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Evening star., 1934-06-03
AIR CHECK K|SMADE
FOR BALLOON RACE
Five Have Narrow Escape
Landing After 16O-
New York Flight.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
CORTLAND. N. Y, June 2.-Five
young Buffalo men landed 10 miles
southeast of here In a hilly section of
Cortland County today after an eight
hour flight in a borrowed Navy bal
loon to check air conditions in New
York State.
Their ballast almost exhausted, the
quintet narrowly missed a telephone
cable as they landed on the farm of
Charles Fuller at West Freeport. It
was the narrowest escape from dan
ger they encountered on the entire
launt OF approximately l6o miles, one
OF the crew said.
Four Act As Observers.
Plotting the huge bag was George
Helneman, an engineer Of the Con-
solidated Aircraft Corporation: Edwin
walton and Bruce Eaton Of the Cur
tlSs Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc. and
James Redding and Robert Wolf of
the Consolidated, acted as observers.
Helneman said they found condi-
tons suitable" for the national elm
lnation balloon tournament to start at
Buffalo. The men, all members of
the Buffalo Balloon Club, hope to
nave this race awarded to Buffalo.
The three leaders in the contest Quail
ny for the Gordon Bennett interna-
tional race.
Went to 1900 Feet.
Although the temperature on the
ground was 30 degrees or above, "
Heineman said. I'VE could see our
breath most Of the time we were
aloft.
Varying our altitude between 5000
and 10000 feet to check conditions.
we did not ascend any higher until
we neared the end Of the flight, when
we went up to $4,000 feet.
The average height for the trip
was 5000 feet. The first two hours
we Travelled at speed Of about SO
miles an hour, but later we drifted
along at about 10 miles an hour"
Evening star., 1934-06-03
Urge End to Restrictions.

Representative Christianson, Repub-
lcan, of Minnesota, urged Davis to
lift forage crop restrictions in all parts
Of the country and suggested restric-
tions imposed by the Bankhead cotton
control bill be lifted
The administrator said he would
meet with the congressional group
again tomorrow and that Hopkins and
Gov. w. l. Myers of the Farm Credit
Administration probably would attend.
Meanwhile, orders to cut red tape
and hasten the approval of corn-hog
contracts in the drought area went
out from the Farm Administration.
The Weather Bureau said Spring
and Winter wheat were entering the
most critical stage of their growth
and that the next two weeks would
determine the extent of the damage
the drought would cause.
At the Weather Bureau, j. B. Kincer
the meteorologist, said: In area
covered and moisture deficiency, this
drought surpasses any on record"
CROPS ENTER CRISIS.
Evening star., 1934-06-03
U.S.PR0V|DESJ Jobs.
IN DROUGHT AREAS.
Hopkins AIlots Six Million
to Be Spent in Mid
west.
Continued From First Page.)

however, a few more days without
rain might cause Mr.. Roosevelt to
feel additional funds should be made
available as a matter Of precaution.
Conference Tomorrow.
Chester Davis, farm administrator,
said after conference with Senators
and Representatives from the parched
areas yesterday that a broader plan
for relief would be drawn after a con-
ference with the President tomorrow.
Senator La Toilette, Republican, of
Wisconsin said after talking with
Davis, that an additional fund, pos
sibly 10000, 900 or more" was need
ed to handle a situation that "is
growing worse every day"
He said unless the Government
prepared itself to take care of the
dry sections "on a disaster basis" the
entire area would be in a "pitiable
plight"
La Toilette said 1t would be foolish
for Congress to adjourn without be-
ing certain that the Government had
ample funds to supply relief.
Millions Lost Daily.
Each day means the loss Of mil
lions" he said, and there is no as
surance that rain will come. This
drought is approaching the propor-
tions of a national calamity
The general sentiment at the con-
ference was along the same lines.
Both Senator Frazier, Republican, Of
North Dakota and Senator Shipstead,
Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota said Con-
gress should not quit until 1t had
taken steps to assure comprehensive
relief program.
To the score Of Senators and Rep
resentatives who gathered with him,
Davis outlined what had been done
and measures contemplated.
He said the Farm Administration
hoped to work out plan for the re-
lease Of corn on which Government
loans had been made and indicated
the Federal Relief Administration
might buy some.
The administrator defended the
price paid for cattle in the stricken
areas and said if the payments were
increased there would be demands for
similar Government purchases in
other States that would be hard to
withstand.
Evening star., 1934-06-03
FIGHT ON NEPOTISM
RENEWED IN HOUSE
BY S0UTHERNER

Continued From First Paee1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03

(Contjn5ed from Page y
Ryan to sell out and hold back the
longshoremen, while Olande.' Of the
I.S.U. is trying to do the same
dirty work among the seamen.
1.-THE plan of action of the bosses
is to deal with each section of The
marine workers one at time. Their
strategy is as follows:
FIRST, to keep the East Coast
longshoremen on the job at all
costs.
Second, to split the ranks of the
Searnen, to try to prevent mass
strike movement of seamen, to
smash such a movement before it
gets started and gains wide sup
port. (The action of the I.S.U.
takers in calling off their strike is
aimed at this.)
Third, to announce the West
Coast arbitration decisions (Which
will undoubtedly be against the
longShoremen and seamen), and try
to ram these decisions through
without any strike resistance
which they have plenty of reason
to fear. Harry Bridges and mill
tant rank and file slate have been
elected to leadership in the Frisco
LILA, and the longshoremen there
have shown they are in a fighting
moodD
Fourth and finally, to settle &C
counts with the East Coast long
shoremen, hammering down the
mems demands by using the sell-out
arbitration results on the West
Coast as a club.
This, brother longshoremen, is
the strategy of the ship owners.
Ryan's sell-out truce agreement is
only the first step in carrying
through this strategy.
Fellow workerslWe must act now
to defeat Ryan's treacherous move!
against the ship owners strategy
of defeating the marine workers
section by section, we must oppose
our own working class strategy
which is: solidarity and united
strike action of all seamen and long
shorenen.
yellow the leadership Of Local
808, which has denounced Ryan's
truce and demanded strike action
now!
Demand decision by the West
Coast arbitration committee before
Oct. 8th!
Demand special local union
meetings to vote on strike action!
eject rank and file strike COM
mittees on the docks and in the
locals!
Organize and prepare to strike
together with the seamen for our
joint demands on Oct. 8th!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03

this proposal.
The inability of the Republican
or any other capitalist party to
offer any real solution of the crisis
which will benefit the masses Of
workers and farmers is revealed in
the statement Of the platform that:
eve believe e.. that no insurance
system can possibly meet the prob
lens of a prolonged depression
such as the present one, but that
these problems must be met by the
special measures herein outlined"
The Communist Party election
program declares that unemploy-
ment and social insurance will not
eliminate the causes of working
class misery, but fights for it as
an immediate burning need of the
masses, while declaring frankly and
boldly in its election platform that:
1.-THE only way out of the crisis
for the toiling masses is the revo-
lutionary way out-the abolition of
capitalist rule and capitalism, the
establishment of the Socialist So
ciety through the power Of revo-
lutionary workers government, a
Soviet government"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03

making them daily more bitter
against the New Deal.
The platform pretends strong
opposition to the New Deal but
makes no effective proposals for
ending or alleviating the mass
misery which it admits vaguely and
uncertainty.
Unable to ignore the growing mass
demands for unemployment insur-
ance, the platform declares that
I'VE favor a system Of unemploy-
ment reserves" 1t preserves the
capitalist principle of making work
ers pay for the crisis by saying
that such unemployment reserves
(Which have no provision for the
millions now unemployed should &c
contributed to by the workers in
industry as we'll as the employers.
The platform makes no mention Of
Federal responsibility for unem-
ployment and social insurance.
Despite a declaration that Eve
condemn the yellow dog contract"
there is no condemnation of the
company union, the use of troops
against strikers, of compulsory ar
bitration, and no mention Of the
wave of strikes by which the work
ers seek to combat the increased
misery saddled on them under the
New Deal.
The farm program set forth in the
platform consists chiefly Of pro-
posals to protect the New York
milk shed" and to finance the free
of $15O0,o00 worth of
milk to the unemployed. These
measures would benefit neither
large number of small dairy farm
ers nor a sufficient number of job
less over any length of time. Only
the large distributors of milk would
derive any appreciable benefits from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
Delegates Hear
Green on Truce
Continued from Page y
BY BILL DUNE

with the President, and thereby
handing out another headache to
the assembled bureaucrats, now
makes. The big capitalists dom
mating the decisive durable goods
industries have already announced
their program adopted at Hot
Springs-a program calling for still
further reductions in wages and the
lifting of all restrictions on working
hours and output per worker. The
President, whom Green and the Ex-
ecutive Council have been praising
as the main defensive bulwark be-
tween wage workers and organized
capital, now calls upon these same
leaders, right at the opening of
their convention, to agree to recon-
mend to the dues paying member
ship that it do nothing to counter
act the new drive of the big COR
porations against wages, working
conditions and the elementary right
to organize. This is the reason why
the red scare got off to a bad start
yesterday.
The A. F. of L. officialdom shows
its age. 1t stills reaches out to
grasp and strange the struggles Of
the rank and file, but it fumbles
much more often than was the case
a few years ago. The internal
Sduabble and the DrOOOsaI for ac-
tual surrender of the entire or
ganized labor movement in the in
terests Of recovery of American
capitalism, made openly on the eve
of the fifty-fourth annual conven-
ton by its White House hero, has
Slapped a lot of juice from the
sources whereby officialdom derives
its morale.
The usual machinery of such
conventions does not even function.
1t is working so badly that news
papermen do not even get the lists
of official committees, appoint
ments and the handouts" upon
which correspondents depend for
their, reports of the routine business
OF the convention. In four Or five
days the official leadership of the
convention probably will pull itself
together and revive the anti red
drive, but right at present it is in
hell of a shape, judged by the
ordinary rules and STANDARDS OF
American trade union procedure.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
c. p Election Manager Stresses Need of Registration
Daily Worker Management
To GiVe Report on Finances

IN ORDER that our readers may know the detailed
truth of the financial situation of the Daily Worker
will publish two stories by the Daily Worker Management
Committee, on Friday and the other on Saturday
The Management Committee will clearly reveal the
exact status of the paper the full story of income and
expenditure, exactly where money received is spent
full explanation will be given of the costs of publication
of the threeedtion Daily Worker, with the eight
page New York DAILY" These stories will contain in
formation of great interest to every revolutionary worker
every reader of the DAILY"
EDITOR, DAILY WORKER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
WOrkerS'EnemieS
Exposed

Paul Murphy, of Ambridge, Pa,
whose photograph appears here
with, has been exposed as a federal
detective, who had wormed his way
into the Steel and Metal Workers
Union, and who, since the A1nbridge
strike, has been trying to disrupt
the growing unity of the workers.
Murphy aroused suspicious from
the very first by making exagger-
ated statements regarding his &C
tivities for the union in the ]. & L..
mill at Aliquippa. Therefore, real
contacts in the mill were never dis
closed to him, and by keeping a
careful check ON his work on as
signed tasks the suspicious against
him were confirmed.
His trial by the Steel and Metal
Workers Union resulted in his con-
feSsion that he is a federal agent
Of II years standing, that he has
been in Southern Illinois around
1881, and that he was among the
deputies thrown out of a South
Brownsville Pa.) meeting, along
with Sheriff Seaman, in 1888.
He also exposed the names of two
other stool pigeons with whom he
has been working, namely, George
Butcher and Ed MOnihan.
Murphy, like most stool pigeons,
had never learned to speak the
of the militant trade
unionists and revolutionary work.
er7, bit merely mouthed exagger-
ated statements and phrases, which
1o--2ysd nis real character.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
Ship Radio Men Strike

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. a.
Radio operators of % Great Lakes
ships of the Cleveland Cliff Iron
Company went on strike last week
under the leadership of the Amer
lean Radio Telegraphists' Associa-
ton, according to Willard Bliss,
national secretary.
The strikers demand the aboli-
tion of compulsory deck work,
which is outside of their duties,
and a $50 a month increase in
wages. The company has been
forcing the men to put in four
hours day on deck work and paid
them ony s75 a month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
.Seamen for Strike:.
Condemn Truce
Continued from Page y

Continued from Page y
force them" declared Hudson. "By
strike action"
AS part of the betrayal maneu-
vers, the I. S. U. officials called off
the regular Monday night member
ship meeting, obviously fearing to
face the rank and file with the an
nouncement that they had called
off the strike. Though they said
they had to go to "a meeting up
town" in connection with negotia-
tions with the government and the
shipowners, the strikebreaking
agreement was actually concluded
at pm. Monday.
Strike Meetings Called
Among the preparations that are
being made by the Joint Strike
Preparations Committee is the call
ing of series of meetings along
the entire coast. Roy Hudson was
in Boston last night to address a
mass meeting of seamen in Faneuil
Hall. Hayes Jones, editor of the
Marine Workers Voice, was to
speak at a seamen's meeting at Sec
ond and Riner Street, Hoboken,
N. J.
The Joint Strike Preparations
Committee issued call in all At
lantic ports, stating that the strike
will commence on Oct. 8.
Yesterday members of the I. S. q.
demanded that their union officials
call special meetings, where the
rank and file will be permitted to
state their opinion on the agree
ment.
Delegates of the I. S. U. were COR
nered on the New York waterfront
by seamen all during the day and
were forced to answer many ques-
lions about the leaders attempt to
betray the strike.
AS the Daily Worker went to
press the Joint Strike Committee
was meeting at lao Broad Street,
and the waterfront was being pla-
carded with a call for meeting
that was to be held in a larger hall.
Longshoremen and seamen are to
meet at IL noon on Friday at Pier
81 on the West Side to take up
questions of the strike.
All throuphout the day members
of the I. S. U. were bringing their
strike pledge cards to the hail OF
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union at 40 Broad Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
Unity Plans Adopted in Baltimore
speciaI TO the Daily Worker

Special to the Daily worker
BALTIMORE, Nd, Oct. "A
number of important decisions in
support of united action Of seamen
and longshoremen were adopted by
the meeting held Saturday night
under the auspices of the Joint
Strike Preparations Committee at
the union hall of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, 100
South Broadway.
Outstanding among these deci-
sions were: Cd That the j. S. P. c.
present to the shipoWners the de-
rnands of the marine workers SIS
lined up in the strike call Of the
M. w. I. U. ~ That those present
at the meeting attend the I. S. u.
meeting Sunday night. 90 That
a representative Of the j. S P. G..
present the program of united &C
ton to the I. S. U. meeting. "a
That the Baltimore M. w. I. U.
secretary be given the floor to pre-
sent the unions position at the
request Of the Soamen. (5)s That
kilograms of protest against secret
dealings of shipowners and I. S. U.
officials without representatives Of
the j. S. P. G. be sent to the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board.
The j. S. P. G. was well received
when it visited Locals 958 and 500
of the I. L. A. and presented a
petition for the Joint action and
the setting up Of a joint strike
preparations committee Of seamen
and longshoremen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03

El6CClOn Campaign committee Sald
yesterday.
Special emphasis was given by
Trachtenberg to the question of
registration as the most immediate
problem confronting working class
voters.
How can Communist campaign
ers tell workers to vote red when
they themselves have neglected the
elementary duty Of seeing to it that
they and their shop mates are eli
gible to vote, Trachtenberg said.
Registration This Month
Registration will take place in
most communities some time during
the current month. The time and
the requirements vary from State
to State.
In every State, however, workers
who are sympathetic to the Com
munist Congressional program and
active Communist Party members
i.w, and one dealing with the Far
Eastern situation.
The Congress also adopted a
must make it one Of their imme-
date duties to register.
Not only must they take care
of themselves in this matter. They
must take care of others. They
mus see to it that their friends,
neighbors and shop-mates have
taken the necessary steps.
Voting Qualifica lions
Roughly, the voting qualifications
in all States are as follows
One must have lived in the State
a specified length of time, and
progressively shorter periods in the
county, city and election district or
precinct. These residence require
mentS vary. In Maine the required
length OF residence in the State is
three months, but in many States
it is two years and in most others
ono year.
Residence requirements, Will e
they furnish some difficulty to
working class voters, particularly in
these times Of eviction for non-pay-
menJ Of rent, and migration in
search of work, are in most cases
easily met.
And those who can meet the re-
quirements, Trachtenberg insisted
must not fail to register.
The education and propaganda
Of the Communist Party in the cleo
ton campaign for the needs Of the
working class are going forward
with energy and determination, -
Trachtenberg said. And while the
size of the vote We roll up is not
an absolute measure of victory or
defeat, it is a measure of the eff
fectiveness of our propaganda"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03

united 'front.' Let your slogans be:
Recognition of Cur elected rep
reseEtatives!
Gan anGwer to our demands or we
strike Oct. 81
"ATL ANTIC JOINT STRIKE
PREPARATIONS COMMITTEE.
"(Notics This committee has
been elected by and represents the
Marine Workers Industrial Union,
American Radio Telegra phists' AS
socia ion, and elected representa-
tiveS Of the unorganized.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
I. W. U. Forces Order
That /. r. T. Abandon
yellow Dog Contract

NEW YORK-A blow at COM
pany unionism was dealt yesterday,
when the New York Regional La
Dor Board ordered the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company to rescind
its Infamous yellow dog" contract
which required IRT. workers as
condition of employment to join the
Brotherhood of Rapid Transit En-
ployees, a company union.
This action of the Labor Board
was the result of vigorous CAM
paign by the Transport Workers
Union, independent, to unionize the
I.R.T. employees and to force the
lifting of the threat of dismissal
which hung over the workers in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
REPUBLICANS SCORE
NEW DEAL BUT PLAN
NO AID FOR MASSES
N. Y. State Platform Rejects Unemployment
Insurance, Support of Strikers, or Real Farm
Relief, For Which Communists Fight

NEW YORK-The Republican Party in New York
State has adopted platform which may teeer nicely
between effort to win those sections of capitalism not
fully satisfied with the NRA and the large masses Of
workers whose continuously dropping living standards are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03

The success Of the Daily Worker
$4,000 drive means a better, larger
newspaper. Donate and get dOna-
tions today. Send the money i'm
mediately to the Daily"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
GREATER ROUTINE
ACTIVITY URGED
BY 1RACHTENBERC
Every Communist Party Member and Sympathizer
Called On to Register This MOnth-Wide
Propaganda Among ShOp-Mates Urged

NEW YORK.-Unless campaigners and workers SYM
pathetic to the Communist program and candidates take
the routine aspects of the election with the utmost serious
ness the Party's campaign will be seriously weakened
Alexander Trachtenberg chairman of the Congressional
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03

He has been seen in the office
of the superintendent of Homestead
Works comforting with company
officials. He has openly boosted
of working against the reds" and
he has recently forged credentials
for himself to the Steel and Metal
Workers Union, but was refused a
seat by the committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03

Bill Dreshke (Dreske, Droshke),
of Homestead, Pa, has been ex-
posed as a stool pigeon for the steel
corporation and for Cavanaugh, the
burgess of Homestead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03

Description. This federal and
stel trust stool pigeon is "a years
old, has light brown hair and gray
eyes, stands 5 #. 10 in. in height,
weighs 149 pounds, and can easily
be recognized by a one-inch scar
on the left side of his nose.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
DOCkerS Expose
Ryan Truce Deal

(Comttneed from Page y
The Washington times., 1934-12-27
CHINA MONEY
RUN0RSD SDEN|ED

SHANGHAI, Dec. 27.-Rumors
that China would adopt paper cur.
rency, nationalize silver, and de.
value it's money were emphatically
denied by Finance Minister H. H.
Kung here yesterday.
Kung did not say if any fiscal
measures were under considera-
ton by the government, but he
cid state:
1T should be understood that
whatever measures the govern
ment undertakes will be deter
mined by consideration for the
welfare of the state and the
people,"
Generalissimo Chang Kai-Shek.
who seldom takes official notice
Of such matters, also took a hand
in the silver situation. From
Genghwa the military leader is.
sued statement through the Off.
cial Koumin News Agency that the
National Government would not
devalue the dollar or adopt a
paper standard of currency. The
statement said:
"Such acts would not benefit
either the Government or the
people"
General Chang expressed con-
fidence that the United States, in
its silver purchasing policy, will
take into account China's vital
interest in the silver problem"