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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
To Put Through Firing
of CWA Men; O.K.'s
Wage Cuts
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
Daily Worker Washington Bureau

Daily Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-Preddent
Roosevelt today gave federal officials
clean bill of health in the Civil
Works Administration graft scandal.
He said he considers that most OF
the thousands of complaints which
have been coming in daily, to federal
officials, are political protests. They
have come, he acknowledged, from
beth Republicans and Democrats.
In his regular press conference,
Roosevelt also reported that he has
not changed his plans to end the G.
w. A. program on May /. Officials
here recently have been receiving
about 5000 complaints daily against
The cessation.
Thousands of Complaints Daily
He said nothing about the COM
plants which have come in from
thousands of workers complaints
against thievery and political favor
itism, against C.W.A. officials taking
rake-offs from business men supply
ing materials, and against corrupt
union officials being protected in
"kick-back" rackets.
Asked how many of the 100000
unemployed supposedly on C.W.A,
rolls would be absorbed on No l,
Roosevelt replied that it was lily
hard to give figures at this tim put
that he hoped that a fairly large
majority would be taken up by an
industrial pickup, Public Works ADJ
ministration projects and season
works.
100000 Fired Week
Most of them, Roosevelt empha-
sized, were political protests. He said
that local administrative agencies
are using the C.W.A. program to fill
the rolls with people Of one major
political party or the other. Actual
operation of the program is in the
hands of local governments, he added,
and keeping it out OF graft and out
of politics depends upon the quality
of local governments.
The President will ask Congress to
appropriate, as he suggested in his
budget message. $350,000,000 to carry
C.W.A. until May 1. This will re-
quire dropping 100000 persons week,
beginning Feb. Is, and a continual
ton of the staggering-hours, wage
cutting process. Roosevelt also will
propose the $5o0000,0o0 previously
suggested for relief for the next Is
months nothing more.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25

ers are then classified as junior mem
bers and are deprived of voice or
vote on the floor of all meetings.
He was followed by Dave Schur-
man of Painters Brotherhood Local
S92 who said that for 10 years he
had been fighting racketeers and that
the majority of the rank and file of
the A. F. of l.. are in revolt against
thef.' corrupt officials, but the job of
ousting these racketeers, he stressed,
lies not in the hands of the press,
but with the rank and file.
Local Is Suspended
Another speaker, Albert Grey, rep
resenting the Bridge Structural and
Iron Workers Union Local So, de-
scribed the action of their interna-
tional after the majority of the mem
bership had kicked out their gang
ster officials. This action was i'm
mediately followed by suspension Of
the local by the international, ap-
preparation Of all union rfoperties by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25

that body and the formation Of a
new local, AT, with the ousted gang
sters at the head Of it.
The first resolution adopted by the
workers called for the organization
and affiliaton to the central body
of misunderstanding groups in the
locals The second resolution, op-
posing federal control Of the trade
unions, stated in part: CAS- members
of the A. F. of L., we must always
guard against any and all measures
which attempt to take away the DEM
ocratic control of the trade unions
from the rank and file. Taking adj
vantage Of the fight against racket
eering, very strong tendency has
developed in certain circles to ex-
ercise federal control over the trade
unions. This mass meeting is
opposed to any and all tendencies
aiming at federal control Of the trade
union movement"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
House Passes
Big Macy Bill
UnGninIOuSLy
Roosevelt Has Obtained
Over Billion for
U. S. Navy
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)

WASHINGTON, Jan. "a. - The
Roosevelt war machine in the House
today pushed through the $295 900 600
Navy Department appropriations bill
for the fiscal year 1885 without the
utterance of a single objection from
one of the ABS Democratic, Republi-
can and Farmer-Laborite representa-
tives.
The war temper of the Roosevelt
administration was emphasized by the
facI that the Presidents House lieu
tenants jammed through Chairman
Ayre's Democrat of Kansas Navy
Department appropriations bill just a
few hours after Roosevelt, in his press
conference, had declared with cold
clarity that he has not changed his
mind about ending civil works pro-
jects on May !. Thus the Roosevelt
slogan might we'll be: Billions for
slaughter, but not a cent for work
relief"
Over Billion for Navy
From the figures ready at hand,
the Roosevelt administration has au-
thorized, including the certain i'm
pending passage of the Vinson $475,-
100000 special construction program,
the appropriation of substantially
more than billion dollars for the
Navy Department alone:
S233,OO0,OOO ordered by Roosevelt
several months ago, under the guise
of public works, for building 81 war
ships.
S7,5O0,000 allotted by P.W.A. for
aviation building.
1926, 100000 appropriated today
for the Navy Department 1885 ifs
cal year.
S475,0O0,O 1000 to be authorized In
few days for the so-caIled treaty
Navy.
All this, not counting the miscel-
laneouS millions for ammunition and
other war expenditures, making a to-
tai of $1,015,5 100000.
Vinson Bill Coming Up
In the brief discussion which pre-
coded the passage of the Navy bill
Representative Fred Britten (Repub-
lican, Ill), former chairman of the
Naval Affairs Committee and pres
ent ranking Republican on the Com
mittee, pointed out that the appro-
priation of o mere $295, 100000 was
"hoodwinkery." The aHtual Navy De-
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25

local told this same corrupt official
that Dutch" Schultz, and Spunky
White, notorious gangsters, controlled
their union, and that an ex-convict
was a local official, Vol laughed
them off with the statement he "be-
lieves in democracy"
Announcing that city-wide con-
ference against racketeeItng of rep
resentatives from unions in the city
will be held in six weeks, to prepare
for a National Conference, Jack Tay-
lor, secretary of the committee, scored
the capitalist press for presenting the
fight against racketeering as one be-
tween different factions in the
unions.
$4,000 Limitation" Fee
Taylor pointed out an illustration
Of graft in Local 1874 of the Motion
Picture Operators Union, where the
officials are collecting $4,000 tnitia-
ton fee and 10 per cent Of the weekly
wages Of new members, These work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Arrest Communist
Organizer;;kidnap
Strikers Lawyers

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. PA
meeting of 1000 strikers was held
at Axteca last night despite a
threatening mobilization of 500
American Legionnaires in trucks.
A. L. Wren, one of the defense
attorne-s kidnapped last night, was
escorted out of Imperial Valley this
morning by police, who warned him
not to return. Another defense at
torney is held on vagrancy charges.
BRAWLEY, Calf, Jan. 24.-Three
international Labor Defense lawyers
defending arrested lettuce strikers
we're kidnapped last night by Legion
naires and Vigilantes seeking to break
the strike of 1000 lettuce workers in
the Imperial Valley. The three attor-
neys are Grover G. Johnson of San
Bernardino, David Sokol Of Los An
geIes, and A. l.. T. Wirin. The wife
Of johnson was kidnapped at the
same time.
Sokol was to have spoken at a
A1lCCIlAl6 Va LOW uACAANdl4 SIllhClo ldoO
night. The abductions failed to stop
the meeting, which adopted vigorous
resolutions protesting the kidnappings
and demanding the right of the work.
ers to organize. The three attorneys
and Mrs. Johnson were later released
in scattered nearby towns after being
brutally beaten up.
On the same night, four strike lead
ers were forcibly escorted from town
and ordered not to return. The four
workers returned this morning to
carry on their strike activities, In de-
fiance of the terror
Stanley Hancock, section organizer
of the Communist Party, which is
playing an active role in the leader
ship Of the strike of agricultural
workers, and organizer Pat Chambers
of the Agricultural Workers Indus
trial Union, have been arrested,
charged with melting to riot, unlaw-
full assembly and disturbing the peace.
Frank Samora, secretary Of the Union,
Dorothy Ray and Fred Martinez of
the Young Communist League, are
also in jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
900 Hotel Workers
Strike at Waldorf,
Tie Up Dining Room
Plan to Spread Strike;
Industrial Union
Pledges Support

NEW YORK. Wealthy guests of
the luxurious Waldorf Astoria Hotel
tasted the discomfort of going
without supper Monday night when
the entire crew of 600 workers of the
hotels kitchen and dining room, from
pastry chefs to dishwashers, stopped
work at Z p. m. Two hours later,
after their demands had been re-
jected by Lucius M Boomer, presi-
dent of the Waldorf Astoria Corpora
ton, the strike was officially on and
the workers had left the hotel to
take their places on the picket line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
500 Credentials in
for FSU Convention
ID elegates Pouring in
from rs States

NEW YORK.-Delegates from rs
states are coming into New York to
participate in the first national con-
vention of the Friends of the Soviet
Union, which officially opens with a
mass meeting to be held tomorrow
night at the New Star Casino, 10th
st. and Park Ave.
Mother Ella Reeve Bloor, farm
organizer and veteran labor leader;
DR.. Reuben Young, Negro intellectual;
C. A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily
Worker, and Justine Wise Tuline,
daughter of Rabbi Stephen Wise, will
address the meeting.
Two members of the Socialist Party
of Erie, Pa, one of which is o. c..
Crawford, who will speak at the Fri
day night mass meeting, are delegates
to the convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
C.W.A. Men Strike
in West Virginia
Walk-Out Ag ainst Cuts
of Roosevelt

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Jan. 49,
A strike of C.W.A. workers of Hama
wha County against the cutting down
of hours from 30 to "a was effective
here, as C.W-A. administrator W. W,
Allen announced that all C.W.A. work
in the county has been halted. Five
hundred walked out the first day. The
strikers declare they will picket.
The strike may spread to the entire
state of West Virginia.
Another demand of the strikers,
organized into the Unemployed
Leagues, is that all men put OF
C.W.A jobs be put back on the lobs
at once. They demand an end Of
graft in the C.w.A. and uniform
wage scala
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Roosevelt Dollar
Means Mass Misery
SenateDebateShOws
Dollar ID evaluatiOn to
Bring ''Indescribable
Destitution''
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureaul

(OdHy NOThtE hdSulikt Oh DulCdul
WASHINGTON. Jan. Ex-senator
Carter Glass of Virginia likened the
Roosevelt deyaluation program to
that which created "destitution all
most indescribable among the middle
classes and the wage earners in Eu-
rope" as the Senate opened debate
on the bill, today, and an admins
tration spokesman rushed in to de-
fend it as "the only sound method
of initiation"
The debate tapped the wells OF
Senatorial oratory, and telltale facts
gushed forth in the spew. But it was
all in an atmosphere of tacit under
standing that this was but the shout
ing preliminary to favorable action
The bill will be enacted-perhaps
with several amendments, but with
no fundamental change. The only
question in the minds of leaders is
when; some believe in a day or so
some say it will take longer.
War Danger
The drive toward war that is inn
plicit In the bills provision for s
Continued on Page -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
ALL. Locals.
Miners, Back
.JObless Meet
New York Has Send-Off,
4 Mimi. Locals, A.F.L.,
Send Delegates

BELLEVILLE, ILL.,, Jan. 24.-Pro-
gressive Miners Local No. 8, the Sec
ond largest local of the Progressive
Miners of America, unanimously en-
the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill after hearing report
from a committee representing the
Unemployed Council of Belleville.
All the miners present (650) voted
or the bill and for financial aid to
the delegates from Belleville going
to the Convention at Washington,
Feb. 3rd.
The Common Laborers' local of the
A. F. of L. has also endorsed the bill
and has promised financial support
Minneapolis Locals IndOrse
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Jan. "a
Four locals of A. F. of L. unions here
have endorsed the National Conven-
ton Against Unemployment to be
held in Washington, D. c., Feb. 3, 4
and 5. Other locals are expected to
take similar action this week. The
Cabinet Makers local and the Paint
ers local have elected delegates, while
the Cement Finishers and the Lathers
locals have endorsed the convention
and the delegate elected by the other
A F. of L. locals.
A send-off mass meeting for the
Minnesota delegation will be held here
on Sunday, Jan. %, at the Metal
Workers Hall, 329 Cedar Ave, at
p. m, and the truck will leave with
the delegates on Monday or Tuesday
Mass end-off Thursday
NEW YORK.-A mass send-Off
meeting for the New York delegates
to the National Convention Against
Unemployment, to be held in Wash
ngtOn, will be held in St. Nicholas
arena, So West Goth St., Thursday,
Feb. LIST at p. m. The Unemployed
Councils of Greater New York urges
all those organizations which have
elected delegates to the National
Convention Against Unemployment
to be held in Washington on Feb. 3,
4 and 5, to send the names and
addresses of these delegates to the
Unemployed Council, 20 East Goth
st.
All elected delegates to the Ma
tional Convention must report at
20 East goth st. on Friday, Feb. 2
at a. m. ready to leave for
Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Mine Local Resolutions
To Convention of UMWA
Demand Right to Strike
U. S. Govt Lifts Ban
on Exports from USSR

WASHINGTON, Jan. "a. = The
Treasury Department today lifted
the embargoes on gold, lumber,
wood-pulp, and matches from the
Soviet Union.
The embargoes were clamped
down, the gold one as far back as
1920, on the pretext that products
Of Soviet's collective labor were
produced by forced or prison
labor"
The Treasury decision now adj
mits this claim was a lie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
[ President Whitewashes
Graft Scandal in CIV A.
rs Mayors Discovered
Getting Salaries on
Ohio CWA York Jobs

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Jan. "a
After a short investigation, it was
discovered that Is mayors, town
ship clerks and trustees, have been
collecting regular wages from
C.W.A. funds here.
This is only one instance of what
reports reveal to be a nationwide
condition Of grating on the
C.W.A. jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
In the Daily Worker
Today

quay
Page 2
Sports, by ST Gerson.
Page )
U.M.W.A. Leader Are Strike
breakers In Utah Miners
strikf
Daugf jer of Oscar Days Accuser
Tes kies Against Father.
Green Wants N.R.A. to Break
Strikes.
U.M.W.A. Convention Report Ig-
nores Strike, Calls for N.R.A.
Slave Code OK.
Page 4
Letters from Farmers.
Party Life"
Change the World" by Michael
Gold.
Nazi Poison on Broadway, by
David Plat.
Music, Stage and Screen, Tuning
In.
Page 6.
Editorials: We Can Show You
How; Mass Work and Recruit
ing; Fraudulent "Social Insur-
ance" Bills; Why This Neglect.
Foreign News.
Murder in Nazi Concentration
Camps.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Continued on Page 81
NAZIs CLOSE FORCED LABOR
CAMPS

BERLIN, Jan. 24.-"Shortage Of
funds" is given as the reason for
an order to close down all forced
labor camps in Germany for
month. Two hundred and fifty
thousand are reported employed In
these camps, where the pay Is one
warm meal a day and PLACES 10
sleep.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Wages Paid Today Are
20 Per Gent Less by
Federal Order
FLOOD OF PROTEST
Elect Delegates to Job.
less Meet
BULLETIN

obLLLA AAN
NEW YORK. - Three thousand
workers were gathered as the Daily
Worker went to press, at the C.W.A.
Offices Of F. l. Daniels, executive d.
rector Of the New York state
C.W.A., at 124 z. 2Sth ST., protest
ing against the wage cuts given
C.W.A. office workers (C.W.S.l this
week.
The demands included the 30
hour week with full pay and resto-
ration of the wage cut, and no more
dismissals,
The demonstration was organized
by the Association Of Office and
Professional Emergency Employees;
the Emergency Home Relief Blu
reau Employees Association; the As
ISOLATION of Emergency Workers in
Adult Education, and the Fedora
ton Of Architects, Engineers,
Chemists and Technicians.
NEW YORK.-The wagea
of $4,000 New York C.W.A,
workers were cut 20 per cent
this week, at the order of Pres.
ident Roosevelt and pay checks
today will have shrunk from
SIS to S13.44, the maximum
wages received by the unskilled
workers. Many receive even less.
rT,t,oeo ,,rko ,.ana3,yayz go n vutaoIr 90
skilled work will get today sl44O.
The hours were reduced from 80 to
"a hours. Since many C.W.A. work
ers were not working more than "a
hours a week, the hourly wage rates
of these G. w. A. workers have been
cut twenty per cent.
The fruits OF Roosevelt's order to
begin "tapering OFF, on C.W.A. Jobs
and to end the projects completely
May /, firing a million on Feb is,
are already being felt by hundreds Of
thousands Of C.WA. workers. The
cut of twenty per cent in wages now
in effect for all C.W.A. workers, is
expected by the Roosevelt govern
ment to drive down the wages Of
workers now in industry It is in
line with the statement Of Johnson,
head of the NR.A. that the C.WA.
wages should be reduced in order to
keep down the wage levels Of those
in industry.
The demonstrations and protest
actions of the workers both employed
and unemployed against RooSeVelt's
latest attack on the unemployed,
are increasing Election Of delegates
to the National Convention Against
Unemployment on Feb. In Wash
ington, D. G. are taking place in all
parts Of the country.
Columbus C.W.A. Fires 800
COLUMBUS, Ohio.-Three hundred
discharged C.W.A. workers demon
strated here Monday, following Roose-
velt's abandonment of the @. w. A.
program. The demonstration was
called by the Unemployed Council,
Communis Party, and the Relief
Workers ective Union. More than
1900 worl here have been fired by
this latest lttack upon the workers.
Slash Wages, Fire 400 in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill.-Four hundred G.. W.
A. workers. comprising IL per cent Of
the city's quota, were fired here last
week. All those remaining on C.W.A.
received a wage slash Of 20 to so per
cent, put over by reducing hours.
Rockford C.W.A. Workers To
| Demonstrate
ROCKFORD, nl.-C.W.A. workera
here will demonstrate against the 50
| per cent wage slash Of all @. W. A.
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Austrian Threat to
Call League Against
NaziS PreSageS War
Japanese, White Guards,
in Hardin Anti-U.S. SIR.
Demonstration

GENEVA, Jan. 24.-War in Europe
over Nazi aggression in Austria is
openly discussed here, following word
that Chancellor Dollfuss has told Ger
many he will appeal to the League
of Nations if his demands that Ger
many keep hands off Austria are not
carried out.
1t is freely admitted here that the
Leagues decision will depend entirely
on whether the PAYERS MAKING 1t are
ready to back it up with their armies
or those Of their yassal states.
France and Italy are opposed to
Germany's gaining strength in Eu-
rope by a closer alliance with Austria
at this time. Great Britain, while
less sharply opposed, could not re-
main neutral.
Austria is now awaiting Hitler's re-
9ly to Dcllfuss' demand that he stop
the Nazi broadcasting campaign over
Austria, break up the armed Nazi
camps on the Austrian border. and
suppress the traffic in arms and ex-
plosives from Germany to Nazis in
Austria
Report Anti-Soviet Plans
NEW YORK.-While chine e
sources in Geneva are quoted yester-
day as saying Japan was about to
invade North China, in D-eparation
invade North China, in preparation
word was received of an anti Soviet
demonstration Of Japanese and White
Guards in Hardin, Manchuria.
The Geneva dispatches said that
the coronation of Henry Pu-Yi as
Emperor" of Manchukuo on March
would be followed almost immedi-
ately by further Japanese advance.
In Hardin, 5000 are reported to
have demonstration in front Of the
offices of the Chinese Eastern Rail
way, which is oViet-owned. For
many months, during negotiations for
its sale to Japan, the japanese have
carried on a series of proyoeations on
the railway, arresting Soviet officials
and damaging the line.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-12-27
Coal and Wood
CITY FUEL. CO.
Ransom Duke, Prop.
Phone 18O--
FORECLOSURE SALE.

BY virtue of the power contained in
Deed in Trust executed by Pied
Mont Supply Company, recorded in
tie office of the Register of Deeds OF
Vance County in Book 95, at Page
414, default having been made in the
Payment of the debt therein secured,
On the request of the holder of the
same, l shall sell for cash, by public
auction at the Court House door IN
Henderson, N. c., to the highest bid
der, at 1900 o'clock noon on the 28th
day Of January, 1885 the following
described property:
Begin at the north corner made by
the intersection of Winder st. and
Wyche St. in the City of Henderson
and run along Winder st. in a North
westerly direction 100 #. to an iron
pin, corner of lot formerly belong
ing to John 3. Watkins; then in a
north easteIly direction parallel to
Wyche St. 81 ft. to the corner of
Robert L. Brame's lot, then along the
line Of Robert L. Brame parallel to
Winder St and in a south easterly d.
rectiOn 100 ft. to Brame's corner on
Wychc St, then along Wyche st. So
II. 10 Inc pace or IHe DeglnnlnR be-
ing the lot purchased by the party
of the third part from G. A. Lewis
and Wife on September 4th, 1903. See
the deed recorded in Book 35, Page
1875 in the office of the Register of
Daeds Of Vance County.
3. H. Hicks and Belle H. Purvis.
Executors of the Will Of T.. r.
Hicks, Deceased Trustee.
Henderson, N c.
December 27 1894
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-12-27

setter. black ears, answers to the
name Jack" Liberal reward for in
formation or his return. Lee AVerette,
40 Young avenue. 26-2ti
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-12-27

WE NEVER SLEEP, WE ANSWER
call as quick as the fire dept.
Wrecker, tire, battery, mechanical
service day or mite. OLarys Garage
phone 470-J. 27-tf
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-12-27

close in. Apply after o'clock al
3O2 Zene street 24-ti
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-12-27

HEATERS! HEATERS! s O M e
real good values are here for you.
Also have cook stove bargains
left. Alex s. Watkins next to Roses
gin). 27-1ti
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-12-27

THE YOUNG MAN OR YOUNG WO-
man of today must be prepared. The
Henderson Business School pre-
pares you for business. New classes
begin December 81 in Stenographic
and Bookkeeping work. MonThurs
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-12-27

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of Battery Radios to select from.
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IT'S A GOOD TIME TO BUY A NEW
laundry stove at $3.50 to $500. See
our 4 eye laundry stove. Alex S.
Watkins next to Roses gin.) 27-ltI
Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-12-27

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for hustler We train and help you.
Write today Rawleigh Co, Dept
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Otto's American Tourist Camp. 27-I
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