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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Dayton Workers Force Special Hearing on Workers Bill
Musteite Leaders Call Off Pennsylvania Hunger Marcl
Subs Climb
In District
Competition
Buffalo Leads Victory
March With Gains
Mounting

COCIALIST competition among
y Districts is stimulating wide
spread circulation activity among
Party members and readers. Tables
for the past week show subscrip-
tons mounting in the 10000 new
reader drive, as several Districts
near their sub quotas and others
make sizeable gains.
Buffalo leads all district In the
sub drive, with 1856 per cent of its
quota. New York, Boston and st.
Louis are fighting out second place
hOnOrs in the home stretch, with
the possibility of squirt putting
anyone in the lead.
Twenty-three Districts gained
during the week, only three re-
manned stationary and none regis
tered losses. Total net gain for the
week was per cent of the 1000 sub
quota, or 239 new readers.
Subscription activity must be In
tensified during the last two weeks
Of the 10000 new reader drive.
Readers, see that your District goes
over the quota top! Aid your Dis
trict in Socialist competition!
Subscriptions August 7-I3
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Gallup FERA Men Win
Pay Cut Restoration By
Militant Strike Action

GALLUP, N. M, Aug. Is. = A
complete victory was won by
striking FERA workers here after
their mass pressure had forced re-
lief officials to accede to every de-
mand including the return of a
ten-cent an hour wage cut from
forty to fifty cents.
For five days 300 men conducted
mass picketing and held demonstra-
tons protesting the wage cut. The
workers forced officials to release
seventy-five relief men whom they
had Unanswered to keep working.
after the strikers had threatened to
pull the men off the Jobs them
selves.
A welfare wage committee, COM
posed of relief officials, held an
emergency meeting to consider the
demands of the workers. Since
such men as Paul Henderson. mine
owner, and DR.. Shepard of the
American Legion were on the
committee, workers demanded rep
resentation and got it. They elected
one of their number to be on the
committee and all the strikers at
tended the meeting in a body.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Joint Chicago Meeting
Will Plan Activities for
Herndon, Nine Boys
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. Is. - To
unite the Negro and white workers
into a great mass movement for the
freedom of Angelo Herndon and
the Scottsboro boys, the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the
League Of Struggle for Negro Rights
have joined In calling a united front
conference to take up these cases.
The conference will open at 10
am, Sunday, at Peoples Audi
forum, PAST West Chicago Avenue.
All organizations are requested to
have delegates present.
Besides planning a more deter
mined fight for the release of the
frame-up victims of Alabama and
Georgia, the conference will discuss
the problem Of winning the free
dom of local workers now in jail.
Outstanding among these cases is
the PoindeXter frame up. Six Negro
and white workers are now in Joliet
Penitentiary for participating in
demonstration at a relief station.
The appeal for Pointdexter, mill
tant leader of the Negro workers,
and his five comrades, is being
prepared at present by the LID.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Last of Relief
Workers Fired
In Pittsburgh
All Public Works Closed
in Allegheny County
Until Sept. Is
Especial to the Daily Worker,

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 49,
The last Of $4,000 workers in Ale
gheny County who have been en-
ployed on public works projects
since April were fired yesterday, to
be replaced on relief rolls" and
further swell the ranks Of the mil
lion and three-quarters Of Pennsyl-
vania workers and their families
who face starvation in the present
relief crisis.
The firing of R. w. D. workers
has been going on for week now,
but with today's 5000 James L.
Stuart, R. w. D. Administrator, an
nounced the lay-off complete.
No other r. w. D. projects are
scheduled to begin until Sept. IS,
according to Stuart, who claims the
workers will be re-employed at this
time.
When the April 1ay-off was made
similar announcement was made,
but only $4,000 out of more than
10000 were given work again.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Workers. Eager
To Sign Ohio
Election Lists

TOLEDO, Ohio.-James Miller,
Negro candidate for the Ohio State
Legislature on the local Communist
ticket, has collected AZ signatures in
the petition drive of the Commu-
mist Party, it was announced yes
terday by District 6.
Miller states: THE reason that
our section has only fulfilled its
quota of signatures by half is that
many Of the comrades are afraid
to mention Communism 10 the
workers.
when I pointed out to the work
ers that all of our local candidates
were active in the Auto-Lite strike
and that many had been arrested
and that Yetta Land, candidate for
Attorney General, was the lawyer
that defended the Auto-Lte cases
most Of them signed gladly.
Workers will sign our petitions
if we are not afraid to ask them"
Many of the signatures collected
by Miller were collected in white
working-class neighborhoods.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17

A. Guss, state campaign man
ager, was highly optimistic Of the
chances Of placing a full slate Of
workers on the ballot in November.
The previous weeks, signatures
have been received at a rate of
about 200 daily, and widespread
alarm was felt as to the danger Of
failure to get Communist candf-
dates on the ballot.
John Lawson, Organizational Sec
rotary Of District Of the Commu>
mist Party, told the Daily Worker
today that THE Chicago working
class must keep up the good work.
We must not only maintain the inn
proyement made in our work, but
further intensity it. We must not
be satisfied with few good days,
but continue energetically until
every one of our candidates is as
sured a place on the ballot"
Frank Prickett, member Of the
town board of Taylor Springs, will
be one Of the main speakers at the
Red Election Rally Sept. 1 at Peo-
Piles Auditorium, PAST West Chicago
Avenue. This meeting is planned
to celebrate the successful conclu-
sion Of the signature drive which
ends that night Prickett was in
dicted last week in the Hillsboro
case.
All election petition and collee~
ton lists should be rushed to local
campaign headquarters at once, or
be sent direct to the central cam
paign office at 1O1 South Wells
Street, R. 7O2. Thousands Of these
lists have not yet been turned in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Steel Company Judge
Fines Eleven Workers
In Ambridge Frame-up

AMBRIDGE, Pa, Aug. 16-Eleven
workers who were arrested in a po-
lice raid on the Ambridgc Interna-
tional Labor Defense branch on
Aug. 2 were fined SIS and costs by
Burgess P. j. Caul, puppet of the
steel companies, at hearing Tues
day night.
When the trial was postponed
last Wednesday evening Caul told
Sylvia Schlessinger, I. L. D. attor-
ney, that the men we're charged
with unlawful assembly" but last
night Patrolman Verona testified
that those attending the I. L. D.
meeting had been guilty of disor-
derby conduct and Caul fined them
on this count. When Miss Schles-
singer cited the change Caul lied
that he had not said anything about
unlawful assembly last week.
Verona, who has done yeoman
work as a stool-pigeon for the police
in the past, claimed that he saw a
man thrown out of the 1. L. D.
meeting, this lie constituting the
"disorderly conduct on which the
arrests were made. All fines have
been appealed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Wilkes-Barre Police
Attack 200 Workers
AT Eviction Protest

WILKES BARRE, Pa, Aug. 10
Swinging their riot clubs, police
here broke up a demonstration Of
200 workers who gathered Tuesday
to protest the eviction and con-
stables sale of an unemployed
worker.
The workers, modified by the
Unemployment Council, had called
for unity against evictions to three
Negro workers sent to remove the
furniture. The Negroes answered
the call and refused to carry
through the eviction.
The police then charged, arrest
ing four and beating many. John
Muldowney and Bruno Zelinskas,
unemployed leaders, were held for
hearing. Two women who were ar
rested and dubbed were released
after workers had marched in pro-
test to the police station after the
police attack.
Workers sent delegations yester-
day to the mayor demanding that
he keep his promise that no evic-
tions will take place in the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Parlor Frame
Workers Call
Strike i'm N. Y.

NEW YORK.-Several hundred
parlor frame workers went on strike
yesterday under the leadership of
the Cabinet Section of the Ma
tional Furniture Workers Indus
trial Union, Local No. 2. The strike
was officially declared at large
mass meeting of parlor frame work
ers Wednesday night at the Man
haitian Lyceum.
All the shops are being picketed,
in the effort of the workers to
establish real union conditions in
the trade. During the last few
years the conditions have been I'M
bearable. Workers received miser-
ably low wages and hours went I'M
counted A year and half ago,
the workers established union con-
troll in the trade and the bosses
were forced to sign union contracts
with the Furniture Workers Indus
trial Union.
There is still widespread mem-
ployment in the trade, and the en-
ployerS do every hing they can to
take advantage of it. This time the
parlor frame workers have decided
that they will not return to work
unless their demands are granted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Plan Entertainment
AT New Youth School


NEW HAVEN. - The Connecticut
Youth School, which opened here
on July % at the local Lithuanian
Hall. will hold on open entertain
ment on Sunday, August 10, at the
school, 243 Front st.
The school, the organization of
which was mainly effected by Lith-
uanian workers organizations. has
Negro students as well as those of
other national extractions. Hart
ford, Waterbury, New Haven,
Bridgeport, Ansonia, Milford and
Stamford are represented.
The school hopes to turn out
about % organizers for the working
class youth movement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
One Of HillsbOro Ill
To Speak At Chicago
C. p. Election Rally

CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 16-Frank
Prickett, one of the eleven Hillsboro
prisoners and alderman of Taylor
Springs, will speak for the Illinois
Communist election campaign on
Sept. l at Peoples Auditorium, 2457
West Chicago Avenue. The Hills
boro prisoners are charged with
treason" and have been released
under $4,000 bail.
Plans have been made for an
elaborate reception to Prickett at
this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Wealthy Bankers Head
Coast Fascist Group


PORTLAND, Ore.-The Citizens
Emergency League, formed during
the waterfront strike and headed
by Colonel william Arid, officer in
the Reserve Officers Association
carries the following questions on
membership application blanks: DO
you own any firearms? What kind?
List your military experience. Have
you had any experience with the
use of gas bombs"
E. Sammonds, vice-president of
the United States National Bank
and big corporation head; and
Henry Cabell, heir to the wealth.
lest estate in Oregon and several
reserve officers and wealthy Cham
Der of Commerce figures, are on the
executive board
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Musteites Call OFF March

ALLENTOWN, Pa, Aug. Is. -
While calling off the march to Har-
risburg which the Pennsylvania
Unemployed Leagues decided on,
the Musteite leaders who control
the Pennsylvania Unemployed
Leagues, refuse to join with the
Unemployment Councils and the
Independent Unemployed Leagues
for a united hunger march to Har-
risburg.
Bureaucratic and mechanical
control of the organization, COM
plete disregard for the opinion and
interests of the members and re-
fusal to carry on militant struggle
against evictions stand out in the
record of Musteite leadership in
the Pennsylvania Unemployed
Leagues.
The march to Harrisburg was
decided on by the leagues more
than two months ago at their State
convention, the highest authority
of the organiza ton. This same con-
vention elected March to Harris
burg Committee of %, instructing
them to plan and organize the
march to Harrisburg. Almost two
months passed and no preparations
we're made for the march.
The Unemployment Councils
which are planning hunger march
to Harrisburg were able to draw
into this march the Independent
Unemployed Leagues of Pennsyl-
vania. A delegation of the U. c. APP
preached the Pennsylvania U. L.
also but the Musteite leaders would
not even hear about united action.
Communists Predicted Step
Long ago the Communist Party
of Allentown warned the members
that the leadership of the Pennsyl-
vania' Unemployed Leagues will do
everything in their power in order
not to carry through the march.
The original proposal of these Mus
telte leaders for march to Har-
risburg was made only in order to
quiet the demands of the members
for action. Without even taking
the first steps to prepare for the
march, these leaders still boasted
as late as Aug. l. at their national
convention in Columbus, Ohio, that
great march is being prepared by
the Leagues in Pennsylvania. The
Aug. l issue of Muste's paper car
ries the headline, Pennsylvania u.
L. Prepare Gigantic March to Har-
risburg," and the story goes on to
say that a call for the march has
been sent out, and that a prelimi-
nary conference will be held on Aug
II in Harrisburg.
Just as the Musteite leaders never
reported to the members of the
League about the plans and activity
OF the March to Harrisburg Com
mittee, so they decided without the
knowledge and approval of the
members that the march to Harris
burg is to be dropped. H. Mozer,
A. w. P. leader, chairman of the
March to Harrisburg Committee
sent the information to the last
meeting of the Lehigh County Ex-
ecutlve Committee of the Unem-
ployed Leagues that the march will
not be carried through; these lead
ers did not even dare to report this
to the branches of the Leagues and
DID not even mention about it in
the minutes of the Lehigh County
Executive Committee.
All workers must now rally be-
mind the hunger march being pre-
pared by the Unemployment Coun-
ellis of Pennsylvania.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
FARLEY IN YOUNGSTOWN

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Aug. 10
The section bureau of the Commu-
mist Party has called conference
for Sunday to check up on the re-
cent decisions of the section con-
ference. Unit organizers and frac-
ton secretaries, as we'll as members
of the committee, have been asked
to attend without fail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Unemployed Council
Prepares for United
March to Harrisburg.
Sabotage of Convention Decision by the League
Heads Was Predicted by Communist Party
Independents Join With Councils

DAYTON, Ohio Aug 16.-More than 1900 workers
damned the county court house here in the biggest dem
onsraton called by Unemployment Councils to demand
per cent increase in relief to be paid in cash and the
dorsement of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17

County commissioners and relief
administration officials would not
give a definite answer to the de-
mands, while expressing verbal
sympathy" with the lot of the un-
employed.
A second hearing specifically on
the workers bill was set for Thurs
day, Aug. % in the County Court
House. All workers have been re-
quested to attend this hearing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
Chicago Canoassing
Returns Take Squirt
To 6OONdmeS a Day
Rate of Signature Drive TripIed This eek
lawson Urges Intensified Drive to Assure All
Candidates Their Place On Ballot
tpaIIv worker Midwest Bureau,

CHICAGO Aug. 16.-Twelve hundred signatures on
election petitions for Communist candidates were received
here Monday and Tuesday at the office of the Communist
Party campaign committee This about triples the rate at
which signatures have been coming in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17

10000 New Readers by Sent. 1st.!
Unemployed? Sell the Daily"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17

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The Washington times., 1934-07-21
Coast Strike Shows Need
For Strengthening Laws
BY James T. Williams, Jr.

BY his direct appeal to the
President for Federal deporta-
ton Of undesirable aliens, the
governor of California has per-
formed a twofold service of ma
tional value.
He has focused the attention
of the whole country upon the
imperative necessity of ridding
American soil Of aliens who
abuse it's hospitality.
He has aroused the Admin
istration to the urgency of its
obligation to enforce the laws
which provide for the deporta-
ton Of undesirable aliens.
President Roosevelt's reply to
Governor Merriam's appeal nat
urally came from Secretary Per-
kins. AS Secretary of Labor,
she is primarily responsible un-
der the law for taking into
custody and deporting the fol-
lowing classes of undesirables:
Different Types
Aliens entering the United
States unlawfully-that is, in
violation of existing immigra-
tiOn laws.
Second, aliens advocating dis
belief in organized government.
Third, aliens teaching Com.
munism.
Fourth, aliens sentenced to
prison for a term Of one year
or more after conviction in
this country of a crime invOlv-
ing moral turpitude committed
within five years after entry to
the United States.
Fifth, aliens sentenced more
than once for a term Of one
year or more Of Imprisonment
after conviction in this country
Of any crime involving moral
turpitude committed at any
time after entry.
The promise of Secretary
Perkins to Governor Merriam
to act with promptneSS in any
case where evidence is pre-
Sented that an alien is deport-
able under existing laws. is in
welcome contrast to the at
tempt at the last session of
Congress to modify these laws.
1t was alleged that a bill in
troduced in the House last
April by Representative Grove
of Indiana had the approval
of the Department of Labor in
spite of the fact that its en-
actment would wipe out every
mandatory provision of the
principal deportation statutes
of the United States"
For example, existing law di-
rects that aliens who advocate
or teach the overthrow of gov
ernment by force and violence
shall be deported. No such
The Washington times., 1934-07-21
T E4unan Side Of the News - ByEdwin c. + I'LL

must be reminded of the de-
serted mining camps of the
Colorado and California hills.
There, in the dullness and
silence of four-hundred-thou-
Sand-Share days, ghosts move
about, ghosts of the hectic past;
a past not so far away when,
in one hours time, there was
more business done than three
whole days see this summer.
In the meantime down in
Washington, sa n dy-haired
freckled face man of IS sends
forth this edict: "The days of
stock manipulation are past"
He is Joseph j. Kennedy, chair
man Of the Federal commission
on securities and exchange. He
is the main man of the five
whose work it will be to see that
a perpetual closed season is kept
for lambs at the corner of Broad
and Wall Streets.
Joseph Kennedy built a lot of
ships during the war when ships
were a vital need. Then he STEP
ped into the banking house of
Hayden, Stone & Co., this con-
nection leading him into the
movie field where at various
times he was head of the r. K.
O., Pathe and First National.
The country heard nothing of
him during the presidential
campaign Of 1882, and yet he
was one Of President Roosevelt's
closest advisers, travelling with
him over the country.
X 4 4
No one had a thought Of
Kennedy as chairman of the
important securities commits
sion. Indeed, he had partici-
pated in a pool only recently,
which pool was brought to the
surface by Ferdinand Pecora,
the demon investigator of Wall
Street, who now sits alongside
of Kennedy on the commission.
But Kennedy has never been
a bear raider and never par
ticipated in a bear pool. When
he says now that there is
nothing in the new law to pre-
vent a good, legitimate busi-
ness" the boys in Wall Street
smile wanly.
The optimists, a strong mi
nority, hold that it is an un-
certain future rather than the
new regulations which have
brought the doldrums to the
Street.
Perhaps they are right, and
we have not passed from the
era of runaway markets. But if
we are to see them again, 1t
may be well to repeat here for
the average man something
more that Joseph P. Kennedy
has to say. and that is: Money.
made in speculation Is negligi-
BILE in amount when compared
to the returns received by those
who invest their money in gilt.
edge securities and hold on to
them"
There you have a real tip on
the stock market from the Ran
whose job it is to know that
market from A to lizard.
Copyright. 1884. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-07-21
Lawful Enforcement
Questionable Activities

questionable ActlVlCeS
Major Ernest w. Brown superintendent Of police, would
do well to give his vice squad counsel law enforce
nent and law observance.
Washington been troubled in the past by overambous
activities the part of vice squads It does not want
repetition of those difficulties Neither believe does the
police department.
But the recent action Of the squad in charging all patrons
Of an alleged gambling establishment with operating the
establishment and holding them in Jail overnight in default
Of two thousand dollars bonds EACH Of the tactics Of
few years ago.
The squads for charging the patrons that it
could determine which of the arrested in the raid
the actual operators.
Because the members of the squad unable establish
who was guilty the crime in their minds they sub
jected dozen men, who presumably had violated law,
to night in Jail.
THAT ISN'T GOOD POLICE WORK IT IS ARROGANCE
IN UNIFORM.
This particular may not important, but it in.
dcates trend back toward lawlesS aw-enfOrcemen is
dangerous and would strong action by higher police
officials
The Washington times., 1934-07-21

} mandatory provision appeared
in the Grove bill, which also,
omitted all direct reference to
anarchistic and similar classes
and would have permitted cam
collation. of expulsion proceed
ingS in the case Of an alien
who had not engaged in SUBJ
versive political agitation or
conduct"
Now would seem to be the
time for vigorous enforcement
Of existing deportation laws and
for the strengthening of these
laws where experience demon.
strates such a need. All over
the United States, alien agi-
tatorS have appeared who boast
Of their success in incubating
all sorts of disorder and de-
fiance of government.
All aliens are here as guests
of the country. Theirs is the
obligation to obey the country's
laws. The Federal Government
admits them and upon the Fed
eral Government devolves the
duty of getting rid of them
when they prove their unfit
ness to remain as guests of the
country.
Showdown Soon
In view of the prominence
of undesirable aliens among
the agitators of a general strike
in San Francisco and of the
troubles that can be traced to
undesirable aliens, North and
South, East and West, candi-
dates for both houses of the
new Congress may we'll be re.
quired in the coming campaign
to declare themselves upon this
vital issue.
Any changes in existing de-
portation laws made by the
next Congress ought to be for
the purpose of increasing their
effectiveness.
Undesirable aliens who are
making trouble in this coun-
try have generally been driven
out Of their own country. They
have flocked to America to
prey upon the American peo-
pie just as vermin are driven
out by a housekeeping from
one house to another.
If Governor Merriam's ap-
peal to President Roosevelt for
Federal leadership in ridding
the United States of all de-
portable aliens results in an
active and aggressive enforce
ment Of the deportation laws.
every State in the Union will
find it easier to aid the Fed.
eral Government in keeping
America American.
Copyright, 1894. by The Washington
Times)