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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04

NEW YORK While the patriotic
organizations and the boss political
parties vii celebrate Independence
Day with a barrage of demagogic
spe>ehs showing the achievements
Of the American Revolution Of 1776,
the only party that carries the ira
ditions of the Declaration Of indie
pendence Under present conditions
in the United States, the Commu-
mist Party, will also hold celebra-
ton.
This celebration will be the An
nual Red Picnic of the New York
District, which this year will take
place at North Beach Picnic Park,
Astoria, L. 1.
Many mass organizations, in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04


cal unions: Nos. 81, Asa, 400. 400
soS, S48 and 392. The official watch
ers signed the tally sheets.
Gangsters Invade Polls
Pin the above mentioned To-
cal unions there was no Interior
ence by gangsters, and about 60
per cent of the total membership
participated in the elections
Whereas, in local unions Nos. 26l
442, 874, s05 and 1011 gangsters
invaded the polling places, sur
rounded the voting machines. and
despite the protests of the official
watchers, kept on repeating on the
machines, until the number on the
voting machines equaIled to the
number of the total membership in
the respective local unions.
"3-The polling places were to
have been open from 9 am. to 5
pm. Due to constant repeating on
the voting machines, after IL am,
and in some of the local unions af-
ter IL O'Clock, voters were turned
away, and were not allowed to cast
their votes. In local union No. PSI
out Of total membership of 1861
the registered votes on the ma
chimes were 1lO5.
Protest Elections
1.-THE elections held on Saturday
June 30, we're Immediately pro.
tested to the General Executive
Board of the Brotherhood of Paint
ers, demanding that new elections
be held as soon as preparations
warrant, and that the so-called
newly elected officers shall not be
installed into Office.
Local Union No. 400, at a special
meeting held on Monday, July 2
unanimously adopted a resolution
protesting these elections and de-
handing that new elections shall
take place. Similar resolutions were
adopted by local Union No. 1872 ano
by many other local unions in D. C
No. 9.
Hundreds Of affidavits have beer
signed by the members in the
Brotherhood testifying the illegal
ity of the elections.
THE New York Painters are ir
open revolt against the unconsti.
tutional, fraudulent and strong-arn
methods used in elections. and the,
are determined to clean out thu
underworld elements from thu
ranks of the organization"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
CIRCULATION MANAGER FOR
HUNGER FIGHTER

A paying position as circulation and
advertising manager of the Hunger Fighter
is open. An urgent call has been sent
out for anyone willing to work for small
wage on the paper, which is the militant
organizer OF the unemployed and relief
workers. A large circulation drive is to
be started at once, and workers desiring
to be put in charge must apply at 20
East goth St., Thursday morning, July S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04

dren are being prosecuted under the
Hitler regime and that SwaStikas
are pasted on their hands and the
napes Of their necks by members of
the Hitler Youth movement.
Martin Plettl, leader of the Ger
man Social Democratic Clothing
Workers Union, testified that the
Nazis had stolen union funds and
had forced workers to pay money
to the Hitler government.
The Committee will meet shortly.
it was announced, and further re-
ports will be issued.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04

In Room.
Is Released
Beaten by Dicks Who
Siugged and Burned
Patsy Augustine

NEW YORK. -FiendiSh methods
Of torture equalled only in Hitlers
fascist dungeons were practiced on
Jack Schneider, organizer of the
Fur Workers Industrial Union, after
he was kidnapped yesterday in the
fur market and taken to the Eighth
Street. Coney Island Police Station
by Detectives Francis Wetterson and
William Donnen
Schneider reports that he was
beaten and slugged all over the
body until he was unconscious by
watterson and Donnen in an at
tempt to make him confess that he
had assaulted a fur foreman named
Gelman.
Watterson and Donnell are the
same two detectives who tortured
Patsy Augustine, leader of the
Nathan's Famous strike, some weeks
ago by beating him over the head
pulling out his hair and soaring his
body with burning cigarettes and
matches.
Schneider told the Daily Worker
that he was walking through the
fuT market yesterday when he was
suddenly seized by the two detec-
tives, after being pointed out by
two professional stool pigeons
known as Goldberg and Newman.
He was hustled of to the Coney
Island Police Station on Eighth st.
and Surf Ave.
Beaten In Room
Schneider says that he was taken
to a room where he was punched
and beaten until he lost conscious
ness. He was then taken before
Gelman, who said he could not
identify Schneider as the man who
had assaulted him. Following this
Schneider was taken in a weakened
condition to Coney Island Court
and was released.
The cruel beating of Schneider
yesterday climaxes a long campaign
OF terror and intimidation that has
been carried out against him by the
local police department. 1t is part
of the LaGuardia- O'Ryan campaign
Of terror against the workers Of
New York.
To Protest To Mayor
Irving Potash, secretary of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, said that the union would
send delegation to Mayor La
Guardia to protest against the
flendish torture of Schneider.
I'VE are not going to let the
detectives and LaGuardia get
away with this stuff" Potash told
the Daily Worker yesterday. 1--WE
will unite the forces Of our union
with all workers and workers or
CARNATIONS who are victims of
this new brutal wave Of terror.
We will drive out of Office all
those who are guilty of these at
tacks. The responsibility for this
brutality lays at the door Of
Mayor LaGuardia."
The Daily Worker demands that
such brutal actions against workers
and leaders of workers organiza-
tions be stopped at once.
The Daily Worker calls on all
workers, on all workers organiza-
tions, to protest against the kid
mapping and beating of Schneider.
Join with the workers Of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union in their protest to the
Mayor.
Demand that LaGuardia and
Organ get out of ONCE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
GREGORY soPHIN DIES

Gregory sophin, we'll known pharmacist
and member OF the Pharmacists Union OF
Greater New York and well known among
muslc-loving people, contributor to
working class organizations, died at Mt.
Sinai Hospital Monday morning.
The workers OF Mt. Sinai Hospital ex-
press their sympathy and grief on the
loss of fellow worker and comrade.
The funeral will be wednesday. July 4,
at 800 am, starting from Mt. Sinai
Hospital.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
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GDNEI q ~
Life and Loues of Baer
WILLIAM FUCHS

IN THE cool of the evening when retire to estates
and light big stogie like to read the best literature
the world affords and at such times, naturally grpped
to the protoplasm when l the memoirs OF
przeghter in the sports pages like to read the memoirs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
ruRR1ERs CHORUS MEErs

NEW YORK.-The next rehearsal Of the
recently organized Furriefs chorus will
take place this Thursday at 5 pm. in the
Spartacus clubrooms 400 W. 25th st. Ali
workers interested in singing are invited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04

the Seattle Police Department, an
investigation conducted by the Daily
Worker has disclosed. Original in
voices containing a list of the arms
purchased for special guards from
the local arms agency by Fried
lander have been secured by the
Daily Worker.
On June 16, the Chamber of
Commerce purchased from the
MARSHAL Company six federal
standard grenades, one blast billy
with seven charges, one spray
billy with eight charges, ten H.
gauge Winchester shotguns and
ten boxes of shells.
The guns and equipment were
for the special officers stationed
at Pier 40.
Six hours after Deffron was muir
dered the longshoremen held a
meeting, where they demanded that
the nurderers be punished. Lead
ers of the International Longshore-
mems Association are attempting to
halt any protest against the shoot
ing.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union sent delegation to the lead
ers of the LILA demanding that
action be taken at once against the
murderers and that mass funeral
of the dead comrade be held in the
port. This proposal was turned
down.
The M.WIU. thereupon issued a
call for mass funeral and half
day strike Of all trades as a protest
against the killing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-04
Gulfport Dock Strike Ends

NEW ORLEANS, July a. The
longshoremen's strike at Gulfport,
Miss, which lasted two weeks is
reported settled on the following
schedule of wages: go cents an hour
between 7 am. and pm; rs cents
an hour for all other hours between
pm. and 7 am; time over eight
hours to be paid at 90 cents an
hour. The former scale was so
cents an hour and so cents for over
time,
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NY. Painters Open
Lid on Vote Fraud

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LayDOcker Death
tOCOmmerCeBOard

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Inquiry Demands
Thaelnlann Liberty

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Fascist Collapse
Near, Says Pravda

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A seven year old Jewish school
boy. who gave his name as Franz
Voss, testified that even Jewish chill
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-09
POLITICIANS ARE PANIED

Governor Ehringhaus' caustic reference to the
"mugwumps" at the Jackson Day dinner IN Ra'
leigh sounds a whole lot like common plant from
political leaders whenever the voters begin TO sho"
signs of human intelligence and give evidence OF
doing little independent thinking instead OF swai-
lowing whatever line of hoop-la and hooey the
aforesaid leaders deem it either personally or pc
ltically expedient to pass out for consumption by
the ''deer peepul'
We do not subscribe to the idea that potlcal
discipline must necessarily come from the top We
entertain the naive belief that some of the ordi-
nary run of voters have very nearly as much sense
as the men they elect to office and that it is quite
in order for disciplinary pressure to be brought to
bear upon leaders by their followers when occasion
demands.
Rigid party discipline may be a fine thing for
those sterling patriots who filled with an urge
to remain in office, and beyond doubt there are
times when it is both necessary and desirable. An
equally fine thing, in the opinion of many, is &
growing tendency upon the part of the non-office-
holding public to do its own thinking and to sum
mon the visceral stamina necessary to transform
such thoughts into action, all the vociferous APP
lause of the Jackson Day dinners to the contrary
News-Toplc.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINION
POLITICS AND BUSINESS

The most popular sport among politicians Is try
ing to make the public believe that all business
men are crooks while all politicians are models o.
virtue. That, at least, seems to he fair conclu-
sion from the tenor of some of the many "lnVesti-
cations which have been going on in Washing
ton: OF, course, part of the game, also, IS to
show up the politicians of the other party as
crooks -. :. g.
That is all we'll understood among politicians as
an effective means of getting votes and power. II
they convince the average voter that their
party, whichever it may be, is the only one COM
posed of honest men, then they figure they can
keep their crowd in office And if they can make
the voters believe that business men, are all dis
honest, then they stand chance OF getting popu-
lar backing for schemes to have business conduct
cd by the government.
We wonder how much the politicians of either
party fool the public in the long rum 1t seems to
us that the net effect of this sort of tactics IS TO
create a rather cynical state of mind toward all
men in public office. The average man has come
IN believe that there is no such thing as honesty IN
politics, and is concerned more with what he can
get out of it for himself than with any particular
set of principles.
As to the comparative honesty of politicians aId
business men, we think most folk would rather
take a chance with the standards of honesty when
prevail in business than with those accepted by
public officeholders. Fundamentally no one class
is more honest than another; each ha Its percent
age of crooks. But in business it is as Benjamin
Franklin pointed out, the best policy to be honest
There is little in our political history to suggest
that honesty pays a premium IN pohticS'-CahVoh
Enterprise.
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RELIGION AND REVOLUTION

Religion, as history records is one of the worlds
most revolutionary forces; and yet strange to say
it is one of the worlds greatest barriers to revou-
ton Hitler is discovering that in Germany, as
others have discovered it in other lands; and it still
appears that his effort to bend the churches to his
will and purposes is proving the most difficult
dertaking to which he has yet set his hand.
The Berlin correspondent of the New York
Times thinks that the church situation in Germany
is now approaching dramatic climax" On the
one hand there is the bitter resistance on the part
of many of the Professionals against the Nazifca-
ton of their churches. On the other hand there is
the growing resentment On the part of German
Catholic prelaes whose recent outspoken denuncia-
ton of the Naz program is described by the cor
respondent of The Times as amazing.
Citizen
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-09
"NON-ALCOHOLTC"

Governor Blackwood has signed the legislative
act egazing beer of five per cent alcoholic con-
tent by volume. '
This is equivalent to about per cent by weight,
and hence is about eight-tenths of 1 per cent
stronger than the formal legal beer of 3.2 content
by weight.
The State Constitution, of course permits only
'non-alcoholic" beverages to be sold to be COR
sumed on the premises, The last legislature got
around that by officially decreeing that 80 per
cent beer is ''non-alcoholic" and now it has pre-
sumably extended that Characterization to the
slightly stronger fluid.
One naturally begins to wonder at just what
point beverage legally conceded to contain al
cohol ceases to be "non-acoholic." Might not the
legislature decree that 6 per cent or per cent
beverages are likewise non-alcohoc? The thing
might be achieved gradually by going up eight
tenths of per cent a year-reminding one of the
story of the frog that was boiled to death without
ever moving by raising the temperature of the
water at a rate so gradual that he never noticed
it. Perhaps by grace of legislative interpretation
we may some day be able to make whoopee with
abundant success absolutely ''non-alcoholic''
beverages-Greenville News.
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YOUR BROTHERS KEEPER
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

being to lie neglected rotting
with disease in some hovel, we
are cndangering the lives of all
the persons high and low in the
locality. You may not realize it,
but you are very much concerned
with some old woman being slow
ly consumed by tuberculosis in a
miserable shack or by some old
chap burning up with typhoid
fever in some dive. That old wo-
man, that old man, have their
relatives or their friends or their
associates, who are in contact
with them, probably doing their
poar bit to relieve the sufferers.
But there is not much to do with.
In the first place, there is no
money to provide the necessities
of the occasion. 1t takes money
for medicine and it takes money
and time to be clean and sani-
tarv. But most of all there is
lacking the knowledge of what to
do.
There is not a town in this ma
ton worth calling itself a town
that would permit a dead horse
to remain and decay within the
municipal limits. Yet, the decay
ing carcass Of a horse is 4 small
menace compared to the danger
from person with a contagious
disease improperly cared for.
The care of the sick that can
not care for themselves and that
have no one to care for them
should be the concern of every
municipality, the deep concern.
There should he not only the
elimination of slums but the elimi-
nation of conditions that make
slums.
! The ample disqualification of all
classes should be the rule of ev-
cry municipality. 1t should be
necessary for a destitute person
or for a person financially unable
to cope with his bodily ailments
or with the bodily ailments Of his
dependents, to have to go to the
proper authorities and ask for
help. The authorities should keen
an eye peeled for such condi-
tons; they should not only offer
the proper services, but should
require that those services be &C
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-09
By RODNEY BUTCHER


VTASHINGTON-The Commit
w tee for the Nation has left
The bosom of the New Deal
wherein it nestled--so quickly
rs to leave doubt whether it
capped or was flung.
It's a strange "arn-and per-
aaps the end is not yet.
Insiders here considered the
committees chief spirits to be big
stock market spectators and
business men largely concerned
with exports and sales to farmers.
Organized year ago to press for
gold standard abandonment, de-
valuation and imitation, its chair
man was James H. Rand, Jr., of
!, Remington-Rand. more than
two-fifths of American typewrit-
ers normally are eXported.)
Other organize included
Frank A. Vanderlip, officials OF
Sears-Roebuck, automobile com
panies, and farmer groups.
Those conservative business men
took Prof. George Warren under
one wing and, Senator Elmer
Thomas under the other.
Initiation became respectable
l. Rand and his pals were in and out
of the White House. Soon Wash
| ington was Customarily regarding
the committees latest recommends
| tions as the administrations next
currency moves-Roosevelt always
seemed to follow along.
That honeymoon ended with
J. dollar deyaluation. The COM
mittee wanted more dcvalua-
ton and imitation and % Cen
trad, Monetary Authority"-thc
issue on which Thomas, sus-
pecting a Wall Street plot.
/ broke with, it.
l. Roosevelt wasn't having any OF
Its newest proposals. Next YOU
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-09
POLICE COURT HAS
HEAVY DOCKET

A heavy docket faced Mayor
A. V. Edwards in the city court
this morning.
Cases were as follows: Boyd
Gambler, drunk and disorderly
80 days. John Remon, drunk and
disorderly, $40 fine and costs
Willie Cox, drunk and disorderly
was assessed the court costs. Iar
LYDIA, drunk and disorderly, SIC
fine and costs. Cases Of drunk
and disorderly against Jess Allen
Dewey Case, C. T. Eye and Ceci
Rhodes were continued. Gene
Brown. drunk and disorderly, for
feited a $40 bond. M. r. Ma
cornson, drunk and disorderly
forfeited $40 bond. w. NJ. Bis
sell, drunk and disorderly, for
feited a $40 bond.
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whom you are interested, protect
ed from impure water and I'M
wholesome milk.
Ii YOU knew there was case
of smallpox or scarlet fever or
leprosy or bubonic plague in your
community, you would want that
case isolated from contact with
other persons that the disease
might not spread. That would be
only common sense. 1t has been
by the application of such COM
mon sense that great plaques
which used to sweep whole ma
tons and kill off most of the in
habitants have become a thing of
the past.
Yet in almost every commun-
itV there exists today infection
centers which spread disease in
all directions. In almost every
community and in every large
municipality, there arc sick per-
sons whose improper care is
spreading their maladies to per-
sons who would otherwise be
hale and hearty.
In every city and in almost
every town, there are persons
from whom diseases are flowing
through the communities and pro-
ducing the same effects and the
same results as impure drinking
water and contaminated milk. 1t
is odd the way we human beings
strain out 0pats and swallow
camels.
Whenever we permit a human
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-09
BEHIND THE SCENES IN
WASHINGTON

knew, the cOmmittee-jumping to Il
new front-waS savagely attacking
the New Deal stock market con-
trol bill and hurting its DR.. Writ
at us.
Democrats IN Congress and many
inflationists began to denounce the
committee. Roosevelt did so, in.
ferentially, and his Department Of
Justice pushed trial of monopoly
suit against Remington-Rand.
So the capital is full of bruised
eX-friends of the Committee for the
Nation, which itself may soon be
more bruised than bruising.
=
CONTRARY to most impress
~ sions, the House vote of
80 to ~ on the vctcran-pay
cut bill wasn't the worst veto
licking any president ever re-
ccivcd. In 1928, one day i'll
May, the House voted 80 TO 46
to kill COOlidgc'S veto of rent,
fuel, light, and equipment al
lowanccS for fourth-Class post
masters, and Bro to ~ to sup
port IL vetoed 10 per cent in-
crease for postal employees AS
signed TO night work.
nON'T faint when you hear that
Senator Dave Reed of Pennsyl.
vania-who halls from the home
of the Steel Trust, is friend and
counsel of the MELONS and is popu-
larly identified with big business
at its biggest-has lined up with
Senators Borah and Nye to attack
NRA because ii chiefly aids big
business and hurts the little fellow
through suspension of antitrust
laws.
Reed has Il tough fight for re,
nomination and reelection this
year. There are thousands Of small
manufacturers in PENNSYLVANIA
Copyright, laSa, NEA Service, Inc
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-09
PRECINCT CAPTAIN
GANGSTERS VJCn,

CHICAGO, April 9-n,n
captain, was taken for m |.
ride yesterday in wb,, ~
believed was a prcmat ", "e
break of election violence %
Two days before the lr.,
mary is to be held, TicrncS',s" 2, I,
was found Sunday mornin oS q ~
gangsters had tossed him M, I- Z
mud at the end Of a paved i' ". Z
TlernO had taI'en an act;v ."''
in the campaign Of DanieI I
tozzi for state rcpresentatir. y !
recently deserted another MI,
cal organization to work for yI 4.
tOZZi. ''' II
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-09
MONDAY, ApRIls,,

lOrm m, in his address. He ~
cd t If;t the "pcrsecuaop., ' q.
by b Hitler was only . s,., Sf'a
1T established the rirb 5tSo p, 'es,,e
religion. We any rsc w. :,
To-day, it is tho
' "But D1 tomorSgm v5st.n'S y he s's .,
lives an" 'i': ali 'I Scot they Ri3:p:5 I.
ing the right of a goyo. E.staSft
persccute the Jew has eminent aa
the right of that yoy W, Sonests
prosecute the Gentle Ih,,'oeht /
comedies the right Of gn ln iact
to t! persecutc all races S anJ
ligionS." ""a a.. !
He AIDED that I'VE ~,
cussing today the fate of of n not d
alone I'VE are discussing t tFs ' /
gers to humanity" > "'e q