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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
State Relief Bill
Cuts Appropriation
To Continue Pay Cuts
to State EMPLOYEES

ALBANY, N. Y. May %. = Gov
ernor Lehman yesterday signed the
Wicks Bill which provides for a
new bond issue Of forty million dol
lars for unemployment relief in
New York State for the period of
November IS. 1884. until February
IS. 1886. period of Is months. The
bill will be submitted for ratifca-
ton in the November elections.
This means a direct cut in the
state appropriations for relief. On
March 20, the state allocated forty
eight million dollars (the amount
remaining unspent from the sixty
million bond issue for the year pre-
vious) for a period of ten months.
At this time Governor Lehman
stated that 100000 families. repre-
senting 1,750,ooo persons we're on
the state relief rolls.
Governor Lehman also signed a
bill to continue the pay cuts to
state employees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
NRA Soil Out Of Which
us. Fascism Is Rapidly
Growing
BY MILTON HOWARD

"EASCISM or Communism, y
IL splutters the keeper OF
the Blue Eagle General John
son in outraged assault on the
barrow Board findings. And
he thinks that with these
words he has demolished the
report and its significance.
stripped of shadowy verbiage,
this means that the choice of the
American people is between Fas-
cism and Communism replies
johnson to the Darrow report.
And this is a correct criticism of
the report. For it places the political
significance of the Boards findings
clearer than the authors of it them
selves.
In his reactionary bluntness,
johnson reveals the true meaning Of
the Darrow report.
For that is precisely the choice
that the advance of the Roosevelt
program. the deepening of the crisis,
places before the toiling population
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Force Release
|OfAla. Negroes
Jailed in Raid
Ore Pickets Standing
Firm, Steel Strike
Brewing

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May %
Tremendous sympathy for the
Communist Party exists among
the Negro and white workers i'm
prisoned in jefferson County Jail
here, it was reported today by the
six Communist workers who we're
released as result of the nation
wide protest against the attempt
Of the steel bosses and their courts
to railroad them to Jail.
All Negro workers arrested dur
ing the raids in this city have
been freed as a result Of the wide
protest. No charges we're filed
against any.
Gen. John G. Persons, Of the
National Guard, and Gov. Miller's
representative who engineered the
coal strike sell-out announced to-
day that similar procedure was
taking place in the ore strike, with
conference between the Tennessee
Coal and Iron, Republic, and Sloss
and Woodward officials and the
leaders of the international Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers Union
yesterday.
Meanwhile, mass picket lines,
including white and Negro men
and women, are keeping the Bes-
semer Mines shut down, while Of
ficials continue their attacks on
the Communist Party in an at
tempt to deprive the strikers Of
its militant leadership.
The Southern District of the
International Labor Defense is
planning to Immediately reopen
its office and to file suit for re-
covery of confiscated materials.
A steel strike is brewing, with
A. A. leaders announcing inten-
ton to call strike here, together
with the National A. A. strike call
The Communist Party is inten-
styling its activities and has re-
cruited so new members during
the past two weeks Of terror.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Nasis Cut S,Uastikns
on YorkriIJe Shops:
Anti-Nozis to Meet

NEW YORK.-The stealthy hand
Of the fascist crept through York
vile late Monday night and left in
its wake a trail of swastikas
scratched into the windows of Jew
ish stores.
Using a diamond glass-eutter, the
NaZis placed their hated mark on
dozens of store windows. One big
bakery window had fifty swastikas
cut into the plate glass. A Ger
man bookshop, owned by a Jew, was
marked with the word Kosher
The length Of time necessary to
do this work indicates that the cops
cooperated with the Nazis.
A mass protest meeting against
the Nazis called by the United
Anti-Fascist Action, will be held
tomorrow. $50 PM, at S5th st.
and Third Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Harry Haywood Tells
of the Rising Terror
Against Negroes
DEFENSE FORMED
Weinstone Urges White
WorkersDe fendNegroes
BY A. B. MAGIL
special to the Daily Werker)

DETROIT, May %. - A
mass movement to smash the
frame UP of James Victory,
Negro worker and war vet
eran, charged with having
slashed a white woman with
a razor, was launched last
night at spirited protest meeting
of about 200 Negro and white
workers, with Negroes in the over
whelming majority. The meeting
was held in the Israel Baptist
Church, 5000 Riopelle, under the
joint auspices of the International
Labor Defense and the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights. The I.
L. D. is handling the defense Of
Victory, with the cooperation Of
the LS.NR.
THE Victory frame-up is a local
Scottsboro case" declared Harry
Haywood, National Secretary of the
L.S.NR., arising out of the whole
campaign of terrorism against the
Negro people and the Importation of
Southern methods into the North.
This campaign of terror is sweep
ing the country and has reached a
new height in the cold-hlooded MUIR
der Of Negro strikers in Alabama.
Tie SeottsbCro Case created a
new nation wide feeling against the
oppression Of the Negro people. It
brought white workers into the
struggle side by side with the Negro
masses. If we are to prevent a
second Scottsboro, we must organize
q similar movement here in the
Victory case"
Contrasts Treatment Of Minorities
in Soviet Union
Haywood dealt with the silence
Of Negro reforlnist leaders regard
Ing the frame-up Of Victory. rs it
possible" he asked, that contribu-
lions to campaign funds of certain
Negro politicians and to certain
ministers by auto companies are
responsible for this silence. This
so-called leadership among the Ne
gro people has failed. Negroes need
a new kind of leadership of the type
of Angelo Herndon, who is now in
q Southern ruling class jail for try
Continued on Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Portland, Ore.
City Council
Backs HR 1898
lnstructs Congressman
To Sign Round
Robin

PORTLAND, Ore. Nav 23.-Mass
pressure of the employed and I'M
employed forced the City Council
of Portland, Oregon, on May II, to
endorse the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill CHR. 1899, now in
the House Committee on Labor. The
City Council, following the constant
demand of the Multnomah County
Federation of Unemployed, not only
endorsed the Workers Bill. but was
forced to petition Congress to bring
the bill out of the House Commit
tee and give it immediate attention.
and instructed the congressman
from the district to sign motion now
on the speakers desk to release the
bill from the House Committee.
Portland, which. according to the
incomplete records of the Daily
Worker, is the thirty sixth city off,
cially to go on record endorsing the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill, is an important shipping center
with population of more than
100000.
According to the files of the Daily
Worker, other city governmental
bodies which have endorsed the bill
are: Milwaukee, Wis, West Allis.
Wis, Minneapolis, MINI, Rockford.
ILL., Thayer, Ill, Belleville, Ill, Vir-
den, Ill, Bend, Ill, Caseville. Ill,
Harvey, Ill, Midlothian, Ill, Zeigler
Ill, Collinsville. Ill, Norwood Park
Township, Ill, Swissvale, Pa, Forest
Hills, Pa, Williamsburg, Pa, Glas-
port, Pa, Allentown, Pa, Toledo.
Ohio, Canton Ohio, Bedford, Ohio,
Llnndale, Ohio. Brooklyn Village
Ohio. Superior, Wis, Clifton, N. J..
Linden, N. j., Garfield, N. ]. St.
George, Me, Tacoma, Wash. Des
Moines, Iowa, Racine, Wis. Buffalo.
N. Y, klamath Falls, Mich.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Dockers Wise to Faker
BY SEYMOUR wALDMAN
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 23.-
Speaking for the Democratic Ad-
ministrations legislative and ex-
ecutive machine, President Roose-
welt today declared confidently that
he is doing the best he can to stop
the growth of strikes throughout the
country. Just how or what new
means are contemplated the Presi-
dent didn't say despite the fact that
NR.A. Administrator General Hugh
S. johnson announced yesterday
that he considers some legislation
necessary to meet the summer
strikes
Roosevelt denied that he had ever
said that he would send Social
Legislation message" to Congress.
He announced jocularly that his
plans merely call for a message on
foreign debts. one on cocoanut oil
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
5000 Toledo Auto Strikers
Attacked With Gas Bombs

TOLEDO. Ohio, May 23.-Pohce,
company thugs and strong-arm men
today brutally hurled thirty tear
gas bombs into the massed ranks
of 5000 auto strikers and strike
sympathizers at the Electric Auto
Lite plant when they barred the
way to two truckloads Of scabs
brought to the plant.
Ten thousand workers are now
on the picket line, being attacked
by peiice with tear gas, fire hose
and clubs. A call has been sent
for the militia. The workers are
fighting back heroically and have
the scabs penned in the plant. A
new Injunction has been issued
against the Communist Party and
the Y.C.L. and Unemployed Coun-
ell restraining them from picket
inr.
Many workers were arrested BY
police, hut have been released
BY the workers. Several police
and strikers are in the hospitals.
While the police brutality was
in progress, a general strike of all
organized workers in Toledo was
being voted on by all individual
trade unions here. A parade and
demonstration are scheduled for
June /.
The strikers, fighting solidly to
prevent the strike breakers from
entering the building, and protest.
ing the arrest of one of their lead
ers. defended themselves from this
attack with bricks and stones picked
from the streets. Many fought with
their bare fists against the night
stick-eouipped police.
The bombs we're thrown into the
midst of the strikers from the fac
tory windows by COPS and deputy
sheriffs. When this failed to disperse
the militant workers, the fire de-
partment was called in and the huge
gathering showered with icy streams
from fire-hose,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Roosevelt
Shuns NRA
Indictment
Sen. Nye Opposition
Calls On Roosevelt
To Fix Defects
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
Daily Worker Washington Bureaul

WASHINGTON, May 23.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt continued to evade
an open declaration on the Darrow
Boards Indictment of the N. f. A.
as the headsman of the small bust
ness man, the mechanism for lower
ing the already dangerously low
standard of living of the workers,
and the consolidator Of monopolies.
For the present he is depending
on General Johnsons bombast and
Senator Wagner's Fourth of July
liberal generalities to snuff out the
fire which Roosevelt's own Darrow
Board set under the Administration
At the same time the President and
Jim Farley are making every effort
to get Congress out of the way
through adjournment so that oppo-
nents of the N. r. A. will be with
out their most effective sounding
board.
Asked today in his press confer
ence for comment on the Darrow
reports, Roosevelt lodged blandly
by replying in Latin, res ipse
loquitur." That means the thing
speaks for itself, Roosevelt added.
Another correspondent, not con-
sidering Roosevelt's Latin relevant,
asked him whether he planned any
changes of policy in the N. R. A.
Roosevelt replied evasively that
there will be weekly changes, con-
slant changes, as in the past.
Wagner Defends n. r. A.
Senator Robert F. Wagner, of
New York, jumped into the fray to
answer Senator Nye, North Dakota
spokesman for the small business
man, who Yesterday described the
N. R. A. as "a bird of prey for the
masses and the small independent
business man."
After paying glowing tribute to
General johnson, Wagner who
perhaps knows better than any one
else in Roosevelt's Administration
that the N. R. A. was admittedly
established to intrench monopoly,
wound up by attacking the barrow
Thompson supplementary report
CONTINUED on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Com mittee
F lay S n All
Terror Report
Thaelmann Demonstra-
ton in Astoria Next
Saturday

LONDON, May 23.-Popular re-
sentiment is being aroused through
out England against the vicious new
fascist tribunals of Germany called
Peoples Courts where the judges
are to be Nazi executioners. The
largest English evening paper, the
Star" commenting recently on the
passage of the new terror law, en-
phasized the perilous position of
political prisoners in Germany.
In response to the growing mass
resentment against the Nazis
butcher courts, and on the initia-
tive of the World Relief Commit
tee for the Victims of Hitler Fas-
cis1n, delegation of persons prom
inent in English public life, has
been organized to go to Germany
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
NRAOrderS Textile
Working Hours Cut
To Protect Profits
Will Mean Wholesale
Firing of Mill
Workers

WASHINGTON, May 23.-1n
order to protect textile manufac-
turers against profit losses which
are threatened by fast accumulat-
ing surplus stocks, General john
son of the N. r. A. today ordered
that the textile mills fire enough
workers to bring their production
hours to rs per cent of the code
maximum.
This will mean wholesale firing
OF workers and lowering of wages
for all workers having their work
time reduced.
This is the first order issued
by the N. R. A. for restricting in
dustrial production. 1t will pro-
tect manufacturers profit by keep
ing textile prices high and wages
low.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Use Tear Gas. Fire Hose
in Toledo; Threaten
To Call Troops
STRIKES SPREADING
NRA LabOrBoardOrders
Mpls. Strikers Back
IMPoRTAN DEVELOPMENTS IN
THE STRIKE WAVE

IMPOR TANT DEVELOPMENTS IN
THE STRIKE WAVE
MINNEAPOLIS-3,60O National
Guard troops called out by Farmer
Labor Governor Floyd Olson as
striking truck drivers meet.
TOLEDO-GeneraI strike pro-
posed by unions. Police attack
auto body picket line with tear
gas and fire hose.
STEEL u. S. steel Co. and
jor companies reject demands
Of steel unions. Workers prepare
for united strike action.
DETROIT - $500 Burroughs
Adding Machine Co. employees
walk out.
BIRMINGHAM. - Mass picket
Iines-white and Negro. men and
women, on Alabama strike front
MINNEAPOLIS, May 2S.-Gov.
Floyd Olson called out $500 Nae
tional Guardsmen In the Mime
apolis strike situation. The em-
ployers fear the workers will not
accept the strike breaking deci-
sion of the Labor Beard and the
development of tonights workers
mass meeting called by the Gem
trail Labor Union and the strike
committee with the support Of all
workers.
MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi,
May 23.-The 5000 striking
truck drivers were holding a
mass meeting as the Daily
Worker went to press, to vote
on the terms of strike settle
ment and the ultimatum Of
the Regional Labor Board COM
handing" them to return to work
under those terms.
Meanwhile. the 24-hour truce,
which was signed yesterday by union
representatives and the employers,
remains in force. Under its terms
no trucks are moving and pickets
are Withdrawn. The truce was made
after a picket line of 10000 drove
an army of 1900 special police from
the picket lines. One deputy was
killed
Under the terms of the agreement,
it is reported that the employers
concede that they will adhere to
and be bound by all the require
ments of section IA of the NR.A.
If employees select representatives Of
the drivers and helpers union to
bargain with them. employers are
bound to deal with the representa-
tives so selected. The manner Of
Selection" has not yet been made
known
Although the local press Is play
ing up this settlement as great
victory for the strikers. in the effort
to get them to return to work, the
strikers must guard against betrayal
by the A. F Of L. and Farm-Labor
leaders, who are cooperating with
the Regional Labor Board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
5000 Out on Strike
In Burroughs Adding
Machine Co., Detroit

DETROIT, Mich, May g.
The workers Of the Bur vughs
Adding Machine Company struck
today under the leadership Of
the Mechanics Educational So
ciety of America, They walked
out to force reinstatement Of the
shop steward fired for union ac-
tivity. About $500 have been
working in the plant, which is
the largest adding machine fac
tory in the world. Mass picket
ing was started this morning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
MonopoyRu Sho,On byDmro,o Can
BE Ended Only by a Soviet america

of the country.
johnson conceals what the signers
OF the Darow report themselves die
not see.
That it is neither the Roosevelt
N.R.A. nor Fascism. But that Fas-
clsn Is growing rapidly right out
of the N.R.A. itself, right out of
the Roosevelt policy, that Roose-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
DOckerS, Seamen
Continue Strikes
In West and South
New Orleans Shipping
At Standstill As
Seamen Strike
fspeciaI to the Daily worker)

Especial 10 Jhe Dally WORKER
NEW ORLEANS, May 23.-The
crew of the Point Salina joined with
the crew Of the Edgar F. Lucken-
bach and struck today in support
Of the striking longshoremen. The
Luckenbach crew walked out yes
terday.
The ranks of the 1000 striking
longshoremen are solid. Compro-
mise offers of Mayor Walmsley and
the Reverend Wynhoven have been
turned down flat by the strikers.
With the shipping practically at
standstill, shipowners have the
gall to issue a statement declaring
that there is no strike on the
riverfront."
Unverified reports are current
that relief workers are being forced
to scab. The Daily Worker is
eagerly read by the strikers.
Dockers Wise to Faker
SEATTLE. May 23.-Dewey Ben
nett, secretary Of the Seattle local
CONTINUED on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24

dustrial centers-the preparations
for immense strike struggles in the
steel industry, the growing walk
outs of the packinghouse and build
ing trades workers, longshoremen
and seamen-give irrefutable evil
dence that the militancy Of the
workers, in their struggle for higher
wages and union recognition, is
flaming with daily growing in
tensity
Broader strike struggles, bigger
mass picket lines. Increased mill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
MussoLINI ORDERS WAGE CUT

ROME. May 23,-Mussolini. in his
drive to lower prices today or
dered per cent wage cut for all
workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Re revolutionary Road
Alone Can Solve the
Crisis for Masses
welt himself Is the leader of ad-
vancing American Fascism.

fahcing american tasclsm.
EASCISM is the rule of the mon
! opolies by which they intensity
the oppression and exploitation of
the rest of the population to swell
their own profit.
And it is precisely this which, the
DarroW report revealed, is swiftly
developing in this country under the
Roosevelt NRA. codes.
Communism is the opposite of
Fascism. 1t is the rule of the work
ers and toiling farmers over the
Wall Street monopolist crooks, over
the mortgage holders, the investors,
the employers. the speculat tors. Com
munism puts the wealth of the coun-
try into the hands of the workers
and toiling farmers to be used for
themselves and their families.
That is why Thomson and Roose-
velt are so terrified at the prospect
of Communion.
THE barrow report confirms the
: wonderfully clear keen picture
CONTINUED on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
BRITISH GIRL FLYER SETS
RECORD

PORT DARWIN, North Australia,
May "a 24-year old New zea-
land girl set a new women's record
when she reached here today after
flying from England in Is days, %
hours and IS minutes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24


KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 3d.
In a brilliant refutation of the
speech by Brain Trust Tugwell,
Mary van Kleeck, of the Russell
Sage Foundation, speaking before
1000 social workers here. warned
the National Conference of Social
Workers that the Roosevelt adj
ministration would not and has
not put forward an adequate re-
lief program. Tugwell had on the
day previous boasted of the many
blessings" which the N. r. A. had
brought to the working class.
Farmers call for a program
more fundamental than the de-
struction Of crops" van KIeeck
said, adding, Relief TO starving
coal miners is only an incidental
make-shift.
Miss van KIeeck resigned from
the Advisory Council of the U. S,
Employment Service because she
saw that the N. r. A. was en-
Shaving the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24

fancy is the answer Of the American workers to the
murderous attacks of the fascist bands to the reach
cry of the A. of L. leaders and to the str1ke-break
ing N. r. A. Labor Board decisions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24

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The Washington times., 1934-10-17
Hearst Bonds To Be
Retired November

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. IT.
Hearst Publications Inc, will retire
on November block OF $1,000
900 of 1884 serial maturitieS Of its
first mortgage and collateral trust
6A per cent bonds, according to
an announcement made today
through the executive offices Of
Hearst Consolidated Publications
Inc, the Parent Company.
On that date Hearst Publica-
tons Inc, will also disburSe to the
bondholders $468,750 in semi
annual interest. The company has
redeemed annually throughout the
depression $1,000,000 of each
years serial maturities and has
promptly paid, on all due dates,
the semiannual interest.
During the last four years
Hearst Publications Inc, earned
its bon interest on an average OF
five times annual requirements
and earnings so far this year in
dictate that that figure will be ex-
ceeded.
Hearst Consolidated Publications,
Inc, in September paid its sew
enteenth consecutive quarterly
cash dividend on the Class "A" Z
per cent preferred shares. Earn
ings for the first half of 1884
we're equal to $2.01 per share on
the entire authorized issue of
The Washington times., 1934-10-17
D. c. MILK PLAN
To GUT PRICE

Continuing their efforts to bring
about a reduction in the retail
price of milk in this area, members
Of the Washington Consumers
Council at a meeting yesterday
discussed various plans which
would cause radical changes in
distribution supervision here.
One Of these was the formation
Of a farmer-conSumer cooperative
which, it was asserted, may bring
the retail price down from 13 cents
a quart to 9 cents.
In proposing such an arrange.
ment, Mrs. John Boyle, jr., and
Matthew F. Boyd, president and
vice president, respectively, of the
council, declared that several
farmers in this area are willing to
adopt the plan.
The Washington times., 1934-10-17
COlOred Teachers
TOHOld Meeting

Colored school teachers from
northern Virginia will hold the
eighth district teachers con-
ference at the Parker-Gray School
in Alexandria Friday and Satur-
day.
The program will consist of
a series of demonstration criti-
ciSms, lectures and addresses by
school experts from Washington,
Hampton Institute and the State
Department of Education.
The program committee consists
of Leon Baltimore of Arlington
County; j. C. Walker of Loudon
county; William C. Taylor of Fau-
quier county; Mrs. Louise C. Archer
of Fairfax county and Wesley Elan,
principal of Parker Gray School.