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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06

enburg, from this writer, from c.
A. Hathaway and others. So in
sistent were he and his supporters
at one time that the Party Dis
trict Bureau met, made a decision
in regard to him and his program
and conveyed its adverse verdict to
him formally by a committee in or
der to put stop to the rumors
spread by his supporters. These
decisions of the District Bureau
were made public.
At that time Olson had never
been forced to show his true colors
in decisive situation involving the
lives and liberties of workers on
strike. But the Party gagged him
and his movement correctly. Today
he looks around again for some kind
Of revolutionary camouflage. The
Minnesota air is surcharged with
hectic phrases about monopoly"
"the evils of capitalism the beast
of Wall Street." the rise of the
class struggle" etc. These phrases
roll easily from the lips of venal
leaders who received their early
training in a state where the So
cialist Party organization supported
the left wing; where the state sec
rotary and others went to prison for
opposing CONSUMPTION, where there
was mass opposition to the Morgan
Wilson war.
The farmers are bankrupt and
demand action. The recent drivers
strike, the sympathetic strike Of the
building trades and other workers,
the wide mass sentiment for a gen.
eral strike, brought on a crisis in
class relationships.
Governor Olson is looking for
"Communist" label to add to his
collection. The Trotzkyites, at least
for the last week, allowed him to
wear their forged label pinned to
the coat from which bangles the
badge of Commander-in-Ch Chief of
the Minnesota National Guard.
This is treachery and the work
ing class will deal with it in the
way the working class always does
when it frees itself from the in
fluence Of its enemies,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
25O Ala. Negro Choppers Defy
Landlord Terror to Hold Meet

WAVERLY, Ala, June 5.-Over
$50 Negro troopers and farm work
ers attended a mass meeting at
Montpelier here and heard Com
rade Al, General Secretary of the
Share Choppers Union, expose
RooSevelt's New Deal" of subsi-
dizing the rich landowners on a
program Of destruction and reduc-
ton of crops, with resultant ruin
alton of the poor farmers and
share troopers and firing Of farm
workers.
Other speakers were Comrade M,
representing the Youth Section of
the union, who told of the herd
ing of the youth into c. G. c. war
projects, the miserable wages to
youth on plantations as agricul-
tural laborers, etc., and Comrade
G., who outlined the activities and
tasks of the International Labor
Defense.
The meeting was held in a
school house, following refusal
of the preacher and deacons to
permit the use of the local
church for the meeting. Rank
and file church members ex-
pressed great indignation over
this action. The deacons, who
are members of the union, were
severely criticized for siding with
the preacher who was exposed
as an agent of the National As
ISOLATION for the Advancement
of Colored People. Many rank
and file church members raised
questions, asking what kind of
religion is it that did not allow
them to discuss life and death
questions, such as the struggle
for the right to live, to get bread,
decent wages, and equal rights.
When a motion was made to
send committee to visit the
preacher, his few supporters in
the meeting threatened to inform
the sheriff about the meeting. The
workers defied these stool pigeons,
and elected a committee of ten.
The preacher, seeing them ap-
preaching his home, sped away in
a bright, new car, paid for out
of the sweat of the troopers, max
ing regular contributions to this
parasitic misleader, while union
organizers are forced to tramp for
miles in carrying on their ac-
Invites, with spies and deputies
on their trail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06

ference sounded by the delegates
was the desire for one Union in the
steel and metal industry, and for
the establishment Of national
Federation of Industrial and In
dependant Unions. Practically every
Independent Union in this District
is cooperative with the S. NJ. w
I. o.; their structure IS along the
same lines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Farm Leader
Urges Strikes
Against Trusts
Bentley Denounces the
Lobby Methods of
Interstate Assn.
Special to the Daily Worker

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June s.
Thirty-five hundred dairy farmers
yesterday heard Lewis c. Bentley,
President of the United Farmers
Protective Association, attack both
the Interstate Milk Producers As
ISOLATION and the Allied Organiza-
ton as two groups which, while
fighting among themselves for con-
troll Of the former organization, are
betraying the interests of the small
farmer. The occasion was the an
nual convention of the Interstate
in the Broadwood Hotel.
Bentley followed G. E. Fox, at
torney for the Allied group, who
had deprecated any talk of strike
and said he was for peaceful meth
DDS"
I'm a poor farmer" Bentley
said. 81 don't speak any rotary
language. 1 know only the or
binary American language. 1t was
because we wouldn't strike for our
because we wouldn't strike for our
present condition.
We've seen what these meth
DDS got us. We know them too
well. And we were the boys who
paid the bill
whats their peaceful meth
DDS? BOOtlicking Of the pOliti-
clans, so that they could get more
money for the farmer. And we
got plenty. They set up this
commission and that control
board and that price fixing board
anything to prevent the farmer
from getting his cost of prOduc-
ton"
Bentley told Of the q. F. P. AS
fight for the small farmer and de-
clared that the Pennsylvania Milk
Board was only another set-up-
supported by both the Interstate
and the Alied-as a blind for the
next price cut.
"I'll fight till I drop" Bentley
said, ITO keep them from pulling
the wool over our eyes" warning
that the U. F. P. A. would watch
both groups to guard against any
further betrayal of the small farmer.
Bentley and Artemus Slower were
put up as candidates for directors.
The crowd of farmers listened to
Bentley with marked attention and
applauded throughout his militant
position.
The U. F. P. AS platform on
the milk question is cents on the
farm to the producer and 9 cents
to the consumer, elimination of
the check-off, opposition 10 the
basis surplus plan and the dis
tributiOn of so-called Surplus" to
the unemployed and needy at the
governments expense.
Eliminating the present three
share qualification for dictatorship,
and making that office available
to any member regardless of his
share, was one of the proposals the
U. F. P. A. brought to the conven-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
By JOHN sTEUBEN

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June s.
Throughout the city Of Youngs-
town and all the steel towns Of
Mahoning Valley everywhere one
hears about the approaching strike
in the steel industry.
Preparations for this coming
gigantic class battle are being made
by both sides. The official reply
Of the steel trust TO the demands
Of the Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union and the Amalga-
mated Association Of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers is very clear.
True to the notorious traditions Of
Judge Gary, the steel trust once
again threw out a challenge to one
Of the most important sections Of
the American working class, the
steel workers, that: The steel mills
will continue to operate on the
open shop basis" Tom M. Girdler,
chairman Of the Republic Steel
Corporation, in most arrogant and
brazen manner lets the whole world
know thai, IF we have to shut
down our mills they will not stay
shut down very long"
Steel Trust Prepares
Already the Steel Trust is making
feverish strike breaking prepara-
tons. The steel workers from the
mills in and around Youngstown
report that misled unemployed
workers and professional scabs from
Kentucky, Alabama, Chicago,
Johnstown, Cleveland and other
parts of the country are brought
into the mills for the purpose of
scabbing when the strike starts.
The company union representa-
tiyes and other bosses agents in
side the mills go from department
to department forcing the workers
to sign a paper that asks; IF a
national holiday is declared will
you remain at work or go out on
striker" This is done for the pur-
pose of still further terrorizing the
workers to find out who are the
most militant workers and fire them
out before the strike is declared,
and also to use these forced sigma
lures lates on to prove" that not
steel workers but the reds" force
the strike.
Representatives Of steel COM
panies are now covering homes of
unemployed workers that have been
out of the mills for the last two
years, promising them jobs if they
will not go out on strike. All the
new hired help must sign state
ments that they will not strike.
From the looks of things the
Steel Trust is not preparing for a
strike but for civil war. New COM
pany police are being hired. In
Warren, Ohio, they are putting
barbed wire around some of the
steel mills The Youngstown Ma
tional Guards are ordered for
special drilling and maneuvers on
June 9.
The capitalist class began bar
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influence the steel workers not to
strike, as well as to arouse the
population against the strike. On
May 90 the Youngstown Telegram
published on the front page a long
letter to Senator Wagner and signed
by the editor. In order to make it
more effective the Youngstown
Telegram printed a cartoon featur-
ing two dead strikers and below it
states: Shall we, too, offer To-
ledo's argument for labor peace?"
The letter, addressed to Wagner
but meant for consumption in
Youngstown, ends up in the follow
ing way:
This newspaper does not want
to see the Presidents program
destroyed at the peak of its de-
velopment by the action of few
extremists, -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
First "Steel Workers Day"
Saturday, June 8

PITTSBURGH, Pa, June S.
"Steel Workers Day. will be in
augurated in the steel district here
when on Saturday, June 9, the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial
Union and the International Work
ers' Order hold their first annual
district picnic.
Coming on the eve Of the ma
turing strike struggle in the steel
industry this picnic will be an eff
fective means for mobilizing thou
sands of workers in the fight for
higher wages, shorter hours,
against company unions an d
for the right TO join any union of
their own choice.
James Egan, National Secretary
of the Steel and Metal Workers IN
dustrial Union, will speak. Anuse-
ments, games and dancing are
planned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
On the
Strike Front
Kansas City Packers in
Vote to Join WalkOut

OKLAHOMA CITY, June 5. - A
general packing plant strike in Kan
sas City and Fort Worth as well
as in Oklahoma City where the
workers are row striking doomed
today as Kansas City workers pre-
pared to vote on whether to walk
out in sympathy with the 900 Okla
homa City strikers. Similar action
will be taken in Fort Worth, it is
reported.
The workers are members of the
Amalgamated Butchers of North
America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
MoIders Pledge Support Of
Steel Strike in Connecticut
District Unity Conference

plant, morally and financially.
The Conference decided to send
protests to the governors of Con-
necticut and Ohio, against the call
ing in of the national guards in the
strike in Toledo and against the
threat to use troops to break the
strike of the Danbury, Conn, fur
workers.
One of the key-notes Of the Con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
10 Jailed Choppers Back in
Struggle

LAFAYETTE, Ala, June 5.-Ten
Negro share troopers of Chambers
County, who were sentenced to
five months imprisonment for de-
manding a decent wage for pick
ing cotton, are back again in the
ranks of the Share Choppers
Union, full of determination to
fight the landlord system which
plumbers and doubly Expresses the
Negro masses.
The ten troopers had organized
a boycott of landlords who we're
paying scab wages. The Interna-
tional Labor Defense won their
but they were re-arrested
and tried in kangaroo court and
hurried off to Speigner Prison last
October.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Cops Club Workers
In Danbury, Conn.

DANBURY, Conn, June 5. -
Police attacked crowd of 500 hat
tiers and their sympathizerS with
clubs yesterday and arrested six
workers on charges of assault and
melting to riot. The men were held
in $500 bonds each.
Several cops were bruised as the
workers defended themselves. The
struck plant, the American Hatters
and Furriers Company, had re-
opened yesterday with scabs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Mobilize State Troops
Against Remington Workers

ILION, N. Y, June 5. - In an
attempt to force the striking work.
ers Of the lion and Syracuse plants
OF the Remington Rand Typewriter
Company back to work, state troop
ers have been modified and are
being held in readiness for an at
tack, following the reopening of the
plants.
Reports indicate that only a very
few Of the workers have returned
TO work. About 1000 have been on
strike for three weeks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
employment and Social In
surance Bill, (H. r. 1888.

Senator Harrison hedged and
passed the buck to President Roose-
welt as being responsible for the Bill
being held and smothered in the
Finance Committee. Delegations
to the White House made a demand
upon Roosevelt to state his position
on the 3-Point Program before the
closing of the Convention of May
26th.
Mass meetings of the Workers
Ex-Servicemen's League and other
veterans groups, fraternal organi-
cations and veterans in general
are urged to send kilograms and
resolutions Immediately to their
respective Senators demanding
the immediate passage of the
Bonus Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Demand Nazi Butchers
Immediately Free
Thaelmann
Special to the DAILY worker

NEW HAVEN, Conn, June A.
The Connecticut district conference
called by the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union, held
Sunday, went on record supporting
the strike program of the National
Board of the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union. The
conference had delegates from the
seven organized locals of the union,
from union groups, and fraternal
delegates from practically every In
dependent union in the industry in
this territory, as well as delegates
from two American Federation Of
Labor local unions.
The conference pledged the sup
port Of the foundry workers Of this
section, of the strike preparations
Of the Amalgamated Associations
rank and file and of the S. M. w. I.
U. 5000 workers were represented
by the "a delegates present.
Demand ThaeImann's Release
A resolution was passed de-
manding the immediate release
of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of
the German working class, and of
all victims of Hitler's fascist ter
ror in Germany. The resolution
called for a protest Of the steel
workers against the torturing of
ThaeImann, who is in immediate
danger of death at the hands Of
the Hitler fascist butchers.
One delegate from the Watervliet,
N. Y, Molders Club reported that
the members had been seeking for
an industrial organization along
the lines of the S. M. w. I. U. for
the past year. A delegation from
this club sent last week to make
contact with the molders in the
East Malleable Co. in Bridgeport.
This company has plants in
Watervliet, N. Y, New Britain and
Union City, Conn, and in Whining
ton, Del. The delegation found the
workers in the Malleable were on
strike under the leadership of the
S. M. w. I. u, with strike action
expected shortly in the New Britain
plant, the Vulcan Iron Co., where
the workers are also in the S. M.
w. I. U.
This delegate greeted the con-
ference in the name of the Molders
Club, which has organized prac-
tically all the molderS of Water
vliet, and pledged full support of
his organization to the brothers
now on strike.
Reports by the delegates from all
sections of the District, which in
cludes all of Connecticut, Western
Mass, and West Rhode Island, in
dictated the strong sentiment of the
workers for strike action in the
near future.
Resolutions Passed
The Conference went on record
as endorsing the Unemployment In
surace Bill, H. r. 1898, demanding
the release of Tom Mooney, the
nine Scottsboro boys, and all poll
tical prisoners.
Further resolutions were adopted,
demaning % that the frame-up
charges against the workers Sam
Krieger and Chas. Sparrow, ar
rested in the unpaid city snow
shovellers' demonstration at the
Bridgeport city hall last March, be
dropped; (2) protesting against the
barring of the attorneys of the In
ternational Labor Defense of N. Y.
from their forthcoming trial to be
held June 20.
It was decided that the Confer
ence guarantee full support of the
District to the striking workers in
the Eastern Malleable, that they
give full support for striking all
other foundries of this Company in
Union City, New Britain, Conn, in
Watervliet, N. Y. and the Delaware
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Calf. Communist
Party Gets on State
Ballot for First Time
Striking Teachers
Vote To Continue

PITTSTON, Pa. FP.) = The
striking teachers of Old Forge, Pa,
have voted unanimously to continue
their strike, which has been in eff
feet since May 9.
The 81 teachers refuse to return
to work unless they receive at least
two months back salary, and the
reinstatement of Joseph Connors,
principal, and president of the Old
Forge Teachers Association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Portsmouth Sheriff
Attacks Pickets

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, June s.
Three men were injured when
Sheriff A. L. Bridwell and his depu-
ties attacked 800 picketS who had
gathered at the struck John T.
Breeze Co, Yeneering manufacturers
at New Boston, yesterday to halt
scabs from entering the plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Miner Is Nominated
for Congressional
Post

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf,
June 5.-For the first time
in the history of California,
the Communist Party will be
placed on the ballot in this
State.
Over $4,000 certified sig
Natures have been collected. The
law requires 1909. The next step
in the campaign is to file candi-
dates for state offices.
Pruett Nominated for Congress
CHICAGO, June 5. = Laverne
Pruett, a member of the Progress
sive Miners of America and leader
of the unity movement, and Karl
Lockner, leader of the Unemploy-
ment Councils, have been nonli-
mated by the Communist Party for
CongreSsmen-at-large. Sam Ham
mersmark, veteran labor leader,
and Romania Ferguson, Negro
worker active in the Sopkins dress
strike, have been nominated for
state treasurer and superintendent
of public instruction respectively.
In order to be able to reach
millions of Illinois workers with
the program of the Communist
Party candidates, the election COM
mittee of the Communist Party
calls on all workers to help raise
funds.
Report to the nearest tag-day
station in your neighborhood:
CHICAGO
S0S Van Buren,; 1928 Blue Island Ave. /;
1906 S. Racine; lib w. Madison St.; 1851
W. Polk St.; 1912 w. Cermak Road.
1904 w. Roosevelt Road; 2741 w Ger
max Road: 1924 Lawndale Ave; 2739 W.
Division ST.; 1852 w. Division St.; 2l34 w
Division st.. 1915 w. Division st.; 1922 w.
Chicago Ave; 2457 w. Chicago Ave; 1892
Milwaukee Ave.
27sS Hirsch Blvd; 1888 w. Lake st.
1925 N. Kedzie Ave. 1869 w. Armitage
Ave. 4112 W. Armitage Ave; 1l45 n.
Spsulding St; 1911 N. Artesian ST.; 526
W. Division St.; 548 Wisconsin; 24O9 N.
Halsted St.; 1901 ~ Clark St.; 1852 Ad-
olson St.; Mansfield & Fullerton U. c.
headquarters.
1909 s. HARLOW St.; 412 E. 47th st.; 1926
E. 55th st.; 10 w. 47th St.; 3847 S. State
St; 2941 wentworth Ave; 2642 Wentworth
Ave; 3116 s. Halsted St.; 1892 S. Mich
igan Blvd. Workers School; 4O03 Indiana
Ave, Workers Book Store; Liberty Hall,
l4o5 S. 4sth Ave, Cicero; Ill.
Connecticut To Nominate
NEW HAVEN, Conn, June s.
A state nominating convention will
be held in Bridgeport on June Is
and II at st. Georges Hall, 1896
Stratford Ave, to name a full
ticket for the fall State and Con-
gressional elections, the ComTnu-
mist Party, District Is, announced
today.
The candidates named will in
clude six Congressman and U. S.
Senator.
The chief issues that will be
presented in the campaign will be
the struggle for higher wages and
the right to strike, against COM
pulsory arbitration, against police
terror, for the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill Oh. r. 1899,
for immediate adequate cash relief
and the rights of workers to or
ganize in unions of their own
choice.
Representatives are expected to
the convention from Communist
Party units all over the state and
from other workers organizations.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-01
a. DICK FARMER. Defendant

April "a, 1888. was the day Sher-
iff Bannicks deputies attacked the
Frandsen eviction fighters, who
were protesting the eviction of a
family from their home.
E'randsen worked many long years
buying a home, had paid in over
$1,000. Suddenly through no fault of
his own he was thrown out of work.
The bank closed taking with it over
$1,000 OF F'randsen's hard earned
savings.
Frandsen tried frantically to save
his home. He visited all the politi-
clans he knew of, but nothing could
be gained F'randsen's only hope was
to call upon the unemployed to come
to his assistance. This he did. The
Columbia local of the Unemployed
Citizens League got on the job, mo-
blllzing the workers of Rainier val
ley and of all Seattle to demon
strcte at the F'randsen home.
Hundreds demonstrated at the
Frandsen home for days demanding
the eviction order be withdrawn.
On Wednesday. April 81 Sheriff
Bannick and 35 hand picked armed
deputies drove up before the F'rand-
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-01
American Labor
Heroes

LEO GALLAGHER, fighting Ia
Dor attorney. Gallagher is an official
member of the Tom Mooney legal
staff, and was expelled from the
University of Southern California,
where he served as professor of
law, when he defended the Mooney
Runners, who were taken into GUS
tody for making a run with slogans
on their backs reading FREE TOM
MOONEY" during the Olympic
Games, held in Los Angeles in 1882.
Gallagher has just recently re-
turned from Germany where he to-
gether with one French and two
Bulgarian lawyers were LID attor-
neys in the Reichstag trial. These
legal Representatives were barred
from the Nazis court and subjected
to arrest. Finally, Gallagher was ex-
PEELED from Germany on the ground
that he was an enemy of the
state"
Travelling through Europe one is
also greatly impressed by the in
ternational solidarity of the work
ers and the failure of the various
chauvinist governments to develop
a fanatical patriotism in the work.
ing portion of the population. Ire
mendous demonstrating have been
held in protest against the German