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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23

of the Federated Trades Council,
and, secondly, motions were pre-
sented at strike meetings, asking
that all other workers and workers
organizations, regardless of sffilia-
ton, be invited to join the picket
line.
Officials Blocked Solidarity
The officialdom stood against
these propossls-the rank and file
group was Just as stubborn in
fighting for them. Some workers
got up on the floor and even made
specific motion demanding that
the Communists be invited" After
hard fight the striker voted to
invite all other organizat S.
The Communist Party obilized
its membership as we'll as It's SYM
pathetic organizations for the
picket line. In addition, tens of
thousands of leaflets were dis
tributed by the Party, lining up the
masses of workers of Milwaukee be-
hind the Boston Store strikers. The
Party reminded the masses of the
role they played during the car
strike and called upon them once
again to unite against the common
enemy.
The rank and file group further
took the initiative and modified
flying squadrons, visited labor
unions as we'll as factory gates
urging the workers to join the
picket line. These actions imme-
diately changed the character of
the Boston Store picket line. The
police we're no longer the arbitrary
supervisors and in spite of the Off
Gals the strike assumed more
militant character which even the
terror of the police could not break.
The employing class wanted to
create the impression that the labor
movement was not behind the
strike. The Socialist Party leader
ship gave aid to this sentiment
The strikebreaking ads appearing in
the Milwaukee Leader, Socialist
newspaper, helped to strengthen
this impression and cause confusion
but this idea was limited to the
American Federation of Labor lead
ership, employers and the Milwau-
kee Leader. The working class of
Milwaukee was behind the strike
Consumers Were Modified
AS already pointed out, depart
ment store strike involves outside
masses. The question was how to
mobilize these masses. 1t was not
sufficient just to appeal to the
workers generally, but it was also
necessary to reach other categories
of people, the consumers, for ex-
ample. The League of Women
Shoppers played a tremendous role
in this direction. Organized or
iginally to feed the strikers on the
picket line, it broadened its activity
and from day to day they became
a powerful united front organ, that
rallied behind it masses of people
in support of the strike.
The daily newspapers. including
the Milwaukee Leader, carried paio
ads of the Boston Shoe Store, attack
ing the strikers, falsifying facts
about wages and conditions. TT
refute this, the League of Womer
Shoppers organized big mass
meeting and jointly with the strik-
ers exposed the propaganda of the
department store owners.
The League further issued g
printed bulletin of its own, giving
facts and details about the strike
raising the demands against the
high cost of living and pointing out
why housewives have a common
cause with that of the strikers
Petitions were circulated, signed by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
WHAT'S ON
Philadelphia, Pa.

PhILGdeLp itId, Pa.
All organizations keep Feb 2S open
Scott Nearing. who just returned
from Europe, will lecture on 'Fss-
cism or Communism. for United
Workers Organization.
ORGANIZATIONS ATTENTION. The
Friends of the Soviet Union will holo
their fifth annual Russian Tea Party
on Friday March 29th. at Broad St.
Mansion. Noted celebrities will per-
form. Kindly leave this date open
Superior, Wis.
Daily Worker Comm, is holding ar
affair Feb. st Vass Hall. 18th snt
John Ave. Good. program, refresh
ments. dancing.
Newark, ". J.
DR.. Kurt Resented, former Minister
Of Justice Of Prussia and member Of
Reichstag. will lecture on Germany
Today" Thursday. Jan. 2A, $50 pm
at Jack London Club, eol Broad st
Adm. 7sc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
BROWDER INDUCTS
1000 INTO PARTY:
KIROV PLEDGE MADE
BrOwder Points to Lenin's Role in the Drafting
of the Workers Unemployment, Old Age and
Social Insurance Bill, H.R. 1927

MORE than twenty thousand people filled the immense
4u Madison Square Garden Monday night to honor the
memory of Vladimir Iytch Lenn revolutionary leader of
the working class to pledge unceasng fight for the de-
tense of the Socialist rumphs of the Soviet Union being
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
PRESENT JOBLESS
WOULD GET NO AID
FROM n. Y. BILL
killgrew Unemployment Insurance Measure
Would Throw Burden of JObless Relief
the Shoulders of the ToiIers
BY Howard BOldt

Just what the Roosevelt administrations Wagner-L
Bill means to the American workers in terms of security
can be seen in the ByrneKgrew unemployment insur-
ance bill which introduced into the New York State
legislature on Jan. House Bill Number l. This strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23

Yet Norman Thomas and the Roosevelt
family feel perfectly at home with each
other
When the wage-cutting, union-busting
N R. A. was instituted, Norman Thomas
hailed it as "a step in the direction of So
cialism"
And the other day Louis Waldman,
Thomas colleague in the leadership of the
Socialist Party, hailed President Roose-
velt's Social security" fraud as IAN epoch
in social Legislation" which all Socialists
should support.
Hence the kinship between the Social
ist leader Thomas and the Roosevelt
family.
Hence the bows and the smiles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
Superior, Wis.
Nplrnrk. ~. ].
Lenin
Memorial Meetings
Baltimore, Md.

Md.
Memorial Meeting at Elks Hall, 1920
Madison Ave, cor. McMechen ST.,
Friday, Jan. IS at p, m. Main
speaker. Manning Johnson. nation
ally known Negro Labor leader. Pro-
gram Freiheit Singing Society. High
land Vanguards. Acrobatics, Political
Cartoons, W.I,R. Band.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
Assault Charge Against
Six Relief Strikers
In Denver Dismissed

DENVER, Colo, Jan. Charges
of assault with deadly weapon
which had been filed against six
Federal Emergency Relief strikers
in Denver have been dismissed.
The six we're convicted on a
charge of "rioting" in December
and are serving sentences of four
to six months in the county Jail
They were arrested during the
strike when police under orders
from Governor B. B. Mouir, an ex-
Klansman, attacked the picket line
of 5000 and fired into the crowd,
injuring many of the workers and
making many arrests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23

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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10


the welfare of the people. Defining
his idea of constitutional government,
he said its true function is Ito pro-
mote the general welfare, not by inter-
fering unduly with individual liberties,
but by bringing to the aid of the indi-
vidual those powers of government
which are essential to assure the con-
tinuance of the inalienable rights
which the Constitution is intended to
guarantee. 1t Is democracy in the
good old American sense of the word"
Coming to the AAA, in which his
hearers might be supposed to be most
vitality interested, the President as
serted that agricultural adjustment is
an expression in concrete form of the
human rights those farmer patriots
sought to win when they stood at the
bridge at Concord, when they pro-
claimed the Declaration of Independ-
ence, and when they perpetuated these
ideals by the adoption of the Consti-
tuition"
No matter what attempts may be
made to tear it down, "the principle
of farm equality expressed by agricul-
tural adjustment will not de-" the
President told the crowd.
The AAA has made honorable his
tory" the President declared, and as
a result, smoke is pouring from Chin
neys again and workers without regu-
lar jobs are obtaining employment.
He served notice that it is the pur-
pose of his administration to "use ev-
cry square mile of the United States
for the purpose to which it is best
adapted" Nature must be harnessed
instead of despoiled. he asserted.
AT Boulder Dam the President as
sisted in the dedication of the great
project and delivered an address i'm
which he announced that government
spending for employment purposes
was nearing its end and that now pri-
vate industry must take up the bur-
den of decreasing the army of the I'M
employed. He defended the admins
tration against the charges of boon
doggling" and said it's efforts meet
with the approval of the people of the
nation" He touched only lightly on
the power question. Secretary Ickes,
who also spoke, said Boulder Dam
should be renamed Johnson Dam, in
honor of Senator Hiram Johnson.
Again at Los Angeles in the Holly
wood Bowl and at San Diego the Chief
Executive delivered adddesses, and
then he went to catch some fish.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10
Budget Summation Shows
Reduction in Deficits

TIN A budget summation" given out
at Washington by order of the Pres
ident it is shown that the federal def
cts will be reduced by more than
billion and quarter from the original
estimates, because economic conditions
have grown decidedly better" and tax
receipts are higher than was expected
The estimated deficit for the current
fiscal year will be S3,2S1 100000.
"The prevailing rate of recovery"
the President said. points to the
speedy decline of federal expenditures
for emergency activities"
Unless the AAA's processing taxes
are knocked out by the Supreme court,
he argued, the government twill not
need new taxes or increased rates in
existing taxes to meet the expenses of
its necessary annual operations" This
will be true. he said. despite "erron-
eous and gloomy predictions that
heavy increases in taxation will be
required to balance the budget and re-
tire our public debt"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10
American Legion Elects
Ray Murphy Commander

a MEXICAN Legionnaires in conven-
"A ton in st. Louis adopted with
shouts of approval resolution for &C
tive opposition to "nazi-ism, fascism,
communism and other isms contrary
to the principles enunciated in the
Constitution" Still cheering, the dele
gates followed that up by asking the
withdrawal of United States recogni-
ton of soviet Russia.
The veterans commended recent leg
islation for national defense and called
for a larger army, continuation of the
officers training camps, the G. NJ. L.
c. and Il. o. T. G. in schools, and for
navy equal to any in the world. They
asked all nations to work for world
peace, and approved the neutrality
resolution of the last congress.
Cleveland, Ohio, was awarded the
1896 annual convention after four ball
lots. The national American Legion
band championship was won by the
Chicago Board of Trade post must
clans.
AT their final session the veterans
elected ]. Ray Murphy of Ida Grove,
Iowa, national commander, and passed
a resolution demanding immediate cash
payment of the soldiers bonus. Vice
commanders chosen were: Raymond A
Gales Of Virginia, w. E. Whitlock of
South Carolina, Whitney Goodwin Of
Florida, Oscar Worthwine of Idaho,
Lou Probst of Wyoming.
Mrs. Melville Mucklestone of Chica-
go was elected president of the Amerj-
can Legion auxiliary.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10


with fewer employees.
Williams said there had been drop
in the number of people on relief, but
he attributed this largely to ''hard-
boiled" policy under which the rolls
were combed of ineligibles.
"As fast as they go from relief to
jobs, we get as many new ones on re-
lief who have exhausted their saw
ings," he asserted. "We have become
pretty darned hard-boiled on relief.
"Even the National Industrial Con-
ference board says there is more un-
employment now than year ago." he
continued. Business absorbs new
business without increasing employ
ment. They get a dividend out of it,
but no new jobs are given. We are
not feeling any benefit as far as most
of our clients are concerned"
By executive order the President
added SS0O.00O,O00 to the sum which
Harry Hopkins has to spend as PWA
administrator, making the total at his
command S1.375OOO,OOO.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10
Republicans Will Open
Chicago Headquarters

D EPUBLICAN national committee
~ men met in Washington and be-
gan the serious preparation of the
Presidential campaign. 1t was decid-
ed unanimously that the party efforts
in the western states should be most
vigorous and should begin immediate
~. Headquarters will soon be opened
in Chicago with National Committee
man Harrison Spengler of Iowa in
charge, and funds were allocated for
its expenses.
The committee did not discuss cam
didates or the selection of a conven-
ton city. The latter will not be
chosen until the winter meeting. At
present Chicago, st. Louis and Kan
sas City are the leading contenders,
with the last named in good position
because of its new air conditioned con.
vention hall.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10
GUARD AGAINST FLEAs

Fleas will breed in carpets, cracks
In the floor or any other suitable
place where the eggs may drop. IL
takes only II days from the time an
egg is laid to produce a flea in good
biting condition. The insects are
renowned in scientific circles as the
carrier of many diseases. The dog
flea sometimes carries eggs of p
tapeworm. which when swallowed
causes worms in dogs. Occasionally
tapeworms in children are caused
by dog fleas accidentally getting into
the mouths OF the children
To guard against flea infestatiOn
of dwellings animal pets should be
frequently busted with any insect
powder made from dried pyrethrum
flowers. This Is harmless TO ami
mails and human beings. If house
becomes infested the rugs. cracks in
floor and other likely breeding places
should be sprayed thoroughly with
any of the liquid spray insecticides.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10

for settlement of the Italo- Ethiopian
embrogliO.
AS they did once before, the Italian
delegates walked out of the meeting,
and a spokesman explained that this
was because they would not sit at the
same table with Ethiopia" With other
prominent Fascists, the Italian repre-
sentatives repaired to the lobby bar,
ordered drinks and rather OstentatiOus-
ly consumed them and marched out.
In a secret session the council draft
ed its report and framed its recon-
mendations; but it also asked the
committee Of FIVE to reconstitute itself
so it would be ready to take advan-
tage of any opportunity for mediation
that offered in the near future.
A feature of the councils session
was an address by Capt. Anthony Eden,
British minister for league affairs.
Conversations in Rome between British
Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond and
Premier Mussolini had led some to
think Great Britain was weakening,
but Eden announced his government
was "steadfastly determined to abide
by it's policy" as previously declared.
Eden's attitude was supported by
Peter Munich of Denmark and Maxim
Litvinov of Russia.
Emperor Halle Selassi wired the
league requesting that in view of the
increasing provocative attitude of
Italy" neutral observers be dispatched
to Ethiopia to establish responsibility
in case a clash occurs.
The Ethiopian ruler notified the
league that he could not delay general
mobilization much longer, in view of
the increasing gravity of Italian ag-
gression," but he decided to wait
little longer for action by the league
before calling to arms his warriors,
whose number he estimates at 100000
Mussolini, who asserted he expected
colonies proceeded to put 100000 troops
in east Africa. Nearly every day YES
sells left for Eritrea carrying large
bodies of soldiers. On one of them
went Prince Adelberto of Savoy, cousin
of King Victor Emmanuel. In addi-
ton to the Italian troops. Mussolni
will have half as many native fighters
from Eritrea and SOmaliland. The
duce intimated he would quit the
League of Nations If it took any ac-
ton against Italy, but he also offered
to negotiate an accord with Great
Britain.
The British asked France to define
its attitude should any nation attack
the empire, and soon after Sir SAM
uel Hoare replied to Frances ques-
tons regarding the British attitude to-
ward possible trouble on the conti-
hent. The foreign secretary assured
France that Great Britain would al
ways support collective action against
any aggressor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10
Liner Goes Aground but
No Lives Are Lost

THE Holland-American liner ROtter
i dam, on a West Indian pleasure
cruise. went aground on Morant Gays,
40 miles east of Jamaica, in fine wealth
er, because of IAN unaccountable shift"
in the current. Her ago passengers and
$50 members of the crew were safely
and comfortably transferred to the
British steamer Ariguani and landed
at Kingston. Jamaica. The Rotterdam
was little injured.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10
Ernest P. Bicknell of Red
Cross Taken by Death j.

ERNEST P. BICKNELL, for q years
- prominent in the American Red
Cross, died in Washington at the age
of seventy-three soon after his return
from Hawaii. He was vice chairman
in charge of insular and foreign opera
tons of the Red Cross and directed
relief of the San Francisco earth
quake floods in the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers; the Cherry and other mine dis
asters; forest fires and many catas-
trophies abroad, including the Messina
earthquake in italy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10
v. F. Ridder Will Succeed
Gen. Hugh Johnson

CEN. HUGH JOHNSON will soon be
" out of job again, for on October
Is he retires from the position of works
progress administrator for New York
city. This is in accordance with a
previous agreement with President
Roosevelt. He is to be succeeded by
Victor F. Ridder, publisher of the Ger
man language newspaper New Yorker
Staats-Zeitung und HerOld and the
New York Journal of Commerce.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10
Cyla!R En- zIESBvBN15pS
IN ! EE ! 81 HY511gglBw
By Edward Pickard
% rNeppah Union

regained control for $3,12l, 900 by bid
ding in the majority stock of the Al
leghany corporation, holding company
for all but one of the so-called Van
Sweringen roads, including the Chesa-
peake & Ohio, Pere Marquette, Nickel
Plate, Missouri Pacific, and Chicago
& Eastern Illinois, and the Van Swer-
ingen corporation through which the
brothers ruled their vast real estate
possessions.
Two lots of miscellaneous securities
were bid in by New York stock firm
for 81 ,6S2,000. The loss of the bank
ing group on the deal totaled about
S45,000,000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10
Florida Narrowly Escapes
Another Hurricane

\ MOTHER fierce hurricane from the
1 Caribbean swept across the mid
die part of Cuba, causing more than
a score of deaths and doing vast prop
erty damage. and then seemed to be
heading directly for southern Florida
The residents there made all possible
preparations for safety, but the storm
suddenly veered and roared off to the
northeast over the Atlantic.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10
Quick, Complete
Pleasant
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10
Senator Lewis, Ill in
Moscow, Is Recovering

II he many friends of Senator J.
Hamilton Lewis of Illinois were
glad to learn that he was recovering
from the attack of pneumonia that
laid him up in Moscow for several
weeks. For time it was feared the
illness would have fatal outcome be-
cause the senator's heart was weak
Late dispatches said he was able to
take nourishment but the physicians
could not tell how soon he would be
in condition to travel.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10
Lemons IN Early Use

Many years ago, in the days Of early
sailing vessels, scurvy was dread
disease among the sailors on long voy-
ages. 1t seemed there was neither an
escape nor cure for it, until one day.
quite by chance, vessel sailed out of
harbor. taking lemons in its cargo.
They were served the men and 10, not
q sign of scurvy appeared.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10
High Cost of Living Is
Subject of Inquiry

n 3EYING the instructions Of the
~ President, the federal trade COM
mission has begun survey to deter
mine why the cost of living is mount
ing so high. Several members of the
commissions staff started the investi-
CATION in Detroit, where the house
wives staged meat strike some weeks
ago. Other members of the staff will
take up the work in Chicago. and
later the inquiry will be carried on in
other centers. The agricultural income
especially is to be investigated in the
Middle West.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10

hAIC DidNh pAiHC
r,n g W ar CO M
p e t / n g. Whatever
happens, Ethiopian
tribesmen will ben
eft. The emperor,
Halle Selassie, Is
working on reforms,
doing away with
abuses that Musso-
lini pointed out and
promised to cure.
He opened a sub
stantial concrete
Jail outside Of Ad-
dis Ababa TO re-
place the old Jail.
TIL 90
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10
Soft Coal Miners Win;
Strike Is Ended

COFT coal miners were victorious in
the negotiations for new wage
agreement, and resumption of work in
the mines was promised for October /.
The men were out on strike for eight
days. Operators yielded to the union
demands when they learned that 70
lief officials would aid the strikers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10

received the indorse-
ment of the Republic
can state central COM
mittee of Illinois. Col
Onel Knox has been in
a receptive mood for
a long time and mas
travelled all over the
cou n try m a King
speeches. In various
unofficial straw votes
he has been placed
second. only Senator
Borah icing preferred
- It,.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10

. Neb., where he spoke
to about $4,000 farm
ers and was enthusi-
astically received. Mr..
Roosevelt set forth the
chief accomplishments
of his administration
to date, and challenged
his opponents to do
better. He defended
the legality of the
New Deal doings and
made it plain that he
would continue to car
- xx. g.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10
Largest City

According to the report of a geog-
raphy professor, neither London nor
New York can claim to be the largest
town-in the matter of size. This is
claimed by Debressen in Hungary, for
the area Of that town occupies over
600 square miles.-Pearson's Weekly
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-10
Van Sweringens Recover
Railway Empire

IVAN SWERINGEN brothers have
regained control over the vast rail-
way and real estate empire they built
and lost to New York bankers. At the
height of the boom this was valued at
S3,OO0,O0O,000. 1t was taken by a bank
ing group when the Van Sweringens
defaulted on loans of S4s,OO0OOO and
was put up at Auction. The brothers