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Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-25
Former Local
Man Killed

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25. U.P)-
James Owen, 35, of Princess hotel,
Ell Centre, was killed and his COM
panion, Les V. Levey, 1919 18th
street, Bakersfield, was probably
fatally injured when Owens auto
mobile failed to negotiate a curve
in the Roosevelt highway at Carbon
canyon and plunged over a 35-foot
embankment last night.
Both men were thrown from the
car. Owen was dead when passersby
found the wreck.
The manager of the Princess
hotel advised The Press this after
noon that Owen had lived at the
hotel last winter but left here
months ago. He was employed by
S. H. Terwilliger, a trucking out
fit.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-25
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OissL NsNsush1 sI.aGiass. isA
GUARDS HALT
PRISON RIOT

HARRISBURG. Pa, Aug. 25.
W.P)-Rioting inmates at Crater
ford prison were under control of
guards and state police this after
noon, C. w. Hunt, deputy secretary
of welfare announced.
Hunt, in the absence of Mrs. AL
ice Liveright, secretary of elfare,
talked ith officials of the prison
by telephone.
He said rioting began during the
morning exercise period, when
most inmates were in the prison
yard.
Despite general confusion in the
institution, no one was reported
injured and no escapes were made,
Hunt said.
GRATERFORD, Pa, Aug. 25.
U.P)-Rioting broke out in the Gra-
terford branch of the eastern pen
itentiary today. Prisoners set fire
to their temporary barracks.
Forty state troopers and a score
of state highway patrolmen armed
with Sub-machine guns, riot guns,
and tear gas bombs were admitted
inside the prison walls.
Smoke billowed over the walls
Jeers, shouts, catcalls and the clat-
ter of food utensils being battered
against steel cell bars could be
heard.
Captain Elmer Leitheiser, in
charge of the prison here, refused
to comment beyond saying, "pri-
soners are running amok, but we
don't know how many yet"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-25
INCREASES IN
BOTH TERMED
UNJUST|F|ED
Assert Taxpayers Need Reduc-
ton Instead Of Having Taxes
Raised.
ASK SLASH IN ESTIMATE
Supervisors Requested To Cut
Budget To Figure Not Exceed
ing Last Years.

Attacking Imperial county IS
budget for the ensuing year, and
an increase in the county valua-
ton, the tax committee Of the I'M
perial County Farm Bureau today
passed two resolutions protesting
against the increases.
The tax committee has made an
intensive survey OF taxation and
property values in the county, and
the resolutions were adopted after
a Thorough discussion of condi-
tions, The Press was advised.
Following is the text Of the reso-
lutionS, copies of which will be
sent to the board of supervisors.
Whereas, the board of supervi-
sors has approved a budget calling
for an increase of approximately
five per cent over last years ex-
penditures and,
Whereas, the taxpayers of this
county are in no position to pay
increased taxes, but on the con-
trary need to have their taxes re-
duced, now be it
Resolved, that we call upon the
board of supervisors to reduce their
budget to a figure not exceeding
last years expenditures.
: Imperial County Farm Bureau
Tax Committee
Scott B. FouldS, chairman.
Earl v. C. Northrop
Mark Trentham
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-25

AAM!LlL-.o

NOVOSIBIRSK, Aug. "a.
(SpeciaD-These folks got an
entirely different alphabet and
it's only few towns where
there is telegraph operators
that can send messages in Eng
lish.
We are still in Siberia. If you
think it's not big, we been for
days and haven't made a dent
in it. Wish I had Wiley Post
here. This Is his old round-the-
world trail.
Beautiful country. They are
just harvesting the wheat. Wo-
men doing the harvesting and
the men are at the depot. You
know, these folks got some
good ideas at that.
Say you know all these big
beautiful rivers we cross runs
to the Arctic ocean. Nine o.
clock at night and the suns
shining.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-25

August 25, 1884
Whereas, the assessed valuation
OF Imperial county for 1934-35
shows an increase of $1,171 ,189 over
1933-1934, of which increase $l03,-
O99 is in the cities and $1,068,090 in
the country districts, and,
Whereas, there has been no in
crease in value in Imperial county
property during the past year, nor
for several years; now be 1t
Resolved, That we protest this
unjustifiable increase in valuations.
Imperial County Farm Bureau
Tax Committee.
Scott B. Foulds, Chairman
Earl v. c. Northrop
Mack Trentham
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
Nuenzenberg Talks Austria At Thaemann Rally TONIGHT
ARMED FORCES RULE MINNEAPOLIS TO BREAK STRIKE
Down With ImperiaIist War.

new bloody imperalst hangs by slender thread
over all humanity
The fascist madmen of Europe have already modified
hundreds of thousands of of the toer and peasants
and driving them to criminal slaughter in order
to attempt to capitalism.
Murder civil war wholesale butcheres are the weapons
OF fascism the open, brutal chauvnist dictatorship of
finance capital
Both Hitler and Mussolni in desperate plight drv-
towards the ensavement of Austria each for their
mperiast purposes, order to attempt to tave off the
doom of capitalism.
Under the preex of preserving the independence" of
Austria all of the imperas bandits Great Britain France
Italy, modifying their forces further enslave the Aus
rian under the heel of Austrian fascs The
German fascss in order to further their gigantic plumber
plans have touched off the spark which any may
explode the entire world into the most ferocous all
history.
Wall Street awaits avidy the onset of new war in
order to reap huge profits from the shedding of the workers
blood
American imperialism will, very soon after the out
break of war; plunge into it for its robbery schemes
Workers. farmers, all enemies of war! Never have we
been confronted with drastic immediate, terrible
danger of war.
Only the massing of the forces of all who oppose war
of all who recognize that capitalism the of war;
all who know that only by revolutionary struggle against
the bloody hand Of the mpeast bandits be stayed
To defeat the war now threatening to burst upon
humanity, every Communist every militant worker must
his brothers to action.
We must begin to mobilize against our own i'm
perast masters who have under the Roosevelt regime
been preparing night and day for this in order
the plumber of the rich bankers the rich parasites who
starve the American workers.
The Nazs murder adventure in Germany and Austria
desperate to stave off the rising revolutionary up
surge of the German people the first step the Fas
clst boodhounds plans against the Soviet Union
Our immediate duty is to strive by every means to
rally the American workers against this onrushng war We
must arouse the workers to revolutionary struggle against
war NOW that if unable to prevent it the
rapidly transform the mperiast world slaughter
into civil war against capitalism into revolutionary battle
for the victory of the proetarat against their ensaver
August 1 this year is the 10th anniversary of the
(Hnntnlc pnnn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
T.U.U.L. Meat Union
Leads Strikers to
Victories i'm Detroit

DETROIT, Mich, July 2S.-Firm
militant leadership has already won
victory after victory in the strike of
nearly 400 sausage workers which
started yesterday. Of twelve shops
on strike, seven have alrady settled
with the union, the United Sausage
Workers Union, affiliated with the
Trade Union Unity League, granting
nearly all the workers demands.
Between two and three hundred
workers are involved in the settle
ments.
These workers are receiving wage
increases of from ten per cent in
the better paid shops to thirty per
cent in the lower paid ones. In
addition, practically all their other
demands, forty eight hour week.
time and half for overtime, equal
pay for equal work, no split shift,
and recognition of shop committees
and the union have been granted.
Efforts are now being made by the
rank and file strike commmittee to
spread the struggle to other shops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
Plan Mass Send-Off
for Albany Delegates

NEW YORK.-A mass send-off
meeting will be given the New York
delegates to Albany on Monday,
July 80, at 6 pm, at pier So North
River, foot of 14th St., the United
Action Conference on Work, Relief
and Unemployment announced to-
day.
The delegates, who with other
working class representatives from
New York State will present the
demands of the employed, unem-
ployed and relief workers to Gov.
Lehman, for enactment by the spe-
cial session of the state legislature,
will meet at ia w. 14th ST., Mon
day at 4 pm.
Richard Sullivan and Alexander
Taylor, of the United Front Con-
ference on Work, Relief and Unem-
ployment, who are making tour of
upstate cities in preparation for
the mass delegation, announced that
the Schenectady County Unemploy-
ed and Relief Workers Union had
already elected delegates to rep
resent its 1000 members. Among
the other organizations which are
being contacted to elect delegates
are: The American Legion, Car
penters Union, the Crusaders, In
dependent Political Club, Electrical
Industry Employees Union, Bakers
Union. Rricklayers TJnion. and the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
Anti-Nazi Meet Aided
By Milwaukee Unions

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, July 25.-For
the first time since anti-Fascist &C
tivity was launched in this city, the
Federated Trades Council joined in
a militant action when they took
part in two mass meetings held here
last night for Will Muenzenberg
and Kurt Rosenfeld.
The Council had previously given
public endorsement to the meetings
and sent to them an official COM
mittee of observers. The Socialist
Party remained bitterly a1oo f
Rosenfeld received an extremely
cold reception at the hands of the
Mayor Hoan and other Socialist
officials whom he visited. Despite
this many members of the Socialist
Party attended the two meetings one
of which consists of 1000 persons
and the other OF $50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
OLSON DECLARES
vi ATRIAL LAW
AS 5000 STAY OUT
State Locals
OF S. p. Reject
United Front

NEW YORK.-Socialist Party Of
ficials in Richmond, Va, and
Omaha, Neb., have just communi-
Gated their definite refusal to par
ticipate with the Communist Party
in any united front demonstrations
against war and fascism on Aug. L.
In the Omaha local, however,
many rank and file Socialist Party
members have pledged their aid in
arranging the August l anti-war
meeting despite the decision of the
executive board.
In Virginia, the Socialist Party
decision was reached at a meeting
Of the executive board, where the
members voted against united front
actions on the ground that the Ma
tional Executive Committee of the
Socialist Party, now no longer in
office, issued orders forbidding any
arrangement Of local united front
actions.
The Communist Party Committee,
presenting the proposals, was not
given the floor.
Despite this, the Communist
Party of Richmond repeats its in
vitatiOn to all members of the So
ciaIist Party to join hands with
the Communists in a joint mass
meeting "Wednesday, Aug. l, p. m.
at the True Reformers Hail. sos
n. Second Street.
The invitation which the Omaha
Socialist Party office refused to ac-
cept proposed united action on the
following three points:
/. Against war and fascism;
against war preparations.
2. For the freedom of Thaelmann
and all other anti-Nazi victims of
Hitler.
8. In support of the workers on
strike in San Francisco, Portland,
Seattle, Minneapolis and elsewhere
in the general strike wave; against
police repression and terror of
strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
Veterans Will Mark
Bonus March Killings

NEW YORK.-Not as conquering
heroes, but as victims of the New
Deal rank and file veterans will
march along Fifth Avenue tomorrow
in protest against reduced pensions
and disability allowances.
The occasion for the parade is the
second anniversary of the killing of
Carlson and Hushka during the
historic bonus march on Washing
ton.
The marchers will assemble at the
Memorial Arch in Washington
Square at the foot of Fifth-Avenue
at p. m. and will march to the
Eternal Light in Madison Square.
Paul Caccione, head of the Workers
Ex-Servicemen's League today called
on all vtersns regardless of aff1lia-
ton to join in the parade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
NY Painters
Vote Strike
For Monday
Rank and File Leaders
in Fight on Bosses
and Zausner

NEW YORK.-A general strike of
painters will go into effect Monday
in answer to a lockout edict issued
by the Master Painters Association.
Locals of the Brotherhood of
Painters met Wednesday night. Re
ports show that the men are ready
to down tools Monday morning.
Five hundred members Of Local
499 decided to elect strike commit
tee Of fifteen to lead the struggle.
All activities in picketing, relief,
organization and such are to be car
ried on by the local committee.
Local 400 is seeking the coopera-
ton of all other locals and of every
rank and file member in developing
a strong united fight against the
employers and their agents, the
Philip Zausner crowd who are now
in the District Council Illegally.
In other locals the membership
voted against the offers of the en-
ployers and decided not to extend
mandate to the District Council to
conduct the strike.
The strike movement is moving
forward under rank and file leader
ship.
The Painters Rank and File Pro-
tective Association is calling upon
every painter, organized as well as
unorganized, to lay down tools on
Monday, July 30, gather in the as
signed strike halls and transform
the zausner and Master Painters
maneuyer into a genuine strike for
the six-hour day, for the nine-dollar
wage scale, for strict enforcement OF
the agreement, against speed-up,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
Street Car
Men Strike
In Omaha

OMAHA, Neb., July 26.-Street
car service halted here today when
400 employees of the Omaha and
Council Bluffs Street Railway Co.
walked out on strike.
The car men walked out over the
heads of the National Union lead
ers. j. M. Parker, International
Union ce-President, denounced
the strike, calling it an "unauthor-
lied thing" and a wild cat strike"
The local unions executive COM
mittee stated that the cause of the
strike was the result of the arbitra-
tors award during recent negotia-
tons for wage increases and union
recognition. The operators got
slight increase in wages, but the
shopmen got no increase in pay.
Union recognition was won by
the carmen last April
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
United Front Formed
in Porto Rico to Fight
for Workers Rights

NEW YORK.-The United Front
Committee against Porto Rican dis
elimination, composed of % politi-
cal, cultural, fraternal and church
groups, in a meeting here, has or
ganized a campaign for Joint
struggle for the rights of Porto
Rican workers.
Open-air meetings will be held
throughout the city to rally the
support OF all workers in the fight
against discrimination en- home re-
lief and the refusal OF landlords
to rent their apartments to Porto
Rican workers.
An open trial will be held where
the LaGuardia administration will
be asked to defend its policy of re-
lief discrimination before a court
of workers.
The Gould Foundation, first to
start the policy of refusing children
of Porto Rican workers the use of
summer camps will be exposed at
these meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
Frisco Dockers Vote for
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Barred in Ballot
TERROR CONTINUES
Portland Longshoremen
Reject State Hiring
Hall Scheme

MINNEAPOLIS, Jaly 20
This city was placed under the
rule of bayonets today as
martial law was declared by
Floyd B. Olson, Farmer-Labor
Governor of the State.
The martial law declaration
stated that Minneapolis was sin a
state Of Instruction.
One of Olson's first acts. it was
announced. will be to take over
the operation of all trucks" and
issue permits for the operation of
those it deems necessary for the
protection of the citizens"
This is an open act of strikebreak-
ing supported by bayonets and ma
chine guns.
The strike, involving 5000 striking
truck men, is the second this year,
the first settlement in May having
turned out to be a trap for the
men.
Begins RED Rafting"
The declaration of martial law.
which brings 1900 armed National
Guardsmen into action as strike
breakers, in the strike of the truck
mems union here, was cunningly
calculated by Olson to appear in the
interests Of the strikers, with Olson
issuing the order on the refusal of
the employers to consider his pro-
posal to "arbitrate" the strikers de-
nands.
The bait of arbitration" has been
consistently offered to the strikers
by Olson and the Federal conciliator
Haas.
With the issuance of the martial
law order, the employers, at the
same time launched a typical "red-
batting" drive, charging" that the
strike is led by Communists, i'm
ported disturbers and handful of
dissatisfied workers"
Men Fight First Settlement
The declaration of martial law
came after the employers had re-
fused to accept the six points Of
fered in the Federal arbitration"
plan.
The truck drivers union, led by
A. F. of L. officials in cooperation
with Trotskyites, had offered to &C
cept the arbitration terms, it is
reported.
Two of the Trotskyites involved
In working with the A. F. of L..
officials, j. P. Cannon and M.
Schachtman are reported to have
been arrested.
The truckmen we're sent back to
CONTINUED on Pare 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
War
Break
Throngs Will Hear arty
Leaders in Open Air
Bronx Arena

NEW YORK-The Nazi putsch
in Austria, the bearing of the Aus
TRAN events on the situation in
Germany, and the impending men
ace of war in Europe will be dis
cussed by Will Muenzenberg. mem
Der of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party Of Germany
and for ten years Communist
member Of the German Reichstag,
at the mass rally and farewell ban
quet to Comrade Muenzenberg to-
night at 7;30 in the open-air arena
of Bronx Coliseum, East fifth
Street.
With the Italian and JugoSlavian
armies modified on the Austrian
frontier, with Czechoslovakia pre-
pairing to call its army to the colors,
and with the German envoy re-
called from Vienna, the war clouds
over Central Europe have become
a very tangible threat to the peace
of the world. The disintagrat;on Of
the Hitler regime in Germany,
which has not been stopped by the
murders of June 30th but speeded
up by Hitlers ruthless executions,
make the question of What is 60
ing to happen in Germany" more
acute than ever.
Comrade Muenzenberg, in press
interview yesterday afternoon, in
dicated his belief that the recklessly
adventurist Nazi rulers of Germany
may unleash the dogs of war as
the only solution of the boundless
difficulties confronting them. He
added:
war may break out any day
at the border Of Germany. What
happened on June 30th to Roehm,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
Mussolini Sends $4,000
Troops to Border and
Balkans Mobilize
Fighting in Austria
Civil War Flares Between
Nazis and the Fascist
Heimwehr Forces
SUMMARY OF WAR MOVES
Fighting in Austria
SUMMARY OF WAR MOVES

Mussolini, after calling a council
of war, orders $4,000 soldiers to the
Austrian borders. All army, navy,
and air forces in Italy are mobi-
lized on war basis, ready for
immediate action.
Representatives of the three
leading iinperialist powers of Eu-
rope, France, italy and Brltain,
are meeting secretly IN london,
preparing the next move in Aus
tria.
Hitler is reported to have gone
to Munich, 100 miles from the
Austrian border, to supervise the
NaZi activities ard war prepsra-
tions. Nazi troops are modified
for war.
Sporadic civil war is going on
in various cities in Austria, par
ticularly in Syria, between Nszis
and the fascist He;mvehr forces.
Troops have baen mobiliEcd n
Iugosisv,s. C7echos'ovak'a. ard
Switze~5and ard the Austrian hor-
dor. All the capitalist countries
OF Europe, while sporting peace
phrases, are rapidly modifying for
war.
VIENNA, July 26.-After defeat.
ing the Naz putsch in Vienna ano
a series Of Nazi uprisings through
out Austria, the Austrian fascist
regime, headed by Prince Ernst Won
Starhemberg, leader Of the fascist
Heimwehr, today frightened its grip
over the country, cementing still
further its alliance with fascist
Italy.
Meanwhile, following the assas-
Of Chancellor Dollfuss yes
terday by the Nazis who captured
the cabinet at the Chancellory.
feverish war mobilizstions have
been going on throughout Europe
and especially in countries border
ing Austria
The most severe fighting took
place in Styiia where the Mani
forces fought the Starhemberg gov
eminent troops for control of a
of villages. The number of
dead has not been announced but
they are large.
In Berlin. the Nazi press. which
1,o--oE ros,,,1ro4o l-,or,-t
edge Of the putsch in Vienna, now
is attempting with might and main
to disclaim responsibility for the
shooting Of Dollfuss and the at
tempt to replace the pro- Mussoini
fascist regime Of Dollfuss with
pro- Hitler fascist government.
State of War Tension
All of Europe is in state of war
tension. The most drastic war prep
arations, however. are going on in
fascist Italy. There Mussolini has
called together a war council which
viii decide on the next step, the
whole military force of the country
having been modified, four divi-
sions Of 5000 men each having al
ready proceeded to the Austrian
border.
Whether they will cross the bor-
der or not, is not clear at this time.
Mussolini himself is proceeding to
according to latest reports
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
HOLD WORKERS IN
BUS CRASH

NEW YORK.-Three workers of
the Rialto Bus Corporation, whose
bus crashed Sunday near Ossining
resulting in the death of nineteen
persons and injuries to others, are
being held as material witnesses
following the discovery that an Off
cial of the corporation had tried
to force a worker to lie about the
condition the machine had been in
at the time it started out from
Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
Editor In Court Today

NEW YORK.-Tito Nunzio. editor
of the Italian workers paper, l.
Unita Operaia, will appear in the
Brooklyn Municipal Court. Sheridan
and Smith Streets today at 10 am.
to answer a $4,000 libel suit brought
against the paper by Professor Isola,
of the independent Sons of Italy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
Philadelphia Thaelmann Rally

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 26.-
Will Muenzenberg, member of the
Central Committee of the Commu-
mist Party co-worker of Th2el-
mann and Torgler. and for ten
ye2rs menlber of the German
RelcAstag from Frankfort on NIsin,
viii speak in Philadelphia Saturday.
The meeting which will be a city,
wide free Thselmann rally, will be
held at the Broadway Arena.
Christian and Broad Sts., July %,
at 8 pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27

KEYNOTG the drive for 10000
a. New York District has organized
crowded intersections of the worlds
opened 80 Red Builders attempting population
of more than millions Today
this number and has its
copies day
On June IL C0mrade Hathaway made
Builders This advertisements the Day and the
capsist Stories
Builders in action Appeals made the
zations Red Builders
Builders Every possible method
hold staff capable spreading
Battery and from the waterfront to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
SECRET PARLEYS
HELD BY POWERS
In AUSTRIA MOVE
Seized
With Hudson
In Virginia
Special to the Daily Worker

NORFOLK, Va, July 26.-Police
stormed into meeting Of long
shcremen and seamen here last
night and arrested Roy B. Hudson,
national secretary of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, and
Joseph Klein, Communist organ
izer. Both were held in $500 bail
on charges Of vagrancy.
The meeting was arranged by the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
to hear Hudson report on the West
Ceass maritime strike.
In breaking up the meeting, po-
lice claimed that the building was
condemned.