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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
.A.F.L. Building
UNION HEADS
TALK SPLIT
German Attempts to
Justify Sellout of the
Textile Strike
SPEAKS AT SESSION
Halls Victory Which
Surrendered All the
Workers Demands
By Bill Dunno
jim Worker special Corrssnond.ntl

DAILY Worker Special Correspondent
CIVIC AUDITORIUM, San Fran
cisco Cal, Oct. 8.-An open threat
of split and the formation of a
new building trades grouping with
the probable result that such an
organization would be out of the A.
F. of L. proper as well as out Of
the Building Trades Department
has been made as the latest de-
velopment in the fight for official
positions at the A. F. of L. con-
vention here.
The stakes involved are not what
they were in the dear days OF the
boom, but whoever controls the
Building Trades Department will
deal officially with the national
construction and planning board
with government millions at its dis
posal, therefore the possibility of
some rich pickings that would help
to get through the long lean days.
1t is stated here-and McDon-
ough, present department head who
comes from across the Bay in Oak
land, is credited with the statement
that name has even been chosen
for the seeding group if the con-
vention decides against the McDon-
ough appeal and reaffirms it's sup
port of the Carpenters, Electrical
Workers and Bricklayers Union as
it probably will.
The name selected is the Struc-
tural Construction Alliance. Since
the decision Of the executive coun-
Gil to seat the three big unions has
the support tentatively at least of
the teamsters, the operating en-
gineers and marble workers and
some other smaller unions, it is
difficult to see where the McDon-
ough support for the new organ
ization would come from unless
there is some assurance that the
fight in the Building Trades De-
partment will result in some splits
in all or most of the big unions
now challenging it's present officials.
In the opinion of the rank and
file delegates to the convention and
that of Louis Weinstock, secretary
Of the Rank and File Committee for
Unemployment Insurance and Re-
lief, there is just one thing for the
membership of the building trades
unions to do-kick out both groups
of warning officials and elect a
new leadership directly from the
local unions.
This proposal will be made if rank
and file delegates find it possible
to get the floor under the barrage
of speeches of officials furiously de-
nouncing each other.
Francis German, leader of the
United Textile Union, spoke this
afternoon, brazenly justifying his
betrayals of the textile strike. Cor
man said, Ending our strike in
which a half million men and
women stopped work, the workers
went back into the mills on the
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SPREAD THE ATLANTIC COAST MARINE STRIKE!

All harbor workers, tugboat men, and baTgemen,
regardless Of union ailiation, should be convinced
that this strike is for the benefit of all maritime
workers All efforts should be made to draw them
into the struggle.
Officers and radio operators on all ships touching
Atlantic ports-this is your strike. Join it.
The strike can be won. Its success depends upon
the ability of the workers to activze the broadest
number of workers in the struggle Small numbers
of workers in action are not sufficient.
The question of relief for the strikers is most
important one. Relief stations have been set UP
in all ports by the Workers International Relief.
More funds food and clothing must be rushed
immediately to the Relief Headquarters at SIC
Broadway, New York City.
All workers in all trades, workers in all unions.
workers of all political opin ons and party af1la-
tions, stand behind the maritime workers in their
heroic strike
Spread the strikel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
SEA s 7 RIKE
EATING HALLS
CALL FOR AID
SuppliesRunning Low as
More Seamen Come
Out on Strike

The Workers International Relief
Marine Strike Relief committee is
supplying cooked food to the seamen
at four Manhattan and Brooklyn
centers. They are receiving cloth
ing and medical attention.
The ranks of the strikers are
growing hourly as ship after ship is
being struck.
Supplies on hand are quickly
disappearing" Additional food
clothing, money, and volunteer as
sistance are urgently needed. Every
effort must be exerted to keep up
the flow of contributions to relief
headquarters.
Raid your cupboards, your
closets, your pockets. These strikers
depend on you for their meals.
Their militant spirit is sweeping
over the waterfront like prairie
fire. Help us feed them.
please send all contributions to
w. I. R. headquarters $40 Broadway,
New York City," the appeal con-
cluded.
Tn feeding centers are located at
the following places:
sos West Nineteenth Street.
140 Broad Street
Twenty-f1fth Street and Eighth
Ave.
Is Union Street, Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
MASS DRIVE
URGED TO SET
8 BOYS FREE
Says the Lynch Bosses
Are Determined to
Kill Negroes
CALLS FOR FUND S
NJ ass Rallies Seen A S
Blow to V Verdict
of Lynch Court
CALLS FOR FUNDS

The local District Committee of
he Communist Party yesterday is
sued a statement calling for wide
mass protest against the Southern
lynch courts decision to execute
Clarence Norris and Haywood Pat
terson, two of the nine Scottsboro
boys, on December 7.
The statement follows:
"The Alabama Supreme Court
has denied the appeals of Clarence
Norris and Haywood Patterson, two
of the nine Scottsboro boys, and
set the date of execution for Dec. Z.
At the same moment, two lawyers
are arrested and framed up on the
charges of attempting to bride Vic
toria Price, star witness for the
State of Alabama in the Scots
boro frame-up. At the same time,
also, Samuel Leibowitz, chief trial
lawyer for the defense, deserts the
struggle, slandering the LID, and
the mass defense movement sup
ported by the Communist Party
which. even as Leibowitz himself
admits, has been the sole force
which has so far saved the lives of
the nine boys.
Determined to Kill Boys
ut is clear that the Alabama
lynch bosses are determined to
burn the innocent Scottsboro boys,
as the concrete expression of their
determination to force the Negro
people to accept the starvation
conditions, lynchings, Jim-crowisrn,
worse slavery and increasing OPP
preston. This brutal legal lynch
verdict is their attempt also, to
break the growing unity of the Ne
gro and white workers in their
struggle for their needs.
In order to achieve this and to
divert the attention of the masses
from their vile aim, the Alabama
lynch rulers are spreading lying
stories of attempts to bride Victoria
Price and other malicious ISLANDERS.
In this they are aided by Leibowitz,
who is showing his true colors by
deserving the struggle at this crucial
moment and viciously slandering the
7. I. D., loyal leaders of the mass
defense, while maintaining that he
is still in full sympathy and will
support the Scottsboro boys.
Calls for Protest Actions
Send resolutions and kilograms
of protest to Governor Miller of
Alabama, President Roosevelt,
Washington, D. c., and to the US.
Supreme Court, Washington, D. G.
Demand immediate, uncondi-
tional and safe release of the
Scottsboro boys. At every indoor
or open air meeting or election
rally, adopt and send protest res
olution or telegram to the above
named governmental authorities.
Organize mass meetings and
demonstrations of protest in every
neighborhood, shop Or factory. Con-
! Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
Main Points in the Program
Of Spanish Communist Party
For Carrying Out Revolution

The main points in the program
OF the Communist Party of Spain
for the carrying out Of the revo-
luton against the Fascist regime
and the institution of a workers
and farmers government adopted
sometime before the present armed
struggles, are as follows:
1. Confiscation without right of
repurchase of all lands belonging
to landlords, the church, monas-
teries, the state and municipalities,
together with all movable and i'm
movable stock, and their transfer
without compensation to and divi-
sion among the toiling peasantry
and agricultural laborers.
2. Abolition of all peasants debts,
Of all feudal and semi-feudal OPP
pressions foros, rabassa morta, etc.
of all the taxes of the bourgeois
landlord regime.
3. Rendering of immediate as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
l6,846,3 Jobless
Now Reported in U. S

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. a.
There are 16,846,322 persons in the
United States wholly or temporarily
unemployed, estimates based on
application of figures of a state
wide survey by the State of Mass
achusetts to the entire country re-
veal. These figures, showing that
the estimates of the A. F. of L.
Executive Council of 100000 I'M
employed are far too low, were to
be presented today to the A. F..
! of L. convention here by Robert j.
Watt, of the Massachusetts, Fedora
ton of Labor.
The survey of the state shows
that based on the 1880 U. S. census
figures of 43,82e, 900 employable per-
sons, if applied to the country, more
than sixteen million are jobless.
The survey excluded housewives
students, persons unable to work,
retired and aged persons or those
not seeking employment.
The Massachusetts state figures,
as Of June 10, show that in the
state there were 1,808,840 employ
able persons. OF these, 624,526 or
only 341a per cent we're wholly or
Temporarily employed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
Communist Party Urges Protest on Scoboro Decision
Nine SHIPS ON STRIKE IN NY. HARB0F
ational Guardsmen
Are Being Prepared
Against Picket Lines

The 212th Regiment of the
Tationsl Guard is being pre-
Jared for duty against strikers,
it was learned here today.
For the first time since the
war the men are being taught
the use Of gas masks, members
Of the regiment say. They are
put into chambers filled with
tear gas. The masks are of an
obsolete type and many of the
soldiers have suffered as the re-
suit of gas poisoning.
The men are also being taught
tactics in smashing picket lines.
The officers term the picketers
as troublesome strike rioters" "
The flying wedge formation is
the one commonly taught. The
men will be given clubs and pis-
tolls.
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following demands:
The eight-hour day all ships and depart
ments and the A-hour week.
The 1929 wage scale; IS cents hour for all
overtime after eight hours
For 80 per cent increase in the present Ship
ping Board manning scale.
For a centralized shipping bureau controlled
by elected committees of seamen.
Against discrimination of Negro and foreign
born seamen.
Recognition of the ship committees and unions
of the workers choice.
seamen, are demanding dollar an hour; six-hour
day, time and half for overtime control of the
hiring halls by elected committees Of longshore-
men.
In order to win these demands it becomes
urgently necessary to rally at once all available
forces to spread the strike to every ship that comes
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sistance to the peasantry by the
workers and peasants government
with credits, seeds and machinery.
4. Far-roaching measures on the
part Of the workers and peasants
government for immediate decided
improvement of the material condi-
tons of the agricultural laborers.
5. Confiscation and nationalist
ton of enterprises of large-scale
trustified production; control of the
Soviets over production and dis
tribution; naturalization of banks,
railways and all large scale capital
iSt means Of transport and commu-
nication (autobuses, tramways, ships,
aviation, telephone, radio.
go General introduction Of the
7-hour working day and raising of
the living standard of the toiling
masses. Measures for assistance to
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
TURKS FIRE
ON z FRENCH
WAR BOATS

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. 8-An
attempt on the part of France to
encroach on the national indepen-
dence of Turkey led yesterday to
an exchange of artillery between
Smyrna forts and two French de-
stroyers.
The request of the French author
tiles for permission for the destroy
ers to visit Istanbul and Smyrna
was answered by the Turkish Gov
ernment's consenting to call at
Istanbul but absolutely refusing any
stopping at Smyrna.
Ignoring the Turkish reply, the
destroyers Ca.ssard and Guepard en-
tered the Gulf of Smyrna. Where
upon shore batteries fired four blank
rounds, and then, when the Destroy
ers continued on, the forts fired a
live shell ahead and one behind the
destroyers.
They Withdrew afterward and ap-
preached the coast of Foca, where
coast guards fired rifles. The de-
stroyers returned the fire and then
steamed in the direction of MYTH
lene.
The French Government. sur
prised that its "saber-rattling had
not awed Turkey, made repreSenta-
tions of protest that her destroyerS
had been fired upon.
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NTWIU CALLS
MEMBERS TO
RALLY TODAY

NEW YORK.-Greeting the rev.
dictionary actions Of the Spanish
workers and peasants, the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
here called upon all its members
to support and participate in the
demonstration called by the Com
munist Party to be held before the
Cpanish Consulate, 53rd Street and
Madison Ave, today at IL o'clock
noon.
In call sent to all its members
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union declared:
ITO all Needle Trades Workers:
Rally to the support of the
Spanish revolution!
1.-THE workers and farmers of
Spain have risen in revolt against
their fascist oppressors. They are
fighting with arms on the streets
of every Spanish city and village
against the armed forces of the fas-
cist government.
1T is the supreme duty Of every
working man and working women
to support in every way possible our
sisters and brothers of Spain who
are sacrificing their very lives for
the liberation of the working class
Communists, Socialists, Syndicalists,
and all trade union members in
Spain are united in this struggle
against the fascists. Let us unite
here, all workers, regardless of trade
union or political affiliation, and
demonstrate our solidarity and sup
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TIE-UP NOW
is frightened
IN HAVANA

HAVANA, Oct. 8. With only
seventeen out of 400 street cars
operating this morning and prac-
tically no taxicabs or buses on the
streets, the general strike in Havana
as throughout the provinces, moved
toward complete effectiveness.
Even the few street cars running
were filled with soldiers for pas
sengers, and the management, Civ
ing up in disgust. said that all cars
would soon be Withdrawn.
Omnibus, ice, coal, textile, tobacco
and other groups of workers are
joining the strike throughout the
island.
With typical terrorism the Men
dieta government issued orders for
the arrest of ove- 400 l-hcr Leaders.
and eighteen armored tanks were
held in readiness to leave Camp
Columbia.
The strike, which was effectively
started days before in some prov
inces, notably Oriente and Havana,
is being organized OF such large
scale by the National Confederation
of Labor and the Communist Party
of Cuba that preparations are now
going forward to prolong the strike
beyond the "a hours originally
specified.
One of the marked points Of
strength in the strike is the COM
plete support of the walkout by the
petty bourgeoisie who, no less than
the Cuban workers and peasants,
hate and oppose the terrorist Men
dieta administration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
French United Front
Gaining in Elections
Against Reactionaries

PARIS, Oct. s. = The electoral
struggle between the reactionary
Doumergue government and the So
cialist and Communist united front
resulted, according to incomplete re-
turns, in widespread left gains for
the lower general councils and coun-
ellis for ACCOMPLISHMENTS. Voting
has not yet taken place in Paris
A small gain for the Doumergue
government and a slight loss for the
Socialists are scattered through the
967 cantonal returns SO far received
from the 1878 elections held.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
ARMED WORKERS CENTER ATTACK
ON OFFICIAL BUILDINGS IN MADRID;
RENEW OFFENSIVE IN PROVINCES
LerrOux Cabinet Meets,
Fears to Mobilize
Spanish Army

MADRID, Oct. 8. = Soviets
were set up in the Southern
part of Spain today at Pardo
Del Rey, as the workers thru
out the country went into the
offereiva a~2;0st the Lerroux
fascist regime.
Massing their forces in
Madrid, the armed VOTERS meda a
determined attempt TO seize tie
Ministry of War, the Ministry Of
Communication and Ministry Of In
terror buildings in the heart of Nc
drid. The government forces ar
swered the workers fire by letting
loose a bornbardmert from artillery
concealed in the buildings.
The workers have heroically been
directing their efforts against these
Icente-s, including the central police
headquarters and the Bank Of
Spain since the opening day of tee
fi4nting. The fact that the efforts
of the workers grow mere de-
ts-mined eve.y hour shows the
weakening of the governments
forces.
Fighting Spreads
AS the fighting spreads and the
workers increase their gains, the
optimistic statements of the Fas-
cist government entirely disappear.
The desperate Lerroux cabinet,
meeting in Madrid late lost mat,
showed its fear of modelling the
Spanish army against the fighting
workers. The cabinet announced
that it could not mobilize the troops
because military mareuvers have
just ended, and the soldiers have
returned TO thei- resrectiva tar~,-
tories. That this is subterfuee
is clearly shown by the fact ~
only so-called loyal troops were
chosen to proceed against Oviedo,
now in the hands of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
False Reports Nailed

False Reports Nailed
MADRID, Oct. S.-The tremen-
dous growing sweep of the armed
struggles of the Spanish workers
and peasants spreading from North
to South, throughout the entire
land today, gave the lie to the de-
iberately falsified reports of the
fascist Lerroux government that the
revolt had been crushed"
Great masses of impoverished
peasants in Andalu-ia joined the in
surgent movement against the Fas-
cist regime, Selling the land of the
rich landlords. arming themselves
and opening fire on the Civil Guard
and Fascist gangs.
500 Bombs Dropped
Despite terrific bombing by army
planes, the workers in Ovieda, AS
turias, entTenched themselves. Five
hundred bombs were dropped on
the city, killing many unarmcd
people, men. women and children.
But the Red Flag still flies over
this city, firmly in the hands Of
the workers. The rebel forces have
captured huge government ar
senGl.
In Barcelona, and throughout
Catalonia, where the Lerroux COW
eminent had already announced
the doom Of the autonomous re-
public, the workers went into &C.
ton, raking the streets with ter
rifle gun-fire. 1t appears that the
fighting has only begun, with
greater and greater forces entering
on the side Of the workers, against
the fascist dictatorship.
Rcd Flags F,cwn
The towns of NIatorell, Sabaden,
Badalona, On the outskirts Of Bar
celona are in the grip of the armed
workers. Red flags fly over the inn
portant buildings.
In Corunna Province, where the
struggle had been slight previously,
severe battles have broken out.
strengthening the fight in the AS
turias.
Repeatedly, the workers in Madrid
storm central government buildings
and open no a whitening fire, show
ing that the government has not,
even in the capital, whsre its forces
are strongest, been able to beat back
the workers. A band Of armed
workers at $50 pm. today opened
fire on the central police headquar-
tiers. The outcome was not reported.
Fighting is going on in all sub-
uros around Madrid, and the work.
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Milford chronicle., 1934-12-07
INDIANS RECALL
HUNTING GROUNDS
Indian Chiefs At Annual
Pow Wow Recall Old
Days.

Reminiscing of the days when his
Nanticoke ancestors roamed the
woods and waters of Delaware,
Chief Little Owl at the annual
THANKSGIVING Pow Wow of his tribe
at Riverdale Park, on the northern
shore of Indian River, vividly re-
called the abundance of wild fowl
and seafood that once pervaded Re-
hoboth and Indian River Bays, and
the marshes surrounding them. He
told how his people had been able
to live in peace and contentment, to
hunt and fish and live in abundance,
even until fairly recent years.
The DOW WOW was held amidst an
extensive grove of oak trees. a few
hundred feet from the shore of In
dian River, which reaches its broad
arm from Indian River Bay to Mills
boro. and has for many years been
a favorite with vacationers and
sportsmen. An estimated crowd Of
1900 people viewed the spectacle,
which was rcplete with the tribal
dances of the Nanticokes, and of
other tribes whose ambassadors had
come to join the festivities.
But" continued Chief Little Owl
(Charles C. Clark in everyday life),
Turn TO Page 9. PisdSeI
Milford chronicle., 1934-12-07
NEW LAWS MAY
GO INTO CODE
Acts OF 1885 Legislature Will Be In
cIuded II Plan Can Be Worked Out

Laws enacted by the coming ses-
sion of the Legislature may be in
corporated into the new Revised
Code, which will be presented to the
General Assembly for its action.
Due to the fact that it will be i'm
possible to have the voluminous
code printed prior to the conclusion
of the session, it is understood that
a movement is on foot to hold up
the printing of it until after the
session is over, and then to include
the 1885 laws.
The procedure which may be
taken to include these laws into the
code. it is said, would be merely by
adding a sentence to each bill in
troduced. to provide that 1t shall be
inserted into the Revised Code.
Another method. it is understood,
would be through the introduction of
a resolution or bill to provide that
all sections of the session be in
cluded in the Revised Code.
The code will be ready for intro
duction into the General Assembly
Immediately after it organizes, fol-
lowing its convening on Tuesday,
January 1. 1t will likely require
three weeks to complete its passage
in both Houses.
Milford chronicle., 1934-12-07
DR.. HERSON ASKED TO
RETURN TO AVE. M. E.
Local Pastor Has Set Record With
Eight Years Consecutive Service

At a special meeting of the Of
fetal Board of tle Avenue Meth
odist Episcopal Church of Milford
held Tuesday evening in the church,
it was unanimously moved to invite
the Rev. Frank Herson, ID. D., to
resurn to the Avenue Church for
another year. DR.. Herson has served
as pastor Of the Avenue Church for
eight consecutive years, breaking all
previous records. DR.. Herson first
came to Milford in 1926 and sue
ceeded the Rev. DisstOn w. JACOBS
who went to Newark, since that year
no change has been made in the pas
tOrate of the Avenue Church. Each
year DR.. Herson has been unani-
mously asked to. return. Since his
arrival in Milford, DR.. Herson has
made a host of friends, all of whom
extend their heartiest congratula-
tions to him for another year of
success as pastor of the Avenue NJ. Z.