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Evening star., 1934-05-06

perfectly even, stable, unchanging
rate of economic and business activity,
the continuous maintenance of a per-
feet economic balance, I believe such
planning is impossible in a business
system which rests in large degree
upon property rights. contract rights
and freedom of enterprise and initia-
tive"
Furthermore, the dean is of the
opinion that long-range compulsory
economic planning is incompatible
with democratic form Of govern
ment.
Under our political system, great
voting power Is exercised by sectional
groups which use this political in
fluence, by terrific pressure, to attain
desired ends" he says, "to assume
that any administration could ignore
such pressure, in order to adhere
scrupulously to a ready-made plan,
is to assume it could ignore the fol-
lowing election day"
Involves Dictatorship.
A system of complete economic
planning would involve the estab-
lishment of a complete economic die
tatorship with powers to enforce its
plans, says Dean Heilman.
When stripped down to its es-
sentials," Dean Heilman says, "eco-
nomic planning involves a greater
surrender of individual freedom than
we would be willing to make unless
we are willing to abandon entirely
our existing economic and govern
mental system"
Evening star., 1934-05-06
SCRIP DISAPPEARS
AS MONEY IN IOWA
Hawarden, Iowa, Retires All
of Issue With No Cost
to Itself.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, Iowa, May 5.-Scrip,
recognized by State legislation as de-
preston money, is rapidly going out
of circulation in Iowa
Real cash from Federal c. w. A.
and P. w. A. sources and improving
business indices apparently have les
sened desire for the paper certificates
The little Northwest Iowa town of
Hawarden, which stirred up an inter-
national furry among economists with
its first $500 scrip issue, has retired
all of it at no cost.
In Des Moines, county officials have
likewise retired most of 100000
scrip issue. A $4,000 bond issue is
contemplated soon to liquidate the
remainder.
1000 Cities Used Plan.
The Iowa Legislature legalized scrip
as medium of exchange in coun-
ties when petitions from a sufficient
number of business men asked its is
sue. Recently provision was made
for retirement of the scrip, the Legis-
lature having decided the emergency
priod was over.
Hawarden city officials claim more
than 1000 towns and cities over the
country put its stamp scrip plan into
use at one time or another. DR.. Irv-
ing F. Fisher of Yale University spent
several weeks there studying in 1882,
and inquiries came even from points
as far distant as Greece.
There $500 worth of dollar certifi-
Gates were issued first to pay city en-
ployes. Three-cent stamps we're sold
by the city clerk, one stamp to be
affixed to a coupon each time it was
used in business transaction.
When 36 stamps had been placed on
the coupon. the city redeemed it for
81 obtained by the stamp sale and
kept the additional 8 cents to pay
printing costs.
AS result, the city got its labor
for nothing, the employe paid 3 cents
tax to spend a dollar for his wages,
and the merchant paid another 3
cents to pass the coupon along.
The scheme worked well for Ha-
warden. City officials estimated the
first issue of $500 circulated sufficient
ly to pay for $4,000 worth of labor.
A second issue of $500 likewise made
the rounds. All of it has now been
redeemed, and Hawarden is on a cash
basis.
On a larger scale, however, its sue
cess was less apparent. County super
visors in Des Moines announced their
reasons for abandoning scrip that 1t
placed an unfair burden on employees
and merchants who paid the cost of
its redemption
Des Moines teachers, too, were paid
in scrip. Many of them contended it
was difficult to find the merchandise
they desired in the particular store
which was participating in the scrip
circulation.
In Iowa City only an approximate
$100 of the scrip circulated enough
times to be redeemed. More than
s1,5o0 still is outstanding. No plan
for its retirement has yet been de-
cided upon.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
KEYSTONE STATES
VOTE RACE WARM
Campaign Gains in Color as
Primary Nears-Pinchot
Battles Reed.

HARRISBURG, Pa. May P.-
Pennsylvania, long famed as politi-
cal battle-ground, is passing through
another spectacular campaign.
Clifford Pinchot, independent Re-
publican Governor, is fighting for his
political life, and Democrats are
threatening Republican rule for the
first time in many years. The primary
election will be May Is.
Pinchot, bitter foe of the Republican
State organization built by Quay and
PenroSe, is battling United States
Senator David A. Reed for Reeds seat
in Washington. The Governor charges
Reed is "the messenger boy of the
MELONS and the international money
lords" and the Senator replies Pin
chot is common scold.",
| Party Lines Broken.
Old party unes are shattered as
these two struggle for the Republican
nomination, and meanwhile the Demo-
Gratis are so confident of victory they
are fighting among themselves for
major Offices.
Spll z. Iulcy VI IltlSDulS Sll, d
Roosevelt leader, seeks the Democratic
nomination with the Endorsement of
the State Committee. Roland S. Nor
ris, former Ambassador to Japan, is
running against him with the support
of a wing of the party opposed to
Guffey and the policies of Warren
Van Dyke, the State chairman.
So bitter have these fights become,
that they overshadow much of the
interest in the battle-royal for Gov
ernor
Fourteen Republicans and two
Democrats want to succeed Clifford
Pinchot.
Among them are lawyers, judges
and three State officials. Gen. E. c.
Shannon, the lieutenant governor;
William A. Schander, attorney gen.
eral, and John McSparran, secretary
Of agriculture and a dry Democrat,
are aspirants. McSparran seeks nomi-
nation on both major tickets.
George H. Earle, former Minister to
Austria, and Judge William Copeland
of Westmoreland are the Democratic
candidates.
Democrats and independent Re-
publicans upset the State organiza-
ton in some of the strongest Republi-
can centers last November. Surprising
victories were registered in PhiIa-
delphia and Pittsburgh
Pinchot must defeat Reed if he is to
remain factor in Pennsylvania poll
tics, as he retires as Governor in 1885
and cannot succeed himself.
The Governor recently returned
from the South where he recuperated
from a long illuess. His friends assert
he will run independently against
Reed if he fails to win the Republican
| nomination.
Pennsylvania elects half its State
Senate and an entire House of Repre-
sentatives this year.
Elimination of sweatshops, new
labor and social welfare legislation,
revision of tax laws and the States
liquor laws are among the chief cam
paign issues.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
LITTLE PIG A PUZZLE
AS BIG MILK DRINKER

ERIE, Pa. R.-The quantity of
milk "runty" little pig consumed has
Clayton Hinkson worried.
Hinkson says he put the pig in a
pen all to himself, gave it a huge pail
of milk and stood watching while the
greedy animal downed every drop.
Then picked up the pig and
placed it in the pail" says Hinkson.
Although it had consumed all the
milk 1t still didn't I'LL up the pail.
Eyes, sir: it's got me worried"
Evening star., 1934-05-06
NEWSPAPER MEN ACTIVE
IN POLITICS IN DAKOTA

BISMARCK, N. OAK, May R.-
Newspaper men are active in politics
in the sister States of North and
South Dakota. The North Dakota
Democratic party chose as its candi-
date for Governor, Thomas Noodle,
editor of the Williston Herald. In
South Dakota, w. c. Allen, publisher
of the Dakota Farmer at Aberdeen,
announced he would seek the Repub-
Hcan gubernatoril nomination.
Evening star., 1934-05-06

OUHdHey OdVe IrudX start.
Ex-Gov. Vic Donahey, one of the
most popular Governors ever to oc-
cupy the post, will have the backing
of many personal friends and former
State appointees as well as the back
ing of many business men and farm
ers, a survey of the situation shows.
Donahey's personal following is well
known to be tremendous asset.
On the other hand, there is Rep
resentative at Large Charles v. Truax.
Practically unknown before Donahey's
election as Governor. Truax was given
his start by Donahey in the post of
State director of agriculture, but now
Evening star., 1934-05-06
DEMOCRATS FACE SEVERE TEST in OHIO POLITICAL BATTLES
NEW CANDIDATES ENTRY
THREATTOORCANIZATION
Representative Fletcher to Seek Gov.
ernorship Against Davey, Sawyer
and Pickrel.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


01NDLAY, Ohio May 5-Faced the lvelest po-
r. lcal struggles in the history of the Democratic
candidates for Governor United the
coming Ohio primaries, political party chiefs
are weighing with the greatest precision relative
OF their favorite candidates.
With the deadlne for filing in the August primaries only
seven weeks away and with the presence in Washington the
of Finday for consultation with Senator Robert Bukey and
leaders political advisers realize that present
So-caed party organizations candidates
facing difficult situation hold out the brightest
hone for rnnainat tim
Evening star., 1934-05-06
36.35O SEEKING OFFICE
In INDIANA PRIMARY
One Out Of Every 43 Persons Interested
Enough in Politics to Vote
Is Candidate.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


5-Indiana in for office seeking
wide scale At the primary next Tuesday one
43 take interest politics
L and Government candidate. Taken
approximately candidate for
mile of Indanas
In addition and affairs delegates to the State
conventions Republicans Democrats make nona
on for the United States Senate also will be named at the
appears lead the nomination his party although
he is opposed by six other announced candidates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Tells of Michigan Tour

DETROIT, Sept. 1.-THE work
ers of Michigan are responding Wig
orously to the Communist program"
declared John Anderson, Communist
candidate for Governor, on his re-
turn from a speaking tour through
out the state.
Anderson, leader of the Progress
sives in the Mechanics Educational
Society of America, independent
union of tool and diemakers, has a
notable record as a fighter for the
workers interests.
"The workers rapidly are learning
the lesson" he said, that Roose-
velt's promises are not a very stable
diet. They are rapidly realizing that
the so-called NRA garantee of the
right to organize and bargain collec-
lively has been shown up in its true
colorS by the numerous instances
where regional labor boards have
taken the part of the employers.
They know that efforts by workers
to organize and secure better condi-
tons have met with discrimination
and the use Of the state police when
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Duluth Students Strike
To Keep Schools Open

DULUTH, Mimi, Sept. ia
strike of hundreds of Duluth STU
dents, against the closing of five
schools, was called by the Schools
Protective League here after the
School Board, at its last meeting,
refused to reopen the schools.
Twenty-eight teachers will lose their
jobs if the schools remain closed.
The children are to be transported
by bus to other school buildings and
crowded into such space as can be
made for them.
Mass meetings have been held
every night in every one of the
school districts. Committees and a
central council of the Schools Pro-
tective League are being set up.
Hundreds of petitions demanding
re-opening of the schools are being
circulated.
Herman Griffith, who is one of
the outstanding leaders of the
Schools Protective League, was the
labor in doris e d" candidate for
school board last spring. This was
a Socialist and Farmer Labor Party
ticket. Since that time he has re-
signed from the Farmer-Labor
Party, announcing his intention of
joining the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Homeless Men March
ON Relief Headquarters

NEW YORK.-More than 300
homeless men, modified by the
Council of Unattached Men, SIT E.
14th Street, marched on the We'll
fare offices Monday, forced Deputy
Commissioner Stanley Howe to meet
With their delegation, and wrung
from him promises of better food
and improved conditions in the city
flop houses.
Howe at first refused to meet with
the elected delegates. CHANGING out
the window and seeing the men
establish a mass picket line, he
then consented to meet with their
committee. While police attempted
to provoke the men to disorder, they
held their ranks and continued
picketing.
To the mems demand for better
food, issuance of clothing and more
sanitary conditions in the NUM-
cipal Lodging House, Howe an
swered that the city was broke
The Council of Unattached Men,
cffiliated with the National Unem-
ployment Councils, is calling upon
all homeless unemployed workers to
come to their headquarters at their
regular Tuesday meetings at 2 pm.
The homeless men will assemble
at Gold Dust Lodge, Corlears and
Water Streets, Friday, at 10 am,
and march in a body to City Hall
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12

pie miners against the speed-up,
told them you must load more
coal, or how will we get another
contract" He told the miners tat
the Nilwood mass meeting) that the
"P. M. A. must be a conservative
union"
Officials Spent $4,000
4. The officialdom spent $4,000
on lawyers fees and hundreds more
on trips to Washington, supposedly
to fight Peabody in Peabody-con-
trolled courts.
The same policy was followed in
the majority of pits. Today all
conditions won by great sacrifices
are lost. There are 10000 totally
unemployed members and about
1880 part-time employed members
in the P. M. of A. Those employed
are subjected to hundred differ
ent speed-up schemes, discrimina-
ton. In tonnage mines many
miners earn less than they would
get on relief, and in Saline County
the P. M. A. officials approved a
$3.50 scale with the excuse that sit
was first signed by Lewis" Many
of the honest rank and file dele
gates who two years ago were mis-
led by these takers will challenge
them at this convention.
What will be the policy of the
officialdom at this convention?
The Officialdom's Policy
In the first place, Pearcy- Keck
have a pretty strong machine built
up around them, with such elements
as PECK, Smith, Novak, ETC., who
will act as breakers" for all attacks
upon them. To mislead the honest
rank and file delegates, they will
resort again to radical phrasemon-
gering and demagogy. Pearcy will
attempt to cover up the betrayals
by two methods. On the one hand
he will try his old gag of appear
ing radical by telling the delegates
I'VE did all we could, the best that
could be done under this rotten sys-
tenn" On the other hand he and
his gang will raise a batting
campaign against the Communists,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Program To Gust Tory
Officialdom Looms as
Farley Nears

such as has been pushed in the Off
cial organ. There is a scheme
whereby Pearcy is to become the
International president and thus
enlarge the bureaucratic machine.
They will also attempt to shift
every discussion of scale, conditions
in the mines or exposure of their
betrayals to the February Scale
Convention.
The militant rank and file dele
gates should not allow Pearcy and
his machine to shift the exposure
Of their betrayals from concrete is
sues to some abstract political label
ling. This is one thing they will
always try. The delegates should
not allow the machine to develop
an argument on Communism versus
Pearcy, but force the machine to
answer concrete questions of their
selloutS and betrayals and don't let
them swerve from those burning is
sues of conditions and needs before
the miners.
CLASS struggle Program
The class-struggle program of the
unity movement, calling for united
strike action of the P. M. A. and
U. M. w. A. miners for the Sc scale,
six-hour day. five-day week, to-
gether with demands for ousting of
officialdom of both unions, trade
Union democracy and other changes,
is the only program for the rank
and file
The duty of the fighting rank and
file delegates will be to bring this
program UP on the floor, discuss it
with the honest delegates and in
putting up militant stand for ac-
ton, expose the officialdom respon-
sible for the present starvation con-
ditions and slave coal code agree
ment in Illinois.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
c. ?. Pledges
Full Support
TOMillStrike
Urges Rank and File in
New England To
Take Control

BOSTON Mass, Sept. 1.-THE
Communist Party of New England
has pledged its support to the
textile strikers in their fight for
better wages and conditions in a
statement distributed in the strike
area.
The statement urges the textile
strikers to take into their own hands
the authority to make all decisions
concerning the strike through the
election of rank and file strike COM
mittees.
Calls for One Union
Further, the statement declares:
"The Communist Party in every mill
town as we'll as throughout the
United States is doing everything
in its power to spread the strike
and to organize the unity of all
workers, organized and unorganized,
to build one textile union in the in
dustry controlled and led by the
honest rank and file textile workers.
The Communist Party protests most
vigorously against the use of in
timidation methods, such as the
red scare" that has been played
up in the press, the use of machine
guns, police, poison gas, militia and
all other forces of terror and saw
agery used on the West Coast and
other strikes, and are being en-
ployed by the bosses in the textile
strike. No terror, no matter how
repressive and murderous it may
be, will stop the onward sweep of
the workers once they are united in
the struggle to better their condi-
tons.
The Communist Party calls
upon the National Guardsmen to
realize they are the brothers and
sons of the working class, that
their interests lie with those of
the textile workers. The Com
munist Party calls upon the Ma
ticnal Guardsmen to refuse to act
as strikebreakers. The Commu-
mist Party calls upon the National
Guardsmen to join with the strik-
crs to help them win this glorious
battle for their most elementary
rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12

offices were nominated.
The 10, who will base their cam
paign on the slogan Communism
Against Fascism" are: Harry Cor
rell for Governor; Earl Stewart
now in jail facing two charges OF
criminal syndicalism, for Secretary
of State; Louis Olson, for Congress-
man from the Third District; N. A
Mackrill and Louis lessen, for Multi
nomah County Commissioners; Dirk
De Jonge, also in jail facing two
charges of criminal syndicahsm, fol-
State Senator, Thirteenth District;
Virgil Akin, William Linden, George
Butterfield, Richard Lovelace, Ray
Billings, Clair Fessler, Arthur Hayes
a Negro, Kenneth Fitsgerald, Har-
old Foster, Beatrice DeBoord, How
ard McPeak, Mary Goold and Ed
ward Denny, also in county jail fac
ing criminal syndicalism chrages
were nominated as candidates fol-
State representatives from Multi
roman county.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Miners Face Fight for Struggle Program

ton, in September, 1882, the Com
munist Party in Southern Illinois,
then numerically small and not Or
ganized in most important mines,
was unable to expose sufficiently
the enemies of the miners in their
ranks, and thus the alliance of the
Musteites, Socialist Party leaders
and satraps of the former Walker
Lewis machine succeeded, by use OF
radical phrases, demagogy and skill
full riding on the wave of the fight
that was waged by the rank and
file, to place themselves at the head
of this militant movement only to
behead it and deliver the miners
into the hands of the operators
Two years is not long period, but
in these two years the officialdom
of the P. M. A. outpointed in many
respects Lewis's record Of betrayal
Here are some of the deeds of these
progressive" leaders:
l. They put over the S. wage
cut (when Lewis failed and even
refused an offer of $50 scale in
order to compete with Lewis for the
hand of Peabody. Individual agree
ments, collaboration, arbitration
with stand pat' stay at home"
policy Immediately after the first
convention.
$4,000 Miners BIackIisted
2. Turning back the militant
march of Oct. IL, resulting in the
blacklisting of 10000 miners,
through no picketing, no spreading
of the strike policy.
3. P. M. A. officials endorsed
and, as Lewis did, hailed the N. R.
A. They also joined the sheriffs
in a most vicious attack upon the
Communists and miners who ex-
posed the scabbing N. R. A. and
the coal code. Pearcy approved the
deputizing of miners to break the
hunger march; he told the Women's
Auxiliary in convention mot to
picket but stay at home and cook.
The officialdom endorsed the "hu-
manitarian" Horner. Pearcy, ap-
palled by the grumbling of Giles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Duluth Jobless Seamen
Vote for AMliation with
Unemployment Councils

DULUTH, Mimi, Sept. 1.-THE
unemployed seamen in Duluth have
unanimously voted to affiliate with
the Unemployment Councils. This
comes as a result of the necessity
for better consolidation of organi-
zation than that provided through
the Seamen's Committee.
The Seamen's Committee in Du-
luth has, with the support of the
unemployed seamen themselves, won
many victories. Recently they de-
manded and won shower baths.
They are now receiving forty-flve
cents per day for food in addition
to clothing, tobacco, toilet materials.
Before the organization Of the Sea-
mems Committee the unemployed
seamen were sent to Bethel and fed
on slops. After three days they
were told to get out of town or go
to a transient camp. Now they
have clean hotel rooms to sleep in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
United Front
Wins Jobs for
Four Negroes
Harlem Cafeteria Boss
Grants All Demands;
New Fight Planned

NEW YORK.-Four Negro work
ers were hired yesterday by the
Empire Cafeteria, Lenox Avenue and
125th Street, as the management
capitulated before the militant,
united struggle of white and Negro
workers for the hiring of Negroes
as countermen and busmen.
One of the four was engaged as
counterman, the others, including
girl, as busworkers.
The management agreed to all the
demands of the organizations in
yolved in the struggle, including
employment of Negroes in other
capacities than porters, no firing of
the four workers without consulta-
ton with the organizations, and
withdrawal of all charges against
workers arrested while picketing for
these demands.
The fight, initiated by the Young
Liberators, youth section of the
League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, was energetically supported
by the Communist Party, the Food
Workers Industrial Union, the In
ternational Labor Defense and rank
and file members of the Souffeites
and other reformist controlled
groups.
Initiated by the L. S. N. r. and
Imported by the other organiza-
tions already involved in the fight
for jobs for Negroes, a conference
will be held soon to advance the
fight on the basis of this victory.
(See editorial on cafeteria fight
on page g.