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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
OOPOttSyiIle,Pa. a.,
SmallHOmeOWners
Force Tax Hearing
Seize and Force County
Commissioners To At
tend Grievance Meet

POTTSVILLE, Pa, April ~
More than 1000 small homeowners
from West Maloney Township
smashed through the steel doors of
an Office of the Court House Annex
here today, and forced the two
Schuylkill County Commissioners to
accompany them to hearing on
exorbitant taxes to small home
owners while the large coal COM
panies assessments remain at pre-
vious low levels.
Assessments on small homes have
been increased as much as 300 per
cent, while the large coal companies
have not had increased taxes.
Following the demonstration, the
city was forced to appoint a COM
mittee to arrange assessment hear
ings throughout the township.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
BrOWder and Ford
To Report Sunday
On 9Th Convention
Star Casino Meeting
Open to Members Of
Mass Organizations

NEW YORK.-The first report to
be given in the New York district
on the recent historic 9th national
convention of the Communist
Party, will be made by Earl Brow
der, secretary Of the Communist
Party, and James w. Ford, Harlem
Section Organizer, at a joint mem
bership meeting of the Harlem
Section and mass organizations this
Sunday, two o'clock, at New Star
Casino, 107th Street and Park
Avenue.
The mass organizations of Up
per and Lower Harlem, Yorkville
and w shin gton Heights have
selected one of their leading mem
bers to greet the assembly. Letters
have been sent to all their members
notifying them of the meeting.
Thousands of leaflets have been
issued in all languages. Open air
meetings will be held tonight
throughout Harlem, Yorkvi1le.
Washington Heights and the Lower
West Side, while Sunday morning
has been designated as Red Sunday
for a last minute mobilization for
this important assembly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
NJ etal Workers, Left
Wing Garment Groups
Support Apr. ID
Conference

NEW YORK-Over $500 metal
workers, organized into the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial
Union, will march in a body on May
First under the banner of the
United Front Against Fascism and
War.
The district and local executive
boards have issued a call to all
members to down tools May Day
and demonstrate on labor's inter
national day of struggle.
All shops controlled by the union
are electing delegates to the United
Front May Day conference this
Saturday, l O'Clock sharp, at Web
ster Hall.
The workers of the Majestic shop
have voted to wear white shirts
and dark trousers. The girls will
wear a red ribbon. Every shop will
form separate unit with the shop
chairmen acting as captains.
A band has been engaged by the
union to provide working class songs
for the marchers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
$3,757,6OO,OOO Social
Insurance Fund In USSR
Trial Of 81 Unemployed
Begins in Minneapolis
LevinsOn Of LID Shows
Frame-up; Call 100
Witnesses

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, April IL.
The city government modified all
of its forces to secure conviction Of
the 81 workers arrested at last Fri
days demonstrations for G. W. A.
jobs at the City Hall, as hundreds
of workers jammed the court house
to the doors on the opening day of
the trial. The workers were ar
rested after the police had attacked
with tear gas, and after they had
forced the city council to grant all
of their demands for C.WA. jobs
and cash relief.
AS the trial of the first 10 work.
ers began, David Levinson, Interna-
tional Labor Defense attorney, who
is defending the workers, brought
out the prejudice of the court. Le-
vinson objected to admitting the
testimony of the policeman Ralph
Welbaum, who made an attack on
S. Davis, leader of the demonstra-
ton, but was over-ruled by Judge
Clyde r. White. Levinson brought
out that Mayor cambridge had
made statements "prejudicial to the
defendants" when he stated that
"he hoped the courts would back
up the police department" Levin
son made motions for steno-
grapher to take all testimony, and
that the city pay for furnishing the
unemployed defendants with a COM
plete transcript of the trial. Judge
White reserved his decision on these
motions.
Defense Witnesses Finally Admitted
The LID. attorney forestalled an
attempt to bar defense witnesses
when he brought out in the morn
ing session that none of his 100 wit
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
Turbine Plant Men
In Hartford Vote
To Go On Strike
A Walton Strikers in
Mass Picketing at
Pratt & Whitney

HARTFORD, Conn, April 12.-
Several hundred workers of the
Terry Turbine plant voted to strike
today. Auto statesmen meeting at
Hotel Bond discussed the strike
question for next week.
A committee Of strikers from the
Arrow are meeting the bosses on the
question of settlement. These work.
ers favorably discussed statement
issued to them by the Communist
Party. They show great interest in
the Daily Worker which is distri-
buted among them.
The Communist Party held a good
mass meeting last night The avia-
ton workers on strike at the Pratt g.
Whitney factory, are out solid. They
conduct mass picketing. The bosses
are threatening to bring in scabs.
Around $50 aviation workers are
striking here for higher wages, and
the strike is expected to spread to
other plants. A complete shut down
would bring out 1000 aero workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
Prepare for Distribution Of
May Day Edition Of Daily

Urging all districts their preparations the distribution
the special page halmon May Day edition. the crcla
ton department of the Daily yesterday declared that districts
far and ncudg Chicago would their
of the edition April %.
The this the circulation department
SIS to enable these districts entire preceding
Days of spca May Day
Another point greetings
from organizations individuals
May Day edition if mailed ~"
Units sections the Party
their orders Immediately respective districts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
L. S. Students to Strike
Against War at III A. Nj.
Administrators Threaten Penalties as Youth Pre-
pare Coast-to-COast Demonstration

NEW YORK Students of scores
of universities, colleges, and high
schools throughout the nation will
go on strike for one hour at II am.
today in a demonstration against
war, at the call of the National
Student League and the League for
Industrial Democracy, supported by
the American League Against War
and Fascism.
In many institutions, presidents,
deans, and principals have threat
ened disciplinary action against any
students who strike, while in many
instances a ma jority of the faculty
have decided to support the stud
ents in their demonstration
Among the colleges and univer-
sites where strikes will take place
are every one in New York and
Brooklyn; five in California, includ-
ing the University of California, the
University of Southern California,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
Gigantic Sum Given to
Trade Unions To
Administer
WORKERS GET ALL
Equals Funds US. Gives
To Big Capitalists
By VERN SMITH
DAILY Worker Moscow
Correspondent

MOSCOW, April IL (By
Radio) The workers social
insurance fund which the
state is turning over to the
trade unions for the coming
fiscal year totals 1880 900, 900
roubles, which is the equivalent of
$3,757 100000 at current exchange.
This sum, given to the workers
for medical care, care of children,
insurance for old age or temper
airy disability, including confine-
ment for women workers, is al
most exactly the sum which the
Roosevelt government has set
aside this year for the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation, to
be given to banks, railroads, utili-
ties and loan corporations, while
the workers of the U. S. get no
unemployment insurance, and a
paltry few get a starvation level
of federal relief.
Billion for Medical Care
Of the gigantic sum set aside by
the Soviet Government for work
ers' social insurance, 1,040, 900
roubles is for medical care; $780,
100000 is for worker-students'
scholarships; 864,0OO,0OO is for
building workers homes, hospitals,
rest homes, sanatoria, homes for
invalids, ETC.: 823,OOO,O0O is for wage
insurance against temporary inabil-
ity to work, such as pregnancy or
illness; 675, 100000 is for invalid
pensions; 327,0O0,OOO for catering to
workers children-creches, kinder
gartenS, Pioneer camps. extra diets
for school children, etc.
Unions Control Fund
The government decree concern
ing this item of the state budget
calls on the workers to popularize
the workers control of this fund.
and check on the correctness Of its
distribution. The fund is admins
tered by the trade union organiza-
tons with the constant assistance
of an immense network of volun-
tary workers acting as inspectors in
all plants, seeing that no one en-
titled to social insurance is missed,
and that the funds are properly adj
ministered.
The workers and office employees
maintain complete control over the
organization of treatment of the
sick, of sanatoria, hospitals and
other medical institutions, as well
as the creches, kindergartens and
children's homes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
Five Cities Report Mass Support May Workers

NEW YORK.-The Central Com
mittee of the Left Wing Groups in
the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union issued call yester-
day to the cloakmakers to mobilize
for a mighty United Front May
Day demonstration.
The committee called upon the
Left Wing Groups and sympathisers
to take the initiative in securing
the election of delegates from the
shop and union groups to the
United Front May Day Conference
at Webster Hall this Saturday noon.
The call emphasizes that where it
is impossible to elect delegates be-
cause of lack of time, the chairman
and secretary of the shop groups
or active members of the groups
should attend the conference in
order to report back to the workers
and push the mobilization for May
First.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13

the Los Angeles and Pasadena
Junior Colleges; the University of
Chicago, Johns Hopkins University,
and Ohio State University.
Many Mass Meetings
Among those where mass meet
ings against war have been called,
in many of which strikes will also
take place, are Yale University
Smith College, Amherst, Dartmouth,
Massachusetts, Institute of Techno-
logy, University of Washington,
Cornell University, Howard Univer-
sity in Washington, D. c., Temple
College, Philadelphia, and Missouri
State University.
At Cornell, Utica, N. Y, there will
be mass meeting and conference
against war on Saturday.
Students of Brooklyn College will
parade at the strike hour to Long
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
NRA InjunCtiOnS
AreEasyWhenUSed
To Stop Pay Rise
Atty Gen. Cummings
LabOrs To Explain
WeirtOn Case
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, April 12.-Attor-
ney General Homer S. Cummings,
asked today why the Alabama Coal
operators could secure an injunc-
ton Immediately to escape raising
wages and cutting hours, but the
United States Government is still
without an injunction against the
Weirton Steel Company 30 days af-
ter proceedings were instituted, re-
piled, that's a long story"
I'm the case of the Alabama Coal
operators getting their injunction,
it's a question of law, Cummings
said. In the case of the govern
ment against Weirton, there's a
question of facts involving evidence
from 400 to 500 people"
This labored explanation followed
the attorney generals admission to
the press that the department of
justice will take no action now to-
ward validating the permanent in
junction against E. T. Weir which
should have become effective April
10.
While this startling evidence was
coming out, delegation of Hosiery
Workers from the Hartman Knit
ting Mills at Hartman, Tennessee,
were visiting George L. Berry, OF
the National Labor Board, and other
officials to demand action against
this company. The White House
last March 81 promised Harri-
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
CWAUniOn, JObIeSS
Councils Act To
HaltFirine, PayCut
Demand Jobs or Cash
Relief To All
Unemployed

NEW YORK.-Figures released by
the New York Welfare Council show
that approximately $500 G. w. A.
workers were fired in New York City
during the month of March. About
$500 Of these workers were fired
at the start of the Roosevelt firings
early in March, and 10000 we're
fired on the basis of the Welfare
Departments pauper's oath ques-
tionnaire.
Following the demands Of the
workers expressed in huge mass
meetings and a city-wide demon
stration at the City Hall, under the
leadership Of the Unemployment
Councils and Relief Workers League,
and mass picketing at SO Lafayette
ST., Hodson was forced to reverse his
position, and ordered the rehiring
of 1000 workers with the promise
that 10000 would eventually be re-
hired on city work relief" The
workers are not satisfied with these
promises, and demand that all fired
workers be rehired.
Wages Of G. w. A. workers were
cut from SIS minimum to 1914
a week, and at the institution of
city work relief" another wage cut
Of $1.44 a week was handed the
manual workers, white collar work
ers were cut seven per cent, and
skilled workers as much as 40 per
cent. 1t can truthfully be said
that the only reason wages were
not cut to the Roosevelt minimum
of $7.20 a week was the mass &C
(ContfnHed on Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
Drivers
To Demand
LiceIlsesBack
BIacklisted Men Will
Appear with Families
at City Hall Today

NEW YORK-Under the leader
ship Of the Taxi Drivers Union of
Greater New York, hack drivers who
have had their licenses suspended
by the Hack Bureau of the Police
Department for militant activities
during the recent strike will appear
at the City Hall today at IL am.
to demand Of the Mayor that the
licenses be returned.
The hackmen will be accompanied
by their wives and children.
Samuel Orner, president of the
Manhattan local of the union, who
will lead the delegation, said that
drivers who were Disseminated
against and blacklisted by the fleet
owners for their activities in the
strike will join the protest.
Besides demanding that the
licenses be restored and that the
blacklisted men get their jobs back,
the hacknen will demand that the
city award cash relief to the I'M
employed drivers and their wives
and children.
Mass Meeting At 4 A. NJ.
At four O'Clock this morning a
mass meeting of hackmen will be
held at Irving Plaza Hall, 18th st.
and Irving Place, where the hack
men will voice their opinion on the
attempt of the Socialist leaders,
Judge Panken and Matthew Levy,
to split their ranks by herding the
members of the Bronx and Brook
Ign locals into the graft-ridden
American Federation of Labor.
At this meeting Samuel Orner
and Joseph Gilbert. the outstanding
leaders of the recent strike, will
report on the plans to defeat the
split move and to continue to build
up the fighting Taxi Drivers Union
into a powerful weapon against the
employers.
Mayor LaGuardia, in answering
the statement of the Tammany
Grand Jury, which criticised the
CONTINUED on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
Garfield, N. j., City
Council Endorses the
Workers Bill, 1898

GARFIELD, N. j., April r.
The City Council of Garfield was
forced to endorse the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill Oh. R. 1889 after
committee of workers from the
Unemployment Councils, led by
Saller, Communist candidate for
Mayor in 1888, demanded that
they do this.
At previous meetings of the
City Council, workers had APP
peared in behalf of the workers
bill. demanding endorsement.
When the committee presented
the bill Wednesday, the council,
by unanimous vote, and with
out a word of comment, endorsed
he bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
Tool, Die Mems
Ultinnatum Ends:
Vote On Strike
Get Up!' Boss Shouts
at Cab DriUer Who
Drops Dead at Wheel

DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau
CHICAGO, April IA yellow
cab owned by the Parmelee Co.
was parked at the corner of
Cedar and Rush SITS. here yes
terday. The driver, Frank Good
now, "a years old, 1851 Carmen
Ave, sat leaning over his wheel.
Just then Henry Jacobson. a
superintendent for the Yellow
Cab Co., came walking by. Hey
there" he shouted at the driver,
you can't sleep on duty" There
was no reply. IncenSed, Jacob
son leaped toward the cab. But
the driver would not bulge.
Frank Goodnow had sue
3umbed to the speed-up-he was
dead at the wheel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
ALI But 6 of 90
Rescued From
Ice-FlOe Camp
Schmidt, Ill, Flown To
Nome, Alaska, for
Medical Care

MOSCOW, April IL (By Radio
Only six men are now left on the
ice-f1oe camp Of the Chelyuskin ex-
petition, in the Boring Sea. The
Soviet flyers are energetically con-
tinuing their heroic rescue work,
and the last six are expected to
reach land very soon.
Dr. Otto Schmidt, leader of the
expedition, who is suffering from
pneumonia, was flown to Nome,
Alaska, from Cape Van Karen,
Siberia, in a plane piloted by Slep-
new. He was put under doctors
care there.
Professor Schmidt, who had con-
cealed for three days the fact that
he had temperature of more than
103, only agreed to leave the ice
foe before the last of his COM
panionS on specific orders from
Moscow.
(See Page for details of rescue.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
Would Kindle SmOlder-
ing Fires of General
Auto WalkOut
DEMANDS REJECTED
Smith, Leader, L avs
Ground for Treachery
and Sell-Out
DETROIT, Mich, April II.

DETROIT, Mich, April II.
The ultimatum of the tool
and die makers expires to-
night, with a mass meeting at
the Deutsches Haus where the
rank and file of the NJ. E. s. A. will
vote on strike action. The spirit Of
the rank and file of the M E. S. A.
points to an Overwhelming vote in
favor of strike. But Matthew Smith,
general secretary Of the NJ. E. S. A,
while paying lip service to the SEN
timent for strike action, at the same
time is trying to narrow down the
strike and put the workers at a
disadvantage.
The threatened strike Of the tool
and die makers. led by the Ne
chanics Educational Society of
America, stands in the center Of
the strike situation in Detroit. With
widespread discomfort among the
Motor Products workers, as the re-
suit Of the trickery played by the
A. F. of L. leaders in getting them
back to work, with the Hudson
workers negotiating for a 20 per
cent pay increase, and the Mich
igan Stove workers carrying on a
bitter struggle, a walkout Of the tool
and die makers in the job shops
would again kindle the smoldering
fires of a general walkout.
The Manufacturers Association
brazenly turned down the demands
of the tool and die makers for a
20 per cent wage increase, a So
hour week, stretched over five days.
They threatened to shift the work
out Of town, charging tn leaders Of
the M E. S. A. with stirring up
strife and hindering the return Of
prosperity"
Maneuvers With Bosses
The Detroit News today quotes
Smith as saying, in reply to the
tool and die manufacturers: 1--WE
presented our platform as tenta-
tive basis for discussion, and not as
a final demand. We stood ready
to talk the entire matter over, and
We stood ready to compromise, if
necessary. We probably would have
agreed to a 40-hour week, provided
it was a five-day, 40-hour week. We
were willing to take a 10 per cent
wage increase for the time being
at least. If a strike is voted, it
could be averted, of course, by any
individual members of the Asso-
citation who wish to talk terms"
Here we have the maneuvers of
crafty refornist leader who de-
mobilizes the strike spirit and con-
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
Shoot Witness in Trial
of Passaic Police Heads

PASSAIC, N. j., April 12.-Jacob
EiSman, states witness in the recent
trial of four Passaic police officials,
one of whom was Abraham Preiskel,
police commissioner of Passaic dur
ing the 1923 textile workers strike,
and an infamous clubber of workers.
was shot today.
Court records reveal that the
Eisman was a witness in the trial
of Police Chief Monks, Commissioner
Preiskel, Captain Cunningham, and
Captain Boyko, now awaiting sem
tence for non-feasance in Office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
NeeUs Flash

Special to the Daily Worker)
BALTIMORE, Md, April H.
Five hundred Baltimore seamen
marched on the Relief Administra-
ton offices here today in protest
against the forced labor work re-
lief" The seamen were joined at
the relief headquarters by 1000
other jobless workers in Joint
demonstration against forced labor
Marching back to the waterfront,
the seamen joined by hundreds of
workers, voted to picket the relief
administration, the City Hall, and
the slanderous capitalist press until
their demands are granted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
etS'COnventiOn in
Wash gtOn, May 10,
To Demand Bonus
Rank and File Commit.
tee Issues Call To
All Veterans
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG.
DAILY Worker, Washington Bureau)


WASHINGTON, April PA for
NAL call to war veterans every
where, both in and out of all
veterans organizations, to elect
delegates and march to Washing
ton for the veterans rank and file
convention opening here on May
10, was made public today by the
Veterans National rank and file
committee. The Convention will
press forward three veterans de-
mands-immediate payment of the
balance due on adjusted service
(bonus) certificates; repeal of the
Economy Act that cut off millions
Of dollars worth of veterans bene-
fits; and immediate relief to the
unemployed and farmers.
Harold Hickerson, Acting Sec
rotary Treasurer of the committee
announced the call was sent re-
Gently to thousands of veterans
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
Czech Police Beat
Starving Widows,
Orphans of Miners

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, April
12.-Eighty-e eight widows and 78
orphans Of miners killed in the
Nelson mine disaster, which was
due to speed-up and neglect of
safety provisions by the owners,
were driven by police out of the
parliament today when they de-
manded an increase in their dole,
declaring they could not live on the
amounts allowed them by the gov
eminent. The women and children
defended themselves Wig orously
against the police. several were in
jured and a number knocked I'M
conscious before they were driven
out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
Jewish Clubs Prohibited
In Saarbruecke n

SAARBRUCKEN. = The police
president Grunert has issued a po-
lice decree which prohibits all
Jewish clubs and sports organiza-
tons to arrange meetings of any
sort. Training days in this ter
ritory, under the control of the
League Of Nations, in the Jewish
sports clubs are not allowed any
longer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13

May Day Conference to be held
on Saturday, April IA at l pm. at
Webster Hall, 119 E. 18th st,
The statement calls for mass pro-
tests to the city administration, on
the latest police provocation in the
virtual denial of Union Square to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13

the revolutionary workers of New
York. 1t also calls for mass at
tendance at the Madison Square
Garden meeting on Tuesday, May
/, 1884.
1.-The necessity for involving great
masses of workers in this celebra-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-13
C. P. Issues Statement

NEW YORK.-The New York
district of the Communist Party is
sued statement yesterday calling
upon the workers of New York, Ne
gro and white, organized and I'M
organized to support with greater
determination tho United Front