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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
Connecticut
Petition Drive
Faces Danger

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Aug. 90
Grave danger Of being eliminated
from the fall elections faces the
Communist Party in this State I'M
less all available forces are mobil-
lied for the collection Of nominat-
ing petition signatures. This pros
pect was reported today by j. Mil
ton, State campaign manager.
six thousand certified signatures
are necessary to put the Party on
the ballot" Milton said, land the
deadline is the first week in Sep
TENDER So far only slightly more
than half have been turned in, and
unless the entire Communist Party
membership and the supporting
mass organizations are swung into
action, we may not be able to make
the grade"
Several cities, particularly Bridge
port, show an alarming lag, accord
ing to Milton. He pointed out that
where systematic house to house
canvassing has been the rule, good
results have been realized.
Undeterred by the lag in sig
nature collections, Communist forces
have started the campaign in sew
eral Connecticut cities with shop
gate and street corner meetings, and
weekly speaking tours of territory
never before penetrated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
Labor Plans
indianapolis
Rights Meeting

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 20.-A Vi
gorouS fight to protect labor's right
of free speech and assembly was
projected last night at conference
at 143 East Ohio Street. The con-
ference, sponsored by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, was attended
by 80 labor delegates representing
nine labor unions, and fraternal
and cultural groups.
The conference unanimously
adopted resolutions protesting po-
lice brutality, arrests of workers
and attacks on workers meetings
and voted to hold huge free
speech rally in the immediate fu-
ture and to prepare a larger free
speech conference to be held within
a few weeks.
Police recently broke up a work.
ers' meeting at Kingans and Mill
tary Park, arrested ten workers, one
Of whom was subsequently beaten
at the police station. Speakers at
the conference, including Milton
Siegel, I. L. D. attorney, vigorously
denounced these attacks.
Mr.. Hull, president of the Cross
Roads of America Lodge, Anal
gamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers of the A. F. of L.,
was elected chairman of the con-
ference, and Helen Layton, of the
I. L. D., conference secretary.
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general strike were submitted to the
convention.
The demand for strike among the
hundreds Of thousands Of silk,
wooden. worsted, rayon and cotton
workers was so strong that it was a
foregone conclusion that the dele
gates would vote in favor of strike.
The question which remained was,
what form Of strike resolution would
be passed by the convention?
MacMahons Strategy
The strategy of the conservative
leadership Of Thomas MacMahon,
president Of the union, in view of
the overwhelming demand for strike,
was to allow the motions for strike
and other militant motions to go
through the convention unopposed.
At the same time the MacMahon-
Green machine worked to maintain
the organizational control of the
union and of the strike activity, and
to maintain as much as possible the
illusions of the workers in the N. r.
A. and in Roosevelt.
The MacMahon machine thus did
not oppose the resolution for indus
trial unionism, for the Workers I'm
employment Insurance Bill, for
strike, for labor party. There
was even lot of criticism" of the
N. r. A. But when the convention
was over the MacMahon machine
was reelected to leadership, with all
strike activities in their hands. The
motion condemning Green for be-
traying the San Francisco strike was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
End of Strike
InKnitCOOds
Called SeHOut
Industrial Union Brands
Dubinsky's Settlement
Shameful Betrayal

NEW YORK-The general strike
committee Of the Knitgoods Work
erS Industrial Union, which met
here Saturday, unanimously declar-
ed that the settlement Of the gen.
eral strike concluded by David
Dubinsky. president of the I.L.G.
WI, was a shameful betrayal of
the workers interests. Dubinsky has
agreed to call off the strike on the
basis of the 36-hour week without
wage increases. The popular de-
mand Of the workers, however, is
the 35-hour week with wage in
cTeaSes.
The treachery of the settlement
is made obvious by the fact that the
strikers who were fighting under
the leadership of the Knitgoods
Workers Industrial Union have sue
ceeded in making a large number
of settlements with important shops
in the industry on the basis of the
35-hour week, wage increases up to
eleven dollars week over the high
est wage prevailing in the industry,
and two legal holidays with pay.
There is no excuse for Mr.. Dub
insky to conclude settlement for a
thirty-six hour week without any
increases in wages" said state
ment issued by the strike commit
tee of the Knitgoods Workers In
dustrial Union. Such outright
favors and generous presents to the
knitgoods employers is a crime
against the workers whom Dubinsky
is supposed to represent.
1.-THE Knitgoods Workers Indus
trial Union before the strike and
during the strike proposed united
strike of all the unions in this in
dustry. This proposal was rejected
by the officials of the ILG.W.U.
We look upon this treacherous set
Element as the price for Mr. Dublin
sky's rejection of uniting all the
knitgoods workers, which would
have guaranteed full victory for
their demands.
1.-THE General Strike Committee
decided to continue settling shops
only on the basis of thirty-flve
hours, minimum wage scales and all
the other demands, to maintain
these conditions in the already set
tied shops and to continue making
every effort possible to unite all the
strikers to win the same demands
before they go back to work and for
the establishment of one Knitgoods
Union in the trade"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
.C.P. Chicago
To Celebrate
Its 18th Year

CHICAGO, Aug. 20. = The If
tenth anniversary of the Com
muniSt Party, u. s. A., will be
celebrated here Sept. at 1880 pm.
with a mass meeting at Ashland
Auditorium, Ashland and Van
Buren, SITS.
Communist candidates in the
forthcoming Congressional elections
will speak. Leaders of the Com
munist Party from many fields of
industry will review the work of
the Party and stress the need for
a firm revolutionary movement to-
day.
Special appeal is being made to
the packinghouse, steel and metal
workers in the city who are organ
izing and preparing for struggles
against the increased attacks of the
bosses, against lowering wages,
speed-up, increasing cost of living,
and against the class collaboration
policy of the A. F. of L. omcialdom.
The Workers Theatre is pre-
pairing to give scenes from Peace
on Earth the anti-war play which
had successful run in New York
last Winter. The play is particu-
larry applicable at this time in view
of the preparations that are going
forward for the Second U. S. Con-
gress Against War.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
Military Police
Beat 5 Youths
For Literature
Leaflets Given Guards
men in the Chicago
Military Display
tDaiIy worker Midwest Bureau,

CHICAGO, Aug. 20.-Five young
workers distributing leaflets calling
for solidarity between workers and
the National Guardsmen were seized
and badly beaten by military police
during the jingoist military display
conducted here last Friday.
Ten thousand National Guards
men, with infantry, cavalry, artil-
lery and air forces combined, staged
an immense military demonstration
Friday, Michigan Avenue was
river of bayonets as the troops
marched through the city. The
capitalist press unanimously cheered
the armed forces as bulwark
against militant working class.
The attack on the five youths was
made after it became evident that
the Guardsmen were showing SYM
pathy with the statements on the
leaflets. Those beaten were distrib-
uting it to the 9th Regiment at its
camp in Crank Park on the lake
front. The 9th Regiment is jim
crow Negro regiment, and it's en-
listed men are the victims of even
worse treatment than the white
Guardsmen.
They received the leaflet gladly,
some of them coming back to thank
the distributors. The five youths
were seized by white officers and
dragged before a minor commander,
who turned them over to a group
Of officers.
One of the five visited the Daily
Worker Office the next day. His
face was covered with bruises and
welts, his body terribly marked. He
told the Daily" reporter the rest
of the story:
This group then walked us about
half mile and we were taken to
the chief Office of the military police
The commander seemed angered
by the presence of one worker who
was dressed in good suit. He tore
his tie off and crashed blow right
into the youths face, smiling and
walking away, saying, 60 to it,
boys!" At least four M.P.'s sur
rounded each of us and began a
beating process which seemed as
though 1t would never end.
I'VE dropped to the ground, bleed
ing profusely and were kicked with
hob-nailed boots. When we could
not rise we were picked up and
beaten more. Two MP's would hold
our hands while a third would drive
blows to the face and ribs.
Finally we were released and told
to run. Then another group of
thugs chased us and beat us more.
Finally we were thrown into the
street and ordered to leave. A po-
liceman who saw us turned his back.
I'VE all remember the excellent
response given to the literature by
the rank and file Guardsmen, and
the looks of sympathy we received
when we walked down the street
drenched with blood. We are re-
solved to keep up the good work
that can be DONE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
Worker, Acquitted,
Faces a New Trial
in Terror Campaign

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 A
retrial Of the disturbing the
peace" complaint against Snyder,
a worker of BelYedere, will be
held at the Belvedere Township
Court Sept. 8.
Snyder was acquitted recently
on two counts of vagrancy, but
the jury failed to agree on the
remaining charge. The prosecu-
tor shouted red" all through the
trial. Grover Johnson, defending
attorney, brought Harold Hen
bricks out of his cell at the city
jail to testify.
The charges against Snyder
grew out of the workers protest
at the eviction of Hendricks
from his home. Hendricks is now
awaiting appeal on his two-year
sentence for participating in the
June 10 demonstrations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21

New Leader of Aug. IL, as "the
hosiery workers battling chief"
was fighting tooth and nail to
defeat motion condemning the
N. r. A. as an instrument of the
big employers, and declaring that
the workers had bettered their
conditions under the N. r. A.
REEVE played similar role in the
textile convention that the Commit
tee of Ten leaders played in the
steel convention. Both began
shouting militant action" Both
ended up posing with the reaction
airy A. F. of L. leadership for pic
lures and declaring I'VE have no
differences with the present leader
ship"
Rieve, socialist leader, already a
member of the Philadelphia Re-
gional Labor Board, came out Of
the convention a member of the
Executive Board, elected by the
MacMahon Machine, Of which he
is now openly part.
REEVE cleared the road for Mac
Mahon. By putting forward sham
opposition" REEVE sabotaged the
formation of a genuinely militant
opposition and his complete sur
render to MacMahon at the decisive
moment demoralized and confused
many delegates.
The Fight on the N. X. A.
The fact that Rieve prevented the
organization at the convention of
a genuine left wing is seen in tie
attitude he took toward the N. r. A.,
one of the key questions at the con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21

vention. Here. Rieve took an iden-
teal position with MacMahon and
Vice-President German. Both real
ICED that they would have been
howled off the platform if they had
unstintingly praised the N. r. A.
The delegates were partially dis
illusioned with the N. r. A. The
lesson of the betrayal of the wage
and recognition demands of the
cotton workers and of the wooden
and worsted workers by the N. r.
A. this summer has not been lost on
the textile workers. They know
that under the N. r. A. their condi-
tons have worsened.
This partial establishment is
seen in the delegates reaction to the
speech of Green's representative j.
Googe. Googe worked to climax of
praise of Roosevelt, the greatest
humanitarian that ever sat in the
White Housep--and there was not
even the faintest ripple of applause.
The first time Googe was able to
draw applause was when he men,
toned picket lines" and there was
thunderous burst of applause at
these words.
A Demagegist Formula
And so the Green MacMahon
leadership had to put forth a more
demagogic formula, they had to
criticize the N r. A. This for
mula was repeated by MacMahon,
German, Googe, Dubinsky and
above all by Rieve. 1t was I'VE
must fight, we must build our union,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
Workers School Will
Open i'm Chicago Loop
in New Headquarters

CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 2O.-The
Chicago Workers School will open
its Fall term in it's new headouar-
tiers in the Loop. For the first time
in Chicago the Workers School will
be centrally located in the heart of
the city, with branches in the heart
of the packing, railroad and steel
industries.
Beginning with Labor Day, the
Chicago Workers School is conduct
ing a training school for teachers
in order to improve the quality of
the instructions and train new
teachers to fill the many posts that
the Fall and Winter program de-
mand.
All workers in mass organizations
are urged to support the campaign
of the School for $500. Contribu-
tions should be sent to the Chicago
Workers School, sos S. State Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
To Combat
Deportation Efforts
Before Court Today

NEW YORK. - friedrich Boyer
bach, political refugee from Ger
many, who came here as stow
away aboard the Leviathan on Aug.
7, will fight efforts to deport him
when he appears in United States
District Court this morning for a
hearing on a writ of habeas corpus.
The writ was obtained for him by
the Committee for the Protection Of
the Foreign Born.
Beyerbach faces imprisonment in
a concentration camp and almost
certain death if he is returned to
Germany. The National Committee
for the Protection of the Foreign
Born urged all workers who could
do SO to attend this mornings hear
ing, which will be held in the Old
Post ONCE Building on Park Row,
near City Hall Park.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21

we must be militant-but We must
fight within the N. r. A. apparatus.
Dubinsky expressed this formula in
the phrase, THE unions plus the
N. r. A."
I'VE must build our union
stronger" Rieve, and the other
members of the MacMahon machine
declared Then we can win more
representation on the MIRA. boards
and We can fight better to get the
N. r. A. to better the codes"
Thus the MacMahon REEVE
leadership of the union were able
to defeat the militant rank and
file through this demagogy. They
Criticized" the N. r. A., but they
defeated the resolution to with
draw from the N. r. A. boards;
they kept the emphasis on nego-
tiations within the N. r. A. boards
and not on the organization Of
the strike itself.
They built up the idea Of going
to Roosevelt" and kept away from
the vital problem of mass picket
ing and rank and file control of
the strike. They maintained the
illusion that by becoming appen-
dages to the machinery of big
business, the n. r. A., that some
thing can be won. They operated
on the basis of class collaboration
with Roosevelt and the n. r. A.
instead of class struggle basis
that only militant strike action
will win the demands.
(TO BE CONCLUDED
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defeated by a full mobilization of
the MacMahon machine by a vote
of 1913 to 103. Even the motions for
more authority to the department of
the union were defeated.
Reeves Betrayal
In this betrayal of the militant
rank and file, the Socialist Party
leadership in the convention must
take front rank. A number of the
rank and file socialists at the con-
vention are still smarting under this
betrayal, carried through by Emil
Rieve, head of the Hosiery Workers
Federation. They did not under
stand how in the course of few
days, as the convention proceeded,
the situation had so quickly
changed. On one day Rieve was
being boosted as the candidate of
the progressive" pro-strike ele-
ment, to succeed Mcmahon as presi-
dent.
One day later, MacMahon was
asking the delegates to rise from
their seats in honor of Rieve, and
was appointing REEVE as chairman
while MacMahon was reelected
without opposition. REEVE, who had
posed as the champion of militant
struggle, was making fight
against strike In the silk or
wooden industry, declaring, zone
strike at time" while rank and
file delegates were demanding a
strike 20 as not to be turned into
potential scabs by decision of
the convention"
Rieve, termed by the socialist
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vases presented.
The eight locals of the Unem-
ployed Councils which have called
the joint demonstration will mass
at central rallying points and march
to Spring and Elizabeth streets. The
Council locals at 513 E. 18th St.,
327 E. Eighth St., and 234 E. Second
st. will mobilize at Seventh st. and
Ave. A at $50 am. The lower East
Side locals at 298 Henry ST., 48 JEFF
ferson St., 112 Madison st., and 109
Ludlow ST., will mobilize at Rutgers
Square at $3.50 am, and the West
Side local at LOT McDougal st. will
meet at its headquarters.
United front proposals made by
the Unemployment Councils and
endorsed by the workers in the
Workers Unemployed Union were
rejected by the Socialist leadership
In the city central committee of the
Unemployed Union. Nevertheless,
whole locals in the Workers Unem-
ployed Union have stated their in
tention Of joining in the march.
Seattle Seamen Win Demands
SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 20.-After
months of struggle under the lead
ership of the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union, unemployed seamen
here wrung from the Federal Emer-
gency Relief Administration the
right to Seamen'S relief project,
three meals day, clothing when
needed and free tobacco and razor
blades.
In the fight for all their demands,
the seamen will meet today at "a
West Main Street to lay plans for
the smashing OF all discrimination
against militant seamen, for sea-
mems control of all relief, medical
and dental aid, and for the enact
ment of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill
At the mass meeting today the
seamen will elect joint committees
of the International Seamen's Union
and the Marine Workers Industrial
Union to carry on the future strug-
giles.
Seamen Make Demands in Capital
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 20
A committee of six, elected by the
Marine Workers Industrial Union.
left here Saturday to present relief
demands to the Federal Transient
Bureau officials at Washington.
The seamen's demands for the
unemployed include: a relief project
within two blocks of the waterfront,
the elimination of forced labor on
seamen's relief, provisions for razor
blades, tobacco, tooth paste, etc., the
end to all discrimination, seamens
control of relief, and passage of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill.
After having been repeatedly
promised a seamen's relief project.
the unemployed seamen have been
forced to live at the TRANSMIT bu-
reau, which is II blocks from the
waterfront, and work at forced Ia
Dor.
A picket line has been thrown
around the transient relief project
at 10l1 Locust st. by the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, and will
be maintained until the demands
are granted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
Needle Trades Union
and WOmen's Council
Act for Bronx r ally

NEW YORK. = The United
Council Of Workingclass Women
and the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union yesterday called
on their members to make their
pledge of no more Sscco-
Vanzetti murders and to express
this concretely by making the
Scottsboro- Herndon meeting at
the Bronx Coliseum tomorrow
night the greatest meeting ever
held in that hall"
The meeting, which will COM
memorate the day of the execu-
ton Of Sacco and Vanzetti In
1927, will also be used as an oc-
casion for rallying defense forces
for the Scottsboro boys and An
gelo Herndon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21

WITH Districts Sections and Units uggng at the leash
W to be off to flying start in the 100000 Daily Worker
and Communist Party finance drive there must be ten
dency to ignore neglect the need of doubling the Days
circulation by January 1885 Two weeks remain of the
10000 newreader drive These two weeks must produce
tremendous increase in Daily Worker sales and ubscrp
lions in order to give circulation base and
create broader sources of income
Readers attract open important
To the maintenance
VITAL but it paramount that such constantly its
of readers. The two tasks hand in hand.
Advance Districts
ready waiting start the $4,000 which
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organizations unions is splendid graphically
possibilities for organized effort spreading
enough however to workers press
must read to this working
solidarity
The Socialist competition among their
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about the other %?
Therefore, Party member
push circulation hard during the
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Of the Daily Get them to read the Dayr Solicit
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
Case Against Seaman,
Wounded by California
Police, Is Dismissed

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20. - The
case of Tom Sharpe. marine worker,
whose leg was shattered by Officer
Strand Of the San Pedro red squad
in the San Pedro Jail, was dis
missed on motion of the prosecution
when it came up for retrial on
Aug. a. Originally the jury had
disagreed in spite of conclusive
proof that Sharpe did not attack
Strand as charged.
Strand and the other police
lackeys testified that Shapes leg
was broken when he resisted Off
GERS on the street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
New Jersey To Open
Communist Campaign
with Picnic on Sept. 3

PATERSON, N. j., Aug. 20.-Moe
Brown, Paterson textile workers
leader and Communist candidate for
Governor, will be the principal
.---agcf at the picnic on September
8 which will mark the formal open
ing of the Communist Partys cleo
ton campaign in New Jersey. The
picnic will be held at Village Barn,
Haledon, N. j.
An invitation has been extended
by the campaign committee to all
silk and dye workers and to mem
bers of the American Federation of
Labor unions in the textile and
other local industries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21
Detroit ALL.
Clique Denies
Delegate Seat

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 2O-Led
by George Dean, member of the
local Socialist Party, the machine
at the head of the Central Labor
Body of the Detroit Federation of
Labor has voted not to seat
Richard Kroon, militant painter
and representative Of Local 81 Of
the Brotherhood of Painters and
Decorators.
Local 81 countered with the res
olution adopted at its last meeting
that if all its delegates are not
seated, it would withdraw from the
Detroit Federation. A stirring
speech was made in behalf of Kroon
by Paul Rumble, president of the
local. Rumble pointed out that the
rank and file placed the greatest
confidence in Kroon, the painters
having elected him no less than
five times to the GLIB. The repre-
sentative of Bakers Local 20
staunchly supported Rumb les
speech.
So fearful is the official clique Of
the Detroit Federation of Labor,
headed by Frank X Martel, of its
own membership, that for the first
time in several years an executive
session was called to consider the
Kroon question.
Local 81, largest painters local in
Michigan, will take steps to win the
support of other locals in the fight
against the expulsion policy of the
corrupt Martel gang, it is expected.
Every New "Daily" Reader Adds
Fighter to Our Ranks!