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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
Permit To Board Ships
Demanded by .I.U.

NEW YORK.-A delegation oil
% seamen from the Marine Work
ers Industrial Union called on Mr.
Fortune, general manager of the
Grace s. s. Co., yesterday and de-
manded that delegates of the
union be allowed to board ships of
the line, without interference from
the special company detectives.
Monday delegate was attacked
by four armed detectives, who pre-
vented him from boarding the
Santa Clara and confiscated his
literature.
Mr.. Fortune called the police
after refusing to answer the de-
mands of the delegation. The po-
lice, faced by the determined group
of men, changed their minds ABOUT
forcibly ousting the delegation and
suggested that a warrant be sworn
out by the MW.I.U. against the
attacking thugs.
Seamen in the port are indig-
nant over the fact that only Inter-
national Seamen's Union members
are given passes by the officials
of the Grace line to board ships.
The M.W.IU. delegates are being
favorably received by Grace line
crews.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
Birmingham Planning
Law To Bar Literature
Distributions by C. P.
Especial to the Daily WORKER

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. 90
Under the headline City Moves to
Curb Reds and Rabid Dogs" the
newspapers of this city announced
today that Commissioner w. o.
Downs has prepared an ordinance
for presentation at next Tuesdays
meeting Of the City Commission
making it unlawful to possess more
than one copy of any pamphlet or
other literature advocating the
overthrow of the government by
violence"
The proposed ordinance is part of
general drive of fascist terror
directed by the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Company, which fears the in
creasing strength of the Commu-
mist Party among miners and steel
workers as the only force capable
of preventing the destruction of
labor unions and the substitution of
company unions in captive mines
and steel mills.
A protest campaign is under way
in many Southern cities, and work
ers and their organizations in all
other parts of the country are urged
to wire their protests to Commits
sioner w. o. Downs, City Hall, Bir-
mingham.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
Penn. Supreme Court Rejects
Appeals of Egan and 4 Others

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. 26. =
The Supreme Court of Pennsyl-
vania yesterday handed down a de-
cision refusing to grant appeals in
the cases of Phil Frankfeld. Jim
Egan, and the Ambridge prisoners
Emma Brletic, Dan Benning, and
Paul Verskovitch.
A petition was Immediately filed
asking stay in execution of SEN
fences for 80 days to allow the
International Labor Defense to pre-
pare formal appeals to the U. S.
Supreme Court for a review of the
cases, on which the State Superior
Court is expected to rule within a
week. If the stay is refused, pre-
liminary petitions will be filed with
the Federal Court at once, which
will automatically secure probable
two-month stay in execution of the
sentences. In the meantime broad
campaign of mass protest is being
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
Conference to Discuss
Far Eastern Problems,
Chinese Freedom Fight

NEW YORK.-More than 300 or
CARNATIONS have been invited by
the Friends of the Chinese People
to participate in a conference here
for discussion Of Far Eastern prob
lens and action for hands off
China. The conference will take
place Sunday, Oct. %.
The conference assumes great i'm
portance because of recent develop
ments in the Far East. The Chinese
national liberation movement is
lighting Japanese provocation and
open war moves against the U. S. S,
R.; the advancing movement of i'm
perialist powers for the partitioning
of China, the economic and poll
tical bankruptcy of the Marking
Government, the terroristic cam
paign Of Chang Kai-shek against
the Chinese Soviet Republic and
the wave of unsurpassed brutality
against striking Chinese workers
and peasants harried by famine
The conference will seek to aid this
fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
StrikersClOse
Hosiery Mill
In Tennessee

CHATTANOOGA Tenn, Sept
26-Determined to picket the mills
here despite the strike-breaking
orders of German, hundreds OF
textile strikers surrounded the
Bryan hosiery mill, stopped all
cars from entering, resisted all
police attacks and beat several
hired thugs and scabs.
Girl pickets flung themselves in
front of police cars in order TO
stop them from approaching the
mill.
The mill abandoned it's efforts to
reopen.
More than 1000 textile work
ers voted here to continue the
strike until the demands are
granted in deliberate violation
of Germans orders.
One Scab, especially hated by the
strikers, was seized from the hands
of the police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
CHEER
UNITED FIGHT
PLAN OF M.W.I.U.
Chicago Dele gates
From N. Y. Assemble
Today at W. 23d St.

All delegates to the Second
U. S. Congress Against War and
Fascism at Chicago will meet at
the West 23rd Street Ferry at
$50 a. m. sharp today.
Among the 500 delegates board
ing the specially chartered train
to Chicago will be Kurt RoSen-
field, refugee Prussian Minister
of Justice, and Fred Biedenkapp,
secretary of the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union and
Charles Krumbein, District Or
ganizer OF the Communist Party.
There is still train room for more
delegates and visitors to the
Chicago Congress. Tickets may
be secured at the train.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
Johnson
Out; New
Plan Set
Direct Control by Wall
Street Is Aim of
New Set-up

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 90
To make way for new set-up in
the Roosevelt N. r. A. which will
turn the N. R. A. over to the direct
control of the Wall Street monop-
olists, General Hugh S. johnson
yesterday presented Roosevelt with
his resignation as National Recov-
cry Administrator.
In place of the present code set
up with johnson at its head, it is
proposed to create new boards with
direct control by representatives of
Wall Street industry who will estab-
liSh less cumbersome machinery
for increasing profit and Wall
Street domination over industry as
whole.
Johnson's resignation means that
Wall Street monopoly, having tight
ened its grip on the country's in
dus.ry through the N. R. A., now
wishes to do away with all political
interference and take to itself full
control of the government economic
agencies. Already the capitalist
press talks of business looking for
ward to control of its own house"
meaning further Wall Street mon
opoly control along the lines of the
N. R. A. program.
The Journal of Commerce, Wall
Street newspaper, yesterday stated
that JohnSon's resignation was neces-
sary to restore the confidence of
the general public in the whole
movement"
In an exchange of letters making
the resignation public, Johnson and
Roosevelt praise one another ana
support one another's policies.
Johnson's too open alliance with
the shipowners in the Frisco strike,
and his Grass denunciation of the
textile strikers at a time when
Roosevelt was attempting to appear
impartial" lessene d Johnson's
value to the Roosevelt administra-
ton.
Also, the Perkins Richberg group,
which was mainly interested in
breaking strikes through the demo
cratic" machinery of the Labor
Board instead of through methods
which disillusioned the masses too
quickly with the government, found
Johnson's crudity an obstacle in the
way of spreading illusions as to the
governments "impartiality." He
spoke too much, giving the real
show away.
With johnson out of the way,
Roosevelt hopes to go forward now
toward further monopolization, but
with less noise, and is already plan
ming new series of demagogic 80
cial insurance" schemes for the
coming elections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
e. p. Candidate Guest
Of Bellingham Firemen

BELLINGHAM, Wash, Sept. 90
At the State Civil Service League
banquet, held here recently, George
Bradley, Communist candidate for
United States Senator, was the
guest of the firemen.
In the fight now being waged in
Bellingham against the proposed
abolition Of the Civil Service, the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League,
of which Bradley is militant
member, has taken an active part,
condemning this proposed move
of the City government as an at
tempt to make Bellingham an open
shop town, where no worker, en-
ployed or unemployed, will have the
right to organize. and as an effort
to lower wages, and to give jobs to
more political henchmen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27

strike was betrayed by Francis J.
German, the U. T. w. Strike Com
mittee chairman.
Ann Burlay, national secretary of
the National Textile Workers Union.
urged last minute action by all or
ganiza lions in the city to send del
egates to tonight's conference.
The Provisional Committee yes
terday received the following letter
from Al Busson, secretary treasurer
of Local 2l48 of the United Textile
Workers Union:
Friends; The Joint Silk Strike
Committee of the broad silk label
and ribbon locals wishes to acknowl-
edge and thank the w. I. R. for
their donation Of $40 and also
the donation of sandwiches for our
strikers. All strikers in our local
voice their appreciation of your
support"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
Rally to Greet
First Issue
Of NY. Daily
Organizations To Bring
Contributions to
Oct. z Meeting

NEW YORK.-As the first issue
of the new eight-page New York
Daily Worker comes off the press,
a mass meeting of delegations from
trade unions, mass organizations
and Communist Party units in
New York City will greet the new
paper Sunday evening, Oct. 7, at
the Central Opera House 9Th st.
and Third Ave.
Clarence Hathaway, editor in
chief of the Daily Worker; James
Casey, managing editor, and Charles
Krumbein, New York District or
ganizer, VIII be the speakers.
James w. Ford will be chairman.
The Workers Laboratory Theatre
group will perform.
The meeting, which is part of
the plan of the New York Dis
trict to raise its quota of $4,000
in the 100000 drive Of the Daily
Worker, will be featured by the
contributions which the delega-
lions will bring for the drive. The
amounts of these contributions
are already being determined by
the various groups.
The New York District of the
party yesterday issued call for
delegates to be Immediately elected
and credentials sent to the Dis
trict Office.
The aim and scope of the new
Daily Worker, the district further
pointed out, requires that the $780,
900 quota be quickly secured, and
the sum realized at the meeting,
it is expected, should put the New
York District well on the way to
filling its $4,000 total.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27

launched in every working class or
gani7ation in Western Pennsylvania.
Frankfeld faces two to four years
in the Allegheny County workhouse
in connection with the stopping of
a foreclosure sale in Patton town
ship last September; the railroad
ing of Egan to one to tWo-year
term grew out of fascist police
attack on an Inauguration Day
demonstration in front of Pitts
burgh's City Hall; and the Am
bridge prisoners were sentenced to
two years for picketing during the
Ambridge strike last October, in
which J. g. l.. thugs murdered Adam
Pietrusiski, strike sympathizer.
All organizations are urged to
send letters and kilograms of pro-
test against these brazen frame-ups
to the Pennsylvania Superior Court,
City County Building, Pittsburgh,
Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
Strike SelIOut
Is Analysed
By Hathaway
Especial TO the Daily worker,

/ PATTERSON. N. j., Sept. 2S.-
Clarence Hathaway, editor of the
Daily Worker, spoke at Commu-
mist Party meeting which overflowed
Carpenters Hall, on How the Com
munists Would Have Led the Tex
tile Strikers to Victory" He an
alyzed the U. T. w. sell-out, and
showed how the Communists by
presenting a solid front of struggle
would have forced the textile mag
mates to accept the demands of the
strikers as formulated by the rank
and file delegates at the U. T. w.
convention.
Moe Brown, local textile leader
and Communist candidate for Gov
ernor of New Jersey, exposed the
methods empoyed by Eli Keller, a
renegade from the Communist
Party, to keep the rank and file silk
strikers from carrying out a sue
Icessful struggle. He told of how
Keller failed to set up a relief ap-
paratus, and of how he prevented
the holding of any membership
meetings.
Hathaway pointed out how the
Communist Party modified its whole
membership to aid all the strikers.
He contrasted the efforts made by
Communists to achieve unity in the
strike, and how these efforts were
rejected by Francis j. German.
chairman OF the U. T. w. Strike
Committee.
He said that the Communists
demonstrated their desire for unity
by urging the Communists in the
National Textile Workers Union in
Paterson to help persuade the local
N. T. w. to merge with the A. F. of
l.. union, German met this example
of unity by ordering the expulsion
Of all Communists.
Hathaway pointed to the fact
that the strikers could have won
their demands by spreading the
strike and closing down the whole
industry He explained how the
Communists have no interests out
side the interests of the working
class. They fight for all the imme-
date demands of the workers, and
thereby train the workers for the
great and ultimate task of over
throwing capitalism.
Enthusiasm ran high at the meet
ing, and at the close of the meeting.
ten workers joined the Communist
Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
Discrimination In Many
New England Mills
Continues
BY Carl Reeve
DAILY Worker STAFF Correspondent

BOSTON, Mass, Sept. 26-Dis-
elimination against returning tex
tile strikers continued in some mills
today. In Burlington, VT, the local
union of the Queen City Cotton
Company demanded an agreement
with the company and threatened
to continue striking.
The union members charged
wholesale discrimination and an at
tempt by the company to smash the
local union. In Fall River, where
workers in the American Print had
continued striking, the U. T. w.
leaders sent the workers back after
promise of the company to return
workers to jobs as quickly as pos
sible. The American Printing Works
is the largest textile mill in Fall
River. The U. T. w. leaders made
an agreement ending the strike in
the six mills of the Stevens Com
pany.
AT Hills Grove. R. l., 100 workers
in the Wolf Mill continued on
strike demanding shorter hours
The company gave the strikers an
ultimatum to return to work in As
hours.
The national guardsmen at the
Hampton mill in Easthampton,
Mass, were withdrawn last night
but the company is seeking to re-
tain all strikebreakers.
In Chicopee, Mass, the workers
voted to remain out another "A
hours, demanding an agreement
limiting stretchout. A demonstra-
ton of strikers is scheduled at the
big Chicopee Company mills there.
The widespread discrimination is
traceable to the lenient attitude of
U.T.W. leaders.
I'VE are willing to be patient
and reasonable" said Joseph Syl-
via, New England U.T.W. head.
I'VE realize that in re-opening
textile mills it is not possible for
all employees to be put back on
the job Immediately" Sylvia
charged widespread discrimination
throughout New England, especially
in small mills. But the haste of
U.T.W. leaders to end all picket
ing and drive the strikers back is
what has exposed the strikers to
the mercy of the blacklist and dis
elimination. Picket lines have been
maintained around the Wakefield,
R. l., mill and yesterday Judge
H. L. Carpenter of Superior Court
issued a restraining order to pre-
vent all picketing there on ground
that there is mo strike" The pick
citing is being maintained there
against wholesale discrimination
and blacklisting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
EHRINCHAUS JUSTIFIES
KILLING OF TEXTILE STRIKERS:
TERROR RACES AGAINST WORKERS
Conference Tonight
To Act for Textile Strikers

NEW YORK.-New appeals for
help yesterday by locked-out tex
tile strikers gave new urgency to
the mass relief conference of dele
gates from working class organiza-
tons which will be held tonight in
Webster Hall, 1l9 E. 18th st.. I'M
der the auspices of the Provisional
Committee for Relief of Textile
Strikers.
Three locals of the United Textile
Workers which appealed for aid last
week. Locals 2197. 6s7 and 214S. are
still on strike. They are fighting
against the locking out Of active
strikers.
Strikers from New England. New
York and New Jersey will attend
tonight's conference to give the del
egates a firSt-hsnd picture of con-
ditions in their fields since the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
kuOmintang Forces
Routed by Red Army
In Szechuan Province

SHANGHAI, Sept. 26-The Red
Army advance in Szechuan Prov
ince is approaching the leading in
dustrial city of the province,
Chungking, the Nippon Dempo
News Agency here reported today.
In battle just outside of Chung
king, the Red Army routed the
Kuomintang forces. The German
Consul and his staff in Chungking,
as well as other imperialists and
rich Chinese, are fleeing to Han
kow.
Chungking, on the upper reaches
of the Yangtze River, is an impor-
tant industrial center. The city has
many electric light and power en-
terprises, flour mills, tanneries, can
neries, cement and brick works,
printing and photographic factories.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
Workers Clubs Give
Aid to c. P. Campaign

NEW YORK. - The Associated
Workers Clubs, with 26 affihates
having total membership Of 2,o0t
workers went on record at its res
cent convention endorsing the
Communist Party in its local
state and Congressional election
campaign. A resolution wal
adopted to lend the utmost mora.
and financial support of the menu
bers Of the affiliated organizations
to the campaign.
The New Jersey Cultural Fed
GRAFTON, which will merge with this
New York organization, was rep,
resented by two fraternsl dels-
gates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
C.P. on Ohio Ballot, S. p. Off;
Communists Ask United Front

CLEVELAND. Ohio, Sept. 26. -
The Ohio State Election Board,
exhausting every legal loop-hole,
waied until the last day to admit to
the press that the Communist Party
will have to be placed on the State
ballot in spite of all attempts to
invalidate the majority of its IS, 1853
signatures.
AT the same time, it was an
Inounced that the Socialist Party
will not be on the ballot, being 5000
short of the required 25 600 sigma
lures. This leaves only three par
ties on ballot: Republican, Demo-
cratic, Communist. The Common
wealth Party was previously elm
mated being 1l,0oo signatures short.
The Communist Party has issued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27

a statement to Socialist workers for
united front against discrimina-
ton and to vote for the Commu-
mist candidates: 1. o. Ford, for Gov
ernor; jamie Langston for Lieut..
Governor; William Patterson for
State Treasurer; Yetta Land for At
torney General; w. c. Sandberg for
U. S. Senator; Robert Sivert for
Secretary of State; Ben Atkins and
John Marshall for CongresSmen-at-
large.
The victory is due to the fact that
the Communist Party had more
than 10000 signatures above the
required minimum plus several thou
sand in reserve. representing real
mass support too big for the
election board to ignore.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27

NEW York. The coming
marine strike and preparations de-
mand the utmost of he Marine
Workers Industrial Union, organi-
nationally" stated Roy Hudson, ma
tional secretary of the M. w. I. u,
yesterday, in appealing for funds.
1--WE have to appeal to our friends
and sympathizers to Immediately
forward funds for the strike COM
mitttee to the national office, Room
701, 2 Stone Street, New York City,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
Hudson Halls Daily
AS Marine Strike Need

NEW YORK.-Roy B. Hudson,
national secretary of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, has is
sued a call to all seamen's and
longshoremen's organizations to
send news daily to the Daily
Worker, and to spread the paper in
strike preparations.
1.-THE Daily Worker is the only
American daily newspaper to sup
port the seamen's strike and is the
best source of day-to-day news of
what is really taking place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
100 DOckers Strike in
Philadelphia-Sea-
men Join Pickets
BY Marguerite Young
DAILY Worker washington Bureau)

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept 26.
Officials of the Roosevelt gov
eminent and of the International
Seamen'S Union CA. F. of L., all
agitated over the Marine Work.
ers Industrial Unions call to ac-
ton to spread and make effective
the I.S.U. strike scheduled for Oct.
s, were already at work today on
the creation of a National Ship
ping Labor Board as suggested in
the proposed MIRA. shipping code,
to forestall or behead the strike.
This was learned by your CORE
spondent today from an official
source. In connection with these
efforts, Victor Olander, secretary
treasurer of the ISU., resigned
last week from the Labor Advisory
Board of the MIRA. An official
source said he gave as his off
cial" reason that he had aban-
doned hope of the PRONUNCIATION
of an MIRA. Marine Code; but
that he has made it clear that he
hopes this move may galvanize
government officials into action to
secure either the adoption of a
shipping code or the creation of
the National Shipping Labor
Board in time to stave off the
strike.
Observers also agree that Olan-
der's resignation was designed also
to clear his skirts of an official
connection with the Government
MIRA. apparatus which he knows
is thoroughly discredited In the
eyes of his own IS.U. rank and
file.
Many indications have appeared
here that both Olander and N.R.A
officials connected with the year.
old effort to produce a general
shipping code are deeply con-
cerned over the prospect of a
marine strike on the Atlantic and
Gulf Coasts. So we'll are they
aware that the militant M.WI.U.S
serious strike-preparation prom
ises effective strike action that
they have sent out scouts to gauge
the exact strength and prestige of
this group. Apparently they have
been satisfied that East Coast ma
rine workers are ready to strike,
and effectively, for since then they
have renewed intensive efforts to
secure a code or at least the sug-
gested National Shipping Labor
Board.
NEW YORK. - The organization
of joint strike preparation commit
tees and the preparation for a joint
strike Of all seamen and longshore-
men, as advocated by the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, we're
further advanced by the decision of
the membership of the American
Radio Telegraphists of America, at
their meeting Tuesday, to take strike
action.
The proposal of the delegation of
the M.WI.U. for the setting up of
a joint strike preparation commit
tee was adopted by the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
THE COMMUNIST PARTY

THE COMMUNIST PARTY
1 urges that meetings be held
at once to discuss the lockout
situation, that committees be
set up to fight any signs of
discrimination, that the tex
tile workers keep their unity
and inform the employers
that all textile workers will
Immediately strike again if
a single worker is discrimi-
mated against.
Germans "have patience"
advice can only mean fur
Their misery for the workers.
German has lost all right to
give the textile workers any
advice. He has shown that
he is their enemy, a tool of
the employers in the ranks of
the textile workers.