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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
LABORATORY
AND SHOP
BY DAVID RAM SEY

no relation to the scientific signfi-
canoe of this field. H.. All branches
Of physics which cannot be made
to serve political and economic i'm
perialism are therefore hampered
and restricted.
The appeal of the scientists then
points to the brutal subordination"
of biology. medicine, history and
teaching by the intellectual terror
Of fascism. They conclude by say
ing that:
Through misuse of and contempt
for free research there is imminent
danger that the whole structure
OF scientific knowledge, will be de-
stroyed and from the fragments a
new series of enslaved pseudo-sci-
ences will be erected, which will be
harmful for the progress of man
kind.
Because of this condition of af-
fairs we believe that the moment
has come to summon all scholars
and scientists Of all countries and
to lay 1t upon them as a duty to
look beyond the limits Of their spe-
clallttes and to recognize the COM
mon danger. Let them join with us
IN the maintenance and protection
OF free science, as one of the most
essential elements of international
culture and peaceful cooperation. /"
THIS is a document of the great
1 est significance. For the first
time an organized group Of dis
tinguished scientists. realizing that
fascism is incompatible with scien-
tific advance, will fight the pseudo
scientific doctrines of fascism. and
Will join workers and intellectuals
in the great anti-fascist front that
is forming all over the world.
The conference will, no doubt.
work out a minimum program
around which many scientists can
be rallied. Young scientists and
students in the United States who
are returning to the fall sessions of
the universities must utilize the ap-
peal of the scientists and the Lon
don Conference as a means of or
ganizing scientists to oppose the
pro-fascist and iingoistic influence
OF the Millikans and the Comptons.
The appeal was sent out by a
group of scientists who are among
the greatest in the world. Among
them are Sir Basil BIackett. Har-
old j. Laski, j. B. S. Haldane. Hy-
man Levy. Julian Huxley, Sir Ear
nest Rutherford, Albert Langier.
Paul Langevin, Paul Rivet, Lucien
eVy-Bruhl, Marcel Prenant, Henri
WALTON. Mathematician. physicists.
chemists. anthropologists, political
scientists-they have all gone be-
You'd the boundaries of their spe-
cial fields to call on all scientists to
Join the fight against fasciSnl, whose
triumph would mean the end of sci
ence, progress and civilization. To
prevent such an appalling posi-
bility, every honest and courageous
scientist must join the working
class and its allies in their struggles
to rid the world of the menace of
| faScism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29

point, they procured a telegram
from President Green of the A. ?.
Of L. declaring in time worn terms
that the Central Council had no
authority or right to take part in
such q movement.
Had the Longshoremen's Union
leadership been Of the same mill
tsnt type as their San Francisco
leadership. they could have forced
the issue. But they were denounc-
ing the Communist Party and rails
ing the red scare after the manner
of the Central Labor Council ON
cialdom.
But all these gentlemen of "the
best elements of organized labor
who sabotaged the strike and who
support Mayor Smith, murderer Of
workers, are going to have a hard
time laughing of these $4,000 sig
natures.
These signatures for Mayor
Smiths recall. and not the pious
declarations of James Duncan, are
the real expression of the senti-
ments Of Seattle lsbor-organized
and unorganized, employed and I'M
employed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
By BILL DUNE

SEATTLE, Aug. 28.- Recently
saw something I have never wit
messed in any other American city:
On Third Ave, just above James st.
One of the busiest downtown Sec
tions-a man picked a half cante-
loupe out Of restaurant garbage
can on the curb, and stood and ate
it while hundreds Of people passed.
The appalling thing about II was
that Of the whole throng, I was the
only person who paid any attention
to him. Such incidents evidently
have become commonplace even in
the Seattle business district.
The depth and scope of the mass
unemployment and poverty which
this incident indicates was the
background against which the
waterfront strike occurred.
Unemployed Helped Strikers
But the unemployed who are
forced to live under these condi-
tions have kept their will for class
solidarity. They did not take the
opportunity to scab. At no time
we're any but a negligible number
of waterfront strikebreakers re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
Film Photo League Issues
Call for National Film
Conference In September

constitionally arrested and de-
prived Of the right to take and
show films dorsey City, Detroit.
Tulare, Cal, San Diego, Cab. We
find, however, an uninterrupted
development of local, sectional
and national struggles on the part
of workers. farmers and white COL
lar workers-both employed and
unemployed-Negro and white
for economic needs and political
rights.
THE Legion of Decency' move
ment, the most important devel-
opment in the field of motion pic
lures since the crisis, presents two
main dangers: Cd Pressure for
the production Of anti-labor,
Iingoistic, pro-war films. ~ Pres
sure for establishment of Federal
Film Censorship.
1--WE find that in opposition to
the capitalist film industry and
in behalf of the working class,
there exists as yet no solidified
national film and photo move
ment that is in any way common
surate with the great tasks and
opportunities at hand. Millions
Of movie patrons who have re-
iected Hollywood because the
capitalist films do not check with
the experiences of their lives
present an anxious audience for
honest and creative films made in
their interest. The country is
truly gigantic studio for the
production Of vital films and pho
tos. The great masses of workers,
farmers and Negro toilers now in
struggle for decent conditions of
life are in need of films and pho
tos that actually tell their story.
"Tn order to take the first steps
for the formation of a solicited
countrywide film and photo
movement the Forthcoming Ma
tional Film conference will devote
itself to discussion of the eco
nomic, social and political condi-
lions that face the amateur and
professional film and photo work
err; discussion Of the organiza-
tionsl problems facing film and
photo groups; a discussion of the
elementary technical and creative
problems, the collective creation
of program and plan Of work
for the building of National
Film and Photo League. the cleo
ton of National Executive Com
mittee.
"All branches, affiliated groups
and all other film and photo or
CARNATIONS are invited to elect
two or more delegates and to
write Immediately for further de-
tails to National Organization
Committee. Film and Photo
League, IL East 18th ST., New
York City"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29

cruited from the ranks of the I'M
employed workers. The Unemployed
Councils and the Unemployed Citi-
zens Leagues, taken over by Com
munist workers and left-wing
groups after the debacle of the
self-help" program sponsored by
Carl Brannin and other Musteites,
were powerful weapons at the dis
posal of the waterfront workers and
their organizations.
The work of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union among the Seattle
unemployed bore rich fruit for la
Dor. AS a matter of fact, nowhere
on the 1000 mile strike front was
there greater solidarity between
strikers and unemployed.
Professional Scabs Open Pier
Not a pound of cargo was moved
by strikebreakers until along toward
the end of the whole Coast strike
and this was accomplished only
after bitter and bloody clashes with
the police and shipping company
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29

text that the exact time Of funeral
could not be decided.)
The employers, Of course, are
against the recall Of Smith. He has
earned their gratitude.
So We have the sweet spectacle
Of the whole Central Council Of
flcialoorn-'c conservative" and pro
gressive"-the employers, and their
clerical hangers-on like Matthews.
all opposing Smiths recall.
$4,000 Signatures Of Rank and
File
Where then have these $4,000
signatures come from? From the
rank and file of the unions!
In a way, this shows what the
sentiment Of the local union mem
bership was for a general strike in
support of the waterfront workers.
They were never allowed to vote on
the question.
When the struggle on the general
strike issue reached what the Off
Gals believed to be a dangerous
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29

fire boxes Of the boilers, Cliff began
to feel bit shaky.
How can fellow do all that?"
he said to Weber, the mechanic.
Don't know, lad. Don't know
what them bloodsuckers want a
man to do now" he said, jerking
his shoulders.
Cliff got to work, shovelling coal,
running up and down the ladder,
squeezing in between hot pipes,
shutting or opening valves.
"Geel It's hell" he cursed.
After couple of hours Of sweat
ing, his knees began to bend and
his back ached. He sat down to
catch his breath. He forgot all
about having to watch the gauge.
He got lost wondering how long he
could stand this kind of work.
George sneaked in and began to
bawl: Them boilers are cold as
hell an you sit an squat" he
yelled
Cliff jumped to his feet. He
threw contemptuous look at the
hard faced foreman.
Say, how in hell can a guy lug
all the coal?" he growled.
well, this amt no restin' place.
An if you don't like it, you can get
the hell out of here"
Cliff didn't answer. He walked off
leaving the foreman believing. He
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
Cleveland Workers. School
Investigated By Local
Press As Red Center

CLEVELAND. Ohio, Aug. IT.
The Cleveland Workers School has
been singled out for honorable
mention" in Washington and Cleve-
land following the publication of ar
alarm" in the er-patriotic mag.
azine, the National Republic. Re.
spending to this, the Inter City
News Service of Washington wirec
the following story to the Cleveland
papers:
Washington, Aug. % QCN).-
Revealing the startling gain in
Communistic activities and the
red menace throughout the ma
ton, George A. Blasser in an ar
ticle published in the August is
sue of the National Republic, ed
tied by Walter S. Steele, ma
tionally famous authority on
Communistic menace in the
United States, cited the Cleve-
land, Ohio, school, located at 1924
Prospect Ave, as boiling pot of
Communism in that city.
THE Cleveland school," de-
clares Mr.. Blasser, is reported
filled to its capacity with youth
and adult students who are evil
IDENTITY eager to obtain more of
the high-lights in Communist re-
volt tactics"
Mr.. Blasser's survey on Com
munistic activities in the United
States takes in cities from all over
the United States and his findings
show that the red government
spends thousands each year in
the United States in "snti-war"
and "anti-defense" propaganda to
ALLEVIATE our youth from our gov
eminent.
cleveland" Mr.. Blasser states,
"is rapidly becoming one of the
big red centers of the nation
On receiving this wire, the Cleve.
land Press sent a reporter to th'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29

the self-styled progressive type, like
James Du=can, who opposed and
sabotaged the movement for a gen
eral strike, dare not openly oppose
the recall Of Smith. But they are
covertly sabotaging the recall just
the same.
The notorious Rev. Matthews. re-
dictionary, anti-labor professional
crusader against vice" has come
out against the recall of Smith.
Secretary Doyle of the Central
Labor Council, arch-faker, repudi-
ated by his own Painters Local
Union, recently reelected by a vote
Of ia to rs, is naturally against
the recall Of the mayor who COM
manded the police in their murder
GUS attacks on strikers. CThese Cen
trail Labor Council officials sabo-
tagged the mass funeral for a muir
dered longshoreman with the pre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
R.K.O. apollo Opens Fridau
With ", C.. Fields Film,

RKO Apollo Theatre. Clinton
and Delaney SITS, will open under
its new management, on Friday
night. Aug. 81, with THE Old Fash
Toned Way" with w. @. Fields and
Baby Leroy The same program
includes Earl Derr Bigger's story,
Charlie CHAINS Courage" with
Warner GLAND.
The Trans-Lux Theatre is now
showing Lets Play Post Office" a
musical comedy film with Jean Ssr-
gent; Pete Smiths Attention.
Suckers" an expose Of gambling
tricks, and cartoon film, "Puss
In Boots" The Newsreels present
some of Soyiet's fastest trotter races
in Moscow, with Ambassador Bullitt
an interested spectator.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
Campaign Being Waged in Seattle to Recall Mayor Smith,
Who Called Out Armed Forces to Break Waterfront Ske
Investigat alton
Of Red Movie
Stars Assailed

NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-The Film
and Photo League has issued a
statement charging that Red
Hynes Of the Los Angeles Police
Department Red Squad" deliber-
ately launched an inquisition into
the private affairs Of movie stars
and other individuals in the Holly
wood movie colony to divert the at
tention of the Congressional Com.
mittee to Investigate Nszi proga-
gands.
David Platt, executive secretary
Of the League, yesterday stated:
The notorious Red Hynes has de-
liberately diverted attention from
the revelations of recent weeks
about the drilling of armed Silver
Shirts near San Diego, the purchase
Of U. S. Army and Marine corps
arms and ammunitions by local
Nazis, the formation of McLagIen's
fascist Lighthouse Riders, and has
instead created a tyrannicaI search
for evidence Of radicalism in Holly
wood.
Moreover, the hue and cry OF
radicalism in Hollywood is being
utilized to divert attention from the
tyrsnnicsl attempts to destroy the
militant Cannery and Agricultural
Workers Industrial Union and to
frame up the militant leaders in
the Sacramento trial.
We call upon workers, artists,
writer's, and all others of the Holly
wood film colony to send a barrage
Of protests to District Attorney Neil
McAllister, Sacramento, Calf. de-
mandirg the immediate release Of
the militant workers under arrest
and demanding that he keep his
inquisitorial snoot out of the affairs
Of movie stars and other indi-
Yiduals.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29

guards on one side, and the strik-
ers and unemployed on the other.
Pier 40 was opened after a series
of these clashes, in number of
which the police were defeated
Pier 40 was opened with crew of
professional scabs, some college stu
dents and bankrupt business men to
whom Mayor Smith had promised
the assistance Of the entire police
force. The chief of police resigned
and Mayor Smith took personal
charge of the armed forces.
Campaign to Recall Mayor Smith
One Of the major political roper
cussions Of the strike is the cam
paign now going on to recall Mayor
Smith. Some 10000 signatures are
needed to force a recall election and
about 24,0OO have already been Sc
cured.
Central Labor Council officials of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29

school to investigate the charges"
Following this investigation the
afternoon edition of the Press an
nounced to the whole city that there
would be record enrolment for
the fall term of the Workers School.
which opens Oct. 8. The Press
story carried the heading: Brands
School Here Communist"
Registration for the fall term is
now in progress. The school. which
is beginning it's second year, has
set itself the goal of 500 students
for the coming term. During the
first year Of its existence, approx
mately 800 students attended the
various classes. The school f.
nanced itself from the very begin
ming. At present, it is helping to
establish workers schools in
Youngstown and Cincinnati, which
will open in the fall.
The Fall Term Catalog of the
Cleveland Workers School an
nounces 80 courses, including many
new courses such as Radio, Self
Defense in Court, Leaflet Making
Illustrating and Sign Painting, as
we'll as the regular political courses
in MarXism- Leninism. Six new in
structors have also been added. The
class for children in Science and
History, based on Bishop Browns
book, which proved successful dur
ing the summer term, will be given
again during the fall term on Sat-
urdays. The registration fee is s1.5O
for course OF three months Q2
weeks. Workers are urged to regis
ter Immediately at the school head
quarters, 1924 Prospect.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29

NEW YORK The National Or
ganization Committee of the Film
and Photo League has issued the
following call to all branches of the
Film and Photo League Of America
and to all movie and photo clubs
film societies, guilds, unions and
other amateur and professional or
CARNATIONS, for a National Film
Conference to be held in Chicago
during the last week in September
1884:
after an examination of the
status of the film and photo or
CARNATIONS throughout the country
we find that the rate Of growth and
level Of effectiveness of organiza-
tons in this field are far behind
both the needs and the opportuni-
ties for the development Of a genu-
inc independent solidified film and
photo movement in the United
States Of America.
1.-THE commercial film industry
long in stage Of cultural stagna-
ton and economic chaos, has not
improved. On the contrary. the
gigantic assures in the economic
base of the movie industry have
spread beyond mere patching. The
film products of the recent and
present period show marked
tendency toward political reaction
and cultural decay. Films are
increasingly being used for anti
labor, iingoistic, pro-war pur-
poses. The commercial news reels
have become open instruments in
the hands of the Wall Street con-
trolled movie industry for strike
breaking, anti-labor, pro-fascist
and pro-war propaganda. 1t is
clear now that from the main
stream Of the capitalist film world
can come only products inimical
to the needs and desires of the
great masses Of working people of
the country.
During the recent and current
NrSfNo d1lO uHSlCS OIL UIle
unemployed for relief and social
insurance, the commercial news
papers, magazines, rotogravures.
etc. have shamelessly distorted
reality. utilizing more extensively
than ever before: faxed poses, "
ing captions, substituted photo7
Moreover. they have consciously
and Systematically covered their
pages with inane and innocuous
pictures, thereby emitting picto-
rial reference to the real condi-
lions of the life of our times.
"This fifth year of the crisis
finds a continuance of mass mis-
cry and unemployment, brutal
terroristic assaults by police, mi
litia and vigilante-fascist bands.
Even cameramen and workers,
film exhibitors have been I'M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
Power from the Sun


Capitalism has criminally squan-
dered some of our most essential
fuel resources. Engineers predict
that the present deposits of oil, gas
and coal will be exhausted in few
generations due to their wasteful
exploitation. This is very signif1-
cant fact for future generations
since 80 per cent of our energy and
fuel demands are supplied from
these resources whose limits we are
rapidly approaching.
Water power will not take the
place Of oil and coal as a source
Of fuel Steinmetz once proved con-
clusively that water-power as a
source Of energy could only supply
about one-tenth of all our needs.
The truth Of his conclusion has been
brought to light recently by the
drought which showed that most
water supplies are needed for agri-
culture - and that, Furthermore. a
drought season seriously impairs the
sources Of hydro-electricity.
Consequently, scientists are in
clined to believe that utilization Of
the inexhaustible energies Of the
sun will be necessary, if civiliza-
ton is to continue. Researches are
being conducted with sun-boilers
and photo electric cells in order to
develop a cheap and efficient sub
stitute.
1t is significant that the Soviet
Union leads the world in these in
designations. On the one hand, it is
the only country in the world where
natural resources are carefully uti-
liked according to long range plans.
On the other, it is the one country
where. due to the organization of
scientific research on a planned
basis, such problems as the utiliza-
ton OF the suns rays are studied on
scale that. cannot be matched in
a capitalist country.
There is no jockeying for control
OF patents. There are no obstruc-
tons put in the way Of research by
vested interests. And the problem is
tackled by scientists who possess So
cial consciousness and whose work
is co-ordinated according to plan.
Due to the Importance that the
Soviet Union places on such long
range problems, hello engineering
has reached comparatively high
state There are annual conferences
OF hello engineers, where progress is
reported and where plans are laid
down for next years research. AS
a result the sun boilers" developed
by Soviet scientists have co-ef1-
Gent of efficiency much higher than
those developed by other European
models. They have also developed
cheap photo-electric cells which
convert the SUMS rays into measur-
able amounts of electricity.
All of these Investigations are still
in an experimental stage. But we
can be sure, due to the makeup and
direction of scientific research in
the Soviet Union, that the question
of getting power from the sun and
other scientific problems of SINH
lar scale will be solved there and
not in capitalist country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
Chicago C. P.
Candidate Is
Red Builder
lDaiIy worker Nsidwest Rureaul

(Dauy Worker Midwest Bureau
CHICAGO, Aug. 28.-Youu find
MIN today, selling his Daily Work
ers around the neighborhood near
North and Crawford AYES. Or else
nghting for relief for some family
at the Cragin Relief Station Or
talking for the rights of his chill
dren and other workers children in
a parent-teachers' meeting.
While doing these things, Hans
Pfieffer is campaigning for a seat
In the State Assembly from the 25th
Assembly District. That's one of
the things about Hans, he doesn't
change his tactics just because he's
a candidate. The only new thing
he has undertaken since he was
nominated by a united front con-
frence Of workers in the neighbor-
pod, is the Daily Worker. He's
liking the drive seriously, because
knows from his experience that
strong circulation for that paper
the best weapon in the hands of
be workers in their fight for de-
8Nnt life.
III Back in the years of the war,
f9fieffer was an active militant lead
ger in the ranks of the American
Federation of Labor. He'd be there
today, If the top officials of the
A. F. of L. hadn't forced him out
for fighting for the interests of
the rank and file.
Unpopular With Bosses
Pfieffer first became unpopular
with the bosses and leaders Of the
Federation when he organized the
workers of the Northwestern Terra
Gotta Company to fight for in
creased wages. He was working in
the shop. 16-year-old youth. The
failure Of leaders of the Brioklayers
Union to support the movement
caused its defeat.
During the war, Pfieffer was
drawn into the stockyards. He rap
idly rose as a leader of his shop
mates, becoming the second presi-
dent of Local No. 4S4 of the Anal