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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
Schemes Force Jobless
to Carry Whole Burden
of Unemployment !

Roosevelt he breaches cass collabo-
ration and attacks the Communists
for attempting to show the work
ing class the revolutionary way out
of the crisis.
He is attempting to capitalize on
the hatred that the masses have for
Merriam. But his program, stripped
of its fantastic promises, is funda-
mentally the same. 1t is designed
to divert the leftward moving
masses into capitalist channels.
Offers Workers Nothing
Workers who vote for Sinclair in
preference to Merriam are voting
just as the capitalists want them to
vote. They are voting for man
who will give them nothing, for a
candidate who has betrayed his
promises even before he was put in
Office.
In contras3 to Sinclair'S method
of promising everything and giving
nothing, the Communist Party in
California has worked out a pro-
gram that recognizes the immediate
needs of all the workers, farmers
and small homeowners in the State.
1t would increase wages 20 per cent
in order to meet the rising cost of
living. 1t would inaugurate a five
day week and a six hour day. It
would end all taxes on homes valued
would end all taxes on homes velued
at $4,000 or less. 1t would exempt
the poor farmer from taxes if his
income was below the average union
scale in his county. 1t would pro-
vide unemployment and social in
surance in accordance with the
provisions the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill, H. R. 1898.
The burden of the crisis would be
shifted to the rich.
Endorsed by Labor Fakers
To vote for Sinclair is to vote for
a man who has been endorsed by
the labor takers, by labor hating
capitalists and by fascist dema-
gogues like Father Coughlin. 1t
means vote for vigilante terror.
1t means a vote for lower stand
ards of living. 1t means paving the
way to fascism.
To vote for Sam Darcy and the
whole Communist slate means
voting against hunger and the
menace of faScism. 1t means voting
for the only party that fights for
every demand of the toilers of Cali
fornia and every state in the Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09

And the owner of a bankrupt fac
tory receives a high rent from the
federal government.
Subsistence Colonies
The Ohio plan, to which Sinclair
now subscribes, is part of Roose-
yelt's scheme to drive the unem-
ployed to subsistence colonies, where
they will be insulated from the en-
ployed workers. 1t is a shrewd
scheme to foist the burden of I'M
employment on to the working
class and use the misery of the I'M
employed as a club against strikers
and workers who fight for higher
standards of living.
Sinclair will do nothing for the
unemployed He will do nothing for
the poor farmer who will continue
to have his farm forecIosed by the
banks or sold for taxes by the state.
The small home owner has already
heard Sinclair repudiate his prom
Use to exempt his house from taxes.
Silent on Reign of Terror
The employed worker has seen
Sinclair refuse to condemn the
vicious reign of terror that was
launched against all militant work
ers, during the San Francisco
general strike. Sinclair has refused
to commit himself on such a vital
issue as discrimination against
Negro, Filipino, Chinese and foreign
born workers. He has refused to
endorse the candidacy of the mill
tant fighter Leo Gallagher, for the
Supreme Court. And at a time
when the workers of this country
are attacking the hunger policies OF
the New Deal, he has fully endorsed
the Roosevelt regime. This means
that he has endorsed the murder of
all strikers who have been killed in
defense of their right to picket, to
strike and to organize.
The huge vote that Sinclair re-
ceived in the primary elections was
the expression of the discomfort of
the toilers with the reactionary
policies of Acting Governor Merriam,
the servant of the financial and in
dustrial interests. Many workers
voted for him in the belief that a
vote for him was vote against the
vigilante terror that was used
against the general strike.
Spokesman for New Deal
In the light of Sinclair's actions
since his nomination, the workers
of California should reconsider the
matter. Sinclair has come out
openly as the spokesman for the
New Deal in California, the same
Roosevelt deal that so savagely at
tackled the working class. Like
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
MichiganFarn
Leader to Get
N ew Trial
Reversal of Conviction
Won for John Rose
By the LID.

DETROIT, Mich, Oct. S.-The
International Labor Defense has
won an outstanding victory in the
decision of the State Supreme Court
reversing the conviction of John
Rose, militant farm leader and
Communist candidate for Secretary
of State, and granting him new
trial.
Rose was convicted last Septem-
Der on charge of assault with in
tent to commit great bodily harm,
for having participated in a dem
onstration against a farm fore
closure in White Cloud, Mich, on
Mar. Is, 1888. He was sentenced to
from six months to five years in the
state prison at Jackson, but after
serving a short time, was released
on bond.
Rose was originally arrested to-
gether with two other leaders of the
Michigan Farmers League, Clyde
Smith and George Casper, all three
being charged with criminal syn
dicalism. AS a result of the activity
of the I. L. D., the charges against
Smith and Casper were finally
dropped, while that against Rose
was changed to assault, the dan
gerous weapon" he was alleged to
have carried in the demonstration
having been a chain.
Rose was defended by the 7. L. D.
attorneys, Maurice Sugar and John
Safran. The date for the new trial
has not yet been set.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
Negro Woman
Beaten, Jailed
In Alabam
Held for Having C. P
Leaflets Demanding
Negro Equality

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Oct. "a
fresh victim of the new terror be-
ing waged against workers in Ala
bama, Helen Long, a Negro work
ing woman, was arrested on a
framed-up charge, brutany beaten,
tried in the Fairfield district court
where justice is daily rtavestied
and sentenced to SO days in jail,
or fined $50
The arresting officers, in a re-
newed campaign against workers,
Negro and white, on Monday night
went searching for Red" literature
which they had heard was being
distributed in the neighborhood
Fairfield is controlled by the Ten
neSsee Coal and Iron Corporation.
Its police are under special instruc-
tons to wipe out every trace of
recognition Of workers rights. To
this end, the age-old red scare is
raised repeatedly. Entering the
home of workers, the police dis
rupted the household. Pursued by
two officers, Mrs. Long fled from
the house. In her flight, she tripped
and fell headlong into a ditch. The
police pulled her out, beat her bru-
tally, knocked her unconscious and
carried her to the police station
There they produced the incrimi-
mating evidence they had found upon
her person-three leaflets explain
ing the Communist election plat
form.
Because Fairfield has no law to
attach to this particular crime
Mrs. Long was held under inves-
tigation." Under pressure she re-
fused to tell her address or give
any information demanded of her
The attempt was then made to
hold her for insanity" Failing
that, a charge of "disorderly con-
duct aggravated" was levied against
her.
Produced as evidence in the court
this morning, the Election Cam
paign Platform served to increase
the ire of the Fairfield court. Par
ticular exception was taken to point
5 on the program, dealing with Jim
Crowism and Negro rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
tpaiIy worker Mldne.t Rureanl

CHICAGO, Oct. 8.-An attempt
to recruit anti-labor stool pigeons
was made in the offices of the Fed
eral Housing Administration in Chi
cago recently by a Mr.. Henderson,
acting in the capacity of inter-
viewer Of persons seeking work with
the F. H. A.
Proof of this fact Is contained in
a statement to the Daily Worker
by an applicant for an F. H. A. job,
from which statement the follow
ing facts are taken:
Mr.. Henderson several weeks ago
interviewed this applicant. The
man stated his qualifications, ex-
perience, etc. Henderson promptly
told him there was little or no OPP
portunity for job of the kind the
applicant wanted. Then he limited
that he might be able to offer an
other kind of job.
On questioning by the applicant,
Henderson stated he had formerly
been connected with the Hargrave
Secret Service, which is large pri-
vate detective organization with Of
fices at las N. Clark ST., Chicago.
He said that because of the large
demand by industrial and business
firms for under-cover men, he was
thinking Of returning to Hargrave
as the hirer of new personnel. He
told the applicant that chances of
employment were good and that
with Henderson's influence behind
him, he should also be able to find
a job as spy without trouble.
This stool-herder then outlined
the general tactics used by the I'M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
Trail OF Broken Promises Proves That Sinclair
Will Repudiate Entire Program Before Elections

What is left of the Epic by now
is little more than a plan to help
big business. Unemployment relief
is to be cut even below its present
inadequate level, and the unem-
ployed are to be left to the tender
mercieS of primitive system OF
barter. Sinclair assures the capt.
talists that by supporting him they
will be able to save the money that
is now being used for relief pur-
poses, and put the burden on the
unemployed themselves.
Sinclair, to save his face, has an
nounced that his program has had
to be modified because of constitu-
tional barriers. He speaks of a
twilight zone of law" that forces
him to use only such procedure as
our people are used to and our
courts have definitely sanctioned
Capitalist self Help"
This means that Sinclair's pipe
dream, when brought down to earth,
is simply the system of barter and
self-help that the capitalists have
been trying to sell to the workers
since the start of the crisis. There
will be no genuine relief for the
workers in California, since Sinclair
now says that social insurance will
have to wait until the further de-
velopment of the new deal.
What is in store for the workers
of California if they allow them
selves to be taken in by Sinclair's
barrage of false promises? He has
come out for the so-called Ohio
plan, which he now embraces as
vigorously as his former love
Epic. In Ohio the unemployed are
forced to toll to earn the large sum
of $50 a month which they receive
for relief. In addition, they can
work extra hours and receive credit
with which to obtain products
manufactured at a few factories
where other unemployed are work.
ing at relief wages.
JobleSs Carry Burden
Under this scheme the unem-
ployed are forced to carry the
whole burden of unemployment.
Instead of adequate relief or unem-
ployment insurance, they receive
starvation relief wages and the
privilege of Shaving for a few bar
tered articles.
This is wonderful system for
the capitalists. Relief is reduced
to a sub-existence level. The I'M
employed must slave to obtain
shoes or clothing for their fam
lilies. The starvation standards of
the unemployed become the stand
ards toward which the employed
workers find themselves driven.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
1000 Iii e a r
HerndOn Talk
In Cincinnati

CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 8.-Over
1900 persons, Negro and white.
filled the Stowe School auditorium
here Thursday night to welcome
Angelo Herndon, hero of the At
lanta, Georgia, instruction" trial.
and now out on bail pending ap-
peal from sentence of eighteen to
twenty years on the chain gang.
The hall was packed to capacity at
7:20 pm, and many were unable to
gain admittance.
Herndon told of his work among
Atlanta white and Negro unem-
ployed workers and his arrest,
prosecution and torture in Jail.
Richard B. Moore outlined the his
tory of the frame-up of Herndon
and the Scottsboro boys, and the
whole system of Negro oppression
in the United States. He called for
the building of the International
Labor Defense into mighty
weapon in the struggles of the Ne
gro and white toilers. Seventy
seven persons joined the I. L. D.
Three hundred pamphlets were
sold and $57 collected in cash and
$24 in pledges for the Scottsboro
Herndon defense.
Among other speakers were Rob-
ert Gunkle for the Communist
Party, Butcher for the Unemployed
Council, Miss Franklin for the Pen
and Hammer.
The splendid unity of Negro and
white workers in the mass well
come to Herndon and militant sup
port of the Scottsboro- Herndon
campaign evoked the rage of the
local boss press, which came out
with protests from the Reserve Of
ficers' Association chapter against
the use of the Stowe School for
meeting to welcome the Negro
Communist, Angelo Herndon."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
.CCC Proposed
AS Permanent
By Roosevelt
Plan Is Announced in
Letter to Fechner,
Camp Director

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. g.
Continuation Of the c. G. c. Camps
as a permanent addition to the
functions of the Roosevelt govern
ment was expressed in letter to
G. G. C. Camp Director Robert
Fechner by President Roosevelt yes
terday.
Fechner, who has just completed
tour Of 125 camps in the Western
area, and who last week submitted
a yearly report on the camps to
Roosevelt, urged the extension of
the c. c. c.
Fechner's report on the activities
of the G. G. G. camps for the past
year stated that Gil youth in the
@. G. G. had died of accidents and
disease during the one-year period
from April 6, 1888, to March 81,
1884. OF this total, 316 had died
from accidents in the camps and
295 died from disease" The prin-
cipal cause of the disease deaths,
the report stated, was pneumonia,
which was brought about by the
exposure and hardships suffered by
the boys who are compelled to live
in tents and rudely constructed
shacks.
The present enrolment of the C..
G. c. is $4,000. In addition there
are $1,000 foresters, 5000 reserve
army officers and LOO teachers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
All Left of EPIC Plan
Now Is Meant to Aid
Big Business
BY David Ramsey

1t has become pretty obvious as
the election campaign progresses
that Upton Sinclair will repudiate
what is still left of his Epic Plan
before election day. He has broken
his utopian promises in record
breaking time in order to curry
favor with the Roosevelt regime and
the old-line politicians of the
McAdoo-Creel machine in Califor-
MIA.
AS soon as Mr.. Sinclair won the
Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor he began to hold long and
friendly" conferences with Creel
and other of his supposedly bitter
enemies. And about a week after
his secret conference with Roose-
welt, the N. Y. Times reported that
he had agreed to a radical modifi-
cation of his Epic Plan" Sinclair
must have assured Roosevelt of his
loyalty to the capitalist class, and
in return he must have been given
advice on the new concoction of
demagogy he was to offer to the
workers and farmers of California.
Praised BY Farley
At the nominating convention
Sinclair embraced every politician
in sight and earned the approval of
Roosevelt's political lieutenant,
Postmaster General Farley. To get
this support Sinclair junked his own
program on the grounds that
Roosevelt was going to carry it
through in some distant future.
What remained of Sinclair's false
pledges can be gathered from
Creel's statement given to the N. Y.
Times while enroute to Washing
ton, where he conferred with
Roosevelt. Creel denied that the
Democratic State platform in Cali
fornia was in any sense IAN en-
bodiment of Epic" He said that
instead of being Sinclair plat
form, our State platform is one
upon which any Democrat can
stand. In adopting it we threw out
the Sinclair proposal to pay $50
month to persons past 60 years of
age. We also dropped his scrip
plan, his plan for $300,O00,0O0 bond
issue, his plan for farm communes
and for State stores, his plan for
exempting from taxation all prop
erty of less than $4,000 assessed
and his plan for repeal
of the sales tax"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
Los Angeles Red Squad
Attacks Fur Strikers;
Organizer Badly Beaten

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8.-The Red
Squad made a vicious attack on a
fur workers strike demonstration
here at Seventh and Hill Sts., bru-
tally clubbing and slugging many,
including women. Frank Brown
stein, organizer of the Fur Work
ers Industrial Union, was arrested
Brownstein was badly injured by
police clubs.
The employer In the struck shop,
Dieterich, is believed to have insti-
gated the police attack on the
picket line. Dieterich's shop is the
only one refusing to negotiate. The
rest of the wholesale fur trade has
contractural relations with the Fur
Workers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
600 Hear HerndOn
at Columbus Meeting

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. g.
Nearly 900 persons turned out last
Thursday night to greet heroic
Angelo Herndon, Mrs. Ida Norris,
Scottsboro Mother, and Richard B.
Moore, National Field Organizer of
the International Labor Defense.
The audience responded with en-
thusiasm to the call of the speakers
to strengthen the mass fight for the
freedom of Herndon, the Scottsboro
boys, Tom Mooney and Ernst
Thaelmann. A large amount of
literature was sold, and $50 raised
for the Scottsboro- Herndon defense.
Two campus organizations, the
Inter-Racial Council of Ohio State
University and the National Stu
dents League contributed $1.50 and
$1.55 respectively.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
JobeSS Will Hold Meeting to Smash Police Bar
Official Hires Labor Spies
For Strike-Breaking, Acting
In Federal Housing Office
U. S. Employment Man Recruits Stool-Pigeons
from Applicants for Work in Chicago

der-cover men that work out of
Hargrave's office. A factory owner,
who gets word that his workers are
beginning to organize, goes through
the regular routine of hiring" one
Of Hargrave's men in the usual way
and puts him to work in the fac
tory, as an ordinary employee.
This man has two jobs. He tries
his best to find out the names of
all workers helping the work Of or
ganizing, and also those who belong
to radical organizations or groups,
or who are sympathetic to them.
The spy also, in most cases, tries
to hamper the building of an or
ganization.
If he fails, however, it is his job
to join the union and place him
self in position to get all infor-
nation possible. The stool makes
a daily report to his superiors and
receives from them new instructions.
This entire interview took place
in the offices Of the Federal Hous-
ing Administration at 1874 N. La
Sale ST., Chicago, on time for
which Mr.. Henderson was paid by
the U. S. government.
Whether because he found he
could recruit spies while working
for the government, or for any
other reason, Henderson h$s not
yet officially gone back to Har-
graves. He has been transferred
to another job within the F. H. A.,
and is now in charge of the de-
partment which handles photo
graphs and motion pictures for a
West Side housing project. His Of
flee is Room 1900, 1874 N. La Sale ST.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
'DynanitePlOt'
Launches Red
Scare i'm Texas
Marine Workers jailed
and Beaten on Docks
i'm Houston

HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 8.-Three
hundred and nineteen pounds of
dynamite were found" here on
Thursday, Sept. 20, under the Gin
ton Docks, scene of much terror
against the striking longshoremen
during their strike in Houston. The
docks are occupied by the Morgan
Steamship line, a company which
operates only with non-union long
shoremen.
This dynamite plot" played up
in the headlines of the three lead
ing newspapers of Houston, was the
signal for the raising of the "red
scare" and drive of terror against
the waterfront workers by the city
police, who during the longshore-
mems strike worked hand in hand
with the steamship companies Of
ficials and hired thugs.
Nine seamen were arrested, seven
of them being members of the I.
w. w. and two members of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union.
Some of these workers were beaten
and all were threatened and in
Inundated although never formally
charged with the attempted" dy-
namiting. Police also threatened
to close the MWI.U. hall.
An immediate search was also
made by the police among the
timed foods at the relief head
quarters for more dynamite set
ups" This action was aimed
against the Unemployment Coun-
ellis here, now having a member
ship of over 500 signed-up mem
hers.
A group Of workers, called to-
gether by the I. L. D., Harrisburg
Branch of Houston, met in protest
against this frame-up and terror
izing of the waterfront workers, and
issued statement to the mayor
(himself an expert strike-breaker) !,
and the City Council, exposing the
lies Of the press and the steamship
company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
New Members
by C.P.
In Alab am a
Birmingham Challenges
Other Districts, With
Quota of $50

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Challeng-
ing the Denver District I9) Of the
Communist Party to socialist COM
petition in the recruiting campaign,
District II here has launched
drive for $50 new G. P. members
and $50 new members of the Young
Communist League by Jan. 1.
In the call for the drive, which
began on Oct. /, the District Bu-
reau lays heaviest emphasis on the
necessity for large proportion Of
white workers among the new re-
cruits, and concentration upon
members of the trade unions in the
steel mills, coal and ore mines and
textile mills
AS part Of the drive, quotas Of
800 new readers of the Daily Worker
and 1000 new readers of the
Southern Worker, have been set.
In this District II will be compet-
ing with the Florida District, which
has pledged an increase in paid
circulation for the Southern Worker
of more than 1880.
West will compete with South in
the recruiting competition between
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and
Wyoming District 49, and Ala
bama, Georgia, Tennessee and
Mississippi.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
Coordination Bureau
Set Up on West Coast

LOS ANGELES, Oct. s.-To Eli
inmate conflicts in dates for i'm
portant events arranged by work
ing class organizations in Los An
geles, the Communist Party has es-
tablished coordination bureau.
All organizations who are a part of
the left wing movement are re-
quested to submit their plans for
affairs to the committee before any
publicity is issued. Through the
committee it will be possible to
eliminate conflicting affairs and in
sure greater successes morally and
financially.
The coordination bureau will
meet every Tuesday in the Cultural
Center, 230 s. Spring st. Plans for
all affairs should be submitted dur
ing the week prior to the meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
IA Fur Workers Strike
In Detroit Factory

Nopeciai 10 the Oaty HoFkeFl
DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 8-Four-
teen fur workers employed in Well
mans fur shop struck today when
the company refused the demand of
their committee for a 10 cents an
hour increase for the six women
workers. The strike is led by the
militant Fur Workers Association,
affiliated to the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
WHAT'S ON
Detroit. Mich.

Detroit, Mich.
GENERAL Victor A. Yakhontof speaks
on The Soviet Union in the Far East
Fort Wayne Hotel, Tuesday. Oct. 9, $50
pm. Adm. Csc. Auspices: FS.U.
Cleveland, Ohio
GENERAL Victor A. Yakhontoff speaks
on The Soviet Union and the Far East
ern Situation" Thursday, Oct. II, pm.
Locomotive Engineers Bldg, ontario and
st. Clair Ave. Auspices: F.SU.
Omaha, Ne6.
TALK on Fight of the Unemployed for
the Right to Live by VIM. Reynolds at
Workers Cultural Center, 2404 Parket ST.
1890 Block on No. gath ST., Sunday, Oc-
tober IA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
UNION DELEGATES
MEET In NEWARK:
REPUDIATE EDICT
Delegation to Greet Communist Party at 18th
Anniversary Rally Will Be Sent by A. F. of L.
Local Which Rejected Green's Proposal

NEWARK N. J., Oct 8-The Essex County Trades
Council composed of delegates of trade unions of Newark
and vicinity decided after heated discussion at its
ing last Friday to reject the request for the expulsion
all Communists from affiliated unions received in letter