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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
u mite d Front of All
Workers Main Link,
Amter, Benjamin Say
UNION DELEGATES
Needs of Negro Masses
Vital Task, StacheI
Declares
BY CARL REEVE
Especial to the Daily Worker)


WASHINGTON, D. c.. Feb.
4.-The approximately nine
hundred determined delegates
10 the National Convention
Against Unemployment, which
opened in the Masonic Temple
here yesterday morning, have
taken decisive steps forward in or
3anizing the nationwide fight for the
enactment of the Workers Unem-
ployms:t Insurance Bill. They will
fight for jobs and relief, and for the
achievement OF the unity Of all
workers, regardless of their mis-
leaders, in the struggle for the de-
mands Of the unemployed.
In both the reports of Amter and
Benjamin and the delegates speeches,
in the numerous ovations and DEM
onstrations, determination was madel
plain to fight against the whole
hunger program of Roosevelt's New
Deal and N.R.A., and to prevent the
liquidation of C.W.A. jobs on May 1st
by the Federal Government. THE
workers are going TO say whether
C.W.A. jobs shall be liquidated or
not, Amter said. I'VE are afraid Of
neither the iron fist of Hoover or the
silk glove Of Roosevelt" said Ben
jamin regarding the demagogy Of
Roosevelt in concealing his fascist
strikebreaking attacks on the work
ers.
The struggle for the United Front
for these demands was the center of
the main report of I. Amter, National
Secretary of the Unemployed Coun-
ellis of Herbert Benjamin, organizer
of the councils, and of the discussion
fCOufinHed an pdne ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Police Use Numbers
Racket To Carry Out
Raids on Negro Sections

NEW YORK. New York and
Jersey City police carried out wide
spread raids in the colored sections
yesterday under the pretext of stamp
ing out numbers" racketeering. In
neither city did the police make any
attempt to arrest the bankers and
gangsters behind the policy racket
which victimizes tens of thousands of
Negro and white workers out of hun
dreds of thousands OF dollars an
nually.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Gilbert, Taxi Workers
Union Head, Scores
LaCuardia's Scheme
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
Morris L. Ernst, who Was APP
pointed by Mayor LaGuardia, an
nounced last night that he would
attempt to settle the strike imme-
diately on the basis of what he
calls Consumers Monday" thus
turning the question Of the scent
tax over to legal action to be TAX
en- at later date.
This announcement was made
at meeting held In Ernst's Of
flee with 1s representatives Of the
four unions.
All of the demands put forward
by the Taxi Workers Union were
denied by Ernst.
The "Consumers' Monday"
scheme calls for the cutting of
fares SO 1-3 per cent every Mon
day for three or four weeks in
order to raise the amount Of fares
collected by the cab companies.
Ernst attempted to point out that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Fit in With Jingois t
Propaganda of Work
ers' Enemies
BY HARRY CANNES

NEW YORK. Opened by the ex-
Reverend Music, the dinner for the
declaration of faith by the leaders
OF the aborning American Workers
Party last Friday night closed with
the shivering misgivings of 'respec-
liability of j. B. S. Hardman, better
known as publicity agent for the N.
R. A. strikebreaker, Sidney Hillman.
Il am somewhat hesitant to speak
when l look around here and see the
dinner and wonder if Rocscvelt's
prosperity hasn't come" said Louis
F Budenz.
Gathered in Town Hall were about
300 people. Predominantly they were
exceptionally well-dressed petty
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
90 Bulgarian Soldiers
and Sailors Face Death
For Anti-War Activities

NEW YORK.-Sixty-nine Bulga-
rian soldiers and sailors are on trial
for their lives before court martial
in Sofia, Bulgaria, for their anti-war
activities in the army and navy, ac-
cording to cable received yesterday
by the International Labor Defense
from the International Red Aid in
Paris.
All workers were urged in the cable
to send vigorous protests to the Bull
garian Embassy in Washington, and
to all Bulgarian Consulates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05

This murderous Nazi program
will be protested by the thousands
who will gather in Bronx Coliseum
next Sunday evening, Feb. IL, at
the Support the German Workers
Revolution concert and affair, at
which Earl Browder will give an
account of the fight of the German
Communist Party AGAINST fasc.sm
under conditions of Hitler terror.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
In the Daily Worker
Today

Page 2
Sports, by Jerry Arnold
Page 8
Amter Asks for United Fight for
Workers JobIess Insurance
Page 4
Letters from Food Workers
Party Life
Two. News
''Dr. Luttinger Advises
Page 5
"Change the World" by Michael
God
"Hackman," by Harry Kermit
"Son of Sailor" by S. Marks
Tuning In
Page s
Editorials
Foreign News
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Worker at the Conclusion
Shouts: ''Long Live
Communist Party"

Yet the pivotal point Of the
speeches of Rev. Music, Doctors Cal
verton and Hook, Budenz and
Romuglia was that the Communist
Party, and especially the theories and
tactics of Communism, were foreign
to the American workers.
Tools which are made to function
in one period, declared Music in an
nouncing the reason for the forrla-
ton of the new party, cannot be
used in another
Then he described the kind Of
tool which the Provisional Organ
ization Committee proposed to fash
-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Barbusse Wires Stain
Greetings on Report
Special to the Daily Worker

MOSCOW, Feb. 4 (By RADIO =
Henri Barbusse, famed French writer
and fighter against war, has sent a
telegram from Cannes, France, to
Joseph Stain, at the Seventeenth
congress of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union, which reads:
Hearty greetings. Splendid re-
port. Majestic congress. Great So
cialist victory heard throughout the
world through your voice.
stBARBUSSE."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05

Facsimile of letter sent by Oscar Schil-
Ing, secretary of the New York Section
Of the Nazi Party Observation-Disclosures
Deutsche Arbeiterpartei to d. Balcgh de
Almassy, director of the Colonel Kovats
Society" (See full translation Of letter
on Page 81.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05

(Conttnaed on Poss u
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05

Continued on Page 81
Evening star., 1934-03-04

held up one Of the guards. forced him
to unlock the cell door, disarmsd him
and with his cellmates went to the
warden,s ofice, seized two machine
guns and fed with . deputy shertn
as hostage.
It was either . piece Of amazing
stupidity on the part Of his jailors
that he was allowed to retain pos
session Of . knife, or there was
bribery. That such Q man, with his
record Of desperate crimes should
have been permitted to obtain .
weapon passes understanding save on
the theory Of connivance. The most
secure jail is no safeguard against
the fight Of q prisoner who Is armed.
OF course, there will be 1nvesti-
cation and some explanation given
of the circumstance Of Dillingers re-
tention of his knife. But that will
not ease the public mind, aroused to
a high pitch Of indignation against
such laxity. The fight against crime
will not be won SO long as slip
shod methods Of detention are
practiced.
Evening star., 1934-03-04
Stupid or Corrupt failing.

It would seem that with all the
experiences of jailors with slippery
prisoners, dangerous men taken for
desperate crimes, who have broken
their bonds and ned. the lesson Of
rigid confinement would by now have
been learned. But apparently no
profit is taken by all of the Gus
todians Of evil-doers from the jail
breaks and escapes of the past. Yes
terday at Crown Point, Ind, John
Dillinger, killer and bank robber,
awaiting trial for murder, made his
way out of supposedly escape-proof
county jail by strategem that was
made possible by an extraordinary
lapse Of guardianship. He was con-
fined in a cell with four other
prisoners. Whether by collusion or
through carelessness, he had on his
person q knife with which he whitfield
from q piece of wood a dummy pistol.
U means Of that mock weapon he
Evening star., 1934-03-04
Wallace Rated as the Leading Member
OF the Presidents 'sRecovery" Cabinet

others. But he has stood up under
all kinds Of fire, maintained bis good
nature and poise, and at no time has
been given to making wild promises
or painting gilded pictures of the lot
that faces the farmer
The Nation, Mr.. Wallace argues,
may take any one of three roads. 1t
can move further toward nationalism.
following the countries Of Europe in
that direction. In that case the Fed
eral Government must impose a dis
cipline even more rigid than in war
time, with control of prices. of output
and even of opinion.
It can turn toward internationalism,
toward lower tariffs and accept an
nually about $1,000, 100000 more
worth Of goods and services than it
exports in order that the produce Of
from 5O,000,0OO to 100, 900. 900 acres
Of farm land can be sold abroad and
debts be paid.
Or it can take q middle course,
somewhat along the lines of the new
deal, and seek a measure of control
over output, increase imports moder-
ately and try to bring order into the
economic system without regimenting
the population.
Mr.. Wallace inclines to the middle
course. Whether in that decision he
is expressing the views of Mr.. Roose-
velt is not established. The Secretary
says the extensive analysis and argu-
ment that he prepared represents only
his personal feeling and convictions.
His attitude, however, gains force
from the fact that the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration program,
for which the Secretary largely is re-
sponsible, is working in practice to a
greater degree than many Of the
other emergency organization pro-
grams
Farm prices in general have been
forging ahead, with the biggest gains
in those crops on which controls have
been placed Farmers are cooper
ating in large numbers County pay
ments of nearly 81 600, 100000 are to
go to farmers during the year ahead
and the whole agricultural picture is
brighter.
But Mr. Wallace already is saying
that the very success Of the program
may bring its downfall later by en-
couraging evasion and chiseling and
the potential increase of the farm
plant. He has earned q name as the
greatest realist among the new deal
leaders by his frank facing Of prob
lens.
There is plenty Of opportunity
ahead for any man to stub his toe,
but after the first year OF the new
deal the Secretary Of Agriculture ad-
mittedly is the outstanding figure
among the men who are running the
Washington show
Copyright, 1934)
Evening star., 1934-03-04
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Art Colossal.

Art Colossal.
Again the world is taking heart
And showing interest in art.
Old masters" oft are cast aside.
New bosses faunt a modern pride
And set q mountain range apart,
Where q colossal scheme Of art
To show colossal skill will serve,
Combined with q colossal nerve,
As lakes, rejecting changing skies,
VIII represent q hero's eyes,
While forests there conserved with cart
Denote the whiskers or the hair.
The tourist ages hence inclined
To travel and improve his mind
Will bid his audience draw near
His learned lecturing to hear.
And in a dialect then heard.
Using one letter for a word,
Some gentle lass impelled will be
To cry with fervor:
"A. N. G.!"
Which brings to those who understand
This mighty thought,
Amt Nature Grand!"
Evening star., 1934-03-04
REALITY
THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN D. d. L. D., D. c. L.
Bishop of Waahinnon

Twenty Minutes Of Reality" Is the
title Of an engaging article written by
Margaret Prescott Montague. It Is
the recital Of strange experience
that left q deep and lasting impress
sion upon her. She says: II cannot
say what the mysterious change was,
or whether 1t came suddenly or grad
ually. I saw no new thing, but I saw
all the usual things in q miraculous
new light, In what believe Is their
true light" "Once out Of all the gray
days of my life I have looked into the
heart Of reality. I have seen life as
it really is" Not alone to this gifted
woman has this experience been
given; it has been the privilege Of q
host Of men and women in these
more recent days to glimpse for the
first time the real meaning OF life
and to appraise It by new standards.
The trials that come to us, rightly
interpreted, are the means by which
we gain q better and more rational
understanding Of the high purposes
and ends of being. It is literally true
that I'VE rise by the things that are
under our feet" When the Master
affirmed that man shall not live by
bread alone" He was stating funda-
mental principle that has to do with
life's truest development; He was
seeking to fix mans vision upon those
spiritual values that have to do with
his noblest and highest attainments,
the realization Of his truest and best
self. In a world that is as exacting
in its demands as the one in which
we live, and especially in q time that
is characterized by such swift changes
as the present, We are so pressed and
crowded on every hand by physical
and material forces that we find 1t
difficult to contemplate the deeper re-
alities-realities that concern our finer
and spiritual nature.
It is only when some strange and
critical experience befalls us and we
are driven to deeper reflection that
we really appraise ourselves at our
true worth and come to understand
that ''the Life is more than meat, and
the body than raiment." Probably at
no time in our generation have we
been forced to such serious reflection
or to such q fresh examination OF the
values of life as during these more
recent years. We recall that in one
of his latest utterances, shortly before
Evening star., 1934-03-04
Americas Bid for Peace.

President Roosevelt is making yet
another American contribution to the
cause of world peace. He has in
formed Great Britain that the United
States supports British efforts to save
the Geneva Disarmament Conference
as represented by the British memo
randum Of January 20, but would
supplement any arms agreement with
universal non-aggression pact, under
which each nation would pledge itself
not to send armed forces beyond its
own boundaries in violation Of treaty
rights. This proposal adheres to the
formula the President presented to
heads of governments in May, 1888.
The three main elements Of that
formula were the abolition of weapons
of primary use in invasion, continu-
GUS and automatic inspection Of
armaments and agreement for non-
aggression.
Washington administration quarters
are not fired with any lively hope
that anything will come Of the Brit
ish efforts to act as a broker In
Franco German armament negotia-
tions, which are the crux of the whole
problem, but Mr.. Roosevelt is anx-
ious that there shall be no lack of
American influence in the tortuous
attempts to find q solution.
The presence in Europe of Norman
H. Davis, special American Ambas-
sador to Geneva, is not associated
with current disarmament negotia-
tions The State Department note
to Great Britain sets forth that
while the American Government u
not In any way . participant h The
Evening star., 1934-03-04

dustries, while the general downward
trend was shown to be least severe
IN the fields Of Government, electric
light and power and gas, communica-
tions. and food and food products
manufacture.
Such estimates Of income, especially
those made during the periods Of
rapid changes in our economic life,
are useful when the kind and degree
Of new legislation or any other part
Of reforming action is being con-
sidered. Plans for revival Of indus
trial and business activity must, Of
course, be focused upon the factors
most seriously out of their normal
alignment. Programs of taxation.
affecting industries and individuals.
must be based on such estimates Of
the volume and duidity Of purchasing
power.
A0ssA AAAAA
Evening star., 1934-03-04
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Fifty years ago Washington had
theatrical treat in a visit by Henry
ur Irving and Ellen
hehry Irving Terry to the Capt.
as "Hamlet." tai for q weeks
engagement. The
Star OF March 6, 1884, thus reviews
one Of the performances:
There is no play from the Eng
lish-speaking stage more familiar
than THE Prince of Denmark and
the conception Of Hamlet by MI.
Irving last evening was therefore
awaited with an interest that arose in
contrast with the many personal and
ideal performances of this character
The audience was large and critical.
and from the outset did not accept
his representation of it within the
broad lines and settled ideas which
to say the least, are the outgrowth of
a generation in this country. It was
not the gentle Hamlet. the 'melan-
choly prince, SO familiar to the play
goer, but one so robust and eccen-
trio as to bring the vocal and physi-
cal mannerisms Of Mr.. Irving into
the boldest relief. His vacant stare,
his stride, his peculiar pronunciation.
the sudden witches of his hands, of
which one has heard so much, were
all more striking than in his other
plays. The reading of well-known
lines was peculiarly his own, and in
the soliloquy his manner was q posi-
tive disappointment. He delivered it
half sitting, half standing. In the
scene with the players he did not
accept for himself the instruction to
the players, but rendered them so
'trippingly upon the tongue that quite
half were not understood by the
audience. In the face of these faults,
however, as compared with a stand
ard, there were bright and thrilling
scenes which were warmly applauded
and which were an improvement upon
what may not be inappropriately
termed conventional Hamlet The
nervous force and intense passion
shown in the play scene as the King
discloses his crime, and his menace
to the monarch, were evidences of
great dramatic power and a rare ex-
hibition of emotional acting. The
duel scene in the last act was an ex-
cltlng ana vigorous one, showing that
both actors were adopts with the
foils, while the stage presentation Of
It was the best ever witnessed here.
If comparison were criticism and de.
tails permissible, columns could be
written upon the Hamlet Of the per-
formance, but the endeavor here Is to
give the average opinion of q most
intelligent audience upon q new
creation. The Ophelia of Miss Ellen
Terry was very beautiful In the
mad scenes she was very touching
and in her attractive, winning ways,
very effective. In the former the
audience, as she left the stage, broke
into an uncomfortable burst of ap-
plause. Tonight Mr.. Irving appears
as Shylock, and Miss Terry as Portia
in The Merchant Of Venice"
Evening star., 1934-03-04

A burglar in the Office building of
the House of Representatives showed
extraordinary indifference to publicity
prospects by selecting an hour when
he knew the camera men would be
absent. More adroitly managed he
might have been made sufficiently
prominent to figure in current enter
tainment.
Evening star., 1934-03-04

European political problems and
therefore does not take part in diplo-
matte discussions relating thereto, 1t
Is. nevertheless, vitality interested In
the maintenance Of European peace
and therefore welcomes the effort Of
the British government to bring about
agreement"
Mr.. Davis. on his part, says he
viii be available when Europe is ready
to drop politics and talk disarmament.
With all extraneous issues President
Roosevelt once again makes clear that
he intends to keep this country en-
tirely disentangled.
Evening star., 1934-03-04

next-door neighbor than 30 formidable
power as Germany.
The acquiescence Of Great Britain
In this cry Of Haiti" to Germany in
Central Europe is the new element in
the situation. Before the Hitler coup
English sympathies on the whole were
favorable to the inclusion of Austria
within the German sphere. and it was
only respect for the strength of French
feeling on this subject that prevented
those sympathies being officially
shown. But the menacing revival Of
"PruSsianism" under the Hitler re-
gime has swung opinion around to the
French point Of view, and although
the British Endorsement Of the French
and Italian declaration in favor Of
Austria's independence Is very guard
ed, it marks q significant change Of
attitude.
But what, then, Is Austria's future
to be? It would suit Mussolini very
well If the old Austro- Hungarian dual
system were restored, and, having
helped Dollfuss and the Austrian Fas-
cists to make a clean sweep Of the
Austrian Socialists, he is now en-
gagged in working for a concordat be-
tween Vienna and Budapest. But it is
at this point that French and Italian
interests cease to be one. A restora-
ton Of the Hapsburg dual monarchy,
it is true, would provide a powerful
defense against a German advance
and to that extent would serve French
| iyDfnFoCfe pryf <6A n%H
would alarm the little entente powers,
which, after the war, were rewarded
with great chunks Of the old Austro-
Hungarian Empire. And the little en-
tente is the specially protected outpost
OF France in the Near East.
Nor can it be assumed that the Ger
man hand is yet played out. The
Nazis IN Austria are more numerous
than the Fascists. Their sympathies
are with Germany and it is quite in
the cards that Chancellor DollfuSS,
having used italian support to sup
press the Socialist party, might make
terms with the Nazis to keep an
equilibrium between German inf1u-
ence on the one side and Italian in
huence on the other. The most en-
couraging fact In the situation Is that
Dollfuss, whatever his ultimate OBJ
jective, has committed himself to
working through the machinery of the
League Of Nations rather than be-
coming q dependent of Mussolini.
And 1t is the revival of that au-
thority which justif1es the hope that
the confusion in the European system
may yet be Strengthened out. There
Is marked recovery in the outlook Of
the League. and the despair which
Germany's secession created last
Autumn has vanished. The Austrian
trouble has done much to re-estab-
Hsh confidence in it as the only in
strument that can save Europe from
complete disintegration.
A further encouraging fact Is the
marked change in the relations be-
tween Russia and the European pow
ers. The latest evidence Of that
change Is the new commercial treaty
between Britain and Russia.
(Copyright. 1034.)
Evening star., 1934-03-04

The District Of Columbia will hard
ly see the propriety Of encouraging
race track gambling tn the shadow of
the Capitol, where efforts are being
made to regulate the speculators in
Wall Street. Government wages are
by no means high enough to warrant
calling In the pari mutuel machine
to prevent boarding.