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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15

dressing grievances.
The quotation is from
Louis Stark's article in yes
terday's N. Y. Times. On the
very day that we examined
in this space the purpose of
the company athletic association,
the reverend sheet, which publishes
all the news that's fit to print,
grandly gilds the lily. 1t was
through the i1sistence of the Off
Gals of the General Motors Corp,
we learn from Mr.. Stark, that the
company union representatives were
present at this meeting which was
arranged in order to settle the auto
mobile strike. The presence Of
these stool pigeons" Gas such char
acters were properly referred to by
the other union mem was made
possible, we learn further, through
the connivance of the Automobile
Labor Board, which invited them
over the protests of the representa-
tives of the others bodies. The
Automobile Board evidently believes
that baseball games and dancing
bothers the workers in the auto
mobile plants as much as wages,
conditions Of employment and the
methods Of redressing grievances.
IT is obvious that these athletic as
l soCiations, like the company
unions, Of which they are part and
parcel, have no concern for the
workers. Even their management is
confined to small group.
Not only do they try to distract
the workers from genuine union
activity; they function as brake
to the general participation of
workers in athletics. These com
pany athletic associations have
ingrained in them not the anna
teUr, but the Professional, pur-
pose Of victory. Rarely do they
emerge in any kind of contest
without as high sum of money
as can be collected being wagered
on either side, with the approval
and aid Of the employers.
They have not even the minor
purpose of providing recreation for
the employees. Their activity is to
create enthusiasm among the host
of workers in behalf of q winning
few. When it cannot win legiti-
mately there is not q company
athletic association in the country
which hesitates to employ ringers.
The way to combat these weapons
of the employers is for workers to
organize their own athletic teams.
The workers in the factories, in the
business establishments, must Or
ganise their own union teams, in
to the company ones. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
lspeciaI % the naiIy Workerl


MOSCOW. May IA, (By RADIO -
The urn containing the ashes OF
Comrade Viacheslav Menzhinsky
was yesterday placed in the Krem-
lin wall, to rest besides the other
great deceased heroes of the prole-
tartan revolution.
For two days the coffin Of the de-
ceased chairman of the United State
Political Department CoGPU) rested
in state at the House of Trade
Unions. The former Hall Of Col
umns which houses the trade unions
was filled with flowers. The coffin
was placed in the center Of the huge
hall.
Hundreds Of thousands of workers
filed passed the coffin and gazed at
the peaceful face of the deceased
Conlrade Menzhinsky, a genuine
friend of millions of toilers, and a
menacing enemy to those who open
ly or secretly we're trying to prevent
the working class from building its
new life.
Around the coffin stood relatives
and comrades in the Party, in the
struggle, from the underground bat
ties and from his days Of emigra-
ton. The guard Of honor at the
coffin was changed every FIVE min
utes.
The columns Of Moscow toilers
who came to pay their last fare
well to this fallen fighter, slackened
their pace as they passed the cof-
fin imprinting on their memories
the prototype of q Bolshevik hero
who gave his life for the Party and
the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15

with OToole is one Jim Walsh. who
has his name on the door of the
O'Toole Agency.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union issued leaflet on the docks
exposing the strikebreakers and de-
handing that they be put out Of
business.
Read Daily Worker
Over q thousand copies of the
Daily Worker we're sold and dis
tributed on the waterfront yester-
day. Every striker had Daily
Worker. Rank and file members of
the Socialist Party helped the Com
munists distribute the "Dailies."
Joseph r. Ryan's latest maneuver
to stop the spread of the dock strike
in New York was revealed in a
statement of Ryan to the press,
wherein he said he had an agree
ment with railroad representatives
and the Produce Exchange to boy
colt the Mallory piers.
It is clear that Ryan through t''is
maneuver expects to pin the ,--pes
of the longshoremen on the railroad
companies, whose chief interest is to
break the strike.
This is obviously another new
strike breaking trick out of Mr..
Ryan's inexhaustible bag. The rail-
roads are reported to have agreed
to boycott the Mallory piers in or
der to keep the strike from spread
ing to the entire waterfront.
The new trick fits in neatly with
Ryan's r1o-picket edict. Ryan and
the railroads will make any kind of
promises to stop the spread Of the
strike, to keep the men from picket
ing and relying on their own or
gained strength.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15

agents., including Frank Sweet,
Jorgensen and Bill Hill.
Sailors Desert
The Ernest H. Meyer, enroute to
San Francisco, stopped at Long
view, where the sailors deserted
The ship came on to Astoria with
no crew except the captain, mates
and firen1en. It stopped in Astoria
for loading on some flour and but
ter, but had to go on without this
cargo.
Coast Guard Men Won't scab
The steamer Admiral Evans, idle
at Astoria since last October, was
moved to Portland. The company
intends to use this ship to house
and feed strikebreakers. Failing to
get men to release the lines, the
company asked the local Coast
Guard unit "Redwing" to do this
favor, but we're bluntly refused.
Finally the tug crew had to chop
the line in order to release it.
The greatest solidarity is ex-
pressed by all workers, including
saw mill workers, jitney drivers,
truck drivers and unemployed.
Especial to the Daily WORKER
BOSTON, Mass, May 14-A leaf
let on the West Coast strike, issued
by the Marine Workers Industrial
Union here, has raised a storm of
demands from International Long
shoremen's Association members,
who want to know why officials
have remained quiet.
One thousand copies of Mondays
issue of the Daily Worker, dis
tributed among the longshoremen,
were received with enthusiasm.
The sentiment of the men is I'M
doubtedly that they will not touch
scab-handled ships.
Any feeling against the failure of
the West Coast to support the 1881
Boston strike seems to be disap-
pearing rapidly.
A favorable response met the dis
tribution Of leaflet issued by the
Rank and File Committee, calling
for solidarity action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
100 Musicians Attend
Funeral of r. Becher

NEW YORK. - Following their
membership meeting yesterday, about
100 members Of the Associated Mu-
sicians of Greater New York local
300 of the American Federation of
Musicians) gathered before their
headquarters, Yorkville Casino, 210
z. c6th st., with banners announc-
ing that the union members would
carry on the fight for local auto
norny in which Richard Becher,
murdered last week, played an &C
tive part.
Then, after going into the union
hall, they left for Elmhurst, Queens,
to attend the funeral of the slain
musician. Mrs. Becher Is still in
critical condition. with four bullet
wounds fired by the same man who
killed her husband.
The second story on the internal
struggles in the A. r. Of M, origi-
nally announced for todsys issue
of the Daily Worker, viii appear
tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
Astoria Longshoremen 100 Per
Cent In Strike

Order, a fraternal organization, was
Wishing Jeanette williams, q white
friend in Birmingham, at whose
home the police raid was made.
after I got out write of habeas
corpus for Louise Thompson, who
had in the meantime been transfer
red to the Jefferson County Jail In
Birmingham, where the Scottsboro
boys are held" Brodsky continued,
Il went over to the city Jail and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
Tobacco Workers Strike
Bv a Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA. Twenty two
workers of the Bagarte Cigar Shop
are striking for twenty per cent
increase in wages and better sani-
taiy conditions. The average wage
here is 81 per week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
Suppress News of
BirminghamStrike
Sent Daily Worker
Continued from Page y


pass on the highly inflsmmatory
matter contained in the dispatches
and we therefore returned them to
the address listed stop The con-
tents strictly propaganda"
AS for the contents of this teIe-
gram, we don't require the serv-
ices of Mr.. Pinkhard in determin-
ing whether these were two
propaganda dispatches" or what
they were. They were news dis
patches to our paper. We will de-
termine here whether they con-
tanned material that should be
used or not. The same applies to
his references to "the highly in
fIammatory matter" We will pass
on whether material reaching us
is inflammatory or not,
As for the question of press
rates, we are a daily newspaper,
maintaining business relations
with your office. We are entitled
to press rates on messages sent to
us; and, again, we do not expect
that Mr.. Pinkard will determine
whether messages will be paid for
at press rates or at some other
rates. His business is to send to
us the messages that are filed for
our paper.
We place this matter very
sharply, because to place it other
wise would be to sequiesce in
what obviously Is an attempt on
the part of people in the South to
censor the press, We have no in
tention to acquiesce in such a
policy.
I, therefore, ask action on the
two demands made above, namely,
that these messages be dispatched
to our paper at once; and, sec
ondly, that your office provide
guarantees that in the future this
effort at local censorship be abOl-
ished.
We desire a statement from
your office at once on this matter,
as we are making public all ma
terial pertaining to this high
handed attempt at censorship and
the muzzling of the press, both in
the Daily Worker and other news
papers.
Sincerely yours,
C. A. HATHAWAY,
Editor Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
" OrkerS Urged to
Pack Court Trial
OF Anti-F dsctstS

NEW YORK. - Workers and
anti-fascists are urged to pack
the court on 57th st. between
Lexington and Third AYES, to-
morrow "wednesday morning at
9 o'clock when the five workers
arrested at the anti-Nazi rally in
Yorkville last Thursday come up
for trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
Seamen and Cooks
With
Frisco DOCkerS
CCoatiuued from Page y

Steel Inventor, Daisy Matthews.
Golden Horn. F. J. Luokenbac1. San
Pedro, Steel Exporter, Ohian, Tilla-
nook. Admiral Sem.
Demands of the striking crews are
based on the code of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union. The sea-
men are demanding the 1929 wage
scale.
other ships are due to strike at
any minute. The seamen on many
of the ships have very little leader
ship, due to the strikebreaking ac-
Invites Of the leaders of the Inter
national Seamens Union.
Many members of the I. S. U.
are coming to the hall of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union and are
tearing up their A. F. Of L. books.
The M. w. I. U. has recruited a
large number of new members.
Side by side with the striking
Iongshoremen the seanen who have
struck on the ships are picketing the
docks. All seamen who go to the
longshoremen's strike headquarters
are sent directly to the United Front
Seamen's strike committee where
the strike forces are being dis
tributed.
Joseph P Ryan is due in San
Pedro today, according to press re-
ports, which is one Of the weak
spots of the strike, His aim will be
undoubtedly to split the deep water
lockers away from the coastwise
men.
Leaders of the defunct I. w. w.
are reported to be active in San
Pedro attempting to divide the sea-
men and longshoremen. Seamen
and longshoremen are now frater-
nizing on all occasions.
Relief stations for the strikers are
functioning we'll. Transfers have
voted not to handle scab cargo.
The Western Worker, official West
Coast organ Of the Communist
Party, was sold in thousands of
copies during the great Solidarity
Parade yesterday.
Meanwhile 500 seamen at a mass
meeting held last night voted for
the main demands of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, for the
1929 scale, abolition of the Fink
Halls and to establish a centralized
shipping buro under the control of
a rank and file committee Of sea-
men.
A water patrol Of seamen to visit
the ships in the harbor was started
today by the United Front Seamen's
Strike Committee.
so fer the strike is in the bag"
said Sam C. Telford, Chairman of
the Seamen's Strike Committee.
The chief danger lies in the nego-
tistions that are being carried on
between the shipowners and the
leaders of the LILA. We must not
allow these takers to isolate the
seamen from the stevedores."
Strike Solid In Aberdeen
ABERDEEN, wash, May 14-The
longshoremen's strike is solid here.
Offers for mediation we're turned
down flat by the strikers.
Standing Together in San Diego
SAN DIEGO, Calf, (By MaiD -
Striking longshoremen of San Diego
are standing together with their fell
low workers along the Coast, mill
family refusing to allow scabs to I'M
load the boats.
Neary, head of the local lila,
announced few days ago, at the
beginning of the strike, that the
union would pursue a policy of
peaceful picketing." The ComInu-
mist Party at San Diego Immediately
issued two leaflets, calling upon the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
B A S E B ALL

man, Potter, Harrell, Liska and Lewis
Montreal 002 100 1915 9 I
Moore and Atwood; Pomorski, Collier
and Stack.
All other games postponed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
Workers Sports >> Not Bosses
WILLIAM FUCHS

THE Cleveland meeting the company union officers
"A reported matters such baseball games dancing
and drinking water adequacy while the union group dis
cused wages conditions of employment and methods of re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
Civil Liberties Protest


Public Reputation Of the refusal
of the Birmingham manager Of the
Western Union to transmit dis
patches on the Alabama coal strike
sent out by a Communist reporter
to the Daily Worker, was urged on
Newcomb Carlton, chairman Of the
Board of Western Union, in q tele-
gram sent today by the American
Civil Liberties Union and signed by
Harry F. Ward, chairman; Roger
N. Baldwin, director, and A. L.
Wirin, counsel.
Suppression of the reports on the
ground that they contained propa
Eanda constituted "unwarranted
censorship and unlawful interior
ence with freedom of the press,
according to the A. G. L. u.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
29O, 900 MOScOw Workers Pny
Last Tribute To MenzhinSky

Ever new thousands Of toilers en-
tered the vast hall, lowered their
banners in homage to the deceased
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15

workers to picket militantly. and
pointed out that Neary's wrong tao
tics would lead to the break down
of the strike The Communist Party
also issued another leaflet, headed,
Don't Scab." These leaflets we're
issued to the flop houses, missions
and employment agencies, notifying
the workers of the strike, and call
ing upon them not to scab
Warn Scabs
Scabs have been beaten up and
warned to stay off the docks. An
thony Akker, head of the Marine
Service Bureau, a fink hall, which
has been furnishing scabs to the
shippers, was also beaten.
1t has been ascertained that the
city police department has been
furnishing cars that are used to
convey strikebreakers to the docks.
Information on the beating of scabs
was suppressed in the local news
papers for two days. This was done
in order to keep the unemployed
workers Of San Diego ignorant of
the strike, in order that the ship
pers might get scabs more easily.
The Communist Party is issuing
another leaflet to the striking long
shoren1en, pointing out that San
Diego is a strategic spot on the
coast and that if the shippers in
Pedro and Los Angeles get the idea
that the picketing here is weak,
they will send their boats to San
Diego, and after they have been
unloaded send the cargos by rail.
Very few boats have docked here
since the beginning of the strike.
However tomorrow boat is ex-
pected in the harbor.
Astoria Longshoremen 100 Per
Cent In Strike
ASTORIA, Oregon (By MaiD -
Two hundred Astoria longshoremen
supported the rank and file strike
call from San Francisco by joining
the strike on May 9.
The Hamburg American Line, a
German steamship, was loaded with
60 tiers of salmon on the night of
May 10 by the local staff of the
Astoria Stevedoring Co. 0ocal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15

Bolsheyik. More than 100000 filed
passed the coffin of Comrade Men
zhinsky.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
n. Y. Men Plan
To Spread Strike
To Other Docks

Continued from Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
President Refuses
To Hear Plea of 5
SCOttSbOrOMOtherS

Continued from Page u
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strike Solid In Aherdeen

ABERDEEN, wash, May 14.-The
longshoremen's strike is solid here.
Offers for mediation we're turned
down flat by the strikers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-28
More Deaths Reported
From Pneumonia.

More pneumonia deaths have been
recorded for each month of 1884 than
for any corresponding month in 1888.
This fact is cited in bulletin issued
by the Public Health Education Com
mittee of the Minnesota State Medical
Association as reason for especial
caution during the months of colds and
"flu."
1t Is difficult to account for the rise
in pneumonia deaths according to the
bulletin, especially in period when
there has not been no serious epidemic
of influenza and deaths from other
acute illnesses have dropped instead of
rising.
The fact is unquestionable, however,
as shown in recent authoritative study
and it is believed by the physicians to
be justification for unusual precautions
against colds and unusual care to
avoid prolonging them and causing
complications.
EVERY cold should be treated with
the possibility in mind that it might
lead to something worse, or that it
might, in fact, turn out to be some
thing much more serious" according to
the bulletin.
The victim should stay at home in
bed for day or two both to avoid
injecting others and to give himself the
best chance to recover quickly. Failure
to recover in few days or the APP
pearance of any complication should be
the signal for seeking help.
Many pneumonias could be avoided,
according to the physicians, if the
patient had given himself plenty of rest
and used discretion in getting back to
his ordinary pursuits.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-28
ORDER FOR HEARING ON PETI-
TION FOR ADMINISTRATION
PURSUANT TO SECTIONS SS91-SS94
G. s. 1928, AS AMENDED BY
CHAPTER 335 S. L. 1927.

State of Minnesota, County of st
LouiS-SS.
In PROBATE COURT.
In the Matter of the Estate of Emil A
Erickson, Decedent.
The petition of Ida S. Erickson, sur
viving spouse of the above named de-
cedent, having been filed in this court
representing, among Other things, that
Emil A. Erickson, then being resident
of the County of st. Louis, State OF
Minnesota, died intestate, in the County
of st. Louis, State of Minnesota, on
the 18th day of August, 1884, leaving
estate in the County of ST. Louis, State
of Minnesota, consisting of homestead
described as follows, to-wit: One story
frame dwelling house on Lots l, 2, and
3, Block 2, Whiteside's Third Addition
and Lot B of Conan's Addition, all in
the City of Ely, of an estimated value of
$1500O0; One two door 1890 Ford Sedan
valued at $500; and Accounts Re-
eeivable valued at s506.55, more specifi-
cally described in Exhibit "a" attached
to said petition; all of which property
is claimed to be exempt from appli-
cation toward the payment of debts OF
said decedent, and praying that ad-
ministration of the estate of said de-
cedent be granted by the Court, and
that, upon due qualification, letters of
administration be issued to the said
Ida s. Erickson, or that the whole
Of said estate be closed forthwith and
distribution thereof made;
NOW THEREFORE,, TT Is Or
DERED, That said petition be heard
before this Court, at the Probate Court
Rooms in the Court House, in Duluth
in said County, on Monday. the 7th
day of January, 1884, at nine O'Clock
A. M, and all persons interested in
said hearing and in said matter are
hereby cited and required at said time
and place to show cause, if any there
be, why said petition should not be
granted.
ORDERED FURTHER, That this
order be served by publication in the
Ely Miner, according to law, and that
a copy of this order be served on the
County Treasurer of st. Louis County
not less than ten days prior to said cay
of hearing.
Dated at Duluth, Mimi, December
18th, 1894.
BY the Court,
VIM j. ARCHER,
Attest: Judge of Probate.
Sheldon Watts, Clerk of Probate.
Seal of Probate Court, st. Louis County,
Minnesota.
A. w. Nelson, Attorney.
ely Miner. Dec. IA, 81. %. 1934)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-28

visited recently with an old friend 50
years of age living with his good wife,
so, in comfortable little home where
every circumstance indicated a modest
but comfortable security, but found
them beset with diSquieting fears.
Theirs has been busy life, but he re-
tired from active work some years ago,
and the sole income now Is the dividend
from stock in well-conducted public
utility of the kind which the politicians
today are so intent upon wiping from
the face of the earth and crushing with
government competition. If the govern
ment succeeds in crushing this utility
or forces it to sell out at fraction of
its real value, our old friends would see
their security for the aged" melt away,
with no place to turn except the relief
office-to which they probably would
not turn.
The case is not an isolated one. The
New Deal" has laid heavy axe to
the rights of property" the obligations
of contract and the value, stability
and income of money prudently saved
and honestly loaned. The retired far
mer, the retired artisan and the re-
tired merchant, who after all own so
much of the savings accounts, the
stocks, the bonds and the life insurance
of the country in spite of the pernicious
demagoguery to the contrary have all
been hit hard, and they live in fear of
want in helplessness.
Stock is water" interest is "usury,"
bond holders are ''barons,' and money
should be cheapened to the point where
it would not be worth the paper on
which it is printed in order that all
evidences of debt may be cancelled.
Man must either provide his own
security for his old age by saving dur
his working years, or he must become a
public charge. Those who permit them
selves to become public charges lex
cept where unfortunate circumstances
have interveneO provide no capital for
public utilities, for manufacturing
plants, for employment of labor, for
buildings, for new homes and appli-
ances, for borrowings, for taxes, for
school and colleges. It is those who
have saved and saved for their old age
who provide the capital for these and
multitudinous other activities. BY what
manner or logic then does a govern
ment priding itself on its humanitarian
impulses strike the hardest at the Sc
curity of the very aged who provide
the funds which it so lavishly disburses.