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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Anti-NegroBill
Fought in West

OLYMPIA, Wash, Feb, ia bill
against inter-racial marriages has
just been introduced in the WASH
ington State Legislature here. Aimed
against the growing unity of white,
Negro and Filipino workers in the
northwest. the measure follows close
upon the passage by the lower house
of the OFT Bill. which would bar
the Communist Party from the ball
LOT.
The West Coast shipowners have
not forgotten that in the recent ma
rine strike, which resulted in higher
wages for longshoremen and sea-
men, the Negro stevedores were in
the lead in the battles on the picket
line, and Negro and Filipino sea-
men left their ships.
The League OF Struggle for Negro
Rights has launched a campaign to
defeat the bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Debt Accord
BreakFOreseen

The breakdown in Soviet Amer
lean trade negotiations and diplo-
matte ties were deliberately fore
seen and even provided for by the
Roosevelt administration, Walter
Duranty, Moscow correspondent for
the New York Times, admitted in
effect in special cable printed yes
terday.
In a recent dispatch from Ber-
lin," Duranty confesses, the writ
er laid the initial blame for the
breakdown upon Foreign Commits
sar Litvinoff's failure to clinch the
deal in Washington fifteen months
ago. The writer now learns posi-
lively that his criticism was unjust"
The Times writer, long a muddle-
headed critic of Soviet affairs,
nevertheless emphasizes that the
United States government took the
recent series of provocative steps
against the Soviet Union, precisely
at moment when two great ma
tons, Japan and Germany, make no
secret of their warlike plans and are
arning at a feverish speed for a
new Arrageddon."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Mayor Orders Strike OFF
in Building Not Cow
cred by Award
PLEDGE is SIGNED
Strikebreaking M o V e
Aimed at Hating
General WalkOut

While thousands Of building ser
vice workers we're striking in hun
dreds of buildings, James J. Bam-
brick. president Of Local 32B Of the
Building Service Employees Union.
pledged to Assistant Secretary Of
Labor Edward F. McGrady and
Major H. H. Curran that there
would be no general walkout Of
elevator operators
The strikebreaking pledge was
made public by Mayor LaGuardia
yesterday afternoon.
The statement of the Mayor on
the pledge of the union officials
follows;
"'AIl strikes called against build
ings claimed to be covered by the
Curran award are to be called of
forthwith, and no new strike will
be called against such buildings
pending the consumption of the
conferences at City Hall.
Arbitration agreements of Nov
ember, 1884, are to be respected.
No strikes will be called against
buildings which signed said agree
ments and all existing strikes
against such buildings will be called
off forthwith
This ends the declaration and
pledge given by the representatives
of the union to Assistant Secretary
of Labor McGrady and Major
Curran, and I expect forthwith to
mean forthwith"
Mayor LaGuardias statement and
the pledge of the union officials
were made toward the close of a
hectic day in which the city adj
ministration had strained to the
utmost to avert or to break the
strike.
Beginning at $50 yesterday morn
ing, conferences between the Mayor,
union chiefs, real estate interests
and N. r. A. officials have been 60
ing on at full blast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Strikers Mass
At City Hall

Five hundred National Biscuit
Company strikers msssed at City
Hall Plaza late yesterday afternoon
as the rising strike mood Of New
York labor asserted itself.
Demanding that Mayor LaGuar-
dia intervene in their walk-out, the
workers bore signs declaring that
they had been locked out by their
employers. The strike is now in
the sixth week.
After being showed from the
Plaza by about two dozen police
men who came rolling up in radio
cars, the strikers sent delegate,
Benjamin Benson, to negotiate with
the Mayors Office for meeting
with delegation.
Benson, who represented both the
drivers organized in Local BOT of the
International Brotherhood of Team
sters, and the Inside Bakery Work
ers Federal Union, was met by Cap
tain John Harten, Police Attache
to the Mayor Explaining to the
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Nazis Behead
Rival Fascists


BERLIN, Feb. ia red poster
with black type, with the word Eek
ecuted" in bold face letters two
inches high, was the first news re-
ceived by the world that two women
spies had been beheaded by Hitler
In the notorious espionage intrigue
between the two fascist dictator
ships, Germany and Poland.
The secrecy of the entire proceed
ings and the medieval sadism with
which the women were killed has
filled everyone here with horror and
disgust, Small groups gathered to
read the execution notice, and ST.
lently and without comment left
the scene.
However, it was not the murder
of these spies of a rival imperialist
power that brought sombre express
sions to their faces. 1t was the
knowledge that this fantastic butch
cry was typical of Hitler fascism,
the silk hat worn by the execu-
toner, the ancient Ratchet used to
chop off the heads of the women,
the inquisitorial secrecy and brute
feudalism, all of which have been
used and may still be used in the
future to do away with anti-fascists
and militant workers.
The spies had been sentenced
Saturday by the Peoples Court"
the same executioner's tribunal be-
,fcre which Ernst Thaelmann, Ger
imam Communist leader, is sched-
iuled to appear in the near future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
BY Marguerite Young
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON. D. c., Feb 10
Attorney General Thomas E. Knight
of Alabama today failed to give the
United States Supreme Court a
single reply to repeated sharp ques-
lions on the Scottsboro boys plea
that proof of the denial of their
constitutional rights lies in the I'M
contested evidence that none of
their race in the memory of man"
has served on jury in the coun-
ties where they we're convicted by
all-white juries.
THE sum total of the States
case" Knight frankly admitted, lis
that if there we're no Negroes on
the jury roll, it was not because of
color"
Walter H. Polak. retained by the
International Labor Defense to
argue the appeals before the obvi-
ously tense tribunal, unleashed a
drumf1re of uncontested evidence
and legal precedents to prove the
defenSe's case.
Two Weeks Recess
1.-THE case in its cardinal issue
(the denial to Negroes of their right
to serve on juries) is way beyond
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
HEALTH HEAD
HERDS SCABS.
Attempt To r ecruit
Strikebreakers from
City Employees

The Health Department officials
Of the city, following out Mayor La
Gusrdias strikebreaking instruc-
tions were yesterday attempting to
mobilize an army of scsbs against
building service strikers from city
employees, under the hypocriticsl
slogan of guarding health" They
are not concerned with the risk of
accident by putting unframed scabs
on the elevators.
City Commissioner of Health John
L. Rice sent a telegram to the
Building Service Employees Union
warning that the city will enlist
strikebreaking forces from among
city employees.
The telegram Of Rice, which the
union officials made no comment
upon and did not answer, said; BE
advised that the termination of ele-
vator service in buildings over six
stories in height used for residen-
tial purposes or the failure to sup
ply adequate heat in any building
used for residential purposes is
deemed to be dangerous to the life
and health of the persons residing
therein. (Signed) John L. Rice"
That this slogan of health" is
issued to hide underhanded strike
breaking is seen in the fact that
newspaper man asked LaGuardia
yesterday, Don't you know that
Bambrick has stated that one
elevator operator is being placed
in every struck building TO operate
the elevator in case of emer-
gency?"
LaGuardia refused to comment
because to recognize this state
ment would be to blast his whole
strikebreaking strategy.
LaGuardia is not concerned with
the health Of the 100000 building
service workers who are demanding
decent wages and conditions, He is
concerned to save the profits of the
Realty Board members and to smash
the New York unions.
LaGuardias strikebreaking mo-
bilization began on Saturday, The
health inspectors and other workers
in the Health Department were
called to the office at five O'Clock
Saturday afternoon to be ready to
be sent out as scabs in case the
strike started Saturday They were
kept waiting for more than an hour
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
USSR FRIENDS
PAPER SEIZED
AGENTS
Garden Demonstration
To Score Governments
Anti-Soviet Acts

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Feb.
1.-TWO thousand copies Of the spe-
cial Soviet Russia Today" broad
side against the Hearst anti-soviet
drive, were confiscated by the
United States Government here, it
was revealed today, when Federal
agents raided the home of Mrs.
Marshall Lakey, organizer Of the
Friends Of the Soviet Union in this
city
The Federal agents, working
without a warrant, also seized a
large bundle of copies of the cur
rent issue of Soviet Russia Today"
at the Lakey home.
This action, following closely on
the Spokane, Wash, incident, when
police surrounded the hall where
Scott Nearing was scheduled to
speak for the Friends of the Soviet
Union and drove hundreds of work
ers away. was taken as definite
proof of the beginning Of wide
spread campaign on the part of the
United States Government to sup
press all movements friendly to the
U.S.SR. following its breaking off
of trade negotiations with the
Soviet Union.
Eleven Jailed
The raid on the home Of Mrs.
Lakey was made after her husband,
Marshall Lakey, was arrested with
ten others for alleged conspiracy
to obstruct United States justice. .
The II workers were still in jail
today after U. S. Commissioner
George ]. Eacock had ordered them
held for the Federal Grand Jury
in bond ranging from $500 to
$4,000 each.
Among the group arrsigned were
Mrs. Irene Richardson, who APP
peared in court with her 15-months
old baby in her arms; Marshall
Lakey, sculptor and former profess
sor at Oklahoma City University:
Harry Bender. A. j, Pitts, Obra
Heathcock, Lee Rakes, Mrs. Wilma
Conner Claude Nesbitt. H. j. Sny-
der, Thomas Cross, Allen Abston
and John F. Neismith
The charges against the II work
ers were based on their activities in
protest against the arrest here, ten
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
NATIONWIDE
SLASH TO HIT
REAL WAGES
Further Cuts in Value of
Dollar Loom in Wake
of Decision

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 10
The spectre of new increases in the
cost of living and a riot of profit
grabbing that rivalled the halycon
days previous to the 1929 crash,
arose today as the Supreme Court,
by vote of to 4, upheld the right
of the Roosevelt government to
violate the gold clause provisions in
government bonds and its right to
devaluate the dollar
Spectators, bankers, and inves-
tors rushed wildly into the markets,
cheering and singing, as prices
SCARED msdly upward bringing a
new golden rain of profits on the
announcement of the courts de-
cision.
The right of Roosevelt to cheaper
the dollar and raise prices through
initiation was upheld by the court
In its ruling against two private
claimants who demanded that they
be repaid $169 cents of the new
cheap currency for every gold dol
lar that they had invested in gov
eminent and private gold bonds.
Approves Initiation
The essence of the courts ruling
was that Congress has supreme
rights that take precedence over
contracts.
The decision gives the stamp OF
approval to RoOseveIt's priceraising
initiation policy, and removes all
legal obstacles to further initiation
arr cheapening of the dollar.
AS a result of the decision, cap
italist spectators and bankers all
over the country leaped into one Of
the widest speculative whirlpools
seen since the days before 1929
Stocks leaped upward from 3 to 10
points in torrent of buying
AZ a result of the rush Of buying
orders the Chicago grain market,
the biggest in the world, was forced
to close its doors for fear of a"run-
away" market, with the price of
wheat soaring nadly.
ether exchanges to close down.
as SPECTATORS flooded them with
orders to buy, were st, Louis, Chi
cago Stock Exchanges and Phila-
delphia.
Prices Rush Upward
Basic commodities rushed up
ward. Cotton scared more than 81
a bale, holding its gains despite
heavy profit taking.
At the time of closing, the Chi
cago Exchange registered wheat up
IL cents, corn up 2-224 cents, and
rye up 134 cents a bushel.
Abroad the dollar dropped rap
idly, reaching $3.50 in London, as
the vision of further cheapening of
the dollar rose from the courts de-
cision.
The court ruled that in both pri-
vate and government bonds. no loss
had been shown by the suitors, and
that chaos would reign throughout
the business world if their action
were sustained.
With this decision, the steady rise
In the cost Of living, which has been
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
1000 HONOR
DEAD MINER
Traffic at StandstiIl as
Toilers Hold Funeral
In Wilkes-Barre
Special to the Daily wOrkerl

WILKES BARRE. Pa, Feb. ia
Seven thousand miners with their
wives and children marched today
in the funeral procession of Frank
Petrowsky, of Larksville, who was
killed by scabs last Thursday. Over
200 cars followed the casket to the
cemetery.
During the funeral marchers we're
making the proposal that the large
crowd march after the funeral to
the County Court House to protest
the Valentine injunction, which or
ders the calling off of the strike.
Many Buses Chartered
The Unemployment Councils, I'm
employed League and Women's
Auxiliary units of the union took
part in the march. Over 20 buses
were chartered to bring miners from
many regions to the funeral. Street
cars made special trips to bring adj
ditional thousands to the cemetery.
A suggestion that officials of the
United Anthracite Miners of Penn
sylvania be the pall-bearers was
rejected by the family of the dead
striker. Workers who picketed with
Petrowsky were chosen instead.
Wherever the mass funeral passed
traffic was at a, standstill.
The latest move of the Glen Al
den Coal Company to break the
ranks Of the miners is to organize
the stores on its side, Grocery
stores have sent letters to strikers
informing them that their credit is
stopped. In Hanover six stores
agreed to stop credit. This has
aroused the miners to tremendous
anger, and they threaten to boy
colt these stores and replace them
with a pro-union store.
Union In Session
A meeting of the general body
of the Glen Alden miners is in
session today. The meeting will
have to determine the attitude of
the union to the Valentine injunc-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19

to comment This statement of the union blasts
and exposes LaGuardiss hypocrisy.
If LaGuardia interested in the health of
the workers. he would instruct the employers to
settle so that the 100000 building service workers
could have decent conditions, and guard the health
of their families. But LaGuardia interested only
in the health of the employers He is trying to
the rotten settlement of his arbitration board
the employers terms-down the throat of 100000
workers
James Bambrick, head of the union is continu-
ing his negotiations with the representatives of the
employers, with LaGuardia, and representatives of
Roosevelt. These negotiations, this endless arbi-
traton and delay is tending isolate the strikers
out is weakening their whole front
If Bambrck continues this delay, he will be play
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Thousands Picket Big City Buildings
is Ban1brick Meets with LaGuardia,
F. D. r. aides, Who Act to Bar Strike
Strike Demands

The Building Service Workers striking for the fol-
lowing demands: Union recognition discrimination
sretchOu SYSTEM maximum 48hOur work week. with the
rest periods taken from the Shour period Wages demanded
minimum of S26 week for the lowest paid category
on buildings from 10 stories up 23 minimum for lowest paid
category buildings from 10 to is stories high and
minimum $40 for lowest aid category on buildings to p
stories high
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Fibre Strike Firm

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. 18. =
Twenty five hundred workers mostly
youth, of the Fibre Corporation of
America, manufacturers of paper
containers in Manayunk, remain
solidly on strike despite threats Of
the firm to close indefinitely Be
ginning this morning picketing will
be conducted at the plant regu-
larly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Y. c. L. Urges Youth
to Attend the Garden
Rally Monday Night

The District Secretariat of the
New York Young Communist
League issued a call to the youth
of New York to give every possible
support to the mass meeting in de-
Tense CT the Soviet Union, called
by the Friends of the Soviet Union.
for Monday. Feb. IS, at Madison
Square Garden.
All unit meetings of the Y. c L.
are TO be called off for this night
and are to be held on the following
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
UTILITY MEN
VOTE TONIGHT
Special Meeting Will
Determine Strike in
Power Company

Strike action may be taken at a
special meeting of Local 100 of the
brotherhood of Utility EMPLOYEES of
Brooklyn, workers of the Edison
Company, at seven tonight at Eagle
Building, BOT Washington Street. to
decide on the next steps, in protest
against the suspension Of six of its
members for union activity by the
company.
In answer to letter by James E.
Toner, labor representative of the
Brotherhood, requesting that he ar
range an immediate hearing, Mayor
LaGuardia yesterday referred the
workers to the Regional Labor
Board. At the Board the case may
drag on for months before deci-
sion, which the company will I'M
doubtedly disregard, will be made.
The mayor gave this answer at a
moment when his entire attention
was absorbed in mobilizing every
city agency in New York for break
ing the elevator strike. and if neces-
sary a power workers strike, in
order to defeat the workers de-
mands.
Scores City Threats
Replying to the strikebreaking
statements of Maurice o. Davidson.
Commissioner of Water Supply Gas
and Electricity, who stated that he
has broad police powers to deal with
the situation, Local 102 replied that
it will supply power to indispensable
public agencies. James F. Donegan,
president of the local declared:
Things have come to sorry
pass, when the head Of a city de-
partment can threaten workers with
policing their jobs, particularly in
an industry which is making huge
profits and which is displacing more
workers with automatic machinery
than any other
kilograms were dispatched by the
Brotherhood to the Mayor, Regional
Labor Board, and National Labor
Board. declaring that unless steps
are taken to reinstate the six sus-
pended workers, the union will be
forced to take direct action.
Mr.. Toher declared that the APP
peals were made after every effort
to obtain hearing from the COM
pany heads was exhausted. The
union followed all the motions
which the company prescribes in
such cases without being able to
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Thousands of building service
workers walked out on strike yes
terday tieing UP hundreds of Man
haitian buildings. The strike spread
rapidly as the day progressed, and
soon included all buildings in the
fur district, between Fifth and
Eighth Avenues, from 14th Street to
33rd Street, Harlem buildings, and
many buildings in the Broadway
and And Street area. Some of the
biggest apartment and Office build
ings in the city we're tied up by the
wslkout.
The strikers conducted militant
picket lines, and many were obvi-
ously indignant when word came
that James Bambrick had suddenly
declared in the afternoon that the
strike would be held in allegiance
pending arbitration which will con-
tinue throughout the night The
strike continued in most of the
buildings.
These thousands walked out on
strike in the face of the biggest
strikebreaking mobilization the city
has seen. Mayor LaGuardia had
modified all available police and
f1remen, and employees of the health
and other departments to act as
strikebreakers. Threats were made
by the Realty Board to have the
militia called, and the Realty Board
modified an army Of strong arm
thugs and private detectives, many
Of them with known criminal
records
viii To Strike Strong
But the will of the building ser-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Hundreds of Buildings
Tied Up-Firemen and
Police Modified
PICKETS MILITANT
Thugs Hired by Realty
Board to TerrOrize
Service Men
BULLETIN

At seven-thirty last night
II was announced at union
headquarters that LsGusr-
dia had requested the union not
to extend the building service
strike during the night. II was
made known at headquarters that
this does not apply to Tuesday
morning. II was also said At
union headquarters that all those
now ont will remain out and con-
tinue picketing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19

Despite eorts at City Hall to
spike the spread Of the building
service mems strike yesterday,
latest reports from strike head
quarters show that all strikers in
the fur area and along Broadway
near End Street remain ont on
strike last night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Students: Get Subs from Your
Classmates

Press Run Yesterday-44,5OO
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The Coolidge examiner., 1935-03-08

Many well-known figures are miss
ing from the new night club deal
Texas Guinan exists only I'm mem
ory. The Larry Fay type has been
weeded out Night clubs. instead Of
being outlaws. are licensed and IL
censes being revOcable. they obey
the rules CUrfew rings at 4 a. m.
except when there are such special
dispensations as New Years eve.
For those. an all night license must
be obtained. There are also rules
that cover the conduct of en-
ployees. GigOlos are out. Female
employees who take part in the
patrons. Only occasionally is there
shows can't dance or mingle with
a battle. Usually 1t is ended so
quickly many of the guests know
nathlng of 1t. The corps of plug
uglies who used to work on patrons
who objected to the size of checks
are among the missing also.