The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1934, Page 1

HELP GET Mew Readers for the “Daily” Vol. XI, No.21 <2” Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1934 WEATHER: Fair, Se AMERICA’S ON Colder (Six Pages) LY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER Price 3 Cents ‘UMW Convention Packed ‘In Lewis Fight On Rank And File Wage Demands | ) Postpone Discussion Wage Scale, Howes Agreement By DAN DAVIS. (Special to the Datly Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 23.— The Lewis machine opened the 33rd consecutive biennial convention of the United Mine Workers of America at Tomelson Hall, today, with greet~ ings to the miners from the ablest labor misleaders of America to the most violent reactionaries. About 1,500 delegates are at the convention from the U.S. and Canada. The Convention was characterized by: 1.~Packed by organizers repre- senting blue-sky locals (non-existent), as shown by Bittner, International Representative, Lewis in West Vir- ginia bringing delegates in special trains; 2. Bringing government representatives and coal operators to the convention; 3. Opposition groups from all Districts gathering their forces into one solid front to fight for the policy contained in the resolu- tions adopted by scores of locals, such as, the six-hour day, five day week, $6 a day; unemployment and social insurance, withdrawal of all U. M. W. A. officials from N. R. A. labor boards, the right to strike and against the arbitration payment of dead work; preparations for April 1st strike democracy in local unions, im- mediate elections of officials after the convention; for the very vital miners issues, such as, Scottsboro, Mooney, against Fascism, War, protection of foreign-born, against the constitution clause prohibiting membership in the Communist Party, and against steam- rolling miners i acceptance of the N.R. A. “Postpone” Wage Talk The convention opened with the pre-announcement by Lewis that the convention will last only ten days, instead of usual two weeks. Discus- sions concerning wage scales, hours, working conditions, agreements are to be “postponed”, Lewis said “until the miners representatives and the operators meet with the N. R. A. in Washington on Feb, 12th.” Governor Paul V. McNutt of In- diana,~ former commander of the American Legion and the Governor who called the State Militia against the striking miners in Linton, de- claring martial law, greeted the con- vention, saying: “This State 1s friendly to organized labor.” Others to the convention included C. B. Huntress, Secretary of the Na- tional Coal Association, largest bosses organization; Frances Perkins, who will speak at the Convention on Jan. 30th; General Hugh S. Johnson, William Green, the local Mayor and head of the Indianapolis Labor Fed- eration. One miner stated: “The Lewis machine is bringing every big shot to the convention to accept Lewis keep- ing his grip on the union and over the N. R. A. There is only one miss- ing”, he said, “and that is Roosevelt, and they'll bring him if necessary.” Lewis took the gavel at the opening of the ceremony, which was presided over by Adolph Fritz, Sec’y. of the Indiana State Federation of Labor. Lewis Claque Active Lewis immediately had a partial report on the credeniials Committee distributed to delegates and siarted the convention in actual session rushing the procedure which generally starts on the second day. One deleg- ate, Fritz, said, he “hoped things you had been fighting for for the last 6 years will come true.” There were snickers throughout the hall. He opened the official part of the Convention with “The great U. M. W. A. gains, the passing of the N. R. A., is no accident on the part of Congress. The principles and the policies laid down by that body are policies of the U. M. W. A., which only remain and be continued for great humanitarian president, our U. S. to impress upon Congress need for passing N. R. A.” The afternoon session was taken up with the report of officials, including the recommendation to move the na- tional headquarters from Indianapolis to Washington. eR EE In the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Sports, by Si Gerson. Page 3 P.MLA. Heads Halt March. “{ Months of N.R.A.,” by Harry Gannes. “U.MLW.A. Leaders of West Evicted Strikers,” by. Ee Lookey Page Letters from Needle Trades Workers “Party Life” “Dr. Luttinger Advises.” “In the Home,” by Helen Luke. Page 5 “Change the World,” by Michael Gold, “A Deportee Writes.” — Letters from Antonofi. Music, Stage and Screen, Tuning In. Workers Theatre Movement, by N. Foreign News. Editorials: War Flames in the Far East; Thomas Approves; A Test for Every Party Organization. Soviet Press on Lenin, by Vern Smith. Cartoon — “The Recruiting Ser- geant,” by Jacob Burck leery § John L, Lewis President of the United Mine Workers of America, veteran labor betrayer, wheel horse of N. R. A. Thirty Anthracite Strikers Jailed in Mass Fight on Writ Deny Miners Right to Streets; Strike Spreading By DAN SLINGER WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan, 23.— ‘Thirty miners were arrested on the picket line in the first test of the in- junction. Picketing is taking on a mass character in spite of the in- junction. In Parson’s a picket was arrested and denied bond. The case is to be taken into court. Jury trials are to be asked with all cases. It is reported that the Hudson Coal Co, petition for injunc- tion has been stopped, pending an “amicable agreement” on picketing. Two of the largest collieries in Dis- trict One, which has been operating, the Susquehanna Collieries, Nos. 6 and 7, members of the U.M.W.A,, voted last night for a “holiday” dur~ ing the strike, thus joining the strike. Twenty-five hundred are involved. Maloney states a complete tie-up, or all badly crippled. Boylan, U. M. W. A., reports 60 to 70 per cent at work. Glen Alden Coal Co. posted a notice that all miners must be at their working places within 48 hours, or remove their tools from the prop- erty of the company. Virtual Martial Law ‘This morning the superini ‘lent, mine foreman and other company of- ficials visited miners’ homes, intimi- dating and terrorizing miners and their wives and trying to force miners to return to work. Sheriff Kniffen of Luzerne County imposed virtual martial law in a proclamation, com- manding all citizens, individually and collectively, to refrain from congre- gating on or obstructing the public highways and that all “public dem- onstrations to intimidate” to cease forthwith. Judge Kelly contended, in arguing for the injunction for which the Hudson Coal Co. was trying, that all miners were under contract with the coal operators, whether or not they were members of the U.W.M.A. The miners are preparing for mass dem- onstrations at the County Court House. Permit Denied They’ visited the chief of police, Taylor, of Wilkes-Barre, for a per- mit to march, Chief Taylor refused a permit on the grounds that Section No. 4 of the injunction granted the Glen Al- den Coal Co. denied the.right of the use of the streets to citizens. When asked by the committee “Would this mean martial law had been de- clared?” he replied, “You can call it that, but I say it is a court order.” The committee asked if court or- ders could be applied to others than individuals, to which Chief Taylor replied, “If I gave you a permit, the state and counties would stop you.” The committee of miners state that they are going ahead with their preparations, injunction or no in- junction. organizations, trade unions, cultural groups, mobilize your to get new sub- seribers for our Daily Worker. Help put the Daily Worker cir- culation campaign over the top. Is Recognized By Roosevelt Cuban Reactionaries Are Sharpening Terror Against Masses ‘WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. %—in a rapid move to bolster up the new reactionary Mendieta government in Cuba, President Roosevelt today in- structed the State Department to im- mediately extend recognition to that Jefferson Caffery, Wall Street representative in Cubs who actively aided the coup of the reactionaries in ousting former president Grau San Martin, was named by Roosevelt as U. 8, Ambassador. As @ result of an emergency conference called by Roosevelt with the representatives of several South and Central American governments, it is expected that those governments will also extend recogni- tion within the next few days. Three governments in which Amert- can imperialism is dominant have al- ready extended recognition. They are Mexico, Colombia and Chile. Reports from Cuba show that the Mendieta government has sharpened its murderous attacks on striking workers and professionals in a bloody gesture of “good faith” with its Wall Street masters, who are demanding the suppression of the revolutionary struggles of the masses impoverished by the fierce exploitation of U. 8. imperialists and native bourgeois and landlord cliques. The Mendieta government is reported to have adopted a four-point program, aimed especially at satisfy- ing American financiers controlling the sugar and other industries in the (Continued on Page 6) Sheriff Holds Farm Leader, Jailed as 800 Stop Mortgage Sale Rush Wire Protests Against Arrest of U.F.L. Leader ELKHART, Ind., Jan. 23.—Arrested at a meeting of 800 farmers, who had gathered to stop a foreclosure sale at Warsaw, Indiana, Alfred Tiala, Na- tional Secretary of the United Farm- ers’ League, and his wife, Viola, are now being held at the Elkhart County Jail under $5,000 bail. The charges have not been divulged as yet. Tiala was seized after local police and sheriffs attacked the 800 farm- ers and other sympathetic onlook- ers by throwing tear gas bombs into the crowd. The farmers angrily de- manded that Tiala be released. The sheriff promised to hold him and his wife for “only ten minutes,” but they were spirited away through a back door and taken to the fail. The National Executive Council of the United Farmers’ League immedi- ately sent a telegram of protest to the sheriff of Elkhart County at Goshen, Indiana, and urges all farm- ers and workers and their organiza- tions to do likewise. Copies of all protest telegrams sent to the sheriff should be sent to the United Farmers League national headguarters at 1817 South Loomis St. Chicago, Til. Tells How AFL Head Shot 2 Members of Opposition NEW YORK.—Accusing Harry Van Arsdale Jr.; business agent of the In- ternational Electrical Workers Union Local 3, of having shot Sorenson and Dooner, two opposition members, in the union headquarters last Feb. 24, Alfred Terry replaced William Soren- son on the witness stand in the sec- ond day of the trial being held in General Sessions Court. “I saw Van Arsdale pull a gun from his left hand pocket,” testified Terry who is also a member of the opposi- tion group. “I made a grab for Van Arsdale and caught his left hand. We had a tussle and wound up in the landing. He shot Sorenson while on the landing and also Dooner.” Be a shock brigader in the Daily Worker circulation campaign. Talk about the “Daily” to your neigh- bors, fellow-workers and members of your union, mass organization, unit, Get them to subscribe. The following article is part of the Daily Worker series of expo- sures of racketeering in the A. F. of L. unions. It is written by an active member of the rank and file committee in the Painters’ Union and shows how the rank and file, effectively organized, was able to compel Zausner to withdraw the daily tribute imposed on the mem- bers to swell the coffers of the officialdom and their gangster henchmen, The painters’ rank and file com- mittee correctly raises the slogan of cleaning out the racketeers from the union, as the only means of cotablishing rznk and file control and trade union democracy. More of these articles on racke~ | Zausner Withdraws Work Tax; Plots New Racket Schemes teering will appear in forthcoming issues of the “Daily.” | * By ML. v Mr. Zausner, secretary of District Council No. 9, is supplying the boss press with reports about the painters and the It reminds one of the information he released during the so- called “general strike” and lat Aug. 26) during the fight Jefferson Caffery, Roosevelt's agent in Cuba, who becomes am- bassader with the recognition by Roosevelt of the government of Carlos Mendieta, whom Wall St. considers sufficiently reactionary te OK. Gold Measure OK’d By Senate Committee Senator Admits Bill Will Bring Misery to Workers By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.— tion bill was overwhelmingly and swiftly approved today by the Senate Banking and Currency Committee. All opponents in that group piped down after mittee adopted several modify: visions which, concededly, have vir- tually no chance of being enacted, and which in any case would not change the two main principles of the program — cutting the dollar to half its normal and setting up a tre- mendous Equalization Fund for mani- pulating gold in. Foreign Exchange for the benefit of American impe- rialists. Final debate in the Senate will be- gin tomorrow. The House already having approved it, the program is likely to besent along to the White House within a few days. A bitter attack upon the bill by Senator Fess, Republican die-hard of Ohio, only served to reinforce sup- port. Fess took the floer of the Senate to rail at the “dishonest” char- acter of the Roosevelt program. One amendment adopted by the Senate Banking Committee today would shroud the operation of the proposed $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund in absolute secrecy—and this is (Continued on Page 2) Postal Employees Gather at Capital to Fight Wage-Cut Will Focus Attention on Roosevelt Wage Cutting WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—More than 2,000 post office employees will gather here on Wednesday to place before Roosevelt a petition for the return of the recent 15 per cent Fed- eral pay cut. They will come from many large cities throughout the country. From the headquarters of the National As- sociation of Substitute Employees at 264 West 40th St., New York, a dele- gation of about 200 left last night. This is the first organized delega- tion of Federal employees to come in mass demonstration to the capital for the return of the 15 per cent pay cut. It focuses the attention of the coun- try’s jobless and underpaid wage workers upon Washington as the Na- tional Convention Against Unemnloy- ment prepares to meet on Feb. 3 to 5 to demand adequate relief and un- employment insurance for all jobless workers, Starvation Wages A preliminary rally held on Mon- day cheered President Gottlieb’s re- port that substitute delegates from Brooklyn, Newark, East Orange, Orange, Camden, Baltimore, Cleve- land, Worcester, Nashville, Tenn.; Chicago, Ill.; Sioux City, Iowa; Allen- town, Pa.; Reading, Pa,; would join New York and Philadelphia delegates at Philadelphia N.AS.P.O.E. head- quarters, 34 South Seventh St. About 500 substitute delegates in uniform and wearing badges will march through the streets of Wash- ington and then present their de- mands to President Roosevelt and Congress. The demands of the N.AS.P.O.E. include: (1) The repeal of the 15 per cent cut. (2) The im- mediate filling of all vacancies. (3) Thirty-hour week with no reduction in _pay for all regulars. Thte average weekly earnings of a substitute post office clerk is $7.80 a week, HATHAWAY TO SPEAK AT MEETING NEW YORK.—Arrangenents have been completed for a mass meeting 499 and 848 against the 50 tax. Im those days the news about “the 15,000 painters out on strike for the six-hour day and $1.65 an hour’ was just so much ballyhoo spread by (Continued on Page 2) under the auspices of the Communist Party unit of Gloversville, scene of the recent glove strikes, in the Croation Hall, Arietta Building in Gloversville on Friday. Clarence Hathaway, Editor of the Daily Worker will speak on the “A. F. The Roosevelt dollar devalua-} |Hundreds Protest Loss| | they be paid for the day despite the ‘Unity of Jobless Officials Refuse to Act Workers; Adopt (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C,, Jan. 23.— Graft in the Civil Works Administra- tion came under fire in Congress to- day—but without a single reference to the fact that it means that the |paltry funds appropriated for unem- |ployment work relief are going to} | politicians in party machines and in conservative labor unions instead of to workers. Deluge of Complaints Republicans launched the attack, | demanding investigation by a House | Committee, as relief and other offi- cials hurriedly set in motion an “in- vestigation” which probably will) whitewash the sordid state of C.W.A. affairs, The investigation has one main purpose: To offset the worker| complaints which are pouring in from many sections. | The Department of Justice gave} out the following statement by Joseph |Keenan, Assistant to the Attorney General, who is in charge of the federal “investigation:” “Mr. Harry L. Hopkins, Adminis- trator of the C.W.A., has been in re- ceipt of several communications com- menting upon conditions of the ad- ministration in the various localities of the operations of Civil Works. He has referred to this department sev- eral complair \s, requesting that when federal ste‘u.cs have been violated | the proper prosecution be instituted.” | The department, said Keenan, would begin its work in Los Angeles. Whitewash Graft Representative Charles L. Giffort, Massachusetts Republican who is ranking minority member of the Committee on Expenditures, led the’ Bear Mt. Workers ‘March on C.W.A. to Stop Loss of Pay of Pay on Rainy Day NEW YORK.— Hundreds of Bear Mountain C.W.A. workers marched on the state C.W.A. offices at 124 East 28th St. yesterday demanding that rain, and that pay be given in the future regardless of weather condi- tions. When the men arrived at the Chambers and 42nd streeis’ ferries et 6 a.m. in preparation for the irip to Bear Mountain, they were told that tho trains were not ready. In the past the men have been forced to make the long trip to Bear Mountain only to wait around on rainy days for the trip home. After spending the day at the project without shelter, they had been paid only for one-half | day. | Finding yesterday that they woun be deprived of even this half day's pay, the men marched on the C.W.A. offices. Some with an extra nickel (Continued on Page 2) and Employed Will Win JobsSaysTUUL Calls for United Fight Against Wage Cuts, for Insurance NEW YORK.—The united fight of the employed and unemployed for re- lief, for jobs and for Unemployment Insurance, is the only answer which can be given to the Roosevelt gov- ernments’ latest attacks on the work- ers in the liquidation of the C.W.A., says a statement by Jack Stachel on behalf of the National Executive Committee of the Trade Union Unity League. The action of Roosevelt in cutting ‘own the number of unemployed on .W.A. jobs (leading to its complete abandonment within a few weeks) and cutiing wages of those on t#n- ‘corary C.W.A. jobs “is one of the most direct and outspoken measures ogainst the workers dictated by the apitalists and carried through by the opitalist dictatorship headed by Roosevelt,” the statement declares. For Unemployment Insurance “It is not a secret that the capi- ‘alists demanded that the hours of ‘obor and the wage rates on the C. ‘W. A. jobs be cut down so that they will be better able to cut wages of the workers employed in industry,” the T.U.U.L. continues, “This clearly shows ts all how the fight of the employed and unemployed {s linked. Only by mass struggle on the part Graft in CWA Before Congress, ‘But PoliticiansApply Whitewash |Joe Ladisic and Al Robbin from the 4 about giving the floor to the Unem- on Many Complaints of | Cynical Attitude | | |Republican assault. He taunted the} Democrats with the fact that the| |Expenditures Committee Chairman} jrefused to call a meeting of the | Committee, and cynically inquired: | |“With fifteen (Democrats) on the Committee, can’t you whitewash any | Investigation all right?” | Gifford’s real complaint, however,| was that “wealthy” communities were getting C.W.A. money and spending it. He, apparently, would simply cut down the amounts of expenditures for C.W.A. He quoted newspaper as-| sertions that the C.W.A. is a “politi- cians’ paradise” and asserted that many have been put on the rolls who| “wouldn’t have jobs even in good times.” He said nothing about thou- sands on the rolls but still without | jobs and thousands of unemployed who never got on C.W.A. rolls. Cynical Drooling | Representative Knutson, Farmer-} Labor member from Minnesota, in- terjected the joke: “I don’t think there’s any politics in C.W.A. because in Minnesota a man can’t get a job/| unless he’s a farmer-labor.” | Democrats retorted with demagogic| drooling about the poor unemployed | and what the C.W.A. is doing for them. Representative Cochran (Democrat, Missouri) charged that the Repub-| lican complainers would “put four million back in the breadline.” “You can’t expect people to sing | the star spangled banner on an empty | stomach, . . . We don’t want any) trouble within our own borders, Cochran added. The hypocritical im-| Plication that C.W.A. staved off revolt | went unchallenged, Worker at SP. Mee in Penn. Town Form: Unemployed Counei Workers Boo A. F. of L.| and Socialist Organizers | GREENBURG, Pa., Jan. 23.—Over | 30 unemployed and C.W.A. workers present at a meeting organized by the Socialist Party of Jeanette on Jan. 21, to build an A. F. of L. C.W.A.| union, voted to build the Uaemployed Council instead => ine only organiza- | tion capable of fighting for their} recds. A committee of eight was formed to proceed with organiza- tional steps and to launch the council, " This action was taken after the speeches of two leading Socialists and Krogen, an A. F. of L. organizer, were exposed and the program of the Un- employed Council was presented by Westmoreland County Unemployed | Councils. j At thé meeting, two Socialist speak- ors asked the workers to vote for the Socialist Party in the next elections, but offered no program of action to the workers. Next, the A. F. of L. orgarizer, after praising the N.R.A., called upon the workers to form an} A. FP. of L. C.W.A. workers union. Aj storm of boos grected him when he announced that the charter would cost $15, initiation $2 for each mem- ber, and dues $1 a month. In answer to the workers’ questions of what in union would do for the workers in obtaining their demands for more work, higher wages, etc., Krogen re- plied that nothing could be done. When there was some hesitation ployed Council representatives, the workers demanded this be done. Rank and file Socialists demanded that the Council delegates be heard, and Anti-War Mass Meet in New York Monday NEW YORK.—A mass meeting against the billion dollar war |} budget will be held in St. Nich- olas Arena, 69 West 66th St, next Monday night, Jan, 29, on the return of a delegation of 17 from the American League Against War and Fascism, who will protest in Washington that day against the government's war program. Among the speakers at the meeting will be Earl Browder, J. B. Matthews, Harold Hickerson, Leroy Bowman, and Dr. Addi- son Cutler, Chairman. A report will be made on the delegation’s call on Roosevelt, and the secre- taries of war and of the navy, by two delegates who will return by airplane. War in Europe And East Seen In Paris,Geneva Hirota Hits at U.S.S.R.; Geneva Expects War Over Austria PARIS, Jan. 23.—War in the east, and war in Europe are on the immediate order of the day. This is the statement of Henri Berenger, chairman of the F nch Senate Committee on Foreign A_ airs, | and former Ambassador to Washing- | ton, in an article in today’s Economique et Financiere.” Such a statement from such a man, | who could be counted on to keep a “Agence Roosevelt’s “Biggest Navy” Bill, At Cost of Half Billion Each Year, Is Approved By Congress Committee © No Opposition War-Drunk Pol in House MORE PLANES DUE | | | a Wage Cuts Continued in Gigantic Budget | TODAY'S WAR DEVELOPMENTS | WASHINGTON. — Roosevelt de- mands and House Committee passes largest navy appropriation bill. PARIS—Senate foreign affairs chairman predicts imminent war in Europe and in East. GENEVA.—League of Nations discusses possible war over Nasi | aggression in Austria. | 'TOKYO—Japanese Foreign Min- | ister attacks Soviet Union and China, flatters U. S. in report to Diet. | PARIS.—France abandons pre- | tense of “disarmament” negotia- | tions. ee | By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.— The House Nayal Affairs Com- | mittee today voted unanimous- {ly to recommend the passage | of the $475,000,000 five-year | Vinson Naval Construction bill just before the end of the first day's hearings on the proposed bill. This | measure, Assistant Secretary of the | Navy Henry L. Roosevelt declared yesterday, has the full support of | President Roosevelt. | Supplementing the — $238,000,000 | worth of naval construction ordered |nearly three months ago by Presi~ | dent Roosevelt under the guise of | public works, and the many millions given the navy by the P. W. A. for | discreet silence as long as it was | aviation and other war preparations, possible, strikingly bears out the main } point of the recently published state- | ment of the Thirteenth Plenary Ses- | sion of the Communist International. “What is happening as among | Japan, China, the United States and | Russia has a definite connection with what is happening in Germany and jin Eastern Europe,” writes Berenger. “The tragic chain of events which is being formed in the Far East has | links in Berlin and elsewhere.” “Our national security is directly involved, and that of Great Britain and Italy as well. The security of the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Ru- mania, and Jugoslavia, vassals of France] is involved even more di- | rectly.” Pad Se Geneva Expects War In Europe GENEVA, Jan. 23.—Armed invasion of Austria by Italy in an attempt to block the drive of Austrian and Ger- man Nazis for an alliance with Hit- sibility in today's meeting of the League of Nations’ Council. It was further indicated that an @ prelude to a general war in Europe (Continued on Page 2) Lindbergh at Secret Navy Plane Hearing WASHINGTON, Jan, 23.—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, highly paid flying official of the Pan American Airways, arrived yesterday to at- tend the secret hearing of the Na- tional Advisory Committee for Aero- nautics. This Committee, which is meeting to weigh the request of the Navy Department for the maintenance of greater secrcy around experiments affecting military air maneuvers, added to the war atmosphere which is enveloping Washington. eight includes members of the So- cialist Party, a member of the Jean- ette A. F. of L. Central Trades Coun- cil who has been unemployed for sev- joined the council at its formation. ‘The organization committee of eral years, and a former leader of the Jeanette Unemployed Citizens League. CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 23. — Chicago answers the call by the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party, U. 8. A., for 10,000 new daily subscribers and for 20,000 new readers of the Saturday edition of the Daily Worker by undertaking to obtain at least 1,500 new subssribers, 496 of these for the daily edition, The circulation campaign, lasting until May 1, will become a major acti- vity here for carrying through the turn to serious mass work in accord-} ance with the Open Letter. Day to day sales will be estabiished at railroad, steel packing, moial, transportation plants, with the ob- jective of securing subscriptions from the workers in these concentra- of L., other unions and the N. R. A.” (Continued on Page 2) =~ tion plants. Quotas have been assignd to Party Be ‘ | days. Chicago Acts to Obtain 1,500 | New Subs in “Daily” Campaign sections, to outlying towns, including St. Louis, Caluniét, Springfield, Rock- ford, Terre Haute, Indianapolis, Wau- kegan, Davenport and Southern Illi- nois, centers of important concentra- tion industries. Foreign language groups, cultural organizations, unions affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League have been assigned quotas in the drive, ‘The Chicago District Bureau of the Communist Party calls on every Party member members of mass organiza- tions, trade unions, readers and sym- pathizers of the Daily Worker to heip put the circulation campaign here over the top. Volunteyr for Red Sun- Ask your immediate friends, your fellow workers in the shop, your fellow members in your organizations to subscribe to our powerful revolu- tionary weapon, our Daily Worker, Italian invasion of Austria would be| the present Roosevelt naval program is the greatest “peace time” one in | the history of the world. Its con- | struction is especially significant in | View of the fact that beginning Feb. | 15, Roosevelt will throw 500,000 men a week from the Civil Works Admin- | istration lists, ending the dismissals | by May 1, when all C. W. A. workers | are expected to exist on the country's | spring weather. Half Billion a Year | Admiral William H. Standley, chief jof naval operations of the United States, and the only witness before today's session of the committee, in- | formed the bristling committee mem- bers that the annual cost of main- | taining 2 fleet “built to parity” un- |der the 1930 London Naval Treaty, including the building cost of the additional warships and the personnel | Necessary to man them, “would be jin the neighborhood of from $425,- 000,000 to $450,000,000.” | ‘The naval operations chief also | revealed that the Navy Department | ler Germany was envisaged as a pos-| now has a bill prepared and “on the | ways” authorizing another airplane | program which will also provide for | the personnel necessary to operate | the additional war planes. This new | aviation program of the Navy De- | partment, it is expected, will be de- |scribed tomorrow when Admiral | King appears before the committee to ask for their recommendation to the House, where there is a nearly |raucous sentiment for the adminis- |tration slogan “a full treaty navy, built and building.” The only opposition voiced during the entire morning was that shouted (Continued on Page 2) Soviet Ambassador Calls on Sec’y Hull Renewal of Relations After 16 Years WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan, 23.— The Soviet Union Ambassador, Alex- ander Troyanovsky, called on Secre- |tary of State Hull today, marking the |first time in 16 years that a Russian Ambassador has conferred officially with the Secretary of State. The purpose of his visit was to confer with Hull regarding consular matters. He declared that a Consul General for San Francisco will soon be appointed and that Leonid Tolo- konsky, at present first Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in London, will be the Consul General in New York, Troyanovsky was jubilant over the fact that in Washington the Soviet Consulate is already functioning. Gregory Gagham is the Soviet Con- sul in Washington, Munitions Demand Ends Japan’s Curb on Copper TOKYO, Jan. 23—The demand for copper. admittedly for manufacture of munitions of War, has become so great that the Japan Copper Produ- cer’s Association has abandoned its agreement to curtail production, en- tered into in order to raise the price. Japan is also self-sufficient in magnesium, an essential material in war, through exploiting depostts in |Manchukuo, the Japan Manchukyo \Manufacturing Company 4