The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 10, 1931, Page 4

4 ¢ Published by the Comprodatly Publishing Co., Inc., dally except Sunday. at 5¢ Fast & sf ; - eee - <=--" SUBSCRIPTION RATEA: = Re Page Four ) t 18th Street, New York City, N. Y. Telephone Algonquin 7958-7, Cable: “DAIWORK.” i ‘or. x y { By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1: excepting ee Address and mail all checks to tne Dally Worker. 50 East 13th Street. New York, N. ¥. es | of Manhattan and Bronx. New York Ctiy. Foreign: one year. $8- six months, $4.50, Central ‘hy srgiot Porty US.A. War Danger Increases Menace of Armed Intervention in U.S.S.R. By ALEX BITTELMAN. It 1s a great error to think that the growing danger of war among the imperialists weakens the menace of intervention in the Soviet Union. The exact opposite is the truth. The sharper the imperialist rivalries be- come, the more menacing becomes the danger of military intervention. The XI Plenary Session of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, held in Moscow in April, 1931, stated this idea in the following words: The growing antagonism of interests between the imperialists dees not diminish but, on the contrary, increase the danger of a war of intervention in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The truth of this is demonstrated by every im- portant event. Consider, for example, the effect of the imperialist rivalries between Britain and the United States upon the danger of military intervention in the Soviet Union. One of the bones of contention between the two imperialist bandits is the control of the oil and markets of the world. The American ts and the British Oil Trusts are waging a life struggle, which is greatly accelerating the between America and England ‘The question is: does this imperialist fight between British and American Oil Trusts diminish or in- crease the danger of military intervention in the Soviet Union? The answer it increases the danger. Why? The Soviet Union occupies a tremendously large ter- ritory, one-sixth of the earth. It contains enormous resources of natural wealth. That is one of the rea why Lenin believed that the Soviet Union has witt all that is necessary for the buildnig up of a Socialist society. Among these urces of natural wealth in the Sov- iet Union, there oil. Its sources are located largely The Soviet Union is today the second of oil. in the Caucasus. largest producer Wouldn't this fact conjure up in the minds of the British and American Oil Trusts some isions” and pos- sibilities? Here they are, these two monopolist robbers. scouring every nook and corner of the globe to grab new oil sources. They fight tooth and nail for every inch of old and new oil Jand. Whereas in the Soviet Union there are enormous reserves of oi] upon which these imperialist bandits cannot lay their hands. Isn't that exasperating? It is more than that. It is a con- stant temptation for each of these to try to seize by intervention the Soviet oil sources, and in this way strengthen its monopolistic control of the world’s oil against its rival. Or. if need be, to share it partly with its rival. This, in the calculations of the imperialists. would constitute a triple gain, It would enlarge the volume of oil under imperialistic control. It would cripple the building of Socialism in the Soviet Union It might postpone the day of armed conflict between and America for world domination. This is the twelfth article in Comrade Bittelman’s series on the war danger and how to fight it. Read and spread these articles! imperialist war and intervention! Make August 1 a day of mighty demonstration against The above is no mere speculation. At the trial of the counter-revolutionary “Industrial Party” in Moscow, last winter, the following was revealed from the direct testimony of the accused. England would support the intervention with the Navy. In what way? By at- tacking the Caucasus. And what would England get for it? The Caucasian oil wells, at least. It was stated and proven at the trial that Deterding and Churchill have made such arrangements with the “Torgprom,” the Paris organization of the former Russian capitalists. which is handling the preparations for intervention with the French General Staff. Deterding, the head of the British Oil Trust, undertook to finance the wrecking activities of the “Industrial Party” which was the agreed campaign to be carried out within the Soviet Union preliminary to military intervention The American Oil Trust was apparently left out in the cold. Hence, the decisive efforts of the Hoover government to become the leader of the intervention against the Soviet Union. If Soviet oil is to be seized by intervention, we will do the seizing and get the oil —this is the lesson learned by the American imperialists from the trial of the “Industrial Party.” What does this prove? It proves that the growing antagonism of interests between the imperialists does not diminish, but, on the contrary, increase the danger of a war of intervention in the Soviet Union. Consider also the effect of the growing antagonisms between the European capitalist powers and the United States on the danger of intervention. Do these antagon- isms weaken or increase the danger? They increase. It is sufficient to mention just a few facts. One of the outstanding es between capitalism in Europe and capitalism in the United States is the demand of the European capitalist powers for the cancellation of the war debts. For years American imperialism had its face set sternly against any proposition of even reducing the debt, let alohe cancellation. But lately a change has begun to take place. Its coming was already notice- able a g the convention of the International Cham- ber of Commerce in Washington. It has now taken the shape of Hoover's proposal for a one-year morato- rium on the payment of war debts. What do these moves indicate? At the convention of the International Chamber of Commerce the Hoover group was exerting itself to crystallize an international economic boycott of the capitalists against the Soviet Union, under the leadership of American. capitalism. The weapon of war debts was used by Hoover to bring the European capitalist powers to accept United States leadership in the anti-Soviet war. Nothing, apparently, materialized at the Chamber of Commerce Convention. Then Hoover makes the next step. He proposes a moratorium. This is intended, of course, to stave off the workers revolution in Germany and to save the heavy investments of American capitalism in that coun- try. But this is not all. It is an effort to “soften” and dissipate the strengthening opposition of European capitalism to American capitalism by offering to bribe some of the European capitalist powers, thus drawing them into the Anti-Soviet war under the leadetship of American capitalism. What does this prove? It proves that the growing antagonisms between American and European capital- ism increase the danger of intervention against the Soviet Union. Consider next the effect of the rivalries between France and Germany upon the danger of military in- tervention. The antagonisms between French and Ger- man capitalism are increasingly growing more acute. This gives rise to various developments in both coun- tries. And one of these developments is the tendency towards rapprochament between the two countries on the basis of an alliance against the Soviet Union, an alliance for military intervention. Negotiations for this purpose have been going on last year and this year be- tween representatives of Big Capital in France and Ger- many. There are, of course, great obstacles for the consummation of such an alliance. Nevertheless, there are powerful capitalist interests in both countries work- ing incessantly for a common war against the Soviet Union, This proves once more that the growing antagonisms between the imperialists increases the danger of a war of intervention against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. It proves that whenever the contradictions of interests between the imperialists reach an especi- ally acute stage the attempt is made to try to solve these contradictions at the expense of the Soviet Union. ‘This is done in the same way in which the capitalists of each country are trying to solve the crisis at the ex- pense of the toiling masses in their own countries and in the colonies. The Antagonism Between Capitalism and Socialism Capitalism and Socialism are irreconciliable. Social- ism has come to take the place of capitalism all over the. world. The toiling and oppressed masses in the capitalist countries and in the colonies are fighting for that aim, under the leadership of the Communist Par- ties, as their only way out of misery, starvation and war. Capitalism sees itself deprived of one-sixth of the earth—the territory of the Soviet Union—in which it cannot enslave and exploit. Capitalism finds itself me~ naced by the Socialist industrialization of the Soviet Union which makes it possible for the land of Socialism to develop its economic life independently of the tech- nique of the capitalist countries, Markets are becoming ever more restricted because of the crisis and the im- poverishment of the masses. The imperialists seek to extricate themselves from the crisis at the expense of the masses, at the expense of their competitors, at the expense of the colonies and the Soviet Union. This leads to a policy of unrestrained Protection, Tariff Wars and Dumping. It leads to an intensified imperialist struggle for world domination and a redistribution of the colo- nies. It leads to increased preparations for imperialist war and military intervention against the Soviet Union. Capitalism seeks to destroy Socialism in the Soviet Union ag % seeks to crush the working class movement in the capitalist countries, as it is waging war against the rising colonial revolutions. Capitalism seeks to save itself from going under by a concentrated attack against the new socialist world. The toiling masses see the contrast between capital- ism and socialism and are drawing conclusions for re- volutionary struggle against capitalism. Crisis, hunger, unemployment and capitalist dictatorship in the cap- italist world. Growth of economic life, improvement in the conditions of the masses, no unemployment and the dictatorship of the working class in the socialist world, The masses see this contrast and decide, in ever increasing numbers, to fight against the capitalist dic- tatorship, which is called bourgeois democracy, and for the Proletarian Dictatorship, which is real working class democracy. The capitalist class sees and feels the menace of the growth of Socialism and decides to prepare more intensively for military intervention in the Soviet Union. American capitalism is assuming the leadership of the imperialist preparations for intervention. To bring this about is the job of Stimson and Mellon now abroad Hoover’s moratorium of war debts proposal is intended to facilitate the war and intervention mission of Stim- son and Mellon. That is why the August 1 demonstrations this year are of such tremendous importance. These demonstra- tions must be made powerful and strong. They must serve notice on the ruling class of the United States that the toiling masses of this country will stand by and fight for their Socialist fatherland. Try This On Your Short Wave Set Our notification some time ago to radio rani of the English programs sent out by the Central Radio Station at Moscow, got little response, Some comrade said he would experiment with a self-built set that might get the long wave length used (1304 meters, 230 kilocycles). Now we are informed that the Moscow station also uses a short wave (50 meters; 6,000 kilocyc- les; Power 100 k. w.). The English programs, and also the French, are given on Sundays, Mon- days and Thursdays, at midnight Moscow Time. We don’t know a bleeding thing about radios, but give tiis information in hope that some comrade may do somet: If any reader has any luck, let the rest in on it by writing in. Why Don’t the Machinery Work Better? M “Dear Jorge—At a meeting of an I. W. Of branch last night, a committee of miners ap< peared and reported on the strike, A committee was immediately and enthusiastically elected to canvass our entire membership (which is quite large) to collect food and clothing. ‘After the motion was carried, a comrade of our branch who is, by the way, very sincere and devoted to the left wing movement, reported that he, as well as some of his friends ,have been unsuccessfully trying for the last few days to get the Workers International Relief to call for a large assortment of canned and staple foods and clothing which is filling up almost a room. Many phone calls had been made, and many promises given by the W. I. R., but no response in action. “Another instance of the same kind was re-* ported at an I, L. D. branch, where the response was most enthusiastic to collect food and cloth- ing for the miners, “Let us get together and cut the red tape that holds back the heroic miners from getting those things which are so vitally important to this wonderful strike. Let us even if necessary do away with those who for some reason or other are in the way and hamper the good work be- ing done by the broad mass of workers—L H.” We will not venture to say what the remedy might be, but the disease seems to be apparent. From other sources also we have heard that there is too much chaos and muddling in the | gathering of relief offered. No doubt some ori Conducted by the Organization Department of || this comes from the difficulty of organizing the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A. hastily a big relief machinery. But that ma- chinery had better be made to work a@ lot bet- ter than it is working—or somebody will hear more from the workers. Fascist Terror in Barberton Warnine Against | | Spies and Untrust- | PARTY LIFE worthy Individuals MORRIS GOLDEN of New York, without defi- | nite occupation, has been definitely uncovered as an agent of the police. He came from Chi- cago in November, 1930, on a temporary Com- munist Party card, which he obtained there under false pretenses. When his actions be- came suspicious, he was investigated and was found to be closely connected with the New York police, a definite proof of which was in the fact that he had an invitation to police dinner. He is 35-40 years of age, 5 ft. 4,5 in. in height, 135-140 Ibs. in weight; he has brown hair, brown eyes (with a direct look), dark complexion, and he walks with a shuffle. CHARLES BAYER of Pittsburgh, who came from Hungary 20 or more years ago, where he had gone through a business school, but | | Decker and the Barberton bosses generally be- [ came increasingly hardboiled as the indignation | of the workers mounted. This sharpened class | feeling was very evident during the state hunger march. Decker mobilized a regular army to prevent the marchers from stopping in Barber- ton. He declared that the 150 American Legion- | naires and businessmen that he had sworn in and armed, in addition to police and county sheriffs, were under instructions “to adopt mil- itary tactics to move the parade ahead at double time if necessary.” The workers of Barberton, on the other hand, were so enthusiastic about the hunger march that their nuumbers and their cheers took the marchers by surprise. according even to capitalist press reports, and they show- ered the marchers with silver coins. The next major act of violence against the 4 _ By L. MARTIN { BARBERTON, Ohio—Thanks to the mistake of police in clubbing capitalist newspepermen and letting businessmen as well as workers be gassed, the class war which has been raging for some time in Barberton has become 4 state- wide scandal. So long as it was just a matter | of jobless workers starving, of an Unemployed | Council organizer being kidnapped and murder- | ed, of workers meetings being smashed with | brutal violence, Barberton received little publi- | city. The same kind of thing has been hap- | pening in many other cities with the full ap- proval of the capitalist class and its press. But since Mayor 8. A. Decker proved too dumb to be able to restrict his fascist terror to the work- ers, the capitalist press has suddenly discovered ee eee Have ose = oa Barberton workers was when police and Amer- dnsbgated » campelen OF aaa ee eee Governor | ios. Legionnaires with clubs anf blackjacks ee heck deluaea ob eS ae ‘an | Smashed up a peaceful indoor meeting at. Be investigation, in which even Mayor Decker’s bos- | cares called to protest the Alexander ses and supporters have joined, not doubting it Following this, an open-air protest demonstra- will prove a whitewash. i ‘i: y } tion was called by the International Labor De- While placing the responsibility squarely on ¥ i 4 fense for June 26 in Lake Anna Park. But no nor White for permitting the reign of ter- Sale i sooner did oreanizer Jennie Cooper of the LL.D. ror and demanding the removal of the city ad- ‘ ministration, the International. Labor Defense | Start to speak than a tear gas attack was points out that Barberton workers can rely only | launched by scores of special police sworn in | for the occasion. Prize fighters and other de- | | Plan of Patronage of Chicago Units Over South Illinois pee idea of more developed workers organiza~ tions, particularly in the industrial cities, tak- ing patronage over less developed (particularly b) agrarian) undertakings, has become well estab- lished in the Soviet Union and has resulted in a consolidating of the relations between town and country. Humanitarian Herbie Well. folks, now that America and France have “agreed,” how muth do you suppose that Herbie Hoover and his close friends cleaned up on the stock market rise that followed the an- nouncement of his wonderful “war debt plan”? We don’t know, but we'll bet that stock tip wasn’t overlooked. But we regret to inform the world at large that “prosperity” won't come back because of this marvelous “plan.” No juggting of “inter- national bookkeeping” can cure the capitalist crisis, f But already a friend of ours says that when he went to buy a pound of cheese that formerly cost him 27 cents, the chain store grocer told him that it had gone up to 31 cents “because of the Hoover Plan” ... ! Workers who meet that kind of guff should raise the very devil of pro- test. Just a little piece of the “plan” will show you how absurd the effect will be. Germany was to pay around $110,000,000 to France, France in- sisted, and won, that Germany myst pay that much into the Bank of International Settle< ments where by bookkeeping it is credited to France, so France can issue for itself an equal sum in short term notes, but the money goed back. to Germany. Thus by hokus-pokus book- keeping, both. France and Germany have $110,- 000,000 more and the capitalist crisis is solved! Like fun! basic characters—elementary political pamphlets and class struggle fiction. Agltational Material, sending down occa- sionally extra supply of Daily Workers or of some simple agitational pamphlet. c) Materiat Support—This should be given primarily in the form of supplying mimeograph paper for a certain pamphlet the southern Il- linois unit wants to distribute, sending them stencils at another time. etc. d) Exchange Material. There should be an exchange and comment on leaflets, shop papers etc., issued by respective units. e) Exchange of Representatives: every 2 or 3 months, arrangements should be made for a comrade from Chicago patron units to be elec- ted and go to Southern Illinois for a few days— speak, get acquainted, help in a certain cam- paign, etc. Likewise, a comrade elected by the Southern Illinois unit should be brought to Chi- cago, particularly on the occasion of some de- monstration, parade or conference. Of course, the comrades must always attend a meeting of the unit. All of the above methods will result in a mut- ual better understanding of the Party problems broadening the understanding of both Chicago and Southern Illinois comrades and Party units. Let the Chicago units selected for this task dev- elop it still further. In our district we are not yet in a position to establish patronage of the workers of the city over the agrarian workers, because we have to first awaken to this vital task and are only making first contacts. However, the Section of our District which is weakest politically and or- ganizationally is the Party Section in Southern Tllinois. Here we have the coal fields, where the coal miners have conducted many brave strug- gles and where our Party has the task fo es- tablishing itself and winning leadership on the basis of leading struggles on immediate grievan- ces, and simultaneously exposing the United Mine Workers and building the National Miners Union. Particularly today with the Penn-Ohio strike, we must extapd iur influence and develop strike struggles in So. Illinois. The Party there is very weak. The member- ship have not had the experience which the Chicago members have had. Nevertheless, the miners have had lots of experience as fighters, but the role and activity of the Communist Par- ty must be clarified in life itself. The District Committee has therefore decided to establish a system of patronage, choosing as a beginning 5 nuclei in the mining towns in on'their own organized strength for satisfac- tion, Just as the industrial barons of Barber- | Putized thugs, armed with brass knuckles, clubs % and blackjacks, but wearing no uniforms, ton, the Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis . Club and other bosses’ agencies have lined up plunged into the crowd, hitting right and left behind Mayor Decker, the workers are rallying | at men, women and children. The workers | sp - fought back and three tear gas attacks had to their own organizations, the Unemployed Councils are being strengthened and another | to be launched before the police thugs could CHARLES BAYER he pretends to be a common laborer. (He also has stated that he works for different photo-studios getting enlargement orders),— has been exposed and expelled by the Com- Peace Talk to Cover War i ve tr ti rk. | i itts- rn Ilinoi: ii 4 Have you noticed that the capitalist press big demonstration of protest was scheduled for | drive them from the park. A photographer, his | munist Party Control Commission of Pitts southern Illinois and connecting them up with Preparations July 9. ‘i | assistant, and a reporter for the Akron Beacon- burgh as a company and police stool pigeon. | 5 of the most active nuclei in Chicago. The Chi- pers sort of soft-pedaled the fact that American Dominated by the Diamond Match, Seiberling-| Journal were among those assauluted and in- He speaks, besides English and Hungarian, | cago units are expected to develop this as an 1914. bankers have Three Billion Dollars invested in Germany? And failed even to mention that the interest and profits on that huge sum is being | wrung out of German workers’ sweat and blood: | and will be paid to Wall Street regardless of the moratorium? And did you notice that slick old | Uncle Sam waited until just one day after the { “allies” had made their periodical payment of the war debt to the American government, be= fore Hoover announced the moratorium? American capitalism is SO humanitarian! ! jured in the murderous attack. also the German language. His photograph is produced herewith for identification pur- poses, WM. ALBRICHT (ALIAS LOUIS KISH) of | Pittsburgh, Hungarian ¢arpenter (unemployed), | non-Party, has been branded by the Com- | example for the entire Party. | The basis of the patronage is to develop the Party understanding both in Southern Illinois and Chicago and thru this, improve and inten- sify the Party work in So. Illinois. This is not a matter for one comrade, but the entire mem- bership of the two units linked together must | be involved. February 5, 1914: “It was indicated by Sec- |retary Bryan that the scope of the programme would be broad enough to permit consideration of the principle embodied in the new series of peace treaties he has been negotiating. This principle is set forth in a stipulation that when two governments are involved in a controversy threatening to result in war they shall suspend hostile action for a fixed period, during which an effort shall be made to adjust the contro- Rubber, Pittsburgh Valve and Columbia Che- mical companies, the city of Barberton, on the outskirts of Akron, has felt the unemployment crisis particularly severely. A large part of its 25,000 population has long been jobless and Unemployed Council organizations found fertile soil. So effective were the organized jobless in their relief demands, in resisting evictions and in participating in big demonstrations that the bosses soon took alarm. In a city so directly Here is how the Akron Times-Press reporter | described the scene: “With tear gas and black- jacks, Barberton police with their specially sworn allies turned the meeting into a night of terror for Barberton citizens... Hundreds of persons, gasping, eyes watering, fled from the heavy barrage of tear gas, The battle raged What To Do: 1. The following units are connected: the huge expenditures in money, war was @ stupid and obsolete way of settling differences between nations, There then began as great a struggle for peace as there formerly had been for war, and an urge for peace in the whole world that had never before existed—and is today dominating the minds of all nations.” (Henry Morgenthau, former minister to Tur- key, Jan. 26, 1930.) Workers! Join the Party of. Your Class! driven from their homes by the stinging fumes of the gas attack...Screaming women and small children were caught in the melee. Literally thousands of curious Barberton citizens suf- fered the same fate as the scattered Commun- ists.” Two workers, Paul Mayerr and Matt Miovac, were arrested and have been charged with dis- orderly conduct, but all of the police thugs who started the attack have been left free. Both Mayerr and Miovac had been badly beaten by their attackers and Miovac has severe scalp wounds. According to spectators, Miovac, who is a small man, was tripped and jumped upon by nearly a score of the deputized thugs. After the brutal assault on the thousands of Barbarton workers demonstrating in protest against the murder of Alexander, Mayor Decker see that letters are sent out at least twice a month to the Southern Illinois unit over which they are patrons. These shall explain the ac- tivity of the nucleus, how they conduct their meetings, functioning of buro, etc. In turn the secretary of the Southern Illinois unit shall write letters describimg their work and raising problems: This correspondence shold be re- ported pon at the respective unit meetings. 3. Realizing the worsened conditions in South- . ern Illinois, and many difficulties, each South- munist Party (Control Commission of Pitts- | ern Illinois unit should be supplied by. their burgh as an anti-proletarian and untrust- | patron with the following: worthy individual, strongly suspected of being a) Reading Material —copies of pamphlets a stool-pigeon. and books, new or old. These should be of two He has been nosing for inside information in various workers’ organizations, he has tried to demoralize participants of the hunger march to Harrisburg, he has failed to turn in money collected by him for the hunger march, isbntrotled by the manufacturers, little attention | Ver #0 area of more than a half mile in down Christopher, TH, 202; Zeigler, TL, 402; West- | |Versy through a board of arbitration i ae had to be paid to legal forms. The police just | town Barberton. Traffic was paralyzed. Hun- ville, Ill, 502; West Frankfort, Ill, 303; Harris- ~ decided to pick off some of the leaders, and C. | dreds of machines were caught in the milling burgh, Ill, 208. “The nations of the world began to ores Maybe There was a j Louis Alexander, an active Negro organizer, was | thousands. Residents in nearby streets were 2. ‘The unit buros of the Chicago units shall | | that with the loss of men and women an® Will) | Wi owatorium | | ite _~ run out of town without any legal pretext on | February 2. Alexander was not to be so easily disposed of, however, and the next day he returned to Bar- Ferton. A committee from the Unemployed | Council visited Mayor Decker at once to protest and offering to identify the kidnappers. The Mayor told them to return later, but before they could dp so—on the night of February 4, Alex* ‘ander was kidnapped again, this time never to return. Two autos drove up to his boarding house. and police in plain clothes and American Legion officials were seen by the landlady, her daughter-in-law and one of the other boarders dragging Alexander from his bed and taking him away. Children have reported since that they saw police throwing a body into a lime pit. ‘The capitalist courts have refused to consider murder charge against the kidnappers. Fur- A Daily Worker representative, with the “foreign-sounding name” of Murphy and with not a cent in his pocket, was out in Jersey last week. Naturally he was trying to speed the Daily’ drive and locked for all hands to give what help they could. | Wanting to call a meeting of readers to form a Daily Worker Club, he sought for nothing more than the sum, surely not excessive, of thirty-five cents to buy paper to mimeograph some leaflets. Now, according to Murphy, there was, in the city of Perth Amboy, a Young Communist League organizer who had in his jeans: $60 coin of the realm. But when asked to loan 35 cents, repayment of which was assured him, he bee came coldly official and declined, However, when pressed, he became as diplo- A matic as the French Finance Minister discussing |} Hoover's plan on the basis of “assurances from i : WM. ALBRIGHT (Alias Louis ssn) Communist Party U. 8. A. P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York City. Please send me more information on the Cum- ive element, who acts like a stool-pigeon in trying to get inside information and in mak- ing ultra-left speeches and proposals. He ther than this, they have not only acquitted | attempted to shield the identity of his deputized and he has spoken of being offered a job as shifts from place to p! and is a fluent tunist Party. the police charged with the kidnapping, but | sluggers, insisting that he did not pad bind a stool-pigeon and has asked a comrade, if talker and clever disrupter, All comrades Germany”, and “agreed in principle” to loan the arrested Mrs. Simpson, the landlady, and Mary | they were but was positive they were “good, sub- he would accept such an offer, All workers and workers should be on the look-out against | Name ..csocessescersesseecsneeeeoerseses 35 cents, providing he “received instructions stantial citizens.” Both he and Police Chief Weents disclaimed responsibility for their ap- pointment. The Akron Times-Press points out nowever that “Mayor Decker was active before, during and after the rioting. It was a fact noted by hundreds that in most instances thos who wielded blackjacks retired to Barberton Po- lice Station where, though ununiformed, and un- distinguished as police office: the city’s sanagpiagtes astra Ingol, her daughter-in-law, on charges of per- jury for identifying the kidnappers. Pleasant Davis, the boarder, who also witnessed the kid- ‘Mapping, had learnt enough of capitalist justice by this time to escape from town before they could arrest or kidnap him. A grand jury in- “yactizction of the whole hideous case is now /) being demanded by the International Labor De- fense. Following the Alexander kidnapping, Mayor from the District Y.C.L.” It may be mentioned here that the $60 noted above was not the League's money but his own, The 35 cents was be cbtained elsewhere, since the Daily. sep. had | no dime to spend phoning the District ¥.C.L, Maybe the case has other angles, but if the Daily encounters such formalism everywhere, no Daily Worker Clubs can be built, the Drive will flop, and the Daily will be injured—but also + the ¥.0.L, will be injured i, and workers’ organizations should beware of this man, whose photograph is produced here- with for identification purposes. PAUL BILLINGS (ALIAS MALLETIE, ALSO WEBER), lately in’ Milwaukee, has been in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tacoma and Seat- tle, where he has unsuccessfully tried to join the Communist Party—is now exposed by 5 the Communist Party Section Committee of CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION, ” him. Description: about 30 years old, about 5 ft. 8 in. in height, and about 145 Ibs. in weight, has blue eyes, brown hair (shaven off when last seen in Milwaukee), long and slim face with a deep line at the right side that makes kim look always cynical and sneering. has slim athletic build and walks with a swag- ger. Address .. ONY sccsccecerscrescreceeees State + QCCUPAION Lssevescessccetenoesenres ABO seven -Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, PB, O, Box 87 Station D, New York City,