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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
"No Strike,'' Weirton
ALL. Chief Tells
Senators
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
Daily Worker Washington Bureaul

WASHINGTON, March 20.-Wil-
liam j. Long, president of the Anal
gamated Association CA. F. of l.
in the Weirton Steel plants, en-
dorsed the Wagner compulsory -arbi-
tration bill before a Senate COM
mittee today and later told the
Daily Worker: IF we get assurance
while we are here that the Wagner
Bill will be passed, we will not go
out on strike"
Just before this, other witnesses
supporting the Wagner measure on
the treacherous theory that it is de-
signed to back up the right to col
lective bargaining, fatty told the
Senate committee that the bill as
now drawn will not accomplish this.
Otto Boyer, industrial engineer,
declared the bill presents the temp
tation to employers to freeze COM
pany union plans now existing"
Edwin E. WHITE, University of Wis
consin professor, said: IT am not at
all sure that this will prevent COM
pany unions"
An A. F. of L. union, the Hosiery
Workers of Philadelphia, joined the
labor opposition to the bill, led by
the Trade Union Unity League. So
did the International Juridical As
ISOLATION and the Civil Liberties
Union.
Talk of Court Action
just as a Weirton delegation, led
by Long, went to the Senate to tes-
tify, the Department of Justice an
nounced it is taking court action
to secure an injunction to right the
nationally notorious betrayals of the
Weirton workers under the National
Labor Board decision. Long readily
identified this move as more sooth-
ing syrup" But he insisted that
the new Wagner bill will terminate
all our troubles"
Thus it was demonstrated out
right that the Wagner Bill is the
newest central strike-stalling,
strikebreaking weapon of the New
Deal. 1t used to be don't strike
wait until they enforce Section Ia
of the MIRA" Now it already is
don't strike-wait for the new
Wagner Bill"
THE Communists are saying that
the National Labor Board is a farce
and a Dset-up against the workers,
and that the only thing to do is
to strike" Long confessed in an
interview. Now, what the hell can
We say to thatP" He first declared
that the Weirton workers would go
out on strike in sympathy if the
automobile workers go out. He said
that from 300 to 400 Weirton work
ers have been fired for union ac-
Invites, and their families denied
relief lin this absolute company
town." that the company has spent
$4,000 on its company union, and
that: you know those war pic
lures running in the papers? Well,
We can duplicate them right in
Weirton."
Steel Workers for Strike
Letters from 100 lodges of A. F.
of L. steel workers have informed
them, said Long, that they will sup
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21

Send us names of those you
know who are not readers of the
Daily Worker but who would be
interested in reading it. Address:
Daily Worker, so E. 18th st.
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mediate response to the Presidents
recommendation.
"In making this appeal for COM
pliance with the Presidents request,
I wish to assure you that the auto
mobile workers will be adequately
represented at the conference with
the President and the interests of
the automobile workers will be
safeguarded by those representa-
tives of the automobile workers who
are invited to be in attendance at
the Presidents conference"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
Hotel Workers Dust Paid
Officials, Elect Rank and
File Committee Of Thirty

immediate job of mobilizing the
workers, who are all ready for ac-
ton, to plan militant steps to force
the N. R. A. and the Hotel Owners
Association to abide by their prom
Use Of giving the workers back their
jobs. 1t was on the basis of this
promise that the officials ended the
strike. 1t is necessary to organize
relief for the blacklisted strikers
and to build united front of all
organizations ready to assist in
these tasks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-21
FOOD WORKERS FRACTION
MEETING TONIGHT

All Communist Party and Young
Communist League members in the
Hotel and Restaurant DEPARTMENT
of the Food Workers Industrial
Union and in the Amalgama ed
Hotel and Restaurant Workers
Union are called to be present with
out fail at a fraction meeting to-
night at $3.50 at the Workers Cen
ter. so E. 18th St., End floor.
There will be no excuse for not
attending. Admission will be by
membership book only.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27
BISHOP CANNON
\ GIVEN LASHING
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The prosecutor charged that
Cannon was in "a terrific, financial
jari'' when the campaign started
and that he used anti-Smith funds
to help pay off the legatees to an
estate of which he was executor.
sGarnett's statement grew bitter
as he neared its end. The 69-year-
old bishops youthful looking wife,
q constant spectator at the trial,
gasped when Garnett shouted:
"After his campaign the bishop
went to Europe and basked on the
sands of the Mediterranean 70
gIoat over the defeat of AL Smith.
who actually was his financial
savior"
The district attorney said that
the divine ''hot- footed it" back to
the United States when the. senate
Started an investigation of his &C
bishop Cannon was shooting a
double-barreled gun with q single
trigger" Garrett continued.
SIn the right barrel he put the
bir shot, the heavy New York con-
tributions. and fired them into his
own coffers. In the left barrel he
!. nut the little shot, the small con-
tributions from the south. and
fired them into his campaign"
When the bishop. pulled the trig-
ger, Garnett said his co-defehdant
Miss Ada l.. Burroughs, shut her
eyes and put her head in the SAND
like an ostrich.
The charges against the bishop
and Miss Burroughs revolve around
The five reports she was forced to
make to congress under the cor
rupt practices act.
"The only honest report she
made was when Bishop Cannon
was in europe" Garnett said. "The
rest of the reports were not honest
mot one" ~ 50
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27
CIRCUS TO STAGE
MORNING SHOW
Accommodate Hundreds !;
Special Performance
Staged Tomorrow

For the second time this week
hundreds OF persons were turned
away from the state armory last
evening and were keenly disap-
pointed at failing to see the SPLEEN
did Grotto Circus. No public at
traction to visit Waterbury in
years has excited the interest and
the enthusiasm such as this par
ticular aggregation of circus stars.
Thousands have fiocked to the ar
mory since the formal opening
Monday evening. Thousands are
expected to witness the closing
shows tonight, tomorrow afternoon
and evening.
As a special accommodation for
the children a special show will
be staked at 1890 o'clock tomor-
row morning. The usual matinee
will be staged at 1880 o'clock to-
morrow morning. The usual mat
fnee viii be staged at 2:30 o'clock
and the evening performance at
o'clock.
Last evening the Axis Grotto
band of New Britain visited Water
bury and marched from Temple
hall to the state armory. The WIS.,
itors went away highly pleased
wit hthe evenings entertainment.
May Wirth and her splendid troupe
of equestrians, Miacawa, Mexican
small array of clowns, the excep-
tionally trained elephants, mon
keys and ponies all contributed to
the fun and thrills of the night.
Best wishes for the future sue
cess of the circus have been ex-
pressed by scores of children pa
tients at both the. Waterbury and
st. Mary's hospital. The clowns in
their regatta visited both institu-
tons this week and staged spe-
cial entertainment for the kiddies
unable to join their little friends
in the happy visit to the armory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27
Local Legionnaires
Meet National Leader
Commander Hayes Speaks in Meriden, Regrets lnabil=
ity to Come Herein Danbury Tonight

Meriden, Conn, April 27.-lUP)
Restoration Of veterans pay
ments over the veto Of the presi-
dent, was simply an act Of justice
to correct a wrong" Edward A.
|. Hayes, national commander of the
American Legion, said here. today.
ut saved this nation 100000"
he said, because it extended GER
tain provisions of the economy act.
That amount would have to be ex-
pended If this legislation had not
been passed. Our authority for that
statement can be found on page
1894 of the Congressional Record
of March 20. 1t says if the presi-
dents veto had been upheld, bad
administration and bad regulations
would have completely destroyed
the -semaining $250,000,000 of an
nual savings congress made last
spring, and that the actual saw
ing on July / next is 100000, 900.
"Nearly every bit of criticism
against the veterans and the legion
has been caused by bad admins
tration. The law is on the books.
It is up to the government to ad-
minister 1t properly"
The legion, he said, is endeavor-
ing to accomplish the final point In
its veterans program, to secure
grants to widows and orphans of
the World war as given to widows
and orphans of all other wars, as
provided under the economy act.
Hayes spoke last night at Wilt
mantle urging loyalty to the gov
eminent in that the fault lay most
ly with the individual, rather than
with the government.
He will speak tonight at Dam
bury.
Local Plans Fail
Efforts to induce Edward A.
Hayes Of Illinois, national COM
mander Of the legion, to attend a
reception at the region home here
this afternoon failed, legion Of
ficials said today. Mr. Hayes was
guest at luncheon given at Meri-
den this noon, attended by Conf
mander Walter Jarvis, Past Com
manders Walter l.. Angle, Robert
F, Brit, Wallace J. Inglis and
Captain Newton w. Alexander and
Vice-C Commander George McDur
of Corp. Coyle post.
Following his stay in Meriden,
Mr. Hayes will attend an evening
meeting in Danbury, which will be
attended by Waterbury legion
members. The national commander
was unable to visit this city be-
cause of its out of the way po-
sition in his Connecticut itinerary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27
|BLACKER CHOSEN
CAMP DIRECTOR
Former Camp Clerk at
Sepunkuln Detailed to
Summer Quarters

John Blacker, camp clerk at
Camp sepunkum last year. and DE-
rector of Camp Maurice Buck at
Hitchcock lake during the months
of August and September, has been
appointed divisional director OF
Camp Pomperaug, new summer
headquarters of the Waterbury
Boy Scout council camp. according
to an announcement ma6s at the
scout Office this morning.
Several other local appointments
will be made in the near future, It
was said. 1t is expected that many
of the, Waterbury. men engaged in
camping activities at Sepnnkum
will receive similar positions at the
new Lake Zpar location, which
Waterbury scouts will share with
the Bridgeport council.
Underthe direction of Scout Ex-
ecutive Arthur D. Marston a group
of boys and young men from the
local council will begin tomorrow
to move the equipment from
Sepunkum to Camp Pomperaug.
Members of. the Bridgeport couii-
ell will assist in removing the ma
terial from the trucks when they
reach Lake Zoar.
Much of the equipment will be
sent to the weekend camp main
tanned by the Waterbury council
at Hitchcock lake, which will be
conducted this year as in previous
years, for those scouts who wish
to make overnight camping trips.
Announcement of the opening of
the new camp will be sent to the
parents of all scouts in the city in
the near future, giving details of
registration fees and transporta-
ton. Boys who register before
June will be given a reduction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27
One OF MILLENS
WAS BETRAYED
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liceman got out in the street and
they shot him. Then they kept
going at about 80 miles an hour
and they left the scene"
Messenger who had been a can
didate for policeman in New York,
was completely composed as he
narrated graphically the tale of
murder and pillage which he
claimed was told him by his life
long friend.
AS Messengers name was called
by the chief prosecutor, Murton's
face flushed and his younger
brother, Irving, shifted restlessly
defendant, Abe Faber, remained
outwardly Indifferent, his eyes
half closed.
Messenger, a stock fellow in a
dark, close fitting suit, wearing a
black cravat, explained that his
conversation with Murton took
place when he went to the hotel
room to get his fiancees' galosh-
es, forgotten when they visited the
place the night before.
School Chum OF MurtOn
Messenger testified that he had
lived in Brooklyn three years, had
gone to school with Murton in
Roxbury, and also had known Irv-
ing. He saw Murton in New York
February 10, eight days after the
holdup, he said.
Ibid he look you up or did you
look him up?" asked Dewing.
HE looked me up. On Friday,
February 8, he called at my house
and left a message"
CAS- a result of that message
what did you do?"
II met him at the Knights of
Columbus hotel in New York. We
talked for half an hour and then
went to the Hotel Edison"
"Was anyone with him at the
Edisof?"
Ellis brother Harry"
"Anyone else?"
"a young lady, my fiancee."
Ibid anyone join the party?"
."Murton's wife Norma, who Is
awaiting trial as an alleged ac-
cessory)."
Messenger said they remained at
the Edison half an hour and then
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27

moved to the Chesterfield, where
they dined, afterward attending
theater. Then Murton and his wife
drove Messenger and his fiancee to
the fiancee's Brooklyn home, the
witness testified.
Messenger repeated the conversa-
ton supposed to have occurred
between him and Murton at the
Chesterfield, in which Murton al
legedly admitted the holdup.
did he say who was with
him ?" asked Dewing.
Attorney William R. Scharton,
Faber's counsel, objected, there was
a bench conference, and then a
recess was called.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27
CASE GOES TO JURY

washington, April 27.-(UP)-
The a.conspiracy lease Of Bishop
James Cannon, Jr, and Miss Ada
i. Burroughs went to the jury to-
day after nearly. three weeks Of
testimony and heated argument In
District of Columbia supreme
court.
Justice Peyton Gordon finished
his instructions and handed the
fate of the Methodist Episcopal
churchman and his ex-secretary to
the jurors at 1920 p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-27
LINDBERCH BABY
PROBE A MYTH
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I'VE have absolutely no informa-
ton to support such reports" an
Official told the United Press.
It was learned that the activi-
ties of the federal agents at Rut-
land reached climax last Friday
when they planted" two packages
of money on the Pine Hill links,
apparently in accordance with in
structions contained in a blackmail
letter.
Caddies Found Package
Two 14-year-old caddies, Ira
Fitzpatrick and Raymond Webster,
happened along, saw the bundles,
and bent over to examine them.
Suddenly they spied the federal
agents, who had been hiding close
by, and they started to run.
One agent drew a gun and fred
a warning shot, hating the youths,
who were questioned at length and
asked TO write certain words with
q pencil. o
Altogether approximately 100
persons were questioned during the
investigation, many of them be.
ing high school boys, and some OF
them were fingerprinted, but no ar
rests were made.
Indications today were that the
investigation had ended against
blank wall and that federal author
ities held little hope of appre-
hending the blackmailer.
Trenton, N. J., April 27.-(UP)
The state police know nothing
of the reported discovery of some
of the Lindbergh ransom money In
Men England, Col. H. Norman
Schwarzkopf, superintendent. said
today.
1--WE have received no official
notification from anyone on the
Boston angle" Schwarzkopf said.
He added that he had not sent a
representative to Boston.
WHAT RUTLAND SAYS
Rutland, VT. April 27.-(UP)-
The recent concentration of 3S
federal agents here was the re-
suit Of attempts to kidnap the two
young sons of Earle v. X. Wilson,
wealthy Rutland coal dealer, it was
learned today.
Inc disclosure CoHAr hcu Iile
statement of justice department Of
ficials at Boston that the local in
vestigation of the past week had
nothing to do with the Lindbergh
kidnapping case.
Fearful following receipt of ex.
tortion letters and after reported
actual attempt to kidnap their two
sons, Mr. and Mrs Wilson took the
children, Robert Z, and Samuel, 5,
and fled to the home of relatives
in Connecticut. 1t was understood
that the family is still living there.
The daily worker., 1934-12-27

them to refrain from scabbing upon
their striking fellow workers.
Even the State law, which is by
no means partial to workers, guar
antees strikers the right to picket
ing and peacefgul persuasion.
In spite Of these guarantees, the
Northwestern improvement Com
pany finds it necessary to express
its fear Of working class militancy
by using the legal machinery to
stamp out the last yestige Of inde-
pendence which may be left among
the miners after all the other ter
roristic company coercions have done
their dirty work.
Nick Fayko. Tony Chopp. Mary
Baretich. Louise Radosevitch, 5yl-
vester Kairis, Milton Kairis, Agnes
Senuty, Theresa Wargo, Eleanor
Bogachus, Clara Yakovitch and
Mark Haller are the victims to be
served upon nice silver platter
to the greed of the coal companies.
The daily worker., 1934-12-27

the workers. They only take his
radical phrasemongering as a
warning to them that the situation
is such that nothing will stop the
outbreak of a strike. Ridicule Is
directed against the thousands in
the U.T.W. locals, in an attempt to
discredit the strike and the union.
Reduced to simple words, the bosses
say: "You textile workers, do you see
what you got as result of the last
strike? Do you want more of this?"
The answer Of rank and file work.
ers to this is:
You see how misery for the tex
tile workers has increased since the
last strike. That is because you left
leadership in the hands of reac-
tionary leaders such as German and
Mcmahon. The silk and rayon dy-
ers, in their recent strike have given
you an example to follow. They kept
German out of their strike. Rank
and file control and militant leader
ship will make a general strike sue
cessful"
German may be confident that
the Roosevelt commission will bring
in report showing how bad con-
ditions are in the industry. But
Hood and the other textile bosses
know that the committee will do
nothing to hurt them seriously. and
will really help them create COM
pany union. All the bosses fear is
strike led by the rans and file.
The daily worker., 1934-12-27

was breaking strike, under cover
Of his radical words.
Militancy in New England
Why did German choose to make
New England his latest scene for
denagogic statements? Because it
is in New England that a rank and
file movement expressed in the In
terstate Conference Against Stretch
out and Discrimination is sweeping
all locals of the U.T.W. More than
40 locals are already affiliated with
1t. The locals are electing delegates
to visit the national officials of the
Union and Labor Relations Board to
demand action against the worsen-
ing conditions which have developed
since last summers strike.
The emptiness of Gorman's mil
liant talk can be judged from the
fact that in the same speech in which
he spoke of striking again expressed
satisfaction over "the fact that
President Roosevelt has kept every
promise since the big strike was
called off" Roosevelt's promises have
actually resulted in the following:
tens of thousands of workers were
locked out: those allowed" to go
back to work, were given extra ma
chimes to tend; thousands were
evicted from company-owned houses
in the South; wage cuts swept
through the industry, union men,
bers were especially Disseminated
against and every possible encour-
The daily worker., 1934-12-27

eral in some comic opera" says the
following in answer to Gorman's
speech in Webster:
"FIis last effort folded like a
balloon when punctured by the pin
of outraged public opinion. AS a
result, workers, misled by a vicious
type of leadership, gained three
weeks vacation without pay. Does
anyone including Mr.. German think
mill employees will answer his bugle
call to battle?
Failing disastrously in the last
campaign, where is Mr.. German to
get his recruits for this new army
which will wage civil war under his
command? Mill workers are now
wise to his attempts to invoke the
popularity of Mr.. Roosevelt by stat
ing, President Roosevelt has never
yet broken promise. True. In this
case however, Mr.. German is right,
for the President has not promised
anything.
'Mr. German has offered those in
the textile industry a splendid
Christmas present; the definite
promise of hardship, suffering and
privation for the workers; disrup-
ton for the industry, and alarm for
the communities involved"
In this statement the bosses clear
ly admit that the strike led by Cor
man ended disastrously for the
workers. They also show they do not
fear German as real general of
The daily worker., 1934-12-27
Francis Coran Berayer the Great General Textile Strike
Moves Head Off New Movement for Wakout in New England

Repeating his tactics of last sum-
mer, when he placed himself at the
head of the great textile strike in
order to behead it later, Francis
German, Vice-President of tn e
United Textile Workers of America,
last Sunday told an audience of
$500 textile workers in Webster,
Mass, that unless the textile bosses
eliminate the "stretch-out" from the
mills, general textile strike will
soon be called. The $500 workers
he spoke to are victims of the
"stretch-out."
The irony of Gorman's latest
statement, is that in his audience
were hundreds of Southbridge work
ers, strikers of the Hamilton Woolen
Mills, whose strike he is now trying
to break. Without consulting them,
German ordered them to accept the
company's terms, which include dis
elimination against 200 union mem
bers, while 200 scabs are to remain
on their jobs. Hundreds are doomed
to remain jobless because of speed
up measures permitted in the MILL
He did not consult the workers, but
took the suggestion of the Labor
Relations Board of Massachusetts,
that, Sin the interest of preventing a
permanent closing of the Hamilton
Mill" the workers should return on
the company's terms. Thus German
once more in words was militant, at
the very moment when, in deeds, he
The daily worker., 1934-12-27
BY Gorge Morris

agement given to company unions
all these were accomplished within
the six months truce" Meanwhile a
special commission is making a
study of the industry and on jan
uary we are at last to know what
the findings of the committee are.
Gorman's prediction is that the re-
port will contain startling revela-
tions of conditions in the industry.
1t is clear that despite all Ro0se-
velt's promises the truce" turned
out in the interest of he mill own
ers in every respect. And German,
by acting as chief engineer of the
strike settlement, has contributed
incalculable service to the bosses.
The textile manufacturers, al
though appreciating fully Gorman's
services to them, follow the same
policy as the steel and automobile
bosses. They want no union other
than a company union. Although
the bosses would not have the slight
est anxiety if German remained at
the helm of the U.T.W. they see in
the growing rank and file movement
trend towards removing the reac-
tionaries and making the union a
re a fighting eapon; hence
through the attack on German they
attack the entire union.
Ernest N. Hood, President of the
National Association of Cot 1t IN
Manufacturers, after stating that
German would make swell gen.
The daily worker., 1934-12-27
Lancaster Relief Workers
To Discuss Plan Of Action
For Demands On Projects
Protective Association Will Hear Report
Tomorrow on One-Day Strike Victory at
Washington School Relief Job

not dare take action against the
solid lineup Of the workers To
cover up their rout, they said that
all of the strikers were taken back
because they we're "sorry for the
poor families" Of the men.
The first gain came early in the
afternoon when representatives Of
the job committee and the Workers.
Protective Association met with the
officials for conference on the
basis of their demands. For the
first time in the history Of the relief
administration in Lancaster, mass
action won recognition Of the right
of the relief workers and the un-
employed to organize and bargain
collectively.
On the basis of militant pro-
gram Of action, the Relief Workers
Association is growing daily. The
Association has already elected
delegates to the National Congress
for Unemployment Insurance to be
held in Washington on Jan. ST.