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Do You Know The Answer?
Continued on Page Eigbt :

E. What does the name Leona
mean?
7. Who laid the cornerstone of
the United States capital building?
8. Where is OHIO Northern uni
versity?
9. Which country has an army
regiment called the Cold Stream
Guards?
10. Who wrote David Copper
field?
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-08

The country suffers from an ep-
[idemic Of kidnapping, and dognap-
ing and catnaping, are also COM
planned of, but down south they
say the colored brother has always
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-08

SUICIDE
Nineteen-year-old Charles Hass
took his own life in a wooded sec
ton near Sawmills in Caldwell Co.
last week by sending the discharge
from a 12-gauge shotgun into his
left breast. His body wass dis
covered by Mrs. W. c. Hass, his
stepmother. He had left the home,
seven miles south of Lenoir, osten-
sibly to kill hawks with the gun.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-08

TODAY and
FRANK PARkERk NI

FRANK PARKER.
HORBRiD6E.
defined

oA1A . kttU
People speak of capitalism as if
it were some sort of an organized
plan imposed upon people unable
to help themselves. Capitalism i.
merely a name for the system which
has grown naturally out of man
kinds ability to produce a surplus
Of wealth beyond immediate needs.
Capital is nothing but wealth not
required for productive use at the
moment. Every man who has a
dollar in a savings bank and does
not need it is as much a capitalist
as a millionaire is.
Capital is destroyed only when
it is consumed by individuals. 1t
is not lost when it is invested in
permanent things, like buildings
and railroads.. The individuals
who invested may lose, but the
building remains. The outcry
against capitalism is not really aim
ed at the system, which is the only
system unKer which real wealth
ever accumulates, but against indi-
viduals who divert too high a pro-
portion Of their temporary share Of
the worlds capital to n~on-social
uses.
SOCIALISM State ownea
Stripped of all of its sophomore
entanglements, the essence of So
cialism is not the abolition of CAPT
tai, but the ownership of all cspi-
tai by the State. The tendency
in that direction has been grow
ing stronger for more than a
hundred years. Private capital
used to build and operate highways
and bridges, charging toll for every
traveller or vehicle that used
them. Long ago those enterprises
became investments of public capt.
tai.
Agriculture, fishing, mining and
manufacturing are still in the hands
of private capital. The complete
Socialist program would make all
of those functions of the State.
REGULATION -. U. S. aim
What we seem to be heading for
in America is a compromise be-
tween uncontrolled private Capt.
and complete Socialism.
The compromise is the continuance
private Capitalism under State
regulation. We have had that in
the case Of railroads for fifty years.
1t seems to be close at hand in the
matter of telegraph, telephone and
radio communications.
AT the same time, there is an in
~creasing tendency I'd apply State
capital to long term enterprises
which do not promise a direct re-
turn in dividends, but which are
presumably justified by their So
cial value. This includes such
things as parks, many classes of
highways, public buildings, and
similar enterprises. Private Capt.
tai is not interested in these nom
productive ventures.
TAXATION ... it is distributed
Since capital is merely the sur
plus product of labor above what
labor received, the question whether
that surplus belongs to the en-
ployer or to the labor which pro-
duced it is a vexed question that,
in its turn, is the subject of con-
tinuous compromises, out of each
of which labor gets a proportion
ately larger share.
Since public capital is exactly
like private capital-that is, the
surplus of wealth above what is
consumed in the course of its pro-
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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-08
MEET IN CONFEDERATE
REUNION

Chattanooga, Tenn, is the meet
ing place this week of the United
Confederate Veterans for their 44th
annual runion. About 1900 are
in attendance. The spirit of the
leaders is that so long as there are
as many as two living veterans of
the civil war who can attend they
will continue to hold these re-
unions.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-08

TELL THRILLING STORY
Paul Codes Ueft) and Maurice
Rossi. noted French airmen, re.
late over the microphone the
story of their flight across tho
Atlantic upon their arrival at
Floyd Bennett Field, New York
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-08

farms at a reasonable cost and en-
courage its use in farm homes and
on farms, it should aid utility COM
panies," he asserted.
Every proposed line must be
considered in the light of support
ing itself and yielding a reasonable
profit on the investment. If pow
.er companies find they can increase
volume and use waste power in
this way, it should benefit them
and the people of the state BOTH
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-08
pair AND
BURNED

The crushed bodies of Mr.. and
Mrs. Riley Smith at Van Horn,
Texas, were found Sunday in the
burned embers of their home.
Smith was a well-known and
wealthy attle-breeder. Theory is
that he was killed and his body
carried into the home, to which
the torch was applied.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-08
PASSES BILL

The Dill-Rayburn commanica-
lions control bill which sets up a
commission with full regulatory
powers over the nations telephone,
telegraph and radio system has been
passed by the House and sent to
conference. ,. shr3
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-08

Some people think that walking
is becoming a lost art, and bust
ness men will say that walking up
o their offices to settle the old &C
counts is becoming so with many
olks.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-08

n e D.
v ERTISING
GROUP-Ar-
thur kudner.
Presiden of
w a.
,ey G. Com
:, a ny. N e W
Y o r k, w a S
elected chair
nan Of the
Soard of the
american As
ISOLATION of
Advertisi
Agencies at
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N the lay.
cover Hotel
at w a shing-
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IT,; WEEKS<NEW

EScALAToRSl GO MODERN.
tSTic-Stream lines. gay lac.
quers. rubber tfeads and polished
metals have been used by the
Otis Elevator Company to mod
ernize the moving stairway. Flood
lights illuminate the landings,
The canopy carries advertising
messages. and the enclosure
houses display cases.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-08

sPEED-The Burr naton'si
zephyr" ail.aIuminum Win-l
ton Diesel-powered train, as
it was greeted at the Gen.
fury of Progress Exposition
In Chicago. The train set 4.
Morsd's record TOR spesd,
having made the f,o15 mile
trip from Denver in 13 hours
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-08

THE NEXT CENTuRY-Thas
the man Of the next century will
live longer, air planes will be
powered from ground stations
and electric motors will be oper.
ated by sunlight, were among the
predictions at a dinner on the,
eve of the reopening Of A Ger.
fury Of Progress. Left to right
Mayor e. J.. Kelly, Chicago;
Charles r. Referring, chief Of rel
search, General Motors, and ~,
fred P. Sloan, Jr., president Ger
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Continued on page eight
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22
Answer Fake NRA Hearing by
Raising Workers. Demands
AN EDITORIAL

GENERAL JOHNSON has announced that beginning next
Tuesday broad public hearing will be flung for the
airing of all complaints against the N.R.A.
Why this sudden call for public hearings? The mount
deepgon discomfort with the actual the NRA working
and in view Of the rising strike the
beginning to fear the establishment Of the with the NA
Besides certain sections Of the petty bogeoi driven the wall
powerful big raising complaints BY
the Nnal-owners dyers
In preparing for the strengthening Of the monopoly and anWorng
sections of the NA permit
the of leadership critics" Of the NRA blow
lot Of johnson these public
hearings through
previous Tuesday
The fact stands boldly that the
from its conception proved a
Against the efforts Of Johnson
the A. F. of officials to the hearings lightning
the gathering storm Of strike
workers in the trade unions should the workers
The workers the revolutionary unions oppo-
son in the A. F. Of L. should be hearings
the workers with their demands from the shops be
At the time factory every
must raise the issue of opening the demanding
meet the rising o living.
We should gather the evidence
in skebreakng in foistng unions workers
wholesale discrimination against
in lowering their standard of living
We must utilize these hearings
NA and at the time actions
ton and struggle against the
recognition
expose faery johnson appeal for public hearing
and at the time utilize the dissionmen the discus
sion and discomfort to develop the oad
the MIRA and for an improvement the living conditions
This task rests mainly the Districts Parties
the revolutionary trade unions oppoion in
the A. F. of L. unions
The Daily Worker
experiences with the MIRA johnson and the
working class with the working
in lowering the workers living standard expressing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22
2 Y. p. S. L. Members
Speak; Barred from SIP.
Meet; Speak at Arena
BY HARRY CANNES

NEW YORK. = That the
revolutionary events in Aus
tria have caused a tremendous
political ouickening among
the American workers, Social
lists, Communists, non-party, and
trade union members, was given DOW
erful emphasis by the overflow meet
ing at st. Nicholas Arena Tuesday
night.
Over 1000 workers jammed into the
hall to hear Comrade Clarence Hath
away, Daily Worker editor, report on
the Austrian workers armed struggle
against fascism and the necessity Of
united front OF all workers to COM
bat fascist developments in the
United States and throughout the
world.
Not an inch of standing space was
left. City police and fire authorities
closed the hall, while it Is estimated
over one thousand more workers tried
in vain to gain entrance.
Called by the Communist Party OF
the New York District, the meeting
was attended by thousands of work.
ers not members of the Communist
Party. Many Socialist workers were
present, including Socialist leaders
and functionaries. There were vast
numbers Of trade ,rrion members
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22
DinitrOH to
Stay inPrison,
Says Goering
Nazis Murder Renegade
Who Baked at Facing
Ernst Thaelmann

LONDON. Feb. 21.-"George Dirni-
trof is now safely behind lock and
bolt-that's where he belongs, and ne
will certainly stay there for the time
being. Such man is much too dan
gerous to be let loose on human So
ciety. I told him in court he deserved
the gallows"
This statement by Hermann Will
helm Goering, head of the Nazi secret
police and right-hand man of Hitler
was published as an interview In
British papers yesterday.
The newspapers today announce
that the Soviet embassy in Berlin has
as yet had no answer to its demand
that George Dimitroff, Vasil Taneff,
and Blagoi Popoff, who have been
made Soviet citizens, be released to
go to the Soviet Union.
Traitor Recanted Confession"
BERLIN, Feb. 81. = Kattner, the
renegade Communist who was to be a
state witness against Ernst Thael-
mann, leader of the German Com
r2unist Party. at his forth coming
treason trial." was murdered by the
Nazi secret police, it has been def
nitc1y established.
The police had announced that ne
was assassinated by Communists, and
used this preteXt to murder John
Sci 9cr a Leading member of the Cen
trail Committee of the German Com
munist Party, and three other Com
munists who had been held in prison
for many weeks before the death o.
Kattner on Feb. /.
1t has been definitely learned, how
ever, that Kattner had already with
drawn a part of the confessions" he
had ba-gained to make against
Thaelmann, and the secret police be-
came convinced that he would break
down and fail them If put on the
witness stand.
An additional proof of this Is the
fact that the murderer, although
he committed his deed in broad
daylight, was able to vanish without
leaving trace, and the police is
sued daily reports of their inability
ii find him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22
Vast Political Awakening
Follows i'm Train of the
Austrian Uprising

name entirely new to the Socialist
Party namely, Rank and File So
cialist Workers"
1--WE have sent an Official deleTa-
ton to the Y. P. 8. L. members dis
tributing these leaflets Just outside
the door," announced Comrade
Krumbien. I'VE invited them to take
the floor and state their position to
this audience. They refused to ac-
cent the invitation"
It was publicly announced before
the meeting that Socialists were In
vi ed to sneak. Two members OF the
Y. P. 8. L. took the floor, and one
non-Party worker. formerly men,
Der Of the Socialist Party, addressed
the workers present.
After a brilliant analysis Of the
Austrian events. and the role OF the
Social Democratic leaders, Comrade
Hathaway devoted he major part Of
his speech to the question Of the
united front.
THE Socialist leaders can try all
the provocations they wish" he de-
ciared. "They can organize all OF the
schutzbunds they wish" He referred
to the fact that Socialist leaders
were organizing Socialist bands tt
attack Communists. Gin reply" sait
Hathaway, I'VE will organize workers
defense corps. not to attack Social
lists, but to attack our main enemy
fcnrSs..,sd s~ pa0H m
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22
CaseyUiHe, I'LL. Town
Board IndOrSes Bill
for Social Insurance

CASEYVILLE, Ill, Feb. 81. -
The Village Board of CaseyviIle,
ILL.,, has Endorsed the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill III. r. 1881. The mem
bers Of the board also individually
Iigned the petition of the Unem-
ployment Councils demanding the
immediate enactment Of the
Workers Bill.
The Village Board members
signing the petition for imme-
date enactment of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill,
are: - Paul Wendtk carpenter;
Philip Staden, mine worker; Viz
gil Strueb; A. d. Haig, miner;
c. A. Weissert, farmer; Leonard
H. Elliott, carpenter; G. T. Haig,
city clerk.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22
Government Stops All
Payments for Coal
70 JObless
NOFOOD TO CwA MEN
Even Rotten Pork Is
Denied Those on
CWA Projects

NEW YORK. - The Roose-
welt government has taken
steps to drastically curtail the
distribution of coal and food
to the unemployed, it became
known today. Harry L. Hopkins, who
acts for Roosevelt as president Of
the Federal Surplus Relief Corpora
ton, yesterday ended payment for
coal to the jobless. Hopkins termi-
mated the arrangement whereby the
Federal Relief Administration has
borne the cost OF coal shipped to re-
place Withdrawals from New Yorl;
yards on order of state administra-
tors. Beginning yesterday, Hopkins
let 1t be known, the federal govern
ment will not pay for the shipment
Of this coal to the unemployed.
This information was made publir
in New York yesterday by Scott G
Lamb, Of the Anthracite Institute
who Is agent for the Federal Surplu~
Relief Corporation. Lamb announced
that Federal cooperation with
state and local admin strators in the
distribution of relief coal is at an
end"
In plain terms, the Roosevelt gov
eminent has stopped paying for coal
or even shipping Of coal for the I'M
employed.
On Feb. IS the order went out that
70 C.W.A. workers, no matter what
their need or the size Of their family
ere to be given any Of the food dis
tributed by the federal government
This food, given out by the Federal
Surplus Relief Corporation, headed
by Hopkins, was supposed to be In
the form Of supplementary relief
consisting Of butter beans, pork, etc
The C.W.A. State Administrator
Colt of New Jersey, upon order o:
Hopkins, issued the instruction: you
will cease to issue surplus commodi-
les to persons employed on C.WA
projects" This order went to all
-tetnr. Thus a C.WA. worker getting
$4.20 under the new wage scales, car
get no supplementary relief, even
often government pork or beans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22
Hathaway to Speak
at 6 Mass Meets on
Austrian Uprising
All N. Y. C. Sections to
Rally Workers Against
Dollfuss Terror

NEW YORK.-Stirred bv the re-
port given by Clarence Hathaway,
editor Of the Daily Worker. at the
st. Nicholas Arena Tuesday night on
the Austrian situation before crowd
OF 5000 workers. mass MEETINGS in
every section OF New York are being
arranged for this and the COMING
week.
The purpose will be for rallying all
workers for the defense of the heroic
Austrian proletariat, to protest the
h2ngings and bloody torture of the
Austrian Socialists and Communists
Each OF the six mass meetings will
be addressed by Comrade Clarence
Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker
Socialist, as we'll as non-Party workers
and members of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor, are urged to attend
these meetings TO hear the truth of
the Austrian uprising against Fas-
cism. One Of the main topics to be
taken up is The need for united
front Of all workers for the struggle
against faScism
me meetings viii be held in the
following places:
DOWNTOWN.-Tonight at Z pm.
Cooper Union, 9th st. near Third Ave
BRONX-F'r!day, Feb. %. 7:30 D.
m. Ambassador Hall 1875 Third Ave.
near Claremont Parkway.
BROWNSVILLE Saturday, Feb.
"a, 1880 pm. Einsdale Workers Club,
568 Suffer Ave.
MIDTOWN.-Monday, Feb. %, 7:3O
pm. Central Opera House, 205 E. 9th
St. near Third Ave.
WILLIAMSBURG. - Wednesday
Feb. %, 7:3O p. m. Grand Paradise
Ballroom formerly Miller's Assem-
bly,, 318 Grand st. near Havemeyer,
Brooklyn.
BORO PARK.-Thursday, March 1,
Linden Heights Community Center,
45th st. and Ninth Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22
La Guardia Backs
TaXOn WOrkerSin
Place of Relief
RFC Funds to Pay
Bankers, Would Put
Tax on Workers

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. Ill
Mayor Fiore'lo LaGuardia, pleading
here before the House Labor Com
mittee for Reconstruction Finance
Corporation loans which he can use
to pay city debts and interest to
bankers, at the same time advocated
"a form of unemployment insurance"
which would tax the workers for the
insurance funds.
LaGuardia proposed that I'VE take
what we are spending now, pool it
all, and tax employees and employers
of industry and establish system Of
unemployment insurance" 1t was
obvious that LaGuardia opposes the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill Oh. r. 1899 and
favors System of unemployment
insurance" not only where the work
ers are taxed, but which would bar
those sixteen million now totally
jobless from any insurance.
LaGuardia made it clear that he
requested RFC. funds not for the
payment of unemployment relief to
the million jobless in New York City,
but to balance the budget"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22

cialist Party has iraugurated whole
sale series of expulsions, trying to
stifYle all United Front feeling, but
the workers Of the Socialist Party are
realizing that now the United Front is
more necessary than ever. They will
continue to fight for the United Front.
The leadership Of the Socialist Party
will not stiffle or stamp out that
feeling. (Applause).
One more word comrades. At the
door here there were passed out some
very curious documents obviously by
members Of the Y. r. 8. L Il Is
unnecessary to say that this document
Ia q huge lie. There Il In 1t q huge
Joke, too. It is signed-"rank and
file socialist workers" The point is
this. That not only was this docu-
ment manufactured by Socialist lead
ers but 1t had TO be passed ont by
X. r. 9, $. l. leadsEA Sxhunderous
eppsAVsels
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22
Twenty Per Cent Fired
In Illinois; Wages
Are Cut
SOUTH HEAVIEST HIT
Ten Per Cent Fired In
State of Missouri

NEW YORK. - Firing Of
572,5O0 additional C. W. A.
workers throughout the coun-
try and cutting Of c. w. A.
wages to so cents an hour,
upon the orders of President F. d.
Roosevelt, is going forward In all
states. Heaviest firing occurs In the
South, especially In Alabama, Flor
ida, Louisiana and California. Every
week, according TO the orders of the
Roosevelt government, hundreds Of
thousands more are to be fired. The
wages Of the C.WA. workers are now
$3.50 in rural and S720 in urban
centers.
The National Unemployment Coun-
ellis emphasizes to all local councils
and workers organizations the neces-
sity Of calling immediate Emergency
Conferences in all sections to fight
against the firing Of the millions Of
C.W.A. workers by President Roose-
welt.
The National Unemployment Coun-
ellis calls for immediate broad united
front action against the layoffs, and
for jobs or relief for all unemployed
The Councils urge the setting up Of
Job committees and C.W.A. workers
unions on all C.WA. jobs and the
holding Of marches, demonstrations
and delegations to the C.WA. offices
and to the relief offices to demand
immediate jobs and relief, and union
conditions and wages on all C.WA.
Jobs.
Especial 10 the Daily Worker
CHICAGO, Feb. 2i.-C.W.A. ADJ
ministrator Chase on orders Of Roose-
welt, has wired all C.WA. county
offices that the total number of all
C.W.A. and CW.S. employees in your
county working during the week of
Feb. % shall be reduced more or less
than twenty per cent depending on
rural or urban classification"
Copies Of this telegram, firing 20
per cent Of the C.WA. workers, on
instructions Of Roosevelt, were also
sent to all county Emergency Relief
Committees in Illinois with instruc-
tons to render assistance" in the
carrying through Of the firing.
The telegram of Chase also In
structs that wages Of all C.WA.
workers shall be reduced to mot less
than thirty cents an hour"
Ten Percent Fired in Missouri
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo, Feb. 21.-
A ten per cent reduction in either
the number Of men employed or
working hours on all local C.WA.
work was ordered throughout the
state by state C.WA. director w.
Crossley. This weeks payroll viii be
reduced 100000 by this order. He
said the order was con demands from
Washington"
Note-See page ; for other C.WA.
news.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22
British-Nazi Alliance |.
Revealed by Private
News Agency

BERLIN, Feb. 21.-Captain An
thony Eden Lord Privy Seal and
special representative Of the P.iSish
Foreign Office, on a tour of Euro
pean capitals to organize the ami
Soviet front, is holding two confer
ences t'day with Adolf Hitler and
Foreig'' Minister Baron Neurath. fol-
lowing preliminary conference yes
terday.
He is making the private negotia-
tons, which cannot be put into q
formal diplomatic note, which are
necessary to complete agreement
between the two countries as to the
conditions of joint action in the COM
ing imperialist attack on the Soviet
Union.
Germany is simultaneously draw
ing Czechoslovakia closer into the
anti front by negotiating a
ten-year pact between the two coun-
tries which recognizes the present
frontiers of Czechoslovakia, and re-
moves one cause Of conflict between
the two countries.
British-Nazi Deal Confirmed
NEW YORK.-The New York Eve
ming Post today publishes confirrna-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-22

Socialist League held In the Rand
School tonight. We who are members
Of the Y. P. s. L. and members of the
Socialist Party were not allowed to
attend. When we arrived there we
were met by members Of the Execu-
tive Committee Of the z. p. s. l.. and
told we were suspended. The other
comrade Mietenen, was not given any
reasons for his suspension. When I
asked why was suspended they told
me had written letter to the Daily
Worker. that criticized the Party In
. non-party organ. I told them did
not criticize the Socialist Party but
gave my own personal impression OF
what had happened at the Garden.
They told me that, well, I had
Labelled Algernon Lee a liar. I told
them that did call Algernon Lee a
liar but that was not criticism, that
was classification. Q.aughter.)
Comrades, the Leadership q the %.