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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
Workers Protest
CWASpy andBIack-
List QUESTIONABLE
Continued from Page y

what churches, labor unions and
fraternal organizations the worker
belongs to. thus opening the way to
discrimination. Every ASPECT of the
workers life is examined into. In
the cutting down of relief, under
Roosevelt's orders, the UNEMPLOYED
are forced to the most humiliating
and DESPERATE straits to secure
relief. These lists are easilv avail
able for scrutiny by private employ
ers.
Protests Grow
About 1000 technical worka, at
meeting of the Federation of
Architects, Engineers, Chemists and
Technicians after winning a post
ponement in the signing Of the
QUESTIONABLE, voted to continue to
fight for the absolute resembling of
1t entirely.
G. W. A. white-collar workers
employed on Project AS 260 have
telegraphed Roosevelt and Hopkins
demanding the withdrawal OF the
QUESTIONABLE.
On Friday, 300 workers assem-
bled at the city C. w. A. offices at
Ill Eighth Ave. to protest the
"paupers oath" These workers.
members of the Associated Office
and Professional Emergency En-
ployes, elected a committee to pre-
sent their demands to C. w, A. Ad-
ministretor Col w. A. DeLarnater.
Miriam Silvis, Lovestoneite,
secretary Of the A.OaP.E.E. by grace
of her clique not having called a
membership meeting which would
surely depose her, had, in her pri-
vate conversations with DeLamater,
asked that he not see any other
delegation, acting the part of a
stool-pigeon for DeLamater.
Meanwhile, the workers on the
street elected delegates from six
projects to present their demands.
In their meeting with r. B. Healay,
personnel director Of the c. w. A.,
Healey. freely admit ing that he
was speaking for the administra-
tion. stated: "I will not protest
against the QUESTIONABLE. and can
say for DeLamater that he too will
not protest"
When asked by the delegates if
he and DeLamater could qualify as
needy persons under the question:
naire, his answer to the openly
skeptical delegation was that he
thought he could.
Conference Today
To fight the c. w. A. job ques-
tionnaire, the Federation of Archi-
tects, Engineers, Chemists and
Technicians has issued call TO all
c. W. A. workers. workers in A. F
of L., independent and T. U. U. L.
trade unions, and alIv unemployed
organizations to a conference, to be
held at the Grand Opera House,
23rd st. and Seventh Ave, at pm.
today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
NRA Aids Budd's
To Force COmpany
Union On Workers
Continued from Page y

losing their jobs, nevertheless voted
for utilization to the United Auto
mobile Workers Union "A. F. of L.
The company union in the Budd
plant was helped by the A. F.. of L.
officials, particularly William Green,
John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman.
These officials, as members of the
National Labor Board. ordered the
striking Budd workers to return to
work, and "arbitrate" afterwards,
With the strike broken in this man
ner, Edward G.. Budd, owner Of the
plant, victimized 1900 workers. With
the help of the National Labor
Board, a company union was in
stalled, and now with the election
hoax sponsored by the Board, the
company union is further en-
trenched and the workers. ter
rorized.
Show Hatred of Company Union
Joseph M. Richie, A. F. of L. or
ganizer, is still telling the workers
in the Budd plant to look to the
National Labor Board to save them
from the company union. But the
action of over half of the Budd
auto workers, in the face of the
dire threats Of the company Off
Gals, shows that the workers are
ready to undertake a militant fight
to smash the company union.
In the election las ballots were
"voided." Undoubtedly these ballots
contained some very uncomplimen-
tary attacks on the bosses and ap-
peals for strike to win a real union
for the workers.
The fight is just beginning against
the company union in the Budd
plant. The A. F. of L. officials, as
well as the bosses know this. That
is why both of them still look to
the National Labor Board.
The Budd workers have learned
that in this direction lies only be-
trayals, and pettifogging delays and
Jreacheries. Department commit
tees of the workers should be or
ganized in the Budd plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
Total of % Lives Lost
in Fires During Two
Months of Fusion
By EDWIN RoLFE

The angling of New York's tene-
ment house owners for Federal
funds to repair their decrepit old
law buildings in which $4,000 work
ing class families are housed, con-
tinues with the metropolitan papers
playing up Mayor LaGuardia's de-
magogic defiance" of their official
threat to eVict these families if they
are forced to install needed struc-
tural Improvements. without these
improvements, the danger of death
to workers by fire will continue I'M
abated.
LaGuardia, whose administration
has been in the City Hall for two
months, has = through Tenement
Commissioner Langdon w. Post -
issued grandiose statements on
Stun clearance, improved hous-
ing for the poor" and all the other
high sounding declarations made by
boss politicians in New York for
almost so years. But the words have
remained empty statements. Ac-
ton has been deferred on the ex-
cuse used by previous city admins
trations. that sit takes time"
This criminal procrastination,
this refusal of the LaGuardia
gang TO do anything about the
conditions Of the stun tenements,
This is the figure admitted by
Real Estate Association of Greater
New York. Other estimates, based
on the Associations figure for the
number Of Old Law Tenements
$4,000 place the number of fami-
lies living In them as high as L.
o72,o00.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
J. WA. Workers. Demonstrate, Strike on c. W. A. Jobs!
Registration Opens
for Workers School

NEW YORK Registration for the
Spring Term Of the Workers School
opens today, at IS E. u St., SO
classes scheduled, and many new
teachers included in its staff of as,
To fill the demand for the funda-
mental subjects, 10 classes are
scheduled in Principles Of Com
munism, and II classes in Political
Economy, the largest number the
school has ever offered.
Although registration does not
open officially until today, a num-
Der of students registered on Sat
urday, as soon as they found that
the Spring catalogue of courses was
out, in order to be sure to get the
classes they want.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12

mock trial, under the bonn
bardment of hay, confused,
mystical words emanating
from the various thicklipped and
thinlipped and demagogic threats
Of our foremost American citizens.
The case: Civilization GaGuardia,
Cahan, the New York Times, etc,
etc. against Hitler-Who occupied
an empty chair and yet was in
visible--a la H. G. Wells Invisible
Man"
Gus tries to help matters along
to convict the victim. He stands
up before that sea of faces that look
up, at his elongated, lean body that
is set under a bald head, and the
beloved sportsman's bluhbering lips
begin effusing statements above the
crowds head. (Workers then be-
gan to leave)
LIE BEGINS saying, twisting his
II watch chain, "The Jews and
their cause need no advocacy from
me (blub, blub, blub). My
position here is as an advocate of
the only true democracy in the
world - that of sport = which
knows neither race nor color nor
creed where all start from
scratch and the race is won with
out fear or favor
Good ole Gus, I answer in the
by now traditional Strange Inter
lude manner, what about jim Crow
ism in sports, what about Tolan and
Metcalfe not being permitted to live
in the Olympic village in Los An
geles during the olympic Games,
what about Negroes not being al
lowed to get in on those expensive
A.A.U. accounts and how about them
being excluded from all those
wealthy clubs like the New York
AA. and the LAC. and the Olym-
pic Club. You can't Jim-Crow a
stop watch, so you kindly, magma
nimously, let him start from scratch.
What about the thousands of dol
lars you coin in-with your organi-
cations and clubs and Madison
Square Garden meets-by exploit
ing these amateur athletes services,
binding them with tin medals
which they can't trade for cup of
coffee when they burn out" and a
few patronizing words of praise.
We know your number, alright,
Gus. We know what you and your
kind stand for.
gus speaks further His bald head
u shines. He locks like an aris-
tocrat with his neatly, cut away
clothes, and talks like one with his
educated tongue.
"Any country receiving the award
of the Olympic Games Germany
got IT'D must live up to these prin-
ciples and ideals of the democracy
of sport"
Well, why don't you do what
the labor sports organizations all
over the world has done-bOycott
the Olympics and carry on a cam
paign against fascism? How about
sports for the masses, not "star"
games?
Maybe he would have answered
me, "Of the masses, by the masses
and for the masses? Why, graci-
Gus. That's democracy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
Philadelphia L.S.U. TO
Stage Wrestling Meet

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The Labor
Sports Union Of Philadelphia will
hold a wrestling meet on Wednes-
day, March IA. Winners in each
division will be sent to New York
to participate in the Eastern District
championships, March II.
All applications for further in
formation and entry blanks are to
be addressed to Al Katz, at the l..
S. u headquarters, 7s1 Walnut St.,
Philadelphia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
Vladeck, Socialist Head,
'Cooperates' on Housing
Commission

Fusion administration is playing =
Obvious to anyone who knows how
completely LaGuardia is tied up
with the interests of the very same
real estate owners and bankers
against whom he has issued his
demsgogic blasts on housing during
the last few days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
Painters to Stop on
East Side Today, Noon

NEW YORK. - The Downtown
Local 4 of the Alteration Painters
Union starts its Passover organiza-
tional drive on the lower East side
Monday, March H.
The union urges all painters
working in the territory to stop
working Monday, March IL, and to
come to the union strike head
quarters, 80 E. 10 st., to report their
jobs and shops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12

RALLY AGAINST WAR. FAsCIsM
Walter orloff, winifred Chapel and Phil
Rosengarten, will participate in mass
meeting tonight, $50 pm, at the YIN
HA., 1910 14th Ave. Brooklyn Auspices
Of the Boro Park Provisional Committee,
American League Against War and Fas-
cism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
Square Garden

CUSTAVUS T. KIRBY had the floor Gus you know, was
former president of the AAU of the Intercollegiate
Association of Amateur Athletes of America president
York. wealthy lawyer and member of the ultraultra 40G
untouchables
Scene 1: TWENTY thousand witnesses are UNDERGOING
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
Police Called in Penrla.

PEORIA, III. - Twelve police
squads were summoned to intimi-
date a group Of C,W.A workers at
the municipal airport project here
when the workers protested against
an order forbidding them to build
fires during the cold weather.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
New Bedford Protest
eva. stike In Canton

CANTON, Ill.-As a result of a
strike en- C.WA, Jobs here, led by
the Unemployed Councils, the CIV.
A. was forced to rascind a wage cut
Of from so to 40 cents an hour. The
workers ere. row carrying on a
struggle for increased and cash re-
lief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12

resolution was passed by the dele
gates meeting, but the Executive
Beard decided that no committee
should be sent to the Saturday
conference"
This is additional proof of the
action of A. F. Of L. bureaucrats
in their attempt to split the unity
movement of the Chicago workers.
We will mobilize all forces of
the working class, particularly To-
Gals of the A. F. of L., for the
united front conference and a
huge demonstr~t ion exposing adj
ditional treacheries on the part Of
the bureaucrats of the GIL.
Rank and File Protest
CHICAGO March 1.-THE Exec
utive Board of the Chicago FEEDER
alton Of Labor dictatorially ordered
the Federation not to send repre-
sentatiyes or to join in the United
Front conference on unemployment
Saturday. This stark bureaucratic
action was taken by the executives
in the face Of the unanimous vote
of over 200 delegates at the last
regular meeting Of the Federation to
join the conference.
The delegates and rank and file
A. F. Of L. members are up in
arms against the action Of the ex-
ecutive and many locals are expected
to act against the decision.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
March in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. = Jobless
workers VIII march on the County
Relief Board offices at 18th and
Cherry Streets, Friday, March Is, at
10 am. The march will be preceded
by mass meeting at 1896 Locust
St. A city-wide march on the Re-
lief will be held on March 20.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
Negro, White
TOinRichnOnd
C.W.A. Protest
CWA Workers Turnout
Country Act Against
CWA Firings
fspecial to Daily worker

RICHMOND, Va, March IL. A
demonstration of 300 Negro and
White workers forced the C.W.A. to
promise to meet with the workers
committee for wage increases and
10 hear the workers grievances on
C.W.A.
This workers delegation was
headed by William Friend, Negro
works-, and Linwood Mcdowell, who
were elected at mass meetings called
BY the C.W.A. Workers Protective
Association. The meetings displayed
the g.aate-t solidarity yet seen in
this city.
Mass meetings for reports by the
delegation end election Of workers
action committees will take place
next week
Demonstrations at Fall River
FALL RIVER, Mass. - Over 800
C.yY.A. workers sto-med the City
Hall here, demanding an end to the
C.WA. frings, and that all fired be
Immediately given jobs or cash re-
lief equal to wages received.
The following Day more than 200
workers at e protect meeting, elected
a committee of II to again present
their demands at the City Hall.
When the committee reported back
to the workers, steps we're taken to
form a permanent organization.
New Bedford Protest
NEW BEDFORD, Mass.-Several
hundred C.WA. workers, fired from
the BrooklaWn C.WA. project here,
spontaneously fcrrled into orderly
ranks. and marched on the City Hall
in protest.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-12

told him so.
He told them differently that
night. They stuck by their Oppo-
sition to the sales tax. He sur
rendered his and when he told
them Friday night that he cared
vastly more for the credit and
good name of the state that he
did for his preconceiVed opinions,
they broke their protracted silence
during the first part Of his speech
and cheered him heartily. They
acclaimed him again when he
showed how much property tax
they had saved in Moore through
the odious sales tax which he had
assaulted so often.
The governor made converts.
He used for the first time the re-
covery of North Carolina's farm
position. 1t rose from ninth to
fourth. 1t is now above Illinois
and under Texas, Iowa and Ohio.
The states crops have brought
nearly $100,000,000 more than
they brought a year ago. The
1888 yield and sales would have
distanced 1882 by $SS,000,000.
The Sandhills have not received
their full share. The string of
banks has been cut. But they APP
pear to be on the way out. They
liked the Ehringhaus speech.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-12
RUSSIA'S LOW WAGES

There is still complaint in Russia over the low
industrial per capita output and Walter Duranty
of the New York Times says the explanation is to
be found in the fact that the average wage of the
industrial worker under the Soviet regime is estl-
mated by Joseph Stain at 125 roubles month.
Whether the Bolshevists like it or not" says Mr.
Duranty ''it is fact that this sum will buy here
Tin Russia) in the open market no more than So
will buy in America
The truth as to how Communism actually OPP
crates is hard to get but here is tiny segment
of it which is illuminative. Mr. Duranty is forever
telling US of the progress the Sovets are making,
echoing in doing the claims of the Soviet rulers
But an admission like the foregoing is something
worth remembering and filing away along with the
other statement which Stain made at the Com
munist party conference the other day by showing
that there is only about half as many horses cows,
sheep, goats and hogs in Russia there were
five years ago. the peasants having killed off their
livestock rather than let their possessions be col
lectvized.-Asheville Citizen.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-12
KING AND SLAVE
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

"Our county is not in debt, l"
replied jim. eve didn't turn
fool and borrow all we could Dor
row. when the borrowing was
easy. Ny taxes this year on this
whole farm were $50. And" he
unused. "I've got two thousand
dollars in the bank"
"Tell me, Jim," asked the city
brother, chow much actual time
do you put in at work."
"Well, that depends" replied
jim. 'If you count the time that
| spend catching fish and hunting
quail, rabbits, pOssums and deer
i have two Of the best hunting
dogs in this county-then I work
most of the year. But if you
count just the time l put in on
the farm here, | reckon three or
four months a year will cover it.
My renter does most Of the farm
work and his wife helps my wife
in tie house. here"
"Jim," observed the city bro
Their as he got up and took a turn
up and down the room, his hands
clasped behind his back, "you're
q king and I'm slsve."
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-12
All Secondhand
Goods Sales Are
Subject To Tax
Ruling Made Today Makes
More of State Revenue
CoIlectible

RALEIGH. Feb. II. - North
Carolina's* sales tax is still pro-
ducing revenue that is not col
lected. the department says TO-.
day, particularly in the sale OF
secondhand goods on which the
tax is not collected. .
Harry MCMILLAN. director OF
assessments and collections, has a
new rule today. 1t isn't a dlscov-
cry but new application of the
law. He gives notice that the sale
of secondhand automobiles. furn-
iture. and other forms OF mer-
chandise by dealers or merchants
is liable for the three cents gen
eral sales tax. The department
announces that dealers will be
checked for liability on such
sales. A recent check-up discov-
cred that there are two known
dealers who have not reported
these sales.
Where the sale of a second
hand automobile or any other
used merchandise is taken in part
payment of a new article of mer-
chandise and the full tax is paid
on the new, there is no sales tax
on the secondhand wares. But
even then the merchant must
keep an accurate record of his
transactions and this must show
the name of the parties to the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-12
MT. OLIYET

MOUNT OLIVET PoT -
Rev. j. S. Holbert a,lci h, Us
lar appointment at Nop1 5-> d iea,
last Sunday. o.'s
Rev. S. c. Ward va. =.
ner guest of Mr.. and Mr. .s q,
met Allison last SUNDAY 'S' L.
Mrs. Leathan Jono> vis;,.,,
sister 81; = Mrs n, Mamie King, Of. Of q [.
Mrs. DOvie Capps visited
daughter, Mrs. L. NTaybin' e q
Sunday. "' Y
Miss Edna Ward visited e..
and relatives at Eas- Flat ', ; .
last Tuesday. $50 A3a
Mrs. Maybelle Ballard -.
Mrs. E. A. Ward lat Tuo.5 S%'s
Miss Marjorie Camp wa a, !,
dinner guest Of M. and Nr< y Y
Redden last Sundav q
Fred Ballard visited Co,,l
Ward last Sunday '"'
Mr.. and Mrs. Od.H Rafra .
Slater, S. c.. visited 5ir. AMI ' i,
Francis Mint last Week, ''
Mrs. E. A. Ward and -,
Gene, visited her daughter y,
Inez Sumner. of Hendersorr..-.
Friday.
Miss Verna Allison visited ".
Gertie Pearson laSJ Sunday ~
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-12
BEHIND TIE SCENES IN
WA ON

designed to curb lobbyists.
MaCCracken is a lawyer arc St
are most other lobbyists. But he
was the first to claim professional
immunity from revealing his opera
tions TO a Senate committee.
incidentally, MacCracken is
only one of several Republican
ex-ofticehol.fers revealed by the
Black committee investigating
mail subsidies as having gained
large sums for representing pri-
Vatc concerns before govern
ment agencies.
According to testimony: Former
Assistant Attorney General Will
liam ]. Donovan received 100000
from a shipping company for
representing a concern which
wanted government ships ard con-
tracts. Bascom Slemp, former Sec
rotary to Coolidge, asked for
$4,000 for similar services and
was scaled down to $4,000.
No spectacular investigation into
amounts picked up by Democratic
politico-lobbyists in the last eleven
months may be expected. Certain
administration officials might be
embarrassed. But there's likely to
be a new law.
\
CONGRESSMAN EDWARD A.
" KENNEY'S bill for a national
lottery to raise federal funds may
be immoral, but it's based on an
ancient American institution. The
Continental Congress authorized
one in 1875 to raise 100000 for
the revolutionary army.
The scheme fizzled because prizes
were to be paid in Continental
money, in which few had faith.
Congress approved several early
lotteries to help build up the Dis
trict of Columbia. gsI;sH q
Copyright. 1884. NEA Service. Inc .
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RY RODNEY DUTCHER

ID ISOiJ4FL- ~ : NAA 49,
NEs Seryicc staff Correspondent
Observation-Disclosures
" reluctance to have an NRA
fest case, which sometimes seems
almost Pathological, may end up
with a legal attack on the Ma
tionL Labor Board by industry.
So many crises have arisen,
only to be stalled off, that you
might think the conflict over the
boards authority 20 settle collec-
five bargaining disputes was due
TO 20 on indefinitely without con-
c,.usion.
The White House alone is re-
sDcnsible for the attorney gen.
erals failure to prosecute the
Weirton Steel Company for its
defiance of the boards attempt at
an election to determine whether
employees preferred labor union
representation or the existing
company union plan.
The board sent the Weirton
case to the Justice Department
Dec. IS. Now the presidents eX-
ecutive order, authorizing Nib
elections when substantial"
number of employees demand it,
has been attacked by leaders of
the entire industry, who promise
to resist all attacks on their COM
pany unioEg.
Board members admit the be-
lisf that their next WeirtGn move
viii bring al injunction suit
backed by the industry-unless
Congress first clears up all doubt
as te the boards power.
SINCE when, senators are de-
~ manding, did dealings between
lobbyist and his clients become
sacred? The William Z. MacCrack-
.en case has done more than any.
ahing else to promote Legislation