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for the use of the Square on May
Day, coupled with the provocative
query, What are you going to do
about it?' Despite his periods of
suave urbanity and smooth dema-
gogy during the interview, the
Mayor clearly showed that he was
supporting, if not the actual ini-
tiator, the monstrous police attempt,
aided by the reactionary leaders of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars and
the Socialist Party, to provoke a
fight on May First.
Cacchione Points to Conflicting
Police Schedule
Peter Cacchione, of the Workers
Ex-Servicemen's League, and one of
the spokesmen of the delegation.
pointed out that the police had
originally given the committee the
option of choosing its own hours for
the use of Union Square, and had
The daily worker., 1934-04-07
Minneapolis CWA Men
Asking Work Met With
Police, Machine Guns
Workers Twice Storm
City Hall To Free
Arrested Leaders

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, April g.
Machine guns we're mounted on the
steps of the City Hall here today
as thousands of C.W.A. and iobless
workers recently fired from the
C.W.A. projects again marched on
the municipal buildings demanding
work and immediate relief for
themselves and their families.
Today's demonstration, which saw
the main streets of the center OF
the city crowded with thousands
of workers, men and women,
brought the threat from Chief OF
Police Johannes of an order calling
out the National Guard troops.
Charge Twice
Twice the infuriated workers
rushed the City Hall in an attempt
to free their delegation which had
been arrested after presenting the
workers demands to the City Coun-
Gil for cash relief and C.W.A. jobs
to all unemployed.
As the police charged the work
ers, hte unemployed seized paving
blocks, stones and coal from STALL
ed truck with which to defend
themselves. AS the police hurled
tear gas at them, the workers picked
up the bombs and threw them into
the City Hall and Court House,
routing the officials.
In an attempt to COW the mill
fancy Of the workers and to dis
perse the orderly ranks, police
hurled gas bombs into the center
of the workers ranks. The work
ers seized the bombs and hurled
them back at the police.
The full mobilization of Mime
apolis police together with all police
riot cars and trucks were swept
aside by the infuriated workers. The
police sent out call TO city fire
stations. One hundred firemen
turned powerful streams of water
on the defenseless workers, as the
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The daily worker., 1934-04-07
Irish Communist Leader GreetS
8h y. S. Party Contention
Communist Parties of
Cuba and Canada
Represented
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
Especial to the Daily WOrker)

CLEVELAND, April g. For the
Communist Party of Ireland, the
latest addition to the world grid
ling working class battle ranks
formed by the Communist Inter
national Sean Murray greeted the
National Convention of the COM
munist Party of the United States
today, declaring that the contact
made for the first time between
the two Parties will be Of lasting
benefit to the workers and farmers, =
in both countries.
The cheering response brought 20
a high-water mark the spirit Of
International laboring class amity
that lifts the convention again and
again. Hardly had it died down,
when it stormed anew-for the next
speaker happened to be an Irish
American worker from Philadelphia,
and he began: "AS an Irish-Amer-
ican worker, greet the Communist
Party of Ireland I know all the
Irish in Philadelphia will be glad
to hear about it."
One of the four representatives
Of the Communist Parties of as
many other lands, Comrade Muir
ray reported the affiliation OF his
fellows with the Communist Inter
national about year ago.
Anna Schultz, widow of John
Scheer. Hitler -martyred friend and
co-Worker of Ernst Thaelmann,
heroic leader of the German Com
munist Party, had received an ova-
ton at every appearance. Hitler
will never succeed" Comrade
Schultz cried citing strikes and
other mass resistance against the
Fascist terror against the German
workers.
The Communist Parties of Cuba
and Canada are represented. And
the delegate from Imperial Valley
in California is a Philippine worker
who was arrested with some 100
fellow strikers in the mass arrests
carried out recently and the semi
fascist vigilante rule, in a futile
attempt to crush the agricultural
and cannery workers industrial
union.
Every brother Party delegate en-
phaSizes the living actuality of the
international solidarity of the work
ers OF all nations in the Third In
ternational. Sean Murray declared
the year-old Irish Party already
has won its place in the revolu-
tionary struggles of the Irish work
ers and farmers" He added: "We
are struggling for complete ma
tional independence. but we will not
stop there. We will not stop until
we've built a Soviet Ireland"
The daily worker., 1934-04-07
Communist Convention
Is Stirred By Reports of
Growing Strike Struggles
Gebert and Johnstone
Tell of Work in Basic
Industries
GETS STRIKE NEWS
Report Progress Among
R.R. Workers
BY CARL REEVE
Special to the Daily Worker)

CLEVELAND, April g.
The Eighth National Con-
vention of the Communist
Party heard today the reports
Of the district organizers of
two important Industrial concentra-
tion districts, Comrade Bill Gebert
from the steel, stockyard, mining
concentration area of the Chicago
District, and Comrade Jack John
stone from the steel and coal cen
ter of Pittsburgh as these reports
and speeches of shop delegates pro-
Gee de d, kilograms continued to
stream into the Convention from
Americas industrial centers. report
ing now strikes and struggles break
ing out throughout the country.
From the Baltimore waterfront
CaiIle d telegram signed by the Ma
rine Workers Industrial Union, saw
ing that ''The Marine Workers In
dustrial Union greets the Party Con-
Iention by organizing the second
a1-ti-War committee in the Chilore.
4 Sparrows Point iBaltimorel ship >
Spread of strikes in Cleveland and
Detroit was reported. From Nor
gantoWn, w. Va, Frank Borich. a
leader among the bituminous miners,
wired that it was impossible for him
to come to the Convention because
OF the continuing strike of the West
Virginia coal miners. From Spring
field, Illinois, came the news that
the rank and file unity committee
has called conference for Sunday
in Springfield to take up the uues-
tion of turning the lockout of the
Southern Illinois coal miners by the
operators association into militant
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Strikers to
Hit Terror
In Camden
S. P. Leader in League
With Police i'm Move
To Break Strike

CAMDEN, N. j.. April 6. - The
strike at the New York Shipbuilding
yards here has completely tied up
S43, 100000 worth Of government
warship contracts. The strikers fiat
ly refused a 6 per cent raise in pay
when the company refused union
recognition. The Industrial Union
of Marine and Shipbuilding Work
ers is demanding a IS per cent. in
crease in pay.
1t was revealed yesterday that
Gene Tunney, ex-heavyweight
champion, is member of the board
of directors of the company.
N. r. A. Moves In
A move on the part of the N. R.
A. to break the strike was revealed
today when it was announced that
ward Chappell, Cancellation
Commissioner for the Department
of Labor, would appear on the scene
to mediate" the strike. The ac-
tivities of this gentleman, the strik-
erS can rest assured, will be in the
interests of the company and not
the workers. Chappell was rushed
to the scene Of the strike when it
was learned that the Roosevelt war
orders were held up. His job is to
get the war ship building on the
move at the expense of the ship
building workers.
Meanwhile leaders of the union
are trying to squelch all attempts
of rank and file expression within
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The daily worker., 1934-04-07
Hebrew Orphan Band Refuses
10 Play in Army Day Parade

NEW YORK.-The members of
the drum corps and band of the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum at 18th st.
and Amsterdam yesterday signed a
petition protesting against their
being forced to participate in the
Army Day parade on Fifth Avenue
today.
AT an early hour already twenty
seven of the rs members of the two
musical groups had signed the petit
ton and were preparing to present
1t to the executive director Of the
istitution. Col. Lionel J. Simmons.
In the accompanying resolution
the orphans branded the parade as
a demonstration the purpose of
which is to arouse nationalism and
The daily worker., 1934-04-07
BY CYRIL BRIGGS

NEW YORK.-"Let's not dispute
it," Mayor La Guardia cynically re-
piled yesterday noon to the pro-
tests of delegation from the United
Front May Day Arrangements Com
mittee that the police in assigning
the hours for the use of Union
Square on May Day ignored the
priority of the Committees commu-
nication to the police of the plans
of over 100000 New York workers
to demonstrate in Union Square on
May Day, between the hours of l
to 5. The delegation declared that
the police and city authorities had
flagrantly Disseminated against
these workers in giving preference
to the later applications of the lead
erS of the Socialist Party and the
Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The Mayors attitude was one of
suave and cynical admission that
the city government had given ar
bitrary preference to later applicants
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subsequently submitted three diff
ferent schedules at three different
times to the committee, finally
shifting the committees hours to
from $50 and on" Cocchione de-
clared this was a deliberate attempt
by the police and others to inter-
fere with the mobilization for the
May Day celebration at Madison
Square Garden that night. He re-
stated the declaration of the COM
mittee that New York workers will
not be provoked, but neither will
they change their plans, and made
it clear that the United Front May
Day demonstration would welcome
the Socialists.
To the protests of Charlotte
Todes, of the Trade Union Unity
Council, and one Of the spokesmen
Of the delegation, the mayor re-
pied there's no question as to the
The daily worker., 1934-04-07
5000 More in
to Join
Auto Strikers
AFL Local in Hudson
Plants Joins Fight
for Pay Rise
BULLETIN

DETROIT, Mich, April Gas
result Of widespread indignation
among striking auto workers here,
Phil Raymond, National Secretary
of the Auto Workers Union, and
David Jones, vice-president, we're
released this morning after hav-
ing been jailed yesterday by police
at the Motor Products Plant They
were defended by lawyers of the
International Labor Defense.
I Special to the Daily Worker)
DETROIT, Mich, April 6.-Five
thousand steel and die makers, in
addition to workers at the three
Hudson auto plants and the Midland
Steel Products Co., have declared
that they will join the 5000 workers
of the Motor Products plant now on
strike, if their demands for wage in
creases are not Immediately granted.
The Motor Products workers struck
yesterday.
At the Hudson A. F. of L. local
meeting tonight, representatives
from three Hudson plants will pre-
sent proposal to send committee
to the company. The Hudson A. F.
of L. local meeting tonight where
representatives from three Hudson
plants will present a proposal to
send a committee to the company
with demands for a 20 per cent wage
increase, abolition Of the cheating
bonus system, no discrimination for
union organization, and slowing
down of the conveyor line.
Kelsey Hayes Wheel of the A. F.
of L. voted to meet Sunday to con-
slider strike action if the demands
presented to the company are re-
fused.
In an effort to smash the Motor
Products strike and prevent it from
spreading, all forces of the manu-
facturers and the government are
rushing in, and launching a terror
drive against militant workers. In
this they are being aided by the A,
F. of L. officials, William Collins,
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The daily worker., 1934-04-07
Gag Rule at s. P.
'Anti-War Confab'
Reject Defense of USSR
and Militant Struggle

NEW YORK. = The New York
Conference Against War" rushed
through a short session in Town
Hall yesterday afternoon ,and closed
without permitting any discussion
from the floor. No vote on any res
olution not unanimously reported by
a hand-picked resolutions commit
tee was permitted. Vigorous pro-
tests were made by number of the
$50 delegates present as the CON
ference" was rushed to close.
The conference" organized by
the Socialist Party and some of its
affiliates. was attended by delegates
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, the
The daily worker., 1934-04-07

American Workers Party, the Trot-
sky renegades, the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, the Industrial
Workers of the World and the War
Resisters League.
A resolution calling for aff1liation
with the American League Against
War and Fascism was tabled with
out discussion or vote being per-
mitted. The same fate met a res
olution calling for defense of the
Soviet Union, and every other res
olution with any militant content.
When delegates began clamoring
for the floor after the set speeches
had been made, the chairman hur-
riedly ended the Conference
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militarism." They recollected that
two years ago the band and field
music were very happy to play at
an anti-war parade" and did not
think it proper that we should play
at a parade 50 opposite in charac-
ter"
The Youth Section, American
League Against War and FsScism
has written letter to the Signers
of the petition pledging its support
should the authorities undertake
any punitive steps against the or
phans.
A letter sent to Col. Simmons
urges him to heed the wishes of the
band members and not force them
into militaristic show whose
whole object is abhorrent to them.' .
The daily worker., 1934-04-07
NRA Protects
Go. Unions
Senators Told
5 SenatOrs Give Steel
Trust Full Time To
Present "Case''
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
Daily Worker Washington Buro)

WASHINGTON, D. c., April g.
The steel corporations today staged
veritable company union festival
before the subcommittee OF the
Senate Committee on education and
labor, which is holding hearings on
the Wagner labor disputes bill.
Sixty-five selected company union
representatives, whose expenses for
the trip to Washington were paid by
Americas leading steel concerns,
nearly filled the huge Senate caucus
room to hear their nearly two dozen
spokesmen testify to the Similarity
between workers and employers
interests"
The company union puppets of
finance capitals strongest industrial
segment executed their employers
instructions so well and with such
seeming spontaneity that former
Governor of New York. Nathan L..
Miller, now general counsel of j..
P. Morgan's United States Steel Cor
poration, remarked as he left the
building, That show was worth
hearing"
Get All the Time They Want
Senator Walsh, Democrat of Mas
SachusettS, chairman of the COM
mittee and the holder of ten shares
OF stock in the Republic Steel Corp.
gave the Company Union spokesmen
as much time as they needed to read
the statements which had been pre-
pared by their employers. Walsh's
iiberality contrasted markedly with
his recent action in refusing to give
Pat Cush president of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
more than 10 minutes. In fact,
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StacheI Shows
Growth of US.
Strike Wave
Tells Convention AFI
Influence Must Be
Broken
BY HARRY CANNES

CLEVELAND, Ohio, April Be
fore a delegation characterized by
Comrade Browder as "a convention
of strike and unemployed movement
leaders," Jack Stachel, member of
the Political Bureau of che Commu-
mist Party, made a two-hour ex-
haustive report on the great strike
struggle and the task of the Com
munists at yesterday afternoons
session of the 9th National Conyen-
ton of the Communist Party.
Again the great confidence and
enthusiasm of the assembled Com
munist delegates towards the lead
ers OF the Party were expressed by
the ovation given Comrade Stachel
when he was INTRODUCED by the chair
man, Comrade Ford.
"Comrade Browder's excellent re-
port for the Central Committee has
already laid down the basic line for
our Party" began Stachel. "It is nv
task to deepen some of the practical
problems already so brilliantly out
lined.
ovation for Browder
IT believe I voice the firm and
unanimous opinion of the entire
delegation when I say: The report
of Comrade Browder Is the best one
that has yet been made at any time
in the history of our Party"
Showing their agreement with
this estimation, the delegation ap-
plauded.
"This is due" declared Stachel,
"to the fact that under the guidance
of the Communist International our
Party, despite all it's weaknesses, de-
spite considerable tagging behind
(about which all of us will speak at
this convention) has made some
important steps forward especially
since the adoption of the Open Let
ter. This was made possible under
the leadership Of the general sec
retary of our Party, Comrade
Browder Enthusiastic applause).
We have felt the absence in our
work of our great leader Comrade
Foster. Tho he was i'll, his advice in
the fight against the NR.A. and
company unions, intensifying our
work within the A. F of L., was
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Delegation Asks Mayors Stand on May Permit

facts" and suppose they CThe Vet
Grams Of Foreign Wars and the So
ci2list Par>y) were given preference,
what of it?" He defended the
shifting Of the hours for the United
Front demonstration with the
statement that other applications
had been received subsequently, and
that if further applications were re-
ceived the hours would again be
shifted, adding a further admission
of the rank discrimination against
the United Front demonstration
with the statement, you couldn't
be put any later than you are now"
Set Monday for Conference
Following statements by David
Leeds, treasurer of the district
Communist Party, and Allen Taub,
attorney representing the National
Committee for the Defense of Po-
litical Prisoners, the mayor sug-
gested another conference on Mon
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Demonstrate against
Anti-NegrO Bus. Co.
This Morning at IL

NEW YORK. - An urgent
call for all Negro and white
workers to demonstrate this
morning at IL o'clock in front
of the Fifth Avenue Coach
Company, 132d st. and
Broadway, against the refusal
Of the company to employ
Negroes as chauffeurs and
conductors, was issued last
night by the League of St.ug-
gle for Negro Rights, which
called for the demonstration
several days ago.
The daily worker., 1934-04-07
Middletown White
and Negro Workers
Defy Cops at Dance

MIDDLETOWN, N. Y, April e.
Despite attempts of the police at
disruption, the Scottsboro Defense
dance was carried through success
fully at Columbia Park Casino, last
Monday night
The daily worker., 1934-04-07
Defy Orders Of
Officials:
Spurn NRA Code
Pickets Hurl Bombs
Back at Thugs; Keep
Scabs Out
THREE ARRESTED
Militant Rank and File
Program To Fore at
All Local Meetings
special to the Daily WorkerJ

Especial to the Daily Worker)
FAIRMONT, w. Va, April
6.-Following the walkout to-
day of 1000 more miners to
join the 10000 miners in this
region already on strike, dep
uty sheriffs led a tear-gas attack
on a mass picket demonstration of
400 coal diggers this morning at
the Jordan mine Of the Consolida-
ton Coal Co. This company is try
ing to operate the mine with scabs.
Deputized thugs hurled tear gas
bombs at the pickets, but the mill
tant miners hurled back the bombs
before they exploded, and three
deputies were badly burned. Three
miners were arrested.
State police were rushed IN BY
the operators, and more sheriffs ar
rived and attacked the picket lines.
The strikebreakers, however, were
prevented from entering the mines
by the strikers who rallied in
stronger forces.
The 1000 miners walked out in
spite of the orders of the officials of
the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica not to leave the shafts. The
walkout took place Immediately af-
ter copies of the new Appalachian
NR,A. code, with the operators
signatures appended, were posted at
the mine entrances.
Today marks the fourth day of
the strike Of the 10000 miners. At
every mass meeting of the mine 10
Gals Of the U.M.WA., rank and file
miners are bringing forward the
militant program calling for mass
picketing, rank and file control by
democratically elected committees,
and to maintain a solid strike front
until victory Is won.
The officials of the U.M.W.A. have
offered no policy to the strikers
other than urging them to go back
to work and wait for the decision
of Mondays NR.A. code hearings,
which have been hurriedly set up
to stop the strike movement.
Nor U.M.W.A. organizers, to-
gether with the state troopers, are
being rushed into the Fairmont
area evidently to help carry out the
NR.A. program, which the miners
reject.
$500 Hosiery Workers Strike
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April g.
Two thousand five hundred hosiery
workers went on strike today at
Real Silk, Fulton and National
Hosiery Mills for union wage scale,
abolition of bonus and penalty sys-
TEN and for recognition Of Amer
ican Federation of Hosiery Workers
Union.
The National and Fulton Shops
were completely shut down and only
O. small force was at work at the
Real Silk Mill. All knitters at the
Real Silk Mill were on strike with
the exception of six.
Knitting workers have been re-
fused collective bargaining through
the medium of their own union.
Employers are insisting that the
Unemployed Benefit Association, a
company union, is the official union.
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-20
AGED SLAYER
IDENTIFIED IN
ANOTHER CASE

NEW YORK, Dec. 20. U.R)-Al-
bert Howard Fish, GA, was identi-
fled at Tombs prison today as the
man seen with a little boy believed
to be the missing "Billy'' Gaffney
several years ago. as the Westches-
ter county grand jury indicted him
for the murder of 10-year-old
Grace Budd
The link connecting Fish with
the disappearance of the four-year-
old Gaffney child, taken from his
home on February IL. 1927, was
supplied by Joseph Meehan, a troll
ley motorman who picked the sus-
pect from lineup Of elderly priS-
oners.
He said he was positive Fish was
the man who boarded his trolley
accompanied by weeping boy who
resembled the Gaffn/y child. An
thony Barrone, a former trolley
conductor on another line, failed to
select Fish as the man he saw with
a boy.
Fish was indicted in White Plains
for the Budd child's murder, short
ly after a succession of police Off
cials had outlined the details of
the crime and had identified a
string of pearls, found In the house
where Fish admits he killed the
little girl, as having been worn by
her
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-20
MAY BUILD
ARMY RANGE
ON MOJAVE

RIVERSIDE, Dec. 20. W.P)-Plans
to create gunnery range for the
U. S. army air corps in the Mo-
jave desert near Kramer reached
the formative stage today after the
project was discussed at March
Field by Lieut.. Col. II. H. Arnold,
commandant.
Arnold informed Congressman
Isidore Dockweiler, John M. Co.'S
tello and Sam Collins and repre-
sentatiyes of the Los Angeles and
Riverside chambers of commerce
that such a range could be con-
structed for approximately $4,000.
The range he suggested would be
eight miles wide and 80 miles long.
Arnold said combat units from
all over the United States would
come west for annual practice if
facilities were available.
Dockweiler pledged his support to
his proposal.
Discussing coast defenses, Dock
weller said he will propose also to
the next congress that a detailed
investigation be made of the sub
ject, encompassing the entire coast
line from Alaska to Mexico