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half of the Spanish workers.
The letter, copy of which was
sent to Norman Thomas, follows
The heroic struggle of the Span
ish working class against the Fas-
cist reaction demands our imme-
date response. In Spain the united
front of Socialist, Communist and
non-party workers is offering blood
and lives to halt the reactionary
forces threatening the whole world.
Their fight is also ours. While our
Spanish brothers and sisters are
united on the barbados, can we
in the U.S-A. any longer hesitate
to at least unite in solidarity ac-
lions in their support?
The Central Committee of the
Communist Party calls upon the ma
tional executive committee of the
Socialist Party to unite with us in
a joint call to the American work
ers for series of mass demonstra-
lions in all important cities, under
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our joint auspices, to protest the
bloody pogrom of Fascist monar-
chist reaction in Spain and to ex-
press sympathy and solidarity with
the struggling workers and peasants.
In every district and city we are
calling upon our Party to make sim
liar proposals to the corresponding
committees of the Socialist Party.
Can we allow more precious DAYS.
and even months. to slip by, while
the whole capitalist world is drift
ing ever more rapidly into Fascism
and war, without serious effort to
build united working class front?
I'VE call upon you for immediate
favorable action.
"Fraternally,
CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
COMMUNIST PARTY.
EARL BROWDER
General Secretary"
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Revolutionary Uprising Reported Near CrOatian CAPITAL
To Daily Readers

When the Central Committee of the
Communist Party decided to increase the
number of editions of the Daily Worker
from one to three and add two pages to the
New York edition, it anticipated an immedi-
ate and vigorous advance in the campaign
for 100000. In the light of such expecta-
lions, results in the past few days have been
bitterly disappointing.
The responsibility for keeping the inn
proved DAILY must rest principally with
the New York district, which has thus far
raised only $1,000 of quota of $4,000.
Discontinuance of the improved Daily
Worker must therefore be announced for
the end of next week unless results in the
drive during the immediate present Justify
its continuance.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C.PUS.A.
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also be strengthened on another front. The strug-
gle against the rotten leaders of the IS.U should
be intensified and strengthened in every respect.
For these gentlemen acting as the chief herders
of strikebreakers for the steamship owners
Delegates of the ISU. have announced openly
that they will ship men on the struck vessels In
fact, they have shipped scabs aboard the SIS Texas
Ranger and have aided the shpowners to clear the
ship from the port of New York Yesterday ISU
officials were attempting to ship men on other ships
that struck and picketed
These open acts of strikebreaking must be
stopped once and for ALL
But only the seamen, and especially the rank
and file members of the ISU. can stop these acts
of scabbery Not only should the ships be picketed
but also the offices of Mr.. Victor Oander and his
assistant, the debarred lawyer Silas Axtell
No strikebreakers should be allowed to appear
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on the waterfront They should be driven from
the docks and from the labor movement forever
The seamen know how to do this And it must
be done in vigorous manner if the strike is to be
terminated speedily and VIGOROUSLY
Another one of the main questions in the strike
Is the question of relief for the strikers. Every
day hundreds Of new strikers must be fed. The
Workers International Relief so far has been able
to take care of every strike in New York
But there is relief needed for other ports and adj
ditional food is needed for New York
Every worker, no matter what industry he comes
from, no matter what political party he supports
or belongs to, should consider it his duty to the
work class to aid the strike by contributing to
the strike relief fund at $40 Broadway.
This strike is in the interest of all the workers
Support 1t and help spread it.
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FORD PLANT
FIRES $1,000
IN DEARBORN
BY A. B. Magil
Especial to the Daily Worker

DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 1o.-Fif-
teen thousand workers were laid off
at the Ford River Rouge plant to-
day. This cut the force in half and
reduced production to 800 cars a
day.
This mass lay-off comes at a
time when in Dearborn, controlled
by the Ford Motor Company, as
well as throughout Detroit, unem-
ployed workers are having their
budget cut, as well as their clothing.
light and gas allowance, in accord
ance with the program for slashing
nearly 100000 from relief expen-
ditures proposed by the State and
County emergency relief depart
mentS.
Under the leadership of the
Unemployment Councils struggles
against the cuts are developing in
various parts of the city. Three
hundred workers this morning held
militant demonstration at the
Scotch Relief Station, demanding
a twenty per cent increase of the
proposed cut. an immediate five dol
lar emergency order for every re-
lief applicant, cessation Of third
degree methods and the long wait
ing to which welfare dependents
are subjected, and recognition Of
the unemployed committees.
The demonstration was addressed
by John Pace, secretary of the
Unemployment Councils and Com
munist candidate for Congress in
the Sixteenth District, and by rank
and file workers.
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open LETTER.A.F.L. GROUP
is ISSUED TO.|N NY. BACKS
ship OFFICERS SEA STRIKE

The licensed officers section of
the Atlantic Seamen's United Front
Strike Committee, representing
masters, mates, pilots and engineers
from ships of the eastern ports, is
sued an open letter to all ships Of
ficers on vessels in the North At
lantic and Gulf ports urging them
to join the maritime strike and
come out on the picket lines for
their demands.
The letter, which was issued in
thousands of copies yesterday, fol-
lows:
Fellow officers:
The United Front Strike Com
mittee, Licensed officers Section,
composed of elected rank and file
representatives of the ME.BA.,
UL.O.A., the M. M. & P. and of
the unorganized, has issued strike
call for demands which we have
submitted to the American Steam
ship Owners Association on Oct. 4,
Inasmuch as the shipowners have
not met these demands, we call
upon you to take strike action.
In making your decisions. this
committee wishes to draw your at
tention to our demands, copy of
which can be had at our temporary
headquarters, 40 Broad Street; also
from the licensed officers on the
picket lines.
Gentlemen, we wish you to con-
slider these demands carefully. You
will note that they are just and
that they are necessary for our i'm
mediate and future welfare, and for
the welfare of the American Mer-
chant Marine.
Although the rank and file mem
bers of all organizations, through
this committee, have submitted
these demands to the MEB.A.. the
MN. & P. and to the U.L.O.A.,
urging these organizations to take
joint action with this committee to
CONTINUED on Page q
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OF FOOD
LIFTS PRICES
IN GERMANY

BERLIN, Oct 10.-Credit ar
rangements between Germany and
Great Britain are, according to the
latest reports, now falling to pieces
and the food shortage is causing
prices to skyrocket far beyond the
reach of the impoverished popula-
ton of Germany.
There is already a huge gap ex-
listing between German and foreign
food prices.
Whereas during last year official
figures showed rise Of tx per cent
in food prices, the rise is several
times this figure for many of the
chief foods consumed by the work.
ers.
Wheat in Liverpool costs $27 ton
and $40 ton in Germany.
Rye in Rotterdam costs $40 ton,
in Germany s73.
Pork in Chicago costs SO a hun
dred-weignt, in Germany $1S.
Butter in Copenhagen costs S31
for 200 pounds, in Germany SOL.
Bacon in Copenhagen costs $40
for 200 pounds, in Germany s73.
Eggs in Copenhagen costs 2 cents
each, in Germany cents.
These high prices, which mean
terrible suffering in a country where
wages average a little more than
S. week, are of absolutely no
benefit to the small peasants.
Hundreds of thousands of peas
ants are bankrupt as result Of
the drought. high rent and taxes,
the exactions of the money Lenders,
and the manipulations of the mar
ket by dealers and wholesalers.
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The New York A. F. of L. Trade
Union Committee for Unemploy-
ment Insurance and Relief an
nounced yesterday its full endorse
ment of the strike of the Atlantic
Coast marine workers under the
leadership of the United Front
Strike Committee.
THE New York A. F. of L. Trade
Union Committee for Unemploy-
ment Insurance and Relief realizes, -
the committee stated, that regard
less of union utilization all marine
workers should unite in order to
gain the demands which the marine
workers have voted for. The COM
mittee suggests the following course
of action. which can insure the
right kind of settlement for a VIC
terious outcome for the demands of
the marine workers.
First is the matter of arbitra-
ton, which, in the instance of the
Atlantic Coast strike, had already
been voluntarily acceeded by the
officials of the International Sea-
mems Union and the International
Longshoremen's Association to the
shipping interests, even before the
strike date, while on the Pacific
Coast the workers were already at
teh height of the strike, when these
same officials forced the sell-out
arbitration proposals upon the
strikers.
Second. S. U. and I. l.. A.
members should form rank and file
groups in every local, on every ship
and dock and convince the marine
workers to go out on strike over
the head of the arbitration die
tat2s of the I. S. U. and I. L. A.
officials.
Third. S. U. and I. L. A.
members should demand the imme-
date converting and frequent hold
ing of union meetings. At these
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GOVERNMENT
CRISIS GROWS
.DES Pc RAT {
Armed Masses Maintain
Control Over Many
Seized Cities
BIG BATTLES LOOM
State Arms Fascists as
Workers and Farmers,
Power Grows

MADRID. Oct. 1O.-With the rev.
dictionary general strike in its sixth
day, fighting continued to spread
throughout Spain, as the workers
firmly remained in control of many
of the towns and cities which they
seized in the armed struggles.
Basing itself more openly on tho
old monarchist forces, the anti
republicans, clericals and rich land
owners, the LeTouZ- Robes fascist
government admitted that it ex-
pected still greater attacks from
the Madrid workers and from the
workers and peasants throughout
the country.
Sporadic fighting continued to go
on in Madrid. The government adj
mits that it has not begun to COW
the workers, whose forces are I'M
dergoing a process of stronger or
ganization for more determined at
tacks against the government CEN
tiers.
The workers forces in Madrid are
well armed, with hundreds of ma
chine guns in their possession.
A food shortage is rapidly de-
veloping, and the crisis of the gov
eminent grows more desperate every
hour, as news filters in from all
provinces in Spain indicating that
most of the reports of the defeat"
Of the insurgent forces are so many
lies.
The workers and peasants forces
are massing for huge battle soon
in an effort to overwhelm the Fas-
cist governments forces.
The government is arming all of
the monarchist, clerical and fascist
forces, dropping pretenses of Re-
publican parliamentary government.
Foreign Legionaires from Morocco
are being distributed to strategic
centers for the big battles the gov
eminent momentarily expects.
Each day of the lack of decisive
advance by the government forces
plays in the hands of the armed
workers, who are strengthening
their forces, arming more and more
workers. constantly weakening the
confidence and fighting capacity Of
the government authorities.
In an effort to terrorize the
workers, the Council of War at
zaragoza condemned twelve workers
to death on the charges of having
been implicated in the Syndicalist
uprising of last December. These
workers were prisoners and the
reason for the death sentence at
this time is move of revenge
against workers who shot down OWL
Guards during the present struggle
against the fascist regime.
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ALL MILITARY
is Modified
.|NJUGOSLAvIA
Nearly All European
Cabinets Meet to Act
on Situation
ADMIT WAR DANGER
French COvernm zen t
Faces Crisis as Result
of AssassinatiOns

PARIS, Oct 10.-The full effect
of the assassination of the tyrant
king Alexander of Jugoslavis snd
French Foreign Minister Barthou
has not registered yet, as cabinets
and war alliances shook to their
very foundations, while the kings
body was being transported to the
land where he was known for his
murder and rapine.
All Jugoslavia was tense, with
revolutionary uprisings reported
from the central districts of zagreb,
the Croatian capital Police and
soldiers have been modified
throughout Jugoslavia, on orders of
the three regents who are to rule
for the new 1l-year old King Peter
II. Hundreds -of Croatian ma
tionalists are fleeing into Austria to
escape the threat of massacres i'll
revenge for the ASA ssination of
Alexander.
Nearly all European cabinets are
meeting to take steps in the present
grave situation throughout Europe.
The Italian press, despite its pro-
testations of sorrow" could not
conceal its satisfaction over the
death of the French ally, and the
possibility of serious struggle in
Jugoslavia, which Mussolini feels
will further his war plans for the
invasion of Jugoslavia.
In Germany, also, the press could
not hide its JOY at the death of
Foreign Minister Barthou.
British Cabinet Meets
The British cabinet met early to-
day to discuss the Jugoslavian sit
uation. No statements we're given
out.
Nearly all the armies in the Bal
kans, and in the countries surround
ing Jugoslavia are being modified.
Italian troops have been rushed to
the border Of Jugoslavia.
A cabinet crisis has developed in
France, with demands that those
who failed to protect the king be
ousted and the cabinet reorganized,
Prime Minister Doumergue has
taken over the portfolio of Foreign
Minister, and is said to be making
preparations to go to Italy for the
conferences Barthou had originally
scheduled with Mussolini to discuss
Italo-Jugoslavian relations.
It was freely stated in all of the
European press that The assassina-
tons would reshuffle all of capitalist
Europe's war alliances, with precip-
itate steps to gain advantage in the
face of the danger of the imminent
outbreak of war.
In Paris, the police are carrying
on campaign of raids and terror
ism against all Croatian nationalist
and Jugoslavian fugitives. Hundreds
have bsen arrested and questioned
by the police in an effort to connect
them with the assassination.
Passport Was Forged
Thus far, however, Petrus Kale-
men, the dead assassin, was shown
to have acted singlehandedly. 1t
! (Continued on Page q
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GREEN MEETS
OPPOSITION
IN FIRST TEST
AL. Council Majority
Seen To Be Slight in
First Roll Call
BOOS FOR TOBIN
Session Cool to Citrine
and Vladeck, Who
Attack U.S.S.R.
BY Bill Dunno
Especial to the Daily Worker)

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Oct. TO-
The A. F. of L. Executive Council
faced the severest test it has yet
met in this convention as the first
roll call took place on the question
of the jurisdictional raids on the
Brewery Workers Union by the
Transfers, Engineers and Firemen.
In this issue the question of in
dustrial unionism is clearly involved.
and to considerable extent the
roll call yesterday furnishes an
estimate of the voting strength on
this main question. The vote yes
terday afternoon came on the tech
nical motion to uphold the decision
Of the 1888 convention which in es-
sence was intended to sustain the
demands of the Teamsters and
other unions upon the Brewery
Workers. The vote was 1858 to sup
port the action of the Executive
Council in carrying out the Wash
ington decision, and 9,305 against.
The debate was acrimonious in
the extreme and the vote shows
that in this convention Green and
the present Executive Council have
only a technical majority, most of
the large and decisive unions with
industrial characters voing against
them. One exception to this is the
International Ladies Garment
Workers delegation, for whom Du-
binsky cast their 1900 votes in sup
port of the raid on the Brewery
Workers.
Rank and Filler Applauded
James p Dallas, rank and file
delegate from the Cereal Workers
Union 1859, Seattle, received con-
siderable applause for his five
minute speech describing the dew
sstating consequences in Seattle
of the jurisdictional fight between
the Brewery Workers and the other
unions. He said that it is the rank
and file which bear the brunt of
these senseless conflicts for the per
capita tax, and that only the union
officials and the bosses profit. He
called for the removal of all off,
Gals who persist in foisting these
suicidal battles upon the rank and
file.
Tobin was met with thunderous
boos when he boasted of the in
creased membership of his union
and said it was genuine member
ship and mot the kind of rubbish
that is coming in here now from
some of the other unions Tobin
may have been referring to the
rank and file in general, but he
seemed to be looking at the cloth
ing workers delegation. In any event
he was booed in a manner that no
official of big union has met in
an A. F. of L. convention for years
Francis j. German, who sold out
the textile strike, spoke last night
under the auspices of the Socialist
Party, together with B. Charney
Vladeck at the Labor College. A
Socialist Party leafiet advertising
Continued on Page q
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selves quota of 81 week for the
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quarters-send as much as you can.
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YOU!
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II will not contribute to the Daily
Worker $4,000 drive" asserts Mr..
Ralph Easley. The Daily Worker
can get along without Mr.. Easley!
But it cannot get along without the
contributions of the working class.
Send your contributions today!
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C.P. Asks S.P. To Join
In Solidarity Actions
For Spanish Workers

Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist
Party USA. yesterday sent letter to Clarence Senior
secretary of the National Executive Committee of the So
cast Party urging immediate united front action on be-
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4 More Anti-Fascists
Beheaded in Germany;
Red Aid Presses Fight

BERLIN, Oct 10.-zn the last
three weeks four more German anti
fascists we're executed by the axe.
Two fighters against Fascism. Hans
Voith and Frederick Rapior, mounts
ed the hangman's scaffold at bort.
mund. The worker, Hans Schid-
xix, was beheaded in Hagen, ana M
Elbing on Sept. l8 young Gregor
Meissner, a member of the Catholic
sport organization, Deutsche Jug
endk-aft was murdered.
In the face Of this new series Of
executions the International Red
Aid, in a strong appeal to every
anti-fascist. calls for intensifying
every effort to free the many irn-
prisoned anti-fa5cis.s who stand in
immediate danger of losing their
lives.
Especially is the call for the mo-
bilization of all forces directed to
saving the so anti-fascists who,
thrown into prison long ago, now
are sitting in death cells awaiting
execution. 1t is the cry of putting
an end to these executions which
must be raised throughout all lands
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Needed-S625 a Day

Yesterdays Receipts ...................... IS 1868
Total TO date ............... ............ 161849
Press Run Yesterday-51, 800
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-09-21
AUTO FATALITIES In STATE
INCREASE

Motor-vehicle fatalities in Mary
land for the first six months of 1894
showed an increase nearly ten per
cent over the same period last year,
E. Austin Baughman, Commissioner
of Motor Vehicles, announces.
Although the, State showed a
steady upward trend in deaths, it
has been more fortunate than some
other States" Mr.. Baughman said,
pointing to twenty per cent in
crease in he countrywide figures.
Deaths throughout the country
numbered 1880 for the first six
months, as compared to 1920 in
the corresponding period last year.
In Maryland the six months total
was 1874, as against lit.
Fatalities this year are increas-
ing beyond the all-time high for
automobile casualties recorded in
1884," the commissioner added.
IF the present trend continues more
than $4,000 lives will have been lost
this year and accidents and injuries
will have passed the million mark. F"
The District of Columbia, he said,
showed an increase of nearly 100
per cent; in Delaware the increase
was 40 per cent; in Virginia, Is per
cent, and in Pennsylvania, 1S per
cent.
He termed recklessness, careless
ness and bad driving the. chief causes
of the fatal accidents. Maryland
accidents attributable to drunken
driving have doubled, but still ac-
count for less than three per cent Of
tie total, the records shows
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This community is indignant to
say the least over the cowardly as
sault of three young scoundrels on
the person of Alvan Johnson, at
Pleasant Grove, Pa, last Friday.
Johnson had been to the sale at
Black Barren Springs and was re-
turning to his home in his car At
Pleasant Grove the murderous
scoundrels drove their own car in
front of Jchnson's car, dragged him
out of his car and beat him outrag-
eously, and might have killed him
but for the interference of one man,
whom they stabbed in the back.
Warrants are out for the devils in
Pennsylvania and Maryland, but they
are still at large.
Johnson had committed no Of
Tense against his cowardly assailants,
who were armed with knives, and
some say guns
The squirrel hunters are bringing
in good bags of game, and the farm
ers are busy with the tomato crops
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HOPEWELL AND ASBURY M. f..
CHURCHES
Rev. John r. Diehl, Pastor
Port Deposit, Md.

Services For Sunday, Sept. 23rd.
Special services will be held in
Hopewell M E. Church commemo-
rating the Secqui-C Centennial Cele-
bration of Methodism in America.
Special music will be offered by the
choir and the sermon will DO de,iv-
cred by tie rev. ]. H. Gray, of Will
mington, Del. DR., Gray was a for
mer pastor of Hopewell charge some
years ago and will be welcomed back
by his many friends here.
The order Of the service is as fol-
lows: Church School at Hopewell,
all departments converting at 1000
a. m. The morning worship service
cnovening at 1900 a. M, at which
time the special Sesqui-Centennial
Service will be offered, Rev. ]. H.
Cray bringing tie message.
The evening s9rvi-e at Hopewell
beg mag at 1880 p. m, under the
auspices of the Epworth League.
Church School at Asbury conven-
ing at p. M, followed by the wor-
ship service at D. m Sermon by
the pastor, theme: What Difference
Jesus Makes"