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for seizing the railway belonging to
others, to call forth world con-
vulsion.
Soviet Peace Policy
"In their blindness these people
who only consider the rifle and the
sword to be real, to complicate the
situation, produce fictions at which
the entire world laughs. Their at
Tempt to put responsibility for the
situation on the Soviet do not pro-
duce any results. The whole world
Knows the peace policy of the So
Wet government, especially the
quietness and self-restraint shown
by the Soviet government in the
Far East. However, much the jap
anese press strives, and however
much it spreads fables, it will not
alter the estimate of events by world
public opinion.
"The fact that the press of the
Japanese military clique add to
these imaginations and unequivocal
threats simply further stresses the
significance of the unyieldingness Of
the japanese -Manchuria side of the
question of the Chinese Eastern
Railway.
These threats merely strengthen
the conviction everywhere Of how
widespread is the influential clique
of military adventures ruling the
roost in Japan, prepared to set the
world on fire to attempt to obtain
fantastic aims which they have ad-
vocated for several years.
TOKYO, Aug. 22.-After open
threats of war against the Soviet
Union by the Minister of War, the
Japanese Foreign Office yesterday
issued statement backing down
on its previous ultimatum over the
Soviet preferred sale of the Chi
nese Eastern Railway.
The Foreign Office declaration
said that its previous statement was
mot an ultimatum.' The office
denied that the wholesale arrests of
Soviet citizens employed on the C..
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Green Seeks to Head off Insurgence
In nA.F.L. by Red Scare, Says T,U,UL.
Mass Revolt Against AFL Leaders Strikebreaking
Policies Cited AS Reason For Attempt
To TerrOrize Rank and File

NEW YORK.-The national eX
scutive board Of the Trade Union
Unity League, through Jack Stachel,
acting national secretary, yesterday
issued the following statement on
William Green's pronouncement at
Atlantic City Saturday:
The statement issued Saturday by
William Green, in which he calls
for holy war" and pogrom
against Communists and radicals
is in reality vicious attack against
the rank and file Of the American
Federation of Labor and against the
American working class as a whole.
1t is an effort by Green to head
off and smash the opposition of the
rank and file which is expected to
materiahze at the coming state and
national conventions Of the A. F.
Of L. against the strikebreaking, the
treachery and continued betrayals
of the workers by the bureaucracy.
Green's statement is an effort to
destroy the growing insurgence of
the great mass of rank and file
workers of the A. F. of L. who to-
day are in motion against the brazen
collaboration of Green and Com
pany with the employers and strike
breaking NRA.
Green's statement is an effort to
terrorize the A. F. of l.. member
ship to assure the Roosevelt pro-
gram being carried through more
easily, the program of wage cutting,
starvation codes, compulsory arbi-
tration, terror, hunger and war.
Throughout the A. F. of L. there
exists a seething ferment in the
ranks of the membership against
the treachery of the A. F. Of L. bu-
reaucracy, the treachery which has
been manifested time and again,
in knitting the steel strike, in smash
ing the general strike in San Fran
cisco, Toledo, Milwaukee, Alabama,
in textiles and elsewhere, in chain
ing the workers to the infamous
merit clause" in the auto indus
try, in collaborating with the en-
ployers to chain the workers to
starvation codes and in numerous
instances of plain strikebreaking,
racketeering and corruption.
The role of the A. F. of L. bu-
reaucracy, as a part of the govern
ment apparatus in averting strikes,
or in setting themselves at the head
of strikes to later betray them, and
in their collaboration with the en-
ployers against the interests of the
workers, has resulted in the rank
and file going into action against
this strikebreaking bureaucracy and
engaging in struggles over their
heads. The struggle of the workers
for better conditions, higher wages,
for real unions, etc, had to be
waged over the heads and opposi-
The daily worker., 1934-08-23

I GlOn OF bne A. r. OF Ii. bureaucracy,
whose main role today IS to cola
borate with the employers against
the workers, to avert strikes or If
failing in this then to set them
selves at the head of struggles so
as to later behead them.
The strikebreaking role of Green
and company, and the desire of the
workers to struggle for real unions
and better conditions, has resulted
in seething ferment throughout
the A. F. of L. on the part Of the
rank and file in protest against the
strikebreaking activities and treach-
cry of the A. F. of L. leadership.
This consciousness among the work
ers, accompanied by developing
organization of rank and file op-
position groups, unity committees,
united front movements, etc, all of
which rise to challenge the bureau
cracy, sends chill of fear through
Green and company. The rank and
file of the A. F. of L. are determined
to smash this strikebreaking activity
and establish militant unionism by
electing and following rank and file
leaders following a militant, class
policy.
The anti working class activity of
Green and company, manifested in
hundred different strikes and
struggles their collaboration with
the employers against the workers
and their strikebreaking actions
(Toledo, San Francisco, ete.), in
trying to chain the workers to the
slave labor codes ("merit clause"
in auto), etc, their agreement with
the compulsory arbitration and
company unionization schemes of
the Wagner Bill, their mo strike"
agreements, ETC., convince the rank
and file of the A. F. of L. that this
bureaucracy must be smashed, and
real, militant working class leaders
take their place.
This is the real reason for the
attack by Green against the rank
and file of the A. F. of L. Joining
hands with other reactionery forces,
Green resurrects the "red scare" to
terrorize the workers. The TU.UL.
calls upon the rank and file of the
A. F. of L. to redouble their efforts
to mobilize their forces for prepara-
tions for the october A. F. of L.
Convention, where they will sharply
struggle against the treachery and
collaboration Of Green with the
bosses and NRA. and the sell-out
policies of the A. F. of L. bureau
cracy, against the A. F. of L. rack
eteering and gangsterism, and where
the rank file will fight vigorously
against Green in behalf of unem-
ployment insurance and for the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill II. r 1888
The daily worker., 1934-08-23

not only of the LID, but of the
Communist Party, the militant
trade unions, and other mass or
ganizations.
Wilson, Black and Harry Jack
son, organizer for the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, who
drew a similar sentence on the same
charge, are all out on 81 1000 bond,
pending appeal to the Superior
Court.
The count against Wilson was
that he had gone from place to
place without lawful business" He
was not permitted to introduce any
evidence whatsoever concerning the
LID, however, except the Labor
Defender, official organ of the
LID, his membership book and an
application card.
A telegram from the national Of
flee of the LID, received in court,
confirming his election as organ
izer, and citing the recognition
which State and U. S. Supreme
Courts as we'll as departments of
the federal government have been
forced to give to the LID. as
legal defense organization, was
ruled out as evidence.
The prosecution admitted that it
had no case of vagrancy, or proof
that the LID. was unlawful, but
said, in fascist appeal to the bust
ness and professional men on the
jury:
This intelligent young man is
using his brains to mislead poor
workers and I ask you to send him
to Jail to show him we won't want
his ideas here"
A broad Labor Conference for
Civil Rights is to be held in Car
penters Hall here Sunday, August
26, to mobilize defense for the vic
tins Of the West Coast terror, and
for the organizations which the
state is attempting to illegalize.
"a Await Trial
Twenty-four prisoners remain in
the city Jail awaiting trial, and the
LID. is taking out habeas corpus
writs for their release, as the law
provides that nisdemeanor cases
must be tried within thirty days
unless continuance is asked by
the defense. The twenty-four have
been held since early in July on
vagrancy charges. Ten others are
out on bail waiting trial.
Ten of the 81 strike terror prison
ers serving time in the County Jail,
are in solitary confinement for re-
fusing to work, Protests against
their persecution should be sent to
Sheriff Fitzgerald, San Francisco
County, San Francisco.
A total of thirty-six are at Angel
Island awaiting deportation pro-
ceedings, and deportation orders
have already been issued against
fourteen seamen who went on
strike.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Business Tax
Seen as Blow
At NY. Labor

NEW YORK Aimed directly at
making the working population, the
mass of small business people and
the professional workers pay the
burden of unemployment relief,
Mayor LaGuardia, with the ap-
proyal of a joint committee of the
Municipal Assembly, yesterday pro-
posed tax on all businesses gross
ing in excess of S., 900 annually and
lottery scheme to finance relief.
Large commission agents and
brokers are TO be exempted from
the burden of the tax by the plan
whereby they will pay the same
proportionate tax only on gross in
come, not on total gross receipts.
In addition to directing the bur-
den upon the small business people,
all professional workers will be
taxed one-han of one per cent OF
their gross incomes.
Legislation embodying the tax
plan will be submitted to the Board
Of Estimate at special hearing
today, and to the Board of Alder
men on Friday. Final action on
the tax will be taken after the
public hearings on these dates.
The taxes, to be effective on gross
receipts for 1884 will be payable
after Jan. l, 1895, the exact date
having not yet been established.
Professional workers, according to
the plan will be taxed.
The lottery, planned after the
prog ram submitted by Bronx
Borough President Lyons will eSpe-
cially direct itself to the working
population.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Brooklyn Meetings
Will Hear HerndOn
and Brother Speak

BROOKLYN. = Angelo Hern-
don, heroic Negro leader of the
working-class, will speak in
Brooklyn tomorrow night, where
a gigantic mass welcome is being
prepared for him at the Elks
Auditorium. 1858 Fulton Street.
The meeting, organized jointly
by the League of Struggle fo.
Negro Rights and the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, is part OF
the campaign to raise the SIS, 900
needed to carry the Herndon and
Scottsbo-o appeals to the U. S.
Supreme Court.
Milton Herndon, brother of
Ang elo Herndon, will be the
main speaker at a Scottsboro-
Herndon mass meeting tonight at
4109 Thirteenth Ave, Brooklyn,
under the auspices of the Ella
May Branch of the International
Labor Defense.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
A. T. L. Heads
Hit Fur Union
Unity Moves
Committee From Fur
Workers Union Calls
Rank and File To Act

NEW YORK. II Omcials Of the
International Furriers Union have
started msneuvers to break the
unity established week ago with
the Fur Workers Industrial Union
in the general fur dressers strike,
it was charged by rank and
file committee of the Industrial
Union Tuesday.
Members of the Industrial Union,
after coming to an agreement last
week with the International for
one united strike, met early this
week with committee of the In
ternational and offered three pro-
poSals to strengthen the unity and
the strike, but the International
committee walked out of the con-
ference, acting on instructions Of
Moe Harris, Jack Sohulman.
The three proposals which the
International committee refused to
accept were:
II Joint pieketing Of all shops
on strike, as well as the open
shops.
q To elect a committee Of.
three in each shop; these COM
mittees to constitute the strike
committee to direct the strike,
to act on settlements.
81 That joint mass demon
straticn be called in the fur
market against the shipment of
work to open shops in other
cities.
After listening to the proposals,
the committee of the International
broke up the conference by walk
ing out.
The rank and file committee of
the Fur Workers Industrial Union
issued an urgent appeal yesterday
to the membership Of Locals 25
and 85 of the International, call
ing on them to take up the pro-
posals made at the conference.
Leaders Of the Fur Workers In
dustrial Union-Ben Gold, Irving
Potash, Louis Hyman and j. Vino
gradsky-addressed the fur work
ers at mass open air meeting
yesterday afternoon at 29th Street
and Seventh Avenue.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Drive to Place
C.P. on Indiana
Ballots Lags
5000 Signatures Still
Needed, Says State
Campaign Manager

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. 22.-
Strong possibilities exist for the
election of Communist candidates
in several localities in this State, it
was said today by Charles Stat
field, State campaign manager oL
Jhe Communist Party. Prospect
for election victories are particular
bright in Bicknen and Gas City.
The possibility of such victortl
is seriously threatened, however, J
the failure Of the Communist men
bership to regard the election can
paign as a struggle of prime inn
portance to the workers Of the
State, ,Statfeld declared.
Eight thousand nominating sig
natures are necessary to place on
the ballot the slate Of State cam
didates and the four Congressional
nominees in addition to numerous
county and local tickets. The dead
line for the petitions is October /.
THE campaign committee urges
that every Party member, every
unit and every section in the State
start work at once in securing sig
natures on the nominating petit
tions. Unless this is done the Party
will not have ticket in this
State" Statfeld warned.
He pointed to the failure to ar
range meetings at which candi-
dates can present the Communist
election platform as another seriUus
shortcoming in the campaign.
This is especially true" he de-
clared, "in the Indianapolis section,
where there has been police terror
against the Party in the past few
weeks. Instead of the candidates
of the Party coming to the fore
front and proving themselves the
real leaders of the working class,
they have hesitated. This must be
corrected if we expect the workers
to support the Party"
Statfeld also urged speed in the
raising of campaign funds and in
the distribution of literature. The
latter he pointed out, is an in
valuable aid in collecting nominat-
ing signatures.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23

of the expulsion campaign Of 1926.
Fascist attacks are being prepared
not only for the members of the A.
F. of L., but for all militant workers.
This is evident in the statement is
sued by the A. F. of L. Executive
Council and their instructions to the
Ohio and Massachusetts State Fed
erations of Labor, attacking the
anti-Nazi Committees, as breaking
up the labor movement in the
United States and raising the red
scare The statement is a warning
to the rank and file that the A. F.
of L. reactionarieS will line up with
the dark forces of reaction to exc
cute an attack upon any workers
organization fighting against fas-
cism, against war and in the inter-
ests of the workers.
Glass Fights Growing
Although the A. F. of L. mis-
leaders have succeeded in forcing
hundreds of thousands of workers
into submission, great class battles
have been fought in Toledo, Ala
bams, Minneapolis, on the West
Coast and elsewhere. The rank and
file have already shown in action
that they will fight over the heads
of the reactionary officials. In the
great strikes they are repudiating
the methods of these leaders and
have formed rank and file strike
committees, have conducted mass
picketing, have united with workers
in other unions to defend their
rights, in open defiance of the
threats and intimidation of the A.
F. Of L. officials.
"At the coming Fifty-fourth Con-
vention, when the old tried reaction
ary leaders will get together to con-
slider the methods Of best maintain
ing the interests and profits of the
employers, there will also be called
together delegates Of the rank and
file from all parts of the country to
challenge their policies. Some Of
these rank and file delegates will be
delegated to tn Fifty-fourth Con-
ton.
The national A. F. of L. Trade
Union Committee for Unemploy-
ment Insurance and Relief, working
will local committees, is making all
necessary preparations to have as
many rank and file delegates to the
A. F. Of L. convention as possible
in order to defend the rank and file
program.
The rank and file will expose the
silence of the A. F. of L. Executive
Council when dozens Of pickets have
been murdered and hundre eds
wounded and crippled in the face
of troops, terror and shootings, and
their silence on injunctions. We
will demand an answer to their
policy of discriminating against and
jim-crowing the Negro workers and
playing directly into the hands of
the employers in dividing Negro and
white workers. We will demand an
answer to the strike-b breaking meas
ures against the West Coast strike.
The Fake Opposition
Elements in the convention like
John L. Lewis, Dubinsky, Hillman
and Zimmerman will pose as oppon-
ents of the Executive Council. They
will call for broadening out the Exc
cutive Council and even for indus
trial unionism. In reality, they
stand for the, same policies as the
A. F. of L. Executive Council. Their
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Districts Increase Fund Drive Quotas
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Dulath section of this territory throws gauntlet
brother sections to the Of
The district which quota will receive the
banner which in Bostoni
In Baltimore the $3.50 which
its quota and has
land district the
committee each
other on definite
The Denver section challenges
first in raising their
This of the Socialist
started all the
1t only however Party Unions and
aernal organizations take their
The the competitions
among
doubled circulation TO the Daily Workerl
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Mrs. Tim Found Guilty
In Fake Attack Trial;
Sentence is Suspended

BROOKLYN.-Mrs. Tim, Negro
woman, brutally assaulted by a
policeman while in her seventh
month Of pregnancy, was found
guilty on a framed-up disorderly
charge in Pennsylvania Ave. court
yesterday and given a suspended
sentence by Magistrate O'Dwyer.
The magistrate ignored testimony
by Mrs. Tim and several witnesses
to the attack by the policeman, and
accepted the unsupported testimony
Of the arresting officer, who framed
the disorderly charge in order to
cover up his brutal attack on Mrs.
Tim.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23

California Governor
Rejects Application
For Mooney Pardon

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Aug. %.
Gov. Frank F. Merriam yester-
day refused to consider Tom
Moneys application for a par
don, filed several days ago by
Leo Gallage-, labor attorney who
is representing Mooney.
The California governor cited
as justification for his refusal of
the pardon application the pre-
cedent set by his four predeces-
sors in Office. He completely ig-
nored the recent scquittal of
Mooney on a charge similar TO
that on which he was indicted
and sentenced to death, COM
muted to life Imprisonment, as.
a result of the protest actions in
1917 of Russian workers under
the leadership Of Lenin.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23

labor and 81 per hour for trade
labor.
2.-Recogntion of a workers
grievance committee.
3.-Thirty per cent inarease in
direct relief Immediately, assign
ment of orders to groceries Of cli-
ents' choosing, and abolition of
yellow dog contracts.
Following the walkout Monday,
the strike spread throughout the
whole of Macon County, and all
relief projects were shut down. Mill
tant pickets, both men and women
marched in front of every job.
Workers almost unanimously walk
ed out and there was no disturb
ance.
NJ
The daily worker., 1934-08-23

Earn Expenses Selling the DAILY"
Unemployed? Sell the Daily!
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
F.E.R.A. Workers
Strike In 2 States

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California Seeks
To Ban C.P. :, LID.

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The daily worker., 1934-08-23
MilitantS Prepare
For AL. Congress

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The daily worker., 1934-08-23

Earn Expenses Selling the Daily
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DAMASCUS

Miss Willie Dry, daughter of Mr.,
and Mrs. John Dry, of Meisenheimer
North Carolina, and George Boyer
son of DR. and Mrs. George M. Boyer
of Damascus, were quietly married at
the home of the bride Tuesday even
ing, April 30, at $50 in the presence
of members of the immediate families
On their return from honeymoon
trip, the couple will make their home
at Damascus.
DIR. M. McKendree Boyer of Damas.
Gus, chief resident physician, st
Lukes Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, is at
tending the annual meeting of the
American College of Physicians il
Chicago this week. He accompanied
DR.. w. C. Slower, chief of the Medica
Division of St. Luke's Hospital, anC
Doctors U. c. Rowland and c. T
Ways, senior members of the visiting
staff of the same institution.
Mrs. Charles Johnson gave a din
ner at her home here Sunday IN hon
or of the eighty-frst birthday of he
mother, Mrs. Sallie V. Hungerford
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Rockville News And
Social Items

Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Hartman and
little daughter, Peggy, of Dillsburg,
Pa, spent Sunday with Mrs. Margaret
A. c. Welsh. Sunday was Mrs. Welsh
birthday anniversary. She received
beautiful flowers and many lovely
presents and cards.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Van Veen, of
Alta Vista, Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Odds,
of Woodside, Mr.. and Mrs. Seward
Bacon and Mr.. and Mrs. William
Beck, of Washington, and Miss Eliza
beth Brewer of Rockville, were din
ner guests on Friday evening of Mr..
and Mrs. S. M. Hamilton.
Mr.. and Mrs. George P. Henderson
entertained Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Hartman and daughter, Peggy, Mrs.
Margaret A. C. Welsh and Miss
Amelia Higgins at birthday break
fast on Sunday morning in honor Of
Mrs. Welsh.
! DR.. Edward Stonestreet Lamar, of
Cambridge, Mass, spent the past
week here with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George H. Lamar, having come
to attend the American Physical So
ciety meeting in Washington. :
Lieut.. Commander John D. Sloane
has returned from st. Petersburg
Florida. Lieut.. Commander Sloane
makes his home with his sister-in-law
Mrs. Howard Larcombe.
i Miss Narcissa billiard, of Lynch
burg, Va, student of Maryland In
stitute, Baltimore, has been guest
of Miss Rose Williams.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Larcombe
and Lieut.. Commander John D
i Sloane were dinner guests on Sunday
of Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Van Veen.
j Midshipman Frank Marshall spent
the week end with his parents, Mr.
, and Mrs. Frank Marshall. He was &C
companied by Midshipman Bobbit
Houston, of Chicago, and Midshipmar
Bobbie Williams, of Buffalo.
: Mr.. Joseph Reading is visiting hi'
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. ant
Mrs. Theodore S. Mason.
), DR.. C. E. Hawks sister, Mrs. Mamie
Jackson and his father, Mr.. Osborn
: Hawks, who have been visiting hin
} for several days have returned t.
{. their home in Mt. Airy, North Caro-
lima.
!. Miss Martha Williams spent tn,
: weekend in Lansdowne suburb O
Philadelphia, Pa. She was the CUES
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The guests included Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Hungerford, Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Thompson, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Ridgley and Mrs. Ida Simpson.
of Dayton; Mr.. and Mrs. William
Hungerford, of Boyds; Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Poole and Everette Moxley, of
Dickerson; Mrs. Mary Hobbs, Wash
ington, D. c.; Mrs. Sallie Dumhart
Baltimore; Mr.. and Mrs. BENJAMIN
Hungerford and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Johnson, Jr, of Sykesville; Mrs. Josie
Harrison, Miss Ludell Harrison and
Miss Nettie Lee Harrison, of Ellicott
City; Mrs. Mary Gidens and Mr.
Ernest Gidens, Laurel; and Mr.. Nor
man Leatherman.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Salem
M. E. Church, Mrs. Elbridge Beall
president, will hold a creamed chick
en- and waffle supper on Saturday
night, May IL, at the Cedar Grove
School. The supper committee is Mrs
T. o. King, chairman; Mrs. John w
Hager, Mrs. John Purdum, Mrs
Jesse Nicholson and Mrs. V. C. Wood.
bridge.