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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01

free from capitalist exploitation free Of unemploy-
ment, Of hunger. A life that is rich in culture and
growth.
The turn OF the year and we see the Communist
Party Of Germany, unbroken arm as steel facing the
sayageTy Of capitalist fasosm unafraid. We see the
Communist Party Of Germany certainly and inevitably
roofing itself in the factories, among the masses
organizing for the overthrow of the fascist dictator
ship. In the voice OF Dimitroff Torgler and their
Comrades, in the voice Of Thaemann we hear the
doom Of German fascism. We see the Hitler govern
ment plungng madly toward war and Intervention
terrified by the spectre Of approaching Communist
Revolution.
FOR a year OF struggle OF bitter, unrelenting
struggle against the wage slavery of Wall Street
capitalism, against the Roosevelt NRA yoke in the
shops and factories.
For US looking at the growing fascist brutality of
the Roosevelt government, at the shooting Of the
Anbridge strikers, at the clubbing Of pcketS at the
46 bodies Of lynched Negro workers, it is year
Of renewed battle against the growing fascist reaction
Of the Roosevelt government.
Made happy by the Roosevelt government, which
has beaten down the wages Of the American masses
and has given them a fat harvest of new profits
the capitalist rulers give one another the holiday
greetings of the year.
We also give one another greetings, the greetings
Of Communist Party leadership, the greetings Of ap-
preaching revolutionary battles of indomable struggle
against Wall Street capitalist oppression We give
another greetings of solidarity with the oppressed
Negro people, of renewed blows against the hated
capitalist wage slavery reaction against capitalist
oppression and brutality.
Led by the Communist Party, the party OF BosheYik
steel and courage of revolutionary hatred against and
organization of struggle for the overthrow Of capital
ism, the Party of the Proetarian Dictatorship we
give one another working class greetings that bode
i'll for the Wall Street rulers whom Roosevelt serves
so we'll
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01
Boston Court Fines,
Jails 6 Anti-Fascists

BOSTON, Mass, Dec. 29. Sem
fences ranging from $40 and $50 fines
to a month in jail were handed out to
the six anti-Fascists arrested on Dec
10 at a demonstration in front of the
German Consulate to demand the re-
lease of Ernst Torgler, George Dimi-
troff, Vassil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff,
the four Communist defendants in
the Reichstag frame-up trial.
Brutally beaten by the police,
George Robbins, 17-year-old young
worker, was sentenced to month in
the House Of Correction on framed
charge of "assaulting an officer" The
others, Alice Burke, secretary of the
Boston Committee to Aid Victims of
German Fascisn, Anna Halpern,
Sarah Burr, Charles Carol and Saul
Gilman received fines of from $40 to
$50 each.
An appeal was taken in each case,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01
End Year With Heavy Real Wage Cuts
Workers; Struggles Began Before
RIA Was Adopted and Codes Passed

$4,000 to 100000 we're involved in
strikes.
With the Inauguration of Roose-
welt, the attack against the workers
proceeded openly and directly by
means of the central state apparatus.
Roosevelt Immediately introduced in
flation and began to mobilize the A.
F. Of L. leaders as part of the gov
eminent machine to smash strikes.
WITH the rapid growth of strikes,
W the rising resistance of the work
ers to the Roosevelt offensive. the
N. R. A. was created as a direct
means Of smashing the growing Of
fensive of the American workers,
The only force that came out de-
finitely and unequiYocally against the
N. R. A. and for organization and
struggle of the workers to win better
conditions and rights of the work.
ers was the Communist Party and the
revolutionary trade unions.
Norman Thomas, Socialist leader,
urged the workers in the face of the
bosses attacks that Now is not the
time to strike" The Socialist lead
ers, with their left phrases, supported
the A, F. Of L. ofticialdom in at
tempting to put througS the N. r.
A. drive.
The Strike Wave Begins
The opening of the year 1888 saw
the rapid growth Of strikes in the
textile industry. Textile strikes took
place in all states of New England,
IN the South, in New Jersey and
Pennsylvania and New York. No
wonder, then, that the first code of
the n. r. A. applied to textile, in an
effort to smash these struggles.
Strikes soon followed IN auto, shoe
and coal
Before proceeding further with the
heaYy blows against the workers, the
Roosevelt regime perfected its strike
breaking appag atus under the N. r.
A., epitomized in Section Ia and in
the National Labor Board. A COM
parison of the strikes in 1882 and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01
Paris WOrkerSFight
Police on Wage Cuts
French Jobless Army
Rapidly Increasing
BY Burck

PARIS, Dec. I'll Two thousand
civil employees demonstrated in front
of the city hall yesterday in protest
against the governments decision to
slash the wages of the lower paid cat
egories of civil employees. The dem
constructors militantly defended them
selves against an attack by massed
police. Two hundred were arrested.
Unemployment has increased rap
idly during the past few weeks, with
even official figures admitting the ex-
istence of jobless army of 1900 900,
which unofficial sources estimate at
five times greater.
The number of persons listed on
official relief rolls, which was 22T 1000
at the end of September, reached this
week 303,515, which is $4,000 higher
than last week. 1t is generally con-
coded that the vast bulk of the I'M
employed army is not receiving relief
of any kind.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01

among the workers for organization,
and this was whipped to greater
heights when the N. r. A. codes be-
gan to crush down on the workers.
There was q growth in the A. F..
Of L., the large increase in independ-
emit trade unions, and in T. u. U. Il.
unions. M
WHEN the N. r. A. was first passed,
" the workers began to smash the
company unions. The A. F. of L.
leaders in many instances headed
strikes in order to behead them and
smash them. Their activity within
the National Labor Board, and in the
unions, fostered the rapid growth of
company unions. Especially the be-
trayals in the strikes Of the Weirton
Steel, Budd Auto and Ford, helped
the bosses to organize company
unions. The close of the year saw
around 100000 workers forced into
company unions.
Every form of terror and demagogy
was used by the bosses and their
labor neutenants In an effort to stem
the strike wave.
With the whole state apparatus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01

Roosevelt interviewed each time,
helping the U. M. w. A. and the
large coal operators to break the
strike.
The coal strikers were being aided
by steel strikes. Mine pickets
marched to the steel centers in an
effort to pull out the steel workers
in the decisive mills and cause a
tie-up of the whole coal and steel
industry.
At this time, the A. F. of L. Con-
vention was being held in Washing
ton. Both Roosevelt and General
johnson threatened the workers on
strike. The A. F. of L. leaders turned
the convention into semi official
government body for the support of
the whole breaking tactics of
the Roosevelt N. r. A.
A Great Weakness
One of the outstanding weaknesses
OF the T. U. U. L. during the year
was the inadeQuacy and in many
cases the total neglect of system in
building up of opposition groups
within the A. F. of L.
From the very beginning of the
year there was strong sentiment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01
Unions and Farmer
Elect Delegates t
F. S. U. Convention
26 Credentials Al
Received in One
Week

NEW YORK. Elected delegates TO
the first national convention Of the
Friends of the Soviet Union are be-
ginning to send in their credentials.
The report of the national convention
committee, at 80 East 18th Street,
states that there are &c delegates Gre
dentials in their offices which came
in within the last few days.
Two of these delegates were elected
by an A. F. of L. painters union, No
400; five are Mormon farmers fror
Utah; two from the Philadelphia She
lem Aleichem Branch of the WorI
mems Circle, and two from a
Jersey Workmen's Circle Branch.
The Brighton and Coney Island
Branch of the Tcor sent in credentials
for two delegates, as did the Fellow
ship House in New York. Two other
delegates represent the Philadelphia
Branch of the International Labor
Defense, and Michigan is sending a
delegate to represent their chapter Of
the International Labor Defense. One
from the Jack London Club in New
Jersey, an anti-Fascist group In New
York. two from the Young Finlanders,
and two from the Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union, make up
the total of rs credentials received
thus far.
In a statement issued by the ma
tional secretary Of the Friends OF the
Soviet Union, all organizations were
urged to Immediately send in their
delegates credentials so that ade-
quate preparations can be made.
The approaching convention Is the
first national convention since the
birth of the Friends of the Sovie
Union in 1890, when the Soviet fiieY
made their first flight to America.
The convention will be held in he
New Star Casino at 107th st. and
Park Avenue, Jan. 26, u and 2Si.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01
Orders Pile in On US. Firms
Making War Planes and Guns

According to the class conscious
worker who gave out the information
herein, there is no depression existing
in the munitions business. He stated
that the American Armament Corp.
alone had made sales totalling more
than S18,000,000 to Poland during 1888.
Also that large shipments had been
made and were still being msde to
almost every larso European power,
and to Japan and the Kuomintang
government of China.
Special stats of experts are main
tanned. such as rifle experts, grenade
experts, bomb experts, chemical ex-
perts, and SO on. The supreme touch
of irony lies in the fact that the
American Armament Corp. also sells
all sorts of medical and battlefield
hospital medicines and supplies, and
maintains large and efficient staff
of doctors and surgeons to develop
the most efficient salves, poultices,
surgical knives and what not to be
used on the victims of their own
diabolical manufactures.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01
Illinois Miners Act

EVIDENCE of a powerful upsurge in the ranks OF
the miners be seen In the two reports We
publish today from Illinois.
srfkebreaker John L Lewis and his wel-oiled
machine working overtime to meet the bitter fight
that the rank and file miners will make on the floor
Of the International convention of the United Mine
Workers of America that opens January % in Indian
apolis, Indiana
In the Danvlle sub-district OF the U.Mw.A, one
local elected II delegates who wall go into the
vention and to fight the Lewis srikebreakng machine
calling for united fight of all miners against the
slave codes and for the miners rights OF these IL dele
gates six Of the left wing group and the other six
supported them on many issues, mainly on the fight
against Lewis stranglehold
IN THE Progressive Miners Association with its soc
cial brand Of takers like Pearcey and Keck, the
sangamon Nine NO 20 local was able to elect real
rank and file operators.
These are just straws in the wind
But they not enough. The forces OF reaction
are strong and wen-entrenched and only the most
determined struggle by the miners can lead to VIC
tories for them.
Prom the Central and Western Pennsylvania dis
trict we receive no news whatever on the election
Of delegates to the UN.wA convention
These are decisive fields Here the bitterest strug-
giles took place last year. especially Fayette County
We would like to know what is being done around
the convention issue from the District leaders of the
Communist Party in this field
OUR task now is to carry this beginning made in
Illinois, to win as many of the delegations to the
national convention follows to build strong rank
and file opposition groups and to contest and fight
the local representatives Of the strkebreaker Lewis
The immediate task is organizing the rank and
Tile opposition for the convention The broader task
is to build up the united front of all miners through
creating rank and file opposition groups that will
fight from day to day on the demands of the miners
preparing for struggles and making it impossible for
Lewis to continue his betrayals
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01

Especially towards the last OF the
year, the workers showed signs of
fighting against the betraying tactics
OF the A. F. of L. leaders and the
trickery OF the National Labor Board.
This was shown in the general
TRANSFORMATION strike in Philadelphia.
and the present increase Of strikes in
that city.
The year 1894, which opens With
heavier attacks on the workers living
standards, will certainly see a new
rise in the strike wave.
The workers are becoming disillu.
stoned with the promises of the NRA.
They see all the promised rir--
turned into expressions and attacks.
The duplicity and strikebreaking role
Of the NRA is becoming so loathsome
to the workers, that Senator Wagner
is crawling out SO that he can main
tain his role OF friend of labor
Throughout, the workers showed
the greatest stubborness, persistence
and militancy.
Even where the strikers were
smashed in the most murderous
fashion, as in Ambridge and in
Fayette County, the workers did not
go back with feeling Of defeat.
they went back fighting mad, VOW
ing new and greater struggles.
Towards the close of the year
Roosevelt granted the National Labor
Board absolute powers to- break
strikes. Many Of Roosevelt's open and
covert supporters argued that these
absolute powers" were to be used
against "chiseling BOSSES" But the
Philadelphia strike showed how these
powers of the MIRA we're used
against the workers.
The New Year opens with more
real wage slasres, greater unemploy-
ment and growing misery for the
workers. 1t opens. as well, with the
rise in strike struggles, exemplified
by Philadelphia, and with the prep
aration for still greater strike strug-
giles In coal, Steel auto and ether
tndustriss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01

rinteS and Buenos Aires, where armed
groups have attacked arsenals, police
stations, coast guard stations, post
offices and fire houses in many cities,
particularly Rosario, where a SAN
culinary battle occurred last night.
Government troops last night ar
rested 400 persons in Parana, Entire
Rios province, as the uprising spread
to that province, with rebel victories
at Santo Tome and other points. Mass
arrests have also occurred in Buenos
Aires, Rosario and other cities.
Reports from the interior indicate
that Federal troops in several in
stances joined the rebels.
At its convention several days ago,
the Radical Party decided to boycott
the forthcoming elections, on the
grounds that they would be mani
pulated to retain the present gov
eminent in power. Over one million
voters are still disenfranchised under
a decree issued by the government,
following the 1880 uprising.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01
Anniversary Edition of "Daily" to
Garry Feature Article on Leninism

special article Daily
board explaining principles Lenn will
features the
of
Recent articles by the writer the Daily
liberal journalists
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his pamphlet Threatening
while Kerensky still in power.
The article the edition
Daily clear of which guided
Bohevik Party in its triumph
establishment Of the workers Soviet Republic
help BRING workers
closer ordering
anniversary edition and giving them friends
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01
Marking, Shaken by
Mass UpSurge, Sets
Up Martial Law
us. Rushes Warships,
Supplies Marking With
Bombing Planes

SHANGHAI, Dec. 31.-Martial law
was clamped down over wide areas
of Kuomintang China yesterday in
an attempt by the discredited war
lords to crush the mighty anti-impe-
rialist, anti Kuomintang upsurge in
the cities, and the increasing armed
peasant Instructions occurring be-
hind the lines Of the Marking armies
attempting to invade the Chinese So
Wet Republic and the province of
Fukien, where Fukien warlords are in
revolt against the Marking regime.
The force Of the mass upsurge and
the degree of fear gripping the Kuo-
mintang betrayers of China is shown
in the extent Of the marital law de-
cree, which includes the cities of
Tientsin, Peiping, Hankow, Kaifeng
and Hsuchow, as well as Shanghai
and Canton, where martial law was
already in effect. Extensive "precau-
tons" also have been taken along the
Tientsin-Pukow and Peiping -Hankow
railways.
q. s. Warship at FOOchow
The q. S. and other imperia1ist
powers, financing and directing Nam
kings sixth futile crusade against the
Chinese Soviet districts, are rushing
warships to Chinese ports against this
new upsurge of the Chinese Revolu-
ton. The U. S. destroyer anchored
yesterday in Foochow, capital Of Flu
ken Province, under the pretext of
protecting" the 140 American citizens
in that city, who already are safely
domiciled on Nantai Island, in the
South Min River. Large forces of Jap
anese and British warShips are also
present in the harbor.
The Marking regime, which is using
bombing planes made in America and
manned by American trained pilots,
against Fukien and Communist cities,
yesterday assured the Wall Street
Government that its aerial raids
would avoid areas where Americans
are concentrated. Foreigners in Foo
chow were advised to concentrate on
Nantai Island, and those in Annoy
were directed to assemble on Kulang-
Su Island, in order to give the Nan
king regime free reign for its muir
derous aerial attacks on unar1ned
Chinese civilians.
o. s. Furnishes Marking with
Huge Bombers
Five million dollars of bombing
planes were supplied to the Marking
regime by one American firm alone
during 1888. Each of these new planes
carry 1900 pounds of bombs and is
capable of flying 100 miles without
refueling. An effective arm against
the Japanese invaders of North China,
these heavy bombers are used exclu-
siyely against the Chinese masses.
In fierce fighting yesterday along
the Fukien-Chekiang front, the Nam
king troops were again forced back in
the Taishun and Kingyuan sectors,
where Chang Kai-shek, Marking die
tator, has taken over personal COM
mand, turning over direction of the
anti-Communist campaign in Kiangsi
Province to Gen. Hsiung Hsi-hwei.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01

The strike wave, as is here def
initely shown, began before the N.
r. A. was adopted.
The N. r. A. was passed on July
Is, but the first code did not go
into effect until August, and the
blanket code not until September.
Yet strikes were doubling and trip
ping. The workers were not waiting
for the codes to shackle them. But
began their struggles for higher
wages and better conditions.
In August and September alone,
over 100000 workers went on strike.
With the development of strike
struggles, and believing that the N.
R. A. granted them the right to or
ganize, over 100000 workers flocked
into the A. F. Of L. particularly in
coal and textiles.
But the A. F. of L. leaders soon
discovered that these workers were
not permitting themselves to be bound
and tied by the code Shackles the
Roosevelt regime sought to place on
them.
BEFORE and after codes were passed
u strikes broke out in the two basic
industries, coal and steel.
The revolutionary trade unions,
under the leadership of the Trade
Union Unity League, particularly the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union, took the leadership of the
strikes In the steel industry, lighting
the spark which threatened to blaze
into general coal and steel strike
This movement frightened the
bourgeoisie, and they began to move
rapidly in developing their strike
breaking machinery. In Pennsyl-
yania, from 10000 to 100000 miners
struck three times in order to force
recognition Of the U. M. w. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK. - A worker in the
American Armament Corporation of
Hoboken, N. j., reveals that this COM
pany has an order for 10 latest type
bombing planes for delivery in 1894
to the government of Colombia.
The planes are to be equipped with
the most modern machine-gun and
bombing apparatus. They are also to
have the best obtainable radio trans
mitters OF new type that will assure
them communication range Of more
than 1000 miles. 1t is said that the
actual construction of the air bombers
has already been started In the shops
Of the Consolidated Aircraft Corp at
Buffalo.
The American Armament Corpora
ton is an enormous munition- making
concern. On its letterhead are the fol-
lowing cheerful inscriptions: Rifles,
Hand Grenades, Machine Guns, Aerial
Bombs" etc. Most Of its employees
are well paid, and it is claimed that
every effort is made to keep them all
satisfied.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01
AL, Socialists Aided in Crushing High Point
OF Strike Wave, But Workers Though Driven
Back Were Not Defeated; Prepare Anew j

MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa Striking
miner killed.
AMBRIDGE, Pa. = One striker
killed, and 40 wounded when 500 steel
trust thugs attacked the picket lines
at the Spang- Chalfant Co. plant.
TULARE COUNTY, Calf. = six
strikers killed and more than dozen
wounded by ranch owners who fired
on cotton strikers.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - One miner
killed by U. M. w. A. gunman when
5000 miners marched to the capital
of Illinois.
EAST PATERSON, N. J. - Two
textile strikers critically wounded on
the picket line.
After these occurrences, the A. F. of
L. leaders worked more openly in
their strikebreaking along with the
National Labor Board.
Making Strikes Illegal
Every effort was made by the N.
r. A. not only to smash strikes, but
to make strikes illegal, to destroy
every vestige of the workers rights.
This was done by the no-strike
clause in the coal code, and by the
so-called merit or open shop clause
in the auto code, and particularly
by the arbitration" OF the National
Labor Board.
In every instance, the first demand
OF the National Labor Board was that
the strike stop. Having achieved
this end, the bosses were able to de-
feat every other demand of the work.
erS.
In their strikes, the workers were
able to achieve certain gains and ad-
| vances.
IN steel, stockyards, in the dress in
dustry, In textile the
strikes were most nilitant--the work
ers were able to force wage increases,
union recognition an6 other suing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01
Ministerial Crisis in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 3I.-Two
more Ministers resigned today from
the Cabinet of President Getulio
Vargas, as result of the crisis in
the Brazilian landlord bourgeoisie
camp, reflected in widespread prep
arations for renewal of civil war
in Brazil.
Three Ministers who have resigned
within the past few days are: Jose
America de Almeaida, Minister OF
Public Works, Joaquin Pedro Salgado,
Minister Of Labor, Osyaldo Arranha,
Minister of Finance, and DR.. Afranio
de Mello Franco, Minister of Foreign
Affairs.