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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
1000 Washington
Carpenters Strike
Demand $l.37 an Hr. !;
Reject Arbitration

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, May 3.-Forma-
ton of a broad strike committee
to see that workers demands are
won and to prevent strike-breaking
moves by International President
William Hutchinson, is urged by
the Rank and File Committee in
the strike of 1000 Washington car
penters. A leaflet is being issued
urging the strikers to stand firm for
a return to the $137 an hour scale
and for the six-hour day.
The contract for 81 an hour, which
expired April 30, was put over by
the International Office on the To-
cal membership without its consent
or vote. Workers, therefore, fear
another such sell-out in the pres
ent strike. They have expressed
this by voting down all proposals
for arbitration, whether by Ma
tional Labor Board or by Interna-
tional officials.
Sixty-five per cent of men now
striking are employed on govern
ment jobs let out to contractors.
Contra cts were signed when the
S1.37 scale was in effect, so that
when the wages were cut to 81,
contractors were able to pocket the
difference.
P.W.A. and Emergency Relief
workers., who were putting in two
days a week, have joined the
strike, and the Unemployment
Council has issued a circular sup
porting it. The U. c. urges the
joblesS not to scab. 1t is organiz-
ing joint action to have strikers
placed on relief and to fight for
passage of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill. H. R. 1898.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
''They Shall Not DIE" Cry of Thousands
On May Day, Thrills ScottsborO Mothers

This is the first part Of an in
terview with five of the mothers Of
the nine Scottsboro boys, by Otto
Hall. The second part of this in
terview will be published in Mon
days Daily Worker.
These five mothers are going 10
Washington on May Is, Mothers
Day, to see the President, and
demand from him the immediate
freedom Of the nine boys who are
being mistreated in the Birming-
ham Jail, and who have been inn
prisoned for nearly three years,
despite overwhelming proof of
their innocence. A send-of meet
ing will be held Friday night, May
IL, In st. Nicholas Arena.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
3OOOS eattleW Orkers
Protest Torture of
Thaelmann on May l
Milk Monopoly Tries
To Choke Farm Fight
With B Boycott Order

ROCKVILLE, Conn, May an
an effort to break the ranks Of the
dairy farmers who are forming a
militant opposition to the oppression
of the Milk Trust, the Connecticut
Valley Milk Producers Assn. has
established boycott on all the milk
produce Of II leading farmers here.
These II include practically the
full leadership Of about 8 1000 farmers
here who have broken away from
the reactionary leadership of the
Farmers National.
The Connecticut farmers are or
ganizing against the plundering Of
the Connecticut milk monopolies.
This latest move Of the monopolies
must be defeated by all the milk
producers if they are not all to be
chained to the robbery of these large
companies who get rich on the
products Of the dairy farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

Discussing The Outlook from
Washington" Krock attempted to
prove to the satisfaction of his
hardboiled audience just why the
Economic outlook" calls for hope
and examination Krock would
have us believe that "the various
agencies set up under the emergency
legislation have drawn to this city
men and women representative Of
every element in the nation" And
that "for the first time in a peace
era Washington may be said to re-
feet something like an economic
outlook" With the Inauguration of
Roosevelt, Krock reminds his hosts,
''the slogan was Roosevelt or ruin "
And he reminded these big business
men, "You uttered and believed in
it as much as any group in Amer
ica."
Now, he continued, they should
not be stubborn and object to "na-
tional planning" Don't think that
"all forms of national planning are
American and sitting to liberty, "
admonished Krock. what were the
Louisiana Purchase, the Jackson
Purchase and the winning of the
West but national planning? JEFF
ferson, George Rogers Clark, Cen
eral Dodge, E. H. Hartman, James
j. Hill, were national planners. The
population required expansion, and
they provided the room, and the
means of reaching it. Presto, DOM
mo, lingo! Railroad magnates like
Hartman and Hill received thou
sands of acres of land for nothing
from the government, divided both
sides of the railroads into real es-
tate lots, sold the same, and thereby
became national planners" In
nther words, they planned for them
yes on a national scale. Which
! ings us back to the New Deal, the
& United national plan of the
Swopes, Morgans, Teagles, Johnsons
and Harrimans. Yet, as a result of
understanding the underlying phil
osophy of the President" Krock sees
'the Presidents planning" as "all
to the end that the country's great
yields of nature, labor and brains
shall be more fairly distributed than
they have been."O The Washing
ton ster of the Times said:
Til Washington we have gone
ar enough along with the New
Deal to feel that we understand
the underlying philosophy of the
President. At least, feel sure of
1t. Not RECOMMENDATION, not the era
of individualism or of the Amer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Strikers Battle the
Police; SP Leader
Sits in His Office
Campbell Workers Re-
fuse to Swallow Labor
Board Betrayal

CAMDEN, N. J., May 4-The
Campbell Soup strikers continued
their mass picketing of the plant
yesterday, and gave the police a
militant battle when they tried to
disperse them. When several pick
cts were arrested the whole picket
line marched to police headquar-
tiers and demanded the release Of
their comrades.
The most significant thing about
this demonstration of militancy was
the fact that 1t was wholly the
work of the rank and file, none of
the Socialist leaders (so-called) of
the Industrial Gamers Union TAX
ing part.
While the rank and file were
picketing the struck plant and bat
ting the cops, Frank ]. Manning,
Socialist organizer of their union,
was sitting in his Office awaiting
decision on the strike from the Ma
tional Labor Board While 300
strikers, Wednesday, were storm
ing police headquarters, Manning
announced to the press that he had
confidential information that de-
cision would be handed down the
same day. When this announce
ment failed to halt militant mass
picketing this morning, Manning
made haste to associate himself
from such activity.
ST expect a decision from the La
Dor Board soon," he said in his Of
fee. IT am ready to abide by the
decision, too"
That this sentiment is not that
Of the strikers was clearly demon
strated by the pickets this morning.
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lea, We Know NOb hNdb RVbrCNCASS
shall no longer go to GrOtOn and
Harvard because millions of other
boys can't go. Not pittances for
ability, character and effort, be-
cause fair rewards cannot come
equally to all. The Presidents
planning, as see it, is all to the
end that the cOuntry's great yields
of nature, labor and brains shall
be more fairly distributed than
they have been. Only by planning,
backed by political power, can this
be accomplished. IF you think
that the previous distribution has
been fair, or that human nature
stands in the way of any better
ALLEGATION, then you are wholly
right in calling for the end of all
the Presidents works. I don't
happen to agree"
In addition, Krock would have us
believe: ION the job in Washing
ton every day are the newspapers,
dedicated almost without exception
to giving the public truthful and
useful information on which helpful
criticism and remedial action are
largely based" The business men,
suggests Krock, can supply 'intelli-
gent debate"
WHAT are the facts7 Why are
w they not news eft to print" in
the New York Times, the breakfast
table adornment for the f1nancierS
and merchants, whom Krock APPLY
dubbed "the parents, wet nurses,
governesses and tutors of the Roose-
welt revolution?"
AS General Johnson proudly and
readily admitted last winter, the
MIRA. was conceived by bankers
and industrialists. Hotel rooms
(f1lled with business moguls) were
smoky with planning" declared the
General. And as for the fascist
second Swope plan, said the Cen
eral, why that plan was almost "a
joint announcement" We worked
on it for years, and so on, and so on.
Which explains why every ele-
ment in the nation" was not repre-
scented in a capitalist crisis project
meant to exploit and tyrannize poor
farmers, sharecroppers, migratory
agricultural workers, marine work
ers, militant steel, coal, textile, rail-
road and auto workers. Which ex-
plains why the Communist Party,
aware OF the fascist character of
the New Deal, was, from the start,
opposed to the MIRA. Which ex-
plains why even the American Fed
Grafton of Labor off1cialdom, though
part and parcel of the Blue Eagle
structure, had to admit that the
MIRA. codes have resulted in a
lowering of the already depressed
standard of living of the working
class. Which explains why, despite
the puerile rhetoric Of Mr.. Krock,
there Is no substantial difference
between what Mr.. Hoover called
rugged individualism" and what
Mr.. Roosevelt is pleased to call
individual self reliance"
Which explains, finally, why Mr..
Krock is head of the Times Wash
ington Bureau.
Once again it was shown that &C
ton or speech, especially in the
present period of fascist tendencies,
impending imperialist wars and
ever growing class consciousness of
the worker, is either for or against
the worker-that there is no in
between. There is no doubt for
whom the Krocks of the New York
Times and similar sheets act and
speak.
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Plenty in Sc. But
1t Is in Hands of
The Ruling Class
By a worker Correspondent

COLUBIA, S. C.-We all see very
plainly the New Deal of the Roose-
welt government in the damn
Southland. also one can see thou
sands of Negroes and white work
ers walking the streets and roads
all over South Carolina. Nothing
to live on. The bosses say, Go to
the rivers and catch all the fish
you can" Also they tell us to go
and pick blackberries this summer.
There is plenty of everything in
South Carolina, but it is in the
hands of the damn ruling class in
South Carolina. This is also true
in all the states of the union.
We Negroes want the day to come
soon when this damn new deal will
be something of the past. When
it comes to the Negro we get plenty
hell here in the Southland, yes, hell,
right and left. more hell than the
white worker gets
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1000 in Norfolk
May | Meet Pledge
Support tODOckerS
Give Rousing Welcome
To James W. Ford,
Negro Revolutionary
Special to the Daily WORKER

Especial to the Daily WOrker)
NORFOLK, May 4.-One thousand
Negro and white workers jammed
Cone Park Pavilion May Day in a
mighty protest against Hunger, Fas-
cism and War and mass violation
of the jim-crow edicts of the South
ern bosses. At least 1000 more could
not gain admittance in what was
the most enthusiastic and impress
sive May Day demonstration ever
held here.
Most of those present we're dock
workers demonstrating their deter
mination to struggle for their de-
mands, already presented.
Ford Gets Ovation
Upon the entrance of James w.
Ford, Negro vice presidential can
didate on the Communist ticket in
1881, a wave of cheers and applause
shook the hall. Ambrose Harris, a
worker on the Southern Dock, acted
as chairman. H. Terry, of the
Chesapeake Dock, made the welcom-
ing speech to Ford. Robert Nash,
Communist Party Section Organizer
of Underwater, and Alexander Wright,
Secretary of the Marine Workers In
duStrial Union here, were enthusiast
tically received.
A good portion of Ford's speech
was devoted to arousing mass in
terest and support for the struggle
of the dock workers.
The meeting pledged it's whole
hearted support to the demands of
the dock workers and to the mass
fight for the freedom of the Scots
boro Boys, Angelo Herndon and
Ernst Thaelmann.
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Brooklyn

ENTERTAINMENT and Social given by
w. E. s. L. Post 204 at 579 Broadway cor.
Lorimer st. Play by Workers School Thea
ire Crop. Admission 15c
ANDRE CIBULSKY, L W. o. Symphony
Orchestra, Dance Group in program at
Coney Island Workers Club, 2874 w. 9th
St. $3.50 p. m. Auspices: Karl Liebknect
Br. I w. D. 1872
CONCERT and DANCE at United Council
of Working Glass Women, 1873 Pitkin Ave,
$3.50 p. m. Workers Lab. Theatre skit
DANCE AND ENTERTAINMENT given by
New Culture Club, 2345 Coney Island Ave,
between Avenues U and T, $3.50 pm. Jazz
band, etc.
Club, SAT Wyona St., $3.50 pm. Dancing
and entertainment.
SPAGHETTI PARTY at Brownsville
Workers Club l44o East New York Ave
Auspices: Nathan Green Br. LID
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Wilkes-B Barre Workers
Smash Ban on Meetings

WILKES-BARRE, May Sight
hundred workers demonstrated in
Kirby Park, May Day, with almost
as many policemen modified by a
terrified boss class. 1t was in this
city last year that Mayor Loveland
refused strikebreakers the right to
meet anywhere in town, but yes
terday the Mayor and his cops were
forced to listen to John Parkes,
leader of the strike, who was barred
from addressing strike meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
By OTTO HALL

I'm going to Washington to see
the President about my boy" said
Mother Ida Norris, when the writer
asked her about her intended trip
to Washington on Mothers Day.
do you know" she said, "that
me and my boy Clarence were born
in WaHn Springs, Georgia, where
the President lives in the winter
time? Well, we're going to find out
what kind of a deal Mr.. Roosevelt
gives his home town folks" she said,
very determinedly.
All five of these mothers were
born down in Dear old Georgia"
where the "Honeysuckles Bloom"
and Everything is Peaches" ac-
cording to the song writer's. Poets
can sing, novelists can spin roman
tic yarns, about southern bellies,
gallant colonies, Negroes singing in
the cotton and such tripe, but to
see the careworn faces and toll
ridden hands Of these mothers, and
to hear their stories of a life of
hard work and privation, one gets
a real picture Of that feudal hell,
known as the sunny" South. This
is the South stripped of its halo
Of romance and exposed as one of
the most benighted, disease-ridden,
poverty-stricken sections of this
great United States. Where the
Bourbon rulers have made both
Negroes and poor writes" their
beasts Of burden.
Encouraged by May Day
I found the mothers still talking
about the great May Day demon
stration, in which they participated,
and they told me how encouraged
they felt when they heard the tens
of thousands of workers pass Union
Square shouting: THE Scottsboro
boys shall not die" They told me
that they know that the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, which has the
support Of all those workers, will
save their boys.
The stories Of these mothers,
which in many respects are similar,
give an accurate picture of the OPP
preston and enslavement of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
200 in Compton Meet
Defy Police Threats

COMPTON, Cal, May 3.-Two
hundred workers in this small town
defed police threats of violence and
attended the May First demonstra-
ton. The police, baked by the mill
fancy Of the workers, tried "persua-
sion" to disperse the demonstrators.
This failing, they arrested worker
at the edge Of the crowd.
The meeting thereupon turned
into a line of march to the Jail,
singing the International and de-
manding the release of Gerald
Sherman, the arrested worker.
Within 20 minutes he was released.
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clearinghouse Workers
Talk Strike in Iowa;
Streetcar Men Get Cut

SIOUX CITY. Iowa,-The work.
ers in the packinghouses here are
beginning to prepare for strike.
The Communist Party has issued a
leaf1et calling on the packinghouse
workers to organize and to strike for
better conditions.
The street-car men have received
an S18 month cut and the ten
sion is high among the transit work.
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
1900 in JamestOwn's
Mightiest May Day

JAMESTOWN, N. Y, May 3-One
thousand five hundred workers
demonstrated here in the largest
May Day demonstration in James
towns history. Five hundred par
ticipated in the parade to Memorial
Park. Workers in several shops
came out in a body.
The meeting was addressed by
speakers from the Scandinavian
Workers Club. the Young Commu-
mist League, Women's Council,
Communist Party and the industrial
unions.
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aniable a b gu t
the New Deal
demagogy for
the sake of the
corporate health
of the financial
and commercial
ADVERT S ers of
TIL e lily white
Times, the jour-
nalisn fes-
sors' idea of an
unsullied virgin
o f newspaper
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
PHILADELPHIA

SENDER GARLIN Of the Daily Worker
Staff speaks on THE Evolution of Theo-
dore Dresser" this Saturday night. May
5. at Boslover Hall, 701 Pine st. Auspices
Philadelphia John Reed Club.
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Signs and Floats Expose
Misery of Unemployed;
Workers Demand Relief
By LOWELL WAKEFIELD
Editor, Voice of Action

SEATTLE, Wash. May 4.-Send-
ing committees to the German con-
sulate demanding the release Of
Ernst Thaelmsnn and other class
war prisoners in Germany, and to
Burgunder County prosecutor) in
/ behalf Of the Frandssn eviction
united struggle against Hunger,
Fascism and War, on May /, Inter-
national Labor Day, in Seattle's
greatest May Day demonstration.
Nazi Rats in Hiding on May 1
Past the city's most aristocratic
office buildings the workers marched
with 1,2OO in line and that many
more sweeping along the sidewalks.
At the Henry Building the parade
stopped while the delegation to the
consulate entered. Thousands Of
Threats doomed the Internationale.
rafting the windows in the Offices
of Hitler's hangnen.
The committee reported back
locked doors and a big sign on the
consulate officers, CLOSED for May
First"
The march then proceeded to the
county-city building, stretching out
for block, with hundreds Of banners
and signs and floats. Filling the
park before the county-city build
ing, the demonstrators heard the
speakers of the day. shouted their
slogans at the politicians, police.
sheriffs and vigilantes who filed
each window Of the building, and
to the workers imprisoned in the
tanks on the top floor. The militant
spirit and solidarity Of this May
Day will long be remembered in the
Northwest.
Y. P. S. L. Member Supports
the United Front
A member Of the Young PEOPLES
Socialist League, whose militant res
olution on May Day appeared in the
special May Day issue of the Daily
Worker" greeted the demonstration
and pledged unity with the revolu-
tionary struggle against capitalism
over the heads Of the leaders Of his
organization. Lowell Wakefield, edi-
tor of the Voice Of Action" acted
as chairman.
Hundreds of copies Of the Daily
Worker and the Voice of Action
were sold. Signs in the parade
called attention to the new double
size Of the Voice Of Action, and
urged the workers to buy it as the
only working class paper of the
Northwest.
-Four indoor mass meetings wound
up the May Day celebrations.
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Manhattan
Saturday

DANCE given by Manhattan Local c. W.
4 at Alb w. 53rd ST.. p. m. Negro
Jazz Band Refreshments. Contribution
l5c.
IRISH READING CIRCLE. Gertrude
other phases Of the new social order in
the Soviet Union. II W. 18th ST., p. m.
DANCE-CONCERT = FILM - refresh
ments at West Side Workers Center, 2642
Broadway between Tooth and 1o1st Sts.,
$3.50 p. m. Subscription CSC.
ENTERTAINMENT for the Relief Victims
of Austrian Fascism. Palm Casino, IS E.
Fourth St, $3.50 p. m. John Bovingdon,
N Tallentire, Jazz Band. Admission 35c
KIDDIE CARNIVAL = Office Workers
Union, ia w. 14th ST.. p. M Dancing
to 5-piece jazz band. Singing, games, re-
freshments. Subscription 35c Come
dressed like kids.
HOUSE PARTY given by Y. c. L., 1T E.
Tooth St., apartment 8, p. m. Refresh
Observation-Disclosures Admission 25c
FESTIVAL and DANCE at Irving Plaza,
Irving Pl. and 18th St Auspices: N T.
w. I. o. Admission Csc.
UNITY THEATRE. 1926 E. 2srd st.
present African Festival. Horizons Shologa
Oloba. Admission Csc, 9 p. m.
THE BURGENLAENDER workers Club
$50 E. 81st ST. First Anniversary Celebra-
ton. Labor Temple. 243 E. 84th St, 8 pm
/ a DANCE OF WRITERS Union at 224 W.
lburth st. Sheridan So above Stewards
Presentations by Theatre Union and Thea
He Collective. Red Hatters band.
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PITTSBURGH U. @. TO SHOW MOVIES
PITTSBURGH. - The Allegheny Unem-
ployed Councils will show two films, THE
Forty-First" and "A Jew at War" in the
Carnegie Lecture Hall, Schenley Park,
Oakland, Pittsburgh, on Friday, May II,
8 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Il WALL STREETS
a6 CAPITOL
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN-
By SEYMOUR WALDMAN

WASHINGTON, May I've indebted to Arthur Krock,
TN chief Washington correspondent of the New York Times
foan eloquent explanation of of the ways in which his
spaper functions as the administration organ of the New
Deal Standing before the embarrassed architects of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Detroit, Mich.

SPRING SEMESTER FRoLIc of Work
ers School, Sat- May 5th, pm. Danish
Brotherhood Hall, IT'S W. Forest Ave,
near 18th st.
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Sunday

HENRY SHEPHERD speaks on 1.-THE Sit
ustion in Cuba as I Saw It." at Harlem
Workers School Forum, 200 W, l35th St.
Room ala A, $50 p. m. Admission free
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w HATS O N

ARE THE JEWS A RACE?" reduced
from $3.50 to SIPS now at Workers Book
Shop, so E. 18th st.
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SdturdoY

FILM AND PHOTO LEAGUE presents
Hands Up" a brilliant satire on the
Civil War. IL E. 18th ST., $50 pm. Adm.
25c.
PUERTO RICAN Workers Center, 1888
Srd Ave, between 1o4th and 105th SITS,
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Bronx

MAY FROLIC DANCE and ENTERTAIN
MENT given by Young Communist League
Section S. 2o75 Clinton Ave, p. m.
Pepito g. Orchestra. "Del' in chalk talk
Admission Csc at door; zoe with ticket
DANCE AND ENTERTAINMENT given
by Relief Workers League 1919 Third
Ave cor. 172nd st. Real good time, p. m
DANCE at fremont Progressive Club, 1855
E. fremont Ave. Dancing till dawn. Ex-
cellent jazz band S45 p. m.
PARTY and DANCE at Mt. Eden Youth
Br F. s. o., 14ol Jerome Ave. corner
10th ST. Admission free
PARTY given by Unit 16, Section Is, at
1505 Boston Road. Postponed for next
Saturday.
SOVIET PICTURE shave followed by
dance at Prospect Workers Center, 1857
So. Boulevard.
PACKAGE PARTY given by George DIM
near Pelham Bay subway Sta
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

pm. TO am, Great Inauguration Pro-
gram: Grupo Arte Proletario, Mellas' Club
Artistic Group: Revolutionary Poetry;
Dancing to Caribbean Orchestra
THEATRE COLLECTIVE Spring Party
Red Roast" Art VS.. Propaganda. John
Bovingdon and Theatre Collective Dance
Group. Dancing to Negro Orchestra and
refreshments. So W. 18th st. Adm. 35c
ENTERTAINMENT and Dance at Ger
man Workers Club, 70 E. 10th st. Dona-
ton 15c.
EIGHTH ANNUAL Celebration Ball.
Famous Negro Jazz Band Dancing till
am. Adm. soc. Harlem Progressive
Youth Club, 1888 Madison Ave, near 1o4th
St.
DRAMATIC MITE and Dance. American
Youth Federation, 144 Second Ave, $3.50
pm. Skits, Rotations and good jazz
band. Subscription Csc.
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