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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
FIGHTING GOES
ON IN SPAIN,
REPORTS SAYS

LONDON, Oct. 16.-Severe armed
fighting of the workers against the
Lerroux- Robes fascist government
continues to go on in various parts
of Spain, short news bulletins ar
irving from that country declare.
The Ministry of the Treasury has
announced that a special fund of
100000 pesetas (S700.000) had been
allotted to the Ministry of War to
carry on military operations in AS
turiss against the workers. Details
we're not given on the fighting.
but the fact that this large
sum has been allotted is proof
that the workers still hold many
cities.
Leaflets are being dropped from
army planes, calling on the workers
to stop their struggles and to submit
to the government In Gijon, Il
workers we're condemned to death
for their part in the armed upris-
ing.
The government also reported
that when the workers we're driven
out of Oviedo, in Asturias, they had
taken 100000 pesetas from the
Oviedo branch of the Bank of Spain
about s2,0O0,000. But the govern
ment dispatch does not point ont
that this money was taken to con-
tinue the armed struggles and to
help in the revolutionary struggles
against the fascist regime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17

to a life of misery and insecurity.
The fight Of the Communist
Party in the elections is part Of its
fight against the whole rotten wage
slavery which the Roosevelt New
Deal not only perpetuates, but
makes more brutal, more ruthless.
every day so that the moncpolies
can crawl out OF the crisis on the
backs Of the workers.
Roosevelt's latest moves in the
N.R.A. are the signal for new
wage-cuts, new inflstionary raising
of prices so that Roosevelt's mas
tiers, the Wall Street billion dollar
corporations, can protect their prof
IFS and their dividends. Rooseyclt's
election campaigning is only typical
OF his whole technioue-"facing left
but moving right" talking about a
middle road" but preparing for
new wage-cuts and terrorism AGAINST
the workers to protect Wall Street.
The working class needs Com
munisss in the legislative halls Of
the capitalists. 1t needs Commu-
nists in Congress, not that cap
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Revised Ne,u Deal Cues Wall Street Direct Control of Mr.

busin ess. Naturally, Roosevelt'S
spokesman do not state their pur-
pose in this blunt way. Richberg
spoke the other day of restoring
the balancs" in industry, and for
"a policy neither the extreme right
nor the extreme left"
The Republican critic of the
Roosevelt government. Marx Sulli-
van, defines this policy as facing
left, but moving right"
Roosevelt, of course, has never
done anything else. But these
latest steps toward restoring bal
ance" and free competition are
nothing but the phraseology which
conceal new moves toward strength
ening the grip of Wall Street mo-
nopoly, not only on the economic
life of the country, but on the gov
eminent power.
Direct Control
Whereas the big moncpolies re-
quired in the beginning that the
N. R. A. codes police industry
through an elaborate set-up of N.
R. A. codes and boards, present
business conditions make it neces-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
BUTT MINE
LOCAL DEFIES
GREEN S EDICT
Everett { Wash Council
Rejects Order for
ALL. RED Hunt
FIGHT SPLIT MOVE
Montana Miners Solid
in Stand Against
Anti "Red" Drive

BUTTE, Mont, Oct. 16.-The Cen.
trsl Labor Council in the port o.
Everett, Washington. and the large
copper mines of the Internationa
Union Of Mine. Mill and Smeltel
Workers at Butte. Mont. have
rejected William Green's order fol
a "red hunt" in the A. F. of L
unions.
The Butte Miners Union No. /,
the largest in Silver Bow county
and has a membership Of 1000
Their letter in answer to Green fol-
lows in full:
William Green.
President American Federation Of
Labor.
San Francisco, California.
Dear Sir and Brother:
I'VE are in receipt OF your com
municetion Of recent date relative
to the alleged boring from within
tactics Of Communists and Commu-
nistic groups and in which you urge
the elimination from the ranks Of
organized labor Of all these so-eallec
'disrUntive elements. In reply W.
beg leave to state that in on
opinion the success of the labor
movement DEFENDS on the coopera-
ton within its ranks of all mem.
bers of the working class regard
less of their political opinions OF
their ideas in regard to the relative
merits Of the present industrial ano
economic chaos commonly called
Capitalism as compared with the
proposed cooperative commonwealth
envisioned by Socialists, Commu-
nists and others.
1T is our opinion also that should
organized labor initiate such a policy
as you recommend, it would fine
itself limited to a very small mem
bership, entirely inadequate to COPS
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ment which is controlling the
Wall Street trusts, but the Wall
Street trusts which are Tightening
their grip on the Roosevelt govern
ment, making it more and more
open tool of their wage-smashine
interests.
N.R.A. Capitalist Program
This is the meaning of the latest
developmsnt in the N.R.A. as out
lined by Richberg and Roosevelt in
the past few days, as they opened
the election drive.
The class detectives of the
Roosevelt New Deal every day
loom more harshly as the capital-
ist class objective of handful Of
mnlti-nillionaira parasites Who
control the country's economic life.
In the elections for Congress, as
in the every day struggle between
the working class and the employ
ers, there is the clash of opposing
class interests, the interests of the
millions of workers and small
farmers. against the interests of a
Wall Street ruling class which
plumbers and degrades the masses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Labor Spy System Fourishes
Under ROOseVeLt'S New Deal.
Daily Investigation Reveals
Strikers Blackliste d
On Basis of Reports
OF UndercOver Mer

In the recent heroic strike
struggles Of the workers, thou
sands upon thousands were black
listed after the strikes were over.
A large PERCENTAGE of this black
listing was result Of the under
cover work of spy agencies oper-
ating on a large scale all over
the country, in almost every i'm
pOrtant industry.
In the course of a series of
articles, of which this is the first,
the Daily Worker will present
documentary evidence to prove
this beyond vestige of a doubt,
and outline ways and means of
how to combat these rats. how to
expose them, how to make their
SHbversive work ineffective.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17

sary that Roosevelt simplify certain
parts at the N.R.A. machinery
which stand in the way of the en-
ployers running the NR.A. through
their own direct agents.
And the policy announced by
Roosevelt yesterday morning, per-
mittlng the self policing Of indus
try" to use the term employed by
the Roosevelt spokesman them
selves, gives the We'll Street en-
ployers just this new direct control
over the Government apparatus
which they need in their new plans
for driving the wages and living
standards of the American working
class down still further.
The penetrating words spoken
by Stain the other day to the
American working class are being
confirmed with extraordinary
speed.
"It is not the STATE which is
getting control over the economy.
On the contrary, it is the cap
itslist economy which is getting
control Of the State"
1t is not the Roosevelt govern
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
PEGS MINERS,
VICTORIOUS,
LEAVE SHAFT

PEGS, Hungary, Oct. 16.-After
ITO hours in the deep mine galleries
where the PEGS miners lay in black
ness, starvation and torture, the
Austrian Creditanstalt, controlled by
the Austrian Government, grudg-
ingly yielded to the pressure of the
aroused and seething Hungarian
toiling masses, granting the self
entombed miners wage concessions
and unemployment relief.
Thus, despite the efforts Of the
fascist Gonlboes government forcibly
to remove the men from the pits
and the attempts of Social-Demo-
cratic leaders to win the miners TO
the surface by promises of future
arbitration, they emerged this after
noon victorious in their desperate
strike.
This last resort means of fight
ing for living wage has taken a
tragic toll in madness and exhaus-
ton. Carried from the mine shafts,
many were unconscious and near
death; others were so ill that it
was impossible to bring them aloft
and they remained in the pits for
emergency treatment. Although
wives and children joyously ex-
planned the demands they had won,
the miners we're too exhausted 10
listen and most of them were un-
able to speak.
In addition to the weekly increase
of $1.50 there was granted a COL
lective relief payment of about SIT
217 now and similar one at Christ
mas. Further:
1. No prosecution for sabotage,
provided no damage was done to the
mines.
2. No cancellations of vacations
because of the strike.
3. A government commission to
see that justice is done them
The workers agreed to await fur
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
$4,000 Silk Dyers Near
Strike as Conference
On New Contract Fails

PATERSON. N. j., Oct. 16.-A
conference between leaders of the
United Textile Workers Dye Union
here and employers failed to reac,
an agreement on new contract,
bringing nearer a strike of $4,000
silk dyers. The present con ract
expires on Oct. "a.
The workers demand thirty
hour week, six-hour day; a mini
mum wage of 81 an hour, and the
closed shop. The EMPLOYERS de-
mand the continuation of the pres
ent contract.
One thousand silk workers, also
in the U. T. W., are already strik-
ing against wage cuts and discrim-
ina ion growing out of the general
textile strike betrayal by the Cor
Keller leadership of the U.TW.
Rank and file workers ere urging
simultaneous strike of the silk
workers and dyers when the dye
contract expires.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
SEAMEN RAP
ISU LEADERS
SECRET MOVE

Completing their strikeb-eaking
job, officials of the International
Seamen's Union are to be closeted
tomorrow with representatives of a
number of shipowners at the Re-
gional labor Board headquarters at
IS Broadway.
A statement issued by the Ma
tional Committee of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union yesterday
warned the seamen that they could
expect nothing from the confab at
the N. p. A. offices but a betrayal
Of their interests and that it is the
aim Of Victor Olander and Silas
Axtell to hamstring the I. S. U.
members with no-strike agree
ment.
Meanwhile, paralIeling the treach-
erous acts of the I. S. U. officials,
Joseph P. Ryan, President of the
International Longshoremen's Asso-
citation. comforting with the ship
owners, stated that an arbitration
award would be perfectly agreeable
with him. He said that the refusal
of the I. L. A. leaders to call a
strike when the agreement expired
on Oct, l showed good judgment. 3"
The Rank and File Committee of
the International Longshoremen's
Association, in leaflet issued yes
terday, as5siled Ryan's statement
that he would abide with the deci-
sion Of the West Coast Longshore-
mems Arbitration Board. The COM
mittee pointed out that although
the decision of the board granted
significant concessions, which were
forced by the militant strike of the
maritime workers on the Pacific
Coast, strike that Ryan fought
hard against, the central demand
for union controlled hiring halls
was not granted.
The statement Of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union on the
situation on the ships and docks,
follows:
| Forward with the fight! Prepare
! to strike all Atlantic and Gulf ships
by organizing ship committees on
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
LEADERS BACK
CO INFERENCE
FOR SUNDAY
Two Parades in Harlem
To Be Addressed by
Red Candidates
MARCHES PLANNED
Lawyers Agents Try
To Prevent Mass
Defense Rally

The call of the International La
Dor Defense and the League Of
Struggle for Negro Rights to save
the Scottsboro boys from legal
murder Dec. Z has been answered
by the Negro people and white
workers Of New York with plans
for an Emergency Scottsboro Con-
ference, Sunday. Oct. 81. The con-
ference, endorsed by many promi-
nent persons, Negro and white. will
take place in st. Luke's Hall. 127
West 130th st. in Harlem and will
open at o'clock.
Other actions in the fight for
the lives and freedom of the bows
include Scottsboro parade and
demonstration in Harlem this af-
ternoon. with starting points at 27
West 1l5th St. and 131st st. and
Lenox Ave The two parades will
converge at 10th ST., where the
workers will be addressed by I.
Amter, Communist candidate for
governor Of New York, and James
w, Ford. Communist candidate for
Congress in the 2lst District. lead
ers in the fight for the Scottsboro
boys.
Another mass march through the
streets of Harlem viii be hsld
Saturday afternoon, with a demon
stration at 126th St. and Lenox
Ave. and torohlight parade in the
evening. Speakers at the demon
stration will include Merle Work,
Business Manager of the Negro
Libsrstor and Communist candi-
date for Assemblyman in the 2lst
Assembly District, and Harry Hav-
wood, Communist candidate in the
18th Assembly District, and Ma
tional Secretary of the League Of
Struggle for Negro Rights.
Plot To Be Exposed
Sundays conference will set the
pace for others throughout the
United States.
The sensational story of the
trickery and underhanded methods
employed by Samuel S. Leibowitz,
former Scottsboro attorney, but now
a traitor to the Scottsboro boys. to
knife the defense in the back. will
be told in detail by Ben j. Davis,
Jr., editor Of the Negro Liberator.
The shiny methods employed BY
Leibowitz took a new form this
week. when his agents in Harlem
tried to throw difficulties in the
way of the conference by instruct
ing hall owners not to rent halls
to the authorized Scottsboro de-
Tense. The Harlem Young Wom-
ems Christian Association refused
hall for the conference on the
ground that there is another group
in this Scottsboro case The Har-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Scottsboro Defense
Conference Called
In Detroit Friday

DETROIT. Oct. 16.-An Elner-
gency Scottsboro Defense Confer
ence will be held here next Friday
evening at 8 O'Clock at $40 Russell
S rect. The call for the confer
ence, issued jointly by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the
League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, points out that Dec. has
been set for the legel murder Of
Eeywood Patter.ol ea5 ClaTs'cs
Norris, two of the defendants, and
stresses the need Of intensifying the
fight for their safety and freedom.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Roosevelt Wants Voters
To Approve Attacks
on the Masses
By MILTON HOWARD

AS the elections approach, and
n Roosevelt's Democratic spokes-
men call upon the workers and i'm
poverished farmers to approve the
New Deal" by returning Demo-
cratic Congress, new developments
ere taking place in the revision OF
the NR.A which can only mean
greater misery for these millions
who are supposed to approve con-
tinuation of this N.R.A.-New Deal
program.
Donald Richberg. chief MIRA.
spokesman, has already made clear
what the new course of the "re-
vised' MIRA. will be. 1t will be
toward giving the biggest Wall
Street monopolies more direct con-
troll of the MA. agencies which
were originally set I'D to control
non-monopoly production, small
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Only Communist Part,
Candidates Expose
Growing Reaction

italism can ever be smashed in
any other way than by revolu-
tionary struggle, but because
Communists in Congress and in
the municipal halls would carry
the fight for the needs of the
masses right into the ranks of the
enemy. Communist are neeaed
IN the capitalist government
bodies to challenge the whcie
Roosevelt New Deaf Wall Street
program, to demand that the in
terests of the working class BE-
made paramount over the in
terests Of the handful of bankers
and parasites in whose interests
Roosevelt executes his whole pro-
gram.
Roosevelt's New Deal is the.l
way to solve the problems of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Seven Are Convicted
For Participation in
Jobless Demonstration

Seven workers, arrested at the
May rs demonstration at so Lafay-
cite Street. where police and detec-
tive5 brutally attacked a demon
stration of the unemployed, were
convicted on charges of unlawful
assembly at Special Sessions Court
yesterday. They will be sentenced
on Oct. 30. Three others. arrested
at the same time, we're found not
guilty.
The seven convicted workers are:
Carl Alexander, Michael POLISH.
Sam Miller. David jenkins. Jerry
Lynch, Charles Williams, and Har-
cid Keithline.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
By Edward Newhouse
Article 1

The N. r. A. has forbidden the
setting CT spies by one company on
another, but it has repeatedly re-
fused to include labor spying among
its list of unfair practices" Given
this free hand, manipulators of the
network have assumed sinister
power. Increasingly, espionage con-
troll is concentrating into agencies
which, instead of working directly
with individual concerns, deal with
Manufacturers Associations and are
often owned outright by them.
A previous canvas has shown
that the Pinkerton, Burns anG
Thiel agencies alone listed 1876 900
men on their combined rolls. main
tanned over 100 Offices and over
10000 local branches, with rs per
cent of their operatives under cover
in various labor organizations and
an annual income of SIS, 100000.
Today these agencies have en-
larged their scope, perfected their
methods and legalized them as far
as effective execution Of their pur-
pose will allow.
/ Garrulous old Peter Bergoff S
boast that he knows about strikes
before SO per cent OF the workers
involved, and that within 48 hours
he can get 10000 strike breakers
into action is being made good. He
has an organization of stools among
the taxi drivers who spread word
within the hour around the lower
Broadway hotels, most of which
house scores of strike breakers. At
the height of the textile strike
Bergoff was receiving spy reports
from the Ainsley Hotel in Atlanta,
the Dempsey Hotel in Macon, and
the Deshler- Wallick Hotel, Column
bus, Ohio.
Strike-b breakers for Textile
The same day, according to
Paterson's Chief of Police John
Murphy, Newark's Tim Manning
shipped 500 men to textile areas.
Lawyer Cole of Chief Murphy's
town can peep into his files and
tell you exactly when and under
what circumstances a certain
strikers naturalization papers were
denied by Judge Delaney of the
Common Pleas Court. And while
the Railway Audit and Inspection
Co. received its pay reports under
the name of w. A. Schraisen, P. o.
Box 1893, Philadelphia, its Vice
President Harry Preston personally
attended to the hiring of operatives
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Anti-Fascist Fighters
Will Face Boston Court

BOSTON, Oct. 16.-Hearing on
the appeal against the vicious SEN
fences imposed on nine young work
erS and students for participation
in the anti-Nazi demonstration last
June against Hitler's propaganda
agent, Putty" Hanf5taengl. is set
for Oc.. 10 in the Cambridge Su-
perior Court, Criminal Sessions,
East Cambridge, near Lechmere.
Only the Communist Election
Platform Proposes Real Unemploy-
ment Insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
QUICK MASS
ACTIONS ARE
CALLED FOR
Conviction Would Doom
Thousands of Others,
Says Committee
LISTS DIRECTTVES
Immediate Steps Urged
AS Secret Trial May
Have Begun
LISTS DIRECTIyEs

Declaring that the fate of Ernst
Thaelmann, leader of the German
workers, now facing trial in fascist
Germany is the concern of "ev-
cry individual and organization op-
posed to the Hitler regime, its
atrocities and prosecutions, a call
Of the National Committee to Aid
the Victims Of German fascism
pont5 out specific means of widen
ing the fight for Thaelmann's lib
erat1on.
The fact must be broadly popu-
larized, the letter declares. that "if
Ern25 Thaelmann is convicted. then
there will Immediately follow the
trials Of other outstanding indi-
viduals now in Hitler's concentra-
ton camps who are not of Thael-
mann's political convictions. We
can expect that following the trial
OF Thaeimann before the Peoples
Court leading pacifsts, trade
unionists, intellectuals. Socialists.
Jews and Christians will meet the
same fate
Because Of the urgency Of the sit
uation (Thaelmann's trial behind
closed doors, if not taking place at
this moment, will occur any day.
all organizations opposing fascism
and Bitlerism as we'll as all city
committees Of the National Com
mittee to Aid the Victims of Hitler
FaScism are requested to raise to a
much higher level the movement to
save Thaelmann's life. The letter
adds, we have very little time in
which to act, and immediate mo-
bilization of all committees and
groups must be undertaken today.
We request you to carry out the
following activities:
q. Renew and increase the com
mittees to visit the German con-
sulates.
2. Renew and increase the tele-
phoning Of the consulates by hun
dreds and thousands of individuals
in your city.
g. Flood the Peoples Court,
Berlin, Germany, with resolutions
demanding the freedom of Ernst
Thaelmann.
e. Request that groups, organ
izations and hundreds of individ-
uals at once write a registered let
ter, return receipt demanded, to
Ernst Thaelmann, Peoples Court,
Berlin, Germany, assuring Thael-
mann of their support in the de-
mand for his liberation.
IS. Renew picketing at the Ger
man consulates.
IS. Broaden the campaign for a
million signatures to free Ernst
Thaelmann.
~. Assist in initiating mass dem
onstrationS before the German con-
sulate in your city. Such mass dem
onstration should occur within the
next few days.
IS. Induce all sympathetic organ
izations and groups to name Lib
Grafton Committee of Three, this
committee to be in daily contact
with your center to help in the
above tasks.
80. Hold special meetings of at
torneys SO that they may launch
an effective protest. Call special
meetings of other professionals. Sc
cure protests from outstanding peo-
pie in the public life of your city.
These are the tasks which will
mobilize masses of sympathizers
and which will effectively notify
the Hitler regime that Thaelmann
has the support of hundreds OF
thousands of friends in all parts OF
the United States. Get into action
immediately
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17

"str feeling possibly between the serbian
and the Italians the spy
its operatives during strike
reference to racial hatred between
the chart the Sherman
converge at East4 Street New York
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Demonstration in Chicago Loop
,n,;Ix, WorEer Midwest Bureau)

w
CHICAGO. Oct. Estate Street
and Madison Avenue, the heart of
Chicago's teeming Loop, was the
scene of militant MONDAY de-
monstration today demanding the
freedom of Ernst Thaelmann.
More than 300 workers VIII o
flocked to the meeting, which lasted
only short time, heard Dave
Brown of the Communist Party
condemn Brown-Shirt terror
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Pickets Released After Arrest.

Especial to the Daily WORKER
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. Is. -
Eight workers who were arrested
here today for picketing the Ger
nan Vice-Consulate in profess
INST the trial of Ernst Thaei-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Districts: Organize Delegated Mass
Meetings to Aid Drive

Yesterdays Receipts observation-disclosures 21s
Total to Date Observation-Disclosures 1882.
Press Run Yesterday-48,40 400
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