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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
How Ramsey Acts

THE fact that the dominant purpose of
Thomas Ramsey, Business Agent of
the A. F. of L. Auto Workers Federal
Union, in the Toledo strike of the Auto
Lite plants is, and always has been, to
smother and paralyze the fighting mill
fancy of the men is nowhere better re-
vealed than in a statement by Ramsey himself
Writing in the Toledo Union Leader this A F.
of L. official whose shameful Settlement" thwarted
practically all the leading demands of the strk-
ers after their wonderful fight gives himself away
as follows:
a.. called Mr.. Taft on the phone and in
formed him that the workers were becoming ex-
tremeIy impatient and that could no longer hold
them in check ="
Learning of the open and raw discrimination
against the strikers the Auto-Lite was practicing
IN the plants, the men were furious.
Demands were Immediately made from the
floor" confesses Ramsey, that we start at once
to picket the plant"
But who stopped the workers from fighting for
their rights? Ramsey answers:
They persuaded, however, [by Ram
Sey1 after considerable discussion to wait until
Wednesday morning :" 81.
Wednesday comes and the men find that strike
breakers have been smuggled into the plant by the
hundreds The men want to act
But again, who holds them back from fighting
their hated class enemy, the Auto-Iite company?
None other than Ramsey, who states;
This precipitated another crisis, and we found
1t extremely difficult to avert real trouble :"
WHAT is Ransey's conception of crisis and
" real trouble?" 1t is when the men show their
fighting determination to fight for their rights
What does Ramsey do in all these crises" which
are only crises for the employers. or for one who
looks out for the bosses interests He always gets
the workers TO back down to refrain from striking
any blows against the employers wherever he can
Preaching the theory that a crumb is better than
nothing, the theory that the workers had better take
whatever they get now, rather than fight it out
determinedly, Ramsey, like oil A. F. of L. bureau
Gratis, like all Socialist Party top leaders get the
men to stop fighting just at the time when they
have the employers on the run.
But, instead of helping the men, this policy
inevitably defeats the and robs them of all
partial gains whatever. II demoralizes them dis
spates their forces, strengthens the employers and
encourages reaction and further attacks.
The strike breaking discrimination now going
on in the AutoLite plants is ock-ribbed proof Of
this.
The steel workers, coming to grips with the steel
trust, are hampered by exactly the same kind of A.
r of L. leadership. leadership that stalls and
stalls and stalls the men, thus giving the steel plum
derers plenty of chance to get themselves ready The
steel men should learn from the Toledo Detroit and
Minneapolis experiences. The steel men should
form solid battle line of all steel workers and take
the strike into their able hands. Guard against
A, F OF L. leaders treacheryl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
The Senate Sburns the Vets

THE defeat of the Bonus Bill by the
Senate, introduced as a rider to the
Silver Bill, proves once more that the
major political parties are quite definitely
enemies of the rank and file vets.
The cynical action of the Senate only
proves that the vets can win their demands
through united mass struggles against both parties
in Congress. Reliance on the hypocriticaI promises
OF capitalist politicians only lead to defeat of the
vets needs.
Strenuous efforts must be made to get the Bonus
Bill on the floor of Congress Mass meetings, pro-
tests, kilograms should let the Congressman know
that the vets are determined to continue the fight
for the Bonus
The Farmer-Laborites who propose the amend
ment are not true friends of the vets but play
their own part in deceiving the men who are now
being paid with oppression and starvation for their
services to their country. AS for the liberals
Senators like Copeland and Wagner Of New York
voted against the vets.
To force the passage Of the bill huge mass
movement is needed, led by the Veterans Rank and
File National Committee. The Workers Elk Service
mems League must redouble its work to give this
struggle leadership.
The Communist Party gives its wholehearted
and unqualified support to the vets in their fight to
combine the forces of the working class with their
fight against the Wall Street pirates who are rob-
bing them of their just due. Forward to the strug-
gle for the vets!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
Decide On Strike Action
Continued from Page II

propose to call off the strike enter into negotiations
with the steel bosses for some half-baked, mean
ingless union. recognition without the workers
gaining one single concession: no higher wages, no
shorter hours, no slowing down Of the speed-up, in
Short-nothing
Such settlement obviously, would not be
settlement in the interests of the steel workers;
It would be a settlement in the interests of the
steel Bosses Such proposals must be defeated!
The seven-point program-this is the issue! This
is what the honest rank and file delegates must
fight uncompronisingly for in Pittsburgh.
EARL FORBECK, spokesman for the Committee
of Ten, according to press reports says the
strike can be averted in of three ways, by
an election for employees representatives under
government supervision" "by the passage of the
revised Wagner labor bill" or by conferences super
vised by President Roosevelt and no one else"
But would any Of these three proposals result
IN the workers winning their seven basic demands
which they formulated themselves
No fellow steel workers to accept shese proposals
Of Forbeck would mean the defeat Of your demands.
The sc-called revised Wagner bill" is not a
bill to aid the workers; it aims only to prevent
the workers from effectively fighting for improved
conditions It's aim is not to aid you in winning
your seven demands but rather to aid the steel
bosses in breaking your strike
AS for an election OF employees representatives
under government supervision, the Weirton Steel
workers got this The Budd Auto Workers got it!
The workers in many industries have had govern
ment supervised elections But in every case it
has served to defeat the basic demands of the
workers for improved conditions. In many cases
such elections have established company unions, and
the militant workers have been Disseminated
against The government is controlled by the
bosses; government supervision means boss super
vision.
AS for Roosevelt: Well Roosevelt personally
handled the auto situation Forbeck wants him
to handle steel. And what did the auto workers
get? Company unions! No improvement in their
conditions! No wholesale lay-offs and dscrmina-
ton!
Steel workers, be on guard against such maneu-
vers They spell only defeat Rely on your own
strength! Strikei Stop the mills Then, and then
only will the steel bosses listen to your demands.
Then only can you win your seven-point program.
Decide to strike on June 18TH
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14

the revolution, he places all his
strength and his rich store of ex-
perience in the service of the Ger
man working class's cause, for the
soonest possible overthrow of the
fascist dictatorship and the es-
Enlistment of the German Soviet
Republic.
"On his 50th birthday we wish
Fritz Heckert one thing-that for
many years to come he may be
able to put all his abilities at the
service Of the emancipation of the
working class and the victory of
Socialism throughout the world.
(Signed)
Knorin, Kuusinen. ManuiIsky,
Dimitroff, Piatnitzky, Wan
Ming, Bella Kun, Bronkowski,
Smeral, Haaken, Losovsky,
Okano, Dolores, Dengel, Hopner,
ChenOdanoff, Mitz kievit h,
MonmOusseau, Valetzki, Mac
lion, Smoliansky, Vassilieff,
Martynoff, Buerger, Maddalena,
Schwab, Hoernle, Mehring, Ste
panoff, Milf.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
127 Rumanian R.R.
Workers Retired
By Military Court
n. Y. Delegation to Visit
Consul to Demand
Their Freedom
by Burck

NEW YORK.-In Rumania 1877
railroad workers, formerly convicted
and sentenced to long terms of inn
prisonment at hard labor, are now
being retired by a military court.
These workers have been impris-
oned since February II, 1888, when
the Rumanian butcher government,
to smash strike at the railroad
shops at Grivita, slaughtered 500
workers and arrested hundreds.
On Wednesday, June 20, the Ru-
manian Workers Club and the Ru-
manian Branch 1902 of the In
ternational Workers Order will send
delegate to the Rumanian con-
sulate to demand the release of
these workers. At the same time
the delegation will demand that the
three Communists who were de-
ported from -slovakia to Ru-
mania, and who now face death
penalties, be freed.
World mass demonstrations and
struggles forced the re-trial of the
127 railroad workers, but they are
now tried by the military at Craiova.
The only way these workers can be
freed is by an international cam
paign demanding their release. The
Rumanian Legation at Washington
and the consul at 1919 Broadway
should be flooded with protests de-
manding the freedom of these rail-
road workers and the three deported
Communists. All working class or
CARNATIONS are urged to send rep
resentatives on June Goth to the
Rumanian consul to join the dele
cation to protest the terror in Ru-
mania and to demand the release of
the imprisoned workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
United Front
ROuts French
Fascist Meet
Communists, Socialists
in St. Etienne Set
Up Barricades

ST. ETIENNE, France, June 10
Thousands of workers, Communists
and Socialists united in a militant
anti-fascist demonstration here yes
terday in this important industrial
center and effectively smashed a
fascist meeting and routed a heavy
mobilization of police sent to pro-
tect the fascist scum. Forty persons
were injured, among whom we're
many police.
The fascist meeting was called by
the Croix de Ecu Gross of Fire.
When they began to assemble at a
motion picture theatre the nearby
public square for blocks around was
filled with factory workers shout
ing: Down with Fascism!", Down
with the Doumergue government
that supports the fascist murder
ersi" Socialist and Communists
unite in the fight against fascism!"
Free Ernst Thaelmann!"
When the police, reinforced by
Republican Guards and the mounted
Guard Mobile, realized they could
not prevent the workers from
storming the moving picture the
atre, they dispersed the fascist
meeting. But this did not stop the
fighting against the fascists Street
cars were overturned, barbados set
up in the center of the city. The
fighting lasted for many hours.
Though the police we're able to
disperSe the central meeting, the
workers spread throughout the city
and held dczens of united anti-fas-
cist demonstrations. In many sec
tons they drove the police away.
Fifty workers were arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14

parades, chauvinist Indictment and
promises are less and less liked by
the rank and file of the S. A. And
the material sacrifices, military
drilling, the unheard-of debauchery
of the leaders, the cynically open
policy in favor Of big capital, the
great financial sacrifices asked from
the S. A. men, the betrayal of all
promises, growing hardships. and
the menacing war danger make the
S. A, more and more smoldering
cauldron of social and political dis
satisfaction. AS storm troopers are
put into the factories, they feel the
unprecedented exploitation, the ter
rible wage cutting, all the more be-
cause in most cases they are paid
only beginners wages.
breaches of discipline, sabotage
u of the service, desertion, are
becoming more and more mass
phenomenon within the S. A. In
the factories, the storm troopers
often join their working comrades
against the Nazi factory organiza-
ton, against the bosses, against the
measures of the fascist dictatorship.
AS for the military value of the
S, A., the fascist dictatorS have
succeeded so far in training about
100000 storm troopers to be tech
nically able to fight. But, for the
time being, the majority of the
S. A. is to be considered as a mill
tary troop of rather low value, de-
signed to serve mainly as cannon
fodder
Furthermore, there are complica-
tons Of foreign politics, France in
creases its pressure more and more
and brings up the question of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
BRITAIN BUILDS 600 WAR
PLANES

LONDON, June 13.-Great Brit
ain will build 600 new planes, the
newspapers announced here yes
terday. From 100 to $50 of the
planes should be completed this
year, according to plans. Pursuit
planes and bombers are the types
contemplated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
Heckert, Communist Leader,
Is Greeted on 5Oth Birthday

and Self-sacrificingly fulfills his
duty as leader of the prole-
tariat's struggle against fascism
and war, against democracy
and reaction. A loyal soldier of
The Washington times., 1934-03-28
GOUG|NG ALIENS
HIT IN REPORT

Exploitation Of aliens by rack.
eteers and unscrupulous lawyers
has been condemned in a special
report to Secretary Of Labor Per-
ins by a committee studying i'm
migration and naturalization
problems.
Besides recommending q re-
duction j. the present naturaliza-
ton fee, the committee urged
more stringent laws to reach ex-
ploiters, pointing out that ex-
cept where a Federal officer is
impersonated or Federal papers
are forged, there is no Federal
law by which exploiters can be
prosecuted.
It was also recommended that
the Department of Labor license
attorneys. and othe appearing
before the immigration and
Naturalization Service in cases
coming Lofore it.
The Washington times., 1934-03-28
COTTON c R D P
BILL CHANGED
BYSENATE
BY international News Service


Delayed by the battle over Presi-
dent Roosevelt'S veto of the inde-
pendent offices appropriations
bill, the Bankhead cotton control
bill was still before the Senate to-
day. Indications were it would
become a law since it has passed
the House.
The measure, which faced a
barrage of amendments and de-
nunciation yesterday. would
create a prohibitive tax on farm
ers who sell more cotton than
their quotas, with a limitation Of
10, ,000, 900 bales for the nation.
Maximum Fine Reduced
Amendments approved removed
a number of "teeth" from the bill.
The maximum fine for violators
was reduced from $1,000 to $100
and the maximum Imprisonment
from months to 80 days.
Senators Reynolds CD and
Bailey CD, both of North Caro-
lima, succeeded in amendments ex.
empting from the tax up to six
bales produced on each farm and
confining the bills operations to
one year.
Another amendment, allowing
each State 100000 bales of cot
ton, provided it's production had
been as high as 250,00O bales in
any of the last five years, was in
serted by Senator johnson CR0
of California.
Egyptian cotton, grown chiefly
in Arizona and in Southern Cali
fornia, was exempted by another
amendment by Senator Hayden
CD of Arizona.
GinnerS' Tax Increased
Trainers of the bill, however
! inserted an amendment increasing
/ the tax on ginners who gin more
than their quotas from so to Is
per cent.
The House minimum tax on lint
cotton ginned in excess Of the
limit was raised from to 8 cents
a pound, but stored cotton was re
moved from the measures pro
visions,
The Washington times., 1934-03-28

Corps Of Engineers, Major Lay.
son E. Atkins, Sixth Engineers,
Fort Lewis, wash.
Second Lieut.. Barksdale Ham
lett, field artillery, Fort Sill, Okla.
First Lieut.. Frank w. Bullock,
Signal Corps, to Fort Monmouth,
N. j.
Second Lieut.. James l.. Hatha,
way, cavalry, to Fort Myer, Va.
Second Lieut.. Gunnard w. Carl
son, Corps Of Engineers, to New
York.
Following to Fort Monmouth,
New Jersey: First Lieut.. James F.
Walsh, Second Lieut.. Wendell w.
Bowman. Second Lieut.. Daniel A.
Cooper, Second Lieut.. Othel r.
Deering, Second Lieut.. Ivan l..
Farman, Second Lieut.. Charles
w. Haas
Capt. Irwin H. Joffee, Quarter
master Corps. Fitzsimons General
Hospital, Denver, Colo, will re-
port in person to the president OF
an Army retiring board, at the
above-named hospital, for exam
ination by the board tt such time
as the president thereof may des'
ignate.
Maj. Gen. Leon B. Kroner.
Chief Of Cavalry, to Washington,
D. c.
Capt. James H. Bogart, Chem
icai Welfare Service, to Edgewood
Arsenal Maryland.
Maj. Harold r. jackson. Coast
Artillery Corps, to Fort Mon
roe. Virginia.
Col. William A. Castle, Infantry,
to Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyo'
ming.
Major James R. Finley, Cavalry
to Norfolk, Va.
Major Walter G. Kilner, Air
Corps, to Montgomery, Ala.
Following officers Of the All
Corps to Montgomery, Ala: First
Lieut.. Raymond r. Brown, First
Lieut.. Robert w. Douglass, jr.
First Lieut.. Emile T. Kennedy
Major Vernon L. Burge, Capt
Charles Douglas, Capt. Muir s
Fairchild, Capt. Barney M. Giles
Capt. Horace S. Kenyon, Capt
John E. Upston, First Lieut.. Ralph
A. Snavely, Second Lieut.. William
A. Matheny.
Capt. George J. B. Fisher
Chemical Warfare Service, tc
Washington, D. c.
Major Oscar A. Eastwood, Chem
ical Warfare Service, to Edge
wood Arsenal, Maryland.
Capt. Howard N. Frissell, In
fantry, to Alexandria, La.
The Washington times., 1934-03-28
NEW GLASS BILL WAITED

session. Reports were current that
he had white House approval for
his measure.
The entire Banking Committee
was to hear the views Of James
M. Lands, member of the Federal
Trade Commission, on the stock
market bill this afternoon in
executive session. John Dickin-
son, Assistant Secretary of Com
merce, will testify again tomorrow.
Senator Fletcher CD Of Flor
ida, committee chairman, said
that Mr.. Dickinson yesterday ex-
pressed general agreement with
the revised bill and made a num-
ber of constructive suggestions. "
Dickinson few weeks ago scored
! the original stock market bill.
The Washington times., 1934-03-28
POLICE SEARCH
ACID SLAYER
Of BRIDE

PORTSMOUTH, Va, March %.
Definitely discarding the theory
Of suicide in the strange death Of
17-year-old Elnora Ferrell, police
today. almost without clues,
hunted the manor woman-who
forced her mouth open and MUIR
dered her by pouring a vial Of
acid down her throat.
Operating in the shadows Of
dusk Sunday night, the slayer at
tackled the bride Of less than three
months on a street. Powerful
fingers shut off her cries, stretched
open her mouth and emptied the
acid in her mouth. She died o
few hours later, in agony, after
leaving only a single clue to her
slayer.
Gives Clue to Slayer
With burned lips she murmured:
"GlOves grabbed me from the
dark. The hands were gIoved.
/ didn't see who it was"
Police found one of the girls
shoes at the spot. They found
signs of a struggle. They failed
to find the bottle which con-
tained the acid-an acid so
powerful that she had no chance
to live, although her writhing
form was found a few minutes
later.
The girls face was horribly
burned by the acid spilled in
the struggle. And because of
this and the fact that the vial
containing the acid would have
been found if she had committed
suicide, Portsmouth and Nor
folk county police are convinced
she was murdered.
Escape Is Mystery
How the killer managed to
escape unseen, in a block on
which usually dozens of people
walk at that hour, remained as
much a mystery as the reason
for the murder.
Meanwhile. the entire city was
aroused by the Staying, and police
were guarding, in the downtown
section, against any other such
attack.
The girls husband, Jack An
drew Ferrell, is being sought, but
it was learned that he left for
California a month ago, police
said. Police are thoroughly check.
ing her life and daily habits up
until the time Of her death, in
an effort to establish some mo-
tive.
Her body was shipped back to
her home in Henderson, N. c.,
today. Her parents and several
brothers and sisters live there.
The Washington times., 1934-03-28
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
A subcommittee of the Senate
Banking Committee today pre-
pared to receive 0 draft Of the
Glass bill providing credit for
commerce and industry.
The measure would call for
loans to business by the IL Fed
eral Reserve Banks from the lao
million dollars surplus in their
deposit guaranty fund.
Two other bills before the COM
mittee make similar provision for
industry, but would employ Fed
eral Government funds, instead of
bank funds. One bill would set
up IL intermediate credit banks
and the other would permit such
loans by the RFC.
Senator Glass CD of Virginia,
author of the new bill, will appear
before a subcommittee executive
The Washington times., 1934-03-28
Gas Industry Code
HEARING April II

A public hearing on a proposed
code Of fair competition for the
manufactured gas industry will
be held April II at the Washing
ton Hotel.
The proposed code sets SIS as
the minimum wage scale and
asks a 40-hour week with excep.
tions in emergencies. The code
will be presented to the Manu-.
factured Gas Industry Associa
ton.
The Washington times., 1934-03-28
Trade Body to Dine
TUkOn1n Officials

Mayor Frederick L. Lewton
and members of the Takoma
Park town council will be guests
of the Takoma Park Chamber Of
Commerce at a dinner at the
Washington Sanitarium in Ia
koma Park tonight.
Representative John Kee, Of
West Virginia, will discuss the
laws passed by Congress, espe-
cially those pertaining to bust
ness.
The Washington times., 1934-03-28
BIC NAVY PLAN
DEPENDS ON
50 PARLEY
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES,
International News Service

BY GEORGE r. HOLMES,
International News Service
Congress has authorized the
construction Of 102 new fighting
ships, to bring the American
Navy up to treaty strength, and
President Roosevelt has approved
it.
. But whether these ships are
actually to be built depends upon
what happens at the naval con-
ference of the great powers next
year.
"This is not a law for the
construction Of q single addi-
tiOnaI United States warship."
So said the President as he
signed the measure. He cited the
fact that the bill merely author
izes" the construction without
making it mandatory.
Taken AS Warning
There was deep significance in
the President statement. 1t con-
stituted, in effect, warning to
the powers that the American
Government doesn't wish to build
the ships, but will build them if
there is any horse-play next year
about extending or revising the
expiring washington Treaty,
which established the 5-5-3 ratio
aS between the United States,
Great Britain and Japan.
Mr.. Roosevelt's statement was
Immediately put on the cables to
Eokyo, and washington was
awaiting with interest today the
reaction from that quarter.
The japanese Unrest
Japan has been threatening to
kick over the traces on the ex-
tension Of the treaty.
In fact, since her withdrawal
from the League of Nations,
leading japanese statesmen have
publicly proclaimed their deter
mination to withdraw as well
from the Washington Treaty,
and go it alone in the matter of
naval armament.
The ratio Of three as against
five for the United States and
Great Britain has always been con
Eidered "humiliating" by Japan's
super-patriots.
It is accepted here that Japan's
first move when the powers con.
vene next year will be to request
naval parity with the United
States and Great Britain.
Then Up to Nippon
That will be opposed by the
United States, and presumably
by Great Britain. It will then be
up to Japan to decide whether
to go along on the old ratio or to
renounce the treaty.
Viewing japanese policy since
the Shanghai incident, and con
Sidering the ruthless manner o1
the conquest Of Manchukuoa
diplomatic observers are inclined
to believe that Japan will make
GOOD her threat to withdraw from
the Washington agreement unless
granted parity.
Finances Not Good
On the other hand, japanese
finances are in none too good
shape and some Of her statesmen
realize that if it came to the ques-
ton of a real armament race
Japan would be hopelessly out
claSSed from the start.