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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Bill Is
Passed by Senate
In All-Nite Session
Deciding Vote Is Cast
by Senator Thayer,
Utilities CRATER

ALBANY, N. Y, April 10. = After
three months of political dog fight
ing here, the LaGuardia City Eco
nomy Bill was passed at 4:10 a. m.
today by the State Senate. The vote
was 38 to 6.
Under the terms of this bill,
which was long ago exposed in the
Daily Worker as vicious attack on
the wages and living standards of
New York workers, LaGuardia and
his Board of Estimate now have the
legal power to cut salaries Of under
paid city employees, to enforce pay
less furloughs on the lower-salaried
workers, to "reorganize" city de-
partments, etc.
After much wrangling, the all
night session of the Senate had just
succeeded in collecting SO votes in
favor of the wage-slashing bill.
Another vote was needed to insure
its passage. And-who should ap-
pear at the doorway but Senator
Warren T. Thayer, the exposure Of
whose grating connections with the
big utilities interests while he was
to be safeguarding the
states population from exorbitant
power rates, has just raised a big
stink in the Legislature. Thayer
cast the 34th and deciding vote, thus
aiding the progressive" LaGuardia
gang to jam a new wage cut down
the Threats Of New York's working
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Only II Days Remain to Send
In Your May Day Greetings

from different districts, special
page prepared by "Trud," the off,
cial organ of the Soviet trade
unions, political, historical and cul-
tural features of all kinds-all these
will appear in the May Day edition.
And greetings must come in to en-
able this outstanding edition to be
successfully published.
Altogether different from this
situation is the one which prevails
among the groups which are order
ing special bundles of the May Day
edition. In Philadelphia, the mem
bers Of the Spartacus Club called a
meeting of Greek workers to discuss
the Daily Worker, it's significance
to the working class in its everyday
struggles, its Importance to the for
eign-born workers, etc. The workers
present decided to order 1000 copies
Of the special May Day edition, and
money to pay for them was collected
on the spot. The Spartacus Club
also decided to challenge every Ian
guage organization in Philadelphia
to order more copies than 1000. If
such challenge is taken up, the
Spartacus promises to surpass its
Organizations in all districts!
Send in your greetings todayl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11

An alarmingly small number of
greetings have come in for the May
Day edition of the Daily Worker,
to be printed in the 24-page, half
million-copy edition. So meager are
the greetings which have come in
so far, that they lag far behind the
number received at similar dates
for the last three big editions which
the Daily Worker was published.
This state of affairs again en-
phasizes the necessity of all work.
ing class organizations, clubs, units,
branches, etc., throughout the
country sending their May Day
greetings Immediately to the Daily
Worker. The deadline for all greet
ings is April 22-only IL days away!
Get on the job Immediately if you
expect your organizational greetings
to appear in the 24-page Daily
Worker Take mp this important
question at your very next meeting!
The question Of greetings assumes
special Importance now, in view Of
the fact that the entire Daily
Worker editorial staff is collecting
material for one of the most out
editions ever to be pub
Iished in more than ten years of
The Daily's existence. Special pages
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Reserve Egan
Decision on
LID. Appeal
LID. Asks Workers to
Demand Freedom of
S.M.W.I.U. Leader
Especial to the Daily wOrker)


PITTSBURGH, Pa, April TO-
Reserving decision to a future date,
and terming the stacks Of protest
resolutions sent in by workers or
CARNATIONS threats" the judges of
the Superior Court here today heard
the appeal of the case of James
Egan, national secretary Of the Steel
nd Metal Workers Industrial
Union. The judge displayed the
same prejudice which was displayed
by the District Attorney when he
was prosecuting the case.
Since the successful organization
and strike of the 5000 Ambridge
steel workers, led by the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
Egan has been made a target of at
tack by the Pennsylvania Steel
barons.
While the court was in session,
protest resolutions demanding the
immediate and unconditional release
of Egan, continued to arrive. The
Pittsburgh District Of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense calls nuon all
I. L. D. branches throughout the
country and upon all workers or
CARNATIONS and unions, particularly
the locals of the Amalgamated As
ISOLATION of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers to Immediately send pro-
tests to the Superior Court judges
at the City Court Building, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
BrO'Oder's Mastery Report
To 9th c. p. Convention to
appear in Saturday Daily

The inspiring report Browder Secretary OF the
Communist United Eighth National
Convention Of the Party will be printed fun Saturdays
Of the Daily Worker.
The report will take full pages enlarged Saturday
edition It will be printed separate complete section
that readers VINO preserve document viii be
able to do
This mastery report almost six hours at the
first business session of the Cleveland convention started the
fruitful and complete discussion followed for the duration
Of the sessions which should workers who
interested in the situation United States
Districts who expect larger distributions should insure their
receiving greater numbers Of copies by sending
orders for the Saturday edition without delay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Cabnen Hit
SIP. Move to
Split Unity
Cabmen Force Entrance
of Orner to Speak
for Unity

NEW YORK.-In an attempt to
put the finishing touches on their
plan to split the Taxi Drivers Union
of Greater New York and herd the
men of the Bronx and Brooklyn
locals into the graft-ridden Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, Socialist
leaders Matthew Levy and Anxious
Most called a meeting late yester-
day afternoon in the Hunts Point
Palace.
The meeting, called by the heads
of the Bronx and Brooklyn locals,
who invited the Socialists to speak,
was attended by only 400, many Of
whom were Socialist and YPSL.
members.
Samuel Orner, president of the
Manhattan Local, who arrived at
the meeting to speak against the
plan of the Socialist leaders, was
barred at the door from entering
the hall. But when the news of
his arrival reached the taxi men
inside, they shouted: Let him inl
Let him in!' and forced his admit
lance.
Packing two meetings of the
Bronx and Brooklyn locals Of the
Taxi Drivers Union held yesterday
at S am. at Hunts Point Palace and
the Amalgamated Temple, members
Of the Socialist Party and Young
Peoples Socialist League, helped
Norman Thomas put over a reso-
luton calling for a split in the
union and the sffiliation of these
locals with the A. F. of L.
A large number of those voting for
the resolution we're not taxi drivers
and not members of the Taxi Driv-
ers Union Of Greater New York.
Meanwhile, hackmen in Manhat-
tan were aroused over the maneu-
vers of the Socialist leaders and Her
man Goldstein and Samuel Smith,
presidents of the Brooklyn and
Bronx locals, to split these two sec
tons away from the main body of
the drivers in manhattan.
All throughout the day yesterday
CONTINUED on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
United Front Committee Firm on May 1st Plans

and betraying the revolutionary May
Day traditions of international pro-
letarian solidarity. 1t is expected
that militant demand for working
class unity will be made by many
at the Socialist demonstration itself
in Union Square.
An indication Of the growing SEN
timent among Socialist workers for
the united front is given in the &C
ton of the Upton Sinclair Young
Circle League youth branch Of the
Workmen's Circle in selecting three
delegates to the United Front May
Day Cnference called by the United
Front Committee for this Saturday,
one o'clock, at Webster Hall, 119
East 18th st. Reports from many
unions and fraternal organizations
indicate a record participation ir
the conference and militant suppoE.
for the united front. The Com
mittee yesterday urged all deleg~ces
to be on time for the conference
and to bring the donations OF their
organizations with them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11

NEW YORK. A committee
headed by Carl Brodsky, Secretary
of the United Front May Day Ar
rangements Committee, yesterday
afternoon presented documentary
proof of the priority of it's applica-
ton for Union Square between the
hours of and S on May Day to
Roger Baldwin, one of a committee
of three appointed by Mayor La
Guardia to consider the question of
the police arrangements for Union
Square on May Day.
The committee repeated the
charges it had made last Friday
and Monday to Mayor La Guardia
that the city administration had
grossly Disseminated against the
United Front May Day demonstra-
ton against Fascism and War in
assigning hours for the use of Union
Square.
The committee emphasized the
fact that its invitation to the So
cialist Party for one united treat
May Day demonstration had bezl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
AFLLeaderS Try to
Avert Dock Strike
Rank and File Urging
Action

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April 10
Leaders of the International Long
shoremen's Association have sqelched
another strike movement. The gulf
longshoremen were ready to strike
for 15-cent increase in wages, but
after leaders of the Association had
an eight hour conference with the
shipowners they announced that the
strike would be postponed at least 30
days pending further discussions.
A number of militant rank and
file members of the union have sug-
gested that the longshoremen organ
ize their own committees, and if the
leadership does not take action, to
strike over the heads of the leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Motor Products Strike
Ends; ALL Heads, Govt
Pressure Drive Men Back
A. F. L. Chiefs Prepare
SeH-Out of Main De-
mands of WaHOut
STOP STRIKE SPREAD
Smith Offers Scab Bosses
Names of Union Men
BULLETIN

DETROIT. - Police again at
tackled the pickets at the Detroit
Stove Company, who were massed
to prevent scabs from entering the
factory.
Three of the pickets were ar
rested and several beaten so badly
that it was necessary to give them
first-a treatment.
DETROIT, Mich, April To-
Mathew Smith, general secretary
of the Mechanics Educational So
ciety of America, independent
union Of the tool and die-makers,
agreed to turn over the member
ship rolls to the Ternstedt Manu-
featuring Co. and the Fisher Body
Co., both General Motors units,
according to a statement in the
press today.
The Detroit Times quotes him
as saying: 1--WE expect to let Tern
stedt and Fisher have the records
within "a hours. This is the first
time here that any union has
agreed to disclose members to
plant officials"
Smith thus openly boasts that
what not even the A. F. of L. lead
ers dared do, fearing the anger of
the members, he without consult
ing the rank and file is planning
to do. This practically invites the
open shop General Motors Co. to
blacklist MESA. workers. The
statement came after previous
denial by Smith that he would
turn over membership lists. This
marks a new and more open
treschery by this crafty singer Of
radical phrases.
Smith is also laying the basis
for throttIing the general walkout
Of over $4,000 tool and die makers
scheduled fer Thursday midnight
by turning over the dispute TO the
Regional Labor Board of which
Smith is member. The tool and
die-makers are demanding a 20
per cent increase in pay and &C.
hour week.
DEROIT, April 10. - Fifty-eight
hundred Motor Products workers
on strike here since last Wednesday
returned to work today after the full
weight Of Government pressure had
been brought to bear in an effort
to drive the men back.
In order to send the workers back
to prevent the strike from spreading
to other plants, the company, the
National Automobile Labor Board,
and Edward McGrady, NRA. rep
resentative, were compelled to make
some concessions.
With the thunderous rejection by
strikers on Sunday of the nine-point
agreement proposed by the Labor
Board still ringing in their ears,
they were forced to add a tenth
point: ct is further agreed that the
standard rate upon which piece
rates are computed shall be in
creased 10 per cent for skilled and
semi-skilled workers"
The original nine-point proposal
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Group Picked
To Speed Army
Air War Plans
Most Significant Military
Move Since the Last
Imperialist War
BAKER HEADS BODY
Choose War Experts for
Intensive Preparations
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau.)


WASHINGTON, April 10.
Secretary of War George H.
Dern, former Governor and
banker of Utah, today an
nounced the eleven members
of "a combined military and civilian
committee" which will meet in
Washington in about week to draft
elaborate plans for increasing the
effectiveness for war of the Army
Air Corps. The formation of this
committee is one of the most signifi-
can't War Department moves since
the close of the imperialist world
war in that it seeks to coordinate
the general military, scientific and
industrial-military activities of Off
cial and unofficial organizations.
Newton D. Baker, former War
Secretary who is now one Of the
leading public utilities, automobile
and open shop lawyers, will be
chairman Of the group which was
selected, according to the War De-
partment, ito make a constructive
study of the Army Air Corps" Ma
jor General Hugh A. Drum, Deputy
Chief of Staff of the War Depart
ment, will act as executive vice
chairman, while Brigadier General
Charles E. KiIbourne, ASSISTANT Chief
of Staff of the War Plans Division
of the War Department, will also
play a prominent role.
TN selecting the members of the
committee" the War Department
declared, "the Secretary of War has
sought to secure the assistance of
men especially associated with the
development of aviation in America,
both from the military and civil
viewpoint. Mr.. Bakers acceptance
of the invitation to serve will bring
to the group invaluable experience
resulting from his great work as
Secretary of War in the World War
and. subsequent thereto, at the time
Of the reorganization of the army
in 1920"
War Experts
The aviation war plans group also
includes: Major General Benjamin
D. Foulois, Chief of the Air Corps;
DR.. Karl Taylor Compton, president
of the Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology; Major General George
S. Simonds, Commandant of the
War College; DR.. George William
Lewis, director of Aeronautical Re-
search, National Advisory Commit
tee for Aeronautics; Clarence D.
Continued on Page d
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Aircraft Men
In Hartford
Out on Strike
Munition Plants Face
General Walkout as
Strike Move Grows
Special to the Daily worker)


HARTFORD, Conn, April TO-
One hundred and forty EIGHT
workers, employed by the Hamil-
ton Propeller Company, walked
out today at the beginning Of the
aircraft strike, AS the strike con-
tinues to spread throughout Hart
ford, the workers at the Chance
Vought and the Pratt and Whit
ney Companies are scheduled to
strike on Wednesday and Thurs
day. The aircraft workers, under
the leadership of the Industrial
Aircraft Workers Union, an in
dependent union, are demanding
a 10 per cent wage increase.
The strike of the 1000 workers
in the Arrow Electric Company
continues solid, with all the work
ers in mass picket lines. The
Communist Party of Hartford has
called for mass support to the
strike and to spread the strike to
other plants.
The plants of the Pratt Whitney
Tool Company, Pratt-Cady, I'm
derwood Typewriter, Colt Fire
Arms and many others face a gen.
eral walkout of all Hartford work
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Soviet Spokesman
ReneWS Plea for
Real Disarmament
Urges Soviet Definition
of Aggressor Be Put
Into Agreements

GENEVA, April 10. A renewed
declaration of the Soviet Unions
readiness to enter into any agree
ment which will actually bring dis
armament, was made here today by
Boris Stein, Soviet representative, at
3 meeting of the steering committee
Of the disarmament" conference.
Such an agreement must be uni
versal, and apply to Eastern as we'll
as to Western powers, he declared.
He urged that the Soviet Unions
definition of an aggressor nation
be taken up and embodied in all
proposals for non-aggression agree
ments, including President Roose-
velt's.
Against the urging of Capt, An
thony Eden, British representative.
who recently made a tour of Euro
pean capitals in an effort to organ
ize an antiSoviet grouping, the
committee voted to meet on April
30, and to call full session of the
conference May %. Arthur Hender-
son, chairman, was empowered to
postpone the meetings If he wished.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Writ Calls.
lass Man,
NRA Heads
Real Reds
Aim of Charges Is To
End DemagOgic
Promises
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
Daily Worker Washington Bureau)

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, April 10.-Dr.
William A. Writ, School Superin-
tendent for the q. S. Steel town of
Gary, Indiana, seeking to substan-
tiate his absurd charge that the
Roosevelt Brain trust" are plot
ting revolution" leading to Com
munism, today told a House Com
mittee that Lawrence Todd, repre-
sentative of Tass, the Soviet Gov
eminent News Agency" asserted in
his presence that, Roosevelt is
only the Kerensky of this revolu-
ton" Immediately afterward Todd
denied the charges in full, declaring
to the Daily Worker:
ct made no suggestion that the
President or his policies we're pro
noting Socialism or Communism.
In my presence there was no men
ton of revolution, of Kerensky, or
Stain or Of any desire or plan of
retarding recovery, or of anyone or
any groups controlling the Presi-
dents policy. There was no Sugges-
ton that Roosevelt had been forced
into any stream Of action
Gastonia Strikebreaker Chairman
The characterization of Todd as
a Soviet News correspondent at the
time Writ referred to was incorrect
At the time of the occasion Writ
mentioned during a private dinner
seven months ago-Todd was a
correspondent not for Tass but for
Federated Press, Labor News
Agency.
Most of the thousand or more
spectators at Wirt's appearance be-
fore a special committee of the
House of Representatives, appointed
to investigate the revolution
charges, thought it was all a
grand farce. They listened to the
statements by the red-faced, ner-
vous little witness and to the inept
questioning by the chairman of the
committee, Representative A. L.
BulWinkle, a leading citizen" OF
Gastonia, North Carolina, who was
guiding spirit in the terror
against the heroic textile strikers in
1929-and laughed out loud.
But the investigation is more
than show. 1t, and the Writ CAM
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Socialist Youth Club to Send Delegates TO United
Front May Day Meet Saturday

rejected by the Socialist leaders, as
well as the fact that the police de-
partment, at first agreeing to the
plans of the United Front Commit
tee for the use of the Square from
/ to 5 on May Day, later revised
these plans in alliance with the So
cialist Party leaders as a blow
against the proletarian united front.
The committee insisted that the
police department stand by its
original agreement for the United
Front demonstration to be in the
Square from to s. pointing out
that the arrangements already made
by the United Front Committee, the
number of marchers and the subse-
quent evening celebration in Madi-
son Square Garden, make it i'm
possible for the committee to radi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Rule Against
r. r. Strikes.
Eastman Urges
Roosevelt Official SAYS
the Union Chiefs
Support 1t
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
naiIv VVorI,er VVasbin0fnv, Purea


WASHINGTON, D. c., April TO-
A clear-cut endorsement of a pro-
vision for compulsory arbitration of
railway labor disputes in the Dill
Bill was made today before the SEN
ate Committee on Interstate Com
merce by Federal Co-ordinator of
transportation, Joseph B. Eastman.
He read a prepared statement on
the bill in which he declared that
when the regular members of the
National Adjustment Board, which
is provided for in the bill, disagree,
"They must call in a neutral mem
Der appointed by the mediation
board to decide the case"
Eastman told the committee that
the railway labor executive associa-
ton, headed by A. F. Whitney, are
willing ito agree to such provi-
sion"
The bill by Senator Dill Demo
crat of Washington is entitled: "A
bill to amend the railway labor act
approved May 20, 1928, and to pro-
vide for the prompt disposition of
disputes between carriers and their
employees"
Brotherhood Chiefs Agree
Eastman, who has been con-
ferring with William Thiehoff,
the representative of the railroad
magnates, and with the Whitney
group on the dispute over Presi-
dent ROosevelt's company-inspired
fTo1fiYued nm pnne ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11

cally change its plans.
From discussions in the shops
and unions, it is evident that the
workers are determined TO carry
through the plans of their delegates
on the United Front May Day Ar
rangements Committee, and bitterly
resent the continued splitting tactics
of the Socialist leaders. Great re-
sentiment is being expressed at the
rejection by the recent Socialist
May Day conference of the proposal
for May Day United Front made
by a delegation from the United
Front Committee.
Resentment is also growing among
rank and file members of the So
cialist controlled unions and the
Socialist Party against the traitor
GUS policies of the leadership in
dividing the ranks of the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
BY DAN DAVIS
daily Worker Midwest Bureau. !

CHICAGO, April 10. - Bricks
crashed through the windows of the
local C.C.C. Registration offices at
80 Madison st. early this morning
when 1000 young workers demanded
that the doors of the closed head
quarters be opened to registration
for jobs or cash relief.
More than 400 of the workers, led
by the Young Communist League,
marched around the building to
unite the workers standing in the
front and In the rear Of the Of
fees. A young worker put his fist
through the window Of truck
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
NeeUs Flash

FALL RIVER, Mass, April 10.
The entire textile printing in
dustry of Fall River faced shut
down today when over $50 weav-
ers of Mill No. 2, of the Ark
wright Corp. Joined the strike be-
ing conducted by the weavers of
the Algonquin Printing Co., and
the American Printing Co. The
terrific speed-up is one of the con-
ditions against which the workers
are fighting.
The move in the Arkwright was
taken against the orders of the
United Textile Workers officials,
who are trying to keep the strike
action split. The Printing Work
ers Union is meeting tonight to
call the rest es tha Arkwright
workers out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Palace Plots Alleged
in Rumania and Siam

BUCHAREST, Ajril 10-Twenty
army officers and 100 civilians have
been arrested in connection with
an alleged plot to kill King Carol
of Rumania. The conspirators rep
resent groups who feel Carol and
his government are not capable of
coping with the deep unrest of the
Rumanian worker and peasant
masses who are resisting more and
more aggressively the unbearable
conditions forced on them in the
crisis.
BANGKOK, Siam, April 10.-One
hundred persons were arrested in
connection with an alleged plot to
seize control of the army, commu-
and government buildings
by q coup d'etat.