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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20

Men, Carlos M. Flores will describe
the uprising in Venezuela during
1929 Conditions in that Latin
American country will also be pic
tured in this special article.
A partial list of writer's on the
American 1orking-class scene in
cludes Earl Browder, General Secre-
tary Communist Party, U. S. A.; C..
A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily
Worker: j. Stacllel, OF the Trade
Union Unity League; M. j. Olgin,
editor of the Freiheit, Jewish Com
munist daily newspaper in America;
The Pittsburgh District of the T..
L. D. has ordered 1000 copies of the
May Day edition; The Turtle Creek
Section of the G. P. in Pennsylvania.
also 1000; The Hill Section of the
c. P, in Pittsburgh, 1900 copies; the
Library, Pa, Section, 1000 copies.
Rush your orders at once. Prepare
for mass sale and distribution on
Red Weekend, April 28th and 10Th
Send your greetings today. Individ-
ual g.oef ''7g7 will be printed for as
little as Is cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
Revolutionary Traditions Of Trade Union
Struggles Spur Preparations for May Day

year. Hundreds of thousands of
workers who did not participate in
the strike struggles last year and
who are now striking are already in
volved in the strikes Of the first
months of this year. In the last few
weeks we have witnessed the rapid
growth of the strike struggles. Five
thousand workers in the Mellon
Aluminium plants struck; smaller
struggles are taking place in the
steel mills; thousands of auto work
ers are already on strike with tens
Of thousands in the mood to go, in
Detroit and other centers. The
general strike Of the taxi drivers in
New York City is Of the greatest
significance. The railroad workers
are, thru their strike vctes and
protests MAKING it mighty diJlcuit
for the bureaucrats To put over the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20

extension of the 10 per cent wage
cut.
Jobless Struggles Grow
Side by side with the increasing
strike struggles there is taking place
a mass movement against the C.W.A.
layoffs; the fight for the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill Oh. R.
1899 is gaining new support daily
and especially among the locals of
the American Federation of Labor.
Despite the efforts of the N. r. A.
apparatus to stop the developing
struggles last year, the strikes
spread very rapidly. Similarly now,
the government, faced with the ex-
posure of the N. f. A. before the
workers as the instrument of the
capitalists, is trying to stop the
growing struggles through the Wag-
ner Bill and other anti working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
Smith Working With
NRA Against Interests
of Rank and File
SPY, SCOTT, ACTIVE
Fight Move Towards
Compulsory Arbitration
(Special TO the Daily Morkerl

NopcCldi 10 the OaIiy NOrker)
DETROIT, Mich, April 19-
When you strike against low wages
and for wage increases-such a
strike would be a Calamity and en-
danger recovery" Such is the phil
osophy of Mr.. Mathew Smith, secre-
tary of the Mechanics Educational
Society of America. When the tool
and die makers organized in the
MESA. were talking strike and
preparing for action, Smith sent a
wire to Washington, stating that a
strike would be Calamity for
recovery"
But when his opposition could not
deter the tool and die makers from
taking strike action, he went along.
But his going along was for the sole
purpose of weakening the strike.
Disappointing it and finally hand
ing it over to the MIRA. boards
boards whose task it is to make the
country safe for recovery, safe for
the enormous profits Of the auto
mobile manufacturers and avert
strikes which would be a Calamity
to the boss greedy profit recovery.
Mathew Smith is now openly
working with the Detroit Regional
Labor Board (of which he is a mem
ber) and the Automobile Labor
Board against the interests of the
striking stove workers and tool and
die makers.
Asks Board to Settle"
1t is announced today that Smith
put the fate of the strike of the
Detroit Michigan Stove workers in
the hands OF the strike breaking
Regional Labor Board. 1t is further
announced that at today's Regional
Labor Board he will also ask the
board to settle" the strike of the
tool and die makers. Smith is now
moving more openly to break the
strike of the stove workers and tool
and die makers organized in the
Mechanics Educational Society Of
America. Smith, who opposed the
strike of the tool and die makers,
has from the very start thrown in
all mis- energies to narrow the strike
and by all of the adopted methods
of delay and promises hamper the
militant rank and file from using all
of its forces to deliver smashing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
Ala. Bosses Whipping
Up Race Hatred to
Break Strike Unity
WHITE MINER SHOT
Council Opens Fight to
Keep Wage Differential
Especial to the Daily worker

Especial to the Daily Worker)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April
19.-Tear gas squad 16 of the
National Guard has been sent
from Montgomery against the
mine strikers. The National
Guard was rushed to Porter
mines, Northeast of Birming-
ham.
The militiamen have sandbag bar
ricades and machine guns. The
strikers were prepared to march on
Porter, but the United Mine Work
ers Of America leaders rushed there
to prevent them.
Around 21.000 miners are on strike
demanding higher wages, and union
recognition.
Two pickets at the Porter mines
were arrested on Wednesday. Both
are Negroes, Leon Simpson and VIII
Frazier. A white miner, Gordon
Bice, was wounded by fire of deputy
gun thugs and police. directed at
Ed England, Negro miner who was
murdered yesterday at the Red Dia-
mond mines at Leeds. Bice nav de
also.
William Mitch. district president
Of the U. NJ. w. A., gave out a state
ment on the death of ENGLAND.
blaming it on the 'lawless miners"
who carry concealed weapons.
i would hesitate to pass iudg-
ment." he said. I'VE have repeatedlv
urged ore mine workers to refrain
from violence in any form, and in
no case to carrv fire arms. 1 regret
the shooting of both OF these men.
and feel that if good Judgment had
prevailed it would not have o.
cured
The Southern States Industrial
Council meeting in Birmingham
Wednesday is planning a campaign
throughout the South in favor Of
the differential wage. The u. NJ
w. A. leaders are following a con
scious policy on their own part OF
attempting to smash the united
strike and the splendid unity of the
Negro and white workers, while To-
menting an attack on the Negroes.
A telegram to Roosevelt yester-
day by the 300 industrialists at their
meeting saws: Racial strife is i'm
minent." The Age Herald says
editorially: The fact that the Negro
miner has become conspicuous in the
clashes with officers is fresh. and a
bedeviling factor"
Leaflets and shop papers. issued
by the Communist Party, urge the
spread of the strike to all mines and
to the steelworks. They urge mass
picketing, despite the U. NJ. w. A.
leaders treachery.
They call on the workers to elect
rank and file strike committees.
Send the guardsmen and deputies
home, declare the leaflets. A sharp
attack is made on the Southern diff
ferentials in all industries. They
urge the pulling out Of all main
tenance crews. The leaflets urge
the Negro and white workers to con-
tinue their splendid unity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
Alabama Workers Plan
May Day Rally With
Or Without Permit
CHICAGO TO MARCH
Workers to Defy Police
Ban on Parade

DETROIT, April 10. = De-
troit workers are mobilizing
their forces to hold their May
Day demonstration in Grand
Circus Park, despite refusal
of a permit by Heinrich Pick
ert, Prussianized police com
missioner who took Office under the
slogan Might is Right"
A mass protest meeting has been
arranged for this Sunday, 2 p. M,
under auspices of the May Day
Unity Conference representing SIS
organizations, at Danceland Audi
forum, Forest and Woodward to
fight against the police ban on May
Day, and the arming Of gangs by
Pickert for an attack on the Michi-
gan stove strikers.
Pickert's actions clearly indicate
the whole policy of attack on the
civil rights of the workers under di-
rection of the Michigan Manufac-
turers Association in an attempt to
crush the rising miIitancy of the
workers.
The main speakers at Sundays
meeting will be j. Wilson of the
Auto Workers Union; Reverend
John Bollens of the Civil Liberties
Union; A. Gerlach of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense: William
Weinstone Of the Communist PARTY.
and others.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 49, -
Unlike previous occasions, the CITY
Council here has not dared to re-
fuse a permit outright for the Nav
Day demonstration here, which will
be held in Capitol Park, directly be-
meath the barred windows of the
cells where the Scottsboro bows lie
This will be the first open demon
stration held in Birmingham in a
year.
Last year, the authorities attacked
continued on Pare q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
FreeThalmann
Call to Sound
AT Nazi Meet
Workers to Mass Where
Nazis Celebrate Hitler
Birthday

NEW YORK. - The New York
workers demand for the freedom
of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the
German Communist Party, will
resOund tonight outside the Brook
lyn hall where local Nazis are to
gather to celebrate the birthday of
the fascist butcher, Adolf Hitler.
The workers meeting is called
for I pm. in the park opposite
Schwaben Hall, KnickerbOcker and
Myrtle Avenues, Brooklyn. 1t is
called by the Anti-Fascist Action
and the Anti-Fascist League, and
is supported by the Communist
Party, the American Committee to
Aid Victims of German Fascism,
and the American League Against
War and Fascism.
PARIS. = Thaelmann' release is
demanded by the town council oil
Malakof, a peoples meeting in the
18th Paris District, the French
Workers International Relief, anc
the Inquiry Commission on Hitler
Terror.
SAARBRUCKEN. In Burbach
workers marched through the streets
shouting Release Thaelmann."
MOSCOW.-The first Union con-
ference of Soviet German writers
has been held here. Among the rep
resentatives of Soviet literature were
Gladkov, Tarassov and Judin. The
resolved upon an appeal
demanding the immediate release of
SOFIA. Thirty Bulgarian LAWYERS
have entered written protest
against the Incarceration of Thael-
mann, which has now lasted more
than year All declare their readi-
ness to go to Berlin to undertake
Thselmann's defense in the coming
trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
Monday Is Dead Line
on May Day Greetings

NEW YORK.-All May Day greet
ings to the Daily Worker must be
received in the New York Office moi
later than Monday, April %, in
order to be published in the 24-page
May Day edition.
Boston district has already sent
in greetings amounting to 200. All
workers organizations and inividual
workers are urged to rush their
greetings at once. Address, Daily
Worker, so East 18th St., New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
Demonstration at
Cuban Consulate
At Z Noon Today
n. W orkers to Demand
Release of Prisoners,
Repeal of DEGREES

NEW YORK-New York workers
will mass in front of the Cuban
Consulate at IT Battery Place today
at IL noon, in a demonstration of
solidarity with the fighting Cuban
workers, to demand the immediate
release of all class war prisoners
now held in the jails of Cuba.
BY modifying their forces against
the terror and strike breaking de-
crees set up by Mendieta on orders
from Yankee imperialism, the dem
onstratorS will also be hitting at the
strike-breaking apparatus of the
New Deal government in the
United States.
delegation of twelve will be sent
from the meeting to visit the Cuban
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
Gun, Gas Squad
Sent To Ala. Strike Area:
Tool Strike Endangered
General Electric Co.
Morgan OnOpOLy,
Gets 81 % Profit Rise

NEW YORK.-Refecting the
aid given it by the monopoly
character Of the NR.A. code for
the electrical industry, the Gen
eral Electric Corporation, Nor
gan Company, and one of the
largest industrial monopolies in
the world today reported a 81 per
cent increase in profits for the
first three months of this year as
compared with the first three
months of last year before Roose-
welt took Office.
The Corporation showed profits
of S4,566,00 as compared with
S2,S39, 900 last year. After pay
ments on a special stock, stock
holders of the common stock will
get the major proportion of this
profit increase. Wages have been
kept at starvation levels.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
Detroit Meeting
Sunday To Fight
Ban On May Day
KensingtOn Asks
JObLesS Council
To Act on Board

KENSINGTON, Pa.-The relief
board here has asked the Unem-
ployment Councils to elect COM
mittee to sit on the relief board
at certain intervals. The Coun-
ellis, fully realizing that this is an
attempt to force the Council to
adopt a conciliatory attitude
toward che relief officials in place
of struggle for relief, accepted the
offer, but will use the position on
the board to expose the relief off,
Gals to the workers, and force
concessions through the board,
and will continue to lead the
fight for demands of the unem-
ployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
Railroads Refuse
Restoration of
1OP.C. Wage Cut
Gwyn, Express Official,
Calls for Compulsory
Arbitration
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, D. C.-FederaI
Co-ordinator Of Transportation Jo-
seph Eastman told the press yester-
day Immediately after his confer
ence with President Roosevelt and
a group of railroad magnates, that
the railway employers are standing
pat on their refusal to restore the
10 per cent basic wage cut which
ends June 80, 1884.
Asked about the probability of a
strike by railway employees to OBJ
tain a living wage, Eastman replied
Il don't see any possibility of a
strike for some time. Nobody has
threatened strike"
Carl Gray, President of the Union
Pacific, the road controlled by w.
Averil Hartman, one of the lead
ing N. R. A. executives, preceded
Eastman out of the conference. He
said that the employers had just
discussed the general situation with
the President" Profits for the first
two months of this year were much
better than for the same period of
1888, he volunteered.
To Aid Compulsory Arbitration
Louis R. Gwyn, Vice President of
the Railroad Express Agency, in
formed the Senate Committee on
Interstate Commerce which is hold
ing hearings on the Dill Bill provid-
ing compulsory arbitration in rail-
way disputes, that such disputes
should be handled across the table
in man-to-man fashion" instead
of through boards which include a
third party who doesn't know any
thing about the problem. Further
more, Gwyn said, the present rail-
way labor law is adequate. He
meant, of course, adequate to COM
pei arbitration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
Boston Workers Prepare Giant
Protest
DEMPSEY TO EE EDITOR

BENTON HARBOR, Mich, April
19.-From fisticufTs to literary as
pirations - so runs the course CT
Jack Dempsey's life. The former
worlds heavyweight boxing champ
ion has purchased half interest in
8 Texas newspaper, and says he is
rgoing to do little writing"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
1000 Filling Station
Workers Tie Up Many
Cleveland Gas Pumps

CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 49,
When the companies refused to
negotiate their demands, 1000 filling
station workers here walked out on
strike Tuesday, effectively tying
up all but independent gas filling
stations.
The strike took place after an all
night meeting of members of the
newly formed A. F. of L. union.
The men are demanding a mini
mum scale ranging from Sis to
$3.50 month; f1ve-day, forty
hour week, and union recognition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20

Consul TO denounce the cooperation
of the Cuban ruling class with Wall
Street and present the demands Of
the New York workers.
Among those scheduled to address
the meeting are Robert Dunn of the
Anti-Imperialist League. Henry
Shepard of the Trade Union Unity
Council, Armando Ramirez of the
Cuban Club Julio A. Mella. and Peter
Caccione of the Workers EX-Sarvice-
mems League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20

AAROAN 4AAA OO1 anu
two docks went
out yesterday, the
lon S h re m e n
marching to the
Seamen's meeting
to contribute to
the march. The
more than TOO
m arin e workers
repre- S e n e d by
t h Sc marchers
are in complete
control of relief.
T h ir M arine
WTA-lyOre \
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
Bedacht to Speak at the
TWO Membership Meet

NEW Workman Bedacht, ma
tional secretary of the Interna-
tional Workers Order, will speak
tonight before a membership meet
ing of the Two. on 1.-THE Negro
Question in Connection with the
TWO"
The meeting will be held at the
Russian National Mutual Aid Hall,
l22 Second Ave, and will start at
8 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20

schemes. And just as before, the
A. F. of L. leadership is bending all
efforts to disrupt and disorganize
the rising struggles. But this year
the bureaucrats find it more difficult
to hold back the workers. But for
us it is not sufficient to take note
of this. What is important for us
is that the A. F. of L. leadership
through its policies still is able to
paralyze the actions Of the workers.
For us it is necessary to stress that
only by steadily, Systematically and
effectively exposing these leaders
and their every maneuver can VIC
mobilize and lead the masses in
successful struggle against capital.
The recent events in Germsnv
and Austria have he'd a tremendous
(Covffu,od ~, PINE ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20

leading part in the armed struggles
against the Black and Tans after
the World War. is at the beginning
of a tour of American cities in
which he will discuss the Irish ques-
ton and Ireland's revolutionary
path to freedom.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
LEAD POISONING LEsDs

COLUMBUS, Ohio IF. Plead
poisoning was the leader in occupa-
tional diseases in 1888, according to
q report in the Ohio Industrial Com
mission Monitor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20

De bIlc L II / I L
S p e a k e r at a
mass meeting in
support of Irish
national in d e.
pendence, at 8
o'clock tonight
in Bryant Hall,
Sixth Ave. a t
And st.
Comrade Muir
ray, who h a S
been a leader of
the struggles of
the Irish masses
for many years,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
Continued on Page p
Irish Red Leader
To Speak Tonight
Sean Murray at Meeting
in Bryant Hall

NEW YORK. Sean Murray, the
leader of the Communist Party Of
Ireland, which in its existence of
less than one year has led great
struggles of the Irish masses, will
l.. L. a !.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
IRISH REPUBLICAN SEIZED

CORK, Ireland, April 10 Tom
Barry, Republican leader, was ar
rested here last night, charged with
possession of a machine gun and
384 rounds of ammunition. He will
be tried before a military tribunal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau'

ny mAhGUEhlIE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, April 19.-Shortly
before four o'clock this morning !
jumped into a friends car and sped
out Of Washington to meet about
30 sailors and longshoremen who
were marching on foot all the As
miles from Baltimore to the Capitol
to demand that Federal officials
drop plans to shut down the Sea-
mems Relief project, the only pub
lie unemployment relief outfit in
the United States that has the hard
won distinction of being run en-
tirely by workers.
To support the demands of these
unemployed seamen, we knew, the
crews of four ships in the Balti-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
Continued on Page q
ScOttSbOrO Rally
Tonight Will Hear
Report on |. Blum
Several Cities Preparing
Giant Demonstrations
for April 25

NEW YORK-A report from q
delegation which recently visited
Leon Blum, militant leader of the
Laundry Workers Industrial Union
jailed for his activities in the
strikes of Bronx laundry workers
Will be given at the Scottsboro-
Blum protest demonstration to-
night at the Nat Turner Hall. Third
Ave. and 10th st. Arthur Hirsch
head of the delegation, will make
the report.
The indoor meeting will be pre-
coded by four open-air MEETINGS
and giant protest parade start
ing from the main open-air meet
ing at 161st st. and Prospect Ave.
at Z o'clock. Three other meetings.
at wilkins and Intervale, 172nd St.
and Third Ave, and Claremont
Parkway and Washington will feed
the parade.
Joseph Brodsky, chef of the
legal staff of the International La
Dor Defense, and Richard B. Moore.
general secretary of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights, will be
the main speakers at the indoor
meeting.
The Bronx demonstration is a
preparatory action for the mighty
city-wide Scottsboro protest dem
onstration in Harlem at five
O'Clock next Wednesday, April rs,
International, Scottsbcro Day.
Meetings in the needle trades
market and the Crown Heights sec
ton of Brooklyn are being held all
this week to mobilize the workers
for April 25.
Boston Workers Prepare Giant
Protest
BOSTON, April 19.-Boston work
ers will hold a big Scottsboro- Hern-
don protest parade and demonstra-
ton on April %, starting at Doug
las Square at S pm. Church and
house-to-house collections for the
Scottsboro defense will be con-
Quoted this Sunday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
BULLETIN

Federal relief officials late to-
day were notified by telephone by
the Baltimore Seamen they would
arrive late and would march to
Relief Headquarters tomorrow to
present their demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20

WO1hSIS II U U s.
trial Union waterfront Unemploy-
ment Council and Seamen's Adj
ministration united all seamen, re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20

Continued on Page 81
The Washington times., 1934-09-28

Defense Attorney Fawcett. How.
ever, the trial will be as soon as
the best interests Of the case die
tate.
Q.-Where is the gun found in
Hauptmann's garage.
At has been sent to the
ballistic department for examina-
ton.
Q.-Had the gun been fired?
Al don't know.
+ DIR. Condor Status
The district attorney was then
asked if there were any other per-
sons other than Hauptmann under
suspicion. He replied that there
was mo definite person." but that
all angles were being investigated.
The Washington times., 1934-09-28

week, Hauptmann was not
brought to the district attorneys
offices but was allowed to remain
in his cell with his thoughts.
Photographer Quizzed
The district attorneys half a
dozen offices were used for the
hearing of persons who might
have information. They were
Intercepted individually and
whenever it seemed that what
they had said was of value the
district attorney himself then
questioned them.
John Mauer, owner of a store
in the Bronx, who disappeared
shortly after the Hauptmann ar
CONTINUED on Page 8, Col. y
The Washington times., 1934-09-28

Q.-What is DR.. Condon's
status?
(The reporters pointed out that
there had been many rumors con-
corning "Jafsie.")
Ale is a citizen witness.
Q.-Do you consider him an i'm
portant witness?
Al won't characterize any
body's testimony.
Q.-Is DR.. Condor under suspi-
cion?
A. (emphatically) - Certainly
not.
Hauptmann In Cell
Asked how many men were
working on the Lindbergh investi-
CATION, District Attorney Foley re-
piled all "all three organizations"