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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
Minneapolis C.W.A.
Men in Victory; Act
To Free Jailed 80
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ICofIt1nded from rage -
ciaI Insurance Bill (HR 1899.
The workers bill was formulated
by the Unemployment Councils,
and, due to the mass pressure of
the Minnesota workers, was in
troduced into Congress on Feb
ruary 2nd by Congressman Lun-
deem of Minnesota.
In Minneapolis, police intimida-
ton continued as the police, armed
with machine guns, circled the City
Hall and the Court House. Mean
while, charges and counterchargef
and invectives were hurled back
and forth by the defeated officials
The demonstration on Friday
was the climax Ofg long series
of struggles by the j0bless and
CWA workers under the leader
ship of the Communist Party.
One week ago today, the workers
massed at the City Hall, and
when their elected committee Of
% were refused an audience with
the welfare officials, the workers
brushed aside the complete mob
ilizatiOn of police, smashed down
the locked doors of the City Hall,
and demanded an audience as the
frightened welfare officials fled
in the company of Socialists and
TrOtSkyites with whom they we're
meeting. .Disclaiming the Social
list and TrOtskyite leaders with
out following" the workers de-
manded that their own elected
representatives be heard. :.
The victory OF the O. W. A. job
less demonstration has revealed the
fraud of the "radicahsn" Of the
Farmer-Labor Governor Floyd B
Olsen of Minnesota, who in his
bankrupt radical" program could
offer neither jobs nor relief to the
thousands of Minnesota unem-
ployed. Olsen has declared his in
tention of cooperating with the
Washington administration in show
ing that the G. w. A. and unem-
ployed were led by paid Commu-
mist agitators," and that the job
less workers had docily accepted
his plans OF starvation relief.
c. p. Convention Sends Greetings
CLEVELAND, Ohio,-Hailing the
tremendous victory of the Mime.
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good character" and 'ethe purposes
are purely educational and in the
public interest, and all services and
proceedings are to be rendered and
done not for profit or gain"
No doubt, the athletes are playing
for public interest" But Mr.. Public
is not the worker; he DISCUSSES him
self under the names of Gustavua
T. Kirby, Milburn, a millionaire polo
player, and Daniel Chase, head of
the Kiwanis Club to name only a
few of the many names on the
committee. And good baseball play
ers Of a senni-pro ability are subsi-
died by Macy or Wanamaker to
appear on the field with their names
spread on the uniforms.
It's enough to say that this is
one of the means the great COM
panies use to exploit athletes and,
in social sense, are one of the
means Of keeping the workers tied
to the apron strings Of the present
social order.
WHICH brings me to the fact that
W the Daily News and the Chicago
Tribune have athletic associations.
Why not a Daily Worker Athletic
Association? We could be a part Of
the Labor Sports Union, developing
worker sports, forming worker
leagues, setting an unprecedented
standard of clean, free-from-exploit-
alton discrimination chauvinistie
athletics.
I'd like to hear about this pro-
pOsal from the readers of this
column. I'd like to know their
attitude and to hear some of their
suggestions about the building OF
a new workers sport club-the
Daily Worker A.A.
Get the old minds working and
the pencils sliding and the type.
writer's banging on this project.
Japanese Tennis Star Commits
Suicide
TOXIC, April 6.-Despondent owe
his school difficulties due to lack
of money and the poor prospects Of
getting job upon graduation, de-
spite his popularity, Jiro 5ato, Jap
anese Davis Cup tennis star, COM
mitted suicide by jumping from the
liner Hakone Maru, bound for Eu-
rope, carrying him and other tennis
stars for the worlds championship
matches.
Jiro Sato was an orphan, IS years
old and a student at Waseda Uni
versity.
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Nash Workers
Reject Proposal
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ing Threats of the Nash men. In a
statement printed in the press Byrd
said:
eff the men of these committees
have faith in the agreement which
have been made through the estab-
lishment of a new mutual confid-
ence between labor and employees,
they will find the greatest achieve
ment they ever dreamed of. AS Pre-
sident Roosevelt said. We've got to
have faith In someone So have
faith in the integrity of this board"
The Nash workers have had their
fill, however, of placing faith in
Labor Boards, or other strikebreak-
ing governmental agencies. They
put their trust in the promises of
the Regional Labor Board last Nc
vember. The Regional Labor Board
got them to go back to work on the
promise of arbitration, and then
proceeded to do nothing whatsoever
about their demands for increased
pay.
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regards what is happening on the
projects. I am as yet unable to
tell exactly what is happening"
When informed that his confusion
is causing untold misery among the
masses of C. w. A. workers, Hodson
replied: mo doubt some mistakes
have been made in firing" He then
continued in the vein that being
kept on the job is determined on
the basis of need, He did not in
dictate who was to determine need"
No Assurance of Jobs
When asked what assurance the
workers would have of their jobs
continuing, he bluntly said that he
had none, and attempted to place
the entire burden upon Washing
ton by saying that the ultimate
conclusion depends upon federal
grants"
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apolis G. w, A. and unemployed
workers and 40 per cent increase
in relief, Bill Gebert, Chicago Dis
trict Organizer of the Communist
Party, at the closing session of the
Eighth National Convention of the
G. P, U. S. A.. held here last week.
pledged the solidarity of the Com
munist Party to the heroic struggles
of the Minneapolis workers.
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WORKERS SOCCER LEAGUE
MEETS MONDAY

NEW YORK.-A general member
ship meeting of all members Of the
Metropolitan Workers Soccer League
will be held tonight, at ia w,
14th ST., at which time the
plans for sending an American
workers delegation to the Inte-na-
tional sports Congress against war
and fascism in Paris will be dis
cussed.
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IN LOOKING over the constitu-
i ton of this baseball league, l
see why the umpire who volun-
teerS his services for labor sports
men, gets his stomach sick yelling,
oBaIl one-strike twO-Yerrrout!"
for teams Of players wearing Wan
amsker, Macy, and other big de-
partment stores uniforms, adver-
Using their company before thou
sands of people month. And the
organization poses as a lot of re-
formers, using hazy phrases, which
in all probability, the players
don't read.
Well, the idea behind the eonsti'
tuition is to build citizenship ant
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BASEBALL fevers in the air right All the sport
ID pages full of "our Giants "our Cubs" "ou
Tigers and the scbes already batting their heads
leagues.
It's great fun trying to put your finger the best team
at this time with opening date just couple of weeks off
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Send us names of those you
know who are not readers of the
Daily Worker but who would be
interested in reading it. Address:
Daily Worker, 50 E. 18Th st.
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ESQ CWA Workers
Picket Welfare
Dept. Saturday

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SCOttSbOrO BOYS
Tortured; Told to
AcceptNAACP'

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Montana labor news., 1934-10-04
THE PRESIDENT E A

Everyone waited anxiously for the Presidents
fireside talk delivered last Sunday night. Those
who waited and listened were not disappointed
for he said what was expected. He stated in no
uncertain terms that he intended standing by
his New Deal program. To Labor, the most en-
heartening bit was his discussion of unemploy-
ment. He stated that the ballyhoo spread about
that we must have a permanent army of four
million unemployed was all wrong. Because
Europe has one is no reason that we must have
one. 81 stand or fall on the program that there
shall be no such army of unemployed in this
country said the President. We only hope that
he lives up to that resolution and if he does
there will be no need worrying about a fall.
His jibe at the Bankers was also appreciated
by those of the left. In comparing progress made
in the United States to that made in England
the President reminded the bankers that the
Bankers of England co-operated with their
government" We in Butte know how much CO.
operation the President is getting from U. S.
Bankers. We had an example of the House of
Morgan's fight against the New Deal right here
in Butte, during the last strike.
The Presidents Labor Policy will probably be
condemned in Labor circles, but in theory the
President is correct. The mediation machinery
set up by the government should be used by
both Industry and Labor. The editor interprets
this attack largely upon industry for Labor has
been more than willing to use such machinery.
1t is big business that refuses to use it or tries
to have the machinery abolished when adverse
decisions show that they do not control it. The
resignation" of wind-jammer Johnson should
be a big boost for fairness toward Labor for
while he was in office Labor had no chance at a
square deal. The Presidents speech showed him
holding his course and if he keeps that tack we
will be seeing radical changes in our social and
industrial order in the next few years.
Montana labor news., 1934-10-04
WHY WAS THE GENERAL
CUT OFF?

On Wednesday morning of this week the Ma
tional Broadcasting company was broadcasting
the speech of General Smedley Butler to the
Encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
AS usual the General was hitting his stride and
laying down a barrage that missed no one. He
was firing away at the millowners of the South
condemning them for the murder of six strikers
in North Carolina. He complimented the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars for refusing to act as
gunner and strike breakers, saying that the
six men killed were their kind. mo soldier ever
voted for a war" said the General. The big
business men make wars "and use you to do
the fighting. The men in strike areas are our
kind. They are the men who fight wars and are
used by others" The general then asked what
sum would be paid for these deaths. when |
was in command in Nicaragua in 1912, a bunch
of soldiers and marines were whooping it up in
the red light district when one marine was
killed. That death cost the Nicarauguan govern
ment $4,000 in damages. What will be paid for
the six deaths in the South. Nothing has been
done about it as yet. No arrests have been
made" Reaching his stride the General said: 81
come from Pennsylvania, the lousiest state in
the Union inhabited by the best people. | saw
thousands of our kind living in coke ovens. I
saw hundreds of thousands of our kind in the
breadlines of Philadelphia. I don't want to criti-
CHE. That was as far as the General got over
the air. A piano played in the N. B. c. studios
until the time limit was completed. The piano
solo continued for about five minutes.
Why was the General cut off? He was silenced
through some high official for he got as far as
he did, no doubt, due to the fact that it took
time to get word from New York to Louisville.
Did they stop him because he 'helled' and
damned a time or two? | think not for Senator
Robinson used stronger language than the
Quaker General. He was no doubt silenced be-
cause he was getting too many hits. He had
the range, windage and elevation perfect. He
Montana labor news., 1934-10-04

struck every target at which he aimed. He was
hitting at big business and was silenced. Robin
son only condemned the President and the New
Deal and lauded Hoover and the Republican
Bonus Policy. He was allowed to continue no
matter how abusive he became toward the Pres
ident and his policy; regardless Of the language
he used in heaping up this abuse. But Butler
was striking the real power behind the throne.
He was striking at Wall Street, the Munitions
Profiteers and their like and as a result he was
shut off the ether. He was cut off by the N. B..
c. and no local station. He was giving the peo-
pie Of this country information that they should
have.
The cutting off Of his speech is an example
OF the control big business still has over this
country and the extent of their power over all
methods of communication and information. The
sooner big business is driven out of power the
better off we will be and our only hope is that
Roosevelt will stick by his plan to break the
hold Of big business over government.
Montana labor news., 1934-10-04
% Portland Longshoreman Face Murder Charges

tanned by. the employers in violation of
the agreement.
The police and the district attorneys
office Immediately started arresting L.
L. A. members. The newspapers
printed stories declaring that the shots
were fired from outside the hall by the
union men. Private attorneys, hired
by persons or interests that have not
been divulged, entered the case to
prosecute the union men. Ali efforts
by the district attorney and the heads
Of the police were bent toward secur-
ing evidence that the union men did
the shooting. However, after two or
three days it became evident that there
was no shooting from the outside.
Then some OF the strikbreakers, who
were inside the hall began confessing.
One of them admitted firing two shots.
Then another told of the gang boss
shooting Conner. This forced the au-
thorities to arrest the gang boss, Carl
Grammer. The special attorneys were
put in the position of being forced to
also prosecute a strikebreaker, and an
nouncement was made that they had
been discharged from the case, How
ever, this announcement is not con-
vincing to union labor.
In spite of all the evidence which has
been produced, the district attorney
announces that the l.. L. A. men will
be prosecuted. There is a law in this
state, which has been upheld by the
supreme court, which provides that
when a death occurs as the result Of a
riot all persons shown to have precipi-
tated that riot are guilty of murder.
The district attorney is prosecuting
the union men under that provision.
Powerful interests are determined to
convict the twenty-eight members of
the L. L. A.
The names Of the men charged with
murder; Guy Altman, Nick M. Brown,
Tim Callahan, Harold Courtway,
Henry Dascher, Paul Duda, Merritt J.
Eddy, VIM. Fischer, Robert Hlstead,
John Kirk, Wally Knight, Cal Kranse,
" Makinson, I. Moore, Geo. A. Nor
gan, Alex Murray, Jack O'Connell,
VIM. Ranger, Marion Kicks, Art
Schaer, Otto Starberg, Geo. w. Swan
son, Cecil Taylor, H. L. Watson, John
Karlson.
Labor has organized a committee to
provide defense for the men and to
provide relief for their families. All
excepting two of the defendants are
married and some of them have several
small children. The defense and relief
committee is composed Of Ben T. Os-
borne, executive secretary of the Ore
gon State Federation of Labor; Gust
Anderson, executive secretary of the
Portland Central Labor Council; /. A.
Snider, of the Railroad Brotherhoods,
and three members Of the local l. l..
A.; Chas. G, Peabody, secretary, Fred
Games and John Beaten.
Montana labor news., 1934-10-04

also joined and there were $4,000 men
out.
The strike lasted more than so days,
during which tins state and city au-
thorities generally lent themselves to
the employers in an effort to break the
strike. There were some disturbances
at different points, but the greatest
lawlessness was on the part Of city
and state officials. This was true in
Portland, where the mayor sought to
use city funds to break the strike.
Special police, recruited by the water
front employers, were clothed with city
authority. Men Of questionable records
were armed and placed against the
strikers. Every a%rtifice was used to
anger the strikers and incite them to
violence, but there was no act OF major
violence on the part of the strikers.
On one occasion the regular police at
Portland shot four pickets who were
~persuading a train crew to not take a
train Of freight cars into an ocean
terminal. In San Francisco a number
of strikers were shot and killed.
After so days of the most intense in
dustrial conflict which the Pacific
coast ever experienced the waterfront
employers and the ship owners were
forced to accept arbitration by a gov
eminent board composed of Edward F,
McGrady, assistant secretary OF labor,
Archbishop Hanna and O. K. Cushing,
an attorney, the latter two Of San
Francisco.
1t was agreed that the strikers re-
turn to work pending a decision by the
government arbitration board, and a
part Of that agreement was that all
strikebreakers recruited during the
strike should be discharged. 1t was
also agreed that the men were to be
dispatched as previous to the strike
until the board had submitted rules for
dispatching.
Employers in practically every port
endeavored to escape compliance with
the terms of the agreement relative to
conditions that were to prevail until
TIE lllldl dWdlu Was lNlluClNu. Ill L jill
land some of the employers retained
strikebreakers in violation of the
agreement. The employers also violat-
ed the agreement in opening a new
dispatching hall from which the
wrongfully retained strikebreakers
were sent to the docks.
On August 20 a number of members
Of the l. l.. A., who were incensed at
the perfidy Of employers, gathered
neal the unauthorized hall and a dis
turbance ensued. None OF the union
men had firearms, but some windows
in the illegal hiring hall were broken.
A number of the strikebreakers inside
the hall we're armed, and some of them
fired. One shot, which appears to
have been fired by a strikebreaking
gang boss, killed young Conner. Com
ner was one Of the men who was re-
Montana labor news., 1934-10-04
Effort Made to Convict Strikers
Trials May Last For Years;
Believe Gunman Did Killing.

PORTLAND, Ore.-(Special to
Labor ews.)-Twenty-eight members
Of the International Longshoremen's
Association are held in Jail here on a
charge of murder as a result Of incl
dents growing out Of the waterfront
strike which tied up all Pacific ports
for more than eighty days.
Employing interests, vigilante groups
and other enemies of organized labor
are running ut to form in their en-
deavor to secure convictions and i'm
pose the death penalty on these work
ers who are guilty OF nothing more
than loyalty to the cause of labor.
The murder charges against the l. l..
A. were filed by the district attorneys
office following the death on August
20 of James Conner, a college student
who was a strikebreaker and who was
shot by another strikebreaker. The
prosecutions of the union men are a
part Of the program of employers to
smash union labor on the Pacific coast.
There is evidence that employing in
terests throughout the nation will help
the prosecution by supplying funds to
aid in conviction.
The waterfront strike was called on
May 9 as a result of the continued re-
fusal of the stevedoring companies to
recognize the I. l.. A. for collective
bargaining when fully 90 per cent OF
the workers on the waterfronts OF
coast cities had become members OF
the union. In some Of the cities cleo
tons had been held under government
supervision to determine, under the
provisions Of the NRA, what o%rganiza-
tons should represent the longshore-
men for collective bargaining. In every
case the longshoremen voted over
whelmingly for the |. L. A. The en-
ployers refused to abide by the deci-
sion and appealed to the courts. This
meant a delay of perhaps two years
before a final decision could be OBJ
tanned.
The immediate objective sought by
the longshoremen was the adjustment
of the company hiring and dispatching
halls, known as the fink halls. The
30-hour week was also asked. The re-
peated r%efusals of the employers to
grant any of the demands and their
refusal to even negotiate, together
with their action in going into the
courts to avoid or delay complying
with the Recovery Act provisions left
the strike as the only course open to
the longshoremen.
The stevedoring companies were
largely owned and controlled by the
ship owners, SO the conflict was in
fact between the workers and the
steamship lines. Soon after the long
shoremen struck, the maritime crafts
Montana labor news., 1934-10-04
NOTES ON SOME AMERICAN
BIRDS

With Barney Baruch %supplanting the
fiery Gen. johnson as the big man in
the NRA, the new name of that or
ganization will probably be Crime
Without Passion"
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Baruch, incidentally, is the Hebrew
word for blessed" and many of the
Hebrew prayers start with it.
The NRA publicity boys in Wash
ington will soon be referring, we ex-
pect, to the Blue Eagle as the "holy
bird OF prey"
Montana labor news., 1934-10-04
ONE HUNDRED MILLION
CAPITALISTS

Frazier Jelke & Co., members of the
New York Stock Exchange, say that a
study made by them shows the average
man to be a Capitalist" having 500
in the bank and a life insurance policy
for $1,l00.
The textile workers must have been
striking for higher profits, then.
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Before the good farmer goes out in
the morning to throw his excess milk
in the creek, he reads the federal re-
port that "our milk production is 4C
billion quarts a year short of the
amount the people should eat"
Or SO says the department of agri-
culture which also orders the milk
spilling.
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IT'S A GREAT SYSTEM
Montana labor news., 1934-10-04

1t is predicted that it will be a year,
or possibly two years, before all the
cases will be disposed OF, as the de-
Tense will insist on separate trials for
all the defendants. The experience OF
the strike convince local labor that the
employers will use every possible in
fluence to secure the conviction of the
union men.
Montana labor news., 1934-10-04
It's a Great System!


SUMNER WELLES MAY co
BACK TO CUBA-Headline.
SO Uncle Sam is now trying to start
a revolution down there.
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They're going to %reorganize insults
Midwest Utilities Corp. More power
to them
The mayor of Boston doesn't believe
in slum clearance; he wants "rehabili-
tation Of sub-standard housing areas"
We take it the mayor is another Of
those people who believe in calling a
spade a spade.
PRICE OF SEAT ON N. Y. CURB
SINKS TO $4,000, NEW LOW
Headline.
Getting pretty close to the gutter.
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With the stock market half dead and
rapidly getting worse, many brokers
are closing shop and going back to
work.
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SOCIETY NOTE
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, minister to
Denmark, returning to this country on
a leave OF absence, crossed the Allan
tic on a Coast Guard cutter which
went TO Denmark for the express pur-
pose of picking her up.
And they say the age Of chivalry is
a thing OF the past.
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A New York inventor claims he has
discovered a gas that can put to sleep
and keep stupefied for a period of
several hours an entire army.
That's nothing new; congressman
discovered the same thing years ago.
Mussolini is going to give military
training to kids eight years old.
And practice in playing with paper
dollies at the age Of n?
ONLY SEVEN NATL. BANKS
REMAIN IN DOUBT NOW-Head-
line.
Sounds like a wee bit of underesti-
nation.
The king of Bulgaria is reported to
have got up in the middle of the night
to help firemen in Sofia, capital city,
fight a large blaze.
The king, when a kid, always did
want to be a fireman when he grew up.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS TROU-
BLED WITH UNPAID DUES IT.
Headline.
Just like any other union.
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Attempting to build up better rela-
tionships with their workers, many
executives are "%displacing the one-time
vague, sentimental desire to do right
by their employees with a new note
Of realism, says a news item.
Teargas in different flavors and
strikebreakers with Oxford accents?
More men like Charles M. Schwab
with his incurable optimism" are
needed to lift the country out of the
depression. according to William
Knudsen, General Motors executive.
Following that suggestion, we nomi-
nate Joe E. Brown for president.