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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
BY H. NJ.

NURING the course of our &C.
" tivities we have made many mis-
takes in the Ohio Valley. A num-
Der Of our basic mistakes go back
over long period Of time and con-
tribute greatly to our weak position
in Weirton at the present time.
However, it is not the intention Of
this article to go into the details of
these mistakes, which have already
been criticized a number of times.
Still It is necessary for us to keep
in mind one of the most important
lessons We have learned here, that
is when we once start work and
get going we must not leave that
field, but see to it that there are
competent comrades there to keep
up the work.
Our failure to send an organizer
of the Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union into the Ohio Valley
last July was a serious error. The
Amalgamated Association was not
yet in the field, furthermore large
numbers of the workers were not
in favor of the IA. But we were
not to be found, so they joined the
A.A. expecting at least small bene-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Communist Candidates Cain in
First Votes Cast Since n. r. 4.

City elections and primaries be-
ing held this year show gains for
the Communist candidates in
those cities which have sent in
election returns. In Des MOines,
Iowa, Ira Meade, the Communist
candidate for Mayor, pOlIed a 800
per cent gain over the Party vote
in the last years elections. In
Seattle, Wash, James Murphy,
National Secretary Of the Lumber
Workers Union and Communist
candidate for city councilman.
polIed a 400 per cent increase over
the last elections. In the Seattle
primaries, 1t is of special signifi-
canoe that Harlin, an A. F. Of L.
strikebreaker and member Of the
City Council, lost so per cent of
his votes.
These votes, the first cast since
the beginning of the Roosevelt
N.R.A., show the growing mass
discomfort among the workers.
The gains registered by the
Communist Party in these city
elections must be utilized by the
Party in the coming Fan con-
greSsional elections. The discon-
tent Of the workers with the
Roosevelt administration, reflected
in Congress and the Senate over
riding the Roosevelt veto of the
Independent Offices Bill must
also be utilized in the coming con-
gressional elections. Districts, sec
tons, and local orssnizs tons Of
the Party must begin energetic
preparations for the Fall elections
now.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

the organizer Of the XII Klux Khan.
is now being utilized as an open
agent for violence against the
working class and the Negro
masses. He recently issued state
ment which was published in the
Daily Worker, stating that I'VE must
abandon secrecy" He calls upon
the white Americans" to organize
in militant" organizations. We see
the growth of the Silver Shirt or
CARNATIONS which direct their main
appeal against the Jews and the
working class. Other open fascist
organizations have the same stand
and are working actively, especially
in neighborhoods surrounding the
Jews and Negroes, to set up base
Of hooliganism and attack this sec
ton Of the toiling population.
ONE of the characteristic methods
" of these fascist organiza lions is
to utilize every prejudice that has
been carefully imbedded in the
middle class and the backward
strata of the workers, such as white
chauvinism, anti-semitism, the Red
scare, etc.
Fascism internationally is the
rule of the big bourgeoisie, but in
order to recruit the middle class
as its fighting force, it everywhere
uses anti-capitalist phraseology.
This is necessary in order to get
the support of the middle class.
The middle class is against mono
poly capitalism. Monopoly capital
ism has robbed the middle class.
has bankrupted it, has robbed it
of all possibility to advance under
capitalism. The lower middle class
professionals and intellectuals have
lost forever their base under capt.
talism They are seeking way out.
And the anti-capitalist theology APP
pesls to them. For instance. the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

Company's Steel and General
Motors corporations and the
weakening masses.
The ever present danger of
The outbreak Of another imperislist
war for markets in the Far East
1r some other potential booty
ground, the virtual perpetual mo-
ion Of the Roosevelt war machine,
the frantic efforts Of industry and
finance to extricste themselves from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

bioil anu gov Seymour Waldn1an
eminent dema-
gogy How to show the workers
clearly that the steel and coal cor
porations possess tear-gas and ma
chine guns for but one purpose. to
try to make slaves and beggars of
them. How to lead the workers to
the realization that the Roosevelt
administration apparatus has been
sr1d still is being used with fascist
remorseleSsness to lower their
standard OF living under levels they
fought against twenty and thirty
years ago. How to disclose to the
masses that the Swopes, Teagles,
Harrimans, walkers. Baruchs and
Taylors actually crack the whip over
the horses in the Roosevelt stable.
How to reach the masses with the
Communist Partys exposure of the
exploiters and their governmental
and trades union CA. F. of L. lead
ership, ct. all agents. These are
some of the angles of the problem
which still faces the Communist
Party, despite fruitful work since
the Inauguration Of the Roosevelt
New Deal"
Obviously, one of the most i'm
1ortant and valuable methods of
exposure is the official forum. And
when this forum is actually offered
to opposition elements with cocky
challenge, however insincerely and
demagogically, failure to use it eff
fectively reflects a serious under
estimation of the political implica-
tons involved in the situation. It
becomes even more serious when
the government tactic is accepted
without suspicion by millions Of
workers still imbued with illusions
concerning the very interests which
are starving and enslaving them.
| refer specifically to the recent
important NR.A. public criticism
week. the demagogic screen behind
which the most powerful capitalist
forces were adapting the N r. A.
to the fascist SWope plan, and to
the call broadcast throughout the
United States by N. R. A. Admins
traitor General Hugh S. johnson to
the Communist Party as the only
basic critic of the New Deal. The
official N. R. A. releases pointedly
announced to the press, the Jour
nalistic nerve center of the country,
that johnson had invited even the
Communist Party to come to Wash
iagton and criticize the N. r. A.
On the evening the Communist
Party had the unprecedented op-
portunity to expose the rotten
statistics and fascist economics of
the New Deal, to reveal its anti
working class nature with factual
rnercilessness, it presented, in sub
stance, a brilliant propaganda at
tack. In short, it did not present
detailed indictment that would
have forced Johnson to the wall
rather than allow him to dodge un-
der the irreconciliability of the
Communist and the capitalist poll
teal positions.
The attack of the militant trade
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

already gone long way in their
establishment about the U.T.W.
But only solid action and q con-
tinued application of the Commu-
mist policy in the South, it was
pointed out by delegates, will be
able to weaken the influence of the
U.TW. The delegates pointed out
also the Importance of destroying
the Music influence, which, by use
of militant phrasemongering, is
holding the workers back and doing
all in its power to keep them under
the influence of the A, F. Of L.
Alabama Holds Convention
The District II (Alabama) con-
vention, writes one of its delegates,
was zone of the most remarkable
and significant events I have ever
attended"
This large southern district is
noteworthy for the fact that it has
as its center the great iron, coal
and steel industry of the Birming-
ham region, the heart of this basic
heavy industry in the South. The
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway
Company more popularity known as
the T. c. & - which is an affiliate
of the U. S. Steel Corporation, is the
dominating force in the government
of North Alabama and the sur
rounding territory.
There is, however, great rest
lessness among the workers in this
district and very capable units of
the Party are being built in these
industries. This, as we'll as other
facts, was revealed at the District
II convention.
The activities of the A. F. of L.
bureaucracy are directed in this
section in attempts to get control
of the shops and mills in collabora-
ton with the t. c. & I. in order
to prevent OF defeat the efforts of
the workers to advance their posi-
ton. The best working class mem
bers of the Socialist Party, delegates
reported, are in number Of cases
coming to the Communist Party.
The District II convention did not
close before it had drawn up a
serious plan Of work, undertaking
to put through the program of
building mass Communist Party
in Birmingham at an early date.
The organization of revolutionary
unions was planned, and opposition
work in the A. F. of L. unions. Much
careful application in this field re-
mains to be done-the policy of
building a militant union, etc. The
steel workers here have expressed
their need and desire of a Trade
Union Unity League Office, to be es-
tablished in this district very soon,
and the Communist Party conven-
ton, in discussing the problems of
District IT, has turned its energies
squarely toward these and other
tasks which clamor for immediate
and consistent solution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

the feminist struggle against war.
In every American city and local
ity is springing up numerous jour
nails, papers, radio speeches. ETC..
and whole wave of government
machine publicity to which we must
be alert, always counterposing in
ternationalism and unity of the
toiling population in action against
capitalism, for the revolutionary
way out of the crisis and against
all sorts Of qusck ideas and theories
as the bourgeois way out of the
crisi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

SIOUX FALLS, S. D. - Amidst
thunderous applause, Emil Sudan,
the first Communist candidate to
run for mayor Of Sioux Falls, was
nominated by E. r. Evans, state
secretary of the United Front Com
mittee of Action, at a united front
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

the crisis at the
expense Of the
working ella s
the increasing
tempo Of reac-
ton all this
and more pre-
sent the Com
munist P a rt y
with the prob
lem of how to
expose more eff
'ectively both
industrial reac-
tion and oov-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
WALL STREETS
CAPITOL
By SEYMOUR WALDMAN.


WASHINGTON, March 9O-The Communist Party of
of the u s. A. opens its eight convention next Monday in
Cleveland Ohio at time when the line is very clearly
drawn between such rulers of America P Morgan and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Workers Ticket in Gallup, New
Mexico.

GALLUP, N. M.-The Workers
United Front Ticket has been put
forward here on a seven point plat
form Of struggle against hunger.
The platform calls for the imme-
date enactment of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill CHR.
1899; for support for the struggles
of the unemployed in the fight for
relief; for a moratorium on evic-
tons pending the passage Of an
anti-eviction law; against graft in
the allotment of relief and political
graft in the municipal government;
for a relentless fight against the
proposed state sales tax; free hot
lunches for school children, and a
program Of struggle against the
growth of fascism.
The present City Council openly
conspired with the Chamber of
Commerce and the coal operators in
the attacks upon the workers. Dur
ing the strike, the City Council was
instrumental in keeping the Ma
tionsl Guard to intimidate the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Large Communist Vote IN
Cudahy. Wise.

CUDAHY, Wise. - Communist
Party candidate Hartley polled 2OS
votes by official count in the pri-
maries held here early in March,
and the two capitalist candidates,
Wagner and Cassebaum, both of
whom are saloon keepers. received
100 and 900 votes respectively.
Although a small town with
population of 10000, Cudahy is an
important industrial town, with the
large Cudahy Brothers packing
plant, the Geo. Meyer Machinery
Co., Ladish Drop Forge, Chicago and
North Western Railroad car shop, a
fibre can company, a tannery and
vinegar works located here.
The wages in all these plants are
very low. The packing plant has
recently laid of 500 workers, and
placed sign up, reading No help
wanted" The company has built a
wire fence around the plant, and
keeps detectives at the entrances,
in anticipation Of strikes.
In his election speeches, on the same
platform as the other candidates in
some instances, Hartley exposed the
strikebreaking role of Wagner and
Cassebaum. In 1890, Cassebaum,
then mayor, sent police to break up
picket lines, and Wagner the pres
ent mayor. refused a permit to the
Steel and Metal Workers industrial
Union to hold meeting before the
Meyer shop. sending police to break
UP their meeting.
900 Per Cent Gain in Des Moines
DIES MONIES, Iowa. - Ira r.
Meade, workers candidate for
mayor, received 701 votes for the
primary municipal election. gain
Of 500 per cent over the 1882 cleo
ton.
A total of 30,527 votes we're cast
for six mayoralty candidates. Meade
had a class struggle program which
included the payment Of cash re-
lief to the unemployed, and the
setting up of a Workers Advisory
Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Seattle, Wash. Candidate
Gains 400 Percent Over
Last Elections
REJECT THE n. r. A.
900 Percent Increase
in Des MOines, Iowa

SEATTLE, Wash.-Polling 1894
votes in Seattle primary election,
February q, James Murphy. Com
munist candidate for city council
man and National Secretary Of the
National Lumber Workers Union.
increased Communist votes by 400
per cent over the last city election.
John Laurie, Communist candi-
date for Mayor, polled 1872 votes,
compared with 700 when he ran in
the last city election.
Running with Murphy on the
Communist ticket in the council
man race was Revels Cayton, Negro
worker and District Secretary of the
International Labor Defense. He
received 1887 votes, and Tom Burns.
organizer Of the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union. polled 1945.
OF special significance in the cleo
ton returns was the vote for Robert
Harlin, labor nislesder Of the A. F.
Of L.. strike breaker. and member
Of the city council. who lost so per
cent Of his votes. John Dore who
came out highest in the primaries
and who was elected Mayor two
years ago by his promises to the un-
employed, lost 30 per cent of his
votes.
The Communist Party in a state
ment, issued after the primaries.
points out to the workers Of Seattle
the danger that lies in the rise of
the Cincinnatus group, an open fas-
cist organization, backed up fnanci-
ally by the power trust. One Of
their main plsnks wss zone years
intensified training for the state
police"
The Communist candidates lost
many votes through locked voting
machines, clamps over their names,
etc.
Although officially eliminated
from the finals, the Communist
candidates are carrying on a write
in campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Major Gains in Racine

RACINE, Wise. - Although the
election laws here are formulated
in such a manner as to eliminate
the workers candidate, Joe Vidak,
Communist candidate for City
Treasurer, won in the primaries, a
place on the ballot for the final
elections. Vidak received !, 1926 votes.
The March 18th primaries gave
the Communist Party candidates a
large increase in most instances over
last year. When one considers that
the total vote cast this year for
all candidates is a very light one,
the gain for the Communist candi-
dates is even greater.
The primaries here are held on
q so-called "non-partisan" ticket,
and all candidates but two on each
position are eliminated. Joe Vidak
received 1926 votes.
The Communist Party of Racine
is continuing the campaign for the
April Bird elections, and will urge
the workers to write in the names
of their candidates who did not win
in the primaries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

workers, and at the same time help
ing to drive the strikers back to the
pits by intimidation, denying relief.
forcing payment Of debts, shutting
off water, and supporting the land
lords in evicting miners and the un-
employed because they refused to
Scab.
The workers candidates are John
Tomsc, William Couton, George
Lloyd, Limo Romero, Pedro Sanchez,
and Oliver Leone.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

I convention Of workers, held under
the leadership Of the United Work
ers League.
The workers candidates pledged
themselves to contribute all Of their
salaries above the average for a
worker or farmer to the active build
ing Of united front workers move
ment, and to conduct their Office
under the guidance Of large elected
groups Of workers advisory commit
tees.
Joseph Stember, president Of the
Trades and Labor Council here, has
warned" the workers Of the ANAL
gsnated Butcher Workers and Meat
Cutters not 10 vote for Sudan. In
structing the locals not to permit
the workers candidate to speak at
meetings. In his attempt TO dis
credit Sudan, SLENDER was assisted
ably by Mccoy Of the A. F. Of L.,
who sold out the packing house
workers strike in 1922.
Emil Sudan is president Of the
United Workers League, the largest
unemployed workers organization in
the State The United Workers
League, affiliated with the Unem-
ployment Councils, is a member of
the Minnehaha County United Front
which is composed of the Farmers
Holiday Association, the Farmers
Union, the United Farmers League,
the American League Against War
and Fascism, and the International
Labor Defense.
Red Vote Gains in Kenosha, Wise.
KENOSHA, wise. - The Commu-
mist candidates for the nomination
for the Common Council, showed a
si5eable increase in votes over
year ago, in the primary elections
held mere March 18th. Karl Ger
ZACH, Sr., the only one Of this years
candidates who was running a year
ago. received 1859 votes, an increase
Of 219 over the $50 he got last year.
The other two candidates, Peter
Hamkins, City Secretary of the I'M
employed Council. and Dalton john
son, Section Organizer Of the Com
munist Party, running for the first
time. polled respectively BAT and
$50 votes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

IA per cent of the vote cast.
~ Lost by one vote.
Evening star., 1934-03-13
PROFIT ON SEIZED GOLD SOUGHT
IN SUIT TESTING TREASURY ACT

alton consisted Of 25s grains of gold.
8 fine.
On January II. when the price OF
gold was $33.43, the suit alleges, Nortz
presented his gold certificates for re-
demption, claiming one ounce of gold
for each $20.67 of paper money. This
claim. If granted. would have given
him 5,10422 ounces of the precious
metal, worth $170,634.07, at the cur
rent price.
Instead. he received $106, 300 in cur
rency not redeemable in gold, Nortz
asserts.
The suit says your claimant ac-
cepted said currency in redemption
of the gold certificates owned and
held by him under protest solely by
virtue of the coercion and threats
contained in the aforesaid orders.
regulations and statutes"
In addition to the profit, Nortz
asks the court to award him interest
on the amount he claims due.
The suit was filed through Katz b
Sommerich. New York attocneyl.
Evening star., 1934-03-13
is. COHEN CHOSEN
PARTY TREASURER
Atlanta Publisher to Handle
Democratic Finances.
Woman Resigns.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
John S. Cohen. publisher of the At
lanta Journal and former Senator,
has been decided upon by the admin
istration for treasurer of the Demo-
cratic National Committee.
At the same time. Mrs. Catherine
Conner. Democratic national commit
teewoman for Kentucky, resigned q
position with the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration to retain her
committee place.
Meanwhile. President Roosevelt was
looking around for a new chairman
of the National Committee to replace
Postmaster General Farley. The White
House has said Farley would quit as
soon as a successor could be found.
Due to Disapproval.
All these developments resulted
from the Presidents disapproval of
committee members holding Govern
ment positions.
The office of treasurer became va
cant when Frank c. Walker of New
York resigned to head President
Roosevelt's National Emergency Coun-
cil
Mrs. Connor told reporters she
was given her choice of remain
ing with the committee or contin-
uing her duties with the Relief Ad-
ministration, and chose the former.
She offered her resignation in a
letter to Harry L. Hopkins. the relief
administrator, to take effect April l.
L have enjoyed my work in WASH
ington,' she wrote Chairman Farley,
but I willing lay it aside in view of
the policy of the administration to de-
clare ineligible for Federal positions
those of us who are identified with
the Democratic National Committee"
First Instance of Kind.
This was the first instance of a
person holding both a Government
and party post giving up the for
mer to conform to the wish of the
President that one or the other OF
such dual capacities be abandoned.
Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross resigned
recently as a committeewoman for
Wyoming to remain as director of
the mint.
There also have been several other
designations from the National Com
mittee since the views of the White
House were made known.
Legislation impends in Congress
aimed to keep lawyers active in party
posts from practicinR before Govern
ment departments.
Only a few days ago President
Roosevelt sent to the Senate the name
of Mrs Bernice S. Pyke of Cleveland
to be collector of customs at Cleve-
land, although she is a Democratic
national committeewoman from Ohio
Senator Buckley of Ohio backed the
appointment and said at the time that
he saw no reason why she should
resign from the committee.
Evening star., 1934-03-13
BUS TRANSFERS
TO Be GIVEN FREE
Utilities Commission Issues
Orders for II "Feeder"
Routes.

Effective April l. free transfers will
be issued to patrons on II feeder"
bus lines, on the payment of the
standard token fare, under an order
issued today by the Public Utilities
Commission.
The order serves to simplify the
rather complicated existing system of
fares of the feeder" bus lines of the
Capital Transit Co. and will extend
the use of the free transfers given on
payment of the token fare.
The order will effect a saving for
passengers on five of the IL lines
classified as feeder" lines. Free
transfers now are given on the seven
others. on the payment of a token
fare.
Lines Affected.
The five are the Woodley road,
Park road. Randle Highlands Eastern
High School, Washington Interurban-
East Washington and the Anacostia-
Congress Heights lines. In the case
of the latter line. there also will be
a direct reduction in fare since the
charge there now is 10 cents cash.
The other seven lines classified as
feeders are the Potomac Park, West
End, Hillcrest. Chevy Chase Loop.
Benning. South Washington and the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Loop.
The order does not disturb the pres
ent system of charging a scent
fare on the Chevy Chase Loop and
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing Loop lines, where transfers to
other transportation lines are not
given, on the low-rate fare.
Fares Stand.
The free transfer on payment of
a token fare also will not set aside
the system of charging 20-cent cash
fare, or the sale of five tickets for
IS cents on the Chevy Chase Coach
line. When a person using the
Chevy Chase Loop line wishes to
transfer to the Chevy Chase Coach
line he must pay the fares charged
for use of the coach line, and in
these cases free transfer will be
given.
The commission also designated five
lines of the Capital Transit Co. as
supplementary" or trunk bus lines,
on which the present system of fares
are to stand at least until after the
commission has completed its study
of rerouting. These are the Burleith-
Trinidad, the Hyattsville-Laurel, the
Rhode Island avenue, the Potomac
Heights -Foxhall Village and the
Massachusetts, avenue lines.
The Chevy Chase coach line was
designated as special line and the
Montgomery bus line was given the
status of an Interstate" line.