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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
N. Y. Anti-Nazi
Conference May 5
To Mobilize All Forces
Against Fascism

NEW YORK. Many organizations
in and near New York City have
already sent in their credentials for
the United Anti-Nazi Conference to
be held Saturday, May 5, at II noon,
at Irving Plaza Hall.
The May 5th conference will take
up specifically the question of or
ganizing all anti-Nazi forces in New
York so that a really effective cam
paign can be carried on to stop all
Nazi activities in this country and
raise funds to aid Hitler victims.
Among the organizations sending
in credentials are the Womens In
ternational League for Peace and
Freedom, Bnai Raphael Society,
Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit
Society, several benevolent societies,
several locals of the Amalgamated
Food Workers, several teachers or
CARNATIONS, Workmen's Circle, In
ternational Workers Order, Nature
Friends, Metal Workers Union and
scores of others.
Among the speakers at the con-
ference will be James Waterman
Wise, who will speak on "Nazism
and the jew" Anna Schultz, who
will speak on the question of Womer
and Fascism and War, and othe,
outstanding speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Diplomacy Is
Mask For War
Move In China
CLOSED Incident" Says
Washington, But Opens
Naval Arms Race

TOXIC, May 2.-The provocative
American note, declaring that the
Roosevelt government will go to any
lengths to preserve the American
bankers interests in China, is in
creasing the war spirit in Japan.
Foerign Minister Koki Hirota said
he may reply to the United States
declaration today.
japanese militarists are stirring
up resentment against Secretary
Hulls declaration of Wall Streets
policy in China. In the press they
state they consider the American
note as interference in Oriental
affairs"
Recognizing the American note
as a threat of military action to
bolster up American capitalists
plans for militarization in China
and extension of markets, virtual
war council was called by Emperor
Hirohito. Many leading militarists
we're called, including Prin e
Saionji, the "elder statesman" who
is the closest advisor Of the en-
peror on such matters. Saionji is
rarely called in except when major
policies Of Japanese imperialism are
involved.
WASHINGTON, May ar h
State Department announced that
it would consider the change of
notes on the Far Eastern situation
"a closed incident" unless another
communication is received from the
Japanese Foreign Minister Hirota.
That the incident is not so closed
is seen in the increased war prep
arations ordered by Roosevelt,
especially the intensified building
of warShips.
Nothing can be gained by further
discussion, was the State Depart
ments opinion, which means thai
action, in the matter of war prep
arations and war alliances, is the
next step, with actual warfare I'M
minent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03

"If we do not unite our forces
against our common class enemy,
we will both go down in defeat be-
fore the monster of Fascist reac-
ton. Yet on May Day, we who
belong together are separated"
Who is responsible for this crime?
I thought of the words of our
great working class hero, George
Dimitroff, who wrote only three days
ago in an appeal written especially
to the Daily Worker:
Millions of Social Democratic
workers, under the blows of events
in Germany and Austria, now
stand at the crossroads, they
have lost confidence in the cor
rectness of the path of social-de-
mOcracy, the path of the Second
International, but have not yet
sufficient confidence in the cor
rectness of the Communist path,
the path of the Communist In
ternational.
"a wall of distruSt, condemna-
nation and prejudice, separates
these OciaI-democratic workers
from their Communist class
brothers. Social Democracy and
the bourgeoisie speculate on this.
Fascism builds its hopes upon it.
The wall must be shattered to its
foundations in order to realize
the revolutionary unity of the
working class.
"The key TO the successful strug-
giles against fascism guaranteeing
the victory of the proIetariat over
the bourgeois, really lies here"
And yesterday, standing near the
speakers stand in Madison Square.
I repeated to myself, Eyes, the key
to the successful struggle against
Fascism that will guarantee the
victory of the proletariat over the
bourgeois really lies here"
WHAT is a united front? Does it
" mean the uniting Of two groups
on a common platform merging
nto new organization?
Does it mean that the Communists
have to become Socialists and the
Communists? No, it does
not mean that. That would not be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
May Raises Burning Question of Fight for Working Glass Unity

right here and now for such
demands as were listed above by
the United Front May Day Com
mittee.
The strategy of Social-Democ-
racy all over the world is to
split the Socialist workers away
from the Communist workers
through the tactic of choosing some
lesser evil'' in the form of a
temporary" coalition with some
better type" of capitalist. In Ger
many the Socialist leaders de-
nounced the Communists for
splitting" the German working
class away-from what? From
voting for Hindenberg, the Fas-
cist-militarist!
1t is the Socialist leaders who
stand in the way of the working
class United front. This united
front cannot be won unless the
influence of these leaders is
broken.
The fight against Wall Street,
against the advancing tide of
American Fascism, against the i'm
minent menace of imperialist war
against the whole Wall Street
drive that is beating the masses
down into tee swamps of misery
and hunger, will be surely de-
feated if we do not weld the work.
ing class united front
"The Fascists speculate on the
wall of distrust and suspicion
that has been built up between
the Socialist and Communist
workers." Dimitroff says truly.
And this gives the full measure
0! the crime of the Socialist
Party leaders who build and seek
to raise this wall higher. For
it is this which permits the iron
wedge of Fascism to move for
ward.
This May Day disunity must
never again be repeated. 1t is a
crime. Every worker knows and
feels that is a crime, a crime for
which the Socialist leaders are re-
sponsible. No OBSTACLE must stop
the fight for unity, for united front
of the working class. 1t requires
patient, skill, persistence. But 1t is
INDISPENSABLE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Continued from Page y

here with the Nazi incendiary act
in burning down the big meeting
hall at Augsburg. Seventy-three
workers, accused of being Commu-
nists, were arrested throughout Ba-
varia, and severely beaten and tor
tured by the Nazis, who set fire to
the building as they did the Reich
stag.
An inquiry here held by the Nazis
declared it could not ascertain
whether the fire, which Quilted the
structure within an hour, was laid
purposely or was due to spontane-
GUS combustion"
At first the Nazis blamed the
Communists. They are now talking
about spontaneous combustion" in
order to hide their own criminal
deed. The fire started simultane-
ously in five different places and
burned the hall capable of seating
5000 to the ground in one hour.
VIENNA, Austria. May 2.-Numer-
Gus May Day meetings and demon
STATIONS we're held throughout Fas-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03

3. For immediate cash relief.
4. Against compulsory arbitra-
ton, for the right to strike,
against company unions, for the
right to organize, for recognition
Of the union of the workers
choice.
5. For equality for the Negro
toiIer; against all forms of dis
elimination, for the right to all
jobs at equal pay.
s. Against Fascism.
I. For solidarity with the Ger
man workers, for the freedom of
ThaeImann and all anti-Fascist
fighters in the Nazi torture cham
bers.
8. Against imperialist war, for
the defense of the Soviet Union
and Soviet China.
These were the demands upon
which the Socialist and trade
union groups were invited to hold a
Joint united front demonstration.
Is there one Of these demands
that does not meet with the
wholehearted support of every
Socialist worker? Is there one of
these demands that cannot find
the approval of any person inter
ested in getting the workers an
immediate rise in their living
standards, interested in carrying
forward the fight against the
Wall Street and world capitalist
offensive? These are not Com
munist demands" These are the
basic, immediate demands Of the
working class movement through
out the capitalist world. Every
class conscious worker is ready to
fight for them.
Yet the Socialist workers were
separated from the Communist
workers. The Socialist leaders re-
fused to accept these demands, re-
fused to permit their" workers to
stay in Union Square side by side
with Communist workers demon
strating for these basic demands.
Don't the Socialist leaders want
to fight for these demands. But in
their speeches, they say they do
Why, then, did they separate the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03

Socialist workers from the Com
munist on May Day?
AT Madison Square, Norman
n Thomas flung jibe at the
Communist meeting in Union
Square, calling it a fractional meet
ing" This was strange, seeing that
the Union Square demonstration
was more than twice the size of the
Madison Square meeting.
The Socialist leaders justify their
splitting by every kind of devious
charge and theory. They accuse
the Communists of dad faith" of
lack of honest good will" This is,
for example, what Norman Thomas
said at Madison Square yesterday.
They say the Communists abuse
the Socialists with name-calling. !"
They say the Communists want to
run the whole show for them
selves" They say the Communists
attack" the Socialist leaders, ETC.,
etc. There are many other reasons
they give.
None of these has any basis in
fact. The Communists have never
broken one single united front pact.
On the contrary, it was shown in
the recent Tom Mooney and Anti
War Congresses that it is the So
cialists who broke their united
front agreements with the most
brazen bad faith
But the real heart of the So
cialist leaders fear of the United
Front on the very issue they
claim to be fighting for is the fact
that the Communists openly and
publicly criticize the policies of
the Socialist leadership. When we
criticize their policies they call it
name calling" But it is the criti-
cism that they are afraid Of.
Does a United Front do away
with all discussion, with all criti-
cism? Such united front would
be nothing but dead, tyrannical
yoke on the development of the
very struggle it was ostensibly
called for.
If one of the parties to united
front agreement fails to fight for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03

the detectives of the united front
it is the duty OF all the other
groups TO subject that group to
the most open criticism. That is
the only way the fight can be
carried forward.
The Socialist and Communist
workers have serious differences
on many questions. 1t would be
foolish not to recognize this.
But these differences can only be
resolved in the most comradely
discussion, in common struggle
for certain specific detectives, in
the give and take of frank, open
discussion. Where there is no
democratic discussion of vital is
sues, there can be no clarifica-
ton or progress. The United
front is the most powerful wea-
pom for just this discussion, this
Qualification, that there is avail
able to the working class.
In the fight for the Issues listed
above the Socialist and Commu-
mist workers belong side by side.
Only in this way can they forge
the true weapons for their strug-
gle against capitalism.
But the Socialist leaders object
to this discussion, this criticism.
Upon every conceivable pretext
they try to escape it. Pick up any
issue of the New Leader or the
Jewish Daily Forward, and you
will find in it some utterance on
"how impossible" it is to discuss
with Communists, on how "use-
less" it is, ETC.,
The right TO criticize is basic
to a united front. The Socialist
leaders have the same right as
anyone else. Why are they fear
full of exercising it? Why do they
fear the give and take of open
discussion before their own"
workers?
TO CELEBRATE May Day, to
L talk eIoquently of the CO.
operative commonwealth and the
new social order, as the Socialist
speakers do, is meaningless un-
less one puts up a stiff fight
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
5000 Paris Workers Fight
OF Fascist Police attacks

means of a police airpane securing
the countryside on the lookout for
demonstrations which could not be
discovered by the regular police
force and Heimwehr.
Prince Won Stahremberg, who led
the Heimwehr troops in shooting
down workers last February, on May
Day, was made Minister of Public
Security, in charge of police and
other armed forces.
MADRID, Spain, May Zone
worker was killed May Day, and
three seriously wounded by police at
Fuente del Maestro in Badajoz Prov
ince. Civile guards, the hated re-
dictionary police, attempted to break
up a Communist demonstration. The
workers resisted bravely but were
met with gunfire.
OVIEDO, Spain, May Eleven
workers were injured when the Civile
guards attacked a demonstration of
Communist and Socialist workers.
A group Of workers in retaliation
massed at the fascist headquarters
Of Popular Action and wrecked it.
BOMBAY, India, May 2.-Run-
dreds of workers suffered injuries
yesterday throughout India wher
/ they bravely attempted to hold a
May Day demonstration and express
their international solidarity. Al
Delhi, the most militant demonstra-
ton took place. More than 100 work
ers were sent to the hospital. Police
in Bombay viciously attacked a May
Day demonstration with their long
slaves.
LONDON, May "A May Day
parade to Hyde Park and demon
stration was held here yesterday. A
resolution was passed demanding the
withdrawal of the governments I'M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03

united front. That would be q
merger, a disappearance of the old
groups and the consolidation of a
new one.
A united front takes place when
two groups with different platforms
agree to get together on certain
limited, specific demands upon
which they can both agree, without
giving up their broader, funda-
mental platforms.
For example, Socialist workers
have one idea of how to fight for
Socialism, Communists another
But they can form united front
against a wage cut, against Fascism,
against imperialist war, for more
relief, for unemployment insurance,
| etc.
The united front is the acid test
of the sincerity of any groups in
tentions. A group may talk its
head off on fighting against wage
cuts, against Fascism and war. But
| if it sabotages any effort to form
united fronts on these questions its
claims are proven to be hollow and
hypocritical.
WHY, then, was there no united
W front of Socialist and Commu-
MIST workers on May Day on the
fundamental needs Of the working
class, against imperialist war and
fascism, against wage cuts, against
any reduction in the standards of
living of the masses, and for I'M
employment insurance? All work.
ers, Socialist and Communist, agree
on these questions, at least as far
as favoring them or opposing them
is concerned. Why then this ter
rible split in the ranks Of the work
ers on May Day?
The United Front May Day
Committee urged and invited a
united Union Square demcnstra-
ton on the following minimum
demands:
/. Higher wages and shorter
hours.
2. For the passage Of the Work
ers' Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill III. r. 1881.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
By MILTON HOWARD

IT WAS strange. The Socialist
workers hate Fascism. The
Communist workers hate Fas-
cism. The Socialist workers
hate capitalist exploitation
and wage cuts, as well as the Com
nunist workers.
They both are flesh and blood Of
the working class, the class that
alone can lead the fight for the
smashing of capitalism and the
building Of Socialism.
And yet these two groups of
workers were celebrating the great
day of working-cla solidarity in
separate meetings, one in Union
Square. the other in Madison
Square.
Yet on May Day the united
front of the working class, the
united front with which we should
have confronted the Wall Street
masters, was broken. This was
a crime against the working class,
whose results, if not corrected in
time, will cost the working class
Of America heavy penalties when
the ruling class enemy let's loose
It's Fascist gangsters.
I looked about me at Madison
Square, at these workers, Socialist
and trade union, cut off from the
Immense power that was beating
through the masses at Union
Square, segregated by the orders
of their leaders from their class
comrades at the Square whose name
Is rich with the history Of prole-
tartan demonstration.
All around me were Socialist
workers. These are my class
brothers." I thought. I'VE are
the ones who feel the weight of
capitalist exploitation. We are the
1nes who will smash this system.
And vet these workers look upon
me with suspicion, with enmity be-
cause l am Communist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03

employment bill and the new sedi-
ton bill, calling for a united front
against fascism and war The chief
speakers at Hyde Park we're Tom
Mann and Harry Pollit, Communist
leaders awaiting trial for "sedition"
for speeches at the recent Hunger
March, James Maxton and John
McGovern.
A red flag was nailed to the 130-
foot flagpole on Eastman Hown Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03

cist Austria. The
largest was in
a forest n ar
Vienna, W ere
1000 men and
women massed
to declare their
intern a tiona !
revolu ito n ar y
solidarity, and to
m o bilize the
workers force S
for the over
+ brow of tho
Dollfuss fascist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03

regime Despite the large number
present, the government was able
to discover the meeting only by
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-09-19
CUB BEAR ANTICS

Yellowstone Park, Wyo., Sept.
15.-"Nick, the Nipper" is the
title park rangers have given to
a year-old black bear cub who
seems to have taken a proprietary
interest in the masonry curb that
marks the boundaries of the park
ing area at Artist Point near the
Yellowstone Grand Canyon. Nick
spends much of the day foot
padding from one end of the rock
rampant to the other. Visitors
standing or sitting on the wall in
Nick's path are given a gentle nip
as a reminder that they are tres
passing on his self-acquired do
main.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-09-19
HI SCHOOL CLASSES
ARRANGE FOR T
C~URRICULAR EVENTS

Carbon county high school stu
dents and faculty members at the
institution were busy during the
past week in arranging for extra
~curricular activities for the new
term.
Glee clubs at the school have all
ready been organized, it was
stated, and are meeting on Tues
days and Thursdays, with about
so girls and fifteen boys enrolled
for this work. Arrangements are
also going forward to organize a
school orchestra. Twelve students
have signed up for this school ac-
tivity, with meetings set for Tues
days and Thursdays.
Glasses in home hygiene and
first aid have been arranged for
girls, with about so students en-
tering these Instructions. Glasses
are to begin this week. Next week
it is planned to arrange for other
extra ~curricular activities and
club work and also to arrange the
school calendar for the years Soc
ial activities.
Thursday initiation of the fresh
men will take place with a social
hour following before first-year
students are started on their an
nual trek to the east bench, under
direction of the seniors, to give
the big &C" a fresh coat of white
wash.
Thursday afternoon a meeting
of all girls at the high school has
been called. Miss Edith Brown is
to give a talk on Education at
this time. Miss Brown is secre-
tary of nurses education in Mon
tana, with offices in Helena.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-09-19

A former eastern Montana girl
comes to the stage of the Iris
theatre here Thursday and Friday,
Sept. 20-21, to give personal
demonstration of her uncanny
ability of psychical analysis, mind
reading and palmistry.
She is Miss La Reina Rule
whose innate talents along these
lines have amazed hundreds of
people throughout the west. Miss
Rules showing here will be her
first in this state for the current
season and is made possible only
because she has chosen this time
for a vacation and is visiting with
her parents, who r eastern Mon
tana residents.
Miss Rule now makes her home
in Hollywood, CAL, where she en-
joys an enviable reputation as a
confidante and adviser of many
folk of the film colony and claims
as her friends such celebrities as
Cecil B. DeMille. She recently
closed an extended engagement in
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Miss Rule, who is also an or
dained minister of the Temple of
Divine Assistance at Hollywood,
answers questions pertaining to
love, mystery, or other personal
concern involving the unknown en-
tirely by p~sychical inspiration.
Members of her audience are
privileged to have one personal
question answered, either from
the stage or by interview in the
lobby, at no cost whatsoever.
Besides being a psychic of abil-
ity, the former Montana young
lady is recognized as an authority
on palmistry and is the author of
a complete cours in this subject.
She has an absorbing interest in
her work and has helped hundreds
of persons in solving difficult
individual problems.
One instance of her amazing
revelations, proof Of which is con-
tanned in the records of the Salt
Lake City police, was related here
Tuesday. 1t occurred during her
recent engagement in that city
when a Mrs. Ruby Smith of 255
East Street South, Salt Lake City,
in a private interview with Miss
Rule, asked what she could tell
about some jewelry that was
stolen two months previously. Miss
Rules answer was that the jewelry
would be found in a certain pawn
shop of that city. Mrs. Smith inn
mediately went to the establish
ment designated by Miss Rule and
sure enough, her jewelry lay in 6
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-09-19

rested at the former C. c. C. camp
at l a. m. by Sheriff Jack McFate,
gave the names of Frank 0'Shea,
John Clark and Jess Reid. All of
the men, including Wilson, are
members of a crew of % men sent
here from Laurel to dismantle the
former quarters of the Beartooth
c. C. C. contingent.
The three will answer the COM
plant, which was filed by Wilson,
at their arrangement in Justice of
the Peace E. B. Provinse's court
this afternoon.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-09-19
SILESLA
BY Dorothy Web Der


Mrs. w. K. Gibson entertained
the Community club Wednesday.
Those present included Mesdames
C. P. Barnum, S. C. Weber, Lou
Orr, Roy Reams, Clarence Wight,
Gustav Onken, Inho Onken, Erb
Loughrey, Earl Loughery, Chester
Hayworth, Grover Reams, Wiley,
| Ada Clawson, Guy Weber and
the Misses Florence Steele, Grace
Loughney, Genevieve Loughney,
Gladys Roberts and Glennes Lee
McClurg. After a business meet
ing, a lovely lunch was served by
| the hostess.
Miss Florence Steele of Laurel
was a h~ouseguest at the W. K.
Gibson home last week.
Mary Worth, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H. M. Worth, registered
as a freshman at the Billings high
school Saturday.
Mrs. Marcus Carlson and Miss
Helen Worth were Billings Wis
itors Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. F. Smith were
Laurel shoppers Saturday.
Mrs. Roy Reams called on hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Blay.
lock, at Joliet, Wednesday.
Among those who shopped il
Billings Saturday were Mr.. anC
Mrs. Clarence Wight and son
Dale, and Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Web.
Der.
Alfred and Ralph Speath anC
Tommy Clark of Billings were
dinner guests at the G. P. Barnun
home Friday. The occasion marked
Bills birthday.
Lois Weber accompanied Mrs
R. V. Wright and Jean to Billings
Saturday.
Tex Wolfe and C. P. Beriemar
have both purchased new cars
within the last week.
Mrs. Frank McClintock ant
daughter, Montana, are visiting a
Lodge Grass this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. P. Barnun
called on Mr.. and Mrs. S. G. Web
Der Saturday evening.
J. B. Convery has purchased
new REQ car.