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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-01
Party Life
Concentration Unit
Aided Workers in
Defeating Company Unior

. AAANt<& " nv . III
Defeating Company Union
THROUGH the activity of
L the I.R.T. shop concentra-
ton unit, our Section was
able to build a Party nucleus
in the shop, around the first
of last August. We are still
few in number, but we have
already gained considerable Party
experience and have some achieve
ments to our credit.
In the first place we realized that
Communist nucleus can grow only
in proportion to the efforts it puts
forth to bring the role of the Party
correctly to the workers in the shop.
How have we done this?
Shortly after the unit was or
ganized, we began to issue our own
shop paper, the Red Express" In
this paper we gave the Party posi-
ton on the Negro question which
had become a live issue through the
work Of the union; we answered
the red scare; we exposed the Re-
gional Labor Board, to whom the
Transport Workers Union was APP
pealing for reinstatement of work.
ers fired for union activity. (They
have since been reinstated because
of the militant support of the
Transport Workers.
Pin addition, We distributed
leaflets and platforms during the
Election Campaign.
3-We are now arranging to have
the Daily Worker sold near the
shop at regular intervals. AS a re-
suit of the correct position taken
by Communists in the leading COM
mittee of the union, we find now
that the majority of the workers are
not antagonistic to the organization
Of the Negro workers in the system,
and are against discrimination in the
union, and that there is much less
talk about Reds in the union. On
these questions, we have won an
initial victory.
But we have been most successful
in our work inside the company
union. We have been able to use
the legal apparatus of the company
union for the development of the
program of the Transport Workers
Union, which up to the present time
has existed illegally. We agitated
the workers who we're disguised
with the company union to attend
the meetings of the union and to
fight for the demands of the work.
ers which we raised in the union
meeting. In this way, the workers
voted to reject the agreement which
had been signed by the delegates
of the union with the bosses, for a
reduction of hours, but no increase
in pay, which was the real demand
of the workers, i.e., the return of
the ten per cent wage-cut. In adj
dition, our proposal, to send del
egate to the National Congress for
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance, was accepted by the workers
and at the very same meeting, two
delegates we're elected. We can be
justly proud Of this achievement.
However, 1t has not been an easy
task to put over these measures,
since the Company Union delegates
have Unanswered constantly to
railroad our proposals. Then, a
great deal Of caution must be used
in agitating the men for they are
not yet revolutionary and in order
to be recognized as leaders we can
not afford to be too far ahead of
them.
At the present time, we are work
ing night and day to help build
real rank-and-f1 union in the
shop, the Transport Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-01
One of the Country's
Bright Spots
Peoria, Ill.

COl ID. LII.
Comrade Editor
I am sending one dollar in cash.
Please renew my subscription to the
Daily Worker for that much.
l am also sending in clipping
and pictures from the Peoria Jour
nal. l hope you can write up the
story that really gees with this Tin
Can City" as they call it, of the
unemployed Peorisns. You see how
the yellow press described the pic
lures: Life and Virtue Come Cheap
in Tin Can City" and Living Is a
Serious Business in Tin Can City"
Do not forget that according to the
local capitalist papers, Peoria is the
bright spot of the country. Q. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-01
-Devotes Support To
Daily Worker
Philadelphia, Pa


Comrade Editor;
1t is about time we American
workers should follow the most eff
fective lesson of the German COM
rades how to diminish publications
of our enemy liars.
Stop reading them. I have been
reading the Daily Worker for the
last two years. I find it enlighten-
ing, encouraging, educational and
most of all militant, a militancy
that stays and develops with the
reader.
Some Of my friends argue that
the secondary news which our pa
per does not publish, is important.
Yes, it is important. But let workers
start buying their paper in numbers
as they do other publications and I
will wager anyone that the Daily
Worker will be the best all around
daily the United States ever had.
A. S,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-01
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, 1935-02-01

MOT the least thrilling and inspiring section of the
~ speech which Premier Molotov of the L. S. S. R.
delivered this week to the AUnion Congress of Soes
is his firm and clear declaration of the peace policy of
the Soviet Union.
It is fact that if not for the Soviet Union and its
struggle for peace the universal slaughter of another
world war would now be taking the lives of millions of
workers and their sons.
Step by step, Molotov showed how the Soviet Union
has worked for peace
The Soviet Union proposed universal and then
partial disarmament, at Geneva. When this re-
iected by the capitalist powers the Soviet Union then
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-01
Fascist Laws Grow Out
Of Lindbergh Case

0dTy, Thu,
Comrade Editor:
1t may have occurred to some
people that the Lindbergh kidnap-
ping has g. deeper significance than
appears on the surface. 1t has al
ready resulted in a number of
things among which may be EMU
merated the Lindbergh kidnapping
law, changes in extradition proceed
ings, and denial of habeas corpus.
The connection of Hauptmann
with the case, whether he actually
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-01
Required Reading for Mr.. Hearst

'This country, with its institutions belongs people who
nhab it, Whenever they shall of the existing
men they exercise their tuiona right of
their revolutionary right dismember
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-01
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES

- BY HARRY CANNES -
British Elections in 1885
A Third Labor Government?
New Deal, Lloyd George
Model
Evening star., 1935-03-28
CH|LDREN'S OFFICE
. HEAD WILL SPEAK
Miss Katherine F. Lenroot
to Address Council of
ChurchWomen.

Miss Katherine F. Lenroot. direc-
tor of the Labor Departments Chill
dren's Bureau, will be the principal
speaker at the annual ingathering
ceremony of the Woman's Council
of the Washington Federation of
Churches tomorrow at 2 pm. in the
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church.
Rev. Joseph r. Sizoo, D. D., pastor
of the church, and Rev. Carl G. Ras-
mussen, D. D., president of the
church federation, will talk. Mrs.
Benjamin w. Meeks, president OF the
Woman's Council, will preside.
Always an interesting event, the
ingathering ceremony each year is
attended by women from more than
100 churches who bring offerings
accompanied by baskets of flowers.
Monetary gifts are used to defray an
nual expenses of the organization
which include the salary of Juve-
nile Court worker, and part salary Of
a hospital worker. The flowers are
distributed to the hospitals.
As chairman of the denominational
representatives, Mrs. J. Claude KEEPER
will have charge of the actual ingath-
ering. Mrs. w. S. Abernethy will
conduct the devotional services. Mu-
sic is in chare of Mrs. James Shera
Montgomery. Miss Elizabeth Jackson
will sing. Prayer and benediction will
be pronounced by DR.. William L.
Darby.
The meeting is open to the public.
Evening star., 1935-03-28
five CAPITAL STUDENTS
OF FRENCH GET MEDALS
Winners of Essay Contest Are
Honored by Ambassador
de Laboulaye.

Five Washington students of French
were awarded medals yesterday at
GEORGETOWN University as winners of
an essay contest held last week, in
which more than 140 students in both
public and private schools partici-
pated.
The contest was sponsored by the
Washington Chapter of the American
Association of Teachers Of French.
The medals were the gifts Of the Am
bassador of France, M. Andre de La
boulaye, who attended the presenta-
ton ceremony. He also congratulated
Prof. Leon Dostert of Georgetown for
organizing the competition.
Winners of the medals for fourth
year students were Margaret Thorn
ton, Central High School; John Nc
Mullen, Western High School, and
Helen Yort, Gunston Hall School.
Winners of the three-year medals
we're Lucille Sheppard, western High
School, and Mrs. H. F. Humphries,
De Jardin School.
Evening star., 1935-03-28
THREE NAVY BILLS
PASSED BY HOUSE
Opposition to Measures for
Strengthening Is
Slight.

By the Associated Press.
Three bills which would strengthen
naval defense afioat, ashore ana IN
the air were passed by the House
yesterday with scarcely ripple OF ols-
senting votes. $50,
This is what the three bills would
do to the naval defenses OF the United
states: Authorize the Navy to pro-
ceed with a $38,000,000 program OF
building UP strategic naval bases in
the Pacific; provide 1000 extra officers
for fighting ships, and assure the
Navy of enough aviators for an ex-
panding air force.
Important Defense Bills.
The bills, carrying the blessings of
the administration, are said to be
the most important defense legiSla'
ton of the present session.
They were designed to meet the
necessities of a fleet now on the way
toward the maximum power allowed
by international arms pactS.
TT is highly essential from ma
tional defense standpoint that this
legislation go through" Chairman
Vinson of the Naval Committee told
the House.
But from Representative Marcan-
tonic, Republican, of New York, came
an assertion that the measure tc
strengthen naval bases meant the
Nation is deliberately waving wal
flag on the Pacific Coast and I believe
that is highly dangerous"
He objected to passing $4,000, ,00C
authorization with fewer than Sc
members on the floor
Fills Drydock Needs.
"If we are going to fight, tell us
who it is" suggested Representative
Hull, Progressive, of Wisconsin. Lets
spend the money for fighting, not te
build up million-doll dormitorieS.
Naval Committee members ex.
planned the authorization measure. by
Representative Darden. Democrat. o.
Virginia. would help meet a lack Of
adequate drydock facilities on the
West Coast and in Hawaii. A gigan-
tic $1O,0O0,000 floating drydock al
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. is the biggest
item in the measure and is No. or
the Navy's priority construction list
Wilson's bill for more Navy line
officers would lift the authorized num-
ber from 5,499 to 6,531. The cost ovel
five years is estimated at S1,907, ,20l
annually.
Evening star., 1935-03-28
NEW-TYPE LlFEBOAT
TRIAL SUCCESSFUL

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, March 28.-The new
type ifeboat. known as the 'Invin-
cible," returned to the Coast Guard
station here yesterday after three
day "shakedown" cruise on the Ches-
apeake Bay.
Coast Guard officials, after inspect
ing the boat, one of the largest of its
kind IN the world, said it passed the
tests satisfactorily and would be put
into service off the New Jersey coast
within 10 days. It has to be painted
and given few minor adjustments.
The lifeboat, So feet in length and
powered by a 150-horsepower Diesel
engine. is designed for service in such
marine disasters as those of the Moro
Castle and Mohawk off the New Jer-
sey coast. It will right itself, with
stand the heaviest weather and carry
so passengers.
Evening star., 1935-03-28
La Guardia After Aid Chiselers.

NEW YORK. March % (P).-Mayor
F. H. La Guardia yesterday announced
establishment Of complaint bureau
to receive reports on persons drawing
relief funds illegally and at the same
time protect the names of those sup
plying the reports Asserted "chisel-
ers" on relief rolls cost the city at
least $24,000,000 a year, the mayor
indicated.
Evening star., 1935-03-28

with the Districts transportation
problems, asked the Police Department
to solve one Of his own today.
When Keech left his office in the
District Building last night, his car
was missing from its customary park
ing place. 1t was still missing today.
Evening star., 1935-03-28
Long Police Spread Seen.

NEW ORLEANS, March % P.-
Senator Huey Longs State police
eventually will be placed in every city,
town and hamlet in Louisiana, As
sistant Attorney General George Wal
lace asserted yesterday as he appeared
in court to defend laws under which
the State administration would take
control of New Orleans.
Evening star., 1935-03-28
Mother Adjudged Insane.

LOS ANGELES. March % (P.-Re-
Gently jailed fer five days because
she refused to allow her v12-year-old
son to attend school, Mrs. Edith
Gassoway was adjudged demented at
sanity hearing yesterday and was
ordered committed to State hospital.
The complaint was signed by Mrs.
Gassoway's mother, Mrs. Mary Van
Meter.
Evening star., 1935-03-28
Bridegroom Believed Thief.

SAN DIEGO, Calf, March % (P.-
District Attorney Thomas Whelan yes
terday issued a complaint charging
Laurie Baker Grips, Sc, with grand
theft after his wife told police he
disappeared from an auto camp with
81, 400 in cash, negotiable bonds worth
$500 and five diamond rings valued at
$500, all her property. She said
they were married last December in
Sarasota, Fla.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-08-08

Mrs. Philip Dales of Washington
has been spending some of her week
ends with Sandy Spring friends, being
a guest at Meadowbrooke, with Mrs.
John H. Janney the past week.
Mr.. Addison G. Foster of The Bun
galow, has been on a flying trip
through a number of the Western
States, Mr. Foster left home on Sun
day afternoon on a five o'clock plane
for Santa Fe, N. M.
Miss Emma T. Stabler has arrived
at Edgewood from Washington, and
VIII spend the remainder of the sum
mer at her home, after which she will
reopen her shop in Washington.
Mrs. Conant Webb with her fou,
children nave arrived from their home
In Montclair, N. j., and will spend the
month of August with Mrs. Webb's
mother, Mrs. Robert H. Miller.
Miss Mary Moore Miller is spend.
ing her vacation with her family al
The Highlands.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-08-08
COLESVILLE

The Boys J.. T. l.. will meet on
Tuesday afternoon, 2 P. M, August
18th with Mrs. Grayson Burnell.
Mr.. and MRS. Floyd Suthard had
as their dinner guests Saturday, Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Risdon of Wash
ington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Hobbs, had
as their dinner guests Sunday: Mr..
and Mrs. Everett Wright and family,
of Washington, D. C.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hobbs have
as their guests for the week: Mr..
and Mrs. Wilton Davidson, of Patter-
son, New Jersey, and Miss Nina Put
nam of Washington, D. C.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Salters, the
Misses Vera and Peggy Salters, and
Mr.. Arnold Salters are spending the
week with relatives at Long Island,
New York.
Mr.. and Msr. John Patton had
with them over the weekend, Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Patton, Mr.. and Mrs.
Raymond Patton and Miss Kathleen
Patton OF Trenton, New Jersey.
Mrs. Albert Sager, Sr. and Mrs.
Leslie johnson, carried their Sunday
School classes to Glen Echo Park,
on Thursday. Those who went were
the Misses Pauline Suthard, Dorothy
and Miriam Sager! Evelyn and Ber-
nard Grimes; Nancy Lee Swecker;
Evelyn, Inez, Hazel and Ruth Hobbs;
Helen Purcell, Bessie Knight, Mrs.
P. H. Ray, Mrs. W. D. Swecker, Mrs.
Claude Hobbs, Mrs. Leslie Johnson,
Mrs. Albert Sager, ST., and Mr..
Leonard Hobbs.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-08-08
Famous Military Antiquities To
Be Seen As Armory Is Dedicated
Fifth Regiment Headquarters In Baltimore To Display
Trophies In Marking 121st Anniversary Of National
Anthem September Is and IA

Famous military antiquities will
be taken from vaults and other
places of safe keeping in different
sections of the thirteen original
states for the celebration September
18th and 18th with which Baltimore
will mark the 121st anniversary of
the birth of the National Anthem
and rededication of the Fifth Regi-
ment Armory.
The Fifth's collection of trophies
will be on public exhibition in the
Armory and in a window of the Cen
trail Pratt Library and in addition
to these number of the commands
of the Centennial Legion who are
coming to Baltimore to take part in
the Star Spangled Banner exercises
at Fort McHenry the first day and
in the big military parade Septem.
Der 18th will bring with them prize
! possessions some of which go back
to Colonial times.
The Washington Light Infantry
of Charleston, South Carolina, OF
which Captain Edgar Rugheimer is
commander will bring the celebrated
Eutaw Flag which has an unique his.
| tory, It was Colonial William Wash.
ington's personal battle flag and was
first carried at the Battle of Eutaw
Springs, South Carolina and it is
said, that he kept it close by him
during the whole period of the Revo-
lutionary War. The story is that il
was given him by his sweetheart
who made it herself from a piece OF
red damask cut from the back of q
chair; the Washington Light Infan-
try keeps the Eutaw Flag in vault
which is never opened except when
three company officers are present.
Another southern unit of the Cen
tennial Legion, the Chatham Artillery
of Savannah, Georgia, Major Charles
Peterson, the commander is expected
to bring two field pieces that were
in George Washington's Army anc
the New England visiting commands
are also planning to add historic
objects to their equipment and tc
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-08-08
Sandy Spring Neighborhood

Mrs. T. Yellott Candy assisted by
her mother, Mrs c. M. Young of
Takoma Park, Nd, gave a most de-
liphtful childrens party on Wednesday
afternoon, asking their guests in
honor of the two little children of
Mrs. Candy. From three to five, hav-
mo games as entertainments and
serving refreshments on the lawn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hyde ~. with
their children have arrived at Reho-
both Beach, Del, where they are
spending the month of Aug. and hav-
ing for the first week of their stay
as guests, Mr.. ard Mrs. Francis Mil
Ter with their two daughters, Misses
Anna Miller and Helen Gray.
Mrs. Francis Kirk gave the second
of her small teas in honor of her
mother, Mrs. Orlando Troxel, having
in on Thursday afternoon about
fifteen friends at four-thirty o'clock.
Miss Alice Miller of Germantown,
Pa. has arrived at Tall Timbers for
a visit to DIR. and Mrs. Charles C.
Tumbleson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Lounsbury
and son of near Philadelphia, Pa,
have returned to the neighborhood,
and are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Douglas Farquhar at The Cedars.
Miss Nancy McCarty of Waterford
Va, is now a guest at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Hurley at
Glenlauder. Mr.. and Mrs. Hurley have
with them until over Labor Day their
grandson from New York.
Two delightful party's were given
the past week, when Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Stabler entertained in honor
of the sister of Mrs. Stabler, Mrs
John C. Clarke of Norfolk, Va.
Thursday evening the Stablers had
the following cousins in for supper
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Stabler, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lotion Wesley, Mr.. and Mrs
Mortimer o. Stabler of Dayton, Mrs
Newton Stabler, Miss Alice T. Stab
Ter and Miss Lille B. Stabler Of
Edgewood, Mrs. John C. Bentley, Miss
Edith Hallowell and Miss Florence
Bentley of Cloverly, Mrs. Robert H
Miller, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert H. Miller
Jr., and Miss Anne Miller of The
Highlands; on Sunday evening the
guests were Mrs. Stabler's daughter
Mrs. John Hinrichs, Mrs. Marie De-
Courtney, Mrs. H. Hurlbrink and Mrs
]. Elliott Bilpin of Baltimore, with
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Fiske, Miss
Mary Boyd and Miss Helen Boyd who
are spending the summer at the
Commonwealth, also Mrs. Lawrence
Cochrane and Mrs. Heronemus OF
Baltimore.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-08-08

stage special features of their own
for the celebration. Among the
rarest of the Massachusetts relics
are two muskets that were used at
the Battle Of Bunker Hill which be-
long to the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company of which Captain
J. A. Duncan is the commander.
The Fifth regiment trophies to be
shown in the Pratt Library window
from September 9th to the end of the
month include the original painting
by H. Wadsworth Thompson of the
Departure from Annapolis of Small
woods Regiment a large canvass
which was purchased by the Regi.
ment from the Albright Museum
Buffalo, two years ago; book ISSUED
by the United States Government Of
prints in color showing uniforms Of
the United States Army up unit
1889; a history of the Fifth Infantry
from 1867 to 1900, bronze memoria
figures, medals, and the Congress
sional Medal awarded Henry G. Cos
ton of this city for extraordinary
heroism; he was killed in the Meust
Argonne offensive October, 1918 anc
the medal was presented the Regi
ment for its archives by his widow.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-08-08
Trend OF Population
Figured By Marines
Records OF Enlistments Show
Many Young Men In Service
Hail From Inland Cities

One of the best places to study
shifts in population is at a recruit
ing station, according to Captain
John p. McCann, who has an excel
lent opportunity to check these mi
grations through the youths who ap-
ply for service in the Marine Corps
at Baltimore, Md.
The applicant is required to give
his place Of birth and often mentions
some state far distant from Balti-
more. Further questioning reveals
that while he lives in Maryland or
some nearby state, his family has
moved from one section Of the coun-
try to another once or several times
since the date Of his birth.
Nearly all Marine Corps recruiting
stations are located along the Allan
tic or Pacific SeaIboards, but about
one-third of the men who enlisted
during the last fiscal year were born
in inland localities. The remainder
are natives of states which have
direct access to the sea.
"We have never been able to learn
whether men in the maritime states
naturally turn to some vocation
which has the sea for background
or that enlistments in the Marine
Corps are largely due to the prox-
unity of recruiting stations" Cap
toin Mccain admits.
"Our country has about 5000
miles of coast line, $4,000 miles of
navigable rivers and 3,7O0 miles of
shore line of navigable lakes. Thou
sands of Americans who live near
this long expanse of shore know
something of seamanship, and it has
been pointed out that our citizens
naturally should be a seafaring peo-
pie.
"When two battalions Of Marines
were authorized in ITS, Congress
stipulated that no persons should be
appointed to office or enlisted in
those battalions. but such as were
good seamen, or so acquainted with
maritime affairs as to be able to
serve to advantage by sea when re-
quired.
Modern conditions have greatly
modified this rule, and nowadays g
knowledge of the sea is not required
of our recruits. We train certain
men especially for sea duties; all Oh
our important posts are near the sea
and most of our men, when they
are not actually assigned to dut!
aboard battleships or cruisers, make
numerous sea voyages during an en-
listment."