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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Growing Picket Lines

THE strike wave against conditions i'm
L posed by Roosevelt's New Deal is
rapidly growing In Western Pennsylvania,
5000 soft coal miners in the Vesta mines,
owned by the Jones and Laughlin Steel
Co., are striking Ten thousand garment
workers are out in Chicago Twelve hun
dred shoe workers are on strike in Lowell,
Mass Rubber workers are on strike in
Willoughby, Ohio. In California and the
South, miners, agricultural workers and
textile workers are walking picket lines.
Thousands are striking in scattered areas
throughout the country.
In all basic industries the demand of
the workers for strike is increasing. In
the A. F. of L. steel, auto, coal, textile,
building service and other unions, the
membership have already gone on record
for immediate strike preparations. Only
the delay Unanswered by national A. F.
of L. officials is holding the workers back
from strike in many of these industries
The workers will not much longer stand
for the company union anti-labor decisions
of the employers boards set up by Roose-
velt
1t is imperative, especially in view of
these approaching struggles, to build the
unions, especially the A. F. of L. unions,
into mass fighting organizations, to or
ganize the unorganized workers, to prepare
the coming strike battles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Abolish Ownership
By Capitalists
New York, N. Y.

New York, N. Y.
Comrade Editor:
I am one of the heroes of 1917
and 1913, and now one of the buns
of 1885. I and many tens of thou
sands living in breadlines, flop
houses, subways, Railways and what
not.
Now on the question Of abolishing
private property, all the American
workers know or should know that
eighty per cent of us haven't any
property to lose. The only thing
we have is misery and poverty.
Therefore there should be articles
in the Daily Worker every now and
then on this subject. There are
many workers who ask the question,
why abolish private property, and
many of our comrades do not ex-
plain the correct idea of private
ownership.
A lot of the American workers
think that private property means
the furniture or his automobile that
he has, or his wife or his children,
his little home, if he happens to
have one. Therefore, we should
make this question very clear: that
we mean the factories, the mines,
the mills, all the means of pro-
duction and distribution. If we do
that, we will gain more of the con-
fidence of the American workers.
A. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Aid the Southern Worker

THE Birmingham Age-Herald, unofficial
L mouthpiece of the steel and other in
dustrial interests comments upon the new
Sedition Bill, now before the Alabama SEN
ate: "It could readily be used to Hitlerize
the State. If there were some way in
which to dispose of them the Commu-
nists without encroaching upon the free
dom of the main body of men and women,
the problem would be solved" They sug-
gest that until such a time, present
methods be continued implying the extra
legal activities of xxx. and company
deputy gangs.
At the same time the drive against the
Communist Party and the militant unions,
increases in force and viciousness Every
effort is being made to find the printing
plant of the Southern Worker, and to stop
its distribution. Terrorists, hired by the
big steel companies, realize the danger to
them of this most vital organ of the white
and Negro southern toilers.
The Southern Worker, published in
underground conditions, is the bond which
is Welding solidly the unity in struggle of
the southern workers. Facing the spear
head Of the New Deal drive toward fascism,
these toilers need this bond and guide in
their daily fight. If the mass protest of
workers and sympathizers everywhere, and
our support materially, can aid this struggle
we cannot afford for a moment to hesitate
or withhold that aid
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
National Run Around

president ROOSEVELT has called
upon congress to extend the N.R.A.
code for two years more.
The N.R,A., which went into effect in
June, 1888, cut down the real wages of the
workers 80 per cent. In 1884 alone the
cost of living went up more than Ia per
cent.
Unemployment has so obviously in
creased under N.R.A. that Roosevelt in his
message, makes lame excuse that "It is
now clear that in the spring and summer
of 1883 many estimates of unemployment
in the United States were far too low"
This is a feeble attempt to bolster his
claim that the N.R.A. gave employment
to four millions.
Actually, more than seventeen millions
are now unemployed, and unemployment
has increased under NRA Even the
A. F. of L. officials supporting NR.A.
admit this
Under N.R.A., terror against strikers
and unemployed increased, and dozens of
workers were murdered on the picket lines
by government armed forces. The N.R.A.
has spurred fascism all along the line.
The N.RA. increased profits of big
business rapidly. The profits of the biggest
corporations increased 70 per cent in the
first nine months of 1884 alone.
Roosevelt, representative of big bust
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Menace OF FaScism and War Looms in Roosevelt War Budget


in secret ballots in the broades democracy the world
has ever seen! This is true proetarian democracy
Where the workers oWR and control the cOuntrys
HOMic life!
The growing strike and the mass movement
for the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance
Bill show that the workers are resisting Roosevelts
fascist moves.
Thousands all over the country are becoming aware
of the danger which looms out of growing Roosevelt
reaction
The New York City Madison Square Garden meet
ing February rs, Monday, will see mighty counter
blast against Hearst and his nctements Let this
demand for peace for the defense of the Soviet Union
for the smashing of fascist reaction echo and reecho
throughout the country!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Hearst Owned Papers
Should Be Named
by Burck
Detroit, Mich.

Detroit, Mich.
Comrade Editor:
just friendly suggestion from a
thorough sympathizer in the anti
Hearst campaign.
The name Hearst" m cans
nothing to thousands of men and
women workers here in Detroit.
Your paper and literature must
emphasize the fact that liar Hearst
owns the Detroit Times, a fact
which surprisingly few people know.
You must inform thousands in
Pittsburgh and vicinity that Hearst
owns the Sun Telegraph. In fact,
you should print list of all Hearst
publications, so workers will know
what papers to ban, when they ban
Hearst papers. Such list should
appear at least twice month in
the Worker" NJ. T. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22

stated to the House Labor Committee:
With the N.R.A. now headed by one of industry
chief night riders labor expect increasing doses of
fascsm from its decisions and activities"
Very strangely, this top official then sees in Con-
gress "as the only hope against fascism"-the very
capitalist Congress that ushered it in!
out of capitalist democracy develops fascsn, the
open brutal dictatorship of finance capital preparing
for imperidList War!
out of prOLetarian dictatorship deUeJOps new,
higher profound democracy, and firm policy
of peace!
Premier Molotov of the Soviet Union, addressing
the recent AlSOet Congress, proclaimed the extension
of proletaran democracy. that the Soviet workers
and farmers elect their organs of rule the Sovies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22

IN DEMANDING of Congress another billion dollars
for war preparations-the largest appropriation in
the cOuntrys hstory-RoOsevelt's chiefs make no
secret of what they want this immense murder machine
for.
They want it for two reasons-for home use and
for use abroad
At home they want it to smash strikes, shoot
pickets to enslave the labor movement and lower living
standards by bayonet and mtarze the whole country
They want it, in short for increasing fascist reaction!
Abroad they want it for imperialist war-to pro-
tect Wall Street investments in China and South
America Above all, they want it for war of inter
vention against the Soviet Union.
Fascisnl and LCar-tHese the inperiaLst TURNS
roo being Matched in the Roosevelt New Deal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Every Workers Center
Needs Sub to DAILY"
New Haven, Conn.


Comrade Editor:
When the National Biscuit Com
pany went on strike, a driver for
that company came into Party head
quarters asking for a Daily Worker.
Here is a case of worker whom
no one knew except that I saw him
driving the N.B.C. truck from time
to time. Here is case where we
were asleep. Instead of going to
them with the only paper that is
carrying news of the strike, he came
to us looking for Daily" (and not
one comrade in the hall had paper
with hirn), knowing that our press
carried news of strikes, etc.
He is nowhere near our movement,
and yet he knew where to come for
the paper.
Let's remember, everyone is a
possible contact for Daily Worker.
propose that all workers organ
izations contribute toward a sub
scription for every workers Center
S. E.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Quotes Twain's Definition
Of Loyalty
Racine, Wisconsin

Racine, Wisconsin
Comrade Editor:
I submit the following quotation
from Mark Twain's "A Connecticut
Yankee" for additional reading re-
quired for Mr.. Hearst:
you see my kind of LOYALTY
was loyalty to ones country, not to
its institutions or it's office holders.
THE country is the real thing,
the substantial thing, the eternal
thing, it is the thing to watch over
and care for and be loyal to; in
situations are extraneous, are it's
mere clothing, and clothing can
wear out. become ragged. cease to
be comfortable, cease to protect
the body from cold, disease, and
death.
ITO be loyal to rags, to shout for
rags, to worship rags, to die for
rags,-that is loyalty to unreason,
it is pure animal, it belongs to
monarchy, was invested of mon
archy, let monarchy keep it.
IT was from Connecticut, whose
Constitution declares, That all po-
litical power is inherent in the
people, and all free governments
are founded on their authority and
instituted for their benefit, and
that they have at all times an I'M
deniable and indefeasible right to
alter their form of government in
such a manner as they may think
eXpedient.'
Under that gospel, the citizen
who thinks he sees that the COM
monwealth's political clothes are
worn out, and yet holds his peace
and does not agitate for new suit,
is disloyal; is a TRAITOR"
A FRIEND.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22

budget.
Could the statement of the Chairman of the House
Appropriation Committee make this any clearer when
he said two days ago. justifying the enormous war
preparations:
eve are sitting on volcano at home and abroad
We cannot blind ourselves to the menace of radical
ties
Or when Brigadier General Howard of the National
Guard justified the $25,OOOOOO appropriation for the
National Guard the ground of the countrys strike
situation could this be any clearer statement of fascist
intent against the whole American working class and
labor movement?
True enough are the words of l. M. Ornburn
official of the A F. of L. Cigar Makers Union, who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
COrrects Error
Of Omission

New York, N. Y.
Ccmrade Editor:
On Wednesday, February 10, on
Page 5, there appeared an article
entitled, Textile Workers Demand
Strike Call" Somewhere in the ar
ticle is a parenthesis that says, See
my article of :" Since there is
no indication who the author of
the article is, think you will agree
that more care should be exercised
in this direction. j. c.
NOTE: The article referred to
Is one of series by Carl Reeve,
whose name was by error omitted
from the February 18th article.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Letters From Our Readers

Because of the volume Of letters re-
ceived by the Department, we can
print only those that are of general
interest to Daily Worker readers. How
ever, all letters received are carefully
read by the editors. Suggestions and
criticisms are welcome and whenever
possible are used for the Improvement
of the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
On Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Hence there three fundamental aspects the dictatorship the potora
% The utilization
EXPLORERS
n all countries
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Party Life
The Chicago Elections
Miskerik for Alderman
Party Tasks in Ward 81

WARD 81, Chicago, is a dis
" trict concentration ward. !
Comrade Miskerik, the work
ers' choice for alderman was
one of the three aldermanic
candidates (out of twenty
nine endorsed by the Commu-
mist Party of Chicago whose petit
ton was not challenged.
A Ward Election Campaign Com
mittee has functioned regularly and
well since the opening of the cam
paign. This committee was the
first in the city to issue an alder
manic platform. Ten thousand plat
forms in English, 1000 in Bohe-
milan, and 5000 in Polish were
printed and more than half of them
have already been distributed
among the workers in the ward.
This platform deals not only with
the general problems facing the
workers, professionals and small
home owners, but with concrete is
sues such as the slum district, the
garbage-flled alleys, the lack Of
Fairgrounds for the children, the
one-man street cars, etc.
Precinct captains have been APP
pointed in number of precincts.
Sympathetic mass organizations
have been contacted for help in the
signature collection drive and for
financial assistance. The Slovak-
Democratic Club has endorsed our
candidate. A thousand posters with
Comrade Miskerik's picture have
been printed and they are to be
seen in scores of windows Of homes
and stores in the 21st ward. A num-
Der Of meetings and affairs have
been arranged where our candidate
| has spoken and where also Carl
Lockner, Communist mayoralty cam
didate, addressed the audiences on
the problems of the city-wide cleo
/ ton.
The aldermanic candidate spends
every afternoon visiting the workers
in the ward and acquainting them
with his program Several other
workers are helping in this work
From all reports there is a splendid
| sentiment among the workers and
small storekeepers in this ward in
favor of Comrade Miskerik.
The following tasks must be car
ried out during the remainder of
the campaign if the Chicago City
Council is to have at least one
workers representative in its midst
for the next four years.
1. The Party membership in this
ward particularly, and the mem
bership in Section l in general,
must respond conscientiously to
all calls for help in mass distri-
button of leaflets and platforms.
2. One hundred workers (citi-
zens) must be modified as watch
ers in the booths on Feb. 26.
8. The Polish quarter of the
ward, where the present Alder
man Lagodny may still ha' e some
support, must be thoroughly can
vassed by competent Polish COM
rades.
a. The language press and the
language organizations in the
ward are asked to help sell tick
cts for a big prediction affair
(dramatics, dancing. etc. to be
given for Comrade Miskerik in the
National Hall, Feb. "a.
5. Twenty-Five cars must be mo-
bilized for the night of Feb. Is
for a torch parade in Ward 81.
One week of concentrated work
on these tasks and America may re-
sound with the news of the election
of a workers candidate as alder
man in the city of Chicago.
Out of the six workers candidates
left on the ballot Miskerik is one
who has real chance for election.
Ed.
Section /,
Chicago, III.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22

ness, wants to increase these profits still
further, at the expense of further wage
cuts and unemployment for the workers.
The workers can better their conditions
by building up their unions and fighting
for union conditions. The chiseling en-
ployers' codes must be smashed by the
mass fight of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Jail for Singing

STRALSUND, Germany, Feb. 81.
Laughing and keeping his hands
in his pockets while band played
the Horst Vessel Song, dirge of Hit-
Ter fascism, meant two weeks im-
prisonment for a Stralsund man,
here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Conference on H. R. 1927
Section 1,
Chicago, Ill.

Conference on II. II. AOAI
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. I'll
Calls were issued today for West
Philadelphia conference for the
Workers Unemployment, Old Age
and Social Insurance Bill, H. r.
2827. The conference will be held
Sunday, March "a, at 2 pm, at
Kings Hall, 5O7 North Forty-first
s sreet. The conference will serve
the two-fold purpose of taking steps
10 defeat Gov. Earle's tax program
and to mobilize pressure behind the
Workers Bill.
Evening star., 1935-04-07

cleanly desolation, which those who
are not philosophers cannot look at
without regret. This grand ediflce is
encircled by very rude pale, through
which a common rustice style intro
duces the visitors Of the first man in
America.
1.-THE private buildings exhibit the
same characteristic display Of arro-
CANT speculation and premature ruin,
and the few ranges Of houses which
were begun some years ago, have re-
manned so long waste and unfinished
that they are now for the most part
dilapidated."
As late as 1917 there were but seven
diplomatic representatives accredited
to this country with the rank of min
lister. the countries represented being:
England, France, Spain, Sweden, Den
mark, Portugal and Russia.
I, Great Britain was represented by
Sir Charles Bagot, who made his
home in the Ringgold house, which
stood near the northeast corner of L
and Twenty-fifth streets, in the block
where is now the Columbia Hospital
for Women.
Sometimes locating the Washington
residences of certain notable men of
bygone days is not altogether an easy
thing to do, particularly If you are
seeking for conclusive evidence, and
Evening star., 1935-04-07
A PRESIDENTS FUNERAL BILL
WHICH NEVER HAS BEEN PAID

ing pertinent clippings and notations
on funerals, the former w. R. Speare
had entered the following note: "Au-
gust, 1881, solid bronze casket. gold
plated, $1,000" This is in pencil, and
written across it in blue are the words,
sold for Gen. Garfield, September,
1881" Mr.. Speare considers this both
perplexing and interesting, because
the casket in which President Gar
field lay at Elberon, N. j., where the
first of the three funeral ceremonies
was held, was black with silver han
dies. This casket was made by
Charles A. Benedict at the order Of
Mrs. Garfield, who requested that the
entire funeral be very simple. The
only conclusion Mr.. Speare can reach
Is that the bronze casket was used as
an inner metal one, practice which
was seldom used at that early date.
He has set out to determine for him.
self the exact facts of this bronze
casket, heretofore not mentioned.
Telling of the Merino decorations in
black and white CMerino is the name
applied to the particular design
which draped all the public buildings
and Capitol, Mr.. Speare says the
bunting alone probably cost thou
sands of dollars.
OF further interest was the finding
of the gun used by Charles Guiteau,
the assassin, in shooting Garfield.
Mr.. Leslie Garnett, District attorney
in Washington, found it hidden in an
old safe in the District Supreme Court
office. There Is no doubt but that it
is the gun, because of notes of Gui-
teau's that describe it III detail. Mr..
Garnett says he will probably turn
over the gun to the National Museum.
Further notes of the assassin reveal
the amazing thoughts, which Guiteau
had concerning the dramatically
planned murder. From May Is until
July he trailed the President, spend
ing hours at a time sitting in the
Lafayette Park, directly opposite the
White House. Among the many op-
portunities which he had to kill the
President was the time previous to
the shooting when Garfield was SINH
larly standing in the depot. This
time, however, Mrs. Garfield was with
him and to quote Guiteau. looked so
frail and clung to the Presidents arm
so tenderly that I had not the heart
to shoot him before her" Picture,
too, an assassin who orders hack to
be ready to take him to jail after he
has done his contemplated shooting,
and in further preparation goes OF to
have his shoes shined. When taken
by the police he murmured, BE quiet,
my friends, I want to 60 to jail"
Guiteau, who was Q lawyer, prepared
Q preposterous defense, and fully be-
leved that the court would free him.
Evening star., 1935-04-07

was then almost unbelievably small.
The State Department had 8 clerks,
Treasury Department. IS; War De-
partment, II: Navy Department, l6,
and Post Office Department, 10. The
census of the city included 1882
whites, 629 slaves and l23 free colored.
Georgetown had Just little fewer,
or 1893 in all.
UEST and north Of the White
w House it was then quite rural
and included much woodland. and
only a few years before a race course
crossed Pennsylvania avenue at about
Seventeenth and Twentieth streets,
while there we're still the remains Of
an old cemetery in the northwest cor
ner of Lafayette Square.
Thomas Moore, who visited Wash
ington in 1904, said some very unkind
things about Uncle Sam" and his
people. which were not true. Some of
the things he said, however, were
true, and illustrate the conditions in
Washington at that time. Referring
to the Blodget Hotel. also called the
Great Hotel. the White House and the
private buildings, he says:
THE hotel is already a ruin: a
great part of its roof has fallen in
and the rooms are left to be occupied
gratuitously by Scotch and Irish emi-
grants. The Presidents House, very
noble structure, is by no means suited
to the philosophical humility of its
present possessor, who inhabits but a
corner of the mansion himself. and
abandons the rest to state Of un-
Evening star., 1935-04-07

Nineteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue, before referred to, became the
Presidents home for the remainder OF
his term.
This building had previously been
occupied by Vice President Elbrldge
Gerry, who probably died there No
vemoer %, 1914, and who is buried
in Congressional Cemetery, where his
grave is marked with an artistic
monument. President Martin Van
Buren, while he was Vice President,
from 1888 to 1887. made his home on
this corner, as did Robert j. Walker
when Secretary of the Treasury, dur
ing the administration of James K.
Polk.
Other distinguished people who
lived in this row from time to time
include Gen. Turreau de Garambon-
vile, Minister Of France, 1904, and
Gen. John Armstrong. George w.
Campbell, James K. Paulding and
Benjamin w. Crowninshield, cabinet
officers. In 1916, house numbered
1905 became the residence of Jose
Correa da Sierra, first Portuguese Min
lister to the United States. In 1864
it became the first residence in Wash
ington of Chevalier Joseph Bertinatti,
Minister residenUfof Italy.
At the time the State Department
moved to this corner in 1900 there
were only 369 houses in Washington.
including 100 brick and 253 frame,
and the building of the War Depart
ment structure had hardly begun.
The number of department employees