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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03

But open resistance broke out.
Communists and militant members
in Local giving leadership to the
militant rank and file famed the
indignation of the workers until 1t
flared out in open defiance. of
Breach and his gangster officials.
Breach and his henchmen became
hysterical. The honest men demand
ing an accounting of funds and a
halt to the tremendous graft were
called union destroyers, "lunatics.
But this was not strong enough
Breach consulted with one of his
most trusted ieutenants, a man
named Jennings, who was an adj
mitted partner in st. Louis stool
pigeon agency. Jennings was in
terested in labor" papers, Tabor in
Surance, estimating bureaus for the
bosses, and horse races. They found
the word that would nail the oppo-
sition group and that word was Ia
Dor SPIES
And in the June, 1882, issue of the
Journal of Electrical Workers, Breach
splashed his ridiculously concocted
proof that these fighting workers
were sent in to destroy the union.
He reprinted a letter from fic-
titious spy company to its supposed
agents in Local and this is what
it saif
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
.CWA, City Officials
Fire Striking New
York Park Workers
Summon Police to Order
Workers Out of
Parks

NEW YoRK-City and federal
government officials collaborated
yesterday in stTikebreaking activi-
ties OF the C.W.A. officials by whole
sale firing of C.w.A. workers who
have struck on the job. Under the
pretext Of increasing the efficiency
Of the C.WA. work, those remaining
on park projects, Yariously put at
$1,000 to $4,000 by the C.W.A. Off
Gals, are being speeded up, and the
threat Of immediate dismissal held
over them.
Park Commissioner Robert Moses.
LaGuardia appointee with q sal
airy of s10,84o a year, first character
lied the laid-off workers as ''loafers. -
Later, in justifying the wholesale fir
ing at Coopers Park OF 1876 workers,
who laid down their tools when the
administration placed a driving
supervisor over them, virtually ad-
nlitted that the men we're fired for
no other reason than their having
gone on strike. When the workers
refused to leave the job, and started
to picket the park, scores of police
we're summoned to eject the workers
forcibly from the park.
On Wednesday, investigators" as
the C.WA. dubs, them, a special detail
OF spies and stool-pigeons, swept
down on Vanderveer Park, and, act
ing under the orders of Moses and
C.w.A.. Administrator De Lamater,
fired 66 workers. In this instance,
also, Moses levelled the charge of
'loafersp against the workers to JUS
tify the firing.
At Marine Park, spies were placed
on the cupola Of the old Whitney
mansion 20 spy on the workers, who
during the extremely cold weather,
have been forced to leave the work
for a few moments in order to get
warm.
No provision is made for the men
during the extremely cold weather
When recently the temperature no.
yered near the zero mark, the men
were forced to burn shovel handles
in order to keep warm. This was one
of the reasons given for firing the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
400 Shoe Workers
Strike in Centralia
Vote W alkout Despite
Threat of Penalty
by ALL. Heads

CHICAGO, Il.-Four hundred and
fifty shoe workers of Barnes Shoe
Company in Centralia, Illinois, went
out on strike Tuesday. All are men,
bers of the Boot and Shoe Workers
Union of the A. F. of L. local 542.
The strike was brought about by
the failure of the company to dis
miss Walter K. Karlin, foreman in
the Cutting Department on the 3rd
floor, whom the workers term as a
"beast and slave-driver." The chief
of police, state troopers, the sheriff
and the superintendent, L. H. Vor-
werk, together with the officials of
the Boot and Shoe, Harry H. Phil
lips, business manager of the Boot
and Shoe Union, declared the strike
is wild cat strike"
Notwithstanding the threat of
penalizing the membership by the
Boot and Shoe officials, the workers
unanimously voted to strike. The
charter of the local union has al
ready been revoked by the officials.
The assistant business agent,
Sloan, from st. Louis, has been dis
patched to help Harry H. Phillips
and the company officials to smash
the hundred per cent strike. Mass
picketing is carried on "a hours of
the day.
On the second day of the strike,
a detachment of ten State highway
police from Effingham district were
summoned to help the local police in
their efforts to break the strike.
Union officials with the local police
and the superintendent endeavored
to smuggle in half dozen strike
breakers, with no result. The work.
ers, through mass picketing beat
back the scabs. Only company Off
Gals and few foremen remained in
the plant.
Several arrests have taken place.
The local branch of the International
Labor Defense has offered it's serv-
ices in aiding the arrested workers
and are actively participating in the
strike.
The usual threat of moving out of
town has been made by Harry B.
Johansen, a stakeholder and director
of the company. The workers, know
ing such practices in strikes, scott
at this threat.
Representatives of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the Shoe
and Leather Workers Industrial
Union have been sent to Centralia to
offer assistance in the winning of
the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Ohio Miner Arrested
at Lenin Memorial to
Be Tried Wednesday

YORKVILLE, Ohio, Feb. 1.-Victor
Broucke, militant coal miner, who
was arrested while presiding at the
Lenin Memorial meeting here on Jan
81, has been held over for trial on
Feb. 6.
Two deputy sheriffs and the town
marshal broke into the Lenin Mem
crial meeting and arrested Broucke
and John Marshall, well known farm
leader in this state who was the
principal speaker. The police later
released Marshall, but held Broucke
on $500 bail.
Steps are being taken to mobilize
the miners and steel workers in this
territory to jam the courtroom at the
trial and demand the release OF
Broucke and the right to hold meet
ings without interference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
AL Signed Agreement
Not to Organize
Workers
BY A. S. PASCUAL

NEW YORK. - Bribery is
one of the means by which
huge industries control and
manipulate American Fedora
ton of Labor officials to the
end of beheading the American
working class movement.
For ten years the New York Edison
Company has remained unorganized.
Local 3 of the Electrical Workers
Brotherhood. with total organizing
fund of $7,500,000, operated in this
city. Yet Edison Co. was permitted
with the complete acquiescence of the
A. F. of L. grafters, to form COM
pany union.
And the reason is that In 1924
International officers and the cor
rupt administration of Local
signed an agreement with the
powerful Edison Co. never to or
ganize their workers.
Gangsters, lawyers, politicians and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Secure Bigger Hall
for "FrOliC" to Aid
Harlem LiberatOr
Advance Sale of Tickets
Indicates Huge
Attendance

NEW YORK.-The Harlem Lib
orator" Mid-winter Frolic. this Sat
urday evening, will be held at the
Lido Pool ballroom and not as orig
inaIly scheduled at the Dunbar Pal
ace, it was announced yesterday. The
change in halls was necessitated by
the large demand for tickets. the
committee reported The Lido Pool
ballroom is located at 146th st. and
Seventh Ave.
An excellent program has been ar
ranged, including a group from the
Theatre Of Action. Jonn Bovington,
poet-dancer; Georgette Harvey in
Negro spirituals and folk songs.
Dance music will be furnished by
Danny Logan and his Louisiana
Stompers. Admission is 40 cents.
All workers are urged to support
the affair which is being held to raise
funds for the Harlem Liberator," Of
fetal orga nof the League Of Struggle
for Negro Rights
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
WHAT'S ON

$50 Dollar and What it Means TO the Work
ing Class" Adm. free.
EDUCATIONAL Committee Film and Photo
League meets at new headquarters, u z.
18th st. at 2:30 pm.
LID. Chorus meets at Brighton Workers
Club. Brighton Beach and coney Island Ave.
l pm. All welcome.
THE PRESENT World Situation" lecture
by Murray Blynn at Two. Center. s2s E.
18th st., $50 pm. Unity Br. TWO
Philadelphia, Pa.
PARTY. herring and potatoes, Saturday,
Feb. 3, at 8 pm. Given by the Workers
Club of Strawberry Mansion, 2014 N. SIND st
SOCCER Game between the Dynamo Soc
Ger Team Of Workers Club Of Strawberry
Manion and the Nature Friends Team, Sun
day, pm. at Soth Lehigh Ave.
OUR REGULAR Open Forum. Sunday, al
4 pm. Auspices Workers Cultural and Sports
Club, 2014 N. Sind st.
DANCE Sunday night at Workers Club
2o14 N 32nd st. Good music and novelty
program.
THE SECOND ANNUAL Bazaar Of tbs
United Workers Org. and C.P. Of West Phil
adelphia on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. q
and rs at 1137 N. 41st st. Good program
arranged. Many valuable things for sale.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
HILL BRANCH LsNR. open Forum or
Sunday, Feb. 4, at 2:30 pm. Jack Hardy
lecture on when the Negro People RULED
the South The History of the Reconstruc-
ton Period. Monumental Baptist Church
2240 Wylis Ave.
Newark
MASQUERADE BALL and Dance given By
Freiheit Geslngs Farein on Saturday, Feb ;
at Y.M.H. Club, 5l4 Clinton Ave. Adm. 35c
Boston, Mass.
MARINE DANCE and Entertainment al
Paradise Gardens, 2 Central So, Cambridge
on Saturday, Feb. at pm. Auspices
Marine Workers Ind Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Alliance of 1000
Workers, Farmers
Hit ITALIA Arrest
Working Women's Clubs
Demand Release of
Farm Leader

CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 1.-THE Work
ers and Farmers Cooperative Unity
Alliance, an organization of 1000
farmers, with headquarter at Supe-
rior, Wis, has just issued a strong
protest to Sheriff Harley Person of
Kosciusko County against the arrest
and imprisonment of Alfred Tiala,
National Secretary of the United
Farmers League, Mrs. Tiala and Jesse
Ham, These three militant farm
leaders were arrested on Jan. 20 for
leading thousands of farmers in
struggle against the forced sale of
the farm of Clarence Gearhart Of
Leesyille, Ind.
1.-THE arrest of these three militant
farmers is an attack upon the Amer
Jean agricultural population" states
the protest signed by Walter Harju,
executive secretary of the Alliance.
1--WE demand the immediate release
Of Alfred Tiala, his wife, Mrs. Tiala
and Jesse Ham, and the dismissal
Of any charges against them. We
further demand that all evictions of
farmers in your county be imme-
diately stopped.
'We are appealing to the whole
cooperative movement to organize a
protest against your arbitrary action"
The National Office OF the United
Farmers League at 1877 South LOOMS
Street, Chicago, reports that protests
against the arrest of the militant
farmers are pouring in very fast from
all over the country, from c. w. A
workers and from Working Women's
Clubs in various parts of the coun-
try.
Held on Bail
ITALIA his wife, and Ham are be-
ing held on $4,000 bail in Michigan
City to prevent their being freed by
the enraged farmers who gathered
in thousands to demand their release.
Protest kilograms to the Sheriff of
Warsaw, Ind, and copies sent to the
United Farmers League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Anti-Nazi Meeting
in Philadelphia Sat.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. Am anti
fascist demonstration, organized by
German anti-Nazi organizations in
this city. will be held at the Ken
sington Labor Lyceum, Second and
Cambria Sts., tonight. The meeting
will also commemorate the death of
Liebknecht, Luxembourg and Lenin.
All anti-fascists are urged to at
tend the demonstration and support
the worldwide mass fight for the re-
lease of the four acquitted" Reich
stag defendants and the tens of thou
sands Of revolutionary workers in the
concentration camps in Nazi Ger
many. The demonstration will pro-
test the police attack last Monday
on workers holding a counter DEM
onstration against a celebration by
the New Friends of Germany of the
first anniversary of the Hitler MUIR
der regime.
Among the speakers will be a men,
Der of the District Executive Com
mittee of the Communist Party
which is vigorously supporting the
demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Oregon Workers
Fight Lynch Verde
Elects ID ele CATION /,
Take Demands to the
Governor of Oregon

PORTLAND, Feb. 2. A Jorda
Anti-Lynhcing Committee Of Is va
elected at the Save Theodore Jordal
Statewide Anti-Lynching Confer
ence' held here. The conferenc
voted proposals for an intens!y,
struggle, climaxed by a march O,
Salem, Feb. IA, to demand Of the gov,
ernor and the Oregon State Suprem,
Court that re-hearing Of the Jordan
case be granted The Salem deiega.
ton TO the conference pledged t.
pack the Supreme Court, FEB. Is
when the petition will be heard.
The conference was attended BIZ
102 delegates, representing s0,OOe
workers, farmers and intellectuals Ia
nearly 80 organizations.
Belle Taub OF the International
Labor Defense described how the
Southern Pacific Railway Company
bosses, through the courts which they
control, were attempting to put over
legal lynching Of Theodore Jordan.
She concretely exposed the trame-up
Of Jordan for the murder Of a rail-
way detective, his farcical trial, this
forced confession extorted by police
third degree methods, and Jordan's
betrayal by the leadership Of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment Of Colored People.
Reve1s Clayton, District Organizes
Of the I. L. D, stressed the brutal
lynching terror raging throughout
the country, the increasing attacks
on the working -claSs under the New
Deal,'' directed with special sharpness
against the Negro masses. He de-
scribed the Jordan case, the struggled
of the workers in the Northwest, the
use Of organized terror against them
in the Anacortes, Frandsen, Yakima
cases. He called for mas support fc.
Ray Becker, last OF the CentYalis
prisoners remaining In JAIL
Delegates of Reed College students
pledged themselves to bring the Jox-
dan case before the student body. Rev
Akerman urged the conference 10 re-
quest that all churches, having ass
aside Sunday, Feb. II, as Race Reia~
tons Day, make the Jordan frame-ur
their main issue.
A mass rally, held Ia the sans
hall in the evening. was attended b
over 500 white and Negro workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
tspeciaI to the Daily Workerl

ASRSNAe~A w VIZ LsNhy fFOAhNAt
MOSCOW, US.SR., Feb. All
Moscow was decorated with flags of
mourning today as the bodies of the
three Soviet scientists who died when
their stratosphere balloon crashed to
earth arrived here.
A Soviet Government commission,
under the Craftsmanship of Kisselew,
secretary of the Central Executive
| Committee of the Soviet Union, was
formed to assume charge of the
funeral Of the persisted heroes of the
stratosphere.
The urns containing the ashes of
the three scientists will be placed in
the building Of the Central Executive
Committee Of the U.S.S.R., which will
be opened to the public. The funeral
procession will take place on the Red
Square.
Equipment SaIvaged
The results of the work of the Com
mission dispatched Immediately after
the tragedy to the scene of the dis
aster were published today. The re-
port ascertained that although part
Of the plotting and scientific instru-
mentS of the balloon had been shat
tered, the other part was only partly
damaged. The notes of the three
participants in the fight, as well as
the Paragraph, which registered the
records, were found fully intact.
The commission has established the
fact that the stratostat reached an
altitude of 72,178 feet d3.67 miles, in
stead of the 67,585 feet previously re-
ported. This height was reached at
IL o'clock, and maintained until 12:45,
after which the balloon started to
descend.
Notes Kept Regularly
The notes were kept regularly in the
journal The last notes entered we're
at 1910 (4:10 am, our tirne). This
time the Commission considers the
beginning Of the disaster. The baro-
graph ceased working at 1921, and
the hands of Vasenko's watch stopped
from shock at 1928. Upon inquiry,
all witnesses stated that the time
when the gondola fell was a number
of minutes past Is o'clock.
The commission report went on to
state that "the cause of the disaster
was the excessive progressive &C
celeration of the descent of the stra-
tostat, evidently provoking a rupture
of the parts, and a breach in the
equilibrium of the whole system, as
result Of which the gondola, tear
ing itself away from the envelope, was
dashed against the earth. It is es-
tablished that the participants of the
flight persisted as a result of this
shock.
No Signs of Freezing
mo signs whatever we're found of
any freezing of the envelope and gon-
dola. Thus the radiogram received
by a radio amateur near Homel, re-
porting the freezing of the stratostat,
was unfounded.
"All notes remaining intact show
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Organizers Use Special
Funds for Own
Expenses
American Finance Industrial In

American Finance Industrial In
vestigation Co.
Dear Sirs:
"You operators and contact men
must use secret signs in writing to
headquarters. When you see each
other in the street make believe that
you eoss't know each other. Secret
instructions XYZ will be sent to you
tomorrow. Contact men 4, S, and
and to, work closely under the in
structions Of our special operator
No. 10.
"You are instructed to make so
much trouble SO that the officers
will use chairs, blackjacks and knives
against you. Support every man who
runs against them in the election, for
they are all on our payroll, just like
you. We are sending big shipment
OF money as we did the last time.
Signed: G. EDGAR APPLICABLE"
This stupid forgery convinced the
administration but none of the work
ers. 1t served to redouble, the eff
. forts of the opposition group until
in 1888, militant mass pressure forced
Breach to hand in his resignation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03

master science. And he, hero of
the civil war, sat over his books and
drawings, and became an engineer
and constructor Of dirigibles. For
many years he was occupied with the
problems of flights into the strato-
sphere.
"Vasenko was an engineers son. In
1918, as an 18-year-old youth, he
joined the Red Army as volunteer,
and returning from the civil war gave
himself entirely to scientific work in
aviation.
All Active in Osoaviakhim
"All three comrades were active
members of Osoayiakhim. With great
intensity, the support and active par
ticipation of wide circles of workers
and the scientific technical public of
Leningrad, they worked at making
and mastering the stratostat. With
great elaborateness, continually per-
fecting the equipment of the strato-
stat, these comrades prepared for a
new conquest Of the stratosphcre. In
the course Of this. they attentiveiy
studied the experience of the flight
of the stratostat "US.S.R." from
every angle.
Their cheerful and confident mood
Gid not leave these comrades for a
moment. This gave firm assurance
that the heroic crew would honorably
fulfill their task, regardless OF the
difficulties - the complexity arising
from the winter conditions, etc.
First Winter Conquest
TN this regard, the flight was the
first in history to conquer the stra-
tosphere in winter No one expected
that disaster would tear these heroic
stratospherists from our ranks.
1.-THE Soviet Union and the 18th
Party Congress recsived the sad news
with much pain, and decided TO bury
the remains of these courageous con-
querors Of the upper atmosphere in
the Kremlin Wall, III which are placed
for their last rest the best fighters
for socialism.
To Rest lin Kremlin Wall
"Their place issrightly in the Krem-
lin Wall: they were flesh of the flesh
OF the October generation of builders
Of socialism. These comrades wrote
a new and brilliant page into the his
tory of the struggle of humanity with
nature. Their names will remain
alongside the names Of the greatest
heroes of science and technique, who
gave. their lives in the struggle TO
master science and technique.
1.-THE best monument to our persisted
comrades can only be further per-
sistent and self-sacrificing work on
the part Of fighters for Soviet science
and technique to master the strato-
sphere"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Yonkers City Employees
Unpaid for Fifth Month

YONKERS, N. Y-Teachers, city
clerical workers, policemen and fire.
men here, who have not been paid
in five months, again went unpaid
when the city officials refused to
meet the 100000 payroll. The UNI
paid employees were given q is per
cent wage cut on the first of the
years. Police and firemen have re-
fused to accept the cut.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-21

a broad strike committee, because
such committee would make it
very difficult for them to sign an
agreement with the employers be-
hind the backs of the workers. The
Communist and the class-conSciou
elements must expose such leaders
and must isolate them from the
rank and file workers. Isolation of
such leaders makes it difficult for
these leaders to sell out the strike.
A broad strike committee, elected by
the rank and file and controlled by
the rank and file through daily re-
ports, is the best security for an
honest leadership. All those oppos-
ing such tactics during a strike are
enemies of the striking workers, and
must be, therefore, exposed even
during the period of the strike.
Your next question is what line
of action shall the rank and file
follow in order to win the strike
and depose their false leaders?"
Besides the aforementioned strike
committee, elected by the rank and
file, a call should be issued to all
workers engaged in the industry,
irrespective of their organizational
utilization, for united action in the
strike; an agreement to be signed
only after the majority of the
strikers have voted in favor Of it.
Moreover, the Communist and
other class-conscious workers must
see to it that the demands which
are made are correct demands; de-
mandS which have a basis in actual
fact and reflect the real immediate
needs of the workers, and will
arouse the greatest fighting enthu-
siaSrn in the whole rank and file.
The rank and file members in the
I. L. A. local unions should fight
for rank and file control, for trade
union democracy, against racketeer-
ing and gangsterism, for dues ex-
emption for Their unemployed mem
bers, no discrimination against rank
and file workers and for joint &C
ton in strikes with the Marine
Workers Industrial Union and the
right of the workers to belong to
unions of their own choosing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-21
By a Worker Correspondent

WILMINGTON, Del. - Delaware
has not seen depression" the United
States Regional director for Fed
eral Relief has made the above en-
Tightening statement, and further
adds that Delaware must Ego the
limit" before expecting Federal aid,
which means that the workers of
Delaware will be forced to dig down
to their very slim pockets and make
up the relief fund for their less
fortunate neighbors, as has hap
pened before. In addition to the
slashing of wages, lengthening Of
hours, and rising cost of living,
those who are still employed will
be forced to contribute willingly
from their meagre pay envelopes.
1t is true that the Delaware bosses
have seen no depression, for it has
not been so very long ago that Della
ware declared it had the greatest
surplus in its treasury Of any state
in the Union. Nor have the Du
Points and their satellites seen the
depression, but the people Of Della
ware, the great masses of workers
and farmers, have not only seen and