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Evening star., 1934-02-04
BOOKS.
Civilization.

The Spirit Of France, by Paul Cohen
Portheim. 1888. FE39C C66.
"A brilliant book. as might have
been expected from the author Of
England. the Unknown Isle There
are pages which cannot be read with
out clearer understanding Of what
France stands for in the modern
world"
The Civilization of France. an In
PRODUCTION, by E. r. Curtius. 1888.
FE39.C94.
''In the course Of this sympathetic
study of French culture the author.
a German scholar. takes under con-
sideration the French conception of
civilization. its historical and natural
basis, and its exemplification in liter
ature. intellectual life. religion. and
education. One chapter is devoted
to Paris as the central point of the
whole national and intellectual life of
the country
Who Are These French? by Friedrich
Sieburg. 1882. G39Sil3.
"A keen. sympathetic analysis of
the national character and civilization
of France. The author sees France as
the last resort in mechanical world
of those who hope for the happiness
of the individual. but also as an OBJ
stacle in the way of the advance of
the world"
Evening star., 1934-02-04

RESORTS.
ATLANTIC CITY, n. J.
Evening star., 1934-02-04

Politics.
Frances New Cheerfulness, by Sisley
Huddleston. Contemporary Review,
IA: 257-63, September, 1888.
France is pleased with her role Of
moderator in a mad world. She Is
pleased that she is recognized as the
leader-since Great Britain refused
the leadership-of the gold-standard
nations. In short. if such q country
as France had not existed. conserva-
tive in politics and in finances. it
would now have been necessary to in
vent it,"
France Will Not Go Fascist, by Philip
Carr. F'ortnightly. 140: 285-94,
September, 1888.
GAS NJ Herriot humorously put it
the other day. there is little hope Of
success, in modern France. for re-
gime in which it would be forbidden
to speak i'll of the government"
Conversation With a Peasant, by Lu-
Glen Romier. Living Age, 345: 27-
20, September, 1898.
when the time comes we'll clean
house We in the provinces know
what we want. and I assure you that
once the signal is given there will not
be many people hesitating in our
ranks"
Youth Of France, by Friedrich Sleburg
and Leon MouSslnac. Living Age,
345. 434-4l, January, 1884.
Two studies of the younger gen.
Grafton in France by a German NaZi
and French Communist. Both agree
that a revolution is now we'll under
way"
Economics.
Economic Crisis in France. by Robert
Valeur Current History, 80: AL
27. January, 1884.
Throughout the course of the
world economic crisis, the position OF
France has been enviable. When the
rest of the world seemed on the verge
of bankruptcy, France remained quite
prosperous Yet France has her
troubles too. for statistical evidence
of economic improvement did not tell
the whole story and left unanswered
the riddle of the growing unrest
among the French people in the
Summer and Fall of 1888"
France and Economic Isolation. by
l. F. Marcosson. Saturday Eve
ming Post 206: 1911, December 80,
1888.
Fewer French travel than any
other nationals. They are content,
first, with themselves; second. with
what they have at home. More
ever, they want to be let alone The
desire for economic. as we'll as intel
lectual. autonomy is a national aspria-
ton. AS some one aptly remarked .
Every FrenChman is France. Eco
nomic isolation is the natural express
sion of these fundamental traits"
French Import Quotas. by E. B. Diet
rich. American Economic Review,
%: 66l-74, December. 1888.
Though import quotas are him
ORANGE to the free flow of interna-
tional trade, there is the question
whether they are not an instrument
of economic conrol which may be Of
value in economic planning. France
introduced the system as an emer-
gency measure but there is evidence
that she is beginning to look upon 1t
as permanent part Of her CONNER
cial policy"
Evening star., 1934-02-04
PROFESSOR is BITTEN
Brother of Student Will Face
Assault Charge.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, February
3 [P)-Anti-tetanus serum was ad-
ministered yesterday to Prof. Theo-
dore Parthenais, who flunked stu
dent at the University of Puerto Rico
in a course in business administra-
ton. The students brother faces
assault and battery charges for al
legedly having bitten Prof. Parthe-
nais.
Vidal Ramirez family regards aca-
demic failure as serious matter.
Vidal failed in not one, but three
subjects, and told his brother Juan
about it.
Evening star., 1934-02-04
JUSTICE CATCHES UP
Defendant Gets Two Years to Life
After Delays With Fa1sehoods.

CHICAGO, February (P).-Ed-
ward J. Fern, indicted for robbery fol-
lowing the SIG hold-up of three men.
acted as his own counsel and was
granted eight continuances. When
the case finally got down to trial, the
States witnesses could not be located.
When found. they told the court Fern
had told them it would be unnecessary
for them to appear
Whereupon the judge gave the de-
fendant year to life on each of two
counts.
Evening star., 1934-02-04
PUBLIC LIBRARY
FRANCE.

With the fall of her cabinet France
again comes to the fore in the worlds
news. The Public Library presents
the following list Of selected books and
magazine articles on contemporary
France and her civilization:
MAGAZINE ARTICLES.
Evening star., 1934-02-04

the authors have given 1t. The re-
markable recuperative powers Of the
people, the reformation of their in
dustry, and their use of the resources
which we're brough to them as a result
Of the war are all excellently re-
vieWed.''-C. L. Jones.
Evening star., 1934-02-04
(Continued From First Pase.)

succeed through timely agreement IN
establishing q condition OF unity and
clarity Of international obligations In
Europe. so that to every state a war
like adventure must appear fore
doomed as utterly hopeless.
Task Of Education.
However, we are concerned. not
merely with the technical problem OF
securing and maintaining peace, but
also with .the important task OF edu-
cation and enlightenment. II we want
to resist the powers which threaten
to suppress intellectual and 1nd1v.duaI
Evening star., 1934-02-04
SLAYER ABS0LVED
Orphans of Slain Man Hiss De-
fendant in Court.

LOS ANGELES, February 3 LP).-
While three orphaned children of the
dead man hissed at him. A. J. Bur-
dick, 70. yesterday was absolved by a
coroner's jury of criminal liability for
the death of R. j. White, 81, whom
he shot and killed last Wednesday.
Burdick displayed gashes on his
cheek and chest and told the jury
White attacked him with a knife and
hatchet in a quarrel over payment for
oranges. The verdict was justifiable
homicide.
Whites children-Betty, Harry and
Robert. ranging in age from to IL
occupied front-roW seats in the in
quest room and alternated between
hisses and tears as Burdick testified.
The daily worker., 1934-04-24
Betrayers Fail
In Stopping
Militant Action
St. Louis Chevrolet and
Fisher Body Strikers
In Mass Picketing
BOSSES SPREAD LIES
Pledge of Support from
Auto Workers Union

ST. LOUIS, Mo, April 23.-Four
thousand Chevrolet and Fisher Body
plant workers today went on strike,
throwing huge picket lines about
both plants. The demands of the
strikers are that all workers fired
for union activities be reinstated,
and for union recognition. The
company has tried to split the work
erS by spreading rumors that the
Federated Auto Workers Union jim
crows Negroes.
The Communist Party here, which
is supporting the strike and mobiliz-
ing all its forces to help the workers
win their demands, has called on
the strikers to set up broad rank
and file strike committee; to pre-
sent special demands for the Negro
and youth workers, and is calling
for city-wide conference of all
workers organizations to rally sup
port behind the strikers. They also
call for representation on the strike
committee from all departments,
and no settlement of the strike
without a vote for all the workers.
A leaflet has been issued to the
strikers embodying all Of these pro-
posals.
The main demand is that the
company take back the workers
fired for union activity. The work
ers lowest estimate of the number
fired is about 100. Some estimates
put the figure as high as 400.
The workers in both of these
plants characterize the plants as
sweatshops and slave driving fac
tories. In one department there are
only five washing places for 125
men, one shower for 125 men, and
no lockers. A worker cannot leave
his place on the line unless there
is another worker there to relieve
him. Many workers cannot stand
this driving pace and are forced
either to quit or are fired. Many of
the workers hands are cut up be-
cause of the terrific speed-up in
handling the parts.
A gate meeting was held at the
Chevrolet plant Friday noon, April
20, which was well received. All
copies of the Daily Worker on hand
were sold. We are making contacts
rapidly; within a week we made
about 20 contacts. Leaflets have
been distributed calling for soidar-
ity with all workers and with the
Trade Union Unity League. There
is a Daily Worker agent at the
plant every day. The circulation is
growing.
The daily worker., 1934-04-24
NegroLynched
In Courtroom: !:
Freed
Despite Threats, Court
Makes No Search
for Arms

CROCKETT, Texas, April %
Frank Brisby, Negro worker, was
lynched in a crowded court room
here today while an all-white jury
was being selected to try him on a
charge of numbering J. M. Ellis, a
white man.
Despite open threats against the
life of the Negro worker, no at
tempt was MAIDS to disarm the
lynchers who packed the court.
The fatal shot was fired by Ben
Ellis, nephew of the dead man. The
murderer was Immediately released
under $1,000 bond signed by several
prominent citizens who thus signi-
fled their approval of the court
room lynching of the Negro workers.
Brisby had been arrested on "sus-
picion," following the killing of j. M.
Ellis.
The daily worker., 1934-04-24
To Present Workers Bill
at A. F. of L. National
Convention
Especial to the Daily Worker)

PITTSBURGH, Pa, April 23-
Despite the secrecy surrounding the
proceedings of the national conven-
tion of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
erS, and despite the censored news
releases sent out by the press COM
mittee, the Daily Worker reporter
here is able to report that a resolu-
tion for the endorsement of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill III. r. 759S) was unanimously
adopted.
1t is also reported that the resolu-
ton adopted calls for the presenta-
ton of the Workers Bill to the Ma
tional Convention of the American
Federation of Labor by the Anal
gamated Association delegates
Over the weekend, the 10 oppo-
sition delegates went to the various
district conferences and mass meet
ings held throughout the Pittsburgh,
Youngstown and West Virginia dis
tricts. and rallied the rank and file
to the support of their program.
Saturdays session of the conven-
ton was stormy as the opposition
delegates presented their resolu-
tions, President M. H. Tighe seeking
to rule them out of order. Several
four point programs. calling for u
immediate presentation of demands
for union recognition and a Is per
cent wage increase; q a Today
ultimatum to the bosses, and a
general strike if the demands are
not granted; 81 industrial form of
unioniSm; and ~ the six-hour day
and five-day week, one of which
was ruled out by Tighe.
The opposition plans to fight for
the acceptance of this one, and to
also force the passage of the reso-
luton for the abolition of wage diff
ferentials in the South.
The daily worker., 1934-04-24
Raymond Will Hit
Libel Charges in
Court t. d ay
W orkers Urged to Pack
Court in Support of
''Daily" Writer

NEW YORK.-The criminal libel
suit brought against Harry Ray
mond, member of the editorial staff
of the Daily Worker" by George
Williams, one of group of profess
sional scab-herders and labor spies
will be heard this morning in JEFF
ferson Market Court, 425 Sixth Ave-
nue., at 10 o'clock.
The charges are part Of an or
ganized attack by this group against
the Daily Worker" in retaliation for
the activities of the Daily Worker
and its staff writer in exposing these
scab herders during the strike of the
taXi-drivers. A series of articles by
Raymond on this tribe has Just been
concluded in the Daily Worker" !"
Additional facts of their unsavory
reputation will be brought out at
the hearing this morning.
All workers are urged to pack the
court to protest this attack on their
paper.
The daily worker., 1934-04-24
Madrid Paralyzed
by Anti FaScist
General Strik e

MADRID, April 23.-The deep
hatred of the masses of Spanish
workers for the fascist Popular Ac-
ton" Catholic party was manifested
in yesterdays general strike, which
paralyzed all transportation and
trade throughout the city as a pro-
test against the national congress
of the fascist organization.
Although thousands of Socialist
workers took part in the strike and
street demonstrations, the Socialist
headquarters denied any RESPONSE
bility for the workers manifesto
ton.
Two were reported killed. many
injured and many arrested in wide
spread clashes between the police,
armed with rifles, and the demon
Strating workers
The daily worker., 1934-04-24
over 10000 CLEVELAND, ST. Louis auto MEN STRIKE
Play "COnquerOr''
As Morgan ReUietUs
The National Guard

NEW YORK.-The 107th Regi-
ment Infantry, picked cadet
guard Of the upper bourgeoisie,
was reviewed by ]. P. Morgan
and his sons and daughters at
the annual affair held Friday
night at it's Park Avenue Ar
mory.
AS Morgan entered, the band
struck up "Pomp and Circum-
stance" and followed with the
"Conqueror."
This was one of the few public
appearances made by the Wall
Street banker, and it is is indie
ative of the present preparations
for another imperialist slaughter
that the man who controls the
munition plants should have
picked a military affair at which
to make his most recent debut.
Fifty-nine medals were given
)ut as part of the ritual.
The daily worker., 1934-04-24
New York Metal Workers to
Hear Earl Bro,Uder Tonight

NEW YORK.-Worker in the
Majestic Shop Communist Party
factory unit, which comprises ten
per cent Of the workers in the shop,
unit which was formed through
struggle, and which led the workers
in strikes and struggles for better
wages and working conditions, in
vited Earl Browder, general secre-
tary of the Communist Party to
speak at an open Party meeting of
steel and metal workers.
Comrade Browder Immediately
accepted, and will speak on the
Eighth National Convention of the
Communist Party at an open meet
ing of the Party units in the Ma
jestic, the Grand and the Sedan
Metal shops, at a meeting to be
held tonight at the Manhattan
Lyceum, 64 E. Fourth ST.. at $50.
The invitation sent by the COM
The daily worker., 1934-04-24
Detroit Workers Wage
Sharp Fight on Police
May Day Ban
ILLINOIS MEETINGS
Chicago Workers Defy
Ban on May Day
Parade
Especial to the Daily wOrker)


DETROIT, April 23.-Latest de-
velopments in the mass fight to
compel city officials to reverse their
refusal to allow the May First dem
onstration to be held in Grand Cir
Gus Park, historic gathering place
of Detroit workers, are: Cd May Day
Unity Conference will be held We'd
nesday, April 25, at 8 pm. at Fin
nish Hall, 1869 14th St., at which
the campaign will be broadened.
(2) The May Day Unity Committee
has challenged the position of the
city officials by demanding as an
alternative to Grand Circus Park,
Cadillac Square for the demonstra-
ton. Cadillac Square, across from
City Hall, was originally the scene
of workers demonstrations, but sew
eral years ago city officials put a
ban on it and shifted demonstra-
tions to Grand Circus Park.
The pretext for refusing to allow
the demonstration in Grand Circus
Park this year is that the grass is
newly seeded. The May Day Unity
Committee points out that there is
no grass in Cadillac Square and its
demand challenges the sincerity of
Continued on Page q
The daily worker., 1934-04-24
MESA. Head Still
knifes Desire for
Auto Strike Unity
Detroit Auto Workers
Cheer Anderson's
Militancy
BY A. B. MAGIL
Especial to the Daily Worker)

DETROIT, Mich, April 23.-De-
spite the demand of the rank and
file for mass picketing in the strike
of nearly 1000 tool and die max
ers and enlisting of mass support to
strengthen the strike of 1000 work
ers at the Michigan Stove Co. and
force withdrawal of police protec-
tion of gangsters and scabs, Mat
thew Smith, General Secretary of
The Mechanics Educational Society
of America, which is leading these
strikes, is continuing tactics of
castrating the strike movement and
opposing united action of all labor
forces.
At a meeting yesterday of the
Michigan Stove strikers, John An
derson, fighting organizer of Local
7, MESA, again raised the demand
for militant action and criticized
the tactics of the Smith machine
which are strangling the strike. An
derson was warmly applauded by
the workers. Smith again gave an
exhibition of clever verbal gymnas-
tics and succeeded in stalling off
action.
Meanwhile, the Ford Motor Co.
has taken advantage of the tactics
of the Smith clique by firing 200
tool and die makers in the rolling
mill Saturd ). A majority of Ford
tool and die makers are organized
In the MESA.
At a meeting of the Ford local
The daily worker., 1934-04-24
NRA Supports
Lower W ages
For The South
Communist Party Urges
Strike for Equal
Pay With North
By PAT TOOHEY
special to the Daily Workerl


BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 23.-
President Roosevelt and the N. R. A.
withdraw the $1.20 for Alabama
miners by a special presidential
order today. Roosevelt's statement
approves the principle of lower,
differential wages for the South.
Roosevelt says: "On the question of
Southern wage differentials, the Re-
covery Act recognizes differentials
1t is not our contention to produce
any sudden or disrupted changes
in an established economic rela-
tionship."
Roosevelt requests the miners to
go back. The Communist Party is
distributing leaflets urging the min
ers to refuse the lower Southern
scale, and to continue the strike for
equal wages with the North.
The leaflet urges the miners to
elect rank and file strike commit
tees, to repudiate the treachery of
Mitch, U. M. w. A. district presi-
dent in accepting the agreement.
The Communist Party leaf1et
explains that the 40 cents increase
resulted from a determined struggle
Of the miners. The operators will
unquestionably raise house rent
and commissary prices. The miners
are bitterly dissatisfied with the
ruling. The operators are aware of
the dissatisfaction, and the troops
are to remain on duty. The Ma
tional Guard reserve force at Bir-
mingham has increased. The op-
orators correctly interpret Roose-
velt's statement as a permanent
official blessing on lower living
standards for Southern workers.
The daily worker., 1934-04-24
JObleSS Leaders
Call for United
May Day Action
Jobless Councils Urge
Unity of C. p, S. P.
Workers

NEW YORK The National Elk
ecutive Board of the National Un-
employed Councils today issued the
following statement on May First:
May Day this year is of especial
Importance to the army of 100000
unemployed. The millions on the
G. w. A. Jobs have been fired. Only
100000 will be put to work on the
federal projects. This is Roose-
Velt's public works" program.
In all parts of the country relief
is being cut to the bone-and this in
face of the cost of the necessities
Of life, which has risen more thar
80 per cent.
In all sections the unemployed
are fighting. They demand jobs at
union rates. They demand food
They demand unemployment and
social insurance.
In order to prevent the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill (H. R. 1899 from being
enacted into lava demand OF
millions of workers, trade unionists
veterans, homeowners, farmers, etc
the Wagner unemployment in
surance" bill was put forward. This
is strikebreaking bill, and will not
CONTINUED on Page q
The daily worker., 1934-04-24
Tammany Hall Splits in
Naming Curry Successor

NEW YORK. A split in the
Democratic Tammany Hall appeared
yesterday as two factions fought
over the election of former State
Senator Edward j. Ahearn as the
successor to the recently ousted boss
John F. Curry.
Ahearn is boss of the 4th A. D.,
the lower East Side of Manhattan,
where in the last city elections the
most flagrant intimidations of
voters and vote-stealing took place.
The largest issue at stake is Fed
eral patronage. The national ad-
ministration, primarily responsible
for the unseating of Curry, has
made it clear that it will not dis
pense patronage to a Tammany
whose leadership does not har-
monize with it.
The daily worker., 1934-04-24
Alabama Steel and Coal
Workers to Hold Nav.
Day Rally in Birmingham
United May 1st
Demonstrations

NEW York. = Union Square,
2:30 to 5 pm, preceded by two
monster parades.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-Capitol
Park, facing Jefferson County
jail.
DETROIT, Mich.-Grand Cir
Gus Park.
CLEVELAND, Ohio. = Public
Square at 4:30 pm.
CHICAGO, Ill.-Grant Park.
PATERSON, N. J.@Saady Hill
Park, at noon.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Old Court
House, Broadway and Market, at
4 pm.
BOSTON, Mass.-Charles St.
Mall, Boston Common at IL
o'clock.
AKRON, Ohio-Perkins Square
at 2 pm.
SPRINGFIELD, Tl1.-Berger's
Park.
RACINE, wis.-Lake Front
Park.
VIRDEN, Ill.-City Hall.
BELLEVILLE, Ill.-In front of
Court House.
zEIGLER, Ill.-City Park.
PEORIA, Ill.-Court House So.
OAKLAND, Cal.-Chabet Park
18th and Jefferson St., at pm.
EAST OAKLAND, CaI-Mass
meeting at 8 pm.
LYNN, MasS.-Lynch Common
at pm.
SALEM, Mass.-Derby Square
at pm.
PEABODY, Mass.-Main St.,
corner Walnut at 7:30 pm.
NASHUA, N. H-O'Donnell
Hall at pm.
DAYTON, Ohio-Library Park
at 4 pm.
LOS ANGELES, Cal.-PIaza,
North Main and Sunset at IL
o'clock.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. = indie
pendence Square.
KENOSHA, Wis.-Old Relief
Station, 55th Street and 9th Ave.
at 3 pm.
The daily worker., 1934-04-24

rades in the factory unit to Earl
Browder is printed below:
Earl Browder, General Secretary of
the Communist Party OF the
u. S. A.
Dear Comrade:
We send you, the leader of our
Party, our heartiest proletarian
greetings.
Your splendid report, wherein
you also mention the work of our
Party shop unit at the Eighth Party
Convention has awakened in all
members of our unit a greater un-
derstanding of the Importance Of
our Party in the factories.
The discussions of the delegates,
especially the many speakers, both
Negro and white, from factories,
Continued on Page ~
The daily worker., 1934-04-24
St. Louis Nut Pickers
Vote To ''Down Tools
on May Day
MEETING IN DAYTON
N. Y. To Meet at Garden
in the Evening

special to the Daily Worker)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April
23.-The city commission was
forced to grant a May Day
permit. This is the first time
a permit was ever obtained
for a Communist Party meet
Ing in Birmingham.
The May Day demonstra-
ton takes place at 5 o'clock on the
steps of Capitol Park, a few yards
from the Jefferson County Jail,
where the Scottsboro boys are inn
prisoned.
Speakers will talk from the base
of the Confederate Monument.
Three carloads of miners are COM
ing from Bibb County to the May
Day meeting. Truck loads are COM
ing from the Bessemer Steel plant,
and from the mining center IL miles
from Birmingham.
The central point of the May
Day demonstration here will be
the mine strike. The Tennessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. has
offered $500 reward for informa-
ton leading to the arrest Of per-
son or persons responsible for
BLAST" T. C. /. Communist shop
paper.
R. T. Daniel. chairman of the op-
orators publicity committee, an
nounced an investigation of Com
munists is under way by Federal
agents. He gave a statement to the
press blaming much of the strike
sentiment on the Communist Party.
The union local at the Sayreton
Mine, of the Republic Steel Co.,
read and approved the Communist
Party leaflet on the strike. The
Party is distributing 10000 new
leaflets calling for the spreading of
the strike to the steel mills.
Q. M. w. A. Officials Make Arrests
For Sheriff
Representatives of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, and of the
Communist Party, visiting the union
local meeting at the Edgewater
Mine, of the T. C. L, were seized by
U.M.W.A. officials, and held while
the sheriff was notified. Two were
held all night by union officials, but
no arrests were made.
Picketing continues at all mines
day and night. Five hundred men
marched on the Red Diamond Mine
where Ed England, Negro striker,
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