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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
Texas Relief Funding
Bill Mortgages Social
Services to Bankers

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 3.-The
State of Texas is to be mortgaged
to the bankers in order to pay for
the latest issue of relief funds.
Representative Robert Long of
Wichita County, author of the new
relief bill, has frankly admitted it
had been written by attorneys for
the bond buyers. Under its provi-
sions, the buyers of the bonds are
given a lien on all State funds not
otherwise specifically set aside by
the Texas constitution. The schools,
hospitals and other social agencies
may be drastically crippled by this
stupendous mortgage.
The bill provides for the sale of
$9,50o,000 in relief bonds, the sum
to be augmented by a like amount
by the federal government. In
view of the fact that the entire
population of some drought-s stricken
counties will shortly be on relief,
the amount appropriated will not
last until May l.
Representative Wells of Navarro
County attempted to restrict relief
expenditures to $2,600,OoO month.
Half starvation is better than
starvation" he declared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
Unemployment Rises
in Chicago District
as Production Slumps

CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. State
relief officials here predict that
$40, 900 families will be on the State
relief lists this Winter, a larger
number than at any time during
the crisis.
Unemployment continues to in
crease in the entire lake region.
Steel plants in East Chicago and
Gary are operating at less than "a
per cent of capacity. Practically all
steel workers are on "share-tfe-
work" basis. The building trades,
which normally employ about 15o,-
COO in Chicago alone, are at a stand
still, only few hundred men work.
ing. The only activity reported IN
the construction industry is the
demolition of buildings in the Loop
area in order to reduce tax pay
ments on what would otherwise be
empty loft space.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
Worker Killed
At Gas Plant
Busy For W ar

MIDLAND, Mich.-The Dow
Chemical Co., one of the largest
manufacturers of war gases and ma
terials for war gases in the country,
is putting up new buildings in prep
aration for increased war produc-
ton.
Another worker was killed here
last Tuesday. He was on a SCAT
fold, fixing pipes, when he was over
come by poisonous bisulphide fumes
and fell down, his head hitting the
concrete floor. While falling, a steel
bolt also tore hole in his head.
The company has slasfled wages
by cutting out the monthly profit
check which the workers received in
the past. The Dow company COM
pletely dominates the lives Of the
workers and has the city govern
ment firmly in its grip, the Mayor
of Midland being the employment
manager of the plant. The A. F.
of l.. union has collapsed because
of the failure of the leaders to do
anything in behalf of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04

and shooting firearms with intent
to kill"
When the delegation called at ths
Julian home they we're threatened
with revolver. AS they turned to
60, shots rang out from an up
stairs window, injuring two men who
had been across the street.
Mayor Lord and District Attorney
Enterline. anxious to convince the
coal operators and big landlords
that they may eMct and even shoot
down the unemployed, are attempts
ing to soft-pedaI the case Of thess
small landlords.
At hearing before Alderman
Sinner, the two landlords, now de-
claring the need of small landown-
ers uniting with the jobless to OBJ
tain rent payments from the county
relief board, promised to pay for
furniture damaged during the evic-
ton, find a home for the evicted
tenant, and to attend tonight's
m ting of the Unemployment
Council at SOB North Center st.
In order to prevent similar occur
rences, the Unemployment Councils
of Pottsville are developing a mass
campaign for payment of rents Of
all unemployed and tax exemption
for small home owners, as we'll as
for a broad fight for the enactment
of the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill. All small home own-
ers, unemployed and employed work.
ers are being urged to attend the
meeting of the Council, where steps
will be taken to win rent payments.
In the preparations for the state
hunger march to Harrisburg on Oct.
II, the questions of rent payments
and tax exemption are being raised.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
Buffalo Challenges California
To Race in Daily Fund Driue

Spouse the Daily Worker fund COM
mittee declared:
"In bringing the Daily to the
toilerS in the basic industries, the
Buffalo district is carrying out
the policy of the Party of con-
vincing these toilers that the
Daily is their paper-that their
contributions - the contributions
of the whole working class-are
needed to keep it aiive-to give it
the added space and the three
editions which are planned"
1.-THE Buffalo challenge contains
other suggestions which the other
districts can use to the fullest ex-
tent.
Organize house parties, enter
tainments, everything you can
think Of Buffalo urges the MEM
bership Of its district.
Parties and entertainments are
one of the best ways of raising
money.
"COmrades-the three editions,
the eight pages-the $6O,0OO-are
up to you!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04

New York City.
The general membership of the
American League Against War and
Fascism in Greater New York will
come together with its City Cen
trail Committee and many impor-
tant events leading up to the Con-
gress will be discussed
The procedure of electing dele
gates will be taken up as well as
the further recruiting of delegates
from trade unions, workers clubs,
Y. M. C. AS, veterans organiza-
tons, WomenS clubs, etc.
Anti-NaEi Film Obtained
Besides arrangements Tor a send
off banquet and mass meeting, the
question of other possible support
ing functions will be considered as
part of program of events leading
up to the departure of the delegates
on the Anti-War Special, which will
leave for Chicago on the morning
Of Sept. 27.
Plans have already been COM
pleted for a showing of the Anti
Na5i Thaelmann film on Sept. 10,
20, 81 and AZ at the Fifth Ave. The
atre, Broadway and w. 18th St.,
New York City. 1t is expected that
this will contribute toward addi-
tional support for the Congress.
Needle Trades Meeting Tomorrow
For the purpose of publicizing the
Second U. S. Congress Against War
and Fascism mass rally of all
needle trades women workers has
been called by the Needle Trades
Workers Women's Committee
Against War and Fascism for to-
morrow at pm. at Irving Plaza,
Irving Place and 18th st.
Jennie Giacco, needle trades dele
gate to the International Women's
Congress Against War and Fascism
held in Paris last month, will make
a report on what happened at that
Congress. Sol. Marquit, city organ
izer of the New York City section
of the American League Against
War and Fascism, will outline the
plans for the Congress to be held
in Chicago Sept. %, % and 80. A
representative from the A. F. of L..
Rank and File Committee on I'm
employment Insurance and Relief
will also speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04

NOuA4SCA 4lASAAg anu W P4OICSg JOA4SC'
brutality and arrests of pickets
during the past week.
Milton Merndon, brother Of An
gelo Herndon, and one of the four
workers arrested last Saturday
night when police smashed the
picket line, will be one of the main
speakers. Herndon is out on $500
bail, pending trial set for Sept. 6.
Other speakers include a represen-
tative of the Food Workers Union;
Harry Haywood, National Secretary
of the L. S. N. r. and Communist
candidate for State Assemblyman
in the 10Th Assembly District;
Bonita Williams of the City Coun-
Gil Of the L. S. n r., Louis Camp
bell Of the Harlem Unemployed
Councils; William Fitzgerald, sec
rotary of the Harlem Section of the
International Labor Defense; and
ISidore Dorfman of the Young
Communist League. Ashford, of the
Young Liberators, will act as chair
man.
The demonstration will be a test
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
Ida Norris To Speak
at Brooklyn Meeting

NEW YORK.-A demonstration to
support the public mass trial of
Angelo Herndon which will be
staged Friday evening at the Brook
lyn Academy of Music, Lafayette
and Flatbush AYES, will be held to-
morrow evening at Howard and
Pitkin AYES, Brooklyn.
Mrs. Ida Norris, mother of Clar-
ence Norris, one of the Scottsboro
boys, and Milton Hernon, brother of
Angelo Herndon, will be the main
speakers at the demonstration. Or
CARNATIONS are being urged by the
international Labor Defense to mo-
bilize at Nostrand Ave. and Fulton
st., and at Stone and Pitkin AYES,
at 7 pm. to march to the meeting
place.
Angelo Herndon will speak at
Fridays mass trial in the Academy
of Music.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04

Comrades Of District 13, we
shall reach and pass our quota
before you get started"
These are the enthusiastic words
contained in the challenge to a
Socialist competition issued by
Communist Party District 4, Buff
falo, to District 10, California, in
the Daily Worker drive for 100000
Buffalo's quota is $3.50, Califor-
MAS is $4,000
Signed by H. Sheppard, district
organizer of the Communist Party,
the Buffalo challenge lays a foun-
dalton for raising the money while
carrying out the organizational
purpose of the Daily"
1--WE must make the Daily Worker
known to every steel, chemical,
marine and textile worker in our
district" the challenge announces.
1--WE must reach every impoverished
farmer. The Daily Worker must be
used in the struggle against war
and fascism, in the struggles of the
unemployed"
Commenting on Buffalo's re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04

Church Group
Seeks to Aid
ScOttsbOrO 9
Young Methodists Call
on Their Leaders To
Insist on Justice

ATLANTA, Ga.-A resolution
calling on bishops of all denomina-
tons, on all heads of educational
institutions, and other outstanding
leaders to take action on behalf of
the Scottsboro boys, was passed at
the Young Peoples Assembly of the
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church,
with more than 300 delegates, held
August % to "A, at Macon, Ga.
The statement and resolution Of
the Assembly reads:
CAS- young people, we are gravely
interested in the Scottsboro boys.
To us, their persecution is not only
in evidence but is the most horrify-
ing and discouraging occurrence in
our present day civilization. 1t is
hardly thinkable that America with
all of its churches, institutions OF
learning, philanthropic boards, and
high powered government coul d
stand one moment for the persecu-
ton of nine innocent boys and
among the humblest of our popula-
ton. The history of the case is too
we'll known to be recited at this
time.
Resolved, therefore, that we ask
the bishops, heads of institutions
of learning, together with all patriots
to call a meeting, formulate plans,
and seek to hold conference with
the Governor and Supreme Court of
Alabama; and that they insist that
justice be done and that these boys
be given their freedom.
Signed: M. g. PETTIGREW,
Chairman
r. V. WALLACE,
SECRETARY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
Food Workers Protest
Coast Fascist Attacks

MONTICELLO N. Y, Sept. B.
The workers of Camp Harmony
affiliated with Local lit of the Food
Workers Industrial Union have
adopted a resolution protesting
against the efforts of California
authorities to illegalize the Com
munist Party and militant indus
trial organizations.
I'VE consider the Imprisonment
of the thirty-one workers held in
the Sacramento Jail on charges OF
criminal syndicalism, and the thirty
held in San Francisco on similar
charges as travesty on the rights
of workers to organize a;d struggle
for their demands" the resolution
read. I'VE demand the release of
these prisoners and the immediate
cessation of the fascist attacks
against the California Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04

F. of L. executive council, heading
the squad of national union officials
and organizers working in the three
strike cities to split the mechanics
unions away from the miners and
smeltermen, was also editor Of the
Molders Journal; that the Amer
lean Brass Company, owned by the
Anaconda Copper Mining Company,
operated many foundries and en-
ployed large numbers Of molders in
Waterbury, Conn, and other east
ern cities.
Dunno asked the question: why,
if Frey really wants this strike to
be won, is he here trying to split
the ranks instead of organizing the
molders and other workers in the
American Brass plants for better
wages and conditions and in sup
port of the miners and smelter
workers on strike in the basic
center of the Industry"
THE sharpness W tn which the
! class lines have been drawn in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
Union Furniture Co.
Struck Because of
Anti-Union Stand

JAMESTOWN, N. Y, Sept. g.
Leahes of the Union Furniture
Company of this city, stopped Fri
day when all workers of the plant
struck, will be still tomorrow
morning.
The strike is under the auspices
Of Local "a of the National Furni-
ture Workers Industrial Union.
The walk-out was called only
after unremitting discrimination
against union workers in the shop.
Unless the workers demands are
granted the union may spread the
strike to the National Furniture
Company, another plant in the
city under the same management
as the struck factory, it was an
nounced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
Strikebreaking Tactics
of Frey Rouse Anger
of Miners
Especial to the Daily worker)

BUTTE, Mont, Sept. 8. = Bill
Dunno spoke to the regular meet
ing of the Butte Miners Local of
the International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers last
Wednesday night.
Among the audience of 1000 were
many members Of the Hosting En-
gineers Union and of various craft
unions affiliated to the American
Federation of Labor.
Dunno dealt with the question of
the Red Scare" and the program
and work of the Rank and File
groups, with special emphasis on
industrial unionism and the fight
for the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill
Exposes Frey
There YVES sustained applause
when the speaker, mentioning that
John P. Frey. member of the A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
Passaic Workers Act
Against Food Prices

PASSAIC, N, j., Sept. 3.-Action
against the rising prices of bread
and rolls was taken here by workers
at a conference Friday evening
representing organizations with q
total membership of 1855. The local
Socialist Party branch was also
represented in the conference.
The delegates elected an action
committee of fifteen to work out in
detail the plans developed at the
conference.
Bakery owners here have re-
Gently raised the price of bread
three cents a pound and rolls five
cents a dozen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
New Workers Center
Will Open in Harlem

NEW YORK.-A new Workers
Center in Harlem that will house
the offices of the Harlem Workers
School, Communist Party, Young
Communist League, International
Workers Order and the Domestic
Workers Union, will open Sept. Is
in the old I. w. o. Hall on 131st
st. and Lenox Ave.
Alterations have been made in the
building. The school will be To-
Gated on the second floor and will
include beside classrooms a reading
room and refreshment counter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
RELIEF NEEDS RISE

PEORIA. Ill, Sept. 3.-According
to Howard Hunter, field represen-
tative Of the FERA, out of $500
families receiving relief in Peoria,
as of Aug. /, only 300 had been
given any work on the relief jobs.
Hunter predicted greatly increased
demands for relief during the COM
ing Winter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
SHOOT
TWO WHO PROTEST
AGAINST EVICTION
Unemployment Councils Later Persuade Small
Proprietors To Join with JOblessTO Demand
Relief Rent Payment

POTTSVILLE, Pa. Sept 3. - Two youths were shot
here Thursday when delegation from the Unemploy-
ment Council went to protest eviction to the landlords,
Sam and Caesar Julian The two landlords were released
bail charges of rnalousy and wantony pointing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
Rally mHarIemr
Tomorrow TO Test
Right Of Assembly
Milton HerndOn, Jailed for Picketing Jim-Crow
Restaurant, and Harry Haywood, Communist
Candidate, to Speak
NEW YORK
White and NEGRO worke

NEW YORK. - White and Negro workers will
before the Empire Cafeteria Lenox Ave- and 125th St.
tomorrow night at p to support the fight initiated
by the Young Lberators Youth Section of the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights for employment of Negro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
MEMBERS TO MAP
DRIVE TO OBTAIN
LARGE DELEGATION
Meeting of New York League Against War and
Fascism to Follow Rally of Needle Trades
Workers To Hear Jennie CiaccO

NEW YORK.-To mobilize Greater New York forces
for the Second u S. Congress Against War and Fascsm
will be the initial purpose of meeting to be held to-
at 1880 p at Irving Plaza, Is Irving Place,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
U. S. Attorney General
Gets No Welcome
From Workers

the two guests with long records
of public service" and the spon-
tanecus manner in which thou
sands of workers crowded into
meetings to hear Bill Dunno talk
about the revolutionary way out Of
the crisis. was so striking that
Senator B. K. Wheeler. who had
been in Butte for several days with
his nose in the air and both ears
to the ground, suddenly announced
that he had to go to Billings and
would be unable to meet and greet
the U: S. encouragement and Mr.
Kremer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04

BILLINGS. Mont. Sept. Bill
Dunno SPOKE here Thursday night
to an audience of 500 to 400 on
the Next Step for Labor" The
meeting was under the auspices of
the Communist Party Unit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Sept. B.
One hundred young workers dem
onstrated in Central Square in the
International Youth Day rally
against war and fascism and heard
Mark Lieberman, district organizer
Of the Young Communist League
and candidate for the General Court
in Boston, denounce the red-baiting
efforts of the Hearst Boston Amer
lean, especially in connection with
the textile strike.
other Y. c. L. speakers attacked
Mayor Russell's policy of militariz-
ing the police by having it given
military training by marines, and
buying tear gas bombs. The meet
ing adopted a resolution demanding
that the funds used for this purpose
be turned over to the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
Boston Police
Attack Youth
Day Meeting
Workers in Cambridge
Demonstrate Against
War and Fascism

BOSTON, Sept. 3.-Police broke
up an international Youth Day rally
of about $50 young workers held
Saturday at Merrimac Square, West
End, under the auspices of the
Young Communist League. Y. C. L.
members had applied for a police
permit but it had been refused them.
While the policeman made his call
for the Riot Squad from a box not
more than ten feet away from where
the speakers stand was, G. Collins,
of the Y. c. L., continued to ex-
pose the war-making policies Of the
N. R. A. and to call for support Of
the textile strike.
When the police squad arrived,
they began to dispense the meeting,
despite the orderliness Of the work
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
Mother Mooney
Is Dead at s.

Continued from Poge y
Evening star., 1934-02-06
GOODYEAR STOCK
DEAL DISCLOSED
Sears, Roebuck Official Tells
of Purchase With Tire
Firm Funds.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 6.-PurchaSe
of $4,000 shares of Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Co. stock in the open market
by Sears, Roebuck g. Co., with funds
was described yesterday at a Federal
Trade Commission hearing by c. L.
Schenk, assistant to the controller of
Sears
The stock was bought with $780,
600 given to Sears, together with
5000 shares of Goodyear stock when
the Sears company signed 10-year
contract with Goodyear in 1881. The
commission is seeking to determine
whether the transaction was a VIOLA
tion of the antitrust law.
Schenk testified the $4,000 shares
of Goodyear stock are carried by the
Sears company at book value OF
S1,114,4O5. Value of the shares at
present market prices Is approx
mately 100000.
Cost-Plus Contract.
After purchase of the $4,000 shares,
said Schenk, there was a balance OF
s34181 remaining from the $4,000
which was credited to account OF
stocks in other corporations.
Max w. Lade, auditor for Sears,
Roebuck & Co., testified to attempts
of his company to obtain refunds
from the Goodyear company for al
legged overcharges, some OF which
were allowed Under the 1881 con-
tract, he said, Sears obtained their
tires from Goodyear for costs plus
612 per cent.
Much of the saving effected during
depression years by lower material
costs was offset by an increasingly
large percentage Of the Goodyear
overhead being allotted to the sears
account he said.
Rebates Denied.
Correspondence between Charles A.
Brook, Goodyear executive, and j. II.
Westrich, manager Of Sears tire de-
partment. was introduced by the COM
mission to show the extent OF refunos
by Goodyear to Sears. The commls-
sion contends these refunds were, in
fact, rebates, and constituted unfair
discrimination in violation OF the
Clayton act.
Counsel for Goodyear contend that
the refunds are merely a return OF an
/, oyercharge and not a rebate.
Commission counsel hope to COM
plete hearing Of testimony in Chicago
bv tomorrow. 1t will then move to
washington.
Evening star., 1934-02-06
FOUR HELD IN ROBBERY
Bail Is Denied Suspects in $3.50,
900 Jersey Hold-Up.

PENNSGROVE, N. j., February 6
R-In a court room bristling with
guards, a woman and three men,
under suspicion of implication in the
$4,000 Pennsgrove bank robbery last
Friday, were held without bail yes
terday for the Salem County grand
jury.
Three witnesses were heard, two of
them identifying John Farley, q, Of
New York as a member of the robber
band of four who held up Harold
Anderson, teller Of the Pennsgrove
National Bank & Trust Co., and
William H. Waddington, messenger,
outside the bank building last Friday.
Held with Farley are Charles Kent,
46, Of Canton, Ohio; Harry Green
berg, Philadelphia, and his 31-year-
old wife, Rose. All were placed in
Salem County Jail.
Evening star., 1934-02-06
Supreme Court Sustains
Injunction, in Poultry Case
Labor Unions and Individuals, Charged
With Making Business il, Ne,O York
a Racket, Lose Their 4 ppeal.

Co. was sustained. The court found
the company in challenging the law
had not complied with proper pre-
liminaries by waiting for the tax
forms and an Interpretation of the
ordinance by a city official.
A number Of municipalities, incIud-
ing Detroit, Mich, and Miami, Fla,
were interested in an action which
the court declined to review. 1t chal-
lenged the validity Of Federal income
taxes on profits made through the
purchase of delinquent real estate tax
certificates issued by municipalities
The high court refused to pass on the
decision Of the Court of Claims sus-
tanning the Governments position
that such income was taxable.
The court ruled that retired Federal
judges were entitled to receive their
full salary without the Is per cent
pay cut provided in the recovery act.
The Aluminium Co. of America was
denied review of its claim that 1t
was entitled to recover approximately
100000 Federal income tax paid for
1918.
Abraham Somerman and three
other election inspectors for the
eleventh election district of the fourth
assembly district of New York, con-
victed Of violating the law by failing
to certify election results correctly in
November. 1882, were denied a review
by the court.