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The Washington times., 1934-05-19
CULTURE
By Robert Benchley

Somebody has sent me doubt
less with a good idea in mind)
a folder called "Are You At Ease
With Cultured People?" With
out looking inside, I can answer
EMO"
Then follows a list of subjects
which are supposed to constitute
the conversational material upon
which social gatherings" are
based. It is asked What Do
You Know About"
/. The nine Greek muses.. I
didn't know they were sick.
2. The poetess called THE
Tenth Muse" o. K. What?
8. The special significance of
"The Golden ASS" by Lucius
Apuleius (You can get some idea
of the people who made up this
list by the fact that special sig
n1ficance" is capitalized. George
AIDE must have had a hand in
it,
4. Boreas, Charon, Cytherea,
Dryades, Galatea, Pandora, Par
nassus, Styx, Thisbe. If know
ing about these constitutes cul.
ture, then my small son is the
most cultured man in Westches.
ter county.
S. Machiavelli, Poema del Cid,
Selma Lagerlof. Sturm und
Drang. Troubadours, PASCAL,
George Sand, Proust. Robert
Herrick, The Dunciad, Tale of a
Tub. Josh Billings. Claude Nc,
Kay. All drunkards.
6. The way sonnet rhymes.
A-B-A-B-A-A-B-B-B-A-W.
Z. Dionysian revels. Is that
0 nice question?
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8. Mary Pickford's real name.
Now you're talking. Smith.
9. The various schools of the
modern theater. The Sargent
School, Ned Wayburn's Tap
Dancing School, the Hasty
Pudding and the Mask and
Wig.
10. The greatest opera writer.
Probably the most ignorant
question ever asked.
II. Font, a plea, an EN-:
Well. this is set in 71a point
Ionic and if you don't know
about a plea and an EN-, you
don't do any crossword puzzles.
IL. The discovery of the tele.
scope. Well, this old fellow
was fooling around one day with
a mirror, and he happened to
look into it upside down.
whats all this?" he said, "I'll
bet I could work up a telescope
out of what we've got here"
Work up what?" asked his
wife, "A telescope said the
old chap. "You go upstairs and
lie down." said his wife.
There are a lot of other ques-
tions listed, but you wouldn't be
interested, any more than
was. A footnote says that
"these topics, chosen at ran
dom, are constantly mentioned
in cultivated society,"" Can you
imagine a worse party than one
at which they were being con-
stantly mentioned?
Articles BY Robert Benchley
appear each Tuesday, Thurs.
day and Saturday.
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President Roosevelt's tariff
policy and the result Of the Re-
publican senatorial primary in
Pennsylvania have helped ire
mendouSly within the fortnight
to vindicate the belief of Abra-
ham Lincoln, who said:
"Ours is government by
party and must always be-"
BY calling upon the Congress
TO delegate to him a large part
Of its tariff making power, Mr..
Roosevelt has succeeded where
Mr.. Hoover so repeatedly failed
Mr.. Roosevelt has unite the
Republican minority in tn e
Senate upon major national
policy. The fact that the Re-
publican minority will be de-
feated in the Senate on this is
sue by the Roosevelt majority
does not lessen the significance
Of the lineup as a sign that a
sense of party responsibility is
returning at the Capitol.
BY denomination 4or the
Senate, Senator Reed, who ran
as a Republican, and by defeat
ing in the same primary Gov
ernor Pinchot, who opposed
him as a Roosevelt supporter,
the Republicans of that State
have given new life to the Re
publican party Throughout; the
country.
Had Governor Pinchot de-
feated Reed, the Republican
party would have been dealt
hard blow not only in Pennsyl-
vania but in every other State
in the Union where it is still
q political factor. One of the
effects of this blow might easily
have been a widespread move
ment to launch a new political
party to oppose the party in
power.
Case In 1854 Cited
In his book on Parties and
Party Leaders," which owes it's
chief fame to the introduction
contributed by the late Dwight
Whitney Morrow. the late An
son Daniel Morse, who, as pro-
fessor of history at Amherst
College was favorite teacher
of both Mr.. Morrow and his
most famous classmate. Calvin
Coolidge. has this to say:
whenever a large body of
citizens is convinced that the
most urgent need of the State
cannot be provided for through
any existing party, the time
has come for the organization
Of 9 new party.
"ThiS was the case in 1854.
There were at that date hun
dreds Of thousands of thought
full and patriotic Northern cit
liens who held that the great
est need Of the United States
was the restriction of slavery to
territory where it was already
established"
The Democratic party could
not champion this restriction
'fOr its Southern wing was
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pressive pictures It would stimulate recovery in two
directions.
It would increase the purchasing power of those
whose savings are vanishing and it would remove the
spectre which business conronts when it contempaes
the dumping of assets the markets of the nation at
sacrficial prices.
SEVENTEEN MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE CAN
BRING THIS MEASURE TO VOTE BY sIGNING
THE DISCHARGE PETITION ON THE BILL.
THAT PETITION SHOULD BE SIGNED WITH
OUT DELAY.
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Cracking down" with one of
the most biting lashes ever
used against recalcitrant Demo
Gratis, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Henry Roosevelt has Or
dered that constituents of Con-
gressmen who voted to override
the Presidents veto of the inde-
pendent offices supply bill shall
not be given work in the Navy
Department, according to
charges made at the Capitol.
Reports that Mr.. Roosevelt
has resorted to these punitive
tactics are being investigated by
Representative Martin Sweeney
and Representative harles
Truax, of Ohio.
A constituent of Mr.. Sweeney's
went to the Navy Yard to secure
job. An official at the yard
learned that he was represented
in Congress by Mr.. Sweeney
who was one of 21O Democrats
who voted to override the veto.
The report came to Mr.. Sweeney
that the Yard official said:
''You can't fill out an applics-
tiOn. Your Congressman voted
to override the Presidents veto
Of the Independent offices BILL"
When the case was reported
to Representative Sweepey's sec,
retary she Immediately called
the Yard and. asked if such a
policy existed.
She was told:
''Mr. Roosevelt, has issued or.
ders that constituents of Repre-
sentatives who voted against the
President on the supply bill
shall not be given jobs"
1ncensed, Mr.. Sweeney said
that he was going to write Mr..
Roosevelt and ask for an ex-
PLANTATION. Mr.. Truax also is
investigating.
When the veto of the indie
pendent offices bill was over
ridden 210 Democrats were in
cluded in the $40 members of
Congress who voted against the
President on the appropriations
bill carrying increased veterans
compensation and salary in
creases for Federal employees.
If the policy attributed to the
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
is in effect it will be a nasty slap
at those members of Congress
who sought to grant fair pay res
torations to Government en-
ployeS and to remove unjust re-
ductionS in veterans compensa-
tions.
Shortly after the beginning
of President Roosevelt's regime,
various members of Congress
complained that they were try
ing to force them to remain
"in line" on Administration
measures.
That complaint, however, was
based on the fact that many
members were not securing
major appointments as rapidly
as they desired.
The complained of policy in
the Navy Department would af-
feet, not only persons seeking
major positions but those per-
sons who hoped to get work to
provide necessities for wives,
children and families.
When the late Nicholas Long
worth was Speaker of the
House, Mrs. Alice Longworth
knew she was entitled to certain
privileges.
Apparently, she is somewhat
in doubt about her position now.
She was talking to Mrs. Henry
T. Rainey, wife of the present
Speaker the other day.
She asked what place she
would occupy at the ceremonies
at the Capitol in commemora-
ton of the death of Marquis de
Lafayette in view of the fact
that she was the wife OF the
late Speaker.
Mrs. Rainey pushed a tele-
phone toward her.
Said she:
THE wAsuINGroN TIMES Is nubll
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State Department."
If President Roosevelt says
that he wants anything to be
kept secret he means it.
Sometimes, he doesn't even
take a chance on Members of
Congress who visit him on mat
tiers of national Importance.
When a delegation called at
the White House recently to
discuss reconciliation of silver,
nine copies of a proposed bill
were given to the members Of
the silver bloc.
When the meeting adjourned
the members of the delegation
started to take the documents
with them.
The President said:
"Put those back on the desk,
please!"
One Senator was forced to
fish his copy from a hip picket.
In the summer lull Atty.
Gen. Homer S. Cummings is
hopeful he may map c'!C the
plan for inauguration of his na-
tional crime" school.
Criminal activity in the last
year or so is serving rs oe-
cided impetus for a school where
State officers would be trained
to work in conjunction with
Federal agents.
Although department officials
won't admit it now, many of
them believe that John Dililnger
wouldn't be causing all the
trouble he has stirred up if there
had been better cooperation on
the part of State police.
Justice agents who have
worked with State officers, or,
as is true in many cases.
against them, know that the
trail of many a criminal has
been successfully blocked by
State and municipal police.
In the crime school that Mr..
Cummings hopes to establish,
it is probable that several eff.
cient municipal and State
police officers would be given
annual training comparable to
that given Federal officers. 1t
is hoped that such training
and the contacts that would
be made would partially break
down the barrier that exists
between Government and State
police in some sections.
City and State police, and
graft and corruption that have
been encountered, have inter.
fered with Federal men on
more than one occasion. And
that is an obstacle that they
cannot hope to entirely over
come.
Reticent in the extreme, Fed.
eral agents decline to tell the
stories of opposition that they
have encountered from State
and municipal officials. but
they know what that opposition
has cost their department.
They hope that crime
school would be beneficial to
counteract this situation.
For, they realize, that under
present conditions in certain
cities their lives are not only
endangered by criminals, but
by police as we'll.
Federal agents probably would
not have lost their lives in
the Kansas City massacre had
it not been for police inter.
ference.
Capturing the notorious Frank
Nash in a Hot Springs (ArkD
barber shop, they forced him
into a machine and drove
toward Kansas City Union Sta
ton. On their way, however,
they were stopped, not once,
but several times by police.
Despite the fact that they
showed their credentials they
were detained 10 and is minutes
at a time.
1t was those delays that gave
a rescue" party time to get to
the station with machine guns
and NOV down the agents in
an attempt to free Nash who
was shot.
ed every week day in the year at 1871
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1911
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By John Snure, Jr.

"YOu will have to call the
State Department."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Calls On Workers TO
Join Fight Against
Dorine's Injunction

BROOKLYN, N. "a sweeping
injunction has been issued against
strikers of Dorine's, 298 Utica Ave,
which also restraints the United
Beauticians and Hairdressers Union,
from picketing and enables the boss
and the A. F. of L. to defeat the
workers demands for a 48-hour
week and higher pay and the right
to join union of their own choice
The Workers Defense Committee
has called on Com. Party members,
Young Communist League, Women'S
Councils and all mass organizations
to mobilize Thursday evening, $50
o'clock, at Utica Ave. and Eastern
Parkway to defeat this Injunction,
Nineteen pickets will be tried in
Snyder Avenue Court on June IA,
$50 a. m. When arrested the
women pickets we're mistreated.
One woman said, we we're given
painful, internal examinations as if
we we're prostitutes. Young girls
were not spared by the matrons at
the Womens Prison, 10 Greenwich
Avenue"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Mccormick Tells Delegation
HeDeports'' 5000 Month
by del

the big corporations seeking to
smash the strike struggles Of their
workers. Mccormick later admitted
receiving reports on labor activities
of foreign born workers from
several corporations.
The delegation, which was elected
at a mass conference, May %, of
representatives of 1876 organizations,
including locals of the A. F. of L.
will report back to the workers at
a mass meeting this Friday evening,
$50 o'clock, at Manhattan Lyceum,
IS East Attn Street.
The delegation was headed by D.
c. Morgan, Secretary of the Com
mittee for Protection of the Foreign
Born, and included Sam Paul, or
dered deported for membership in
the Communist Party; Jack 5chnei-
der, Needle Trades worker, ordered
deported for his working class acti-
vities; William zazuliak, Detroit
auto worker, arrested during an
auto strike in that city and ordered
deported; N. Gergely, of the Hun
garian Workers Federation; M.
Granite, John Reed Club; Pat Cush,
representing the National Committee
of the Trade Union Unity League,
and B. Levan and Fannie Horowitz,
International Labor Defense at
torneys.
The delegation later visited Assis-
tant Attorney General Joseph B.
Keenan, to demand reversal of the
decision revoking the citizenship
papers of Emil CARLOS and the
order for his deportation. keenan,
told the delegation that if the deci-
sion was made under the Hoover
regime he washed his hands of it
and that the delegation could right
fully protest to him only If it had
been made under the present ad-
ministration.
He declared it was his opinion that
Gardos had been wrongfully ar
rested. Confronted by proof in his
own files that both the arrest and
the decision had been made under
the Roosevelt administration, Kee-
nan then declared he "could't do
anything about it anyway"
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WASHINGTON, June Sit /;
mandatory under the laws to deport
foreign born workers who are mem
bers of the Communist Party, Com
missioner General of Immigration
Mccormick brazenly declared yes
terday to a delegation which visited
him to protest the deportation terror
against foreign born workers who
participate in the struggles of their
American fellow workers against UNI
employment, starvation and for
adequate relief and social insurance
The delegation confronted the
commissioner with q letter from the
U. S. Department of Labor, dated
June 20. 1880, declaring that mem
bership in the Communist Party was
not sufficient basis for deportation,
and with similar ruling by Federal
Judge Anderson in the Federal
Court of Boston in the case Of Egel-
bert Preis. Mccormick refused to
commit himself on these rulings.
Told that as a professed liberal, he
was more reactionary than even the
late Secretary of Labor, "Deporta-
ton" Doak, he fatty declared he
was not a liberal, nor was Doak a
reactionary.
Nevertheless, he attempted to
prove that the New DEAL adj
ministration was more liberal
than the Hoover regime, declaring
that when he took Office there was
an average Of lilo deportations a
month, while today, he claimed
there were only 500 workers being
deported each month. In an at
tempt to show the delegation what
good fellow" he is, he related that
after ordering the release of June
Croll, native born worker arrested
and held for deporta ton, he got
hell from General Johnson" who
complained to him that June Croll
had raised hell of a racket at my
N. r. A. meeting" after her release
Delegation to Report at Meet
Friday
When Mccormick heatedly shouted
during the hearing that he did not
take dictation from anyone, the
delegation pointed out that the
deportation laws were dictated by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06

ranks of the strikers is led by Hol-
man, former president Of the LILA.
local here, who was kicked out of
his position three months ago for
misuse of funds and not carrying
out the decision of the rank and file
to strike. The local press is an
nouncing under big headlines that
Holman will form new union of
conservatives to save the situa-
ton" This move is supported by
reactionsries in the strike commit
tee.
With Joseph P Ryan's henchmen
attempting to pin the hopes of the
strikers on President Roosevelt, the
longshoremen are pinning their
hopes on militant action. During
the balloting in San Francisco all
proposals of the shipowners were
unanimously voted down by the
strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
$4,000 in Frisco Cheer
General Strike Proposal
Special to the Daily Worker


SAN FRANCISCO, June 5-Fif-
teen thousand San Francisco work
ers meeting at the Civic Center
Sunday, gave thunderous cheer to
the proposal of the longshoremen's
strike committee for general
strike as an answer to the police
brutality on the waterfront.
The meeting followed a parade
of over 5000 workers from the
waterfront up Market Street to the
Civic Center. Reactionary leaders
within the unions worked until the
last minute with the police trying
to call off the parade.
Telford, leader of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, Shoe
maker, Bridges and other outstand-
ing militants were giving great
ovations when they got up to speak.
The general strike sentiment is
spreading rapidly. Two thousand
workers meeting under the auspices
of the International Labor Defense
Friday night hailed the proposal
for q general strike offered by
Schmidt, leader of the longshore-
men.
A resolution calling for a strike
in support of the longshoremen was
passed by the Painters Local CA. F
of L. despite the fact that the
Central Labor Council rejected the
call.
The latest attempt to split the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Another New York
Ships Crew Out
(Continned from Page y

committee on the West Coast greet
ing the action of the men on the
Texan and promising to include
the Texan in the strike settlement
negotiations.
Forced Off With Guns
The seamen of the Texan were
forced off the ship by police with
rifles and sub-machine guns after
they declared the ship on strike.
The company has refused to pay
the crew one cent of wages. Repre-
sentatives of the union and the
strike committee we're told by the
shipowners and the U. S. Shipping
Commissioner that they could claim
no pay because you have broken
the ships articles" The strike COM
mittee correctly charges that the
captain violated the ships articles
by calling police to drive the crew
off the ship. The company owes
the seamen over $1,000 back wages.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union is calling on crews of all
ships to organize committees and
spread the strike from ship to ship
in support Of the west Coast long
shoremen and for the 1929 wage
scale.
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ton"
THE Committee of Ten DELHI
erately postponed actual strike
preparations and tried to create the
impression that President Roose-
welt would give justice to the steel
workers" they added President
Roosevelt, who was responsible di-
rectly and publicly for the automo-
bile decision. has already shown
that the steel workers can expect
nothing from him"
Betrayal of Ambridge and Weirton
Pointing out that wage increases
have been more than offset by
the admitted increase in the cost
of living, they cited the bitter be-
trayal of workers at Ambridge,
Weirton and elsewhere under the
N. R. A. promise of recognizing
the right of collective bargaining
and warned
I'VE say on the basis of our
experience in organizing steel
workers they will not accept these
conditions any longer. Everywhere
the workers have an opportunity
to come together, they manifest a
strong desire to strike for better
conditions and for the right to
organize.
This is not limited to our mem
bership. This viewpoint is fully
shared by the rank and file of
the A. A. 1t was expressed very
clearly in the last convention,
which repudiated Mike Tighe and
his policies and decided upon a
definite policy of strike for the
demands of the workers"
For Abolition of Company Unions
Citing the fact that while these
delaying tactics are going on in
Washington, the Steel Corporations
are arming-actually setting up
barbed wire fences, posting ma
chine guns and hiring more thugs, :"
the s. M. w. I. U. delegates de-
clared that Workers will hold
President Roosevelt and the en-
tire administration responsible for
this mass murder that il being
prepared" They said too, that the
revised Wagner Industrial Ad-
justments Bill will only help the
steel barons," called for reccgni-
ton of the majority rule in recog-
milton OF the principle that wher-
ever workers joining one or the
ether of the bona fide unions con-
stitute majority, such shops
shall be union shops. They called
for abolition OF company unions.
Led by Pat Cush, and James
Egan, Secretary, the delegates in
Guided Frank Rogers, John Max
well, Leonard Green, Paul Rogers
and Mike Sepich CT Cleveland; ice
BALLET, John Morgan and Martin
Cole Of Ycungstowl; John F. Fol;
Of Ambridge; Nike Czartrds OF
Massillon. Ohio; James Price. Of
E"adGocI; George Powers of Spar
rors Pcina; 9-H fcv" from Chi
oago, headed by Joe Weber.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Steel Union Tells Wagner It Wants No "ArbitratiOn"

DeQuesne case" and that eve are
here to help the Presidents Con-
ference"
The latter referred to their re-
quest for q White House conference
with the Iron and Steel Institute
which is Just exactly what the gov
eminent will provide, as a strike
breaking measure, if and when they
see that the strike can be made eff
fective.
Rebuff Unity
William J. Spang, A, A. President
of the DuQuesne Lodge, however,
asked what he would say to the
S. NJ. w. I. U. united-front propo-
sails, told your correspondent; Il
don't know Pat Cush, never heard
of his organization, and 1 want that
understood"
To number Of reporters who
showed the A A. Committee the S.
M. w. I. U. statement concerning
united-front, Entinger declared:
TITS 2. case of somebody else try
ing to ride along with us. We are
satisfied for any worker to go out
with us if it comes to a show down,
but this strike is going to be con-
Quoted by the A. A."
When he declared that he was
back of Tighe 100 per cent. report
ers laughed cynically and asked
whether Tighe wasn't fighting the
rank and file by declaring that the
Committee Of Ten were "irrespon-
sible."
"He hasn't exactly said that to
U.s." Entinger replied. II feel that
Tighe and the International Off
GERS are back of this situation 100
per cent. There's no split in the
A. A."
You mean you're taking over
negotiations for the A. Az" some
one asked.
NO" he replied. when we
have negotiations, we want the In
ternational officers to negotiate. +"
Asked about Johnsons sugges ion
for settlement like the auto labor
board settlement, however, he said:
Wen never accept such q settle
ment in Weirton, and l think all
the rest of the men feel the same
way. We've had these boards be-
fore-What did Wagner and his
beard do for us?"
Criticize Committee of Ten
The S. NJ. w. I. U. delegates,
fatty declaring themselves "in dis
agreement with many of the state
ments made so far in negotiations
in Washington concerning the
scheduled National steel Strike" de-
clared in the statement to Wagner
that "the stand taken here by the
Committee of Ten of the A. A." is
even more serious from the work
ere view2oint" than are the poll
eiss OF Mike Tigne, who came
h3rc to specx i'll The name of the
wor&e--. bJ5 rcs2 ed 10 one bu5
hili,a-ls 1r-l - h-~c-.",-n and
perhaps the U. 5. Steel Corpora