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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
Hathaway Stresses Vital Need
Of 100000 Fund for Daily
Says Par Voice Must Be Enrenched Mass Basis
Fascist Attacks Grow Nationwide Proportions

brunt Of these attacks must be borne by the organ
izing elements of our Party and its press
The Daily Worker remains Americas only daily
newspaper supporting the struggles of the militant
working class. The fact that it is the chief target
for the sharpshooting of the boss-press provides
convincing testimony Of its consistent fight in the
interests of labor as opposed to capital
This fight must go on 4. :. must be intensified!
Our Daily must increase in size and circulation
1t must consolidate and spread its influence over
an Overwhelming circle of worker readers 1t
must be firmly entrenched before the West Coast
terror grows to nationwide proportions
To accomplish this purpose three things are
necessary: A 100000 deficit must be met! New
York Daily Worker and an improved national Daily
Worker must be launched in October Our present
circulation Of the Daily" must be at least doubled
by the first of the year,
Comrades! We are about to take our greatest
step forward. The establishment of a New York
Daily Worker and vastly improved national edi-
ton can be achieved only with your aid Our
resources have been exhausted during what has
proved one of the most trying years Of the crisis
Funds are urgently needed
Districts. Spread the $4,000 drive through
every Section and Unit. Organize the member
ships Of all mass. frsternaI and language orgsni-
cations and trade unions.
Forward in socialist competition, Secure the
three-e edition Daily Worker against the rising tide
Of Fascist reaction
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
Cut Pay, Fire 200 Relief
Workers in Los Angeles

Los ANGELES, Aug. 23.-Two-
hundred more workers and profess
SIGNALS were cut from all source of
livelihood when the Los Angeles
County Road Department cut by 40
per cent its staff of craftsmen, en-
gineers, construction crews, and
inspectors.
The wages of the remaining men
were cut by as much as so per cent.
The cut, effective September LIST,
is directly in line with the policy of
the county supervisors whose cleo
ton campaign keynotes are in
va-iably centered on what "they will
do for the unemployed" while at the
same time they slash workers pay,
smash their protests with vicious
police attacks, and use the courts to
grant injunctions.
These cuts and slashes go hand in
hand with the attempt of the
vigilantes. and other fascist hood
lums whose object is to reduce the
resistance of the unemployed, smash
their organizations, arrest their
leadership, and break their mill
fancy. Then they proceed again to
cut and slash.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
Reporters Plan Pier
Demonstration Today
When Publisher Lands

NEW YORK. - The Newspaper
Guild yesterday called for a mass
picket line at the pier at the foot OF
West 14th Street at 800 p. m. to-
day, when S. I. Newhouse, pub
Usher Of the Staten Island Advance,
returns from Europe, from where
he cabled an order to fire Alexan-
der Crosby, news editor, for having
joined the Guild.
Many labor unions, have voted to
support the Guilds fight for
Crosby's reinstatement. A mon 6
them are the Typographical Union
Chg Six, the Motion Picture OPP
orators Local 308, which contributed
a sound truck, and the Metal
Workers Industrial Union. The
Staten Island Local of the Socialist
Party and the Staten Island Sec
ton of the Communist Party have
both pledged support, as have hun
dreds of workers and small business
men, Republicans and Democrats.
who have signed cards pledging not
to buy the paper until the fight is
won.
Picketing at the ferry terminals,
and nightly street meetings are a
part of the Guilds fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
Women Called
To Hear Paris
Farley Report
Ella BIoor and Minor
Head Webster Hall
Program Tonight

NEW YORK.-All toiling women
Of New York were urged yesterday
by Clara Bodian, secretary of the
United Councils of Working Glass
Women, to rally at Webster Hall,
11s E. 18th ST., tonight at 8 o'clock
to hear Robert Minor, veteran Com
munist leader, and the women dele
gates to the Paris Congress Against
War and Fascism.
The call was issued to working
women in trade unions, unorganized
women, housewives and all women
interested in the struggle against
war and faScism, and emphasized
the Importance of carrying out the
manifesto and resolutions of the In
ternational Congress.
The main report of the congress
VIII be given by Mother Ella Reeve
Bloor, chairman of the American
delegation and member of the
praesidium of the congress. Jessica
henderson, of the Women's Inter
national League for Peace and
Freedom, who returned Yesterday
VIII supplement the report.
Others who will speak will he
Equile McKeithen, Southern Negro
snarecropper, Clara Bodian. and
Jennie Palermo, needle worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
L. S. Order
Cuts Total
Weeks Pay
Shorter Hours Offset
Boost in Hourly
Wage Rate

NEW YORK.-The NR.A.
ruling decreasing hours in the
garment industry 10 per cent
and increasing wages 10 per
cent, is an actual wage cut
for 100000 cotton garment
workers. The increase of 10
per cent in wages does not cover
the loss of ten per cent working
time.
The garment workers have had
their hours cut from 40 to SO hours
per week. A worker earning so
cents an hour would make $40 a
week on the 40-hour week basis. On
the new basis just announced this
worker would get SIS cents an hour
90 per cent increase) and work
36 hours. This will reduce his
wages to $3.50 instead of $40 re-
ceived formerly.
Similarly a worker now making
dollar an hour or so per week,
under the new schedule will re-
ceive $3.50 (s11o an hour for 50
hours.
Thus the MIRA. bsllyhoos a wage
cut as wage increase and at
tempts by means of an actual wage
cut to prevent the cotton textile
strike. The new N.R.A. ruling
means the old stagger system Of
Hoover (share the work scheme of
ROOSEVELT in new dress. Only
ten thousand more workers will be
put to work, and the cotton gar
ment workers will foot the bill.
! This reduction in wages for the
100000 garment workers is highly
praised as an achievement by Sid
ney Hillman, who was one of the
actual authors of the scheme, in his
capacity as member of the Labor
Advisory Board of the MIRA. David
Dubinsky, president of the Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers
Union CA. F. Of L., also halls
the MIRA. wage cut as step in
the right direction"
In the cotton garment industry.
the minimum code wage of only
s13 has tended to become the maxi
mum, and under it, skilled and
semi-skilled workers have suffered
wage cuts.
When the proposal was first
preached high MIRA. officials vera
forced to admit to the Daily Work.
er Washington Bureau that the
proposal to decrease hours 10 per
cent and increase the hourly wage
ten per cent was an actual wage
cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
Bosses Ask Settlement
As B athrobe Strike
Spreads to New Shops

NEW YORK.-As the general
bathrobe strike continues to spread
and become effective throughout
the city, applications for settle
ment have already been made to
the Bathrobe Workers Industrial
Union by several manufacturers.
The National Robe Manufacturers
Association has stated that it is
willing to meet in conference next
week with representatives of the
union.
At mass meeting held yes
terday at Irving Plaza Hall it was
reported that the robe industry in
Staten Island, Red Bank and At
lantic Island is completely para
lyzed on account Of the strike.
At South Norwalk, Conn, where
10 union members were arrested
on Wednesday, the strike has shut
down the Royal Robes, Inc. Work
ers arrested in this center were
released on 500 bail each.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
Returns from US. r.
10 Find Michigan Home
Burned by Ku Kluxers

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. %. - A
mob believed to have consisted of
ku kluxers burned to the ground
the home and barn of william Mol
lenhauer at Holly, Mich, on Mon
day night. Mollenhauer, well-known
in Detroit as militant worker. re-
turned from the Soviet Union on
the day his home was demolished
-Four deputies and Captain Ira H
Marmon of the State Police. who
were called to the scene of the fire
by neighbors, stood by and made
no effort to put out the flames.
News of the fire was not made pub
lie until today
Not content with having RACED his
home, efforts are being made to
frame up Mollenhauer because four
guns were found in the place. This
is being used as pretext for an
attack on the Communist Party.
The Hearst paper, the Detroit
Times, speaks of a red arsenal"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24

The extent to which superior of
ficers drove the Guardsmen at the
camp is seen in the field maneu-
verS which we're carried on when
the thermometer rose to lis de-
grees. Many of the Guardsmen
were overcome at their posts from
the heat.
During the march from Camp
Grant to Grant Park here in Chi
cago, a distance of more than 40
miles, the men were only allowed
four hours sleep in 48 hours. In the
city they were put on show for
civilians in parade down Michi-
gan Avenue after their 40-nile
trek.
Special training in strike duty
was given to the Guardsmen at
Camp Grant. Lessons in the use
of a new type OF tear gas were
included,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24

lied around three main demands
and is winning tremendous support
among the unorganized unemployed
ana the workers in the shops. The
demands are:
Full 100 hours work a month
at IS cents an hour and one dollar
an hour for skilled workers. p
Recognition of all grievance COM
mittees from all organizations. g.
Fifty per cent increase in direct
relief, abolition of the yellow dog"
contracts, and the right to trade in
any store.
The united front strike commit
tee of % has organized mass picket
lines and committees have placed
The demands before the City Coun-
Gil for withdrawal of the police from
the Jobs, the right to collect money
on the streets. and endorsement of
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
Hunger Strike Of Guardsmen
FolIOms Illinois Camp Deaths

CHICAGO, Aug. 23.-Details of a
hunger strike by an entire regiment
of Illinois National Guardsmen
during the recent annual encamp-
ment at Camp Grant were learned
today by the Daily Worker with
the return home of the ten thou
sand workers who were recruited
for the military drills.
The strike followed the death of
two workers from food poisoning
during the first week at the camp
located near Rockford. Ill. All the
men in the 124th Field Artillery
Regiment refused to leave their
tents at the call for mess until
officers promised better food. Bet
ter food was served for while but
got bad again later in the week.
Two other workers were also
killed in accidents which were
caused partly because of exhaustion
after heavy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
WiUes and Children Join Men
In Illinois Strike Picketine

DECATUR, ILL.,, Aug. %. - The
strike of BOZ relief workers here last
week continued solid today with
workers in the shops declaring their
support and discussing strike votes
of the factory workers. Every re-
lief job in the county is closed down
solid, the pickets going from job to
job in trucks. Men, women and chill
dren are on the picket lines to pull
of the scabs recruited by the re-
lief commission and the Chamber
of Commerce.
The relief workers struck last
week under the militant leadership
of Negro and white workers
united front strike committee repre-
senting the Illinois Workers Ali
ance "a Socialist-led organization) !,
the Progressive Miners local union,
and the Unemployment Council.
The united front strike is organ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
Release Is
By U.S.S.R.
S8 Prisoners Reported
Beaten by Police in
ManchukuO

SHANGHAI, Aug. %. -
With the arrest of seventeen
more Soviet citizens employed
on the Chinese Eastern Rail-
way today, and the confirma-
ton by the Manchukuo gov
eminent Of rupture of all rela-
tons with the Soviet Union, the
danger of armed action by Japan
imperialism was intensified.
There are now total of 88 So
Wet citizens held in prison by
Manchukuo authorities on orders of
the Japanese militarists.
The Soviet government has pre-
sented a demand to the Foreign
Office of Manchukuo for an ex-
PLANTATION of the arrests and de-
handing prompt measures for their
release. Acting Consul General
Rayvid of the U.S.S.R. presented
the demand to Shi Liu-ben, repre-
sentative of the Manchukuo govern
ment at Hardin.
1.-THE arrests were made without
warrants, and were accompanied by
searches of the apartments and Of
fees Of Soviet employees of the Chi
nese Eastern Railway, which have
not been explained" Rayvid said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
Unemployed I'm ion
Leaders Resign AS
Members Vote Action

JOPLIN, Mo, Aug. 23.-Afte- the
rank and file provisional committee
in the Sociahst-controlled Unem-
ployed Union here had put forward
a program of action which the MEM
bership enthusiastically accepted,
the takers in the leadership, rather
than carry through the actions, re-
signed from the union.
The workers demands include: a
thirty hour week at minimum
wages of forty-five cents an hour on
all relief jobs, union rates to apply;
right of the workers to organization,
and free medical, dental and hos
pital aid for all unemployed.
Already the workers have forced
an increase of six hours week for
all relief workers, and are organ
ling to fight for the full demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
By CLARENCE HATHAWAY,
Editor. DAILY WORKER

EVENTS such as the West Coast general
strike and the Minneapolis truckmens
strike point lesson which must be grasped
by every militant worker if we are to
break the foothold of Fascism in the United
States. These events clearly revealed the
emphatic need for powerful and wide
spread workers press :. press capable
of exposing the round-table collaboration
of boss, official, arbitrator and labor faker,
as well as one prepared to grow in the
face of armed attacks upon working-class
solidarity.
Limited finances, inadequate distribution facil-
tiles and the lack of concentrated readers means
that our Daily" is tremendously handicapped
during and following such incidents as occurred
in San Francisco, Seattle Portland and Minne-
apolis. Here, every reactionary element is mobi-
fzed against the striking workers, but especially
against the militant leadership of the Communist
Party, its press and legal machinery.
Throughout the country this reactionsry mobi-
lization Of the forces Of capital state and gang
dom spread in anticipation Of future strikes and
struggles of the unemployed Open Fascism re-
places all pretense Of New Deal liberalism and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
Especial to the Daily worker)

MOSCOW, Aug. % (By wireless
The Japanese press on the au-
thority of some Tokyo circles" is
spreading information about an al
legged conclusion of "a secret agree
ment on the question of Sinkiang
and Mongolia" between the U.S.S.R.
and China.
This information" according to
to6ay's Izvestia, organ of the So
Wet government, is exposed by the
Chinese press as coming from
Japanese semi official sources.
This cannot be doubted, contin-
ues Izvestia: when it is a question
of plots against the U.S.S.R. then
certain circles are always the same
circles which do not disdain any
means to spoil the relations between
the U.S.S.R. and Japan. The whole
world knows how to judge the au-
theticity of the fictions of this
bureau for falsely informing public
opinion.
but W pCFCA1V o1lCoC opCSldl1ooo
in dark deeds from saying their
information was not refuted, we
categorically state that all informa-
ton on secret agreement between
the U.S.S.R. and China on the
question of Mongolia and Sinkiang
is the product of the dirty minds
of certain organizers of campaign
against the U.S.SR."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
WAGES OF COTTON GARMENT WORKERS CUT
Seventeen More Soviet Citizens Jailed by Order of Japan
800 in Los Angeles
Rally for Freedom
of 5 Jailed Workers

LOS ANGELES, Aug. D.
Three hundred Los Angeles
workers under the leadership Of
the International Labor Defense
and the Relief Workers Pro-
tective Union demonstrated at
the Plaza Sunday, determined
to force the release Of Harold
Hendricks, James McShann,
John Sanders, Earle Tennery
and Joseph 10th.
Four of these workers have
already been sentenced to terms
ranging from 80 days to two
years. The jury disagreed on
Toth's case and he has been
arraigned for retrial. The YER
diets against McShann, Sanders
and Hendricks are being ap-
pealed.
The speakers were James
Dixon, R.WP.U.; Lillian Good
man, LID; Harold Ashe, edi-
tor of the Hunger Fighter; Carl
EchoIs of the Free Thaelmann
Committee, and Tom Patter-
son of the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
Militant
Paint Local
Is Ousted
Members Call Meeting
To Plan Fight on
Zausner Gang

NEW YORK. - The recently
avowed policy of William Green to
drive militants from the American
Federation of Labor has already
been put into action here by Philip
zausner, illegal president Of Dis
trict Council No. 9 of the Painters
Brotherhood, who announced that
the charter of Local Union 400 has
been revoked. The announcement
came following a court decision
favoring the Councils order to GUST
all members of the militant local
for their opposition to zausner's
gangster and class collaboration
policies.
Local 400 has been the leading
militant force in the present paint
ers' strike and is one of the locals
which opposed Zausner in the re-
cent union elections and supported
Louis Weinstock, the popular rank
and file candidate for secretary of
the Council, who was defrauded of
the election by the ZauSner gang.
Following the announcement on
Wednesday that Local 499 had lost
its charter. members Of the local
met at the Bath Street Labor Temple
and voted unanimously to support
the policy of the leadership Of the
local in its fight against the cor
rupt practices of the District Coun-
Gil.
Local Calls Meeting
The local will hold special meet
ing Monday night at the Labor
Temple to decide on what steps to
take to fight against the tyrannical
edict Of Mr.. zausner. Following
this there will be mass meeting
Tuesday night at Manhattan Ly-
ceum to which oil members of the
Brotherhood are invited, to arouse
all locals to demand the reinstate-
ment Of Local 400 and the restora-
ton Of the charter.
A mass protest meeting against
the red-baiting expulsion policy
Of the reactionary officials Of the
A. F. of L. has been called for
Wednesday night at Webster Hall,
18th Street and Third Avenue, by
the A. F. of L. Trade Union Com
mittee for Unemployment Insur-
ance and Relief.
THE revocation of our charter is
the first step in the move of Will
ism Green and his henchmen to
bies~ I'D the trade union movement
in America by driving out the mill
tants," said Louis Weinstock. rank
and file leader and member of Lo-
cal 400, The entire proceedings
were unconstitutional and we pro-
pose to rally not only the painters,
but the entire rank and ffAe of the
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
Hundreds Picket

ARNOLD, Pa, Aug. 49, = Police
Chief Sherman Hill has purchased
a supply OF tear gas bombs and
warned the Aluminium union against
hating arr cars which attempt to
enter the plant.
The company has admitted stock
ing-up during the delay of the
strike-call and announced yesterday
that some departments would not be
reopened when the strike ends
paving the way for discrimination
against the most militant strikers
The Daily Worker made its ap-
pearance on the picket lines yes
terday and met with the approval
Of the pickets and striking work.
ers.
The A. F. of L. leaders have de-
liberately evaded the enlisting of
strike sympathy among the towns
people, so that business men and
merchants are agitating for a back
to-work move and attacking the
strike, claiming it is running bust
ness.
Despite curtailed picketing the
least rumor brings hundreds of
strikers on to the picket lines in a
few minutes, but this splendid mill
fancy of workers is being sabotaged
by the A. F. of L. leaders, who are
pressing forward for sell-out and
an agreement which would guaran-
tee against any strikes in future, an
open shop agreement with an anti
strike clause inserted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
Labor Groups
ToCainn Right
To Yorkville
Delegation to City Hall
Today Will Insist On
Free Speech Right

NEW YORK.-A delegation con-
sisting of various organizations in
Yorkville will call upon Mayor La
Guardia today at II o'clock to
protest against the banning of
street meetings on Eighty sixth
Street between Third and Licking
ton AYES. in Yorkville.
The delegation, headed by Paul
inc Rogers, secretary of the Anti
Nazi Federation Of New York, in
cludes delegates from the Friends
of German Democracy, Anti-Fas-
ciSt Action, Worknen's Sick and
Death Benefit Fund, American Fed
Grafton of Labor Painters Locals
499 and 848, A. F. of L. Carpenters
Local 1890, German Workers Clubs,
Arbeiter Sangerchor, Friends of the
Soviet Union, International Labor
Defense and Hungarian and Czecho-
slovakian organizations.
Eighty sixth Street between Third
and Lexington AYES has been the
traditional local meeting place for
years until recently, when the police
through the use Of clubs and horses
have dispersed anti-Nazi meetings
at this place. While the Nazis are
permitted to terrorize and intimi-
date people in the streets Of York
vile, anti-Nazi meetings and &C
tivities are attacked by the police
and the city administration and
the constitutional rights of free
speech and assemblage are denied.
The delegation will present to the
Mayor thousands of signatures from
Yorkville on petition lists demand
ing the right to speak on any and
all streets in New York and speci-
fically on 86th Street in Yorkville
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
n. Y. Board of Estimate
Passes Relief Tax Plan

NEW YORK LaGuardis's re-
lief tax program, one-half Of /
per cent tax upon the gross re-
ceipts of all business receipts over
5000, a similar tax upon the gross
receipts of professional workers.
and a municipal lottery plan, was
passed yesterday at a special ses-
sion of the Board Of Estimate.
The tax plan will go to the
Board Of Aldermen today when
hearings will be held on the bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
Relief Bureau Workers
Demand Open Hearings
On New Tax Plans

NEW YORK. - The Home Relief
Bureau Employees Association, in
letters to Mayor LaGuardia, to the
Board of Estimate and to the Board
of Alderman yesterday demanded
that immediate hearings be called
on LaGuardia's relief taxes, and
that representatives of that organi-
cation, of the unemployed and
unions be given full opportunity to
state their views on the mayors tax
program.
The LaGuardia tax program for
financing unemployment relief calls
for tax on the gross receipts of
shopkeepers, a tax on the gross re-
ceipts Of professional workers, and
a lottery" scheme whereby the city
hopes to raise twelve million dol
lars.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-24
5 Picketing EN- b assy
In Thaelmann Behalf
Seize d in Washington

WASHINGTON (FP). - Fiv e
Washington workers who picketed
the German embassy demanding
the release of Ernst Thaelmann and
other anti-Fascist prisoners in Ger
many, were sentenced to fines of
SIS each by Judge Ralph Given for
"parading without a permit" He
overruled a motion for new trial,
asked on the grounds that five per-
sons could not constitute a parade.
Despite repeated arrests, picket
ing of the Nazi embassy has been
repeatedly resumed, as a constant
reminder Of international labor
solidarity with the victims of Ger
man Fascism.