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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Must Bring
Party Before
The Masses
This is Keynote That
All Delegates
Sound
BY HARRY CANNES
(SneciaI tn the Daily WOrkerl

CLEVELAND, April At ose
who live with and lead the toiling
masses of the United States in their
daily struggles, especially in the
basic industries, today dominated
the floor of the Eighth Communist
Party National Convention here.
This mornings session was de-
voted to discussion on the mastery
and historical report of Comrade
Earl Browder, General Secretary Of
the Party.
When several steel workers had
taken the floor, the announcement
by the chairman of the day, Com
rade Max Bedacht, that five Negro
share troopers from the South had
just arrived, being detained in
Springfield, Ohio, brought the con-
vention to its feet cheering and
shouting their greetings.
The tremendous storm of applause
that met these Communists from
the lynch and Black Belt Of the
South as they stepped before the
Convention, lasted for many min
utes. They sang their stirring, fight
ing song of the Share Choppers
Union to the melody of 1--WE Shall
Not Be moved Just Like Tree
Standing By the Waters The
whole convention joined in the
chorus. The strains of this Negro
song of struggle and the indomitable
will for victory of the Negro peo-
pies blended with the hearty singing
of the Internationale.
Ovation to Cuban Communist
When the 18th and last speaker
of this morning session had finished
his remarks, the delegates were
aroused again to burst of new en-
thuSiasm when the representative
of the Cuban brother Communist
Party arrived and stepped onto the
platform. The delegates stood and
gave the spokesman for the fighting
brother Party in the colonial do
main of Wall Street a rousing ova-
ton that moved him greatly. He
delivered his message Of greetings
in Spanish, saying;
I'm the name of the Communist
Party of Cuba, vanguard of the
revolutionary proletariat and toll
ing masses of Cuba, bring revolu-
Continued on Page q
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Negro, White
DemOnstra tie
for CWA Jobs
St. Louis, Terre Haute
Workers Fight CWA
Layoffs

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 4.-Four
hundred Negro and white C.W.A.
workers demonstrated at the City
Hall here Monday, demanding C.
w. A. jobs for all jobless workers,
immediate cash relief, and no dis
elimination against Negroes and
foreign born.
A committee of ten, elected by the
workers was refused audience with
the mayor, the workers, however,
forcing him to meet with a COM
mittee of five.
At the insistence Of the commit
tee, Mayor Dickmann appeared be-
fore the assembled workers, thor
oughly exposing himself and his
program for unemployed relief, say
ing that he urged all business people
to employ the workers at odd jobs
cleaning and painting.
The workers demanded immediate
reinstatement of all fired C.W.A.
workers, the enlargement of C.W.A.
to provide jobs for all the unem-
ployed, immediate cash relief, and
no discrimination against Negro and
foreign born workers.
Demonstrate in Terre Haute, Ind.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind-Despite a
ordon of armed police and detec-
tives, which was thrown around the
Continued on Page p
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of the Forward seize upon as
the original miserable forgery"
upon which the whole world was
duped into believing that Sever
ing was writing book on Hit
Ter, this story had already ap-
peared in nom Communist
SOURCES five days before the
Communist Volks Zeitung car
ried 1t!
This story-alIegedly the mis-
cradle forgery" of the Commu-
mist VoIks Zeitung of March Is,
according to the Socialist For
ward-had already appeared in
the Partisan anti-fascist paper,
Gegen-Angriff on March 10, and
then was printed again in
bourgeois Liberal paper, appear
ing March Is under the sigma
ture of one Of the leading bour-
geois journalists of Germany,
George Bernhard, known
throughout Europe as the editor
Of the conservative "yossische
Zeitung"
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Forward who are grossly guilty
of miserable attempt to pin
the badge of forgery" on the
illegal Communist press in Ger
many, in their almost insane at
tempt to cloak the terrible
treacheries of the German So
cialist leaders.
TOR the fact is, and the editors
of the Forward know it very
well, that the story in the Com
munist Volks zeitung, which the
Forward reprints with such DELHI
crate distortion, and which, de-
spite itself, blasts the very struc-
ture that the Forward is trying
to build up,-the fact is that this
story about Severing and his new
book on the Nazis appeared in at
least two nom Communist separate
sources, at least Ave days before
the Communist papers in Ger
many printed 1t.
The story in the Communist
yoIks- Zeitung which the editors
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on the Hitler regime under the
direct patronage of the Fascist
Minister of Propaganda, Goebbels.
But in doing so they over
reached themselves, as we shall
show in moment. Their eagerness
to get the working class to forget
certain indisputable historic facts,
their eagerness to confuse and be-
fog the fundamental political issues
involved in Austria and Germany
simply made them bite off more
than they are now able to chew.
For, what are the sources of the
story that Severing is writing a
book on the Nazis? Is it the
faxed story in the March Is
edition of the Deutsche VoIks-
Zeitung, as the Forward alleges?
In printing the story of the
reported book by Severing are
the Communists guilty of "a
miserable forgery as the So
cialist editors of the Jewish For
ward so gleefully proclaim?
No! 1t is the editors of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Socialist Editors Spin Fantastic Tale Of "Forgery In
Feuerish Efforts to Escape Deeds Of German SIP Lead

COME people think that
" Sherlock Holmes was a
great detective.
Some people think that
Baron Munchhausen was the
worlds greatest twister of the truth.
But whoever shares these opinions
has not yet become acquainted with
the redoubtable editors of the jew
ish Daily Forward, leading Socialist
Jewish daily paper in this country.
From the inner sanctum of the
editorial offices, from some secret
and eager huddle of the Forward
editors, there has emerged the great
expose" the great discovery of the
greatest, most blood-curdling, most
fiendish Crime of the century"
Communists Caught In Miser-
able Forgery" screams eight column
headlines in the Forward Look,
cry the editors of the Forward,
here are the pictures of the Com
munist paper. the Deutsche Volks-
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zeitung, which forged the das-
tardly lie" that Karl Severing,
former Socialist President of the
Reichstag, is now writing book
praising the Hitler government.
And what do the editors of the
Jewish Forward show us in defense
of Severing? A ludicrous, clumsy,
journalistic attempt, in the best
tabloid style, to Great by deliberate
distortion, a cheap, journalistic
sensation"
They know that they are skating
on the thinnest ice. They know that
in discussing the relations of the
German Socialist leaders to Fas-
cism that they are defending an
indefensible, politically criminal
position, a position that led the
German and Austrian working class
into the trap of Fascism.
That is why the editors of the
Forward leaped so feverishly upon
the item in the Communist
Deutsche Volks-zeitung reporting
that Seyering was writing a book
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Ask Stronger
Chains i'm Rail
Ac t
r oosevelt Emergency
Board Proposes
Mandatory Law

WASHINGTON, D. c., April A.
To strengthen the chains Of the
Railway Labor Act, which the gov
eminent has used in the past to
break strike movements, the emer-
gency board, created by President
Roosevelt last March, proposed in
its report yesterday to have law
passed by which decisions OF any
adjustment board created under the
Railway Labor Act would be man.
datory, so that any railroad worker
not accepting a government decision
on the wages or hours would be fined
or sent to Jail.
The reason given for this slavery
proposal is, as is usual in such cases,
that the railroad bosses, in this case
the Delaware & Hudson Railroad
Corp, refuse to accept the arbitra-
ton, Strike-breaking proposals of
the government and the treacher-
GUS officials of the Railroad Brother
hoods. This fake opposition of the
railroad bosses to the present ar
bitration machinery, which has
meant wage cuts for the workers in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
W ard Speaks
Friday at Big
Anti-W arMeet
Brownsville Outdoor
Demonstration z PM.
Today

NEW YORK.-New York workers
will give a ringing answer to the
poisonous lingo glorification of war
on Army Day, next Friday, April 6,
at the 18th anniversary of Americas
entry into the war, with mass
meeting in New York Friday, and
an anti-war parade and demon
Stration in Briwnsville today.
The New York meeting, in st.
Nicholas Arena, SO West Goth ST.,
Friday night, at 1880, will be the
climax of long series of anti.
war meetings which are being held
in all sections of the city, under
the auspices of the American
League Against War and Fascism.
The Brownsville demonstration,
today, will be modified at two
points at 7 pm, Ralph Ave. and
Fulton st., and Hinsdale and Suffer
AYES, and from both points the
demonstrators will march to Hop
kinson and Pitkin AYES, where an
open-air mass meeting will be held.
Fridays Speakers
At st. Nicholas Arena, Friday
night, the speakers will include
Harry F. Ward, national chairman
of the American League Against
War and Fasicsm; H. w. L. Dana
CT Boston. representatives of trade
unions, Negro organizations, the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League,
the Women's Peace Societies, the
Women's international League for
Peace and Freedom, the Civil Liber-
ties Union, and other organizations.
Admission to the st. Nicholas
Arena meeting is 20 cents, Is cents
to bearers of a throw-away card,
which is being broadcast by the 100
organizations affiliated to the
League, and free to unemployed
with membership cards.
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Wheel Workers Vote for
Militant Demands
Despite Misleaders
FIGHT A. FL. HEADS
Third Labor Mediator
Sent Against Spicer
Accessory Workers
Especial to the Daily WORKER

DETROIT, April 4.-Over the Bit
ter opposition of A. F. of L. Off
Gals, Kelsey Hayes Wheel employees,
members of Federal Union No.
1857, last Saturday unanimously
passed a resolution calling on the
local to take the necessary steps to
win the following demands in two
Kelsey Hayes plants employing
$500 workers
Abolition of all piece-work and
bonus systems, payment of straight
hourly rates and abolition of COM
pulsory payment for group insur-
ance of 1920 a month.
A committee, elected from the
floor to draw up a wage scale, pro-
posed a minimum hourly wage of
80 cents for men and so cents for
women, with those now getting so
cents per hour or more to receive
minimum of So cents, Or a 10 per
cent increase, whichever proved
most advantageous to the workers.
When the scale committee re-
ported, its members were viciously
attacked by A. F. of L. officials.
The president of the local and the
chairman of the meeting argued,
eve don't mind going to the COM
pany with decent requests, but these
demands are too radical. If you
want to be real radical about it.
why not demand dollar an hour?"
Despite the leaders efforts to
create confusion, the proposals of
the scale committee were passed
unanimously, not even A. F. of L.
officials daring to vote against
them. The officers we're instructed
to present the demands to the COM
pany.
The local is calling a mass meet
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aof accomplishing this. To his
five-hour report for the Cen
trail Committee, 500 delegates
from Al states responded in such
way that the class-struggle veterans
repeatedly whispered, We've never
had such a convention; we never
heard such a speech"
Applying the surgeons scaIpel of
MARKHAM analysis to the world in
which the convention met, particu-
larry to the United States, Browder
later turned it upon the Communist
Party. He named the tasks ahead
one by one. He said:
"Our task is to win the major
ity Of the working class to our pro-
gram. We do not have unlimited
time to accomplish this. Tempo,
speed of development of our work,
becomes the decisive factor in de-
termining victory or defeat. For
Fascism is rearing its ugly head
more boldly every day in the
United States"
Browder began with a survey Of
this capitalist world which is ZAP
preaching a new explosion" Taking
{ the line of the 18th Plenum Of the
Executive Committee of the Com
munist International, he specified:
THE world stands on the brink Of
revolutions and wars. Even the
United States, still strongest fort
ress Of world capitalism, has been
stripped Of its last shred of 'ex-
ceptionalism, and stands fully ex-
posed to the fury Of the storms Of
crisis, and, relatively speaking, is
registering its deepest effects" And,
in these circumstances, the new deal
of President Roosevelt:
Roosevelt promises to feed the
hungry by reducing the production
of food. He promises to redis-
tribute wealth by billions of subsi-
dies to the banks and corporations.
He gives help to the forgotten man
by speeding up the process of mon
opoly and justification. He would
4lIAC ooC Vic pAA SlAdS4llS pOWCI VI
the masses through initiation, which
gives them a dollar worth only so
cents. He drives the Wall Street
money changers out of the temple
Of government by giving them COM
plete power in the administration
Of the governmental machinery Of
the industrial codes. He gives the
workers the right of organization
by legalizing the company unions.
He inaugurates regime of econ
ony, by shifting the tax burden to
the consuming masses, by cutting
appropriations for wages, veterans
and social services, while increas-
ing the war budget a billion dollars
and ten billions to those who al
ready own everything. He restores
the faith of the masses in democ-
racy by beginning the introduction
of fascism He works for intena-
tional peace by launching the
sharpest trade and currency war in
history.
Roosevelt's program is the same
as that Of finance capital the world
over. 1t is a program of hunger,
fascination and imperialist war. It
differs chiefly in the form of I'M
precedented ballyhoo of demagogic
promises, for the creation Of mass
illusions Of savior who has found
the way out. In political essence It
is also Hitler's program"
Listing the main strategic tasks"
of the Communist Party in this
situation, Browder registered sub
| (Contfnncd ON pnne 81
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THIS FACT THEN is CLEAR AS
DAY-that the alleged forgery
is not on the side of the Com
munist Volks Zeitung, which was
only re-printing what had al
ready appeared in two European
papers, but rather on the side of
the editors of the Forward who
ignore these facts which they
have in their possession!
The whole forgery" structure,
the whole bugaboo of Communist
forged papers, the whole lurid,
sensational, blood-curdling dream
of the editors of the Socialist For
ward collapses like a house of
cards. In the light of the facts,
the editors of the Socialist For
ward stand shivering in the ma
kedness of a cheap trick by which
they hoped to inflame their read
ers so that their readers would
not give too much thought to the
serious political questions raised
Continued on Page 6)
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nuLINGER,s AID SHOT

81. PAUL, April Awhile U. S.
Federal authorities search wildly
Tor John Dillinger, notorious gum
man who "miraculously' escaped
from an Indiana prison few weeks
ago, aids of Dillinger and other
gangsters are being shot down. be-
ing mistaken for Dillinger. One of
bis confederates, Eugene Green, was
shot last night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Gen. Johnson YearnS
For ''OLd Var Days
When He Ran Draft
(DaiIy worker WASHINGTON Burol

WASHINGTON, April AIR.
A. Administrator General Hugh
S. Johnson exhibits an increas-
ing nostalgia for the good old
war days when, as he said yes
terday in his long awaited press
conference, II got along beauti-
fully with the press"
When asked yesterday about
the probability of MIRA. obtain
ing more space in the old Post
Office building. johnson said he
would take all he could get, add
ing, Il operated the draft in the
Did Post Office building and there
is sentimental connection
here"
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Breeders Report to
c. p. Contention in
DAILY on April IA

The complete report made by
Earl Browder, General Secretary
of the Communist Party of the
U. s., at the Eighth Convention
Of the c. P. U. s., now in ses-
sion in Cleveland, will be pub
lished full in an enlarged issue
of the Daily Worker on Saturday,
April IA.
This report contains a compre-
hensive analysis of the present
situation in the United States,
the effects of the deepening
economic crisis, and the immedi-
ate tasks and detectives of the
Communist Party.
Do not miss this important po-
liticaI document--to appear in
the Daily on April Il.
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Prepare Pickers' Strike
Wis. Socialist Mayor
Defeated at Reelection

BEAVER DAM, Wis, April "A
woman who had never held polit-
ical office before, Miss Mary Spell
man, teacher here for nearly SO
years, defeated Rae Weaver, Social
ist Mayor, for reelection. The
vote was 1882 to 1919.
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rNe'O Strike Waue Throughout Country
Sweeps Ouer the Barriers of ~ r. 4.
Miners of FairmOnt, W.
Va, Reject Trickery
of Code Hearing
STORM RAYON MILL
California Pea Pickers
Plan Strike in Face
of Terror

Reports from all over the cOun-
try indicate a new strike wave is
rolling up in the most varied in
dustrieS, including auto plants,
shipyards, and leather and rayon
mills. These strikes show a marked
increase in miIitancy and ten
acity, and growing refusal of
the workers to bind themselves by
any agreements that contain Mr..
A. arbitration clauses.
The Fairmont, w. Va, miners,
for example, have refused to be
put off with trick that has
worked in the past, to have their
demands granted for a few days,
with their case to be taken up at
the code hearing starting next
Monday.
The following are summary re-
ports of the strikes:
10000 Miners Continue Strike
FAIRMONT, w. Va, April A.
The 10000 miners in the northern
section of West Virginia, on strike
for S. for a seven-hour day are
holding their lines solid, in the face
Of sabotage by United Mine Work
ers of America officials. Pickets are
being maintained.
The miners have rejected the op-
orators offer to grant their de-
mands until April 9, after which
they would have to abide by the
code hearings. They demand a set
Element at once on their demands.
Storm Belamose Plant
ROCKY HILL, Conn, April A.
Four hundred workers storrned the
doors of the Belamose Corporation
rayon manufacturers, here today
following the firing of $50 employees
of the factory.
Workers seeking to enter the
plant were urged by their fellow
workers with them in a protest
strike. Groups picketed all around
the mill dissuading workers from
going to work. Two workers were
arrested by the police.
Prepare Pickers' Strike
HAYWARD, Cal, April 4 IF. P0
"A mass meeting has been called
by the Cannery and Agricultural
Workers Union, to demand 80 cents
hamper, 30 cents an hour, or IA
cents Id. for the 1000 pea pickers
in Alameda county, who are now
receiving II cents hamper, as in
1888. Alameda is among the coun-
ties which have organized vigilance
committees" to terrorize the ex-
plotted pickers.
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''Must Win Masses
For Revolution. -
BrOWder Declares
''In Essence Roosevelts Program Is Hitler's: The
Tempo of Our Work is Decisive For Victory
Or Defeat He Tells Convention
By MARGUERITE YOUNG
Especial to the Daily Worker.)

CLEVELAND, April 4--Earl Browder, General Secre
tary of the Communist Party of the United States called
upon the Eighth National Convention its opening session.
ito win the majority of the working class to program
and set forth in simple shining words the WAYS and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05

the past, is useful to the companies
in getting such slavery law passed
as is now proposed by the Roosevelt
emergency board.
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Continued on Page 81
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CONTINUED on Page p
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Against War! Mass in St. Nicholas Arena Friday 73O b
CIRCULATION DRIVE

NEW SUBS RECEIVED YESTERDAY:
Daily .....,.... % Saturday ...,...
Total to date 1880 Total .......2O4
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27
VIENNA MOB
STAGES RIOT.

VIENNA, Nov. 81. U.P) = Steel
helmeted police and heimwehr men
with bayonetS attacked thousands of
Anti Czech demonstrators in the
streets today.
The crowd, mostly students,
shouted Down with Masaryk" (Dr.
Thomas G.. Masaryk, president of
Czechoslovakia.)
They smashed windows of the
Czech controlled newspaper Tag
Stunde and also attacked the Neu-
freiepresSeon the ground that it was
owned by Jews.
Policemen who tried to arrest
their leaders were showered with
stones.
The riots were the outgroWth of
a demonstration at the university
IN sympathy with the German stu
dents at Prague, whom Czechs at
tackled in seeking to regain the an
cient charter of Prague university,
now split into two institutions, one
German, the other Czech.
After trying unsuccessfully to
reach the Czech legation, the de-
monstrators marched through the
city shouting vengeance for
Prague" They also shouted anti
Jewish epithets and sang Deutch-
land Ueber Allies, the German Ma
tional anthem.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27

wake him up. But we can eat a
little Of the cake and when he op-
ems his eyes we'll tell him. He
won't Care.'
The two little bunny girls began
nibbling at the big cake. They
nibbled and nibbled and nibbled.
And the cake was SO good, that be-
fore they kneV it, they had nib
bled a hole init large enough for
them to hop in and sit there, still
nibbling All of a sudden Uncle
Wiggily awakened. He didn't see
the hole in his cake where Bunty
and Jingle were hiding. But as
the bunny gentleman lifted up the
cake, out fell the little rabbit girls
on the leaves.
"Oh, my goodness > cried Mr..
Longears. What funny thing to
do!D
But he forgave them and they all
hoped home together. And if the
postage stamp doesn't jump off the
letter and 60 swimming with the
canary, I'll tell you next about
Uncle Wiggily's Thanksgiving.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27
BEDTIME STORIES
ID z. GARRIS
By HOWARD z. GARRIS
Copyright, 1884 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicste)

maybe he won't want to cut the
big cake now. He may want to
save it and cut it at the table. -
"'Well, anyhow we can ask him, >
said Bunty
Eyes" said Jingle, 1--WE can do
that
So the two little rabbit girls
started to hop through the woods
where, a little while before. Uncle
Wiggily had hopped on his way to
the bakery to get big Thanksgiv-
ing cake.
- want the largest cake you
have said the RABBIT gentleman.
II want it for Thanksgiving. My
wife and Nurse Jane have enough
to do without making a cake. SO
I'll buy one.''
Here you are, Mr.. Longears, 3"
said the jolly old bear gentleman
who owned the bakery. This is
the largest and finest Thanksgiv-
ing cake I ever baked. You can
buy this one and take it home with
you
Truly it was a wonderful and big
cake. 1t had chocolate icing on,
and lemon frosting and orange
slices and vanilla icing and it was
sprinkled with cocoanut and in
side were carrots, nuts and custard
and all manner Of good things. Oh,