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The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Incitennent
Acts Cited
By lzvestia
Soviet Paper Declares
That japanese Jingoists
Expose Themselves
Especial to the palIr worker,

MOSCOW, Aug. % (By wireless)
"A continued frenzied anti-Soviet
campaign is being pursued by the
newspapers of the Japanese mill
tary clique in Tokyo, and still more
by the papers these military men
maintain in Manchuria.
Their provocations against the
Soviet Union are characterized by
a total lack Of restraint, and they
push for breaking off of all nego-
tiations, favoring the use of all
kinds Of threats ito frighten" pub
lie opinion of the Soviet Union.
"This fact" writes Izvestia, So
Wet newspaper, today, cannot be
regarded otherwise than as an in
tensification of the aggressive in
tentions towards the Soviet Union.
The japanese frequently complain
about the insincerity of the Soviet
side We have no grounds to ac-
cuse the Japanese military Party of
,insincerity.' In their sincerity
these people have reached stage
Of self-exposure.
Openly Threaten Seizure
Their press openly threatens war
or seizure of the Chinese Eastern
Railway, if the Soviet representa-
tiveS refuse to make further con-
cessionS.
THE difference in price de-
manded by the Soviet government
and the price offered by the other
side is approximately equal to
$10,000,000 The most jealous Jap
anese newspaper warriors threaten
war over this sum. 1t is sufficient to
mention this fact to draw the con-
clusion that these people have COM
pletely lost sense of reality, and
that they expose themselves before
public opinion of the world better
than the most cunning anti
japanese propaganda could.
ut is sufficient to mention to
the masses of people of the world,
to public opinion of the world
which understands what the seizure
of the railway belonging to others
means, what the danger of war
means etc. 1t is sufficient to men
ton the single fact that the Jap
anese military clique menaces the
most profound commissions over
1000, 900. for all people capable OF
thinking to say: For the Japanese
military clique the question is not
$1o,ooo,00o bat Of seeking pretext
Continued on Page q
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Foster Halls
Minor on His
5OthBirthday

NEW YORK-William z. Foster,
chairman of the Communist Party,
y, S. A, yesterday sent a greeting
to Robert Minor, veteran Commu-
mist leader, on the latter's fiftieth
birthday, which will be celebrated
Aug. 81 with banquet in Irving
Plaza, Irving Place and 18th st.
The statement follows:
Greetings to my good comrade
and friend Bob Minor upon his
50th birthday.
The great revolutionary storm
that will destroy capitalism is fast
brewing. It's premonitory lightnings
and thunder -claps are already to
be heard all over the world. Nor
can the capitalists fascist terror or
their resort to war forestall the
overthrow of their ruinous regime
Faster than even we realize it the
proletariat is marching on to world
revolution, with the U. S. S. R. at
its head.
1t is time when the Communist
International is rallying to its BAN
ners the best fighting elements, get
ting ready for the accomplishment
of the workers great revolutionary
task. Nor are the masses in capital
ist America failing to give ample
sign that they are taking to the
same revolutionary road as the
workers in other countries.
1t is a time when the Communist
Parry, U. S. A., is celebrating its
18th anniversary. The name of BOB
Minor is interviewer in the history
Of our Party. AS a part of the
Party leadership he has participated
in all of the major struggles of the
American working class in this
period. On the picket line, leading
the struggles of the unemployed
championing the cause of Negro lib
GRAFTON, and fighting in the anti
imperialist struggles, Bob Minor has
never faltered, in the face Of danger
from the capitalist state, and has
suffered beatings, arrests and jail
sentences in the cause Of the work
ing class. 1t is very fitting, there-
fore, that the 50th anniversary OF
Bob Minor is celebrated together
with and as a part of the 18th ami
verSary of our Party.
Bob Minor is of the fighting stuff
necessary to give leadership to the
workers in these crucial times. His
life Of struggle is an inspiration to
the youth of our movement. May
he enjoy many more years of health
and service to the proletariat. Greet
ings to this veteran Communist
leader!
(SigneD WILLIAM 2. FOSTER.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Youth Groups
Picket Today
for Thaelnann
Young Workers to Mass
AT Consulate At
Call of Y.C.L.

NEW YORK.-HundredS of young
workers and students are expected
to rally today at noon before the
German Consulate, II Battery Place
in mass picket line, to demand the
freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, Ger
man Communist leader, imprisoned
by the Hitler regime. The picketing
has been undertaken under the mi
tiative Of the New York District OF
the Young Communist League.
THE fact that international
Youth Day, September /, a day
when the youth Of the world dem
onstrates against war, is so close
to us, adds TO the Importance OF
this picket line" statement of the
Y.CL. District Committee declares
The international traditions of the
day of struggle against war and
fascism can receive no better in
spiration than the fight to free
Ernst Thaelmann, the great Ger
man anti-fascist."
All workers and students are
urged to participate in the picket
ing, the VOL. statement concludes
The Thaelmann campaign and
the sending of delegation to Ger
many in order to get the facts on
the fate Of Thaelmann and other
political prisoners, will be the main
order Of business at a full dele
gates meeting Of the Anti-Nazi
Federation, to be held Friday, at
8 pm, at 1853 w. 23rd st.
Among the other questions to be
discussed will be the election OF
delegates to the Second Congress
Against War and Fascism, to be
held in Chicago Sept 20, %, and 30
A report on the latest Developments
in Germany will be given.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Japanese Military Clique Pushes Frenzed Ani-Sovie Drive
FERA WORKERS STRIKE IN 2 STATES FOR MORE PAY
BlOor To Describe
Paris Anti Fascist
Struggle Tomorrow

NEW YORK.-How the anti
fascist forces, many Of whose
number are recent refugees from
Nazi Germany, are working in
Paris, will be related by Mother"
Ella Reeve Bloor, veteran Amer
lean revolutionary leader recent
" returned from the Interna-
tional Women's Anti-War Con-
gress in France, at meeting of
the delegates at the Webster
Hall, 119 E. 18th ST., tomorrow
night.
Others who will speak at the
meeting will be Robert Minor,
member of the Central Commit
tee of the Communist Party,
Jessica Henderson, of the Wo-
mans International League for
Peace and Freedom; Clara Bo-
dian, secretary of the United
Council of Workingclass House.
wives; and Equile McKeithon,
Negro woman delegate Of the
Alabama Sharecroppers' Union.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Metal Miners Name
Militant Candidate
For Union President

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug.
22.-The delegates to the national
convention Of the International
Mine, Mill and Snelter Workers
Union CA. F. of ID succeeded in
nominating rank and file delegate
for president of the union. The
militant delegate nominated is
Robert Brown of Butte, Montana.
A referendum vote will be taken
during the September meetings Of
the local unions. All members of
the union are urged to vote for
Robert Brown of Butte, Mont.
Another Brown, the present presi-
dent, Brown is running for re-
election, and another reactionary
named Peterson is also candidate.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Communist Candidates
In Pennsylvania Face
Danger of Elimination

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. "a
With the deadline for filing NOM
mating petitions fixed at Sept.
less than 50 per cent Of the re-
quired ten thousand names have
been submitted to the State cam
paign committee Of the Commu-
mist Party, 1t was announced to-
day.
Plans for meeting this emer-
gency will be mapped at a city
wide meeting of Communist Party
members tomorrow night at
O'Clock at 1903 Tasker Street.
Every member has been instructed
to attend.
Unless the entire Communist
membership of the State is swung
into action at once. there is grave
danger that the Party will have
no candidates on the ballot.
All members OF the Communist
Party, Young Communist League
and sympathetic mass organiza-
tions were urged to mobilize their
membership at once for an inten-
sive effort to put the signature
drive over the top.
Petitions should be obtained at
once from local election campaign
headquarters and circulated.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
1000 Quit
In BathrObe
Strike Ties Up Three
Centers of Industry
In Three States

NEW YORK. = -Four thousand
workers of the bathrobe industry
walked out on strike yesterday in
New York, New Jersey and Con-
necticut under the leadership OF
the Bathrobe Workers Industrial
Union.
From the Manhattan strike
headquarters at Irving Plaza Hall,
Irving Place and 18th Street, it
was announced that workers from
81 shops, six of which were pre-
viously unorganized, had registered
early in the day.
The strikers are demanding in
creased wages, shorter hours and
recognition OF the union.
NORWALK, Conn, Aug 22-
Thirteen members Of the Bathrobe
Workers Industrial Union were ar
rested here today and booked on
breach Of the peace charges
when they went to Royal Robes
Inc. mill to call the workers out
on strike.
When policemen failed to drive
the organizers from the area OF
the plant, reserves were called and
13, mostly women, were arrested.
They went off in the patrol wagon
singing working class songs. In
the Jail the workers sang SO loud
that city employees ceased work.
Among those arrested was Frank
Baldino. union organizer.
RED BANK, N. j., Aug. r.
Dominick Mantel and Ralph vacca,
organizers for the Bathrobe Work
ers Industrial Union, were ar
rested here and fined $25 for dis
turibing the peace" when they
called on workers to Join the gen.
eral bathrobe strike.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
T'Oo Districts Spur
Daily 6O,OOODriue
BY Boosting Quotas

The honor Of being the first district
trbution in the 100000 drive for the Daily
Boston has
To other being to an
that they have increased their quotas
Cleveland has increased its quota $4,000
dephia has increased its total from $500 to
I'VE accept challenge Pittsburgh district" egraphs
Philadelphia
I'VE sending $3.50 a startl"
This is sample the Socialist Competition if
the plans for the Daily o be achieved!
Bat not only all districts fill their
MUST TRY TO RAISE THEIR QUOTAS!
Detroit has accepted the challenge of the
though it has not officially raised its quota from promised
to contribute $4,000 the Daily" fund.
District Minnesota has accepted quota $500
Continued Page y
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Truck Drivers
Strike Ended
By N.R.A. Pact
Scabs To Get Preference
In Election Called
By Labor Board


MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Aug. %.
The strike of the Minneapolis
truck drivers has been called off
The new proposals of the federal
mediators and the employers were
accepted by the leaders of truck
drivers local STA. The agreement
calls for wage scale Of fifty cents
for the truck drivers and forty
cents for the helpers. This scale
is to stand until arbitration by the
N.R.A. arbitration board. The agree
ment was proposed by P. A.
Donoghue of the National Labor
Relations Board.
An election will be held, accord
ing to the agreement, under the
supervision of the Regional Labor
Board, to determine the rights OF
local union STA to represent the
drivers. This election will allow
those who remained on the job and
have been scabbing, to vote. 1t will
mean the blacklisting of the most
militant strikers. The employers
are trying to establish a form OF
company union through this cleo
ton.
The Trotskyite leaders Of local
union 574 spoke for two hours to
induce the strikers to accept this
shameful settlement. After staging
a show by calling on the Central
Labor Union and the State A. F. of
L. convention for a two-day pro-
test general strike, which was de-
MED by these bodies, the Trotsky-
ties delivered the final blow to the
truckers strike. They did not even
attempt to broaden the strike by
appealing directly to the rank and
file Of the union. for strike, over
the heads Of the A. F. of L. bureau
cracy.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Leader Of
Farmers Is
Kidnapped
Especial to the Daily worker,

LUDTNGTON, Mich, Aug %. =
George Casper, an officer of the
Michigan Farmers League, was kid
mapped last night at a farmers
meeting at the Custer Town Hall
by lynch mob, apparently organ
lied by the Roach Canning Co., OF
Scottsville.
The farmers were demanding
higher prices from the company for
beans and pickles.
No news has been received of the
whereabouts of Casper since he was
taken from the meeting. The farm
ers have protested to Sheriff G.. Col
liers of Mason County and Attorney
General P. O'Brien, at Lansing
Mich, demanding that Casper be
returned safely and that the kid
nappers be prosecuted.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
ALL. Committee To
Protest Green's Drive

NEW YORK.-A mass meeting to
protest against William Green's new
drive against Communists in the
trade unions will be held in Webster
Hall on Wednesday, Aug. 30, at $50
pm. under the auspices of the A. F.
of l.. Committee for Unemployment
Insurance.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23

A Red Builder on every busy
street corner in the country means
q tremendous step toward the
dictatorship Of the proletariati
The daily worker., 1934-08-23

A Red Builder on every busy
street corner in the country means
a tremendous step toward the
dictatorship of the proletariat!
The daily worker., 1934-08-23

(D2ily Worker Midwest Bureau)
CHICAGO. Aug. 22.-Incomplete
reports reaching Chicago indicate
the development of a relief work
ers' strike into a general strike in
Decatur, Ill. About 1000 workers
on government relief projects struck
Monday and conducted militant pic
keting, led by a united front COM
mittee, in which the Unemploy-
ment Council is a strong factor.
Saturday, wires from Decatur stated
that general strike situation ex-
isted
Organized by both organized and
unorganized workers on various
projects, the United Front Strike
Committee called the original strike
Monday, Aug. 13, to force the fol-
lowing demands:
Lone hundred and twenty
hours month work at minimum
Of IS cents per hour for common
Continued on Page q
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
Picketng
Closes ALI
Projects
Milwaukee and Decatur
Scenes Of County
Wide Actions

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug.
22.-Three hundred striking
relief workers stormed a
South Side FERA project
here today in an effort to stop
twenty-five scabs from work
ing and to completely close
all the relief jobs. Scores of police
arrived and slugged the strikers,
arresting one.
Pickets surrounded all the large
FER.A. projects throughout the
county. In West Allis the Common
Council was forced to vote tenn
porary suspension on all FER.A.
projects for the duration of the
strike.
Meanwhile, State FER.A. Direc-
tor William L. Coffey announced
that the state quota for Wisconsin
would be doubled, adding 10000
unemployed to the work relief lists.
The order to increase the number
on the work relief jobs was author
lied by Howard o. Hunter, regional
director of the relief administration,
1t was announced.
The daily worker., 1934-08-23
OF WORKERS
FACE PRISON TERMS:
l.. /. ID. HEAD CONVICTED
Intense National Drive
Needed To Smash
State Terror
Special to the Daily worker

'pPNeiaA ." INC DdAy noEhef}
SACRAMENTO, CAL, Aug.
%. = While the cases of &c
workers charged with Eva.
grancy" continues here, with
committee of six defendants
conducting h e defense,
seventeen Of these face
criminal syndicalism charges on six
counts, with possible sentence Of
from six to eighty-four years each
if convicted.
The state counts on these charges
to illegalize the entire revolutions
ary movement in California, az
many Of the prisoners are candi-
dates Of the Communist Party in
the present election campaign, and
all are functionaries in militant
working class organizations.
Those under indictment are Pat
Chambers, Martin Wilson, Caroline
Decker, Nora Conklin, Albert
Hougrady, Jack Warwick. Jack
Crane, Loreen Norman, Norman
Mini, Fred Kirkwood Lee Hung. A.
G. Ford, Luther Mincy, w. H. HUFF
fine, Harry j. Collentz, John Fisher.
and Mike Plesh.
Intense Campaign Needed
The Sacramento prisoners are
held in two cells, fourteen in each.
For two weeks they had no blankets
or beds, but slept on the concrete
floor. The toilet was a hole in the
floor in the middle of the cell.
One young Chinese boy was
beaten repeatedly in an attempt to
make him say he was foreign-born.
whereas as matter of fact, he was
born in the United States. He has
now been taken to an insane asvlurn
in Stockton, his nerves shattered
from the torture. but those who
Know him, know also that he is not
insane.
A most intensive campaign
against this torture, and against
the criminal syndicalism prosecu-
tons, on national scale, is neces-
sary, to break the terror in Sacrs-
mento. Protests should be addressed
to Governor Merriam, Sacramento.
Calf.
Especial to the Daily worker)
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. pa
hand-picked jury of four women
and eight men, several of them
political off1ce-holders. found
Joseph Wilson, organizer of the In
ternational Labor Defense guilty.
OF "vagrancy" here yesterday.
Municipal Judge Frank T. Deasv.
candidate for a post in the SUI
perior court, gave him the max
imum sentence of six months.
This conviction, following the
similar one in the case of Elaine
Black, LID. secretary, are counted
on by the state to outlaw the Inter-
national Labor Defense. Both are
being appealed, however, and
mass campaign is under WAY to
force recognition of the legal status
(Coutinned on Pane ~
The daily worker., 1934-08-23

Earn Expenses Selling the Daily"
The daily worker., 1934-08-23

so,eeo New Readers by Sept. 1st.l
The daily worker., 1934-08-23

n DAYS ONLY are left IN which to raise
the $4,000 needed for the appeals Of
Angelo Herndon and the ScOttsbOro
Boys Only SS,6s2 Of this sum has been raised
to date Rush contributions to international
Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th St., New York City.
See blank on page four Of this issue.
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The daily worker., 1934-08-23

Continued on Page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-10
By a Worker Correspondent

BESSEMER, Ala. - The Muscoda
ore mine in Bessemer, Alabama,
which is owned by the Tennessee
Coal and Iron Co., Gu. S. Steel sub
sidiary), is the main mine in the
whole Birmingham district. The
Negro and white miners are very
much dissatisfied and have just
succeeded in making a good fight
against the company union The
local of the international Union of
Mine Mill and Smelter Workers "a.
F. Of ID has a weekly attendance
of at least 500 members.
The Communist Party and Young
Communist League are making
great Roadway among these miners.
This may be seen from the follow
ing report Of a young Negro Mus
coda miner, at a meeting Of the Y.
c. L.:
Just before the vote on the COM
pany union last winter, some of the
company officials were trying to
find those miners who had a great
deal of influence among the work
ers and get them to help swing the
vote in favor of the company union.
One Of the men they picked, who
is now a Communist, was very
popular among the other workers
They even offered to pay him. "T
wasn't even connected with the Y.
c. L. at that time he told us, 'but
I just knew the right principle"
A few days before the election,
the officials renewed their drive to
gain votes for the company union.
They invited the workers up to get
sacks of coal free. I'll do you
favor today - you do me one to-
morrow and vote for the company
union" they told the workers. I'VE
all went up for coal because we
knew we wouldn't get any more, for
we knew we weren't going to vote
for the company union. But we
just listened to them talk, and didn't
say anything"
Jack Brown, the sheriff, was one
Of the most active in the campaign
for votes. He helped the company
tell the workers what a wonderful
outfit they were for giving the men
coal. You find any other company
thatll give you coal like this and
I'll give you five dollars" he told
them. Nov you know we are for
you. And I know you won't let
nobody fool you" The workers an
swered, mo sir We won't let
nobody fool us!"
When voting time came all the
officials were nervous but tried to
put on a sure front. None of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-10
Operators SwindIe,
Then Jail Miners
Company Uses Prison Threat in Attempt to Get
Away With Paying Months Back Wages

we the operators owe you one
months salary we are willing to
drop all charges in court against
you, providing you sign a document
releasing us of that money owed
you, and that we collect 81 off of
every ton of bootleg coal you at
present produce"
The miners here only get $3.50
for bootleg coal. The coal COM
pany after owing the workers a
months salary has them arrested
and offers them a proposition that
is even worse than the yellow dog
contract.
The miners in Beaver Township
refused this rotten proposition and
their case comes up in court in
December.
The workers here because of the
existing misery one day decided to
organize, and went to see what
kind of an organization was the
Unemployed Council functioning
near here, in Shenandoah, Track
vile, Pottsville, etc. After hearing
organizers of the councils speak,
they decided to ask questions con-
corning the organization.
AS a result today in Beaver
Township more than so workers
joined the council and a commit
tee was elected Immediately to
take up cases.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-10
Relief Hunger Drive
And Bribery Resisted
Wife of Tel. Employment Agent Heads Welfare
and Uses Position to Supply Scabs

Salaried men were supposed to
vote, but before it was over, the
company called them all out to vote,
because they we're getting desperate.
The ballots we're fixed so that no
matter how you marked your vote,
for or against the company union,
it registered for it. But even with
that, only 1876 men out of the 900
workers voted for the company
union. Then the company got out
the report that 81 per cent of the
workers voted for it, but that was
not true.
All this was just before the big
strike in the ore mine in May and
June. All Of the workers wanted
raise in wages, but a few Of them
not bad enough to strike for it.
After the selI-out of the strike.
the relief has been trying to starve
lis out" he said. Some of those
who were on relief have been cut
of because their wives are making
50 and $3.50 a week doing wash
ing and house work. Just last week
a man with a family of seven was
cut off the relief because his wife
makes So a week. The case worker
goes around to the people who hire
these women and tells them to pay
the workers as little as possible.
They also have stool pigeons who
carry information to the company.
THE relief operates through the
company The head lady, Mrs. A.
D. Mallett, is the wife of the en-
ployment agent for the T. G. L,
and she takes dictation from her
husband. He hires men to scab.
The relief orders are very small.
Meal is not even included, and one
order has to last for two weeks.
Young single workers are given al
most nothing-say, two loaYes Of
bread, small bag of potatoes, and
a can or two of something, for two
weeks"
When questioned about the A. F.
L. local, and the mines he told us
that there are about 900 members
in the local. Negroes attend very
well even though they are jim
crowed in the local, although there
are both white and Negro on the
executive board.
We asked him how he came to
join the Y. G. L., and what he
thinks about the movement. He
replied: We'll, I just figured it out
this way. An old man is just about
what he's gonna be-a young man
has a good chance to be what he's
not. He can advance. Well, the
Y. c L. anr the Party don't stand
still. They advance with the rank
and file workers.