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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Tugboats Pull Off
Struck Ship in NY.
Anchor Gypsum Prince
in Midstream

NEW YORK.-The S. S. Gypsum
Prince. which was struck at the
Staten Island docks on May Day
by the Marine Workers Industrial
Union was pulled away from her
berth by two tugboats and anchored
in the middle of the stream.
The ships crew and unemployed
seamen had been picketing the ship
at the Staten Island dock demand
ing a $3.50 wage increase, three
Matches on deck, no discrimina-
m against the strikers and rec
Elton of the ship committee and
y Marine Workers Industrial
4on,
lis soon as the strike began, the
YSish Consul and Mr.. Hoffman,
the Y. M. C. A. and the Sea-
lens Church Institute attempted
to ship a scab crew, but were not
successful.
1t was rumored that the British
Consul was aboard the ship on
Saturday to sign on scabs.
n The union is also leading the sea-
I'm on the S. S. Dominica, a Fur
liner, in a fight for a full
his wages for taking the ship
New York to England, where
will be laid up.
e company has offered the men
fourteen days pay for the job.
lnion delegate reported that
itish Consul threatened him
all for calling on the men to
the fight for full months
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Socialist Leaders
Sell Out Strike
OF Soup Workers
Settlement Agrees to
Blacklist Pickets Who
Were EsViolent"

CAMDEN, N. j., May 6.-The
strike of 1000 Campbell Soup work
ers ended in a sellout on May 4,
when they went back to work under
an agreement negotiated by P. w.
Chapel. federal mediator, the Ma
tional Labor Board and Frank Man
ming Socialist organizer of the In
dustrial Gamers Union.
This settlement has all the vicious
provisions of all other strikebreak-
ing settlements made by the board
1t calls for the blacklisting Of all
workers found guilty of violence"
for poll of employees to determine
their instrument for collective bar
gaining between the company union
and the Gamers Industrial Union,
100 votes emitting either union to a
representative on the negotiating
committee. The only apparent con-
cession made to the workers is 7
per cent wage increase, which they
had previously turned down.
The strike started March 81, the
workers demanding union recogni-
ton and 40 per cent increase in
wage rates to bring them up to the
1929 level. Throughout the strike,
what militant action was taken by
the strikers was done without the
help of the Socialist leadership. AS
late as May 3, there was militant
picketing at the plant by the rank
and file, while Manning was mark
ing time in the office announcing
that he would agree to whatever ar
rangements the Labor Board would
make.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Parade in NY.
Against Nazis
On May 10th
Inference Scores De-
NAL of Permit; Calls
for United struggle

NEW YORK. = Despite
declarations by the New York
police that a permit will be
refused, plans are going ahead
for a huge torchlight anti
Nazi parade, through the New York
Nazi stronghold in Yorkville, May
10, the anniversary of the Fascist
burning of great books by world
famous authors.
At the anti-Nazi conference held
Saturday, May 5 at Irving Plaza,
564 delegates, representing 125 work
ers' organizations, pledged whole
hearted support of the parade,
which forms at 7 p. m. at Karl
Schurz Park, 86th st. and Avenue A.
A leading feature of the parade
will be to rally mass support behind
the demand of the freedom of Ernst
Thaelmann, leader of the Commu-
mist Party of Germany who faces
death at the hands of the fascists
under the new death-penalty decree
just passed in Germany.
Tens of thousands OF leaflets are
being distributed throughout the
city, and many indoor and outdoor
mass meetings are being held, in
preparation for the demonstration.
Mayor LaGuardia, while permit
ting Nazi storm-troopers to march
uniformed and armed with clubs
through the streets, is trying to stop
the anti-Nazi demonstration on May
10.
At the May conference, a resolu-
ton of protest against Mayor La
Guardia's action was passed. A del
egation was elected to go to city
hall to demand the permit for May
10 be granted.
The arrangements committee for
the demonstration urges all organ
izations to flood LaGuardia with
kilograms, letters and resolutions
demanding a permit for the anti
NaZi demonstration.
Tremendous enthusiasm greeted
(COutinued on PnUe q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Mass Firing
Continues in
Auto Plants
10000 Laid Off, Hours
Slashed, as Production
Declines

Especial 70 the Dally HOrheTJ
DETROIT, May 6.-Mass layoffs
are continuing at all auto plants in
the Detroit area; in last two weeks
about 10000 workers, or over SO per
cent we're laid off at the Hudson
plants. Most of those who remained
are working only part time. At
the Hudson Gratiot Body plant dur
ing last week, the most that any,
body worked was u hours. This
means, of course, sharp reduction
in weekly wages.
The Chevrolet plant also laid off
a large number during past week,
while most of those working are
getting only about four days week.
Other shops are also cutting down
the working forces.
simultaneously with these mass
layoffs, automobile production in the
United States and Canada declined
during the week ending Saturday,
May S, for first time in weeks, drop
ping from 1886 to 95,277 units.
Another significant development
was the decline in the retail sales
of new cars during the past week.
Sales all along have Jagged far be-
hind production, but the manufac-
turers were looking forward to a big
market in the spring and summer
to get rid Of excess stocks. Up till
now, the demand for used cars has
actually been greater than for new
cars, and the sudden decline in new
car sales at this time may herald
the collapse of the so-called boom
in the automobile industry which
has been ballyhooed all over the
country. The fact is that workers,
farmers and small business people,
who ordinarily are the chief pur-
chasers of cars, either do not earn
enough money to buy new automo-
biles, or, If they do, they have to
spend it on necessities and in pay
ing back debts accumulated during
the long period of low income.
With increased mass layoffs fac
ing thousands of auto workers, the
Auto Workers Union is raising more
sharply than ever before the de-
mandS for layof pay and for pass
age of the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill (H. R. 1899 and call
ing on workers to fight for these
demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Find Negro
Murd by
Unknown Mob
Evidence Points to the
Lynching in n. Y.
Golf Club

NEW CASTLE, N. Y. May g.
The body of an unidentified Negro,
with d rope around his neck, was
found here yesterday on the greens
of the exclusive Pines Bridge Coun-
try Club.
Although police officials FASTENED
to deny it, he was evidently the
victim of brutal lynching, the first
reported in New York State in
years.
The body bore signs Of brutal
beating. The Negro workers head
had been battered with bludgeon.
Nearly all his clothes had been torn
off. The ground around the spot
where his body was found was
bloodstained. A trial indicated he
had been dragged to the spot from
an automobile which stopped on
the Pines Bridge Road 500 feet
away The rope around his neck,
q piece of clothesline, had been
twisted around three times, and had
evidently been used to drag him,
still living, to the place.
A whitewash autopsy under the
direction of DR.. Amos Squire, med
ical examiner, and the state police,
is being prepared by statements
from Sergeant H. 1. Gay of the
state police, and Chief
Clerk Marcy Held of the local po-
lice, that "all the evidence dis
credits the theory of lynching."
The only evidence available, how
ever. pointed very definitely in that
kilograms demanding that the
lynchers be apprehended, indicted
and the death penalty for lynch
erS enforced should be sent to
Governor Lehman at Albany, and
to Or. Amos Squire at New Castle,
N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07

(See editorial column on page s
for Communist Party call on Vets
Convention.)
WASHINGTON, May 6.-After a
parade through the streets and a
mass meeting, committee of five
veterans, elected by more than 400
outside, demanded of Roosevelt's
secretary, Louis M. Howe, that the
government cease sabotaging the
preparations for the mass veterans
convention to be held on May 10,
and provide adequate facilities for
the ex-servicemen who continue to
arrive at the Capitol for the con-
vention.
Demand Aid
The committee placed before
Howe the following demands:
l. That camp site, shelter and
food, and the use of the Wash
ington Auditorium, with transpor-
tation facilities from the camp to
the city be provided at the ex-
pense of the government, and that
under no circumstances shall
there be any consideration of
work-relief provisions.
2. That the management OF
the convention be under the
jurisdiction of the rank and file
committee elected by the dele
gates and marchers, and that
veterans shall be responsible to
these rank and file committees
alone.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
1900 Buffalo Strikers
Vote to Remain Out
Until Victory
DEFEAT RED SCARE
Vote to Strengthen
Mass Picketing

BUFFALO, n. Y, May g.
Twenty-three hundred strik-
ers in the Curtiss and Con-
solidated Aircraft plants voted
unanimously to reject the
Regional Labor Board proposal that
they return to work under their old
conditions and submit to compulsory
arbitration Of the board. The 1900
workers, at the meeting Friday night
Of the Aeronautical Workers Union,
voted to continue their strike. and
with tremendous ovation endorsed
the recommendation of the executive
of the union to reject the Regional
Labor Boards decision.
The first speaker, Chauncey Cook,
president Of the union, read the de-
cision Of the Regional Labor Board
and spoke against it and advocated
continuing the strike. While he was
reading the decision Of the Board,
a chorus of boos went up and the
strikers shouted, I'VE will never go
back until we win our strike" Nine
members of the executive council of
the union and the attorney for the
union, Isadore Greenberg then
spoke explaining the meaning of the
Labor Boards proposals. Just as in
all other cases where the Labor
Board has stepped in, it would mean
breaking the strike and losing their
demands and their union, the
speakers pointed out.
While George Brickner, the unions
vice president. was denouncing the
police terrorism, backward worker
yelled, That's socialism, Many
workers began to throw him out,
the rest shouting, out with him"
The incident was closed when the
worker, realizing the sentiment of
the strikers, apologized for his in
terruption.
The strikers, after voting to con-
tinue the strike, passed the follow
ing decisions for the strengthening
Of the strike ID The strike COM
mittee was broadened from nine to
thirty nine; q to draw women into
the strike committee and into lead
ing positions in the strike; 81 larger
mass picket lines established, with
mass meetings and parades; a to
conduct a daily mass meeting, fol-
lowing the mass picket demonstra-
ton; 81 the relief committee to run
a movie benefit; 81 strikers volun-
teered trucks to cart large supplies
Of food donated by seventy-five
strikers who obtained jobs elsewhere
and pledged weekly donations
The meeting showed the turning
Of the masses against the strike
breaking MIRA. and the tremendous
enthusiasm and determination Of
the strikers to go on to victory.
The Communist Party of Black
Rock is great force in support of
the strike, and is gathering fresh
forces to fight with the strikers to
victory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Police Attack Sioux
City Meeting; Jail
7 Relief Strikers
20 Injured as Police
Slug Men, Women
and Children

SIOUX CITY, Ia, May 6:-A
demonstration of $50 unemployed
workers and their wives and chill
dren here Friday, demanding the
immediate release of jailed leaders
of the relief strike, was brutally at
tackled by full mobilization of
police. The police, swinging clubs
and blackjacks, injured more than
a score of the protesting workers.
After the attack, the workers
again attempted to reform their
meeting at q downtown park, and
again the police attacked. In their
a Tt mpt to defend themselves
against the armed police, many
workers were injured and three po-
licemen were beaten by the defense
less workers.
Seven workers we're Jailed by the
police.
Police, after failing William
Levine, youthful leader of the strik-
ers, handed him over to armed
thugs who took him to the South
Dakota line, beat him unconscious,
and left him on lonely county
road Repeatedly when the workers
massed at the relief bureau, the
leaders have been jailed.
The International Labor Defense
urges workers organizations every
where to send resolutions protest.
ing this reign of terror and demand
ing the release of all prisoners
resolutions should be sent to County
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Auto Body Strike
in Phila. Effective
Victory Seems Near As
Large Shop Settles

PHILADELPHIA, May 6.-The
strike OF the auto body workers con-
tinues. All shops down last week
are being picketed. Two shops have
already signed up and it is expected
that three more will sign early next
week.
The workers went out on strike
last Monday, demanding union rec
ignition, and minimum wage scale
of seventy cents an hour for all
mechanics. Because the FinneSsey
Body Company, one of the largest
in the city has already signed, it is
expected that the others will sign
individually shortly or that the AS
ISOLATION may even do so, though the
latter possibility is far fetched.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Spanish Macy Men Of Elcano'
Visit Office Of Daily Yorker

NEW YORK.-A group of Spanish
cadets, from the naval training ship,
j. Sebastian de Elcano, visited the
Daily Worker office yesterday to
bring revolutionary greetings from
their fellow sailors and from
Spanish workers to the American
revolutionary workers through the
Daily Worker.
The 3,000-ton warship arrived in
New York last Friday, after avoiding
Havana. The officers, knowing the
revolutionary sentiment of the men,
skipped Havana because of the May
Day demonstrations, in order to
avoid participation in the demon
stration by large groups of the
sailors.
The hardy bunch of sun bronzed
fighters we're enthusiastic when
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07

they were shown through the Com
munist headquarters at so East 18th
Street.
I'VE greet you in the name of the
Communist Party said Comrade
Hathaway, editor of the Daily
Worker, land we pledge our soil
darity in your struggles"
The spokesman for the group re-
piled saying: I'VE are mighty glad
to hear Comrade Hathaway's words.
The Spanish workers offer their
solidarity, and will continue the
struggle until the victory of a work.
ers and farmers government in
Spain. We hope to win our ship for
the cause of the proletarian revolu-
ton. We will report your fraternal
greetings to the Spanish workers
and sailors"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Aero Strikers
Vote Down NRA
Arbitration
Charles Krumbein,
N. Y. Party Sec'y
Held in $4,000 Bail

NEW YORK.-Charles Krum-
bein, secretary Of the New York
district Of the Communist Party,
was released on bail Of $4,000
after being arrested Friday on
framed-up charge by agents Of
the Department of Justice.
His arrest is an attempt by
the Roosevelt government to
strike blow at the Communist
Party, following the gigantic
May Day demonstration, in
which c omrade Krumbein
played a leading part.
All workers and workers or
CARNATIONS are urged to send
wires of protest to the Depart
ment Of Justice, demanding the
withdrawal Of the framed-up
charges.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
$500 Leather Men
Strike; Leaders
Drop Pay Demand
Strike in Lynn, Denver,
Salem, Woburn
and Peabody

PEABODY. Mass, May g.
Leather workers, numbering over
$500, are on strike in the tanneries
of Salem, Danvers, Woburn, Lynn,
and Peabody. The rank and file
are incensed at the action of Off
Gals of the National Leather Work
ers Association and their undemo-
cratically formed negotiations COM
mittee for sanctioning the sending
to work Of over 400 leather workers
from among their ranks to clean
the skins out of the beam houses.
This action saves the manufacturers
the loss of money due to damaged
hides, and thereby takes away from
the strikers one of their main
weapons for victory.
Joseph Massides, Daniel Boyle,
Secretary and treasurer, and
Charles Chamoris, business agent,
put forward the idea of arbitration
as a means of settling the strike.
This is nothing more than an at
tempt to slide out from the respon-
sibllty of honest leadership and
constitutes definite betrayal of
the interests of the workers on
strike.
The Statement of Ring Of the
negotiations committee TO the ef-
feet that the union was not really
interested in the demand for
Is per cent wage increase, but
only in the signing of the agree
ment with the arbitration clause
and modified form of the
closed shop further confirms the
suspicion that the executive ses-
sions of the officials are prepar-
ing to complete the sell-out.
Danger Of Company Union
There is the greatest danger at
present that the Leather Manu-
facturers Association will soon in
woke the use of the Regional Labor
Board for use in calling upon the
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Teachers Storm City
Chambers in Chicago
Demanding Back Wages
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau

DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau
CHICAGO, May 6.-Unpaid Chi
cago teachers stormed the City
Council chambers Friday and booed
Mayor Kelley when he made them
vague promises and urged them not
to protest against loss of their pay.
Kelley, who was forced to meet
the teachers, tried to pass the buck
for their payless condition on to
Congress. He admitted that the local
banks have refused to buy tax war;
rants, but stated that President
Roosevelt and the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation are anxious
to lend money on Chicago school
properties so that the teachers may
get their back pay" The obstacle,
he claimed, was getting Congress to
approve the necessary legislation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Celebrate Red Press
| Day in Meetings
Turnout Land
HAIL BIG ADVANCE
Will Print 100000
Copies Each Day
Bv yERN SMITH
by FEh4N slFAA III
Daily Worker Moscow Correspond

DAILY Worker MOSCOW CorreSpOndIJ
MOSCOW, May 6 (By
Cable. - Celebrations and
meetings in every part of the
huge territory of the Soviet
Union are being held today
on the occasion of Workers Press
Day. Throughout the breadth and
length of the U. s. S. R. workers
are reviewing the long and brilliant
history of the Bolshevik press, the
part it played in the Revolution,
and planning still further to i'm
prove and extend the powerful and
numerous papers published in the
country today.
These papers-9,700 of them-to-
day have circulation of S6,OOO,OOO.
While still under the Czarist yoke
in 1914, upon the initiative OF
Pravda, which planned for itself a
certain legal position by means Of
the support of the masses Of the
proletariat, this day was organized
and the date set to fit in with the
celebration of the second anniver-
sary of the militant legal organ OF
the Bolsheviks. Then the day was
regenerated under altogether diff
ferent conditions. In 1922, in con-
nection with the tenth anniversary
of Pravda, the day was converted
to a day devoted generally to the
whole workers press.
The press throughout the entire
U. S. S. R. is developing today at
an extremely rapid rate, as can be
seen from the following paragraphs:
The Press in 1928
throughout the U. S. S. R. IN
576 newspapers were published
a circulation per issue of 8.8
ion copies. Different books pub
that year totalled 34212,
a total circulation Of 265.7
, 4 copies.
1929 - 955 newspapers were
blished - total circulation per
lie of 1875 million copies.
IN 1888 = over 9,7o0 papers were
abolished - total circulation per
issue, 100000 copies. These are
the latest available figures.
The increase during these four
wears has been more than tenfold
and the circulation advance has
been threefold. Newspaper produc-
ton in the U. S. S. R. exceeded
that of the network of newspapers
, in pre-war Russia eleven times, and
ovSr 10 times in circulation per
i, he. In pre-war Russia over 70
D, cent of all newspapers we're pub
ii led in Moscow and Leningrad.
In the U. S. S. R. these two cities
claim but slightly more than one
per cent of the total. Newspaper
production in the Ukraine alone
more than doubles the circulation
of all newspapers issued in SOVIET
territory in the pre-war period. The
Soviet rural press alone triples the
entire national pre-War circulation
One Third Language Papers
It is of the greatest significance
t,,at about one-third of all the news
papers in the Soviet Union are pub
lished in the languages of the many
peoples and nationalities living IN
the vast territory of the huge Soviet
land. The circulation of these news
papers constituted about 100000
COPIES as far back as 1929. In 1928
(Continued on Page p
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beds-the hunks that had provided
a decent flop" for hundreds of
seamen. Waterfront restaurants had
been ordered not to feed them. The
kitchen beside their own main mess
hall In the Seamen's project, here
on Thames Street, was cold, its gas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
By MARGUERITE YOUNG

ut was the first time in
my life I had decent chow
three times a day regular and
a decent flop every night for
three months. Damn them.
Damn every one of them shipown-
ers and their f1nks and holy rack
eteers and cockroach officials. Well
fight till we get it back like we had
it-relief run by seamen and run
decent. And we won't stop till we
clean out the whole master classl"
He stood on the sidewalk on
Thames Street in front of the Bal
timore Seamen's Relief project. I
had asked merely how he Jared
when marine workers we're in charge
of relief to the unemployed. But
no wonder he shook his fist and
spat an oath! The whole water
front was resounding with seamen's
oaths this sunny afternoon.
Enemy Forces Coalesce
It was April 26.
Trucks rumbled from lodging
house to lodging house, collecting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
'''Pravda'' Opens
Largest Printing
Plant in Europe
Shipyard Strike Ties
Up BattLeship Orders

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May g.
The New York Shipbuilding
strike continues to hold up new
battleships ordered by the Navy,
as representatives of the strikers
continue to turn down the COM
pany's offer Of a Is per cent
wage increase in place of the Is
per cent increase the strikers are
demanding. The whole matter
still remains in the hands of the
N. r. A. and President Roosevelt.
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cut off days ago AL by command
of tn federal government, acting in
response to seamen's foes who we're
determined to crush the whole Bal
timore waterfront movement.
This waterfront story takes its
place in the line of historic struggles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
Labor ROuses the Waterfront

Marguerite Young, staff writer
of the Daily Worker, since the
morning on which she left Wash
ington to meet the seamen and
lOngshOremen who were marching
to Washington on foot to place
their relief demands with the re-
lief officials, has been living
among the marine workers on the
Baltimore waterfront.
In the messrOom of the sea-
mems own relief project, Mar
guerite Young wrote the series Of
articles which begin today-arti-
cles written as an witness of
the seamen's struggles by the
,rusted buddy of the seamen, long
shoremen, barge IN, scowmen
and INSTRUMENTATION.
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Of the unemployed during the crisis
and holds aspects never seen even
in Tampa or Seattle. 1t fits snugly
into the puzzle picture Of the Amer
lean proletarian revolutionary move
Continued on Page q