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Evening star., 1934-06-28
1t has nothing to do with economics.
Takes One Side of Fight.

1t has nothing to do with economics.
Takes One Side of Fight.
The report on the retail food and
grocery code merely takes one side
of two arguments which have been
going on in N. R. A for two months
and are not yet finally determined
and makes one mistaken interpreta-
ton about third.
l understand that the mistaken
structures on the salary of the execu-
tive secretary of the lead pencil code
authority have been cleared up al
though the board did not take the
trouble to find out that that budget
including it has never been approved
by N r. A.-nor to learn that the
method of assessment and the charge
on small companies which it criticized
had been diSapproved by N. r. A. and
new and proper one submitted-nor
to ascertain the fact that the admin
iStrator and not taS they say the
code authority, must pass on any sug-
gested minimum prices-nor that no
such minimum prices have been ap-
proved.
They simply base their violent con-
clusions entirely on misrepresentation
or errors on all these easily ascer-
tainable facts which they could have
avoided by consulting N R. A. 1t
criticiZes a restriction on free small
shipments of lead pencils as a burden
on the little fellow when in fact,
it is Just the reverse. Similarly, the
nnard THINKS that 70
tect the public against seconds and
culls are unfavorable to the little
fellow.
Upon the above basis the report
arrives at scathing conclusions on
the evils Of the codes in monopoly and
oppression. The fact is that after
three months of suppression of all
favorable testimony, omission of testi-
mony from the record, refusal to
permit N. R. A. opportunity to de-
fend itself lncitation of malcontents
and encouragement of exaggeration.
this board has not been able to
produce so much as one little drachm
of evidence that there is any monopoly
or oppression at all.
On the contrary. the wholly in
effective attempt has proved the case
Of N R. A. better than we ever could
do it by any positive testimony or
argument.
The. evidence thus multiplies that
the board is using its high office
not to perform its function of show
ing us our errors, giving us the truth
or in any way protecting any little
fellow-but solely to manufacture
false material for any politician who
may be demogogue enough to use this
kind of political coin as honest money.
Evening star., 1934-06-28
KENNEDY DOOMED
FOR STOCK BOARD
President Said to Want Both
Broker and Pec0ra on
Commission.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Joseph Kennedy. New York flnan-
cier, is being urged for the chairman
ship of the new commission which
will regulate the stock markets.
Ferdinand Pecora also is being
doomed. The counsel for the Senate
inquiry into bank and stock market
practices is willing to accept the
Craftsmanship for one year.
The President is expected to ap-
point the commission and the new
Communications Board before leav-
ing for his sea trip, but not before
going over his list of prospects again.
Said to Want Both.
The President is understood to want
both Pecora and Kennedy on the
board. Both have acquired much
knowledge about market operations.
Kennedy, a friend of Mr.. Roosevelt,
has been in the brokerage business
in New York
Persons close to the President said
the appointments of James M. Lands
and George c. Mathews, members of
the Federal Trade Commission, were
certain. The fifth member has yet
to be selected
Eugene o. Sykes is described as
the only member of the present Radio
Commission who is to be appointed
to the Communications Commission.
Some believe, though, that Herbert l..
Pettley, secretary, may be designated
until January /, when Representative
Prall, Democrat, of New York, is ex-
pected to go on the board.
Other Names Studied.
Other prospects are DR.. Milo r.
Maltbie. chairman of the New York
State Public Service Commission; Paul
A Walker, chairman of the Okla
homa Corporation Commission; Irving
Stewart, State. Department official,
who represented the United States
in international radio conferences,
and Homer Hoch of Kansas and John
E. Nelson of Maine, both former Re-
publican Representatives.
The commission is to be composed
of four Democrats and three Re-
publicans.
Evening star., 1934-06-28

The tert OF Hugh S. Johnson's
letter to President Roosevelt sub
mitting his reply to the criticism
of the N. r. A., made in the second
report OF the DarroD Reutep Board,
tolloUs.
Evening star., 1934-06-28
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thereof. within three months from this
date or they may be disalloEeee1 disallTe1Nop
Comptroller Of the Currency.
THE UNDERSIGNED REQUESTS That
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
By JEROME ARNOLD

FROM the heart of the Black Belt
L in the South to the Women's
International Congress Against War
and Fascism in Paris, Euquile Nc
Keithen will bring the message OF
a nation of Negroes oppressed and
prosecuted by a white ruling class.
She will tell of the misery, of the
starvation and slavery foisted upon
them by the white landlords. she
will report of discrimination, jim
Crowism and terror used by the
landlords to keep Negro and white
separated. She will recount tales
of beating, night raids and murders
of innocent Negro boys by the po-
lice of the ruling class.
But she will also tell of the he
roic struggle of the Share Choppers
Union to organize into a fighting
organization the Negro and white
share choppers welded together on
basis of common interests. She
will tell of underground meetings,
of open protests, of actual revolu-
tionary work to arouse the Negro
and white toilers against the ex-
ploitation of their masters.
Active In Share Choppers Union
Euquile McKeithen should know.
She's in charge of women's work
in the Share-C Choppers Union in
Montgomery County, Alabama, and
has been active in the union since
its formation last November
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
,JObless Called
To Colorado
Convention

DENVER, Colo, July "a. All
unemployment organizations, trade
unions, veterans and small home
owners groups and all working class
are asked to send dele
gates to the Colorado State Unem-
ployment Convention, to be held
here August IL, at 1868 Curtis st.
The united front call, signed by
the Unemployment Councils, the
Relief Workers Protective Union,
the Spanish League, the Co-opera-
tive Alliance, and the A. F. of L.
Rank and File Committee for IN
employment Insurance and Relief
urges the unity of all unemployed
and employed workers in the fight
for increased relief, unemployment
and a 30-hour week on
all relief jobs.
Herbert Benjamin, organizer of
the National Unemployment Coun-
ellis will address the convention and
will be the main speaker at the
mass meeting to be held at 1858
Curtis Ave, August IL, at P. M.
Representation at the convention
will be on the basis of one delegate
for each 25 members Of each partici-
pating organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
Order to Gust
Miners Head
Dropped by US
Mass Drive Forces Halt
To Deportation Moves
Against KemenOvich

PITTSBURGH, Pa, July a. -
News Of another victory secured by
mass workers pressure against de-
portation activities of the federal
government was disclosed in a let
ter from immigration authorities
which announced the cancellation
of the arrest and deportation order
for Vincent Kemenovich, former
organizer of the National Miners
Union.
Kemenovich and Frank Borich
were arrested for their activities
during the mining crisis in Ken
lucky in 1880. Both were charged
with sedition by federal agents and
action was instituted to railroad
them out of the country.
A mass campaign of protest was
Immediately begun by working class
organizations. This was responsible
for the dropping of charges against
Borich early this year, and has now
brought about the cancellation Of
the order standing against Kemeno-
vich.
The information was contained in
a letter addressed to Roger Bald
win, of the American Civil Liberties
Union, which reads as follows:
"You are advised that the de-
partment has cancelled the war
rant of arrest, the order and war
rant Of deportation, and the out
standing appearance bond in the
case of Vincent Kemenovich.
(Signed)
w. w. BROWN, Assistant"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
Ohio Party Election
Conference Sunday

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, July 25.-
The state conference to ratify the
platform and program of the Com
munist Party in the Ohio election
campaign will be held here on Sun
day in the Central Auditorium, 225
Boardman st.
The purpose of the conference as
stated by the call issued to all
working class organizations is ito
build a platform broad enough to
fill the needs of all the workers of
Ohio"
AS a basis for the formulation of
the program, the Communist Party
will set forth the following points:
The right of workers to organize
and picket; passage of the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill;
cancellation of mortgages, taxes and
other liens against small home own
ers and farmers; Repeal of all
present tax laws and substitution
of taxation of the wealthy; full
equality and rights for Negroes; the
establishment of a workers Soviet
government in alliance with the i'm
poverished farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
Mass Hearing
Scores Courts
In Aero Strike

BUFFALO, N. Y, July 24.-At-
tacks by the courts and police on
the strike struggles of Curtiss
Aeroplane workers were exposed
and denounced at mass public
trial of the police department and
the judges of the City Court last
Thursday night at Teck Theatre,
760 Main Street.
Nearly 400 persons were present.
George Brickner, Vice-President of
the Curtis Aeroplane Union, acted
as prosecutor, assisted by Manning
johnson, District Organizer of the
Communist Party. The judges were
Henry Wright and Ed Williams of
the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, and George Hart of the
International Labor Defense. The
workers jury was composed of
representatives from IL labor or
CARNATIONS, including the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
the L. S. N. r., the Marine Work
ers' Industrial Union. Unemployed
Council, Polish Workers Club and
the l. L. D.
The trial, upon the basis of the
verdict of guilty brought in by the
jury, adopted a resolution demand
ing The prosecution of police and
sheriff's deputies who have been
beating up men, women and chill
dren on the picket lines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25

the MIRA. Code authority, last June.
Now is the time to spread this strike
to every cotton mill in the country,
to raise high the demands which
were contained in the original Code
Demands presented at the Wash
ington cotton code hearing by the
National Textile Workers Union.
1.-THE National Textile Union calls
upon all textile workers to show
support to The Alabama cotton strik-
ers. Send kilograms, organize &C
tons of solidarity. Spread the
strike to every cotton mill in The
country.
I'VE call upon all members and all
locals of the United Textile Work
ers Union to send kilograms to
Mcmahon demanding that he i'm
mediately issue a national strike call,
that the coming special convention
of the U.TW. make definite plans
to spread this cotton strike to every
cotton mill in the country, North
and South.
I'VE urge all locals of the U.T.W.
to elect rank and file delegates to
the special convention; that the
membership elect delegates who will
fight at the convention for the
endorsement of the demands of the
cotton workers, and to work out
definite plans to strike for these
demands throughout the entire cot
ton industry. Wherever the textile
workers come out on strike do not
depend on the National Labor
Board and the U.T.W. leaders to
arbitrate your grievances. Elect
broad rank and file committees that
will carry on direct negotiations with
the mill owners and which will mill
family fight and carry out the deci-
sions of the broad masses of strik-
erS.
Textile workers everywhere, this
Alabama strike is your strike.
Spread it. 1t is the only weapon
that will improve the miserable
working conditions under which
You are shaving.
Forward to a general strike in
the cotton industry"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
NTWIU Asks General Strike
Preparations in Cotton Mills
Anne BurIak Calls for Convention to Support
$4,000 Alabama Strikers Against N.RA.
Wage-Cut Program

NEW YORK-Calling for prep
arations for a general strike in the
cotton textile industry, Anna Bur-
lax, National Secretary Of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union, yes
terday issued a statement of the
union urging all locals of the United
Textile Workers to elect rank and
file delegates to a special conven-
ton for endorsing the demands OF
cotton workers and for the purpose
of planning the strike for these de-
mands.
Eighteen thousand cotton work
erS are on strike throughout Ala
bama, she points out, and though
Thomas F. Mcmahon, president of
the United Textile Workers, has de-
clared the U.TW. is behind the
strike, his policy has been: "Strike
talk and no action"
The statement in part follows:
Eighteen thousand cotton textile
workers are on strike in Alabama
These workers are on strike against
the decision of No pay increase
made by the MIRA. Code Authority
after the recent Investigation of the
cotton textile industry. They are
demanding the 80 hour week, with
no less than $12 a week in wages
Already the strike has involved the
cotton workers of the following i'm
portant centers: Birmingham, LOO;
Huntsville, 1000; Gadsen, 1900; Ala
bama City, $500; Florence, $500;
Jasper, ESQ; Cordeva, 600; Albert
vile, $50; Guntersville, ESQ; Ami
ston, $50; Winfield, $50
"Other Alabama mill workers are
reported joining the strike hourly
This actually means that half of the
cotton textile workers of Alabama
are already on strike. There is
every possibility that the strike will
quickly spread Throughout the
South. Every textile worker in the
country must jump to the support
of this strike. These Southern work
ers are on strike against the Is per
cent wage cut which affected the
cotton textile workers nationally,
through the curtailment order of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25

"Our children have to walk six
miles to school," she said. They're
not allowed to ride on the school
bus. The officials say we don't
pay taxes, so we have no rights,
But we do pay taxes. We pay taxes
on tobacco, cigarettes and on gaso-
line. We pay tax on the road by
working on it.
Children Died Young
Mrs. McKeithen herself has no
children. She is As years old now
and has been married for some
time. Years ago she had five chill
dren, but they all died when they
were small.
Il think they're better off dead"
she said IF they were living I'd
have to be fighting for them too"
Both Mrs. McKeithen and her
husband are indefatigble workers
for the Share Choppers Union and
the revolutionary movement in the
South. Her husband was a dele
gate to the Chicago Farm Confer
ence last November and is one OF
the leaders in the union.
Fifty Cents for 2 Days Work
Eyes, the union is growing fast, "
she said. 1T has to, the conditions
are so terrible. The landlords offer
us women so cents an acre to chop
cotton. That's at least two days
work.
At the end of the year we don't
make enough out of the cotton to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
Negro Woman Share Cropper, off to Paris
Congress, Tells Of Oppression in South

nav the rent. The landlord takes
all we have-cotton, corn, potatoes,
chickens, COWS and even greens out
of the garden. And then we're still
in debt"
Comrade McKeithen told me
more about Roosevelt's relief.
Dump Relief Food
They have what you call re-
lief garden, where you raise stuff
to be given for relief for workers.
But what they do with it is dump
1t into the Alabama River. About
four weeks ago they dumped over
900 pounds of rotten wheat into
the river.
In order to get anything at all
a Negro must have white boss
testify as to his need. And then
you've got to be downright paupers
to get any relief at all.
Ruling Glass Terror
Conrade McKeithen relat e d
stories of terror, beatings and muir
der of young Negro boys by police
men. How one cop had become en-
ragged at Negro boy of Is and had
beaten and shot him, and then,
while he lay on the road dead or
mortally wounded, the cop pumped
bullets into his body and kicked
him like a dead cog.
And nothing is ever done about
it. Nothing at all" she said.
They're sore about the Scots
boro boys. They're sore because
they can't kill them. too
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
$500 Bill for
Thugs Is Paid
By Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE,, July 24.-Payment
Of $4,000 to 95 deputized thugs who
were used against workers of the
Electric Company, during their
recent strike, was voted by the
county boards committee of courts,
county offices and supplies last
week.
Supervisors Herman Tucker and
Robert Buech, Socialists, voted
apologetically against the payment,
explaining they thought the hired
thugs entitled to it, but felt that
special deputies should not have
been called out at the time.
A bill for 1924 for tear gas gren-
AIDES and $40 for baseball bats with
which Sheriff Joseph SINNERS
armed his thugs is awaiting action
at the next meeting of the commit
tee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
200 Workers Fired
As City Bosses Use
Cooked-Up Excuses
Bankers City Executive Directs Immediate Dis
lnissais of Single and ChiIdless Married
Couples in His Drive

NEW YORK Single workers
and childless married couples are
The first to lose their jobs under
the new LaGuardia relief slashing
program. A memorandum sent out
by the Central Office of the Works
Division of Public Welfare on Fri
day to all supervisors orders the
dismiSsals to be put into effect i'm
mediately. The letter states:
1.-THE latest word from the Cen
trail Office is that we are to dismiss
from work relief single men and
women and childless couples.
There has been a shifting policy
relative to dismissals of couples.
Disregard previous memos and act
on this one only. This applies to
all couples which have been inves-
tigsted, as well as those who are
being investigated. In cases of
couples where the woman is preg-
nant, that couple should not be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25

regarded as childlesS. If for very
sound reasons the man is to remain
at work, send a memorandum to
the Borough office explaining the
situation. The general rule for dis
missal still holds in all cases I'M
less we have a specific approval
from the Borough Office for re-
tanning a man on work relief"
Previous orders sent out by the
Works Division stated that all
workers fired from the relief jobs
are to get Home Relief after re-
investigation. Shortly after, an or
der signed by Borough Engineer
Heasley stated that workers loaf
ing on the jobs" were to be fired
at once and denied all forms of re-
lief for a period of at least 80 days.
On Friday, 200 workers were fired
from the Split Rock Road project
and each given a dismissal slip
reading "loafing." One superin-
tendent quit the job rather than
do the dirty work of the LaGuardia
regime.
Relief workers who formerly re-
ceived $12 weekly, single white col
lar workers and married couples
who formerly got from SIG to $24
weekly on work relief will now be
slashed to $40 weekly food allow
ance for single workers and 81 for
married couples after long period
of investigation.
Workers on the projects should
Immediately elect representatives
on the mass delegation which will
place the demands Of the unem-
pIOyed before Governor Lehman
on July 81 for enactment by the
special session Of the state legis-
lature. The delegation will leave
for Albany on July 30. Names
and addresses of all delegates
should be sent Immediately to
the committee headquarters at 20
E. Goth st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
Bosses Find
Steel Board
agreeable
tDalIy WORKER wa.hIng.on sureaul


WASHINGTON, July "a. = The
only issue of Steel" trade organ
of the industry's big trusts, dis
closes today that the logic of more
flies are caught with molasses than
vinager" won ''the industry's ready
acceptance" of the National Steel
Labor Relations Board before that
agency was set up by President
Roosevelt.
The magazine also notes that
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor, who
did his utmost for steel employers
by knitting the scheduled national
steel strike, did the "job" of getting
Amalgamated Association leaders to
put through sell-out approval of
the Board.
Bfore this, according to the trade
organ, lading steel employers had
agreed to creation of the Board, at
the suggestion of big business mem
bers of N.R.A. Administrator John
sons Industrial Advisory Board.
The Steel Labor Board was APP
pointed by President Roosevelt to
be an impartial" mediator of la
Dor complaints. But Steel" which
speaks exclusively for the bosses,
characterizes the Board as IAN
agreeable, apparently efficient"
group.
The magazine gives this warn
ing: TO a remarkable degree the
coast disturbance closely paralleled
what labor had set up for steel in
June and also affords a clew to
what might happen this fall in
event production expands and the
opportunity to harrass the industry
recurS." 1t records that the steel
labor board is slated to receive and
dispose of the new threat
that followed Carnegie SteeIs re-
fusal to deal with its workers
through their Amalgamated Asso-
citation lodge. 1t says:
In its Labor" section, steel"
prints striking figures on the results
of speed-up under the MIRA
figures showing great increases in
disabling injuries in the steel in
dustry. No word about the speed
up, naturally, appears. But the
magazine quotes the National
Safety Council, Chicago, as report
ing an increase of 20 per cent in
disabling accidents during 1888, and
an advance of Is per cent in sever
ity putting to an end four years
of steady improvement"