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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24

The speeches of the leadership
carefully avoided the mention of
the N. R. A, May Day or War. The
major discussion was confined to
where the next state headquarters
should be, in Springfield or Chi
cago, and how much of the branch
quotas we're realized. However, the
resolutions indicated definitely that
there is a ferment going on in the
ranks of the Socialist Party. More
radical phrases are demanded. The
effects of the N. r. A. have eaten
into the vitals of the working class,
the strike breaking program of
Roosevelt threatens to deprive the
workers of the slightest gains. The
crisis is sharpening. The illusions
are being shattered.
The Socialist Party, in order to
play its role as agent of the CAPT
talist class within the ranks of the
workers, must change its front. 1t
must adopt more left" phrases to
paralyze action. And so a resolu-
ton against the N. r. A. as a left"
maneuyer and an endorsement of
the A. f. of L. which is part and
parcel of the N. R. A. machinery,
carrying out its work in the labor
movement, as the right action
maneuver. A true division of labor
between the A. F. Of L. officialdom
and the right and left in the
Socialist Party.
"Socialism"-But No Struggle
The evening mass meeting even
showed more clearly the role of the
left" and the change in front of
the Socialist leadership. One hun
dred and fifty persons, miners and
delegates, were present. Professor
Kruger went into ecstacy about
Socialism. He told the workers how
much they want Socialism, but not
a word about struggles, not word
about the NJ r. A.. not a word
about the miners and their strug-
giles against the officialdom of the
P. M A. and U. NJ. w. A. The
interest of the entire meeting was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24

turned to the questions directed at
the professor at the close of his
speech. The workers wanted to
know what was the position of the
Socialist Party on the N. r. A. Here
the professor betrayed his share in
the division of labor to keep the
masses from struggle. He vehem-
emily denounced the N. R. A. The
workers asked Professor Krueegr
why it is that the Socialist Party
leaders congratulated the President
and called the N. r. A. the eman-
cipator of labor? Why it is, that
he, Professor Kruger, in his speech
in Paris, stated that the N. r. A.
and Roosevelt were leading Amer
lea to Socialism? The professor
was confronted with the prelimin-
airy agenda printed in the Mil
waukee Leader" which reads as
follows:
"In common with the rest of
labor, the Socialist Party sympa-
thizes with all efforts aimed at
recovery, and the restoration of
jobs to the unemployed. 1t well
comes the N. r. A. as move
ment in that direction"
The professor denied all of the
above assertions. He stated that
the Socialist Party was always
against the N. r. A., that he had
made no such statement in Paris
and that the preliminary agenda
was going to be rejected at the
Convention of the Socialist Party.
He did not explain why the prelim-
mary agends was written and why
his signature was affixed to the
same agenda, and, above all, why
the change in front.
The pressure of the workers for
an answer to these questions caused
the Socialist Party leaders to call
off the meeting. The workers, how
ever, did not leave. The Commu-
nists were among them, discussing
and explaining the various issues
which Professor Kruger did not
dare to face.
Professor KRUGER, and the entire
convention, very anxiousIy avoided
any discussion on the N r. A.
When forced, they gave fake oppo-
sition to the N r. A., lip service to
Socialism, but no program for
struggle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24
"HeU Raised Here
Alabama Miner Says;
Sends 81 for Daily

NEW YORK. - Though suf-
fering great privation, an Ala
bama coal miner in Ensley sends
81 to the Daily Worker to help
insure the circulation of the
paper among the Negro and
white miners valiantly battling
against the differential wage
rates in the South.
Dear Comrade," he writes. 81
am sorry that I amt got any
more money to send you. But
I just can't get the money. The
workers amt got it. Every coal
mine in Birmingham and the
Tel. Tennessee Coal e. Iron
Coz has gone on strike now,
and there is hell raising around
here. It's the biggest strike ever
been here, and the workers are
making it hot for the scabs. Just
wanted to point out a word to
you about the T.CI. strike. So
here is one dollar. I will send
some more just as soon as I can
get it. We are working in a
hurry now in this strike. So
that is all now"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24
PriSOnHeadS Again
Deny Medical Aid
To Angelo HerndOn
Georgia Jailers Break
Promise; Powerful Mass
Protest Necessary

ATLANTA. Ga, April 23.-Fulton
Tower prison authorities are trying
to squirm out Of the promise made
by DR.. Blalock. prison doctor, last
week, for an immediate end
thorough examination Of Angelo
Herndon and his immediate removal
to hospital.
Suddenly announcing that An
gelo Herndon is a special prisoner, -
and that he canot be given a med
zeal examination without a court
order, DR.. Blalock has postponed the
promised X-ray until Monday at
the earliest"
Meanwhile, Herndon is suffering
from serious lung infection, which
may be tuberculosis, anaemia, con-
slant pains in the abdomen and
rheumatic pains. A white woman
doctor who made a preliminary ex-
animation has expressed the opinion
that more serious disorders will be
discovered as soon as a more thor
ough examination can be made.
He is also being deprived of liter
nature sent him by spmpathizers,
although there is no official censor
ship of literature received by pris-
oners. Copies of books and maya
zines, including the April Labor De-
fender, which carries a dramatic
appeal for action to free Herndon,
have been withheld.
The International Labor Defense
has called for an intensification of
the campaign of kilograms and let
tiers demanding medical treatment
and care under the supervision of
private physicians, recognition of his
rights as political prisoner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24
clearinghouse Men
Repudiate A. F. L.,
Join with T.U.U.L.
Magil Outlines Policy of
Industrial Union in
Detroit Meeting

DETROIT, April 23.-Efforts Of
an American Federation of Labc,
business agent to disrupt meeting
of packinghouse workers and fright
en- them away from aflliating with
the Trade Union Unity League
were decisively defeated at meet
ing when workers from the floor
exposed the betrayal policies of the
A. F. of L. leadership.
The meeting held last Wednesday
was attended by about 80 workers
men and women, who decided tc
launch a packinghouse workers
local and join the Food Workers In
dustrial Union, affiliated with the
T.U.UL. The spirit of the meet
ing was unusually militant. Many
Of those present had previously
joined the A. F. Of L., but after
attending a few meetings, had TORI
up their membership cards in dis
gust. 1t was their experience with
the A. F. of L. leaders that had
proven the incentive for joining a
militant rank and file union.
A. B. Magil, of the Trade Union
Unity League, outlined the program
and policies of the Food Workers
Industrial Union and exposed the
role of the A. F. of L. offcialdom
and of the Regional Labor Board
During the discussion an A. F. OF
L. business agent got up and began
asking questions designed to scare
the workers away from union or
gani5ation He wanted to know what
could be done If the union started
organizing in factory and the COM
pany began firing the members. 1t
was pointed out that only by build
ing the union and setting up united
committees of action to include both
union and non-union workers could
the workers jobs be protected and
the blacklist defeated.
The business agent then tried to
discredit militant action by coming
to the defense of the Regional Labor
Board. He declared that a number
of drivers of the c F. Smith chain
store. who had been fired for union
activity, were reinstated by the labor
board. Workers got up on the floor
however, and pointed out that the
only reason the drivers had been
reinstated was that the labor board
feared the men would strike and
Furthermore, not all the drivers had
been taken back The A. F. of L.
official was compelled to shut up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24
Florida Unemployed,
Negro and White
Demonstrate

TAMPA, Fla, April 23.-Nesrlv
1000 Negro and white workers
marched 10 the Federal Pehef Ad-
ministrstion offices here. last week.
and demonstrated for two hours de-
handing Jobs and relief
The committee Of the workers de-
manded workers representation or
the relief administration, recognition
Of elected grievance committees Of
the workers, increased relief to the
amount spent prior to April Is. nc
forced labor, and free rent. gas, light
and clothing to the families Of the
unemployed.
terra director H. S. Biddle, wher
forced to meet with the workers
delegates, was forced to wire the
workers demands to the Washing.
ton and the state relief Offices.
Relief in Tampa. Biddle indicated
would only total 1894 for each IN
employed person during the month
Of April, less the tremendous over
head expenses.
I'VE have about 1900 persons on
relief in Hillsborough County" Bid
die said. "Au these and their de-
pendents mean 2 relief load Of about
100000 men and women. For the
relief of these I have been allowed
S394,019 for this month. Figure it
out for yourselves-it means about
81 for each man, woman and child"
This amounts to about one-half
Of the expenditure previous to April
lst Biddle attempted to thrust the
entire blame on Washington and
the state relief administration.
The workers committee demanded
that hazards on the jobs be elimi-
mated. On one Job in the eastern end
Of Tampa. the workers had beer
forced to work in a wet ditch near
the carcass of a dead COW. AS 8
result, sores broke out on the legs o.
the men.
To this Biddle replied, You have
little worry now about work hazards
Don't you know that CW~A. is
dead?"
When the workers delegation re-
ported back to the workers assem-
bled on the streets below. hundreds
of police, detectives, county deputies
and members of the American
Legion circulated through the crowd
to intimidate the workers
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, April 23.-
Four hundred former C.W.A, work
ers now employed on work relief
jobs struck on the job here last
week demanding continuation and
extension Of C.WA. to provide Job:
at minimum of SIS week to all
unemployed workers.
A strike committee of so includ-
ing women workers, has been elect
ed, and attempts are being made to
pull out the entire county Picket
lines have been established, many Of
the workers coming three miles
from their homes to be on the mass
picket line
Three thousand leaflets are be-
ing distributed throughout the
county to pull al the workers out on
strike.
The strikers demand C.W.A Jobs
or equal cash relief to all iobless
workers: no discrimination to Negro
and foreign born workers; no forced
labor, the right to organize and rec
ognition of the union; the abolition
of the Iowa Criminal Syndicalism
law, and the endorsement of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill (H.R. 1899.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24
Open Membership Meet
Called by Sec. 10, C. P.

NEW YORK.-An open member
ship meeting of Party and nom
Party members, organized by Sec
ton 10 of the Communist Party, will
be held on Thursday, April 26th,
7.30 p. m, at Masonic Temple, Alps
58th Street, Woodside, L. l., at
which the Eighth National Con-
vention of the Communist Party,
U. S. A., will be discussed.
All members of working class or
CARNATIONS, friends and synpathiz-
ers of the Communist Party, are
urged to attend this important
meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24
BY ANN BURLAK

AS one of the Atlanta Six" de-
PENDANTS, who is also faced with
the death penalty for daring to
organize the Negro and white work
ers of Georgia, I appeal to every
American Negro and white worker,
to every sympathizer to raise aloft
the demand angelo Herndon must
be freed"
After the famous March 6. 1890
unemployed demonstrations, six Of
us Negro and white workers we're
arrested in Atlanta and incarcerated
in the Fulton Towers on the charge
of "inciting to instruction against
the state of Georgia" At that time,
John H Hudson, assistant solicitor
general, stated "the Communists
must be put down or civilization will
fall. 1 see nothing but death
penalty law rigidly enforced that
will destroy Communism"
Living Death on Chain Gang
1t was this blood-seeking indi-
vidual who dug up the old insur-
rection law. which had not been
used since the Civil War 1t is this
man, who yelped for our blood, when
we (Ann Burlak, Mary Dalton, Her
bert Newton, Henry Storey, Joe
Carr and M. H. Powers who were
arraingned for trial in the spring Of
1890 1t was this same John H.
Hudson. who in 1892 prosecuted An
gelo Herndon and demanded that
our comrade be sentenced to death
because he dared to organize the
workers of Georgia to fight for I'm
employment Relief.
Although Herndon was not SEN
fenced to be burned to death in
an electric chair. he was sentenced
to a living death-"18 to 20 years
on the chain gang" Consider this
sentence for a moment, fellow work
ers; 20 years on the chain gang, 20
years with heavy chains attached
to the ankles day and night, 20
years in a filthy, disease-infested
barracks under a scorching Southern
sun. 20 years of constant beatings
by brutal guards. Doesn't it make
your blood boil? Doesn't it arouse
in you a desire to take immediate
action to abolish the vicious chain
gang system, to free our brave Com
rade Herndon?
Held in Damp Dungeon
Angelo Herndon's case has been
appealed to the State Supreme
Court of Georgia. but he is being
held without bail in the Fulton
Towers. Workers, do you know
what the Fulton Towers is? The
atlanta Six" defendants know.
Some of us spent to u weeks In
that prison. 1t is not an ordinary
jail, of the type one finds in many
Northern cities. 1t is an old stone,
damp, filthy dungeon of the type
that existed in the medieval days.
Prisoners are not even served
half-decent food, but some revolving
mixtures on rusty pans, the sight
of which turns ones stomach. We
were kept in one room with all
types of degenerates, syphilytics,
and even insane prisoners. We were
prevented from getting any reading
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24
Medical Exam Used
To Blacklist Dock
Workers in Duluth

DULUTH. MINI. April 23.-Dock
workers of the Great Lakes Transit
Co. reporting for work are being
told that they must submit to an
other medical examination such as
they had to undergo last spring.
A year ago the company black
listed % union members by means
Of fake doctors examination.
The dock unit of the Communist
Party has issued leaflets to the dock
workers urging them to fight against
the examinations, which in reality
are part of the company's black
list scheme.
The leaflet urges the workers tc
prepare to strike for a 25 per cent
increase in wages and time and a
half for overtime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24

material. It was maddening. even
for those few weeks. Today these
same jailers are running Angelo
Herndon's health. They are trying
to break him physically, since they
have been unable to break his
spirit.
What Is Our Answer?
Angelo Herndon challenged his
prosecutors with the words. You
may kill Angelo Herndon, but you
can never kill the cause for which
Herndon stands" These words were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24
Bronx Clubs To Protest
Interference by Police
in Bronx Court Today

NEW YORK. - All the worker
clubs in the Bronx and Harlem have
united in mass protest against
police interference In worker affairs,
after the summoning of Irving Sells,
one Of the militant leaders of the
fremont Progressive Club, to appear
in the City Magistrates Court, 161st
st. and Washington Ave. in the
Bronx, this morning at 9 o'clock.
These clubs call upon all workers
organizations in New York to pack
the court this morning as a protest
against police interference and to
fight for the freedom of running
dances and lectures without dis
turbance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24
Tampa, Fla. Jobless
March on City Hall;
IOwaCWAMenSt
St. Paul Unemployed
Enforce Partial
Demands

ST. PAUL. MINI. April %
More than 1000 workers demon
strated in front Of the court house.
demanding continuation Of the c.
W A. Jobs at union wages, a stop
to the R.WA, forced labor schemes.
an increase in direct relief and
for the Workers Unemployment
and Social Insurance Bill n. r.
1899.
At one time when the committee
was delayed inside the workers
rushed the court house doors, de-
handing that the City Council give
an immediate answer to the COM
mittee on the demands. The City
Council was forced to endorse most
Of the demands. The Farmer
Labor Mayor, Mahoney, and the
Councilman refused to endorse the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill under the excuse
that they will have to study the
bill.
The workers demanded that the
endorsement of the demands should
not remain just empty promises. but
that immediate action be taken to
carry these demands into action.
The workers are now preparing for
big May Day demonstration.
which will be held at the same
place at pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24
5000 Agricultural
Men in Cal. Strike
For Higher Wages
Workers 100 Per Cent Solid Despite the Terror
of VigiIante Bands

SAN FRANCISCO Ca.-Three thousand agricultural
workers in the pea field Of Salinas Valley California re-
Gently went strike in spite of the fact that in all agr
cultural strikes here there has been extreme police and
vgilante terror.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24

Down tools May LIST! Rally the
fight against the NR.A's attacks
on living standards and workers
organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24

We will mail copies of the "a
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Daily" to your friends. Send us
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24

Down tools May 1 against the
Wagner strikebreaking bill and
for the workers right TO strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24

HARRY CANNES speaks on The Men
ace Of Fsscismr at the Henri Bsrbusss
Br LID. ss4 Columbus Ave, Tuesday
April ~, $50 pm. Adm. 15c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24
Free HerndOn,' appeals
Ann BurLak, Union Head.
Fulton Towers, HellhOle of South, Is Breaking
HerndOn's Health; Facing Heavy Sentence
Herself in Atlanta JObIess Case

Note. - Ann Burlak. National
Secretary Of the National Textile
Workers Union, is one of the six
defendants in Atlanta, Ga. who
faces 2. death penalty on charges
Of 'inciting to insurrectiOn against
the state of Georgia" because
they organized the Negro and
white workers and led the March
6, 1890 demonstration against I'M
employment. Comrade Burlak has
written the following appeal for
the release of Angelo HerndOn
who is in Futon Towers. held with
ont bail, already sentenced TO
serve is to 20 years on the chain
gang Ia life sentencel because he
led the fight Of the workers
against unemployment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24
Manitowoc Relief Strike

+ MANITOWOC, wise. A few
minutes after a local F. E r. A.
project here got under way, more
than half Of the 80 workers walked
off the Job, demanding guaranteed
minimum wages of $3.50 week,
no firing or victimization of work
erS, cash relief, and the enactment
Of the Workers Bill H. r. 1898.
The workers are planning a mass
march on the City Hall under the
leadership Of the Unemployment
Councils.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24

CINCINNATI, Ohio,-The Mill St.
Local of the Unemployment Coun-
ellis formed q committee of % work
ers to go to the charities and pre-
sent the grievances of the workers
in the neighborhood. Relief was
won for the twenty cases presented.
In the charities at Elizabeth and
Mound SITS, George Collier, Negro
worker and leader of the unem-
ployed workers in the West End,
was leader of the committee.
The Mill st, Local is very active.
Forty-five workers were present at
the last meeting. 1t meets every
Tuesday at 730 p. m. at Alb Mill St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24
Norwalk Relief WORKERS Strike

NORWALK, Conn.-The seventy
relief workers on the P.W.A. Water
Works project here struck last week
demanding the full wages allowed
on the job The job is farmed out
to the Barbara and Durio Co., con-
tractors, who pay so cents an hour
instead of 60 cents.
An elected strike committee is
calling for mass picket line at the
project. The water commissioner,
M. Riordan, has threatened to re-
place the men by machines, and to
import outside labor in attempts to
break the strike.
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF VIRGIN Of THE
CHRlSTIANSTED SUB-JUDlCIAL DISTRICT.
IN TIE MATER OF THE ESTATE OF NO JUNE TERM 1884
EkNESl MUCKLE. DECEASED CITATION.

Geo EbbeseO Executor
sufficient of
DandD
in
day OF D9S4 10 O'Clock
No
Street, all
Andi sfufther ORDERED
of
Clerko of the Court
Witness hand the of Oct 1884
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