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Evening star., 1934-05-04
HARDWICk NAMED
TO CONDUCT PROBE
Former Georgia Legislator to In
vestigate Nazi and Un-Ameri-
can Activities.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Selection of Thomas w. Hardwick
former United States Senator and
Representative from Georgia, as coun-
sci for the Special House Commit
tee investigating NaN and other un-
American activities was made public
by Chairman Mccormack Of the
House Committee.
"The selection was made because
Senator Hardwick has the courage Of
his convictions" said Representative
Mccormack, a Massachusetts, Demo-
crat, in announcing the selection.
THE committee is very fortunate
to obtain his services. He Is an ex-
perienced investigator"
Hardwick told reporters:
1--WE are not going off half cooked
on this investigation. We will be sure
Of our ground before going into any
thing sensational"
The Special Committee is author
lied to investigate all subversive ac-
tivities and propaganda throughout
the country Hardwick said the study
would be "workmanlike and thor
ough."
Evening star., 1934-05-04

koff, commander Of the rescue ex-
pedition, which wrote new pages in
the history Of Arctic rescue work by
taking a party Of 90 men of the
shifting ice pack in airplanes. The
party was stranded when its ship
sank on a return trip from Wrangel
Island.
DIR. Schmidt still Is weak from the
effects Of bronchial pneumonia con-
tracted while on the ice. He will
seek medical treatment before return
ing to Russia.
Evening star., 1934-05-04

structure in two days. Defective
wiring was blamed for the first blaze.
Last nights flames broke out in the
basement and then swept through the
first floor, damaging the building to
the extent of about 81, 800.
The structure, located on the st.
Anselms Priory grounds, has not been
used for about five years.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
MYSTERIOUS BLAZE
AT SCHOOL PROBED
Fire Marshal Investigates Second
Fire in Building in
Two Days.

Fire Marshal Calvin G. LAUDER has
begun an investigation today into a
mysterious blaze that damaged the
old st. Gertrudes School Of Arts and
Crafts on Sargent road northeast last
night.
The fire, believed to have been Of
incendiary origin, was the second to
break out in the two-story frame
Evening star., 1934-05-04
BOXER IS SENTENCED
Given Three Years to Life in
Robbery and Assault.

LOS ANGELES, May 4 R.-Deny-
ing a motion for a new trial, Superior
Judge william C. Doran yesterday
sentenced Ramon Torres, "a, Mexican
Boxer, to serve from three years to
life In prison following his conviction
on second degree robbery, kidnapping
and criminal assault charges.
The defendant was convicted by q
jury Of kidnapping, robbing and as
saulting Mrs Corinne House, 23-year-
old housewife, last october 20, after
overpowering her husband and
brother.
Jimmy Smith, co-defendant, who
was arrested in Arizona with Torres,
has pleaded guilty and applied for
probation. A third defendant is being
sought.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
Scntland Owns Site.

A club in London has been found
to stand on land owned by Scotland
the site having been given by Saxon
King to a Scottish King, so that the
last named could build his palace
there for his yearly pilgrimage of
homage to the crown of England.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
DEATH HELD SUICIDE
Coroner Rules in Drowning Case
of Gilmer Nickel,

A certificate Of suicide was issued
yesterday by Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald in the case of Gilmer
Nickel. 38, of 1925 Fifteenth street,
who was drowned in Tidal Basin
Tuesday night after telling a woman
companion he was going to take q
swim and drive away the blues"
Police who recovered the body we're
told by Nickell's companion, Miss
Helen Frederick, 80, of the 1900 block
OF Rhode Island avenue, that Nickel
jumped into the water near Inlet
Bridge. They had parked there after
a drive to Alexandria, she said.
Efforts of the fire rescue squad to
revive him were futile.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
RESCUED RED ARRIVES

Leader Of Scientific Group, Lost
on Arctic Ice, in u. s.
SEATTLE, May 4 P.-Dr. Otto
Schmidt, leader Of the Soviet scientific
expedition, marooned by shipwreck
two months ago on the Siberian ice,
arrived here Wednesday night from
Nome. Alaska.
With him was Prof. George Usha-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Defend the Negro Masses

ENERGETIC, militant response should
IL be the instant reaction of every or
ganization of workers, intellectuals and
anti-fascists to the joint appeal issued by
the League of Struggle for Negro Rights,
the International Labor Defense and the
National Committee for the Defense of
Political Prisoners, for broadening and intensi-
fication of the fight for the freedom of Angelo
Herndon and the Scottsboro Boys and for the
defense and national liberation of the oppressed
Negro masses.
The savage persecution of the Negro masses
is measure of the oppression of the whole toll
ing population. It is no accident that the grow
ing fascist lynch terror and frame-ups against
Negroes are accompanied by an increasing use of
troops against strikers and the unemployed, by
fascist manhunts against militant workers on the
West Coast the ruthless trampling under foot of
the vital democratic rights of the people, white
and black in hideous attempt to drown in blood
the struggles of the working class and its allies
against hunger, fascism and imperialist These
attacks derive from common source: the deter
mination of the capitalist class to maintain at
all costs its lettering rule of oppression, plumber
ing and murder.
The toiling masses, white and Negro, have
common enemy They must build a united front
Of joint struggle against that enemy, forging the
weapon of militant unity in the struggle for their
immediate demands, for unemployment relief, for
better conditions the job for decent wages, for
the right to organize in unions Of their own choice
and for complete equality for Negroes in all parts
of the country for the right Of the Negro ma ores
in the BLACK Belt" Of the South to decide and
control the form of government in that territory
and for the revolutionary overthrow of the jim
capitalist system Of permanent mass unem-
poyment, of hunger, misery and impcralist war.
In this fight, the Communists and the revolu-
tonary trade unions must play a leading role.
Into every shop, organization and neighborhood,
they must carry the message of the fighting soil
darity of Negro and white toilers, organizing
Emergency Conferences in every city, and mighty
nationwide demonstrations on August % for the
freedom of the Scottsboro Boys, Angelo Herndon
Ernst Thaelmann and all victims of capitalist jus
tice. They must organize mass violations of all
jin-crow laws and practices designed to humiiate
and isolate the Negro masses. They must rally
even broader masses of the white population to
the defense Of the oppressed Negro people and for
the national revolutionary Liberation struggles of
the Negro masses in this country, as we'll as ac-
tive support for the revolutionary struggles of the
colonial masses in Africa, Haiti, the Philippines
etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Ship Company Recruits
Scabs in n. Y. Office,
Says Marine Engineer

NEW K.-That the Amer
lean Mail Steamship Company is
recruiting scab engineers at their
office on 21st Etreet was revealed
by marine engineer, formerly a
member of the M.EB.A.
The engineer reported to the
Daily Worker on Saturday as fol-
lows:
early Saturday morning a num-
Der of the fellows living in the
boarding house where live received
kilograms from the American Mail
Steamship Company, offering jobs.
1 received a telegram saying Please
calm regard to an engineers
position l called that number and
was told to come to the American
Mail office, Room It'll on 81 West
Street.
"The agent there frankly sought
to hire me as strikebreaker for
Seattle. He said they were getting
crews from the East Coast. He said
it wasn't really strike situation
out there. He offered me 25 per
cent increase in wages.
81 refused. There were number
of others in the office, however, and
I saw three of them hired as strike
breakers. One of them told me they
were to leave at 3 o. m, SATURDAY.,
by plane
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
A BLOW at War

THE Daily Worker has torn another
mask off the face of Roosevelt Wall
Street imperialism!
In Saturdays anti-war issue we re-
produced the full text of the War Depart
ment letter to the capitalist press on the
preparations for tremendous war man
oeuvers of the Army to be held in September.
The information of these manoeuvars was not
to be made public until the middle of August the
War Department letter specifically warning the
press "that publicity be given this exercise until
after the issue of the first official release by the
War Department which will be transmitted to you
ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST tour en-
phasis-D. VIZ"
But the capitalist press, the Herald Tribune and
the New York Times are forced to print the story
yesterday since the Daily Worker has already re-
vealed the war manoeuvers to the eyes of the
masses!
The Daily Worker, the paper of the revolution
airy working class bares the lies and secret war
preparations of the Roosevelt government! The
most powerful capitalist papers must follow sheep
ishly behind in an effort to hide the militarist
nakedness of the Roosevelt war machine!
I ENIN taught us that it is revolutionary task
to expose with merciless persistence the day-to-
day SECRET WAR PREPARATIONS by which
every capitalist government prepares to plunge the
masses into the horrors and miseries of imperalist
war
The Daily Worker by its exposure of the War
Department, is fulfilling its duty to the working
class in this respect 1t has struck blow at the
Roosevelt machine.
Barring the hideous face of Roosevelt, it
calls upon the masses and all haters of war to
gather on August 1st, in mighty demonstrations
throughout the country against the twin capitalist
monsters of imperialist war and fascism!
The Daily Worker is proving itself as the weapon
of the working class. The spreading Of the Dolly
Worker deep into the ranks Of the masses in the
centers of heavy industry particularly, is reroiu-
tionary duty Of the first Importance Garry the
Daily Worker into the factoriesi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30

of the defense nature of "our Navy"
Our nations policy seeks peace and not i'm
perialistic aims" he said with quite conscious
falsehood.
What the purpose of the manoeuvers
in the Pacific around Hawaii? To show Japanese
imperialism that Wall Street is ready to defend
and increase its share of the Far Eastern loot,
ready to crush the Soviet districts of China.
Roosevelt has built up the most tremendous
war machine in the history of the country He is
getting ready to use it for wrestling the leader
ship in the world markets from British and Jspa-
nese Imperialism.
And he will again seek to cnoroform the masses
with the old WIlsonian tgipe about democracy"
and "our civilization" the masses who are op-
pressed by the capitalist state defending wage
slavery, Every other imperislist power is doing
the same. The Soviet Union alone, having smashed
the Czarist imperialism, fights for peace
The Communist Party is the only force lead
ing the fight against the war makers. 1t calls
for tremendous outpouring of the people into
the streets III August l, as warning to the Wall
Street war makers that the masses will not endure
the miseries of imperialst war to profit the bill
lonaires.
For International solidarity Of all who toll!
Against the poison of chauvinism and fascist race
hatred Against imperialst war! Defend the
Soviet Union and Soviet Chna
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Cuban Youth Returning
From U. S. S. r. Jailed
For Lectures On Trip

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (By
MaiD The arrest here of Garcia
Merino, member of the Cuban
Youth Delegation recently returned
from the Soviet Union is the result
Of the fear with which the govern
ment views the enthusiasm and in
terest his lectures on the life of
the workers in the U.S.SR. are
arousing in the Cuban masses.
He was arrested during a lecture
given at the Academia of Arts, and
is being held in the Municipal Vivas
of Santiago, together with 70 other
political prisoners. Vivas is built
to hold 40 prisoners, and Is at pres
ent holding over 49, Malaria is
spreading among the inmates who
have only the floors of their cells
to sleep on.
Merino, who was sent to the
Soviet Union as a representative of
the students of the Havana Trades
School, has been reporting before
enthusiastic audiences of young
workers and students, and has scen
modifying them in support of the
National Congress against War,
Fascism and Intervention, to take
place in Havana on August l.
In Havana, the youth delegation
to the Soviet Union has reported
before thousands of workers, in
conferences carried through inside
the shops, especially in the tobacco
industry. 1t has been swamped
with demands for lectures by fac
tories and organizations. 1t is no
wonder that the government grows
fearful.
Protests demanding the. freedom
of Merino and all other working
class prisoners, students and anti
imperialists held in the Santiago
jail, should be sent to Matos Brito,
Alcalde Municipal, Santiago de
Cuba, and to Fuljencio Batista,
Camp Columbia, Havana.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Nasi Putsch Portends World Explosion

venture suffered defeat, but the
Dollfuss clerical fascist regime has
not conquered either.
Austrian events show how weak
and unstable is the foundation of
the regime built over the remains
of the February fighters. At the
same time, events in Austria show
the aggravation of imperialist con-
tradic ions which converted this
small country into the Balkans of
Europe.
"The Nazi putsch Is criminal
adventure attempt upon the peace
of Europe. The suppression of the
putsch. and the formation of the
new Schuschnigg government GER
tainly does not solve the Aus rian
problem
Internal Crisis Will Grow
THE Fascist regime in Austria
has no mass basis while it has
earned the deepest hatred of the
working class and all toilers. 1t is
compelled to seek support among
the kulak erich farner) element in
the rural districts, and the Helm
wehr, police and army.
THE failure of the putsch will
not stop the development of the
internal crisis in Austria, while the
war between the camps Of the Fas-
cist bourgeoisie will continue to
hasten the ripening of the revolu-
tionary forces of the heroic Aus
trian working class.
THE appointment of Schuschnigg
and number of other factors tes-
tify to the strengthening of the
elements in the leadership of the
Austrian bourgeoisie which are
striving to restore the Hapsburg
monarchy. This the aim of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Coast Fascist Group
Appeals for Recruits

SANTA CLARA, Calf, July 20
A fascist organization, known as the
Committee of Safety of Santa Clara
County, Calf, has taken full
page ad in the San Jose News to
appeal for members.
The committee goes into some to
explain what a Communist is" and
to give it's oath of allegiance"
Part of the ad is an application
blank, where the aspiring fascist is
asked to state his name, occupation,
residence, home and business
phone number, employer df any
and two references.
The fascist organization has set
up headquarters in the Chamber of
Commerce Building in San Jose.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
International Conflicts
Seen Sharpening
Day by Day
by Burck

big bourgeoisie, the landowners, the
Catholic church and the highest
government bureaucracy, as well as
of the general officers corps.
Serious Complications
However, not only the anschluss
or unification of Austria, but also
the attempt to restore the Haps-
burg monarchy threatens the most
serious complications in Eastern
Europe.
Undoubtedly the struggle be-
tween Italy, France and Germany
for power and influence in Austria
will inevitably lead to ever greater
aggrayation of the conflicts.
But the chief importance of the
Vienna events consists in that they
demonstrated before the whole
world the essence of National So
cialist' methods and its adherents.
This is a case of the most danger
Gus adventures who yesterday
were shooting their closest adher-
ents, and today are killing the head
of foreign state. Tomorrow they
may throw torch into the powder
magazine of Europe.
"All this must be remembered
today on the date when 20 years
ago the Austro- Hungarian ruling
clique melted and propelled by Ger
man imperialism imposed war upon
Serbia, especially now when Ger
man fascism is pushing the world
again toward the abyss"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Pravda Sees Coup as g
Long Planned Move
of Hitlerites
Especial to the Daily Worker)
4 LAnn0NNL L l..r.


MOSCOW, July % by wireless)
Declaring that the Nazi armed
adventure in Austria was carefully
prepared, "Pravda," central organ
of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union, prints a special ar
ticle on the Austrian civil war.
1.-THE moment chosen for the
blow says "Pravda,' Smells of
lengthy preparations which pre-
coded. 1t shows that the putschists
sought the definite aim of over
throwing the Dollfuss government
which struggled against the an
schluss union with Germany.
THE Nazi forces could decide to
act while possessing insignificant
forces because they knew how weak
and unstable was the position of
the Fascist Dollfuss regime. The
brave" strangers of the Vienna
workers struggle in the February
days were so frightened at seeing
some scores of armed putschists in
the government building that they
expressed their full readiness to
send them, with expenses paid, to
the German frontier. And the no
less brave putschists Immediately
agreed.
Austrian Regime Has Not Won
"But at any rate, the Austrian
events are of significant Importance.
1.-THE anschluss would create the
menace of war. The Nazis under-
took the most dangerous adventure
against European peace. The ad-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30

NEW YORK. - A mass send-o1
demonst.a ton, led by supporting
organizations of the United Confer
ence on Work, Relief and Unemploy-
ment, will be held today at 5 pm,
at pier SO (1lth Ave. and 18th ST.
for the New York delegates to
Albany.
The delegates from relief workers
organizations, trade unions, unem-
ployed and veterans groups will
present the demands of the New
York jobless to Gov. Lehman for
enactment by the special session of
the state legislature. The demands
include enactment of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill, abro-
cation of the bankers agreement,
which limits relief expenditures, and
enactment of the Workers and
Farmers Bill against foreclosures
and evictions.
The delegation from New York.
which is headed by James Gaynor,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Speed United
An ascisi
Fight inFrance

PARIS, July 2e-After two week
of negotiations and tentative agree,
ment. the united front pact agains
war and fascism was signed Sat.
urday by representatives of th'
Communist Party and socislis
Party of France.
Action against fascism and tn;
tremendously rising danger of wal
will take place throughout France
now through meetings, demonstra-
tons, and anti-fascist counter-dem-
onstrations under the joint aus
pices of the Communist Party anc
Socialist Party.
The united front proposal was
originally and repeatedly directed tc
the Socialist Party, but was finally
accepted only two weeks ago. After
a series of conferences, the united
front proposals were put down in
writing and signed by representa-
tives of both parties.
The central objective of the united
front is stated as follows:
Each Party pledges itself to
organize in common and to par
ticipate with all its resources
organizations, press, elected del
egates, etc. in campaign
thrOught the country, having for
its aim: (a) to mobilize the work
ing class population against the
fascist organizations in France,
for their disarmament and dis
solution; (b) against the govern
ment decree-laws (Similar to
ROOSevelt's N. r. A. attacks on
the American workers.; (c)
against Hitler terror, for the
liberation of Ernst Thaelmann
(held by Hitler, Karl Seitz (Aus-
trian Socialist, and all other
ani-fascist prisoners"
Among the conditions set down
for the united front are the fol-
lowing;
while this united action agree
nent is in force, the two parties will
abstain from attacking, insulting OF
criticizing the organizations ano
members participating Loyalty in
this united action; nevertheless
each Party will maintain its COM
plete independence in order to de-
velop its propaganda and assure its
own recruiting"
1t is further agreed that "in the
interest Of united action, each party
reserves the right to denounce those
who, having made these definite
pledges, tend to evade the applica-
ton thereof, as well as those who
during the action take an attitude
or commit acts which may be detri-
mental to the success of the ac-
tivities engaged in"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Give Send-Off at Pier Today
To Albany Mass Delegation

of the United Action Con-
ference, and Emanuel Levine, ma
tional chairman of the Workers Ex-
Servicemens League, will meet with
similar delegations from upstate
cities.
At the time when the statewide
delegation presents the workers de-
mands to Gov. Lehman in Albany, a
similar delegation headed by William
Fox, PRESIDENT of the Associated
Office and Professional Emergency
Employees; Michael Davidow, secre-
tary of the Relief Workers League,
and Franklin Folsom, editor of the
Hunger Fighter, will present he
demands of the New York workers to
the mayor and the board of esti-
mate on Tuesday morning, July 81,
when the board of estimate meets
to vote on relief appropriations for
the month of August. Workers are
urged to pack the board of estimate
chambers at the City Hail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-30
Newspaper Jingoisn

IN THE twentieth anniversary of the
" World War, the capitalist press of
America, taking its cue from the Roose-
welt government, poured flood of jingo-
istic war propaganda over the country.
On every side there was pious horror
at the slaughter of war = but poisoned
with the moral and armed preparation for the
next world imperialist slaughter.
The war propaganda of the Wall Street i'm
perialists, led by Roosevelt, is cunningly attuned
to the moods of the masses. The hatred for
is deeply ingrained in the hearts of the masses.
1t is therefore the task Of the impenalist
makers to pretend opposition to war in order to
better implant the virus of chsuvinisn.
EVERY single capitalist sheet in this country has
been model of this insidous technique
The New York Times, for example well
the Hearst press throughout the country sounded
once again the infamous lies about the fight for
democracy" and the glory of free people who
fought for their ideals'-al the rotten hypocrises
with which the Wall Street enlistment agents
tricked or drafted forcibly the best sons of the
American working class into the immense butcher
machine of the imperiaIist battlefields.
Net word of the false promises, of the cynical
treacheries of the real truth-that the last
was an imperlallst slaughter Tor re-diy1slon OF
colonial plumber among the biggest imperialist
countries.
Not word of the fact that the very same CAPT
talist parasites are now buster than ever building
the biggest war machine in the history of the
country for use in the future against the
Soviet Union. against the Chinese revolution, and
agai~-t tho ui0--v masses here at homei
re YES ~ Gay lesying the Hawaii naval
Ease of American imperialism spoke hypocriticaly