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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Govt To Guarantee
III Billion Loans
OF Home Investors
Roosevelt Asks for
Power To Protect
Bank Loans

WASHINGTON, May ALI loans
by banks, mortgage companies, and
insurance companies TO owners of
homes will be guaranteed by the
United States government according
to the latest announcement of the
Roosevelt administration today.
Roosevelt will ask Congress to
pass bill permitting the govern
ment to guarantee such loans up to
$780, 100000
Thus the Roosevelt government,
in addition to its policy of already
guaranteeing four billion dollars
worth Of mortgage loans, adds an
other billion and half of govern
ment guarantee for private bank
and insurance company invest
ments.
Small home owners, if they are
lucky enough to have the proper
security, will get loans from 5000 to
$4,000. The government will guar
antee the banks their investments,
which will pay from to 10 per cent
interest.
The Bill is hailed as boon to the
small home owners. Actually it will
be of help only to investors or build
ing material companies who are al
ready raising their prices in antici-
patton of temporary squirt in buy
ing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Steel Scrap Shipments For
Munitions Reach New Record

for 43.7 per cent of the months
total" the report significantly de-
clares. Europe, because of pur-
chases of scrap, constituted the Sec
ond largest market, with shipments
amounting to 35.7 per cent Of the
total"
Today's announcement recalls
Secretary Of Commerce Roper's re-
cent stoppage of the sale of old ship
ping board vessels to japan to pre-
vent the latter'S imperialists from
increasing their supply Of scrap non.
Total shipments of iron and steel
exports during March amounted to
261 ,269 gross tons compared with
ISL ,194 tons in February and 80,567
tons in March, 1888"
For the quarter ended March 81,
exports of iron and steel products
from the United States aggregated
$50, 476 gross tons, figure slightly
less than three times the total ton
mage exported during the CORES
ponding period of 1888
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Cops, Legion
Attack Detroit
w Orkers MAY |
Arena Garden Meeting
TANNED in Militant
Protest
Especial to the Daily worker

Special to the Daily Worker
DETROIT, May 2.-Ten thousand
Dotroit workers gathered around
Grand Circus Park yesterday at $50
p. M, despite the mayors ban on
the May Day demonstrations and
threats of police violence against
the workers.
The city's biggest police mobiliza-
ton, aided by modified American
Legionnaires, broke up the dem
onstration and attacked the work
ers' march to Arena Gardens for
the evening celebration, which was
held despite the police terror.
About 1000 police, under the per-
sonal command of the notorious
breaker, Police Commissioner
Pickert, we're stationed at and
around Grand Circus Park. They
were reinforced by hundreds of plain
clothesmen and uniformed legion
naires who we're summoned by radio
to report at p. M, with full equip
ment. All around the Park, the
streets we're filled with mounted po-
lice, traffic cops brandishing glitter
ing new clubs, motor cycle cops,
cops in riot cars-all equipped with
tear gas.
At Clarke Park, which was sche-
duled to be the mobilization point
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
May First ~
City by City

Reports from various cities and
towns throughout the United
States; indicate that many hun
dreds of thousands of workers
participated in militant demon
STATIONS May First. An incoIn-
pIete list follows:
NEW YORK CITY. = 100000 ir
Union Square May Day demonstra-
ton; 100000 in parade. About 100000
in Madison Square.
PITTSBURGH, Pa-8,0O0 in pa
rade and demonstration.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-30,0O0 al
Reyburn Plaza for march to hide
pendence Square.
PATERSON, N. 1000 in DEM
onstration; 500 in parade.
STANFORD, Conn.-8o0 in DEM
cnstration.
BOSTON, Mass.-20,00o in demon
stration; $1,000 in parade.
PORTLAND, Ore.-4,o00 in DEM
onstration: 300 in parade.
HANCOCK. Mich 200 in DEM
onstration; 800 in parade.
LOUISVILLE. Ky.-Overflow May
Day meeting. No estimate Of num-
bers.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal-1O,00o ii
demonstration.
OAKLAND, Cal.-3,o0O in demon
stration.
SACRAMENTO, Cal.-2,OOO dem
onstrate.
LOS ANGELES, cal.-15,OoO III
demonstration.
CHICAGO, Ill.-20,000 in parade;
1880 at park, according to incom-
plete reports.
NORFOLK, Va.-1,000 in meeting
WORCESTER, Mass. = 5000 in
demonstration.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. = 400 in
demonstration.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. 5000 in
demonstration.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.-15, 900 in
demonstration; 1000 parade.
NEW ORLEANS, La. = 1000 in
demonstration.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. 1000 in
demonstration.
BUFFALO, N. Y.-5,50o in dem
onstration.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis. = 10000 in
demonstration; 5000 parade.
FAIRMONT, w. Va.-5oo in dem
onstration.
MORGANTOWN, w. Va. = 400
demonstrate.
CLARKSBURG, w. Va.-1OO dem
onstrate.
Usage, w. Va.-10o in demon
stration.
DETROIT, Mich.-1o,ooo in dem
onstration.
NEWARK, N. 5000 in demon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
DAILY Worker washington Bureau)

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, May 2.-Marcn
exports of scrap iron and steel, used
chiefly for war preparations,
amounted to 49, tons, the largest
ever recorded in any month the
Commerce Department announced
today. They accounted for 66 per
cent of the total tonnage exported.
Iron and steel products exported
from the United States in March,
the report says, reached the high
est volume levels for any month
since July, 1929, according to fig
ures compiled in the Commerce De-
partment's Iron and Steel Division
No attempt is made by officials to
conceal the fact that Japan, in
tensely interested in storing raw ma
terials for the manufacture of mum
tions, has been the big purchaser
THE Far East was, as usual, tae
chief foreign outlet for United
States iron and steel exports. March
shipments to that area accounting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Seamen Strike in
N. Y. for Pay Raise

NEW YORK.-The crew of the S.
S. Gypsum Prince struck on May
Day at the Staten Island Docks for
$3.50 a month increase in wages.
The strike is being carried on under
the leadership of the Marine Work
ers Industrial Union.
The seamen on the Gypsum
Prince were forced to work for $3.50
month by the owners of the ship.
Militant picketing of the dock
where the ship is tied up has caused
the shipowners to offer a IS increase
In wages, The men. however, are
continuing their strike for the sf25O
increaAa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
RooseveltArranges
HugeWarDisplayin
NY. Harbor May 81
President Will Review
Fleet of Battleships
and Airplanes

WASHINGTON, May "A great
lingo display intended to whip up
nationalist war fever, was an
nounced by Secretary of Navy
Swanson, who today announced
completion of arrangements for a
review by President Roosevelt of the
U. S. fleet in the New York harbor
May 81.
Roosevelt, COMMUNICATIVE Chief
of the Navy" will review the long
column of the greatest war machine
in the world from aboard the heavy
cruiser Indianapolis, with Swanson
and Admiral William H. STANDBY
off Ambrose Lightship.
Cruisers. destroyers, aircraft car
riers, battleships of all kinds, will
pass in review in the greatest dis
play of capitalist death dealing
power ever held.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Steel Men At
AL Meet For
Strike Action
Opposition Votes for
Action in All Steel
Mills

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 2.
The National Convention of
the Amalgamated Association
of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers CA. F. of L., under pres
sure of the rank and file opposition,
voted today that all lodges shall de-
mand recognition of the union, and
back up this demand by strike &C
ton, it is reported.
The deadline set by the conven-
ton, when the answer Of the steel
companies must be in the hands of
the union officials of each lodge,
was set for June 20.
The convention voted that each
lodge shall make formal demand on
its mill for recognition on May 81.
The decision included the provision
that in case some of the companies
grant recognition, no wage scale
snail De valid unless all other lodges
in the country are assured of similar
treatment.
The Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union had called on all
steel workers for a united front, re-
CARELESS of union membership, or
whether unorganized, to immedi-
ately prepare strike action in all
mills, and organize united front &C
ton committees on mill basis.
The rank and file opposition inside
the Amalgamated Association con-
vention, which has just adjourned,
has been fighting for such united
front strike preparation, and has
been combating the efforts of the
machine of Mike Tighe, head of the
A. A., to prevent any decisive strike
preparations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Decker Is Shot:
RYAN Eliminates
W age Demands
HG. UMWA Heads
in Secret accord
lUith Steel Trust

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May a.
The United Mine Workers Of
America officials are in secret
conference, endeavoring to de-
wise plans to sell out the 5000
ore miners who have aready
voted to strike on May 4.
The Tennessee Coal and Iron
Co. has made a secret settle
ment" of the strike of of the coal
miners with william Mitch, dis
trict U. M. w. A. head, under
which the company recognizes
only the U.M.W.A. officials, in
an effort to keep rank and file
control of their union away from
the coal miners.
The miners had refused to
carry out the U. M. w. A. occi-
Gals orders to return to work
under Roosevelt's N. r. A. order
that their wages be less than
wages paid Northern coal miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Hathaway Defes
atlanta Cop Who
Defends the XXX

ATLANTA, Ga, May 2.-When
Clarence Hathaway, editor of the
Daily Worker" addressing
May Day meeting here, men
toned the use of the Ku Klux
Khan by the bosses as a terroris-
tic weapon against the Negro
masses, he was halted by Chief
of Police T. o. Sturdivant, who
shouted:
stop, if you say another word
I'll take you out of here"
Hathaway defied the police
chief and continued his speech.
A Gordon of police was thrown
around the church in an attempt
to intimidate the workers from
attending.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Demonstrate May Day
Despite Fascist
Terror Rule
l DEAD IN SPAIN
Hundreds Hurt in India
May Day Cele-
bratiOns

PARIS, May 2.-Over 5000
workers, behind hastily set-up
barricades, fought police here
today in a demonstration pro-
testing against fascist terror
on May Day. Fighting began when
police tried to break up demCnstra-
tons in the working class sections
bordering the Rue Rationale and
the Rue Jeanne dare. Communist
speakers addressed the crowd and
the police sought to prevent them
from speaking. The workers resisted
the police, effectively fighting them
of, until more than 1000 were
massed against the demonstrators.
Near the place dItalie, in the
southern portion of Paris, the work
ers set up barbados to resist the
advance of the police. At least four
police were wounded. Many work.
ers were hurt, and scores arrested.
Only after tour-hour siege we're
the police, personally directed by
the Project Of Polite, Roger Lon
geron, able to smash up the DEM
onstration.
Special squads of police are now
securing Paris armed with mactine-
guns, bullet-proof shields, gas pis-
tolls. They raided apartments and
arrested many workers in an effort
to stop other demonstrations.
NEW YORK. - Capitalist news
paper cable reports from Berlin
gave a good indication why the
Nazis resorted to another incendiary
crime at Augsburg to cover up the
growing mass discomfort of the
workers and their hatred Of the
Fascist regime.
John Elliott, Berlin correspond
ent of the Herald-Tribune, report
ing the Tempelhof air held Nazi
May Day demonstration, where
100000 are alleged to have been
present, cabled:
"Hitlers speech was received with
lukewarm and scattered applause
by his predominantly working class
audience, which lent credence to the
assertion heard everywhere in Ber-
lin, that the many thousands of
civilian workers who were herded
into line and marched through
dusty streets to even dustier Tenn
pelhof Field were forced to DO SC
through fear of losing their jobs If
they stayed away"
MUNICH, May IA new cam
paign of terror has been opened up
CONTINUED on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Police Arrest Seven
Negro Workers in
Lake Charles
n. Y. MAY WALK OUT
Ryan Wants Only Union
Recognition
[See Editorial - The Long
shcremen's Strike" Page 6, Today

shcremen's Strike" Page 6, Today
NEW K.-Eighteen
thousand longshoremen went
on strike yesterday in Texas
and Louisiana gulf ports, with
the coastwise longshoremen
on the entire Atlantic sea-
coast expected to walk out
ioday.
In Lake Charles, La, where long
shoremen are striking for wage in
creases, shots were fired into a
crowd of lockers, and Murphy
Humphreys was killed. In an at
Tempt to cover up the crime, police
arrested several Negro workers.
The longshoremen in the Southern
ports had their wages cut through
the introduction of the piece-worS
system. They are demanding the
hourly rate and recognition of the
international Longshoremen's As
VOCATION.
Although Joseph P Ryan, Pres
tdent of the I. L. A., is issuing state
ments to the press attempting to
give the idea that he is heading the
strike movement, the movement
really developed over the heads of
;he union officials.
Ryan, in taking on the appearance
Of the leader Of the strike movement,
Is really attempting to head the
movement in order to behead it.
Already he has announced that
the inevitable strike on the New
York docks will not be over wages
and hours, but for union recogni-
lion. Ryan is thus trying to confine
The coming walkout to only the de-
nand for recognition and eliminate
all wage demands, for which the
Southern longshoremen really
truck.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03

ing some of the licensing features
OF the codes which introduce fric-
ton between various monopoly and
non-monopoly industrialists. On
the whole, he found the Roosevelt
program eminently satisfactory to
the biggest capitalist exploiters in
the United States.
Since Roosevelt took office, prof
its have risen from Is to 400 per
cent. Railroads, manufacturers re-
port the largest dividends in years.
Meanwhile, the cost of living has
risen at least Is per cent. COM
pletely erasing the slight pay rises
of the opening months of the N.
R. A., and effecting cut in the
real wages of all workers,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Biggest Wall Street Bosses
Find 'NeW Deal" A Blessing

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE
biggest industrial monopolists of
Wall Street, organized into the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, have examined the Roose-
welt New Dear program after a
year of operation and have found
it exceedingly good.
In speech before the 21st con-
vention of this body, which in
cludes some of the most reaction
airy capitalist interests in the coun-
try, President Henry L. Hartman
declared that as a result of Roose-
velt's measures conservative
optimism is now justified
Hartman criticized some of the
features of the New Deal, includ-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
123 Clergymen Favor
Communism in Survey
fspeciaI 10 the paiIy Workerl

NEW YORK, May Zone hun
dred and twenty-three ministers
voted for Communism, among the
10. 324 who voted for a form Of "co-
operative commonwealth" it was
learned here yesterday. Socialism
received 5,879 votes and Fascism Ill
votes. The answers were to ques-
tionnaire on war and economics,
sent out by representatives of a
dozen religious bodies.
Among the clergymen, 1899
voted against support of any war.
Reports came from 8,014 that they
could not serve conscientiously as
army chaplains during conflict.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
5000 Negro and White
Workers Fight Police,
Fascists In Birmingham
Alabama City Bristles With Arms, Banks Furnish
Armored Cars, Many Workers Are
Arrested and Held IncommunicadO

where the Scottsboro boys are held
in solitary confinement and daily
torture.
Fascist White Legion gangs ex-
ploded a bomb at the Sunshine
Laundry in sinister provocation
CONTINUED on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Hold Barricades
4 Hours; 1000
Meet In Austria
8 More Communists
Sentenced to Death
By German Ndzi Axe

HAMBURG, May Eight
more Communists we're sem
fenced to be beheaded today by
the Nazi Emergency Court as the
wave of terror spread by the
frenzied Hitler madmen against
the revolutionary workers con-
tinues.
The eight workers we're ac-
cused of terrorism" in 1882 and
1888. Nineteen other Commu-
nists were given prison terms up
to IS years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Especial 10 the Daily Worker

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May q
Five thousand Negro and white
workers surged into the streets on
May Day and constantly reformed
their ranks under the brutal attacks
of the biggest peacetime mobiliza-
ton of police, extra deputies, fas-
cist white Legion gangs and under
world elements organized by the
bosses of this city against the revo-
lutionary working class.
Three armored cars, loaned by
local banks, patrolled the streets
covering the demonstrators with
their machine guns. Machine guns
were mounted in the streets and
around the Jefferson County Jail
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Turn to Page 3
for additional
May Day Reports

Additional news of May Day
demonstrations throughout the
country will be found on page 3.
Because of the flood of kilograms
from all parts of the country, in
Guiding many places where May
Day demonstration were held
this year for the first time, it is
not possible to publish all the
news of these demonstration to-
day. Further news will be pub
lished in tomorrOw's Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
BULLETIN

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May r.
Lizzie johnson, a Negro worker,
is in the hospital with possible
fracture of the skull as result
of beating by the police dur
ing the May Day demonstration
here. Hosie Black, Negro youth,
and Jack Davis, white Bessemer
worker, are held without charges.
The International Labor Defense
attorney succeeded in smashing
the incommunicado order of the
police, saw the prisoners, and de-
manded their release or the plac-
ing of definite charges.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
600 Oil Workers
Vote To Strike

SEMINOLE, Okla, May 2. = Six
hundred union employees of the
Sinclair Prairie Oil Co., voted
unanimously to strike late last night
unless five demands are met.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03

stration; 300 in parade.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-15O in dem
onstration.
ARGO, I'll. - $50 at May Day
meeting.
DECATUR, I'LL, 900 in demon
stration.
WASHINGTON, D. GOO at
May Day meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Call Strike In
Cuba; Protest
May l Terror
Report 4 Dead; q Are
Wounded; U. S. En-
voy Is Involved
BULLETIN

HAVANA, Cuba, May "A gem
eraI strike lasting one hour has
been called here in protest against
the murderOus attack on the May
Day demonstration. Soldiers fired
at students who massed at the
Arts and Trades School in protest
against the shooting of workers on
May Day.
Especial TO the Daily WOrker)
HAVANA, Cuba, May 2 (By
Cable) The number of those MUIR
dered in the May Day demonstra-
ton by the Mendieta government
actively aided by U. S. militarists
is unknown today. -Four are said to
be dead. There is strict censor
ship on casualties, because the gov
eminent fears the actions of the
workers. Seventeen are known tc
be wounded, including one child
and four women.
Despite threats of massacre
10000 were in the march. The at
tack was deliberately prepared in
spite of the Equalization" of May
Day by the Mendieta government
at the last moment, under the most
tremendous mass pressure.
Shots were fired by soldiers sta
toned OF rooftops at orders of their
officers, at the Emergency hospi-
tai, the point of the largest mass
ing of the demonstration. The
marchers were bottled up. The
(Cnrti11ned nn Pnae y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03

Organize Daily Worker Sales
at Factory Gates!
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Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Heavy Profit Gains Are
Made at the Expense
of Working Men

help in raising every class issue
right in the teeth of the bankers
and industrialists.
Should Elect Communists
To assure themselves a voice in
the legislative citadels of capital
ism, the workers should vote and
elect Communist candidates to
municipal, state and federal offices.
The workers know that wherever
there has been Communist
elected to Office he has been in the
forefront of every struggle of the
workers, both employed and unem-
ployed.
In view of the growing acuteness
of the crisis the unemployed work
ers, especially, must support the
Communist candidates who are the
only ones pledged to fight for the
adoption of real unemployment in
Surance at the expense of the CAPT
alists and the federal government.
1t is fitting that one of the leaders
of the unemployed, one of the men
who as result of his experiences
in the daily struggles Of the unem-
ployed helped formulate the Work
ers' Bill, I. Amter, should be the
Communist candidate for Governor
of New York.
1t signifies that only the Com
munist Party is ready to solve the
problems that confront the unem-
ployed. Amter as Governor would
immediately swing into action 10
relieve the misery caused by the
crisis.
All over the country there are
other tried leaders of the unem-
ployed running for various offices.
They alone are ready to attack the
capitalists in The interests Of the
workers. Support your candidates!
Vote for the Party that fights for
your interests! Vote Communist!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Roosevelt Election Promises Prove False

Despite these low IeveE, of bust
ness and production the big trusts
are enjoying their greatest profits
since 1881.
The wage-cutting policy of the
N. R. A, the high prices brought on
by RooseVelt's policy of initiation,
and the growth of super monopoly
fostered by the New Deal, have all
contributed to the swollen profits
of the capitalists.
Profits Soar Upward
The Federal Reserve Board of
New York reports that 4O7 corpora
tons whose profits for the first six
months of 1882 were SIG, 000, 900, had
profits of 100000 during the first
half of 1888, and profits of $685.
100000 in the first six months of
1884.
This tremendous increase was
made at the expense of the workers.
Their wages were cut by the N. R.
A. codes. The cost of living went
up 1873 per cent since the inception
of the New Deal, according to re-
dictionary sources. The actual
amounts of food and clothing that
the workers could buy decreased as
these necessities sky-rocketed some
30 per cent. Thus the actual vol
ume of goods sold this year is less
than last year, due to the fall in
the real wages of the workers.
This growth of the acuteness of
the crisis has brought increased un-
employment. Even the Business
Bulletin of the, Cleveland Trust
Company admits an increase of
about 100000 in the number of the
unemployed from May to August.
The actual figures must be much
larger. On Oct. Is, in lis monthly
business letter, the A. F. of L. re-
ported that I'VE can hope for no
important gains in employment be-
fore next spring"
The ground is being prepared for
telling the workers the same old
bromide-that business will improve
in the spring, and then they will
get jobs. But the workers are