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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
C.P. Starts
Recruiting
Campaign
Communists Winning
Mass Support, Central
Committee Shows

NEW YORK.-A campaign to re-
cruit thousands of new members
into the Communist Party opens
today and will continue to Nov. T.
the seventeenth anniversary of the
historic Russian Revolution which
overthrow capitalism in the old
Czarist empire and established the
first workers republic, the Central
Committee of the Communist Party
announced yesterday.
The growing sympathy of hun
dreds of thousands of American
workers with the ideas of Commu-
nism and their desire to find way
out Of the present capitalist crisis
will make it easier than ever to
recruit thousands who hitherto have
shown their sympathies in ways
other than by direct membership
into the Party, the Central Commit
tee stated. The campaign will be
marked by an intensive drive in
every district of the Party with mass
meetings, mass limitations and other
special features.
Every Party unit, section and dis
trict and fraction of the Party is
being urged to recruit members in
every union, fraternal organization
or neighborhood in which there is
a Party organization. Special at
CONTINUED on PAGE g.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
W orkers Picket Theatre
AT Which Fascist Band
of Mussolini Appears

NEW YORK. the leader
ship of the Italian Workers Clubs
and the American League Against
War and Fascism, mass picket lines
were thrown yesterday in front of
the Academy of Music on Four
tenth Street, theatre at which a
fascist band, headlined as "Musso-
lini's Favorite Musicians Seventy
Five Ambassadors of Good Will, Z"
were playing.
On Friday, mass meetings at
tended by ten thousand workers
were held across the street from
the theatre in support Of the picket
line, which paced before the theatre
for four hours. Police at first at
tempted to provoke disorder, but
seeing the big assemblage with its
sentiments entirely in support Of
the pickets, did not dare to attempt
to disperse the mass meeting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
Daily Wires
I'VE on MORO
Fire Exposure

NEW YORK-Having presented
undisputable proof of the fact that
the Inflated Ward Line vessel,
Moro Castle, had over three tons
of explosives in her hold when she
left New York harbor on Sept /,
never to return, the Daily Worker
yesterday wired Senator Gerald P.
Nye, head Of the Senate Arms In
vestigation Committee, demanding
that the documents be included in
the record of the committee.
Copies of Saturdays Daily Worker
in which we're published the photo
stats reproductions of the Moro
Castle bills of lading that listed the
arms slowed in the hold of the ship
were forwarded to the senator.
The full text of the wire follows:
Senator Gerald P. Nye,
Senate Building,
Washington, D. @.
Saturdays issue of she Daily
Worker, which we are forwarding
to you, contains conclusive proof of
the shipment of arms to Cuba by the
Federal Laboratories, Inc, ON the
Inflated Ward Liner Moro Castle.
Photostatic copies of bills of lading
which We publish in the issue of
the same date, prove that the vessel
left New York on September l with
large quantities of arms in her hold
The shipment of munitions on a
pleasure cruise, fact which was not
made known to the hundreds of
passengers on board, certainly be-
lies the vicious cries of the company
concerning larson" by Communists
or members Of the crew and is GER
tainly deserving of the most care
full investigation. These facts
brought to light by the Daily Work
err should be included on the record
OF your committee and should serve
as the basis for calling representa-
tiveS of the shipping interests before
the committee.
1.-THE Daily Worker demands that
not only shall these facts be made
known but that public declaration
shall be made in the future by ships
carrying arms.
DAILY WORKER
80 East 18th st. :"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
Only 100000
Pay Dues in
l8OOUnions
Less Than Half-MilIiOn
Workers Joined Since
1888 Convention
By Bill Dunno

DAILY Worker Special Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30
Overshadowing even the internal
official war in the Building Trades
Department, which is getting the
main attention from the capitalist
press, is the fact that Secretary
Morrison's report on membership, a
part of the Executive Councils re-
port to be delivered tomorrow, shows
that estimates of workers organ
lied in the affiliated unions since
the Washington Convention must
be revised sharply downwards. The
total Of new membership will not
exceed according to reliable sources,
100000 and may be even somewhat
below this figure.
2,500O00 Members
In all local unions of the 100 Ma
tional and International unions
which in round figures include some
80 900 local organizations it will not
be possible to show more than some
$500, 900 members.
In some 1900 Federal Labor
Unions there will be shown not more
than dues paying membership Of
10000. Last year the grand total
OF dues paying membership Of all
organizations in the A. F. of L. was
2,127, 900. Even if one allows some
thing for the obvious effort to keep
down the convention voting strength
of the unions with industrial char
tiers like the U. M. w. A. and the
U. T. W., the Garment Trades
Unions and other organizations
whose delegations are believed to be
committed to support of the pro-
posal to enlarge the Executive Coun-
Gil and in this way strip the old
craft unions of their authority to
some extent, the estimated member
ship figures outline a sad picture of
the sincerity and ability of an Of
fetal leadership in its basic task Of
organizing American workers.
1t should be remembered in this
connection that a year ago Presi-
dent Green in one of his visions
predicted membership of some
100000 for the A. F. of l.. within
the coming 12month period.
Company Unions Doubled
When one compares the estimated
actual membership with almost
double the number of workers forced
into company unions in the same
length of time, while the official
family of the A. F. of L. was bally-
hooing the benefits of N. R. A. for
wage workers, there is to be seen
in bold relief the proof of the dis
honest bankruptcy of these chiefs
of the trade union movement in
the greatest industrial country in
the world-a country in which they
themselves estimate the number Of
workers at 40,000,0 900.
Here is the real basis for the
crisis in the A. F. of L. leadership
that allows McDonough, head of
the Building Trades Department
and the Official leader of huge
army of workers unemployed in an
industry that has practically dis
appeared in what these labor lead
ers still call "the depression" to
defy boldly the official ukase of the
executive Council of the A. F.. of l..
and laugh in President Green's face
while this stuffed shirt is making
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
Funds Needed
By NJ. W. |. U.
To Aid Fight
By Roy Hudson

National Secretary, Nj. w. /. u
The mighty West Coast strike
was one of the most militant and
heroic struggles in the history of
the American working class. An
even greater workers struggle is
now brewing on the East Coast
among seamen and longshoremen.
1t is to large extent through
the initiative Of the Marine Work
ers Industrial Union that the pres
ent situation has been developed.
Favorable opportunities for initial
ing and carrying through a success
III struggle now exist if the organ
national work is intensified.
In a great measure, the outcome
Of the situation will depend upon
the work of the M. w. 7. U. The
present treacherous maneuvers of
the international Seamen's Union
and the International Longshore-
mems Association leaders place ad-
ditional tasks and responsibilities
upon the M. w. I. U.
Lack of finances is already seri-
ouSly hindering the M. w. I. U. or
ganizational preparations for the
strike.
Because this struggle will be Of
such tremendous importance to the
American workers, the Marine
Workers Industrial Union feels that
it has the right to appeal for i'm
mediate support from all workers,
from other unions and from all
sympathizers who recognize the role
played by the marine industry in
the bosses war plans.
Because previous appeals for help
nave met with no response, and
although we fully understand the
burdens placed upon many workers
by the various financial campaigns
being conducted, we are forced to
stress the urgency of this appeal
again.
We appeal for immediate financial
support, to be given to the local
campaigns being carried on in the
various portS-or to be sent directly
to the National Office, Marine
Workers Industrial Union. which is
urgently in need of finances for the
issuance Of propaganda. for a spe-
cial edition Of the Voice to send
forces into the field and to give
additional support to the weaker
districts.
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ington that there would be no
strike until the Presidents board
demonstrates whether it can act
quick enough to meet the demands
of the situation"
New RED Scare"
r. R. Lawrence, president of the
North Carolina State Federation of
Labor, has added his voice to those
of the vigilantes and Ku Kluxers in
attempting to raise the fred scare"
When militant group of rank and
filters appeared at Mr.. Lawrence's
room in the Charlotte Hotel to de-
mand relief for the hungry, black
listed workers in Concord, he told
them that he could do nothing
about the relief, and said that he
heard there were reds in the Con-
cord local" and that they would be
expelled.
The Communist Party has issued
a call to the blacklisted workers to
organize mass marches on the local
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
A. F. of L. Leaders Face Crisis AS 54h Parley Opens
UNITY AGAINST WAR IS CALL OF CONGRESS
Daily Will Publish
Full Page on Events
At Anti ar Farley

Tomorrow's Daily Worker will
carry a full page on the proceed
ings Of the historic Second U. S.
Congress Against War. Speeches
by Clarence Hathaway, editor Of
the Daily Worker; DR.. Harry F,
Ward, General Yakhontoff, Mrs.
Barr, socialist delegate, and Louis
Pergaud, an editor of the French
socialist paper, lie Populaire,"
will be published.
All workers are urged to ar
range for their copies in ad-
vance. Organizations are asked
to obtain special bundle orders
for this special issue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
Wholesale Evictions Follow Mill Selout in South

trate w. j. Mode ruled with the
mill owners. The workers are APP
pealfng the decision to the Superior
Court and the union leaders mean
while are warning against any form
of mass action against the order.
Call Off Strike
Following the instructions of
German, j. Dooley, U. T. w. or
ganizer at Roanoke Rapids, N. c.,
announced that he had called off
a strike against the blacklisting of
union members which was sched-
uled for Monday Rank and file
workers had demanded that a
strike should be called at once at
the Roanoke Rapid Mills to force
the reinstatement of union men and
women who were denied work on
account of militan1 strike activities.
Dooley, who early last week said
that strike vote would be taken
at once, said after receiving a COM
from German in Wash
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
CROSS-SECTION
OF L. S. GATHERS
TO PLAN FIGHT
USSR Marks
Founding of
International

MOSCOW, Sept. %. (By Wire
leSs) The 10th anniversary of the
First International was marked by
widespread tribute throughout the
Soviet Union and the Soviet press.
An editorial in Pravda writes con-
corning the birth of the First In
ternational and its struggle against
capitalism:
THE First International origi-
mated and struggled in an epoch
when capitalism was developing
tempestuously, ever subordinating
to itself new spheres and countries.
The workers, striving to unite in
their common object of struggling
with capitalism, sent their repre-
sentatives to that significant meet
ing in London on the 18th of Sep
TENDER, 1864.
"The First International laid the
foundations of international pro-
letarian struggle for socialism, the
struggle for overcoming sectarian-
ism in the labor movement, for
combating various forms of petty
bourgeois and bourgeois socialism
(Proudhonism, Lasallianism, etc.,,
the struggle for educating the
masses in the spirit of proletarian
internationalism, the struggle for
dictatorship of the proletariat as the
main aim subordinating everything
else-such we're the tasks which the
leader Of the First international,
Marx, set to the First international.
Dictatorship, the appropriation
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
New York CityW
Ratify C.P. Candidates
at Mass Election Rally

NEW YORK.-The Communist
Party presented it's program and
candidates before the workers of
New York City at a ratifying rallv
held yesterday at New Star Casino
where thousands of assembled
workers greeted the candidates
chosen at the State Nominating
Convention.
Israel Amter, candidate for Gov
ernor, reported to the assembled
workers the proceedings and resolu-
tons of the United States Con
gresS Against War and Fascism held
in Chicago, pointing out that only
the Communist Party leads the
fight against war and fascism.
Fred Briehl, dairy farmer from
Waikiki and Communist candidate
for Acknowledgement, exposed the
platforms Of the two major parties
OF capitalism. The hope of the
New York State farmers, he said,
lies in the Communist Party. the
Party which has pu forward the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill and the Farmers Emergency
Relief Bill, and leads the mass cam
paign for their enactment.
Isidore Begun, secretary of the
Unemployed Teachers Association
and Communist candidate for
Comptroller of New York City;
Williana Burroughs, candidate for
Lieutenant Governor; M. j. Olgin,
editor of the Freiheit and candi-
date for Congress from the 23rd
Congressional District. and Rose
Wortis, candidate for State Comp
troller, also spoke.
Carl Brodsky, State campaign
manager, reported on the activity
of the State committee since its in
ception in July.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
Militant Strik ers and
Families Ousted from
Company's Shacks
BY Harry Raymond

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Sept. 3d.
Wholesale evictions of textile strik-
ers from company owned shacks
has begun here, marking the con-
tinuation of the ruthless drive
which the textile employers are
making against the workers whose
picket lines are broken by the
back-to-Work orders of Francis
German, U. T. w. head.
The first move made to Gust the
families was made in Spindale and
Forest City, both in North Caro-
lima, by the Alexander Manufac-
turing Co. Eviction notices were
served on 81 families and when the
cases were taken to court Magis-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
Keller Machine Gusts
Valgo, Mill Militant,
From Silk Union Board

PATERSON, N. j., Sept. 30. =
Luigi Valgo, militant textile worker,
was expelled Yesterday from the
Executive Board of the plain goods
department of the American FEEDER
alton of Silk Workers CU. T. W..
The expulsion, part of the drive
instituted by the Keller machine
TO GUST all militants from the union,
occurred at Yesterdays board meet
ing. Four of the eleven members
of the board voted against the ex-
pulsion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
Union Leaders Call on
Workers Not to Show
Mass Opposition

relief headquarters to demand i'm
mediate relief.
What the workers who were taken
back in the mills can expect from
the German N. r. A. settlement"
was made clear in letter by a
textile worker published in the
Charlotte Observer.
The let er comparing budgets be-
fore and after the N r. A. said,
in part;
Il was operating three machines,
three speeders, to be more concise,
working ten and twelve hours
daily before the N. R. Al. My
weekly earnings averaged s1l.50. I
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
End Work Relief Today
Throughout Kentucky

LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 80. =
All work relief in Kentucky will
stop tomorrow, Rev. Chas w. WEIGH.
chairman of the Kentucky Relief
Commission announced yesterday
after both State and Federal Of
1cials had refused to appropriate
money.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
New York Textile Men
Win Wage Increases
After 4-Week Strike

NEW YORK.-Under the leader
ship of the newly formed Textile
Trimming Workers Union, an indie
pendent union, about 1000 textile
workers in forty shops in the New
York area have won 35-hour week
wage increases Of from four to ten
dollars a week, recognition of the
union, control of hiring and recog-
milton of the shop committees.
The agreement concluded between
the workers and the employers call
for the following wage minimum
scales.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01

All piece workers will be increased
Is per cent, and all other workers
hired on weekly basis will receive
10 per cent wage increase effec-
tive today, plus per cent increase
effective Feb. l, 1885. In addition.
the agreement provides for full pay
ment of wages for seven holidays
a year, including May Day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
Do Your Share
In NepU Drive
For Our Party

Party begins five weeks
Of intensive work to re-
cruit for the Party. All of US
would like to see the Party
grow. We would all be proud
of our Party if we could
double the membership in this
drive. Perhaps some of us
think that this is an impos-
sible task. But it can be done.
1t can be done If we all take
1t upon ourselves to contribute
our share.
Is there any reason why
each of us should not be able
to recruit at least one new
member to the Party during
the coming month? Will any
one of us deny that there are
at least tens of thousands of
workers who, if properly ap-
preached, are ready to join
the Party? Can we deny that
today more than ever there
are hundreds of thousands of
workers who are moving in
the direction of Communism ?
And that out of these workers
tens Of thousands can be
brought into the Party?
What then stands between
US and the doubling of the
membership in the coming
weeks? 1t can not be anything
else but our own lack of eff
fort, lack Of attention to re-
cruiting, our own lack of con-
fidence in the readiness of
thousands to come into our
ranks, our own lack Of under
standing of how to approach
the leftward moving workers.
This campaign is one of the
most serious issues before the
Party. Let us put real effort
into it. We ourselves will be
surprised by the results. To-
day, with but little effort and
the activity of no more than
ten per cent of the Party
membership, some 1000 work
ers join, the Party every
month. How many times that
number would join if the en-
tire membership makes this
effort in the coming month?
The answer is clear by the
very asking of the question.
How shall we go about it?
We all are in the midst of
workers-among the exploited
and betrayed textile workers
who are filled with rage
against their officials, against
the employers, against the
Roosevelt regime. We are in
the midst of the marine, auto,
steel and other workers, who
feel the same way. We are
among the unemployed who
suffer hunger through no
fault of their own. We are
among the Negro masses who
are not only exploited and
oppressed like all workers
but who in addition are daily
Disseminated against in every
conceivable form. We meet
these workers in the shops.
we meet them in the trade
unions, in the fraternal or
CARNATIONS, in the unem-
ployed organizations, in the
streets, in the homes. Every
where around us there are
workers who are dissatisfied,
who are in quest for an ans
wer as to the cause of their
lot, who look for a way out.
x y
ME ARE NOT alone among
W them. There are others
who approach them. There
are those who preach toler-
ance of the present conditions.
There are those who fill them
with promises that are broken
again and again. There are
painted before them new solu-
lions that bear the same char
acter as those of Hitler.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01

ME ARE NOT alone among
W them. There are others
who approach them. There
are those who preach toler-
ance of the present conditions.
There are those who fill them
with promises that are broken
again and again. There are
painted before them new solu-
lions that bear the same char
acter as those of Hitler.
There are those who reach
the workers who already un-
derstand that the enemy is
the whole capitalist system,
with the plea that they fol-
low the methods that have
brought disaster to the work
ers of Germany and Austria.
On the other hand behind
our message we can show to
the workers not only the cor
rectness of our methods of
struggle for the very means
of existence, but also the ex-
ample of a new life, a new
world, a security, a freedom
lCnnti,,ued IN Pnne d
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Needed-s1,OOO a Day

Saturdays Receipts ....................s 1850
Total to Date ........................S 102O609
Press Run Saturday-78,20O
Evening star., 1934-12-09
mas Greens, by z. Ingersol. Chau-

mas Greens, by E. Ingersol. Chau-
tauqua. 1885.
Yule-Log in Provence, by T. A. jan
vier. Golden Book. 4:837-8 D rs.
Note on Christmas Trees, by w.
B.. johnson. Catholic World.
138:345-7 D 80.
Watching Of the Myrrh, by B. Lind
say. Nineteenth Century. 6o;33l-6
Ag. '06.
Yule-Log, by L. c. Pickett. Country
Life. 11:191-2 D '06.
With Yuletide Holly and Mistletoe,
by M. F. N. Roulet. Catholic
World. 74:433-4l ia '02.
Christmas in America, by A. c. Sage.
New England Magazine. n. s.
13:461-5.
With Mistletoe and Holly. by Ada
Sterling. Harper's B r.
36:1114-17 D '02.
Yule-Log and Other Fires. by Ada
Sterling. Harper's B a "a a T.
37:l142-5 D '03.
Yuletide Logs and Christmas Candles,
by F. M. Verrall. Catholic World.
134:339-42 D 81.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
AartHhnrnr

THERE are various theories as to the
derivation of this surname, one be-
ing that it originated from the horn
of a hart, the male deer, an emblem
found frequently over entrances CT
inns and shops in Old England. An
other is that it was an outgrowth of
the term "hathern," " meaning meeting
place. The names Hathern and Hath
earne are well-known family names
found in Leicestershire. England.
called Hartshorn.
The coat of arms displayed which
is borne by the Hartshorne family
early established in New Jersey. Vir-
ginia and Maryland. gives credence to
the hart's horn idea
This family was fodnded in America
by Richard HartShorne. who came to
East New Jersey in 1869. at the age Of
%. and settled in Monmouth County
He acquired large tracts of land and
became an influential colonist. He
was the son Of William HartShorne
and was born in Hathearne. Leicester
e.
settlement of Richard his brother,
Hugh Hartshorne of London, was
named in a deed executed by Lady
Elizabeth Carteret, as one of the pro-
prietors of East New Jersey, along with
William Penn and other grantees. 1t
appears, however. that Hugh Harts-
horne conveyed his interest to the Earl
of Perth and never saw the land Of
which he was for time part owner
William Hartshorne. the grandson
of Richard. the founder. moved to Vir-
ginia, where he established his family
on an estate called Cherry Hill, ad-
! Joining that of Mount Vernon. VIII
liam was associated with George
Washington in engineering projects,
among which was the building Of
canal along the Potomac. One of
Williams sons moved to Maryland.
where the name of Hartshorne is found
in gooGly numbers today. Two other
sons migrated to Pennsylvania. where
descendants are now living Joseph,
one of the sons in Pennsylvania, was
instrumental in the building and
| maintenance Of the old Pennsylvania
Hospital
The spelling Hartshorne is peculiar
to the family discussed and is not
! affiliated with the family whose name
omitS the "e," that family being rep
resented in America by another
| founder.
(Copyrisht. 1a34D