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The daily worker., 1934-05-19
Right of Asylum
Bill To Be Pushed
At Meet Sunday
Delegation to Demand
Citizenship Again for
Emil GardOs

NEW YORK. - Scores of or
carnations will be represented at
the conference called tomorrow
at 1 P. NJ. at Irving Plaza, 18th
st. and Irving Place, by the Com
mittee for the Protection of For
eign Born. A Bill for Right of
Asylum for political prisoners will
be presented by the Committee for
passage by the conference. The
Communist Party has endorsed
the program.
At the conference a delegation
will be elected to demand from
the Attorney-General that full
citizenship privileges be returned
to Emil Gardos, whose citizenship
was taken from him because he
took leading part in q textile
workers strike, and to demand
from Secretary Perkins the can
collation. of all deportation orders
against those so threatened be-
cause of their parts in workers
organizations.
The statement of the Commu-
mist Party reads in part: "The
struggle against deportation and
persecution of the foreign born Is
one of the most important issues
in the fight against fascism and
imperialist war.
The daily worker., 1934-05-19
Resist Police for An
Hour Near Nazi
War Vessel


BOSTON, Mass, May 18. -
Twenty-one men and women were
arrested yesterday late in the after
noon for participating in an anti
Fascist demonstration at the Char
lestown Navy Yard, where the Nazi
Karlsruhe is docked. Q
The demonstration demanding
freedom for Ernst Thaelmann,
leader of the Communist Party of
Germany imprisoned by the Nazis,
was attacked by the police at its
very start. The workers resisted
and the fight continued for one
hour. Slogans, placards and leaflets
were showered over the crowd Of
1000 people who had gathered
around or in the demonstration.
Shouts of Down with Hitler!"
resounded through the streets,
Free Thaelmannp was echoed
throughout the demons. ration. The
demonstration smashed the plans
of the Nazis to attain the American
peoples good will" by the sending
of the cruiser. 1t was called under
the auspices of the Committee to
Aid Victims Of Fascisn, and the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
as we'll as the National Students
League took prominent part in its
organization.
The daily worker., 1934-05-19
Clothing Workers
At Convention Tell
OF NRA Speed-up
Refute Sec'y Perkin S
Invited by Union
Officials

ROCHESTER. N. Y. FP)-In-
dustrial unionism, the 30-hour week,
and the NR.A.. pro and con, were
high points in the discussion ct the
10th biennial convention of the
Anlalgamated Clothing Workers Of
America in Rochester, N. Y.
Declaring that craft unionism is
obsolete, the Philadelphia delegation
asked the convention to indorse in
dustrial unionism and to urge it on
the A. F. OF L. at its forthcoming
convention. The same delegation
urged the support by the A.C.W.A.
of an independent farmer-labor
political party.
Secretary of Labor Frances Per-
kins tod the convention that she
was convinced that the Wagner
Lewis bill to encourage state unem-
ployment reserves schemes, to take
care of future. not present unem-
ployment, would be passed. Reports
from Washington have it that the
bill will die.
Although Perkins cited official
figures to show gains in employment
and payroll increases in the mems
and women's clothing industries,
and in millinery, boots and shoes in
the year March 1888, to March 1884.
Many delegates told from the floor
tales OF privatlon, speed-up and
wholesale unemployment in union
shops in the shirt, sheepskin,
mackinaw and single pants indus
tries. An attack was made on the
NR.A., as praeticed by the Cotton
Garment Code Authority, by a dele
gate who told of increased business
in non-union shops violating the
code.
The convention unanimously
adopted resolutions backing the s.
day, 30-hour week. increased mini
mum wage scales and classification
for skilled labor in the cotton gar
ment industry and transferring OF
the single pants industry from the
cotton garment to the mems cloth
ing code.
The daily worker., 1934-05-19
Break Up Police Lines,
Board Japanese Ship,
Drive Off Scabs
PROTEST MURDER
Ryan Stays in N. Y. to
Halt Strike Spread
SAN FRANCISCO. May 18

SAN FRANCISCO, May 18
Striking longshoremen
broke through a police line at
the Municipal Pier in Oak
land, ran over a string of
freight cars and boarded the
Japanese freighter Oregon
Maru, which was loading scrap
iron to be used as war materials
in Japan, and ordered strike
breakers to get off the ship.
A furious battle ensued as po-
lice reserves attacked the strikers.
1t is reported that one Of the scabs
went over the side and was later
flashed out of the bay frightened,
like half drowned rat.
Strikers also stopped two bus
loads of scabs who were being
taken to the waterfront in Ala
media, port adjoining Oakland.
Meanwhile Edward ]. McGrady,
Assistant Secretary of Labor, who
flew here from Washington, D. c.,
began negotiations with Roose-
velt's Mediation Board and lead
ers of the international Long
shoremen's Association to cook up
scheme to break the strike.
The men, however, continued
their militant picketing, paying
little attention to McGrady's state
ment that definite progress had
been made toward settlement of
the dispute"
The daily worker., 1934-05-19
Strikes Are Answer Of u. S.
.JObIess to Roosevelt attacks

standards which previously pre-
vailed.
Translated into action, it has
brought the deepest stirring Of the
unemployed masses expressed in
strikes and stoppages of relief work,
and mass demonstrations and
marches.
Yet. federal relief expenditures
throughout the country are to be
drastically slashed during the COM
ing months. In the past week,
Roosevelt placed before Congress
his ''relief and recovery" budget to
supplement that which he asked on
January 8, and to be operative from
july l until sometime in 1875.
Including in the relief expendi-
lures" of Roosevelt are such items
as naval construction, war funds
for the frankly militaristic G. c. c.
camps, restorat ton of the federal
pay cuts in the Independent Of
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The daily worker., 1934-05-19
Roosevelt
Plans New
DemagOgy
Forthcoming Message e
to Spout Empty
Promises

WASHINGTON, May Within
a little more than week Roosevelt
will release a new demagogic blast
to Congress in the form Of mes
sage on which, however, he does not
want Congress to take any action.
The real aim Of the message will
be to try to explain away why many
promises to the workers were not
carried out. to keep back strike
struggles and relief actions. and to
provide a program for his Congress
sional supporters in the fall elec-
tions.
Among the questions Roosevelt
will treat in his message, according
to press reports, solely for the pur-
pose of stalling the masses from
forcing through any action by the
present Congress, are the following:
1. Creation of a permanent Labor
Board, within but independent Of
the Department of Labor. This will
be the substitute for the present
Wagner strikebreaking N. r. A.
Labor Board.
Z. A promise of Federal unem-
ploynent insurance, but no details
are given. 1t is specifically pointed
out that Congress will not be asked
to take any action now.
3. National old-age pensions. The
same applies TO this point as to
Federal unemployment insurance. ."
4. Nation wide insurance against
sickness among industrial employees.
tPut forward as another demagogic
trick.)
7. Amendment of minimum wage
provisions of the N. r. A. to relate
wage rates to living costs. (Under
this same slogan Roosevelt tried on
many occasions to keep the workers
from striking, in order to prevent
them by their own actions from
forcing increases in the slave code
minimum wages)
The capitalist press, properly
taking its cue, is blazoning the new
hypocritical, demagogic campaign o1
Roosevelt as a promise Of far
reaching reforms, both social ano
economic"
The daily worker., 1934-05-19
RYAN IN N. Y. TO
STOP STRIKE SPREAD

NEW YORk-Joseph P. Ryan,
President of the international
Longshoremen's Association, let it
be known yesterday that he is re-
manning in New York to avert the
spread Of the longshore strike in
this port, although Senator Wag-
ner had asked him to go to the
Pacific coast to try to halt the
strike there.
Ryan indicated that he was try
ing to limit the strike activities in
New York to the Clyde Mallory
Line Piers.
So far there have been no picket
on the docks, despite the fact that
the capitalist press reports that
three shifts of pickets are patrol
ling the piers.
Especial to the Daily Worker
SAN PEDRO, Calf, May 49,
Chamber of Commerce was forced
to cancel its harbor celebration
called by the big business mer
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The daily worker., 1934-05-19
Militant Picketing
OF Stockyard Men
Keeps Strikes Solid
A.F.L. Leaders Are Now
Negotiating With
Darling Co.
Daily Worker Midwest Bureau)

CHICAGO, Ill, May 13.-Negotia
tions between American Federation
of Labor leaders and the bosses of
Darling Company are under way.
The bosses are reported to be will
ing to settle for forty-five cents an
hour, and to grant either union rec
ognition or back pay at the new
rates for the time since the N.R.A.
code took effect.
Militant action by rank and file
members in stopping scabs from en-
tering the plant is the only thing
that has so far saved the strike.
Union bureaucratS have consistently
refused to organize mass picket
lines AS a result some scabs have
gotten into the plant, and the posi-
ton of the strikers somewhat weak
ened
Murphy, leader of the Stockyards
Labor Council, has assisted the
company by refusing to give direc-
tions or assistance to the members
of his union who are on strike with
the Amalganlated workers. Fewer
strikers are around the plant today
than on previous days.
Scab herding by relief authorities
was exposed yesterday when officials
we're forced to admit that appeals
for scabs had been made to the
workers by the night manager of
the flop house near twenty sixth
and Wabash on Monday.
A leafet was issued to strikers
today by committee of rank and
file strikers. 1t proposed the cleo
ton of rank and file strike COM
mittee by all strikers regardless of
union afiliation, the establishment
of mass picket lines, to reject arbi-
tration and demand that the strike
settlement be submitted for approval
to a vote of the strikers. The leaflet
raised the following demands as ones
to be fought for:
l. Forty-six and half cents an
hour wages.
2. Payment Of back pay since last
August
3.E,i Inilation of speed-up
4. Recognition Of the union.
The daily worker., 1934-05-19
Take Steps
ToPrepare
SteelStrike
Industrial Union Board
Welcomes Action of
Rank and File

PITTSBURG, Pa, May 1.-THE
National Executive Board OF the
Steel g. Metal Workers Industrial
Union, in a specially called session,
presided over by the National Pres
ident E. P. Cush, held in Pitts
burgh, May 13, made decisions lead
ing towards the development of a
mass strike of the steel workers
during the coming weeks. Mem
bers from all districts of the S. M.
w. I. U. attended. James Eagan,
secretary, made the main report.
The Board welcomed the action
of the rank and file Of the Anal
gamated Association of Iron, Steel
e. Tin Workers "a. F. of L., for the
development of strike for i'm
proved conditions and the right of
organization, as passed by the re-
cent A. A. convention over the
heads of the Tigh-Leonard leader
ship of the A. A.
Weaknesses OF Opposition
Leadership
The Board warned all steel work
ers, especially the members Of the
A. A., against the maneuvers that
will be made by the A. A. leadership
to prevent the strike and defeat the
steel workers in the same manner
as Green, Collins and company have
done in the auto industry with the
aid of arbitration, the intervention
of the government. Labor Board,
etc. The decisions of the A. A. con-
vention, the Board pointed out,
which provide for months notice
to the steel companies before action
is taken, make possible in this sit
uation such maneuvers on the part
of the A. F. of l.. bureaucrats.
The Board further pointed out
that while the convention of the A
A. expressed the desire of the rank
and file for struggle, the leadership
of the opposition in the A. A. con-
vention, has as yet given no indi-
cation of definite stand on the
burning question which will deter
mine the outcome of the struggle
These are:
Efforts on the part of the A.
F. of L. machine to limit the pres
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The daily worker., 1934-05-19
Cen'l Motors
Head Hint S
New wWageCuts
Problem Is Not to Live
Up to Code, Official
Declares at Banquet
BY A. B. MAGIL
Especial to the Daily Worker)

DETROIT, May 1S. - Broad hint
that Automobile manufacturers in
tend to ignore or scrap provisions OF
their own slave code, with its 43
cents an hour minimum wage, was
contained in speech made last
night by william S. Knudsen, exec
utive vice president of General Mo-
tors, at the annual dinner Of the
Detroit Industrial Safety Council in
the Statler Hotel.
THE biggest problem before us" !"
Knudsen said, "is not whether we
live up to all the rules and regula-
tions put up as trial balloons. If
industry is to be salvaged, it must
look after its own house"
DR.. Leo Wollnan, impartial
chairman Of the Automobile Labor
Board who also spoke, chimed in
with this spirit by declaring: Our
labor problems can be solved by the
old methods. Those Of Western
Europe and England are not solva-
BILE by the same methods"
"Old methods" are Of course.
methods of open shop, of vicious
stool pigeon system and ths labor
smashing program of the million
aire auto kings.
Knudsen spoke denagogically con-
cerning the necessity of "coopera-
ton, which resulted in boosting
General Motors profits last year
5000 per cent, while the real wages
Of workers in comparison with living
costs declined.
Discussing the question of the nu-
merous accidents in the auto indus
try, Knudsen placed the entire blame
on the workers, attributing most
accidents to lack of skill. Every
worker knows, however, that the
terrific speed-up and failure of COM
panies in their mad rush for profits
to provide proper safeguards are
responsible for the tremendous in
crease in the number of workers
killed and injured in auto plants.
The daily worker., 1934-05-19
New w Orld War
Looms, Admits
Pres. Roosevelt
Initiation Cuts Value
OF Savings Is PC,
Wall St. Banker Says

NEW YORK.-Admission that
the Roosevelt imitation policy has
already robbed millions of small
savings bank depositors Of more
than Is per cent Of the buying
power Of their savings, was made
yesterday by James P. Warburg,
Warburg, q wealthy Wall Street
banker, vice-yresident Of the
Bank of Manhattan Company,
has his own ideas as to how
the workers ought to be fieeced.
In his criticism of Roosevelt he
lets the cat out of the bag re-
garding the real meaning OF
Roosevelt's imitation as it affects
small savings accounts.
The daily worker., 1934-05-19
N. Y. and Boston Cops Make
Savage attack on Workers
Marching In Anh-Ndzi Protest
Communists, Socialists
Beaten, Arrested at
Garden Meet

NEW YORK. with a lynch spirit
against Jews and Communists pre-
dominating, the sneaking advance
of fascism in this country was
strongly evidenced Thursday night,
when $4,000 people, called by the
Nazis under the title of Friends of
the New Germany" met at Madison
Square Garden to protest the boy
colt OF German goods.
Speakers sought to whip the pro-
Hitler mob into q screaming frenzy
with infiammatory TRADES against
Marxists and Jews, always linking
the two groups.
The Garden was decorated with
swastikas and banners, calling upon
those present to Join the D.A.W.A.
and Boycott the Boycotters." Uni
formed fascist storm troopers lined
each aisle and with police, guarded
the lobby and other entrances to
the building.
Cops In Bloody Attack
Outside the Garden, LaGuardia's
uolice took up the cudgels for the
Nazi fascists and the result was one
of the most bloody and brutal at
tacks on anti-fascist workers in the
history of New York.
With over 1000 cops modified
outside Madison Square Garden,
where the Friends Of New Ger
many" had called a meeting to rally
their supporters to the fascist Hitler,
aided by several hundred uniformed
Nazis, the slightest voice raised
against the bloody regime Of Der
Fuehrer" in Germany was ruth
lessly attacked and clubbed.
Communist and Socialist workers,
most of them members Of the Young
Peoples Socialist League and the
Young Communist League. who
Joined spontaneously in demon
stration against the Nszis were
beaten by the police and arrested.
A group of several hundred held an
orderly meeting for a half hour on
the square at 47th st. and Broad
way, until the police charged and
broke it up. When the workers
started to march away, shouting
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The daily worker., 1934-05-19
'DOckers Storm
Ship Loading War
Material To Japan
Federal Court Denies
Application for Writ
to Free Tom Mooney

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1S. =
Flagrant denial Of the constitutional
rights Of Tom Mooney by California
state courts is not a question which
federal court can consider, the
district federal court ruled yester-
day in denying an application for a
writ of habeas corpus for the fs-
nous class-war prisoner imprisoned
for the past II years for his work
ing class activities.
The daily worker., 1934-05-19
Chicago Court
Inficts Savage
Terms on Six
Negro, White Workers
Who Demanded Bread
Get | to 5 Years
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DAILY Worker Midwest Bureaul
CHICAGO, May 18.-One to five
years in the penitentiary, and $3.50
fines were the penalties handed
down by the boss court to six Negro
and white workers for fighting for
bread.
This verdict, the climax of Vi
cious frame-up begun year ago
against these workers for their par
ticipation in demonstration at
Oakwood's relief station, was handed
down today by Judge Allegretti
after an all-white jury had been
hand picked by the prosecution to
ensure conviction.
The defendants, PoindeXter, Coe
Hampton, Smith, Page and Wer-
nicke, we're charged by the police
with attempted murder and con-
spiracy.
The arrests took place at dem
onstration in the Negro section OF
Chicago, in January, 1898. Police
commanded by Captain Mooney, de-
liberately set a trap,
The International Labor Defense
is appealing the case and bonds
have been set at $3.50 each.
The International Labor Defense
in statement issued to the Daily
Worker, states:
"This verdict, handed down by
the Fascist Judge Allegretti, is an
attempt of the ruling class of Chi
cago to separate Negro and white
workers and to smash workers or
ganizations. The greatest possible
mass protest must be developed.
and resolutions, kilograms and let
tiers must be sent at once to Judge
AlIegretti, Criminal Courts Build
ing, Chicago, and to Governor
Horner in Springfield.
The daily worker., 1934-05-19
Vets In 5 Mile
Trek Through
W Washington S
''Give Daddy Bonus; ]
Need Milk,'' Child's
Banner States
BULLETIN

DS A1AAA a AklH
There will be final rally of
vets at Post 191, w. E. S. L.. SO
East Third St., New York City,
on Sunday night at PM, to send
off the latest contingent of vets
going to Washington to join the
National Convention fight for the
bonus and the Three e-Point Pro-
gram.
All vets who still have not
signed up for the bonus march
are urged to attend.
Ry SEYMOUR WALDMAN
Daily Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, May 18.-
About 800 Negro and white
ex-soldiers, here from A
states, for the Veterans
Rank and File Convention,
presented Americas jim
Grow capital today with a
stirring exhibition Of working class
solidarity.
Led by Grand Marshal James j.
Beatty former Marine sergeant, the
smartly stepping veterans sang
their bonus songs through five
miles Of Washington's streets un-
der furnishing sun.
The five-mil trek ended at the
tents where the vets, eager for
chow" clambered into government
buses which were waiting to take
them back to Fort Hunt, Virginia
their camp and convention head
quarters.
The veterans leading commit
tee included George Alman, we'll
known oregon bonuseer; Harold
outi9,aeI on Pare ~
The daily worker., 1934-05-19
By HOWARD BoLDT

Direct relief as such,
whether in the form of cash
Or relief in kind, is not an
adequate way of meeting
the needs of able-bodied
workers. They very prop
erly insist upon an oppor-
tunity to give the community
their services in the form of labor
in return for unemployment bene-
fit5"thus, Roosevelt's statement of
February Is, in announcing the
new work relief" program, laid
the basis for the various forced
labor schemes in operation
throughout the country. In prac-
tice, it has meant the launching
Of forced labor on q national basis
and the lowering Of relief stand
ards below the sub marginal
The daily worker., 1934-05-19
Calls for Armament
Agreements A In
Fight On Rivals
u. S. ARMS NAZIS
Peace Talk Hides u. S.
War Measures

WASHINGTON, May 18.-
In a public statement which
NAV affect the whole course
of the United States in the
immediate future, Roosevelt
today made the ominous adj
mission for the first time
since he took Office that the mem
ace Of another world imperialist
war looms dangerously close.
Roosevelt made this admission IN
a statement in which he calls upon
the Senate to ratify the 1925 Ge-
neva arms convention decision re-
garding placing enbargoes on ship
ments Of arms to countries engaged
in war.
Talking in pacific language. but,
in reality attacking the war preps-
rations Of the rivals Of Wall Street
Roosevelt stated
"The private and uncontrolled
manufacture Of arms and NUM-
tions and the traffic therein has
become serious source of in
ternational discord and strife.
"Some suitable international or
ganiZation must and will take
action. The peoples of many
countries are being taxed to the
point Of poverty and starvation
IN order 10 enable governments
to engage in a mad race Of arma-
ments which If permitted to con-
time may well result in war"
His statement is itself sure
symptom that imperialist war is
now no longer g question of the fu-
ture, but is already in the minds Of
the leading imperalist governments
already on the order of the day
Hides Own War Measures
Cloaking the extreme sharpness
and tension which has been
reached in the tension Of the world
imperialist antagonisms. especially
between the United States, Britain
and Japan, Roosevelt late today
asked for the authority to negotiate
international agreements on the
subject Of arms embargoes.
The essence of Roosevelt's pro-
posal is for international agree
ments between the major imperial
ist powers to stop shipments Of
arms to warning countries "where
such action would prevent unjusti-
fed warfare"
II is obvious that this proposal,
far from being a proposal strength
ening peace, actually is a direct
move to align groups of irnperialist
powers against one another through
the agreements to refuse ship arms
to imperialist rivals engaging ''i1
uniustified wars"
Disregarding his own record
breaking war preparations, amount
ing to almost two billion dollars IN
the last year, Roosevelt sought to
place the danger Of another world
war cn the activities of the mum
ton makers.
Records of the Department Of
Commerce reveal that the United
States Wall Street munition max
ers have been reaping fortunes sup
plying Japanese imperialism and
German Fascism with munitions.
japanese imperialism is getting
record breaking shipments Of war
material almost daily from the
United States and Hitler's govern
ment has been spending millions
in the purchase Of munitions from
leading American manufacturers.
The daily worker., 1934-05-19
Austrian Barricade
Fighters on Hunger
Strike for Freedom

Especial to the Daily WOrker)
WARSAW, May II (By radiol.-
A workers paper here states that
the participants in the February
battles in Austria who are now
Jailed there have declared a hun
ger strike, the majority are political
prisoners who have not yet been
examined. Their demand is for I'M
mediate examination or release.
The daily worker., 1934-05-19

munist" was written across our
identification cards. 1 am proud OF
this Identification, but it is import
The daily worker., 1934-05-19

LOUISE THOMPSON
Negro organizer OF the Inter
national Workers Order, whose
re-arrest is ordered following col
lapse Of vegrancy charge.
The daily worker., 1934-05-19

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The daily worker., 1934-05-19

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