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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
Revolt in Detroit A, F, of L,
Against Boss Politicians
Two Proposals NJ a d G
Favoring Independent
Political Action
BY A. B. MagiI

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. t0.-Re-
volt against the traditional policy
Of the bureaucracy of the American
Federation of Labor Of supporting
the Republican and Democratic
Parties found expression at the last
meeting of the Central Labor Body
of the Detroit and Wayne County
Federation of Labor. Two proposals
looking toward independent labor
action on the political field were
made on the floor; one was imme-
diately killed by the well-oiled Mar
tel machine in control of the Fed
Grafton, while President Frank x.
Martel succeeded in stalling off &C
ton on the other for at least a
month.
A resolution was introduced by the
Building Trades Council, stating
that while the practice of endorsing
capitalist parties may have been of
value in the past, it was no longer
suitable, and proposing that in the
future all candidates endorsed by
the Federation should sign agree
ments pledging themselves to carry
out the Federation's program, Mar
tel, who is himself leading Repub-
lican politician, smelled danger in
even this mild resolution and i'm
mediately put over proposal that
this be made special point at the
first regular meeting of the Central
Labor Body Immediately after the
primaries on March 4. Which means
that in this election, the Federation
will continue to support capitalist
candidates.
Previously, Martel had read off
a list of Republican and Democratic
candidates and the recommendation
of the Committee on Political Ac-
ton that they be endorsed. Dele
gate Weber, of Journeymen Tailors
Union 229, offered an amendment
that the Federation withdraw its
support from all Democratic and
Republican candidates since they
have always shown themselves as
enemies of labor. Instead, he pro-
posed that the Federation adopt the
line of independent political action
and choose candidates that are true
representatives of labor. Without
waiting for discussion, Martel i'm
mediately put the amendment to a
vote and 1t was defeated.
Another clash took place when
Martel proposed that the Federation
arrange q special reception for
Frank Murphy, former Mayor of
Detroit and now governor of the
Philippines, who is scheduled to
visit Detroit soon, A delegate arose
and protested, pointing out that it
was Murphy's police who assisted
Henry Ford's hired thugs in the
Ford Massacre of March 7, 1892.
Martel's clique were on the lob,
however, and succeeded in putting
over the motion.
The meeting was RECALLED with
speeches by a number of capitalist
candidates for Judge, including ex-
Congressman Carl M. Weideman.
who last year was exposed as one
Of the directors of the Dawn Patrol,
an industrial spy agency, and Judge
Ralph D. Liddy, who last year acted
as chairman of an anti-Soviet meet
ing organized by Ukrainian white
guards. A welcome contrast was a
speech made by the partisan
for judge of Recorders
Court, Maurice Sugar, prominent
labor attorney, who called for labor
to organize politically, as well as
economically, in order to improve
its conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
Appeal Frees
2 in Florida

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, Feb. 10
Mass pressure won another victory
when the Supreme Court of Flor
ida reversed the decision handed
down in the Orlando court against
E. L. Bland and his wife. Lillian
Bland. The couple. who have been
active in organizing white and
Negro workers, we're arrested on a
charge Of vagrancy and sentenced
TO pay a $50 fine or serve so days
in jail
Use Of the vagrancy law by po-
lice to jail militant workers and
labor organizers is scored in the
decision of the high court, which,
however, pretends that the Bland
case is an isolated example Of this
use of the law
The complaints on which the
petitioner was tried wholly fails to
state an ofense against the law,
neither was it supported by any
valid evidence whatever. Rarely,
if ever, has more arbitrary high
hanoeo exercise OF the police power
been brought to the attention of
this court. 1t appears that petit
toner lived in nearby community,
had means Of support, had a
perfect right to be where he was
at the time when he was arrested.
was not molesting anyone. and had
no suspicion pointed to him as
criminal character. There was no
basis for his arrest and these was
less for the conviction"
The appeal was made by w.
Theo. woodward, employed by the
International Labor Defense. Pro-
tests against the arrests have been
received from many parts Of Flor
ida and elsewhere.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
Fingerprint
Bill Planned
In Michigan
Auto Bosses Conference
Tries to Put Workers
Under Police Control

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 1O.-The
real meaning Of the Michigan Crime
Conference called in Lansing by At
torney General Harry S. Toy, was
revealed when the conferenc e
adopted a resolution providing for
the fingerprinting of all residents of
the State. Under the guise of fight
ing crime, every militant worker
would be placed under the control
Of the police. A fingerprinting bill
in accordance with the resolution
will be introduced into the State
legislature, it is stated.
In 1891 The State legislature
rushed through in its closing days
an alien egistrstion and finger
printing bill. A great mass protest
movement was organized, however,
which compelled the Federal court
10 declare the bill unconstitutional.
Now the auto manufacturers gov
eminent and its police forces are
trying to put through an even more
sweeping measure.
Would Abolish Elections
The conference also adopted a
resolution calling for the appoint
ment Of Circuit judges for life and
of prosecutors for specific terms in
stead of electing these officials. Res
olutions are now pending in both
houses of the legislature calling for
the appointment of both Circuit
and Supreme Court judges.
Maurice Sugar, prominent labor
attorney and candidate for Judge Of
Recorders Court, in an interview
with the Daily Worker, denounced
both these proposals as steps toward
fascism. Sugar played leading role
in 1881 in defeating the alien regis
tration bill.
1.-THE fingerprinting of all Michi-
gan residents" he said, would place
the entire labor movement under
police supervision and control I am
sure the auto companies would ap-
preciate it as valuable adjunct to
their ruthless blacklist system.
Appointing judges and prosecu-
tors, instead of electing them, means
the abandonment of one of the pre-
vailing democratic forms. This arises
from the fear on the part of the
dominating group in society of ac-
ton by the workers, who are fast
becoming resentful of the denial of
their rights. 1t is the duty of every
worker to fight such efforts tooth
and nail"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
Sam Krieger
Wins Release
bridgeport
Jail Term Is COMMITTED
for Leader of Anti.
Fascist Rally

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Feb. TO-
Mass pressure has compelled au-
thorities here to release Sam Krie-
ger, trade union organizer from the
Fairfield county Jail where he was
confined for fifty-one days as a re-
suit of an anti-fascist demonstra-
ton.
Krieger was originally sentenced
to thirty days, $32 fines and costs
amounting to $23, total of ninety
seven days if the fine and costs
were not paid Sundays and holi-
days are not counted). Due to the
bsrrage of protest kilograms, letters
and visiting delegations to the su-
thorities, however, Krieger was re-
leased upon the payment of $13
after the costs we're RENTED.
The demonstration at which
Krieger and five others we're ar
rested was on the occasion of the
visit TO Bridgeport of the German
Consul-General of New York to de-
liver a speech. The demonstration
caused the Consul-G General to send
some one else to speak in his place
and also turned the Nazi inspired
concert" into a big financial flop.
The Socialist" Mayor McLevy,
the City ttorney and the superin-
tendent of police all testified on the
witness stand against Krieger and
were responsible for the severity of
the sentence on the charges of at
tempting to hold a street meeting
without police permit.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
City Council
Of Davenport
Endorses Bill
Resolution States 1927
ANSWERS the Needs
of UnemplOyed''

DAVENPORT, Iowa, Feb. 10. -
The City Council Of Davenport has
endorsed the Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance Bill and
sent a copy Of the resolution to the
Senators and Congressmen Of the
Second Iowa District. Secretary Of
Labor Perkins and to the Houss
Labor COMMITTEE, as a result Of a
visit TO the Council from the I'M
employed and Relief Workers Pro-
tective Association.
Davenport has 2 population Of
sixty thousand and virtually the
whole town has signided their SUM-
port Of the Bill by this act of the
Council.
The resolution states in part that
q critical examination Of the varis
GUS plans offered indicates that the
Bill known as H. R. 1898 nov z.
R. 282D would answer the needs Of
our unemployed workers more ads-
quately than any other" and Pc
titions the 74th Congress Of the
United States to pass this Bill.
STANFORD, Conn. Feb. 10.
Endorsement Of the Workers IN
employment and Social Insurance
Bill, H. R. 1927, has been secured
here by the Joint Action Committee
for the Bill. from number Of
American Federation Of Labor
Unions and fraternsl groups.
Among those who have endorsed
the bill are the Carpenters Union
OF the A. F. of L.. The Sons Of Italv
Society, Italo-Americsn Real Estate
Owners Association. the Gravenese
Society and the Stamford Relief
Workers League. All of these or
CARNATIONS with the exception Of
the carpenters have agreed to send
two delegates to take part in the
work Of the Action Committees
work Of spreading the bill. among
the workers here and presenting
it to the City Council for endorses
ment,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
LIP Killed on Iohs

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. TO-
AS result of the speed-up ushered
in by the New Deal" industrial
workers of Pennsylvania suffered a
total of over $4,000 accidents in 1894.
an increase of 6.6 per cent over 1893.
according to a report just released
by the State Department of Labor
and Industry. A total of 1,122 work
ers were killed on the Job during
the year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11

Nazis Say That Aim
In Northern Schleswig
Is To Take Territory

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 10. - Nov
that the Saar plebiscite is over, the
struggle for northern Schleswig will
begin, warns the "Nordschleswige
zeitung," which is published in APP
enradt, on Danish soil.
Preparations for this reconouest
have already begun. The Nazi news
paper, h "Landeszeitung." , t
Flensbu-g, writes to the effect that
one of these days the sluggish
Danes" will wake up and rub their
eyes to find that the frontiers have
been ohangd overnight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
Coastwise Stevedores
Win Charter in Boston

BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 1O.-Coast-
wise longshoremen here have beer
granted q charter by the Interna
tional Longshoremens Association
This step became very urgent by
the jurisdictional fight which has
been developing over cosstwise work
IN Boston harbor. A newly formed.
state chartered organization known
as the Bay State Associated, Boston
Coastwise Long sh remen and
Steamship Clerks has been making
progress toward recognition by the
shipowners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
Relief Jim-Crow

CACHE, ILL.,, Feb. 1o.-Negroes are
forced here to wait outside relief
stations to secure relief orders, while
whites are permitted 10 enter. as re-
lief officials exert every effort to
prevent q united fight by Negro and
white unemployed workers,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
Unemployment Grows in
Poland

WARSAW, Poland, Feb. 10 CUP) -
The government was understood to
be gravely concerned today with the
unemployment situation. Unem-
ployed, according to latest estimates.
numbers more than 2,5oo,ooo and is
steadily increasing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
W II A T. S @ n
philadelphia, Pa.

Labor Defender Concert and Danes
Friday, Feb. q at Ambassador Hall
i7o4 N. Broad ST. Nadia Chilkovsky
in a series Of revolutionary danes;
well known violinist; entire Freihsit
Gsssng Ferein chorus; excellent
dance orchestra. Adm. at door, soc;
in advance through organizations SEC.
Tickets at 4e N. 9th St., Room 2o7,
Fascist Development in the United
States Exposed Hear John L. Spivss
on wall Street Fascist Conspiracy.
on Tuesday. Feb. II at pm. al
Mercantile Hall, Broad and Master
streets. Auspices, LID Adm. Csc.
Scott Nearing, Just returned from
Europe and the Soviet Union. viii
lecture on Fascism and Communism
on Saturday, Feb. IS at $50 pm.
at the Olympia Arena, Broad St.,
below Bainbridse. Adm. Csc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
Chicago, III.

Organizations Attention! The Inter
national Workers Order Of Chicago
is celebrating its 5th Anniversary At
the Ashland Auditorium, Feb %,
$50 pm. to am. An excellent pro-
gram has been arranged. Kindly keep
this date open.
Music and DaLcs, following by
dancing to am. Saturday. Feb Is
at $50 pm. at Peoples Auditorium,
24s7 ". Chicago Ave Adm. 35c: 100
tickets at Csc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
Note on the U.S.S.R.

WHILE capitalist of dollars the
Soviet government has paid penny obligations At the
present time the foreign debt of the
10 pay TINS relatively small sum- the U s. only
able balance Of trade but its gold
100000 Yet 1t to this country that the Roosevelt not
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Index of Business Activity

THE weekly index the New to 1873 for the week
ended Feb Better weather conditions croadngs
series and lumber production Smaller
ton cloth production output Steel and electric power m
duction
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Boston, Mass.

Bazaar for Communist Party at New
International Hall, AZ Wenonsh St,
Roxbury. Wednesday to Saturday,
Feb Is TO 1e Additional features to
main program every evening Eats,
bargains, entertainments.
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The High Cost of Living

living costs mounting steadily Confer
ence Board reports that the of living per during
1894 1t 3 cent higher than beginning
Deal The figures C. B. considerably underestimate the
actual rise in living Their calculations rent do not
take into account the particularly
Nor does the index taxes which
directly and indirectly boost living
Price trends indicate that continue to advance
FOODS rising sharply Rents which
moved upward in 1884 this shows no sign of cken
ing Another significant development
Is the growing burden of taxation on
such items cigarettes and gasoline
all reduce the purchasing power workers income
The living standards the than in
The latest increases in living their stan
drds With the workers purchasing production
ana the consuming power of the will grow wider the
basis Will be laid for the further deepening
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
The Fight for Markets

m THE basis the imperialism is
Quoting worldwide offensive the result of
dollar devauaon which enabled manufacturers to under
sell their rivals exports q They increased from
sl655O000O0 in 1888 TO s21330OoOOO year
Because of their relatively low prices markets Aner
can manufactured products sold Machinery
autos and metal products accounted in the
quantity Of exports To Department
negotiating trade agreements with foreign countries One
mas ALREADY been signed with Brazil which many advantages to
American automobile manufacturers
With world trade only 40 precsis volume the fight
Tor markets has become acute than
IN american and Japanese exports the other
and maneuverng for better positions international monetary
These trade battles
for the redvision of the world and its markets
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11
Notes

The American Banker that the concentration
banking steadily under During the past
Two years 2 banks went the leaving banks
about half as there decade are still
about SOOOOOOo0 tied up in banks banking
In 1929 the three Motors and Chvs-
produced II per cent of all automobiles
IN 1885 the big three produced per sellers
among cigarettes accounted per cigarettes in 1882
IN 1884 the three biggest brands sold 90 Of all
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Evening star., 1935-05-19
Man Without
a Home
'e1107, zHe z01e Sz01y q zAe nan 7OA0 7070ze !
by RUPERT HUGHES

young John Howard Payne stood, unrecog
nized. in small crowd in front of the Drrry
Lane Theatre where he was scheduled to
make, that night, his first theatrical appear
ance in London. A drunken English sailor was
telling the group that no Yankee should be
allowed to play on an English stage while the
two countries were at war. Impetuously the
prettiest Of trio of girls spoke up in defense
of the young American.
Payne was fascinated, and lost no time in
finding out the girls name = Mary Goodwin.
But in spite of all his manoeuwes. it was
long time before he met her. She was not only
Evening star., 1935-05-19
"Home, SaUeet Home

fascinating but notorious. One of her ad-
mirers was the wild young poet Shelley.
Married though he was to one of the beauties
of England, he had fallen madly in love with
Mary Goodwin. While Payne was still lam
gushing hopelessly, longing to meet her.
Shelley scandalized all England by running
away with her. leaving his wife Harriet to
drown herself.
Meanwhile Payne had other things to
agonize him besides his frustrated love for
Mary. He saw his first stage success begin to
slip away from him. Trying to recoup his for
tunes by branching out as an actor manager.
Evening star., 1935-05-19
THE STORY SO FAR

w IHo could have guessed that the most
w popular song ever written, Home,
W Sweet Home" would wait to be
written by wandering actor who never had
a home? Or that the most blood-freezing
story in the English language - that of the
monster Frankenstein - would be created by
delicately lovely girl of nineteen?
And who could have imagined that Fate
would bring these two together in fantastic
but tender love affair?
1t began one day in 1913, when handsome
Evening star., 1935-05-19
CHAPTER III

prison. He lay on his
loathsome bed at noon, hungry and
hopeless. The ugly face of the
turnkey was thrust against the bars
like a grotesque mask. The villain
growled:
"A packitch for you, Payne"
He poked little parcel through,
and it plopped on the cold stone
floor. Payne snatched it up. 1t was
French play the author had sent
to him at the theatre that had
failed. He began to read. squatting
on the floor. He half rose to his
knees, whispering: Thank Godr"
then God help mel"
To Payne the French play was a
rope, rope ladder let down from
Heaven. He prayed for help in
adapting it to the British market.
Almost his last crumb of pocket
money went for pens, ink, and
paper; then he set to work. Stopping
only to sharpen worn down goose
quill or to warm up his cruel, he
toiled till the dim sunlight gave way
to candlelight, and candlelight to
sunlight, thrice. He slept mainly at
his riCkety table, his face on his
crossed forearms, the candle threat
ening to set fire to his hair.
When the job was done, the actor
manager. Elliston, accepted it and
threw it into production at once to
beat three other theatres working
on the same play. Payne stopped the
warden on his rounds and implored
permission to attend rehearsals. The
warden snarled:
Were running a prison, not an
hotel"
but if l provide you and your
friends with free tickets -"
The warden grinned: Free tick.
cts? Waal - but could ! rely on
your guarantee to keep it dark, and
be back every night at lock-up?"
Il swear"
The irresistible lure of free
tickets won the warden over, and
the court approved his recommen-
dation. He even let Payne go to the
opening of his "Therese. the Orphan
of Geneva" He went with the
warden and saw his hopes rise,
waver, rise, dwindle. die, revive,
triumph. He heard the critics openly
praise his play in the lobbies.
The next night he slept in his foul
bed the sweet sleep of a victor on a
hard-won battlefield. "Therese"
brought him money enough to
satisfy the creditor who had seized
his person, and the warden gave him
a horny hand and a cynical farewell:
Goodbye. me lad, or pr'aps it's
aw revaw."
Its good-bye!" said Payne.
The warden smiled hopefully.
ANY time you have any more plays
to write, your old lodgings are at
your disposal. You writing fellows
are our most reliable customers"
Knowing that many other cred.
itors were waiting to restore him to
Old Fleet, Payne fled to France, but
now with pocketful OF commissions
to find other plays as successful as
"Therese.
To get the prison stencil out OF his
nostrils, he took quarters in a
palace - or at least, an ex-palace,
the Palais Royal The rent was not
so steep as the stairs.
lied and moiled adapting French
}. When a little money came in, he
o MAKE France his country and send
Evening star., 1935-05-19

He toiled and moiled adapting French
successes. When a little money came in, he
decided to make France his country and send
for his two long lost sisters. When the money
failed to turn up, he postponed his debts, and
wondered how much longer he could endure
deferment. Though he moved in gay French
Bohemia life, he could not fit himself into it.
Women did not pursue him as once they had
done, and he never had pursued women The
longing for good woman was still deep in his
soul, and it was like him to take as his ideal
the Mary Shelley whom many people thought
of as the worst woman in or out of England.
Evening star., 1935-05-19
May ~, 1885

he went deeply into debts which he
could not pay. Finally one day he
was thrown into a debtors prison.
Evening star., 1935-11-03

touring advantages and attractions
that are available nearer home. Ap-
proximately 10 per cent Of all requests
coming over the counter of the local
Touring Bureau were for local infor-
nation, while more than 20 per cent
were for routings into nearby Mary
land, Virginia, New Jersey, Delaware
and Pennsylvania.
Economic Condition Influenced.
The seasonal trends in the direc-
ton of travel out Of the District are
particularly interesting. Back in jan
uary. for instance, nearly half of the
requests were for routings into the
Southeast, particularly to Florida, but
by July these requests had dropped to
8 per cent. On the other hand, rout-
ings to the Northeast, including New
York State and New England, rose
from 1874 per cent in March to 32.2
per cent in July.
There can be little doubt that the
phenomenal gains in motor touring
this year, accompanied by the in
creased touring expenditures, have had
q very distinct influence upon the gen.
eral economic conditions Of the coun-
try. With good roads, reasonable reg
ulation and relief from excessive tax
alton, it is more than likely that there
will be further substantial gains in
motor travel during the years ahead.
Evening star., 1935-11-03

work up into the cylinders and this
may have very serious results.
Here are two good tips for ecol
weather starting:
/. Press down on the foot accel-
orator three or four times before STEP
ping on the starter.
2. Hold the clutch down" while
the starter turns the motor over. This
relieves the starter Of the extra load
of turning the gears in the transmits
sion.
The A. A. A. District of Columbia
Motor Club is obtaining charts on Ill
makes of cars showing the amount Of
any particular "anti-freeze" solution
necessary for each make of car. Any
one desiring this information should
call Metropolitan 1000, and the club
will be very glad to answer any ques-
tions In this connection.