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St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1935-03-01
Monster Mass Meetings

will be held 70, the Workers both Skilled
and Unskilled Field Laborers and
Trades men) this week. All workers are
requested to attend and hear the true
story How Labor ls'0ppressed Deprived
and Exploited BY The Virgin Islands
Company. And why Labor Should De-
mand Higher Wages And Better work.
ing and living Conditions.
Several Speakers will address you
MI Morris E. Davis will give you full
reasons and facts Why the Virgin Islands
Company Can Ard VIII Pay A Living
Wage And how they have plan to en-.
slave you (The Workers..
These meetings will be held under the
auspices of Agricultural Workers Union
No. 1864 Longshoremen' Local MOI
1854 affiliated with the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor and other Trades Graft
and Workers not yet affiliated
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1935-03-01
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St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1935-03-01
Notice

Sealed bids will be received at the
office of the Municipal Committee in
Christiansted up to March IL. 1885. for
the purchase of the Cotton Grove Estates
situated il East End Quarter.
Christiansted,
February 20, 1885.
D. Z. CANEGATA,
Chairman.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1935-03-01
The Christiansted Auto Garage
And Tire Shop

Takes public
ELECTRIC HAND STEEL BODIES
CARBURATON. HORSEPOWER
Cmein and let demonstration Of the sit behind the wheel
W ARE BUYING TERRAPLANE
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1935-03-01

announcing the public that they received
JlLT TERRAPLANES which display, featuring such
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Chicago Brigader
Takes Early Lead
In Daily Contest

Shock Brigader Larson, of
Chicago, has made the first hit
in the Daily Worker subscription
contest
Nine subscriptions are in the
batch received to his credit yes
terday.
Six are yearly ones. Another
is for twe months. The other
two are for three months each.
This is the record produced by
energetic, diligent work in get
ting observation-disclosures not
even week has passed since the
drive startedl
1t is an inspiration for every
worker. Every worker must re-
member that ne can win a free
trip to the Soviet Union and
nine other prizes by getting sub
scriptions for the DAILY"
Workers-into the circulation
drive, into the contest for sub
scriptions to the Daily Worker!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
By ALLEN JOHNSON

PENNINGTON, N, J., Jan. 10. -
In the most sensational proceedings
thus far recorded in the trial here
of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, for
the kidnapping and murder Of the
Lindbergh baby DR. John S. (Jafsie)
Condor, q doddering old lecturer on
Catholicism, yesterday admitted on
the witness stand that John"
whom he identified, as Hauptmann,
told him that he was only go-be-
tween for the real kidnapers of the
millionaire Lindbergh's child.
Reilly, Hauptmann's chief de-
Tense attorney, also forced Attorney
General Wilentz. to admit that he
had withdrawn from the records of
the New York Public Library. a slip
signed by a Or. j. Condor" for a
book on signs that DR.. Condor had
read. Reilly forced this admission
from Wilentz few minutes after
DIR. Condor had stated under sharp
cross examination, that he had
never withdrawn a book from a New
York public library. The point has
relation to the ransom notes, both
of which bore curious symbols that
could have been taken from the
book withdrawn by "Dr. Condor"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
POLICE HOLD
1O2 PICKETS
Strikers Prevent Scabs
from Entering Majestic
Plant Despite Arrests

A total of 102 workers we're ar
rested yesterday, when the police
broke up the mass picket line OF
the striking employees Of the Ma
iestic Metal Specialties Inc, 200
Varick Street.
The 400 workers employed by the
company are In the third week Of
strike under the leadership of
the Metal Novelty Local SOB, Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial
Union.
The mass arrests. which filled
seven police wagons, clearly in
dicated to what lengths the police
will go in cooperating with the
boss in his attempts to break the
morale of the strikers.
In spite of the wholesale arrest
the ranks Of the strikers remain
solid in their determination to
carry on to victory,
Among those arrested yesterday
we're Phillip Gruyer. chairman of
the strike committee, and James
Lustig. organizer of the Silver Hol-
loware Local 302 of the union, which
is closely cooperating with the
strikers.
The pickets arrested by the police
from the Sixth precinct, 1876 Charles
Street, were taken to the Second
District Court on the charge of dis
orderly conduct.
The cases Of the strikers arrested
Wednesday came up in the same
court late that day. The court was
.jammed by close to 200 strikers and
sympathizers. Although the court
was cleared when the workers we're
moved to laughter over the fake
stories related by the police, the
court was forced to dismiss the
cases and release the pickets under
the pressure of the workers present
None of the methods employed
by the management, with the full
cooperation of the New York Police
Department Irving Levitt, organ
izer of Local 303 and leader of the
strike said. will weaken our ranks.
The militancy of the strikers and
the excellent spirit Of solidarity dis
played by the workers in all the
locals of our union and other labor
organizations like the Downtown
Unemployment Council, Section One
of the Communist Party and others
is the best guarantee that we will
win"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
STATE OF ALARM SEEN
IN VIENNA AS EUROPEAN
WAR CRISIS SHARPENS
Hitler S Plan to Seize
Saar and Austria Fans
Military Flames

VIENNA, Jan. 10.-Massing of
italian troops on the Austrian bor-
der proceeded swiftly this after
noon as Italian fascism tensed to
the possible devastating conse-
quences of the impending Saar
pleeiscite on Sunday, fully expect
ing that Hitler's Nazi troops will
spread into a two-front invasion
into Austria as well as into the
Saar.
A state of alarm was declared
throughout Austria for police and
auxiliary forces, while the danger
ously balanced peace of Europe was
tipped by the desperate ambition of
German industrialists and their
puppet Hitler to seize jointly Aus
tria and the Saar Hundreds of
known German Nazis and their
sympathizers were arrested in Tyrol
province, adjoining the German
frontier, and all demonstrations
were forbidden on pain of severe
punishment.
Duplicating his fear of Austro-
German unity after the assassina-
ton of Dollfuss last summer, Mus
solini today ordered military move
ments which threatened to bring on
an even more acute war crisis. I'm
der the pretense of winter maneu-
vers, it was learned. Italian garri-
sons from the entire Verona district
have been concentrated along the
Bremen rixen border line. Fas-
cist militia, formerly stationed there.
have been withdrawn and replaced
by regular soldiers. The Italian
army corps at Bolzano is so close
to the Austrian frontier that it
could push across it in a few hours.
At Linz, an Austrian town so
miles from German territory, 30
trucks filled with armed men were
seen rumbling by. The government
here is re-eehoing the fear of the
Austrian bourgeoisie, VINO have
every reason to oppose anschluss
with Germany, that Nazis now ex-
lied in Germany will attempt an
invasion after the Jan. 10 vote in
the Saar.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
LID. Sends Wire
To Supreme Court
To Release Mooney

The following telegram was
sent yesterday to the U. S. Su-
preme Court by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, which, it
has been announced, will prob
ably hand down its decision Mon
day on the writ of habeas
corpus for Tom Mooney:
~. S. SUPREME COURT
WASHINGTON. D. G.
THE INTERNATIONAL La
Dor DEFENSE. WITH TWO
HUNDRED THOUSAND MEM
BEERS AND AFF1LIATES, DE-
MANDS IMMEDIATE DECI-
SION IN WRIT OF HABEAS
CORPUS BROUGHT BEFORE
YOU BY TOM MOONEY FOR
HIS IMMEDIATE UNCONDI-
TIONAL RELEASE FROM SAN
QUENTIN, WHERE HE HAS
BEEN BURIED ALIVE EIGHT
ZEN YEARS BECAUSE OF HIS
MILITANT LABOR ACTIVITY.
"Anna Damon
international Labor
Defense"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
CCC STRIKERS
ARE BUSTED
% More Youths Fired
from Camps-Oficers
Raise Red Scare

WEST ORANGE, N. j., Jan. 10
Fear of another strike against the
intolerable conditions in te Civil
ian Conservation Camp 1881. here
resulted in the discharge yesterday
Of twenty eight more of the young
workers who we're active in the
walkout that took place Tuesday.
Fourteen of the most militant of
the youth had already been sum-
marily discharged Tuesday, but
because the men still were in a
mood to carry on the struggle the
officers in charge of the camp in
stituted a system of reprisals dis
charging more of the strikers and
setting up the curfew hour to 10
o'clock. One of the demands raised
was the abolition of the IL O'Clock
curfew.
The usual Red" scare was raised
by Captain Tobin who issued a
statement declaring that everything
was just like one big happy family
until Communists entered the camp
and tried to stir up trouble" The
attitude of the young workers since
the strike however indicates that
they are not impressed by such lies
and that they are ready to carry
on the struggle for decent condi-
tons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
FARM FARLEY
UNITES MANY
RURAL GROUPS
Repeal of A.A.A. Urged
in Program-Real
Relief Demanded
BY Howard Boldt
Daily Worker staff Correspondent

DalIy worker stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. TO-
Two achievements, each Signalling
the growing demand for unity upon
the part of the working population,
stand out above all others at the
first national conference of agricul-
tural workers, which ended a two
day session here yesterday. First of
these was the bringing together Of
the delegates from thirty EIGHT or
CARNATIONS, most Of which are farm
labor groups. The other, the sign
ing of united front pact between
the two principal organizations of
the tenant and sharscroppers- the
Southern Tenant Farmers Union of
Arkansas. Oklahoma and Missouri.
and the Sharecroppers' Union of
Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee
and North Carolina. This united
front pact, however, is still subject
to ratification by the membership
of both groups.
The pact. a program of united
action, pledges the efforts of our
organizations to further the carry
ing out of united action for the
following purposes:
Plan of Action
Ito secure the repeal of the
A.A.A and the Bankhead Act and
the enactment of the Farmers
Emergency Relief Bill.
"2-To wage a common struggle
against the evictions of sharecrop-
pers, tenants and other cotton
workers from the land.
"3-Common defense actions
against the violations of our rights
to organize and bargain collectively
to strike, to picket and of our rights
Of free speech and free assem'olage.
40 fight unitedly against the
widespread discrimination used by
the white landlords and their
agents against the Negroes.
$50 effect these purposes of
united action, we agree to form a
unity committee of our organiza-
lions and to make arrangements for
holding united conference to adj
vance still further our common
struggles.
"6-To united our efforts to Sc
cure more adequate relief, to stop
the use of relief agencies and pol
icies to force our conditions still
lower, ann to secure the enactment
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
ITALIAN TROOPS AT AUSTRIA'S BORDER
Condor Evidence Shows
More Linked to Case
Aged Lecturer Gives Confused Testimony Under
Cross-Examination But Says Ransom
Taker Said He Was Go-Between

Condor identified Hauptmann
three times yesterday as the john
he had given the $4,000 ransom
money to, although he had always
refused to identify Hauptmann be-
fore On the ground that he wasn't
certain Hauptmann was the man
When the Bronx Grand Jury was
hearing evidence on New Jerseys
request for the extradition of
Hauptmann, the police did not call
Condor as a witness to identify
Hauptmann, because the Bronx
school teacher and lecturer had re-
fused point-blank to identify Haupt-
mann at the Greenwich Street Po-
lice Station in New York, when he
was arrested.
The incoherent language of the
Catholic theologian was frequently
so far af1eld from the questions
raised while he was on the stand,
that even Wilentz had to caution
him not to wander. 1t was thus
easier for Reilly TO involve Condor
in frequent contradictions, the ma
ture of which serves only to add
more confusion to the entire case.
and to indicate that several were
(Continucd on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Jewish Daily Bulletin Staff
Strikes for Full Salaries

The entire staff of the Jewish
Daily Bulletin walked out yester-
day in the first strike of editorial
workers in Manhattan newspaper
history. Thirteen persons are in
volved. All are members of the
American Newspaper Guild
The strike was called as a result
of the failure of the publishers to
pay full salaries to the editorial en-
ployees for months. Payments of
full salaries each week and the res
titution of back wages due the staff,
amounting to S1,360, are the de-
mands of the strikers.
Pickets patrolled the Bulletin
plant at 222 Center st. yesterday
while other sections of the strike
machinery were set into motion. Ne
gotiations with the Peretz Verein,
the organization of Yiddish edito-
rial workers, are being held. with
the objective of striking the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, owned by the
publisher of the Bulletin, Jacob
Landau.
Particular Importance is attached
to the latter question by the strik-
ers since the wire service is ad-
mitedly profitable enterprise
while the. Bulletin is repeatedly los
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Paul Robson Praises Equality
Ut Al Races in Soviet Union

to the Soviet Union, it is not new
to me-" he said, as l have been
reading Pravda and Izvestia IRE
spectively the organ of the Com
munist Party and the government
of the Soviet Union; but I must
say what l have seen has amazed
me and surpassed all my expecta-
tons. The happy faces of the peo-
pie, their bearing in the streets,
and everywhere have seen them,
shows that they are a free people. >
1T was great contrast to Ber-
lin, where l stayed on my way to
Moscow. There one felt almost
afraid to speak, the people seemed
afraid; it was CHASTITY! Here. how
ever, things are completely opposite.
The freedom of the people strikes
me forcibly.'
Robeson's comment on the ques-
ton of race prejudice. which he
and other Negroes know only toe
well, vas short and to the point. In
answer to the question, Have you
noticed any race prejudice here?'
he replied: mo. I haven't noticed
any-except, of course, that it's ali
in my favor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11

ing money.
Efforts by the management to de-
feat the strike were seen by strikers
in the announcement by Victor M.
Bienstock, managing editor, of the
immediate suspension of the paper
and the meeting of all of the de-
mands of the agency writer's, organ
lied in the Peretz Verein. Their
demands we're met by Mr.. Landau
in the hope that the agency writ
ers would not walk out in sympa-
thy with the Bulletin, strikers said.
Legal action to compel the pub
fishers to make restitution of the
back salaries has already been TAX
en-, Chairman Joseph Weiner of the
Bulletin chapter of the Guild. an
nounced yesterday. A subpoena
from the State Department of La
Dor has been served on Mr.. Landau,
Mr.. Weiner said. Mr.. Landau is to
appear in court at pm. today.
Temporary strike headquarters
were set up at one block from the
Bulletin Office at the Doll and Toy
Workers Union, ISL Lafayette st.
Support of the walkout was voted
Wednesday night by the Represen-
tative Assembly of the Newspaper
Guild.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
KELLER LIES
IN DESPERATE
BID FOR VOTES
Losing Paterson Clique
Ignores Real Issues,
ISLANDERS Militants

PATERSON, N. j., Jan. 10.-See-
ing Themselves doomed to defeat in
the election of officers in the plain
goods department Of the American
Federation of Silk Workers Satur-
day, the Lovestonite officials of the
union have issued a statement to
the membership filled with lies and
distortions on the role of the rank
and file in the union and give full
support to the expulsion policy of
William Green.
Their statement entitled Save
the Union is signed by the pro-
gressive" group, which combines the
Keller group of Lovestone and
agents of the Jewish Daily Forward.
organ Of the right wing of the So
cialist Party, in the union. Among
the lies is the charge that the rank
and file movement in the locals is
out to destroy the unions, and that
this is the object of the former
members Of the National Textile
Workers Union which was merged
with U. T. w. locals. Following the
Hearst example the leaflet makes
the sensational charge that the or
ders from Moscow" are to destroy
the unions.
Distorted Quotation
The charge is based on q dis
torted quotation from a speech by
A. Losoysky, President of the Red
international of Trade Unions, made
in 1881, in which he is alleged to
have declared that the object of the
supporters of the Red Interna tional
In the reformist unions is to disrupt
them and destroy their discipline.
On that basis they raise the alarm
That the union is in danger if the
rank and file gets control.
On examination it is found that
In the very same speech the leaflet
refers to and in all the works of
Losovsky the object has been to
make clear that attacks against re-
dictionary officials Csuch as German.
Green or Keller should not be con-
fused with an attack against the
union or its members. An exam
nation of every important decision
OF the Red International shows that
unity of the workers, despite the
splitting tactics of the reactionaries.
is the cardinal principle. It was
found that the quotation from Lo-
soVskys speech was deliberately
torn from a part in which he seeks
to caution against formation of
small weak unions if there is a
large mass union in existence. al
though it may be controlled by re-
formists. Losovsky specially pointed
tCOntinued on Pane ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
BY Vern Smith
Especial to the Daily Worker,

MOSCOW, Jan. 10 CBy Wireless)
Paul Robson, famous Negro
singer and actor, feels at home"
in the Soviet Union. So he said
here last night at a reception given
in his honor at the Domkino Club
Of film producers and actors, at
tended by Sergei Eisenstein. world
famous film producer, and other
prominent persons connected with
the Soviet film industry.
Replying to the speech of well
come given by Eisenstein, Robson,
speaking in Russian, which he had
been studying for the past two
years, expresses his great pleasure
in being able to come to Moscow to
observe the life of the people. Il
feel at home" he stated amidst
thunderous applause.
After Robson had sung several
Negro songs and Russian folk
songs, I was able to get short
interview with him on his impress
sions of life here, as he saw 1t
since his arrival recently.
Although this is my first visit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
RESERVES SCHEME.
POSTPONED 2 YEARS,
BURDEN ON WORKERS
No Benefits p o sibIe
Until 1888 Under
Favored Plan

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. - The
muchtouted old age and unem-
ployment insurance plans of Rose
welt will not only have to be paid
for by the workers through payroll
taxes and general taxes, but will
not go into effect until 1897, two
years from now, report submitted
to Roosevelt by his specially chosen
committee made clear today.
Thus all social and unemplov-
ment insurance benefits Of whas-
ever character cannot begin to be
collected until 1888 at the earliest,
since the Roosevelt plans all pro-
vide for the building up Of ere
serves before the paying out of
any benefits.
Roosevelt announced today that
his committee had presented him
with its final report, but that he
would not make this public until
early next week. The general nature
Of the committees recommended
tons. however, was made available
by other sources.
No Federal Insurance
The federal plans for social and
unemployment insurance are really
not federal ct all, since in every
case the Roosevelt plans provide
for State and local contributions
with Federal supervision. Whatever
contributions are made by the Fed
eral government are dependent on
contributions by the workers them
selves. And since all Federal pay
ments will come from the collection
Of ouch general taxes as excise
taxes on gasoline, tobacco and
other articles Of general consump-
ton, ultimately the masses pay Tor
these also
The Roosevelt plans call for cons
tributions from .the workers them-
selves of one to five per cent Of
their pay envelopes. Workers earn-
ing over $50 a week are not en=
titled to snare in any insurance
schemes at all. Employers are sup-
pose3 to match the workers cons
tribution. Since the employers will
inevitably pass this tax on to the
/ consumer, it is the masses again
who will bear the cost Of their own
insurance, with the government
also passing its expenses along to
the masses.
Nothing for Today's Jobless
II is widely admitted that most Of
the States will not be able to get
around even to the passage of the
necessary laws for the creation of
the social insurance bureaus until
late next year.
Rooseve.t's committee made It
clear that none Of their proposals
apply in any way to the millions Of
workers now unemployed. The cons
mitteo continues Roosevelt's policy
OF leaving them to local charity
On the subject of unemployment
insurance, Rooseyelt's committee
followed the lines Of the Wagner
Lewis Bill which places the full
brunt of the cost on the workers,
gives the jobles5 now no relief or
insurance at all and contains
clauzes which make the insurance
reserves a breaking instru-
ment. At most, under Roosevelt's
plans the benefits will last only for
/ ten weeks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
3 MORE HELD
BY MILITIA
2 9 Are Incarcerated
In Detention Camp
i'm Atlanta

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Jen. TO-.
Col, L. c. Pope. in command of
the $50 National Guardsmen at the
Richmond Hosiery Mill in Ross
vile, announced yesterday that
three radical agitators" we're ar
rested, and will join 26 already
sent to the Atlanta Detention
Camp At a mass meeting of more
than 500 at the Rossville Arena,
strikers decided to continue their
struggle despite martial law.
Four hosiery mills, all units of the
Richmond Hosiery Company re-
main tied up, with more than a
thousand workers involved. In a
Continued on Pare 2)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
AA DIST Riot
ACTS ON BILL
Endorses the Insurance
Measure HR 1927
At First Meeting

BALTIMORE, Md. Jan. TO-
The first meeting of the Tenth
District of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Iron. Steel and Tin Work
ers, with some fifty delegates at
tending, met here Sunday and
unanimously endorsed the Workers
Unemployment, Old Age and So
cial Insurance, Act. HR 1927. Other
resolutions on organizat ton, unem-
ploymenJ and the organization
without discrimination of the Ne
gro workers also we're adopted.
Seven lodges Of the Amslgamatad
Association and a large delegation
Of unorganized workers from
CONTINUED on Pare q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Brooklyn Rally Tonight
Will Arouse Workers
for Saar Status Quo

New York workers will join in a
spirited demonstration against fas-
cism and for the Status Quo in the
Saar tonight under the leadership
of the United Action Committee of
Ridgewood, Queens, at the Brook
lyn Labor Lyceum 949 Willoughby
Avenue.
Israel Amter. representing the
Communist Party; Edward Colt
heb, of the Socialist Party; DR.. Har-
ry F. Ward, of the American League
Against War and Fascism will join
in exposing the murderous maneu-
vers of the Hitler forces in the Saar.
Nathan Frankel, attorney, will
speak at membership meeting of
the allied professionals of the Anti
Nazi Federation tonight at $3.50 at
1853 West 23d Street.