government, which is
merely another step in the good
neighbor' policy, stand the following
fundamental facts.
Il. The rebellion of the masses
in the colonial and semi colonial
countries against imperialism, espe-
cially the revolutionary movement
in Cuba, has forced Wall Street to
take one step after another in the
direction Of adopting a new applica-
ton of dollar imperialism. In
Cuba, without sacrificing any essen
tial element in its interventionist
tactics, the Roosevelt government
hopes to strengthen the hand of
Mendieta in crushing the revolu-
tionary movement.
20 The fierce rivalry for domi-
nation of Latin America between
Great Britain, the United States
and Japan, and for the extension
of markets in this vast territory has
created the necessity for arch deeds
Of hypocrisy and protestations of in
nocence on the part of the three
robber nations.
"3. The new treaty Is another at
tempt to attack the imperialist pol
icy of Japan in the Far East, where
the latter is following the same pol
icy Of aggression as pursued by Wall
Street in Latin America.
a. Following closely on the heels
of pacif1st maneuvers over the Cha
co and the declaration of an arms
embargo on the two warning coun-
tries, Bolivia and Paraguay, the par
tial abrogation of the Platt Amend
ment represents the next move
intended to give leadership to the
United States and to defeat the
peace demagogy of its rival.
"5. Multilateral intervention as
enunciated by President Roosevelt
several months ago, has disposed of
the necessity for such an open in
strument of intervention as the
Plat Amendment. Through the de-
ceptiveness of this policy, the United
States can cloak its heretofore open
and single intervention by causing
other Of its puppet governments to
participate in the aggression. At
the downfall of the Cespedes gov
eminent in Cuba, the dispatch of
American warships to Cuba was
specifically denied as an act of in
tervention, but rather as a common
act of various Latin American gov
ernments and Of the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31

acters regard him. Walter NeuseI
and Max Schmeling," says the dis
patch, ARE the Chsncellor's favorite
boxers.
Shortly before Screenings last
trip to the United States, Hitler had
Make over at the chancellory one
afternoon to hear from him all
about boxing"
Thus we have the role of this
professional pug. Mr.. Neusel. I be-
hevs, is still in America, gathering
in the goods hand over fist, while
Adolph follows him from Berlin
with palpitating heart Mr.. Schmel-
ing has taken his due, but he will
probably be back for more. Let US
not forget him.
Let us also remember that MIR.
Something's manager is joseph
Jacobs, fight manager well
known around these parts. Mr..
Jacobs is al IsraeIite who bends
himself low in the synagogue on
every anniversary of his parents
death. This, however, did not pre-
vent him from observing with n
calm and perhaps encouraging eye
Mr.. Schmeling's comraderie with
Adolph, The Leader. Mr.. Jacobs
would probably kiss Adolph lf
they paid him for it.
YOU will not find either tomorrow
or the next day or any other cav.
however, any A. p. enthusiasm ever
such an event as the Anti-War
Track and Field Meet which is being
held at Ulmer Park this Saturday.
June 2, under the auspices of the
Associated Workers Clubs. This af-
fair is not being supervised by any
retired politicians or army generals.
The A. A. u. shuns it. This is prop
erly in line with the opinion of Mr.,
Gustavus Kirby, former president Of
the A. A. u, and expressed at the
trial" against Hitler, staged by the
American Jewish Congress, that
Theodore Lewald, the Nazi on the
International Olympic Committee,
is a man in whose statements about
Jewish athletes in Germany one can
place full confidence. Herr Lewald,
Kirby and the American Jewish
Congress make a pretty team.
This Ulmer Park meet is sane
toned by the Labor Sports Union,
the only athletic organization in
this country that is fighting res
olutely for boycott of the Olym-
pics. ihe Labor Sports Union is
another eyesore to the A. A. U.
They have worked every trick to
keep its participants out of meets
and have used the police in attempts
to ruin its programs.
And has the A. P. said ANYTHING
yet about the International Sports
Meet against War and Fascism
which is being held In Paris from
Aug. 11-15? If 1t has, it has said it
in secret. The Nazis no like that
of meat. Nor do any of the other
fascist and reactionary bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
B A S E B A L L

Boston 100 O0i n0o-2 I
Philadelphia 100 900 OIL /
Rhodes and r. Terrell, Cascarella and
Berry.
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Syracuse 400 O5 100 3
Newark 05 -ox--i2
Merena, Eckert and Taylor; W. Brown
and Kiss.
Baltimore o1O 90 o02-s "a
Albany 100 20 3oY-6 u
Appleton and Asby; Brown and Ftnney.
Montreal 90 sol o. Il
Montreal 90 sol ~ "a
Kimssy, Fritz Collier and Stack Kowa-
lik' Ltsenbee Gould and Spencer
Toronto 800 900 o00-s Il 1
Rochester $40 20 0o2-s IA
Baltimore 100 Of s
Albany I02 10 IA
Melton and Pctnich, Barrett and Pin
ney.
Hollingsworth Cook, Hilcher, Cole and
Crouch. Kleinke, Potter. Liska and Lewis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Police Fail to Break
Up Bridgeport Meet

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, May 30
Fighting between police and work
ers lasted for five minutes here to-
day before police gave up their at
tempt to prevent Morris Liss. of
the Connecticut League Against War
and Fascism, from opening the Ma
tional Youth Day meeting at Main
and Cannon SITS. Over 500 workers.
including large delegation from
Stamford, took part in the parade
from the meeting to the seaside.
Mayor McLevy and Socialist Off
Gals reviewed and blessed the pa
triotic exercises while the police
tried to push the Youth demon
stration into a side street.
However, Liskofsky, militant rank
and file socialist, spoke at the youth
meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
GAMES TODAY
NATIONAL, IEAGUE

GAMES TODAY
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 3ol 900 Olo-5 IN
Brooklyn 900 0lo O1O-2 q
Clark and Richards Mungo and Lopez.
Berres
Philadelphia 900 o0s o0l-4 1
Boston 06I 0f0 2ox-i0 IL
A Moore, Hansen and Todd; Brandt,
Smith, Darrow and spohrer.
Pittsburgh 02o 900 90 a 7 1
Chicago OH DOL BOY IA
Meme, Harris and Grace; Warneke and
Hsrtnett,
st. Louis 200 1870 on7-a II
Cincinnati 100 0oI 40n-s 10
P. Dean, J. Dean and Delaney: 81
johnson, Brennan, Benton, Kolp and Lom-
bardi, OFarrell
Philadelphia oOl 600 oOo-I q
Boston DOL Dol Boys u
Grabowski, johnson and Wilson; Can't
well and Spohrer
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 90 300-s
Philadelphia o1o 200 02x-5 8 l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Cops Slug Ten Workers Jailed at May 10th Demonstraho
Hathaway Will Speak
AT Affair for C. E.
Organization Work

NEW YORK, - To finance the
concentration work Of the Commu-
mist Party in Schenectady, N. Y.
among the General Electric work
ers, the newly esta bhshed I. W o.,
Followers Of the Trail Branch, is
giving an entertainment and dance
at irving Plaza Friday evening,
June lst.
Clarence Hathaway. editor of the
Daily Worker, will speak. The Ne
gro chorus from the "Stevedore %
cast, will sing spirituals and revolu-
tionary songs. The Workers Labora-
tory Theatre will perform the prize
winning play, "Newsboy.' Admission
is Csc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31

Continued from Page y
to Iron out as many strikes as he
can.
Three local A. A. leaders, repre-
senting the rank and file who forced
the strike-cau despite the opposi-
ton of the Tighe machine, seem
ingly unaware Of how rank and file
leaders we're duped in the auto
strike sell-out negotiations, are re-
ported to be preparing to Join late
today in putting the whole thing
up to the president"
Trying to Avert Strike
E J. Forbeck, president Of the
First District Union, Pittsburgh, is
understood to have told chairman
Wagner of the National Labor
Board that the "only way" the ad-
ministration can avert the strike is
to get the heads of the Iron and
Steel Institute down here to confer
with us on collective bargaining"
1t is obvious that such a sugges-
ton is dangerous, for it might easily
play into the hands Of Tighe and
the steel owners by giving the cue
for setting White House negotia-
tons exactly like those that killed
the auto strike.
Local leaders now in Washington
at the same time were represented
as asserting vigorously, "the only
thing that could prevent the strike
would be outright granting of our
demands-union recognition, dol
lar-a-day wage for common labor,
abolition of the one-man- doing the
work of-two two four, and the 30
hour week" They could not be
reached, however, for direct quota
ton.
Chairman Wagner insists the
the strike can be prevented-but
one basis of this hope was the re-
vised steel code, which certainly is
washed out now.
The refusal of Delaware court
to grant the government an iniunc-
ton to compel an election in the
Weirton case increased the difficult
ties Of the strikes tallers. However.
they have two other prospects of
maneuvering-to try further to use
the pending new Wagner industrial
settlement act; and to arrange for
the promise of an election at Du-
quesne, Pa
There is already talk of the pos
sibility that an election at Duquesne
might be rugged up-promised, any
way-but the date set far away, so
that the government and the mis-
leaders can say, well, wait and
see what happens at Duquesne. The
National Labor Board promised an
election there, but set no date.
The revised code deals almost ex-
clusively with trade practices of the
steel owners. 1t contains q section
entitled Labor Provisions" but this
includes only declarations that there
shall be an average" 40-hour week
and maximum" 6-day week and an
8-hour day; that piece workers are
guaranteed minimum hourly rates,
that new wage districts for mini
mum wage scales are provided, Lo-
cal A, A. leaders readily recognized
that these mean absolutely nothing
as far as the workers demands are
concerned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31

adds, is especially interesting
in view of the fact that the
Olympic Games will soon be
held in Germany. Their in
terest in the preparations for
the 1886 games, its correspondent,
who must be brave man, to get
this news, writes, and their pro-
motion of young athletes, seem to
indicate that the Nazi chiefs will
not be mere hosts to the elite of the
worlds athletes, but that they will
watch the events with genuine in
terest."
This should serve to disilIusiOn
those who hsrbor the idea that
the only sport the Nazi chiefs.
from the Leader down. are in
terested in, is the Sitting of
Threats. Particularly is the para
graph about The Leader, which
follows, bound to change the evic-
lions of those who have pictured
him as a piece of boudoir choco-
late in addition to his other anti
tudes. "AdOlph Hitler's fancy" it
begins, lis boxing"
THIS A. P. dispatch is noteworthy
4 because it is the first unhesitant
attempt by the American capitalist
press to build up the German Olym-
pic scene for American consump-
ton. Heretofore, this has been done
in subtle fashion, with an eye cooked
to the seething opinion of the
public. Now evidently the time is
ripe to begin shooting the works.
The prayer of the American Jewish
Congress for a "verification" of the
Hitler statement that Jewish ath-
letes are being searched for in every
part Of the country to enter the
competitions. has been taken for
what it was intended to be: a Joke.
The "verificstion" will probably
soon be forthcoming. Did not
General Sheriff. express himself as
highly satisfied" with the state
AhChS VI VIC OcIHldu representa-
tive on the International Commit
tee?
THE A. P. has always been a slav-
l ish follower of whatever crew of
murderers happen to rule the
roost. Only in Russia, when the
workers and farmers came to power,
did it Indignantly refuses to forsake
its independence" 1t has served
MusSolini with a lavish hand. 1t
has helped the English and French
capitalists over many stony road.
In the United States it broadcasts
one piece Of reactionary propaganda
after another. To Hitler it has
given no unfelicitous treatment.
This latest account is as bald a
piece Of press-agentry as it ever
tried to put across.
pERHAPS it might be well to no.
tice which boxers Adolph regards
highly and how highly these char
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Al Organisations To
Send Delegates To
Council Meet Tonight

NEW YORK. - All city mass
organizations and representa- tives
Iof the County Unemployment
Councils are urged to have rep
Iresentatives at the meeting at
l2e f. goth St., tonight at 8 PM.
The meeting will take up the
matter of the citv-wide demon
lstration at 50 Lafayette St., Sat-
iurdav, June 2. at 10 AN, and
will also formulate recommenda-
lions for presentation to the Ma
ltional Board meeting Of the IN
Employment Councils which will
be held in Pittsburgh, Pa, June
y and 8.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31

ward Avenue in annual Memorial
Day Parade, whipping up patriotic
sentiment for a new world slaught-
er, 1000 young workers, young and
old, Negro and white, gathered to-
day in Times Square in militant
National Youth Day demonstration
against imperialist war and fascisn.
The demonstration today was also
a mass protest against terror against
the Toledo strikers, and for support
to a general strike of all Toledo
workers.
The Times Square demonstration
was q elimination of the parade ex-
tending over two miles, starting
from Perrien Park on the East Side
and Clark Park on the West Side.
Five Toledo strikers, members of
the A. F. of L. Federal union, here
to bring greetings and call for mass
support to their heroic struggle, led
the parade from Perrien Park. Short
meetings at starting points pre-
ceeded the parades.
Despite the fact that there was a
permit issued for the parades and
demonstration, one worker was ar
rested in Perrien Park for distrib-
uting leaflets. Martin Hall, a work
ers' center, was raided this morn
ing.
Walter Eicher, world war veteran.
and David Jones, Vice President of
the Auto Workers Union and mem
Der of the Detroit delegation that
last night brought greetings to To-
ledo United Front Conference, spoke.
Other speakers we're Dick Miller.
Toledo striker, Willie Goetz, Dis
trict Organizer, Young Communist
League, Frank Sykes, Secretary,
League of Struggle for Negro Rights,
Max Salzman, for the Communist
Party, Lonnie Williams, Young Ne
gro worker, Mary Himoff, of Y.C.L.,
A. Gerlach, District Secretary, IN
ternational Labor Defense, and Rev.
John Bollens, Of American Civil Lib
critics Union, Lonnie Reed, of the
Y.CL, was chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
WILLIAM FUCHS

THE Associated Press which gets all the or dies in
the attempt, has discovered fancy morse about the
Nazi chiefs It informs in inspiring perhaps inspired
article from Berlin that every Naz chief from The Leader
down. has been spOrts-minded from birth. This it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
CLASSIFIED

ROOM to let bright, all improvements;
524 E. 18th st. Apt. 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
$50 in Boston Meet

BOSTON, Mass, May 30.-Two
hundred and fifty young workers
participated in the National Youth
Day demonstration here today, at
South End.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Revised Code for
Steel Is Approved
By Pres. Roosevelt

Continued from Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31

Auspices: American Section. Interns-
tionsl Women's Congress Against War
and Fascism, Room COS. liz z. 18th
St, New York City, organized BY
American League Against War and
Fsscism).
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-11-30
Federal Tax On
Checks To Stop
Two-Cent Assessment on
Bank Checks Be Abol-
ished January LIST

The federal assessment of TIVE
cents which has been collected up.
on bank checks will be abolished
after January /, 1885, accordin,
to an announcement made by Char.
les H. Robertson, collector of in.
ternal revenue in North Carolina
The policy relative to the feder-
al check tax has been to collec,
two cents on each check paid by
the bank, with the two cents be-
ing derived from the depositor and
the bank being held responsible for
its collection.
individuals and business firms
who use bank checks in the trans
actions of their financial affairs
will, under the coming abolish
ment, save the two cents on each
check they write. The federal tax
has been the source of considerable
income, it was stated by the
revenue collector.
Federal assessment Of 10 per
cent on safety box rentals will con-
tinue after January l, 1885 as at
present, it. was pointed out, al
the revenue derived from
source has not been large.