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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1884
Defending Civil Rights

CURELY the wrecking raids, the depor-
- tation manhunt, and the gang violence
which the employers let loose against the
Pacific Coast strike makes the question of
united front action of the workers imme-
diate and urgent.
Events since then, in Minneapolis, New
York, and all over the country, have emphasized
the urgency Of this need for unity.
Any really effective struggle to maintain the
elementary rights of the working class requires
Joint action Of all workers in mass demonstrations
in the streets, in joint actions in the shops and
unions The united front is bascaly directed to
getting the workers to join in actions in struggles
against the class enemy. Tt is mass actions which
provide the real test of the united front. Because
it is only mass actions that defeat the forces
Of reaction.
It is not difficult to see that any refusal to work
toward joint struggle against the reactionsry
trampling upon civil rights inevitably aids this
reaction.
THE necessity for emphasizing the mass action
character of the united front is made even
clearer by the announcement that Norman Thomas
will speak on nationwide hook-up on civil
Rights in the Pacific Coast General Strike"
1t must be made clear that If such methods of
fighting for the civil rights of the workers
not followed up by the organization of MASS
ACTIONS, PROTESTS, DEMONSTRATIONS, IN
THE STREETS, then they become hindrance and
not an aid to united front struggle for civil rights
And If it is a deliberate policy to restrict the
struggle for civil rights to speeches. then this be-
comes a method for keeping the masses from TAX
ing the only effective means of defending civil
rights-mass actions.
THE Communist Party has already proposed in
two open letters to the Socialist Party that ar
rangements be made for Joint struggle against fas-
cist reaction and violence.
The Socialist Party National Office has ignored
both proposals.
Speeches alone cannot and will never protect
the civil rights of the workers. Only the organisa-
ton Of struggles meetings strikes demonstra-
tions, etc. can do that.
The final test of the sincerity Of the Socialist
Party defense of civil rights is whether it is ready
to the letters of the Communist Party
and meet with the representatives OF the Com
munist Party for the practical open, arrange
ments Of joint action to defend the rights Of the
workers.
To work for the united front actions OF the
working class in defense of civil rights against
fascism and war-that is the only truly effective
way to fight for the interests of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
Exploitation of People
Matched by Brutality
of Military
by Burck

tyrannical oppression being used on
the masses.
The bourgeois newspapers are
carrying all sorts of news about
Haiti these days, except that con-
corning the political and economic
situation in Haiti.
Now the U. S. is busy creating
an intense antagonism between
Santo Domingo and Haiti. Santo
Domingo, a country which has less
than one-third the population of
Haiti, has been armed to the teeth
and has been provided with many
modern bombing planes. In Haiti,
the United States has organized a
huge army with all modern equip
ment, but no airplanes. The
strategy is to put the two countries
on the same fighting and military
strength. Santa Domingo has al
ready made an open statement de-
handing that Haiti return some
portion of land which she claims
belongs to her. These lands are
located in the northern part of
Haiti.
Despite the intense unemploy-
ment in Haiti, in spite of the in
ability of the government to provide
jobs for the starving population, we
get the news that the Senate has
voted an increase of ten dollars to
every military official on the Is
land. Understand, ten dollars is
the average monthly earning of the
white collar workers in Haiti.
Tt is very simple to see why
there is censorship on the revolu-
tionary press, which would dare to
come out with these facts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
Woman Freed From Solitary Confinem ent

NEW YORK.-As the result of
the protests of a delegation sent to
Mayor LaGuardia by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, Helen Lynch,
organizer of the Bronx Unemploy-
ment Councils, who had been held
in solitary confinement in the
Female House of Detention on
Greenwich st. for her refusal to
submit to an internal medical ex-
animation, was released Tuesday
from solitary confinement.
The protest also resulted in an
order resembling such an examina-
lion for all female political prison.
ers, for which the International
Labor Defense, the National Com
mittee for Defense of Political
Prisoners and the United Action
Conference have been waging a
continued campaign.
The delegation, headed by Harry
Alexander, of the I. L. D. legal
staff, and including Rose Horn and
two other women who had been
subjected to the same mistreatment
in this prison, submitted proof of
this mistreatment to LaGuardia,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
US. Completes 10 Years Of Plumber, Rapir1e,
Murder Under Marine Occupation Of Haiti

granted certain privileges in the
prison because of his reputation and
popularity on the Island, had also
been given the right to go out of
the prison at any time without be-
ing escorted by gendarmeS. He
utilized that right at this time. He
walked right out in the face of all
the guards, who had no idea of what
had just happened inside. He went
into the country, modified all the
men he could find, and organized
a revolt, which lasted for nine
months, until he was betrayed, and
shot in the back by a marine who
had painted his face black.
Reign of Terror
What horrors the Haitian peasants
then went through! Their farms
and homes we're burned by the
marines under the pretext that the
marines were chasing out the hid
ing rebels Any individual seen
walking on the roads was immedi-
ately characterized by the marines
as a "caco" (rebeD and was either
shot down or arrested and beaten to
death.
The outstanding leader of these
fortunes and terrors was an official
named Lintz. He later became one
of the heads of the cotton planta-
ton at ST. Michael de Latalaye.
That mailman had a police dog
which he used in his atrocities.
1t is quite CONSTANT for the SER
wants of Wall Street to come out
with all sorts of statements in the
capitalist press attempting to dis
tract the minds of the people from
the real situation by telling the
masses how much good the U. S.
had done for the colonies and semi
colonies, and at the same time con-
cealing all the facts about the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
By Labor Research Assn.

Mail subsidies amounting to hun
dreds of millions of dollars have
been handed out by the United
States government to shipping
companies, many of which are in
volved in the present strike. In fact
no country in the world is as liberal
with aid to its merchant marine.
Since the Jones' White law of
1923, the Postmaster General has
signed small contracts with at least
As shipping companies calling for
payments of over $300,000,000 in ten
years. A fraction of this huge sum
would actually cover the services
rendered. Thus the companies who
received contract payments of
nearly $900O0,000 in the last five
fiscal years would have been paid
approximately $13,00O,000, or about
one-seventh of the actual sum paid
them, had their vessels carried mail
on a weight basis.
In 1882 such payments to the
Lykes line alone exceeded by 500, 900
the book value of its ships!
Although contracts are supposed
to be awarded by competitive bid
ding, practically all the bids ap-
proximate the maximum rates per
mile permitted under the law. The
Lykes Line, for example, received
in five years mail subsidies total
ling over $1,500,000, although with
out these subsidies its net profit
for the same period would have
amounted to $325,G00.
Another handout to shipping
companies comes through govern
ment loans for the purpose of YES
sci construction and improvement
These loans are made at lower than
prevailing interest rates. The U. S
Shipping Board has estimated that
over $33,500,000O in interest had
thus been saved shipowners.
In defense of these subsidies it is
said that they are intended chiefly
to continue specified steamship
lines rather than to compensate
ship owners for carrying mai
"A merchant marine is g
factor of national Importance
in war;" writes John G. deWilde If
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
Ship OlUners Plumber Millions
As Roosevelt Giues Subsidies

Foreign Policy Reports, March IA,
1884.
But these subsidized companies
have paid enormous profits, divid-
ends, salaries and expense accounts
with money allegedly for the up
building of the merchant marine.
H. H. Hebermann, president of
the Exports Steamship Co., drew
in two successive years well over
100000 annually in salaries and
expenses.
Salaries, dividends and increased
stock values totalling nearly three
million dollars were received by
Harry H. Raymond of the Column
bian Steamship Co. between 1920
and 1882.
Net profits of over S700O,00O
were raked in by the Admiral
Oriental Line, owned by the Dollar
Steamship Lines interests, from
1922 to 1882 Only $500 in cash
had originally been invested in the
Admiral Oriental Line.
R. Stanley Dollar received COM
missions of nearly 100000 for pur-
chasing vessels from the U. S. Ship
ping Board for companies in which
he was an official And with three
other Individuals Harold Dollar,
H. M. Lorber and Herbert FleiSh-
hacker, banker-boss of California
politics, and one of the imprisoners
of Tom Mooney-he profited to the
extent of over $14,500,000 from three
government-subsidized lines be-
tween 1923 and 1882.
The Oceanic Oriental Navigation
Co., of which Roger D. Lapham is
president, has four mail contracts
calling for $10,500,O00 in ten years
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
Workers and Students
Picket Empire Hotel;
Hit Jim-Crow Policy

NEW YORK.-Worker and stu
dents began picketing the Empire
Hotel, 63 Broadway, yesterday after
Juanita Baker, young Negro woman,
was refused service in the coffee
shop of the establishment.
Miss Baker went into the coffes
shop of the hotel yesterday to buy
lunch, but was told CURLY by the
manager that cove don't serve Me-
groes." Students of G. w. Az
school upon learning of the JIM
Growing of the young woman COM
menced picketing the place at once
A delegation of the students went
to the headquarters of the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights, 11s
w. 135th ST., and asked for leader!
ship in their fight to force the hotel
management to treat Negroes on an
equal basis with white people.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
Soviet Road
Men Seized
By Japanese
Especial to the Daily WORKER

MOSCOW (By Radio August a.
The Pogranichnaya station reports
that there, as well as in the nearest
stations of the Chinese Eastern
Railway, Japanese gendarmes have
without cause recently arrested some
Soviet citizens, employees and work
men of the Chinese Eastern Rail
way.
Over 20 Soviet railroad employees
were arrested for unknown reasons.
The information on hand is that
new mass arrests of Soviet work
men employees are being prepared
1t is supposed that these arrests
are part of the general plan of dis
organization of the Eastern line of
the Chinese Eastern Railway. which
japanese and white guard elements
have recently been carrying out
with particular energy,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
MEETING IN ST. LOUIS

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Aug. 1-Unions
of the Trade Union Unity League
and other working-cl organiza-
tons will hold trade union SOL
idarity" picnic on Sunday at the
Forest Park Picnic grounds. Daniel
Richards, new secretary of the
Trade Union Unity League here,
will speak on the present strike
wave and the N. r. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
Amter to Talk at York
Jobless, Relief Meet

LANCASTER, Pa, Aug. 2-Israel
Amter, national secretary of the
Unemployment Councils, will speak
at a mass meeting of unemployed
and relief workers in York, Pa, on
Friday evening at pm. The meet
ing will take place in the head
quarters of the Lancaster Unem-
ployment Council, 10 East Newton
Avenue.
Amter will speak at Lancaster on
Saturday evening on the steps of
the Courthouse. His subject at both
meetings will be Social and Unem-
ployment Insurance and How to
Get 1t.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03

and promptly compelled him to re-
scind these illegal prison regula-
tons. A similar protest was made
by the delegation to Chief Inspector
Valentine of the Police Department
against persecution of the pickets
in the Hath st. consumers strike
against Bronx bakeries. 1t was in
connection with the struggle that
most of the women were arrested,
as well as in the picketing of
Bronx Home Relief Bureau.
Helen Lynch, who continually
fought for the special status of poll
tical prisoners while in Jail, will be
released from the jail at p. M,
Tuesday, August 7th, at the end of
her vicious sentence of fifteen days
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
FLoPHoUsE MEN ORGANIZE

BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug. 2.-Action
committees have been formed in
side the E. c. Lodging House. a flop
house for single unemployed men
here, and small victories have been
won. A committee has been elected
to place the mems demands before
the board Of supervis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03

imposed upon her by Magistrate
Margolefsky for picketing of q
Home Relief Bureau, for relief. The
I. L. D. is calling on all workers
to welcome her upon her release.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
On the
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES

Naval Arms Race
Preparing Disarmament"
News from New Zealand
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-24
EoiIe Frocks
|# Originally
Marked at a
IA Higher Price
/ and wiser you'll be! That's why urge you to add
Originally
Marked at a
Higher Price

and wiser you'll be! That's why urge you to add
Ct cool fast cOOrs well navy brown and black figured
agVng matron frocks without the tresome surplice!
nSs Store
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-24

Think of it! Trousers of WOrsteds,
Cheviots, Tweeds, Sharkskins,
French backs-as well as sanfOrized
slacks (Which means they are
shrunk in the best known way) in
smart stripes and novelties!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-24

les for street. active sports and home wear Lots of
= ME bias cut Short sleeves and sleeveless! Shirtwaist
- nd buttOned fronts. All white with cOlOred trim
Sale price makes double values tomorrow!
store.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-16
LINCOLN SCHOOL

Every one should take safety
first into consideration. 1t is very
important that bicycle riders should
obey the same rules as automobile
drivers. School children should
cross at crossings only. Children
who put all the responsibility on
the drivers and take none them
selves are very selfish.-RoSiland
Thompson, GA.
1t is a very fine thing to be
obedient, to mind your teacher, your
parents and other people. Folks
who do not obey are always get
ting into trouble. Sometimes they
even get into Jail. If you always
obey others you will not get into
trouble.-Billy SorenSen,6-A.
The boys in our room played the
girls in ball on Tuesday. The boys
had eight runs and the girls had
no runs. The trouble with the
girls was that they were afraid of
the ball-Stanley Vogt, 6-B.
In Mrs. McCrory's room we are
having a program for our mothers
and fathers. We are going tc
show some slides on India. We will.
have music while we show the
slides. Afterwards we will have
geography.-Dorris Chestnut, GA.
Last Friday Mrs. Kenyon came
and told us about her trip around
the world. 1t was very interesting
to hear her tell about it. She
brought back many interesting SOU
venirs from the places she visited.
Betty Frost, 6-B.
l have made three ships. The
first one is the Santa Maria, the
flag ship of Columbus. The second
Magellan IS ship, the Victoria. The
third is brakes ship, the Golden
Find.-Pedro Montoyo, 5-B.
We are studying about inven-
lions and inventors in our room.
Elias Howe invented the sewing
machine, Eli Whitney, the cotton
gin, Robert Fulton, the steamboat,
and Mccormick, the reaper. We
find all of them most interesting.
Olive Ruth Trantham, 5-A.
Yesterday Miss Shiveley gave our
class a talk on leaves. She brought
eucalyptus leaves. We painted the
leaves and today few of the sue
ceSsful the ones are hanging on
the wall-Wayne Purdy, GA.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-16
N(r 'I<efS
New York Stocks
BY ELMER C. Waller


NEW YORK, April 16.-A crash
in grains on the Chicago board of
trade today was paralleled by a
sharp break in prices on the New
York stock exchange, a decline in
bonds, and general weakness in
commodity markets.
Oats broke the limit of cents a
bushel; rye was down the limit of
5 cents a bushel wheat and corn
were off more than 4 cents bu-
shell.
Cotton lost 81 bale; silver more
than 100 points.
Prices of stocks dropped l to more
than points with the western is
sues hardest hit. Case dropped to
81, off Az and Auburn Auto 471a,
off Az.
The slide in prices began early in
the day in the silver market. Bar
silver was down nearly cent in the
spot market and more than a cent
an ounce in futures trading. Reason
for the break was the indication
that the administration will resist
passage of silver bill at this session
of congress.
Silver issues were the first to
break on the stock exchange. Gold
shares held we'll most of the day. In
the silver division, federal mining
and smelling crashed 16 points to
85, while U. S. Smelling dropped 4
points and others of the silver di-
vision were down 2 to nearly 3
points.
Elimination of silver legislation
from the Washington docket would
mean there would be no initiation
airy legislation at this session. This
was construed as bearish and only
relatively small amount of selling
was necessary to touch off sharp
reaction. When grains were driven
down, selling broke out in the
stocks that would be directly affect
ed. These included the farm equip
ments, mail order shares, some of
the automobile issues, and packing
stocks.
At the lows, Auburn auto touched
47A, off Az; Case 66A, off 5; Du
Pont 959s off 21A; Cerro De Pasco,
351s off 214; American Can 1929,
off "a; Howe Sound sos off 25s;
u. S. Smelling 1913, off 4; Atchison
66%, off rs, U. S. Steel, 81 off rs;
American Telephone 1875 off rs;
and Chrysler 52h, off IL.
Stock sales today approximated
100000 shares against 1,183.000
shares Friday. Curb sales were
$4,000 shares against 314,000 shares
last Friday.
Dow Jones preliminary averages
showed industrial 103.57 off lat,
railroad 49.O3 off 0.54, utility 25.71
off 0.50.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-16
MAY
SHIP MILK To
COAST AREAS

After considerable correspondence
with various representatives of the
dairy section of the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration con-
corning the inclusion of Imperial
county new market milk agree
ments the Ell Centre Chamber of
Commerce has had letter from
A. H. Lauterbach, chief of the dairy
section of the administration in
Washington assuring Robert Hays,
manager of the chamber, that I'M
der the new policy governing milk
marketing agreements as an
nounced on January production
areas are no longer defined which
might mean that Imperial county
milk can now be shipped to the Los
Angeles and San Diego markets if
it conforms to code requirements
The matter however is not defin-
itely decided.
The local chamber took the mat
ter up to see what action was nee
essary on the part of Imperial
county milk producers to have this
county included in the milk mar
keting agreements in order that To-
cal milk could be shipped to the
coast markets when the milk pro-
ducers found such shipments neces-
sary or desirable fearing that the
agreements would be drawn up and,
at some future date, when Imperial
county milk was shipped to these
areas it would be found that no
provision had been made in the
agreements for the marketing of
Imperial county milk in the coast
areas.
1t is understood, of course, that
under the new agreements if I'm
perial county is to ship milk to Los
Angeles and San Diego markets
local milk must conform to the
AAA agreements in regard to price,
quality, etc, but it VISA the desire
of the Ell Centre Chamber of Com
merce to make sure that Imperial
Valley milk producers could ship
under the marketing agreements
when the local milk conformed to
code standards. Lauterbach IS as
surance that no action need be
taken on the part of Imperial coun-
ty producers as production areas
are no longer defined was consid-
cred very encouraging for local
milk producers by the chamber OF
commerce.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-16
Collins Attends
Coast Meeting

Discussion of the teacher tenure
law was the principal item brought
before the state council of the
California State Teachers associa-
ton at the meeting held Saturday
in the Palace hotel, San Francis
CO.
c. B. Collins, county superintend-
ent of schools and member, at
tended this meeting and reports
that methods of making the tenure
law more easily enforced were dis
cussed, particularly with reference
to the dismissal Of incompetent
teachers.
The council reached an agreement
that appeals might be made to the
superior court but no new trial
held. This was a recommendation
in line with that from the commit
tee of the state association of
school trustees.
Superintendent Collins left San
Francisco Saturday, spending Sun
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-16
BILL DOLLAR GIVES LESSON in
COST OF OUT OF TOWN BUYING

yesterday was rather a quiet
day with me" said Bill" Dollar,
as he prepared for another week
of travelling through Ell Centre
stores, "but I had a lot of COM
pany in the cash drawer and Bills
from all over the country ex-
changed experiences regarding
their travels. We all agreed" con-
tinued Bill" that a dollar which
travels from place to place is sort
of a vagrant and the only thing
to do is settle in one place and
help that community grow.
Oklahoma Bill" who arrived in
FL Centre yesterday, told of an ex-
perience that he witnessed in
store in Oklahoma last week. A
man went into hardware store
to buy a saw. The kind that he
wanted cost $1.65 the dealer said.
Good gracious" said the man,
II can get the same kind of a
saw up north for S135."
That's less than it costs me"
the dealer said, but I'll sell it
on the same terms as the northern
house just the same.
All right said the customer,
you can send it along and charge
it to my account.
Not on your life" said the deal
err. No charge accounts. You can't
do business with an out of town