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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
Green to Urge
More n. II. A.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. IT,
President Roosevelt will ask Con-
gress tomorrow for two-year ex-
tension of the N. r. A. He is asking
for its extension in order to further
strengthen the monopolies, and to
sharpen the repressive measures
against labor. He wants to reorgan-
lie the N. r. A. in order to further
reduce living standards, increase
profits and smash the labor o-gani-
cations.
His message was expedited by the
growing wave of strikes. just as the
N. r. A. was first introduced two
years ago to crush rising strike
movement, so now Roosevelt will ask
for the strengthening of the dicta-
torial and repressive measures. They
will be used to attack the unions
and the strikes of workers, which
are rapidly developing, and further
the development of company unions.
The growing disbursement with
the N. r. A., even among the small
employers, found expression in an
attempt by certain Senators to hold
an investigation into the monopoly
practices favored by the Roosevelt
administration. The small mer-
chants and manufacturers have
complained that they e marked
for Slaughter"
Demagogues like Borah and Nye
are pressing for another investiga-
ton of what has happened to the
small man. But the administra-
ton is afraid that such an investi-
cation will turn up facts such as
we're uncovered by the barrow
beard, and consequently will try to
steam-roller through the revised
N. r. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
HEAVY VOTE
R OLLIE D UP
BY MILITANTS
Fraud Charged to Group
Backing ReactiOnary
Candidate

PATERSON, N. j., Feb. 1.-THE
Rank and File Ticket scored another
significant victory in the elections
for general manager and organizers
of the Silk Workers Federation
here. Saturday, by electing in an
Overwhelming majority three can
didates for organizer. The outcome
on the results of the vote for gen.
eraI manager is still in doubt. The
rank and file is demanding a re-
count, charging wholesale fraud by
the supporters of AL Williams. the
reactionary candidate. The vote as
announced officially stood at 879
for Sarkis Pnillian of the Rank and
File Ticket, to 939 for Williams.
The elected organizers are Louis
valgo with 665 votes; John Troy,
$40, and Elias Hajjar, SAT. The
fourt-. organizer elected was George
Anthony, with 451 votes, who did
not -aceive the endorsement of the
Rank and File Ticket.
LovestOnites Lose
The progressive" group, Love
stonites. met with a crushing de-
feat. Their three candidates for
organizer received 108, 124 and SS
votes each.
Workers charge that the election
board controlled by Harry Ross, sup
porter OF the reactionary Williams
of the Jacquard department, had
been giving out many extra cards
from the jacquard office to incl
ligible and extra" voters. It is felt
certain that review will easily
wipe off the slight margin given
Williams over Phillian.
Keller Aids Williams
The vote for williams was mus
tered by the united front between
the Lovestonites, Jewish Daily For
ward agents and the Williams clique
in the jacquard department. Eli
Keller, the former general manager,
and discredited Lovestonite, it is
now apparent deliberately withdrew
to throw what support he had be-
hind williams.
Combined with rank and file
controlled Executive Board in the
plain goods department of the local,
election of rank and file full time
officers puts fighting weapon in
the hands of the silk workers for
the stoppage against wage cuts they
have decided for recently.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
MOVES CITED
ON ABYSSINIA
Mussolini Is Rushing
Troops as Statement
Is Issued

ROME, Feb. 17.-While Italian
mobilization of troops and supplies
continues to flow across the Medi-
terranean Sea to Italian Somali-
land, the Abyssinian government. in
message released here to the world
press, declared that Mussolini's
lmperialist drive "is not justified bv
any military measures on the part
of Ethiopia"
Negadras Yesus, charge d'affaires
for Abyssinia here, released his gov
ernment'S statement to the Italian
Foreign Office. Yesus also pre-
sented full evidence that his coun-
try had never taken an aggressive
position against Italy and that no
Abyssinian troops had ever had &C.
casion to concentrate on the border.
Yesus also indicated that Musso-
hni's playing at negotiations" and
at the same time speeding up war
mobilization on vast scale. would
certainly provoke a bloody conflict
in Abyssinia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
N.B.C. Strikers
Plan Picketing

National Biscuit Company strikers
will form a mass picket line this
morning at the main plant on Tenth
Avenue and Fifteenth Street, in an
sTer to the renewed efforts Of the
company to recruit scabs, the In
side Bakery Workers Federal Union
announced yesterday.
At a meeting of strikers held Sat-
urday william Calvin, president Of
the union. stated that despite the
arrangements made with company
attorneys few days ago, for con-
ference to take place within forty
eight hours, no company representa-
tives turned up The company is
continuing its policy to smash the
strike and start its plant with new
workers at starvation wages
Calvin also announced that the
case Of the strikers will be placed in
the hands Of the National Labor
Relations Board in Washington.
This, however, was met coldly by
the strikers as five weeks on strike
has disillusioned most Of them with
the n. R. A.
Interviews with many workers
Saturday disclosed a growing dis
satisfaction with the conduct of the
strike, and a demand for more mill.
tant mass action to force settle-
ment. Several workers declared that
since the first week of the strike
not single meeting was called Of
the strike committee Of forty four.
representing the twenty-five departs
ments. Attempts at the last two
meetings to ask William Calvin
questions were ruled out of order. or
the meetings were adjourned With
out giving the workers this oppor-
tunity.
A number of workers reported GO
ing to the officials of the union to
demand that cooperation of the
Communist Party with the strikers
be accepted, but were met with eva
sive answers. The workers, who had
a great deal of confidence in Will
liam Calvin, especially expressed
disappointment at his remarks at
the previous mass meeting on how
good Mayor LaGuardia is to thu
workers" and that the police should
not be provoked A chorus Of booes
greeted these remarks last week,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
MAYO R ACTS
7 0 S M AS H
THE WALKOUT
NJ c Grady Confers to
Head Off Plans of
Building Men

With 100000 building SER
vice workers ready to go out
on strike at any minute,
Mayor LaGuardia and the
Police Department spent the
weekend in perfecting frantic
strike-breaking plans. The deci-
sion to strike was adopted by
more than 10000 members Of
the Building Service Employees In
ternational Union, Local 32-B, at an
enthusiastic overflow meeting last
Friday night at the New Star Ca
sino, 10Th Street and Park Avenue.
Assistant Secretary Of Labor Ed
ward McGrady conferred with
James J. Bambrick, head of Local
BIB Of the Building Service En-
ployees international Union, and
other union officials, late last night
in an attempt to avert the strike.
With the zero hour for the walk
out undisclosed, conferences be-
tween the Mayor, N R. A. concili-
ators and union heads were still be-
ing held at a late hour yesterday in
an attempt to stem the strike tide.
At the same time, while endeavor-
ing to work out a strike-breaking
formula with the union heads, the
Mayor modified the forces of the
city administration to defeat the
strike under the guise Of protecting
the public health.
Plan Clubbing Policy
Police officials were planning a
vicious clubbing policy. A special
conference of detective command
ers was held at Police Headquarters
at 2 pm. yesterday afternoon and
was addressed by Police Commits
sioner Valentine and Chief Inspector
John J. Seery. While no announce
ment Of the matter discussed at the
conference was made, it is believed
that sharp policy against the
strike was laid down at this meeting.
The brutal attitude Of the police
was foreshadOwed by the shooting
of two strikers in Harlem on Fri
day night. The two men were
Albert E. Perry, IS, of 34-S5 Tooth
Street. Brooklyn, anS Peter
PetrOny, "a, 1880 West Ninth
Street, Brooklyn. Both were re-
moved to Harlem Hospital. An
swering inquiries Of the Daily
Worker, hospital authorities said
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
Steel Workers on Jobs Starve Without Relief
LARGEST STEEL PLANTS AVERAGE IS TO s WEEK

In Clareton, Pa, in the coke and
steel works, five hearth fur
naces are working out of is. They
work alternately. sometimes a whole
week in succession; somes they stop
altogether for week or two. OF the
5000 workers employed in 1929,
about 1000 are working today-all
on the basis Of the stagger system.
If the workers we're engaged eight
hours day, six days week, no
more than 1900 would be needed
for the available work. This infor-
nation was given to me by Roy
Rollins, member of the rank and
file committee.
In Braddock, Pa, in the Carne-
gle steel mills, three blast furnaces
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18

are working out of total of thir-
teen blast furnaces and sixteen
open-hearth furnaces. Another blast
furnace is being prepared. 1T does
not mean very much" a worker
thoroughly familiar with the Brad
dock situation told me. THE mills
make show of running in order to
give the impression that better
times are coming" In 1929, there
were 5000 workers in the Carnegie
mills of Braddock. Today hardly
1000 are working none of them full
time.
The same situation prevails in all
the other steel towns around Pitts
burgh.
According to the best available in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
Japan Pushes Attack

HARDIN, Feb. 1.-THE COM
mander of the Japanese troops in
Jehol has called a conference of
officers in order to study the ques-
ton of further inroads into Chahar.
Under the protection of armored
cars, the Japanese have begun to
construct strategic roadways and
airplane fields in the regions which
have just been occupied.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
Mass Meeting Protests
Mussolini's War Moves
Against Negro Nation

Hundreds of Negro and white
workers assembled at the New Star
Casino yesterday in protest against
the mobilization of troops for the
invasion of Abyssinia by fascist
Italy.
Resolutions were adopted for for
warding to the Italian Consulate
General demanding that Mussolini
keep his hands off this Negro
country
Speakers at the meeting included
Tom De Fazio and Joseph Maglia-
cano of the italian Bureau of the
Communist Party, Richard B.
Moore of the International Labor
Defense, and Harry Cannes, associ-
ate editor of the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
BY Louis COIman

When the United States Supreme
Court justices file into their seats
today to hear the continuation of
the argument by Walter H. Pollak
in the appeals of Clarence Norris
and Haywood Patterson, Scottsboro
boys, this very act will be an indi-
cation of the tremendous pressure
exerted by the toiling masses of the
world demanding the lives and free
dom of these boys.
The United States Supreme Court
is supposed to be in recess for two
weeks starting today. Instead, this
recess will be broken into when Mr.,
Pollak continues his argument on
the constitutional question of the
denial of their rights to the Negro
people. He will be followed by
Lieutenant Governor Thomas E..
Knight of Alabama, former attor-
ney general and now special pros
ecutor of the Scottsboro boys, who
will argue for their legal lynching.
Osmond K. Fraenkel, constitutional
attorney, who has been IN charge
of the appeals for the International
Labor Defense since the last Deca-
tur trial, will follow Knight with
rebuttal argument.
Court Reflects Pressure
The court has already showed in
innumerable ways it's consciousness
of the pressure of thirteen million
Negroes and millions of white work
ers and sympathizers whose eyes
are upon it in this case.
A tripled detail of capitol police
lounged around in the corridor out
side the court while the case was
being heard Friday.
The doorkeeper nervously insisted
that Benjamin j. Davis, Jr., who
reported the proceedings of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18

formation, the Pittsburgh steel area
is working at the rate of about one
third of capacity. Other steel dis
tricts, in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Michigan, where lighter steels are
produced, show somewhat better
figures.
The steel industry throughout the
country is now working at the rate
of about so per cent of capacity. A
decline is imminent in March. But
even where there IS certain
BOOM" it does not tend to improve
the situation of the workers. The
construction of new, improved steel
mills, with the most modern produc-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
EDITORS ORGAN ADMITS.
PLOTTING WITH MAYOR.
AGAINST TRUCK STRIKE.
Editor and Publisher Proves Story
of Daily Worker That LaCuardia,
Newspapers and Union Chiefs
Planned to Break Strike
BY S. W. Gerson

Conclusive proof of the charge of the Daily Worker that
Mayor LaGuardia wealthy publishers and high union officials
plotted to avert break Transfers strike in New York
City few weeks given in the recent issue of Editor
and Publisher
The charge published in the Daily Worker of Feb 1,
denied by the Mayor the of the various
metropolitan newspapers involved
On that date the Daily Worker ran front page story
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
By Moissaye j. Olgin
This is the second article of 8
series on the situation of

oVCSH
Out of a total of thirty-two open
hearth furnaces of the Carnegie
Steel Company in Duquesne, Pa,
only four or five have worked con-
siStently during the past eighteen
months; only nine are working now.
The plant employed 6,000-7,0O0 in
1929. 1t now employs, on the basis
of the stagger system, between 5000
and 1000 workers. The work is gen.
orally two to three days a week. This
information was given to me by Bill
Spang, chairman of the rank-and-
file committee of thirteen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18

bApOoIIlB III5 SUI Ih6DI5dhIIIg UOlItI >
ence. Under the head MAYOR
PLOTS TO BREAK UP TRUCK
STRIKE" a sub-head said, Meets
With Publishers Against The
Threatened Walkout of Transfers"
The story itself stated in part:
"A conference Of Mayor LaGuar-
dia and the largest publishers of
the city to combat the teamsters'
strike was held Wednesday after
noon at City Hall, the Daily Worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
COURT HEARS
SCOTTSBORO
CASE TODAY
Review of Trial Mirrors
the Mass Campaign
Behind Boys

BENJAMIN ]. Davis, Jr., editor
Of the Negro Liberator," will re-
report the continuation of the
ScOttsbOrO hearings from the
United States Supreme Court
chambers today, for the Daily
Worker.1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18

learned from authoritative sources
yesterday.
"At this meeting the Mayor re-
ceived the support of the capitalist
newspapers of the city in a fight
to stem the strike movement in the
guise of moving food, fuels and
newspapers.
Now Editor and Publisher, organ
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-19
AUTOMOBILE DISTRIBUTION

Marshville Home presents an estimate Vi
$4,000 900 automobiles for the World anu
saws 24,OOO,OOO of the number are IN the
United States. In other words, the Unlteo
States owns 100000 motor cars and the
balance of the world owns 10,OOO,OOO. IN
the United States live around 125,OOO,OOo
of the worlds population of around bill
lion and half people.
The number of motor cars in this coun-
try is sufficient to take all the men, women
and children of the country to ride at one
time. The total population on wheels AZ
one time is easily possible with that num-
Der of motor vehicles running. In other
words, automobiles are almost as numerous
as families, while it remains true that some
families do not own cars and others have
more than one.
This country may be suffering from poor
distribution of wealth. but it is little hard
to understand how it can be suffering much
from poor distribution of automobiles; and
in view of the amount of wealth represent
ed by twenty-four million automobiles, 1t
would seem that the distribution of auto
mobiles in this country, in comparison with
the balance of the globe, is an indication
of much better distribution of wealth in
this than in foreign countries.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-19
A GOOD LEGEND MAKES EXPLoRA-
TON EXCITING
(By BRUCE CATION

Two French explorers have just set of
on hike through the desolate Hoggar
mountains of Africa in hopeful effort to
discover the fabulous beautiful blond sirens
of the Cara Ti-Djanoun peak.
These lovely ladies, according to legend,
live in fancy gardens high up in some lone
~ cleft of these very remote mountains,
and ar ESQ extremely charming that no man
who sees them ever returns.
The Frenchmen aim to find out all about
them, to conduct bit of archaeological
research on the side, and-if the legend
turns out to be a dud-to do a little hunt
ing.
Now all this is a sample of the kind OF
thing that used to make exploration worth
while-not because these sirens are sup
posed to be so excessively beautiful, but
because the legend itself is fanciful and
improbable, so that it gives the explorers a
regular story book excuse for making
their trip.
The world is shy on legends these days.
When such man as Byrd or Wilkins goes
NO"A " AlLdIIlIC IOf instance, the dumb
est school boy knows perfectly we'll what
he is going to see-ice, and lots of It,
few penguins, and possibly some particu-
lar mass of frozen rock and snow that no
one ever saw before.
There are no legends about the place.
We know too much. The explorer may add
to our knowledge of polar air currents and
geology, but he won't come back, talking Of
marvels and unearthly portents. Such
things have passed forever beyond the hui
man horizon.
1t was not always thus. A few centuries
ago an explorer did not merely set out to
see undiscovered land; he figured he had
a chance to stumble into the fabulous
courts of Prester John, or bag few uni
corns, or find the golden city of Manoa, or
see those strange folk whose heads are in
the middle of their chests.
The stnbbiest island that broke the sea
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-19
SPENDING OTHER PEOPLES MONEY FOR
PROSPERITY ~.'n.'"' .:,

The Washington Herald raises its voice against
the spending plan but says that there is no reason
to suppose that it will come to end In fact, it
says, spending is something which grows by what
it feeds upon as the increasing payments for ere
lief prove. 1t says: "The main business of these
politicians is to devise new plans to plumber the
people and to secure more money to keep more
parasites the public payrolls, until over ] 3
thousand million dollars year-or nearly one
third of the whole national ineome-goes toward
defraying the constantly mounting. costs of inerf
cient government and constantly Increasing num-
bers of useless and worthless politicians. The poll
ticians live on the tax graft The families of the
politicians live upon it, even to the most distant
relatives The friends of the politicians live upon
it. The families of the friends of the politicians
live upon it. The supporters of the politicians live
upon it and the families of the supporters of the
politicians, and the friends of the families of the
supporters of the politicians, and their friends and
their families live upon it, As the taxes increase
the swarms of parasites increase and fatten and
propagate. leech will drink until it is full and
then fall off-but politician is never fuI"-The
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-19
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
THE PRESIDENTS PROMISES AND
'.t - PERFORMANCE

In view of what the Roosevelt program already
has done to the doctrine of states right and home
rule coupled with what the pending program IN
yolving Federal regulation of public utilities and
extension of Federal power in various new drec-
tons will do if enacted, it is interesting to recall
Mr. Roosevet's previous attitude this great
question for so many generations considered vital
nv his party The platform on which he was noml-
mated and elected in 1882 pledged itself against
the encroachment of the Federal government ,pron-
ised to reduce its extent and expense.
On March 2, 1880, Mr.. Roosevelt, then governor
of New York, made radio speech on the subject
The New York Times the next day gave the fol-
lowing account of the speech:
Governor Roosevelt said that home rule was,
not "a cry of jealous commonwealth seeking thNlSI
own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT at the expense of sister state
but fundamental necessity if we are to remaintt'
truly united country
'He declared that the country was drifting to-
ward dangerous disregard of the minority when
marked the beginning of autocracy and possibly
government by an olgarchy.
"I have been asked to talk about the respec-
tive powers of the national and state governments
to rule and regulate, where one begins and the
other ends Governor Roosevelt said in an intro
duction to his set speech. by some curious twist
of the public mind under the terms home rule or
states rights this problem has been considered by
many to apply, primarily, to the prohibition issue
e"'As matter of fact and law, the governing
rights of the states are all of those which have not
been surrendered to the national government by
the constitution or its amendments Wisely or un:
wisely, people know that under the 18th Amend
men congress has been given the right to elgislate
this particular subject but this is not the case
in the matter of great number of other vital
problems. of government, such the conduct of
public utilities, of banks, of insurance, of business,
of agriculture of education, of social welfare and
dozen other important features. In these Wash
ington must not be encourages to Interfere"
These words of Mr.. Roosevelt worth thinking
about. There seems no way to fit them into the
New Deal They seem to clash with the present
Roosevelt denuneiation as completely his early
denunciation of the policy of borrowing to meet
deficits clashes with his practice of that policy
an unprecedented degree, A man has right 20
change his mind, and consistency is not always
desirable 1t does seem, however, that President
elected leading the people in one direction owes
some sort of explanation to himself and to them
when he turns around and leads them in the other.
Frank R. Kent in Charlotte Observer.