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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
President Not
In to Mothers
OF Framed
White House Guard S
Turn Away Mothers
of Scottsboro Boys
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
Daily Worker Washington Bureau)

DAILY Worker Washington BureaU)
WASHINGTON, May l3.-On this
Mothers Day, set aside by the ruling
class to venerate its mothers, the
mothers of five Scottsboro boys
went to the White House to ask
President Roosevelt to intervene on
behalf of the working class prison.
ers threatened with death on a
charge the falseness of which rings
around the world.
They were accompanied by about
rs individuals and representatives
of organizations, Negro and white,
middle class as we'll as working
class. They were turned away by
a guard IN U. S. naval uniform who
met them at locked gate and told
them he didn't know where the
President was.
For two weeks they have been re-
questing a Mothers Day interview
by letter, telegram and telephone
call to President Roosevelt and Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
They left the White House-but
to return tomorrow morning and
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14

strike Of the Pretty Laundry. The
Bronx Laundry Owners Association
OF which the Pretty Laundry is part,
in-tigated the arrest Of Blum on
cherges CT misconduct. The In
ternational Labor Defen-e then
commenced their long mass defense
struggle which has just ended in his
release, a conditional one.
The Committee for Release Of
Political Prisoners has arranged an
alai.. to welcome Blum. 1t will be
held June ct the Renaissance
Palace, 15Gth S.. and 7th Ave. All
political prisoners who have served
six months or more are invited free
Of charge il they communicate with
ths Committee at 15s Fifth Ave.
(Note:-See editorial on Page 6,
Welcome, Leon Blum.D
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Crews OF Eleven Vessels
Help DOckers Tie Up
HarbOrs On West Coast
Marine Workers Union
Calls for Solidarity
Action on East Coast
FOR UNITED FRONT!
TUUL Endorses Seamen
and LOngshore Strike

NEW YORK.-A call to all
longshoremen and seamen in
every North Atlantic port to
refuse to load or discharge
any ship coming from or go
ing to the Gulf or Pacific
ports, where longshoremen
and many seamen are striking, was
issued yesterday by the Marine
Workers Industrial Union.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union endorses and pledges full soli-
darity and support to the strike of
the members Of the International
Longshoremen's Association "a. F.
Of IL, calls for the unity of all
marine workers, regardless of union
afiliation or whether unorganized,
to win the strikes, and calls for
National United Action to win the
demands Of the seamen and long
shoremen.
The statement OF the Mw.IU.
follows:
Fellow seamen and longshore-
men:
Twenty thousand Negro ano
white members Of the international
Longshoremen's Association, in Gull
and Pacific ports, are striking fol
higher wages and better conditions
and union recognition. Many ship
crews are striking for the code o
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union on the, West Coast.
Call for Immediate Support
1.-THE Marine workers Industrial
Union Fundamentally endorse:
these strikes and calls upon its
branches in ali sections of the
country to give every possible sup
port The Marine Workers Indus
trial Union especially appeals to
every seaman and longshoreman in
the North Atlantic ports, regardless
of organization, to give the fullest
possible support and solidarity to
these strikes.
"The success Of these historic,
militant struggles will depend
very much upon the immediate
support and solidarity Of the ma
rine workers in the North Atlantic
ports.
Ryan's Strikebreaking Role
Every worker can see the strike
breaking role of the Ryans and the
other LILA. officials in their refusal
to call upon the workers in the
North Atlantic ports to support
these militant battles. These off,
(Coa,fi97ed IN Pane 2l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Auto Output
Slumps; Boom
Comp anies Decrease
Production; Lay
Off Many Men
Especial to the Daily worker)

DETROIT, May 13.-The collapse
of the temporary artificial boom in
the auto industry, which was the
chief basis for the recovery" bally-
hoo during the past three or four
months. has become a fact. This
is indicated not only by another
sharp cut in production during the
past week, but, more important still,
by further decline in retail sales
of new cars and the first open ad-
mission that sales have reached
and perhaps even passed their peak.
This slump occurs despite the fact
that a big selling season was ex-
pected to really get under way this
month.
Production Of new passenger cars
and trucks in the United States and
Canada for the week ended Satur-
(COntinued on Pare q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Copper Strike Ties
UpButte, Anaconda
Mines, Shelters
5000 Out in Butte,
AnacondaW orks Closed,
Bumpers Out

BUTTE. Mont, May 8 (By maiD
-Scabs, brought in at night by the
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
were not sufficient even to take care
of maintenance work at non-pro-
ducing mines, as the strike of the
Butte copper miners and smelter
workers continued. Three thousand
six hundred men are on strike in
Butte itself under the International
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Union CA. F. of ID.
At Anaconda, % miles from Butte,
where the ore is smelted, the smell
ter workers have struck. demanding
increased pay and a 30-hour week
and improved working conditions
The street railway workers of Ana
conda have walked out in sympa-
thy with the smelter men and min
ers. The Anaconda Smelter Works
are completely shut down.
The only state unit of the Ana
conda Copper Mining Co.. left op-
Grating Is the Great Falls Smelter
and Wire Mill. Although the ma
iority Of the workers in the Great
Falls unit voted to strike, a rule Of
the international Mine. Mill and
Smelter Workers Union that two
thirds ma jority is necessary, holds
the militant workers temporarily in
check.
In the mines of Butte Hill, miners
and hosting engineers have walked
out. Engineers and pump-men
walked out at o'clock this morn
ing. The capitalist press here be-
walls the fact that the union has
delegated no men for continuation
Of the unwatering operations or for
"fChfinp upderCroilf1d fires"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Co. Workers Of Slain Musician
Lay Death to Union Struggles
Richard Becher, Killed Friday Morning, Had Been
Consistent Fighter Against Bureaucracy

Becher was shot early Friday
morning by a man whom Mrs.
Becher, critically injured with four
bullet wounds, described as a slender
man, about five feet six inches tall,
his face masked with a white hand
kerchief. When police made their
first examination of the house at
96-l6 35th Ave, Elmhurst, Queens,
occupied only by the Bechers, they
found that the outside telephone
wires had been cut. that no evidence
of a forced entry was to be found,
and that no money or valuables
had been taken from the house, thus
terrifying the belief that it had been
planned attack to throttle the
voice of this militant rank and Ill
Continued on Page 81
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Workers Delegation
To Demand Release Of
Indian Militants Today

NEW YORK.-A workers dele
cation will call at the British En-
bassy in Washington, D. c.. this
afternoon to protest the continued
Imprisonment and narrowing tor
ture of Gurmuk Singh, seized with
another Indian revolutionary. while
attempting to cross the Afghan
frontier on Aug. 7. 1888, and i'm
prisoned by the Afghan agents of
British imperialism.
A telegram was dispatch yester-
day by William L. Patterson, Ma
tional Secretary Of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, to Sir Ron
aid Lindsey, British Ambassador
protesting Singh's imprisonment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
League Hides
RObber Aims
In Chaco W az
US. and Britain Stir Up
War for Control of
Rich Oil Fields

GENEVA, May 12-While the
League of Nations hypocritically
comes out in an 10000 word report
today urging European and Ameri-
can nations to end the Chaco war
in Latin America, it purposely ano
totally avoids mentioning the i'm
perialist factors behind this war
The war between Paraguay ane
Bolivia over who shall control tbs
oil-rich Chaco region is in reality
battle between American and
British imperialism, in behalf OF
their big oil trusts, utilizing the
lackey native bourgeoisie as theil
tools in the armed conflict
American imperialism backs Bo-
livia and has been supplying this
country with arms end military Spe-
cialists, while Great Britain is be-
hind Paraguay.
Rockefeller, Mellon VS.. Dutch Shell
The battle is being carried on to
determine whether the Rockefeller
and Mellon oil trusts shall control
the Chaco, or whether the British
Dutch Shell shall be able to trans
form the stream of blood being
poured out into rivers of oil for the
British capitalists.
The League of Nations document
addressed to Argentina, the United
States and European powers, de-
clares:
The armies engaged are using
up-to- date material, airplanes, ar
mored cars, plane projectors.
quick firing guns and automatic
rifles. The arms of every kind
used are not manufactured 10
caIly, but are supplied to the bel
ligerents by American and Euro
pean countries"
The arms are mainly supplied in
the United States by the Morgan
aircraft companies, the Pratt 4;
Whitney and the Wright Aviation
Corporation. The guns are supplied
by Colt and Remington, and the
ammunition by Du Pont. The Brit
ish supply Paraguay through Wick
ers Limited, while the French
Czech and German munitions man
ufacturers have also been able to
make profits out Of this war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
And
WhiteRelief
Strikers On
Picket Line
Unite SOlidly, Defeat
Race Riot Plans of
Relief Officials

HAMILTON, Ohio, May 10. =
United ranks of Negro and white
striking work relief employees and
their families are daily picketing the
job projects here, defeating the aims
Of the city and relief officials to in
stigate race riot as the officials
brought in Negro workers to act as
Strikebreakers.
The Butler County officials are
doubling their efforts to smash the
strike of the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration workers, nov
entering its fifth week, by herding
scabs and thugs on the jobs, ano
modifying police armed with ma
chine guns and tear gas. About 12s
strikers formed a mass picket line
on the Crawford Run job. Despite
police terror, and hopelessly out
numbered by armed police, orderly
picket ranks were maintained.
When the scabs started to remove
tools from the tool shed, the work.
erS interviewed. A Scab threw a
pick-ax at one of the strikers, but
the striker defended himself, and
the scab was sent to the hospital
Another of the strikers was ar
rested.
An ordinance has been passed in
Butler County to the effect that not
more than three persons may as
semble at one time on the streets
Scores of strikers Throughout the
county are in Jail as the police are
increasing the terror in an attempt
to smash the strike. One worker
reported having overheard Police
Chief Callahan saying that work
would be resumed if it was neces-
sary to shoot down the strik-
ers on the picket line. Despite thi;
terror and provocation, the workers
and their wives and children are or
the picket lines daily.
Charles King, A. F. of L. official Of
the Moulders Union ives instru-
mental in importing seabs. Kenneth
Browning, country relief director
is paying the scabs 40 cents an hour
and $1.37 an hour for skilled work
erS, promising to raise the wages
to "A cents an hour shortly. Brown
ing is offering this wage increase as
an inducement to return The work
erS to the job without making 3
strike settlement, smash the organi-
zation,. cut relief, and have the re-
lief workers at the mercy of the
city officials.
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio. - For the
first time workers damned the
courtroom here at a trial of fellow
workers when seven striking F.E
RIA. employees, arrested for picket
ing, were tried in the court of Mon
roe, a small town near Middletown
Mayor Stuart, of Monroe, owner
of the Oakland Canning Co., plant
known throughout Butler County fol
speed up and low wages, was tria,
judge. Neither the judge nor the
prosecuting attorney were able tc
uncover law to justify the arrests
which were obviously frame up tc
remove the militant workers from
the strike scene. Thirty three other
strikers are in Jail in Middletown
for picketing.
The trial Of the seven strikers has
been postponed to May %, when
they will be tried by jury.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
BIackHand Threat Is
Given Negro Member
OF Jobless Council

DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)
CHICAGO, May ia black hand
note attached to a brick was hurled
at the home of Negro worker at
1858 Hirsch Blvd, last Wednesday
night in an attempt to terrorize Ne
groes in the neighberhood and drive
them out of the neighborhood.
The note fastened to the brick
read: You must get out Of
here in 48 hours. Signed, The Black
Hand"
While the throwers of the brick
have not been identified, a fascist
group is active in the neighborhood
and is suspected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
1000 Women on
Strike in Detroit
TobaccoCompany
Demand Higher Pay
Better Conditions;
TUUL Gives Aid


DETROIT, May 13.-One thou
sand women tobacco workers Of r.
G.. Dun Co., st. Aubin and Mil
waukee AYES, are continuing their
strike for hirher wages and doesn't
working conditions despite efforts OF
Martin Miller. A. F. OF L. organizer,
to persuade them to go beck and
be "ladylike."
Tomorrow committee of strik
ers is scheduled 10 appear before
the board. Mili5ant5 in the union
are warning workers not to be
tricked, but to stick fast to the de-
mands of SIC a week minimum
wage, 40-hour week, an end to the
speed-up and no determination fer
union activity. The Trade U-licn
Unity League hiss announced its
supper of tie strike and is urging
the workers not to be nlisled By
the mansuvers Of the A. F. of L..
leaders and the Labor Board but
to fight on until all the demands
are granted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Dressmakers Called to
Picket Striking Shops

NEW YORK. ALL active members
OF the Dresamakers Industrial Union
are called by the union to report
Monday ct 1850 am. to picket strik-
ing shops throughout the city.
Strikes against opsn-shop and
sweat-shop conditions are being
conducted by the union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Wounded Striker
Near Death A S
Ala. Terror RACES
Warrants Out for so
Negro Ore Miners
in Frame-Up
TRIAL THURSDAY
Urge Workers to Flood
Court With Wires
lspeciaI o tha Daily worker

tSpecIal 10 the Dally worker
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May
13.-Terror continued to rage
in the strike of the 5000 Ala
bama ore miners. An ore
striker shot at Jasper by the
armed forces of the Tennes-
see Coal and Iron Company
Morgan CONTROLLED now lies near
death. Fifty warrants have been is
sued for the arrest of Negro iron
ore strikers, on framed up charges
of assault with intent to murder,
according to information received
here.
The seven workers arrested in
Birmingham in raid on a private
home, are to be tried Thursday
morning at 9 O'Clock in room 507 at
the Jefferson County Court House,
where the Scottsboro boys are
lodged.
These seven workers are being
tried in a further attempt to break
the strikes Of the coal miners, iron
ore miners and steel workers of the
Thomas blast furnace of the Re-
public Steel Co. The "red scare" has
been raised in an attempt to end, by
means of reign of terror, the
strike Of the workers.
Fighting for Elementary Rights
n The strikers are fighting for their
Elementary rights to organize, to
picket. to speak and to assemble.
8The ore miners are striking against
a wage seduction put over with the
aid of the MIRA. The T.CI. and
the other large companies have I'M
loossd vicious reign of terror
against the strikers, under cover of
the slogan Wipe out Communism. .
All workers and all working
class organizations are urged to at
once send kilograms to Judge
Alternately, Room 507, Jefferson
!. County Court House, Bir,ning-
ham, Ala, demanding the imme-
date release of the seven militant
workers who have been framed
up. The International Labor De-
Tense, the International Workers
Order, and the Trade Union
Unity League have issued state
ments urging all members of their
organizations, all branches and
connections, to food Abernathy's
court room with protest teIe-
grams.
Lizzie johnson, Negro woman
worker, beaten up and jailed by po-
lice on May Day, has been released
without charges.
Upstate Workers Protest
ALBANY, N. Y, May 13.-At the
last membership meeting of the Al
bany Relief Workers Union, with
about 100 members present, it was
decided to send kilograms of pro-
test against the shooting of Ala
bama miners to Governor Miller of
Alabama and President Roosevelt.
Workers of Schenectady will hold
an open air protest demonstration
against the Alabama shooting this
Saturday, called by the LID. of
Schenectady.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Thugs Murder a Negro
Decker at Mobile, Ala.
Waterfront
.JOBLESS PICKET
MWIU Leads General
Portland Ship Strike
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
SEAT TIE, Wash.-All scabs
we're driven off the docks here by
1000 striking longshoremen from
Tacoma, Seattle and Everett. In
ternationsI Longshoremen Asso-
citation officials here threatened
TO ask the Governor to call In
troops to break the picket lines.
A conference Of five locals of
the ]. L. A. proposed that all To-
Gals vote on arbitration on the
question of wages and hours and
continue the strike pending the
outcome Of the arbitration.
Especial to the Daily Worker
SAN FRANCISCO, May
ia cheering and shout
ing picket line of over 2,000
longshoremen forced t h
closing of the doors of all
piers where ships are locked
Crews of eleven steam
ships, the Tillamook, Wspana, Eliz-
abeth. Daisy Grey, Texas Planter,
Washington. Solano, Peter Helms,
President Hayes, Willapa and Ore
gonian have joined with the long
shoremen in sympathy strike be-
cause of the efforts of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union.
Other ships crews are expected to
Join the strike at any minute. Those
expected to strike the Steel Inyen-
tor. Steel Engineer, Oakmer Ad-
miral Sem, Admiral Laws, Hoover,
ANNA Alexander, Manila, Mala,
wallingford. Felix Taussig and the
San Vicente.
Six policemen and three long
shoremen were hurt when the cop;
tried to herd scabs on the docks.
Teamsters decided Friday night
to refuse to handle scab cargo on
the piers. They have postponed ac-
ton on a sympathy strike until to-
day.
Supporting the strikers. $50 uni
versity students at Berkeley held 6
mass meeting under the leadership
Of the National Students League to
protest against the scab herding &C.
tivities Of Bill Ingram. football
coach and former Navy Lieutenant.
The students forced President
Sproul to declare that the practice
will be stopped.
Leading the forces of strike
breaking is the notorious Captain
William Red" Hynes of the So
called radical squad.
Unemployed Picket
SEATTLE, May 10. - Striking
longshoremen applauded a demon
stration led by the Unemployed Cit
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Fred. Welsh, Framed
Negro Militant, To Be
Sentenced Tomorrow

NEW YORK. = Frederick Welsh,
militant Negro worker arrested last
Monday on trumped-up charge
of possessing policy slips, was de-
clared guilty" in Special Section OF
the Bronx County Court last We'd
nesday and held for investigation
He will be sentenced Tuesday morn
ING,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
NY. DOckers
Out; Support
Gulf Strike
Other Docks Expected
To Come Out Today;
LILA. Hits Pickets

NEW YORK. - Longshoremen on
the West Side coastwise piers are
expected to walk off Of several docks
this morning in support Of the strik-
ers in the gulf port towns.
Already the men are striking on
two piers of the Clyde Mallory
Line. The docks where the men are
expected out today are the South
ern Pacific, Morgan Line, Lucken-
back Line and the Moore & McCor-
mick coastal division.
Joseph P. Ryan, sensing the mill
tant spirit Of the lockers, issued a
statement that there would be no
illegal picketing." LILA. delegates
on the docks have been urging those
already on strike not to picket.
Meanwhile scabs were brought in by
the O'Toole Detective Agency.
Organizers from the Marin e
Workers Industrial Union are on the
waterfront calling on the men to
set up rank and file strike commit
tees and organize picketing.
Especial to the Daily WOrker)
PHILADELPHIA, May IL. = Two
hundred and fifty longshoremen at
Pier As of the Southern Steamship
Co, drove Polly Baker, LILA. mis-
leader, from the dock when he tried
to force them into the LILA. and
drive them into an unprepsred
strike. Longshoremen on the dock
organized dock committee and
began the organization OF local OF
the M.WI.U.
Demands adopted by meeting OF
the men are for IS cents an hour
time and half for overtime, the
eight hour day, recognition of the
dock committee and unemployment
insurance paid by the shipowners
and government.
Polly Baker since last Thursday
attempted to mobilize LILA. long
shoremen to attack workers on Piel
46 but failed to rally more than Il
of his henchmen. Baker called g
special meeting OF the deepwatel
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14

S t r | k e, arrived
Ee-e yesterday
and Wa greeted
by workers and
r e p reeeltatives
Of the Interna-
tional Labor De-
( c n S e at the
G g n d Central
Station.
Blum, who had
been parcled on
8 previous SEN
tnnce has re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Leon Blum, Framed Laundry
Union Head, Arriues In n. Y.
Released from State Prison After More Than Year
for Leadership in Bronx Laundry Strike

NEW YORK-Leon Blum, leader
OF the Leundry Workers Industrial
Unicn who spent more than a year
in the State prisons fer his militant
leadership in 2 Bronx laundry
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14

arrested in the spring of 1888 for
militant leadership in the Laundry
Workers industrial Union in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14

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Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-08-29

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Gilchrist of Bohemian; Alex Gil
christ of Longview, WASH; Don
Gilchrist and Mrs. Bessie Ander-
son of Compton, Cal; Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Nuttmann of Los
Angeles, CAL, and Mrs. Charles
Rhodes and daughter, Mary, of
Fromberg.
Adrian Hess was visiting for
mer Bridger friends this week. Mr..
Hess was accompanied by his
mother.
Miss Florence Batson, former
Bridger teacher, was in town for
a short visit Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Strong, Mr..
and Mrs. Gus Boehm and Eugene
Benson spent Sunday fishing on
Crooked creek.
Mr.. and Mrs. A.. N. Johnson
have returned from a trip to Great
Falls and Glacier park.
Miss Carmen Thompson of Val
ley City, N. D., is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. E. X. Talbot.
Mrs. Paul Pierce was a Billings
visitor Saturday.
Mrs. Herman Eggebrecht of
Fromberg was an overnight guest
at the Erickson home Friday.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-08-29

school buildings, putting them in
readiness for the opening of school
Tuesday, Sept. A.
We recently learned that the
reason Budd Burch has been carry
ing around a down-in-the-mouth
expression and an in-grown dis
position is due to the fact that a
certain young lady in Spokane,
who early in the summer decided
to spend a part of her vacation in
this locality, had recently changed
her mind.
Someone has said that it isn't so
much that the good die young as
it is that most people just natur-
ally become meaner as they grow
older.
The Carlson boys, Vic and Carl,
Familiarity known as the Swedes,
from Sentinel Butte, N. D., drove
into this community some two
weeks ago to visit friends and rel
atives and participate in the har-
vest. They said that the sight of