The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1934, Page 1

iW! “fused or ignored by them all. A last Hathaway to Speak on Austria and the United Front at Central Opera House Tonight CIRCULATION DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED FEB. 22 Saturday . Total.... Vol. XI, No. 49 Boston Police Open Fire on Seamen; Baltimore Men Strike ‘Muntropic’ for the M.W.LU. Code SHIPS CAN'T MOVE Mate Leads Attack 3 Beaten By Seamen BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 25. — Police guns blazed aboard the 8. S. Glenn White today and/} three striking seamen are re- ported missing. Seamen, angered at attempts of the shipowners and police to get the struck vessels under way with professional strike-breaking crews, | are storming the ships and driving off the scabs. When a group of sirikers went aboard the Glenn White, which tried to sail with a scab crew, police and ship’s officers met them with drawn pistols and opened fire. The chief mate, one of the leaders of the at- tack, was beaten to his knees by the angered seamen. Union leaders have been unable to ascertain the effect of the gunfire. So far three seamen are unaccounted for. Ships Unable to Move. Meanwhile the struck ships have been unable to move out of the har- bor. The strike, which began over a week ago and spread throughout the entire coalboat ileet, is expected to be spread to other ports. The strikers are demanding the full code of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, which includes the 1929 wage scale for all departments, full crews, 75 cents an hour for overtime and no 50 UMWA Locals in Ark.Okla. District Break With Lewis Autonomous District Is Set Up At Convention; Elect Own Officers FORT SMITH, Ark.—A conven- tion of representatives from almost 50 locals of the United Mine Workers of America, District 21, met in Fort Smith, Ark., Feb. 15, and made the district independent. The move is a fight for rank and file control—- tor the right to elece their own officials and representatives. At the convention, temporary district offi- ciats were elected from the rank and file, a committee was set up) te draft a constitution and prepare/ for the elections of permanent offi- | cials. Fred Howell, Paris, Ark. wes elected district district president; | Tuggie, of Montena, Ark., vice-presi- dent and Bert Loudermilk, Excelsior, Ark, secretary. These are the tem- porary officials. Another convention will be called soon to adont the con- stitution which is in formation now. This action of the miners of Ar- kansas and Oklahome was provoked by the wholesale misleadership of David Fowler and Elmer Mickel, Lewis appointed officials for the dis- trict. Both these Lewis men have a long history of burocracy and be- trayals. The last straw came when they disrupted a strike last Septem- ber against the N.R.A. code. The rank and file had made ap- peals to the N.R.A. labor board, to Roosevelt and Johnson and to the international executive board of the UM.W.A. but had been either re- appeal was made to the international convention of the U.M.W.A. which recently convened. The miners’ ap- peal stated that if this autonomy was not granted that they were go- ing to take steps to obtain it. The U.M.W.A. convention ignored the appeal and this action of the minevs came as a last resort. In the Daily Worker Today | power, with the tacit approval of Page 2 Sports, by Sam Ross Page 3 Pre-Convention Discussion Negroes and the C.W.A., by Carl Reeve Page 4 Letters from Workers “Party Life” “In the Home” Page 5 “Change the World!” by Sender Garlin “We Don’t Want Charity!” by John L. Spivak “Vienna, Feb. 13-16,” by Ben Maddow “A Visit to Sing Sing,” by Sasha Small, Page 6 Editorials Foreign News p> x Daily ,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at ew York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879 Striking | 3 Missing PRINCE ERNS? VON STARHEMBERG His Heimwehr trocps are reported to be preparing to march on Vienna Heimwehr Said To Plan March To Take Vienna Prince Starhemberg Also | Reported in Deal With Nazis VIENNA, Feb. 25.—Mobilization of | all the Heimwehr for “ficld maneu- | vers” outside Vienna have given rise | today to expec’ation of a fascist march on Vienna, to seize direct state Chancellor Dol'fuss. | At the same time it became known | that confidential revresenta’ives of Prince Ernst von Starhsmberz, leader | of the Heimwehr, are at the Germen | border near Brunau. apparent'y for | the purpose of negotiatine with Ger- | man and Austrian Nazis in Germany. The city of Vienna 1s plastered | with green and whi'e Heimwehr pcs- | ters and stickers, carrying the nor- trait of Starhemberg. Every vublic telephone booth, street car, billboard, thousands of shop windows and other places carry these fascist insignia, | It was announced here yesterday that in addition to the thousends of workers arrested during and after th armed strugsles in Austria, 1,200| Social Democrats have been arves'ed | on. political charges, and art trial in Vienna. All the n Vienna are choked with prisoners. | While republican monuments are| being torn down by fascists all over | the country, p: m was given today to mona: s to replace a statue of Emverer Franz Joseph in} the town of Muerzuschla~, which was taken down after the world war. | ted” is Barred Gallagher From Entering Canada To Aid Smith Defense BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb, 25.—Leo Gallagher, International Labor o-> attorney, "77s denied ad- mission to Canada today to par- ticipate in the defense of A. E. Smith, general secretary of the Conodian Defense League. The government’s ruling was $! ‘2 contract labor provision of the Canadian immi- gra‘ion law. Gallagher thereupon advised the Canadian Minister of Immigration at Ottawa that the law was not applicable in his case as he was willing to serve without compensation. He is awaiting a reply to his appeal. All organiza- tions are urged to rush pro’ests to the Canadian Minister of Im- migration. Gallagher was recently expelled from Germany by the Nazis for his defense activities for Georzi Dimitroff, one of ‘he four “acquit- Reichstag defendants, still held in the Nazi dungeons. Scottsboro MotionDenied By Callahan Harlem Meeting Tonight; All Organizations Urged To Rush Protests BULLETIN NEW YORK.—Harlem workers will hold a meeting tonight at 415 Len-x Ave., to protest Judge Calla- han’s refusal to hear the motion | Norris, and the death of a Negro | baby in Harlem Hospital through criminal negligence by the hospital staff. The League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the Harlem Interna- tional Lxbor Defense issued a joint appeal yesterday to .all available speakers to report immediately to visit churches and other organiza- tions in Harlem to mobilize mass its on the two cases. Sneak- a A rancrt at fhe KT, 336 Lenox Ave., or the L. S. N. B., 79 7. 133th St. It was also de- cidcd to hold a biz protest indoor meeting in Harlem this week, with time and place to be announced later. DECATUR, Ala., Feb. 25.—Judge W. W. (Lynch) Callahan yesterday re- fused to hear the motion cf the Inter- national Labor Defense for a new tricl for Haywood Patterson and Clar- ence Norris, two of the Scottsboro bors re tened to burn in the electric chair in the infamous Decatur lynch verdict which has evoked the furious indignation of the toiling masses throughout the whole world. Osmond K. Fraenkel, famous ccnstitutional attorney, was in Deca‘ur to argue the appeal for the I. L. D. ahen granted, instead, a motion made by Attorney General Thomas Knight to retuse to hear the apneal the grovnds that it was not filed thin the statutory limits. Callahan himself hed granted the delays in the filing of the moticn, after I. L. D. att s had pcinted out that the court c¢ a taken more than four weeks in preparing the trans- erint on which the appeal is based. By yesterday’s decision, Callahan de- (Continued on Page 2) NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1934 Workers Delegations To Flay Slave Codes At N.R.A. Hearings @ N.R.A. Board Uses Weirton Trickery For Budd’ Workers Promises Them Double Dose of Elections That Won't Come Off WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 25— The bloated ghost of Roosevelt's end- less promises to the Weirton Steel Co. workers is now walking in the Budd Auto Body case. The National Labor Board issued a| decision Saturday for a double dose| of voting on the right of the workers to represent themselves in the plant of the Edward G. Budd Company of | Philadelphia, Despite the promises of President Roosevelt himself over a month ago | that Weirton Steel Co. workers would |get the right to hold elections, no such elections have been held. The National Labor Board declares that the workers, whose strike was broken, and hundreds of whom lost their jobs, should be given the rizht | to vote on the question of whether | they should vote to choose their own | representatives. The promises of wording of section . about the workers’ rights are completely forgotten. The | strikebreaking labor board offers its | Services to supervise an election which | the owner of the plant says will not | be held. The “penalty,” says the Na- tional Labor Board, will be revocation | of the Blue Eagle. But the revocation |of the company union and the slave |cnditions foisted on the workers by | the N.R.A. and its strikebreaking la- bor board is not mentioned. The N.R.A. press release on the Budd case’ points out that the Budd Co, is working on contracts for the | Navy Department, covering equipment | for heavy cruisers and destroyers, and | the N.R.A. does not want this work to be interfered with or to become too costly through improvement of the wo! ‘s’ conditions. In its worthless promises the Na- tional Labor Board takes oceasion to slander the workers, and to tell them they should never have gone out on strike: “It is evident,” they say, “that a great deal of antagonism and resent- ment has been unnecessarily aroused | by the fact that the strike was too hastily called, without giving the company and the community reason- able time to consider the merits of the controversy, thereby prematurely creating an industrial disturbance against the best interests of the work- crs themselves as well as the company land the community.” The National Labor Board admits that it broke the strike by its order cf November 23rd which declared that “the strike be called off immediately and the striking employes be rein- stated as fast es work is available without discrimin-tion.” Cera we (Turn to page 3 for more news on struggles in the auto industry throughout the country.) Code Moguls To Sharpen | Claws of Blue Eagle On March 5th By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.— La-/| bor’s rank and file and its militant | leadership will face N.R.A, Adminis- trator General Hugh 8. Johnson on/ Tuesday to report what's wrong with the Blue Eagle. The top command of the American Federation of Labor will be lined up as usual with in-, dustry and its government. Ostensibly, of course, William Green, John J. Lewis, Sidney Hill- man and other labor fakers will sit) on the platform to protect the inter- | ests of labor in the proceedings in| General Johnson's “Field Day for} Critics.” But they, probably better | than any others, know that their job| is to keep the Blue Eagle from being picked to pieces. | To General Johnson, however, the public-criticism period is but a pre- jude to the real business c¥ the great gathering he has called to Washington. That business will be done mostly in private, by the “Code Authorities,” the big-business moguls who administer N.R.A. codes. They will get together behind closed doors on March 5, to supply both the new talons and the new feathers which the public-criticism sessions indi-| cate are needed to keep the Blue Eagle functioning. | Sparing no effort to strengthen the | illusion that the conferences are in- tended to show “exactly what the country thinks of the N.R.A. and all its works,” the Administration (Continued on Page 2) ‘Manchukuo Forced To Release Soviet Railway Officials |USSR Resvmes TaJks on Railroad Sale After Winning Demand (Svecial to the Daily Worker) MCSCOW, Feb. 25 (Bv Radio)— Dispatches from Harbin, Manchuria, report that the six Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern Railway who Were arrested some time ago by the Japanese-Manchukuo authorities have been released. es a result of the insistent demands of the Soviet rep- resentatives. The release of these Soviet citizens, and the re-establishment of normal order in the direction of the railway were made preliminary conditions to any further negotiations regarding the sale of the Chinese Eastern Rail- way by the Soviet representatives. The released officials are guar- anteed the right to return to the Sov- iet Union unmolested, and they will be replaced by new officials named by the Soviet government. The illegally appointed “substitutes” put in charge by the Manchukuo authorities in place of the six arrested Soviet officials have been removed. Angled With Dollfuss for Joint Action Uprising, Otto Bauer Reveals Against The working class of the world was shocked recently at the public admission of Otto Bauer, leader of the Austrian Socialist Party, that he had striven frantically to stop the armed uprising of the Austrian workers against Fascism, “i arraazed for them,” Bauer told the press, “to be told that if we in Vienna could submit patientiy to a search for arms in Par.y head- quarvers, they must try and do the same. Apparently the message ar- rived too tate,” Today the fuil depth of the treach- ery of the Socialist Party leaders in Austria is revealed by a new state- ment from Bauer, as reported in the Press of the Chicago Daily News Foreign Press service, by special radiogram, “Vhen I heard,” Bauer told John Gunther, foreign correspondent of the Chicago Dai.y News,” that the electric workers had spontaneousiy begun to strike, I asked our finance minister Dannenberg, and our vice-Governor of Lower Austria to get Dollfuss or President Miklas at all costs to try to arrange mutual action to stop the imminent fight- ing.” (Our emphasis.) Here in these words from the leader of the Austrian Socialist Party himself, is the admission that the Socialist leaders had nothing to do with tle calling of the general strike of the Austrian workers, until after the workers had broken spon- taneously into struggle; that the Socialist leaders then rushed to negotiate with the Fascist rulers of the government to stop and break the strike by “mutual action”! The Socialist leaders called for strike only after the workers had The letter, printed below, is but one of the many sent to the office of the Daily Worker and to Clar- ence Hathaway expressing the de- sire of rank and file members of the Socialist Party for a united front to be effected between So- civists and Communist workers. The worker who sent this let- ter sent a copy to the “New Lead- er,” the weekly publication of the Socialist Party. ii eae 1230 U St., N. W., Washirvtor, D. C. Feb, 21, 1934. Editor of “Daily Worker,” 35 E. 12th St. N.Y. C. Dear Comrade: “I can see no good reason why any Socialist Party member should not be in favor of the United Front. The cause of the workers is one and in- divisible, ‘United we win, divided we must submit to the brutal yoke of Fascism.’ “T have participated in united fronts with the Communists in the Anti-War Congress and the Scotts- boro Action Committee; although on the Scottsboro Comittee, I had to represent the National Forum, as our S, P, branch was not partici- Negro Socialist Worker Gives Pledge of Firm United Front dropped their tools, and taken to the barricades! But all the while, they were striving frantically to arrange pating. “When the Communist Party last week called on all organizations to unite in a demonstration of protest at the Austrian Legation, I answered the call and represented the Nation- al Forum. Although the local 8, P. branch did not officially participate, there were several Socialists in the united Front: viz. Joe Zameres, representing the O.W.A. Workers Protective Association and Pogere- lick, representing the Y.P.S.L. “As one of the millions of Negro workers of America, I truly feel a | deep sense of gratitude to the Com- munists for their determined heroic stand for full equal rights for Ne- groes everywhere, and for the fight “ch they have waged for the ScottSboro Boys. I want all Socialist Party members to join in this fight. “I strongly urge a united front -f struggle against war and fascism. “Let us not let anything divide us. Unity is our only hope.. “Comradely yours, L. C. Farrar, “Educational Committee, Socialist Party Branch of with Dollfuss to break the strike! This is the shameless confession of the leading figure of Austrian Social- Democracy. Communist have been reproached by some Socialist workers for being “too sharp” in their criticism of the Socialist leaders. What criticism can be “too sharp” for the bottomless infamy of this strikebreaking, counter-revolutionary betrayal of the Socialist Party lead- ers of Austria? YCL Membership Meet At Manhattan Lyceum Tuesday, February 27 NEW YORK.—An open distrt membership meeting of the Young Communist League will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 7:30 pm., at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. Charles Krumbein, district or- ganizer of the Communist Party, and J. Little, district organizer of the Young Communist League, will report. The Austrian si‘ua- tion and the tactics of the united front will be dealth with in the reports, Young workers, students and particularly members of the Young Washington, D. C. “P.S.—I am sending a copy of this ‘letter to the ‘New Leader’ also.” Peoples Socialist League, are in- Rockford, CouncilIndorses Workers’ Insurance I., City ROCKFORD, Ill, Feb. 25.— The City Council of Rockford, IIL, with a population of 86,000, on Feb. 19 endorsed the Work- ers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H R 7598) at the demand of the Unemployment | Councils. Rockford is an in- || dustrial center. The city coun- || cil passed a motion instructing || the city clerk to send copies of || the bill to the Senators and | United States Congressmen, sta- ting that they favored this bill | (H. KR. 7598) in preference to || other bills now before Conzress, || Fifteen of the sixteen Alder- || men were present and not one || voted against the bill. A large || | when the bill was read to the |) City Council, | | number of workers were present [75,000 London! Jobless Meet; TomMann Held | MacDonald Refuses To} See Delegation of Unemployed | = | LONDON, Feb. 25—More than] 75,000 job.ess maszed in the bitter cold | at Hyde Park this afternoon to greet the 2,500 Hunger Marchers who yes- | terday opened a National Unity Un-| employed Congress in Bormondsey, London. Yesterday the government of the ex-Socialist, J. Ramsay MacDonald, sought to behead the jobless protest | movement by arresting Tom Mann) and Harry Pollitt, Communist lead-| ers of the unemployed workers, on| charges of “sedition.” would refuse to receive a delegation of the marchers. 34 Collapse From Hunger Thirty-four workers suffering from hunger and exposure collapsed and were taken to hospitals at today’s | | big that ten separate platforms were set up which speakers addressed | 6 workers, id three men were re- | ed as a result of a charge by. mounted cops near the marble | arch, but the proletarian discipline | of the great gathering was so com- Plete that the 15,000 cops and plzin- clothes provccateurs were unable to make the attacks they hoped for. | New Demonstration Tuc.day | Another demonstration, for Tues- day, in Trafalgar Square was called, in support of a delegation of 40 who will demand the right to address the | House of Commons in the name of the hundreds of thousands of uncm-| ployed workers whom the marchers | represent. | ‘The police announced that the Trafalgar Square demonstration would be forbidd: and that they | would attempt to ak it up. Although the Trade Union Con- gress and the Labor Party have offi- Ciaily refused to support the Unem- | ployed Congress, many trade unions, | trade union councils, and Labor Party s2¢als have supported it, and sent delegates, to a far greater extent than at the previous Unemployed Con- | gress. House Votes Bill For Army Air Mail) Service For 1 Year. Follows Bitter Squabble | On Who is to Profit By.) War Prenarations | piteRte | WASHINGTON, Feb, 25.—Over- whelmin~ suovert was riven Roosevelt’s prozram authorizing army to fly ‘he air mail for one v->r. | by the nassave of the Brunner Bill| in the House bv a vote of 248 for and | 81 against on Saturday. | An extremely bitter debate arose, both in the House and before the | Senrte Committee investiga’ing air | Mail contract graft. Sunvorters of some of the huze air mail lines, who lose heavily throuzh Roosevelt's pro- gram of the strictest economy and the closest link of air-mail flying with ‘he armed forces in order to get the maximum war preparations out of every penny spent by the gov- ernment, leveled some acrimonious charzes against the Roosevelt regime. Cries of “murderers,” and “legal- ized murder,“ resounded in the House debate when repeated mention was made of the five armv fivers wo lost their lives transporting air mail. In testimony of war services ren- dered by the army mail flyers, how- ever, the House voted an amendment to give war-time disability pensions to all army pilots while flying the mails. What Aviators Need A statement issued by ‘he prom- inent Republican, former Senator from Connecticut, Hiram Bingham, now president of the National Aero- nautical Association, soucht to lessen the bitter debate raging by poin'ing out what is necessary to make both gigantic demonstration, which was s0 ; the private air mail flyers and the vited to be present. (Continued on Page 2) AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER WEATHER: Snow, cold 921,000 Less Jobs In Jan. Green Says; Living Cost Soars TOM MANN English trade union leader, who, together with Harry Pollit, general secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, is being held for | “sedition.” Both men haye been active in the Hunger March which converged on London yesterday. Rooseveit Regime Orders 377,500 More CWA Men Fired Fri. And Organize Against C.W.A. Firing WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 25.— A v 377509 C, W. A. worke.s a e fired next Friday, Harry Ho; Kans, caryuig cut tae instructions of president soosevelt, ordered yesier- |day. These reductions do not include cuis of employes on federal C. W. A. Projects, Hopkins said, which means further reductions in C. W. A. jobs. Over a Mil.ion Fired NEW YORK —The National U: enip.c ent Counci's pointed out = terday that 1,097,500 C. W. A. workers will have been fired by next Friday under Roosevelt's orders liqu-dating | the C. W. A. projects, in addition to those red trom direct iederal C. W. A. projects. The Unemployment Councils calls for organization of all C. W. A. wor! ers into job committees and C. W. A. Workers Unions, and demonstvations and de tions to the C. W. relief oiu dem: jobs or cash reliet for all unen workers. * 600 Demonstrate in S, D. SIOUX FALLS, S. D. Feb. 25.— Six hundred w mers un..ed in a mass demons.ration in pr a~ «ch tn Gsmanding the enactment of the Workers Unemployment In- sue. i 63.) A dt “ion from the United Workers # 3ue called on Governor Berry witu ine workers demands and ‘or his endorsement to the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. When ask- if he supported the workers and farmers, he readily answered (Continued on Page 2) Price 3 Cents | Green’s Figures 500,000 Higher Than Perkin’s For Lay-Offs SILENT ON FIRING | Estimates ly, Million Are Without Work | By SEYMOUR WALDMAN | (Dafly Worker Washington Burean) WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. — For the fifth successive month, “industrial unemployment in- creased again in January,” and “workers are steadily losing by Price increases,” William Green, pres- |ident of the N.R.A.-tainted Ameri-< can Federation of Labor bureaucracy, announced today, Green’s total for the Industrial unemployed is 11,690,- 000, an increase of 921,000, Nevertheless, and in the teeth of his repeated admissions, Green takes Pains to attempt to protect the brutal N. R. A. by op'imistically uttering such misleading half-truths as the increase in the dollar volume of de- partment store sales despite the fact that there has been a decrease in the unit volume of sales because of | the higher prices and lowered wages. Cost of Living Jumps MacDonald yesterday announced he) Workers Demonstrate) “Our estimate shows that there are | 11,690,000 persons wanting work, but | unable to find employment in our | normal industrial production ser- vices,” said Green, strike-breaker | and co-signer with John L, Lewis of |the notorious coal code, with its | Vicious “merit” (fire at will) clause. | Furthermore, admi’s Green, “unem- | Ployment . . . is still above the 1932 | level by 1,500,000.” | But he can not hide the relevant facts when it comes to the real wages | the workers receive under the N.R.A, codes. “Workers’ incomes,” he says, “are still falling short of the increase in living costs. In January, workers’ | average weckly income was $20.83 in 16 indus'ries employing nearly two- thirds of all non-farm workers. This was an increase of only 7.5 per cent over last April, while food prices have risen 16.7 per cent and prices of clothing and furnishings in de- partment stores 27.5 per cent. Thus workers are steadily losing by price | increases, and we must expect their q| ving standards to be further re- duced as prices go on upward, unless |the N. R. A. program provides for wage increases.” Silent On C. W. A Firing | Never'heless, Green makes it @ point not to protest against Roose- jvelt’s plen to throw the officially timated 4000000 C.W.A. workers {into the streets by May 1, nor to at- “ack the N. R. A. slave code system, ‘nor to criticize the administration for spending bil'ions for war prepata- tions for destruction of workers, in | stead of their sustenance and re« | hebilitation, | Green’s figures contradict the U. 8 Department of L>bor figures which claimed one-half million laid off in January. Negro Woman Is Beheaded While in Custody of Sheriff Mrs. Polk Had Been Framed for Fighting for Relief; Anger Sweeps South Side By BILL ANDREWS (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Feb. 25.—South side workers held a mass funeral Friday for Irene Polk, Negro housewife, de- capitated after being railroaded to an insane asylum by the Cook County Bureau of Public Welfare. Six hundred Negro and White work- ers, crowding every inch of space in the South Side Workers Center, Pledged themselves to carry on a | struggle to prevent the repetition of such crimes, and to win compensa- tion for the Polk family. The story of the Polk’s is that of millions of other families. Mr, Polk has been unable to get work since February, 1932. They were given miserable half rations by the Cook County Bureau of Public Welfare. Mrs. Polk learned that this “Public Welfare” was another word for slow starvation, With the cries of her four hungry children ringing in her ears, she fought militantly for bet- ter relief. Victimized for Her Militancy The relief authorities had her ar- rested last September. She was not given a chance to communicate with her family. She was held for 30 days before she was able to smug- gle out a letter to her husband, tell- him where she was. Shortly after this she was rushed to the State Insence Asylum in Dixon, Ill. Carrying out the same policy of terrorism, the Juvenile Court took the four children away from Mr. Polk, farming them out to political |hangers on, paying them more money for their board than the | Polks ever received as rellef. Found Dead, Head Severed From Bod, iy Protests from individuals interested in the case forced the State authori- ties to bring Mrs, Polk out of the In- sane Hospital. She was started back to Chicago in the custody of a Geputy sheriff. She never reached Chicago, Mer husband finally found her in an un- dertaker’s in Elmhurst, her head torn from her body. The sheriff says that “there was an accident,’ An inquest was rushed through fore the family was notified, and a complete whitewash was given all concerned. Workers organizations are tnvest!- ¥ custody of the state when killed. The funeral was held under the auspices of the Cook County Un- employed Councils. Karl Lockner, secretary of the councils spoke et the Ne tl, li a , a