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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-24

surance Bill H, r. 1927.
The conference will also take UP
the added task Of placing the Work
ers' Bill before the State legislature
and rallying all workers behind such
a measure.
The conference, which will be
held at the Painters Union Hall,
230 Euclid Ave, Wednesday, Feb. 6,
at 7;30 p. M, will also be attended
by all the delegates from Cleveland
who attended the National Con-
gress for Unemployment Insurance.
While the call is addressed to all
labor unions, fraternal societies and
workers organizations, especially
are the local unions of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor and in
dependent unions, and Townsend
Clubs and unemployed workers
groups urged to elect delegates.
Each local, branch and lodge is
entitled to send two delegates to
the conference.
While the conference will work
out the future campaign in sup
port of the Workers Bill, complete
reports and minutes of the National
Congress for Unemployment In
surance will be made available at
the Cleveland conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-24
Union Workers Protest
Weiner Murder Charge

DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 23.-Meyer
Weiner, 27-year-old bakery worker
accused Of the murder Of Harold
Haftka, was ordered held for trial
without bail after a preliminary ex-
animation in criminal court here.
The trial will center around the
testimony Of Joseph Haftka, bitter
anti union master baker and father
Of the dead man. Despite the fact
that Haftka was unable to make an
Identification for eight days after
the shooting, he now maintains he
recognized Weiner Immediately.
Workers here are vigorously pro-
testing the prosecution as frame
UP, designed to smash the strong
Jewish trade union movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-24
New Theatre Benefit
In Philadelphia Sunday

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. %
A benefit showing of Poll De Car
rote" CThe Redhead) will be given
here this Sunday evening at 311
North 18th Street. by the New Thea
tire. No tickets will be sold at the
door.
There will be three showings, the
first starting at p. M, the second
at 9, and the last at II.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-24

as a whole, seems
to S l Il m b e r.
Nothing has yet
been heard from
the District Of
flee. Nor from
any of the other
sections.
P at e S on,
however, h as
already issued
its own plan of
work and has
pledged itself
in this drive to
"lay down the
basis of a mass
paper among
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-24
Earl BrOWder
Will Lecture
in Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. %
"Why Kirov Was Murdered" will be
the topic of the lecture by Earl
Browder, general secretary Of the
Communist Party, on Sunday, Jan.
81, at 7;30 pm. in Engineers Audi
forum, Ontario and st. Clair
Streets.
Browder was in the Soviet Union
when the heinous murder occurred,
and will bring 8 first hand account
of the entire counter revolutionary
plot as revealed by the investiga-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-24
Silver Shirt Leader
Convicted of Fraud

ASHEvILLE, N. C., Jan. %
William Dudley PeAey, founder and
leader OF the fascist Silver Shirt
Legion, was convicted yesterday of
defrauding his gullible followers
through the sale of fraudulent stock
In bankrupt concern, the Galahad
Press, Inc, following complaint by
several stock purchasers.
Robert G. Summerville. associated
with Pelley's fascist outfit as man
aging editor of the magazine lib
Grafton" %, official organ of the
Silver Shirt terrorists, was also con-
victed. but third defendant, Don
D. Kellogg, secretary of the Gal
ahad Press, who acquitted.
Pelley and Summerville are to be
sentenced today
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-24
CONCERT IN CHICAGO FRIDAY

CHICAGO. Jan. ga Russian
music festival will be held here on
Friday evening at Orchestra Hall
under the auspices of the Friends
of the Soviet Union. Mischa Mis-
chakoff, violinist and Anatol Ra-
paport. pianist will be the soloists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-24

on the subscription drive.
These are the latest developments,
as the drive to secure 10000 daily
and $4,000 Saturday subscriptions
for the Daily Worker by April 5,
goes on.
New Jersey Sleeps
1t is noteworthy that the Paterson
section of the Communist Party is
active, while the New Jersey District,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-24
UNIONS IN ILLINOIS ,
CALL CONFERENCE
ON UNEMPLOYMENT
All Major Labor Groups in Bloomington Sign Call
for United Front Conference to Deal With :
Local Relief and Social Insurance Bill

BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, Jan PA call for united
front conference unemployment to be held Sunday at
p M in Eagles Hall, South Main Street has been issued.
by all major organizations of the American Federation Of
Labor here The call has been signed by the following orr
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-24
WILL LAUNCH FIGHT
FOR STATE LAW S
ON SOCIAL SECURITY
Conference Will Seek to Unite All Forces for
Pressure on Congress to Pass H.R 1927
at Once as a Federal Measure

CLEVELAND, Ohio, JAN 22-Cals were addressed to
all working class organizations today by the Cleveland spon-
sorng committee of the National Congress for UnempIoy-
ment Insurance for cywde conference to unite all forces
behind the Workers Unemployment Old Age and Social
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-24


two on the lessons of the strike
of Boston Store employees in
Milwaukee. Yesterdays article
appeared under the head line
Milwaukee Strike Holds Lesson
for Workers.
The rank and file group of the
three unions involved assumed a
mass character during the Boston
Store Strike in Milwaukee. These
workers realized that if they were
to win it was necessary to go over
the heads of their leadership.
The activities carried on to
strengthen the strike was under
taken by these workers. A special
appeal to the other department
store workers in Milwaukee was is
sued by this group. The effect of
this appeal was tremendous, and,
though it criticized the American
Federation of Labor leadership and
was signed by the rank and file
group, the leadership was COM
PEELED, after it was issued, to give
it official recognition and even
praised it.
The rank and file movement is
not a sectarian group, but is a genu-
inc united front composed of work
ers of varied affiliations, including
Socialists and Communists.
The rank and file group was in
strumental in defeating the original
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-24

the dye and silk workers and all
other workers in Paterson" It's
plan calls for establishing the
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Akron and DenUer Fine
Challenges to Neighbor
Districts in Sub Driue
Rubber City Challenges Youngstown and Canton
Mountain City Challenges Salt Lake City
Paterson, All Other Textile Centers
Akron challenges Youngstown and Canton!

On Sunday, JAN 81 Paterson will hold general meet
ing of the Communist Party membership at which George
Wshnak, National Manager of the Daily Worker will speak
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-24
WHAT'S ON
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.

All organizations keep Feb. 20 open
Scott Nearing, who Just returned
from Europe, will lecture on 'Fas-
cism or Communism" for United
Workers Organization.
Superior, Wis.
Daily Worker Comm. Is holding an
affair Feb. 8 at vasa Hall, 18th and
John Ave. Good program, refresh
rents. dancing.
Newark, N. J.
DR.. Kurt Rosenfeld, former Minister
Of Justice of Prussia and member of
Reichstag, will lecture on Germany
To-day" Thursday, Jan. "a, $40 pm.
at Jack London Club, col Broad ST.
Adm. 25c.
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Newark, ". J.
Lenin
Memorial Meetings
Baltimore, Md.

Baltimore, Md.
Memorial Meeting at Elks Hall, 1923
Madison Ave, cor. McMechen ST.,
Friday, Jan. Is at 8 p. m. Main
speaker, Manning Johnson nation
ally known Negro Labor leader. Pro-
gram; Freiheit Singing Society, High
land vanguards, Acrobatics, Political
Cartoons. W.LR. Band.
Washington, d. c.
Lenin Memorial Meeting at Masonic
Temple, 10th and sts. NV, Sun.
day evening Jan IS, $50 pm. " J.
Jerome viii be the main speaker.
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The Washington times., 1935-03-04


House and began to unfold a
well-articulated plan for new
era in politics and a New Deal
in government.
He had a Congress that was
with him 100 per cent; it passed
recovery and reform measures by
the yard as they emerged from
the White House and entered the
Capital.
Brand-new ideas were written
into law; the country was regi-
mented under an Agricultural
Adjustment Administration whose
purpose was to keep down the
surplus of crops and keep up the
price to farmers; Blue Eagles be,
gan to appear in store windows
and on factories; it was unpa-
triotic to deal with store which
had not conformed to the vast
number of codes formulated by
the national Recovery Admins
tration.
Under the Blue Eagle, employ
ment was to spread; wages were
to be fair; labor was to have a
show; child labor and sweat
shops we're to be banned; the
country went at it with a zeal
characteristic of America: they
even sent a tailor to jail for
pressing a pair of pants at a
price lower than the Blue Eagle
standard for pants pressing.
The NRA did bring back pros
perity to many a worker in many
Of the larger industries. but it
fell on bad times in some of the
smaller industries and it suf-
fered in the minds of many an
American who did not like the
"crack down" manner and meth
DDS of Gen. Hugh johnson, first
administrator of the NRA.
It is about to expire by law;
June Is is the date and, although
the President has asked for its
restoration and continuance for
two more years, with certain
notifications, the Blue Eagle has
many enemies. It remains to be
seen what Congress will do.
President Roosevelt was a
strong advocate of the repeal of
the Eighteenth amendment and
all national prohibition laws.
When he first arrived in Chicago
by airplane to tell the Demo
cratic National Committee that
his answer to their nomination
was Eyes," he made no mealy-
mouthed statement on the wet
dry issue which had rocked the
convention with its dry delegates
from southern States. Going to
the edge Of the platform he said:
This convention wants re.
peal; your candidate wants re-
peal"
Although it was supposed to be
. dignified constitutional mat
The Washington times., 1935-03-04
MARKS FIRST . YEARS OF NEW DE

the politicians hated it and how
they ridiculed It! And yet little
of their work has been dis
carded.
One of the enormous expert
ments of the New Deal is the un-
paralleled Tennessee Valley Au-
thority, an experiment in the
watershed of the Tennessee River
affecting the lives, the standards
of living and the economic security
of millions of people in seven
States.
In that almost virgin country,
this Government is not only build
ing huge power dams and making
the Power Trust shudder at the
low prices for electricity, but it is
endeavoring to establish q new
and higher standard of life, living,
education and work for the hun.
dredS of thousands of mountain.
GERS in that region, where so many
people have been living the lives
of the pioneers for more than a
century.
Something that had been in the
Roosevelt bag Of tricks all during
the campaign came to view under
the New Deal. He took the boys
of poor and unemployed city fami-
lies and put them working at
much needed reforestation and
conservation work. This is in the
CCC camps; 100000 lads whose
numbers will soon be swelled to
double that figure, taken off the
streets at a time when it. was i'm
The Washington times., 1935-03-04

down South went to the extent
Of telephoning to the President
that unless something was done
he was going to lose his farm.
And unless something was done
quick-Uncle Sam stepped in
and extended the mortgage.
The New Deal was built up in
the Seventy.third Congress.
+ The Seventy-fourth Congress
was elected last November with
huge Democratic majority in
both houses; and to that Con-
greSs the President outlined the
second step in the New Deal.
It was an amazing human docu-
ment which he read to them in
his first message.
He previously had told them
that the most important thing in
the country was the security of
the men and women and children
of the country: and to the
Seventy-fourth Congress he pro-
ceeded to give the details of how
he believed life in America could
be made more safe and sure for
Americans. 1t was vision Of a
use of the public domain and the
natural resources, in a huge plan
lasting at least Is years-the first
steps in which are involved in a
4,800-million-dollar public work
program which will take men off
the dole and put them tc work.
Then he outlined his plan for
old-age pensions and automatic
insurance against unemployment.
His budget requirements are
huge-more than 1000 millions
for the regular establishment
the emergency expenditures to
become one more addition to the
public debt; and in answer to the
question, Cant you tell us when
the budget will be balanced?" he
replied that it was his job to
The Washington times., 1935-03-04

lfeed the hungry first; and bal.
ance the budget second.
AS he proceeded through the
latter months Of the first two
years he ran into the organized
bonus lobby. But he had the
courage to stand by the guns of
his own conviction and tell the
American legion, in a speech at
a veterans hospital at Roanoke,
Va, that the needy veterans are
already getting preferred treat
ment and that the country'S re-
sources are being strained now to
supply a dole for the unemployed
of this depression.
The bonus question is smolder-
ing, but at present the bonus bloc
is split between two bills. Should
they settle their differences there
is a probability that Congress can
enact a law providing for the
immediate payment Of the bonus,
despite President Roosevelt's
stand. Will he veto the bill or
will he tell Congress then to go
raise the money-by taxes? That
is one Of the hot political ques-
tions of the day and none can
settle it now.
The Washington times., 1935-03-04
Personality Wins

The Roosevelt personality was
attractive from the start; the
President has splendid and at
tractive radio voice; he became
known to the millions of Ameri-
cans by "fireside talks" via
the microphone.
In the earlier days Of the de-
preston when he was setting up
his relief and emergency organi.
cations, on one or two occasions
he talked to the people as if
he we're in their living rooms and
they responded with the most
enormous fan mail any Presi.
dent ever had: he was the out
standing recipient of mail in the
world: it came to the White
House literally by the ton; every
one with troubles laid them on
the White House doorstep.
One lone colored man way
The Washington times., 1935-03-04

llevels. The difference of opinion
became sharp; the labor leaders
were insistent; the President
would not bulge. The House of
Representatives passed the bill
with a huge majority just as the
President wanted it; the Senate
baked and slipped over the labor
leaders views by a 44-43 vote.
The Senate sent the bill back
for a new consideration by the
committee which prepared the
bill, and there the matter rests.
That matter now becomes the
test question for the future of
the New Deal; it is more impor-
tant than the rejection of the
Presidents League Court recon-
mendation a few weeks ago, be-
cause it affects the vital matters
connected with the war on re-
covery and unemployment in this
country.
1t is the first major threat the
New Deal has had shaken in it's
face. AS one Of the New Dealers
said:
"1n any other country, the
action Of the Senate would have
caused the Government to re-
sign"
And so it might have done; but
this is another country and there
is Roosevelt in the White House.
He is not concerned about the
noise of politics; he is planning
something for the ordinary Amer.
lean folks, according to those close
to him; he believes he has the
plain American people with him;
and he is going to let the issue
with the Senate be settled on that
basis,
The Washington times., 1935-03-04

possible for almost any lad out
Of high school or college to get a
job, was one of the most popular
Roosevelt strokes.
There were other rapid strides.
President Roosevelt demanded
and got a law regulating stock
exchanges; he expanded the bust
ness Of lending money to farm.
ers; he saved tens Of thousands
of homes from foreclosure by
lending them Government money
through the Hole. He moved
the country off the gold stand
ard in an act of Congress which
has just been upheld amid great
excitement by 5-to-4 decision
of the Supreme Court, which
is said to have made new law.
The Roosevelt family brought
a new deal into the White House
in more ways than one. Prob
ably the most outstanding piece
of frank dealing with the public
was the tremendous change the
President made in dealing with
the press. Other Presidents had
been chary with wholesale inter
views; Mr.. Roosevelt took the
entire corps Of Washington cor
respondents into his confidence
and, announcing few simple
rules Of procedure, sees 200 and
more newspaper men twice every
week. He has never failed to
see them, even when he has been
too i'll to come to his office. A
small delegation picked by the
newspaper men have visited him
in the white House study.
He chose two Washington news
paper men for his two assistant
secretaries. They are Marvin
Mcintyre, once city editor of the
Washington Times, and Stephen
E~rly, formerly an Associated
Press reporter here. His chief
secretary is his old Albany
friend, Louis Howe.
PerSon0IifV VIM
The Washington times., 1935-03-04
Decent Living
Held Above
Wealth
From President Roose-
UeLt's message to Con.
greSs January 4, 1885:

eve have, however, a clear
mandate from the people that
Americans fOrSwear that con-
ceptiOn of the acquisition of
wealth which, through excessive
profits, creates undue private
power over private affairs and,
to our misfortune, over public
affairs as well. In building to-
ward this end we do not destroy
ambition nor do we seek to d.
vide our wealth into equal shares
on stated occasions. We con.
tinue to recognize the greater
ability Of some to earn more
than others. But we do assert
that the ambition of the indi-
vidual to obtain for him and his
a proper security, a reasonable
leisure, and a decent living
through life, is an ambition to
be preferred to the appetite for
great wealth and great power"
The Washington times., 1935-03-04
High Tax Stirs RoW

Prohibition was repealed and
the repeal took effect in March,
1894; liquor taxes were levied,
making the price of liquor high,
stirring up strife in that quarter,
while the failure of the liquor
taxes to reach the 1,000-million-
dollar mark promised by some
of the ardent vets gave the drys
a chance to crow.
1t is impossible in short space
to relate all of the devices brought
to play to bring about the econo-
mic readjustments of the New
Deal. These are best recognized
as the Alphabet Soup" of the
New Deal, the new organizations
and interpretations created to
handle business by Government in
a new way, to take Government
money and lend it and spend it
directly with the people in man.
ners never before undertaken by
the Federal Government in this
country. President Roosevelt'S
policy of relief was simpler, how
ever, than the intricate organiza-
lions necessary to carry it out. He
said:
"The people must not starve."
He asked for and got 900 million
dollars from Congress for what
was known as the CWA Civil
Works Administration, a device
that put hundreds of thousands
of men at work on the first thing
that came to Misunderstanding dirt,
raking leaves, scraping roads.
Later he organized, with Congress
doing his bidding, the fastest re-
lief organization ever seen in the
history of the world, and put an
unknown. Harry Hopkins, at the
head.
The Washington times., 1935-03-04
IVA Experiment

AS unfamiliar as was the rest
of the country with Mr.. Hopkins,
President Roosevelt knew him in
New York State. He got to
work speedily; one day he was
appointed and went to work
with a bare desk, a pencil and a
pad of paper; the next day he
was shoveling out millions, and
he has kept it going ever since.
1t was in this period that
President Roosevelt brought to
Washington the Brain Trust.
This was an aggregation of COL
lege professors, on whom the
President relied for much of the
theory Of the New Deal, es-
pecially in the difficult matters
of agricultural economics and
money. 1t was heavy concen-
tration of intelligence and how
The Washington times., 1935-03-04
Prevailing Wage RoGO

Today $50 President Roosevelt
is faced with the defiance of q
slim majority Of Senators who
voted to pay prevailing wages"
on the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS public
works program. The President,
after weeks of study, had con-
cluded that the relief army should
be paid wages lower than those
prevailing on private jobs so as
to give the men the incentive to
get off public works and into pri-
vate employment as soon as pos
sible.
This was opposed by the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, which
said it would be a policy that
would tend to lower general wage
The Washington times., 1935-03-04

lter this business Of an amend.
ment to the Constitution, it
took on the character of a heller
skelter political race as State
after State went wet.