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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-04
KirOV an Outstanding
Leader Of Leningrad
Workers, Prada Says
Was Burning Tribune
Of Revolution and
Leader of Party
Especial to tn. Daily Worker,

NOkNNANA w SA~ D@AS EN~A~A(
MOSCOW, Dec. 8. (By Wire
less) I'm order to make all coun-
ter-revOIutionary acts Of sabotage
and assassination subject to the
swiftest and most stringent pan
iShment the Central Executive
Committee of the U. S. S. r. to-
day passed the following deci-
Sions:
Addressed to the judicial exam
lining authorities, one resolution
recommends that the conduct of
those cases accused Of preparing
or committing terrorist acts be i'm
mediateIy accelerated. A second
resolution recommends to the
court organs not to delay the ex-
ecutiOn of sentences Of capital
punishment over appeals concern
ing the pardon of criminals of
these categories, because the Pre-
sidium Of the Central Executive
Committee of the u. S. S. r. does
not consider it possible to accept
such appeals for consideration. A
third order sent to the Home AZ
fairs Con1missariat suggested the
immediate execution Of those SEN
fences of capital punishment re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-04
H|LLSBORO IS
EN- 7 { R PLEA
OF NOT GUILTY

HILLSBORO, Ill, Dec. 8. - The
fifteen leaders Of the unemployed
who were brought to trial here to-
day under the infamous State
criminal syndicalism law, won a
postponement until Friday. All
pleaded not guilty to the charge
which was specified as Conspiracy
to overthrow the Government"
Judge Mcwilliams, after granting
the postponement, set Friday for
the hearing of defense arguments.
The International Labor Defense
today called on workers through
out the country to lay down bar
rage of protests by mail, telegraph
and telephone against the intended
railroading of the fifteen working
class fighters to Jail. All protests
should be addressed to Judge Nc
williams at Hillsboro, Illinois and
to Governor Homer, at the State
Capitol, Springfield, Illinois.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-04
FISHER LODGE
men ST RIKE
IN ROT
BY A. B. MAGIL

topecidl 10 the Daiy hOfkerj
DETROIT, Dec. 3.-Workers of
Fisher Lodge, where over sixteen
hundred single men are quartered,
struck today on three projects, de-
manding eight dollars a week cash
relief and the right to live where
they please. The walkout today, or
gained by an elected committee
under the leadership of the Unem-
ployment Councils, marks the be-
ginning of a movement that is ex-
pected to involve all of the men at
the Lodge.
A squad of twenty-four was also
sent to picket the building of the
County Welfare Commission at 176
East Jefferson Avenue.
The strike marks the elimination
Of long series of struggles against
the vile food and forced labor con-
ditionS at Fisher Lodge. The men
work one day in every two and a
half weeks, cleaning alleys, for
which they receive, in addition to
so-called food and lodging, only one
dollar. Besides this, they must put
in one days work inside the lodge
for which they get no pay. Despite
the fact that John F. Ballenger,
County Welfare Administrator, told
your correspondent in an interview
October 10 that the men get their
food and board whether they work
Oh not, the card each inmate re-
ceives states specifically that failure
to report for work will mean the
immediate cutting-off of food and
lodging.
Only small proportion Of the
men work each day, and the rank
and file committee plans TO strike
the projects day by day. The men
we're voting amid the rousing sup
port of a meeting of nearly three
thousand unemployed workers in
Arena Gardens yesterday afternoon.
Strike headquarters have been es-
tablished at the Greek Workers Ed
ucational Club, 1413 Randolph
Street.
The Unemployment Councils ap-
peal to all workers organizations
to help in providing coffee and sand
witches for the men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-04
Especial to the Daily wOrk.r)

BOSTON, Dec. 3.-Nine Of the 10
young anti-Fascists, arrested in
connection with the demonstration
last Spring against the propaganda
visit of the Nazi warship Karl
sruhe," were fined $40 to $50 and
sent to the Charles Street Jail to-
day by Judge Hobson upon their re-
fusal to pay the fines.
Alarmed by the flood of protests
he has received against the frame
up and victimization of the anti
Fascists, Judge Hobson offered the
pretext that he didn't want to
send these people to JAIL" but if
they refused to pay the fines "they
were falling themselves" The cases
of two others, Albert Nader and
Samuel Sax, were placed on file.
While hailing the partial victory
won by the mass protests through
the complete release of seven of the
defendants and great reductions in
the sentences six, seven and eight
months imposed by the lower court
in the cases of the nine fined to-
day, the International Labor De-
Tense is urging all workers and
sympathetic organizations to send
protests to Governor Ely of Mass
achusetts demanding the release of
the eleven now held in the Charles
Street Jail.
The nine who were today ordered
to serve out their fines at the rate
of so cents day, are Albert NAL
linger, fined fifty dollars; Alice
Burke, Belle Lewis and Mary Sellin,
twenty-five dollars each; Bernice
Frazier, Charles Gilman, Abe Kline,
Leon Lapin and John O'Flaherty,
twenty dollars each.
To celebrate the victory achieved
in winning the complete release
last week of seven of the defend
ants, the I. L. D. is arranging
Victory Ball at the Ritz-Plaza Hall,
284 Huntington Ave-, for Friday
evening, Dec. IA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-04
Nine Chinese Seamen
Hurt in Fall on Vessel

ABERDEEN, Wash, Dec. Shine
Chinese seamen brushing down the
bulkheads on Norwegian freighter
received serious injuries when the
scaffolding broke loose in the hold,
falling 80 feet to parallel pipes.
The ships officers took no notice
of the accident and only started
work to get the men out of the hold
of the ship when committee Of
longshoremen protested the callous
treatment. 1t was an hour after the
accident before the men were finally
hoisted out and taken in ambulances
to the hospital. where they were
found to be in serious condition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-04
Paper Read at Economic
arley by Obolensky-
Ossinsky

The first comprehensive report on
the First and Second Five Years
Plans ever delivery outside the So
Wet Union was made here yesterday
by v. v. Abolensky- Ossinsky, vice.
chairman of the State Commission
and director of the Central Ad-
ministration of National Economic
Planning.
He spoke at the Conference on
Social Economic Planning of the
international Labor Relations In
stitute, held at the Russell Sage
Foundation, and presented a paper
on THE Place of the First and
Second Five Year Plans in Socialist
Construction in the Soviet Union"
His report was divided into three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-04
Pictures Vast Cultural
and Social Advances
for Working Glass

In 1884, despite the drought which
affected the wheat crops, the total
crop was only two per cent less than
the record crop in 1888 because of
more intensive cultivation and be-
cause there had been an increase
of 100000 acres which was sown
with wheat.
For the workers, the First Five
Year Plan saw the general estab-
lishment of a f1ye-dsy week and a
seven-hour day. Wages doubled,
and in addition to the money wage,
the workers received considerable
more in the form of social wages,
such as social insurance, free med
ical treatment, and the like, Os-
sinsky reported.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-04
Soviet Economist Reports Gains of 5-Year Plans

accomplish in four and half years
attained a fulf1llment of 1854 per
cent. 1t transformed a barely in
dustrialized country into a nation
that was highly industrialized.
The accomplishment of the ad-
vance was based on socialized
planning, Ossinsky said. This meant
that in place of private profit a
higher cultural and economic
standard of living was attained for
the working masses.
Among the outstanding features
of the plan was the fact that while
the capitalist world was in the midst
of an intensive crisis, unemployment
was abolished in the Soviet Union.
Ossinsky pointed to other achieve
ments under the First Five Year
Plan. He pointed to the COLLECTIVE
cation Of agriculture which by 1888
has become an established fact and
enabled the collectivized peasants to
achieve record harvest in 1888.
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parts. The first gave a balance
sheet of the First Five Year Plan.
Against the background of the &C
complishments of the First Five
Year Plan, Ossinsky outlined the
detectives of the Second Five Year
Plan, and in conclusion he gave the
very latest data on the accomplish
ments of the Second Five Year
Plan.
For the basis of his report and for
the purpose of contrasting the
achievements under planning, with
the conditions under the Czarist
regime, Ossinsky stressed some of
the following accomplishments of
the First Five Year Plan. The in
dustrial output of the country rose
1873 per cent from 1928 to 1882. The
net value of this output increased
from sixteen billion rubles in 1923
to thirty-seven billion rubles in
1882. Ossinsky pointed out that the
First Five Year plan which was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-04
'Daily's" condition.

"Daily's" condition.
But only four Observation-Disclosures
phia, Boston, Connecticut and New
Jersey-have completed their quo
tas. New York, Chicago, Detroit and
Cleveland have still not reached the
top. Such large districts as Pitts
burgh, Seattle, California, Milwau-
kee, Minneapolis and Buffalo are far
from sufficiently accelerating their
activity. The lack of intensified eff
fort is also the case in most of the
small districts.
Every district must fill its quota
The major ones must carry out their
pledges to go over within the next
few days. The tagging districts must
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g ARE JAILED SAAR MINE
over PROTEST PACT SIGNED
OF FASCISM BY POWERS

ROME, Dec. ga general agree
ment was signed this afternoon
through the French and German
Ambassadors to Rome concerning
the disposal of certain properties
and coal mines of the Saar Terri
tory in the event that the Jan. IS
plebiscite votes for the return of the
Saar to fascist Germany.
Although details of the pact were
not announced, and will not be
known until their submission to the
Council of the League of Nations
on Dec. 5, it was declared by re-
liable sources that the principal
plank in the arrangement was the
sum of money to be paid by the
Hitler government for the mines
now owned by France.
1t was agreed that Germany
would pay for the Saar coal mines
by collecting French francs circu-
1ating in the Saar, exchanging
marks for them and turning the
francs over to France. The round
sum of 800,000,O0O francs ($52,000,-
000), it was understood, was agreed
upon for this purpose.
That this pact will in no way
lessen the Nazi preparations for the
armed seizure of the Saar or the
fascist terrorism and fraud now
taking place, observers here COM
monty agree. Far from decreasing
the aggression of Hitler propaganda
and the hook or crook" methods
of the Nazi 'cDeutsche Front" of the
Saar, German industrialists will
make every effort not merely to
swing the plebiscite into returning
the territory's war utilities to them
but will even set the German war
machine in motion in order to seize
the Basin should there be any ques-
ton of an unfavorable vote.
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during the last three months, more
than $1,000 is still urgently needed
to adequately provide for the
Daily"
We asked for 5000 because it is
the absolute minimum that is re-
quired!
AS We stated in our opening an
nouncement of the drive, $4,000 Of
the money that is raised must go to
the Central Committee, to enable it
to carry out and extend its revolu-
tionary activity.
Our call for the districts to fill
their quotas by Dec. 1 was no arbi-
trary decision. It was dictated by
the burning necessities of the paper.
That the major districts have
rushed every available penny is
proof that they have recognized the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-04
Cotton Garment Trade
Starts 36-Hour Week;
Injunctions Are Filed

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. g.
Cotton garment workers are to work
not more than thirty-six hours per
week, according to instructions is
sued by Sydney Hillman, president
of the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers and member of the National Re-
covery Board.
The order for a thirty-six hour
week without reduction in pay was
signed by President Roosevelt last
spring, but thirty one firms have
filed injunction proceedings to re-
strain enforcement of the presi-
dents order in their plants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-04
Negro Beaten to Death
in Dannemora Hospital;
Heads Conceal Murder

PLATTSBURGH, N. Y, Dec. s.
Sam Jones, 43-year-old Negro in
mate of the Dannemora State Hos
pital, died last Wednesday night as
the result of a beating by attend
ants. News of his murder was con-
cealed until last night, when DR..
Blakely Webster, superintendent of
the hospital, announced he had sus-
pended three attendants, pending
investigation" but refused to re-
veal their names.
DR.. Webster would not comment
on how Jones received the injuries
which caused his death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-04
5000 FIGHT
RELIEF CUTS
IN DETROIT.
Broad Conference Held
With Militant Spirit
Another Called
special 70 the Daily worker

DETROIT, Dec. 3.-Nearly 3,OOt
unemployed workers, gathering II
Arena Gardens yesterday Afternoon
from all parts Of the city, thun.
dered their protest against the II
to 30 per cent reductions in reliet
that have been put over in the las
six weeks, and unanimously decided
on mass march to the county re.
lief office on Dec. 18.
A spirit of grim determination
pervaded the meeting, which waG
called by the Detroit Conference fol
Unemployment Relief and Insur-
ance, representing SO trade unions
ten unemployed organizations anc
IS other workers groups. United
militant action against the cuts anc
for adequate relief for the $4,000
families on the Wayne County Re-
lief rollS-this was the keynote Of
the meeting.
Second Conference Sunday
The meeting endorsed the call
ing Of a second conference to broad
en- the fight for relief next Sun.
day, Dec. 8, at IL am. in Danish
Brotherhood Temple, TITS West
Forest Ave. The two main speak.
ers were Earl Reno, of the Mich
igan Unemployment Councils, anc
Herbert Benjamin of New York
National Organizer of the Councils
Joe Friedman, business agent Of
Local AZ, of the A. F. of L. painters
union, acted as chairman. Other
speakers were Alfred Macknik OF
the Forgotten Mems Club, J. Mel
son, Negro representative of the
workers at Fisher Lodge, municipal
flophause; Richard Kroon, Secre-
tary of the A. F. of L. Trade Union
Committee for Unemployment In
surance and Relief, and Mary Him
off, of the North Detroit Unemploy-
ment Council.
John F. Ballenger, Wayne County
walfare administrator, and the Wei
fare Commission, who had been in
vited to speak in defense of their
policies, failed to show up.
Demonstration Dec. Is
In an eloquent speech, frequently
interrupted by applause, Reno eX-
posed the maneuvers of the relief
officials in the face of the steady
increase in unemployment. He an
swered the question of where the
Welfare Department can get suffi-
Gent funds by pointing to the $13,-
100000 that the city of Detroit had
appropriated for payment of in
terest to bankers, and proposed, in
addition, a tax on the swollen prof.
its of corporations. Reno called for
demonstrations at all local welfare
stations and the building of unem-
ployed organizations in every neigh
borhood, with a mass march of
thousands on Dec. 10, as the only
way to force restoration Of the cuts.
Benjamin exposed the Roosevelt
Security program as a program to
cut relief and forestall real unem-
ployment Insurance. He called for
intensified relief struggles in prep
aration for the National Congress
for Unemployment and Social In
surance in Washington, Jan. to 7.
Resolutions were adopted de-
manding resembling of the cuts, en-
dorsing the county march, support
ing the Fisher Lodge men, who
went out on strike today, endorsing
the National Congress and the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill and demanding that the Com
mon Council increase relief appro-
priations and endorse the Workers
Bill,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-04
Dressers' Strike May
Close Cotton Mills

MANCHESTER, N. H, Dec. 3. =
A strike of dressers is threatening
a shutdown of several of the Amos
keag Company's cotton mills. Unless
the strike is settled today, mills
employing five thousand workers
would be closed the company de-
clares.
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garding criminals of the previ-
ousIy named categories.

MOSCOW, Dec. 3 (By Wireless
All today's papers have black
borders and deal almost entirely
with the memory of Kirov, showing
pictures Of his life. There are many
articles by his friends, fellow work
ers and fighters, and comrades. The
numerous factory organizations, the
Continued on Page q
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DEC. Is FINAL DATE
FOR DAILY DRIVE
The Daily Management Emphasizes Danger of
Delay in Fulfilling Campaign Quota
Comrades:

JOmfadeS:
financial difficulties!
Although the workers of America have shown their
determination to keep the paper alive by their contributions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-04
DYE WORKERS
CELE B RAT {
WITH MARCH
Threngs Fill Paterson
Stadium i'm Victory
Celebration

PATERSON, N. J., Dec. B.
There were 12,0G0 in the Hinch-
cIiffc Stadium when the dye work
ers marched in today to celebrate
their strike victory. When Charles
PirOIo, business agent of the Pat
erson Local, opened the meeting
he introduced Charles Viorito as
the speaker. VigOritO, greeted by
tremendous applause and cheer
ing stated:
1--WE congratulate every worker
upon our victory. Let it be known
that the credit for the victory
belongs to the strikers for taking
care of the factories and keeping
out all scabs.
Now we go back to the plants
to work, but we must guard
against every violation. must
remind you that we have the
privilege of striking against any
manufacturer who violates the
agreement. If we show them we
mean business the manufacturers
will respect us. 1t depends upon
u.s."
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PATERSON, N. j., Dec. 3.-All
Paterson took on festive appear
ance as striking dyers marched
through the main streets to Hinch-
cliffe Stadium celebrating victory
after more than S weeks of strik-
ing.
More than 5000 modified at
Sandy Hill Park which was the
starting point of the parade. Thou
sands lined the sidewalks, and thou
sands more joined the march, swell
in the parade to at least 10000 by
the time the workers neared the
Stadium.
The parade included many women,
children and young people. Heading
the parade was the settlement COM
mittee of which Charles Vigorito
is chairman. The committee was
chiefly composed Of rank and file
Representatives elected by the work
ers, which had an important part
in achieving the gains for the work
ers. Following them and the union
officials was the band of the Pater-
son post of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, the same post which de-
nounced the call of the Chamber OF
Commerce to all service men to be-
come protectors of scabs.
The procession was divided &C
cording to shops. Signs bearing the
name of the shop were usually ac-
comEanied by the information I'VE
go back to the shop 100 per cent
union" The celebration was marked
by an enthusiasm, cheering and
singing such as finds no precedent
in the history of Paterson labor.
Occasionally paraders would jump
out of line and dance and jigg. The
songs solidarity and "On the
Picket Line" were heard in many
parts of the city.
This morning, although the strike
was actually at an end, the workers
reported for the usual picket duty
at the shops, determined that the
return should be in a thoroughly
organized manner. During the last
two days shop chairmen and active
strike leaders have been pointing
out to the workers that the signing
of the agreement does not mean
that the workers can cease their
vigilance. The shop committee and
chairmen will have to continually
be on the watch aaginst chiseling
and trickery on the part of the
bosses Of each shop.
Before large audience which
damned Oakley Hall to the doors,
James Casey, managing editor of
the Daily Worker, spoke last night
on the Strike Wave and the Press"
He reviewed the conduct of the
strike and told the workers that
they owe their victory to the splen-
did rank and file leadership and
noilitancv
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-04
Correction

Correction
A number of errors appeared in
yesterdays story of the dye strike
In the second paragraph, "provi-
sional union shop agreement
should read preferential union shop
agreement" At the end of the
story on the silk workers situation
where it read, "the meeting like
wise voted to hold no election
should read, ian election" In the
editorial on the dyers' STRIKE
Charles Vigorito was referred to as
Thomas Vigorito.
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Continued on Page 81
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ASK YOUR SHOPMATES TO JOIN YOU
IN RAISING DAILY" FUNDS
Yesterday receipts ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1.49
StM Needed IN "Dafy" Drive. 81, e46.6S
Press RHn Yesterdays ,2e0
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
NRA Groups Speed Reaction,
Richberg Declares BluntIy

Secretary of Labor in the Roosevelt
cabinet; Harry L. Hopkins, Federal
Emergency Relief Administrator
and Chester c. Davis, Agricultural
Adjustment Administrator.
President Roosevelt named these
and at the same time announced
the board of five will take charge
of the administration of the MIRA.
proper, in place of Administrator
Johnson. These flve-again dra-
matically indicating by their iden-
tity the further openly anti-labor
trend of the new deal-are: Clay
Williams, former president of the
Reynolds Tobacco monopoly, who
served as industrialists' representa-
tive on the old National Labor Rela-
tons Board; Arthur D. WhiteSide,
Dun & Bradstreet president who
dominated the making of the $12-
a-week cotton textile code; Sidney
Hillman, president of the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers and Labor
Advisory Board member, who has
openly attacked labor organizations
and who tried to quell unionism in
the MIRA. headquarters; Leon G
Marshall, former college professor
and former member of the National
Labor Board that sold out and broke
SO many strikes that it was super
seded by less-thoroughly discre-
dited agency; and Walter H. Hamil-
ton, chairman of the Advisory
Council of MIRA.