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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17

spreads on both sides of their
graceful retreat.
The pincers on the Presi-
dents nose become unloosened,
and he says: Now" Then the fun
begins and the fish stories start
flowing like Encyclopedia pages. AT
the end of the day, the fish are
counted up--10 barracudas, maybe a
little shark and lots of other deep
water fishes. Bahamas waters have
varieties. When the sun goes down,
he relaxes, Che can afford to do so
since everyone waits upon him)
smokes a pipe and watches the stars
fill the sky until they come so close
you feel like you want to raise your
hand and push them away
That's what it's like, fishing off
a luxurious yacht in such waters as
the Bahamas-hshing for sport and
relaxation.
Fishing is popular sport among
presidents and farmers and work
ers. It's quoting and exciting-all
depending on how long it takes to
hook a fish and what kind of a
battle the water-liver gives you.
FISHING off the cost Of Lake
L Michigan or the Atlantic coast
Workers are busily dragging
nets into the boat loaded with
squirming, jumping living fish.
Men sit on piers with inexpensive
poles in their hands, waiting for
nibbie. They hate to lose the
tiniest bit Of bait. They even
worry about spending dime or
quarter for bait. But the sport
is worth the little change and it
goes on. In the Summer, around
the farms, creeks are entered by
barefoot boys, hooking for fish.
And no matter who does the ang-
ling, the stories come just the same.
The latest thing I saw (Which
shows the search for thrill in our
decaying society was catching
sharks from dirigibles. AS I watched
the man-killed give battle to the
air-fyers, as he was lifted bodily in
the air, his fms Tapping, his tail
squirming, fighting madly, l could
almost feel the sensation that those
up above experienced.
RUT closely tied up with this game
~ is the fun which can be derived
from the water. Namely, water
sports in various phases. A good
many workers seem to be interested.
IS indicated from a letter I received
and a few phone buzzes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Workers in Many Cities Back Call for
May Day Unity Against FaScism, War

into copper strikers during the fa-
nous 1918 strike in Upper Michigan.
The conference decided to make the
main issue for May Day MAKE May
Day the day for unionization of
Detroit factories" day of struggle
against war and fascism.
Delegates from workers organi-
cations pledged to go back to their
organizations and build up further
support, preparing banners, issuing
leaflets and making special efforts
to involve masses of Negro workers.
Leaflets and stickers are being put
in all factories. Another conference
will be held Sunday, April %, at
200 pm. at Finnish Hall, 1869
Fourteenth Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Anti-Lynch Fighter in
Harlem Court To-day

NEW YORK.-Meyers, one of four
workers arrested when police
smashed into the March 18th Scots
boro demonstration in Harlem, will
be on trial this morning in the
East 121st Street court.
Mass pressure has smashed the
attempt to frame the three other
workers. All workers are urged to
pack the court today to prevent the
railroading of Meyers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17

Charles Strauss, Roosevelt's ambas-
Sador to France; members of Gov
ernor Lehman's family in New York.
There is no duobt that these close
supporters of the Roosevelt govern
ment, who are fighting tooth and
nail against union recognition, can
get staunch support from the N. R.
A. strikehreakig apparatus, the Ma
tional Labor Board.
Madam Anna Weinstock, Of the
N. R. A. and the Department of
Labor, is already on hand at the
aviation strike, and she will trans
fer her service to Roosevelt's friends
in the typewriter industry when the
occasion demands.
President La Vista, Of the In
dustrial Aircraft Workers of
America, leading the aviation
strike, spoke at the Underwood
meeting. He pledged the support
of his union to the struggle of
the Underwood workers. at does
not make any difference whether
man is a Communist or not,
we must remember we are all
first workers. We must fight to-
gether uniting our frcces against
the common enemy" He was en-
Enthusiastically applauded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Detroit Workers To Defy Police Bar
Especial to the Daily Worker

DETROIT, April 16-The Detroit
May Day conference voted to hold
a big mass demonstration in Grand
Circus Park at $50 pm, on May
Day, preceded by two main parades,
one from the East Side beginning
at Perrien Park, and the other from
the West Side, beginning at CLARK
Park. These main parades will be
preceded by neighborhood feeder
parades.
The conference decided to hold
the demonstration in Grand Circus
Park despite refusal of a permit by
Police Commissioner, Heinrich Pick
ert Pickert. recently appointed Po-
lice Commissioner. out and out re-
dictionary and second in command
Of the Michigan National Guard
was in charge of troops who shot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Contractors Declare
Lockout In Violation
OF IL. L. Pact
International Heads, Lovestoneites, Aid Plan
of Bosses by Conspiracy of Silence

NEW YORK.-Dress contractors notified by tele-
yesterday that the workers be told to stay away
from their shops until further notice This that
thousands in contracting shops New York and vicinity
will be locked out in fIagrant violation Of the agreement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Chicago Workers Demand Police
Permit For May Day Parade
midwest Bureau Daily Worker)

CHICAGO, Ill, April 16.-A per-
NIT to demonstrate through the
streets of Chicago May First will
be demanded of Mayor Kelly this
week by a Committee of thirty
workers elected at the final United
Front May Day Conference held
Sunday at Finnish Hall, with 348
delegates representing 1853 workers
organizations attending.
Beside Trade Union Unity
League locals and several indie
pendent union locals, twelve A. F.
of L. locals were represented by
delegates. The Conference adopted
resolution which was sent to the
German Ambassador in Washing
ton demanding the torture against
the lesder cf the German Com
munist Party, Thaelmann, cease,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
CORRECTION

The Eastern District L. S. q.
boxing tournament, which had
been announced in Wednesdays
sports column, will be held sat
urday night, April 81, at ia W.
14th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17

BOARD THE NORMAHAL.-Sta on the deck of the
IA miondollar Vincent Astor yacht President Roosevelt
looks up and down the Clean carefully washed deck csed
by the sailors as your honor and asked when he's going to
start fishing He looks at the quiet waters where you
flying fishes wingng through the air and popoises squr-
ing above the water ceavng into the the wash
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Rochester c. W. A. Workers
Demonstrate

Demonstrate
ROCHESTER, N. Y.-SiX hundred
workers demonstrated at Washing
ton Square here Saturday at the
call of the Rochester Monroe County
Rank and file Relief Workers Or
ganization, in drizzling rain, for
their demands in a strike involving
5000 of the 5000 relief workers in
Rochester and Monroe Counties.
This strike completes a tie-up of all
relief work projects in all Western
New York state, including Monroe,
Ontario and Orleans Counties.
A meeting Of the rank and file
demanded guaranteed wages of SIS
for a 30-hour week, cash relief fof
all jobless, no discrimination and
immediate enactment of the Work
ers' Unemployment Insurance Bill.
Mass picketing of the jobs is be-
ing organized every morning from
the strike headquarters, 443 Or
mond st., the Workers Center.
Butler County Strike Solid
HAMILTON, Ohio-The Butler
County relief works strike has
spread to all projects throughout
the county. One of the leading
strikers, McDermont, was arrested
on the picket line, but the mass
indignation of the workers forced
his release. A delegation of so
workers from Middletown came to
the strike headquarters in Hamil-
ton for information on how to con-
duct the picket line and for placards
with which to picket.
I 1,000 Demonstrate in Phoenix, Ariz,
PHOENIX, Ariz.-More than l 200
iobless workers massed before the
offices of the State Welfare Board
here last week, protesting the clos
ing of c. w. A. and E. R. A, and
demanding the resembling Of the 50
per cent relief slash instituted on
April /.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17

Dear Comrade Ross:
I'd like to build a Wholesale or
ganization Of water sportsmen =
canoists, swimmers and perhaps
fishermen. I say perhaps for the
simple reason that the plan I have
in mind is vague and wish to call
on the water minded people to aid
a comrade and myself in this work.
Briefly, we would like to build a
league of canoe, swimming and fish,
ing clubs, which would dot City
Island, Pelham Bay, Throggs Neck,
Hudson River, etc.-a league COM
prised Of representatives Of such
clubs to acquaint rank and file
members of the possibility Of doing
the things they love to do for the
sport of it, without the necessity of
a profit motive, and to bring to the
fore the program OF the L.S.U. and
to popularize the Workers Interna-
tional Sports Congress to be held
next Summer in Paris.
We are holding a meeting next
Thursday night, April 10, at ia W.
l4th st., the LSU. office. We urge
all those interested to attend this
meeting where we will lay out def
mite plans for a massive water
sports club. If any information is
DESTROYS, I can be reached at Inter
vale 9-07l5,
For wster-spoTt fun
LOU KAPLAN.
HERE'S a workable idea. The let
III writing comrade informs me
that many workers can be utilized
from capitalist-run clubs and can
be gotten into this worker organ
ization
Canoe clubs and regatta organ
iZatiOns - generally controlled by
wealthy people - run brilliant
water sports carnivals each Sum
mer. We could do the same.
Canoe races, exhibitions. Rowing
races. We've got to build. In
building, the equipment will come.
A workers regatta club, or some
thing like that, ought to be able
to produce some sfiIlful coxswsins.
strokes, canoists, fishermen and
swimmers.
The initiative has been taken.
Let's go into organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-17
Industrial Union Urges Dressmakers to Fight Lockout
Illinois Miners and
CWA Men Demand
Jobs, Cash Relief
Continued from Page y


strike against the starvation wages
Of the new county relief plan.
Strike committees have been elected
and are visiting the projects to
spread the strike.
Elected committees Of the strikers
have presented the strikers de-
mands to the relief officials, de-
handing a minimum 24-hour week
at wages from IS cents to s1.2O an
hour, jobs or cash relief for all IN
employed.
LOCO Demonstrate In HilIsboro, III.
HTLLSBORO, Ill.-One thousand
jobless workers and miners, under
the leadership of the Unemploy-
ment Councils, demonstrated here
Thursday before the relief board,
demanding increased relief and
union wages on all work relief
projects. Three Of the local g1iev-
ances were won.
The unemployed employed and
part time workers and miners are
planning a countrywide demonstra-
ton on May Day, which will be fol-
lowed with an all-day celebration at
Huber Park in Nokomis, Ill.
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nipulation both tangible and in
tangible. In no factory has union
been recognized excepting the COM
pany union. Fl. A. Marynell.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14
.CWA JObIess Work
erS to Demonstrate
Thursday, Feb. 18th

NEW YORK-Tomorrow at 8 pm.
iobless and C.WA. workers of New
York will Join in huge united front
demonstration at Union Square
against the Roosevelt abandonment
Of the C. w. a. On that day the
Roosevelt administration will lay off
100000 c. W. A. workers and begin
its "tapering off process" unless the
workers get behind this demonstra-
ton here and elsewhere to fight
against it.
AL employed workers and unem-
ployed workers are urged to turn out
and join this united front demon
stration to force the continuance and
enhancement of the c. w. A.; to stop
lay-offs and wage cuts and discrim-
ination against NEGROES and foreign
born, and to force the city admins
tration to provide immediate cash
relief for all unemployed workers.
The Relief Workers League urges
all c. w. A. workers to stop work on
this day, and to take immediate
steps to force the c. w. A. officials
to pay all C.W.A. workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14

munitions factories. the workers were
still resisting q whitening artillery
baTage, by state and Heimwehr
troops commanded personally by
Prince Won Starhemberg, Heimwehr
leader This town has been town of
starvation since 1881. Of1Hial reports
are that more than 100 are dead
there.
The workers captured Bruck- an
der-MUr early today and held it
against murderous barrage of ar
tillery fire Fighting is going on in
all the streets. The workers were
driven out once, but returned to the
assault, and reCaptured the town.
In Kapfenberg the workers had laid
siege to the police station and were
reported gaining in the fight. Troops
are on their way to attack them.
The sharpest fighting is concen-
trated in Vienna, Linz, Steyr, Po-
schaar, Grunden. Graz, Bruck, Flo
ridzdorf, Kapfenberg, Wineggenberg
and Judenberg.
In each tot these industrial centers
the workers with inadequate arms,
without any of the powerful fighting
weapons the state has trained on
them, without means Of communicat-
ing with their brothers in other CEN
ters, directed by workers who have
assumed spontaneous leadership, are
carrying on 8 heroic resistance.
Despite their meager arms they
have storrned and taken position after
position in many places, and have
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for which the Social Democrats had
paved the way, and before which they
had capitulated
The state at once modified its war
forces, called in the drilled and armed
fascist Heihmwehr Iegions and de-
clared murderous warfare on the
working class.
Women, Children Slaughtered
Shells from heavy artillery crashed
into the homes Of 10000 workers in
the working class district Of Vienna.
Men and women manned the doors
and windows Of the gigantic cooper
alive tenements, the Karl Marx
apartment, with 1900 families, the
Schlinger and the Sandleiten apart
nent completes, each almost as large,
fighting against tremendous military
forces. Every corridor of the famous
buildings was like wartime trench.
Shells Smash Great Tenements
Howitzer shells crashed into the
upper stories of the Karl Marx build
ing, burying men, women and chill
dren in the debris, The middle arch
collapsed.
Shells ripped whole corners from
the Schlingertof and Sandleiten
apartments. The air resounded with
the screams OF wounded women and
children.
Scores, at least, lie dead in the de-
hris Of these famous working class
homes. No estimate Of dead can yet
he made.
In the wake OF the artillery bar
rage, troops swarmed to the attack.
The Karl Marx building was reported
to have been captured, after having
been nearly demolished. The other
TWO at latest word were still holding
out.
Troops with artillery moved fl, N
one to another Of the 800 big working
class apartment houses of Vienna,
training their hoWitzers on the build
ingS and calling on the residents to
surrender. In many cases the wo~l.-
ers replied with firearms, and fought
to protect their homes.
Driven Out, Rally Again
The workers were driven out of the
ArbeiterE1eim, the main workers CEN
ter of Vienna, after a long resistance
against artillery. The attack here
was under the personal command Of
Major Emil Fey, yice-chancellor and
a Heimwehr leader.
Finally driven out Of their shat
tered building, the workers rallied in
the nearby electrical works, and con-
tinued to fight back
At Linz the workers are still holding
the freight depot, against an attack
with machine guns and artillery. The
state forces reported they had occu-
pied the passenger station.
Workers Hold Munitiou Center
A steyr. where there are gigantic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14
Masses Ready
For Struggle.
Pravda Saws
Austrian Workers Sweep
Over Socialist
Leadership
lspecial o the pally VOICE

MOSCOW, Feb 13 (By Radio In
q leading editorial on the present
events in Austria, Pravda, the lead
ing organ Of the Communist Party
Of the U.SS.R. declared today:
The Fascists have at last decided
to rout all the mass organizations
Of the workers, including the appara-
tus Of the establishments. The
steadily contracting mass base Of the
Dollfuss government, as well as the
internal dissensiOns in the camp of
Austrian Fascism intensified the fear
Of the mass workers organizations
which were absorbing wide masses
Of toilers hostile to Fascism.
Under the insistent pressure of the
masses and with the intent Of de-
frauding them again, the Social
Democratic leaders finally consented
to a general strike, only TO choke
it almost Immediately after it was
proclaimed.
But this tactic will not deceive any
one. The mass movement had al
ready swept over the heads of the
Social-Democratic leaders, giving
once again evidence of the great de-
termination Of the masses to struggle.
The mass revolutionary resistance
to Fascist reaction has matured, and
is ripe.
The Austrian Social-FascistS strive
to drive a wedge between the Com
munist and Socialist workers.
But the strikers in Vienna and
the other cities and towns can end
VIGOROUSLY only when the revolu-
tionary workers take the fight into
their own hands under the guidance
Of the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14
French Workers
Combat FaSCiSml
Continued from Page y

J
diately understood the meaning of
these events. And they answered
with a wide wave of demOnstra-
ton throughout the working class
centers. The general strike which
started on the night of Feb. IL has
become the slogan for the widest
masses of the prOletariat of France.
They have shown that they do not
want a Hitlerian regime in France
The Communist Party of France
has given the masses the only cor
rect slogan for the present struggle:
For United Revolutionary Front
Of Struggle from Below for the
Fight Against Fascism and the Ad-
vent of the Fascist Dictatorship"
The events in France show new
example Of the growing leadership
of the Communist Party, whose in
fluence over the masses is continu-
ously increasing. The general strike
indicates that events of the greatest
Importance are developing, and, II
may be said, the guarantee of the
success of the movement lies in the
correct application of the United
Front from below for the widening
and deepening Of the growing unity OF
the masses Of proletariat and peas
antry under the guidance of the
Communist Party Of France.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14
James Ford, Little,
VIII Speak or Cuba
At Center Tonight

NEW YORK.-James Ford, mem
Der of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party, who has just
returned from Cuba, and John Lit
tie, District Organizer of the Young
Communist League, will speak on
The Youth and Cuba Today" at
the Workers Center. IS E. 18th St.,
at 8 pm, tonight. The proceeds go
to the Young Communist League
Of Cuba.
Ford has been very active in aid
ing the struggle of the Cuban
masses against U. s. imperialism.
He will report in detail on the con-
ditions Of the young workers and
peasants in Cuba.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14
BrOcktOn Business Men Admit
''SometEing's Wrong in U. S. :"
''Daiiy'' Correspondent Tells of Lowered Living
Standards for Shoe Workers

even in their own community is al
most pathetic.
They look puzzled when you ask
questions touching upon affairs other
than their own particular factory.
They know that economies play an
important part in the political
scheme of things, but politics to them
is merely a means of achieving GER
tain privileges for their factory or
industry or counteracting antagon-
istic moves against it. That is all
politics means to them. On questions
affecting their industry in regard to
other industries and the national
welfare as whole, they are at an
utter loss.
They have ideas Of what caused
the depression and how to get out OF
it-floundering ideas, uncertain, hest
tant.
'The country's in this mess because
there's not enough money in circula-
ton"
When you probe deeper into that
they founder about. They don't
know how money stopped circulating.
Its because of watered stock.
These brokers would sell ten cents
worth of a stock for $50. Then all
the money concentrated into the
hands Of few men. That's what
started the depression
at started because manufacturers
built more and more factories during
the boom days"
These and innumerable other
reasons are given as the isolated
Confined on Page 81
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Continued from Page ~
would. be a prelude to a new World
War, as it most certainly would be
opposed by Italy, which, while like
wise opposed to Hitler control of
Austria, would not trust its French
rivals in an armed occupation of
the highly strategically Situated
Austrian territory.
The events in Austria are also
being utilized by the British impe
rialists to speed up their war prep
srations, with the British Cabinet
considering the adoption of q more
aggressive foreign policy, including
a frank scrapping of the futile "dis-
armament" conferences.
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quiry, the whole attack of Clifford
and the Southern Democrats being
leveled at G. w. A. wage scales. Not
one member Of the large committee
challenged Gasque-nor did Hopkins.
Not one member Of the group, who
supposedly were also going to take
up graft in the G. w. A., brought out
anything about the c. w. A. money
going to racketeers instead of to
workers.
Clifford developed one strong reason
reason for the Roosevelt administra-
TONS hasty scrapping of the C.WA.
when he said: Southern employers
are complaining that the c. w. A.
wage scale is too high" He added,
unblushingly, $50 cents an hour is
enough to pay any man"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14
French
Strike MObiIizeS
Against FaSCiSni

Continued from Page u
for demonstration Of the Communist
Party.
Communist Paper in 100000 Edition
'L'Humanite" was published in an
edition Of 100000. 1t bore the head
line, France Gripped by General
Strike Without Precedent"
The complete paralysis Of telephone
and telegraph service throughout the
country prevents any complete re-
ports Of a day in which the might Of
the working class, expressing itself
before the threat Of rising faScisn1,
showed itself with a militancy which
broke through all the bonds Of de
corlIm" which the Socialist Party and
yellow union leadership sought to i'm
pose.
Seven Dead
Seven workers are known to have
been killed in clashes with police in
various parts Of the country. There
was heavy fighting in the Malakoff
proletarian suburb Of Paris, where at
least one worker was seriously in
jured.
In Mulhausen, Alsace, the strike
was 100 per cent effective. Workers
organized a tremendous demonstra-
ton in front Of the city jail, in which
we're three Communists arrested the
day before. Despite the whole police
force and a regiment Of infantry, the
demonstrators forced the release Of
the three workers.
Tremendous Picket Lines
There was heavy fighting between
strikers and scabs in Roubaix, where
5000 workers demonstrated. Here the
capitalist newspapers were burned by
demonstrators in the streets.
Especially significant were the ire
mendous picket lines organized before
every factory. There was not a small
shop open in Paris all day.
Workers organized a mass demon
Stration in front Of the Ministry Of
Posts in Rue de GreneIle.
According to the most authentic
estimates, the strike involved 80 per
cent of the organized working class of
France.