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: Akron haye won another eviction USSR OPENS UP NEW ROAD TO LIFE FOR CRIPPLED WORKERS Moscow Technical School Trains Invalids to Be Valuable Mem! bers of Society Members of School Colony Request Letters of Information on America Dear comrades: Moscow, U.S.S.R. Students of the Moscow Technicum for invalids named after Karl Marx are writing you this letter. Our Technicum is situated in a beautiful district near Mos- cow, Vsehsviatsky village on the Leningrad road-way. It was founded in the early years of the revolution. Only disabled soldiers of the civil and imperialist wars, invalids of labor and those crippled as a result of accidents or sinc® childhood are admitted into the Technicum. sent about 800 such people are study-¢~ ing there. The aim of the Technicum is that of giving every invalid the possibil- ity of qualifying himself some spe- ialty according to his health and The Technicum is div- capabilities, ided Students of the industrial graduate as instructor in the or in the shoemaking eas in the cooperative graduate as workmen make plans (planovik), instructors and book- jaculty they charged to bookkeeping ners, There are many other technicums invelids in different parts of the USSR, where other branches of study re up, as agriculture, sootechniche the cultivation of wood. There ‘¢ taken up, such as , agriculture nical schools where wood working locksmith a number of trades can be studied. Fought in Civil War In order to give you an idea of what our Technicum gives to the in- alid, I shall write you about my~ self. I am 87 years old. At present I am studying in the second course of the cooperative faculty of the Technicum, I have a family of six— my wife and five children. Two of them will this year finish the seven- your school, one is a pupil in the third class and two children of 5 ond 7 years ure attending the kinder garden. My wife was illiterate be- fore the Revolution, but at present: she is studying in order to overcome her illiteracy. I myself, from the first day of the Revolution, joined the Red guard troops, as well as fought in the ranks of the Red Army, where I was wounded three times. Both my arms near the shoulders were broken, my right shoulder- blade was split end my right foot hot througix. As ® result, -of I am a cripple with @ lose of 50 per vent of labor capacity. Nocd find Money Ail invalids studying in 'Teehnicum and Trade technical schools are pro- vided for by the state. ‘They get clothes shoes, food, free. Also 15 roubles # month is given every stud- ent, Resides that, the families of the students get pensions. For in- stance ff the family is composed of three people and they are Uving in ® central towns, they get 140 roubles and into industrial and coopérative | At pre- a month, if in smaller town of the Soviet Union, the same family gets 110 roubles a month, while if they are living in villages, they get 75 roubles. I am of peasant’s origin, from a cossack village, Glasounowskaya, sit+ uated the Don River basin. As it is known, cossacks were under pro- tection of Tzarist’s regime and often became jacks of the working class. When the February and the October Reyolutions broke out, the majority of cossacks inhabiting the basin of the Don River stood against the Oc- tober Revolution. When the civil ‘war begun the majority of cossacks joined the troops of white guards, ed the side of Soviet Power. They {begun violent partisan’s war in which T also took part. Tt was a hard struggle for the Red partisans. But together with the working class of Russia, we were win- ning and restaurated our economy on behalf of the toiling masses of the USSR. Students of the Technicum are liv- ing in the wards, in the spacious, clear rooms, which are always kept in order and cleanliness. The stud- ents organize excursions, different kinds of circles, as political, dramatic, music, anti-religious, photo circles and so on. You see, comrades, that every in- valid of the Soviet Union has the opportunity of study. They are pre- paring not only to be skilled work- ers, but leading workmen too. Many of our comradés who had finished the technicums, trade technic schools highest institutions and highest tech- nic institutions are engaged at the present if a responsible work and perfectly perform their tasks. If I with my family would stay in the camp of capitalism, could I live under such conditions, as T dés- cribed above? Could I badly literate peasant, enter the Technicum on such conditions? Tam waiting for your reply on my question. We beg you to bind up and to maintain close contact with the students of our technicum. Our com~- plete address is the following: USSR Moscow, 57, Leningtad Road-way 65. L, Aytonomov, V. Kasachkoy, A. Sarkisov, E. Schukey. Finnish White Guards Active in Maryland (By a Worker Correspondent) BALTIMORE, Md.—While the sub- scription campaign for workers’ pub- lications was going on, @ group of militant Finnish workers from Pitts~ burgh, Pa., had gone to Weirton, W. Va., for the purpose of introducing workers’ literature to fellow wage slaves and taking subscriptions for workers’ paper. Upon arrival there the workers were met by the steel trust's police. They were subjected to three hours investigation and all their literature, valued at about $20 seized and destroyed. It was learned at the end of the in- vestigation that the stool pigeon po- lice informants were the members of a Finnish boarding house, com- posed of White Guardists and fas- cist elements. Prior to this deplorable plot, the same parasites on the workers’ flesh, had forbidden the use of a mail box of a worker who had subscribed to the Finnish daily “Eteenpain.” Notwithstanding all the damnest efforts by the enemies of class con- scious Finnish workers the Party is gaining strength day by day and in many localities where Finnish work- ers are organized. The White Guard- ists and socialist-fascists are openly ridiculed and forced to discontinue thelr dirty work. Put Back Workers Furniture (By a Worker Correspondent) AKRON, O.—Again the workers of fight—which has left the bosses stunned for the time being. A work- ex, John Mezaros, his wife and nine| children who live at 173 Milhoff (Court were to be evicted last week. The bailiffs arrived and set about at their dirty work. But the workers were mobilized 150 strong and the officers of the law were afraid to set them out even though they had a police cruiser with them to back them up. ‘The workers whom the police ought along to do the dirty work, WO Negro workers, refused to do the job. One of them said, “You didn’t tell me when you hired me that you wanted me to do such dirty work. I have a wife and children who are in want and hungry, but I refuse to do bailiffs, “Why in hell don’t you do the job yourself?” The officers finally left without setting the workers out. ‘The next day they mobilized two dozen police, the fire department and members of the bailiff's department and sneaked up to the house to evict the worker, They evicted him—that Js, s¢t the furniture in the street, lock- ed up the house and left. Meanwhile the mobilized 200 strong and set the furniture back into the house. The police were helpless in the face of the enraged workers. ‘she unemployed workers are solid behind the Unemployed Council here. They have pledged that there will be ho more evicted workers left on the streets of Akron. ‘The Unemployed Council is growing fast here, This is only one of @ dozen of successful fights against evictions. J. G VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: S$. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and from forced collec- tion ef rents or debts. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: this job.” Foe einer colored worms ad Se 4, Equal rights for the Negroes and but only little part of them support-} DAILY WORKER, NEW MF WHERE THE: SOVIET GOVERNMENT REHABILITATES INVALIDS «#1#*. YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1932 The Moscow Technical School for Invalids, To the right is a sec- tion of the building where the student invalids live. One of the authors of the letter can be seen at the blackboard in the center in the summer study garden. A student is learning the shoemaker trade at th left. | Attention, District Organizers! In view of the importance of the} {contents of No. 6 of the Com- munist International magazine in} mobilizing the struggle against | imperialist war and in view of the seizure and suppression of. this | issue by joint action of the U. S. Customs officials and the State) Department, the widest possibie | | circulation of this issue, now being | reprinted, must be secured among all Party members and revolu- tionary workers, CONTENTS The War and the Immediate Tasks of the Communist Parties, On the Question of the Revolu- tionary Way Out of the Crisis, Lessons of the English Elections. The Second International and the War in China, The Struggle against the Export of Munitions, The slogan “Answer the Wall Street-Hoover-Stimson suppression | of the Communist International Magazine by a ten-fold in cir- culation” must be realized in) practice, Immediate orders should be sent in by wire and airmail. Orders are expected not in tens but in hundreds of copies. Bundles of | twenty, 8 cents; bundles of one hundred, 7 cents; two hundred and fifty, 6 cents. Send orders to Workers Library Publishers, P. O. Box 148, Station D, New York City. Communist Vote Grows Chicago Conference e Elects 187 to the Nat’l Convention DULUTH, Minn., May 2-—Martin | | Kuusisto, Communist candidate for |the School Board, received 440 votes jout of a total of 12,000 votes cast,| — |the voting being very light:” The" Communist vote increased consider- ably in proportion to the total vote| cast since @ year ago, when the Com- | munist candidates for City Council received a highest vote of 405 out of a total of 30,000 votes cast. The 3 Farmer-Labor candidates were elected, their highest vote be- ing 5,500. This election campaign | Was carried on in the midst of the sharpest attack against the Com- munist Party and the Communist | candidate, especially by the Tocal | include 133 who are non-partisan, capitalist press, and can be consid- }and include 48 Negro workers. The ered a good success because most of | city conference also elected nine de- the workers take very litle interest | le8ates, among them four ex-service- in the school elections. Duluth will|™e2, to the State Nominating Con- have 7 delegates at Chicago. | vention, which will meet June 26 in Big Chicago Conference CHICAGO, Ill, May 23.—The Chi- cago City United Front Election Con- ference called by the Communist Party, met here yesterday with 452 delegates representing 232 working |class organizations and elected 187 delegates to the National Commun- ist Nominating Convention, The de- Minn. and Atlantic City N. J. |legates to the National Convention | « eS ¢ 217 Votes, Atlantic City | ATLANTIC OITY, N. J., May 21—| Por the first time the Communist | Party had candidates in the city el-| ections in Atlantic City held Tues- day, May 10. One of the two Com- munist candidates received 217 votes and the other received 116 votes. | Last year in the elections for Gov-| ernor, the Communist candidate re- ceived in all of Atlantic County, of which Atlantic City is part, altoge-) ther only 37 votes. Since last year| the vote increased 6 times, Youth Day Bdith Berkman, heroic young or- ganiver for the National Textile Workers Union and one of the lead- ing figures in the Lawrence strike hag issued a statement fully e ndors- ing National Youth Day as a day of struggle of the working, farming and student youth against boss war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. Writing from the hospital in which she is held prisoner, Berkman states in part: “I heartily endorse the call of the National Youth Day committee to the young workers of New England to take part in the demonstration against Imperialist war and hunger, in Lewrence, Mass. on May 28th, and 30th. “On National Youth Day the young workers must show their de- termination to resist the bosses’ pro- gram of wage-cuts, refusal to give relief to the unemployed, and their plans to throw us into another war. ‘The refusal of the city of Lawrence to issue permits for the N.Y.D. dem- onstrations must not stop our plans. It is only @ continuation of the at- tempts of the bosses to prevent us from fighting against our miserable conditions. My arrest and the fact that I am being held for deportation for leading the Lawrence workers’ fight is an outstanding example of the methods they use. “IT urge all young workers of New Edith Berkman Hails Nat’l from Hospital: r- HHO Nattbndi “Youth Day Commit. | v tee: is piitting: forth -has-succeeded | only in strengthening the determin. jation of the Lawrence workers to) carry through the parade and dem- onstration. | awe ls | | BALTIMORE, Md—The week of| | May 15th was a special mobilization week for new participants. Open! alr meetings have been held almost every day with great success, espe- cially the meeting held at 3rd and Eastern, the rallying place for many | steel workers. A number of young workers regis- tered to come to the demonstration ‘in Reading, Pa. and many more took the registration blanks and pledged to get their friends to come, These, open air meetings culminated in a/ truck rally on Friday covering three | important sections of the city with short fiying meetings and lots of| literature and stickers. On May 28th, the National Youth) Day Conference Committee will hold) |& mass send-off meeting which will| be preceded by a short torch light) march beginning at 7 p. m. from Broadway and Baltimore Sts., wind- }ing up at Tom Mooney Hall at 6 Pp. m, | branches of the Workers Decatur, Ill. The conference elected a@ United Front Communist Election | Campaign Committee of 30: ‘There were represented at the con- ference: five locals of A.F.L. unions, | 20 groups and local unions of the Trade Union Unity League unions. eight minority groups of A.F.L. un- ions, 13 branches of the League of | Struggle for Negro Rights, and three ‘Service- men’s League. Among the delegates to the con- ference were workers from the Stock- yards, Western Electric, Crane and other large shops, and among the delegates to the National Convention are large numbers of workers ..from the shops... Herbert Newton made the main re- port... Newtaqn,is a.Negro worker pro- posed by the Communist Party as | candidate, for Congress in» -District No.. 1, -against - the; Republican .Party'} Negro, representative of the capital- datse.Qscar Ao. Priest. Newton explained the main issues | of the campaign, and elaborated on the six planks in the proposed na tional platform Newhoff reported on the organiza- | tional tasks of the campaign ‘The resolutions committees report | endorsing the national election plat~ form proposed by the Communist Party, and proposing Foster and Ford as nominees for president and | vice president of U. 8. A. was sc-| cepted with enthusiasm, as was like- wise the state ticket and the reso- lution endorsing the mass session of the National Convention in the Coli- seum, at 7 p.m., May 28. During the discussion, there were reports from many shops, trade un- ions, and unemployed council bran- ches. John Williamson opened the con- ference. William Browder, McDon- ald and Bennett were elected offi- cers of the conference. Williamson, reporting for the cre- dentials committee, recommended the expulsion from the conference hall of three Trotskyite delegates on the in Duluth, asis of their activities against the| Fae Union and the Communist |Party. The conference voted over- whelmingly to eject the Trotskyites. and this was done, The whole six-hour session of the ~ | conference was full of tumultuous en- | thusiasm, which rose to a high point when Gebert called on the workers to assemble in tens of thousands to protect the National Convention. Gebert read an item from the day Daily Times which said: Defenders of America Organization, decently formed in Chicago to pro- | mote Americanism and combat Com- munism, has started a movement to prevent the Communists from hold- ing their convention in the Coliseum.” Cheering delegates pledged to mob- ilize the Chicago working class (o de- fend the National Nominating Con- "cm Page Three Tokyo Correspondent Says Japan Seeks Armed © _ Conflict with U.S. S.R. Fascist Action Aims at Speeding Drive for War Against the Soviet Union and Increased Teror Againt Japanese Toilers ied The Japanese Diet convened yes- terday in an extraordinary session. 4 chief business being taken wp & ta arrange for the appropriation of Tokyo dispatches report that the | further funds for military aettvities. * * A dispatch to the Chicago Tribune from its Tokio Bureau reports Japanese military opin« ion ‘to the effect that “the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5 was not fought to a logical conelu- sion and that a new conflict between these twe countries will be necessary to clean up the slate in this part of the world.” The dispatch makes the additional significant statem@nty “It appears that the two nations are now perilously neer an armed conflict in Manchuria. Clouds of ominous signifie- ance are gathering over the polit- ¢— ical horizon, and little is being | the real fasci st che done to relieve the tense situation.” | one] governmen | On the same page that this dis-| Saito’s appointment has beer isil- patch is printed, the Chicago paper|ed by the Japanese financiers, That carries a dispatch reporting the evic-/ the fascist dictatorship will proceed, tion from their homes of hundreds | to inflate the currency and push of Soviet citizens in Harbin by Jap.| burden of the crisis heavier onte anese troops who are pouring into| shoulders of the masses, while en: the city and are seizing all available} gaging in demagogic phrases about buildings for barracks. “relief to the farmers” is shown in The Japanese militarists and so-| the follow tement by Bares cialists pushed through their drive| | Seinosuke Go, president of the Tokya for a fascist government yesterday. | Chamber of Commerce and Industryt |The Japanese Emperor appointed “The Cabinet's most important Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito to; tasks are control of foreign ex- head a “national government.” Saito| change, moderate inflation, an@ re- cter of the “nae 3 was formerly Governor-General of! lief of farmers.” conquered Korea, He is advertised! 41) dispatches from Tokyo admit as a “liberal.” His appointment, in} : Pe crags ihe catastrophic nature of the eap-' pre ee Ha a vied stil fas- | itauist crisis in Japan and growing cist leaders, is intended to deceive ar junrest among the destitute, starvine vention. masses, A Times dispatch states: Japanese masses and the world as to} 13,000 BEET STRIKERS NOW; >: | COMPANY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE “ONE et quit work. In addilion, mass evictions are tak- ing place, with tents most urgently needed and none arriving yet. . Many evictions ware: scheduled for today. There is desperate need for food and mone Send tents, food and funds as quickly as possible to United Front \Relief Committee;-2736 Lawrence St., Denver, Colo. “This: week. is decistve. “With: the strike 100 per cent ‘solid | in the southern counties, United Front | Strike Committee organizers Sancher | pend: Charles Guynm déave today> for several «days of mass meetings *and organization. work in the northern field to consolidate the united front there. Strike Organization The Central’ Strike Committee 1s composed of three representatives from each local strike committee. | The Central Strike Committee, even before its meeting yesterday in Denver, issued instructions on organ- ization of the strike to all organi- \zers, and all local strike meetings, groups and committees. Spanish and English circular letters were sent | which state: Local Strike Committees “1, Strike Committees must be jelected from every group of workers that are on strike and this strike committee must hold daily meetings and direct the strike in their territory. ‘This committee must assign squads of pickets to spread the word of strike and inform all those still working on the ranches. “2. In case any strikers are ar- rested each one must demand a jury trial and refuse to be tried in a jus- tice of the peace court. If any ar- rests take place telegraph to the Cen- 1 | \ “We must do the following at once: | ORDERS SHOOTING: tral Strike Committee at once. ! “3. Immediately take a registra- tion of the number on strike in your | territory and inform the Central | Committee ,at once. The relief com- | mittees must immediately organize | squads of relief collectors and send | them to the towns, villages and farms | collecting food which shall be distrib- | uted by the strike committee of each | section. | “4, Local and regional strike and | relief committees must arrange to| take care of as many evicted strikers | +a8 possible, by placing as many with wher families as can be done: “5. We must establish sectional and regional strike headquarters for | the different regions. ‘This must be done so that the local strike and re- lief committees can meet with other committees in their section and work jointly for the success of the strike. | These regional headquarters must be established in the following places: “(a) In Greeley —This headquarters will take in Orchard, Basto, Ault, La- salle, Gilcrest and Greeley. ‘The know that the office in Greeley is the sectional headquarters and all in- |formation and leadership can be |found there, and not have to come | to Denver. “(b) In Fort Collins. —This will take lin Longmont, Johnstown, Fort Col- jlins and a number of other towns in | this region. | “(c) Fort Lupton.—To include Fred- jerick, Ft. Lupton, Brighton, Hudson, Puritan, Johnstown. “(d) Fort Morgan.—To include Brush, Fort Morgan, Sterling, and all towns along that line. j “(e) Pueblo—To include Pueblo, Salt Creek, Avondale, etc. “(f) La Junta—To include Rocky committees of these places will then) “Since the economic causes of Japanese unrest are part of the world depression, responsible people know that isolated recovery cammot be expected, but they welcome Vis~ count Saito as an experienced ané broad-minded statesman who wif be likely to steer a steady comnee in heavy weather Districts! Sections! Rush Orders for War Issue! Out Saturday, May 28th! The special war issue of thé Daily Worker, containing an 3- page supplement will be dated Saturday, May 28th, approaching the breaking point. The fascist JJapanese government—the speate head of world imperialist polley, in determined to carry ont the program of aggression and war om the Soviet Union. Soviet citizens in Harbin are being continually terrorized, arrested and beaten f© a deliberate attempt on the part of the Japanese militarists to pre- yoke the Soviet Union into a stats of war, All Districts, sections, units, mass organizations, sympathetic individuals should immediately send in their orders for this issue at the rate of one cent a copy, payable in advance, Né@ orders will be filled unless paid for tr advance. The issue goes to press Friday night; therefore all orders must be received in this office by Friday noon. Ford, Manzanola, Swink, Oheraw, Las Animas, Wiley, etc. “(g) Trinidad—To include all of the Trinidad, Walsenburg district. “The strike committees in the sece tional headquarters cities must af once find a suitable house, room or building for this headquarters at once and without delay.” d LOS ANGELES, Cal.The United | Front National Youth Day Commit- tees in Los Angeles has made final | ‘| repeated the England to make National Youth | arrangements for the National Youth | Dey in Lawrence a mighty answer to | | Day Demonstration to be held in| the bosses’ attack on militant work-| | San Diego, May 30th. Young .work- ers. jere fromthe following ‘cities in So. “On to Lawrence National ae nome are expected to turn ou! | Day! Bakersfield, Sen Pedro, San Bern- “Continue the fight against hunger ardino, Santa Monica, Long Beach, and war! Pasadena, Compton, Los Angeles “Demand my release and the re- lease of all other political prisoners!; The demonstration will start with | (Signed) EDITH BERKMAN. (an open air meeting, to be followed ‘The revocation of the permit for, by a parade through the main sec- the demonstration by Mayor White|tion of San Diego. The largest of Lawrence on the ground that the stadium in San Diego has been se- six remaining Civil War veterans | cured for the Counter-Olympic. meet must not be disturbed by such mili-/ which will be held in Ses+Diegs on tant demands as the ones the United May 29th... > - Thomas’ Nomination Speech Slanders the Soviet Union MILWAUKEE, May 23.—The Rev. Norman Thomas is again the social- ist party candidate for president and James H. Maurer of Pennsylvania is again candidate for vice-president. Nominations were made yesterday by the convention of the socialist party held here. In an acceptance speech Thomas customary socialist party slanders of the Soviet Union as @ means of aiding in the imperial- ist plots for war and intervention. Among other things, he said: “We are not Communists preaching a ruthless doctrine of inevitable blood- shed and dictatorship.” He said he hoped the “people of this country ‘would be able to solve their without resort to the Goviet, Russie.” sae SA fines Rosepn-s. Pact and San Diego. To further sow pacifish illusions the socialist party nominee for: presi- | dent depicted Hoover ‘as a pacifist and said: “In an impotent sort of way he desires peace.” ‘Thomas never said one word about | the fierce ravaging of China by Japanese imperialism and the drive of the great imperialist powers for war and intervention against the Soviet Union. While helping the war mongers by slandering the Soviet Union and the Communist Party as exponents of bloodshed, Thomas was careful to refrain from commenting *uyon the ; alliance between the leaders of the | socialist-controlled unions of the needle trades in New York and the gangsters and Tammany police who _ Brander. of What Our Readers Say on the Election Campaign Vants to Stress Reyo- lutionary Nature of Party Dear Comrades: . ‘The election platform of the Com- munist Party does not, to my mind, sufficiently describe it as a revolu- tionary party.. The platform does. not contain. “single proposal that the prepublican or democrat or sovialist parties would not be willing to insert —— |in their platform—with the sole ex~ cepton of the clause calling for the defense of the USSR. Of course, these ‘bourgeois parties would not actually keep their promises. They wouldn't. But the point it: the masses of the workers believe they could and would! ‘To a. worker. who is not familiar with the activities of the Communist |Party, and is ignorant of its prin- ciples, the Communist platform, for unemployment insurance, for farm relief, for equality of the Negro, against the wage cuts and against italist. terror, does not IMMED- IATELY disclose itself as a workers’ party, as.a revolutionary party. The worker does not look for the fine Gistinction between these demands as advanced by the Communists and as advanced by the socialists and bour- geois parties. -Thig-eripicigm: doas not spring from the sophisticad argument that immed- | fate demands are imcompatable with ® revolutionary program—that the two are sntagonisti¢, But the pro- ally. letters, All readers of the Daily Worker are invited to write their opinions and suggestions about the Communist Party Election Campaign Plat- form published in the issue of April 28, and about the campaign gener- Articles will be written by comrades of the Central Committee an- swering, summarizing and making use of the suggestions received in the parties without endangering them- selves—without radicalizing the work- ers thereby—without advancing the proletarian revolution! The Commu- nist platform should include proposals thay the other parties would-not dare adopt. When the worker reads the Communist Party platform he should immediately see the difference be- tween the Communist Party and any other Party, One proposal that would immed- ifately kindle the revolutionary spirit of the worker and at the same time express a reasonable immediate de- mand is: The immediate opening up of every idle factory, mill and mine and the cultivation of all idle lands, under the management of workers’ councils; the products shall be distributed among the workers. Such @ demand would leave the | bourgeois parties (including the S.P.) terror stricken. They would not dare offer the same thing. They could only denounce it and thus expose them- selves, Comradely aie SPITZER. | VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 5, Against capitalist terror; against Some Tactics to Pre- vent Stealing Com- munist Vote Chicago, Ill. Daily Worker: I certainly am able to give a little advice on election work. I have been a judge of election in Chicago and know a little bit about the crooked- ness and almost impossibility of a minority party getting anywhere un- der present conditions, Most of the petitions for placing the names of Communist candidates are thrown out in Chicago because those who signed the petitions voted for some other party at the previous primary. Some of the signers may have voted. Most of them, most like- ly were voted by the judges and clerks who just before the polls close write in the names of all those who have not voted yet and cast ballots for them. ‘The only way to stop that is to appear early at the voting place on primary day and tell the judges in as important a voice as possible, “My name is so-and-so, I do not intend to vote at this primary. If I find that my name has been voted, T in- tend to hold this board of election posals in the Communist platform) ll forms of suppression of the | official. strictly accountable.” fa be, the DOUtORD FARR Of WOKE a Tell. the-same. story. to the preetnet | captains I am positive that it will work. Of course it will take a littls nerve to do this in front of # lot of People, but it does not take as tgeky) nerve as it did for those men whe) stood up before a machine gem elt) in Melrose Park. Both sorts of fight ing are just as important. The te son I believe it will work is the personally, as one of the judges would never permit the voting of that name j.after that warning. The same tactics should be eme ployed in voting. Tell one of the judges quietly that you intend to have your vote counted as cast. Tell him that you know almost exactly how many votes are to be cast for the candidate for whom you are voting and that you and the others are ore ganized to back up your votes. Tell him that if your votes are counted out, someone is going to get stuck in the “can.” Maybe it is all a bluff, but many a bluff has gone over. If |that story is repeated a dozen times to the same judge, he will begin to believe it and you may get some vee sults, As for watchers, you know plenty, about them. Any watcher for the Party who drinks ought to be kielsd, out of the Party. I have seen several minority watchers doped up with # drink and then the count has gone forward merrily. | I trust that this letter may Be of some help to the Party in its cam- paign in Chicago. I realize this is not a very valuable lotter but every little bit helps. Sorry I cannot sign my names, Aveo | T want to keep on the electicgn ' where maybe I can be of sage 4 ba 4

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