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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
A N EDITOR AL

All this activity is proof of one thing-that
Roosevelt and the countrys most powerful financial
and industrial monopolies are now organizing the
basis for new, reactionary offensive against the
whole American toiling population. new offensive
against the living standards of the people is now
being organized in the White House
This is the meaning of all the activity in Wash
ington now.
THE lead for this reactonary offensive was given
by Roosevelt himself in his unemployment in
surance" speech the other day.
The central thought of Roosevelt's speech was
expressed in his proclamation that social insurance
and relief must wait on the revival of general
security No longer the promises of restoring full
employment! No longer the promises that mo one
in America will starve" Now the ruthless declara-
ton that the needs of the must wait on the
restoration of general security" And this general
security"-what Is h2
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
WALL STREET MONOPOLY CAPITALISTS TIGHTEN THEIR GRIP
ON ROOSEVELT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ATTACKS ON WORKERS

WASHINGTON is in state of great activity
" Leading agents of the government hold
ing daily conferences with bankers and manufac-
turers
Roosevelt himself has held private interviews
with direct representatives of the Morgan banks
and industrial trusts.
Yesterday, the United States Chamber of Com
merce, leading body of the most reactionary indus
trialists in the country pledged its cooperation"
with the New Deal and hailed Roosevelts policies
committee u leading monopolists chosen to
work closely with Roosevelt in the coming months.
Donald Ritchberg, Roosevelts spokesman on the
N.R.A., made an ELUSIVE speech promising the in
dustriasts that the Roosevelt New Deal is dedicated
to preserving and increasing profts-monopoly
profits.
Two weeks ago it the Wall Street banks
meeting in national conventionthis week it is the
Chamber Of Commerce which pledged Roosevelt
their aid and cooperation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19

This general security is nothing more less
than the profits Of the monopolies. 1t is the OPP
portunity for the capitalist class TO find profitable
markets, profitable opportunity for exploitation II
is, in short, the maintenance of the steady flow of
profits upon which the whole capitalist system rests.
1t is the maintenance of the rule of the Wall Street
finance capital dictatorship, the rule of the banks
and the industrialists. This comes first, Roosevelt
declared last week.
And the Wall Street industrialists have not been
slow to respond to RoosevetS call for recovery"
They know what it means-a drive against labor
Roosevelts publicity agents have tried to create
the impression that it is the Wall Street indus
trialists and banks who have knucked down to him
and his policies But the precise opposite is true
1t is Roosevelt and the New Deal which has become
more openly the instrument of the Wall Street
monopolies for grinding new profits
1t is not Roosevelt who is giving orders. It is
Roosevelt who is getting instructions from the banks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
Especial to tn. DAILY worker

PARIS, Nov. Is (By Wireless) -
Although the fifth day of delibera-
tons has now ended, the confer
ence of the Executive Committee of
the Second International on the
proposals of the Communist Inter
national for Immediate united ac-
ton in support of the Spanish pro-
letariat has issued no public state
ment of its decision.
Reports given out on Saturday by
the Havas News Agency and re-
ported in the Daily Worker APP
parently have not been borne out
by any official announcement of the
Executive Committee. Saturdays
reports disclosed the united front
had been accepted on the condi-
ton that full political liberty" be
granted to Russian Socialists long
guilty Of outright sabotage of So
cialist construction.
lie Populaire," organ of the So
cialist Party of France, totally ig-
nores the conference. The only in
formation, SO far, comes from
meagre reports in the Daily Herald
of London. Meanwhile the Com
munist press is intensifying the
campaign for united action of the
world proletariat. L'Humanite, or
gan of the French Communist Party.
urgently insists on the necessity for
common action on Spain, declaring
that the recent refusal of the Sec
ond International has been a cause
OF rejoicing among the Spanish re-
dictionaries and of cruel disappoint-
ment to the Spanish proletariat.
Proposing united action in sup
port of Spain for the second time,
the Executive Committee of the
Young Communist International has
addressed a letter to the Executive
Committee of the Young Socialist
International and asks that its pro-
posal be included in its session. The
World Committee Against War and
Fascism has addressed letter to
the Second International demand
ing the withdrawal of the latter's
decree forbidding the participation
of Socialists in the League, with the
resulting effect of sabotaging the
whole struggle against war and fas-
cism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
NEW STRIKE
is EXPECTED
IN TEXTILE
German Tries to Pin
Faith of Workers
On RIA. Boards

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 10
Admission that there is great
danger of renewed strike action" of
the textile workers, and that in
crease of stretchout and discrimina-
ton against union members con-
tinues, was made Saturday by
Francis German, leader of the
United Textile Workers Union.
At the same time German, who
sold out the general textile strike
and subjected the textile workers
to these conditions, praised the Ma
tional Textile Labor Relations Board
set up by Roosevelt, under which
the textile workers are subjected
to the anti-union drive of the mill
owners.
+ I'VE were given most sympa-
thetic hearing by the board" Cor
man declared. German admitted
that at least two hundred mills are
continuing to blacklist textile work
ers who took part in the last gen
ersl textile strike.
Would Pin Faith on Board
The only action German is taking
against the increased stretchout,
evictions and the blacklist, is to
bring complaints once more before
the board. In our first request for
hearing we shall name perhaps a
half dozen mills and possibly more,
selecting the worst cases Of dis
elimination and eviction" German
declared.
German declared that elections"
will be requested in some mills, and
that complaints will be brought be-
fore the work assignment board,
which have not even been set up
as yet.
In admitting that the textile
workers are demanding a re-strike
German said, we informed the
board Of the great danger of re-
newed strike action because of the
prevalence of discrimination against
former strikers by a great group of
mills numbering some 200" He
added that number of mills have
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of the presidents specific orders.
Continues Betrayal
German is thus continuing his
betrayal policies which broke the
general textile strike. German ended
the general strike on the basis of
not single demand of the workers
being granted. Now all of these de-
mands have been referred to Roose-
velts National Textile Labor Rela-
lions Board, which has the same
personnel as the Steel Board.
The National Textile Labor Rela-
tons Board, following out the policy
of the employers and the Roosevelt
| government of intensifying the
drive to lower the workers living
standards and break up the unions,
is holding futile hearings" and &C
tually carrying through the
stretchout, evictions and the black
list for the mill owners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
Paterson Anti Fascists
Urge Protest Against
MussOlini's Musicians

PATERSON, N. j., Nov. l8.-The
Anti-Fascist Leagues of Paterson
and Haledon called today on all
anti1Fascist workers in both COM
munities to mass theis evening be-
fore the East Side High School here
in militant protest against the ap-
pearance in the school auditorium
of Mussolini's Black Shirt Band.
Mass protest backed by militant
mass picket lines compelled the
fascist band to play to empty
theatres in New York, with the re-
suit that many of its engagements
there were cancelled.
A leaflet issued by the Anti-Fas-
cist Leagues, calling for the mobil-
cations of all anti-fascist forces at
the school tonight, says in part;
"Mussolini wants, to sell his
odious Fascism under the cloak of
music.
'Mussolini has boosted TIL t
democracy is a thing Of the past
and liberty a putrid corpse
Let us express our legitimate re-
sentiment against this sort of in
sidious attack on our free institu-
tons. Our public school auditor
iums should not be used by those
who would destroy our hard earned
| Political freedom
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
NRAHEADAIDS
BOSSES FIGHT
PAY DEMANDS
Manufacturers Group
Lays Base for New
SIashes in Pay
DAILY worker washington Bureau

WASHINGTON. Nov. 18.-"Any
general advance in wage rates and
in employees earnings" the Com
mittee on Manufacture of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States served notice today would
be iustifiable only If preceded or
accompanied by an equivalent in
crease in productivity"
The belhgerent declaration by the
powerful g-business group, which
led in the establishment of the N.
R. A. and the codes that already
have reduced real earnings, fore
shadows direct wage cutting drive.
1t followed a meeting Of the Cham
Der of Commences board of directors
which emphasized anew that the
Roosevelt Administration and lead
ing monopolists are ready to work
together-in the open-more closely
and with less lip service to con-
| sidering labor's rights and needs.
Donald R. Richberg, No. l advisor
to the White House and head of the
council directing New Deal agencies
addressed the Chamber of Com
merce leaders and declared again
that private industry must be al
lowed to take the lead in recovery
more and more. This followed re-
peated indications by the business
men and government officials that
gopernneat-Felief to the unemployed
is now being restricted more and
more in the direction Of the Roose-
welt housing program.
James A. Moffett, Federal Housing
Administrator, told a Chamber OF
Commerce meeting yesterday that
in the home modernization and
repair program of the Housing Ad-
ministration business must take
| the initiative"
Industry Takes Advantage
Thus far, however, private indus
try has taken advantage Of the
housing program so slightly that
(Continued on PAGE q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
,JOBLESS PLAN FIGHT
ON new RELIEF CUTS
IN MICHIGAN COUNTIES
County Offices Closed as
Federal and State Aid
Is Withdrawn
lspecial to De DAILY WORKED

DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 18.-The
shutting off of all relief in three
more counties and fifteen per cent
relief slash in fourth are the
latest developments in the new
series of attacks on the living
standards Of the unemployed by
the Democratic Government Of
Michigan.
Following the cutting off of relief
Thursday night for nearly thirteen
hundred families in Shiawassee
County, the State Emergency We'll
fare Administration has closed its
Offices in Manistee, LapeeT and
Tuscola Counties because t hey
failed to raise one-third of the re-
lief funds. In Muskegon County,
where the important industrial city
of Muskegon is located, the dead
line for shutting of state and fed
eral aid was extended one week.
In Macomb County three thou
sand families have had their al
ready meagre relief cut fifteen per
cert. This fo'.ovS shortly after a
similar cut in Oakland County,
where the General Motors city of
Pontiac is located.
in Jackson County one hundred
and twenty-five men have been laid
off work relief projects,
800 Fired
In Wayne County, which includes
Detroit and surrounding towns, as
already reported in, the Daily
Worker, three thousand relief work
ers have been dropped and seven
teen thousand others have had their
budgets reduced, eliminating money
for rent, clothing, gas and cleo
tricity. At the same time every
effort is being made to keep new
applicants off the relief rolls.
Stubborn struggles against these
attacks, which are in line with the
program OF the automobile Manu-
facturers Association, the U. S
Chamber of Commerce and the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
for printing the pump of industry
by cutting down appropriations fol
relief, are on the order of the day
for Michigans tens of thousands Of
unemployed.
The committee of twenty five
elected at a united front conference
Nov. IL, called by the Rank and
File A. F. of L. Committee for IN
employment Insurance and Relief
and the Unemployment Councils
are going ahead with plans for
demonstrations and other forms OF
mass protest in the fight for the
necessities of life.
They are also planning to senc
q big Michigan delegation to the
National Congress for Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance ir
Washington, January to 7,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
KELLER SLATE BEATEN
IN ELECTION TO UNION
NATIONAL CONVENTION
Delegates Instructed 10
Vote for National
Silk Walkout

PATERSON, N. j., Nov ia
decision to bring out 5000 broad
silk workers on strike Wednesday
at midnight was voted by the mem
beship meeting Of the Plain Goods
Department Of the Paterson Silk
Federation u. T. W., Saturday,
which also defeated the candidacy
of Eli Keller and his clique for
delegates to the national conven-
ton of the American Federation
of Silk Workers
The rank and file opposition
elected eight out of ten delegates.
The convention takes place next
Saturday at the Hotel Woodstock,
New York. The delegates were in
structed TO vote for a general ma
tional silk strike.
The motion for strike came after
report was given by Eli Keller,
Loyestonite manager of the union.
in which he pointed out that al
ready the manufacturers were be-
ginning to negotiate with the rep
resentatives Of the union. and that
good results we're expected He adj
vised that for the time being the
workers, working in shops where
the bosses were trying to put over
wage cuts, should take no strike
action, and that the question Of a
national silk strike should be con-
sidered at the National Convention
of the Federation.
The rank and file workers, in
their discussion, pointed out that
the singl. shop strikes were inef-
fective in defeating the wage-cut-
ting campaign Of the bosses and
that the wage-cuts were spreading
Throughout the city They expressed
the conviction that only through a
general strike in the city would
they be able to force the manufac-
turers to maintain the price sched-
ule that prevailed before the ma
tional textile strike and win union
recognition in the shops.
Alex PhilLan, a militant rank
and file worker, and member of the
Executive Board, made the follow
ing motion That the Broad Silk
Department declare a general stop
page on Wednesda. at midnight.
end that the conduct of the strike
to be put under the control of the
shop chairmen with the cooperation
of the Executive Board"
The membership voted almost
unanimously in favor of this mo-
ton. But Eli Keller got up and
stated that such action can only
be recommended to the Joint Board.
since the Joint Board was the
highest body. The workers saw in
this move of Eli Keller deliberate
maneuver to delay strike action
Following the reading of COM
Continued on Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
ISSUES ARE
PUT BEFORE
US. COURT
Funds Urgently Needed
To Meet the Costs of
Defense Action

Petition for writ of certiorari,
and the supporting legal brief, in
the case of Clarence Norris, Scots
boro boy now under sentence of
death, was filed with the United
States Supreme Court Saturday by
OSmond K Fraenkel, attorney re-
tanned by the International Labor
Defense in the Scottsboro appeals.
The petition and brief in the
case of Haywood Patterson will be
filed within the next few days, the
I. L. D. announced.
This legal move definitely puts
the Scottsboro case before the U. S.
Supreme Court, which has now to
decide whether it will hear the ap-
peal. The state officials of Alabama
have twenty days in which to file
an answer to the brief, after which
decision will have to be made by
the U. S. Supreme Court.
Other Points in Patterson Appeal
The filing of the Norris petition
was decided upon in order to bring
the case formally before the court
as quickly as possible. The Pat
terson petition and brief, which will
raise more constitutional questions,
because of the trickery of Judge Cal
lahan, who worked with Attorney
General Thomas E. Knight, Jr., in
an attempt to rob Patterson of his
appeal rights, and because of Cali
lahan's failure to inform the jury
| in the Patterson case that it was
possible for them to bring in YER
dict of mot guilty." until reminded
! by defense counsel, who ir. doing
so made possible the raising of this
question in the higher court, will
take a few days longer to complete,
the LID. said.
Both petitions and writs are be-
ing prepared by Mr.. Fraenkel with
the assistance of Walter H. Pollak,
famous constitutional attorney who
prepared the papers in the success
full Supreme Court appeal in 1882.
I. L. d. Wins Stay of Execution
With the stay of execution forced
by the LID. from the Alabama
State Supreme Court last Friday,
for Patterson and Norris, the legal
time for filing these briefs does not
expire until Jan. 5. The execution
was stayed upon application by Mr..
Fraenkel from Dec. to Feb. 8 1895.
The main constitutional question
raised in the brief is the exclusion
of Negroes from the grand and
petit juries which indicted and
convicted the Scottsboro boys. Many
other points regarding the condi-
tons and conduct of the trial are
raised in the brief.
The obtaining of the stay of ex-
ecution, and filing of the Norris
brief by the LID. attorneys, is the
best answer to the false contentious
of Samuel S. Leibowitz, who in an
attempt to damage the Scottsboro
defense has represented himself as
attorney for the Scottsboro boys.
Leibowitz Disruption Continues
The latest announcement of Mr..
Leibowitz, made Friday in the
Amsterdam News" published by
William H. Davis, which has be-
come his unofficial organ, was that
he would apply on Monday, four
days later, for a stay of execution
for the boys. Even before the paper
was off the press, the LID. had not
only applied for, but obtained such
a stay.
4 In the same paper Leibowitz, who
although he wanted to conduct this
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News Writers
Strike Against
Newark Paper

NEWARK, N, J., Nov. 18.-Edi-
torial Offices of the Newark Ledger
we're virtually deserted today as
forty staff members, who walked out
on strike Saturday, organized their
forces to bring the fight to the en-
tire population of the county. The
walkout, under the auspices of the
Ledger chapter of the American
Newspaper Guild, was occasioned by
the discharge last Wednesday OF
twelve Guild members by the pub
Usher, Lucius T. Russell.
Mass picketing at the newspapers
plant, rs Bank Street, at the Hud-
son Tube terminal and the busiest
intersection of the city, Broad and
Market Streets, was begun yester-
! day and will continue until the
strike is won, local Guild leaders an
snounced. Emmett Crozier, national
treasurer of the Guild and one of
those who led the walkout move, is
head of the strike committee.
Enthusiastic support from the
local labor movement is evidenced
by the pledges of support arriving at
strike headquarters. Typographical
unions in the locality have already
announced their backing.
To Hit Circulation
A drastic drop in the circulation
of the Ledger unless the demands of
the editorial workers are met is in
Dictated by the support newsdealers
throughout Essex County are CIV
ing the writers. Posters, eight by
twelve inches, announcing that the
strike is on. are already in the win
COWS of numerous stores in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
Y. C. |. HEADS|SOC IALISTS
in SPAIN FACE SILENT ON
f XECUTION WORLD UNITY
BULLETIN

IN
News penetrating heavy Span
ish censorship has come to the
Daily Worker that Rosado, secre-
tary of the Central Committee of
the Young Communist League Of
Spain, as well as Medrana, secre-
tary of the Madrid district or
ganization of the Young Com
munist League of Spain, are in
jail and face momentary execution.
MADRID, Nov. 10. To solidify
the fascist forces in the present
government of Spain, Gil Robes,
outstanding fascist leader, forced
the resignation of two cabinet mem
bers yesterday because they had not
applied sufficient terror against the
workers before the armed uprising.
Those who resigned were Foreign
Minister Ricardo Sampler Ibanez,
and War Minister Diego Hidalgo
Both positions were filled by Premier
Lerroux and Minister of Marine
Jose Franco y Rocha.
Robes, who precipitated the re-
signations, utilized it as means of
calling for the tightening of the
terror against the workers, and for
sharper fascist measures in an eff
fort to destroy workers organiza-
lions. He declared that more dras-
tic action should have been taken
against the A:turias miners, and
that the Civil Guard, the hated po-
lice corps. should have been en-
larged before the uprising.
The designations, at the same time,
show the growing inner conflicts of
the Lerroux Robes government
This fact was further stressed by
the speech in the Cortes by Miguel
Maura, conservative Left Repub-
lican, who while heaping his venom
on the revolutionary workers, de-
clared that Robes was utilizing the
Republic in order to enforce a re-
dictionary regime, and that he played
with democracy for these ends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
.SubwayCuards
Make Assault
On Pas enger

Suffering from fractured nose.
face abrasions and cut and swollen
wrists, an unemployed worker is a
prisoner in the Metropolitan Hos
pital on Welfare Islanu, following a
murderous attack upon him by
armed guards of the marlborough
Rapid Transit Company at the
Times Square subway station FRI
DAY night.
The victim is George Howard, 81,
a jobless leather salesman, who was
set upon and assaulted by the I. R.
T. thugs, who claim that Howard
inserted slug instead of a nickel
in the subway turnstile.
So infuriated was the crowd of
nearly 1000 which gathered at the
time of the attack that the I, r. T.
guards we're for a time in danger
of assault at the hands of the spec
tators. The arrival of a squad of
Is policemen and the crews OF ten
radio cars, bristling with drawn
pistols and machine guns, saved the
l. r. T. thugs.
Witnesses told how Howard was
seized by the subway guards
dragged behind change booth in
the locker room and numerically
beaten. One of the guards was
seen whipping Howard over the
face with the chain of a set OF
handouts. DR.. Edward M. Ber-
necher, superintendent of the Net
ropolitan Hospital. yesterday de-
clared that Howard has black and
blue marks on many parts of his
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and manufacturers. In the words of Stain, COM
menting on the New Deal "it is the economy which
is dominating the state not the state which is domi-
mating the economy"
THESE events of the past weeks are full Of menace
to every worker in the country They mean that
the living Standards the daily levels OF life of every
working class family face attacks, new degra-
dations to starvation and misery.
In relief, Roosevelts openly proclaimed drive is
for work relief that is to say for the slashng of
all cash relief and to substitute for cash relief
nationwide scheme of forced labor at the barest
subsistence levels.
AS for the unemployment insurance program, it
has boiled down to the reactionary state plans of
insurance reserves" which must come out the
mesgre wages of the workers and which become
clubs for strike breaking in the hands of the en-
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Standard Oil Loses
In b Olivian W ar

ASUNCION, Paraguay, Nov. 10.
Standard oil interests supporting
Bolivia lost heavily today as Para
guyan forces, financed by Brit
ish petroleum powers, captured 7
Chaco forts and smashed the Boil
ivian key position of defense.
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