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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-17
BY International News Service

A special committee of the
House today plunged into an
investigation Of an alleged $685.
100000 racket through which real
estate bondholders have been de-
frauded.
The racket, according to Repre-
sentative SABBATH CD Of Illinois,
committee chairman, has been
operated through so-called "bond"
holders protective committees"
House committee members met
to plan the inquiry. A hearing
may be held tomorrow with
washington ID. c. witnesses on
the stand.
SABBATH Cites Method
Meanwhile. more than a dozen
Investigators will be sent to a
number Of large cities. Three
will 90 to Chicago, two to New
York, one or two to Detroit, one
to Milwaukee. Minneapolis and
st. Paul, one to st. Louis and
Kansas City, and one to the
cities on the West Coast. Repre-
sentative SABBATH said:
"A number Of these 'prOteC-
tive committeeman obtained
bonds by false statements and
misrepresentation and then
used their powers to milk the
properties involved In the bond
issues.
Equities were traded and
juggled, exOrbitant fees were
paid to attorneys, relatives re-
Ceived fat jobs for doing little
or nothing, repair costs were
falSified and other similar
chicanery occurred"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-17

Harrison M. Kaiser, so, formerly
Of the 1400 block L st. S. E., was
to be brought here today to
answer a charge Of Staying James
F. Morgan, Navy Yard employe, in
an argument over labor union at.
fairs two years ago.
Kaiser's arrest yesterday in
Point Pleasant, w. Va, climaxed
two years relentless search by de-
tectives. He fled his home here
just after Morgan was shot and
was traced through II cities.
Information that Kaiser was
in Point Pleasant was given De-
tective Sergeant George Darnall,
homicide squad chief. Yesterday
a squad member, Detective Ser
geant jeremiah Flaherty, ar
rested him in a hotel dining room
there. He denied the shooting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-17
SIX AND luxor
GEMS SEIZED

CHICAGO, July II d.N.s0'
Detectives today were questioning
four women and two men who
were seized when police recovered
$87 900 worth of jewels stolen
from Mr.. Adolph Zukor, wife OF
the motion picture producer, In
her hotel suite here.
Those under arrest were Elsie
Delaney, 81; Dorothy Jacobs,
Robert vestal, 20. and his wife.
Helen, 81; James Weinberg, cafe
owner under indictment in a mail
theft ring here, and Mrs. Eula
Winberg, his wife.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-17
Mrs. Antonio Loses
NeLU Trial ADDenl

ALBANY, N. Y. July II GIN.
S.).-The Court Of Appeals has
unanimously denied new trial to
Mrs. Anna Antonio, 28-year-old
Albany mother, convicted Of first
degree murder for killing her hus.
band.
Three times reprieved by Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman, Mrs. Antonio
and her two confederateS, Sam
Faracci and Vincent Saetta, will
die in the electric chair the week
Of August 6. unless the governor
again intervenes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-17

States, except those in Seattle
which had come under the cen
troll Of radicals and foreigners
Mr.. Hanson said:
Immediately after the ship.
yard strike was called, 'BOlShe-
vikS obtained complete control
Of the labor council and tore
down the United States flag
from the labor temple; passed
seditiOus resolutions, advocated
Russian methods and over the
protest Of Old-time labor men
succeeded in calling q general
strike.
'That is what has occurred
in San Francisco where the
labor leaders did mot want o
general strike, and where the
strike was practically settled ON
three separate occasions only to
have the work undOne by the
radicals"
CALLED ON VETS
Seattle's general strike went
into effect February 6, 1919, with
no milk, no food, no street cal
service, no restaurants, and q
threat by Leon Green, termed by
MIR. Hanson a Russian alien" to
close down all city utilities in
Guiding water, gas. light and
garbage. Mr.. Hanson said:
81 swOre i'm hundreds Of re-
turned soldiers, and ex-machine
gunners just back from France,
and stationed them in sand-bag
protected points at strategicaI
POINTS. We patrolled all Sec
ti0ns Of the city and strikers
were warned that any destruc-
ton Of property meant death
to law vi0latOrs.
eve were ready for trouble
but we didn't have any"
The strike ended in a few davs
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-17
Bond Fraud Quiz By House
Calls Capital Witnesses

He said the inquiry is Of ma
tional Importance because it az
fectS seven million bondholders.
Vast Defaults Shown
He asserted 5000 million dollars
in bonds have gone in default
over the United States.
One Of the committees objects
Is to obtain criminal prosecutions
by Federal district attorneys. Rep
resentative SABBATH added:
''Where there is revealed evi.
dence Of willful, d deliberate
fraud, we will try to obtain
criminal action. But there is
nothing to fear from this COM
Inittee in cases Of honest effort
to reOrganize on the part OF
protective committees"
Committee missionaries will
be sent to the receivers of all
closed banks and to bondholders
who have complained Of misman-
agement Of properties.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-17
PRINCESS WINS
RASPUT|N SUIT

LONDON, July II GN.S0.
The court of appeals today dis
missed the appeal of Metro Gold"
wyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd, against
the verdict of $4,000 pounds, or
about $126,00O, awarded by jury
to Princess Trina Youssoupoff.
Princess Youssoupoff, a niece of
the late Gear Of Russia, charged
she had been damaged by the film
"Rasputin, the Mad Monk" which
portrayed scenes purporting to de-
pict incidents in the life of the
monk who exercised great influ-
ence in Russian court circles near
the close of the cZarist regime.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-17
-Four Start Terms
For Blast ATTEMPT

BALTIMORE, July 17.-Four
men, three Of them colored, today
began prison sentences OF from
two to five years for dynamiting
a garage and warehouse Of a
transfer company. The men
were convicted Of throwing the
explosive on the roof Of the
building in an attempt to make
employers pay higher wages. The
dynamite did not explode.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-17
Baltimore Relief
Faces SHARP Slash

BALTIMORE, July IA care
full recheck is being made Of all
persons on relief rolls here and it
is probable that many of them
viii be crossed off the lists, 1t was
announced today. In the future
relief workers will work under a
more stringent schedule recently
outlined by the new executive
committee.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-17
HURT. TN .2s-FOOT FALL

ELK TON, Nd, July II.
Charles Gerald. IS, was in Union
Hospital today suffering from in
juries received yesterday when he
fell 2S feet from a ladder while
painting q barn on Q farm near
here.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-07-17
Mayor Tells How He Broke
Costly Seattle Strike

ANGELES July 17Astates, except those in Seattle
Hanson who as which had under the con
.ot.1o ooo..ev,,1 troll Of radicals and foreigners
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Communists Only Real
Leaders Of Workers, S.P.
Organiser Tells Meet
Shapiro at Los Angeles
United Front Meeting
Defes Expulsion

LOS ANGELES. Calf. MAY a.
Paul Shapiro, Section Organizer Of
the Socialist Party, addressed 1900
workers assembled at the Plaza here
in mighty United Front May Day
demonstration, declared that the
Communists are the only real lead
ers of the working class. and defied
expulsion by the Socialist Party
leaders.
The huge turnout of workers oc-
CURED despite IL days press provo
cation, and Shiny ISLANDERS Of bomb
plots, etc.
Besides Shapiro, speakers In
cluded Agnes Clay, of the Central
Labor Council of the A. F. Of l..
Opposition, and Lawrence Ross, for
the Communist Party, with Harold
Ashe as chairman.
The demonstrators elected a
delegation to go to the German
Consulate to demand the release Of
Thaelmann and other snti-fascist
fighters in Ns1 prisons and con-
centration camps. At the Consul
ate they found 4 sign on the door
out for the day.
TWENTY-FIVE hundred workers at
tended the evening celebration at
the Mason Opera House, where
Sam Darcy was the main speaker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Socialist Govt Of
Bridgeport Orders
Red Flag Burned
400 Negro and White
Workers in Militant
May ! Demonstration

BRIDGEPORT. Conn. Nav a.
Bridgeport workers made history for
this boss-ridden city, starting their
MAY First with the raising Of the
red flag. with hammer and sickle
symbol. at the top Of the City Hall
flagpole, and following up with q
militant demonstration at Washing
ton Park and a fine indoor meeting
in the evening.
The red flag flew for over four
hours before the enraged Socialist
city clerk, Fred Schwartzkopf. man
aged to take 1t down. According to
the local boss press, the Socialist
leader ordered the red flag burned.
The Socialist Mayor evidently en-
dorsed the action Of his city clerk,
for he declared the raising of the
red flag twas a disgraceful incident
and was only done to embarrsss my
administration"
In the afternoon. over 400 workers,
Negro and white, united in an en-
thusiastic demonstration, nledginq
to fight against the New Deal" OF
hunger, fascism and war, against
their worsening conditions and for
Unemployment Insurance Bill, H, r
1898.
At the evening celebration, sew
eraI workers filed applications for
the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Big May Day Meets
Answer Calf. Terror

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, May 2.
Industrial and agricultural work
ers of this state gave mighty an
swer to the mounting terror Of the
capitalists and landlords in the
greatest May Dav demonstrations
ever held in this State.
Ten thousand workers demon
strated in this city. following an
impressive parade through the main
streets. 5000 in Oakland, 5000 in
Los Angeles. 2.O0O in Sacramento.
Reports of other demonstrations are
still expected.
The meeting here was an emphatic
answer by the workers to the violent
anti-Red hysteria conducted by the
Hearst press for the past two weeks,
including the crudest bomb pct
stories and allegations that Commit
nists stole dynamite in preparation
for May Day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
81 Arrested C.W.A.
Workers Head Biz
Minneapolis March
1000 Steel Workers in
May ] Demonstration
in Youngstown
Especial to the Daily worker

Especial to the Daily WORKER
MINNEAPOLIS, MAY 2.-Fifteen
thousand workers demonstrated
yesterday at Block No 20, while
over 1000 marched in the May Day
parade through streets lined with
tens of thousands Of workers
cheering the fighting slogans of the
parade.
Thirty-seven c. w. A. workers.
arrested on Tear Gas Friday
when a demonstration of 1000
fired G. w. A. workers forced the
city to grant additional relief funds,
led the parade Block No. 20, Park,
was officially named BY the demon
strators as the Red Square of
Minneapolis.
A parade, organized by
Social-Fascists, including Farmer
Labor leaders, with the aid of So
cialist Party leaders and Trotsky-
ties. numbered only 81 persons. The
main slogans of this counter-revo-
lutionary counter parade were
America First" Loyalty to the
Government"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Portland Workers
Force Nazi Consul to
Haul Down Swastika

PORTLAND. Ore, Nav Pour
thousand workers and children DEM
onstrating here on May Day forced
the German Consulate to remove
the swastika flag and to accept a
resolution demanding the release Of
Ernst Thaelmann, Torgler and other
German revolutionaries in the Nazi
prisons.
A red flag, hoisted over City Hall
by some workers during the dem
onstration. flew for two hours before
firemen we're able to remove it.
Resolutions we're adopted demand
ing the release Of Theodore Jordan,
young Negro worker framed up by
the oregon lynch courts and rail-
road bosses, freedom for tn Scots
br bys and fr the passage + Unem-
pigment Insurance Bill, H. R. 1898.
Over 300 marched in the parade.
The police engaged in varius pr
vacations despite permit for the
parade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Springfield Police
Attempt Intimidation

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 2.
Despite heavy police mobilization
and provocations, over $50 workers
demonstrated here yesterday under
the leadership of the Unemployed
Councils and the Communist Party.
The Musteites, L w. W. and So
cialist Party leaders held a state
wide May Day meeting separately.
rejecting United Front appeal, with
$50 present.
The Ansoury- Allard gang attacked
revolutionary workers distributing
leaflets exposing the Musteites and
Socialist leaders as splitters OF the
working class.
One thousand demonstrated under
the United Front Banner in the city
park of Decatur,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
400 New Mexico
Miners Strike for
Higher Pay Scale
n. NJ. National Miners
Union Leads Walkout as
UNIV Tries Scabbery

MADRID, N. M, May Under
the leadership of the National
Miners Union. 400 coal workers of
the Albuquerque & Cerrillos Coal
Co., at Madrid, New Mexico. went
out on strike on April 81 to protest
against the cempsnys decision to
pay wages lower than the scale set
in the new coal code.
The waik-out was 100 per cent.
with the workers militant in the
face of desperate conciliatory efforts
by the local MIRA. administrator
and the State Labor Commissioner
to prevent action
Recently conditions at Madrid
have grown intolerable, the men
working only one day week. De-
auctions for rent, light. coal, lamps
powder, caps, blacksmith, physician
etc, ETC., are made before a worker
gets cent of pay. At present
charges for rent alone (exorbitant
charges for such foul rotten hovels)
exceed a months pay for digging
coal in the most favorable locations
In poor holes miners can make but
12c per day over the cost Of powder
and caps. Yet the company flatly
refuses to remit any rents during
this virtual shutdown. AS q result,
SO families are already on the county
relief rolls. with more being added
every week.
Two weeks ago a committee, led
by the President of the N. M. U.
local, Comrade Pallares, went to
Santa Fe and forced the Dist Relief
Director to put all of the jobless
families on relief They also visited
the district agent of the N. R. A. and
were told that if the company did
not live up to the coal code that
the N. r. A. would close the pits.
AS q result of the struggles carried
out by the N, M. U. and the Com
munist Party, the United Mine
Workers of America CA. F. ID as
usual is trying to break into the
field in order to mislead and to be-
tray the Madrid miners. Bill Surich.
company man and former con-
tractor for the company, when a
vote to strike was taken, got up on
the floor and read a letter from the
scab-herder Frank Hefferley. district
organizer of the U.M.W.A. The let
ter instructed that all of the miners
should be let into the U. M. w. A.
free from paying initiation, that the
government and the N. R. A. was
solidly behind the U. M. w. A. and
that they we're against the N. M. U.
But the miners were not fooled
by this maneuver.
Next Sunday another mass meet
ing is being held. The members of
the N. M. U. and the Communist
Party unit in Madrid calls on the
strikers to keep their ra-.ks solidl To
force the company to give In to their
demands. At the same time the
Party and the N. M. U. will expose
the Hefferleys and Surichcs and the
whole strikebreaking role of the U.
M. w. A. officialdom.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
NRA Fake Fight On
Co. Unions Seen In
$4,000 eirton Gift
Organize PackinghOuse
Union in California
Plant To Fight Filth

LOS ANGELES, Calf. - Workers
at the DR.. Ross Packinghouse are
beginning to organize in the Pack
inghous Workers Industrial Union
to fight the conditions of speed-up,
filthy working conditions and low
pay prevalent in the plant.
The superintendent, "Humpy,"
has been threatening individual
workers in the attempt to make
them quit the union. The workers,
knowing the solidarity Of all the
workers in the plant, are defying
him.
Leaflets have been issued in the
plant expressing the demand for
clean showers, toilets and dressing
rooms in place of the filthy toilets,
the one shower and the twisted and
rusty lockers now in the plant.
The truck-drivers and other work
ers employed around the plant are
also being drawn into the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Ickes Grants PWA Funds
to Steel Co. Which
''Violated' N.R.A.

NEW YORK.-At the same time
hat the federal government
brought suit for an injunction
against the Weirton Steel Co., which
is loudly proclaimed by the N. r. A.
as their great fight in behalf Of the
right of the workers to organize
freely" the U. S. government,
through the person of Ickes, Sec
rotary Of the Interior, apportioned
close to $4,000 of P. w. A. funds
to the Weirton Steel Co. for rail-
road equipment. This action is
highly indicative of the whole
SHANK battle now being "waged" by
the government aaginst the steel
trusts determined campaign to
maintain the company unions in
their plants, in the Wilmington,
Del, courts.
1t is evident that Roosevelt and
the N. r. A. had no intention of
banning company unions in the
steel industry but on the contrary,
fostered them. AS stated by Fly at
the trial, ut was not code jammed
down the Threats of this industry
but one 1.-THE steel codel which the
Weirton Steel aided in forming"
The government action following
the militant strike of the Weirton
workers in September is aimed to
cover up the complete agreement OF
the steel trust and the government
on the policy Of maintaining and
fostering company unions as seen
m the Roosevelt governments Wag-
ner Bill. The Weirton strike, it will
be recalled, was broken by Roose-
velt't promise that if the workers
returned to the plants, they would
De guaranteed utmost freedom and
opportunity to choose the organ
ization they wanted in govern
ment-supervised election. The over
whelming sentiment of the work.
ers was for the A. F. of L.
In this connection the sell-out
policy of the A. F. Of L. leaders was
brought Gus at the trial by the
statement of the Weirton Steel
counsel Reed that the strike against
the company union was "unauthor-
8ed" by the national officers Of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron
Steel, and Tin workers, the A. F
If L. union concerned.
While the present farce is being
conducted in the Wilmington, Della
ware, courts with the joint consent
Of the Weirton Steel Co., the gov
eminent, and the officials of the
A. F. Of L., and through the many
months of sham determined &C
ton" taken by the government to-
wards solution" of the Weirton
case, the Weirton Steel Company
has combatted the right of the
workers to organize for militant
struggle against rotten conditions
In all this time the company has
lot ceased to attempt to force the
workers into the company union
and to seek to prevent any action
Of the workers aimed to break the
domination of the company union
ystem.
1t is obvious that the present trial
will be 1ong-drawn out and used
10 maintain the company union
policy of the steel trust.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Especial to the Daily Worker


MILWAUKEE, Wis, May mil
waukee workers began their May
Day celebration on April 30, when a
Red flag was raised on the Old
Courthouse, where it flew for "a
hours, the authorities finally being
forced to saw down the fag-pole
before they cold lower the Red flag
Three red flags were also in West
Allis, one over the Allis Chalmers
large farm machinery and war ma
terial plant.
Columns of workers marched from
all sections of the city to Red Arrow
Park where a mighty May First
demonstration was held. Ten thou
sand workers actively participated,
while tens of thousands lined adj
joining streets cheering the de-
mands raised by the demonstration
against Hunger, Fascism and War,
for Unemployment Insurance Bill
H. r. 1893 and the defense of the
Soviet Union.
Through amplifiers, speakers
from the Communist Party, the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
and the Trade Union Unity League,
spoke to thousands of workers.
10 Groups in Parade
In the parade were 10 organiza-
tons of the United Front May Day
Committee, carrying hundreds of
colorful banners and signs and
manning dozens of beautiful floats.
The line Of march was IA blocks
long, with over 5000 workers march
ing. Hundreds of women, Negro
workers, children, and Socialist
Party members were in the march.
Thousands of Office workers lined
Wisconsin Avenue. the main street
of Milwaukee, as the parade passed.
Workers Give Tremendous
Ovation to Browder
Over $500 workers damned into
the Auditorium in the evening cele-
bration to hear Earle Browder,
Secretary Of the Communist Party,
U. s. A. The hall was beautifully
decorated. the main feature being a
huge 30-foot painting of worker
smashing the chains Of capitalism.
M. Childs, District Organizer Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
Milwaukee, Workers CiUe
Huge OCaJion to b. 0wder
At Big May Day Meeting

Communist Party, presided, Speak
ers included representative from
the Young Communist League, the
Pioneers and a worker from the
large Kenosh shop recently on
strike.
BroWder received a long, enthu-
siastic ovation. He gave a penetrat-
ing analysis of the fascist character
of the New Deal" and dealt with
The fight Of the toiling masses for
their immediate demands and for
the conquest of power, contrasting
the achievements of the toilers of
the Soviet Union with the misery
confronting the workers in every
corner of the capitalist world He
explained the role Of the Commu-
mist Party of the U. S. A., as the
organizer and leader of the strug-
gle for a Soviet America and showed
that only a workers and farmers
government can solve the problems
facing the masses.
Browder Urges Struggle for
Soviet Power
When Browder asked how many
present had had their wages raised
under N. r, A., only raised their
hands out of $500. Thousands of
hands we're raised, however, when
he asked how many had received
wage cuts.
Among the many features on the
program was the new Daily Worker
chorus of 30 Negro and white work
ers singing in English, The collec-
ton was $3.50
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
5000 In Newark
Demonstration

NEWARK, N. j., May 2.-Three
thousand workers demonstrated
yesterday at Military Park. A pa
rade of 300 preceded the demon-
stration. Permit for the parade,
originally refused by the police, was
received by the Committee one hour
before the parade.
At the Park, the workers we're
addressed by Re coca Grecht,
District Organizer of the Commu-
mist Party; r. Fisher of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial
Union: Frank Carson Of the Young
Communist League; Franklin of the
American League Against War and
Fascism, Harris Of the Unemployed
Council. Jack Rose. Newark Sec
ton Organizer Of the Communist
Party, acted as chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-03
C. C. C. BOYS BATTLE FIRES

LANSING, Mich.-Over one hun
dred forest fires raging in the Lower
Peninsula we're being fought by
Rangers and c. c. G. youth today.
The largest fire was near Pruden-
vile.
A warning was issued by Ray
Cotton, secretary of the Conserve
ton Commission, who warned that
the fires would increase if the pres
ent dry weather continued and if
the wind which has had a great
velocity, did not diminish.