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Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-30
UNDERWORLD
FACES FIGHT.
Senate Approves Legislation
To Put Teeth Into Laws By
Severe Penalties.
BY JOHN A. REICHMANN
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March 80. U.P)-
The White House has requested
early house action on the anti
crime bills approved by the senate
yesterday, house Majority Leader
Joseph w. Byrns said today.
Byrns said that he and Speaker
Henry T. Rainey discussed the mat
ter with Louis Howe, presidential
secretary, at the White House ear
lier in the day.
The measure. designed to make
more effective the justice depart
ment's anti-racketeering drive. have
been before the house judiciary
committee for several weeks. Byrns
indicated that Chairman Hatton
Summers, Dem, Texas, would be
asked to expedite them so they can
be acted on within the next week.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-30
" " y WEATHER
LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY

Fair and Slightly cooler tonight
and Saturday rather low humidity;
gentle to moderate wind, mostly
north to northwest.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-30

WASHINGTON, March 30.-Ar
army of desperate gangSters larger
than the combined army and navy
today was faced with squared-o of
battle with federal law enforce
ment machinery through senate
passage OF powerful anti-crime
measures.
Seven bills recommended by the
administration to enable it TO cope
with gangSterdom were passed
without hesitation by the senate
and now go to the house where
early action is anticipated.
They were developed as a result
of an intensive inquiry into gangs
and racketeers by the Copeland
senate committee.
Only one measure failed to re-
ceive immediate approval by the
senate. 1t would make it a fed
eral offense to ship any sort OF
stolen goods from one state to an
other.
Attorney-G General Homer S. Cum
mingS has said the measure would
give the federal government almost
free hand to cooperate with the
state in stamping out organized
crime. He cited figures to show
that more criminals bear arms
than the federal military forces.
The new bills take jurisdiction
under federal constitutional au-
thority to regulate interstate COM
merce.
Under them witnesses who leave
a state will be subject to 5-year
prison sentence and $4,000 fine. --
Extortion by racketeers will car
ry a 99-year Jail penalty plus fines
equal to the amount extorted.
Robbery from banks subject to
federal supervision and holdups
of these institutions would be pun
ishable by $4,000 in fines and 10
years Imprisonment, while death
penalty might be imposed in cases
of violence or manSlaughter.
Assaults on federal officers car
ry a $4,000 fine and 10 year Jail
penalty.
Inciting or assisting in jail
breaks, smuggling drugs, messages
weapons and Jail break tools into
prison would carry 10 year jail
sentence. ....
kidnapping across state bound
aries would carry life sentences
and holding a kidnapped person
more than three days would permit
federal agents to take up the case
on the theory a state line had been
crossed.
Use of radio, telephone, tele-
graph or any other means Of send
ing a ransom demand would carry
a term up to life.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-30
LOCAL TEMPERATURES

data compiled by Howard En-
mons, local observer for the United
States weather bureau)
Maximum yesterday .........................97
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-30
@MarketS
L. A. Poultry

LOS ANGELES, March go U.P)-
Following are today'S market quo
toriO0c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Pearcy, Keck, Co. SLAM
der Militant Struggles
of Coal Miners

DESTROYS of unity with all miners
and Joint struggle for the better
ment of their conditions, is moving
toward unity and joint action with
all miners. The role Of the Pearcys
and Kecks is to prevent this. They
are opposed to unification of the
ranks of the miner into fighting
union and are opposed to militant
struggle.
Precisely this is the reason for
the attacks against the COMMIT
nists. The Communist miners are
seeking to unity the ranks of the
miners and lead to the development
of a fighting, class struggle union
of miners, free from the Lewises,
Cappellinis, Pearcys and Kecks.
The Communist Miners will con-
tinue to expose the nisleadership
of these takers and seek to unity
the miners for militant struggle.
This is what the miners want
everywhere. Pearcy and Keck will
have to speak again" and many
times to prevent this unification,
but 1t will prove unavailing. The
coal miners, united, will be fighting
their exploiters under the leader
ship Of fighting, class struggle
union when the names of Pearcy.
Keck, Lewis, Cappellini and others
are but din1ly remembered by the
miners as peanut takers who tried
to prevent it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27

enemy of the workers republic,
where the workers and farmers
have overthrown capitalism and
are building up socialist, classics
society. They are now in the COM
pany of Lewis, Vol and Easily.
Pearcy and Keck shed hot tears
for the murderer of French work
ers, ex-Premier Daladier, the Com
munist Party is accused of 'foment-
ing riot side by side with the Roy
alists and Fascists that caused the
class conscious Daladier to resign
and reactionary Doumergue TO take
his place, with the result that rep
resentative government in France Is
lettering"
THE Progressive Miner" uses
Green-Lewis arguments a b t
breaking up bona-fide labor or
CARNATIONS" the renegade Love-
stone Cannon arguments that the
Communist Party does not repre-
sent Communism, the charge of
Hamilton Fish and Easily that the
Communists seek to destroy gov
ernments," and the socialists"
about Austria and Germany. Messrs.
Pearcy and Keck draw their in
spiration from many poisoned wells
and putrid streams.
SANDER Miners Struggle
The heroic struggle of the Illinois
miners in 1929, under the leadership
of the National Miners Union Ga
Communist subsidiary is SLAM
dered. In 1929, when the Illinois
miners made supreme and heroic
struggle to smash the control of the
employers and Lewis, where was
Pearcy and Keck? When 5000
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Progressive Miner
Editorial Curries Favor
of Social-Fascists
BY PAT TOOHEY
Article III.

1t is appropriate that the PRO
gressive Miner" organ of the P. M.
A., should carry on its front page
the Blue Buzzard" of the N r. A.,
proclaiming that I'VE Do Our Part"
Of course, we must agree, for it is
true. The P. M, A. n1isleaders have
tried faithfully to do their part"
for the N. r. A. But, unfortu-
nately, the N. r. A. believed that
Lewis could do the part" better
and more efficiently than Pearcy
and Keck. AS a result the N. r. A.
recognized Lewis and the U.M.W.A.
as the majority union in Illinois
and gave them the right to repre-
sent the miners, despite the belly
crawling and slavish homage of the
P. M. A. takers to the N. R. A. It
was case where petty racketeers
did their share in developing the
N. r. A. illusions among the work.
ers, of putting it up and misleading
the workers, and then, tragic thing,
being left out in the cold by the
N. R. A.
This issue contains four signifi-
cant editorials, which betray the
trend of thought of the P. M. A.
leaders and clearly reveal the road
which they now travel-that of
open agents Of the employers, of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Theatre Workers Strike
Enters Second Week

NEW YORK.--Broadway theatres
were picketed over the weekend hy
the strikers Of the American Display
Corporation. which produces signs
and lobby displays for Warner Bros,
Paramount Publix, and Ioews
Theater chains. Entering the second
week of strike under the guidance
Of the Sign and Advertising Art
Workers Independent Union Of $40
Broadway, the entire crew of IS is
solidly on the picket lines around
the plant day and night. determined
to carry on the fight against starva-
ton wages. long hours, violation Of
Health Department and N. f. A.
slave code regulations, and for
recognition of the Silk Screen Pro-
cess Workers League.
These workers, embracing IS or
more different crafts, had never
been organized before, but their
miserable conditions led them to
form their shop committee and
walk out in body to the head
quarters of the Independent Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
where the Communists stood

Where were the Communists?
Very well you know. They were
leading picket lines in Springfield,
Taylorville, Pana, Staunton anc
Collinsville, West Frankfort and
Saline County; they were closing
down scab mines and having to
fight troops, deputies and scabs to
do it. They were dubbed, jailed
and tortured in Hillsboro and Tay-
lorville. Still you dare SANDER this
heroic struggle.
The frantic actions of the PIMA
takers is understandable. They are
reaching the end of their rope.
Their ability to mislead and fool
the fighting Illinois miners is end
ing, the rank and file are again on
the move. This is evident even by
the issue of March 2. The reasons
for the anti-Communist attack is
explained, I'VE had hoped that this
Ian earlier attack against the Com
munists-P. IT. would suffice to put
our membership on guard, but re-
cent developments have demon
strated that we will have to speak
again"
Elsewhere In the issue, on page 2,
Local Union So Of the P. M. A. of
Springfield sent in a resolution to
Pearcy and Keck, demanding they
call a convention and invite all
other independent unions to ANAL
gamate into "one large union to
fight together for the best interests
of all concerned" and struggle
against the dictatorship of Lewis. .
This explains the whole business.
The P. NJ. A. ,pnk and file, deeply
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27

Members Score
Field Statement
Organization Healthier
Than Ever Before
Committee Says

NEW YORK.-The rank and file
committee which recently ousted
Mr.. B. j. Field from the Analga-
mated Hotel and Restaurant Work
ers Union and took control Of the
union themselves issued a state
ment yesterday assailing a state
ment issued by Mr.. Field TO the
press as a fabrication.
The statement Of the rank and
file committee said in part:
mfr. Field stated that bunch
Of hOOdlums elected the Execu-
tive Board, but the fact Is that
the Executive Board actually
Ousted Mr.. Field by unanimously
rejecting his report on the strike
situation and the membership at
duly called business meeting on
Monday, March 10, concurred with
the decision of the Executive
Board.
The Executive Board unani-
mously declares through its secre-
tary, S. Gentle, that the AmaIga-
mated Hotel and Restaurant
Workers Unioa Is a democratic
union organized on the principle
of industrial uniOnism, which
takes into its ranks all hotel and
restaurant workers regardless of
their race, color, creed, nationality
or political belief.
Furthermore, no split Of any
kind in the ranks has taken place
in the organization. On the con-
trary, the organization is on
healthier basis now than ever be-
fore.
ut is seriously considering the
question Of resuming the fight to
enforce the decision of the Re-
giOnal Labor Board, which means
the reinstatement of all the
strikers who were Disseminated
against"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Farmers to Fight
AAA Milk Plan at
City Open Hearings

CHICAGO, Ill.--As one Of the
first steps in the fight against the
Roosevelt proposal to destroy 10 per
cent of the country's milk supply to
benefit the rich dairy companies.
the Farmers National Committee
for Action calls upon farmers and
workers to appear in organized
protest groups at the open A. A. A.
hearings to be held in the follow
ing cities:
April 2 and 3-Philadelphia,
Pa; Indianapolis, Ind; Kansas
City, Mo.
April 3 and ATLANTA, Georgia;
Denver, Colo.
April 4 and 5-BostOn, Mass;
Madison, Wisconsin; Des Moines,
Iowa.
April and 7--Syracuse, n. Y;
Memphis, Tenn; Salt Lake City,
Utah; st. Paul, MINI.
April 9 and 10-DalIas, Texas;
Portland, Oregon.
April IL and 13-Berkley, Cali
fornia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
TerrOrEe Workers
And Farmers on
Arkansas Relief
Negroes, Jim -Crowed,
Are Given Less
Than Whites
(By a worker Correspondent

~ FNPAhhtA
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark.-From the
time it opens, there Is always q
crowd of jobless workers and farm
ers at the relief station here. For
each issue of relief, the workers
are forced to wait in line. One
told me that he had waited for six
days before getting inside the re-
lief station, and then had to wait
a week for the food.
The workers are forced to wait
outside, and when the doormsn
gives tickets, they are admitted for
questioning before relief is given.
Out of this, the doorman had made
a game. While the workers and
farmers are waiting outside. the
doorman gives out few tickets.
Sometimes he holds a few in his
hand and lets the workers guess
the numbers. To those winning.
he admits. On other times he
hands them out to whom he pleases.
One day last week he threw some
in the air, and let the workers
scramble for them. In the scramble,
one had his hand smashed, another
had the skin peeled off his hand
For a dime, and dimes are scarce
in the Arkansas mountains, he will
give a ticket.
Negroes are permitted only on
Wednesdays. Only few get any
thing.
Relief is given from $3.50 to SO
family for two weeks. Some but
ter, eggs, salt pork, etc. from the
federal surplus food was given out,
but most of it was allowed to spoil
first.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27

miners were travelling in caravans
over Christian, Macoupin and San
canon Counties, closing down the
Peabody mines and fighting the
deputies of w. G. August, where
were Pearcy and Keck? When the
Christian County miners were
smashing through the lines of
troops and deputies to close scab
mines, where were you, Pearcy and
Keck? When the heroic Illinois
miners fought against troops, dep
uties, strikebreakers and machine
guns in struggle to smash Lewis,
Peabody and the coal operators
where we're Pearcy, Keck and their
cohorts? Do you remember 500
Taylorville miners being jailed in
the Christian County jail. Do you
remember the brave struggle at
Hillsboro, when 200 deputies were
routed. Or in Staunton, where the
mines were kept closed by the fight
ing miners? We ask again, where
were you?
Since you were not in the ranks
OF the fighting miners, since you
were not seen anywhere in the
struggle from beginning to end, it is
reasonable to assume that you were
on the side of the enemy, assisting
Lewis, August, the troops and depu-
ties. You did not join because it
was struggle of the rank and file,
led by class struggle union. You
were interested in preventing
fighting union from being estab-
lished, one which you did not con-
troll and therefore could not mis-
lead in the safe channels of social
70 rniet,n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
PIMA Heads Aack Communists Effort Unity Miners

agent-provocateurs and social fas-
cist misleadership.
One editorial welcomes" sage
prophecies of the fascist priest.
Coughlin; another "congratulates"
the Socialist Party for sending to
Illinois Jennie Lee, British Socialist
whose leader is Ramsay MacDon-
aid, murderer of Irish, Hindu and
Chinese workers and peasants; the
third welcomes" the appearance of
the Farm Holiday News" issued
by Milo Reno, the greatest faker
and rnisleader of the militant farm
ers, and the fourth, vicious boss
inspired two-column attack titled
'the Communist Party"
The Communists are hydra
headed cobras," are agents of
Moscow and singing birds of dis
sension" which "wriggled its sinous
self into their (workers) confidence
with petty words and phrases and
platitudes of the brotherhood of
man, emancipation of the working
class, mass action, solidarity and
what not"
We have heard all this before.
We have heard Hamilton Fish, A.
Mitchell Palmer, William Green,
Matthew Vol, John L. Lewis, the
National Security League, Ralph
Easily and other takers and profess
sional patriots" froth the same
way.
"The Progressive Miner" attacks
the Soviet Union and suggests Mr..
Trotsky be asked to tell what hap
pened there. Messrs. Pearcy and
Keck have now openly aligned
themselves on the side of every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Laud Socialist Mayor
For Convicting Two
Bridgeport Workers
Democratic Prosecutor
Halls McLevy's Help
in Convicting TOiIers

BRIDGEPORT. - Sam Krieger
and John Sparrow, members of the
Unemployment Council of Bridge
port, arrested in connection with
the snow shoyeIlers demonstration
in front Of City Hall at Bridgeport,
on Monday, March 9Th, were con-
vieted at their trial Saturday in the
City Court at Bridgeport. Krieger
has to pay 5000 fine and costs,
Sparrow, $500 plus costs. They
were defended by Irving Schwab Of
the International Labor Defense.
Eight police sergeants testified
against the workers. Captain John
O'connell of the Bridgeport police,
on cross examination, testified that
Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy had
ordered the police to break up the
group. Sergeant Carroll, next in
charge of the police, testified that
Mayor McLevy who had addressed
the snow shovellers, ordered the
police not to permit Krieger, the
leader of the demonstration, to
speak. and testified further that as
q result of Mayor McLevy's orders
to prevent Krieger from speaking,
he placed him under arrest.
Tbs captain of the police testified
that there was not enough clubbing
Of The workers, they should have
beeu dubbed even more, and he was
acting tnader orders of McLevy who
was present.
After the trial the prosecutor, q
Democrat, made a very long speech
commencing Mayor McLevy, the
police and the Judge in giving the
decision, praising Mayor McLevy
particularly and the police in face
of the fact that the police dubbed
the workers, and linked up the
Democrat judge and prosecutor
giving support to the Socialist
McLevy.
An appeal on the decision was
taken Immediately and the workers
we're released on bail. The appeal
will come up m Tuesday, April Srd,
at the Court Of Common Pleas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Bank Threatens to
EviCt Briggs, Negro
Leader, from Home
Workers Urged to Fight
Chauvinist Attack on
Negro Workers

NEW YORK. An attempt TO
evict Cyril Briggs, nationally known
Negro proietarian leader, from the
tenement house at AS East 9Th st.
was initiated yesterday by the I'M
migrants Industrial Savings Bank,
owners of the building. Briggs IS
a member of the editorial staff of
the Daily Worker" and has been
active for many years in the strug-
giles Of Negro and white workers.
Comrade Briggs rented two
room apartment in the building and
moved in last Saturday with his
family. On Monday he was in
formed over the telephone by Mr..
Boyle, the banks agent, that the
established policy of the bank was
to bar Negro tenants from the
building. Asked If any Of the other
tenants had voiced objections to
having Negro workers in the build
ing, the banks agent was forced
to admit this had not occurred.
Nevertheless, he insisted Briggs
would have to move. This Com
rade Briggs has refused TO do.
Yesterday the banks agent called
on Conrade Briggs and repeated
his demand. He admitted that the
banks sole objection to Briggs and
his family is that they are Negroes.
Thus the Immigrants Industrial
Savings Bank reveals itself as con-
sciously and actively pursuing a
chauvinist policy against the Negro
masses. This is the capitalist pol
icy Of divide and rule" It is aimed
to split the growing unity of Negro
and white workers and thus defeat
their struggles against unemploy-
ment, mass misery, high rents, i'm
perialist war, racketeering and the
countless other evils inherent in the
capitalist system.
Against the bosses policy Of
divide and rule" must be opposed
firm working-class unity Of Negro
and white in the struggle for better
conditions. The tenants Of the
building and the entire block must
be organized to stop the eviction
Of Comrade Briggs, to defend the
right Of the Negro workers to live
where they choose and to smash
the fascist offensive against the
Negro masses. Worker depositors
of the Immigrants Industrial Saw
ings Bank, as well as all workers
organizations, should at once pro-
test to the bank against its chau-
whist attempt to evict Comrade
Briggs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Postal Sub Leaders
Arrested By Police
At Chi. Convention
Held Without Charge 4:
Cops Try TO Disrupt
Protest Meeting

CHICAGO-A bitter taste of gov
eminent power and lswlessness was
given to the several hundred dele
gates at the second annual conven-
ton in Chicago of the National AS
ISOLATION of Substitute Post Office
Employees when police arrested their
leaders on the closing day, March
%. President Albert Gottlieb Of the
union, with two other New York
City delegates and five from Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh and Chicago
were held for two hours without
charges and then suddenly released.
The arrests took place in Grant
Park on the lake front, where the
association had been given permits
sion to hold a protest meeting
against the hard hearted statement
Of President Roosevelt in Washing
ton the day before that IS week
was better after all than starva-
ton. The meeting had broken I'D
and participants we're moving to-
ward a rented hall in the loop. fol-
lowing police instructions to walk
in double file. Suddenly at the
bridge over the Illinois Central
tracks they we're halted by a police
Gordon and their leaders picked I'D
and hustled into a patrol wagon.
Secretary Tom McKenna of the
Chicago Civil Liberties Committee
was also arrested.
When police believed that the
meeting in the hall was about
breaking up for lack of leaders they
freed the unionists and McKenna
also. Protests were wired to Roose-
gelt, Postmaster General Farley.
Mayor Kelly and Chicago Post
master Kreutgen.
Can Farley Live On SIS
In the three days of the conven-
ton the delegates, who came from
Western and Southern cities as well
as the North and East. adopted
resolutions against the low wages
and intense speed-up in the post
office department, despite the gov
ernment's advice to private employ
ers to raise pay and shorten hours.
They declared that if normal post
office service were restored at nor
NAL speed all the $4,000 substitute
men and women in the service
could have permanent jobs. They
emphatically denied President
Roosevelt's statement (Which he