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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
400 Delegates
Draft Slate
and Program
Workers and Farmers
Nominees Are
Communists


LOUP CITY, Neb, Aug. 13.-The
president and the State organizer
of the Nebraska Farmers Holiday
Association will head the Workers
and Farmers United Front indie
pendent election slate endorsed by
the Communist Party. John j.
Schefcik, head of the Nebraska
farmers group, will run for Gov
ernor, and Harry M. Lux, world war
veteran and State organizer, will
run for United States Senator.
Both Schefeik and Lux are mem
bers of the Communist Party.
The mass basis and the working
class background of the election
ticket is further strengthened by the
candidates. of Robert Burleigh,
worker organizer, for Lieutenant
Governor, and Burt Sell, militant
farm leader in the recent poultry
pickers' strike, for Congressman.
A broad, popular response to the
demands raised by the Communist
election platform is indicated by
the recent State ratification con-
vention near Grand Island at which
the candidates were nominated.
The vital Importance of the plank
against the Agricultural ADJUST
ment Act and the demand for i'm
mediate drought relief has become
particularly clear to a large num-
Der of farmers in this State during
the past two or three weeks. The
experiences of the Omaha street car
workers in their recent strike, and
the ferment among the packing
house workers, has made the city
population of this State realize the
everyday significance of the Com
munist call for struggle against
growing fascism and Reosevelt's at
taeks on the living standards OF
workers.
The convention itself was an i'm
pressive display of the mass basis
for the united front election strug-
gle. More than 400 workers and
farmers attended. Many more would
have come had not the drought in
tensified their poverty to the point
where gasoline and even shoe
leather has become luxury.
The actual campaign work is al
ready under way The Peoples
Standard, weekly newspaper pub
lished here, has been designated as
the official campaign organ of the
United Front ticket. Nominating
petitions are in circulation. SO is
campaign literature. A drive for
funds is on.
The complete State slate consists
of:
John j. schefcik for Governor;
Robert Burleigh for Lieutenant
Governor; Floyd Booth for Secre-
tary of State; G. Shoppe for Attor-
ney-General; Waldo Hankins, for
Auditor of Public Accounts; Ellen
Allen, for State Treasurer; H. E.
Renquist for Commissioner of Lands
and Buildings, and Josie Hallquist,
for Superintendent of Public In
Struction.
The national slate consists of:
Harry M. Lux, for United States
Senator, and Al. Broberg, j, P
Burke and Burt Sell, for Congress
men in the Third, Fourth and Fifth
Districts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Leaders of Militant Nebraska Farmers Group Named
United Front Ticket Backed by Communist Party
Relief Workers Win
Increase in Budgets
in Wisconsin Strike

AMIGO, Wis, Aug. 10. - A
strike of relief workers, led by
the Unemployment Council,
Local l, has just ended with the
workers winning a 20 to 80 per
cent increase in relief budgets,
representation on the grievance
committee at the relief station,
no discrimination against unem-
ployed single men who cannot
be supported by their families,
and the return of all auto
license plates to workers on re-
lief or on F. E. R. A. jobs
The agreement which the
strike committee reached with
the relief officials was accepted
only on the condition that the
demands be granted at once.
George Macarthur was elected
at a meeting of the Unemploy-
ment Council to represent the
relief workers on the grievance
committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Smeltermen's Union
Endorses Workers
Insurance Measure

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug.
Representatives of metal
miners and Smelter workers in
thirty states, meeting today at
the convention of the Interna-
tional Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers Union of America, voted
to endorse the Workers Unem=
pIoyment Insurance Bill. The
proposal for the endorsement Of
the bill was made by the Amer
lean Federation of Labor Rank
and File Committee on Unem-
ployment Insurance.
The union led the recent
strike of mill and smelter men
in the Birmingham area and is
now conducting a strike of
smeltennen in Butte.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Workers in Buffalo
Hold Demonstration
To Protest Arrests
Fight Action Against
William McQuiston and
Manning Johnson

BUFFALO Aug. 13.-Enraged by
continued police arrests of militant
working-class leaders, Buffalo work
ers engaged in militant demon
stration before police headquarters
at Seneca and Frank SITS. last Fri
day night following the arrest on
suspicion of being a Communist
organizer" of William MeCuiston.
The arrest is part of a joint drive
by Federal and city authorities on
workers organizations here.
McCuiston was pulled off a
speakers stand and whisked away
in a police car while addressing
an open-air meeting at the corner
of South Division st. and Michigan
Ave, one of numerous meetings held
in this city last week to protest the
arrest of Manning johnson, Negro
leader and former district organizer
of the Communist Party, and STAN
ley Schmiel, international Labor De-
Tense attorney. Schmidt was ar
rested when he visited police head
quarters to protest the holding of
johnson without charges and to
demand his release.
March On Headquarters
More than 500 workers at the
meeting at which McCuiston was
speaking when he was arrested by
Federal and city detectives started
a march on police headquarters,
their ranks swelled on the way by
other indignant workers as news of
the latest arrest spread. Warned by
patrolmen on duty of the march OF
the angry workers, police headquar-
tiers summoned reinforcements from
all nearby police stations. These,
armed with riot guns and gas
bombs, threatened the workers when
they demanded the release of Nc
Cuiston and information on what
charges he was being held
Up to the present, no charges
have been placed against McCuis-
ton, who police claimed to recog-
nise as a Communist organizer
from a police circular with his
photograph. The boss press, how
ever, indicate that the local and
Federal authorities are cooking up
a charge of bombing and arson &C
tivities" against him, despite uni
versal knowledge that Communists
are relentlessly opposed to acts of
individual terror. The Buffalo Even
ing News on Saturday reported he
was to be questioned in connec-
ton with the fire which destroyed
the Buffalo Freight Terminal and
Warehouse Co. building on the
Blackwell Canal on the previous
Sunday.
Held Without Charges
Although Manning johnson Is
still held without charges. police
indicated today that the direct
cause of his arrest was his resent
ment when a white proprietor of a
beer garden refused to serve him.
johnson and white comrade are
said to have entered the place for
a glass of beer. The proprietor re-
fused to serve johnson. Police
claim johnson threw a glass OF
water at the chauvinist proprietor.
They admit that johnson was
badly beaten following his arrest
and had to be sent to hospital
for treatment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Upholstery Workers
Will Meet Tomorrow

NEW YORK.-Plans for unity of
all unions and individual workers
in the furniture industry will be
discussed tomorrow night at 8
o'clock, at meeting of upholstery
shop delegates called by the Fur
niture workers Industrial Union in
Irving Plaza Hall, 18th st. and r.
wing Place. The industrial unions
efforts at unity are the first step
in preparation for the struggles
with employers which are antici-
pated when work is restored to its
seasonal volume in the fall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Three Furriers Seized
by Police after Clash
at Downtown Factory

NEW YORK-Three militant
furriers were arrested yesterday and
held without bail on framed-up
charge of feloniously assaulting
Bernard Kramer at his factory at
247 w. 30th st.
The workers, Leonard Strong, Gus
Rossios and Nat Novitz were seized
by cops after a clash at the Kra-
mer shop when the boss was at
tempting to prevent his workers
from leaving to join the Fur Work
ers' Industrial Union. The en-
ployer, the police claim, was stabbed.
No one has been identified, how
ever, as the stabber.
Workers demonstrated around
West 30th St., booing the police
after the arrest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
w. R. MEETING DEFERRED

NEW YORK.-The general men,
bership meeting of the Workers In
ternational Relief called for tomor-
row has been postponed. The meet
ing will be held the evening of Mon
day, Aug. 20, at the Anti-Nazi Fed
Grafton, 168 w. 23rd st. The change
has been made on account of the
Angelo Herndon meeting scheduled
for tomorrow night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14

yesterday in an interview with a
Daily Worker reporter.
1.-THE Negro masses, harassed by
unemployment, mass starvation,
lynehing, jim-orow, discrimination
in Jobs and relief, are desperately
seeking way out of their intol-
cradle conditions.
"Servile Negro agents of the
white ruling class are busy seeking
to head off the struggles of these
masses for land, freedom, equality
and bread and to divert them into
reformist channels harmless to the
oppressors. 1t is our task to con-
vince these masses that the only
way to free themselves is through
the close unity Of white and Negro
toilers in joint revolutionary strug-
gle against their common oppres-
Sors."
Herndon is out on bail of $4,000
pending appeal against a verdict
of 10 to 20 years on the notorious
Georgia chain gang for his activ-
tiles in organizing and leading white
and Negro unemployed workers of
Atlanta, Ga, in the fight against
starvation and for adequate relief.
Another gigantic mass welcome
meeting will be held for Herndon
at Bronx Coliseum, East 177th ST.,
August %, the anniversary of the
murder of Saeco and Vanzetti, COM
memorated by the International La
Dor Defense as National Scottsboro
Day in the mass fight for the free
dom of the nine Scottsboro boys.
Both meetings are under the joint
auspices Of the I. L. D. and the
League Of Struggle for Negro Rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14

servation and suggest that other
comrades in industrial and metro
politan areas give it some thought,
backed up by lot of energetic &C
ton.
Party members! Readers! The
Socialist competition between Dis
tricts will continue past the drive
for 10000 new Daily Worker read
ers by Sept. l. This is but the
first step in doubling the circula-
ton of the DAILY" by Jan. 1.
Speak to every friend, acquaint-
ance and worker with whom you
come in contact. Ask them to
subscribe or buy the Daily Work
er. Join or get unemployed work.
ers to join the Red Builders.
Make circulation an important
part of your work in the finance
drive. Give the Daily Worker
first place on your calendar of
activity and responsibility!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
o'l'Al'AA1I ~ w ~ OANAo Fuchs

fore, we learn from the newspaper
boys that he developed players. An
other reason for Immortality = he
developed Dazzy Vance! In their
respect for the maxim of speaking
nothing but good of the dead, how
ever, the newspaper boys forget
that a number of years ago the
departed Uncle Robbie unloosed
one of the heaviest denunciations
upon sports writer's that has ever
come out of the mouth of a pro-
fessional impresario.
DICKINSON worked for money all
- his life, for his own profit and
for the profit of his various bosses.
He was a part of the skullduggery
which is professional baseball
What did Robinson actually do for
baseball? Examine the poems, es-
says and civilizations by the joy
boys. You will discover that they
consider his greatest worth the fact
that when he became manager of
the Brooklyn club it was not max
ing any money but that when he
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PERSONAL

EUGENE NIGOB-please get in touch with
Sadie Doroshkin at Two. ONCE, 80 Fifth
Avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-14
Workers
Demand Strike

Continued from Page u
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Plans Set for
HerndOn Rally

CONTINUED from Page y
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-02-28
STATE SAFETY
COUNCIL NEWS
Hitch Hiking Creates Danger
GUS Situation and Should
Be Discouraged
HAVE BRAKES TESTED

Hitch-hiking seem to have be-
come one of Americas favorite
modes of travel during recent
years, but the wise motorist will
do everything he possibly can to
discourage it. Many drivers have
been robbed by those they picked
UP; others have been sued for
heavy damages by their "guests,"
after an accident and have paid
The practice of hitch-hiking also
creates a dangerous situation on
the street because youngsters
stand out in the road when they
should be safely on the sidewalk.
IF you are naturally sociable and
kind-hearted, you will find it diff
ficult to turn down hitch-hikers
when you have plenty of room in
your car, but to be on the safe
side you must refuse them. TAX
ing riders does not pay. 1t is said
that Will Rogers has the brakes of
his car tested every day of the
year. Is there any reason why you
should be less cautious? You can
test them yourself. Before going
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-02-28
THREE DWELLINGS BURN
Fire Destroys Buildings Entailing
a Loss of Over $4,000

A fire early Sunday morning at
Bayvied, in Cecil county, Mary
land, destroyed three dwellings, en-
failing a loss of about $4,000. One
of the fires was discovered by
George Trimble, near the roof and
he awakened his wife and two chill
dren from their slumber, but their
household goods and family wear
ing apparel were consumed. The
building was a double frame
dwelling, the other half being oc-
cupied by the family of his broth
err, Robert Trimble. The flames
spread to the Methodist Protestant
parsonage occupied by the family
of Rev. Ernest Woodward. Neigh
bors and firemen saved most of
their household effects. The dwell
ing, however, was wrecked.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-02-28
726-Carat Diamond Is
Found in South Africa

Capetown, South Africa.-A flaw
less white diamond. weighing 726
carats, believed to be the fourth
largest stone IN the world, has been
discovered on a farm at Elandsfon-
TEN, near Pretoria, it was learned re-
Gently.
1t was found within three miles Of
where the famous Cullinan diamond
was discovered in 1908. Another
diamond Of 500 carats was found on
the same farm. The owner, ]. !.
Jonker, refused f75,OOO (about $780,
OOO) for the present stone.
The Cullinan. the largest diamond
ever found, was presented TO King
Edward VII. and was cut into nine
large stones and a number of small
ones. The largest cut stone from
the Cullinan weighed 5161a carats.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-02-28
Ancient Indian Treaty
Protects Old Cemetery

Kansas City.-Invoking an ancient
Indian treaty. three sisters, whose
Wyandotte Indian ancestors lie
buried in the Huron cemetery, In
the business district, have blocked
efforts of business interests to re-
move it.
The sisters, LYDIA B., Helena and
Ida Conley, visit the cemetery daily.
to feed its living creatures. the
birds and squirrels. Lydia is an
attorney. who has been licensed to
practice before the Supreme Court
of the United States. She went to
court when the council voted to
abolish the cemetery and was up
held in her contention that the gov
eminent was bound by its agree
ment with the Indians never to dis
turb the burial ground.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-02-28

a half a block in the morning
make a service test by throwing
out the clutch and applying the
brakes. If possible, select a dry
spot for this test. If the brakes
are not operating properly, your
very first stop should be the gar
age. It is folly to put this off.
Faulty brakes" are given as the
cause for innumerable automobile
smashups, but in 80 cases out of
100 the fault was not with the
brakes but with the driver who
knew they were faulty but failed
to have them fixed. Safety in
night driving demands good head
lights. This means they must be
strong enough but not glazing, and
they must be properly focused. The
One-Eyed Cyclops of Homeric
mythology was no more vicious
than the one-eyed auto on the
highway. The vibration of your
car easily changes the tilt and TO
cal adjustment of your lights and
may loosen the lamps. Test your
lights frequently. Turn them on
at night and then walk down the
road so or rs feet. Turn around
and look at your lights, then ask
yourself, frankly, how you would
like to meet them on the highway.
If they glare, if one is stronger
than the other, or if they are too
dim to adequately light the road
way, something is wrong. Always
carry a spare" bulb.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-02-28
American Polo Ponies

American polo ponies are usually
about Is hands high and weigh in
the neighborhoOd of 1000 pounds.
In this type of horse a short back
and big barrel are encouraged,
since these give wind and endur
ance for a horse which must carry
weight at speed. Polo ponies usu
ally have some thoroughbred blood
A good cross is three-fourths or
seven-eighths thoroughbred with
some other st0ckier breed.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-02-28

for salesmen's jamborees. From
then until they struggle to the
train once more, at the finish of a
weeks FOSTERING, there is action,
punch, surprise. Several individual
stores are interviewer to form the
main thread of this gay narrative
of them working out to a
conclusion against the background
of the riotous convention. The
cast is headed by Joan Blondell,
Adolphe Menjou, Dick Powell Mary
Aston, Guy Kibbee, Frank Nc
Hugh, who have major roles. Pa
tricia Ellis, Ruth Donnelly, Hugh
Herbert, Hobart Cavanaugh, Grant
Mitchell, Gordon Westcott are also
in the cast.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-02-28

Attractions at Strand Theatre


To-day and Thursday "Olsen's
Big Moment" featuring Ell Bren-
del. Walter Catlett who is a star
comedian in his own right, has the
principal supporting role in the
film. With two such comedians
playing in one picture, "Olsen's Big
Moment" promises to be an up
roarious laugh riot. The combina-
ton of Brendel's antics and Cat
let's gags is said to give the film
the distinction of being one of the
funniest comedies ever released
from the Fox film studios. The
story concerns itself with an
apartment house janitor who be-
comes involved in a romance be-
tween wealthy bachelor and a
beautiful young girl who is not in
love with him. The janitor's en-
deavors to patch up the romance
force him into a series of compli-
cations chock-full of adventure
After participating in every posi-
bic escapade imaginable, the jan
itor is finally successful in bring
ing the two lovers together and the
entire affair to happy conclusion.
Friday and Saturday-"Conv
ton City, sets fast and furious
pace and that pace never slack
ems for an instant. The first
glimpse of the principal characters
reveals them en- route to Atlantic
City-the nations principal locale
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-02-28
Woman Finishes a Quilt
of 8,O66 Small Blocks

Waynesboro, Ohio.-The tireless
fingers of Mrs. Elton Hoobler have
just completed quilt of S,066 tiny
hexagonal blocks, whose millions Of
stitches required nine months to
complete. Believing her quilted
record unique, Mrs. Hoobler says that
the tedious piece Of needlework re-
quired 800 yards of thread for
"piecing" and 100 yards of quilt
ing" Each of the 8,066 blocks is
one inch square. Two hundred eight
cen different colored blocks, no two
alike. are represented
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-02-28
BOOM
IN ROCKIES
New Monetary Policies Spur
Gold PrOspectOrs To Much
6Greater Efforts
SEEK GOLD AND SILVER

Denver, Colo.-Mining authorities
OF the Rocky mountain region pre-
dict 1884 will see one of the great
est booms in many years.
With government monetary poll
cies lifting prices Of both gold and
silver to levels making for profit
able operation of many mines long
closed down, production of the pre-
cious metals is expected to leap to
new heights
Already, despite the fact that
coming of winter has held down ac-
tivity, official figures reveal a mod
est boom. Production totals of Col
orado mines for last year, reports
showed, reached nearly $7.O0O.OOO in
value, a total far above 1892.
A considerable increase in produc-
ton of silver was recorded. but
gold production decreased slightly
Nevertheless, the fact the govern
ment bought the yellow metal at
high levels resulted In an increase
In value of the gold produced
The gold-buying order of Presi-
dent Roosevelt resulted in one of
the greatest prospecting PUSHES in
state history-and not few of the
thousands who searched the noun
tains for gold were successful.
There was Charles Starr, for ex-
nnIx, a faru 6auS aftor the
government order he revealed dis
covery of one of the richest lodes
ever found in Colorado. Almost at
the grass roots this longtime pros
pector and his partner, George Gil
more, found untold riches.
The Starr discovery, located near
Mancos. Colo, was only one of
many. In the Cripple Creek dis
trict, generally believed worked out
long ago, several new discoveries
were made. In the district around
Starts discovery dozens of new
strikes were reported, many of them
apparently of sufficient value to
make their owners wealthy.
Effect of the boom was at once
apparent. Receipts of newly mined
gold at the United States mint here
doubled and then quadrupled. New
capital came into the state to
be invested In mining properties.
Equipment companies dealing In
mining materials reported enormous
increases in business.
The silver-buying order, which
lifted the price of the white metal
to 6415 cents an ounce, was expect
ed to have an even greater effect.
Certainly, authorities said, it will
provide the stimulus for many new
mining operations.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-02-28
70 a
IN DElAS|
s e"ro1 From Oh, a,,,]
tifcate and n e ,tel
EFFECTIVE nApr, |

a highly y'e co nj sss fat +, ~
s sheep is is very preTsl@t :
t the p N certain ssetia.l
o Inc Delaware State Ba,..
culture c,1 feels that h. ID
state should be sff ~ Sssa !
from the importatiaaa y !, n
ease. The Board h, q Y
promulgated an orS.,
mat all sheep enter Ha' y
from the State Of Or
immediate slaughtsr- Dl.'
Ioinpanied by a certis.s
by the proper obio ~
or by an inspector e ts.11
reau of Animal In5n. !;
that such sheen 49, -s''g
contagious or infsct.,.s
and that they have h..
premises that have h. T. !
the disease known j !. I
a period Of at least n. y
date Of shipment. ri, 4
effective on and sttr u
1884 As more Sheen =
raised n Delaware a., :.
important that ever =,
be taken against the M
of scabies into the DsIa7,a
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-02-28
BUSINESS MEN organ
T. Carlisle Collins EI4,ta
dent Milford Business NAL

The business men q MI
organized the Business NJ
ISOLATION Of Milford Wet,s]
ening and elected ths t6I1
ficers:: President, 7. Cs.a|
Inns; vice-president. n
Humes; secretary, J.Hau]
treasurer, James H. Hurs|
licity manager, R. H. Yg.s
order to obtain msnsy
teams were organized. 1
North Milford and one tr|
Milford. Wilmer La1gori !
pointed team captain trj
Milford, and John Halletttr|
Milford. The next meeting
held in the Milford Can1
Building on March /.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1934-02-28
Former Sheriff Welded NJ

Former Sheriff and "
EMO w. Brittingham, SD.
ford street, GeorgetOE
observed their thirty-;1e
ding anniversary On Tdurals|
were married on Februsg !
at Mllsboro, Sussex Cazl
the late Rev. W. S. l. q
They are widely know :
Delaware.
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