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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Accuses Head
OfFOstering
=
Military Drills

Charging that "the New York
educational authorities are encour-
aging the spread of militarism
among children of public school
age" the New York Teachers Anti
War League made public a letter
last week which called on the Board
of Education to remove both the
Junior Naval Reserves and the r. o.
T. G. and "all other forms of mill
tary training from the school build
ings of the city"
The letter, signed by Irving Adler,
the secretary of the league, charged
that P. S. lis, p. S. 40 and P. S. 46,
Manhattan, were being used for
military drill by troops OF the Junior
Naval Reserve. Principal Thelluson
of P. S. lis, accused by the Anti
War League Of circulating the liter
allure of the Naval Reserve among
the children in the school, con-
flrmed the report but stated that
last years drilling as well as the
present drilling had been authorized
by the extension activities division
of the Board of Education. Super
intendent Campbell denied having
any knowledge of such permission
for the Junior Naval Reserve to
drill in the schools.
The lea1et distributed among the
children stated that among its aims
were "to train and instruct boys and
young men in systematic methods of
naval and merchant marine opera
tions, military tactics, procedure
and discipline" Principal Thelluson,
who had circulated such leaflets,
asserted in the face of this that if
he found the activities of the or
ganization were militaristic he would
stop them in the school.
The refusal of the Board of Edu-
cation to allow meetings of branches
of the American League Against
War and Fascism in the school
buildings while it permits military
drill in one form or another, makes
it vital for increased protests to
reach them to force them to stop
the war drive in the schools.
Pointing out that many civic,
parent and teacher organizations
had objected to R. o. T. @. units
in the schools, the Anti-War League
declared, How much greater must
this opposition be when the very
same instruction is given to mere
childrenl"
Immediate removal of naval re-
serve troops from the schools was
demanded by the League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08

"a recent decision of the Central
Executive Committee concerning the
awarding of participants in the ex-
petition of the ice-cutter Litdke'
eloquently testifies who are tn e
heroes of the Soviet country. Read
the brief characteristic statement
two or three brief lines concerning
those awarded. What manhood,
bravery and daring! The whole staff
of the expedition and crew was
war ed, each one individually,
testimonials of organization n d
bravery. Who are these brave COM
manders, scientists, mechanics, fire
men and sailors? They are rank
and file Soviet workers. Only yes
terday no one knew who they were.
today they are raised on a pedestal
before the whole country. For the
first time in the history of naviga-
ton Soviet ice-cutter, during one
navigation Sc a son, completed a
straight cruise through the north
ern Arctic Ocean from the Far East
to the West. This was accomplished
by valiant Soviet seamen. Millions of
such active people have been created
by the Revolution, and they have
become genuine heroes.
Thus the new class, making the
world anew came on the scene and
became the master of life. From
the greatest persons of our time,
Lenin and Stain, to the best COL
lective farmers, men and women,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Illinois .JObIess
Parley Calls
State Actions
United Front Stressed
in Manifesto of State
Conference

CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. THE
manifesto of the Illinois Congress
for Unemployment Insurance held
in Springfield on Oct. % and re-
Gently released called upon the work
ers of the entire state to rally be-
hind the congress demands in The
fight for adequate relief and I'M
employment insurance.
The manifesto calls on the Illinois
Workers Alliance, Federal and State
Aid Association, Chicago Workers
Committee on Unemployment, IN
employed and Workers Association,
trade unions of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor, Railroad Brother
hood, Progressive Miners of America,
independent unions, unorganized
workers in the shops and factories
and all workers groups to unite
with the Unemployment Councils
around the nine-point program
adopted by the 800 delegates at the
state congress.
These demands, set forth in the
manifesto, call for:
1.-The Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill.
Public works in working class
neighborhoods at union wages and
conditions with guaranteed thirty
hour week, and guaranteed mini
mum wage of sixty cents an hour
3-Direct cash relief of So weekly
for each single worker and $13 for
family of two plus So or each de-
pendent.
a Immediate winter relief-shoes,
clothing, blankets, coal, medical aid
and other needs.
5-For the right of all workers
to unions and organizations of their
own choice; recognition of repre-
sentatives and committees at all
relief stations and relief admin
istration; against police terror, and
for the repeal of the Criminal Syn
dicalist Law, the Vegrancy Law and
the Pauper Act.
against evictions and fore
closures of workers and impover-
ished armerS.
Repeal of the State Sales Tax.
8-All war and military funds to
be used for unemployment insur-
ance and relief.
against discrimination and
Jim-Crow of the Negro people;
against discrimination of single,
foreign-born, women and youth.
Around these demands, the con-
gress called upon all Illinois work.
ers and their organizations to unite
in mass demonstrations on Nov. "a.
In preparation for these demon
STATIONS, the congress urged city
and county conferences at which
committees will be elected to pre-
pare these mass meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Student Vigilantes on
Cal. Campus; Provost
Urges Radical Drive

Organized student violence made
its appearance at the University Of
California at Los Angeles last week
when vigilantes chosen from among
the athletes began patrolling the
university campus. A meeting Of
the athletes held previously had de-
cided to get rid OF the radicals with
force if necessary"
At the same time, DR.. Ernest
Moore, provost and vice-president,
who had suspended five student
officers on charges of promoting
radical activities, issued a fascist
appeal to universities and frater-
mites throughout the nation to "be-
come active helpers of the United
States in its day Of difficulty" with
radical agitation among the stu
dents.
The suspension of the five stu
dents was met with such protests
both from Leland Stanford Univer-
sity as well as from the northern
branch of the University of Cali
fornia at Berkeley, that President
Sproul is on his way to Los Angeles
to take the case in hand, himself.
He gave as his excuse that he had
not received the full explanation"
he had previously asked for from
Provost Moore.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Police Held
Off i'm March
At Toledo

TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov. 7.-Barri-
caded inside the County Court
House here yesterday, 200 single
unemployed workers, now in the
second month of their fight for re-
lief, held off the police for hours.
One group, which was inside the
Police Commissioners Office, uti-
lized the telephones to call Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Federal Relief Ad-
ministrator Hopkins. Govern
White, and other governmental off,
Gals, placing their relief demands
at Washington and the State Capt.
toll.
Demanding rent, food and cloth
ing relief, and general 30 per cent
relief increase for all the unem-
ployed in Lucas County, the single
men declared that they would re-
sumo their continuous picketing-
The Death March" = within "a
hours unless the demands were met
in full. While they were garrisoned
inside the Court House and relay
ing their demands over long dis
lance wire to Washington, mass
picket lines of the unemployed and
employed supported them outside.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Theater Days
Set to Equip
Child Center

The New York district of the
Young Pioneers has obtained a
building on East 18th Street, which
will be used to give workers chill
dren a proletarian education. There
will be classes on arts and crafts,
plays, sports, and children's classes
on the class struggle. This build
ing, which will be known as the
Downtown Childrens Center, will
be marked step forward to win
ming the children away from bour-
geois clubs and giving them work.
ing class education.
Because the building must be
equipped with tables, chairs and
other materials for which funds are
required, the League of Workers
Theatres, together with the Pioneers,
will give a proletarian weekend in
ccnmemoration of Harry Alan Po-
tamlSin, on Nov. 10 and II, matinee
and evenings at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre, 26th Street and Fifth Ave.
Evening prices will range from Is
cents to SO cents. The Sunday
matinee will have two Amkino pic
lures, Broken Shoes" and killing
to Live" The evening program will
consist of the play, Strike Me Red"
by H. A. Potamkin; dances and
other plays. Admission to the
matinee showing will be 20 cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Controller Assailed
on 500 Appointments
by U. 7. A. Secretary

A reply from Controller McGold-
rick's office to an inquiry by the
Unemployed Teachers Association
concerning the appointment of 500
teachers was characterized sharply
by Miss Citron, secretary, as show
ing either gross ignorance or DELHI
crate misrepresentation of the
facts The letter from the Con-
troller stated that $50 appoints
ments for the year 1894 had been
made cut Of the accruals fund of
the Board of Education and that
the increased appropriation in the
education budget Of 1895 had di-
rected the appointment of ESQ ad-
diticnal high school teachers for
the fall term of 1885.
Quoting from the 1894 budget.
Miss Citron showed that the first
$50 appointees had been provided
for in the budget, and not from
the accruals fund Furthermore.
Miss Citron points out that this
education budget for 1885 as an
nounced by the Board of Educa-
ton, contained an appropriation
for 500 as stated by the letter. The
U.T.A. response to this statement
is, I'VE deplore your effort to jus-
tify and condone the financial
sleight Of hand of the Board OF
Education whereby $50 appoint-
ments for which the city provided
funds mysteriously disappear,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Especial to the Daily Worker,

MOSCOW, Nov. 7 (By Wireless
That the 18th anniversary cele-
bration of the October Revolution
is not only g survey of the glorious
achievements of the proletarian die
tatorship but also survey of the
defensive forces which, to the last
ounce of strength, will protect these
achievements from capitalist de-
struction is the main theme of the
editorial in today's "Pravda," organ
OF the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union. Says 'Pravda'::
"The achievements of the work.
ing class during these seventeen
years are boundless. All that revo-
luton has accomplished in the land
of the Soviets cannot be subjected
to calculation. Marx was right when
he said, Revolution is the locomo-
tive of history The proletarian
revolution awakened within millions
of toilers the great dormant forces
of resurrection and renovation, or
ganized these forces and directed
them towards creative work.
Now everybody sees what a peo-
pie of ITO millions, aroused by
revolution, m ay accomplish, but
during the stormy days of November
1917, it was necessary to possess the
sasacity, the unwayering will and
the optimism Of Lenin and Stain in
order to foresee these possibilities
N all their greatness. On the very
day Of the October Socialist Revolu-
ton at the session Of the Petrograd
Soviet, Lenin declared, We have
h a t force of mass organization
which will win everything and will
bring thelworld proletariat to world
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Poultry Union
Wins Detroit
Strike Victory


DETROIT, Mich, Nov. THE
strike of Detroit poultry workers,
which started Friday, ended today
with a complete victory for the
workers. The twenty-six wholesale
poultry houses in the city, together
with the Eastern and Western
markets, signed closed shop agree
ment with the militant United
Poultry Workers Union, affiliated
to the Food Workers Industrial
Union, granting all demands.
The agreement calls for wage in
creases ranging up to fifty per cent,
the reduction of hours from sixty
and seventy week to forty eight,
time and one-third for overtime
and for Sunday and holiday work,
equal division of work, and an in
crease in piece work rates from one
and quarter to one and a half
cents. The union energies. from the
strike stronger than ever With con-
troll over the entire industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
BuP0auCratS
Halt Fight
TOSeatBegun
Chair Stops Other Rank
and File Moves; Two
Meetings Planned

A special meeting Of the Dele
gate Assembly held Nov. could not
be swung by the rank and file TO
support motion for a new cleo
ton in the Bronx, and placing
Isidore Begun's name on the bal
lot, thus giving the members a
chance to elect their own choice
for delegate. President Henry Lin
vile declared that since Begun was
suspended until January, he was
disqualified to run for office.
The rank and file pointed to the
case Of Debs who ran for Presi-
dent Of the U. S. A. while in Jail.
In answer, Linville could only say
that he had voted for Debs-but
now he believed he had been &C
tually unqualified to run. He thus
took more reactionary position
than the Acknowledgement of the
U. S. in war time. The vote was
SO to sustain LinYlle, SO against.
The Progressives "a group who uss
radical phrases but in deeds sup
port the administrations control Of
the union) refuse a united front
with the rank and file.
The administration did its best to
delay a mass meeting of protest
against the Ives Loyalty Oath Law,
but were finally forced TO set the
date for some time in January. An
open meeting on Nov. 18th was an
nounced, to prepare for the cam
paign against the Ives Law and at
tackS on teacher tenure.
The academic freedom commits
tee brought in an outline of an
active campaign to force retrac-
ton Of superintendent of Schools
Campbell's reprimand Of the four
teachers at James Monroe High
School These union teachers had
been disciplined because they had
dared to protest to the union Of
flee against the action of another
union teacher in stopping a speech
on peace in their school. Their
reactionary Principal Hines heard
Of this, and marked down the four
teachers for "disloyalty and lack Of
cooperation"
The rank and file delegates tried
to broaden the campaign proposed
by the committee on academic
freedom. Using the pretext that
only the Monroe teachers cases
could be considered, Linville ruled
out of order the rank and file mo-
tons to link up the campaign with
a struggle against war and fas-
cism in the schools as evidenced by
the Ives Law and the heresy hunt
started by Supt Campbell and
President of the Board of Educa-
ton Ryan, and their chief in
quiSitor, Smith, of the Board Of
Examiners.
The attitude of the bureaucrats
was portrayed by the remark of one
Of the administration supporters,
Kline, who opposed the motion to
include in the academic freedom
meeting a fight for Begun's and
Burroughs reinstatement in the
schools, THE report calls for a
consideration only of the Monroe
cases-not for every cat and dog
that might be dragged in"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Soviet Achievements Will Be Guarded With the
Last Ounce of Strength, Says ''Pravda''

revolution
The past II years have showed
the whole prophetic force of these
words. During these years there
grew up whole generation of peo-
pie who did not know the old
damned system, a generation en-
tirely Soviet from the first day of
its birth. These new cadres the
Socialist economy created out of
people Of an older age. The most
remarkable achievement of h e
Socialist revolution is the growth of
this new people. This is most strik-
ingly noticeable in the villages, where
hundreds of thousands of peasant
boys and girls, questioned about
their future professions, do not
reply incoherently. peasant but
categorically and clearly: Tractor
driver, combine operator, chauffeur,
machinist and mechanic. These are
the people who, receiving every
dignity of man and being the mas
ters of their fates and of their
country are now the tone-givers in
the villages. Initiated by the col
lective farm youth, they are the
heroes of the Soviet village.
Eonors Go to Labor
"a prominent person OF our time
is enc who works well. He is the one
who gets honor and fame. This
honor is accessible to everyone and
such people are ever more increas-
ing in the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Jury COnvicts
Police Chief
In Killing

MENA, Ark, Nov. IA jury has
found Will c. Hungate, acting chief
of police Of Mena guilty of man
slaughter. Last May, Hungate muir
dered a miners son in cold blood.
The conviction of Hungate is gen.
orally credited here to the activities
of the International Labor Defense.
Members Of the 1. L. D. branch at
Commonwealth College, working
under a united front banner, dis
tributed leaflets calling for his con-
Yiction and held meetings of Polk
county farmers to discuss the case.
The I. L. d. also gave the case ma
tional publicity so that commune
cations demanding prosecution and
punishment Of Hungate poured in
on the prosecuting attorney from all
parts of the country.
The court room was crowded with
farmers on the day Of the trial.
The charge of manslaughter car
ries a penalty Of only one to seven
years. The judge will sentence
Hungate in a few days, but it is
thought likely that he will actually
serve only a few months for his
crime. Several years ago a Mena
officer shot and killed boy under
similar circumstances and was never
brought to trial.
Last May II, Hungate found Wal
ter Parker, the murdered youth, and
two companions, all from nearby
C,C.C. camp, in the park at Mena.
Hungate started an argument with
the boys, and young Parker fear
ing that arrest would get him into
trouble at the camp, started to run
from the scene. Hungate pulled his
gun and fired, killing Parker almost
instantly. His alibi was that Parker
was drunk. A doctor who examined
the body testified at the preliminary
hearing that Parker was not drunk
and that the shot was a direct hit.
Parker's father, a miner living at
Joplin, Mo-, attended the trial with
the boys mother. Since the muir
der of his son, the elder Parker has
Joined the I. L. D.
AS the jury was being selected to
try Hungate, every prospective juror
was asked If he knew anything
about Commonwealth College or the
I. L. D. If he answered yes to either
question, he was Immediately ex-
cused. The presiding jurist, Judge
A. P. Steel, attempted to divert the
trial into an investigation Of the I.
L. D. Names of I. L. D. members
were held on record, with a threat
to prosecute them for contempt of
court for issuing leaflets on the
case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Board Urged To Halt
p olicy of Crowding
Elementary Schools

A sharp protest against the prac-
tice Of consolidating classes in the
elementary schools was issued to-
day in a letter to the Board Of
Education by the Unemployed
Teachers Association. Reminding
the Superintendent Of Schools that
the large classes which will result
from reducing the number of ele-
mentary school teachers by 287 will
further threaten the health of the
children, the U.T.A. urges the Board
to seriously consider changing the
policy.
Already, there are classes of fifty
in which no individual attention is
possible. Further consolidation CT
classes will make the threat to
teachers and children even greater.
The letter is signed by Isidore
Begun, chairman of the executive
board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Silk Federation Will
Hold Its Convention
Soon in New York

NEW YORK, Nov. THE Amer
lean Federation Of Silk Workers is
holding it's annual convention Nov
"a and 25. Frank Schweitzer, who
is well-known for making the mo-
ton to call of the national textile
strike, is the secretary of the Fed
GRAFTON.
The American Federation of Silk
Workers, modelled after the Full
Fashioned Hosiery Workers Union,
is affiliated with the United Textile
Workers of America.
This Federation is very new. The
majority of the members are not
in the union even a year.
1t is very urgent that the local
unions elect delegates whose policies
are at all time in the interests of
the organization.
The convention will be held in
Hotel woodstock, West oath Street,
New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Defense of I. S. S. r. Stressed on Anniversary

from the heroic flyers of the U. S.
S. R. to the miner Nikita Izotov
there follows one line of active
struggle on the part of millions and
millions of workers for a new world
for the toilers of the Fatherland.
''The election campaign to t h e
Soviets are proceeding on just such
events. Out of its struggles of II
years the Soviet regime has won
and is now drawing new forces of
activity from 80 million electors, of
whom 10 millions are voting for the
first time. The elections will still
further strengthen the organs of
proletarian dictatorship.
I'm the countries of capitalism
millions of workers and peasants
are doomed to hunger, poverty and
ruin. The incendiaries of war are
hunting through the world for a
convenient pretext again to start a
world slaughter more devastating
and bloody than that of 1914. His
tory knows all kinds of wars, ag-
gressive, defensive, imperialist and
liberating. But never yet had any
one fought with a country whose
whole toiling nation understands
what it defends and for what it
fights. The routing of intervention,
to which the Soviet country was
subjected during the first years of
revolution, is merely a weak ex-
ample OF what the country of the
Soviets will do when war breaks out,
when its boundaries are attacked.
The country where prominent
heroes of labor are springing up
every day is an invincible country
whose heroes are understandable.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-08
Teachers of France
ID e fly Minister in
Fight Against War

Defying threat of punishment
for lack of patriotism, 10000.
French teachers, at a recent
meeting, pledged themselves to
fight against war. The Minister
Of Education, aroused at this
blow against the war prepara-
tions of the French govern
ment, informed them that he
would apply to them the same
penalties for war-resistance that
is applied to others. and added
a threat to punish them for
their lack of patriotism.
He received a militant reply.
The Secretary General of the
Teachers Syndicate answered:
In school. as cut Of school.
teachers will continue to teach
peace without any regard for q
ccnformisn whose rules are laid
out by cannon merchants and
their delegateS.S