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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Launch Fight
On Sales Tax

Three conferences have been
called by the United Council of
Working Glass Women to war
against the LaGuardia sales tax and
the high cost of living.
Today women workers of the
middle and lower Bronx will meet
at Ambassador Hall, 1915 Third
Avenue, at / o'clock. At the same
time a similar conference for
Brownsville workers will be held at
Columbia Hall, 522 Stone Avenue,
Brooklyn. ...-..
An upper Bronx conference will
take place tomorrow at 1890 at 759
Allerton Avenue.
The conferences will push the or
ganization of a broad united front
movement of all women workers
against the burden of the 2 per cent
sales tax, added on to the inflated
costs of clothing and other neces-
stiles.
Petitions calling for the immed-
late repeal of the sales tax have
been circulated from house to house
and in the market places and will
be presented to Mayor LaGuardia
The conferences aim to interest
consumers in the movement TO re-
move the sales tax, scale down the
high costs of gas, electricity, food,
etc.
Organizations will be urged to call
mass meetings and send delegations
to local aldermen demanding the
repeal Of the tax. A committee of
Is will be elected to coordinate the
plans adopted at the conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
MELONS MILLION
Secretary of Treasury PIundered People Through
Fraud and Trickery While in Office

GLIDING a personal refund of s4O5,-
600.
Open ThieYeTy
In the current trial the open
character of this thievery came out.
Mellon, it was disclosed, hired a
government tax expert to be his tax
lawyer. He installed this man in
the Treasury Building, although he
was no longer a government en-
ployee, and gave him a government
office for his own use. The appa-
ratus of the treasury department. was
thus openly used to increase the
profits of Mellon. And in the crisis
years, while MILLIONS were starving,
while Mellon was paying women
workers in his aluminium plants 10
cents an hour, this Millionaire was
stealing an additional 100000
through tax frauds.
During the two crisis years of
1930-1931, the Mellon interests made
profits of over $7O,0O0,0 900, but their
workers we're thrown out to starVe.
quay A4CA4ut1 - Ole u ltlE 1llOob az
tive capitalists fighting hig her
wages, lower hours and better con-
ditions. The New Deal which Eek
poses" his tax frauds helped him
increase his profits enormously,
helped him fetter his workers to
lower standards of living.
The governments prosecution of
Mellon was done to make political
capital, to keep up the illusion that
the New Deal will drive the money
changers out of the temple of our
national life to use RooseYelt's
demagogic phrase. But Mellon like
insult, and Mitchell of the National
City Bank, will not really be
harmed. In fact, the Roosevelt adj
ministration at the very moment
that it is going through the motions
Of attacking him, is doing every
thing in its power to increase the
profits of Mellon and his fellow
monopolists,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
PicketOhrbach
AT Noon Today

A call to all workers to take part
in the mass picket demonstration
in front of Ohrbach's department
store on Union Square at 1890 to-
day was issued yesterday by the
Office Workers Union.
The demonstration today will be
preceded by a mass meeting at
strike headquarters, 900 East Four
tenth Street.
Eight members of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union were ar
rested late Thursday evening at a
mass picket demonstration in front
of the store led by fifty members
of the union. They were paroled
in the custody of an attorney for
the International Labor Defense.
At least three hundred members
of the National Students League
will participate in the pioketing, it
was announced yesterday,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23

tional authority, had begun his ar
gument of the constitutional law in
both cases, which was concluded
Monday, Feb. 10.
Joint Argument
The cases were argued jointly, by
agreement between the attorneys,
concurred in by the International
Labor Defense after Attorney Leibo-
witz secured retainer from Clar-
ence Norris, in January, 1885. The
1. L. D. agreed to this arrangement
in pursuance of its consistent policy
of avoiding any division in the de-
Tense forces, or act against the best
interests of the Scottsboro boys.
A distorted story of the hearing,
apparently emanating from the so
called American Scottsboro Com
mittee," and published in many
Negro newspapers, stated that upon
invitation of Attorney Leibowitz At
torney Walter H. Pollak presented a
brief argument on some of the
points of constitutional law in
VolVed" with the obvious intention
of giving the impression that the
cases were not argued jointly. AS a
matter of fact, the entire argument
on the constitutional questions was
made by Mr.. Pollak, Mr. Leibowitz's
part in the appeal being limited to
a presentation of the facts involved.
The brief used in the Norris case
was prepared by Messrs. Pollak and
Osmand K. Fraenkel attorneys re-
tanned by the International Labor
Defense, the names of Leibowitz and
General George w. Chamlee being
merely substituted on the cover
after LeiboWitz obtained retainer
from Clarence Norris.
The Associated Negro Press" in
an astounding display of editorial
venom for a supposedly impartial
news service, the previous week
stated that the I. L. D. had bowed
and scraped its way out" of the
Scottsboro case, when Leibowitz's
name was substituted for that of
( Ol4dA vi b1lS dPptdl UIlCl.
News Service ISLANDERS Defense
Previous stories sent out by that
service, during the last few months,
have been full Of similar venomous
ISLANDERS and distortions in regard
to the ScottSboro defense and the
I. L. D., as though the service were
trying, in it's own field, to out
Hearst the famous anti-labor and
anti-Negro publisher.
Several Negro newspapers used
such headlines as Il. L. D. Gives
Up Scottsboro Defense" and Il. l..
D. Gets Out of ScottSboro Case" in
connection with this A. N. P. story,
though even the distortion con-
tanned in the story did not justify
these lies.
Other Negro newspapers through
out the. country studiously avoided
mention Of the I. L. d. in their ac-
counts of the hearing, and sought
by implication to give the impress
sion that Leibowitz was in full
charge of the appeals.
Still others followed the lead Civ
en- by the white lynch-p press in fail
ing to even make mention of the
case in their editions following the
hearing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Garden Rally
Against War
Continued from Page y

fare against the Soviet Union must
be stopped. The present admin
istration which was wise enough to
see the necessity of recognizing
Russia with its 16O,OOO,OOO in
habitants, its stable government,
and its potentially valuable market,
must feel the weight of public
opinion not only for maintaining
our present relations but in
strengthening and cementing them.
ITO expose this campaign-the
sinister groups which direct and the
predatory motives which inspire it
is an immediate and urgent task.
1t must be undertaken by all those
who see the intimate connection be-
tween reaction at home and i'm
perialism abroad. Educators and
ministers, professional men and wo-
men, and, above all, the industrial
and agricultural workers of the
United States, must block this at
tempt to divert attention from
genuine economic and social issues
into spurious channels.
Unity Against War Mongers
Soviet American friendship -
with all its implications for the
maintenance of world peace must
be defended against those who did
nothing to create it and would do
everything to destroy it. The trouble
makers and war-mongers, whether
against Soviet Russia or any other
country, must be met by a united
front which is not to be stampeded
by Red menace scares or intim-
idated by yellow press
Similar denunciations of the
breaking off of U. S.-Soviet nego-
tiations and calls for support of
Mondays demonstration came from
Harry F. Ward, of the Union Theo-
logical Seminary, national chairman
of the American League Against
War and Fascism; from Robert w.
Dunn, director of the Labor Re-
search Association; Louis Lozowick,
outstanding American artist; Nor
decai Gorelik, noted theatrical de-
signer, and scores of other Amer
lean writers, educators and editors.
Unions Act
H, H. Baxter, secretary of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union,
joined the other New York organ
izations in calling on the members
of the union to come en- rnasse to
the meeting. A similar call was
issued by the Left Wing Group of
Local % of the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union.
In addition to the 100000 copies
of the special broadside issued by
Soviet Russia Today, Icor yester-
day announced that it planned to
circulate $4,000 leaflets of its own,
calling for mass attendance at the
meeting. The Ukrainian workers
organizations are issuing an .addi-
tional 10000 leaflets.
Hundreds of volunteers are still
needed to distribute the special
issue of Soviet Russia Today"
Volunteers should report to the
F. S. u, 80 East 18th Street, all day
today and Monday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23

been given to large realty Operat-
Ors and, in particular, a number
of Rockefeller controlled proper.
ties. The Standard Oil Building,
rs Broadway, had its assessed val
uatiOn reduced a quarter of a mil
lion dollars under the figure of
last year, when it stood at SILL
100000. The Irving Trust Build
ing, l Wall Street, had its valua-
ton cut from $20,OOO,OOO to
SIS, 500, 900.
The large corporation buildings,
many of which made great profits in
the last year, and could therefore
absorb an increase paid virtually the
same as last year. Small home
owners with reduced incomes got no
relief, it is pointed out.
Home Owners Stuck Again
A Queens taxpayer who owned
a home assessed at $4,000 in
1884, paid $l6s8O in taxes then.
With the reduction in the assess
ment taken into account, he still
must pay, it is estimated, $751; 80
in 1885, Or practically the same as
last year.
With rising prices and lowered
or even stationary incomes-not to
speak of the mass unemployment
and the inability to meet mortgage
payments or to receive loans from
the Home Owners Loan Corpora
ton, a perspective of unrest among
small home-owners opens up. This,
according to many observers, will
have its political repercussions
sooner than the New York Fusion
administration expects.
The tax rate will be voted on by
the Board of Aldermen at a special
meeting on March 1, the statutory
date for adoption.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Hearing Set
FarnCase
special to the palIy Worker,

NoPNSaeA ~ tHC DaAAg NOtNtiJ
BISMARCK, N. Oak, Feb. 22.-
A hearing has been set for Monday,
Feb. Is before U. S. Commissioner
S. A. Floren in the cases of Kay
Heikkila, District Organizer of the
Communist Party, and Henry Wal
lace, charged with contempt of
court" because of protests sent the
U. s. Federal Court at Minot
against the prosecution of farmers
arrested for taking part in actions
to prevent the forced mortgage
sales of farms.
Heikkila and Wallace were re-
leased yesterday on bail of $4,000
and $1,000 respectively. The speci-
fic charge against them is viola
ton of Section 1876, U. S. Penal
Code by trying to interfere, i'm
pede and intimidate a Federal
Court"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Youth Reserve
Asked By War
Body in House
c. c. C. Camps Flooded
With Propaganda
for War

Revealing still further the mill
tary intent behind the setting IN of
the c. C. c. Camps, Chief of STAFF
General Douglas Macarthur has
been asked by the House Military
Committee to draw up a bill which
viii drive the G. c. C. boys into the
army reserve. One hundred thou
sand young fellows are to be given
two months Of intensive war train-
ing.
The government is prepared to
spend 100000 on this new prof.
ect. The fact that this idea origi-
mated in Congress indicates that
the machinery for pushing the bill
through is all set and well-oiIed.
Flood of Propa ganda
In preparation for the passage Of
this bill a flood of propaganda has
been released in the camp paper,
Happy Days" the daily press and
army journals, calling for gums for
the boys" The next step was an
nounced by Macarthur, who says:
"The young men of the Civilian
Conservation Corps, toughened by
work in the forest camps, would
make ideal recruits for short in
tensive training course"
The young men, according to his
latest plan, would be paid $24 a
year to bind them to the War De-
partment. Although it is stated that
the only obligation the fellows,
would have would be reporting reg
ularly and taking physical examina-
tions periodically, it cannot be de-
MED any longer that the camps are
institutions leading towards the
army of American imperialism.
Campaign Against 1t
The Youth Section, American
League Against War and Fascism,
has for some time been carrying on
a campaign against the militariza-
ton of the camps. A proof of the
effectiveness of its campaign is the
remark in a recent issue of the
Army and Navy Journal: $50 far
they" referring to radicals and pro-
gressiyes, have been able to keep
military training out of the c. G. c."
The Youth Section of the Ameri-
can League condemned these steps
toward conscripting new army re-
serves from the C. c. G. camps in an
appeal which it issued yesterday.
The Youth Section urged Intensified
action on the part of all its affli-
ates and branches in circulating pc
titions calling for withdrawal Of
army officers from camps and the
rapid substitution of the entire set
up by an adequate system of unem-
ployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
By William R. Ensign
She was trim in the bow, boys
IL - =. IL L..

She was trim in the bow, boys
And broad in the stern
Heigh, no! Blow the man down.
She may not come from Radcliff
highway but if she's a sailors
sweetheart-or if she ever has any
intention of being such-she1l make
port at the Civic Repertory Theatre
next Wednesday night, Feb. 27.
For that's Marine Workers In
dustrial Union night at the Sail
ors of Cattaro" The lads on the
wrong side of the footlights viii be
faced by the toughest bunch of
critics they've ever had. These lads
are going to sniff the theatre air
suspiciously and if they don't detect
the odor of oakum-actors, bewsrel
The affair, one of the last before
Sailors of Cattaro" goes of the
boards, will be for the benefit of
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union. According to Roy Hudson,
siK-foot seaman who heads the or
ganization, all the proceeds of the
performance will go to the national
Committee of the union for organ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Youth Called to Attend
Soviet Union Defense
Demonstration Monday

The District Secretariat of the
New York District, Young Commu-
mist League, has issued a call for all
members of the Y. G. L. to attend
the mass demonstration for the de-
Tense of the Soviet Union.
The demonstration will be held
Monday night at Madison Square
Garden, under the auspices of the
Friends of the Soviet Union. All
unit meetings for this night are to
be called off. The youth of New
York are urged to attend this
meeting
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day, Dillon carefully avoided the
term strike" Dillon, who had
previously told the United Press
that the manufacturers were in
viting" strike by their stand, said,
Nothing shall now stop the work
ers from carrying through plans for
securing correction of grievances
through the only agency available
to them-the unions of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor"
Conditions Reported
Dillon's statements grew out of
the manufacturers complete de-
NAL of the charges made in the
Leon Henderson report. In their
denial, the Automobile Manufac-
turers Association, through it's vice.
president Pyke johnson, slandered
the A. F. of L., which made charges
that every automobile worker in
Detroit, Flint and other centers
know. The report pointed to the
killing speed-up, discrimination and
firings.
They (the auto manufacturers)
claim there is no speed-up; they
claim there is no discrimination
against older workers. Dillon said
"But these conditions are far too
well known to workers for them to
be fooled by meaningless phrases
Dillon blamed the manufacturers
for the unemployment and misery
and pointed to the relief lists in
Detroit, which are swollen with
able-bodied automobile workers who
have been discharged by the plants
in their drive to sap the energy of
the young men and throw them on
the scrap-heap after a few years OF
killing Speed-up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23

NCHfNFN"N~N ! Wv . wy
ton to counter the company's
move.
MalOney Heads List
The list of names is headed by
Thomas Maloney, district president,
but includes mostly active rank and
file local officials.
This move of the company was
given wide publicity through the
local press, along with the an
nouncement that the collieries
would resume operation this morn
ing. Although the company paved
the way for re-opening with intense
soliciting of scabs during the five
day standstill, and with the frame
up of workers and the reign of ter
ror, this morning showed that the
tie-up remains effective.
Most pickets report the same
scabs as were reported prior to the
fiye-day shutdown.
At the Lance ColIiery, where the
company expected significant
break, a large number of State
Troopers lined the stretch of high
way leading to the mine, but very
few Of the twelve hundred in the
normal force reported for work.
LovestOneite Scab
Among the Lance scabs were
Frank Vritarich, member of the
Central Committee of the Love-
stone renegade group, and with him
Joe Stanley, also a Lovestoneite.
Vritarich, a member of the U. M.
w. A., works with those u. M. w. A.
officials who are busy soliciting
scabs since the strike was called.
He was always displayed by the
Loyestoneites as their "proletarian
face" His reason for scabbing, he
says, is because he is against dual
unionism." Virtually all the seven
teen thousand Glen Alden miners
happen to be members of the new
union, the Anthracite Miners.
Most of the 1876 Wanamie fam
lilies in company houses have re-
ceived eviction notices. Attempts
to GUST these workers is expected at
any moment. A delegation from
the Wanamie local went to Harris
burg to plead for protection, but
was only given advice on injunction
proceedings that might stay evic-
ton. Meanwhile the workers are
disguised with the do-nothing pol
icy of the district officials, who
have been blocked by the boss-con-
trolled courts from every move of
preparing protest against loss of
their homes with united action of
all living in Wanamie.
Cyril Washko of Hanover was
placed on $4,000 bail yesterday,
charged with participating with six
other workers who are framed as
dynamiters.
The only witness against him is
State policeman.
Silent On Purpose
Maloney is still silent on the pur-
pose of the meeting of all District
local presidents and secretaries.
called for Sunday night, but the
miners everywhere express the hope
that better organization of the
leadership for the strike will result.
The strikers are in a very angry
mood, for the most part, at the
failure of the union heads to give
leadership or to issue a statement
on the company's announced re-
opening, contempt proceedings and
frame-up of seven workers on dyna-
miting charges. There is no strike
bulletin and the Daily Worker has
been the only source of information
TO the workers.
The strikers are generally ex-
pressing more support for the policy
of united action of all miners in
the Anthracite, advanced by the
rank and file, as they now see it
does not mean united action with
the Lewis Boylan scah herders but
with the rank and file of the u.
M. w. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Hathaway Barnes Debate

Clarence A. Hathaway, editor OF
the Daily Worker, and Harry Elmer
Barnes will debate tonight on Can
Roosevelt Save American Capital
ism?" in the Y. M. H. A. Audito-
rum, High and Kinney Streets,
Newark, N. j., at $3.50 pm. A. j.
Isserman, I. L. D. lawyer and spe-
cial counsel to the State Federation
of Labor, will be chairman.
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Continued from Page u
teachers, the students have added
a series of political demands, in
GLIDING the resignation of President
Mendieta, the withdrawal of u. S.
Ambassador Gallery, the abolition
of the emergency courts and the
restoration of the constitutional
guarantees.
The Cuban revolution is drawing
near. The blows struck by this gen
eral strike, which threatens to draw
in the whole Cuban masses, has
struck fear into the hearts of the
exploiters. Even the bourgeois press
Is compelled to admit that the
character Of the present events in
Cuba is similar to "the falling rocks
preceding an approaching ava
lanche." The tremendous militancy
Of the Cuban masses has even
forced the bourgeois and petty
bourgeois opposition to the existing
government, headed by Grau San
Martin, to support the strike.
Communists In Front
The Communist Party and the
Young Communist League of Cuba
is in the front line of this struggle,
working to forge powerful iron
front for the struggle for national
liberation by organizing and broad
ening the struggles of the masses
for their immediate needs.
Before and over this militant
revolutionary struggle of the
Cuban masses to free themselves
looms the dark cloud of an armed
American intervention. There is
not moment to lose. Every
honest American worker, farmer,
student and intellectual must
struggle with all his might against
the danger OF an Intervention TO
maintain the Cuban people under
the slavery of their foreign and
native oppressors.
Workers, raise the question of
struggle against the danger of
American intervention in every
place of work. Students. pass
resolutions of solidarity with the
striking Cuban students and work
ers. Everyone, flood the State De-
partment with the demand Hands
off Cuba!" These are the first
steps for the defeat of American
intervention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Bleachery Workers Strike

ENGLEWOOD, N. j., Feb. %
(UP).-Demanding a 20 per cent in
crease over the IS cents an hour
wage they now receive, 125 workers
at the Uman bleachery plant went
on strike today.
Strikers are pieketing the build
inc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
To1 Burden Staggers
Small Home OwnerS;
2.H Rate Held No Relief
Discrimination in Favor of Large Manhattan
Corporation Is Charged-PoliticaI
RepercussiOns Expected
By Simon w. Gerson

DISSEMINATION in favor of the large banks and realty
operators against the small homeowners is implicit in
the tax rate Of 271 it is felt in informed quarters
The tax rate announced Wednesday by Comptroller
Frank j. Taylor will mean that all real estate owners will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-23
Strike Call
Put Off Again

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ScOttsbOrO
f es Lie

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Mine Leaders
Threatened

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Cuba Strike

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Auto Strike
Threatened

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