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Evening star., 1934-12-26
Christmas Party Tonight
At German Embassy for Stan.

The Ambassador of Germany, Herr
Hans Luther, will entertain the men,
bers of the staff and their families
at dinner this evening in the Embassy.
The Ambassador Of Brazil and
Senhora de Aranha will be Joined soon
by their sons, Senior Oswaldo Aranha
and Senior Euclydes Aranha, who
will arrive in New York tomorrow
aboard the Southern Prince from
South America.
Representative e-elect and Mrs. Ralph
o. Brewster have arrived in Washing
ton from their home at Dexter, Me-,
and are at the Carlton for the Winter
season. Their son, Mr.. Charles F..
Brewster, is with them for few days.
The Assistant Secretary of War and
Mrs. Harry H. Woodring entertained
for dinner at His Lordship's Kind
ness" Sunday evening, having as
guests Senator and Mrs. Marcus A.
Coolidge, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Hugh
Drum, Miss Carol Drum and Lieut..
Townsend Grifiss.
The retiring air and military at
tache of the Italian Embassy, Lieut..
Col. Paolo Sbernadori, and Signora
Sbernadori will hold a reception this
afternoon from to o'clock, in the
Pan American room of the Mayfower
Hotel, in honor of Lieut.. Col. Vincenzo
Coppola, who will succeed Col. Sber-
nardori, and Signora Coppola. As
sisting Signora Sbernadori will be Mrs.
William P. MacCracken, jr.; Mrs.
Boughton K. Young. Mrs. Clinton w.
Russell and Mrs. Robert Monroe.
Mrs. Alfred Adams Wheat will not
receive Monday during January. but
will be at home Mondays in February
and until Lent.
The Commissioner Of Customs and
Mrs. James H. Moyle have been joined
at the Shoreham by their daughter,
Mrs Harry Nelson Of New York. Mr..
Evening star., 1934-12-26
Many Holiday Dances
Tonight for Debutantes.

Mr.. and Mrs. George Hewitt Myers
will entertain at a dance this eve
ming in their textile museum in their
home for their debutante daughter,
Miss Louise Chase Myers. Among
Evening star., 1934-12-26

The marriage of Miss Mary Thomas
McMillen, daughter of Capt. Fred
Ewing McMillen, U. S. N, and Mrs
McMillen, to Mr.. Robert j. Schneider,
IT,, son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Evening star., 1934-12-26

Herbert, r., who will entertain for
her son, Mr.. Joseph Gronna.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
Miss Dampman Makes
Formal Bow This Afternoon.

SOl. anu MIS-. raul OhIupIudu Will
introduce their daughter, Miss Mar
gorie Jane Dampman, this afternoon
at the Mayflower Hotel. Miss Damp
man will wear a gown of antique rose
and moire taffeta and will carry a
sheaf of gardenias. Mrs. Dampman's
gown will be of black net and lace
over taffeta of simple lines, wearing
a corsage of purple orchids.
Assisting Miss Dampman will be
Assisting Miss Dampman will be Miss
Frida Frazer Miss Estherbell McHarg.
Miss Elizabeth Rowan, Miss Jane
Esther Platt, Miss Susan Rogers, Miss
Mathilde Rodger. Miss Diane Rowland,
Miss Louise Waller, Miss Emily Mad
dox, Miss Aileen Hood. Miss Mary
Katharine Bentley, Miss Katharine
Brown, Miss Mary Winifred Brown.
Miss Charlotte Brown and Miss
Imogen Ficklen.
Assisting Mrs. Dampman at the tea
table will be Mrs. John Benjamin
Dennis, wife of Admiral Dennis,
U. S. N.;Mrs. Stephen Clegg Rowan,
wife of Capt. Rowan. U. S. N: Mrs.
Charles Emerson Hood, Mrs. Absalom
WdllcI, MIS. T1CdCiASh ooWoOAA AsASAA
ardson and Mrs John Diderick Bubert,
wife of DR.. Bubert, of Baltimore.
Miss Dampman and Mrs. Dampman
will receive in front Of background
of Australian fern, and the tea table
will be decorated with pink roses,
snapdragons and stevia.
Maj. and Mrs. Hugh A. Allen and
Mr. Hugh A. Allen, jr., and Miss
Coils Allen, with Miss 1rma Won
Lacky of Aurora Hills. Va, spent
Monday and Christmas day with Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Gammack at Hamp-
ton, Va.
Comdr. George A. Riker, U. S.
M. c., and Mrs. Riker have come to
Washington from their home in
Pittsburgh and will spend the hol-
days at the Martinique.
Capt. Stephen Frederick Tillman Of
the Ogden, Utah, Office of the Forest
Service, and Mrs. Tillman are spend
ing the Christmas holidays in Wash
ington. They will leave for the West
shortly after the new year.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Herbert Sparrow Of
Fort Bragg, N. c.. are spending
Christmas with the formers mother,
Mrs. Herbert Sparrow, at Hillcrest in
Aldie, Va, where she is passing the
Winter.
Evening star., 1934-12-26

Midshipmen-Cadet Ball
Gay Christmas Party.
The Secretary of War and Mrs.
Dern, the former Vice President, Mr..
Charles Curtis, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Evening star., 1934-12-26
SOCIETY
Mrs. Roosevelt Accompanied to Musicale
by the PRESIDENT Mother, Who Is a
Guest at the White House.

Nelson will arrive today and they will
remain through the week.
Mrs. Moyle will entertain informal
ly at tea in her apartment tomorrow
in honor of Mrs. Nelson.
Mrs. Christian H. Castendyk of
Honolulu announces the engagement
of her daughter, Elinor Halstead, to
Herr Gustav A. Struve, secretary to
the German Embassy at Washington.
Miss Castendyk is at present trans
fer student from Scripps College at
Stanford University in Palo Alto.
Calf. The wedding will take place
in California February 23. The en-
gagement was rrmored shortly after
Herr Struve returned from California
in the Autumn.
Evening star., 1934-12-26

The Commissioner Of Customs and
Mrs. James H. Moyle have been Joined
at the Shoreham by their daughter,
Mrs Harry Nelson of New York. Mr..
Evening star., 1934-12-26

The Ambassador of Germany, Herr
Hans Luther, will entertain the men,
bers of the staff and their families
at dinner this evening in the Embassy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-26
Angled With Dollfuss for Joint Action
Against Uprising, Otto Bauer Reveals

The working class OF the world
was shocked recently at the public
admission of Otto Bauer, leader of
the Austrian Socialist Party, that he
had striven frantically to stop the
armed uprising of the Austrian
workers against Fascism,
4 aTrSased for them" Bauer
told the press, TO be tod that if we
in Vienna could submit patiently
to a search for arms in Parry head
quarters, they must try and do the
same. Apparently the message ar
rived too late"
Today the full depth OF the treach-
cry of the Socialist Party leaders in
Austria is revealed by a new state
ment from Bauer, as reported in the
press of the Chicago Daily News
Forelgn Press service, by special
radiogram.
"HVhen 1 heard" Bauer told John
Gunsher, foreign correspondent of
the Chicago Daily News" that the
electric workers had spontaneously
begun to strike, asked our finance
minister Dannenberg, and our
vice. Governor of Lower Austria to
get Dollfuss or President Miklas
at all costs to try to arrange mutual
action to stop the imminent fight
ing" (Our emphasis.)
Here in these words from the
leader of the Austrian Socialist Party
himself, is the admission that the
Socialist leaders had nothing to do
with tile calling of the general
strike of the Austrian workers, until
after the workers had broken spon-
taneously into struggle; that the
Socialist leaders then rushed to
negotiate with the Fascist rulers of
the government to stop and break
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-26

QdClng.
When the Communist Party last
week called on all organizations TO
unite in demonstration of protest
at the Austrian Legation, I answered
the call and represented the Nation
al Forum. Although the local s. P.
branch did not officially participate,
there were several Socialists in the
united Front: viz, Joe Zameres,
representing the C.W.A. Workers
Protective Association and Pogere-
lick, representing the Y.P.S.L.
"As one Of the millions of Negro
workers of America, I truly feel a
deep sense Of gratitude to the Com
munists for their determined heroic
stand for full equal rights for Ne
groes everywhere, and for the fight
,-ch they have waged for the
ScottSboro Boys. I want all Socialist
Party members to join in this fight.
II strongly urge united front Il
struggle against war and fascism.
Let us not let anything divide us.
Unity Is our only hope.
"Comradely yours,
L. c.. Farrar,
Educational Committee,
Socialist Party Branch of
Washington, D. c.
PSI am sending copy Of this
letter to the New Leader also"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-26
BY BILL ANDREWS
Daily Worker Midwest Bureaul

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-South side
workers held a mass funeral Friday
for Irene Polk, Negro housewife, de-
capitated after being railroaded to
an insane asylum by the Cook
County Bureau of Public Welfare.
Six hundred Negro and white work
ers, crowding every inch of space in
the South Side Workers Center,
pledged themselves to carry on a
struggle to prevent the repetition OF
such crimes, and to win compensa-
ton for the Polk family.
The story Of the Folks Is that Of
millions of other families. Mr.. Polk
has been unable to get work since
February. 1882. They were given
miserable half rations by the Cook
County Bureau of Public Welfare.
Mrs. Polk learned that this Public
Welfare" was another word for slow
starvation. With the cries OF her
four hungry children ringing in her
ears, she fought militantly for bet
ter relief.
Victimized for Her Militancy
The relief authorities had her ar
rested last September. She was not
given chance to communicate with
her family. She was held for 80
days before she was able to SNUG
gle out letter to her husband, tell
ing him where she was. Shortly
after this she was rushed to the
State Inse1ce Asylum In Dixon, Ill.
Carrying out the same policy Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-26
N.R.A. Board Uses
WeirtOn TriCkery
For Budd Workers
Promises Them Double
Dose of Elections That
Won't Come OFF

WASHINGTON. D. c., Feb. Is
The bloated ghost Of Roosevelt's end
less promises to the Weirton Steel
Co. workers is now walking in the
Budd Auto Body case.
The National Labor Board issued a
decision Saturday for a double dose
OF voting on the right Of the workers
to represent themselves in the plant
OF the Edward G. Budd Company Of
Philadelphia.
Despite the promises Of President
Roosevelt himself over month ago
that Weirton Steel Co. workers would
get the right to hold elections, no
such elections have been held.
The National Labor Board declares
that the workers, whose strike was
broken, and hundreds Of whom lost
their jobs, should be given the right
to vote on the question Of whether
they should vote to choose their own
representatives. The promises OF
Roosevelt and the wording Of section
IA of the MIRA. about the workers
rights are completely forgotten. The
Strikebreaking labor board offers its
services to supervise an election which
the owner Of the plant says will not
be held. The penalty" says the Ma
tional Labor Board, will be revocation
of the Blue Eagle. But the revocation
Of the company union and the slave
cnditions foisted on the workers by
the MIRA. and its strikebreaking la
Dor board is not mentioned.
The MIRA. press release on the
Budd case points out that the Budc
Co. is working on contracts for the
Navy Department, covering equipment
for heavy cruisers and destroyers, anc
the MIRA. does not want this work
to be interfered with or to become
too costly through improvement of the
workers conditions.
In its worthless promises the Ma
tional Labor Board takes occasion tc
SANDER the workers, and to tell them
they should never have gone out on
strike:
at is evident" they say, that a
great deal of antagonism and resent
ment has been unnecessarily aroused
by the fact that the strike was toe
hastily called, without giving the
company and the community reason
able time to consider the merits OF
the controversy, thereby prematurely
creating an industrial disturbance
against the best interests Of the work
RS themselves as well as the company
sand the community"
The National Labor Board admits
that it broke the strike by its order
CT November 23rd which declared that
the strike be called off Immediately
and the striking employees be REIN
stated as fast as work is available
without discrimination"
Turn to page for more news on
struggles in the auto industry
throughout the country
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-26
$4,000 London
.JObIess Meet:
TOnMannHeld
Macdonald Refuses To
See Delegation of
Unemployed

LONDON, Feb. 25-More than
$4,000 job-es5 mas-ed in the bitter cold
ct Hyde Park this afternoon to greet
the $500 Hunger MarcherS who yes
terday opened a National Unity IN
employed Congress in Bermondsey
London.
Yesterday the government Of the
ex-Socialist, j. Ramsay Macdonald
sought to behead the jobless protest
movement by arresting Tom Mann
and Harry Pollitt, Communist lead
ers Of the unemployed workers, or
charges of "sedition."
Macdonald yesterday announced hs
would refuse to receive a delegation
of the marchers.
"a Collapse From Hunger
Thirty-four workers suffering from
hunger ana exposure collapsed ano
were taken to hospitals at today's
gigantic demonstration, which was sc
big that ten separate platforms were
set up which speakers addressed
le workers.
One ga Ind three men were re-
ported injured as a result of a charge
by mounted cops near the marble
arch, but the prola5arian discipline
of the great gathering was so COM
plete that the $1,000 cops and plain
clothes provccateurs were unable tc
make the attacks they hoped for.
New Demonstration Tue day
Another demonstration, for Tues
day, in Trafalgar Square was called
in support of delegation of 20 who
will demand the right to address the
House of Commons in the name Of
the hundreds of thousands of unem-
ployed workers whom the marcher,
represent.
The police announced that the
Trafalgar Square demonstration
would be forbidden, and that they
would attempt to break it up.
Although the Trade Union Con-
gress and the Labor Party have Off
cially refused to support the Unem-
ployed Congress, many trade unions
trade union councils, and Labor Party
seals have supported it, and sem
delegates, to far greater extent thar
at the previous Unemployed Con-
greSs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-26
/ 50 UMWA Locals in
Ark.-Okla. District
Break With Lewis
Autonomous District Is
Set Up At Convention;
Elect Own Officers

FORT SMITH. Ark.-A conven-
ton of representatives from almost SO
locals Of the United Mine Workers OF
America, District 81, met in Fort
Smith, Ark, Feb. IS, and made the
district independent. The move is
a fight for rank and file control
for the right to elecb their own
officials and representatives. At the
convention, temporary district off,
cials were elected from the rank
and file, a committee was set up
tc draft constitution and prepare
for the elections Of permanent off,
Gals.
Fred Howell, Paris, Ark, was
elected district district president;
Tuggle, of Montana, Ark, vice-presi-
dent and Bert Loudermilk, Excelsior,
Ark, secretary These are the tenn
pora.y officials. Another convention
will be called soon to adopt the con-
stitution which is in formation now.
This action of the miners of Ar
kansas and Oklahoma was provoked
by the wholesale misleadership of
David Fowler and Elmer Nickel,
Lewis appointed officials for the dis
trict. Both these Lewis men have
a long history of burocracy and be-
trayals The last straw came when
they disrupted strike last Septem-
Der against the MIRA. code.
The rank and file had made ap-
peals to the N.RA. labor board, to
Roosevelt and johnson and to the
international executive board Of the
UM.WA but had been either re-
fused or ignored by them all. A last
appeal was made to the international
convention of the U.M.W.A. which
recently convened. The miners ap-
peal stated that if this autonomy
was not granted that they were go
ing to take steps to obtain it. The
U.MW.A. convention ignored the
appeal and this action Of the miners
came as last resort.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-26
Negro Woman Is Behedded
While in Custody of Sheriff
Mrs. Polk Had Been Framed for Fighting for
Relief; Anger Sweeps South Side

terrorism, the Juvenile Court took
the four children away from Mr..
Polk, farming them out to political
hangers on, paying them more
money for their board than the
Folks ever received as relief.
Found Dead, Head Severed FROM
Body
Protests from individuals interested
In the case forced the State authogt-
ties to bring Mrs. Polk out OF the In
sane Hospital. She was started back
to Chicago in the custody OF q
deputy sheriff.
She never reached Chicago. Her
husband finally found her In an I'M
dertaker's in Elmhurst, her head
torn from her body. The sheriff
says that there was an accident"
An inquest was rushed through be-
fore the family was notified, and q
complete whitewash was given al
concerned.
Workers organizations are investS-
eating the case, to find out whether
she was really killed in an accident,
or murdered. They report many con-
Predictions and Commissions In tbs
stories told. The same committee
is also fighting for damages for thu
family, since Mrs. Polk was In tbs
custody Of the state when killed.
The funeral was held under the
auspices of the Cook County On
employed Councils. Karl Lockner,
secretary OF the councils spoke 81
the mass meeting which prscsSe&
the t1nenaA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-26
Gallagher is Barred
From Entering Canada
To Aid Smith Defense

BUFFALO, N. Y, Feb. 25.-Leo
Gallagher, International Labor
go attoIrev. vas denied I'D
mission to Canada today to par
ticipate in the defense Of A. E.
Smith, general secretary Of the
CanHdian Defense League.
The governments ruling was
l. y contract labor
provision of the Canadian immi-
gra ion law. Gallagher thereupon
advised the Canadian Minister Of
immigration at Ottawa that the
law was not applicable in his case
as he was willing to serve without
compensation. He is awaiting
reply to his appeal. ALI organiza-
tons are urged to rush pro ests
to the Canadian Minister Of I'M
migration.
Gallagher was recently expelled
from Germany by the Nazis for
his defense activities for Geor5i
Din1itroff, one of he four "acquit-
ted" Reichstag defendants, still
held in the Nazi dungeons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-26
Heinwehr Said
To Plan March
To TakeVienna
Prince Starhemberg Also
Reported in Deal
With Nazis

VIENNA, Feb. 5.-Mobilization of
all the Hsimwehr for '.field maneu-
vers" outside Vienna have given rise
today to expec alton of a fascist
march on Vienna, to seize direct state
power, with the tacit approval OF
Chancellor Dollfuss.
At the same time it became known
that confidential representa- ives Of
Prince Ernst Won Starhemherg, leader
Of the Heimwahr, are at the German
border near Brunau. apparently for
the purpose Of negotiating with Ger
man and Austrian Nazis in Germany.
The city of Vienna is plastered
with green and whise Heimwehr pcs
tiers and stickers, carrying the por-
trait Of Starhemberg. Every public
TELEPHONE booth, street car, billboard,
thousands Of shop windows and other
places carry these fascist insignia.
1t was announced here yesterday
that in addition to the thousands of
workers arrested during and after
tn armed struggles in Austria, 1900
Social Democrats have been arres ed
on political charges, and are held for
trial in Vienna. All the prisons of
Vienna are choked with prisoners.
While republican monuments are
being torn down by fascists all over
the country, permission was given
today to monarchists to replace a
statue Of Empercr Franz Joseph in
the town of Muerzuschlac which was
1aken down after the world war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-26
Workers Delegations
To FIay SLAVE Codes
At N.R.A. Hearings
Code MOguls To Sharpen
Claws of Blue Eagle
On March 5th
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)

DAILY Worker Washington Bureaul
WASHINGTON, Feb. as. La
boris rank and file and its militant
leadership win face MIRA. Admins
traitor General Hugh s. Johnson on
Tuesday to report what's wrong with
the Blue Eagle. The top command
Of the American Federation of Labor
will be lined up as usual with in
dustry and its government.
Ostensibly, Of course, william
Green, John ]. Lewis, Sidney Hill
man and other labor takers will sit
on the platform to protect the inter
ests Of labor in the proceedings in
General Johnson's Field Day for
Critics" But they, probably better
than any others, know that their job
is to keep the Blue Eagle from
being picked to pieces.
To General Johnson, however, the
public-crieicism period is but a pre-
Jude to the real business ct the
great gathering he has called to
Washington. That business will be
done mostly in private, by the "Codc
Authorities" the big-business mogul:
who administer MIRA. codes. They
will get together behind closed doors
on March 5, to supply both the new
talons and the new feathers which
the public criticism sessions indi.
cate are needed to keep the Blue
Eagle functioning.
Sparing no effort to strengthen the
Illusion that the conferences are in.
tended to show exactly what the
country thinks Of the MIRA. ant
all its works." the Administration
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-26
Boston Police O pen
Fire on Striking
Seamen; 3 Missing
Baltimore Men Strike
'Muntropic' for the
M.W.LU. Code
SHIPS CAN'T MOVE
Mate Leads Attack !;
Beaten By Seamen

BOSTON, Mass, Feb. Is. -
Police guns blazed aboard the
s. S. Glenn White today and
three striking seamen are re-
ported missing.
Seamen, angered at attempts
OF the shipowners and police to get
the struck vessels under way with
professional breaking crews,
are Storming the ships and driving
on the ScabS.
When group OF strikers went
aboard the Glenn White, which tried
to sail with Scab crew, police and
ships officers met them with drawn
pistols and opened fire. The chief
mate, one of the leaders of the at
tack, was beaten to his knees by the
angered seamen.
Union leaders have been unable to
ascertain the effect of the gunh;e.
So far three seamen are unaccounted
for.
Ships Unable to Move.
Meanwhile the struck ships have
been unable to move out of the har-
Dor. The strike, which began over a
week ago and spread throughout the
entire coalboat fleet, is expected to be
spread to other ports.
The strikers are demanding the full
code Of the Marine Workers Industrial
Union, which includes the 1929 wage
scale for all departments, full crews,
rs cents an hour for overtime and no
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-26
ScOttsbOrO
MOtiOnDenied
By Callahan
Harlem Meeting Tonight:
All Organizations Urged
To Rush Protests
BULLETIN

NEW YORK.-Harlem workers
viii hold meeting tonight at AIS
Lencx Ave, to protest Judge Gala
hans refusal to hear the motion
for new trial for Patterson and
Norris, and the death of a Negro
baby in Harlem Hospital through
criminal negligence by the hospital
staff.
The League Of Struggle for Negro
Rights and the Harlem Interna-
tional LIbor Defense issued joint
appeal yesterday to all available
speakers to report Immediately to
visit churches ard other organiza-
tons in Harlem to mobilize mass
protests on the two cases. Speak
- ~7-~r-'I ~nn~rt a+ 80 y. T.. n,
1886 Lenox Ave-, or the L. S. N. B.,
. 7. 18th st. Tt was also de-
cid2d to hold big protest indoor
meeting in Harlem this week, with
time and place to be announced
later.
DECATUR, Ala, Feb. 25.-Judge w
w. Gynch) Callahan yesterday re-
fused to hear the motion CT the Inter
national Labor Defense for new
trial for Haywood Patterson and Clar-
ence Norris, two of the Scottsboro boTs
re-sonten"ed to burn in the electric
chair in the infamous Decatur lynch
verdict which has evoked the furious
indignation of the toiling masses
throughout the whole world. Osnond
K. Fraenkel, famous constitutional
attorney, was in Decatur to argue the
appeal for the I. L. D.
Callahan granted, instead, a motion
made by Attorney General Thomas
e. Knight to reuse to hear the appeal
en- the grounds that it was not filed
within the statutory limits. Callahan
himself had granted the delays in the
filing of the molten, after I. L. D
attorneys had pointed out that the
court clerk had taken more than
four weeks in preparing the trans-
c-.pt on which the appeal is based
BY yesterdays decision, Callahan de-
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