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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-02
AN DIT RI A L

their union rights frittered away viciously that
100000 workers came out on of the most heroic
and militant strikes in the history Of the American
labor movement.
Roosevelt now wants to stop this movement of
struggle, while the employers bring up their heavy
artillery of attack against the workers. And he
does this under the guise of treacherous truce.
Steel workers, auto workers. textile workers,
aluminium workers. and all others who have felt
the effects of Roosevelt's arbitration scheme, re-
member his previous promises. Weirton steel work.
ers! Remember he promised you MIRA elections
Now you have been forced into company unions
Auto workers Remember he promised you better
conditions. Instead he fastened on your necks
an arbitration board that has helped the employers
against labor. Textile workers. What did you get?
You were betrayed by German g. Co.. and you got
the blacklist, the yellow dog contract, the bayonet
tear gas and the club.
Now Roosevelt wants to extend these benefits of
truce to the whole working class, so that while
the hands of the workers are tied by the COLA
boration of the employers and the A. F. OF L. Off
Gals the government can carry forward at greater
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president ROOSEVELTS "fireside" radio broad
cast Sunday night, greeted so avidly and enthu-
siastically by William Green, should arouse the
whole working class to the dangers of new at
tack on their living Standards on their union rights
and on the weapon of strike that confronts them
Roosevets speech was carefully timed with the
opening of the A. F. of L. convention. Momentous
problems face this convention, and every worker
in the country. Obviously, the NRA has smashed
down living standards. At the same time, it has
raised the profits of the employers as Roosevelt
and his associates boast.
Tremendous strikes have taken place against
this employers offensive under the flag of the Blue
Eagle. Tens of thousands of textile workers have
been blacklisted. Every effort is being made to
quell the growing strike movement in marine and
in other industries through Roosevelt's scheme of
arbitration boards.
What did Roosevelt propose to meet the mount
ing struggles of the workers against the battering
down of their living standards? Why did Green
react so quickly in accepting Roosevelts proposal
for truce in the strike strugglesa Why Roose-
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speed, with more daring, with more audacity, its
efforts to increase the profits of the bosses at the
expense of greater starvation for the masses.
The steel trust is now preparing for 10 per
cent wage cut for its workers. Under Roosevets
truce, already accepted by William Green, who
deplores every struggle of the workers for their
rights, this wage cut would be put over, and the
government would step in on the ground of Ear
btration and the truce" to stop strikes or other
resistance of the workers.
Roosevelt's truce" is the first step forwards
pusory arbitrator, forced ending of the growing
strike struggles in order to carry forward the often
sive of capital against labor.
Let us see the sources Roosevelt used to justify
his schemes. He quoted Elihu Root and the deeds
of the British national concentration government,
the worst reactionaries and friends of the big
trusts. Elihu Root dye-in-the- wool reac-
tionary Republican lawyer for the big corpora
tons. Roosevelt answered the Republicans attacks
on the MIRA by quoting Root to prove that he was
carrying out the policies of the big trusts, the poll
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Struggle on Submission
to Bosses and NRA
Is Main Issue
By Bill Dunno
DAILY Worker Special Correspondent

DAILY Worker Special Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL,
Oct. 1.-The fifty-fourth an
nual convention of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor =
to which Samuel Gompers al
ways referred in his opening
convention remarks as "this
great parliament of labor
opened under circumstances Of crisis
in the official family and in the
face of an accumulation of ques-
lions for the organized labor move
ment and the entire working class.
The only two conventions of the
American Federation of Labor to
which for these reasons the present
session can be compared, were the
Buffalo convention where the A.
F. of L. leadership decided for sup
port of the imperialist interests of
the House of Morgan in the World
War, and the Montreal convention
where the late President Gompers
received the greatest political defeat
Of his entire career when the con-
vention went on record for the
Plumb plan of reorganization of the
entire railway industry.
The Montreal convention regis
tered the peak of the attempt of
the rank and file Of organized labor
to assert the strength it had found
through extensive organization dur
ing the war period. From that time
on, officialdom became more firmly
entrenched and the labor mapage-
ment cooperation theory AND prac-
tice was adopted as the program for
the trade union movemerG.
Sharp Contradiction
The 54th Annual Convention IS
confronted with a L1asic contradic-
ton: The contradiction between
the upward surge of the American
working class against the hunger
program of Z monopoly capitalism
with it's ceASeless attack on labor,
and the Official program of the
America Federation of Labor which
has TIE National Recovery Act as
its c5ntral point, representing the
ext,nsion of the labor-management
cooperation theory and practice
class collaboration-the point where
labor officialdom openly works as
part of the government machinery.
This is the contradiction from
which flows the unusually open and
sharp internal struggles in the Of
ficial family. Tt is the contradic-
ton resulting from the efforts of
the bureaucracy to discoved better
methods of protecting the main in
terests of monopoly capital, and at
the same time to retain and broaden
their base in the ranks of a work
ing class, whose living standard as
a whole has been slashed by the
five-year crisis and the employers
offensive under the N. R. A. to
point far below that OF the living
standards Of IS years ago.
Here is to be found the main
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Send Plea
For Unity
TOLeaders
100000 Chose 1882
Delegates, Report
DiscIoses
BY Joseph North

DAILY Worker Special Correspondent
CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 1.-The So
cialist delegates attending the Sec
ond United Congress Against War
and Fascism-forty-n of them,
all Drawing expulsion for their eff
forts to forge working lass unity
stirred the assenblage yesterday
with the announcement that they
had called upon the National Ex-
ecutive Committee of their party to
officially enter the League and "to
declare united front with the
Communist Party Of the United
States and all workers, liberals and
paciists"
This marked the high point of
the conventions drive toward unity
of all who are against the horrors
of war and fascism. 1t was on a
par with the enthusiasm of the
congress, which opened with 1900
persons at the Coliseum mass meet
ing on Friday night. It'll preceded
the other high lights of yesterdays
proceedings: the report of the
credentials committee.
Gains Since 1888
The results compared with last
year are: 1884, 1882 delegates; 1888,
$500 delegates. The delegates were
chosen by the following number of
workers and middle class people:
1884, 1,807,201; 1898, less than
1000, 10000. This year TAG delegates
were young workers and students.
They had been sent to Chicago by
100000.
Willie Sue Blagden, of Boston,
member of the Socialist Party,
brought the convention to its feet
with the following announcement:
I'VE, members of the Socialist
Party Of the U. S. A. in attendance
at the Second United States Con-
greSs Against War and Fascism
representing either locals Of the S.
P, or as members of the S. P. rep
reSenting other organizations at this
Congress, or as visitors, call upon
the National Executive Committee
Of our Party at it's Boston meeting
to officially enter the American
League Against War and Fascism
and to declare united front with
the Communist Party of the U. S. A.
and all workers, liberals and paci-
fists"
Protest Threats, Explosions
In addition, a resolution was
signed by all the Socialists here to
be sent to their State executives
and the National Executive Council
of the Party and the Y.P.SL. to
protest threats and explosions for
united front activity"
Among the 40 signers were Willie
Sue Blagden, Mrs. Victor Berger,
DR.. Kurt Rosenfeld, the Rev. Com
pore of Milwaukee, Richard Whit
ten, of the New Orleans Local of
the S. P, who is also the National
head of the Students League for
Industrial Democracy.
Willie Sue Blagden closed her
speech with the following state
ment: "All of us who are here
would have preferred to be repre-
senting our locals here. When 1
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Anti Fascist Silk Workers
Workers Fight Hit Renegade
Police Ban Attacks on CP


NEW YORK. -Anti- fascist work
ers last night maSsed to continue
to picket the Academy of Music,
14th st. theatre, at which the
National Fascist Band, headlined as
'Mussolini's Favorite Musicians" is
appearing.
Picketing reached violence late
Sunday night after a gang of thugs,
emerging from the theatre and en-
boldened by the mobilization Of
hundreds of police and patrolmen,
attacked the picket line.
AS they emerged from the theatre
the fascist gang poked umbrellas at
the picketS and attempted to start
a brawl. With rigid discipline the
pickets held their ranks solid, re-
fusing to be provoked. While the
picketS demonstrated with the fas-
cist gangs, attempts were made to
wrest the placards from the work.
ers' hands. Picketing remained
peaceful, however, until Mayor La
Guardia's police swung into the
crowd.
Hundreds Of police swarmed into
the streets clubbing the workers.
Seventy-fiye mounted police rode
the streets in cossack fashion and
attempted to terrorize the thou
sands of workers who assembled at
mass meetings opposite the theatre.
The workers held their ranks and
refused to be provoked. Scores of
detectives, the police admitted, were
secreted in the crowd of workers
attending the mass meeting. At a
prearranged signal, scores of police
radio cars which patrolled the area
/Toaot ON
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-02
Rank andFI Plans SharpFight
For Unemployment Insurance
And Militant Policy at Farley
Philadelphia Moves
Into Lead in Drive
For 100000 Fund

The Philadelphia district
moved ahead of all the other
districts in the Daily Worker
100000 drive today, when the
receipts Of the 18th Anniver-
sary of the Communist Party
affair, held there Friday night,
totalled 5000.
This places the full sum
contributed by Philadelphia so
far at $2,411.O8. It's quota is
$500.
The district it has displaced
is Denver. Until today Denver
topped the rooSt with 47.6 per
cent and Philadelphia was
third. But now Philadelphia has
58.7 per cent of its total.
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Sea Strike
Plans Grow
In ALI Ports
Unanimous Vote Elects
Hudson to Committee
for Joint Strike

NEW YORK.-With Oct. 8, the
strike date set by the calls of the
International Union nearing, the
strike preparations are assuming
ever larger proportions.
More than 1000 Seamen attended
a meeting of the Joint Strike Prep
arations Committee at South and
Whitehall Streets Sunday night.
The enthusiastic applause that fol-
lowed the speakers clearly indicated
that unity of action is the course
chosen by the men.
Hudson Elected Unanimously
A unanimous vote endorsed the
request of the Baltimore ]. S. P. c.,
whose telegram proposed to invite
Roy Hudson to serve on the Atlantic
Coast Joint Strike Preparations
Committee here and in other Allan
tic ports. In New York alone over
5000 signed up.
N. Y. Committee Endorsed
Joint Strike Preparation Com
mittees set up in North Atlantic
ports have wired their endorsement
and authorization of the New York
committee to represent them in ne
gotiations here.
In response to the request of the
A. C. J. S. P. C. the following tele-
gram was received yesterday by the
committee:
Since shipping industry has no
code our board has no Jurisdiction
over labor relations in the industry.
Our board has not been negotiating
with shipowners for any terms in
connection with seamen'S demands.
Our only purpose in coming to New
York has been to impress on ship
owners the gravity of the situation
and the necessity of taking some
action to bring about improvement.
Despite limited nature Of my mission
I will be glad to meet with you in
formally in Room 305 at As Broad
way at 5 p. m. today" (Signe0
Lloyd Garrison, Chairman National
Labor Relations Board.
Despite Mr.. Garrisons denial of
any official influence in the secret
negotiations, the press reports that
the American lines e. will act
soon as result of the big stick
welded by the Administration to
avert the seamens strike. :"
Olander Agreed to Slave Wage
1t is known that Victor Olander,
secretary of the I. s. u, and the
owners secretly agreed several
months ago on the $50 slave code
but the code was rejected by the
administration. Olander did not
make this known to the seamen at
any time. The code was rejected
by Roosevelt due to opposition of
foreign steamship owners who
fought certain sterilization features
of the freign rates, etc. But the
fact is that Olander agreed to the
$50 a month code.
Olanders strong point with the
bosses is that if they do not deal
with him, the rank and file will
take over the leadership Of the
strike movement and force them to
grant more than they would have
to, if he is aided in preventing the
strike.
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Compulsory Arbitration Turks
In Roosevelt Truce Schemes,
Secretary Perkins Implies

toward compulsory arbitration, she
gave a long discussion of why ar
bitration is not true arbitration"
unless it is voluntary" and said,
Il don't think compulsory arbitra-
ton is a sound permanent rela-
ton" She added, however, that
there are certain cases" in which
both sides can't agree-and at such
times, the implication was she ap-
proved compulsory arbitration COM
pletely. She didn't mention the
fact that industriahsts invose COM
pulsory arbitration only in those
certain cases" where strike action
is too effective to be beaten.
Talking at great length and with
equal vagueness about just what
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New Wage-Cut
Plan Offered
In W ashington

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. l.
A wage-slashing snare the work
scheme was outlined here Saturday
by A. L. Deane, president of the
General Motors Holding Corpora
ton, at the closing session of the
1884 Mobilization for Human
Needs"
The Share-the-work scheme, which
Deane said that leading industrial
lists have had under consideration
for several months, would provide
job-sharing, with corresponding
reduction in wages, on a national
scale.
Deane described the plans as fol-
lows:
A monthly survey would be made
in each industry to show the aver
age weekly hours of employment
feasible" in each industry. Into
this would be divided the number
of workers in each industry, and the
resulting average would be the num-
Der of hours to be worked.
Employers would not be required
to comply with this average, bvs
might set the work week at mHre
or less than these hours, pedng
double time for hours in exe5ss of
the set number. The workg4., how
ever, would receive only Llme and
one-half, the other sum going into
a national pool. Wo,Aers in the
same industry who T,ere employed
less than the avero1e hours would
receive half OF the nourly rate from
this fund, for .ach hour he was
employed less IAN the set amount.
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DAILY Worker washington Bureau)


WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. l.
A hint that compulsory arbitration
at vital stages Of capital-labor dis
putes turks in the new Roosevelt
proposal for industrial peace" came
today when Frances Perkins, Sec
rotary Of Labor and one of the
new Roosevelt N. r. A. policy-mak-
ing committee, said she disapproved
of compulsory arbitration as a pre-
manent relation"
Asked if the Presidents radio an
nouncement that he will call on
those truly representative of cap
ital and labor to use dispute-settling
machinery to stop strikes didn't
mean compulsory arbitration, Miss
Perkins hastily said, NO" Re-
quested to state her own attitude
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Our Res .ers Must Spread the
Daily Wo ker Among the Members
OF All lass and Fraternal Organ
izatioy s AS Political Task Of First
Imp trance.
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PATERSON, N. j., Oct. IA. j.
Music, purveyor of Fascist doctrines
wrapped in revolutionary phrases
coined by the American Workers
Party, and James Cannon, Trotsky-
tie renegade, received no sympathy
from the more than 100 textile
workers whom they tried to con-
vince on Sunday that the Commu-
mist Party had failed them in the
textile strike.
Statements by Music and Cannon
that the Communist Party could
not provide political leadership to
the rank and file upsurge in the
American Federation of Labor were
met by the audience with vehement
protest.
During a question period, which
was limited to eight inquiries from
both speakers, textile worker after
textile worker made clear his dis
trust of the two arrnyless generals
of social fascism. Several workers
asked point-blank of the speakers,
Where were you during the textile
striker"
When Cannon, in an effort to
defend himself against the pointed
criticism of the workers, declared
that the National Textile Workers
Union permitted its workers to scab
during the strike of Paterson United
Textile Workers Union members in
1881, he was loudly booed.
Especial to the Daily worker)
LOWELL, Mass, oct. l. More
than Is discrimination cases have
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Have You Contributed?

Yesterdays Receipts .................S 1921
Total to Date Observation-Disclosures. 81 1882
Press Run Yesterday-50,700
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Greet the New York Daily WOrkeri
Sunday Night, October z!
Central Opera House, Goth st. e Sd Av.
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Evening star., 1934-11-29
HAGEN WOULD SHUN
PLAYING-LEADER JOB
Willing to Either Pilot Yanks
Against British or to Be
Golfer in Ranks.
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, November
29.-Since the Ryder Cup first
was placed in competition
nearly 10 years ago, Walter
Hagen has been closely related to
that gold golf trophy but now the
old maestro of the mashie and the
midiron wants to step aside as play
ing captain of Americas team.
Hagen hitched his gray flannel
knickers over his not so slender frame,
slid forward in his chair at hotel
here, lit a cigarette and remlnlsced
about the four Ryder Cup competitions
by teams representing the greatest OF
American and British professionals.
Now with the British coming over
here this Summer for a defense OF the
mug, Hagen would rather not be the
playing captain of the American
forces.
I've been the American captain
since it all started and believe it Is
time to step aside and give scme OF
the other boys a chance at the honor
for the good of golf" he said.
But" Hagen said, "if the boys
should insist on me continuing as
captain I would not play. On the
other hand, if they name me as one
of the players, wouldn't be captain
I soon will submit my resignation with
these conditions"
The Haig leaves here soon for the
Miami Biltmore open and then will
motor to the West Coast to meet the
boys returning from Australia.
Evening star., 1934-11-29
BIG RACING SEASON
IN CUBA FORECAST
Day, Who Visits Bowie After
Trip to Havana, Thinks Out.
look Exceptionally Bright.

BY the Associated Press.
YOHN 1. DAY, presiding steward at
Oriental Park, in Havana. re-
" turned to Bowie yesterday after a
flying visit to the Cuban city, and re-
ported everything in readiness there
for the opening of the season.
A number of stables have already
been established at Oriental Park and
others are slowly moving in, Day said.
A feature of the season there will be
the presentation of a cup to the win
ner of the weekly Sunday handicap.
Steward Marshall Cassidy will leave
Bowie Immediately after the close to-
day for Miami Fla, where he will pre-
side in a similar capacity at Hialeah
Park.
Don Meade was within one victory
today of tying Silvio Coucci for the
lead among riders at the current
Bowie meet. Coucci left the track
with 13 victories and Meade enters the
Thanksgiving day finale with II.
Evening star., 1934-11-29

~ ARL JAMISON and his brethren
E of the unorthodox method of
L. shifting a golf ball are going to
have a tournament all their
December 10. Jamison, you will re-
member. was runner-up in the some
what synthetic national" southpaw
championship at Miami last Winter.
Now comes along that energetic
worker in the golfng vineyard-Harry
Graham. manager at Rock Creek-with
announcement of southpaw tourney
on December 10, open to any left
handed golfer in Washington. They
should have better luck than the south
Evening star., 1934-11-29
BOUT Of MEANEST
RASSLERS LOOMS
zaharias' Rough Conquest
of GaribaIdi Puts Him
in DuSek'S Class.

w YAsHINGTON's rassle stage
w :3:.s::s "a: St n:s@ :ss': :n.1::~:' ;s: !:
with Rudy Dusek and
George Zaharias, winners in Prof. Joe
Turner's first pair of two-falls-out-
of-three-falls exhibitions. as the prin-
cipals
With kick k-in-the-stomach hold
fully as effective as Dusek's repetoire
of unpopular tricks. ZahariaS joined
the Omaha groWler as a sort Of public
enemy No. l last night at the Wash
ington Auditorium with a pair of falls
over Gino Garibaldi of st. Louis. A
week before Dusek destroyed young
Vic Christy in tussle which nearly
started riot.
While the couple of thousand
spectators voiced their disapproval,
Zaharias won the first fall in II
minutes with boot to the midsection,
dropped the second in minutes and
then came back with another barrage
of knee kicks to win the deciding fall
in 5l2 minutes.
Evening star., 1934-11-29
WESMRAgGHNT OEE THnE TEE
| %E by w. R. Me CALLuM
by w. R. ms CALluM

lost Of the local pros who travel
V to Miami next week to play In
the Biltmore tourney will come
back to go through a Washington
Winter, but two of them will remain
in Florida to play golf in the balmy
atmosphere of the South for the rest
of the Winter. Bob Barnett already
is at the Indian Creek Club Of Miami
Beach and when Leo Walper pulls up
stakes here next Monday he will be
prepared to spend the rest Of the cold
months at Miami. Al Houghton, Mel
Shorey and Roland Mackenzie will
come back to Washington after play
ing in the Biltmore tourney and an
affair at Nassau The Florida sched-
ule Of other big affairs does not
start until February, while the inter
Evening star., 1934-11-29
Mat Matches

SAN FRANCISCO.-Hugh Nichols,
1s9, Cincinnati, tossed Red Lyon, 17s,
Seattle, two out of three falls; Ward
Flemmington, 153, Darlington. Eng
land, defeated Jack Domer, $50, Co.
lumbus, Ohio, on a foul.
LOS ANGELES.-Hans Steinke,
240, Germany. beat Man Mountain"
Dean, BIT. Norcross, Ga. two out Of
three falls: Joe Savoldi, 205. Three
Oaks, Mich, and Howard Canton
wine. 211, Des Moines, Iowa, drew in
one hour.