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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
On Young Textile Workers

AS ALL textile workers who read the
"A Daily Worker know, the Communist
Party Internationally supports the textile
workers own demands as they drafted
them at the U, T. w. convention.
There is, however, one serious prob
lem which the strikers should seriously
industry
AT least IS or 40 percent Of those working In
the textile mills are young peotpe boys and girls
less than 81 years of age This is particularly true
in the South As all textile workers know child
labor also has not been abolished despite all the
understanding speeches of administration spokes-
men
These young people, thousands of them mere
children, suffer most from the speed-up, and in
addition they receive lower wages than the older
workers under the special apprentice and learner"
clauses of the textile code.
We would urge the textile workers as a whole
to consider the position of these young people. 1t
seems to us that in the strike settlement de-
terrnined effort should be made to win concessions
for the youth
Discrimination under apprentice and learner
clauses" should be ended. They should receive
equal pay for equal work
Child labor likewise should be exposed and ended
All children under IS now being forced into the
mills due to the poverty of their parents should be
maintained by the government.
The Communist Party urges the textile workers
in every locality to discuss these proposals and in
sist that they be incorporated in any agreement
reached with the textile bosses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10

tify them" This source did admit,
however, that the hackers include
some of the 100000 industrialisJs
who got True's confidential reports.
The fact that the money represents
Pacific Coast capitalists who have
extended their operations to Wash
ington following the general strike
is obvious from Arr1strong's connec-
ions.
He was for many years Washing
ton correspondent for the Los An
geles Times, the reactionary news
paper whose anti-labor cam1Gigns
against the Mcnamara IS, against
Tom Mooney and others eliminated
in an already notorious campaign
9gainst the general strike. The Los
Angeles Steamship Company, rep
resented here by Armstrong, has for
its vice-president Harry Chandler,
owner and publisher of the same
Los Angeles Times, organizer Of a
syndicate that bought 862, 900 acres
of Lower California land on which
agricultural workers slave and
starve, trustee with Herbert Hoover
of Leland Stanford University. The
Los Angeles Steamship Company is
subsidiary of the Matson Naviga-
ton Company, operators Of q fleet
Of rs vessels carrying freight and
passengers between Los Angeles md
Hawaii Matson also owns the
Oceanic Line which plies between Vhe
Pacific Coast, Japan and China.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
ANY ARGUMENT is GOOD ENOUGH

S the events in the struggle for unity of action
Al have shown, 1t is becoming increasingly less
possible simply to pass in silence the offers
made by the Communist Parties to the Social
Democratic Parties and their organizations. The
working classs urge to unity on the one hand and
on the other hand the pressure brought to bear
by the bourgeois allies, compelling the Social
Democratic Party leaders to give open answers to
the offers made. And just because of this urge to
unity on the part of the working class they
compelled to produce argument for the rejection of
these offers
1t must be said that these arguments do not look
as if their investors had wasted much pains upon
them. 1t denotes, to some extent, underestima-
ton of the mental requirements and political level
of the Social-Dernocratic workers when the Social
Democratic leaders deem that they can convince
their followers with arguments such these. True,
it must be granted that it is an extremely difficult
task to find even the semblance of argument for
rejecting the idea of unity of action Nevertheless,
it would seem that the Social-Democratic Party
Parties, take very little trouble to produce their
arguments in such way that the members of their
parties may at any rate receive the impression that
their leaders are seriously considering the possib
ties of setting up broad united front against fas-
cism and the offensive of capital
None the less, we feel ourselves obliged to an
swer these arguments Let us take the most typical
of the reasons put forward grounds for rejecting
the Communist Parties proposals to organize the
Joint struggle against the common class enemy; and
let us answer these arguments seriously, deYotng
to the task that seriousness with which not only
Communists but also Democratic workers are
fighting for unity Of action.
Ito Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10

a number Of authorties-is best seen by the facts
related by a number of Moro Castle seamen, printed
elsewhere in todays Daily Worker.
What stands out in the tragedy:
l. insufficient men watch; Overworked crews.
g. Defective fire equipment.
g. Failure of the officers to organize effective
rescue work.
These were the major reasons for the disaster
The Ward Line, cursed by seamen as one of the
worst eXplOiters of marine labor has a record of
speed-up of men The callous policy of the line
seeking dividends rather than safety firing sea-
men, running large ship with so few on watch.
is the chief reason for the disaster.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
British Unions
VoteSynnpathy
To Strike Here

WEYMOUTH, England, Sept. g.
A resolution of sympathy with the
striking textile workers of the
United States was adopted Wednes-
day by the British Trade Union
Congress, now meeting here. The
major portion of the session was
devoted to a discussion of the
American strike.
The Congress heard of the strike
from M j, Calloran, fraternal dele
gate of the American Federation of
Labor to the Congress.
The sympathetic gesture of the
Congress, it is observed here, is not
so much reflection of the attitude
of officials Of the British trade
union movenent-they are notice
ably lukewarm to strikes-but is
primarily an expression Of the worm
support the American strike is re-
ceiving from weakers and mill
hands of Lancashire and other
textile sections in England. Work
ers there are following with the ut
most interest the day-to-day devol-
opments in the great strike sweep
ing across the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
by Burck

sented by the proposals for the rescue of Thael-
mann for the struggle against German faScism,
must be spread abroad in tens and hundreds Of
thousands of leaflets, must be accompanied by the
resolutions of hundreds of Communist and Social
Democratic organizations, saffs of factories, etc.
Only such broad common struggle Of Commu-
mist and Social Democratic trade union members,
of members of reformist and of revolutionary or
CARNATIONS while drawing in the broadest sections
of the unorganized proetarians, can bring about
unity of action. What has been let slip hitherto in
this campaign against fascsm and for the rescue of
Thaelmann must be made good in the immediate
future.
COMMUNISTS DO NOT STOP HALF WAY
We shall not tire of the struggle for unity OF ac-
ton! We shall achieve it despite all, in spite of
everythingl Again and yet again we say to the
Social-Democratic workers: You do not know us
Communists if you think that we going to stop
half way. The struggle for the united front of the
working class is point in the program of the
Communist International, and we, whose actions
never belle our words, take our program seriously
Despite diplomacy despite rude refusals silence
in answer to our proposals, shall turn to you
again. ready to struggle together with you against
capitalism, against imperalist war against fascsm
for our common class interests and against the
emergency of the day.
You Social-Democratic workers should not stop
half way either Join the ranks in the united action
of the working class for victory the class
enemy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
For Negro Equality

COUTHERN textile workers have every
" reason now to revise completely the
attitude toward the Negro masses, care
fully instigated by the Southern capital
lists and landlords.
The ruling class has for years stirred
up hatred against Negroes. They, said the
capitalists are inferior" The white workers were
lined up against the Negroes in the name of race
purity" and other such bogeys.
Now the class war between the textile bosses
and the workers has reached a high point in the
South. The Southern bosses and their hirelings in
state Offices are shooting down white workers Nine
workers have been murdered already in cold blood
Hundreds have been wounded, many seriously. The
bosses, who in the past have sought to divide the
working class by playing white against Negro work
ers, are now threatening to bring Negro workers
into the mills to replace whites.
The Negro workers, however cannot be trans
formed into scabs so easily, even though many
Negro leaders may advise such a course with the
tricky promises that the strike offers the Negroes
an opportunity to secure jobs in an industry pre-
vously closed to them.
Negro workers. on the contrary, are actively sup
porting the textile strike. Two incidents are typical
Negro tobacco workers in the Greensboro area have
voted to contribute 81 per week each out of their
msager earnings to aid the textile strikers Negro
Sharecroppers around Huntington, Alabama have
likewise decided to give direct material aid to the
strike
THESE are straWs in the wind which show the
growing class solidarity between the Negro and
white toilers in the South. They show the posi-
bilities for fighting alliance between the Negro and
white workers against the white ruling class which
lynches Negroes and now murders white strikers.
The lynchng of Negroes in the past their ex-
ploitation and persecution, has been inseparably
connected with the greed of the white landlords and
capitalists for profits and with their desire to keep
the toiling masses Negro, white divided in order
to insure continued boss-class rule.
The white workers, that they see the muir
derous policies of the white bosses in the present
strike and the loyal support of the Negro workers
should join with the Negroes in fight against per
secution, jnl-crowism and lynching They should
fight for full equality for the Negro workers in the
first placeIn the textile mills.
One of the demands of the present strike should
be the right of the Negro workers to all jobs and
at the same wages other workers Such fight
by the textile strikers would do much to advance
the unity of Negro and white workers in a common
struggle for improved conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10

The same source said the new or
ganization would speak out against
unjustified" strikes.
The creation Of America First!
Inc" significantly announced at
the height of the general textile
strike, foreshadows a drive by the
most reactionary Of American capt.
talists to ride herd on Congress this
winter for anti-radical LEGISLATION.
Press Propaganda Planned
The Pacific Coast industrialists.
advancing upon Washington as
hackers for America First! Inc. "
have two purposes: to exploit the
circumstance that since this is he
national Journalistic center, it is
possible to spread propaganda
through publicity releases to news
papers reaching millions of work
ers; and to develop as much as pos
sible real mass base for "Vigilantss
activities. The Hearst-like Amer
lea First! Inc.," whose very name
conveys its jingoistic employers in
terest, also expects the cooperation
of such patriotic" outfits as the
Navy League, it was learned. The
Navy League established by J. P.
Morgan and other financiers and
industrialists, is only paper Or
ganizatio7, but it Yields tremendous
influence through propaganda and
lobbying.
Coast Bosses Back Group
There was no indication Of the
financial backing of the new group
in its public announcement. Sources
close to them refused even conf
dental information as u This. go
ing that nine out of ten of our
hackers refuse to allow us TO iden-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
The Moro Castle Disaste,

NO SOONER had the news of the Moro
4NCastle holocaust been flashed to the press
when vicious campaign to incite the hor-
ror-struck people against organized labor
began. This is most clearly expressed in
the ugly rumors of Sabotage" of Gin
cendiary origin of the fire, of "time
bomb placed on board the Inflated ship by Cuban
longshoremen etc.
The flimsy nature Of these lies-denied even by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10

anti-union connections, is vice pres
ident of America First! Inc" It's
secretary treasurer is Walter L..
Reynolds, who was secretary until
recently to Hamilton Fish, million
aire Red-baiting Representative in
Congress. President of America
First Inc" is James True, veteran
reactionary news correspondent who
has recently been engaged in send
ing confidential reports from Wash
ington to industrialists.
Expect Aid From Vol
America First Inc" undoubtedly
will use the press, radio and public
speakers in a campaign to whip up
patrioteering sentiment against all
union labor struggles, as we'll as
against 'radicalism" and "subver-
sve" activities. One of those close
% it informed this reporter today
Shat they are getting cooperation
from free labor-that is, labor not
connected with unions" This
source said they would not APP
proach" union labor, although they
expected cooperation from certain
individuals in unions. Such as
Matthew Woll?' I asked. yes, :"
was the reply. Vol is the profess
SIGNAL Red-baiting racketeer asso-
ciated with Ralph Easley and Fish
In the National Civic Association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
Mexican Printers Call
Strike in Protest Of
US. MIL Slaughter

MEXICO CITY, Mexico. Sept. 9.
.Enraged at the slaughter of nine
textile strikers in the. United
states, the Commercial Graphic
Arts Union here voted to strike
n sympathy with their American
brothers and against the terror Of
the American textile mill owners.
A resolution of protest passed
Saturday says that the Mexican
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
Cotton Pickers' Strike
in Arizona Is solid
in Union Wage Demand

COOLIDGE, Ariz., Sept. 9. =
Standing firm in their demand for
che dollar a hundred pounds, 300
cotton pickers in the Coolidge arcs,
under the leadership of the Can
nc-~y and Agricultural Workers
Union, T. U. U. L. affiliate, are
out on strike.
The pickers have drafted slid
ing scale of wages based on the
price of cotton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
Union Butchers Force
Boss To Rehire Leader

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. Mill
t2nt action by Local 101 of the
United Meat Cutters, butchers Sec
ton of the Food Workers Indus
trial Union, won partial victory
when Judge McDeyitt denied an in
junction prohibiting picketing Of
Irving's Meat Market, and forced
the owner of the market to rehire
Meyer Leace, who had been fired
for organizational activities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
COUNCIL MOVES QUARTERS

NEW YORK.-The Lower Will
Local of the Unemplcy-
ment Council has moved to new
at 413 South Fourth
St., Brooklyn, N Y The council
local will be open from 1890 a. m.
to II p. m. daily,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
BROAD MASS WORK NECESSARY

printing workers will strike against
"the useless murders committed by
armed forces in that country on
oour comrades with the pretext Of
maintaining a capitalism which is
universally repudiated."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10

Our Readers Must cpr1ad the
Daily Worker Among tine Members
Of All Mass and Fraternal Organ
izations As a Political Task Of First
Importance!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
Boston and Greensboro

TWO developments have taken place in
our drive to place the Daily Worker
in the hands of the textile strikers.
The Communist Party district in the
Carolinas has placed the following orders
for additional n8ners:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10

This increase Of 400 papers daily IN The South,
while still insufficient at least shows that our
Southern comrades are seriously striving to solve
the burning problem of Daily Worker circulation.
DUT Boston, instead of improving, has moved back
u wards Worcester has written cutting the daily
extra strike bundle from 100 to so per day. The
other Massachusetts cities remain listed Saturday
This makes it necessary to ask quite openly of
the leading comrades of the Boston district, the
District Organizer the District Committee men,
bers and the Section Organizers: What you
going to do about Daily Worker circulation during
the textile strike?
The Central Committee has wired the District
Organizer proposing that he personally assume the
responsibility for doubling all orders in the textile
towns before Wednesday.
The Daily Worker will report tomorrow on Com
rade Sparks reply.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
Coast Bosses Plan
Fascist Network

Continued from Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
On the
World Front
by HARRY CANNES
Arms and the Senators
Wall st. Mystery Men
Child Bearing Animals
SENATE committee is

A SENATE committee is
A stirring the witches caul-
ron of munitions manufac-
5urers' scandals. But the
senators take great care only
to skim the surface, and not
to rake too deeply where the
iuiciest and largest hunks of ins
formation lie. 1t is quite probable,
too, that before they go much furs
Their the ladle will be snatched out
of their hands as it was in the
finance investigation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10


1T is quite fitting that the gang
of perverts, dope fiends, homo<
sexuals and sadists who rule Gers
many should pronounce their proc
gram on the women question. Hit
Ter on Saturday devoted an entire
speech to the future of women in
Germany. He put the question very
simply. German fascisn has only
one outlook for women, he said
they must become cllild-bearing
animals. "The idea of women's
rights in politics." he said, sis a
product of decsdent Jewish intel
lectualism." That's giving too much
credit to Jewish intellectualism.
The Nazis have their own xxx
program for women. 1t is the an
cient feudal dictum which was ex-
pressed in Germany as kuche,
kirche, kinder (kitchen, church and
ing children to be butchared on the
child bearing aim a little further.
lie specifically wants the women to
devote Themselves entirely to be7r-
ing children to be butched on the
battlefield for fa3cism. while man
makes his supreme sacrifice on the
field of battle" he said, woman
fights her supreme battle for her
nation when she gives life to Q
J child"
Smyrna times., 1934-10-11
SMYRNA 10Th
CENTURY CLUB
Has Good Attendance and
Much Enthusiasm at Open
ing Meeting of Club Year
STATE PRESIDENT HERE

The Twentieth Century Club
met at the Century Club last Fri
day afternoon to resume their
meetings after a summer recess.
There was good attendance and
much enthusiasm. After the reg
ular business of tie club, Mrs.
Frank Reynolds Of Wilmington,
formerly of Smyrna, the new State
President, delivered a very fine
message in which she stressed the
keynote of club work this year to
be ''Team-W An invitation
was extended the Smyrna Club
members to attend the County In
stitutes. New Castle County In
stitute to be held at Newport ON
November 8; Kent County at Wy
oming, November l, and Sussex
County at Brdigeville, November
IS. The address of welcome was
made by the President, Miss Laura
A. Bell, to both old and new men,
bers. A report of the State Fed
Grafton held in Lewes in June was
very ably presented by Mrs. r. D.
Hoffecker Singing of old songs
was enjoyed by all Refreshments
were served and the meeting adj
journed. The program tomorrow,
Friday, will be Beginnings of His
tory. Indians, by Mrs. Frank F.
Evans; ''Puritans," Miss Anna B.
Beckett; Cavaliers Mrs Edward
S. Dwight; Indian Music" by
Mr.. Harry P. Shapley, Miss Mary
E. Hynson, and Mrs Ethel Ma
gill.
Smyrna times., 1934-10-11

The Laura Rebekah Lodge, No,
IL, I. o. o. F., held the installation
of officers ON Monday evening. The
following members were installed
into office: Past Noble Grand, Mrs.
Jane Ennis; Noble Grand, Mrs.
A1va Mills; Vice Grand, Miss Elsie
Ransom; Warden, Miss Mary Lein-
berger; Conductor, Mrs. Mary
Fleming; Chaplain, Miss Mary
Robinson; Right Supporter to
Noble Grand, Miss Helen Lewis;
Left Supporter to Noble Grand,
Mrs. Fannie Still; Right Supporter
to Vice Grand, Mrs. Anna VAN
Pelt; Left Supporter to Vice Grand
Mrs. Gladys Johnson; Inside
Guardian, Mrs. Edith Riggs; Out
side Guardian, Mrs. Edna Riggin;
Treasurer, Miss Anna Lewis; Fin
ancial Secretary, Mrs. Katherine
Ennis. Visitors were present from
Newark, Wilmington, Milford, Fell
ton, Harrington, and Dover. Fol-
lowing the business session, re-
freshments were served at which
time those present were delightful
Smyrna times., 1934-10-11
PARDON BOARD MEETING
Turns Down Two Applications For
Pardon, One For Murder

The State Board of Pardons at a
meeting held Tuesday morning
heard two applications for pardons
and refused both of them. The
first case heard was that of George
Epps, colored, who is serving a
life sentence for murder He was
sentenced in 1925, for killing John
Walker, also colored at Seaford.
A number of some OF the best cit
liens of Seaford appeared before
the board in Epps behalf but the
application was refused. The ap-
plication of Hubert C. KEEPER, aged
27, years, who was sentenced in
February 1888 on larceny charges
was also refused. It was brought
out that KEEPER and Millard Simp-
son were indicted for alleged hold
ups at gasoline stations near Viii
mington but this indictment was
dropped and he was sentenced ON
three larceny indictments for
which he was given five years
Smyrna times., 1934-10-11
MIDDLETOWN CURRENT RATE
Mayor Levinson Announces Lowest
Electric Light and Power Rates

Middletown Town Council is Civ
ing the citizens of Middletown the
advantage of the lowest possible
light and power the town has ever
enjoyed. Mayor Lewis Levinson
of Middletown, announced during
the weekend that light and power
rates have been cut there to effect
a $4,000 total yearly saving to us
ers. The reductions are: Business
rates reduced from cents to
cents per K w. for the first XIV,
all over that 4 cents per XIV Res
idential rates reduced from 10
cents to cents for the first 80 K.
w, all over that cents per XIV.
Electric stoves. reduced from 10
cents to cents for the first so K
w, all over that cents per K. w
The minimum was reduced to 81.
Smyrna times., 1934-10-11
ROTARY CLUB
SMYRNA, MEET
Rev. Frederick Marx Barton,
Gives Interesting Address
on Tower of Babel"
STRESSES ON SERVICE"

The Smyrna Rotary Club at
their meeting last Thursday even
ing at the Wayside Inn had Rev
Frederick NJ. Barton as their
speaker. Rev. Barton, a member
of our club, spoke on Service. :"
Service Above Self, the out
standing motto of Rotary, was full
ly emphasized The parable of the
Tower of Babel" was used as an
example of people working to-
gether for their own good for the
progress of service. This lesson
was given as an incentive to the
members of the club to give the
best of service to their club to at
tain the principles and objects of
Rotary. Rev Barton concluded
by saying, until we become build
ers of service in our communities,
we have not reached our goal as
Rotarians." w. E. Matthews, Jr.,
responded to Rev. Barton's ad-
dress.