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La gaceta., 1934-04-07

La Unione Italiana anuncia
un picnic EN- los terrenos de La
Columna para ell dia 81 de Ma
70, Tambien prepare una fiesta
en- ell mismo lugar. la Sociedad
Stella, ell dia 10 de JUNO.
La gaceta., 1934-04-07

Ell rey Gustavo de Suecia, des
cendiente de un plebeyo, de uno
de los mariscales de Napoleon,
La gaceta., 1934-04-07

Ha dicho ell Sr. EmeteriO San
tcvenia, Secretario de la Presi-
dencia en- ell gobierno del coro-
mel Mendieta, que ell DR.. Rob9r-
to Mendez Penate recomend0 al
Dr.. Carlos Manrel de la Cruz
para presidente del Consejo de
E.stado, negandose a aceptar
csc puesto, que lie fuera ofreci-
do por ell jefe de estado.
Aceptando que tai recomen-
dacion haya sido hecha per Ell
ilustre cubano que decepciona-
do decidiera matarse, ell nom
bramiento es contrario a los
principles "renovadores" de la
revoluci6n.
Els ell retornO, como dijera-
mos hace pocos dias, a la ep~>a
del menocalato y machadato,
cuando tanta Influenza desa-
rrollaba en- la vida polttica de
la Repdblics ell trio" Carlos
Miguel, Carlos Manuel y Jose
Manuel.
Hay que cumplir las prone
sas hechas al pueblo de lin
piar" para siempre, aunque aho
ra la "limpieza" debe extender-
Sc a los hombres nuevos que en-
pocos meses, por la gracia de
sus errores y ambici6n, Sc han
trocado en- "viejos" Y desacre-
ditados.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27
l,5OO Strikers
In Hartford
Win Demands
Buffalo Aero Strike l.
Solid; Stachel Is
Cheered at Meet

HARTFORD, Conn, April 90
All demands of 1900 strikers of the
Arrow-Hart and Hegeman Electric
Company were won here, and the
workers have returned to thier jobs
The strike was led by a federal
local Of the A. F. of L., and most
of the strikers were women.
Mass picketing and militancy
marked this strike which had
entered it's third week.
The 1900 workers at the Pratt &
Whitney Aircraft Corporation, and
the Hamilton Propeller are still out
on strike. A mass strike meeting
was held last night. President La
Vista, of the Industrial Aircraft
Workers of America, an independ-
ent union which is leading the
strike, reported that picketing was
weak. He called for mass picketing
saying: That is the only way tc
teach the bosses lesson. Squeeze
their pickets a little more"
Over 500 were on the aero strike
picket line this morning. Terror
against the strikers is increasing
CONTINUED on Page g.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27
Strike Spreads in
Spain as Political
Crisis Sharpens
State Of Alarm Is Pro.
Claimed; Premier
Not Yet Named

MADRID. April 26.-Spain is I'M
der state of alarm" a modified
form of martial law, with clashes
between heavily armed police and
strikers in many cities, as President
Alcala zamora is reported debating
whether to call new Cabinet to
replace that of Alexandra Lerroux,
which resigned Yesterday, or to re-
sign and precipitate new election.
General strikes are holding firm
in many cities, and are reported
most complete in Valencia and
zaragoza. Many smaller strikes are
breaking out. Farm workers outside
Valencia are reported also on strike.
Valencia streets are patrolled by
police in armored cars.
The 5000 reactionary political
prisoners freed by the Lerroux am
nesty which does not include any
worker prisoners, of whom there
are thousands in Spanish jails. are
hurrying into action, pressing for a
fascist-like solution of the political
crisis.
Jose Gil Robes. leader of the fas-
cist Popular Action" Party, was re-
ported not to wish to head gov
eminent now. considering his forces
] insufficient
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27

NEW YORK. = One of the most
powerful nationwide calls to Amer
lean workers to down tools" and
march in solid ranks in the May
Day demonstrations will be sounded
by the 24-page special May Day edi-
ton of the Daily Worker which will
be ready for mass sale and distribu-
ton tomorrow.
Special editions have been whirled
off the new Daily Worker press and
rushed through the mails SO that
distant parts of the country would
receive their copies in time for sale
and distribution this Saturday and
Sunday, April % and 20, Red Daily
Worker weekend.
For several days the staff of the
Daily" from editor in-chief to
pressmen and mailing men, have
literally been working day and night
to rush the May Day editions off
the press.
The special New York City May
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27
Arrested C. w. A. Men
To Lead Parade in
Minneapolis
PLAN MEETS IN S. C.
Penn. Miners and Steel
Workers t0Demonstrate

DETROIT, April 26.-The
real reason for denying Grand
Circus Park to the workers
was exposed today by the May
Day delegation of four that
interviewed Mayor Couzens,
Police Commissioner Heinrich
Pickert and Supt. of Police Smith
at the City Hall.
The delegation proposed Cadillac
Square which has been banned to
workers as an alternative to Circus
Park. Mayor Couzens insisted that
Cadillac Square was closed and
maintained that Grand Circus Park
was ''seeded-up." The Committee
offered to protect the seeded sec
ton Of the park. When this was
turned down, the delegation pro-
posed to set up platform imme-
diately outside Of the park, facing
Madison Avenue, broad boulevard
which can accommodate the work
ers. This was again refused by
the city officials.
The delegation left with the
statement made by Earl Reno:
I'VE want to tell you that this
is clearly a deliberate attack upon
the civil rights of the workers of
Detroit. an attempt to drive them
from the streets. We want to
tell you that we mean to fight for
CONTINUED on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27

especially the Communist Party of
Cuba.
Recently 40 revolutionary work
ers in Havana went on a hunger
strike against Mendieta's terror,
and through international working
class action won their freedom.
Machado's attempted ARREST" was
arranged like a movie scenario. No
pains were omitted to make sure
he would not be detained. Movie
camera firms were notified so they
could be present. Flat-footed Mar
shall Mulligan, charged with serv-
ing the warrant, says he "laid care
full plans, modifying a huge detec-
tive force" a la Dillinger raids.
The whereabouts of MachadO,
however, could easily be obtained
from the U. S. State Department
or from either the Chase National
Bank or the National City Bank
of New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27
May IA Rallying Point for Fight for HigherWages,
Right to Strike, Jobless Relief Says Ouergaord

traditions Of May Day as an inter-
national day of struggle which orig
mated In the United States, and
more than ever show the entire
working class the need of revolu-
tionary working class way out Of the
crisis through the overthrow Of cap
italism and the establishment Of
a Soviet Government OF America.
1t becomes the task Of the unions
to bring forward real internation-
alism of the working class in con-
nsction with May Day, showing the
tremendous rising struggle of the
German working class and the need
of the American workers to increase
the struggle for the liberation Of the
political prisoners in Germany, led
by Ernst Thaelmann, bring forth
the solidarity behind the Austrian
workers as well as the Cuban and
Filipino proletaTiat whose fight for
liberation from Yankee imperialism
is Of the greatest interest to the
American working class.
Forward to a powerful MAY Day
demonstration in New York City!
Down tools on May Day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27
"a Page ''Daiy" to Sound May
Day Call to american Workers

Day edition of the Daily" will be
ready for distribution all day to-
morrow and Sunday at the follow
ing section headquarters:
MANHATTAN: SO Ave. C, and
IS w. 25th ST.; HARLEM: II w.
115th St.; LOWER BRONX: 500
Prospect Ave.; UPPER BRONX:
2075 Clinton Ave-, and at Room 3,
Morris Park Ave-; BROOKLYN:
1872 Myrtle Ave.; 12S0-56th St.; 81
Graham Ave-; 1913 Pitkin Ave-;
JAMAICA: 1889 Liberty Ave.;
MINEOLA, L. L.: 80 Main St.;
LONG ISLAND CITY: 4206-27th
st.
The various sections have ordered
extra copies to take care of last
minute orders by individual work
ers as well as by workers organi-
cations. Report to these hesdquar-
tiers tomorrow morning for your
copies. Last minute orders will also
be taken at the District Daily
Worker office, IS E. 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27
3H2 Billion in Small
Deposits Wiped Out,
U. S. Report Admits

WASHINGTON, April 26. -
Millions of small depositors can
bid goodbye to about three and
a half billion dollars of deposits
permanently frozen" in banks
that were closed during the
hectic bank crisis last March,
the Treasury announces in the
first of official report on the
bank crisis.
The official Government re-
port finally admits more than a
year after the event that these
small deposits, representing the
meagre savings of workers, small
farmers, etc. have been COM
pletely wiped out by the bankers
and the capitalist crisis.
TIL e Roosevelt government
which has already granted
loans" of about S4,0O0,000,000 to
the banks and industrialists
through the R. F. c., and is
handing out another four billion
to guarantee mortgage invest
ments, has refused to take any
action to reimburse the plum
dered small depositors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27
1000 Tarryto,On Fisher Men
Hail Cleveland Strike Demands
Industrial Union Urges
Adoption of Militant
Demands
BY CARL REEVE

TARRYTOWN, N. Y, April 26.-
1000 Fisher Body workers crippled
the production at the Fisher Bod!
plant, Tarrytown, today, and pick
citing of the Chevrolet Plant herr
continues. The strikers were great
ly encouraged by telegram from
the Cleveland Strikers, addressed tt
Otto Kleinert, President Of thu
Union, which stated:
Our demands are for recogni-
ton of our Union, 80 per cent
above the basic rate; 8 hours q
day; 40 hours a week. Time and
half overtime. Double time for
Sundays. We are a hundred per
cent out on strike, $1,000 strong.
Will stay until we get our de-
mands. An agreement will come
to you by air mail, Stick it out.
We will shut down Tarrytown
through Cleveland for you. Signed,
j. c. Barksites, Secretary, Federal
Local Union"
A IeafIet distributed by the
Auto Workers Industrial Union
were eagerly seized by the strik-
ing workers.
The leafIet urges all workers to
join the strike making it 100 per
cent effective. The leaflet en-
phasizes that the demands of the
strike must be made crystal clear
and should be the same as those
of the Cleveland and st. Louis
strikers in the Fisher Body plants
there. It lists these demands as
follows:
For 30 per cent wage raise.
For reinstatement of all workers
fired for union or organizing ac-
tivities.
Against the Company union.
For recognition of the workers
union.
The leafIet stresses the need for
organized mass picketing to keep
scabs out of the plants, and urges
the immediate election of Strike
Committee from the departments,
with the most militant workers
to be elected. 1t warns the strik-
ers against placing any trust in
the support of the police who,
whatever their personal opinions,
will in the end defend the Fisher
Body Company.
The strikers in an interview witt
the Daily Worker today told of theil
conditions and of their determine
ton to strike for higher pay, anc
for better working conditions. Tht
telegram from Cleveland wa
printed and pasted on telegraph
poles. The strikers of Fisher Body
in Tarrytown accept these demands
as their own
However, the leadership of the
CONTINUED on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27
Perspective for May Day Must Be ''At Least
100000 in Parade; 100000 in Union So.

flliations, and convincing them that
by one united demonstration it will
be possible in New York to mobilize
at least a quarter of a million work
ers, which will be a powerful an
Swer to the bosses and the govern
ment's offensive. In all strikes now
taking place as well as in all of the
local meetings, it is the task Of the
members of our unions to arouse the
workers and prepare them for
downing tools on May First. Our
perspective must be at least 100000
workers in the parade and quarter
of a million workers in Union
Square on May First.
In the preparations for May Day
every union should Immediately be-
gin to prepare the popularizaticn of
our demands, acquaint its whole
membership with the history and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27
Gust MESA MIRA. Ship
Militants Is Code Scored
Smith Aim By Seamen
Stoppage in jerks, Muir
Forces Increases
in Wages
(SneciaI to the Daily Morkerl


DETROIT, April IS. = Matthew
Smith, General Secretary of the M.
E. S. A. independent tool and die
makers union and member of the
Socialist Party, has at last come
into the open.
Adopting with a vengeance all
the expulsion and terrorist policies
of A. F. of L. leadership, he has
started a move to expel all Com
munists and other militant work
ers from the MESA.
Flouting every constitutional
right and using police to help him,
Smiths drive against militants is
for the purpose of crushing all re-
sistance to his sell-out policies that
are wrecking the strike of 5000 tool
and diemakerS and of 1000 workers
at the Michigan Stove Co.
Smiths campaign was launched
Tuesday night when on his proposal
the District Executive of the M. E.
S. A, composed almost entirely of
his henchmen, voted to kick all
Communists out of the organiza-
ton. This was followed last night
by forcible expulsion of John Mack,
member of the District Executive
and one of the outstanding leaders
of the militant rank and file, from
the meeting of his local, Local 8.
Keeps Rank and File In the Dark
To put over the expulsion Smith
saw to it that the membership of
the local was not notified of the
meeting by mail, as is usually the
CONTINUED on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27
M. W. l. U. to Fight the
Proposed Code in
All Ports
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
Daily Worker Washington Bureaul

NOdAy nOEhtT washington nuItduJ
WASHINGTON, April 26. - 1.-The
proposed MIRA. code for the ship
ping industry is substantially the
same one which the seamen have
been striking against since Janu-
ary," Roy Hudson, National Secre-
tary of the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union, told the Daily Worker
correspondent late this afternoon
after having waited all day to ap-
pear before MIRA. Deputy Admin
strator Joseph Weaver and about 200
shipowners and ship builders at
tending the third public hearing on
the code drawn up by the American
ShipoWners Association.
Weaver told Hudson Just before
the afternoon session that he would
be called this evening. The employ
ers, in consonance with N. R. A.
practice, got first call.
Negro and White Seamen at Hearing
Hudson, who has electrified at
previous N. R. A. shipping code
hearings, led a delegation of ten
Negro and white marine workers
who attended the hearing. One of
them, Andrew Fetzik, represented
the Great Lakes seamen who, under
the leadership of the M. w. I. u,
have already begun to fight the en-
ployers' demands.
Today's hearing was held in q
small room in the United States
Chamber of Commerce Building.
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27
Railroad Agreement Aims End Strikes for One Yea
Wall St. Bankers KnOW
MGchadO'S ADDRESS
Gets Tipped OFF That
Cuban Government Is
Only SpOOfng

NEW YORK.-Butcher Machado,
man Of a thousand murders" ex-
president of Cuba, was conveniently
tipped off by Federal authorities
here yesterday that a formal war
rant had been issued for his extra
dition to Cuba. Gerardo Machado,
who had been living in the United
States, under the protection Of Wall
Street, entered a Parmelee taxicab
at his hide-out at 100 E. 91st st. six
hours before the Federal suthori-
ties arrived, with the full knowl-
edge that the butcher of the Cuban
workers and peasants would not
be in.
The government of Carlos Men
dieta in Cuba, based on the same
forces and murderers that Machado
relied on to rule, in compliance
with mass hatred of Butcher Ma
chado, and in order to put on a
cheap mask of 'left" demagogy,
requested" Machado's extradition
He is charged with murder and en-
bezzlement. All his murders and
embellishments were in the interest
of the United States government
and the leading Wall Street bank
ers, in order to keep Cuba in the
wise of the Yankee exploiters.
Mendieta no more wants Ma
chado than Roosevelt seeks to de
tain him.
In Cuba, the Mendieta govern
ment, which has in its service many
of Macfado's assassins, the ''por-
ristas," is stirring up the news
papers with the alleged man hunt
of Machado.
At the same time Mendieta con-
tinues Machado's murderous bust
ness for the Wall Street bankers by
his anti-Strike laws, his murders of
revolutionary workers and peasants
and wholesale imprisonmentS of the
same forces who fought Machadc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27
Seanen Fight
To Maintain
ReliefControl
Ten Ships in Protest
Strike; support
BALTIC. Seamen
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
Especial to the Daily Worker)

BALTIMORE, April 26.-Scores of
seamen, representing hundreds, who
refuse to bulge from their worker
controlled unemployment relief pro-
ject despite efforts of government
officials to ambush the project by
denying funds and supplies, marched
to local relief headquarters today
and demanded: food, shelter, and
no forced labor on the waterfront
At the same time a seamen's del
egation went to Washington to tell
Federal officials that, instead of
retreating before the drive to starve
them out, they are organizing a
mass march from many ports to
support the Baltimore Seamen's
project by parking on the Federal
governments doorstep unless and
until their demands are met.
Roy Hudson, National Secretary
of the Marine Workers Industrial
Union, last night addressed meet
ing of the local branch of the union,
Continued on Page 6)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27
BY ANDREW OVERGAARD
Secretary, Trade Union Unity
Council)

MAY DAY, 1884, takes place at a
In time of a new wave of strike
struggles by the workers in New
York City. The workers through
their experience have learned that
the Roosevelt program has intensi-
fed the employers offensive on con-
ditions in the shops. Wherever a
few cents have been won in hourly
wage rates the hight cost of living
due to imitation has further de-
creased the standards of living of
the workers. The continuous refusal
of the government to pass any I'M
employment insurance measure and
the threat of disseminating the C.
w. A. projects and further decreases
in unemployment relief, make it
necessary for the entire working
class Of New York City to prepare
for one united powerful May Day
demonstration in 1884, not only for
the improvement OF our economic
conditions in the shops but against
the threat of developing fascism and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27
A. T. of L. Local Defeats
Officers Motion; Will Be
In United Front arade
United May 1St
Demonstrations

NEW YORK.-Union Square, 2:30
to 5 pm, preceded by two monster
parades. Evening celebration at
Madison Square Garden, 7:3o pm.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Capitol
Park, facing Jefferson County Jail
DETROIT, Mich. - Grand Circus
Park.
CLEVELAND, Ohio-Public So,
at 4:3O pm.
CHICAGO, Ill, Grant Park.
SOUTH CHICAGO.-At Goth and
Greenbay Ave, 4 pm.
NEW ORLEANS, La.-Corner of
Canal and CLAIBORNE Ave, pm.
ST. LOUIS, Mold Court House,
Broadway and Market, at 4 pm.
PITTSBURGH, Pa.-At Dinwiddie
and Fifth Ave. to West Park, at
l pm.
MILWAUKEE, Wis.-Red Arrow
Park, at pm. Evening celebration
at Milwaukee Auditorium, at 7 pm
BOSTON, Mass.-Charles st. Mall
Boston Common, at IL noon.
BALTIMORE, Md. = City Hall
Plaza, / pm. Parades Cd from So
Broadway and Thomas St., 11:Sf
am, and ~ from Penn Ave. and
Laurens ST., 11:30 am.
AKRON, Ohio - Perkins Square
at 2 pm.
NORFOLK, Va.--At Cone Park
Pavilion, East Princess Anne Road
and Bolton ST., at pm.
SPRINGFIELD, nl.-Berger's PIX.
RACINE, Wis.-Lake Front Park.
VIRDEN, Ill.-City Hail.
BELLEVILLE, ILL., - In front of
Court House.
zEIGLER, nl.-City Park.
PEORIA, Ill.-Court House So.
LYNN, Mass.-Lynch Common at
pm.
SALEM, Mass.-Derby Square at
7 pm.
PEABODY, Mass.--Main ST., corl
ner Walnut at 7:3O pm.
NASHUA, N. H.-ODonnell Hall
at 7 pm.
DAYTON, Ohio-Library Park at
4 pm.
KENOSHA, Wis.-Old Relief Sta
ton, 55th st. and Eighth Ave, at
8 pm.
FLINT, Mich.-At Moose Hall,
312 East First st.
JAMAICA, L. I. IN. " - Town
Hall at noon. Assemble $50 am. at
1929 Liberty Ave. for parade.
MINEOLA, L. Court House, II
pm. Assemble at Fair Grounds, Old
County Road, for parade.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.-At Watt
and Federal Sts., 2 pm.
ERIE, Ohio - AT Perry Square
$50 pm.
BELLAIRE, Ohio-At Bohemian
Hall, 41st and Harrison, at 7 pm.
DILLONVALE, Ohio-At Cooper
alive Hall, Dillonvale, pm.
CONNEAUT, Ohio-At City Hall
pm.
PROVIDENCE, R. I.-City Hal
Plaza, $3.50 pm
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27
Roosevelt Plans a
RetOrt to Japan'S
Claims on China
War Tension Sharpened
by Flare Up of
RivaIries

NEW YORK -President Roose-
welt, having played a card against
Japan yesterday by announcing he
would begin at once to build more
battleships under the Vinson bill,
conferred in Washington today with
Secretary of State Cordell Hull about
Japan's recent declaration of a
Monroe Doctrine" for Asia.
At the same time, U. S. Ambas-
sador Joseph c. Grew called on
Koki Hirota, Japanese foreign min
lister, in Tokyo, and had conversa-
ton with him, the result of which
was not made public. Just before
Grew called, the British ambassador
to Tokyo had also visited Hirota.
After Roosevelt and Hull had
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-27
Pact Binds
MenAgainst
MakingNew
Dem ands
Restore 10 PC. Cut /;
Leave Lower Brack-
cts Untouched
SPEED-UP REMAINS
breathing Space" for
Roads, Brotherhood
Chiefs Boast

WASHINGTON, April 26.
In an agreement that def
initely binds the railroad
workers against any strike &C
ton for the next IL months,
the Railroad Brotherhood
chiefs and the railroad man.
agement agreed late today
that there will be no further dis
cussion of any wage increases until
May l, 1888, with the present 10
per cent cut to be gradually restored
by that time.
This agreement, arrived at by the
Brotherhood chiefs after many
secret negotiations behind closed
doors, thus leaves the railroads, now
coming bigger profits than at any
time during the last three years,
protected against any strike action
of the workers for higher pay to
meet the advancing cost of living.
Protests Speed-up
With the greatest distinctness, the
agreement signed by the Brother
hood chiefs leaves the thousands OF
lower paid railroad brackets at the
mercy of the management, and also
provides that the roads can pro-
coed with their spread-work plans
that brought the weekly pay of
thousands of railroad workers to
less than SIS a week.
The agreement states: with re-
spect to employees in the lower
paid brackets, this agreement
shall not be taken to prevent dis
cussion and adjustment between
individual carriers and Organiza-
tiOns with respect to spreading
employment or of the matter Of
opportunity for increased earnings
OF part time employees"
In a statement remarkable for its
admission of the immense aid that
the agreement gives the railroad
stockholders, A. F. Whitney, Of the
Railway Labor Executive Associa-
ton, stated:
1--WE have Joined in the agree
ment to comply with wishes of
President Roosevelt in the interest
Of national recovery.
"This will stabilize wages on
American railroads and give all
concerned breathing SPELL"
1t was with such phrases that
Whitney agreed to the 10 per cent
wage reduction which has already
robbed the railroad worker of hun
dreds of millions of dollars.