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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
C.C.C. Youth Brutally Murdered
By Foreman, Eyewitness Reveals
Sworn Statement Daily Worker Shows Witnesses Were Tcked Away
from Grand Jury; Cover Up Case

himself and other witnesses from
appearing.
81 was subpoenaed with several
other witnesses" Steinberg told the
Daily Worker, '.to appear in
Cheyenne. Wyoming, at the Grand
Jury session 1t was about late
October. We were going to tell about
the killing of Yankowitz, The New
York Marshal sent us off and gave
us expense money. When we got as
far as Cleveland, Paul Rosen, one
of the witnesses, got a telegram
from the New York Marshal not to
go any further, that the case was
postponed. We went on to Chicago
anyway, and sent a telegram to the
Marshal in New York. We wanted
to know what we should do. We re-
ceived wire from the New York
Marshal to stay in Chicago for a
day. A few hours later we received
a telegram to leave the next morn
ing for New York. This telegram
came from the New York Marshals
Office. We got to New York Saturday
morning. We came to the Marshals
Office in the OLD Post Office Building
and he told us the case was discon-
tinued until further notice"
The o. S. officials at Cheyenne,
Wyoming, claimed that the case
was not taken up at the last Oc-
tober Grand Jury session, because
no witnesses appeared. Steinberg's
sworn statement shows why they
did not appear. The G. C. G. camp
officials laid the death of Yanko-
WITT to heart Ills although the
death certificate, reprinted in yes
terday's Daily Worker, showed he
died Of cerebral hemorrhage and
fractured skull.
A second story on the brutal muir
der of Ysnkowitz will appear in an
early issue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
Nebraska Farmers
Hold Convention;
$4,000 Represented
Mother BloOr, Veteran
Fighter in Labor Ranks,
Is Delegate


GRAND ISLAND, Neb., March 81
Farm delegates representing more
than 10000 members of the Farm
Holiday Association madison Coun-
ty plan) will meet here in conven-
ton on March 22-23
Delegates and visitors are already
coming into the town from all parts
of the State, ready to discuss vital
farm problems, to elect officers, and
to lay down programs of action for
the immediate future. The Asso-
citation is directly affiliated with the
Farmers National Committee.
AS fraternsl delegates, Lem Har-
ris, Frank North of Iowa, and
Mother Bloor, members of the Ma
tional Committee, will be present.
John Miller of the Farmers Weekly
will also be present.
City workers organizations from
Grand Island, Lincoln, Hastings,
and Omaha have already sent dele
gates. A mass play will be presented
to the Convention by the Youth
Committee of the Convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
Issue $4,000 Copies
of Chicago Edition,
Daily " orker, Sat.

CHICAGO, Ill, March 81. =
Fifty Thousand copies of the
special Chicago Edition Of the
Daily Worker will be distributed
here Saturday. The special issue
of the Daily Worker will particu-
larly deal with the struggle
against G. w, A. layoffs and the
march through the loop on
March 81, as we'll as the strike
struggles.
The special Chicago edition of
the Daily Worker will also carry
a startling expose Of DR., Curtis
Howe Springs, publisher of the
Fascist paper, The New Deal"
official organ Of the Legion OF
Honor"
Mass organizations and Party
units must call for their copies
Saturday, March "a, at the book
stores. at 2019 West Division St.,
at 1903 Indiana Ave. Units and
organizations should call all
Saturday afternoon and all day
Sunday and the rest of the week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
BY CARL REEVE

NEW YORK. - Abe Yankowitz,
eighteen year old C.C.C. youth, was
brutally murdered by his bestial
foreman, George Santana, at the
C.C.C. camp, near West Yellowstone,
Mont last year, July 10. The case
comes again before the wyoming
Grand Jury this May. (T'he camp
is on the Wyoming Montana, Dor
der.)
The Daily Worker has secured
from an eyewitness, Irving Stein
berg, of New York, statement,
sworn to before notary public, as
to how Yankowitz was killed.
The sworn eyewitness account,
given by Irving Steinberg Of New
York, telling how the foreman killed
Yankowitz, said, IT was resting in
my tent lat the C.C.C. camp, near
West Yellowstone, Montana, little
before one O'Clock on July Is, 1888,
when I heard terrible screaming.
When stepped out Of my tent the
sergeant of the camp, George San
stdhU, was DChthlS hDC Il dhNOWAbs.
They were few feet away from
me. The sergeant sIugged Abe a
hard blow in the jaw. Abe was
knocked to the ground. crying. The
foreman was big. He weighs about
200 pounds. Abe Yankowitz was
screaming, Don't hit me. I can't
fight you The foreman picked him
up off the ground, swung him
around, and hurled him to the
ground head first. There was plenty
Of rocks on the ground. Yankowitz'
head hit the ground with crash.
The foreman walked away and let
Abe lay there crying, Abe couldn't
get up"
The sworn statement tells how
Abe was carried into his tent and
how he died few hours later, at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
WORKERS ENEMIES
EXPOSED

PHILLIP BOUCHARD, OF New
York City, former treasurer of
French Workers Club, has been ex-
PEELED from the Communist Party
and is hereby publicly exposed as a
swindler. He ran away with over
S85 of the funds belonging to the
French Workers Club. Description
About % years old, about 5 feet 4
inches, in height; eyes, blue; hair,
brown; complexion, ruddy; has q
sharp pointed nose, speaks with Ca
madam French accent in a light
high voice, never wears a hat, does
not talk much. He is a heavy
drinker and also CANDLES. His eyes
are usually red-rimmed and blood
shot
ED TEM, of Des MoineS, Iowa,
formerly of Rock Island, Ill, who
pretended to be a sympathizer of
the Communist Party (not a mem
ber) and who undertook to handle
the Daily Worker bundle sales, has
absconded with Daily Worker funds.
He also took $40 from the comrade
with whom he roomed.
Description: About feet. 10 inches,
tail; weighs about ITS pounds, has a
sandy complexion and talks little
tongue-tied.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
Ohio Threatens to
DeportF oreign-Born
Workers On Relief
Planned As Supplement 10 RooseveIt's Work
Scheme to Replace C. ". A.; Unemployed
Councils Call for Struggle Against Order

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March
21.-The state of Ohio an
bounced that it will take inn
mediate steps to deport 10000
foreign-born workers. These
unemployed workers will be taken
off the relief rolls. This vicious
mass deportation plan is announced
as supplement to Roosevelts
work relief plan" which is to re-
place the @. w. A.
H. H Hardesty, former relief
director, has been appointed by E.
o. Braught, state relief director, to
supervise the deportations.
Arrangements have already been
made with the railroads for half
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
WOrkerSinCamden
Build Own Unions;
Hit Go. UniOniSm
Strong Union in Radio
Plant; NRA Vote Plan
Proves Failure

CAMDEN, n. j., March 21.-The
workers Of the R. C. A. Victor in
Camden are building a strong mill
tant independent industrial union.
The union, the Radio and Metal
Workers Industrial Union. originally
started By tool makers in March.
1884, is a definite answer to the
attempt of the company to intro
duce piece work into the tool room.
Today over 5000 workers in the
RIGA, plant are organized into the
union, and have compelled the COM
pany to grant the union official
recognition. The workers in the
Victor now more than ever need a
militant rank and file control or
ganization. Big layoffs are taking
place in the plant, particularly in
the cabinet factory.
The union today is confronted
with a special problem in the cab
met factory. A group of I. w. w.
members, although insignificant in
numbers, has tried in every possible
way to split the ranks of the work
ers. Every attempt Of the Radio
and Metal Workers Industrial Union
for unity was rejected. However,
the workers in the cabinet factory
are joining the Radio and Metal
Workers Industrial Union over the
heads of the leaders.
Tries to Force Company Union
The RIGA. Victor Corporation
has not accepted the independent
union without struggle With the
introduction of the NRA., an En-
ployees Representation Plan was in
troduced. The company control in
this plan was, however, too plain.
The plan was then changed to an
other form of company unionism,
known as the Employees Union
with Tobias, McDonough, and other
company supervisors as the Off
Gals Of the so-called union. Within
the last two weeks the company
union has issued special leaflet
with special attacks upon the shop
paper issued by the nucleus Of the
Communist Party. The Employees
Union has tried to play the role Of
pretending to represent the inter-
ests Of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22

seven o'clock that night, from frac-
tured skull, after lying in his tent
for hours without any medical at
tention.
The above paragraphs are re-
printed from yesterdays Daily
Worker, because an important SEN
tence was omitted in the composing
room. The following paragraphs
are reprinted because the story as
it appeared in yesterdays Daily
Worker, page four, was scrambled
up in the composing room.
The story of the killing of Yanko-
WITT shows how government officials
passed the case'' over the last ses-
sion of the wyoming Grand Jury
and how the killer, George Santi-
ano, was released from Jail within
two days by Captain Cunningham,
in charge of the camp. The sworn
statement of Steinberg, describing
the brutal killing, continued, "Cun-
ningham then went to West Vel
Iowstone, the nearest town, where
Santana had been put in jail. The
next morning Cunningham brought
the foreman back to camp. He got
him ont of jail and he was back in
camp and on the job. Then we re-
fused to work. Cunningham that
night pulled a gun on us. We didn't
eat that night. We were afraid.
About fifty of us had refused to
work. Saturday left camp with an
other fellow and hitch-hike away"
The brother of Abe, Harry Yank-
owitz, pressing the case, was told by
the government that the case was
passed over" by the Grand Jury
because the witnesses were not pres
ent. Irving Steinberg. who was
subpoenaed to appear, tells In his
remarkable story that it was the
marsha1's Office itself, which kept
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
Cab Strikers Sur &c
Thru Streets; Stop
SCab-Driven TaxiS
Continued from Page y


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call the bluff of the feet owners
by permitting a plebiscite of all
drivers in the city while the strike
is on, as to whether the men want
the Taxi Drivers Union or the COM
pany union.
Call Company Union Bluff
"They wanted to vote; Wen call
their bluff" said Samuel Orner,
President of the Union. II believe
the taxi drivers of New York are in
telligent enough to take the Taxi
Drivers Union. The spirit of the
hackmen shows that we cannot be
defeated"
The union agrees that the poll
shall be taken in public buildings,
away from company premises, while
the men are striking. A telegram
was sent to all officials of Parmelee,
Terminal and Radio companies ask
ing them to appear at the city hall
where they will be asked to give
their position on the plebiscite and
the question of recognition of the
union.
Strike Relief Strengthened
The drive for strike relief was
strengthened yesterday. Cooperat-
ing with the taxi union in gather
ing and distributing relief is the
Workers International Relief with
headquarters at $40 Broadway, and
the Food Workers Industrial Union,
so W. 45th st. Hot meals are being
served to the strikers every day by
the relief committee at the strike
headquarters.
The Workers International Relief
has issued call to all organiza-
tons and groups of workers to COL
lect canned goods and food for the
strikers and bring these donations
to either the WIR. headquarters, or
to the strike hall at 10th Street and
Third Avenue
On Thursday at 6 pm. the W.I.R.
will hold a meeting at IL E. 18th St.
to rally more support for the strike.
Trade unions and workers organi-
cations are urged to send delegates
to this important meeting.
Mass Meeting Monday
The downtown section OF the
Communist Party has arranged a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
Foster Exposes A.F.L.
Betrayal Of M'Namara
in Saturday, " orker'


NEW YORK.-How labor fax
erS trapped the Mcnamara
brothers into a plea of guilty and
then joined the hue and cry
raised by California bosses fer
their blood is wildly told in an
article by William z. Foster. to
be published in Saturdays 10
page Daily Worker"
In his article Comrade Foster
traces the history of the greatest
defense movement ever ORGANIZED,
before or sine. by the American
working class, to its ultimate be-
trayal by the A. F. of L. and So
cialist Party leadership, and
draws its lessons for the Ameri-
can working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22

the injunction and demanding its
immediate cancellation. Farmers
and workers everywhere are urged
to do the same, since the injunc-
ton against the Dakota farmers is
only a test case to determine
whether this court weapon can be
used against ruined, impoverished
farmers all over the country, The
office of the farmers national
newspaper, which gives full &C
counts Of the farmers struggles, is
Farmers Weekly, 1917 South
LOOMS ST., Chicago, III.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
C. W. A. Union Forces
Continuation of Relief

CLEVELAND, Ohio, March I'll
Following the Roosevelt order that
distribution of federal surplus foods
to all c. w. A. workers be stopped
after Feb. is, a delegation of work
ers from the Richmond County Re
lief Workers Union met with the
state relief officials, and forced the
continuation of the food orders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
Amalgamated Union
Rank and File Expel
Sellout Chiefs Bodily
Renegade Celdis Runs to Get the Police; Union
Funds Are Missing

NEW YORK.-Members of the Amalgamated Hotel and
Restaurant Union enforced the vote made Monday night to
GUST all the seou officials of the union by throwing them
of the union hall offices yesterday and seeing to it that
he Committee of 30 whom they elected to take the
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CLEVELAND, OHIO
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
At NEW
H|GHS0NM0VE

CHICAGO, May 26 G.N.S).
Continued drought in the 6 r a / n
belt brought further buying OF
grains on the Board of Trade with
the general list reaching new
highs on the movement.
Wheat climbed more than a
cent to 927sc for the July deliv-
cry and corn and oats were up
Ac each to 5424c and 38Ac, re-
Spectively, before realizing caused
a moderate reaction.
Near mid-Session wheat was "a
to 1bc up: corn, unchanged to
bc up; oats, u to Ac up, and
rye, " to Ac up.
Winnipeg wheat was 5s to Ac
higher near midseSsion. Liverpool
closed - to b pence higher.
Weather conditions continued
to influence sentiment. There
was almost a complete absence OF
moisture in the entire grain belt,
the only precipitation being small
traces at scattered points in the
Northwest.
The tentative forecast was for
unsettled weather and probably
showers in the West and North
west. Decidedly warm and clear
weather was forecast for Mani.
toba and Saskatchewan and prob.
able showers for Alberta.
Estimated carlots: Wheat "a,
corn 112 and oats 10.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
Change in Coffee
Futures Is Small

Coffee futures ended the week
about unchanged, declines regis
tered earlier in the week being
wiped out during the last two
days, on the New York Coffee and
Sugar Exchange. Santos was 2 to
4 higher and the No. 7 contract
2 to higher for the week. Trad
ing was limited. In the local spot
market, Brazil grades, although
slightly higher, were neglected,
while the mild grades were firm
and active with prices nearly q
cent above the recent lows. The
futures market in Rio ended the
week about unchanged.
Destruction in Brazil was re-
ported as 1900 bags for the
first half Of May. which compares
with All 900 during April and only
$4,000 total for the first three
months of the year. Official and
semiofficial estimates of the Bra
Zil crop for l934.35 gave a total of
1888, 900 bags, only about half Of
the 1933-34 crop, which was set at
29,880,00O. The "exportable crop"
for 1934-35, which it is estimated
will include 100000 bags re-
tanned on Sac Paulo plantations,
100000 retained by MinaS plant
ers and 100000 dispatched to
Santos but only exportable after
july /, will total 2O,233, 900 bags,
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
via7; iS;oS 5;S::;:" ;s:::: N. Y. Curb Quotations

NEW YORK, May 26 U.N.S0
The curb market displayed per
sistent undercurrent of firmness
in restricted weekend dealings to-
day, with most active issues
edging slightly into higher priced
territory.
Modest fractional gains were
recorded in the speciality group.
Alcohol shares made a fair
comeback, after recent weeks of
steady decline. Lake Shore and
Tech Hughes were among the
metal issues to top previous clos
ingS by narrow margin.
Utilities were firm.
Atlas Corporation moved up to
10B for a gain of "a in a dull
investment trust list.
Standard of Indiana sagged "a
to 26b among the oils, with
other favorites such as Creole,
Standard of Kentucky and Hum
BILE pegged at previous closings.
Cities Service preferred record
ed further improvement, reach
ing 25A for a gain of 70, and
but little more than q point un-
der it's high for the year. The
common and debentures, how.
ever, barely managed to hold at
previous closings.
The bond division was spotty.
American Power and Light IS
rose u point to SO, while Elec-
trio Power and Light IS dipped
" point to 43A.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
CROP
DSEARNINGS

The tobacco crop of American
Sumatra Tobacco Company in
Connecticut and Massachusetts
in 1888 was of such good quality
that although the company has
sold only part of it to date, earn
ings thus far in the fiscal year
to end July 81 are already well in
excess of 81 share, and for the
full year should equal not less
than SO a share on 1913, los shares
Of stock.
This represents an abrupt turn
around in conditions which re-
suited in a negligible profit Of
$8,841 last year and losses of
$361, $50, $170,481 and $394,O in
the 1882, 1881, and 1880 fiscal
years, respectively. The last year
in which the company showed
substantial profits was 1929, when
net profit of $715,494 was aided
by profit realized on sale Of eX-
cess properties.
The company grow stobacco in
Georgia and Florida, and in Con-
necticut and Massachusetts,. Only
in the latter two states was last
years crop of unusual quality.
Not all Of this has been sold, and
the company also holds about
half Of it's 1882 crop. Only re-
Gently the last tobacco from the
1927 crop was sold.
In the past few years the com.
pany has added to its operations
the raising of swine on its south
ern farms and last year sold
5000 pigs.
The company has resumed divi-
dend payments after a 4-year
lapse with the declaration of a
25-cent dividend. The financial
position of the company is we'll
able to bear this distribution, as
cash on hand now amounts to
about $1,135, 900, and the cost of
planting the 1884 crop of tobacco
has been almost entirely taken
care Of. The major remaining ex-
pense in connection with this
years crop is labor. In Florida
tobacco plants are already IL
inches high.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
FUTURE
GAINS ADDED

NEW YORK, May 26 G.N.s).
Aided by strength in wheat and
firmness in security markets,
cotton futures today added to
Fridays advance. Trading, how
ever, continued light.
The market was about un-
changed at the opening, but
moved gradually higher in later
dealings as there was little cot
ton for sale. Professional trad"
ers sold 5000 or 1900 bales Of
October and December during the
first hour, and there was a small
amount of Southern selling.
Trade fixing absorbed the
offerings. Liverpool was still OBJ
serving Whitsuntide, to reopen
Monday morning.
Late in the session futures
were up 3 to S points, with July
up 3 at 11.36, october up 5 at
11.59, and December up 5 at
11.72.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
Legal Notices
GEORGE c. GERTMAN, Attorney,
73O 18th St., N. w.

IN THE The sURREMG GT gogRT OF THE DIS
sPEIDEL. ct al, Defendants Equity No.
57O15. ORDER OF PUBLICATION. The
object of this suit is to obtain decree
cancelling and removing as cloud upon
Lots 81 and 81 in Square 1852, and Lots
1923. S24 and s34 in Square 1859. in
clauses contained in, deeds recorded
among the land records Of the, District
400. 412. AT 423 and 426 Liber .277S
56 599 9oG 8So 49, ISep SS sSs lt4 foo r $s
Liber 3775 folio 200. and Liber 433i
folio SO. Upon motion of the plaintiffs.
1t is, by the Court, this Gath day of May,
A. D. 1884. ORDERED that the defend.
ants. Hal Speidel, Joseph Speidel, Jess w.
Speidel. Eliza Speidel Handlan. Mary J.
Bashore; Chester c: Bashore. Gertrude B.
Biddle, Mary Jean B. Chamberlain, Charles
H. Mullen. s: Harvey Beetem. Mary Grace
Beetem and Hetty Beetem cause their ap-
pearance to be entered herein on or be.
lore the tortleth day. exclusive of Sundays
ana legal holidays. occurring after the day
OF the first publication hereof, and that
and devisees of any of the above named
defendants who may be dead. cause their
appearance to be entered herein on or be-
lore the first rule day occurring one month
after the day of the first publication
hereof. otherwise this cause will be pro.
q copy hereof be published once a week
for three successive weeks in The Wash.
ton Times JENNiNGs BAILEY. justice.
Z Seal A True Copy. Test: FRANK
HULL Asst Clerk
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
More Freights
On Order

Class l railroads on May 1
had 1884 new freight cars on
order, compared with 1,561 on
the same day last year and
ASIA on May 1, 1882, according
to the American Railway AS.
SOciatiOn.
The railroads on May 1,
this year, also had FL new
steam locomotives on order and
1O7 electric locomotives. There
were three new steam loco
motives on order on May 1,
1888, and on the same date in
1892, there were 81 on order.
In the first four months Of
1884, the railroads installed
1901 new freight cars, against
1913 in the same period last
year and 1,341 in the like
period two years ago. There
were no new steam locomotives
placed In service in the first
four months Of 1894, but six
new electric locomotives were
installed. The railroads in the
first four months of 1888 in
stalled one new steam 10cOmO-
tive and eight in the 1882
period. .:
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
REAL RECOVERY
HELD NEARER
THAN EVER

Buying for the Memorial Day
holiday next Wednesday stimu-
lated merchandise sales this week,
Dun g. Bradstreet declared, and
helped raise the total Of sales in
May thus far 8 to 20 per cent
above the corresponding 1888
period.
More signs of life were noted
in trade movements generally
after the almost static condition
of the previous week, and the
review declared:
Everything is in readiness
for q vigorous lunge forward,
as genuine and lasting recovery
is being brought nearer than
at any time in the past year."
Specially planned clearance C e
sales, it was stated, were acceler-
ating the movement of wearing
apparel into consumers hands,
while the wide variations in the
weather helped spring merchan-
disc as well.
Seasonal recessions were noted
in several industries, while en-
forced curtailment as in textiles
was slowing down others. Despite
this, it was predicted that en-
ployment this summer would hold
at the current level, which is the
highest since 1880, aided by the
Administrators program to slim
ulate the durable goods indus
tries.