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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12

meets to vote on the LaGuardia
relief tax schemes.
The central demand of the DEM
onstration will be the appropriation
of adequate relief funds to finance
Winter relief. In statement issued
by the New York Communist Party
on Friday, and in statement by
the Unemployment Council on Sat-
urday, the LaGuardia relief tax
schemes were exposed as maneuvers
to slash relief and place the burden
for all relief financing on the
shoulders of the working popula-
ton through subway taxes and a
tax upon every pay envelope.
These tax schemes of LaGuardia
hold out the promise Of future cuts
in relief.
Council Demands
To meet the rising relief demands,
the Unemployment Councils demand
that all relief financing be met by
taxation on the big business and
public utilities, on large incomes and
inheritances, taxes on stock trans
fers and tax exempt church prop
erty, and moratorium on the debt
service payments to the bankers.
In no way are the small business
men and the working population to
be taxed, the Councils demand.
Higher fares, wage and salary
taxes, and drastic reduction in re-
lief to a point below the present
hunger level threatens the employed
and unemployed masses, the Com
munist Party statement points out.
Local Actions
A series of local mass meetings
and demonstrations are being ar
ranged by the Council locals to
mobilize the workers for this dem
onstration and for mass march
to City Hall on Sept. %. Locals of
the Down town Unemployment
Council will demonstrate today at
Spring and Elizabeth Streets.
On Thursday, at IL noon the
Chelsea locals of the Council will
demonstrate at the Relief Bureau
at 41S West 53rd Street, demanding
an end to police terror at the relief
station, the immediate removal of
Chief Supervisor Burt, and increased
relief The New York County Coun-
Gil appeals to all locals which are
not demonstrating on this day to
support this local.
Thursday morning at 10 O'Clock
the Workers Committee on Unem-
ployment Locals 2 and will mass
at Rutgers Square and march in a
body to the relief station at Sheriff
and Broome Streets.
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ming Jan. 15-and at the end Of
month s6,656.72 had been recorded
on the books.
But no such amount will have
been received at the end Of a month
in the present drive, however, unless
almost twice as much money as has
been contributed to date comes into
the Office during the next eight days.
This is being written on Sept. 10,
and only SS,549.67 has been entered.
The drive began on Aug. 10.
Districts Not Moving
tt is evident, therefore, that the
districts are not even as productive
as they were last year. We are ask
ing for almost twice as much money,
and at the end of a month, natur-
ally, on the basis of last years drive
the sum received should be practice
ally double the sum Of money re-
ceiVed then. But what do we find?
We find that on the basis of present
returns, we will not even equal the
S7,656.72 received in the S35, 600
drive. We should have, in compare
son, about $4,000.
What do the districts intend to
do about this? The 8-page, three
edition paper is coming out in less
than month!
Surely, they cannot allow the next
week to pass without at least equal
ling the sum received in a month
last year. They should reach, in
deed, almost $4,000! An average of
s625 day, they must impress upon
themselves, is needed to make the
drive successful. We have not yet
come near that average.
Only IL Districts Compete
The Daily Worker also wishes to
point out, in regard to the activity
of the districts, that only eleven CT
them are entered in Socialist COM
petitions-one, New York, being en-
gagged against the rest of the
country. This situation is certainly
greatly amiss and must be remedied
Immediately. Districts not yet en-
tered should enter into Socialist
competitions at once.
The Daily Worker feels secure
that its readers-the working class
will stand behind it. We expect
to get the 100000! But we urge the
districts to remember that money
is needed Immediately = and that
only substantial sum at hand will
enable us to get out the S-page,
hree-edition Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Will Push Unity Stand
Against Pearcy at the
PIMA. Convention
By R. Shaw

The second constitutional con-
vention of the Progressive Miners
of America, called for Sept. II,
brings back the picture of the mass
revolt of the Illinois miners in 1882
against the Lewis Walker United
Mine Workers of America machine,
the militant fight of the rank and
file, the mass marches from town
to town closing the pits against the
ordered enforcement of the wage
cut from the $610 to S. scale. In
this battle the miners lost eleven
of their fellow workers, yet they
unflinchingly threw aside the
Lewis-Walker gang, formed the
Progressive Miners Union, hoping
that they thereby would have a
rank and file organization, free
from misleaders' and bosses agents.
But no sooner was it formed, than
this hope of the miners was blasted
upon the rocks of class collabora-
ton.
In place of militant union, the
officialdom of the Progressive
Miners of America has been COM
peting for the past two years with
the Lewis U. M. w. A. machine as
to who can prove to be the best
servants of the coal operators. That
is the sum total of the official
deeds since the first P. M. A. con-
vention, and while the rank and
file delegates are preparing for the
Second Convention to fight for a
class struggle program and to Dust
these betrayers, Pearcy and his
machine are setting the convention
stage with extra delegates" for
further reactionary measures against
the miners and to further entrench
themselves in the saddle.
Demagogic Alliance Wins
At the time Of the first conven-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Pennsylvani
.JObless Groups
March Today
Unemployed Delegates
Will Present Demands
to State Legislature

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. H.
The Philadelphia Unemployment
Councils yesterday received con-
firmation of their demand to pre-
sent the program of relief demands
to both the upper and lower houses
of the State Legislature on Wednes-
day, Sept. IL, when mass delega-
ton from all over the State will
converge on Harrisburg.
In telegram to the Councils,
Governor Pinchot was also forced
to agree to meet with the workers
committee.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. 1.-THE
Unemployment Councils and other
organizations of the employed and
unemployed in Pennsylvania will
send mass delegation to Harris
burg today instead of on Tuesday
as was enormously stated in yester-
days Daily Worker to demand inn
mediate appropriations for winter
relief. The march will start from
all over the State and converge on
Harrisburg.
The Councils demand the imme-
date appropriation of $4,000, 00O
from the State to provide winter
relief for the States unemployed
for the three month period ending
January 1. Weekly cash relief at
the rate of 50 for each member of
a family and $3.50 weekly cash re-
lief is demanded for each single
worker.
Against the forced labor schemes
Of state relief administrator Eric
Biddle, the jobless demand mini
mum cash wages of go cents an
hour for a 30-hour week, union
rates and condition to apply on all
work relief jobs.
State unemployment insurance
modelled on the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill to be eff
fective pending the enactment of
the Workers Bill on a national
scale is also demanded in the Coun-
Gil program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
n. ]. NJ unitions Plant
Discharges 500 Men;
Textile Strike Is Blamed

BOUND BROOK, N. j., Sept. IL
Five hundred workers have been
fired without notice by the Calico
Chemical Works. For months the
local Chamber of Commerce and the
capitalist press advertised far and
wide that prosperity was here, that
Calico was hiring thousands. Daily,
hundreds of unemployed workers be-
sieged the Calico plant, but only two
or three workers were hired.
Calco's excuse is the textile strike
Primarily Calico manufactures NUM-
tons. Textile dyes and chemicals
are only small part of the product
of New Jerseys big war plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
il urnitur re
Unions Call.
Strike Meeting
ALL. and Independent
Groups Will Discuss
Nationwide WalkOut

CHICAGO, Sept. ia Mid
Western conference Of workers of
various furniture unions, affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor and independent organiza-
tons, will be held in Chicago, Oct.
Is and IA, Joe Kiss, secretary of the
National Furniture Workers Indus
trial Union, announced today. The
conference will discuss preparations
for a national strike in the indus
try.
The conference has been given
impetus by the formation of a
united front in the Eastern States
between 7 locals of the American
Federation of Labor and the ~ F.
w. I. U. A recent tour by the Sec
rotary of the union in this terri
tory has aided greatly in prepare
ton for The parley.
The conference will invoke the
following cities: Chicago, H.; Rock
ford, Ill; Naperville, Ill; Kanka-
kee.; Minneapolis, MINI; st. Paul,
MINI; Bloomington, Ind; Rich
mond, Ind; Evansville, Ind; India
napolis, Ind; Kenosha, Wise; Mil
waukee, Wise; Cincinnati, Ohio;
Cleveland, Ohio; Louisville, KY, and
Grand Rapids, Mich.
The conference will take place at
the Peoples Auditorium at PAST w.
Chicago Ave, Chicago, ILL.,, on Sat
urday and Sunday, Oct. IS and IA.
For further information, Mid
West furniture workers Immediately
communicate with the National Of
flee of the National Furniture
Workers Industrial Union, 1893
Broadway, Room 63S, New York
City, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
N. J. Jobless To Present
Demands to Legislature

NEWARK, N. j., Sept. 1.-THE
S ia e-wide unemployed workers
organization, the United Unemploy-
ment and Relief Workers Associa-
ton of New Jersey, has issued call
to all unemployed, freternal and
labor organizations to send mass
delegations to Trenton Wednesday
morning.
These delegations will present the
demands of the unemployed work
ers to the New Jersey Legislature,
now in special session to consider
unemployed relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Communists in Textile Strike
Is New Pamphlet by Hathaway

32page pamphlet A. Hathaway Daily
entitled Communists the Textile StikeAn
Green g. Co" will be off the this Saturday.
The pamphlet which being published Library
Publishers the
tile workers. the the the United
and the Communist strategy In the strike.
Communist militant supporting
fight workers. pamphlet a
tratng lucid guide workers
and their N. r. A. strike breaking apparatus
limited edition of this being published
office, New ork
City, than Saturday.
The pamphlet sells a copy; per
lush a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
rs Michigan Gamers
Strike for 7 Cents
An Hour Wage Raise

FENNVILLE, Mich.-Seventy-fi five
Gamers, employed at the Fennville
Fruit Exchange, went on strike Fri
day, demanding a seven-cent-an-
hour raise. All but two of the work
ers walked out.
In an effort to prevent the strike,
an increase of az cents an hour
had been granted them Monday, but
the workers stuck to their original
demand and struck. The strike is
reported to be endangering rs per
cent of the Allegan County plum
crop, which is stored at the Ex-
change for canning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
N. Y. Plans BANQUET
Iowa Names Candidates

NEW neutrality-suspicious. of
mass organizations and individual
workers Of the North Bronx will
take part in ratification banquet
for local Communist candidates on
Saturday in the auditorium of the
Workers COOPERATIVE Colony at
2700 Bronx Park East.
Candidates who will be present
are Sam Nessin, Nathan Shaffer,
and Pat Toohey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Relief List of Homeless
Continues To Increase

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. IL
The number of homeless persons
being cared for by the Transient
Relief Bureau has increased stead
lily this year, according to officials
of the Federal Emergency Relief
Administration.
On Aug. Is, according to the F.
E. r. A., there were 226,750 persons
receiving such relief, as compared
with 1928 on June IS. Sixty-five
per cent, relief officials report, are
between 16 and "a years of age.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
LESS THAN $500
RAISED IN % DAYS
OF 100000 DRIVE
Only Eleven Districts Enter Into Socialist COmpe.
tition To Collect Urgent Funds-Average
of $625 a Day Is Needed

The Daily Worker drive for 100000 is falling behindi
Proof of this garing in comparison of the figures
the present drive with those of the campaign conducted
by the Daily Worker in the early part of 1888
Then, the 'DaiIys" campaign was for S35 OO0-begin-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
WILL PRESS ACTION
WHEN ALDERMEN
VOTE ON TAXATION
Communist Party and Unemployment Councils
Call All Workers to the Demonstration
Against LaCuardia's Tax Schemes

- NEW YORK-Every Council local, all organized and
anzed employed and unemployed workers. trade unions
and raterna organizations urged to mobilize their
entire membership for mass demonstration at City Hail.
Friday Sept H. at IL noon when the Board of Aldermen
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Daily Worker Fund Drve Falls Behind Pace Set in 1875
Nominating Farley Held
In Oregon Despite Police
Complete State Slate Named John Anderson,
Communist Candidate for Governor of
Michigan, Describes Terror on Tour

PORTLAND Ore, Sept. 11-Despite police intimidation
and barrage of antiworking class propaganda, state
nominating convention held here Sept at which
Communist candidates for Congressional state and local
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12

Our Readers Must Spread the
Daily Worker Among the Members
of All Mass and Fraternal Organ
izations AS Political Task Of First
Importance!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12

local police were unable to suppress
them"
Iowa Names Candidates
DIES MCINES, Ia, Sept. 11.-Ira
R. Meade, State Secretary of the
/ Unemployment Councils, who is now
under indictment on a criminal syn
dicalism charge was nominated for
Governor. Robert Conroy, militant
young Negro worker, for Lieutenant
Governor at the State Nominating
Convention. The rest of the slate
consists of Joseph Van Nostrand,
section organizer of the Communist
Party for Secretary of State; Flor
ence Butler, for Secretary of the
Treasury; Henry Lansing, for Sec
rotary Of Agriculture; N. B. Whiting,
for Attorney-General K. Kirkpat-
rick, for Superintendent of Public
Instruction, and Ed Kruger, for
Railroad Commissioner.
CHARLES Logsden, Henry Moser,
John Denison and M. n. Makins
will run for the State Senate. Nomi-
nees for State representatives in
important areas of the State we're
also designated.
ST. PAUL. MINI, Sept. 11.-An
audience of 300 workers and farmers
heard S. K. Davis, Communist can
didate for Governor, explain the
meaning of Communism and present
the program of his Party for the
immediate improvement of condi-
tons for the toiling masses of the
nation. Davis exposed the strike
breaking actions of Farmer-Labor
Governor Floyd B. Olson and urged
the election Of Communist public
officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12

local police were unable to suppress
them"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-11

Of air 10 give satisfactory mileage. This terrific
pressure IS ready to burst through the carcass
walls with explosive force when the tire is
punc,ured Or struck sharp blow. But you cant
have an explosion from ow pressure. That's
Why only low. pressure tire-only GENERAL
can be blowout proof.
= And think what Generals soft, low.pressure
means ia skid.safe winter driving! Let Us explain
our special change.over plan. You'll be sur.
prised how easy il is to have the gsssiss Blow.
out.Proof Tire.
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new TROUBLE seen
ON STRIKE FRONTS
Two Disputes End But Others
Through Nation Take
Their Places
ny The Associated Press)

Fresh labor troubles cropped out
Wednesday in the textiles and steel
industries as the government stroye
to settle the long strike Of Pacific
coast maritime workers.
Two other disputes ended. A peace
returned to Seabrook Farms, near
Bridgeton, N. J., scene Of Z series Of
disorders. The striking employees &C
cepted q settlement anc returned to
work. Tugmen at Toledo, on strike
since June l. went back to work pend
ing arbitration Of their grievances.
The steel industry's third largest
company-Republic the
end Of its relations with the Amalga-
mated Association Of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers because Of what 1t termed
the unions radical element
A new strike threat hung over
Alabama textile mills. Union work
ers, asking shorter hours and more
pay, were reported to nave voted to
walk out, the time to be fixed at q
meeting Sunday.
At San Francisco the presidents
labor disputes board held another
session in It's efforts to bring peace
between shipowners and their striking
employees.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-11
BY FULTON THATCHER GRANT
CHAPTER TWO
Part II

Serge Alexandra turned out to be .
jovial crook with no small sense Of
humor-and very clever actor. He
became, suddenly and rather myster-
iously, well-kn0wn figure In Paris.
I only saw the man once, myself, and
that was at the opening Of Lucienne
Boyer's extravagant night-club. 'Chez
Elle," in the Rue Michodiere, some
time around the middle Of October,
1888. He was impressive. He came In
with Arlette Simon, who was sup
posed to be his wife. Il find no Of
fetal record Of their marriage). They
entered during song by noted
vaudeville artist. The singer, ravish-
ing IN her wrap Of gold cloth, might
have been q grand duchess. Alex
andre knew himself to be the idol Of
seven hundred persons crowded into
that stuffy, underground music-hall.
He acted that way. He radiated power
and authority. He was strong man.
But Alexandra was more than q
social attraction. He did things. He
bought the Empire Theatre and put
his friend Henri Hayotte in the job
Of director. He imported Rita Georg
and Marianne Kupfer to delight Paris
with "Katinka" and other musical
successes. He owned q racing stable
In the name Of a South American dip
lomat. He had sumptuous offices In
the Place Saint Georges for holding
company that controlled factories,
security houses and practically every
kind Of business known in France.
His financial career, however, was
begun far away from Paris and far
from the Sante prison where he had
lodged at the expens. Of the State UNI
der the name Of Stavisky. His first
big racket was in Orleans. He sold
the city fathers the idea Of building
up the operations Of the municipal
pawnshop. and he did q good Job
in the selling. This was in 1929,
Offered Aid to Poor
His Orleans scheme was to stimu-
late the utilization of the municipal
pawnshop. thereby helping people tide
over the depression. The catch was
that stavisky could get his own hands
on the jewels which the Orleans
citizens hooked so readily. Once they
were evaluated by an expert, Stavisky
substituted glass or paste for the orig
inals, putting the fake gems away
in the safe deposit It the pawnshop.
The real ones he sold-to the profit
Of Serge Alexandra. Not only that, he
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-11

the French government itself for the
account Of the Social Insurance Fund
bought these bonds. Even today We
cannot b sure q the total sales, but
It Is certain that they reached and
surpassed the billion mark, over No.
1000 In our money.
Fly In The Ointment
Then came Fate, In the shape Of
4 conservative insurance house, and
thumbed her nose.
The insurance house was the Or
baine. This old. Rock-of- Gibraltar
institution bought, Ill told, 1886. 900
francs worth Of bonds. It did 80 on
recommendation from the ministers
Of Finance and Colonies, Georges Bon
nett and Albert Dalimier. They were
short-term, one-year bonds. But
when the due-date came around Bay
onne only paid 100000 francs Of the
total due, pleading city budget
troubles and offering to increase the
interest rate from 81 to So In re-
turn for IN extension. Urbaine grant
ed the extension. but by the time 4
second postponement was urged 1t had
had enough.
On December I, 1883, Urbaine acted
swiftly. Il went to law. And on De-
cember q. 1883, 0ustave Tissier, CO.
director Of the Credit Municipal Of
Bayonne, was arrested and put IN Jail
That, Is the saying goes, was the
blow that killed father" Father
was Serge Alexandra stavisky. His
empire" his schemes, his ultra
Partisan sallantry, his newspaper
projects, his social aspirations-and
even his simple life ct home with his
wife and kiddies-were cut off ct the
roots by that arrest. And more. II
sounded the knell Of the French Par
liamentary System, the curfew Of the
national police structure. It stripped
away the outer wells that concealed q
mysterious, secret organization fol-
crime which the press calls malta
for lack Of . better name. And II
blew the first trumpet Of the French
Revolution Of 1894.
Copyright Mcclure Newspaper synd-
lcAte)
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ciere corporation personages such Is
General Bardi de Fourtou, Deputy
CASTOR Bonnaure, Lawyer 0uiboud.
Ribaud-with strong relations In the
Finance Ministry, Deputy-LAwyer
Andre Hesse, Julius Barmat-the
great German financier Of whom We
shall hear surprising things later, sen-
ator Puts, Minister Proust, and In
Vulnerable others.
With this structure Of useful friend
ships (note that he carefully put each
under obligations to him) Serge Alex
andre Stavisky planned two MASTER
strokes which, had both been sue
cessful, would have made him the
richest man In Europe II not In the
world. In reality the first never came
Oft. and the second wrought his down.
fall.
Briefly. the first brain-wave con-
cerned Hungary and the indemnities
under the Trianon Treaty. stavisky
bought up either actual titles or prox-
les in Hungary which should have.
under the treaty, been compensated
by cash for losses incurred when the
Austro- Hungarian Empire was cut
up as good. ripe melon after the
war. Then with the snowy altruism
that was typical Of his financial GEES
lures, stavisky offered to float . bond
issue Of more than half q billion
francs to secure these indemnities.
CASTOR Bonnaure and auiboud Ri
baud escorted him to stresa and
Budapest and put him In touch with
the Hungarian officials. All was set.
The bonds were printed and ready
to sell. But suddenly the French
Finance Ministry frowned on the en-
terprise and forbade the issue.
When Flattery Worked
Retrospectively, 1t was about time
something Of the kind happened.
That, as far as Stavisky went, was
that. He did not press matters.
Then he went to Bayonne and be-
gan work on Scheme Number Two.
In Bayonne, as every newspaper
reader knows, 1t was the city pawn
shop that became his meat. Mayor
Carat. q pompous epicure and q
man Of easily flattered, weak charac-
ter, was director Of the institution.
stavisky sold him the same idea he
had worked in Orleans, but this time
with frills. The plan was this: they
were to issue bonds. secured by the
jewels which the Bayonne people in
nocently pawned. Fair enough. but
after they had printed four stub
books holding the bonds and their
counterfoils for the official issue. they
also printed ten more stub-book UNI
officially. Both sets Of books were
hand-signed by Mayor Carat. The
official set was for 100000 francs.
The unofficial set were left blank as
far as the face values Of the bonds
were concerned.
Then Serge Alexandra. master sales
man, turned on the high power and
sold them. Some Of the blank bonds
were filled in for sums In millions Of
francs. Banks, insurance houses,
brokerage houses, corporations-the
best firms in France and Spain, and