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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
NIWIU Calls All Fur Workers in US.
10 Natl FurTier Conference in N. Y
Ben Gold Signs Call for
Meet at Irving Plaza
June %, %, d

The following call has been issued
by the General Executive Board
OF the Needle Trades Workers In
dus5rial Union, signed by Ben Gold.
Executive Secretary, and addressed
to all fur workers of the United
States-cutters, operators, nailers
hnishers, examiners, pointers. fur
head makers, dresses. Divers fur
matters, floor workers and shipping
clerks, members of American Fed
Grafton Of Labor unions and of the
Fur Workers Industrial Union
white and Negro, organized and un-
organized:
Due to the brave, courageous and
determined struggle of the furriers
against their enemies, our Union
has at last succeeded in preparing
the ground for the building of a
united organization of all furriers
TO cover the whole country. for the
purpose of carrying on the dailv
battle of the furriers for human
working and living conditions with
greater and more successful effort.
THE defunct A. F.. of L. union.
the International Fur Workers
Union, has suffered the loss of its
membership as result of its
treacherous policy of cooperation
with the boss class, and the bureau
cratic, fascist behaviour of its Off
cialdom. In the past few years the
International has become, SO far as
the workers in the industry are
concerned, nothing more than a
special department of the bosses
associations. It's officers work hand
in glove with the bosses, contractors
and underworld racketeers in order
to exploint the few remaining mem
bers in the International for their
own personal interests and ambi-
tons. That is why the overwhelm-
ing majority of the furriers have
chosen to join the Furriers Indus
trial Union, that is waging 3 tire
less and fearless war for the inter
ests of every fur worker.
The dream of the fur workers,
to build mighty, united fighting
organization that will have power
to direct and conduct the activities
and the struggles of all the furriers,
in all the cities and towns of the
country in the interests of the
workers, is now at the point of
realization.
"a National Conference Of all
furriers to build enc powerful Ma
tiOnal Fur Workers Union is TO be
held in New York on June %, %
and "a, Friday, Saturday and Sun
day, at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving
Place and 18th st. New York City.
Brothers, Sisters and Comrades:
Select your delegates! Join in this
mass movement Of thousands of
organized furriers. Become an in
tegral part of a national fur or
ganization of the United States.
The economic crisis is getting deep
er and sharper. The N. r. A. is
bankrupt. The National Recov-
cry Act that was ushered in with
SO much ballyhoo has not succeeded
in eliminating unemployment, has
not succeeded in raising wages, or
in bringing back prosperity. Its
effect has been directly the opposite.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
New Co. Union
Springs Up on
Relief Job
ntimidate Those Who
Build Relief League
On Military Project

An officially-inspired fascist COM
pany union is attempting to find
roots among the workers on the mil
itary relief" project on Governors
Island. Workers who attempt or
CARNATIONS of the Relief Workers
League are intimidated. A notice
stating that anyone belonging to
"dues-paying'' organization will be
fired is posted on the bulletin board.
In addition to the threat of firing,
any worker who talks organization,
the notice reads, will be taken to
the supervisor, and if he refuses to
go, he will be taken under military
guard. Workers who are suspected
OF organizational activities are
placed in the laundry at the mill
tary barracks, work with military
prisoners, and guards are placed at
each door.
Army Men in Charge
Army men are in charge at this
military relief" project at Fort Jay
en- Governors Island where the fed
eral government is spending more
than a million dollars for F. w. A.
war projects. Supervisors, however,
are civilians, under the supervision
Of technical supervisor" Wright.
The workers are paid 81 a day,
work one week and get one week
off without pay, averaging $12 a
week if they work each day-no pay
fer rainy days The workers are
held strictly responsible for all tools.
Form Job Local
Recently, despite the threats OF
discharge, the workers formed job
local Of the Relief Workers League.
A majority of the men belong. To
smash the union, the officials cir
culated a rumor that only members
Of the newly-elected fascist veterans
organizations would be given jobs
when work on the island was COM
pleted, and that the new organi-
zation would get all the jobs on the
Tri-Borough Bridge.
A leaflet was circulated calling
upon the workers, about 80 per cent
of whom are rank and file veterans.
to meeting at 10 Second Ave,
Saturday evening, May 10, at 7.3O
p. m. The leaflet states: we take
great pleasure in announcing that
we have been successful in obtain
ing @ meeting place through the
kindness and generosity of Kicker
booker Democrats" and ends with,
Let it be thoroughly understood
that we will brook no agitatorS OF
radicals. This is meeting Of Amer
leans who have proven their belief
in American ideals and are proud to
continue to do So
About a dozen workers attended
the meeting.
On the following Saturday, an
other meeting was held, headed by
Brockman, Hazel, Savage. Clay,
Mooney and Haig. Although there
are no membership rolls, no dues,
and the organization has no name,
the federal government saw fit to
send q representative from the De-
partment Of Labor named Ochs to
the last meeting.
Ochs stated that he was ready to
break union scales to give jobs to
the veterans Of the organization.
When one worker said: we are
not the only ones On the island"
OchS' answer was smooth and re-
vealing, stating that legal proof of
dependents would be necessary for
anyone to get jobs in the future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
A Harvest for Currency
Spectators

ALREADY Roosevelts SO cent dollar is delivering blows
I" against the impertalst powers Of Europe. Under
the ruthless, aggressive inastonary drive OF Wall
Street imperialism France is staggering toward the
abandonment OF the gold standard, an action that
viii put the final touches to the international Unstable
ity and disorganizaton Of the capitalist world It il
only matter Of weeks, on days that France
will leave the gold standard.
SO bitterly are the mperialist powers now cniseI-
ing against another'S currency and gold supplies
that British imperialism, which for some time has
been maitaining fixed tie between the pound and
the franc now set itself loose from the franc and
left to drift in order to protect itself against the
drive OF Wall Street imperialism
So far, British imperialism has come out on TOD
in the fierce international currency fight for foreign
trade. The Roosevelt government has not succeeded
in driving the dollar down to the 5eO6 cents point
the international money exchanges while the Brit
ish pound has deprecated in relation to the dollar
and the franc This is guarantee that the ROOSEVELT
government will have to resort to further devauation
Meanwhile the international and Wall Street cap
italist spectators are cashing in handsomely on
RooseVelts official s35 bid for gold Not since
the roaring days OF 1929 have the wall Street bank
erS ana speculative VutureS been gorgng themselves
with quick easy millions in profits
From all parts of the world the capitalist investors
and bankers rushing gold to the United States
for easy profits
All this is leading inexoraOly to q huge credit,
and then to currency imitation that not only will
mean big profits for the capitalists but which will drive
cruel wedge between the buying power OF the wages
In every workers pay envelope and the rising inta-
touary price level All this dollar deyauation is head
ing toward deep cut in the real wages Of the Amer
toing masses
The Roosevelt SO cent deyaluation will not be
enough to raise prices and assist Wall Street monopoly
capital exports for any length of time More and still
more infationary devaluation will be required This
will intensity the crisis reduce the workers standards
Of living to degraded levels and will aggrayate all the
Anglo-Amercan antagonisms leading to another
world war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
War Dept Plans IS
Transient Camps in
New York, N. Jersey

NEWARK, N. New Jersey and
New York states are to have 68 new
concentration camps officially desig-
mated as "reforestation camps" The
commanding officer of the End Corps
Areat, us. Army, has taken bids or
building material for the construc.
ton of barracks and other buildings
at the following locations: in New
Jersey: two camps each in Berlin.
Englewood, Haddonfeld, Hig h
Bridge, Sussex, and Orange, and one
each in Branchville, Butler, Chats
worth, Elmer, Elmwood, Mana
hawken, Morristown, New Lisbon,
Springfield and Tuckerton.
In New York ten camps will be
built at Palisades Park, two each at
Cornwall, Quaker Bridge, Red House.
and Sloatsburg, and one each at
Boston Corners, Cayuga, Cherry
Plains, Haverstraw, Ithaca, Iona Is
land, Katonah, Lake George, Lake
Clear Junction, Lake Placid, Mt.
Morris, Mexico, Norwich, Oneonto,
Oxford, Peekskill, Perry, Phoenicia,
Port Byron, Portageville, Sag Har-
Dor, Topper Lake Junction, Watkins
Glens and West Hsverstrsws
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Red Square Packed As Balloon
Heroes Are Buried in KremLm

Committee of Moscow District, Pro-
fessor Molchanov who headed the in
vestigating committee, and Prokof1ef,
commander of the first stratostat,
spoke. In all their remarks was a
tone of sorrow, but not of despair.
All emphasized that the heroes had
died after achieving great victory
for proletarian science, after blazing
a path along which many will follow.
Eidemann declared that the mil
lions of Osoaviakhim members, now
in sorrow, were ready with new heroes
to take the place OF the dead. Pro-
feSsor Molchanov declared that the
scientific notes made by the heroes
would be of great value for future
flights.
Awarded Order of Lenin
In a moving final scene, Prckofief
addressed each Of the three by name,
babe them farewell, and swore to
carry on their work, declaring that
the Communist Party is surety for
this pledge.
By order of the Central Executive
Committee of the Soviet government,
the Order of Lenin has been awarded
posthumously to each of the three.
BY decision of the Council of Peoples
Commissars, the families of the three
dead heroes have each been granted
q pension of 500 rubles month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Especial to the Daily worker

MOSCOW, Feb. 4 (By Radio).-
The urns containing the ashes of
Pavel Fedoseenko, Audrey Vossenko,
and nya Ussyskin, who died We'd
nesday in the crash of the record
breaking stratosphere balloon, were
deposited in the wall of the Kremlin
at AIS yesterday afternoon.
Worker delegations from the fac
tories, and from Osoaviakhin, the air
and chemical defense society of the
Soviet Union, which sponsored the
flight, filled the whole of Red Square.
Guards Of honor from the army, the
navy, government organizations, and
the delegates to the Seventeenth
Communist Party Congress occupied
the stands.
Soviet Leaders Garry Urns
To the strains of revolutionary
funeral march, Klementi Voroshilov,
Peoples Commissar for War, L. Kaga-
nivich, organization secretary Of the
Party, v. Molotov, chairman of the
Council of Peoples Commissars, and
L. Ordzhonikidze, connlissar Of heavy
industry, carried the urns, while
Joseph Stain ard the whole political
bureau and congress presidium paced
behind. Three volleys were fired from
the Kremlin at the moment the urns
were placed in the wall, and the
funeral march gave place to the
strains OF the International.
The burial followed an impressive
ceremony in the open air. Masses
banners draped with black lined two
sides Of a hollow square, and the
silent throngs listened to ceremonies
which lasted half an hour.
Others Ready To Take Up Work
Pozern of Osoaviakhim, Eidemann
Of the Supreme Military Council,
Kaninsky, chairman OF the Executive
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Ut. S. Attacks
Cuba Electric
Workers Strike
General Strike Gains as
Workers Fight Return
to U. S. Company

HAVANA, Feb. 4-The strike WAYS
n Cuba is nearing the proportions
+ a general political strike as trade
unions throughout the island are disc
cussing strike in sympathy with the
electric and gas workers, who walked
out yesterday
The u. S. government took an ace
tive strikebreaking hand by declar-
ing that negotiations for food credits
for Cuba would remain in suspension
because of the strike. Mendieta, who
has been working in closest collab-
Grafton with the Wall Street agents.
made the threat of U. S. armed in-
tervention in demanding that the
strike be broken
Light, Power, Gas Cut Off
Light, power and gas were cut off
throughout most of the island as the
workers struck in protest against the
order of President Carlos Mendieta
returning the Cuban Electric Co..
subsidiary of the Amerie- n-owned
Electric Bond and Share Co., to the
American company. Under pressure
of a strike of employees, Grau San
Martin had taken over the $200,000,-
900 properties and allowed worker-
committees a hand in operating them.
Mendieta made a ceremonial trans
fer of the properties in the presence
of q. s. officials Friday. Immedi-
ately the workers at a mass meeting
voted to strike in protest.
Mendieta Wars On Unions
The strike was instantly followed
by declaration of war on the work.
ers by Mendieta, who issued mani
festo declaring he would use all force
to smash the strike. A roundup to
arrest all workers leaders was or
dered, and Colonel Fulgienco Batista,
chief of staff, sent troops out to all
the power stations.
In addition to the thousands Of
electrical workers, 10000 tobacco
workers are still solidly on strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Stay the Maniac Hand!

GEORGE DINuTRoFF has been delivered officially
into the maniac clutches Of Hermann Goering, arch
butcher Of the Nazi gang.
Along with vassil Tanef and Blsgoi Popoff, his
Bulgarian comrades acquitted in the Reichstag FIRE
trial. has been given to the Naz secret police
who have had Ernst Torgler, the fourth acquitted
Communist defendant, for some weeks.
Goering heads this secret police. 1t was from the
soldering lips Of the rayng Goerng, driven to palsied
rage by Dimitroffs masterfm thrusts, when he took
the stand at the trial. that the whole world heard
the threat:
Just wait till catch you after you get out Of here
you scomdre!"
It is this maniac murderer who has Dimitrof and
ats comrades in his hands todayl
AT THE same moment the cold-bloOded murder by
n Nazi police of four Communists near Berlin, one
Of them John Scheer. leading member Of the Poll
tical Bureau of the Communist Party of Germany
last Friday marks step in the preparations for the
"raP and judicial murder Of Ernst Thaelmann, leader
OF the German party most beloved Of all leaders Of
the German working class.
scheer and his three comrades we're in Goering's
custody. voJey of shots-and they were added to
the huge, mounting roll OF msrtyred heroes Of the
German working class,
ONE thing and one thing only stands between Thsel-
mann, Dimitrof, Torgler and their comrades and
the fate of Comrade scheer
That Is the reIenues vigilance, the uneno1ng volume
mass protest actions Of the international working
class The Nazi butchers cannot ignore this world
wide cry Of rage.
This forced public trial FOR the four Reichstag
tre trial defendants- This ia forcing a public trial
for Thselmann, whom the Nazis have not dared do
away with out Of hand they have thousands Of
others.
But let this vigilance relax moment-let It's
volume cease to mount-let the Nazis imagine for
moment that the international defenders have wearied
and death will swiftly colby brutary to these
heroic champions Of the working class.
COMRADES The worldwide protest, the worldwide
fight for the liberation of Thaelmann Dtmitroff
Torgler, and their comrades must grow and grow,
never relaxing
Activze and build the snti-Fsscist committees
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05

Arouse your felloWworkers In the trade unions, the
mass organizations, in the schools and colleges.
Stir every and woman Of goodwill to throw
himself into the protest night. Bombard the German
embassy in Washington, every German consulate, with
kilograms and letters Of protest Crowd their doors
With committees and delegations. Keep the Atlantic
cables hot with reminders 70 President Hndenburg
that the world viii not calmly watch the butchery
80 on.
Prepare mass meetings in the shops, IN the halls
o organizations. Prepare demonstrations in the
neighborhoods in the public squares
Demand freedom for Thaemann, Dimitrod, Torgler,
and all class-war prisoners of the Nad butchersl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
'Cleansing'' Raises Party Leuel,
Defeats Alien Glass Influences

member with a decisive vote, and
every three thousand candidates by
one delegate with a consulting vote.
The total number of approved dele
gates is 1900, with decisive votes and
1876 with consulting votes, totalling
1851 delegates representing 1872, 488
members, 935, 1888 candidates.
OF the delegates with decisive votes,
598, or 49.5 per cent of the total num-
Der are attending Party Congress
for the first time, revealing the COL
ossal number of fresh Party forces
in leading positions.
Particularly characteristic is the
rise of new forces in the organiza-
tons of Moscow ard Lsningrad.
whose percentage of first timers at
the Congress is the highest, the Mos
COW delegation numbering 81 per cent,
while the Leningrad, 40 per cent.
Eighty per cent of the delegates
with decisive votes joined the Party
during the underground and civil war
years, that is, before 1920, rs per cent
of the delegates with decisive votec
participated in the civil war. Over
60 per cent Of the delegates with de-
cisive votes are workers, and per
cent are peasants, the most compact
workers group being metal workers,
while the remaining groups are min
ers, textile workers, printers, railroad
and other workers.
The number of delegates working
in agriculture, has greatly increased.
1t is characteristic that 265, or ZIG
per cent of the delegates with deci-
sive votes, have finished Party poll
teal schools, and 81 delegates have
finished a full course at the Red Pro-
fessors Institute. Forty per cent OF
the delegates finished their school
courses during the First Five Year
PlaT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Gro,0ing Might of Comintern Cheered
BY 18th Congress Of the c. P. S. u

Communist Party Of Germany, and
other brother parties.
The Communist Party of Ger
many now counts among its men,
bers hundred thousand of the best
German proletsrianS remaining
steadfaSt under the whole brunt of
the fascist regime. stormy APP
piauSe.) Members joining the Com
muntst. Party of Germany in the
past year, he said, are real heroes.
the most valuable to the German
working class possesses. This is
pure prOletarian gold! (stormy APP
plause).
The heroic Communist Party OF
Germany, working under the graYest
underground conditions, when its
best representatives with Ernest
Thaelmann at their head-Chere his
speech was interrupted with stormy
and prolonged applause, with the
whole audience rising)-languishine
in fascist dungeons. Under these
conditions the German Communist
Party FORCES new cadres, splendidly
steeled in struggle against fascism
Ovations to C. P. of Germany
Honor and glory TO the fighters
OF the German Communist PartyI
Honor and glory to its Central
Committee! Honor and glory to its
leader, Comrade Thaelmann! (Long
and stormy applause, abating for
moment, only to break out again.
The whole world has been inspired
by Dimitroff's action action at the
Leipzig trial. (AD the delegates rise
and enthusiastically cheer Dinai-
troff) Dimitroff, before the work
ing class Of the whole world I'M
masked the filthy, bloody face Of
German fascism.
The past years, said Molotov, also
record the growth in the Communist
ranks in other sections of the Com
intern, such as France, Poland.
Czechosloyakia, etc.
Comrade Manuilsky then charac-
terized in detail the heroic activity
OF the Communist Party of Japan,
waging a courageous struggle against
intervention in China. The Party in
Japan is model of correct organ
ization and is vast impetus to the
Bolshevist struggle against imperial
list war against their own bourgeoisie.
The Parties of the Third Interna-
tional learned their uncompromising
attitude towards deviations from the
great teachers, Lenin and Stain.
Unshatterable Unity
In the struggle on two fronts. the
Comintern attained such consolida-
ton in its ranks which no power on
earth can shatter now. (Prolonged
Comrade Manuilsky then pointed
put that there still exist weaknesses
and defects in the work of various
sections Of the Communist Interna-
.ional, particularly defects In organ
cation work and in the application
If the united front. The Commu-
1ists in all countries can learn how
rom Stain. The demonstration of
inshatterable unity and power Of the
Communist movement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Bosses Tell the Workers
To Eat Less; We Use
More" Delegates Say

towards a Communist, classics 50.
ciety. 1
Stains declaration at the Congress
that MARKHAM Socialism does not mean
curtailment Of consumption by private
individuals, but THE utmost increase
in prosperity" and "the all-round,
full satisfaction of all the needs of
civilized working people" should be
compared with the thrift weeks" and
depression menues," which are now
being publicized by social agencies
and capitalist press in the United
States. The keynote of rising living
standards. emphasized by the Party
Congress and its leaders, makes re-
markable comparison with the idea
now being taught to the American
masses, to reduce production, limit
consumption, teaching the workers
how to get along on less, and how to
live on lower wages for the benefit of
the capitalists.
Now that the country under the
leadership of the Communist Party
has succeeded in building itself firm
base in heavy industry, the Congresses
theses on production show relatively
greater investments for the produc-
ton of consumers goods, articles of
general use. This includes a new,
immense program for the creation of
whole cities of new workers homes,
increasing the wage fund by 400 per
cent, with unemployment completely
abolished, the installation of street
car lines. motor cars, and trolley buss
services, modern sewage systems in
all cities, and a universal application
of electricity, telephone and radio in
all homes. In addition, universal
health services will be established in
the closest connection with all fac
tories, while nursery accommodations
for children of the workers will be
increased six-fold in the cities and
92-fold in the villages. Furniture,
food-stuffs, clothes, cotton goods,
candies and all varieties of articles
of everyday use will show enormous
increases. according to the program
outlined at the Party Congress.