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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Counter Revolutionary!

"fY'HE N.R.A. is cOunter-revolutionar
L movement"
So admitted Donald Richberg, former
legal advisor of the railroad brotherhoods
and now general counsel of RooseveIt's
National Recovery Administration, be-
fore the annual dinner of the American
Law Institute, Saturday night
He did not state that the NRA is "a step to-
ward socialism," as Norman Thomas has tried to
make the workers believe
Neither did he pretend in the words of Will
liam Green, that the N.R.A. is "labor's bill of
rights"
He even brushed aside the early assertions of
Roosevelt and his brain trusters" that the MIRA
is "a legislative revolution"
Here there was no need for demagogy. He could
say plainly to the American Law Institute The
MIRA. is a counter-revolutionaT movement"
His more complete statement is even more use
full because it admits the lying demagogy of both
Administration and Republican spokesman
ut may be useful to political parties to argue
that the NRA program is communistic revo-
lutionary," said Rchberg, but to students of pol
itics and to men learned in law, any such argu-
ments must appeal sound and fury, sig
nifying nothing"
Yes, to fool the masses it may be useful to speak
n,
"a step toward socialism" But says Richberg, such
talk is mere sound and fury, sgnifyng nothing"
Socialist and A. F. of L. workers who until now
have believed the words of their leaders, Thomas
and Green, could well ponder over these remarks
of Donald Richberg
AFTER so clearly stating what the NRA is not,
he then tells what it really is
THE MA. is nter-revolutionary move
ment, he adds definitely and deliberately designed
to parpetuate American institutions and instrument
talities of individual liberty and self government"
Of course. American institutions" individual
liberty" self government" etc, is only Richbergs
own brand of sound and fury, sgnifying nothing"
designed to soften the impact of the bold decara-
ton on the definite" and deliberate" counter
revolutionary aim of the NRA
What the N.R.A. is really designed to perpetuate
what Richberg really means by American nstitu-
tons" is the present capitalist system with it's
hunger and misery for the masses of the people
1t is for the Wall Street bankers and the biggest
manufacturers that he wants to retain individual
liberties and sef-government" the individual liberty
and sef-government Of the Morgan, Ford Rookie
feer and Mellon trusts
When Richberg declared that the MIRA. was
definitely and deliberately designed" as counter
revolutionary movement he was only making clear
that it designed as an instrument against the
workers.
The working class is the revolutionary class. the
class opposed to capitalism The workers want
nothing further to DO with the individual liber-
ties and sef-government" of capitalism they want
the liberties and self government that will follow
the setting up of a revolutionary workers govern
ment. Soviet Government in the United States
We thank Mr. Richberg for putting the counter
revolutionary purpose Of the N-R.A. so clearly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Protest NoavA gainst Fascist
Violence in the Il. S.

MURDER and violence are the chief
VI weapons now being used by the capital-
st class and their police and military
agents against the workers in series of
militant strikes, especially in the Alabama
ore fields, on the Pacific and Southern Gulf
Coast docks, and against Southern textile
xo~F-rc
The toll CT workers lives has been heavy -Four
Negro iron miners striking for higher wages and
or the right Of Organization were brutaly shot dead
BY deputized gun thugs in Alabama. Just short
while before that a Negro coal miner was riddled
with bullets by gun thugs of the Morgencontrolled
mines.
Saturday Negro longshoreman in Galveston,
Texas, was sent to his grave by bullet because he
dared to hold his place en- the picket line Scores
have been rounded in oil Of these strikes feeling in
their naked fash the brutal force of the capitalist
state in action against their strike for bread and
for tine organization to insure that norsel of bread
But this is only the beginning. It is the first
wave Of storm Of violence being prepared under
the wings of Roosevets Blue Eagle 1t is a nation
wide mobilization of the forces of reaction against
strikers. Governor Martin of Washington has the
National Guard in readiness to shoot down strik-
ing longshoremen. In San Francisco, police are
ordered to go to the limit against the lockers In
CoWpens south Carollna, armed gun thugs have
surrounded the Cowpens mill, with orders to shoot
down strike pckets.
Why this sudden burst of violence? Why this
fierce bloody attack against the workers especially
against the Southern Negro and white strikers?
all of the maneuvers of the Roosevelt ad-
ministration to break the of strikes is
being supplemented by the most ferocious terror
because the Roosevelt demagogy is failing TO fool
the workers. The lcngshoramen are striking
despite Rooecyeits orders for trem TO remain on
the lob. Despite RocsoveIts decree of the diff
ferentisI, slave wage for the Southern workers,
they stubbcrnly and persistently strike.
Against these workers there is unloosed cam
paign of terror that is only comparable with the
flemish attacks Of Hitler against the German labor
The other face of Roosevelt demagogy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Refuse Workers
Delegation Visit
To See ThaoImann
They Are Convinced He
Is Tortured and
Badly Injured
PARIS, May 10. Ernst Thael

PARIS, May 13 = Ernst Thael-
mn, imprisoned leader of the
communist Party, has been tortured
and wounded, is the firm conviction
of a Swiss, Franco Belgian. and Al
sacs-Lorraine delegation of workers
which recently went to Berlin and
interviewed the Nazi Minister Of
the Interior Prick, and have made
their report here to the Interna
tional Red Aid.
Demanding to speak personally
with Goering or Goebbels, the dele
cation was turned over to Herr
Braune of the Nazi state Secret Po-
lice. Herr Braune refused to permit
the delegation to visit Comrade
Thaelmann. He quite cynically
fastened to tell the delegation that
"Thaelmann is still Cd alive, and
in good, health"
The delegates told Nazi Braune
their opinions very plainly, which
threw the Hitler hangman into q
rage and he abruptly broke off the
interview.
Sure Thaelmann Is Wounded
AS a result of their investigations,
and the replies received at the va
rious Nazi headquarters, the dele
gates are firmly convinced that
Comrade Thaelmann has been tor
tured and wounded, and that is the
sole reason why the authorities are
afraid to let him be visited.
The delegates finally stated this
opinion to the officials of the Nazi
State Secret Police. These showed
the greatest embarrassment, which
they tried to conceal by Offering to
show the delegates model" con-
centration camp. On the return
journey, the delegates were forced
to submit to a complete search. Only
after three hours wait were they
permitted to continue their journey
The persistent news from first
hand sources of the renewed tor
lures of Comrade Thaelmann make
imperative the most energetic cam
paign throughout the world to save
his life,
Mobilize protests everywhere to
be sent to Hitler, Goering and
Goebbels demanding the release
of Comrade Thaelmann; demand
ing the right of workers dclega-
tons to visit him, and of other
than Nazi doctors to examine him
and report his condition to the
world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Crush the "VamPire
of the Sea"

FROM the ports of the Pacific coast down
L to the Gulf of Mexico, over 10000 long
shoremen are waging one of the most mil
liant struggles in American marine his
tory. A hundred and fifty ships are sta
tionary in Western ports. The strike IS
spreading, growing in strength. Tired OF
the promises Of the Ryan machine, Of the N. r. A.
maneuvers and promises the longshoremen are
battling for higher wages better conditions, shorter
hours
The forces of reaction-the shp-owners, gov
eminent officials, the Ryan machine-are mobiliz-
ing frantically to break the strike, with the old
methods of terror and recruiting of scabs,
The longshoremen's answer to these strike break
ing maneuvers is even greater militancy and the
establishment of the united front of seamen and
longshoremen the united front of the Marine Work
ers Industrial Union and the International Long
shoremen's Association.
In a warm appeal, the MWIU. which during
the last period has led SO many militant struggles
to victory pledges its wholehearted solidarity to
the strikinS members of the I. L. A. and calls for
the unity of all marine workers. regardless of union
afaliation, in national united action. Only such
action the appeal states will smash the solid front
of the shipowners, N. r. A. and the official strike
breakers.
The Communist Party not only gI6eJS WIFI
enthusiasm this militant struggle and the call of
the M. W. L U. for the establishment Of united
front action of marine workers and 1ongshoremen,
but calls upon it's members the phalanz Of sym
pathizers and all class struggle organizations, to
rally to the support of this militant strike, to aid
the longshoremen in strengthening their picket
lines to raise relief for the strikers and their fami
lies
7 ONGsHORENfEN, marine workers. This strike
l. must be won, will be won! The united front of
the rank and file, the common determination in
The struggle the experiences gained in the strug-
giles of your brothers in other industries will crush
The vampire Of the sea-" the ship owners, the
Ryans and Co. the lackeys of capital!
Party members among the longshoremen and
marine workers: to your place in the first line of
battle! The line CT struggle is given by the NJ. w.
IT, which appeals to all Iongshorenlen and seamen
N ell Atlantic perts regardless Of their union afil-
ltion.
Refuse to discharge or load ships coming from or
bound for West Coast and Gulf ports until the con-
Ausion Of the strike!
Refuse to lead cargo, to provide steam to scabs,
to sail with scab cargo aboard!
Organize and strike for higher wages better
conditions, shorter hours and unemployment in
yurance!
Avoid the trap of arbitration and insist on di-
rect negotiation of your own chosen representatives
With the company.
On to the National Unity Conference of Sea-
men and Longshoremsn to be held in Baltimore on
August 30 and September l!
Forward with Roshevik determination to
strengthen and develop the struggle and bring the
strike to victory
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
Mass Protest Meet
tOScOre EnemieSOf
u. s. Soviet Trade
To Be Held at Cooper
Union Hall Fri; Many
Prominent Speakers

NEW YORK. Friends of the
Soviet Union has called mass pro-
test meeting against the enemies of
Soviet trade. The meeting will take
place next Friday night at $50 pm
at Cooper Union Hall, 9th Street
and Cooper Square. The speakers
at this important protest meeting
are Maxwell Stewart Of the Re-
search Department of the Foreign
Policy Association, Prof. H. w. L.
Dana of Cambridge, Mass, Roy
Hudson, National Secretary of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
Tim Holmes of the General Executive
Board of the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union, and Herbert
Goldfrank, National Secretary of the
Friends of the Soviet Union. In ad-
dition, a worker will come down
right from the picket line of a
Hartford, Conn. airplane strike and
voice his protest on behalf of the
striking airplane workers of Hart
ford.
This is the first shot In the cam
paign to force the Roosevelt Admin
istration's Export-Import Bank tc
rescind its decision not to grant
credits to the Soviet Union until ii
had settled for the Russian" debts
The Roose welt administration
through the Export-Import Bank
decision and by virtue of U. S. At
torney- General Cummings incorrect
decision in reference to the johnson
Bill that the Soviet Union is in de-
fault, must be fought by every
American worker and farmer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14
USSR Spring Sowing Exceeds
1888 By 3O,OOO,OOO Acres

MOSCOW, May Is (By Radio).-Spring sowing is
proceeding successfully throughout the u S. S. R. Up to
May 5h 11675000O acres were planted 502 per cent
of the Second FveYear Plan which is 100000 acres
more than last year at the same date.
In the North Caucasian region, the sowing, both
among collective farmers and individual peasants has
been completed 1t ended 40 days earlier and with COM
paratively higher qualities than in 1888
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M. Gorky's Son, Maxim
Peshkov, Dies in USSR
Special to the Daily Worker

MOSCOW. May IL (By Radio -
Maxim Peshkov, son of Maxim
Gorky, So year old son of the inter-
nationally famous novelist, died
yesterday Of Inflammation of the
lungs.
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IT EMPHASIZES again and agar.
1 what the 18th Plenum of t he
Communist International pointed
cut; that the basic world antasso:.1.-
ism is between the world of dying
rotting capitalism, and the land OF
rising, advancing socialism. Nc
matter how deep and bitter the
inter-imperialist conflicts may be
no matter how monstrous their wal
preparations may be against one
another, the logic of developments
leads them to attempt to sink thei1
differences temporarily in order to
attack their chief enemy, the vic
torious proletarian revolution.
The Roosevelt government, de-
spite recognition of the Soviet
Union, leaves the way open for
support to the anti-Soviet war
front. The criininally false state
ment that the Soviet Union is in
default on It's debts, and the block
ing OF U. S.-Soviet trade on this
cccount, Plus the governments
countenancing of arms to Hitler,
shoTs which way the wind Is blow
ing in this country
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-09
STATE DEFICIT | WAS CHARGED TO | REPUBLICANS
Governor Cross Asserted the Legislature Blocked
 Economic Plans

Hartford, Conn, Aug 9.-(UP)- Responsibility for the $14,000,00O deficit which the state will have accrued at the end of the present biennial period, June 30, 1885, to- day had been charged by Goyf Will bur L. Cross to the republican members of the general assembly.
 Speaking at a testimonial dinner to Congressman Herman F. Kop- plemann last night, the governor declared that since he took office four years ago he had tried to eS- tablish an efficient administrative setup in the government and was defeated at two sessions of the leg islature.
 If the general assembly had fol- lowed the requests of the governor there would have been a simpli- fled state administration and a re- vised tax law which would have made a deficit impossible" he as- serted. "The result is that at the close of the biennial period ending June 30, 1895 the deficit will be IA million dollars. For this situation the general assembly and not the governor is responsible.
 s'In my first inaugural address took up the question of. efficiency and economy in the administrative setup. saw the tax base was very narrow and needed widening. I asked of the legislature the ap- pointment of a commission which would report to the general assem- bly, at it's next session. but was defeated. However, at the session of the last general assembly the situation became such that the re- publican legislators authorized me again defeated in my request for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-09
DOCTORS FIND
 MUMPS VIRUS
Medical Experimen f CT s Report Discovery Gauss
 ing Dreaded Disease

Nashville, Tenn.-(UP)-Johnny Schoolboy was promised relief to- i day from the scourge of childhood -mumps.
 | The youngest of the younger generation soon will laugh heart ] fly when parents tell of their 1 childhood woes involving days spent nursing painfully swollen jaws.
 Johnny will be able to laugh be- cause he will have been vaccinated for humps along with his small- pox, typhoid fever and other standard inoculations. Two medical experimenters at { Vanderbilt University reported discovery of the virus that causes the disease of humps. The scien- tists-Dr. Claude D. Johnson and Dr. Ernest w. Goodpasture-after working for more than a year on monkeys, ascertained that swell ing of the animals parotid glands (jaws) invariably followed inocu- lation with saliva from human be- ings suffering with humps.
 "The experimental disease can be produced at will" pr. Johnson stated, and it is judged that this virus, which does not correspond with any known virus familiar to us, is the caustive agent of mumps."
 The doctors continue their ex- periments with the newly discoV- cred virus and expect shortly to develop an immunizing agent and serum for treatment of the dis ease.
 Previously, medical authorities were divided on the cause of humps. Opinions varied with bac- teria, filterable virus and spiro- chaete advanced most popularly as causative agents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-09
No Life Exists On
 Mars Says Expert
Water and Oxygen Requisites Too Meager on Planets
 Believes Mount Wilson Scientist

renders negligible any Idea that life is extant upon 1t.
 Immense Changes
 At its closest approach to the sun, surface temperature approxi- mates 60 degrees Fahrenheits He- moved its greatest distance from the sun, the temperature reaches zero. A temperature of about ~ degrees, and even lower, Is believed to be that of the dark side. Every 24 hours, as the planet rotates upon it's axis, it's surface tempera- ture is therefore subject to im- mense changes.
 Because of its sparse atmo- phere, Mars coo1s and warns more rapidly than any of our earth's deserts.
 Polar Ice Caps
 At each of it's poles are two polar ice caps showing prominent variations stimulating the Mar tial seasons; they are reduced in size in the summer and are en- larged in the winter. Such changes indicate that if these polar caps actually exist they must be pro- portionately thin.
 Upon it's surface, Mars has a series of fine networks. Some as- tronomers have extended the theory that they were artifcially constructed and suggested that they were used to convey water to that section of Mars which is geo. graphically analogous to our trop- ical region. Appearance of a num- Der of yellow b1otches upon it's equatorial section, becoming more accentuated as au u m n ap- breaches, implies vegetation, in the opinion of a number of astrono- mers-hence the linking of the canals with the supposed vegeta- tive vicinity
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-09
NEW MARKER FOR
 GRAVE OF HERO
Major James McFarlane Remembered After
 l43 Years

Monessen, Pa. -(UP) = One hundred and forty-three years ago, a leader in Western Pennsyl- vania's bloody Whisky Insurrec- tion was buried in Mingo church. yard, an enemy's bullet through his heart.
 Recently the yellowed worn sandstone, marking the tomb of Major James McFarlane, Revolu- tionary War hero, was removed and a new bronze. marker was erected over the grave undistrubed since 1791.
 The original inscription was en- graved on the new monument. Ii reads:
 Here lies the body of Capt James McFarlane, of Washington Pennsylvania. He departed this life July IT, 1791, aged 43. He served through the war with un- daunted courage in defense ot American Independence, against the lawless and despotic encroach. ments of Great Britian. He fell at last by the hands of an unprinci- pied william, in support of what he supposed to me the rights of his country, much lamented by a nu- merous and respectable circle of acquaintances."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-09
BRITISH FLYERS
 NOT HEARD FROM
No Word From the Two In the Past Twenty=One
 Hours

London, Aug 9-(UP)-Twenty- two hours after their take-off from Wasaga Beach, Ont, Leonard G.. Reid and J. R. Ayling, attempting a new long distance flight record, had not been sighted over Euro pean territory today, although weather conditions over the Alt lantic were reported favorable.
 The British an. ministry said the flyers should have had reasonably good conditions in mid-Atlantic. A moderate westerly wind was blow ing off the Irish coast, and al- though the sky was overcast, wis., ibility was good. Rain was ex- pected later in the morning. Sim liar conditions prevailed over the southern route, the ministry re- ported. At that hour, the last re- port from the flyers was that of a radio station off the east coast of Canada, which said plane re- sembling that of the British avia- tors had been seen off Flat Island, near Belle Isle, at 4:25 p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-09
SUIT CLUE MAN
 HELD BY POLICE
New H av ener to be Quizzed on Weekly Raf-
 file Sponsored Here

William Fitzsimmons, 80, of 75 Gregory street. New Haven, was taken into custody this afternoon by Detectives William Foley and Edward McElligott and is being held at headquarters for question: ing in regard to his connection with a so-called "suit club"
 Police say that they have re- ceived complaints that the man was sponsoring a weekly suit raffle, but that the winners declare they fail to receive the new clothing. De- tectives were informed that the man promised a free suit to each person who secured five or six members of his "club."
 Lieut.. Detective Joseph Stevens has been in difficulties with New Haven authorities in connection with similar activities.
 No formal charge had yet. been lodged against the New Havenite early this afternoon but it was ex- pected that he would be formally booked later today. He was picked up while endeavoring to collect money from a suit club member at the Worden Dairy plant on Cherry street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-09
BANK DEPOSITS
 ARE PROTECTED

Washington, Aug e. (UP)- More than 40 per cent of the na- tion's $40, 100000 bank de- posits are backed by federal in- surance, Chairman Leo T. Crowley of the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation reported today.
 Crowley said more than 56,000,- 900 accounts totaling $16,000.0 .00O,- 900 were insured as of June 30, 1884.
 The figures were based upon old regulations, which placed a limit upon $2,500 or less as the maxi mum. Since then, the maximum has been increased to $5,000.
 The insurance, he said. cost less than six cents per $1,000.
 More than 14,000 state, national and mutual savings banks are members of the insurance fund against about HOO licensed banks, which are not, Crowley said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-09

Louis soboi, former local news paperman and now a nationally known Broadway columnist, was one of those injured in the gas ex- plosion which wrecked the 18th lIoor of an apartment house in Greenwich Village, New York. early yesterday afternoon, killing one woman and injuring a score of other persons. MT. Sobol re- ceived a leg gash that required several stitches to close, when he was thrown out of bed by the blast and struck with flying debris.
 The former local reporter was asleep in his penthouse apartment when the blast came. Fearing that the entire roof would collapse and that water tank might fall through, he managed to get to the street by means of an elevator. His maid was uninjured in the ex- plosion. MT. Sobors wife and 13- year-old daughter were out of the city at the time.
 Debris was showered over an acre of several blocks in the ex- plosion and police had to keep thousands of curious out of the vii