The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1930, Page 4

Page Four Philadelphia, Pa. Editor Daily Worker: The shop where I work is one| also organize and join the Indé~| | pendent Shoe Workers Union of the | of the foremost of shoe factories of its kind. The management was | 1 always one of the most reactionary. Even when the shoe trade was at the peak of good business, and the workers were most needed and searce to get, the discipline here was kept up to the highest notch. The work was so rationalized that the workers hardly had time to breathe. Now they keep watchmen on every few workers so that workers should not talk to each other and are very minute subject to the good mood of this watchman, who mostly ignorant and brutal like a mad dog, Last summer it seemed as if the ice was starting to melt when one of the biggest shops, Laird and Schober went on strike. Many of us hoped that at last our sleepy city, Philadelphia, was awakening, but this struggle ending as it done, for our bosses posses and contr: the political power that is now pres- sing down the workers than any time before, They choke us by the throat and the shoe workers of Philadelphia are now subject to the most slaving conditions. How long, shoe workers of Phil- adelphia, will you wait for the crumb of your bosses who are en- joying all the luxuries of life from your sweat and blood and so cynic- ally laughing at you? Look at the shoe workers | Rockefeller Gunman Gets Hits Reward Denver, Colo. To the Daily Worker:— Mike Quintana, notorious profes- sional strikebreaker and company thug, who for 17 years has been doing the dirty work of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. and other com- panies, has been duly rewarded for his long years of faithful service- with a street-cleaner’s job in Den ¥er. Thus do the bosses reward this dirty watchdog. Quintana was one of the Rocky i Mountain Fuei Co. paid gunmen wh: murdered six workers in cold hlood during the historic Columbine Mine Massacre on November 21, 192 WORKER CORRESPONDENT. of HOMESTED STEEL. WORKERS REVOLT Editor Daily Worker:— Carnegie Steel Co. at the Home- stead Works during the past sev- eral years have spent many millions in rationalizing the mills, and their improvement program is not quite finished yet. To cite a specific ex- ample of what this means to the workers: The 110-inch plate mill was remodeled six months ago. was being remodeled before to be the fastest and most efficient mill m the world, employing 365 men. Now, since being remodeled, it pro- duces as much with 185 men, with no wage increase. All other plate mills are to be rationalized like this one soon. The alization is the installing of rotary- shears manned by one operator do- ing the work of 13 men, and the mechanized pick-off piling system, three doing the work of seven. This improvement in steel mills practice was brought about not only be me- chanization, but by the “Bedaux” production system, which means, in Plain language, “slave-driving.” Many men are forced to do the work of two to three men. The speed-up, unemployment, part time, is pauperizing and wrecking their health. To add insult to in- _ jury, are the rotten, cheap, dirty tricks of the superintendent and pushers, such as suspending a worker for ten days for a trivial violation of rules, calling men fre- _Superintendent’s office. The super- intendent expects the worker to take bis hat off while entering and to _ be silent and meek while he gets “bawled out,” then to slouch out " without being permitted to say any- ‘The bosses have cultivated an air | when they look at one of the ands they make him feel! like two vents. The workers resent all this ond are being radicalized, and all 5 e that something must be done the way they are being pped on. Even the old die-hards are ed illu- of a pension. They have seen fellow-workers with a score Philadelphia Shoe Workers It! outstanding feature of this ration- | ' quently “on the carpet” up at the | bra Let Brooklyn, fighting 0 | against their exploiters. U.L. Enough being cowards, it is no excuse being discouraged | by last year’s experiences. Let us start a new page in our labor struggle with more experien- ces on our march to final victory | over the bosses. | —A SHOE WORKER. FEAR CANADIAN | WORKERS WRATH Cops Club Workers At | Election Meet | | | Montreal, Canada. | |To the Daily Worker:— | | If anyone doubt that the capital- jist class in Canada is in mortal ter- ror of Communism and the Commu- jnist movement, he would only need |to have been in Place Viger Park on the Champ de Mars in Montreal jon the afternoon of Saturday, July 5, 1930. In this so-called metropolis of a land of political freedom he would |have witnessed a display of savage brutality, of hysterical rage, such as would not have entered the minds of Atilla and his Huns, He would have seen people or- ered, with rough and obscene lan- | uage, to get up from the seats a public park and “keep moving He would have seen, on the Champ | de Mars, five motorcycles, driven by | policemen (who had obviously been | “fortified” with a good shot of rum) | charge at full speed into a group of about thirty people who were listen- jing to a speech of the Commu: | candidate for Maisonnouve, who was speaking from the spot where, a} short time previously, the conserva- tive candidates had spoken. | He would have seen a banner, held | aloft by two young girls (all honor o them) on which was inscribed a! emand for the release of one of comrades, torn from their | nds and ripped to pieces as a uld rip the red flag of the pica- | e would have seen a man chased 9 policemen and receive a sav low that laid his head open ely because he was the organi the Needle Trades Industrial Union. He would have seen a young man d to halt at the point of a seized by two policemen twice his size and dragged off to the lock-up. He would have seen a group of girls, under 20 years of age, chasec along the whole front of the court- house building by a squad of police, who pushed them about,prodded them with their clubs, all the while call- ing them by every foul name their [filthy minds could invent. | He would have seen in all this |savagery a. manifestation of that which possesses the minds uf the capitalist class of Canada—fear. Fear of the revolt of millions of | jhungry men in every country of the} world. Fear that the oppressed, ex- | ploited and starving workers will be | organized by the Communists into | an army of revolution. Fear that/ the pitiless spotlight of publicity | ‘into which the Communist Parties of all the countries have dragged the political trickery, the wage-cutting | | plans, the selling-out of the work- ers and the preparations for another bloodfest of mass murder. | | The old wolf, capitalism, is at bay. | Tottering on his last legs, he stands in the midst of the putrid mess he jhas made of things. Snarling and snapping his slavering jaws, he takes his vengeance upon those nearest him—the Communists. But jnot for long. | ‘Tis the final conflict; | | Let each stand in his place.” | Organize to fight! Fight to win! | Workers of the world—unite! | J. MACAULAY. re ove jor more years of service thrown on| |the serap-pile and expect to be the | next, | They talk about what dupes they |were back in 1892 and 1919, when | together. When alone they are con- | tinually muttering curses at the} company. Most of them have quit praying to Jesus and counting on the boss’s favor. Their illusions} are falling like the leaves in the| ‘autumn, These conditions precipi- |tate a rebellious and indignant at- mosphere which will culminate in \a great struggle in the near future. |The Metal Workers’ Industrial | League is organizing shop commit- jtees in the works, That will lead| he strugele of the steel wor against their miserable condition: and tually overthrow — th bosses’ rule forever. ~—A STEEL WORKER. { \ | the shoe wor! Shoe Workers in Union Drive | SHOE WORKERS MUST RENEW FIGHT Must Also Organize Now| AGAINST SLAVE CONDITIONS, GUTS Fight the Bosses Tricks, Mr. Woods and All Agents of the Bosses in New Drive Daily Worker:— A few words to the shoe workers of Brooklyn, Brothers, we find ourselves in a hard and big crisis in the shoe line. Since the United States department manufacturers they should break up agreements with the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, these manufacturers listened to Mr. Woods and threw out of the shoe shops workers reasons, Bosses Get Injunctions. At the same time the bosses got injunctions wholesale and made wholesale arrests of the active mem- I of the Independent Shoe Work- ers’ Union. Nine months have passed already since the first part of the attack was made and we shoe workers are treated in the shops worst than the wildest animals. That means in the | shops where they have a little work. Cut Wages. They cut our wages left and right without asking us slaves. If we cannot make a living on such small amount as we get that doesn’t both- er our bo: Every shoe worker knows that ng is the hardest work in our A laster works about 15 years! in the trade. After that he must | go into a sanitorium. And °still| our bosses treat us so bad that af-| ter 14 or 15 hours a day hard work we can’t make a living, and} so it is with the rest of the workers fitters, heelers, cutters and mach- ine men. We all suffer under the vse and hardest conditions in the line, | shoe line. Workers Need Their Union. Fellow workers, open your eyes and see that the only way to be treated right and to have condi- tions in the shops is to have a union. The tricks of the bosses in saying they don’t want a Commun- ist union and they don’t mean to cut our wages is only a fake to make us blind, and in this way to smash the organization and throw our active members in jail. Our wages are cut so low that many workers in the shops are get- ting from 40 to 50 cents an hour, with a speed up system, and the conditions in the shops wiped out altogether. Must Organize Now. Fellow workers, the season starts now. y more by the fakers and bosscs when they want to use you for the few weeks in the season. Under- stand that now is the time to or- ganize shop committees and in mas. ses into the union. Get active! Every and each worker must be. come an organizer and do active work for the organization, and show rs the dirty tricks their government, nd scabs that they used in the last strike. Let’s show them that we shoe workers are men and we want to have conditions and wages and we'll fight under the banner of the Independent Shoe Workers Union, 16 West 21 Stret. —LASTER, Demonstrate against war and unemployment on August Ist! Demand that expenditures planned for armaments be turned over for the relief of the unem- ployed! A New York Bootblack Children, as the one shown wbove are vhe typieal bootblacks in New York City. This partieu- lar child is only nine years old and helps to support his family. Boothlacks and newsboys should organize and fight against the ine tolerable conditions of the child workers. Don’t let yourself be fooled | Brooklyn, N. Y. ¥. of labor sent out letters to the shoe who were in o-- = NJ, THUGS BREAK WORKERS MEET Women Speakers Are Kidnapped by “Vets” New York City. To the Daily Worker:— A news item in the New York | Times of July 8 gloats over the fact |that a mob of Veterans of Foreign War “heroes” manhandled two} women at an open-air meeting in| New Brunswick, N. J. The capital- ist Times admits that four applica-| tions were made for a permit to Chief of Police Michael Connor and | refused. (A further evidence of the right of “free speech.”) The item says: “Miss Bloomenthal placed a chair. That was the cue for the veterans. The chair went | whirling over the heads of the crowd, a flying wedge swept Miss Bloomenthal and Mrs. Collins through the mass of their support- ers and into a sedan. The sedan rushed them to police headquar- ters.” | The recorder decided there was no charge to hold them on. | While the Times and its parasites | jof Park and Fifth Aves. may gloat | over the bruises of two courageous | women, manhandled and abused by | a mob of spineless thugs, the work- | jers will see the outrage in its true | light and will double their efforts | to hasten the end of a degenerate | system that gloats over brutality | and barefaced cowardice. A fitting eulogy to this type of “veteran” could be rendered by |“Rasputin,” and applauded by the, hosts of the czars “Black Hun-| | dreds,” but in the hearts of all de-| |cent ex-servicemen the cowardly ac- |tions of this slimy crew of “pay- |triots” arouses nothing more than hame and disgust and the deter- ination to carry on the fight to ose in all its nakedness to the | working masses of the country the lying hypocrisy of the so-called American institutions of “free speech” and “lawful assemblage”-— and also to show them that V. F. W. stands for “Vagabond Fascist Wan- tons,” whose motto is “Always ready to break a strike or beat up a woman.” A WORKER VETERAN. ibe, 3 Editorial Note:—The V. F. W. is used by the bosses against the working class. No honest worker, who was a victim of the last war for profits, belongs in this organ- ization. Workers who are ex-ser- | vicemen should organize into the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, | where they will be able to use their | |organized strength not to help the | bosses slug workers, break strikes, | ete., but to help the workers in their | struggle against the parasite bosses | and the entire rotten system of cap- | italism. Feverish preparations are | now being made by the imperialist | robbers of the world for another war | fest. The workers must not forget |the horrible lessons of the last im- | perialist war. Fight against imper- ialist war and the system that pro- duces it! Workers! Defend the Soviet Union, where the workers and poor farmers rule. Clerks, Auto Workers Join the Butte Strike BUTTE, Mont., July 17.—Kight hundred clerks, who threatened a few days ago to strike in sympathy with the teamsters’ walkout if scabs j delivered at their working places, | are all now either on strike or lo¢ked jout. Most business houses are | closed down. The auto mechanics |are on strike, The total out is about 1,500. The strike started over an attempt to cut teamsters’ wages. The auto mechanics also faced a $1 a day wage-cut, the union, without giving March from factories, shops | and mines directly after work on August Ist to the demonstrations against war and unemployment. Rally your shop mates under the slogan: “Not one cent for arma- ; ments; all funds for the unem- ployed!” ’ y YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1930 By H. PURO. HE question of the war danger is not an abstract propaganda slogan of the Com- munists, as the bourgeoisie and social fascists are trying to make the workers believe. Dur- ing this third period of post war capitalism, | the war danger has become an immediate prob- lem. The present ever-deepening crisis of world capitalism makes new imperialist wars unavoidable. The imperialist powers are seek- ing a redivision of world markets as the solu- tion of getting out of the present economic Antagonisms between dominant imper- powers are sharpening at a very fast pace, as stated in the Program of the Com- munist International. “Meanwhile, the inher- ent antagonism within the capitalist sector of world economy itself has become intensified. The shifting of the economic center of the world to the United States of America and the fact that the ‘Dollar Republic’ has become a world exploiter, has caused the relations be- tween the United States and European capi- talism, particularly British capitalism, to be- come strained. The conflict between Great Britain—the most powerful of the old, con- servative imperialist states, which has already won world hegemony for itself—is becoming the pivot of the world conflicts among the finance capitalist states.” Antagonisms Grow. This antagonism between imperialist states is growing ever faster on account of recent economic crises. However, new imperialist war danger is not threatening mainly between imperialist powers themselves, but in the first place and in more vital form for the revolu- tionary proletariat—in the form of war against the Soviet Union. The basis for this war against the Soviet Union was stated at the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International as follows: “The capitalist world, powerless to eliminate its inherent con- tradictions, strives to establish internal asso- ciations, (the League of Nations) the main purpose of which is to retard the irresistible growth of the revolutionary crisis and to strangle the Soviet Proletarian Republics by war or blockade.” Certainly this analysis of the Communist International has become true. War prepara- tions against the Soviet Union are going on in the imperialist camps more feverishly than ever before. Behind the London Naval Con- ference, which Was supposed to be a step for the “reduction of naval armaments,” there were definite secret preparations of a united attack against the Soviet Union. President Hoover gives definite proof for this, refusing to adhere to his own capitalist Senate’s de- mand to deliver secret documents for examina- tion by the U. S. Senate. No Reductions, It has become clear during the discussion of ratification of the naval pact, that it does not contain any elements of naval reductions. It only proposes for the elimination of cer- tain out-of-date warships, only in order to build more up-to-date and more deadly naval armaments. The opposition in the U. S. Sen- ate, led by Senator Johnson of California, is only a smoke screen, behind which U. S. im- perialism is preparing to arm itself, both against its imperialist rivals (mainly against Great Britain), but before all, against the So- viet Union and against the coming world revo- lutionary upheavals of the proletariat. The same kind of feverish war preparation is going on in every imperialist country. Simultaneously with the war preparations in imperialist countries, these imperialist pow- ers are preparing countries directly adjacent with the U. S. S. R., the so-called “Border By MAX BEDACHT. T= Supreme Court of the State of Cali- fornia has recently again refused to act in the case of Warren K. Billings and Tom Mooney, who are serving sentences in Cali- fornia penitentiaries, inflicted upon them as a result of a most dastardly frame up. The Governor of California to whom Billings and Mooney had appealed for pardon, used the rejection by the Supreme Court of California of a review of the case to refuse on his part the requested pardon. Both the Supreme Court of the State of Cali- fornia, and the Governor of the State of Cali- fornia speak vaguely about the records in the case and about the validity of these records. They do this in the hope that the working masses of the United States no longer remem- ber the revolting details of this frame up. They do this because they themselves are part of that frame up and are still determined to go thru with it to the end. Let us refresh the memory of the American workers concerning the facts in the case of Billings and Mooney: ; There is some similarity in the situation of 1916 and today. Then, as now, the powers that be, the ruling capitalists, were preparing for war. Then, as now, the official propaganda of the government and its agencies, the eap- talist press, was urging the building of war- hips, the formation of new regiments and the preparation of the most extensive arma- ments. The only difference is that today this vork is carried on under the guise of pacifism; in 1916 it was carried on under the slogan of preparedness. In the Summer of 1916, under the instiga- tion of the government and under the direct leadership of the local chambers of commerce, mass parades were held throughout the coun- try, urging armaments upon the Government. The mass participation in these parades was effected by the shutting down of the factories on the day of the parade. Definite instruc- tions were given by the bosses to the workers to participate in the parade or get fired. One of those parades was organized in San Francisco for Saturday, July 22. Before the parade had gotten under way, a bomb ex- ploded at the corner of Stewart and Market streets, the gathering place for a section of the parade, The bomb killed some 10 people. Immediately afterwards, that is, within a day, Warren K. Billings, Tom Mooney, Reena Mooney, Israel Weinberg, and Ed. Nolan were arrested and charged with the crime. Accord- ing to the rules of capitalist law and order, the investigation of the crime fell upon the shoulders of the district attorney of the city and county of San Francisco, This district attorney had at his disposal the police depart- ment of San Francisco, But the police depart- ment completely abdicated in this case. The case was taken over by the detective depart- ment of the United Railway, the street car corporation of San Francisco. One Martin Swanson, a hireling of the United Railway be- came the moving spirit. He, with the district attorney Charles M. Fickert, became the main figures in the farcial drama that was enacted as a result of the bombing explosion. The district attorney Fickert was also a | mobilizing toilers of the States,” against the Soviet Union. Recent events in Finland, where the bourgeois gov- ernment is mobilizing armed fascists to final- ly and completely suppress all revolutionary workers’ organizations and for the establish- | ment of a fascist dictatorship, is unmistak- able proof of the preparation and mobiliza- tion of these “Border States” to participate in the general united attack against the So- viet Union. Crisis Deepens. The present deepening crisis in capitalist economy, and on the other hand, the victor- ious realization of socialism in the Soviet Union under the five year plan, is enormously increasing the danger of war against the So- viet Union. The powerful proletarian Soviet Republic is like a haunting spectre for which the whole imperialist world fears, and wants fo destroy before it becomes too strong to be destroyed. Wonderful material improvements in the conditions of works in the Soviet Union, like the 7-hour day, four-day week, social insur- ances of all kinds, not to speak of the many cultural and social improvements, in addition to the state power being solely and entirely in the hands of the workers and poor farmers, is a powerful revolutionary example for the workers in every capitalist country, especially in times when millions of workers in capital- ist lands are suffering from unemployment and wage cuts. The world bourgeoisie realizes very clearly that the balance of forces is swiftly changing for the final victory of so- cialism, which involves the shattering of capi- talism throughout the world. Colonial Revolts. Gigantic colonial revolutionary uprisings in China and in India are also challenging im- perialist rule in the world and are causing the deepening of the present economic crisis of capitalism. The capitalist world understands clearly that revolutions‘in China and India have direct encouragement in successful build- ing up of socialism in the Soviet Union. This gives them another reason to prepare to at- tack this proletarian republic. When these preparations will lead to active attack against the Soviet Unions, depends on a number of factors, among which is very decisive, the awakening and readiness of the world proletariat to offer such a determined resistance that the world bourgeoisie will not dare to raise their hands against the Soviet Union. The Communist Parties in every country have very big responsibilities for mobilizing masses of workers in every country for strug- te against the prepared attack against the Soviet Union by the international bourgeoisie. Our Party is charged with very big tasks in United States to struggle against war against the Soviet Union, because the United States is the most power- ful imperialist power and is most actively engaged in the preparations against the So- viet Union. Therefore, we must be prepared for the coming August Ist to mobilize millions of workers for militant demonstrations against imperialist war and especially to combat preparations of an attack against the Soviet Union. In order that we may be able successfully to mobilize greatest numbers of toilers, we must build a United Front from below. United front committees must be organized every- where with the workers’ organizations, thereby drawing all possible proletarian elements into preparations and into the demonstration itself. But in order that we get the decisive strata of workers to participate in the August First hireling of the United Railway. PREPARE FOR AUGUST 1 DEMONSTRATIONS leading spirits of that corporation there were | pending a number of criminal charges. These charges had grown out of the disclosures of graft and corruption which had ended the career of the notorious Abe Ruef, political boss, and Schmitz, the so-called labor mayor of San Francisco. These charges were an- noying to the leading gentlemen of the San Francisco street-car corporation. So they put up one of their lawyers, Charles M. Fickert, as a candidate for district attorney. They spent money lavishly tod have him elected. They succeeded. The first official act of the newly elected district attorney Mr. Fickert was to walk into the courts of San Francisco and move the dismissal of the cases against the grafters. The motion was immediately granted. Fickert and Swanson, the paid hirelings of the United Railways, never had even a shred of evidence that justified the arrest of any of those accused; but they arrested them nevertheless and prepared the case against them; the preparations consisted in the manu-: facture of evidence against the accused. The Jury in the Mooney Case. The case was tried in the Superior Court of San Francisc6, before Judge Griffin, To understand thoroughly the seeming naivete of the jury, which swallowed the most outrageous fairy tales of the witnesses without question, it is necessary to picture the jury system in San Francisco.’ The list of prospective jurors was made up by the district attorney and the sheriff. Names are added or taken off this list at the discretion of the district attorney. In every court-room there generally assem- ble as spectators a class of men and women who try to satisfy their low intellect and perverted cravings by listening to the crue- some stories of murder cases or to the delicate details of divorce cases, This element is large- ly recruited out of a retired petty-bourgeoisie. Former corner grocers or saloon keepers make up the bulk. In San Francisco, and for that matter thru- out California, a practice developed to recruit the jurors out of this element. They were mostly retired business men with a meagre income. It occurred to them that they could combine the agreeable with the useful. They could listen to the stories they were craving for and at the same time get paid for it by serving on juries. As a result the district attorneys office gradually built up a list of candidates for the jurors wholly. recruited out of this element. They were all interested in keeping their “jobs.” Since they depended on the district attorney in the matter of keeping their jobs they were always most obliging to the district attorney. Anything the district attorney wanted them to believe they were will- ing and ready to believe for a consideration of $2.00 per day, This was the notorio:s profes- sional jury system in California, Out of this element, the jurors in the case against Warren K. Billings, as well as in the case against Tom Mooney, were recruited, The Evidence in the Case, The district attorney’s office, that is Fickert and Swanson, maintained that Warren K, Bill- ‘ demonstrations, the main emphasis must b laid to the enterprises. We must organiz August 1 United Front Committees in ever important factory and work place. The great est efforts of our districts, sections and unit: must be concentrated towards organizing thes August First factory committees. In additio: to this, all other united front committees tha exist, must be gotten actively to participat in August First preparatory work and at th demonstration, We must also organize Unite: Front mass meetings of the workers’ organiza tions and at these meetings elect representa tives to the August First committees. Prepare for August First! In our propaganda and agitation in connec tion with preparing for August 1, we mus: explain the meaning of the present economi crisis, growing unemployment, wage cuts, ete. to the workers, and how they are definitely connected with the war danger. Especially must we point out how the present Congres. sional investigation of the activities of the Communist and revolutionary organizations o{ workers, deportation threats of foreign-borr workers, are definite preparations for a waz situation by the Hoover government. Since the A. F. of L., socialist party, Muste- ites and other social fascist elements are ac- tively aiding American imperialism in war preparations and in suppressing revolutionary organizations of workers, we must absolutely expose these lackeys of imperialism as enemies of the workers, Also we must expose the role of the renegades—Lovestoneites, Cannon- ites and Halonenites, who, by their betrayal of revolutionary fighting line of the Communist International and trying to mobilize workers against the Communist International and against our Party, are actively aiding the bourgeoisie, Correct Slogans. As to the demands and slogans. These must not be put mechanically from above. We must encourage workers in factory nuclei, factory committees, unions and mass organizations to initiate and formulate demands and slogans, so as to make them real demands and slogans of the revolutionary masses. Of course, the Party must give political guidance in formul- ating these demands and slogans. Especially must we encourage workers, both employed and unemployed to demand that the millions of dollars used for the military budget, be distributed to the unemployed. Organize Defense We must remember that this year, the bour- geoisie is mobilizing its regular forces with added strength in addition to mobilizing all kinds of fascist elements and organizations against our> demonstrations. Therefore, we too, must mobilize and orgdnize workers de- fense guards to combat the attacks of the bourgeois forees—to defend workers’ rights to demonstrate in the streets. The organization of these workers’ defense guards must be done in a most careful and systematic way. In our own Party ranks, we must fight vigorously against right tendencies—legality, non-preparation and passivity, in connection with preparations for August 1. Comrades, our Party Seventh Convention de- cided to make the decisive turn towards the factories and towards the masses, August First will be a first real test for us as to how far we are able to effect this turn in practice, Therefore, the entire Party must do its utmost to make August First not only the biggest mobilization of the masses than ever before, but also to connect with this mobilization, the building of revolutionary unions and throwing into the Party, through our factory activities, thousands of new proletarian elements. THE CASE AGAINST BILLINGS AND MOONEY Against the | ings, Tom Mooney and Reena Mooney were driven by Israel Weinberg in the latter’s jitney to the place of the explosion and deposited there, on the sidewalk, concealed in a suit case, the bomb. After having deposited the bomb, they were supposed to have retreated with their jitney just as they had come. The explosion occurred six minutes after 2 o'clock. The suitcase was supposed to have been depo- sited just about 2 o’clock. Evidence which did not fit into this theory was falsified by Fickert. Tastimony that pointed in other directions was suppressed or disregarded. : According to unbiased witnesses, the bomb was thrown from above, from the roof of nearby building. This testimony was contrary to Fickert’s frame up. It was therefore mis- regarded. But Fickert was not satisfied with this. With crow-bars and pick-axes he ex- tended the damage done by the bomb on the sidewalk and on the building walls in .order to strengthen his theory. The fact that Fickert had ordered this wrecking was established by sworn testimony in the tri: The Supreme Court of California knows it; the Governor of California knows it, Yet with serene dis- regard of this fact, the Supreme Court and the Governor mumble “something about the validity of the testimony. One of the major witnesses, a prostitute by the name of Estella Smith, testified against and identified Mooney. When it was proved by sworn testimony that Estella Smith was not at the place where she had sworn to have seen Mooney, she declared that her astral body was there and saw Mooney, . The Supreme Court of California knows this outrageous testimony; so does Governor Young; but with serene disregard of the facts keep on mumbling about the validity of the testimony. (To be concluded). Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. S. A. 43 East 125th Street, New York City. I, the undersigned, want to join the Commus nist Party. Send me more information. Name . Po oe ee | AdAreS® ...ccecscccsccomusces Ult¥s seconeme Occupation ...cccecoceess + Agescccee Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, 43 East 125th St.. New York, N. ¥.