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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
AlI-White Jury Is
Picked for Trial Of
6ChicagO Workers
Defendants Framed for
Protesting A g ainst
Relief, Jim-Crowism
DaiIv Worker Midwest Bureanl

DAILY Worker Midwest Bureaul
CHICAGO, Ill, May l5.-Six
workers faced an all-white jury in
the Criminal Court in Chicago to-
day on charges of assault with in
tent to murder. and conspiracy.
The charges we're framed up fol-
lowing a vicious police attack on
demonstration of Negro and white
workers at relief station on the
South Side a year ago.
Today's court session was occu-
pied with selecting a jury. Two
Negroes on the panel, one a mem
Der of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People.
were rejected by the prosecution
without even being questioned after
they had been accepted by the de-
tense.
The court room was packed with
workers, who answered the call of
the International Labor Defense to
show their solidarity with the de-
PENDANTS.
The defendants are David R.
Pointdexter, Henry Coe, Jesse
Smith, Charles Hampton. Della
Page and Mae Wernick. They are
being tried in the court Of Judge
Allegretti at 26th ST. and California
Ave.
The defense will begin to present
its evidence Wednesday,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Communist Elected
in Wisconsin Vote
Vote Shows Tremendous
Rise Over Last Year

PHELPS, Wisconsin, May 15-
Running on a united front Workers
and Farmers ticket, leading mem
bers of the Communist Party here
have been elected to local office.
The total Communist vote rose ire
mendously from last year.
Edwin Stenback, Communist, was
elected Township Clerk, with 295
votes against his opponents 100.
Paul Kallio, non-Party member
on the united front ticket, received
300 votes against his opponents 212.
For the Office of chairman, the
Communist candidate received 1873
votes against his opponents 200,
losing the office by three votes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Roosevelt Budget
Cuts Half Billion
Off Relief Funds
Sets Aside Huge Sums
for War Building,
Bank Payments

WASHINGTON, D. c., May Is.
Roosevelt today delivered his
budget message to Congress, slash
ing half billion dollars off orig
NAL relief estimates, and earmark-
ing hundreds of millions for war
purposes and war construction.
Deducting appropriations already
made, leaving total of $1,322,-
100000, Roosevelt asked that from
this be deducted $6,095 900 for Fed
eral Land Banks payments, in
ternal revenue service, ETC., leav-
ing total of 81 ,225, 905 900. From
this amount 100000 is to be
allocated to the Civilian Conserva-
ton Corps, whiting down the re-
lief appropriation to $940,905, 900.
This in turn is to be slashed fur
ther by appropriations of $780,
100000 for road construction, $48,-
100000 for the Tennessee Valley
Authority, $40,000,00O for naval
construction, $35,O00,000 for public
buildings, $5000,000 for the inter-
American highway, and 1925, 900
for executive office extension, leav-
ing S672 100000 for relief ex-
penditures until some time in 1885.
That most of the appropriation
is to be spent for war purposes
is evidenced from the most cur
sorry examination of the Roosevelt
projects. Forty millions are to be
used outright for naval construc-
ton, $48,000,000 for the Tennessee
Valley Authority, an undertaking
designed to manufacture nitrates,
$5,oO0000 for the Inter- American
Highway, a road through Mexico
and Central America designed to
strengthen the sway of American
imperialism over the subject ma
tons of Central America, $685.
100000 for the frankly war prep
arations for the militarization Of
American youth in the c. G. G.
camps, and additional millions to
the banks and industry.
The $1,322 5000 requested to-
day completes the general S3,166,-
100000 Recovery Fund" asked by
Roosevelt in his budget message
to Congress on January 3. 1884. To
the bankers will go approximately
S800.000,000 annually as interest
for loans under this budget.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Birmingham Legion
Wrecks lid Office; so
Miners Held By Sheriff
Strike Talk Grows in
T.C.I. Company
Camps
BY JOHN HOWARD LAWSON
Especial to the Daily WOrker)

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May IS
The Highway Bridge between Coal
Valley and Oakman in Walker
County was dynamited, by provo
cateurs probably, and the offices of
the International Labor Defense
were wrecked by police and Ameri-
can Legion gangs here today as the
strike situation grows more tense.
Despite an intense drive of terror
ism. the Communist Party is hero
ically distributing thousands of
leaflets on the terrorism and the
strike situation, as hundreds OF
Negroes and white workers rally
around the Party in its fight against
the big coal companies.
There is open talk of the pos
sibility of guerilla warfare if the
strike grows. Strike talk is spread
ing among the Tennessee Coal and
Iron workers.
A fierce assault is being made in
the press against the Communists
The Birmingham News quotes chief
of police Collums as saying of the
Communists:
I'VE will make a list of all rad
icaIs, arrest Them fingerprint
them, and then drive them out
Birmingham If they can't CO.
operate with the government. If
they want to go to Russia, let
them
A total of so miners have thus
far been arrested in connection with
the murder of two strikers by two
deputies.
The sheriff's Office placed guarc
around Walker County Hospital, as
serting that a group of men, sup
posedly strikers, tried to enter the
room of Jim Lakey. wounded spe-
cial deputy. Lakey and Roger,
Swindle, a miner, we're wounded in
gun battle. Both continue in q
grave condition.
Judge Ernest Lacey today charged
the Walker County Grand Jury
Circumstances are such they cal
for a thorough investigation"
Another bombing in Birmingham
Monday tore hole in the floor Of
Continued on Poge p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Police Fired on Men
from Stockade Which
Housed Scabs
GUARDS KILL NEGRO
PhiIa. Ions hOre IN en-
Plan Action

SAN PEDRO, CAL, May Is.
Two striking longshoremen
woe murdered and ten others
seriously wounded when po-
lice opened a whitening fire on
a mass picket line of over
1000 dock strikers. Word has
also reached the strikers here that
John Elmore, Negro longShore-
man, was killed by company guards
in Galveston, Texas.
The dead longshoremen were
identified as Dick Porter, TO- OF
San Pedro. shot through the chest;
John Knudson, shot through the
heart.
The strikers were picketing the
West Basin docks where ships were
moored. They then advanced to-
ward stockade where strikebreak-
ers we're housed under police protec-
ton.
Men Shot on Docks
Police fired from the stockade
This aroused the strikers. They
moved toward the stockade. The
light between strikebreakers and
strikers spread from the stockade to
he docks where the Grace line
hips we're berthed. Here the police
1red point blank into the strikers.
The strikers have always picketed
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Nantucket Lightship Rammed
And Sunk By Olympic; Z Die

NEW YORK. - The famous old
light ship Nantucket was sunk at
II am. yesterday off the dangerous
shoals of Nantucket and seven of
its crew are dead after the ship was
rammed by the White Star Liner
Olympic as she was speeding
through dense fog toward New
York.
Only three Of the crew were saved.
The dead are:
Perry. engineer; J. F. Richmond,
oiler; A. Montiro, second cook; 1.
Pine, cook; M. S. Rodriguez, sea-
man; j. Fortes, seaman; E. B.
George, seaman.
Those rescued we're:
George w. Braithwaite, captain:
c. E. Mosher, first mate; w. w.
Perry, radio operator; Robert, oiler.
The Olympic struck the Nantucket
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16

at an angle, ripping it from stem to
stern. Captain ]. w. Binks of the
Olympic reported that he was
ploughing through a heavy fog fol-
lowing the radio directional beam
sent out by the Nantucket Light
Ship.
What speed the Olympic was
making in the perilous waters off
the Nantucket shoals was not stated
in Captain Binks radio report of the
disaster.
But all reports indicate that the
crash could have been avoided had
the ship been moving at a slower
speed and if more careful attention
had been given by the navigation
officers to the radio beam ssnt out
by the light ship. The snip was
obviously riding too close to the ra-
dio beam
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
ALL. Leaders
Try to Throttle
Strike In Flint
Men Hold Picket Lines
While Takers Secretly
Meet With Bosses
Especial TO the Daily worker

Especial to the Daily Worker
FLINT, Mich, May 15.-A. F, Of
L. leaders have begun secret nego-
tiations in an effort to break the
strike of 5000 workers of Fisher
Body Plant No. / here, who struck
last Thursday. This is indicated
in a statement issued today by
Francis ]. Dillon, chief A. F. Of l..
organizer in Flint, who returned
yesterday from Washington. Dill
Ions statement says nothing about
the mems demands, makes no de-
mands, makes no criticism Of the
company, but talks about ian ad-
iustment Of this matter that will
be satisfactory to employees and
employers"
Dillon also conferred secretly
yesterday with Richard L. Byrd,
A. F. of L. representative on the
Automobile Labor Board. A move
is reported under way to bring in
the strike breaking Labor Board
officially tomorrow. All these nego-
tiations are taking place in an at
mosphere Of unusual secrecy and
the men are being kept completely
in the dark as to what is going on.
Strikers Continue Fight
Despite sabotage OF A. F. OF L.
officials, strikers are continuing
militant picketing, with the COM
pany attempting to bring in scabs
with the aid Of police. Police to-
day attacked pickets who were at
tempting to keep out scabs.
While the A. F. Of L. leaders are
trying to throttle the strike. which
broke out despite their strenuous
efforts to prevent it, the Buick
Company announced this morning
that all departments with the ex-
ception Of the assembly line were
resuming operation today. Whether
this Is actually SO could not be
learned. The Buick plant, employ
ing $4,000, had been compelled to
shut down by the Fisher Body
strike.
The strikers are demanding res
toration of the old wage rates,
which had been cut Is to 10 per
cent, reinstatement of victimized
workers, slowing down of speed-up,
and union recognition. These de-
mands can be won only if the men
take the strike into their own
hands, elect broad rank and file
strike committee representing every
department, increase picket lines
and stick together, refusing to be
tricked by A. F. of L. leaders and
the Labor Board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Lundeen Introduces Bill
To Investigate Attacks On
Strikers Turnout L. S. A.
Western Union Apologies!

c. WLEVER president of the Western Union Telegraph
eater thoroughly investigating the Daily Workers charge that their
Birmingham Office had deliberately suppressed vital strike filed
paper verbally rendered the apologies to the
Daily"
wlever gave statement to the United Press saying:
telegraph has right to refuse bona fde
dispatch written in plain English"
conversation with the Daily" editor Mr. Weyer ignored
collision between his local Birmingham and
Companys hrelngs attributed the
suppression the stories bad judgment the the local
However he assured that instructions had been
would the exercise of bad judgment by the B
mingham other local Offices in the future.
both the apology and the promise At
that will be much vglant
workers struggles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
M.W.I.U. Calls
ProtestAgainst
Dock Terror
All Union Branches to
Take Action on MUIR
der of Strikers

NEW YORK. The National Bu-
reau of the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union issued a call yesterday
to all seamen, longshoremen and
harbor workers to join with the
strikers on the west coast and gulf
port towns in a gigantic protest
against the wanton, ld-blooded
murder of Negro longshore.nan
in the port of Galveston by COM
pany thugs and the shooting to
death Of two striking lockers in
San Pedro, Cal.
"All branches of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, all ship
committees and dock committees
must at once rally the seamen and
longshoremen in protest meetings
against the bloody terror that now
exists on the docks in California
and in the South" said the call
"Send kilograms of protest to the
Mayor and Chief of Police of Gal
weston, Texas, to the Mayor and
Chief of Police Of San Pedro, Cal,
demanding that the terror cease
and that the workers be given the
right to strike and picket.
Support the strike by refusing
to carry or unload scab cargo.
Spread the strike to other ports un-
der the leadership of rank and file
strike committees"
T.U.U.L. Calls for Protest
The Trade Union Unity League
issued a call to all it's affiliated
unions to take energetic measures
in building up wide protest move
ment against the bloody terror ex-
erted against the striking long
shoremen by the ruling class.
1.-THE murder of these longshore-
men is part of the general terror
with which the capitalists are an
swering the growing strike wave.
The protest against this terror
must be extended and combined
with other working class organiza-
tons, International Labor Defense,
workers clubs, locals of the A. F.
of L., etc."
All unions of the Trade Union
Unity Council of Greater New York
were urged to send wires of pro-
test against the murder Of long
shoremen to the Mayors of San
Pedro. Cal, and Galveston, Texas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Vets in Radio Plea
Call for Unity in
Fight for Bonus
New Groups Arriving
Daily for Long
Bonus Fight
BULLETIN

bOLLElIN
There will be a mass meeting
at Union Square this morning
"wednesday at II am, in sup
port of another contingent of
New York vets who are leaving
for Washington today at 2 pm.
to Join the fight for the cash
payment of the bonus. All workers
and sympathizers are urged to at
tend.
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, May 15.-"We
are here for our back pay and the
repeal of the Economy Act. We
will push this fight until we win, u
Harold Hickerson, secretary-treas-
urer of the Veterans National Rank
and File Convention, scheduled to
open on May II at Fort Hunt, Vir-
ginia, declared last night over a
hook up of the Columbia Broad
casting Co. Other speakers on the
radio program were George Altman
and James J. Beatty, both we'll
known bonuseers who are on the
Rank and File Committee. The
right to the radio facilities were
won by the vets through their mill
tant demands.
Vet leaders expect a registration
influx late this afternoon because
many of the ex-soldiers have just
received their work relief checks
THE registration is keeping pace
with the registration of last year
when the total was close to 1000,
Hickerson informed the Daily
Worker.
In the conclusion of his radio ad-
dress Hickerson stated:
ITO you who have been stopped on
your way to Washington the COM
mittee wishes to bring to your at
tention the fact that the Cons.itu-
ton guarantees you the right to
come to the Capital and petition
Congress. However, the necessity
for maintaining order and discip-
line no matter what happens must
be borne in mind at all times, no
matter what the provocation.
This is an occasion when we
can prove once more to our peo-
pie, whether they be workers,
farmers or others, that though
many of us have suffered much
in the years since the war, there
are some things they can never
take from us-our courage, cur
determination and our organizcd
will to see this thing through.
Buddies and comrades, we'l see
you in Washing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Breeder, Strikers
Lawyer, Kidnapped,
Beaten in BrawIey
Police Aggravated Over
Gettle But View This
Crime Serenely
Especial to the Daily Worker,

SAN DIEGO, Cal, May 15,-Wil-
mer Breeder, International Labor
Defense attorney, who is represent
ing Hancock and Ray, Imperial VAL
ley strike leaders who have been
sent to prison for six months, was
kidnapped and beaten in broad
daylight, today, scarcely 80 yards
from the Justices Court in Brawley.
The crime was committed by
vigilantes, who cut the tires of
Breeden's car and put meal in his
gas tank. The local police are COM
pletely Indifferent to this latest fas-
cist outbreak.
A great intensification of the ter
ror against Imperial Valley workers
is now in progress. General Pelham
Glassford, the former police chief of
the District of Columbia, who en-
gagged in the attack on the veterans
during the first bonus march, and
who has been sent down by the Ma
tional Labor Board to adjust mat
ters for the bosses, is encouraging
the terror.
His attitude and the attitude of
the police authorities in the face
of the repeated assaults and kid
napings of workers and their rep
resentatives is in glaring contrast
to the attitude of the authorities in
the same territory in the case Of
the KIDNAPPING of William F. Gettle,
millionaire oil profiteer. The full
force of the law has been thrown
out to catch his kidnapers, and
three have already been caught.
The whole state Of California is
being searched for the kidnapers.
In the case of the workers, how
ever, the police, it seems, are I'M
aware of what is going on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Congressman Scores
Gun Rule in Ala,
Other Centers
ACTION DEMANDED
Protest ent
Grows in Nation
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, DC, May
ia resolution authorizing
immediate Congressional in
vestigation of the killing of
strikers and the extreme
terror of the police, militia
and special armed deputies"
in breaking picket lines in the Ala
bama iron ore fields and elsewhere,
was introduced today by Represen-
tative Ernest Lundeen, Farmer
Laborite, of Minnesota.
The recent acts of police and
private armies against strikers are
a piece of bsrbarism," Lundeen de-
clared in an interview with the
Daily Worker. They constitute a
crime against American labor" he
said.
Reciting conditions, the resolution
declares:
Lundeen's Resolution
Whereas, newspaper reports COM
ing from Birmingham, Alabama,
state that 5000 iron ore miners are
striking in the mines controlled by
the Tennessee Coal and Iron Cor
poration, and other large Alabama
mining interests,
Whereas, according to said press
reports, police and special armed
deputies and National Guard and
other state and national troops are
being used against the strikers, de-
priving them of their rights to strike
and peacefully picket;
Whereas, during the past week.
according to said reports, many
striking miners have been killed,
numerous strikers wounded and the
picket lines broken by the extreme
terror of the police, militia and
special armed deputies;
Whereas, the machinery of the
government should be used to pro-
tect the farmers and workers in the
natural course Of their work and
duties, guaranteeing them the right
to exercise their inalienable rights
as free citizens;
Employers Private Armies
Whereas it is common practice,
and it frequently happens, that
force and violence and terror are
(COntinued ON Pare q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Thugs Murder 3
Dock Strikers
On Picket Line
General Strike Called
against Police Terror
In GundaLajara, Spain

GUADALAJARA, Spain, May Is.
In protest against police vio-
lence, a 24-hour general strike has
been called here. The police drew
pistols and swords against a pa
rade of metal strikers, in which
80 children of strikers from Mad
rid took part in the parade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Schmidt, Hero
OF Chelyuskin,
In W ashington
To Be Guest of Soviet
Envoy Before Leaving
for Soviet Union
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
Daily Worker Washington, Rnreaul

by SE1MOUR WALDMAN
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 49,
Professor Otto Yulevich Schmidt,
rty-three-year old Arctic explorer
the head of the Soviet expedition
which unsuccessfully attempted to
negotiate the North Eastern pas
sage from Leningrad to the Pacific
in one season in the semi-icebreaker
Chelyuskin, arrived here today ac-
companied by G.. A. Ushakov, his
rescuer, also distinguished Arctic
scientist. The expedition ended
when the Chelyuskin was crushed
in the ice north of Behring Strait
on February 13.
Both explorers came here from
the West, on their way home via
Washington and New York. They
will stay in the capital for few
days as guests of Ambassador Alex
ander A. Troyanovsky of the U. S
S. r.
A few moments after the train
came to full stop, Professor
Schmidt. smiling and looking fully
recovered from his attack of pneu-
monia, contracted during the lat
ter days of his experiences on the
ice foes, stepped from the plat
form, but a few PAGES from the Sow
let Embassy welcoming group headed
by the Ambassador, the latter shak-
ing hands and kissing Schmidt on
the cheek in true Russian style.
Introductions to the Soviet staff
followed all around.
The Professor and his handsome,
youthful rescuer seemed to enjoy
the experience of posing, with Am
bassador Troyanovsky, Mrs. Troy
anovsky and some members of the
staff, for the newspaper photo
graphers.
And after few more pictures,
some Of which featured the Profess
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Electric Company Paid
Thayer on Sly, Probe
OF Power Graft Finds

ALBANY, N. Y, May 15-Indi-
cation of the shady character of
Senator Warren T. Thayer's deal
ings with the Associated Gas and
Electric Company in the past six
years, during which he received
a salary of $1,000, was indicated
today when the Senate Judiciary
Committee, which is conducting a
half-hearted investigation, found
that Thayer's name had not been
listed in the company's books.
Thayer was head of the Sen
ate's utility committee, supposedly
for the purpose of safeguarding
the public from exorbitant gas
electric rates, at the time he re-
ceived payment "for services rem
dered'' to the power trust.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
CONGRESS Gets DEMAND FOR PROBE OF BOSS TERROR
Many In Spain
Take Up Fight
for Thaelmann
Scientists Sign Protest;
Mass Demonstration
in CzechOslovakia

PARIS, By MaiD On the mi
tiative of the Spanish Committee
Against War and Fascism, Re-
lease Committee for Ernst Thael-
mann, leader of the German Com
munist Party, and the prosecuted
German anti-fascists h as been
formed. A number of leading bour-
geois newspapers in Madrid, the
"Heraldo de Madrid" Gel Liberal"
la TERRA" LA Libertad," as also
a great many provincial newspapers,
have published a protest declaration
against the Nazi terror, signed by
prominent intellectuals.
This protest has been drawn up
by II we'll known scientists and
scholars, members Of the Scientific
Atheneum of Madrid" headed by
Antonio Machado and Rafael Lainez
Alcala. 1t is an extremely impress
sive declaration, and makes a spe-
cial demand for the immediate re-
lease of Thaelmann and Torgler.
In connection with the action for
Thaelmann, signatures are being
collected in a number of places in
Czechoslovakia. In the Graslitz dis
trict 1880 signatures have already
been collected for Thaelmann's re-
lease, in the Neudeck district $50
The lists with their many signatures
are sent in to the German embassy
in Prague.
Protests demanding the release of
Thaelmann have also been adopted,
and sent to the German embassy
in Prague, by great anti-fascist
demonstrations in Kladno, Schlan,
Neustralsev, and Ruzomberok.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Call National Guard
To Smash Shoe Strike

MOBERLY, Mo-, May 15.-The
National Guard was ordered by
Governor Guy B. Park to be in
readiness to smash the strike of he
Brown Shoe Co. workers here. City
officials and bosses of the company
made the request to the Governor.
The 1924 workers on strike had
remained idle at their machines
until the bosses were forced to close
the plant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
First Air-Train Flies In USSR;
Mosco,v-CrimeaHghtP

meters, and after two-hour flight
returned to is airdrome.
In the near future this first air
train, with its present crew, intends
to fly from Moscow to the Crimea.
This will be the first flight in the
world in which three gliders are
towed over so great distance.