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Af Judge Morton Who Denied Her Freedom Is | ! , Daily Worker: _ * politician in the “know” that the © fs for the least bit of militant labor DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1932 hn _ PITTSBURGH DEMONSTRATION MAY 25 TO SEND OFF 100 DELEGATES Physician Reports Edith Berkman Has Tuberculosis, Mill Owner ;New Move By DOUGLAS MACDONALD _ of t ‘BOSTON, Mass. May 21.—A definite | tubercular condition exists in Edith| Berkman’s right lung decided Dr. James Hitchcock, Boston physician retained by the International Labor Defense, when he examined Edith; Berkman at the Central New England Sanitorium in Rutland, Massachu- | setts where she is confined a few! days ago. This finding, together with the} transference of Edith Berkman by | the imigration authorities to a sani- tarium exclusively for the treatment of tubercular patients, proves what the ILD has contended all along, despite the denials of the officials, that this working-class strike leader contracted tuberculosis during her seven-month incarceration in the im- migration detention “barracks” in Boston. She had been arrested while leading a strike last fall, and at first | bail had been granted, but later, on October 8th, this bail was revoked by Judge James A. Lowell of the Dis-/} trict Court. It was the resulting, | continuous confinement of this girl which caused her tubercular condi- tion. Now Move for Bail The immediate need, now, the In-| ternational Labor Defense contends, to secure bail for her so that, with the comparative peace of mind and freedom from worry which release from imprisonment (even hospital imprisonment) would give, it would be possible to treat her illness suc- cessfully. The I. L. D. lawyers, with A. J. Iserman of New York in charge, | are now pressing anew for the grant- ing of bail. The I. L. D. has ar- sanged for Henry Wise, an attorney Made to Have Bail S Set | of the "firm of Shea & Wise of Bos- ton, to handle Edith Berkman’s case locally under Iserman’s direction. The application for bail which was made yesterday is based not only on Edith Berkman’s condition but on the Judge Lowell (who, by the way, is a member of the Boston Lowells, the same clan to which belongs to Presi- | dent Lowell of Harvard, who helped | railroad Sacco and Vanzeti to death) is illegal. The reason, it is illegal, is | because the case had already been! appealed to the Federal Circuit Court) of Appeals on October ist, and Judge Lowell revoked bail on October 8th. Now it happens that Judge Lowell—| even though he belongs to the Lowell! family—is only a judge of the Fed- eral District Court. Since the case was already appealed to a higher | court, the Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Lowell no longer had jurisdic- tion over the case, and no longer had| the right to revoke bail. Mill Owner Judge. Furthermore, class conscious work- ers will be interested to know that! Judge James M. Morton of the Cir- cuit Court of Appeals, who handed | down the decision again denying freedom to Edith Berkman, is presi- | dent of the Sagamore Mill Corpora- tion of Fall River, Massachusetts, which corporation has a direct in-| terest in suppressing all organization of workers, and particularly in sup- pressing and imprisoning such mili- tant leaders as Edith Berkman. Workers have a special interest in defending Edith Berkman. They should mobilize in thousands to back the I. L. D. in a demand for Edith Berkman’s release. ‘ GYP AGENCY SHARKS TRY TO DRIVE OFF DAILY WORKER AGENT Academy Agency Calls Cops; Workers Force Crook to Return Fee (By a Worker C NEW YORK.—The Daily and Sixth Ave. have aroused agency ‘orrespondent) Worker newsellers on 50th St.) the anger of the employment sharks. The Geneva agency at 49th St. called head- quarters and a special cop has been assigned to “‘keep the Daily Worker seller moving.” This agency is one of the strongest “gyp” agencies. They charged for ex- ample, one worker, $18 for a $75 onth job this past week. The Academy agency, another to il the police to try and drive the aily Worker sellers away, was forced return a worker his fee this week. jrhey had charged him $8 for a job. ‘He worked two days. He recovered his fee, 60 cents carfare and 50 cents or a meal, that he had spent going ‘out for a job, A woman worker has oe sent to several false addresses yy this agency, Must Organise Byery worker looking for jobs in ‘these Sixth Ave. agencies must or- eats into the Unemployed Councit nd if he is a food worker, (restau- rant, bakery, hotel, etc.) into the ‘Pood Workers Industrial Union at 6 Wast 19th St. You are entitled to jobs at 10 per ‘nt, no more, of the salary promised. whe agencies cannot deduct a com- fitesion for room and board as equivalent to so much salary. ‘The agencies read the want-ads in the morning papers. Then they call lp the employes and tell him that Be can supply “experienced help in is line at no. expense’ to him.” Re- fult, when workers apply for the job, they cannot get an audience, These sharks work in many ways. Whey pay a small yearly license fee is make it many times ,over. ‘orkers, who are their victims, should immediately report to the Unem- ployed Council or the F. W. I. U., if} they are food workers. Only by vis- iting them in organized delegations, can you get your money back. If they want more than ten per cent for a job and you want the job, do the same thing; organize and de- mand the job at the legal rate. If you pay and do not get jobs, you are entitled to your money back, right away. If you are fired within a week, it mean that the agency has either an arrangement with the boss to make moncy or has sent him an- other worker at lower pay. This is the same as not getting the job and you should fight for refunding of the money. Tell other workers at the agencies. Byorganization you will save your- selves many dollars. Why pay for jobs? Grp AGENCY Phila. Magistrates Order More Clubbing Boss’ terror against the Philadel- bhia workers does not abate. The writer of this item was told by jolice, magistrates, judges have re- ‘ived instructions from the “higher- ” (bosses) to beat and jail work- ieiivity. In line with this policy workers taye been arrested for distribution of leaflets, collecting funds on tag day, attending open air and_ indoor meetings, speaking at “permitted” meetings. A few days ago a worker was ar- rested for selling the “Noon Hour Talk on the Communist Party.” He was Charged with “sedition.” He re- fused to tell where he had obtained the pamphlets and was brutally beaten at the Philadelphia City Hall “cold storage.” He is held for further Worker Beaten at N. J. Ford Plant (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Riding by the Ford flant in Edgewater, N. J., I saw a pliceman beating a worker who was Fn for a job, The man was one [nara gathered in front of the nt looking for work. The crowd saved the workers from the cop by crowding around him, hissing at the cop and shouting: “Let him alone.” The workers here are real mili- tant. Policemen Nos. 65 and 66 and @ fat guy by the name of Jack O'Hara are grafting off the workers around the plant. They colelct money from the workers for slight favors. M.A. A Letter from the Tampa Jail , ‘Tampa, Fla. faily Worker: Down here we have to live on the ‘dest food that the sheriff and the ity officials can get the cheapest. hing here in jail four months on a ‘aight diet of fat back salt pork beans has started scurvy in my th, Seurvy is a disease that the seamen ted (0 get in the old wind-jammer days of sailing ships. We workers here in the Tampa County jail can’t expect to get any fresh greens or fruit as the bosses would rather let it rot in the fields. ‘The sheriff here is now on the stump for re-election and is letting the county jail be run by a group of KKK’s. Workers of Tampa will have to elect a Communist sheriff. Comradely, AL, W. McBRIDE, Philadelphia Conference Picks 25 to Go to National Convention PITTSBURGH, Pa., | East Ohio. Speakers will be the leaders in the National Miners Union | and Metal Workers Industrial League, Comunist Party and several Kentucky | | miners, The main issue in the election }campaign here is now the fight against the priest, Cox’s fake unem- | ployment movement. The Socialist Party leaders called |munist meeting last night at Boggs and ual Streets. The meeting had May 22.—On May 25 the workers of Pittsburgh will stage a demonstration against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soyiet Union. | will also be a send-off for over 100 delegates from western Pennsylvania to the Chicago convention, | will be in Pythian Temple, 1821 Center Avenue instead of at fact that the revocation of bail by | the open air address previously announced. | Delegates will arrive Wednesday afternoon from Charles- ton, Scotts Run and Fairmount Section of West Virginia and from all over western Pennsylvania, Central Pennsylvania and in the police to break up a Com-| The demonstration The demonstration a permit but the socialists | were | angry | because their crowd deserted them to | hear the Communist speakers, who | were exposing the Socialist Party. Police arrested Ford, Communist candidate for senator in Cleveland, and Irving Herman, Young Commu- nist League organizer. ose 169 in Philadelphia | PHILADELPHIA, Pa. May 22.—| | One hundred sixty-nine delegates re- | . Thousands of young and ‘ jlized for National Youth Day. Thousands of leaflets are being is-¢ |sued in which the meaning of the |National Youth Day is illustrated in jthe light of the events daily taking place all over the world at a time ‘when all the efforts of the imperial- ist bandits are Bent upon encouraging Japan to provoke the Socialist Father- | land. Preparations In New England. In New England the District called upon all its affiliated clubs to |send their delegates to the National Youth Day Committees in charge of the preparations for May 30th dem- onstration against hunger and war. | The National Youth Day celebra- | tion will be held in Lawrence on May 29th and 30th, when the Coun- j ter Olympic Trial Meet will also take place in preparation for the district elimination meets. This trial will take place on the 29th at the Hay- | dan-Shefield Playgrounds, Day demonstration, previ ously granted, was revoked upon request of Alderman Thomas F. Calvin, Direc- |tor of the Department of Public Safety. The Provisional Committee for the preparation of the demon- stration sent a ng protest against this ars ges act and noti- | fied the City Council that the work- ers of Lawrence intent to use the permit, Will Hold Demonstration In Reading. The Executive Committee of the Communist Party in District No. 3 issued a statement urging all workers to support National Youth Day and to participate in the huge mass dem- onstration which will take place in Reading. Pa., on May 29th and 30th. All workers haying cars are invited to volunteer the same to transport young workers to Reading. Mobilize Miners and Steel Workers. National Youth Day in the Pitts- burgh District will be celebrated on May 29th and 30th with a mass dem- onstration in which thousands of workers are urged to participate. The demonstration will serve to arouse the coal miners and steel workers against the immediate danger of an atatck upon the Soviet Union and (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE} days of the strike. It was against this attempt by mass arrests to break the strike, that the thousand demonstrated in La Junta. The anger and determina- tion of the strikers was so high that the police feared to attack the meet- ing. The strikers on trial inside the court room defended themselves, or were defended by strike leaders. The five hour trial became almost entirely a sharp debate between the district attorney for the sugar companies and beet growers, on one side, and on the ether side, Pat Toohey, representing the United Front Strike Committee, the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, and the masses of strikers. The court room wes packed, and all the time outside, the thousand strikers, shouted for release of their jailed fellow workers, and demanded that the terror be brought to an end. The court took the case under ad- visement, which means that they hesitate to convict the strikers with the workers so.much aroused. Growers Ask Negotiations, At Brush, Colo., the growers have asked for negotiations with the strikers. At Las Animas, the grow- ers also asked Friday for a meeting with the representatives of the strik- ers, The strikers’ have assigned ne- Gotiation committees to see these growers, ‘The strike is complete in Otera, Pueblo and Huerfano counties. The authorities admit it is. complete and | standing solid in the southern fields. ‘Workers Mobilize Throughout U. S. for National Youth Day | the workers are being called upon to prepare for this day of relentless fight against the threatening danger of an armed imperialist attack on the Soviet Union. Board of the Labor Sports Union! The permit for the National Youth | 1,000 COLO. BEET EET STRIKERS — DEMONSTRATE AGAINST ARRESTS adult workers are being mob-| Throughout the United States | against the wage-cut enforced on| May 15th in the steel mills as well as in the coal mines. The district dem- onstration, scheduled to take place in Charleroi, will be held in McKees- | port. The Cherleroi City Council re- fused a permit for the demonstra- tion. A protest demonstration will | be held there soon. | Young Workers Preparing In Youngstown. Intensive preparations are going on for National Youth Day in Youngs- town, The city officials were forced to grant a permit for the parade on May 29th and for the use of the Harrsison Sports Field on the 29th and 30th, after having refused it for three weeks. The permit was granted after many organizations had sent in resolutions demanding that a permit be granted and after @ delegation visited the City Council. Open-air meetings are being held to prepare for National Youth Day. A successful meeting was held at ‘Truscon Stel on May 17th, which was atended by 20 Oworkers. The work- ers in this plant have just received a 15 per cent wage-cut. Many young workers who are employed there are being laid off if they are unmarried. Flying meetings were also held. A, truck covered with National Youth signs was used to go through town) and call on the young workers to demonstrate on National Youth Day. Another Scottsboro open-air meeting will be held tonight at Gibson and Poland Ave. in preparation for May 29th’ and 30th, The program for National Youth | Day is as follows: May 29th (Sun- | day), parade at 3 p.m., beginning at | Harrison Field and proceeding to Federal and Basin Sts, where at 4) o'clock there will be a big demon-! stration. Sunday evening, at 7 p.m., there will be a program of plays, songs, etc. at the Qkrainian Hall, 525 W. yen Ave. May 30th (Mon- day) will be the Counter-Olympic sport meet at Harrison Field, North Walnut and Court Sts., beginning at 9 am, All out for National Youth Day. ‘The strike is still spreading in the northern fields. The desperate, immediate need is for relief. Whole families are starv- ing, there are mass evictions of whole colonies of 50 or 60 families at a time, of beet strikers, Only two tons of food for a strike involving thousands came through last week. Ten tons more are needed immedi- ately, tomorrow, and like amounts daily thereafter. Send money and food to the United Front Relief Com- | mittee, 2736 Lawrence St., Denver, Cole, The strikers were starving and most of them living on charity and advances by store keepers to be de- ducted from this season’s wages, even before the strike started. All charity and all credit was cut off when the season opened, May 15, in order to force the beet workers to accept the new, wage contract for this season. Starvation Admitted. The- conditions under which the beet workers lived and worked were some of the worst in the country not even being surpassed by the Ne- gro share croppers of the south, The report given by Thomas F. iy Colorado chairman of the House Child Health Conference is terrific in its exposure of suffering and exploitation espeeialy when it is remembered that such white-wash- ing investigations never tell anything they can help and never more than half the truth. “In Colorado,” says the report, “all ite | going to the banks and the grower presenting 112 applications, totaling 8,000 workers, gathered Friday night at a conference called by the: Com- munist Party to discuss ways and means how to bring the platform of the class struggle to the thousands of white and Negro oppressed toilers in the eastern part of Pennsylvania in the coming elections. After the re- port on the platform proposed by the} Communist Party, a lively discussion on the part of the delegates took Place, offering various suggestions and criticism to the platform, as well as methods how to bring this platform to the workers in the coming elec- tions. A delegation of 25 workers to go to the Chicago national conven- tion was elected. This delegation in- cludes workers from basic industries, such as marine, steel, worekrs di- rectly from shop groups, workers from A. F. L. locals, revolutionary unions and fraternal organizations, A good percentage of these delegates are Negro workers. The delegates left the | conference with determination to go} back to their respective organizations | and mobilize them for the Commu- nist Party election platform. | cna awe | 150 In Blackwell BLACKWELL, Okla., May 22.—De- | pite a regular deluge of rain, making | country roads unsafe, and wind that | blew branches from trees, over 150/ workers attended the Conference to! elect delegats to the National Nom-| inating Convention in Chicago. | The majority present had prob- ably never seen or heard a commu- | nist before, but the point at which they applauded and seemed most | interested was when they were told! that in event of war the Communist policy was to turn the guns against the bosses fight for themselves and, not for Wall Street. Although Blackwell is a town where | ‘Negroes are not allowed to live, there was no opposition to the resolutions | on the Scottsboro and Jess Hollins eases, George Taylor, Negro candi- date for Congressman. at large, will] come here to speak. eae | Special Issue | CHICAGO, Ill., May 22—A special | National Nominating Convention of | the Workers Voice will be off the} press on May 23, with six full pages | of special articles, etc. It will pay much atention to the life of the steel | workers now undergoing a wage cut. It will give new facts on the Melrose Park massacre, where the city gov-, ernment controlled by the American | Can Co. machine gunned the jobless. It will give biographies and articles | written by Communist candidates. | Bundle orders of the Workers’ Voice are $1 a hundred. Address, Room 13, 1413 West 18th St., Oilosss: Needle Workers of Chicago Hear Report on GEB Plans, Tues. CHICAGO, Ill., May 22—Chicago Needle Trades Workers here will hear the report of proceedings at the recent full session (“plenum”) of the General Executive Boayd of | the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union, The report will be made by H. Sazer, representative of the National Bureau of’ the N. T. W. I. U., and by ©. B. Gersh, | Chicago district organizer of the union, at an open meeting held right after work, Tuesday, May 24, at 30 North Wells Street, Chicago. All Needle Trades Workers invited. Discussion will follow the reports. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 1, Unemployment and Social In- surance at the expense of the state and employers, high pressure at hard manual labor in certain kinds of industrialized ag- riculture, “Thousands of children are in the sugarb eet fields at labor which stunts growth, physical and mental and makes real education impossible. | “It is the old sweatshop system of | family contract labor adapted to ag- | riculture, “The wages are pitiably small, In one group of 549 workers—men. wo- men and children—the average wage per worker was $108 per year. “20 per cent of these children are 10 years old or less. “The bean and beet workers are in a state of industrial slavery, which is worse than the old chattel slavery, because the owner of the chattel slave saw to it that his property was properly fed and clothed.” Demand $23 Per Acre. ‘The United Front Committee has made the following demands: 1—A return to the 1930 wage) seale of $23 an acre (the present! contracts offer $8 to $15 and in some cases as low as $4 and $5). 2.—A guarantee of wages from the sugar company to prevent the oc- curence, frequent last year, of every- thing the farmer got for his beets being left with nothing for his sea- son’s work, 3.—Advances to be paid in cash} instead of credit (often the store- keeper and the big owner of sugar) company representative split the ex- cess graft made by charging exhorbi- | tant prices at the store where credit statements to the contrary notwith- standing, children of from 6 to 15 years of age work long hours under is advanced.) | | success |and immediate relief. ‘BELL COUNTY, KY., COMMUNIST CONFERENC HELD (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) called a Communist Election Cam paign conference for all of Bell County, Ky., to meet here, May 21 and elect delegates to the National Nominating Convention in Chicago. This assures representation of the fighting Kentucky miners and poor farmers at the Chicago conventior and assures a Communist campaign in Kentucky a st the coal com- pany starvation and reign of terror in the region of the strike led by the National Miners Union, which began January 1, this year, The calling of this convention is itself a defiance of the terror, because County Attorney Walter B. Smith, Sheriff Broughton, and the mayor of Pineville have repeatedly issued pub- | lic statements declaring the Commu- | {nist Party, and even the National Miners Union and Workers Interna- tional Relief to be outlawed, ail members subject to arrest for crim- inal syndicalism and all meetings to be broken up. Terror The leaflet calling the Bell County convention is addressed to “All Work- ers and Poor Farmers, Negro and White, and to All Miners, Employed, Unemployed and Blacklisted.” The leaflet points out: “In the mining district where starving miners went on strike to better their conditions, the Repub- jlican Party governor, Flem Sampson |sent in troops to break the strike. | The Democratic Party governor, Ruby Laffoon, follows the same policy Walter B. Smith, the Party county attorney of Bell County, | rules as the direct agent of the coal) joperators. The demands of the | starving hungry miners were met with bullets and clubs in the hands of the Republican and Democratic police. Now the Socialist and Social Reformists, who openly support the fake United Mine Workers of Am-| erica sell out bunch, are hatching up all kinds of fake schemes to fool us workers and get our votes.” The leaflet then analyses the crisis, the mass misery, and the war plans against the Chinese people and against the Soviet Union, and calls for opposition to this war program The leaflet quotes the six planks of | the Communist Election Platform, and | | calls on all workers’ organizations to send delegates to the county con- vention. (Editor's Note.—At this ume no report has been received of the events at the Bell County conference. Terorr conditions make for slow re- porting. News will be published as soon as it arri Democratic | Tass Weave Dae Brande As War Provocative Lies Reports of Soviet Mobilization Says Report by Transoceanic Agency of Alleged ceed by Red Army Chief of Staff Is ¢ Complete Fabrication / MYRA PAGE (European Correspondent of Daily Worker) The capitalist press of the whole world are tightening the ring of lies and provocations against the Soviet Union. Che latest instance of these provocative lies: aimed at i volving the Soviet Union in war, are the canard appearing i the New York Time claiming a mobilization by the Soviet 2 kovernment of four army classes fos REV OLUTION IN mano’ d the fabrication hl GREECE IT IS REPORTED General Strike Looms; | Venizelos Resigns An armed ir to be spreading serious sturbance Greek race and Macedonia The revolutiona’ to be fiercer in t of Kuinkoi, G where troops and to “restore quiet Meanwhile the post office, telegraph and telephone services are discon- tinued as a consequence of a strike, ges and better working he strike is now in its nd is rapidly spreading to other governmental se! eS, A general strike is looming as the | General Federation of Trade Unions decided to support the struggle for better wages being carried on by in- dividual unions. | for higher w: | condition: | fourth da Premier | Saturday in Venizelos resig last the face of strong | mass opposition to his proposed legis- ned lation intended to throw the burden of the economic cri on the shoul- ders of the working The economic crisis in Greece continuously deepening. Greece al- | ready abandoned the gold standard VOTE COMMUNIST FOR 1, Unemployment and Social In- surance at the expense of the state and employers. 2. Against Hoover's wage-cutting policy. 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black } Belt. SPREADS; : n Telegraph Agency of alleged The r is pur- to have been in connection 1e assassination by Japanese of the Japancse Premier Inuaki. Both of these lying reports are er denied by the Tass absolutely “ground= ‘ovocative The denials follow: 1. “Tass is authorized to state that the report carried by the New York Times of May 19 alleging that-four army classes haye been mobilized for manouvers is absolutely um- founded and constitutes an anti- Soviet provocative fabrication.” 2. “The ‘ransocean Ageney re- ports an alleged radio speech by the Chief of the Red Army General Staff concerning Inuaki’s assassina- tion. Tass is authorized to state that neither the chief of the Gen- eral Staff nor any one else delivered any such speech that the Trans- ocean Agency report represents a fabrication from beginning to end.” NEW YORK.—The Berlin Socialist paper “Vorwarts” which originally spread the lyir rt of # Soviet mobilization pe: S lie in the face of the denial by ti oviet press, a denial fully supported by foreign diplomats and correspondents in the Soviet Union. The social-democrats again expose themselyes as the ad= vance guard of the imperialists in the war move; gainst the Soviet Union. In an effort to cover up their role of war proyocatew's against the Soviet Union, the arts”, per- sisting in its le that a vilization |call was sent out by the Soviet Gov- ernment, hypocritically declares We have no doubt at all that the Soviet Government is eager to. pre- serve peace and avoid war, but there is no contradiction in prepating to ward off a seriously ed attack.” Tom Mooney Assails Wm. Green jor Fighting Jobless Insurance NEW York A, f The New Trade Union} Committee for Unemployment | Insurance and Relief received) letter from Tom San Quentin prison wishing to the Committee in the struggle for unemployment insurance This letter a Mooney from | was read at a conference held May 18 at Labor Temple to delegates rep- resenting 50 A. F. of L. local un-} ions. It was unanimously decided to send Tom Mooney’'s letter for publi- cation to all newspapers. The letter | follows: California State Prison San Quentin, 5-13-32 Via San Francisco |“L. Weinstock, Secretary ‘New York A, F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment »Ing surance and Relief, “199 Broadway, Room 33! “New York City “Dear Sir and Brother:— Received your communication April 7. Because of the fact that that prison regulations limit my corres- pondence, was unable to reply sooner. “Tt gives me great pleasure to learn of the struggle your organization is conducting for unemployment insur- ance and relief. “With millions of workers and their 6 of families starving at this time, during | heartily | an unprecedented crisis, I and unqualifiedly endorse your fight for relief and insurance so vitally necessary for the lives of the Ameri- can workers, Scores Green. “My attention has been recently | called to a “warning” issued by Pres- ident William Green of the Ameri-| can Federation of Labor, which is being sent to all City Central bodies, local unions of the A. F. of L., at- tacking your organization “The action of Mr. Green and the] reactionary leadership of the A. F./ of L, in this connection, is similar to their action in trying to sabotage my defense and to ham-string my De- fense Committee by ‘warning’ unions affiliated with the American Federa- tion of Labor to withhold financial support from my Committee, of which I am the director, and which has for 16 years been conducting the fight for my freedom. Green Sabotages Mooney. 4—Recognition of the United Front Committee of beet workers, “If any organization affiliated with Cal. | Compliments: the New Movement Inside the A. F. of L. | = eaoiee waited for the approval of the exec- utive council of the A, F.-of L. before | contributing to my defense, there | would be. no support forthcoming. As | proof of this fact, may I state that| | the centra] organizations of the A | F. of L. has never contributed a | single penny to my defense. Not only | | that, but the official organ of the A. F. ofL., the American Federation- | ist, has never, in 16 years, mentioned the Mooney case. In spite of the fact I was framed up because of my | activity in behalf of labor, been for 30 years a member in good and have | , going through the files of the “Amer- “Amer- ican Federationist,” ab least since | 1916 up to the present, would mever | know that such an individual as Tom Mooney existed “In view of these facts, T. readily understand the uttitude of Mr, Green and his colleagues in attack- ing your,organization. It is in line with the attempt to destroy any real militant effort of the workers on their own behalf. “So build your organization, con- solidate your ranks, and continue: |the fight against starvation, unem-. |ployment and for the right of the. workers to live like human beings. | “You must also continue the-fight for my freedom, as well as that of. all political prisoners. Fraternally yours, | standing in the International Mol- TOM MOONEY | ders Union, future labor h 3190" . ft Social fi { Convention Shows Up Shopkeepers Hunting for Votes (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) question showed only 162. Workers from shops are almost totally ab- sent. Not more than five per cent | of the delegates are young people be- Jow thirty-five, and not one Negro delegate is present. Left Demagogy This reminds one of a convention of petty shopkeepers haggling over trade. But precisely because of this use of left demagogy, the conven- tion shows the Socialist party as the! | most dangerous factor in this year's election. Morris Hillquit speech declared: in his opening the two old parties and the cruel out- worn capitalist system they stand for. This will be a war without com- to a finish.” Nothing Against Massacre last. ment of the capitalist system capitalist dictatorship. He made a radical attack on Hoover and Roose- velt, but said not a single word on the persecution and lynching of the} Negro masses, not a word on the) ithe American Federation of Labor massacre of workers in Dearborn, Political unprincipledness and wide | “We hereby declare war against) promise and carried on by our party | | But this militant beginning did not! He failed completely to follow | the war declaration with an indict- | and Chicago, Harlan, ete Hillquit made a demand for geek» er participation in the Wall government, in foreign affaite League of Nations, but said notona word about the imperialist war-and {murderous attack on the Chinese people and the impending war= om the Soviet Union Hillquiet’s keynote was character- j ized by many radical phrases against | capitalism, but refrained from deale ing clearly and definitely with the burning issues before the masses How, such as hunger, terror and war,. People For U.S.S.R. | The Sccialist inner party dispute jon the attitude towards the Sovieé | Union has been the central question, The basis for the dispute was brought |timore. In polemizing against the | diehard opponents of the Sovist. “Uns | fon, he declared: “You know what your papers bay; |I know what the people say. I have spoken at two hundred meetings im Baltimore. I have talked toctthe: people before and after these meet-- ings. They have only praise for the: Soviet Union.” ns So on this, as on all otheruques-. tions, the shop-kecpers won, eae | right, if people are for the Govier Ir Union; if we want votes, we have to be for it also—” this vee ae titude, aH eaten 5 a ae oy

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