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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Students to Strike against Var Friday at IL A. M,
Bankruptcy of
NaZi Germany
Points to War
Gold Reserve Waning,
Schacht Threatens
Full Moratorium

BERLIN, April 10. - The
German government has prac-
tically declared itself bank
rupt with respect TO its for
eign d e b is. DIR. Hjalmar
Schacht, president Of the Reichs-
bank, told representatives of Ger
many's private creditors, meeting at
Basic. Switzerland, that q complete
moratorium on cash payment Of
debts was to be expected.
This situation further accentu-
ates the isolation into which the
Nazi policies have driven Germany;
but it is also being used as a whip
to compel the extension of further
credits to Germany in protection OF
old debts.
It provides no release, however,
from the crushing burden placed by
the German ruling class on the
masses, and is no fulfillment of
Hitler's promise" TO shake that
burden off. On the contrary, DR..
Schacht insisted Germany wanted
to pay, and asked for international
assistance to sweat the necessary
sums out of the German masses.
Germany's gold reserve has
dwindled to $97, 1865 900, largely
through importation Of raw ma
terials for war preparations, in the
form of metals, chemicals and cot
ton.
Germany's bankrupt position
immensely intensifies the danger Of
an early war, which the biggest
German capitalists see as the only
means to increase their business,
while utilizing the greatly intensi-
fled exploitation Of workers in war
time to increase their profits, While
the aims of the war itself would be
to add new territory to the field
of German capitalist exploitation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11

convention is preparing for lead
ership of the struggle against hun
ger, fascism and war program of
capitalism with the sharpest en-
phasis placed on the struggle for
Negro liberation. The entire Party
pledges a ten-fold increase in
mass struggle to gain your release
from the Southern lynch prison"
Ben Gold, leader of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union,
was announced to speak amid a
storm of handclapping.
I'm the final analysis" stated
Comrade Gold, "the determining
factor is to what degree, to what
extent do the leading comrades
make a conscious effort to carry
on consistent and persistent strug-
gle for the correct party line, and
with what results?"
The Party will have to pay closer
attention to the trade union frac-
tons, said Comrade Gold. THE
sharp criticism of the Seventh Con-
vention of our mistakes have helped
us very MUCH" he said. 1--WE suf-
fered from the two mistakes of not
working within the reformist unions,
the right mistake; and the leftist
mistake of only calling on the work.
ers to leave these unions and join
us. Since then we have corrected
these mistakes and are making
progress
He proposed two methods of rails
ing the political level of the men,
bers in the revolutionary trade
unions. They are ID Open Party
meetings, where Party leaders will
come to take up trade union prob
lens from time to time, and discuss
the role of the Party; (2) A method
must be carried out, Of leaders COM
ing down to open fraction meetings
of the Party and non-Party men,
bers, to discuss with them the prob
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Convention W Tres Its
Greetings to Angelo
Herndon i'm Prison
BY HARRY CANNES

TRADE union questions were avidly
L discussed at the Eighth National
Convention of the Party, recently
concluded in Cleveland.
Auto workers, needle workers,
miners, seamen, japanese agricul-
tural workers, each in turn kept
the close attention of the conven-
ton relating the experiences of the
Party in their industries in winning
the workers for the revolutionary
way out.
A particularly striking feature is
the large number of new, capable
leading Negro workers who have
come to the forefront. AS a unit,
the convention called for a relent-
less fight on white chauvinism and
petty bourgeois nationalism and re-
formism.
Dealing with the auto strike sit
uation, Conlrade John Schmies, dis
trict organizer in Detroit, analysed
the significance of Roosevelt's vici-
GUS settlement" in the threaten
ing general auto strike.
did they entirely check the strike
movement" queried Schmies. mo.
The bourgeoisie was compelled, as
a result, chiefly, of the work of the
Party, the work of the Auto Work
ers Union, to give increases in wages
in many factories, including Ford's.
However, we must register that
we have failed on the whole up
to the present to give sufficient
leadership to the readiness on the
part of the workers, to struggle"
He laid bare the failure in con-
centration work, failures to put into
action the Open Letter, which were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11

The agreement also provides for de-
partment representatives to adjust
all disputes about piece rates with
the company's time study men. The
company will undoubtedly try to
convert these department represen-
tatives into a company union while
the militant workers are planning
to raise the demand for rank and
file elections.
Some Motor Products workers also
point out that the 10 per cent in
crease will mean nothing in those
departments where rates have been
cut in the past few weeks. They
only restore the old scale. How the
agreement will work out in prac-
tice is still uncertain, but it is clear
that the basic grievances remain
unsettled; that everything will be
done to prevent future strikes, and
that the A. F. Of L. leaders will try
to play even more open policing
roles to keep the workers down.
The original demands included rs
cents an hour minimum for I'M
skilled and 80 cents for semi-shlled;
and $1.10 for skilled.
Smith Rejects United Action
Proposals for united action by the
Mechanics Educational Society of
America, the Auto Workers Union
and the A. F. of L. rank and file to
win the Motor Products strike and
convert the Hudson lay-off into
strike, were rejected at a mass
meeting in Deutches Haus last night
by Matthew Smith, general secre-
tary of the MESA, despite strong
sentiment Of the workers present
in favor of the proposals.
About 500 strikers, a big proper
ton of the members of the MESA.
attended the meeting, which was
called by their organization at the
initiative of the MESA. Motor
Products strikers. The proposals for
united action were made by J. Will
son, national organizer of Local 7,
MESA.
Wilson proposed mass meeting
to be called at Arena Gardens and
of mass picketing with
rank and file negotiations commit
tee.
When Smith first spoke, he de-
nounced the A. F. of L. leaders. and
fired radical phrases which drew
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
.Nazi-SCOttSbOrO
Protest Parade in
Baltimore Sunday
Preparatory Conference
Called for Tonight
by the /. L. d.

BALTIMORE, April 1O.-Protest
against the brutal torture of Ernst
Thaelmann, German Communist
leader, by the Nazi butchers, and
of the Scottsboro boys and Angelo
Herndon at the hands of their
Southern jailers, and the mass fight
for their release, will reach high
point this Saturday evening with a
mighty torchlight parade and DEM
onstration through the streets of
Baltimore.
The action is being organized by
the International Labor Defense,
which has invited all organizations
and individuals "of all political and
social beliefs" to participate. A
call sent out by the I. L. D. urges
all organizations to set up a parade
committee of five to help prepare
the demonstration on the broadest
united front basis. A special pa
rade conference has been called for
this Wednesday evening at 7:30 at
1904 E. Baltimore ST., where final
plans and future actions will be
discussed and decided. Individual
workers and sympathizers are urged
to form Committees of Action in the
shops and neighborhoodS. Organ
izations are requested to donate
two or more dollars to help finance
the preparations for the parade.
Meanwhile, meetings are being
held throughout the city to mobilize
the widest support for the protest
action. The Scottsboro Branch Of
the I. L. D., composed mainly Of
longshoremen, is holding meetings
on the waterfront. The Ruby Bates
Branch will hold an open-air meet
ing this Wednesday night at Law
renee and Calhoun Sts., at which
Joe Benson, district organizer OF
the I. L. D., will speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11

had already agreed to raise wages of
unskilled from "A cents an hour
minimum to so for men, and from
IS to 40 cents for women.
Cab Hasty Meeting
To put over the new agreement.
A. F. of L. leaders and Labor Board
members resorted to the maneuver
OF calling hasty meeting at 6
O'Clock last night, attended by only
around $50 workers McGrady, using
the Roosevelt club, hammered away
at the workers. He was supported
by William Collins, A. r. of L. or
ganlzer, and Richard L. Byrd, fla-
boz" representative on the autono-
bile labor board.
AS result of ending of the Motor
Products strike, 1900 Hudson work
ers are also returning to work today
and tomorrow. Three Hudson plants
we're shut down yesterday on the
pretext that the Motor Products
strike had tied up their production,
but actually to prevent the Hudson
workers from also striking.
However, the strike of 800 Detroit.
Mich, Stove Co. workers holds solid
despite attacks of police armed with
clubs and tear gas bombs on strik-
ers. The stove workers, who are
striking under the leadership of the
Mechanics Educational Society, with
militants directing the struggle, are
demanding a 20 per cent increase in
pay and a 36-hour, 5-day week.
Lay Basis for SelIout
The agreement made in the Mo-
tor Products strike lays the basis
for real sellout by A. F. of L. lead
ers OF the main demands of the
strikers, which are not met in the
terms Of settlement.
One of the main points in the
agreement is setting up an arbitra-
ton committee which shall decide
all disputes, with the men remaining
at work while decision is pending.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Demonstration
Planned from
Coast to Coast
M ass Meetings Called
in Many Colleges by
N.S.L., LID.

NEW YORK.-Mass meet
ings against war, and a one
hour strike against war, at II
a. m. Friday, April -, will be
carried out by the students of
many universities, colleges, and,
high schools throughout the coun-
try, the Youth Section of the Amer
lean League Against Fascism an
nounced yesterday.
The one-hour strike is being or
gained by the National Student
League, the League for Industrial
Democracy, with the support of the
youth section of the League Against
War and Fascisrn, the Young Com
munist League and other youth or
CARNATIONS.
Five colleges in California, IN
GLIDING the University of California,
the University of Southern Cali
fornia, and the Los Angeles Junior
College will carry out the strike on
Friday.
John Hopkins university, Balti-
more, will strike.
At Massachusetts, Institute Of
Technology, in Cambridge, there will
be a mass anti-war meeting on April
10, and an anti-war conference on
April IA.
At Ohio State University, Colurn-
bus, Ohio, where 7 students were
recently expelled for obiecting to
R. o. T. G. drill, there will be
strike on Friday.
At Missouri State University,
there will be statewide anti-war
conference, April IA and IS, under
the auspices of the Social Problems
Club, and supported by the Youth
Section Of the League Against War
and FaScisrn. This conference will
also be called on to take up the
fight for the reinstatement of Eu-
gene Ringo, recently expelled for
objecting to R.OT.C. drill.
In New York, students of Column
bia University, City college, Brook
lyn College, Long Island University,
New York University, Seth Low
College, Clinton High School, Lin
coin High School, will strike at IL
a. m. Friday, and the students of
New Lots Evening School, Brook
lyn, will strike during the third and
fourth periods at night.
At City College, Norman Tallen-
tire, Secretary of the New York City
Central Committee of the League,
will address a mass meeting at II
a. m. Friday in Great Hall
At Columbia, Professor Margaret
Schlauch Of the League will address
a mass anti-war meeting in Room
300, Havemeyr Hall, at 8 p. m. to-
night.
In Clinton High, Bronx, there will
be mass meeting at 2:30 p. m. to-
day in the school auditorium in
preparation for the strike.
In Lincoln High, where a student
conference last week voted strike,
the principal decided to stop all
classes at the strike period and turn
them over to discussion of the
war danger.
At New Lots Evening High, where
the Students General Organization
voted strike, the principal arranged
for C.W.A. concert during the
strike period. The students have
been called on to boycott the con-
cert, and to rally in a mass anti-war
meeting outside the school during
the strike period.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
White Captain Gets 3
Months forSlayingNegro

BRUSSELS, (By MaiD The
captain of a Congo river-boat
has just been sentenced to three
months Imprisonment for the
murder of Negro worker. This
sentence is eontrasted to another
recent one of five years impri-
sonment imposed on native
charged with breaking window
pane and similar one for "jost-
ling a European"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Especial to the Daily WORKER

MOSCOW, April 10 (By Radio =
One of the most widely read books
in all history is Joseph Stains
fundamentals of Leninism," it is
revealed on the tenth anniversary
of the historic series of lectures by
Stain at Sverdlov University, which
were published under that title in
1926.
This book, which became one of
the main weapons of Marxist-Len-
inism education after the death of
Lenin, has sold 1896 copies in
editions printed in the Soviet
Union, in Russian, Urainian,
Georgian, Uzbek, Armenian, Jewish,
Finnish, Tadjik, Greek, Chinese and
other languages.
Outside the Soviet Union, it has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Dock Strike in Brazil;
Railway Strike Broken

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, April
10-Longshoremen of the Brazilian
Lloyd Navigation Company went on
strike yesterday, demanding higher
wages.
A strike of $4,000 railway workers
on the British-owned Leopoldina
Railway, who walked out Saturday
demanding wage increases, was
broken by their reformist leaders,
who accepted promise of President
Vargas that the Ministry of Labor
would work out a plant to meet
their demands within reason"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Motor Products Co.
Strike Ends; Men
Face New SeIlOuts

Continued from Page II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11

WEDNESDAY. APRIL Il. 1884
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11

TINE Eight National Convention Of the
Communist Party, concluded Saturday
night in Cleveland, was by far the greatest
and most significant in the Party's history.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-26
SIX ARE BURNED AS
FIRE RACES Hotel
Four-Story Structure at Utica,
N. r., Turned Into charnel
House by Flames

Utica. N. r., Feb. 26.-R)-six men
and possibly seventh burned to
death Monday morning in . fire that
destroyed the 25-year-old Marrone
hotel, a four-story structure. Only
four Of the six bodies taken out Of the
smouldering ruins were Immediately
identified. They were:
Salvatore Troja, 20.
Domincik Belilacqua.
Joseph Paladino.
Peter ellis.
Several other persons, taken to hos
pitfalls. were reported g not seriously
injured with the exception Of Steve
Salvone. who jumped from . second
story window. The flames had gain
ed great Roadway before the fire was
discovered by G. J. Marrone. who
operated the hotel.
Marrone's frantic calls brought to
his side his wife and five young chill
dren. whom he led to safety down .
fire escape. They lived on an upper
floor. It was on the same floor that
firemen later found the body Of one Of
the unidentified. huddled In Q cor.
ner near . stairway.
The origin Of the fire was not de-
termined Immediately.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-26
Family Is Murdered
By Maniacal Father

Oklahoma City, Feb. 26.-R-
John Cane led officers to
spot along the highway. then
screamed:
stop! My God, there's the
spot"
The Officers dug In the un-
marked graves to which he point
ed and found four bodies. q piece
Of shovel ana q woman's purse.
They were the bodies Of his wife
and her three children, said Cane,
and, according to Sheriff Stang
ley Rogers, the man said:
Il killed them"
Cane, who once had been adj
judged insane by the staff OF the
Veterans' Hospital at Little Rock.
Ark, Is being held under heavy
guard to prevent execution Of his
threat Of suicide. As he stood be-
side the graves. officers said. Cane
shouted:
Tomorrow I'll BE dead"
Sheriff Rogers stated that the
man repeatedly confessed the
slayings, but would not give de-
tails. Mrs. Cane and the children
Edna Merle, s, Leroy. I, and
Johnnie May, 2, were killed. ac-
cording to Canes story. last June
8 while on . picnic. In the wom-
ans purse was found = key to the
hotel room the CAneS nccilnied
Just prior to the picnic day.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-26
Plan New Campaign
On Wheat Allotment

Washington. Feb. 26.-tR,-Chester
G. Davis. farm administrator, said
Monday the campaign OF last fall to
sign up wheat growers In a compact
to reduce production would be reopen
ed.
The action was taken, Davis said. In
response to a widespread demand Of
farmers who did not sign last year.
THE reopening, which applies to ap-
proximately $4,000. 900 acres OF uncon-
tracted normal wheat land. follows
many requests for such action from
growers In practically all Of the wheat
growing states" Davis explained.
He added that the move was not
taken because the 1888 campaign had
not accomplished the 15-per-cent re-
duction agreed to in the international
wheat agreement.
Only after the new campaign closes,
the percentage Of abandonment is de-
and acreage Of spring wheat
seeded Is known can the exact reduce
ton be determined, Davis said.
Farmers who sign up during the
coming campaign will receive the Sec
ond benefit payment Of eight cents q
bushel scheduled to 60 to 1893 sign
ers, and the 1894 and 1885 adjustment
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-26
NRA REOPENS FEUD
With FORD; LABOR
CLAIMS VIOLATIONS
Motor Firm Submits Answer to
Complaints But Refuses to
Attend Hearing

Washington, Feb. -R- The
Ford Motor company Is under inves-
tigation by NRA's national compli-
ance board in q new outbreak Of the
feud between the two.
The board said 1t had quite def
mite charges" about violations Of q
collective bargaining clause at Ford
assembly plants at Edgewater, N. J..
and Chester. Pa. It notified Edsel
Ford that, in view Of the company,s
refusal to send representative here,
1t would investigate.
The Ford company submitted q
detailed answer to the complaints but
refused to be represented at secret
hearing here last Friday. William H
Davis, compliance director. said that
unless there was change Of attitude
he would proceed"
The MIRA meanwhile prepared for
what looked to Hugh Johnson like q
field day" for criticism. johnson in
vited NRA's critics to an open forum
here this week. So many requests ia
voice complaints have come in that
the sessions will be long extended.
MIRA officials Monday took note Of
q statement BY william Green. pres
ident Of the American Federation oil
Labor, that industrial unemployment
was $500 900 more than last year. but
still 100000 less than In January
1892. Green suggested shorter work
hours.
Recovery officials were cheered by
federal reserve board statement
that January and early February saw
swift increases In industrial output
and general wholesale price rise.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-26
Lanky North Dakotan
Crashes Art Portals

New York. Feb. 26-R1-The son
Of . German baker In jamestown. N.
D.. who used to paint pictures on tin
and shingles Is holding his first art
show here.
He is Charles Kuhn. 4s years old.
Kuhn Is . tall, rangy man six foot
three inches tall. who says out West
he was called the strong bean"
His 50 canvasses IN the show were
painted in . period extending over
eight years. They include California
landscapes. . painting 1.-THE Dead"
another called .Psychiatric Ward"
and 4 Long Man" which he admits
to be Z self-portrait.
Some months ago Kuhn got press
notices for his work with the sound
effects for the play Distant Drums
His vie Is Eda Heinemann, now
playing here Ia "Ah, Wildernessl"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-26
.$6S.% PER CAPITA
WASPAID AS TAXES
IN STATE FOR 81
OF Total Sum $16,3o1 ,0o6
Went to Pay State Bills,
Says Census Bureau

Washington, Feb. 26.-(P)-It cost
an average Of $65.45 a person to ope-
rate the state and local governments
Of North Dakota during the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1892, according to a
summary announced Monday by the
bureau Of the census.
The total cost was $44,765. 848 In a
state with an estimated population OF
$4,000. OF this total. $l6.30l .806 went
to Pc state obligations, $8,740.564 was
dist I'd by the counties. 1885. 1863
by cities, towns and villages. $13,-
a. Is by the school districts. $2.327, :
g. Y townships. and $2l6,l64 by
9th civil divisions.
{. ,eration and maintenance Of gen.
eral departments took the bulk Of the
sum. $3l, At $50: public service enter
prises required sass, 1856 for operation
and maintenance. interest on the debt
accounted for $3.975. SIS and the bal
ance Of $6,8l8.497 wei into OUTLAWS or
permanent improve nts.
Operation L ,sts Jump
AHC OtuAAy oAxNWCO V4AdV OpC1 AkAVAS
and maintenance costs Of general de-
partments and public service enter
prises in all units Of government of
more than $500 population increased
1852 per cent from 1912 to 1882. in
terest payments 800 per cent, and
outlay payments 1871 per cent.
The state and all It's subdivisions
collected a total Of $43.l62,582 or an
average Of $63.10 q person.
General property taxes OF the state.
counties and communities Of more
than $500 yielded $o.79l .429, q de-
crease Of 1913 per cent from 1922 to
1882. but an increase Of IS per cent
between 1919 and 1882.
The combined gross debt Of the
state and its political subdivisions for
1882. less sinking fund assets set aside
to meet such debt, was &36.2ll .43l or
q per capita average Of $52.94. The
per capita average In 1922 was 5000
and in 1919 $20.07.
The total assessed valuation Of
North Dakota property subject to tax
alton In 1882 was $3.50, 432,053 In
1922 1t was 81 ,3o8, $4,000 and in 1912,
500, 048. 900.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-26
STATES ATTORNEYS
MEET IN BISMARCK
TO PROBE TAX SUIT
Discuss How to Meet Issue
Raised by Railroads Which
Seek Reductions

A conference Of North Dakota
States Attorneys here today resolved
into round table discussion Of legal
technicalities in taxation Of railroads
as the county officials and state Of
ficials laid the ground work for COM
batting requests Of three railroads to
have their 1888 taxes reduced in the
state. About 10 states attorneys are
attending.
A concensus Of the states attorneys
as to the best method Of contesting the
tax-reduction suit brought by the car
riers was expected to come out Of the
conference.
The three railroads, which In feder.
al court actions seek reduction in their
North Dakota taxes, are the 500.
Northern Pacific and Great Northern.
The Northern Pacific has paid 70
per cent Of its assessed taxes and the
Great Northern 60 per cent, pending
determination by the courts Of the
proper valuations Of the railways for
tax purposes.
20. Satire. attorney general, OPEN
ed the meeting and reviewed the situa.
ton as 1t now stands. Harold Shaft,
assistant attorney general. outlined
what happened in the 500 Line case
tried last fall in federal court on the
railroads 1891 and 1882 taxes. Some
tax computations were presented by
J. A. Heder, another assistant attor-
ney general.
Lyman Baker. tax expert and form
er state deputy tax commissioner, gave
the results Of his computation on the
different formulas for taxation and
pointed out that the pre-depression
tax on gross income amounted gener-
ally to about per cent compared with
taxes ranging from 10 to II per cent
since the depression.
Continued on Page Two)