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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
Defense Shows That
Spy for Employers
Got Three Salaries
BY Michael Quinn
Especial to the Daily Worker)

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Feb. s.
The county clerk hanged himself
yesterday, with the result that open
ing Of the court was postponed Until
2 O'Clock in the trial Of the eighteen
worker defendants charged with
criminal syndicslism for their sue
cessful leadership of strike struggles
Of the impoverished brutally ex-
plotted agricultural laborers Of this
state.
The court and the prosecution
continue to throw every impeachment
in the path of the defense. Special
Prosecutor McAllister refusing to
produce the correspondence con-
corning the fantastic tale Of the
kidnapping" of William Hanks, labor
spy and star witness of the prose-
cution. Hanks, who has been on the
witness stand for six days and was
cross exanined today by Caroline
Decker, Albert Hougardy and Nora
Conklin, three of the defendants,
who questioned him on the contra
dictions between his testimony be-
fore the grand jury and his present
testimony. The defendants also con-
trasted the real teachings and activ-
tiles of the Communist Party with
the lies told by Hanks.
Hanks Got Three Salaries
Today's examination of Hanks
brought out the fact that he had
been receiving incomes from three
sources simultaneously, payments
by the State, payments by employ
ers for his spy activities in a can
merry plant. and groceries from the
relief bureau.
Gallagher won point on his de-
mand that subpoenas be issued for
reporters and others who had been
given information by the prosecu-
ton that Hanks had been kidnapped
by Communists, but was promptly
blocked by the court, which raised
new technicalities to prevent the
issuance of the subpoenas. This
constant blocking of the defense
elected the query from Gallagher:
us this chess game or are we
trying to find out the truth in these
cases?"
A new prosecution witness is now
on the stand. He is Louis Hen
ringer, a stool pigeon employed by
the PARSE Detective Agency. Posing
as an unemployed worker, he Joined
the Communist Party last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
NEW YORK

Justice Burt Jay Humphrey yes
terday signed the injunction pre-
venting the international Long,
shoremen's Association and the In
ternational Brotherhood Of Team
sters from uniting to unionize the
New York waterfront.
The injunction means that long
shoremen must not refuse to handle
cargo trucked by non-union team
sters. 1t sets a precedent which If
successful will be applied in every
instance where unions in the same
industry join to organize the work.
ers.
In signing the injunction, how
ever, Justice Humphrey granted a
stay pending appeal to higher
court. The stay is an attempt TO
forestan a strike. The Judge him
self explained later, however, that
non-union trucks must be allowed
to get on the piers. The stay simply
means that if in the opinion of any
Of the shippers or trucking COM
panies the unions have interfered
with the movement of freight
trucked by non-union men, they
need only cite the cases to Justice
Humphrey and the stay is lifted,
and the injunction becomes opera
tive. The stay remains in force
only as long as the trucknen and
longshorenen do not use their joint
power to unionize non union men.
Union Chiefs Agree
1t was announced that the repre-
sentatives of the unions had agreed
to the stay pending appeal,
Following the one-day strike Of
20, 900 drivers last Monday, leaders
of the rank and file committee Of
Is headed by Thomas Smith de-
clared that if the injunction is
signed, a general strike of all drivers
and longshoremen will be called,
The stay, which is no guarantee
that the unions will be protected
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
Two Workers Injured
In Railroad Collision

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Feb. 5.
(U.P) - Several persons we're re-
ported injured today when the
Miami Gulf Coast Limited train of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, enroute
to New York from the South, was
struck by freight train near Edge
wood, Maryland.
The passenger train had stopped
for signal when the freight crashed
into the standing train.
Two men, said to be employees of
a dining car. were taken to hos
pital at Havre De Grace, Maryland.
A number of passengers on the
train were badly shaken.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
VAN KLEECK
GIVES VIEWS
ON INSURANCE
House Committee Told
Bill H.R. 1927 viii
Secure All Workers
BY Seymour WaIdman
DAILY Worker Washington Buresu)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. - Mary
Van Kleeck, the brilliant and mag
netic chairman Of the International
Association for Social Insurance,
and one of the worlds most famous
industrial research authorities, cleo
trifled today's Labor subcommittee
hearings in describing the economic
situation necessitating the passage
of the Workers Unemployment, Old
Age. and Social Insurance Bill, H.R.
2827.
She spoke to a committee before
whom workers from nearly every
mass industry, agricultural laborers,
and professionals and technicians OF
all sorts will appear within the next
ten days in support Of the Workers
Bill. This measure was initiated by
the Communist Party and intro
duced in the House Of Representa-
tives by Ernest Lundeen, Farmer
Laborite of Minnesota.
Security For Workers
Security for all who work for
their living in the United States is
the primary and all-important obi
cation on which the 74th Congress
is called upon to act" Miss Van
Kleeck. who is also director Of in
dustrial studies of the Russell Sage
Foundation, declared at the outset
of her testimony. Her association
Is supporting the Workers Bill, she
informed the sub committee, be
cause it undertakes to provide COM
psnsation for insecurity for the
masses of the unemployed and, as
such, is the first step in the COM
prehensive program which the es-
Enlistment of security for the
American people will require in the
next few years"
She recommended also "the
necessity for stability in the dollar
paid to workers either in wages
or salaries or insurance" This
could be done, she stated, by de-
veIoping a workers index which
will currently inform all who work
for their living as to the eff
cheney of the instrument of ex-
change which money represents.
The insurance dollar must be kept
stable by some such workers in
dex."
Elmer Rice, the representative and
member of the executive committee
of the Authors League of America
and Pulitzer Prize winner play
wright, testified that " the bill
has the whole-tearted support of
the authors of this country" THE
Authors League he said, speaks
officially for practically all the
authors of this country" and "has
endorsed H.R. 1927 because it is the
only pending bill which offers au-
thors protection" from "the haunt
ing spectre Of insecurity"
Transients Support Bill
Joseph Murray, the spokesman for
the transient Rank and File Com
mittee Of Washington, D. c., de-
clared that on January 90, 1885 "the
transients assembled at the Boys
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
Capitalists Demand Drastic
immigration La,Os, Group Told

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. S.
Powerful groups of industrialists are
constantly making protests against
militant workers and demanding
more drastic deportation laws
against foreign-b militants.
Commissioner General of Immi-
grafton Daniel w. Mccormack told
this to a delegation which visited
him in the U. S. Labor Department
offices yesterday to protest the de-
portation drive against the foreign
born and the use of the deportation
laws to break strike struggles of
native and foreign-born workers.
Only a few evenings ago he was
taken from his dinner, he stated,
by representatives of two of the
most powerful corporations in the
country who held him in confer
ence from 7 o'clock in the evening
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
TheInjunctionMust
Be Smashed
An Editorial

Signing the injunction against the easers and ongshoremen
yesterday land then tcky staying its
employers The injunction restraining
interfering with of
signed sealed the hands of the
strike forced the
tool Humphreys by granting stay Of the Injunction
pending the hearing of appeal"
strategy Chamber handing
aedto forestan
the time hold the heads of the eamser
powerful injunction already signed Without
the first moment that the employers feel able do it. they will with
draw the stay and speed their and
the waterfront.
Only the of the workers only the threat
immediate strike the Casual
employers to accept the temporary stay.
The employers the signed injunction
of appeal them time organize their skbreakng
ats This what they barganed for and this is what they
Only the threat
off the injunction And only similar action
junction the with the
ingy the workers heads
The teamsters should Immediately to strike
the bosses with the Injunction in their
lions the Only Injunction
Prepare for action dock and every garage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06

didn't work for long time laid off months
wife SICK the funds all disappeared slowly couldn't give
thing before making up duty by sending in
days wages four dollars.
will try to send
This accompanying donation
Hendon defense received by the national from
worker in Battle Greek Mich counegned by his wife
Only $1294 received Tuesday scotsboro erdon
Defense
total of $8ol6 more is needed Immediately carry
the appeals before the u S Supreme
Rush funds for the
national Office of the LID, 80 York City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
TOLEDO


TOLEDO, Ohio. Feb. 5.-Twenty-
one hundred workers OF the Spicer
Manufacturing Co., organized in the
Mechanics Educational Society and
the American Federation Of Labor,
by presenting a solid united front,
forced the company to grant their
demands for a 10 per cent wage
increase. A combined meeting Of
the M. &. s. A and A. F. Of l.
workers tonight will vote on the
proposals of the company,
The decision to strike today was
taken by M. E. S A. members last
Sunday. The M. E. S. A. has q
majority of workers in the shop
organized. At a combined meeting
of the M. e. S. A. and the United
Automobile Workers Union CA. F
of L. the proposal of a common
strike with the M. E. S. A. was en-
Enthusiastically accepted. A. F. Of l.
officials of the union refused to
attend the meeting. The rank and
file Of the A. F. Of L. local voted
to strike without them.
A leaf1et Of the Communist Party
DO the M. E, S. A. members, calling
for strike T11esdav uyae met NTH M
enthusiastic response by the rank
and file.
Workers in three plants OF the
Metal Wheel Company voted to
strike next Monday If their demands
are not met. The 1000 glass work
ers Of the Libby, Owens, Ford Plate
Glass Co. won a 5 per cent increase
in pay after they voted for strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
Militants Gain
In Union Poll

SAN FRANCISCO, FEB. 5.-That
the betrayal of the San Francisco
General Strike by the reactionaries
in the Central Labor Council here
was not forgotten by the workers
in the unions, is evident from the
rank and file vote cast in election
of officers of the council here re-
Gently.
Harry Hook, candidate for vice
president, drew eighty-one votes
against Anthony Niriega, machine
man, who received 246. Harry
Bridges, leader of the recent marine
strike, received sixty for president
against 246 for Edward Vanderleur,
incumbent. John McKelvey re-
ceived sixty-tWo for secretary
treasurer against 264 for the old
reactionary. John O'Connell, Votes
for the rank and file candidates for
the executive board and committees
averaged above sixty.
This was the first time in the his
tory of the council that q slate was
run against the reactionary ma
chine That the officials of the
council see the large vote for the
rank and file as threat to their
control, is evident from the way
they rushed to the Hearst papers
with statements about the need of
expelling all Communists in the
council.
Immediately following the cleo
tons, Harry Bridges declared: The
Labor Council belongs to the work
ers, and we are going to give it
back to the workers. The fight is
Just beginning
Most delegates at the council con-
sist of union officials or their sp-
pointees. Never in the history of
the council we're as many modified
by the machine to attend
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
Ward Line in Move
To Dodge Liabilities

NEW YORK.-U.P)-The Ward
Line yesterday applied in Federal
Court to have it's liabilities in the
Mohawk disaster, in which As lives
were lost, limited to $4,000, al
though more than s1,O0O,0O0 in
claims already have been filed.
The petition laid the blame for
the collision off Sea Grit, N. j., on
the incompetent" master of the
Norwegian freighter, Talisman, and
the failure of the Mohawk,s tele-
motor steering gear.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
Nazis Set New
Murder Trials

BERLIN, Feb. 5.-The barbaric
severity of sentences now being
handed down by the Peoples
Court" here for the most trivial
"offenses," in addition to certain
hints by the judges, indicate that
Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the
German workers, will soon be
brought before this tribunal of fas-
cist executioners.
Three Esse workers were SEN
fenced yesterday to terms of hard
labor consisting of Is, IA and 10
years, The three men we're accused
of having injured member of the
Storm Troops in the course of 8
quarrel on Feb. 1, 1888 two days
after Filters advent to power.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
WILKES BARRE

WILKES BARRE, Pa, Feb s.
The strike call of the general body
Of the Glen Alden miners has shut
down all but two mines of the Glen
Alden Coal Co., in Luzerne County
1t is estimated that 5000 miners
of the total of 1900 are out on
strike. The men are striking for
the right of joining the union of
their own choice, against being in
undated while at work, and for
the right to take up their griev-
ances in the manner they choose.
This strike came because of a
United Mine Workers of America
Button Committee" who wanted to
force the miners organized in the
Anthracite Miners Union of Penn
Sylvania, back into the U.M.W.A.
or stop working. The coal company
and the local police force and State
Troopers had full knowledge of the
planned attack by the button COM
mittee." AmbulanceS came to the
woodward Mine before the miners
of the new union had any knowl-
edge of the impending fight. The
button committee" swooped down
while the police stayed in the back
ground and looked on.
Writ ASKED For
The coal company has taken out
an injunction against the leading
members of the new union and its
executive board prohibiting the new
union to strike and picket. The
hearing on the injunction will take
place Wednesday in Luzerne County
court.
The new union held a number of
mass meetings attended by men of
both unions, and measures to or
ganize strong picketing we're taken.
The coal company's general man
ager, Griffith, issued a statement
telling the unemployed that they
could hold jobs irrespective Of
union affiliation as long as they are
willing to go to work now. The
statement said that $50 men APP
piled for jobs the first day, which
figure even though no doubt exag-
gerated is negligible when $4,000
people live on relief in this coun-
ty. The Unemployment Councils
issued statement declaring that
inasmuch as the grievances of the
miners now on strike are justified
they called upon the unemployed
not to scs'b, but to support the
strike.
Troopers Shipped In
State Troopers are being shipped
from every part of the State. The
U. w. M. A. officials are working
overtime to smash this strike. How
ever the men are ready to fight be-
cause if they lose this strike they
feel that wholesale discrimination
will follow, accompanied with more
wage cuts and worsening conditions.
The strike is expected to spread
to other mines of other companies
in the county. A strike is in prog
ress in Shenandoah involving 5000
men. The strike in Shenandoah is
in District 9 of the United Mine
Workers Of America. The strike is
called an outlaw strike by Martin
Brennan, president of the district.
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making the first moves to execute
the committees new initiation
measures.
It was for the purpose Of Sup
porting the President" by open fss-
cist dictatorship when the people
could no longer be swayed by dema-
gogy that Wall Streets fascist army
plotters sought SOC, 900 storm troops.
Initiation is one of the capitalists
ways Of making the working class
foot the bill for "shot in the arm"
for capitalism. The new indirect
initiation program is continuation
of five inflationary steps carried
out by the Roosevelt government
after Committee for the Nation
leaders worked them out in secret
conferences. In these conferences
Committee for the Nation capital
lists proposed initiation to answer
working class struggle for work and
food both on the farms and In the
factories.
Vanderlip Studies Nazis
A prime mover in these secret
conferences was Frank A. Wander
lip former President Of the National
City Bank. director of the Bendix
Aviation Corp, special partner of
Baker, Weeks & Harden of 50 Wall
Street, member of the Council of
New York University, and once the
angel of the Technocrats. Frank
A. vanderlip, Jr., speaking for his
father, informed the Daily Worker
that Banker Vanderlip, Senior.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
Mooney Files
For Rehearing

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-Attor-
neys for Tom Mooney, heroic class
war prisoner, filed today for re-
hearing of MONEYS motion that
he be allowed to file a petition for
a writ of habeas corpus for his re-
lease from San Quentin Prison.
Mooney has completed eighteen
years of a life prison sentence de-
spite the fact that the testimony
on which he was convicted has been
proved several times to be perjured.
The original hearing of Moneys
application for a writ of habeas
corpus was denied by the Supreme
Court on the pretext that he failed
to show that he had been denied
relief by the California courts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
Air Alliances Loom against
Ndzis in armament Struggle

BERLIN, Feb. 5. - Pressing for
greater ornaments concessions, the
Hitler government this afternoon
found itself threatened by air al
liances of all interested imperialist
powers, unless 1t issued a favorable
answer to the Franco British pro-
posals concluded yesterday at Lon
don. Verbal offers of such war al
liances were made by the British
government to virtually all foreign
embassies.
The main point in the proposals
is the scrapping of the military
clauses of the treaty of Versailles,
which limited German ornaments.
The intention is to work out a four
power pact between Germany. Bri-
tain, France and Belgium in which
each would pledge aid with airplanes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
STAY GRANTED TO DAM
MOVE TO STRIKE ACTION:
2l,OOO COAL MINERS OUT
2lOO OF MESA and AT of l. Win Pay Increase by United
Strike Threat in TOIedO-POHce Mass in Luzerne
County; 5000 out in Shenandoah

The strike
no metal workers walked out and textile see and auto workers
bigger WakOuts Fifteen thousand anthracite
Alden Co. mines and 5000 Shenandoah northeastern Pennsylvania
living
City strike
Judge Humphrey
In Detroit following
cOde hundred in
metal plants have voted for strike The workers ethg with strike
ument and the A F. of L. leaders
Silk local the United
A the
Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
Death
In ) Minutes

CLEVELAND, Miss, Feb. s.
James H. Coyner, Negro, was in
dicted, tried, convicted and SEN
fenced to die all in one day, after
being brought here under heavy
guard from Jackson yesterday. An
all-white jury returned a verdict of
guilty in less than five minutes
Execution has been set for March 5.
Coyner was sentenced on the
charge of killing white couple last
December, to which police claimed
he confessed. The trial was further
colored by unproven accusations
that the defendant was grave
robber and had cut up several
bodies, which, if true, would indi-
cate a pathological condition famil
lar to students of sexual alterations.
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to one o'clock in the morning with
proposals for more drastic deporta-
ton measures and for Fastening de-
portation proceedings, without CIV
ing the deportees the right of APP
peal.
$500 Reasons
Revealing his own stand on the
question, the Commissioner of I'm
migration told the delegation that
w. w. Brown, Assistant Commits
sioner, had estimated there were
$500 reasons for which militant
workers can be deported under the
present laws, and that he, himself,
was planning to propose to Con-
gress that immigration agents be
empowered to make arrests without
warrants. He justified this sum-
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Series On Hearst
To Begin Saturday

Daily Worker will
the inside story William Randolph
articles written by Casey Managing Editor of the
Daily Worker Hearst blackmaie
receiver fighting with monopo against workers
interests which boyhood
planning
perialis
Order extra bundles of the Daily be
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in the event any Of the powers in
volved was attacked.
The French regard the British
support to its proposals as a great
victory, and feel that the terms of
the agreement would make it diff
cult for Hitler to refuse without ex-
posing his pretensions at favoring
the peace of Europe. Though it is
clear. also, that the British i'm
perialists are using this maneuvre
with France in their efforts to help
build up an anti-Soviet block by
offering Hitler concessions in arm
aments, which the Fascists have
already built, in return for easing
up the tension with France.
Conflicting reports come from Of
(ContsaIed on Pa1e q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06
Birth Control Bill Killed

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, (UP).-
Birth control advocates lost point
today when the House Judiciary
Committee voted fifteen to eight to
table resolution which would have
permitted birth control information
to be sent in the mails.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-06

spent many hours studying the
structure Of Hitler Fascism in the
libraries Of Germany last summer,
and is close friend of and usually
agrees economically with Gerard
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COURT SIGNS WRIT AGAINST TRANSFERS
Hitler Adn1irer Leader
In Nation Committed
Frank A. Vanderlip, Active in Group Behind Ia
fation Measures, Student of Methods
Of MussOIini and Nazis
BY Marguerite Young

The Committee for the Nation potential grand council
of American fascists is driving ahead on Support the
President propaganda campaign designed prevent strikes
against the pricerasng, wagereducing effects of new
program The Roosevelt government Is now
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Push Circulation Drive

Press Run Yesterday - 45, 4et
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The Fort Peck press., 1935-10-03
Birthday Party

A delightful birthday dinner
party was given Sunday evening
at the Los Angeles Club, honorine
Mrs Warren Hallern, Mike Berner.
and Jim Wagner. Covers were
laid for nineteen At the close of
the dinner, the honor guests we're
presented with a number of very
beautiful gifts. The evening was
spent in dancing. Those present
beside the honor guests were:
Mr.. and Mrs. John Trees, Mr. and
Mrs Joe Webber, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fl. Lawson, Mr.. and Mrs E. Will
mas, Mrs. Mike Berner, Mrs. Joe
Miss Gay Deacons, Warren
Hallern, Roy Douglas, Herbert
Harvey, Bill Gibbons and Walter