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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
AID TO BOSSES
BY ALL HAILED
BY WHEELER
Senator Warns Ship
Owners Asking for
Injunction
TELLS OF UNREST
Cites West Coast Strike
in Praising Conser-
vative Unions
TELLS OF UNREST
By George Morris

NEW YORK. = Advice to the
ship owners that their efforts to
destroy the conservative A. F. of L.
unions is sowing the seeds of their
own destruction, was the central
point in the speech of Senator Bur-
ton K. Wheeler, of Montana, in his
argument in Kings County Supreme
Court yesterday against the injunc-
ton sought by the ship owners to
prevent united action between the
longshoremen and teamsters.
The application for the injunc-
ton now being heard before Su
preme Court Justice HUMPHREYS has
been made by leading ship owners,
the Board of Trade, the Manufac
turers Association and several
Chambers of Commerce in the port
of New York. They claim that the
combination of locals of the In
ternational Longshoremen's Associ-
alton and those of the International
Transfers Union into the Trans
portation Councils, is conspiracy"
and demand that the longshoremen
be forced to handle goods trucked
by non-union teamsters.
Wheeler Boosts "ProgreSsives"
The basis of their quest for an
injunction is the Sherman Anti
Trust law and the various acts
against conspiracies. Final hear
ings on the injunction have been
postponed for more than two
months.
In the meantime, Senator
Wheeler, who in 1924 was running
mate to LaFollette in the Presiden-
tial campaign, has been brought
into the case. His main object, it
is stated, is to interpret the mean
ing of the Norris-LaG uardia Anti
Injunction Bill. of which he was one
Of the sponsors.
In q speech taking uD the entire
morning session yesterday. he read
extensively from legislative records
to show that the bill passed sought
to restrain courts from exercising
power to issue injunctions in labor
disputes. At intervals he injected
very emphatic remarks about
greatest statesmen of the coun-
try" Senators Norris, LaFollette,
Walsh and Blaine of Wisconsin, who
are prominent figures in the present
move for a third party of capital
ism.
"a F. of L. Ultra Conservative"
In a dramatic manner designed to
drive the point home to the ship
owners representatives sitting across
the table from him, Senator Wheeler
said:
THE A. F. of L. today is looked
upon as ultra conservative. Certain
people are seeking to destroy the A.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
DISCLAIMS
MAJORITY
RULE IN IA
MakesAnnOuncement AS
Manufacturers Get
Ready for Farley
PRAISES AUTO DEAL
Covers Up Role of US.
in Heading Off
Motors Strike
BY Seymour Waldman
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 81
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
today sent an encouraging company
union go-ahead signal to the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
whose leaders are working upon the
precise permanent anti-labor form
they wish the National Industrial
Recovery Act to take upon its eX-
piration on June Is of next year.
The manufacturers group, one of
the chief sponsors of the N. I. r. A
and Of the present big business
Roosevelt administration wage
cutting drive, will hold combined
convention and congress Of industry
in New York City on Dec. 5 and 6.
Statute IA of the N. r. A. says
collective bargaining and nothing
about majority rule" Miss Perkins
told her press conference today.
She volunteered what is obviously
the Roosevelt Administration opin-
ion, in reply to reporters ques-
tons about her reaction to com
mon rumors that the Secretary of
Labor favors proportional and not
majority voting" Proportional vot-
ing is the term for the company
union plan the president and the
automobile manufacturers used to
abort last years budding auto strike.
'Tnterprets" Houde Decision
Though the Secretary remarked.
II don't hear the common rumors
around town." she paid them suf-
f1cient attention to reiterete the adj
ministration-big business opinion
that the National Labor Relations
Board majority decision on the
Houde case doesn't mean what ii
says.
1t will be remembered that the
special committee on future rela-
tons of government to industry" OF
the Manufacturers Association
which meets Dec. 5 and 6, has al
ready recommended anti-strike in
junction clauses and the extension
of the labor provisions" of the
N. R. A., to be administered by the
anti-strike Department of Labor, as
part of the new legislation expected
to be pissed by the next Congress
In short, the manufacturers and
bankers are getting up steam tc
take over openly what they con-
slider vital to their program for the
fasciszation of American industry
Their use of the Labor Department
from all indications, is motivated by
the necessity to screen the ulti-
mate objective with demagogy.
Disclaims U. S. Role in Auto
Asked whether she had anything
to say about the announced plar
Of the manufacturers to take over
Continued on Page q
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LETTER ASKS
UNITED FRONT
Of new GROUP
SCOTS Dor O-HerndOn
Committee W arms
Against Division
i STRESSES ACTION
Reply Is Awaited from
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Committee

A proposal for united front,
based on an uncompromising fight
for the lives and freedom of the
Scottsboro boys, was made last Sat-
urday by the National Scottsboro-
Herndon Action Committee to the
American Scottsboro Committee.
which was recently set up around
the claims of Samuel S. Leibowitz
that he was empowered to repre-
sent the boys The proposal, signed
by Samuel S. Patterson, secretary
of the Action Committee. points
out that the resultant situation
can only react to the detriment of
the boys, to the harm of the fight
for the issues involved in the case,
and of the cause of freedom for
the Negro people
Stressing the fight for the free
dom of the boys as the main issue
in the case, the Action Committee
declares its belief that ION this
single issue there is room for all
sincere and honest people to stand
together, irrespective of their po-
litical or religious utilization or
sympathy" 1t declares that every
division at this time plays into the
hands of the lynchers, and proposes
the holding of a conference during
the present week of representatives
of the two groups ito discuss how
steps can be taken to present a
solid front in the fight for the I'M
conditional freedom of the Scots
boro boys"
Points Out LID. Achievements
In it's letter to the American
Scottsboro Committee, the Action
Committee, representing 242 organ
izations, with a total membership
of some 10000 persons, outlines
the latest achievements of the IN
ternational Labor Defense in secur-
ing a stay of execution for Haywood
Patterson and Clarence Norris, two
of the boys whose execution was
formerly set for Dec. 7, and the fill
ing with the U. S. Supreme Court
Of an application for a writ Of
certiorari and accompanying brief
in the Norris case. 1t also an
swers the charges made by the
Leibowitz group against the I. L. D.
The letter follows in full:
Copy of Letter
November "a, 1884.
American Scottsooro Committee,
289 Fourth Ave,
New York City.
Gentlemen:
1.-The three and one-half year
fight for the lives and freedom of
the Scottsboro Boys has again
reached the crucial stage of appeal
before the United States Supreme
Court. The lives of these boys are
once more in the balance before the
country's highest tribunal
THE International Labor Defense,
through its attorney, Osmond K
Fraenkel, has secured a stay of ex-
ecution for Haywood Patterson and
Clarence Norris, the two condemned
boys, from the Alabama Supreme
Court. Application for a writ OF
certiorari and accompanying brief
in the Norris case have been filed
with the U. S. Supreme Court by
the I. L. D. attorneys. Similar
Continued on Page q
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Perkins Gives MIRA Sanction to Company Union Plan
UNITY URGED IN SC0TTSB0R0 fight
Foster Wires Buck
Warmest Greetings
On Prison Release

William z. Foster, veteran
leader of the American working
class and general secretary of the
Trade Union Unity League, yes
terday wired greetings to Tim
Buck, congratulating the secre-
tary of the Canadian Communist
Party on his release after three
years of vigorous struggle by the
workers of Canada against Bucks
Imprisonment for his working
class activities. Fosters telegram
follows
"Warmest revolutionary greet
ings on your release stop all
American workers who followed
your heroic fight against Cana
dian capitalism will be joyous to
learn of your freedom won after
three years of mass struggles by
Canadian workers stop your
courageous spirit will inspire
Canadian workers to more ener-
getic fight for workers eman-
cipation."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
JObless Will Mass
In Detroit Sunday
To Fight Relief Cuts

DETROIT, Nov. 81. - Jobless
workers and organizations of the
unemployed we're called on today
to mass at the Arena Gardens,
Woodward Avenue and Hendrie
Street on Sunday, pm, for
county wide protest demonstra-
ton against new, drastic reduc-
tons in relief by the local relief
administration.
The mass meeting is being ar
ranged under the auspices of the
Detroit Conference for Unem-
ployment Relief and Insurance,
an organization representing 38
trade unions, ten locals of unem-
ployed organizations, and 46
fraternal and other organiza-
tons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
III e ad of International
Publishers Is Years
a Revolutionary
BY A. A. Heller

In his foreword to Lenins What
Is To Be Done?" international
Publishers, 1920, Alexander Trach-
tenberg says that this book still
retains its freshness because of the
revolutionary enthusiasm which
permeates its pages. - These
words can be applied to Trachten-
berg himself, who, today, at the age
of so, still retains his freshness be-
cause of the revolutionary enthusi-
asm with which he is permeated.
Trachtenberg was born, so to
speak, revolutionist. He was a
worker in the revolutionary move
ment in Russia before 1905; as soon
as he came to the United States in
1906, he became part of the revolu-
tionary movement in America, and
every day since then has been ac-
tive in the movement. always a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
VAN KLEEK
GIVESREPORT
ON PLANNING
Asks Complete Change
in U. S. Economic
and Political Life

A complete change must come
about in American economic and
political life which will bring work
ers' control of production if a pro-
gressively rising standard of living
and culture is to be achieved
through ocial-insurance planning,
Mary van Kleek, associate director
of the International Industrial Re-
lations Institute, declared on Mon
day at a regional conference on
social economic planning, held I'M
der the auspices of the l. R. I. at
the Russell Sage Foundation.
Miss van Kleek read d. paper on
the detectives, resources and pre-
requisites of social economic plan
ming in the United States. Her paper
was based on materials made
available by a group of technicians
and economists who had oeen meet
ing with the I.R is research group.
She pointed out two basic facts.
The first was that "the United
States has resources, in raw ma
terials, in chronological equipment
and in knowledge and in skill, to
achieve a progressively risin 6
standard Of living for all its people. .
The second was that this economic
Development was retarded by the
present social order as is made
evident by economic crisis and the
poverty which is the permanent lot
of the masses of working people.
A group of specialists from va
rious technical fields, education,
economics and public health under
the direction of the I.RI. has been
analyzing the problems involved in
raising the standards of living in
relation to the full utilization and
further development Of present
productive capacity. Miss van
Kleek's paper was based on the
findings of the technical sub-sec-
tons Of this group of specialists.
Her paper was not a static blue
print, but an outline of the dynamic
processes involved in social plan
ming. At all times the paper
stressed that social economic plan
ming could only be carried out
under workers control. Hence it
pointed out that not only tech
nicians were involved in the work
of planning. but to their work must
be added 'the constant criticism
and contemplating by workers in
agriculture, mines and industries OF
every type, and by household work.
ers who are expert in the require
ments for a proper standard of
living"
Such assumptions it was stressed
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
MASS FIGHT
FOR RELIEF
IN DETROIT
Conference Issues Call
for Big Protest On
Sunday at 2 pm.

DETROIT, Nov. 27.-Pointing to
the slashes in relief of 10 to 30 per
cent, and the impending repeti-
ton of these cuts, the Detroit Con-
ference on Unemployment and Re-
lief has issued call to all of De-
troit labor for a countrywide mass
protest meeting on Sunday.
The meeting will be the first step
in consolidating the forces of labor
here for a fight against relief re-
auctions on a countrywide scale,
The meeting will be followed on
Dec. 9 by a conference at the Dan
ish Brotherhood Temple, TITS West
Forest Avenue.
The call for the mass meeting on
Sunday points out that the sharp
relief cuts have been met by the
resistance of the unemployed and
that the successes with which this
resistance met in some cases can
become the rule With proper
lcounty-wid organization.
The call, in full, follow
Protest the relief cuts! Stop the
attacks on the unemployed! We
want sufficient food, clothing and
coal for every man, woman and
child this winter!
To all Labor: Unemployed and
employed--men and women-Negro
and white:
Workers on Relief Projects and
Continued on PAGE ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
Readers Aid
Guild Strike
In Newark

NEWARK, N. j., Nov. 81. - The
Newark Ledger, whose editorial en-
ployes are on strike against firing
and for decent treatment, is losing
circulation daily, This morning. it
was reported, the Ledger printed
100000 copies. and gave most OF
them away The streets were lit
tered in some sections with papers
thrown away by sympathetic work.
ers. The usual circulation of the
Ledger is $4,000. Now far less than
that number are being sold.
Lucius T. Russell, publisher, broke
off negotiations abruptly with the
Newspaper Guilds negotiating COM
mittee on Monday. and practically
elected the committee of the strik-
ers from the Office
The Newark Newspaper Guild is
sued $4,000 copies of its own news
paper, The Reporter. this morning
and is planning to issue regular
morning newspaper, E-,l:aet C~ozier
strike chairman. announced.
In the negotiations Russell at
tempted to impose conditions on the
strikers, which would give him sole
power to hire and fire and place in
his hands the power to smash the
Guild.
In an attempt to discredit the
Guild. Paul Smith, managing editor
of the Ledger, spread a wild story
about having received death threats
over the telephone. He said as q
result he had hired personal body
guard. This man, it is said. is Mike
Steele, whose record is said to be
more than shady.
Plcketine by Guild members con-
tinues daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
NEW CRIS1S'DYE BOSSES
BREAKS LOOSE PLAN TERROR
AMONG NAILS To END STRIKE
Turn to Richberg, Green
for Aid in Breaking
Dyers' Ranks

PATERSON, N. j., Nov. 27.-The
Paterson Chamber of Commerce
today addressed a letter to William
Green of the American Federation
of Labor, and Donald Richberg, N.
r. A. head, demanding that the
Paterson dye strike be ended and
the shops reopened. The letter
declared that the mills will reopen
under armed protection.
The dye strike is one hundred
per cent solid with all shops closed
and the employers, unable to force
the strikers to accept an unsatis-
factory agreement through "ar-
bitration," are now attempting to
terrorize the strikers back to work,
Threats to move are being made
by the Textile Company. and other
dye companies. The threat to open
with police protecting scabs is be-
ing made. The Labor Board" of
the Dyers Institute announced it
is considering going to the courts
for an injunction against the strik-
ers. The silk and rayon dye code
authority (enployers) has declared
it will withdraw its offer for the
thirty-six hour week, made pre-
viously.
Although Harry Hopkins, Federal
relief administrator, again an
nounced from Washington that
strikers are to get relief without
discrimination, the strikers declare
rIx.1 D. ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
Trachtenberg Greeted on 5Oth Birthday
Trachtenberg Will Be Honored at Banquet
Saturday Night by c. P. Central Committee

banquet acknowledge he contributions
Alexander Tachtenbeg the of his fh birthday
will be Saturday evening
so East 18th Street
Trachtenberg long member the
Communist entering his thrtyrst year activity
In the Trachenberg will take part
Theory
Central Committee of the Communist Party the
mttee of New York the
Sunday evening speakers Alex
Bittelman Clarence Hathaway
A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28

in the $4,000 Drive, John William
son, Cleveland District Organizer,
sent the above telegram to the
Daily Worker yesterday.
Language Buro secretaries. after
thorough discussion, will each per-
sonally work to fulfill their quotas
on time" his wire continued.
With four sections-East Ohio
and Sections 1, 3 and II in Cleve-
land proper-already over the top,
youngstown, Toledo, Akron, Day
ton, Columbus and Erie are among
the sections that are holding back
the districts realization Of its quo
ia. Section IA and Is in Cleveland
are still below the halfway mark
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
State of E m erg ency
Declared Throughout
Reich Area

BERLIN, Nov. 27.-An extremely
acute situation has arisen among
the armed forces of Hitler's regime
with the declaration this afternoon
of virtual state of emergency, it
was learned through reliable sources
today. All Christmas leaves for
members of the Reichswehr and the
military police have been cancelled
and drilling among the Nazi Storm
Troops is being intensified.
Immediately caused by the long
smouldering conflict among the
various divisions of the army, these
measures are at the bottom the con-
sequence of a long series of tremen-
dous blows hammered against the
fascist dictatorship, the recent
church conflict, the desperate strug-
giles of the peasantry, and the
crunbling of the fascist Labor
Front" having chiefly influenced
the development toward the present
situation.
Bitter Struggle Seen
Fighting to uphold its dominant
military position, the Reichswehr, or
the regular" army, is engaged in
a bitter struggle with the Schultz
Staffel, Hitler's Special Guards
Also, discomfort has been spreading
with increasing swiftness through
out the Storm Troops, which at one
time, when the fascist administra-
ton still exercised some influence
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
Boston c. 2. to Hear
Hathaway and Ford
On the United Front

BOSTON, Nov. 27-The Boston
District of the Communist Party
has called meeting for Saturday
evening at 8 o'clock at fremont
Hall to discuss a united front pro-
gram with the Socialist Party.
Speakers at this meeting will be
Clarence E. Hathaway, editor of the
Daily Worker, and James w. Ford,
member of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
Nazis Padding
Election Lists
In the S a a r

GENEVA, Nov. q. Confirmed
charges that the Nazi Deutsche
Front is padding the voting lists for
the coming Saar plebiscite were
made to the Council of the League
of Nations by the united front COM
mittee OF the Communist and So
cialist Parties.
The committee proved that items
of thousands of wrong entries" had
been exposed in the provisional
lists for the plebiscite. citing as ex-
ample cases Of double entries
lines of dead, insane and
unqualified voters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28

and Section II has reached only
81 per cent.
The TWO. is trailing badly. 1t
still has not gained one-quarter of
its 5000 quota, the largest quota in
the district. Other language or
CARNATIONS which must be imme-
diately rallied are the Jewish, Fin
nish, Hungarian and South Slav.
The Daily Worker calls upon
those Party and mass organizations
in Cleveland that are behind in
their work to at once take the
most drastic measures to help the
district complete its quota before
another week arrives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
Brought Works of Marx,
Lenin, Stain, to
u. S. Workers

the Bolsheviks in Russia and with
what joy we greeted the October
Revolution. Trachtenberg was then
Director of the Labor Research De-
partment of the Rand School and
editor of the American Labor Year
Book. He was on the side of the
Bolsheviks from the first day and
opposed to the majority in the So
cialist Party. Then in 1922 Trach-
tenberg went to the Soviet Union;
upon his return he made an extern
sive tour of the country, speaking
in scores of cities and popularizing
the achievements OF the October
Revolution.
Revolutionary Publishing
Early in 1924 the question arose:
what work in the American labor
movement is most urgent? To some
of us it seemed thu education of
Continued on Pare q
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fighter in the front ranks. For
Trachtenberg never had any inter-
ests outside the labor movement,
never recognized any allegiance but
to the working class. His life re-
fleets the varied phases of the
struggles of the advanced section
of the American workers for more
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28

than a quarter of century.
Like many of the older members
of the Communist Party, Trachten-
berg grew into it from the Socialist
movement. I recall well the sum-
mer of 1917, when out on a farm in
New jersey we followed with the
keenest interest the movements of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
Detroit Is Challenged
By Cleveland in Drive
For Daily Worker Fund
''Will Strain Every Nerve to Beat Detroit, >
Says Telegram from Ohio

Cleveland realizes serious financial condition of the
Daily Worker. Making final revolutionary appeal to
tons to fill quotas by Dec l. Will strain nerve to
beat Detroit in Socialist competition"
With Cleveland approximately 20 per cent behind Detroit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28

lCoNtinNed on PaQe d
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28

FILL COLLECTION LISTS, COUPON BOOKS
IMMEDIATELY TO COMPLETE QUOTAS
BY DECEMBER
Yesterdays receipts Observation-Disclosures 4SS.O1
Total to date ....................$ 42175.97
Press Run Yesterday-41,3O0
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-19
TRIBES POSTPONE
 FOOTBALL OPENER
Locals Defer Initial Home Combat Until Sunday,
 September 30

Definitely deciding not to open their season until a week from Sunday because their uniforms will not be ready until the early part of next week, the Tribune football team will workout Sunday after noon at Hamilton park instead, it was announced this morning by Manager Joe Maloney.
 Stressing the adage that prac- tice makes perfect, Coaches Fay Vincent and Luddy Burke have de- cided to card another drill tomor- row night at Hamilton park at 7:15 o'clock while several more, featured by light scrimmages, will be held several evenings next week.
 Both the Springfield Mohicans, who played against the Ponies in Thomaston last year and who fea- tured one-legged guard, and the crack Hartford Pros are being sought to open the season here, Sunday, September 30.