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Armed Struggle
Spreads in Spain
Continued from Page y

to seize the land of the rich land
lords. Troops. were sent against
them, but no reports have yet been
received on the outcome of the
battle.
Farm laborers in the village of
Uncastillo, near Saragossa, estab-
lished Soviets, armed themselves
and declared they would fight
against the Fascist Lerroux cabinet.
The united forces of Socialists,
Communists and Syndicalists have
established a central headquarters,
which the police and troops have
tried vainly to find and destroy.
They are communicating by radio
and telephone with all centers of
the armed struggles, particularly
with the provinces of Leon, Asturias,
Santander, Vizcaya and Guipuzcoa.
Diego Miro Menendez, the strike
breaking Fascist police chief in the
Azana government, was reported to
have been killed in the fighting at
Eibar, the munitions center, which
was seized by the workers.
Martial Law Declared
Shortly after midnight, a fierce
battle broke out again in Madrid
near the home of Premier Lerroux
in an exclusive residential district.
Lerroux, who had been in constant
conferences with his other Fascist
ministers, fled to his home, when
the battle around the government
buildings became intense. The work
ers, armed with machine guns,
opened fire on his home, but they
were driven back by superior con-
centration of forces which was mo-
bilized to keep this Fascist dog from
falling into the hands of the work
erS.
Martial law has been declared
throughout the country. The an
nouncements of tee Lerroux gov
eminent show it's increasing nerv-
BUSINESS over the situation, as the
armed forces and fighting of the
workers grow, with more and more
of the peasants coming into the
battles on the side of the workers.
The French imperialist govern
ment has already taken steps to
aid the harrassed Lerroux fascist
regime. French officials detained
the steamer Turquesa at the request
of the Madrid government authori-
ties. The ship, it was claimed,
carried Is tons of arms and ammu-
milton consigned to the Catalonian
forces.
The Portuguese government Of
fered to assist the Fascist govern
ment of Spain by sending troops
against Spanish workers.
News Censored
All news from Spain is heavily
censored in order to aid the Lerroux
cabinet in its bloody struggle against
the revolutionary general strike.
Capitalist correspondents sit in
their offices and cable mainly the
news handed them by the Lerroux
government. With all transporta-
ton stopped, with the main lines Of
communication cut and fighting
going on throughout the country,
no one is in a position to give an
accurate picture of what is going
on.
In several instances the govern
ment reports were proved to be
tissue Of lies. The government had
reported that railroad traffic was
moving nearly normally" when
every report coming from railroad
centers showed that no trains were
leaving.
In an effort to terrorize the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
DETROIT LAYOFFS RISE, RELIEF is CUT
AS MOTOR PRODUCTION HITS NEW LOW

1924 in the preceding week. The
output was 27,926 less than in the
corresponding week last year.
The assembly lines of eight COM
panies were completely closed dur
ing the past week, five having COM
pleted production of 1884 models.
Ford was practically closed, Ply
mouth, Chrysler, DeSoto, Buick,
Murray Body, Budd Wheel and
other plants are shut down. Ford,
Chevrolet, Oldsmobile and Terra
plane-H DIS on are expected To
complete assemblies Oh current
models by the end of October. This
Automotive reports, compared with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08

Continued from Page y
to mobilize its full forces. Less than
$4,000 has been received in the
drive. Therefore, as editor, we
make this appeal specifically to
you, the reader of this statement.
Will you today do your part in the
drive for 100000? What can you
do? You can obtain contributions,
you can see that your unit, your
organization is set in motion. You
can contribute yourself.
Between disaster and the i'm
proved Daily Worker stand the rev.
olutionary workers. A mighty eff
fort is required.
We have the new DAILY" The
revolutionary workers Of America
will keep it!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Illinois Supreme Court Silent on c. P Election Petitions
Militant Program Pressed to Fore at A. F. of L. Farley

erty claims of the big Wall Street
banks and landlords.
I would act in accordance with
the directiYes given in our PARTY
platform and election program.
would not permit a single ware
house or swanky Fifth Avenue
Apartment house to remain closed
while thousands of joblesS men and
women sleep in the streets. Why
should there be thousands of fine
closed houses while workers are
flung into the streets?
Il would Immediately put an end
to the payments to the banks, and
turn the money over to the iobless.
If the bankers squawked, 1 would
levy a 10 per cent capital levy on
all their investments. That would
give the people about $1,000, 900, 900
right off the bat. That can be
mighty useful to the thousands of
jobless workers in New York State.
"And if the courts tried to stop
me, that would only prove to the
people what we Communists have
been asking all along, that the
government machine is cap
italist machine that binders the
welfare Of the masses, and which
must be abolished by the masses
in revolutionary struggle, because
it will never be abolished any
other way.
I'm every strike, I as a Commu-
mist Governor would place the
States funds and resources at the
disposal of the strikers for relief
and protection against the employ
ers. I would urge the workers to
organize themselves into mighty
picket lines. I will fight with every
means at my disposal against the
use of the States armed forces
against the workers.
7-Cent Fare
"There would be no menace of
any Seven-cent fare, as there is
now under Lehman and LaGuardia.
I would nullify the rotten contracts
by which the banks now milk them
for fat profits. There would be
no menace Of more teachers wage
cuts. I would stop the budget
crisis" by doing away with the
Bankers Agreement.
A Socialist" City
1.-THE Socialist Party teaches the
masses that they can take control
Of the country by 'electing Social
ist majorities,' and 'sociallizing' in
dustry," Amter said. But this only
helps the ruling class by concealing
from the masses that there can be
real liberia ion only by smashing
the present government machinery
and setting up a new one.
Look at Bridgeport and Mil
waul1ee," Amter declared. There,
the Socialists took power and
Immediately began to act funda-
mentally like any other capitalist
party. Their main worry is how
not to default on the payments to
the bondholders. And when 1t is
necessary to cut wages to pay
the bondholders, why then they
proceed to cut wages. In fact,
they boast of their clean record
in paying bankers debts.
1--WE Communists are quite diff
ferent. We don't give single rap
for bankers debts. To us the well
fare of the masses comes above
everything else. And we say that
we will fight not only to win better
conditions now, but that this fight
can be successful only if we strive
day in and day out to end capital
ism altogether"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Fight for Aid Is Mapped
AS Budget Is Cut
By Half Million

million dollars from relief expendi-
lures. The Unemployed Councils,
the Relief Workers Protective As
ISOLATION and the Auto Workers
Union are rallying the workers for
a determined struggle against these
cuts. A demonstration is being or
ganized for Wednesday at 10 am.
at the Scotch Relief Station, 1925
Lawton st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Jobless, Relief and Auto
Workers Organize
Demonstration
By A. B. MagiI
Especial to the Daily worker)

DETROIT, Mich, Oct. Auto
mobile production in the United
States and Canada sank to new
lows for the week ending Saturday
with nearly so per cent decline.
Production totalled 1898 passenger
cars and trucks, according to Cram S
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
SILVER WORKERS STRIKE

NEW YORK,-The employees Of
the Federal Silver Company went
out on strike last Wednesday for
union recognition and for a written
agreement, under the leadership of
the Silver Holloware Local 302 of
the Steel and Metal Workers In
dustriall Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
LEADERS PREPARE
TO CRACK THE WHIP
OVER INSURGENTS
Big Strike Struggles and ROOsevelt's Offensive
Sharpen Contradiction Between Ranks and
Chiefs Program Of Service to Capitalists
By Bill Dunno

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. THE 54th annual conven-
ton of the American Federation of Labor has com"
pleted the first week of its sessions.
In previous dispatches the basic contradiction confront
ing this convention has been noted that is the conrad
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
REFUSES TO ACT
TO RESTORE PARTY
TICKET ON BALLOT
Action Constitutes Attack on Civil Rights of
State WOrkers-VOters Urged to Rally
To Support of Communist Party

CHICAGO, Oct. THE Supreme Court of the State of
Illinois, without giving any grounds whatever has denied
the writ of mandamu submitted by the Communist Party
overrue the decision of the State Election Board and to
place the State ticket of the Communist Party on the ballot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Speed Drive Funds
for New DAILY"

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wings, silver comes on the scene when
the economic lights are dark"
It is one of the tragedies Of Ameri-
can history that the intricate technl-
calities of money are beyond the un-
derstanding of the ordinary citizen
or the ordinary Congressman. This
statement reflects on no one. Money
is quite as complex subject as
quantum physics or bio-chemistry or
vector analysis, and most OF us can
not spend the necessary time to mas
ter any of these topics. Under this
cloak of popular ignorance OF none
tary science, in and out Of Congress,
shrewd and powerful forces carry on
a ceaseless campaign for legislation
in their own interests.
The most relentless of such groups
is that one which for more than gu
years has used the Government OF
the United States as means OF prl-
vate profit for negligible INDUSTRY.
I open at random musty book, o0
years old, and there is report Dy a
congressional committee which says
that the silver measure they present
has no herit, but that Senator Jones Of
Nevada insisted on it. open another,
more than 40 years old, and there Is
a statement about attacks on Secre-
tary Sherman because he refused to
buy more silver. Those representatives
of silver of q half century ago nave
been dead these many years, but their
soul goes marching on.
Come Close to Objective.
These forces have never quite, ac-
complished their objectfves, but they
have come close to it. In 1878, 1890,
1918 and 1888 they obtained subsidies
for silver out of taxpayers money, and
in 1894 they have just succeeded IN
pushing through the most successful
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raid on the public Treasury in our
history. The record shows that they
have never been baked completely ex-
cept when a courageous President re-
fused to be coerced and fought them
openly. Hayes vetoed the vicious
Bland-Allison act In 1873, and they
passed 1t over his Veto The Treasury
for IL years i1ulified the measure in
so far as it could, and they passed
the Sherman act. Just twice as vicious.
Two Presidents resisted them to the
end. Cleveland defied them and
whipped them. Hoover, Western
man, friendly all his life to the mining
interests, refused to surrender to them.
. One example out Of hundreds win
illustrate their methods. For about
five years past, by every known prop
aganda device, including the use Of
the Government franking privilege,
this silver block has been system
atically reiterating the statement that
silver is the basic money Of half the
world. It is the slogan, In and out
of Congress, Of the entire bloc. It is
utterly and transparently false. But
note what propaganda will accomplish
in a muddled world: Thomas Lamont,
great banking leader, and President
Roosevelt have each publicly referred
to silver as the basic money OF a
large part of the world.
1t is not within the scope Of this
article to discuss the technical aspects
of silver as money. These scientific
aspects are quite irrelevant since silver
is no longer monetary material any
where in the world except in China,
and there is no monetary question In
volved in the legislation Of the present
day. It Is wholly q question Of
whether this Government shall give
q. subsidy to- g. tenth-rate industry
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proved the necessity for any drastic
change in the present constitution OF
the League. They may have shown
indeed, in my view, they have plainly
shown-that there are improvements
and Qualifications which could be
made. 1t should not be possible for
any member Of the League even to
make proper case for the contention
that the invasion of a neighbor's
territory Is not a violation Of the
covenant. 1t should not be possible
for a member of the League to en-
barrass or to obstruct the action of
the Council In respect to dispute
to which it itself is a party. 1t should
not be possible for a few powerful
governments that are aflicted by the
disease of delay and indecision-the
most dangerous of political afnictions
to infect the whole League with
their disease
There are defects, even important
defects, in the system of the League.
But it is not these defects which have
caused the international failures of
recent years Those failures have
happened because the system of the
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with influential political backing. But
to make the matter clear, 1t Is deSir-
able to set down a few facts about
silver as money, as follows:
l. Silver is not a standard money
anywhere in the world except in
China.
2. Silver has not been used as
money, except for small-change tokens
like those Of copper or nickel, In any
important country for so years.
Never Basic In U. s.
3. Silver has never been a basic
money in the United States, foreign
coins and paper having served as our
chief currency until 1884, since which
time silver has never been a standard.
f. The only country whose trade re-
lations are materially affected by silver
prices is China, with less than one
fiftieth Of the worlds trade, and the
trade of China would be injured by q
rise in silver prices. -,
5. The only people who profit by q
rise of silver prices are the smelling
companies. the mining companies and
the silver spectators, while every one
else loses.
6. Silver is Of virtually no industrial
importance. being chiefly by-product
Of other industries and employing
practically no labor. .
T. Every silver law passed in the
last so years has injured the Nation.
Read over these statements again,
and then consider the fact that since
1873 Congress has passed seven laws
giving subsidies to silver, three Of
them in the present administration
period. To understand the character
Of these three latest measures, it Is
necessary to follow some rather COM
plex monetary history. II you are
not willing to do this, you will not
have any better grasp Of this silver
issue Snan q Congressman from
Illinois.
This country began with bimetal-
ism. It failed, as it has in all other
countries. After 1884 silver as
standard money was not In circulation,
and in 1873 It was abolished by law
In 1878 the silver block obtained pas
sage of the Bland Allison act. The
law forced the Government to buy
silver bullion and coin it into the old
dollars. Silver had long been falling
in value and these old dollars, Of
371A grains, were now worth only
IS cents.
These dollars were thus merely de-
based token" coins, not worth their
face value and not acceptable at par
in international trade anywhere on
earth. The people Of this country
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League has not been used. Govern
ments have hesitated before the risks
which its use seemed to involve, and
by their hesitation they have under
mined the foundations of world law,
and so created the very dangers which
the League. was intended to avert.
I would contend, moreover. that
when it has been used, when the
principles of the covenant have been
fairly and fearlessly applied, the
League system has had a remarkable
measure Of success. At the end Of the
first decade of its work the prestige
of its institutions and the authority
of its law stood very high. They had
been subjected to the test Of repeated
use in very widely varying conditions.
and even in circumstances of grave
difhculty they had brought peace.
1t is because I myself have seen
the institutions of the League at
work; because, as a delegate to the
Council and Assembly, I myself have
had a share in using them to settle
important international disputes, that
I speak with such confidence about
them. And on the strength Of that
Evening star., 1934-07-08
Hit Weird Names
OF Moscow's Streets

MOSCOW, U. S. r. R.-Indignant
Moscow workers. inbued with the
spirit Of progress, have started a
wholesale protest against the manner
in which Moscow streets were named
by the ancient Muscovites.
While Soviet city authorities have
done their best to rename as many
streets as possible, Moscow still leads
the world so far as fantastic monick-
ers for its thoroughfares are con-
cerned. Take, for example. Death
street." so named because there was
once cemetery there; "Durnoi pere-
oulok"-"Bad treet"-named after a
merchant named Durnov; Dogs
square," one-time location of the car
ist hunting kennels and now address
of the Red Cross hospital; "Old Stable
street." where the czariSt stables were
located $50 years ago; "Arbat plos-
Sacrifice square'-where the
Tartars once sacrificed MuScovites;
''Hrapounov pereoulok" - "Snore
reet"-where the snores of bourgeois
merchants could once be heard re-
SOuIlulIlR OI July IlOOL.
Unfortunately, in the eyes of Com
muniStS. most of the street names are
to be associated with the czars and
their activities. While "Povarskaya
tza"-"Cooks street"--l1as been re-
named "'Vorovski," the side streets
leading into this thoroughfare still re-
call, with their strange names. the
fact that the district was inhabited by
the cars cooks and caterers.
They include a Table street" "
"Tablecloth street." Bread street, "
knife street" and "Teacup street"
Not far away is "Kalashni pereoulok," "
where MoScow's finest baker produced
the beloved combination Of a biscuit
and a pretzel known as ''kalachee. I"
The very name of this street Is enough
to remind Muscovites that they have
not tasted this delicacy since the FIVE
year plan made eating a luxury for
the Russians.
Soviet authorities have rather hesi-
tated to change the names of streets
as rapidly as might be desired by some
fanatics. They took stab at it in the
early days of the revolution, rewarding
every revolutionary of prominence by
putting his name on street sign
Unfortunately, many Of these signs
had to be changed-several thousand
in the case Of Trotzky-when the
comrades in question fell into dis
grace with the dictatorship.
Copyright. 1934)
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personal experience share Monsieur
Avenols conviction that the general
structure of the covenant represents
the minimum number Of obligations
without which no league and no ef-
fective international cooperation can
exist" rb
That, indeed, is the first thing I
want to say about revision Of the
covenant Of the League. am sure
there are defects that can be rene
died, improvements that can be made,
new provisions that can be added
with advantage. But I think there
is very little that can be left out.
What is "the general structure Of
the covenant?"
When I ask that question my mind
goes back to a manifesto which the
Labor party issued to the British peo-
pie while the war was still in progress
and before any government scheme
for League of Nations had been pro-
duced.
This Is what We said in 1918:
we stand for the immediate estab-
lishment Of Universal League or
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President of the World Disarmament
Conference.
IN WRITING Of revision of the
League of Nations Covenant I
want to start by declaring that
i there is no alternative to the
present League. II the present
League were to founder, or If it were
allowed to drift into disruption, I am
afraid that nothing new would be
created to take its place.
If the present international scene
is surveyed with full sense of the
hard realities of the situation, the
conclusion cannot be avoided that the
League is our one hope of averting
the anarchy and the competitive
armament which history teaches us
are bound to lead to war. 1t is vital,
therefore. that in these troublous
times, when the future is being shaped
before our eyes, all who believe in
democracy and peace should stand
four-square behind this great bulwark
of their cause.
Nor would I admit for one moment
that the events of recent years have
Evening star., 1934-07-08
BY NEIL CAROTHERS,

Professor Of Economies. LehiRh University.
|HIS writer recently lost bet.
He was betting on the intel
ligence of his own Govern
Il ment. Despite some sobering
developments of the last year,
his faith in the innate good sense of
his Government has remained stead
fast. A small bet was made with a
cynical friend that this Government
would not be driven to the passage
of the silver legislation that has just
become law.
There was blow to self-esteem
involved In the loss of this bet. Until
this event the writer labored under
the delusion that as a bettor on
monetary developments he was su-
perior to the Rev. Coughlin. When a
few weeks ago the startling fact was
revealed that popular subscriptions
accruing from that ardent silver ad-
vocate's radio broadcasting had been
invested" in speculative silver fu-
lures on the unusual investment mar
gin of about 10 per cent, this writer
was sure that the Investment" was
unsound, as we'll as unexpected in
view of the impressive radio attacks
on Wall Streets sinful practice of
gambling on margin that preceded
but did not follow-Secretary Morgen-
thau's sudden disclosure.
Even now the writer cannot quite
see how he lost that bet. On his side
there were logic, history, economics
common sense, the welfare of the
United States, the Governments
ablest experts, the unanimous judg-
ment Of financial authorities and the
solid opinion of the country's respon-
sible newspapers, Democrat and Re-
publican. On the other side there
were cnly the rich smelling corpora
tions, little crowd of silver specula-
tors and the silver bloc in the United
States Senate.
Deserves to Lose Bet.
Here again this writer's Judgment
was at fault. He underestimated this
silver bloc. He deserves to lose his
small wager, for he knew what this
silver bloc, boring away continuously
since 1873. has been able to accom-
plish over the weary years of political
scheming. In fact. more than year
ago. in this same journal he gave
warning:
'tAll through American history there
runs a sinister story Of silver, from
the mistaken adoption of bimetallism
by Alexander Hamilton to the raid on
the public Treasury by the Pittman
act Of 1918. Always lurking in the
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The fact is that the British ad-
miralty, which was only persuaded to
accept the figures Macdonald pre-
sented to Hoover because of the f.
Rancial situation of Britain and the
Evening star., 1934-07-08

A tendency. not noticeable in Eu-
rope a few years ago. and which is
pregnant with dangerous potentiali-
ties, is the attempt to influence
thought In countries outside reac-
tionary states legitimate sphere. Not
content with dominating the Italian
press the Fascists and German Nazis
seek to extend. their influence beyond
their borders. The Russian Commu-
nists FIRST found that dissemination Of
political theories through use Of the