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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-07
Work of Parties in
c. |. Magazine, s
Communist international. No. 6.
Published by Workers Library
Publishers, 50 E. 18th St., New
York.

York.
EVENTS are rapidly confirming the
Il correctness of the line laid down
at the 18th Plenun, and in this
connection especial Importance
should be attached to the question
as to whether and how the Com
munist Parties are putting into
practice the concrete tasks set and
how far the slogans advanced by
the Plenum are being popularised.
In this connection. No. S of the
Communist International is Of spe-
cial Importance insofar as In the
leading article. & detailed ANALYSIS
is given OF the work of the most i'm
portant sections of the Comintern
in this connection for the first
months following the Plenum.
In an article dealing with the
American social fascists and the
Austrian events, an examination Is
made Of how American social fas-
cism tries to make capital out of the
blood of the heroic Austrian work
ers.
THE issue contains valuable mate
l rial on the Austrian events, in
Guiding q copy of a leaflet issued
by the Communist Party Of Austria
just prior to the armed struggle
which shows that 1t was at it's post
giving the correct fighting lead in
the given situation. There is also a
copy of leaf1et issued by branch
of the Schutzbund in the days fol-
lowing the armed struggle of the
Austrian workers, which shows the
path the best fighters among the
Austrian working class are taking
when they call on the workers to
break with the Social-Democrati
Party and tc join the Communist
Party.
There is an interesting review of
the anti-fascist press being issued by
German revolutionary fighters in
exile, and which exposes certain op-
portunist views which have found
their way into some Of their COL
ur1ns.
Included in the issue is also a
full and informative report from
Soviet China which gives 2 clear
picture of the glorious development
and struggles of the Chinese Fed
Army. The task Of popularising the
tremendous achievements of Soviet
China will be rendered easier by &C.
ouaintance with the detailed mate
rial contained in this article.-A. P.
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ing in tiers Of cots one on top
Of the other. NTH no space for
chairs. work benches. and tables.
The bed covering Is no longer
white, the men no longer wear
white shirts and wooden pants.
and they 90 not smile when you
speak to them.
Men who have given their lives
10 the automobile industry sit and
stare At you ss il you we're from
another planet. Nothing to read.
nothing to talk about nothing 10
do. The few scraps Of gazines
have long since been worn out.
the ink has been worn of. Men
sit staring at blank PAGES.
wondering what was once printed
there.
II YOU can escape the guards
long enough, YOU will overhear
what the men talk about. It is
their fear Of the black bottle.
The black bottle is their term for
death. An intern will come
through the dor1nitory. looking
right and left. Presently he will
stop beside a cot and stare at
the man upon 1t. He will push
back the mans eyelids. and study
them for moment. After that
he counts the pulse beat and
jams A stethoscope against the
chest of the trembling man.
When the intern shakes his
head, it has a paradoxical mean
ing. When he mods his head. it
means the man on the cot is
going to get the black bottle.
Medical schools have tn get stiffs
somewhere. but elsewhere they
usually wait until man dies be-
fore coming for him. If YOU
are in Eloise, you will have tn
change your ideas about MANY
things. This is Eoise, in WAYNE
County, Michigan, the detention
camp and butcher shop for work
ers who we're foolish enough to
live past forty five.
The unemployed and cast of
worker who is able to keep out
Of Eloise finds that the problem
OF disposing Of his own body or
Of those Of his family has been
taken care Of by the automobile
city. For the sum Of thirty dol
lars a complete funeral can be
purchased. This includes everv-
thing except q hole in the ground.
And If there are only thirty dol
lars to be had for spending. there
are some undertakes who will
obliginsly dispose Of the BODY
gratis.
There is not much Of . market
for stiffs in Detroit, since Eloiss
began to function; 50 Detroit
developed q market for its pat
roi1s of cut-rate funerals. If none
Of your immediate family is in
quiSitive concerning the disposal
OF your body, the undertaken
weighs the remains and on his
phone obtains up to the minute
quotations from handful of
firms. The price per pound varies
from day to day, just as it does
with any bessie commodity. II
the price of fertilizer advanced
Yesterday, or II the price of soap
drops today, you can more or less
figure out the market yourself.
THE END
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Authors pickle
In Office Strike
At PubliSher
Csee story of Arrests On Page II

tses story Of Arrests on Page u
NEW YoRK.-Three prominent
authors, Dashiell Hammett, william
Rollins and Nathan Asch. who have
been appointed committee to rep
resent authors in support of the
striking Macaulay Co. employees, to
day telegraphed President Roose-
welt and General Hugh johnson de-
handing the right TO strike and or
eanize. Another telegram was sent
to Mayor LaGusrdia bitterly pro-
testing the use Of New York police
as strikebreakers.
The telegram to Mayor La
Gusrdia follows:
TO Mayor LaGuardis:
The undersigned we're elected a
committee of three to represent
authors throughout the country to
voice their vigorous protest against
the police q New York City being
used to intimidate the authors and
strikers who we're legally picketing
the Macaulay Co. While We and
other authors we're showing our
sympathy and support of the strik-
ers, five radio cars armed with rifles
and riot guns appeared with great
shrieking Of sirens and surrounded
the authors and strikers, ordering
them to relinquish their legal right
of picketing. Other police tore up
strikers and authors placards and
ordered them to leave the sidewalk
There was no question of ol1struct-
ing traffic and no such obstruction
occurred until police cars mounted
the sidewalks and drew large
crowds. Other policemen stationed
in front of the Macaulsy office oc-
cupied themselves the entire day by
acting as strikebreakers, speaking
to the girls and urging them to re-
turn to work. We do not think
that it is the function of the New
York police to participate in such
disgraceful activities, and we re-
spectfully request that you inform
us that your police commissioner
will promptly issue orders to his
force that in the future it is not
their duty to act as strikebreakers
for the Macauley Co."
In addition to Rollins, Asch and
Hammett, other prominent authors
who are participating in the picket
are Matthew Josephson. author of
THE Roober Barons''; Michael
Gold, John l.. Spivak, Isidor
Schneider, Joshua Kunitz, John
Howard Lawson, James Rorty,
Morley Callaghan and Edward New
house.
The authors are supporting the
strike of II office employees of the
Macaulay Co., and was a result of
number Of grievances eliminating
in the dismissal of Miss Dorothy
Rinmer, a member Of the book
keeping staff. The strike is being
led by the Office Workers Union,
and the demands include:
l. ALI abuse and tyranny on the
part of the employers must stop.
Q. Employees must be permitted
the use of sufficient electric light,
3. The installation of electric
fans in warm weather.
4, Employees absent because of
illness for period up to ten days
should receive full pay.
5. No discharge without either
two weeks notice or one weeks
salary,
6. Workers employed by the
company for year or longer should
receive two weeks vacation.
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with the crowds Of unemployed,
arresting anyone who speaks to
his neighbor while standing.
Police scout cars cruise the city
day and night, searching for
trouble. AS yet no law has been
passed forbidding two men to
converse on a street corner: but
if three men stand on the street
and talk, they are liable to ar
rest, questioning, and a possible
Jail sentence.
Uniformed and plainclothes
police officers patrol the bus sta
tions, railroad terminals. and
street car transfer points. If
your clothes are little dusty. if
you look hungry, if you haven't
shaved since the day before. the
order is swift and official. Move
on, and don't come back. We
don't want you in Detroit"
Workers over forty-fve. who
have worked in the automobile
plants fifteen or twenty years.
and who have been discharged
under some pretext or another
find themselves to be the I'M
desirable portion Of the popula-
ton. They have been replaced
by younger men, and, in many
cases, by girls. The companies
save money by making the
switch The only excuse needed
is some wholly imaginary in
fraction of rule, and the over
forty-f1ve worker is discharged
without benefit Of pension. There
is no place for him in the in
dustry, when young men can be
broken to the speed-up, and
when young girls can be hired
at half the wage. The worker
over forty-hve, who built the
automobile industry with his
brain and muscle, is given his
walking papers, no pension, and
told to move on, to keep moving,
and not to come back.
1t ELOISE can be found three
n thousand workers over forty
five who failed to keep moving.
They remained in Detroit, in
Dearborn, in Lincoln Park, in
Inkster. And look where they are
today!
Eloise Is g perfume sprayed
prison that by any other name
would be known as detention
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Why Hathaway Didn't
Appear at the Meeting

My attention has been called to
the feet that on Friday, June LIST l
was advertised to speak at a meet
ing held in Irving Plaza by Branch
500 of the International Workers
Order. Further, am informed,
that because I failed to appear I
was denounced by the chairman.
The audience was even requested,
so am told, to send letters to me
protesting my appearance.
/ regret tilat this should happer
For tl-s i'--r'',77 tt.on OF tlaoss r~eser
q - '1s-S1~, ti,1 fau't vas ms
mine. l was advertised to speak
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little difficulty, but, friends let ms
tell you that We profit By hard
knocks 1T takes time said the
chairman but the A. F. of L. ia
constantly striving to get BENEFITS
for you" we are better off nov
than we ever was" said Ramsey,
Of the AutO-Lite.
THE workers listened to this. Sons
even sppls But their mood
underneath was better illustrated
by the way they jumped and said
Gas when photographers light
f1sred. D.. They laughed, but they
also remembered. Their mood wss
better illustrated by the comment
Of a Negro worker. When Taylor.
an A. F, Of L. organizer, assured
the crowd that this week has
showed that they can negotiate
peacefully" the Negro worker dis~
gustedly walked away muttering,
That mans crazy"
In this soporifc atmosphere 10
was like an electric shock to hear
Fred Parker's voice. II bring YOU
a message from the auto workers
Of Detroit; a message of solidarity.
The workers Of Detroit are pre-
pared II necessary. And they sent
me 10 say Don't srbitrate. don't let
your leaders sell YOU out" And then
the chairman recovered his senses
and tore the negsphone out Of
Parkers hand.
Ten minutes later the meeting
was in the hands Of the Commu<
mist Party. Again and again the
slogan was heard. General Strike
on Monday John Williamson. dis
trict organizer of the Party. spoke:
Sam Stein, district secretary of the
LID, Egert, section organizer:
Ostheirner and Arner Of the Unern-
ployed Councils, Blakely of the
Y.CL. For two hours the trade
union workers Of Toledo stood and
listened.
The general strike was stifled by
the A. F. Of L. buresucrats. But the
Toledo workers have heard the
warning Of the Communist Party,
They have demonstrated that they
themselves can fight And they
have come through the Auto-Lits
strike and they know that unless
the Communist Party had led them
in mass violation Of the Injunction
against picketine the plant would
not have shut down. -o
II will be long time before the
A. F. of L. calls another demonstra-
ton in Toledo.
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WHAT'S ON

REMEMBER June 2. Daily Worker Day
and Moonlight Excursion to Hook Noun
tain. Glorious time, get your ticket now,
On sale at all workers Bookshops.
Thursday
OPEN FORUM, Pen b Hammer, ia W
2lst ST. $40 p m, Or, Carmen Haider,
snti-fascist writer, banned by city-ovned
radio station WNYC because her talk
might offend some Of those who listen
in" will give her talk in It's original form
SOVIET CHINA - The Economic Policy
Of the Kuomintans Government Lecture
by H. g Chan al Friends Of the Chinese
People, ts5 W, 25rd st. Room II, $50
pm. Adm 15c.
REGULAR meeting of Harry Sims Br
LID at 1850 seth St, $40 pm Howard
Farmer will speak on The Longshore-
mems Strike"
GENERAL Mobilization, Steve Katovis
Br. LID. for Thaelmann Defense, Man
haitian Lyceun, 66 z. 4th ST., pm
COME to Demonstration Against S. A
Mann-Brand vicious Naai film playing at
Yorkville Theatre. cor, 95th and Third
Ave. 1880 pm. Auspices. Anti-Nazi Fed
Grafton of New York and Film and Photo
League.
Friday
SPRING Dance given by Unemployed
Teachers Association. Webster Hall. fi9
e, 18th St, pm. Mayors Harlem Band
Subscription Acc.
ANTI-NAzI Symposium Elsmer Hall,
2a4 E. 10th ST.. Bronx. 8 pm. Auspices
League Against War and Fsscsm. Speak
ers: American Jewish Congress: Anti-Nazi
Minute Men; Carl Brodsky; Norman X
Tallentire. Adm. free.
MASS TRIAL in Workers Court
irving Plaza, 18th ct and irving Place.
$50 pm. to try framed W worker and
educate workers in sslf-defense Rabbi
Benz. Gcldstein, fudge: Joe Gilbert. de-
PENDANT, Joseph Brodsky and Fanny Hor-
owitz, defense counsel; Ed Hunts and
Joseph Tauber. prosecuting attorneys
Mass organizations and unions partici-
pating. Benefit Michael Hagopa Defense
SYMPOSIUM Getting the News"
Irving Plaza, irving Place and 18th St.,
e.15 p. m. Auspices. Film and Photo
League. Speakers: John Howard Lawson.
Seymour waldmsn, Washington cores
pondent, 81 Gerson, City Editor, william
Fuchs, on Sports, E. A. Schachner Editor
A. F. of L. Rank and File Federationist.
Leo Hurwitz, carmeramsn. Scottsboro
Trial; Frnak Palmer of Federated Press
chairman.
SOVIET NIGHT and Dance, fremont
Prog Club. s56 f. fremont Ave Around
the samovar. balalaika orchestra. Soviet
folk songs. Soviet dancers: dancing till
dawn. Saturday. June 9. a:45 pm
DANCE RECITAL-Jane Dudley in an
epic dance, Life of Worker. Miriam
Blocker in agitprop and Elise in sstires
and jazz numbers. Camp Nitgedsieet.
Beacon, n, y, Saturday night
Pittsburgh, Pa.
SOVIET if-vic IN Oh Sis.rsa" gs---r
on Frids- .Tun- 2. -,71 mi. at cs-nesie
Lscirr7 r-ll. sc''-''--- 7rk. Auspices:
1cor City Comm Adm 5se.
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We1Ley Joins Protest
4 gain st Threatened
ThdeLmdnn Execution

John Wexley, author of "They
Shall Not Die" the play on the
ScottsborO frame-up, today added
his name to the list of American
intellectuals protesting the threat
ened execution of Ernst Thaelmann,
Wexley's message follows:
INCLUDE MY NAME IN THE
HONOR ROLL OF THOSE WHO
PROTEST EVERY LIVING
MINUTE AGAINST THE EX-
ISTENCE AND ACTIVITY OF
THE NAZI BARBARIANS.
CRY WITH MILLIONS, ERNST
THAELMANN SHALL NOT DIE"
(Signe6) JOHN WExLEY.
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b. ALBERT MALTz

tCo-Author ~ Peace on Earth")
TOLEDO.-Lsst Friday night in
Toledo Fred Parker. a rank and
file A. P. Of L. automobile worker
from Detroit. raised a clenched fist
10 10000 union workers and shouted
in a voice that reached from one
end Of Court House Park To the
other. Don't let your leaders sell
you out He could go no further.
Members Of the A. F. Of L. Com
mittee Of Twenty-three. who had
arranged the demonstration tore
the megaphone out Of his hand and
rushed him to the back OF the plat
form. But it was too late. From
every part Of the square men and
women began to shout: Let him
talk What are you afraid OFF,.
We want the man from Detroit"
Lawrence Aubry. the A. F. Of L.
chairman. called for order. The
crowd boOed and yelled: We want
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the man from Detroit"
Aubry began to plead Brothers
and sisters" he said, you believe
in your leaders, don't YOU? You
have confidence in them, haven't
you9"
we want the man from Detroit"
Aubry could scarcely be heard. He
waved his hand wildly, Brothers
and sisters
we want the man from Detroit.
Immediate general strike"
Aubry gave UP, He turned the
megaphone over to Otto Brach, sec
rotary Of the Central Labor Union.
For q moment the workers we're
quiet. Listen, everybody" Brach
said, tits a hot night and we don't
want you to get tagged out. We
know it's hot in this square and we
-" He got no further. It will
take more than one lifetime for him
to forget the boos and shouts of
laughter that the 10000 workers he
represented flung in his face. For
one moment he waved his hands for
silence. Then he said: The meet
ing is adjourned. No more than
dozen people could have heard him.
For the assembled workers the
meeting was not adjourned. No one
moved, Pred Parker. the auto
worker from Detroit. came to the
front Of the platform. And as he
did 50 Otto Brach pressed through
the crowd For one startled mo-
ment he looked over his shoulder.
His face was an unhappy stew Of
surprise, injury and misery. On the
platform the meeting was begin
ming. The A. p. of l.. had called
3 demonstration and after 20 min
utes there was q new set Of speak
ers and 9 new slogan, Immediate
General Strike" the slogan of the
Communist Party and the militant
workers.
A WEEK ago the Central Labor
n Union Of Toledo announced a
demonstration and mass meeting
1t was to be labor's show Of
strength. It was to be the opening
blow in the general strike. But
during the week the medistors ar
rived. During the week the Tafts
and the Coates sat down and
rubbed noses with the Rsmseys and
the Meyers. During the week the
A. r. Of l., labor leaders were 81
busy discovering that their inter
ests we're the interests Of Miniger
Of the Auto-Jite that they never
even learned that over 20 Of the
hundred odd locals they repre-
sented had voted for q general
strike. And 50, just before the dem
onstration last Friday night, there
we're extras on the street announc-
ing that the Edison strike had been
prevented and that the Auto-Lite
strike was within one point Of be-
Ing settled
But during that week the slogan
Of general strike was being pushed
forward. At a conference Of union
delegates on Tuesday night, at q
mass meeting on Thursday night
the necessity Of q general strike to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-07
WRITER'S UNION NOTICE.

NEW YORK. - The Executive
Committee of the Writers Union
formerly the Unemployed Writers
Association, announces the suspen-
sion of all activities and member
ship meetings during the summer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-07
Jim Grow Y. NJ. C. A.
by a Worker Correspondent

NEW HAVEN, May 22--The New
Haven branch of the Railroad Y NJ
G. A. is conducting big member
ship drive. The fees are pretty
high, and right now when railroad
workers are getting such miserable
wages. they don't feel they can
stand the expense.
The most vicious part of It, how
ever, is the iirn-croT policy Of the
Railroad YMC.A. All Negroes are
excluded from membership.
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IT HAS become a crime IN
Wayne County to show evidence
Of being an unemployed worker
Formerly It was permissible
for a worker to mount a soap box
in grand Circus Park and shout
until he was blue in the face.
Today anyone who enters the
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Park must
take a seat on
one Of the
benches: II he
stands up. he
must keep
moving the
direct inhu-
ence of the
Ford conveyor
line on police
m E t h o d 8
Plainclot h e s
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my knowledge. due to con-
fusion somewhere.
When I agree to speak at meet
an always there. and on time
C~'',"a,d-lr
G.. A. HATHAWAY.
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The New Redemption

EVERY prison in the Soviet
redemption
Idea OF punishment has been wiped the
Books have been written the subject close this
and inadequate outline with few Dran
of the New York Times, (5eptember 8,
There is colony where every one
lives perfect freedom without restrictions
that they must spend the night the premises
They have their workshops factories farms and
kitchen divorce Moscow as thew please
They work but they prison discipline
is in their hands under the four q q
officials
They at will but they
this tend to Justify the
would live an honest
life if he had proper chance"
QUESTION
noes this sound like land Of terror, "a million
-".-7ne-s?"
2cund like tire land pictured adys YOU ac-
cei c-rclo-yhis land where sad like human
beings for the first time history?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-07

sIhlkEBHEAk1NG CREW-Thomas Ramsey of the A. F. of T.
AM" unoni Arthur Bennett vice president Workers
Union Judge Roy Stuart who uicetins
injunction; Mayor r. Kcz ex-sociaIis ,r -. 49,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-07
A Report from the
Black Belt

The following letter was re-
ceived by Eula Gray, niece of
Ralph Gray, murdered share
croprer, who is now in New York
raising funds for the Share Crop
pers Union.
Montana labor news., 1934-09-27
Chicago Company
Is Ordered To
Reinstate Workers

WASHINGTON.-lFP) Reinstate-
ment of II employees of the Interna-
tional Furniture company of Chicago,
who were fired for union activity or
quit in protest at such firings, has
been ordered by the National Labor
Relations Board.
After a strike called by the Uphol-
s~terers, Carpet & Linoleum Mechanics
international Union last September,
the company failed to reinstate three
strikers, in violation Of a verbal agree
ment reached in December. Later it
fired the worker who had been elected
shop steward and some other active
unionists, and several other workers
walked out in protest. The board ruled
that the company violated Sec. 7(a) of
MIRA by interfering with its employees
self-organization