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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
A Mild Rebroach to theS.P.
to Cloak an Attack ON
the Communist Party

THE American Civil Liberties Union has just issued
report on the recent Madison Square Garden
meeting called by the Socialist Party to discuss the
uprising of the Austrian working class against Fas-
cism The inquiry into the events at the Garden,
states the Civil Liberties report authorized mot
so much for the purpose of fixing responsibility as
for establishing the of the conflict and of
minimizing them in the future"
The Civil Liberties Union describes itself in the
report "as neutral agency outside the struggle of
parties and groups. But the report itself reveals
that within itself the CL.U. also expresses the
rrepressible class sntagonisms and class points of
view. The report is marked off into a majority
report, and two minority dissenting reports. The
majority report follows
ut is undisputed that the Communists parti-
cipated in the Madison Square Garden meeting
for the announced purpose of preventing two
speakers from being heard and demanding places
for two of their own speakers on the program
The immediate responsibility for breaking up the
meeting rests, therefore, squarely upon the Com
munist Party leadership.
1.-THE Communists assumed the right as an Or
ganized group to attend public meeting to which
they were not invited as group and to deter
mine whom it should hear and not hear. Even
granting that a Communist leader was present
for the purpose of maintaining order-at least up
to the arrival of Vol and LaGuardia-the Commu-
mist Party leadership cannot escape responsibility
for its rank and file members getting out of con-
troll"
This is, of course, the traditional attitude of
the Civil Liberties Union the attitude of '1beral-
ism which is greatly impressed by the niceties of
who, and who was not, invited" to the meeting
The majority report continues
The handling of the meeting intensified the
conflict. Searching Communists or their sym
pathizers at the door, taking away banners and
,opies of the Daily Worker encouraging ushers
20 eject dsrupters, and leaving the policing of the
meeting solely in the hands of unframed ushers,
were factors bound to increase hostile feeling
THE physical attack on Clarence Hathaway
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29

ment that Japan must have peace
and order in East Asia, and there
fore is taking the lead in a job for
the good of the entire world"
Confirms Marking Betrayal
He made clear how openly Chang
Kai-Shek has sold out to the i'm
perialist powers when he said that
what the U. S. should do to "ad-
vance the cause of peace in China"
is to support Chang Kai-Shek, who
is now waging war on the Chinese
Soviets, with the assistance of U. S.,
Japanese and European imperial
lists.
While denying Japan's intention
to make war on the Soviet Union,
Hirota willingly discussed the role
of China in such a war, revealing
how far the Marking government
has gone in it's negotiations with
Japan in preparation for the Japa-
nese invasion of the Soviet Union.
Marking now is convinced that
an understanding with Japan is
more to her advantage than con-
flict," he said.
Simms adds that he has heard a
great deal of talk in the East that
the Marking government is pre-
pairing to recognize the Japanese
seizure of Manchuria.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
International Anti-W a r
Group Calls Paris
Meet July %

NEW YORK. THE World Com
mittee Against War and FaScism,
headed by Henri Barbusse, Roman
ROLAND and Lord Marley, has is
sued call from its headquarters in
Paris to women all over the world
to join their efforts in building a
gigantic Women's Congress Against
War and Fascism to be held in
Paris on July %, 20 and 80, 1884,
the goth anniversary of the last
world war The call, which is adj
dressed to the women of every
country, reads in part:
Our homes which were destroyed
and broken up by the war of yes
terday have hardly been rebuilt
when those who profit most from
the present system are feverishly
preparing new world slaughter.
War is already raging in China,
in Latin America, in Morocco. 1t
is seriously menacing the borders
of the peaceful Soviet Union.
Millions are flung headlong into
the race of armament production
our sons are enlisted into the
armies, In preparation for the most
formidable and most abominable
war humanity has ever known.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
U.s. Women Prepare for World Anti Var Congress of Women

Our lives, which We are asked to
risk in the next war, are barely en-
durable in these days of economic
crises. Housewives find it impos-
sible to balance their budgets. More
and more workers are thrown into
the horror and misery of unemploy-
ment. The wages of those who
work are constantly cut. Farmers
are unable to sell their products and
are driven into the greatest distress.
Women intellectualS and profess
SIGNALS, whose families made great
sacrifices SO that they might COM
plete their educations, are unable
to make use of their training, are
unable to find work. All around
us is misery and distress. It is
the duty of the women of all coun-
tries to react Immediately to this
critical world situation.
Fascism Rising
Those who exploit and starve
working women are the same the
world over. They are the same
gentlemen who are preparing the
next war. The economic crisis is
piling up more ruin on every side.
In the face of our anger, our eff
forts at resistance, the privileged
classes become alarmed and resort
to fascist violence in order to crush
us and to make of us better mill
tarized slaves for their war aims.
Under fascism, women are deprived
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29

of the rights they have won through
years of struggle; they are enslaved.
Can we permit fascism to spread
with ever accelerating spec d
throughout the world? Can we per-
NIT fascism to drive the world back
into the dark pit of barbarism?
Time for Action
The time has come for action.
We must follow the lead of women
like Charlotte Despard, Anna Lind
hagen, Karen Michaelis, M. de Saint
Prix, Helene Stassova, Nine. Sun
Vat Sen, DR.. Gertrude Woker, Lila
Fenner Brockway, and Ellen Will
kinson; we must follow the lead of
great working class organizations,
of different political tendencies,
groups of veterans, and the most
militant groups in the intellectual
world. We must gather all our
forces from the farthest horizons,
from every corner of the globe.
1--WE must decide on our course
of action, on our organization of
the struggle against war and against
fascism, on the means of carrying
out our demands for which we will
owe an accounting to history.
Call to Congress
"We call upon all of you to sup
port this action and to participate
in the World Congress of Women
which will take place in Paris on
July %, 90 and 80, 1894
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
US. Women Meet Sun.
to Plan Participation
in World Congress

many women in their membership
to lay the plans for electing large
and representative organization of
Negro and white working and farm
women from the United States to
the Paris Conference. This confer
ence will be held in New York City
on March 80, 8 pm, at the Leagues
office, liz E. 10Th St., Room SOS.
A committee of three, consisting
of Anna N. Davis, formerly of the
War Resisters League, Annie E.
Gray Of the Women's Peace Society
and Winifred Chappell of the Meth
odist Federation for Social Service
is issuing the call of these organ
izations.
This preliminary conference will
set up a National Committee which
will direct the work of holding dis
trict and regional conferences at
which the widest representation of
women-working women, housewives,
farm women, teachers, intellectuals,
students-will be called together to
mobilize the support of American
women, regardless of race, creed,
color or political affiliation for the
struggle aaginst war and fascism
and for electing delegates to the
Paris Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
Workers to
Gather at
Coliseum
Hathaway and Gebert
Will Speak at the
Big Opening /
midwest Bureau, Daily wOrker.l

midwest Bureau, Daily WOrker.)
CHICAGO, March 28.-The
Communist Party, District 8,
will open its Ninth Convention
here on Sunday, April l, at
7:3O p. M, with mass meeting in
the Coliseum, 18th st. and Wabash
Ave, at which Clarence Hathaway,
editor of the Daily Worker, and
Bill Gebert, district organizer, will
be the main speakers.
Besides workers, who will come
to greet the opening of the conven-
ton, delegates will be present from
the mining, railroad, steel and pack
ing house industries of the district.
The convention will evaluate the
work of the district since the last
convention, held in Milwaukee in
1882, and basing itself on the draft
resolution of the Eighth National
Convention, to be held in Cleveland,
will set itself the task of winning
the majority of the working class
in the basic industries of Illinois
and Indiana.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
LerrOux ReyiveS
Death Penalty as
Strikes Spread
Gas, Ele ctric, Water
Workers Strike in
Valencia

MADRID, March %. = The Ler-
roux cabinet met today to hurry
through a bill to revive the death
penalty in Spain, which was abol-
ished after the revolution.
The bill is aimed directly against
the revolutionary workers, as an Of
fetal announcement makes clear.
The announcement says the bill is
introduced to root out vandalism"
Workers in the electric, gas, and
water supply plants in Valencia
struck at midnight last night, in
solidarity with the hydro-electric
workers, who are already out on
strike.
The army is sending troop Of
military engineers to scab on the
electric and water workers, on board
the army transport ship Almirante
Lobo.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
Jews Killed
In BaVaria:
L. S. Nazis
Plan Drive
Demonstration Called
for Saturday at
Nazi Consulate

NEW Worthwhile news
reached New York Of a Nazi
pogrom at Gunzenhausen, in
which at least two Jews died
and many were seriously injured,
and New York Nazis planned an
anti-Jewish campaign at a meeting
in Yorkville Casino Tuesday night,
New York Jewish workers issued a
call for support of their anti-fascist
action.
They announced a protest dem
onstratiOn Saturday, March 81, at
10 a. M, in front of the German
Consulate, II Battery Pl The
demonstration will be followed by
a march to Union Square and
a mass meeting there.
The demonstration is \called by
the Jewish Workers and Peoples
Committee Against Fascism and An
ti-Semitism, which in its call urged
all anti-fascist workers to take part.
Anniversary of Nazi Pogroms.
This demonstration will take
place the day before April /, the
first anniversary of the murderous
drive against Jews in Germany
which brought death, manning, tor
ture and ruin to hundreds of thou
sands of Jewish workers, profess
SIGNALS and small business men, at
the same time that wealthy Jewish
flnanciers were being aided by Hit
Ter, and giving him their support.
The anniversary is being marked
in Germany by intensified violence
against Jewish workers and small
traders, whipped up by virulent
anti-Jewish campaign in all the
newspapers.
In Gunzenhausen, Bavaria, Storm
Troopers staged a pogrom Tuesday,
attacking scores of Jews, two of
whom died as a result. Eleven Jews
were arrested by the police, but of
course no Nazis.
American Heads NaziS.
In New York Tuesday night, the
League of Friends of New Germany,
on orders from the Nazi party in
Germany, accepted Reinhold Wal
ter, S08 East 86th ST., an American
citizen, as national leader of the
Nazi organization in the United
States.
Fritz Gissibl, former leader, an
nounced that ne had received or
ders from 'the great leader" (Hitler)
that all Nazi functionaries in the
U. S. must be American citizens.
Carl Nicolai, former acting preSi-
dent Of the United German Socie-
ties, announced the program of a
vicious anti-Jewish campaign to be
carried out by the American Nazis
and their sy1npathizers, and a
counter boycott" of those who take
part in anti-Nazi activities. He
said the American Nazis were or
ganizing a "German-American Pro-
tective Alliance" to carry out the
fight against Jews in America, and
to spread Nazi propaganda.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29

Women of all countries! We call
on you to take the initiative in the
factories, on the countryside, in the
schools, in your organizations =
wherever you live and work, to form
committees for the support and par
ticipation in the World Congress.
Let us make of our united forces
an invincible rampant against war
and an insurmountable barrier to
fascist terror.
LET us direct our efforts towards
the economic and political liberia
ton of women.
INTERNATIONAL WOMENS
CONGRESS AGAINST WAR
AND FASCISM.
Paris, January, 1884.
Signatures receiv d: Claire
Charles-Geniaux, Madeleine Rol-
land, Mines. Signac, WALTON, Aurdee
Violis (France); Haden-G Guest
Great Britain; Elm Wagner (Swe-
dem Comtesse Karoly.
I'VE have also received a number
of signatures of women from coun-
tries under fascist regimes but for
obvious reasons and for their safety
we cannot make them public"
New York Conference
The American League Against
War and Fascism has taken the ini-
tiative in calling a preliminary con-
ference of women's organizations
and other organizations that have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
Rail Workers Join Party on
Basis Of Daily Worker Sales

NEW YORK. 3, Section 10,
of this District, shows an outstand-
ing example of carrying on success
full concentration work in a rail-
road yard through the Daily
Worker, resulting in new recruits for
the Party.
Previous to the circulation drive,
sales at the Pennsylvania Railroad
yard in Sunnyside, Long Island,
were practically at zero. Now sales
total 300 copies per week.
Tiba Garlin and Rose Leither,
two of the most active comrades
selling the Daily" at the wards, re-
port that the workers were at first
very reluctant to buy the Daily
Worker.
The Negro workers were inter
eSted, following explanations to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29

these new Party members wrote
letter to the Daily" telling of con-
ditions in the shop, especially of
the filth in the "sign-out room"
The letter was reprinted by the
Unit in pamphlet and sold to the
workers. Clippings of the letter in
the Daily" were posted by the
workers in the shop. Within a week
the company cleaned up the sign
out-room."
Far Reaching Effect
A New Orleans Pullman porter
whose route ended at the Sunnyside
yard brought copy of the Daily"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
Doumergue to Cut.
Wages, Pensions,
Relief, Fire $4,000.
To Take Four Billion
Deficit Direct From
Workers Pockets

PARIS, March 28.-The Dou-
mergue Cabinet is meeting today to
complete its plans for throwing
complete 100000, 900 franc deficit
($263, 100000 onto the shoulders Of
the unemployed, the civil servants
and the veterans.
This deficit represents part of
Frances gigantic expenditures for
war preparations. Many previous
cabinets have fallen trying to bal
ance this budget.
The present program is to fire
$4,000 to 10000 civil servants, cut
the wages of all others another five
to eight per cent, reduce veterans
pensions by 70o,0OO,OO0 francs and
social insurance by 540,000,000
francs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
Hirota Again Bids for US.
Aid in Var against Souiets
Speaks of China's Role in Anti-Soviet War;
Confirms Chang Kai-shek's Betrayal

NEW YORK.-The New York
World Telegram yesterday had its
front page dominated by the report
of an interview by William Philip
Simms, its foreign editor, with
Koki Hirota, Japanese Foreign Min
lister.
In this interview, Hirota presses
an invitation to the United States
and Great Britain to help Japan in
the qualification" of China, and
reveals that Chang Kai-Shek,
Marking dictator, is acting as
puppet of Japan in China.
What this qualification" means,
Hirota makes clear when he says:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29

dIJy hVoC ASAtACl
The white collared young workers
in the yard have also been inter-
ested in the Daily Worker, showing
how the Daily" can be used to
good effect among both Negro and
white workers.
Three comrades usually partici-
pate in the work. Two pass out
leaflets, briefly written and telling
what the Daily stands for, at
either end of the yard bridge over
which the workers go to and from
work. The third comrade, selling
the Daily" is stationed in the
middle of the bridge. 1t is note
worthy that non-Party workers and
LID. members in Queens help in
this work.
Let's hear from other concentra-
ton units how they are working to
spread the revolutionary influence
of our Daily Worker!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
lid Issues Stamps For AustrianRelief

NEW YORK.-Fifty thousand
five-cent stamps and 100000 penny
stamps for the relief of victims of
Austrian fascism were shipped over
the country today by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, to stimulate
and assist in the drive for relief
funds, it was announced.
Students, teachers and workers at
Commonwealth College, Mena, Ark,
on the initiative of the local branch
of the International Labor Defense,
collected 1922 for the relief of vic
tins of Austrian fascism, immedi-
ately upon receipt of the call to col
lect funds issued by the national
office Of the ] T.. d.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
The Negro work
eSted, following

IIDd OdTIIIf DOUII n 8 I .
and white workers began to admire
the unit members who came to sell
the Daily" day after day.
What makes you come out here
in such cold weather." they asked.
The comrades replied, Communists
are always on the job for the work
ing class, regardless of the weather"
The workers liked this answer, and
even those who were at first in
clined to joke about it began buying
the Daily to see what it was like.
New Party Members
Ten railroad workers were re-
cruited into the Party on the basis
of Daily Worker sales. Some of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29

THE present Marking government
is sorely beset on all sides by reb-
els, Communists and bandits. If
Chang Kai-Shek fails, there is no
telling what will happen. The
result is the same whether Chinese
Communism is inspired from abroad
or by conditions of want and mis-
cry at home.
I'm either case the answer is
chaos, and chaos in China is a men
ace to world peace" "Pacification"
can mean nothing but a gigantic
war of enslavement of the Chinese
people.
Hirota repeated his recent state
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
CHILE TOWN FLOODED

ANTOFAGASTA, Chile, March %.
-Torrential rains in the Andes have
caused floods and washouts which so
far today had resulted In five dead
and 100 injured. beside many homes
destroyed. Communications with
the interior were disrupted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29

The I. L. D. national office has
issued an appeal to all who are col
lecting funds for the Austrian VIC
tins to send in all money collected
Immediately, to be cabled to Europe,
where an I. L. D. committee of
women has gone into Austria to
distribute the funds. No deduc-
tons for any expenses are being
made in the collection of the $4,000
fund which the I. L. D. here has
pledged to collect, expenses being
paid out of organizationa1 funds or
through special means.
VIENNA, March 8 (By MaiD A
lady from Frau Dollfuss Relief
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29

Committee" called on the widow of
the worker Munichreiter, hero of
the Austrian workers fight, who
was hanged by Dollfuss' court mar
tlal. She was bringing a gift"
from the Dollfuss fund.
It'll take no gift from the muir
derers of my husband" declared the
widow, as she ordered the lady out
of her house.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29

them how the
ID a lily" fights
for the freedom
Of the Scottsboro
Boys, a g a in S t
lynching, Jim
Crowism and all
forms of race
discrimination.
Roth N q o r0
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29

The unit mem
bers talked to
this Negro work
er, got his name
and address and
forwarded it to
the District. This
worker is now a
member of the
Dortt-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-29
Epidemic In Austrian
L.

EpIutHIIC III AuSIIIdH
Concentration Camp
VIENNA, March PA dysentery
epidemic was reported raging at
concentration camp for political
prisoners at Weellersdorf, near
Weinerneustadt, government au-
thorities admitted today. Sixty
nine prisoners have ben taken to
hospitals since March 10.
The Washington times., 1934-02-17
No PRO OFFERS
To STOEFEN

LOS ANGELES, Feb. lies
ter Stoefen, third ranking tennis
player in the United States, hasn't
the "faintest intention" Of turn
ing professional.
AS he prepared to leave for the
East tomorrow night on the first
stage of an eight-month amateur
campaign, Stofen declared pro"
tennis was furthest from his
thoughts.
mot only have I no inten-
ton of turning pro-" he said,
"but no one has even ap-
preached me with such a prOpo-
Sition."
Stoefen, in the best shape OF
his career, goes to New York to
play in the national mixed
doubles February % to "a.
Following this he will go to
Bermuda and then to Houston,
Tex, to participate in tourna-
mentS there.
The Washington times., 1934-02-17
FACES
CRUCIAL TEST

CHICAGO, Feb. 17.-Purdue's
campaign for an undisputed West
ern Conference basketball cham
pionship and the hopes of Iowa
to stay in the title race will be
settled tonight when the two teams
clash in the foremost of four Big
Ten battles.
1t was Iowa who handed Purdue
its only defeat of the Conference
season. The Hawkeyes, although
still in the running, have been
beaten twice. Thirteen thousand
persons are expected to witness
the duel at Iowa City climaXing
the Hawkeye home schedule.
Other Conference games this
evening send the second place
Illinois five against Wisconsin on
the latter's floor; Michigan meets
Ohio State at Columbus, and In
diana goes into action here
against the last place Chicago
team.
Both the Illinois and Wisconsin
teams have shown marked i'm
provement in recent engagements,
but the Illini are expected to come
out on top to stay in the cham
pionShip running.
The Washington times., 1934-02-17
Basketball Results

Baltimore u, A; Gallaudet, 26;
at Baltimore.
Eastern High, %; GonzaSa. IT.
G. w. Frosh, So: SWaVely Prep,
18: at Manassas, Va.
Central High. 80; Woodberry
Forest, 19; at Woodberry Forest,
Va.
Friends, 25; Landon Prep, %;
two extra periods.
Georgetown Prep, 20; st. Johns,
10.
Central High Lightweights, 46;
Northerns. IA.
w. & L. Frosh, 43; Roosevelt
High, %; at Lexington, Va.
Augusta Military Academy, %;
Western High, IT; at Fort De-
fiance, Va.
Friends Jrs., 13; Landon Prep
Juniors, 7.
Naval Reserves, 38; MarionS. 16.
Ais Girls team, 80; Red Flashes,
II.
Eastons. 20; Christ Church, II.
Sigma A. K, As; Mt. Pleasant,
IS.
"Y" Flashes, 25; Kendall, 81.
Center Five, 30; Dunbar High,
18.
"Y" Juniors, 81; Woodward
Prep, 9.