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Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-28
EDITORIAL PAGE
and
FEATURES
STILL 1T GROWS

Last year we had traffic deaths in
this county. Thus far this year we have
had 35, an increase of Is, and there are
still few more days to go this year.
That paragraph. written yesterday in
this column, had reached the street only
short time when it became necessary
to change the total to 36-death had
claimed another victim.
We have no desire or intention to add
to the sorrow of the surviving principals
in last nights tragedy. On the contrary,
we can and do sympathize with them
We are concerned, however, with driv-
ing home to our readers, the terrific
traffic toll which we have run up this
year and in enlisting the cooperation of
all motorists to set a better record DUR
ing the year that is approaching.
Readers may be sick and tired of read
ing such articles. They are no more so
than we are of writing them. Yet auto
mobile tragedies continue and We can
see no appreciable tendency to reduce
them. The very figures showing an in
crease, are denial of any efforts to do
better.
1t is impossible to emphasize as
strongly as we would like to, the necessi-
ty for every motorist to use the utmost
care and caution at all times
Only when every individual driver real
ICES that he must assume the RESPONSE
bility for safety of the highways, will we
show better results in cutting down our
traffic casualties.
We must, each of US, accept that re-
sponsibility and be governed by it. Even
then there is risk but if each driver
makes it principal not to take chances,
we can begin to have hope.
Automobiles are as near mechanical
perfection as they can be made and the
casualty threat from them is small. The
same thing is true about the roads. 1t is
the human element in the operation of
automobiles that is at fault and only the
humans can correct or reduce it.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-28

The third tale concerns Harold
L. Ickes, secretary of the interior.
He had been asked what sort of
New Year q, resolutions he was 60
ing to make. whether he would re-
solve to ask for a lot more PWA
money or for loW-cost government
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-28

Women" says counsel for Bruno
Hauptmann, "are more understanding
than men, think more clearly and are less
easily swayed" He must be courting
girl.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-28

If secretary of public relations
would mean the elimination of all the
governments publicity bureaus which
clutter up the mails, we are for one.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-28

George Farrell, chief of the AAA
wheat section, vouches for it.
Farrell's story:
"Tne benefit checks sent out by
the AAA have a series of Identify
ing holes punched in them. The
holes are not unlike those in player
piano rolls.
Two midwestern farmers met in
the post office one day. Each got
an AAA check in the mail.
The first asked the second: What
are these durn holes for in the
checks?'
" Il don't know, replied the sec
ond farmer, but I put the last one
on our player piano the other night
and it played Happy Days Are
Here Again"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-12-28

The next yarn concerns the AAA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
n. Y. District Bazaar
Opens With Many New
Articles, Attractions

NEW YORK.-Manhattan Ly-
ceum, colorful with banners, flags
and awning-covered booths, is laid
out like a garden patch. The
Communist Party Bazaar opened
last night and will continue until
Sunday midnight.
Tonight the Theatre Of Action
New Dance Group and Finnish
Chorus Will perform. Tomorrow's
program will include Soviet songs
and sketches by the Maxim Cork
Union, the Children's Mandolin
Orchestra, the Nature Friends
Dance Group in a new compost
ton, "Kirche, Kuche, Kinder, +"
and the Daily Worker Chorus IN
der the direction of Lain Adom-
yam. Dancing follows the pro-
grams.
There is a wide choice of bar
gains, with new merchandise COM
ing in every day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Ala. Defendant To
Speak At Protest
Meeting Monday
Harold Ralston Coming
Direct from Scene of
Sharp Class Battles
by del

NEW YORK. - Direct from the
scene of bitter class and national
struggles in Alabama, Harold Raj
ston, Communist organizer, and
John Howard Lawson, famous play
wright, arrested while reporting the
Alabama mine strike for the Daily
Worker, are coming to this city to
address a protest mass meeting
Monday evening at Irving Plaza,
18th Street and Irving Place.
Ralston is one of-.six Communist
defendants wrested from the Bir-
mingham lynch court by nation
wide protest, after they had mill
family defied the lynch court, con-
verting it into political forum to
present the Communist program for
unconditional equality for the Negro
masses.
The meeting is called jointly by the
National Committee for the Defense
of Political Prisoners and the New
Masses"
Other speakers include Pat Tou-
hey, editor Of the Labor Unity"
who has recently returned from the
Alabama front; Eula Gray, niece of
the murdered share cropper leader
Alfred Gray, and herself an organ
izer Of the Sharecroppers Union,
and Allen Taub, Assistant Secretary
of the National Committee for the
Defense of Political Prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Two Expelled Militants,
in Statement, Expose
Misleader

DETROIT, Mich, May %.
The ruinous policies Of Mat
thew Smith. Secretary of the
Mechanics Educational Soci-
ETY. Of America, which led to
the defeat Of the strikes of
the tool and die makers here,
are fully exposed in a statement by
John Anderson and John Mack,
members Of the M f. S. A. who
were unconstitutionally expelled in
the drive Of the Smith machine
against the militants.
The expulsion of Anderson and
Mack, the statement points out, was
carried out by the worst methods
Of the A. F. Of L. bureaucracy.
The drive of the Smith machine
against the n1ilitants in the union,
Is carried through, the statement
continues. because we are fighting
against the policies Of the Smith
machine which are wrecking the
M. E. s. A. and leading it to de-
feat. The Smith machine and the
District Committee bear full re-
sponsibility for the disastrous de-
feats suffered by our union in the
recent strikes"
IN the strikes of the tool and die
makers Smith made no real prep
arations for the strike, and when
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
.DOCkerS, Seamen
Continue Strikes
In West and South
New Orleans Shipping
At StandstilI AS
Seamen Strike
Continued from Page y

Of the International Longshore-
mems Association, admitted yester-
day that he had lost control of the
rank and file. The stevedores have
refused to handle perishable prod
ucts. despite the fact that Bennett
promised at recent Mayors con-
ference that these products would
be handled by the union men.
Mayor Dore boasted yesterday
that he will open the port today
by using violence against the strik-
ers if the companies can find suffi-
cient strikebreakers.
The Unemployed Citizens League
is picketing all relief stations with
banners, and relief officials dare not
cut off relief from longshoremen
who are on strike.
Chinese and japanese seamen
have shown their solidarity with the
strike by refusing to scab on their
American brothers.
Meanwhile. preparations are being
made by the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union and the Unemployed
Citizens League to send a united
front delegation of seanen to San
Francisco to participate in the nego-
tiations with the shipowners, Lead
ers Of the international Seamen's
Union still fear to call member
ship meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Contradiction of Smiths
Words and Deeds
Are Set Out

2. Against the low wages and
wage cuts. 8. A real fight against
company unions and discrimina-
ton, and for the right to organize
into unions Of our own choice.
a. Against the N. r. A. and arbi-
tration schemes, against the use
of police violence against the
workers, and the attempts of the
government and the employers to
outlaw strikes. 5. For trade union
democracy in the union and
against the policy of high salaries
which have made the A. F. of l..
notorious. 6. For struggle
against the A. F. of L. leadership
ard their betrayal policies, for a
policy of united action of all rank
and file organizations--th rank
and file of the A. F. Of L. and
Auto Workers Union, with other
workers organized and unorgan-
lied.
I'VE call upon the members, To-
Gals and shops to demand the REIN
statement of Mack and Anderson,
and the cessation of the splitting
expulsion drive. We call upon the
members to recall the delegates to
the District Committee, that are
carrying on the expulsion policy
We urge the delegates to the Ma
tional Constitutional Convention on
May "a to defeat there, the attempt
of Smith to legalize his expulsion
drive"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24

the time was most favorable for
strike, sent telegram to Washing
ton that a strike would be Gala
nifty"
The statement Of the two expelled
militants sets Smiths words down
side by side with his deeds and
shows that his empty promises we're
not kept, that he acted the oppo-
site from his radical talk.
The statement declares: THE tao
tics of Smith and the District Com
mittee in the strike situation have
been similar to the policies of the
A. F. Of L. leaders. The A. F. of
l.. chiefs are openly against strikes
and Smith. while chattering about
strikes, came out against them at
most effective moments saying that
g strike would be a calamity The
A. F. of L. chiefs are for the ar
bitration boards and back the Auto
mobile Labor Board, which has been
shown to be an anti-union and
strike-b breaking body; Smith like
wise is for the policy Of arbitration,
which has brought nothing to the
tool and die makers and the Michi-
gan Stove strikers except to dis
courage the workers from relying
upon their own strength. Smith is
himself member of the Detroit
Regional Labor Board-part of the
National Run Around which did
nothing to aid the strikers.
"The A. F. Of L. leadership sup
ports the MIRA, stating that it will
improve conditions for the workers.
Smith also supports the N.R.A. and
the New Deal stating that strikes
would interfere with the Roosevelt
Recovery Program. The first edict
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Soviet Power Only
Can End Monopoly
Rule Of Wall Street
(CoRti,lued from Page ~


that Lenin, founder of the Commu-
mist International, gave to the United
States in his historic Letter to the
American Working Glass. In this
letter, Lenin wrote:
america has taken first place
as regards the depth Of the abyss
that separates the handful of
brazen billionaires who are wal
lowing in luxury and corruption,
from the millions of toilers who
are always on the verge Of starva-
ton"
The appalling poverty and misery
on one hand and the immense
power of the billionaires, on the
other can be ended, the Darrow re-
port concludes:
g. only when industry pro-
.duces for use and not for profit,
since it is essential that enough
wealth be distributed through the
return to the workers to set them
as consumers free to use indus
try's plentiful output"
But the Darrow report does not
point out the vital lesson that there
can be no distribution to the work
ers while production and the State
power remain in the hands of the
capitalist class.
One step is necessary before the
monopolies can be destroyed and
the product Of industry made the
property Of the working class. The
capitalist government must be abol-
ished through revolution and new
form of government set up in its
place, the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat, a Soviet government of the
Workers and Farmers Of the United
States.
The N. R. A. is the product of
a Wall Street government.
We must set up a Soviet govern
ment in its place, ana completely
destroy the old, Wall Street gov
eminent.
That is the only road to ending
the crisis, aboiishing unemployment
wage slavery, hunger and the men
ace of war and fascism.
The Roosevelt N. RIA. road means
hell for the vast majority of the
people. 1t means hell for the work
ers and the impoverished farmers
1t means hell for the majority OF
the small business men, the intel
lectuals, the government employees
the professionals.
Soviet power would lberate all
the oppressed in this country, Ne
gro and white. 1t would smash the
monopolies forever, liberate the
working class and give the impoy-
erished farmers freedom from the
yoke of debt slavery to the bankers
and mortgage holders.
Fsscism or Communism - the
dictatorship of the Wall Street
billionaires or the dictatorship of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24

of the Roosevelt Automobile Labor
Board was to ban organization in
side the shop and strengthen the
company unions. This is the N.R.A.
and the New Deal which Smith fer
yently supports.
1.-THE A. F. of L. has a bureau
cratic machine which STILES rank
and file expression, cooperates with
the police in using strong arm tao
tics to fight against militant rank
and file workers. Smith is build
ing bureaucratic machine and uses
the same tactics as the A. F. of L..
leaders against those who want to
keep the rotten A. F. of L. methods
out Of MESA. The A. F. of l..
officials get paid high salaries.
Smith and his machine are heading
the same way. 1t is because we are
opposed 10 the program of Smith
which Is turning the MESA. into
an A. F. of L. organization that
Smith is trying TO expel us from IFS
ranks"
Smith, to sidetrack these real is
sues, raised the Red scare" But
only those who are blind can fail
to see that at the present time only
a militant policy Of struggle against
the employers can wiring any conces-
sions from the auto millionaires. y
The tactics of class cooperation tried
by Smith and the A. F. of L. leaders
have strengthened the company
unions and worsened conditions.
BY introducing the Red Scare
and expelling members for being
Communists and militants, Smith is
dividing the organization on the
basis Of political opinions. This is
what the employers want. Member
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24

ship in a political party is no crime.
Members of the M. E. S. A. have
the right to belong to any political
party or religious association they
choose. Denial of this right means
to destroy the fundamental prin-
ciple upon which trade union is
founded"
The statement then calls for
united action of the workers Of all
organizations, paving the way for
united automobile workers union
that stands upon the program of
militant trade unionisn free from
the deadly grip of the A. F. of L..
machine. What is needed in the
whole labor movement is an indie
pendent federation composed of the
unions standing outside the A. F..
of L. and opposed to the policies
Of the A. F. Of l.. Chiefs" and the
similar policies of Smith and his
machine.
The Griffin group in the M. E. s..
A. is then exposed, as his harmful
aglGaClOn, MS propaganda OF AfIleI-
icanism," his raising of issues to
divide the workers on the basis Of
political issues. His program is no
better than Smiths.
The rank and file must reject the
expulsion policy of Smith and unite
its ranks against the disruptive
Smith machine on the basis of the
following demands.
l. To secure jobs for the I'M
employed at adequate wages or
relief from the city. To struggle
for the passage of the Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill (H.R. 1899.
Elect committees in the locals to
deal with this question at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Ben Gold Assails
Fur Code, Says 1t
OK's Trade Evils
Ignores Basic Demands
of Workers: Legalizes
Contracting

NEW YORK.-The N, r. A. blue
eagle Matched a new code Tuesday.
: code for the fur manufacturing
industry. General Hugh johnson.
the papa Of the code. affixed his
signature and seal to the document
and thus put the official government
o. K. on the worst evils Of the
trade, contracting and overtime.
Upon learning that the code has
become an official document, Ben
Gold, Secretary of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union,
sent the following telegram of pro-
est to General johnson:
we are officially informed that
he code for the fur manufacturing
Industry is approved and signed by
you Basic demands Of the fur
workers completely ignored. as for
instance, y 30-hour week. q Equal
division of work, 81 Unemployment
fund. ~ Guaranteed specified wage
scales. On the contrary, the code
legalizes the worst evil in the trade,
contracting, and permits overtime.
This means increasing unemploy-
ment. worsening the working con-
ditions and increased misery and
starvation of the workers. we wish
to call to vour attention that at the
last official hearing. held at Wash
ington, sll parties concerned. namely
all employer associations, all unions
have agreed that no contracting and
no overtime be permitted. Yet be-
hind closed doors q few individuals
secretly agreed to legalize contra ct
ing and overtime and thus leopard
izing the workers living conditions.
in the fur rabbit dressing your
N. r. A. committed the same crime
against the workers. Even the en-
ployers agreed with the union that
the minimum wage scale be speci-
fed in the code, but here again.
behind closed doors this request
was ignored and as q result of this
. wage-cut of 50 per cent took place
since the code was signed These
facts expose your N. r. A. as a
measure to assist the employers to
increase their exploitation and to
force upon the workers q program
Of starvation and misery. We pro-
test against these codes. We de-
mand an immediate hearing and
immediate changes in the code to
protect the lives Of thousands Of
fur workers and their families. Rest
assured that We will fight for our
lust economic demands regardless
Of your code
The Fur Workers Industrial
Union has called a special meet
inc at Cooper Union Hall, Mon
day at p. m, tn work out a plan
of action against the code.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Roosevelt Is Still
Silent on barrow
NRA Revelations
CONTINUED from Page y

recommendations for socialized con-
troll Of industry.
Wagner, In fact, in the same
speech admits "the real earnings
of the individual worker are not
appreciably greater than they
were in March, 1885," the lowest
point of the crisis.
Nye Attacks Workers
Senator Nye combined his little
business man" anti-monopoly attack
on the N. r. A. with serious thrusts
at the working class. In yesterdays
speech he played the provocateur
by declaring that unless there is
a quick change of policy in the N.
r. A. there is going to be trouble,
the like of which we have never ex-
perienced. 1t would not be at all
surprising if people rise up in arms
in protest" He, however, had
nothing to say about the shootings
and clubbings of striking workers.
Today Nye showed how little the
Roosevelt Administration has to
fear from him and how wary the
worker must be of him, by arguing
that bad direction" allowed mon
opoly to dominate" the N. r. !.
and by supporting such war prepa-
rations set-ups as the G. G. G. and
P. w. A.
IN. R. A. was expected to accom-
plish more equitable division of in
dustrial profits between capital and
labor; instead, its Administrator
has been such as to increase the
profits of capital far and beyond
the increases won by labor, the con-
sumner paying the larger costs with
out any material increase in buy
ing power. N. r. A. or any other
recovery program is doomed to fail
ure if its direction continues that
of affording profit on the basis of
watered, fictitious valuations and
investments of the insane boom
days.
Nye also attacked the barrow
Thompson supplementary report.
Roosevelt announced today that
he expects the barrow Board to
close its desks by the end of the
month. But at the board offices
the Daily Worker was informed that
1--WE haven't any information on
that subject. We're Just going
ahead Another report will be ready
in few days"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24

would settle the demands of the
strike. The men got the plebiscite
and voted 402 to q for the I. L. A.,
bust leaders of the I. L. A. openly
declare that the question of wage
increases is of no great Importance.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union, which was not listed on the
ballots at the plebiscite, is urging
the men to organize for a fight for
IS cents an hour on the coas. wise
docks.
A reporter for the Harlem Lib
orator informed the Daily Worker
that scabs are being recruited
through the Home Relief Bureau
in Harlem TO he sent to New Or
leans. where ever 1900 stevedores
are on strike. The scab hcrders
were especially active at 133rfl and
125th SITS. and Lenox Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Detroit Workers in
Fight for Victim
OF Boss Frame-Up
Continued from Page y

Continued from Page
ing to organize Negro and white
workers in joint struggle.
"The frame-up Of Victory brings
home again the fact that only in
the Soviet Union do former op-
pressed national minorities have
true freedom as a result Of the
fact that workers have taken
power and are building Social
ist Society"
Two Negro ministers, Rev. vii.
liams Of the Metropolitan Baptist
Church and Rev. McGahee, Israe
Baptist Church, condemned the Vic
tory frame-up and declared theil
readiness to Join the fight to free
him.
Frame-np Part Of Attack on Whole
Working Glass
William Weinstone, District Or
ganizer of the Communist Party de-
clared the terror against the Negro
people was part of the attack or
the whole toiling population by the
capitalist class and an attempt tC
cover up the horrible conditions un-
der which Negroes are forced tc
live. Weinstone pointed out that
the white workers must be the first
to take up the fight in defense Of
Negroes and called for more de-
termined struggle for Victory ant
defeat of the program Of the mil
honaiTe auto manufacturers.
Sykes, local secretary of the L. S
N. R., pointed out the completely Of
high city officials in attacks on the
Negro masses of Detroit. He dealt
with speech made recently il
Windsor, Canada, by Frank Cody
Detroit Superintendent of Schools
in which he said it turned his stom.
ach to eat at the same table with
Negroes. Sykes presented resolu.
ton, which was unanimously adopt.
ed, demanding the removal of Cody
For Victory Defense Committee
A resolution was also passed de.
manding the immediate release O.
Thselmann and other snti-fascist
fighters in Germany.
Tony Gerlach, District Secretary
of the 1. L. D., told the history o.
the Victory case and called fol
united mass fight to smash the
frame-up.
Rev. John Bollens, American Civil
Liberties Union, acted as chairman
A res olution was unanimously
adopted condemning the frame-uI
and demanding the immediate re.
lease Of Victory, immediate with.
drawal of police details in Negro
neighborhoodS and cessation of ter.
ror against Negroes; no interference
with civil rights Of Negroes; freedom
of speech and of movement fer Ne.
groes in all parts of the city; NJ
discrimination against Negroes OF
jobs or relief.
A committee of Negro and white
was elected to serve as the core O.
the Victory defense committee. anc
Instructed to call a conference anC
develop a broad campaign for Vic
tory through meetings, leaflets, etc
and to invite all Negro and whit
organizations that want to aid il
/ the campaign to affiliate. TIL
committee will also go to Mayo
I Couzens and demand release. Of Vic
tory. and the capitalist press will
demand for retraction Of yioiou
ISLANDERS against Victory and Negu
I people they printed in an effort h
whip up anti-Negro hystsria.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-24
Bronx Meeting of Unemployed
Needle Trade Workers Torite


NEW YORK.-The Needle Trades
Unemployment Council will hold
an important meeting in the Bronx
tonight for the purpose of estab-
fishing Bronx local council of
needle trades workers in the Bronx.
Such an Unemployment Council in
the Bronx will facilitate the unem-
ployed work in the union and re-
move the necessity of workers ira
Yelling to the union hall to get ac-
ton on relief cases, and will serve
as the focal point of trade union
unemployed work for the Bronx,
The meeting will be held at the
Freiheit-Ferein Hall, 1904 Southern
Blvd, THURSDAY, May "a, az 8 pm
sharp.