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The daily worker., 1935-01-30

ficial, exactly fifty nationwide
broadcasting periods free of charge.
They call 1t "a matter of courtesy" )"
A speech by the Rev Charles E.
Coughhn rivaled only by Huey
Long for first place among Fascist
demagogues in the United States,
appeared on Page One of every
Hearst newspaper in the country on
the morning after it was uttered.
Anyone who has watched the OPP
Grafton of newspaper knows that
this was more than a happen-so;
such play" is given, especially in
the Hearst chain, only on orders
from Hearst's baronial seat at San
Simeon, California.
The object of all this is to slide
the American people into the frame
of public mind which the big bank
ers must secure to put over their
Fascist offensive. Scattered all
over the country, hundreds of news
papers, radio stations and movie
houses are cooperating to this end.
They are striving to blind the work.
ing people to the Fascist threat in
the preliminary steps which are now
being taken by the Roosevelt gov
ernment, the systematic lowering of
the living standard of labor, the
further classification of industry,
the armed suppression of workers
who exercise the hard-won right
to strike. They are striving to make
the working class embrace the
Don't hit back" idea of "co-operat-
ing" with its master, capital, They
hope to make at least a large part
of the people accept the thought of
var, of company -unionism, of the
corporate" state of full Fascism.
Basically, the same handful who
plotted to have Butler lead a Fas-
ciSt Army control all these powerful
propaganda mediums. Specifically,
the great food industries, such as
Standard Brands, and other leading
national advertisers, are j. P. Nor
gan industries. The publishers
themselves, both big and little, are
directly linked through banking
connections and through their in
vestments in on-publishing indus
tries to the vast empires of the
Morgans, Rockefellers, Hearsts and
Astors.
Two of the leading financial
Continued on Page p
The daily worker., 1935-01-30
Pledge Of Cut
In w ater Rates
Forced on City

NEW YORK-The fight of the
small home owners of New York for
the reduction of water rates has
met with partial success, it was re-
vealed yesterday in a report of
Maurice ]. Davidson, Commissioner
of Water Supply, Gas and Electri-
city, to Mayor LaGuardia.
The report, transmitted to the
Board of Aldermen yesterday, had
been on the Mayors desk since
Jan. TO-
A reduction of 30 per cent in the
bills of 301, 500 unmetered, one and
two-family houses was proposed. A
1928 per cent reduction in 100000
metered houses was promised. In
the bills of $4,000 multi-family
houses without elevators, the reduc-
ton will be per cent.
The total slash in revenues will
amount to 5000, 900, the Commits
sioner said.
The communication did not state
when these reductions would be-
come effective. This move is seen
as a concession to the growing in
dignation among the small home
owners at the fact that water rates
have remained at an exorbitant
level, despite the pre- election pledge
of LaGuardia to lower rates if
elected.
The daily worker., 1935-01-30
Kin of RakOsi Probe Shows
Ask World Aid Mohawk Was
To Free Him Undermanned

Speeding their appeal, Help US
free Matthias Rakosil" by wireless
from the Soviet Union, Zoltan and
Franz Rakosi, brothers of the great
Communist leader now heroically
defending the entire anti-fascist
in Hungary before a fas-
cist lynch court, asked American
workers. liberals and professionals
to exert all their efforts in the
worldwide campaign to have his
life.
The cable, dated from Moscow,
reads as follows:
"The course of the trial against
our brother points to the intention
of the Hungarian Special Court to
condemn him, contrary to all prin-
ciples of law. After making inn
possible his preparation for the
trial, they refused to allow our
sister. Yoallna, to attend, and or
dered our sister, Hajnal, out of the
COuIG IOOIH. 1IlSy Qlu HOO dION
him to speak and deprived him of
the elementary rights Of defense
while threatening him with discip-
linary punishment, thus making his
defense impossible.
1--WE appeal to public opinion and
to all newspapers to protest against
this planned judicial murder. Help
us free Matthias Rakosil
"Zoltan and Franz RakoSi."
The daily worker., 1935-01-30
Grow Strong With the Daily!
Il Hundred Thousand Readers
BY July First Of This Year!

THE Daily Worker is your weapon
L against the boss. The Daily
Worker arms you for struggle
against the capitalist system and
for new free life.
The boss press feeds you poison.
It gives you the bosses point of
view. 1t conceals from you the
truth about the workers life. 1t
tells you lies about the goodness
and greatness and liberality of the
bosses government, 1t ISLANDERS the
only country where the workers are
free and have built new, wonder
ful life, the Soviet Union. 1t hides
from you the danger of war that
the bosses are now preparing as
their way out of the crisis.
The Daily Worker shows you how
you can improve your situation to-
day.
1t shows you how the workers
and farmers can force the bosses to
bear a part of the crisis. 1t shows
you the revolutionary way out of
the crisis. 1t teaches the workers
and farmers how to organize and
to defend their vital interests at
all times. 1t points to the example
of the Soviet Union where the
workers smashed the bosses and
The daily worker., 1935-01-30

landlords state power and estab-
liShed their own rule which made
it possible for them to advance to
high standards of living and cul-
ture. The Daily Worker helps you
in your strikes showing how to
make them strong, united and
successful.
Strength and Hope
In the Daily Worker is strength
for the working class. In the Daily
Worker is hope for the exploited
farmers.
The more the Daily Worker is
spread among the workers, the
greater is the power of the working
class, the greater are its chances
to triumph victorious over the bosses,
the nearer is the final triumph of
all the exploited in this country
through the establishment of the
American Soviet.
1t is for this reason that the Cen
tral Committee of the Communist
Party is deyoting it's major atten-
ton to increasing the circulation of
the Daily Worker among ever larger
numbers Of the working population.
A special committee has been set
up, including the General Secretary
of the Communist Party, Comrade
Earl Browder, and the Secretary of
the largest district of the Party,
District of New York, Comrade
Charles Krumbein, and George
Wishnack, business manager of the
paper, The Central Committee
says; The number of readers of the
Daily Worker must reach 100000
within the coming few months.
This can be achieved. The work
ers are opening their eyes to the
Roosevelt trickeries. They are be-
ginning to see through the fog of
the N. r. A. They are awakening
to new fights. Strikes are brewing
everywhere. These strikes 9ill be
the more successful the more
strikers are fortified by reading the
Daily Worker.
Ayy efforts of every class-con-
sciOus worker, Communist or nom
Communist, must now be directed
towards gaining new readers for
the Daily Worker.
Forward to a new concerted
drive to spread the Daily Worker!
Long live the Daily Workerl
The daily worker., 1935-01-30
BY Nat Ganley

DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 29.-Dele-
gates from nineteen local unions of
the Automobile Workers of America
(American Federation of Labor
passed resolutions for the immedi-
ate preparation of strike struggles
in the auto industry at a weekend
conference here.
The conference unanimously en-
dorsed the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill (H. R. 2827).
Resolutions for an immediate con-
stitutional convention to set up the
International Industrial Union and
a program of economic demands to
overcome the grievances of the
workers we're among the main de-
cisions of the conference.
Applaud Auto-Lite Workers
There were thirty mine delegates
present from nineteen local unions.
The delegates from the Ford, Chew
rolet, Dodge, Motor Products and
The daily worker., 1935-01-30

AT least two members of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, and pos
sibly three or four, were drowned
when the liner Mohawk, under
charter by the Ward Line, sank
last Thursday with a loss of forty
five lives.
The names of the two Union
members who are known to have
lost their lives are Jack Orlick and
V. Fitzgerald Orlick was also a
member of the Communist Party.
The disaster which befell the Mo-
hawk was the third visited on Ward
liners in the last five months. The
Moro Castle was destroyed by fire
last September with loss Of 124
lives and the Havana piled up on
a Bahaman reef on January S. No
lives we're lost on the Havana but
one passenger died of heart at
tack in life boat.
The investigation of the disas-
ter by the United States Steam
boat Inspection Service was indefi-
nitely postponed yesterday after
surviving officers of the ship dis
closed an almost incredible igno-
rance of elementary rules of sea
faring.
The testimony thus far adduced
at the investigation indicates that
the disaster could have been pre-
vented if the ship had not been
undetermined. II was revealed.
for example, that when the ship's
steering apparatus broke down
five minutes before the crash
there wasn't a single officer in
the auxiliary steering room who
was qualified to steer the shin.
For ten minutes after the crash,
and while the Mohawk was rapid
ly sinking, deck engineer was
forced to guide the ships course.
1t was also disclosed that an en-
gineer was steering the ship when
the collision occurred.
When the chief officer of the
Mohawk was on the stand yesterday
he shocked the spectators at the
investigation by becoming ratified
when he was asked if he knew the
difference between the old defni-
ton of pert" and "starboard" and
the new Further investigation
brought out the possibility that the
ships engineers may have steered
the ship into the collision because
Of similar misunderstanding over
unclear orders transmitted from the
bridge
The daily worker., 1935-01-30
NEW JERSEY.
UNITED FRONT
PACT is MADE
Joint Struggle Pledges
Fight for H.R. 1927
and Relief Strike

NEWARK, N. j., Jan. ga
united front agreement between the
Essex County Socialist Party and
Section Six of the Communist Party
was concluded here Sunday at a
meeting of representatives of the
two parties.
The united front calls for a joint
struggle for the enactment of the
Workers Unemployment. Old Age
and Social Insurance Bill, H. R.
1927, for complete support of the
Statewide relief workers strike,
for union wages and conditions on
the relief jobs, and against the
proposed 8 per cent sales tax of
Governor Hoffman. The united
front also calls for a united defense
struggle for Jack Rose, of the New
Jersey State Federation of Unem-
ployed and Relief Workers, who was
arrested in a relief workers strike.
In the past, the State convention
of the Socialist Party voted to give
complete support to the Workers
Bill and the Statewide relief strike
which has swept through Essex
County.
The daily worker., 1935-01-30
ALL. Unions Plan New Strikes i'm Auto Industry

other Detroit plants we're present as
observers.
The announcement by the Gre
dentials committee that the two
Toledo delegates were workers in
the Auto-Lite plant was greeted
with applause in memory of the
heroic strike conducted in this plant
last year.
The reading of a telegram from
the Hayes Body Local of the Auto
Workers Union in Grand Rapids,
announcing that they had just won
a fifteen-cent per hour increase and
that they were negotiating to join
the American Federation of Labor
was also greeted with applause.
Government Not Neutral
w, Mortimer, president of the
White Motors Local in Cleveland.
made report on the purpose of
the conference. He pointed out that
the auto code and the Roosevelt
The daily worker., 1935-01-30

the Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill, H. r. 1927.
One of the speakers pointed out
that this bill has been referred to as
Communist measure, but after he
made detailed contrast of the
Roosevelt insurance" proposal and
H. R. 1927 the delegates voted
unanimously for the Workers Bill.
The following were the main de-
mands adopted: Cd Thirty dollars
minimum wage for production men,
forty-eight dollars for skilled work
ers, proportionste increases for
those getting above this minimum:
(2) guaranteed annual wage or its
equivalent in federal unemployment
insurance (H. R. 2827; 90 thirty
hour, five-day week of six hours
per day; "a regulation of speed of
production by agreement between
properly elected committees of
Continued on Page q
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OF oulldlng socialism.
AS Premier Viacheslav NJ. Molotov
made his report on the inner and
international situation of the Soviet
Union, the response of the 1870
delegates from every corner of the
Union, which covers one-sixth Of
the worlds surface, revealed that
this unity of the Soviet masses is
greater and more enthusiastic than
at any previous Congress.
The report of Molotov wildly de-
scribed the ravages of the crisis in
the capitalist countries, contrasting
it with the huge advances on all
fronts in the workers fatherland,
where crises and unemployment
have been abolished forever.
Speaking of the greatly shsrpened
danger Of war on the Soviet Union
by capitalist countries seeking by
that means to find a way out Of
their crisis, he declared that the
(Contiaaed on Page q
The daily worker., 1935-01-30

agreement of last March meant
that the workers went back to the
plants this season under worse con-
ditions. The government agencies
have not remained neutral, he de-
clared. They have given the work
ers empty words and promises about
Job security" and IAN annual
wage" while giving the auto manu-
facturers everything they wanted.
Mortimer quoted from the record
of William Green, F. J. Dillon and
Collins, A. F. of L. leaders, to show
that these top leaders could not be
relied on. Our local has been able
to improve the workers conditions
and maintain a strong organization
because we did not allow these top
officials to halt our locals activi-
ties" he declared.
Program of Demands
Quite a discussion developed
around the question Of endorsing
The daily worker., 1935-01-30
Leg III WFfs
SCOfESbeDE'O
FESEgsE RDE'iEe

Only S220.7S received by the In
ternationaI Labor Defense Monday
and Tuesday although SS,S29.26
more urgently is needed for the
appeals.
Il cannot sit by and allow the
loss of the Scottsboro boys and An
gelo Herndon. 1 remember Sacco
and Vanzetti," a New Hampshire
farmer writes the international La
Dor Defense. Have already con-
tributed five dollars previously.
Enclosed find s5.33 collected
from several Finnish lumberjacks,
a farmer, q road foreman, a house,
worker, the NARROW Unit of the
Communist Party, and my family
and myself
AS a member Of the National
Grange, the Executive Committee
of the New England United Farm
ers Protective Association, and the
Communist Party, U, S. A. it is my
duty to help along in the great
work of freeing the ScottSboro
boys, Angelo Herndon, and other
class-war prisoners.
LEWIS w. FENNER"
Funds urgently needed for the
Scottsboro and Herndon appeals in
the United States Supreme Court
should be rushed to the national
office of the International Labor
Defense, Room $40, so East 1lth
Street, New York City.
The daily worker., 1935-01-30
TO ACT
IF ] u D C T
SIGNS WRIT
Board of Trade Head
Threatens to Call
Out Troops

More than $4,000 New York team,
sters are ready to strike again mex
week the moment Judge Burt Jay
Humphreys affixes his signature to
the injunction against their union,
declared Thomas Smith, head Of
the Teamsters' Committee of IS. As
a result of the splendid one-day
strike Of more than 10000 New
York truckmen Monday, the final
signature upon the anti-labor in-
junction was stayed for one week.
The Judges decision to postpone
action came at a moment when
25, 900 longshoremen were on the
verge Of joining the walkout, tying
up the whole New York waterfront.
Justice Humphrey declared that
although his opinion is fixed and
he will sign the injunction. when
the necessary papers are in, he will
permit Edward C. Mcguire. attorney
for the International Brotherhood
Of Teamsters, to prepare q protest
by Friday. The decision will be
made next week, he stated.
Thomas f. Smith, president Of
the truckmen's strike committee Of
Is, which has been set up, in an
nouncing the calling off the strike,
declared that only the delay in
signing the injunction prevented
the strike from spreading to involve
/ longshoremen and other trades on
the waterfront. He stated that if
the Judge signs the injunction next
week, the action will be a signal
for a renewed strike, which would
likely develop into a general strike
of all workers in New York, as in
the case of San Francisco.
Is Significant
The short strike is regarded as
one of the most significant in the
history of the American labor
movement political strike, aimed
at a union smashing decision Of an
open shop judge, and against an
attempt of the government courts
to outlaw unity between workers.
The New York Times, character
lied the strike in yesterdays edition
in the following manner:
Yesterdays strike was unique
in American labor struggles, for
never before have members of a
union quit work in a concerted
effort to compel court to desist
from enioining labor organiza-
ton or any of its officers"
Macguire Fears Strike Spread
"As far as I am concerned the
case has been decided" Justice
Humphrey declared. Il viii sign
when the proper papers are in. The
opinion is fixed"
But there is a social problem
involved here that is important"
Macguire, the unions attorney
pleaded at the hearing, ito grant
what is sought would be like
throwing kerosene on the fire. 1t
may cause the present strike to
spread until conditions similar to
those of San Francisco viii exist"
The thought Of San Francisco
was the most decisive argument for
Continued on Page q
The daily worker., 1935-01-30
FIRM DEFENSE.
AIDS NEGROES
Militant Fight of Sugar,
Detroit Labor Lawyer,
Frees JObless Two
BY A. B. Magil
Especial to the Daily Wurker)

OFT, Mich, Jan. 2e. -
Charles Lee and Monroe Brown.
Negro workers. who on Jan. 8 were
sentenced to ninety days each be-
cause they had mo job, no home
and no visible means of support" "
today are free, thanks to the mill
tsnt defense put up for them by
Maurice Sugar, noted labor attor-
ney. The charge of "vagrancv"
against them was quashed in their
second trial this morning, and the
defendants dismissed.
The two Negro workers were
picked up on the night of Jan. 7 in
accordance with the usual policy of
the Detroit Police Department of
prosecuting Negroes at every op-
portunity. The next morning they
were rushed through so-called
trial before the viciously anti-labor
Judge John v. Brennan, without
being allowed a defense attorney,
with no evidence against them, and
sentenced to ninety days each in
the House of Correction.
Sugar, who is now candidate for
Judge of Recorders Court, the very
Office which Brennan holds, on
learning of this outrage, offered his
services to the two men without
charge and secured a new trial. He
was supported by the International
Labor Defense.
Sugars candidacy is being sup
ported by practically the entire De-
troit labor movement, including the
Detroit and Wayne County Fed
Grafton of Labor CA. F. of L., the
Mechanics Educational Society of
America, The Society of Designing
Engineers, the Trade Union Unity
League, International Labor De-
fenSe, Communist PARTY. etc.
The daily worker., 1935-01-30
WOR x ERS
WANTED

The sensational story of
Wall Streets fascist plot
has boosted the "Daily's"
sale throughout the city.
Newsstands in Brooklyn,
Manhattan and the Bronx
have reported sellouts.
Unemployed workers !
Earn money selling the
Daily Worker! Apply at
the City Office, 35 E. 18th
Street (store), and get as
signed to a busy corner
for either night or morn
ing work.
The daily worker., 1935-01-30
Casey VIII
Write Story
Of Hearst

James Casey, managing editor of
the Daily Worker, who has been ill
for several days, is now rapidly re-
covering. He will return to the
Daily" office to reassume his
duties early next week.
Upon the completion of the SEN
sational expose of the Fascist con-
spiracy, the Daily Worker will pub
lish series of articles by Casey
giving the inside story of William
Randolph Hearst"
Casey's articles will expose Hearst
as a liar, a CRATER, blackmailer,
an accepter of bribes and will tell
in detail why the chief propa-
gandist Of the fascist forces in
America works hand in hand with
Hitlery
The daily worker., 1935-01-30
STRIKE WAVE
GROWS ANEW
Workers Prepare Wide
Struggle Against
Attacks of N.R.A.
By Carl Reeve

Increasing thousands of workers
in the American Federation of La
Dor have gone on strike against the
anti-union drive of the employers
and the Roosevelt government. Still
more workers, in the basic indus
tries, are preparing strike struggles
for the immediate future, in answer
to lowering of their living standards
and attacks on their unions. Trade
journals admit the probability of
broad strike struggles this spring.
The twenty-four hour protest
strike of the % 900 New York team
sters backed by the longshoremen,
signalized this ferment of the work
ers. Four thousand glass workers
struck in the Pittsburgh area a few
days ago Twenty thousand cotton
garment workers in four eastern
states have turned a lockout into a
strike. 1,500 hosiery workers are
striking near Chattanooga, Tenn.
Scattered strikes of textile workers
are now taking place. Six thou
sand National Biscuit Co., workers
are striking.
Auto Men Plan Strike
A conference of nineteen A. F.
of L. locals in Detroit voted Satur-
day for preparation to strike. On
Feb 3, at a national conference
called by lodges of the Amalgam-
ated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers, in which aluminium
and mining locals will also take
part, the question of preparation
of joint strike action will be dis
cussed. In the textile industry, a
new general strike in the spring IS
maturing. In the rubber, building
trades, white collar trades, and
The daily worker., 1935-01-30
Mass Meeting THURSDAY

The Workmen's Circle here has
donated the use of the Lyceum, 100
Belmont Avenue, Thursday night at
8 o'clock, for a mass meeting to hear
reports on the National Congress
for Unemployment Insurance. A
representative of the Socialist Party
will speak from the same platform
as Communists and non-party
workers on the fight for the Work
ers' Bill H. r. 1927.
The list of speakers, in addition
to the Socialist Party member, in
clude Louis Rosencahl, delegate
from the A. F. of L. Painters Dis
trict Council 10 to the National
Congress for Unemployment Insur-
ance, Jack Rose, State organizer of
the New Jersey State Federation of
Unemployed and Relief Workers,
and Israel Amter, National Secre-
tary of the Unemployment Councils.
The daily worker., 1935-01-30
Press, Movies,
Radio Promote
Fascism Here
". X. Hearst Had Pre-View of Fascist Film
With RaskOb, dupont and Ambassadors
of Hitler, Mussolini As His Guests
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG

The big metropolitan newspapers, the radio chains, and
the studios busiy preparing the way for Fascist
dictatorship in the United States.
Backers of 'The President VsHshes," of the most
subtle pieces of Fascist demagOgy put into celuOd
asked SmedIey D. Butler sponsor it. They
him special pre-vew of the film. He steered off 1t
by friend Before the release of the movie William Ran
dOph Hearst who later berated it, showed to group in
cluding Italian Fascist Minister of Labor ROssOn German
Naz Ambassador Hans Luther and three magna founders
of the American Liberty League, E. F. Hutton John j.
Raskob and Irenee DUPONT.
Crusaders" Air Gratis
The Columbia Broadcasting System is allowing The
Crusaders, semFascist organization backed by j. P
Morgan lawyer and important Roosevelt government Of
The daily worker., 1935-01-30
Unity Of SOUiet Masses
ViUidIy Demonstrated
At AU-UniOn Congress
italist Countries and in U.S.S.R. Pointed in Re-
port Before Delegates of 9O,OOO,OOO Voters
By Vern Smith


MOSCOW, Jan. 20 (By Wireess) The elected dele
gates of 90O00000 Soviet voters assembled today in the
Seventh All Union Congress of Soves of the Union of So
cias Soviet Republics dramatically demonstrated the unity
of the Soviet behind their leaders in the gigantic task
The daily worker., 1935-01-30

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