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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
German FightSOngs
Will Be Featured
At Feb. IL Affair

A flood Of the greatest revolution
airy enthusiasm has greeted the an
nouncement of the Support the Ger
man Workers Revolution" concern
and affair, that is taking place Feb.
II, at the Bronx Coliseum, A pro-
cession of volunteer artists have Of
fered their services for the program
on that night.
The program committee has there
fore, with great difficulty. selected a
group of artists of the very highest
calibre.
A chorus Of 1000 member. com
posed Of seceral choruses, will sing
-ousing German revolutionary songs
These choruses will sing collectively,
4 will present separate programs
Artists, foremost in their respective
eds in the working class movement
will give dance, music, and Theatrical
numbers, some presented for the first
time.
AT this time, it is known that
satirical dance will be given, called
Hitler"
Already groups of workers and
workers organizations have signified
their intention of coming in body
The affair has the aspect of being
one of the greatest manifestations OF
international solidarity seen here.
The program committee announced
ut tickets must be bought early, 10
insure attendance on that night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
LynChNegroWcr,ker
In Florida With Aid
charlottesville
Prisoner Was Charged
With Petty Larceny;
Rape Now Raised

TAMPA, Fla. Jan. 30-Robert
johnson, a Negro worker, was lynch
ed early today by a lynch gang in
automobiles after he was handed
over to them by Deputy Constable
T. M. Graves, who was "transferring"
the prisoner from the city jail to the
custody of State authorities.
The lynching occurred within IS
miles Of this city and a short time
after Graves had taken the prisoner
from the city jail. Johnson was re-
leased to Graves on warrants cha~g-
ing petty larceny. Following the
lynching, however, the local press
carries a story that johnson was held
for investigation for an alleged at
tack on q white woman. The police
responded to this cue with state
ment that johnson had been par
tally identified" as the Negro who
attacked woman"
Deputy Constable Graves tells a
fantastic story Of being kidnapped
and beaten up and then freed after
the Negro prisoner was lynched and
his body riddled with bullets. The
lynching is the fifth reported in the
press for this year. Last year there
were 40 reported lynchings in the
US.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
Menace of War and Fascism
Spurs Action in Daily Drive

NEW YORK.-With the menace
of war and fascism growing hourly,
American class conscious workers
are acting quickly to increase the
circulation of the Daily Worker, to
strengthen thereby the revolutionary
movement in its fight to rally the
masses for the defense of the Soviet
Union and for the crushing of ris-
ing fascist terror.
Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Newark, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chi
cago and Denver are among the
honor districts which have already
RESPONDED to the call of the Cen
trail Committee of the Communist
Party, U. S. A., for $4,000 new
DAILY" subscribers, 10000 of these
for the Saturday edition.
Newark, one of the latest to re-
port, has elected a district commit
tee of IL to supervise the campaign.
Newark writes, "Our quota in the
drive for 10000 new Daily sub
scribers and for 10000 new readers
of the Saturday edition, is 800 new
Daily and 600 new Saturday subs.
We are more than certain that we
will pass this quota"
All sections in Newark district are
arranging meetings of Party mem
bers and members of mass organi-
cations and trade unions to work
cut quotas for their territories. A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
Stock Profits Soar
AS Roosevelt Sons
Dollar Gold Bill

NEW YORK, Jan. 30-Tn response
to RooSevelt's SIGNING of the dollar
deva'uat' on bill late today, stocks on
the New York Stock Exchap~e rushed
inward to make new high for the
past two years.
Spectators reaped a golden har-
vest as leading industrial, chemical.
oil, railroad, and food stocks leaped
upward under the impact of a huge
wave of buying.
Stocks whose industries are related
to war showed phenomenal rises. Al
lied Chemical, Wright Aeronautical.
international Nickel, US. Iaduetrial
Alcohol, US. Steel, Bethlehem steel,
and many others were the market
leaders, all showing advances which
carried them to point from $1,000
per cent above last years lows. Most
of these companies are Morgan-con-
trolled.
The dollar rose somewhat on for
eign markets after its sharp drop
yesterday, but the obviously inaation-
airy intent Of Roosevelt's program Is
giving it a downward tendency.
The Equalization Fund which the
Bill provides for will be run in secret,
and will be used, as many Of the
Senators and Congre-smen admitted,
in a fierce currency fight against
British imperialism for word mar
kets, aggravating the growing war
dang
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31

meeting of Daily Worker rea1ers in
Newark and vicinity will take place
in about two weeks.
Detroit to Pass Quota
The quota set by Detroit is 500
new daily and 1000 new Satur-
day readers. eve are confident that
we will fulfill our quota before the
end of the drive, on May 1st," this
district writes.
Pittsburgh has arranged district
wide meeting of all Daily Worker
agents and boosters for Feb. 3rd,
IL a. M, at 1908 Center Ave., to
perfect plans for putting the drive
over the top. at is our plan," writes
Pittsburgh, "to bring the Daily
Worker to the homes of the work
ers throughout the state, especially
in the concentration industries. AL
ready we are getting new subs. We
not only expect to fuNfill our dist~ict
quota of 800 new daily and 600
new Saturday subs, but to do even
better"
Chicago Sets Example
Chicago, which has alrea ly sent in
EOS new subs for the Saturday edi-
ton, will hold conference of Units,
Sections, unions and mass organiza-
tons on Feb. 4th, to mobilize the
broadcast number of workers possible
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
Continued on Page 81
Hitler Threatens
Dissatisfied Ranks
Warns Them To Adam
don ''F,ltiIe Theories


BERLIN, In. 93.-The effects Of
some Of the Nazi reforms" may not
be felt for years, A5o-ph Hitler. Nazi
chancellor told the all-Nazi Reichstag
today in defense Of the sc-aDping Of
his demagogic promises for q war on
capital and the failure of the muir
der regime to solve UNEMPLOYMENT
or better the conditions Of the peas
ant masses.
The fascist d.os2sor emphasized
"the difficulty Of applying economic
principles which would, first, save the
farmers; second, crush speculation;
third, permit abandonment of futile
theories in order to FIGHT unemploy-
ment, on which new attack is
planned"
The statement was an ultimatum
to those dissatisfied members of the
Storm Troopers and other Na2i o--
CARNATIONS who are demanding full
filment Of the Socialist part OF the
Nazi program to abandon their illu.
sions or end their lives in the con-
centration camps.
The Reichstag dutifully passed the
Federal Reform Bill to abolish the
autonomous rights of the 16 tradi-
ton German states, and dispersed
after brief session. Passage of the
Bill represents a severe defeat to
hermann Goering, Nazi premier Of
Prussia, who has pers-stently opposed
the move because he would thus be
deprived Of much of his present pow
er, while his rivals in the Nazi camp
would be strengthened at his expense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
Soviet Balloon Ascends 1874
Miles Into the Shakespeare

The spherical gondola of the STRAIT
oStat has three sides Theoretically
closed, with three windows, one on
the bottom for air, photography and
observation. 1t is furnished with pre-
else instruments for studying coSmic
rays, magnetic phenomena, and COM
position Of air.
The Commander, Pavel FedoSseen-
lio, a former factory worker, is now an
engineer in the Soviet civic air fleet.
The other participants in the record
breaking ascent, are Adrey Vossenko,
an engineer and specialist in aerology
and aeronavigation, and member
Of the Young Communist League.
Ilya Ussyskin.
According to messages from the
stratostat, the landing was expected
to be made at 4 pm. in the neigh
borhood of Kolomna, about 60 miles
south Of Moscow.
The former worlds record for
shakespeare ascent was made IN
Sept. 80, 1888, when a Soviet balloon
commander by Georgi Prokofieff and
two companions reached the height
of 10000 meters or lib miles. The
record Officially" recognized by the
International Aeronautic Association
is one of lis miles, made by two
Americans, Settle and Fordney, on
Nov. 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
Only Landlords To Get
Benefits from Land
Buying Scheme
NO PAY PROPOSED
Farmers Already Driven
Off Land by Millions

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan.
30.-Another promise Of
"cure-alI'' for the unemployed,
this time the moving of a mil
lion men from cities to farm
ing country, is projected by
President Roosevelt - as a
substitute" for the removal by
Roosevelt Of the C.W.A. workers from
heir jobs. Rooseyelt's federal relief
director, Hopkins, reveals that Roose-
7elts plan is a "long range" plan.
According to this plan. unemployed
workers from cities, who Hopkins adj
nits have no hope Of getting Jobs.
will be uprootsd from the cities and
will be given no wages, but left on
impoverished farms to starve.
The only actual concrete step Sc
ar even proposed" by the Roosevelt
administration, to back up his new
Promise Of one million Jobs, is that
f25,0OO,00O Of Public Works Funds
'?as been set aside by the Roosevelt,
administration for the purchase Of
-ub-maryinal lands" It is not even
definitely proposed to give any funds
to the jobless, which the plan Saws
will be uprooted from the cities,
with which to begin farming work on
-hese Sub marGinal" lands. It is only
stated by Hopkins, that ''The gov
ernmcnt might have to transport and
possible underwrtte the people con-
cened for while"
Money To Landlords
The S25 900 900 which has been set
aside for the buying Of this land, viii
not GO, therefore. to the unemployed
taken from cities, but will 20 to the
landlords who own the land. tn
"sub-marginal" land is land which
hes been so poor that it has been un-
profitable to farm.
President Roosevelt has been "aid-
ing the farmers by reducing the
acreage" that Is, buying up such sub
marginal land, from which o million
tenant-farmers have already been
driven by Rooseyelt's acreage rsdrc-
ton scheme. 1t is now proposed to
send the tobless to this poor quality
land at the same time that thousands
Of small farmers are being driven
away from land because they are
starving. The only ones who will
benefit from this scheme will be the
landlords who get the SIS 200, 600 for
the marginal" land.
Farmers Also Starving
Billions Of dollars have been lost BY
poor farmers in foreclosures of mort
gagged farms. Millions have been
driven off the land in the farm crisis
because they find themselves unable
to exist on the farms. And Roose-
welt proposes to add a million more
workers to starve on the land.
The sinister purpose behind Rocse-
velt's promise Of a million Jobs for
city workers, is that such schemes are
being put forward to cover up the
fact that he is standing firm in refus-
ing to continue the -C.WA. Jobs, and
refusing to enact any Federal Unem-
ployment Insurance bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
Especial to the Daily WORKER

MOSCOW, U.S.SR., Jan. 80. (By
Cable. Manned by three intrepid
airrnen, the Soviet balloon "Ossoavi-
akhirn," early this morning scared
67,558 feet, or slightly over l2% miles
into the stratosphere, reaching the
greatest height ever attained by man.
The biz stratosphere balloon left the
ground at GOT am. (2:15 am. New
York Time) at Kuntzevo, just out
side of Moscow, and rose rapidly at
the rate of IL feet per second, carried
over Moscow by slight northwest
breeze. Two hours and 38 minutes
after leaving the ground, Commander
Pavel Fedoseenko reported by radio
telephone that the craft had reached
the height of 10000 meters or 1277
miles.
The huge envelope of the balloon,
with a capacity for 24,900 cubic
meter Of hydrogen, as well as all
other parts of the shakespeare, were
built entirely of Soviet materials.
When Commander Fedoseenko
reached the height of 10000 meters,
he had greetings radiogrammed to
the nth Congress of the Commu-
mist Party OF the Soviet Union, now
in session in Moscow, and to Stain,
Molotov, Kaganovitch, Kalinin and
vorosllilov. Other greetings were sent
to ''the Bolshepik class organ,
Pravda.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
USSR Party Congress.
Halls Great Triumph
Of Chinese Soviets
Bucharin Greets Stain as
'Field-Marshal'' of the
World Revolution

MOSCOW, Jan. 29.-The Socialist
reconstruction of agriculture occu-
pied the central place in the multi
plicity Of questions raised in dis
cussions of the delegates on the re-
port Stain delivered for the Central
Committee of the All-Union Com
munist (Bolshevik) Party.
The delegates: Schlicter, Ukraine;
Merzoyan, Kazakstan; Vareikis,
Central Black Earth Region; Bau-
mat, Central Asia; Ptucha, Stain
graz District. all spoke in a par
ticularly detailed way about it.
The speakers gave many clear
facts, showing how Kolkhozes (col-
lective farms), have changed the
economy Of the village, creating new
unacceptable living conditions. The
delegate from the Central Blacl-
Earth region, Vareikis, spoke Of how
before the Revolution, over forty per
cent of the peasants didn't have
horses; over 80 per cent had no
cows, and over Is per cent had no
sown acreage. He spoke of the hun
dreds of thousands of peasants, de-
prived of the possibility of existence.
who annually left their villages
hunting work.
Victories in Agriculture
Nobody leaves this region now"
Vareikis said THE villages stopped
being the stepmother for the peas
ants. The Kolkheznik collective
farmer, now has enormous posi-
bilities for satisfying his material
and cultural demands and the CEN
trail Black Earth region is no excep-
ton. Gigantic successes in the devel-
opment O. agriculture have been
achieved throughout the entire coun-
try. But the most important prob
lem is still increased cattle breed
ing.p
A majority of the speakers dis
cussed this. Representatives from
Kazakstan told about eattle-breed-
ing Soykhozes Estate Fa-ms) already
playing big role in the country's
national economy. Already in 1888,
these Soykhozes Estate FARMS, de-
livered to the government two mil
lion pools (800o0,000 lbs) of meat.
KszaEstan is one of the basic
Points fcr castls-bre ading, and Gem
trsl Asia is a decisive base for cot
ten RAISING. Speaking of successes
IN Centrel Asia means speaking Of
cotton. Bsuman's speech Central
Asia), Tod Of the struggle for cotton
continued on Pare 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
Told Govt VIII See They
Get Vote to Decide lie
They Want Elections
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
Daily Worker Washington Bureau)

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Jan. President
Roosevelt to3ay promised an inme-
date acknowledgement honest
poll" Of Weirton Steel CO. workers to
determine whether they shall have
another election to cheese their col
lective bargaining representatives
william Long, leader of union
delegation, who reserved the promise
If the presence of MIRA. Admins
traitor General Hugh S. Johnson,
hailed it as "a victory"
He was correct only insofar as
Rooseyeit's action once more promises
to bring to terms the National Steel
Company, which up to this point has
fatty refused to allow an election
un5e- any circumstances. The prom
Use also reflects keen awareness on
the part of the administration that
VOTERS, both at V7cirton and else
where, are on to the MIRA. subterfuge
and are building their own organ
izationS in full consciousness that
militant struggle is their only road
to better conditions.
What Long failed to point out is
that the promise Of two elections,
where one already has been proven
a bald strike breaking device, is likely
to turn out to be just double dose
of the same medicine. 1t is, more
over, a clear 3ncession to E T. Weir,
head Of the three plants whose work
ers were horded back from strike on
the promise Of an election last Octo-
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
White House Covers 10
C.W.A. Firing by Plan to
Put Jobless on Farms"
Amter to Speak at Ny.
Send-Of Mass Meeting

NEW York;. Amter, National
Secretary of the Unemployed
Councils, will be the main speaker
at the send-off rally and mass
meeting for the New York dele
gates to the Washington National
Convention Against Unemploy-
ment. The mass meeting, to be
held Thurs, Feb. /, at st. Nicholas
Arena, at 7:30 pm, will also greet
the workers delegates to Wash
ington from New England.
Other speakers will be: Juliet
Stuart Poyntz, of the Trade Union
Unity Council; Sam Gonshak, or
ganizer of the Unemployed Coun-
ellis of New York; Irving Potash,
of the Needle Trades Industrial
Union; Herman Macawain, of the
League of Struggle for Negro
Rights; Louis Weinstock OF the
A. F. of L. Committee for Unem-
ployment Insurance. Richard Sui
Ivan, Secretary Of the Unemploy-
ed Councils of New York, will be
the chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31

As the Daily Worker goes TO
press, over 1900 striking hotel
workers are meeting In Madison
Square Garden.
NEW YoRK.-whiIe the hotel
strikers were preparing for their
great general strike meeting, to be
held in Madison Square Garden
Tuesday night, the strike spread and
extended to the Downtown Athletic
Club and to two Longchamps restau-
rants.
Strike pickets paced up and down
in the bitter cold in front Of the
struck hotels, while leaders of the
Amalgamated Union Unanswered be-
hind the backs of the workers to
sidetrack any militant action which
might develop at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel, where government Of
ficials and A. F. of L. leaders were
preparing a birthday party for Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Unity Meeting
Meanwhile, 600 strikers rallied at
Bryant Hall, under the leadership Of
the Hotel and Restaurant Workers
Union, Local 119 Of the Food Work.
ers' Union, and pledged to do every
thing in their power to spread the
strike to every hotel in the city.
The strikers will march from this
meeting to Madison Square Garden,
where they will call for unity in the
strike.
''Iye must tie up every hotel from
the basement to the top flcor!"
said striker from the Hotel New
Yorker, spee,zing at the meeting.
A worker from the milk drivers
section of the Food Workers Indus
trial Union pledged the support Of
the milk drivers.
The dominant spirit all along the
strike front among the rank and file
is for unity
zone strike, not two strikes" de-
clared militant striker. "All the
workers must join hands together if
we want to win"
F.W.LU. Leads Unity Move
Leading the move for unity and to
spread the strike, the strikers from
the Fotel New Yorker and the Cen
eral Strike Committee of the Hotel
and Restaurant workers Union, Lo-
eel ITO Of the Food Workers indus
trial Union, met yesterday and with
great enthusiasm decided unani-
mously to join forces with the
strikers of the Amalganated Union.
On ord3r to win the general
strike" said a manifesto issued by
the Hotel AMI Restaurant Workers
Union yesterday, "it is necessary to
spread this strike to all hotels
which are now out, and to brine
down on strike the workers in all
departments in the struck hotels.
TO force their association to grant
the demands of the strikers, united
(Continued on Pare q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
Natl Labor Board
Sets Date for Shoe
Union Referendum
Shoe Workers To Vote
for United Shoe Union
ON Thursday, Friday

NEW YORK-The National Labor
72ard notified the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union late yester-
day afternoon that the referendum
to determine which unicn the shoe
workers choose to Join, will take place
IN Thursdev and Friday Of this week
md next Mondav. The Beard con-
eedes the Unions demand that the
Lection toke place outside the shops.
Although the ORIGINAL decision of
he Bonrd, made in connection with
the ending Of the shoe strike, set the
fate for the referendum On Jon. 1st,
the referendum was POSTPONED. The
present announcement Genes with
cut any previous warning. The Union
sent a sharp protest to the Board
ageinst such short notice last night
o'd moved to nrerare the shoe work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
Roosevelt Would
Send JObleSS to
BarrenFarmIandS
Hopkins Says Million In
voIved in ''Long
Range Plan
DAILY Worker Washington BureauJ

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHTNToN, D. c., Jan. 30
Transplanting families" -uprcoting
thousands bodily. transporting them
thousands of miles and setting them
down on farms Supplemented by
factory" work. is the Roosevelt gov
ernment's latest answer to unemploy-
mert.
Federal Relief and C.W.A. Admin
istrator Harry L. Hopkins, who re-
vea,ed the new program, was testify
ing today in secret session of the
House Appropriations Committee on
President Rcosevelt's request for ap-
prop-tations to carry the C.W.A. Jobs
until May ard to continue relief for
the next fifteen months.
Long Range" Program
Frankly declaring that the capital
ist crisis is SO deep that hundreds of
thousands of the jobless will never be
re-employed at their REGULAR work,
Hopkins put forward the transplant
ing" as the Roosevelt solution. He
said one million will be moved.
The new program contemplates
that the families of the unemployed
will exc out their existence on farms
which are expected to be established
in the new, small communities.
This, Hopkins said, is all a part of
the long range planning program Of
planned economy" OF the New Deal.
In other words, having offered the
unemployed forced labor in Nazifed
transient camps, having poured out
millions in military construction for
public works" and having given one
taste of made" work instead of re-
lief, all without touching the funda-
mentals of the unemployment prob
lem, the Roosevelt government now
brings forward still another plan fol-
lowering living standards Of the
working people.
This is the Roosevelt answer to
(Continued on Page %
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
Roosevelt Seeks to Auert
Weirton Steel Strike By
Trick Promises Of Vote
FriedChickan for'F.D';
For 1900, 1000 {?

Observation-Disclosures mil
lion unemployed workers in the
United States will undoubtedly be
highly gratifisd to learn that Prasi-
dent Roosevelt's SIND birthday din
ner menu, served at the White
House yesterday, will consist Of
the following dishes:
CLANS on the half shell; fried
chicken Maryland; peas, creamed
carrots and potato pufs; hearts Of
lettuce salad with Roquefort dress
ing; almond crunch and ice cream;
coffee and birthday cake.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
Lewis Riled When
Anti Communist
Provision Is Hit
Spectre of Communism
Haunts UMWA at
Convention
BY DAN DAVIS
Especial to the Daily WORKER

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 3d.
The spectre Of Communism haunted
the Lewis officialdom at the seventh
session of the 33rd Convention of the
U. M. w. A. today, when locals in
troduced resolutions against the Sec
ton of the unions constitution bar
ring Communist Party members from
membership in the U. M. w. A.
This section of the constitution was
finally voted to remain unchanged,
barring Communists from the union.
The vote was taken after John L.
Lewis, International President Of the
U. M. w. A., put the militant young
delegate, John F. Sloan of Local $500,
Westville, ILL.,, through catechism
on whether the latter was a member
of the Communist Party.
"Are you a member Of the Com
munist Party?" Lewis asked Sloan
CONTINUED on Page q