The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1932, Page 1

In the Day’s News GREEN CONTINUES BETRAYALS NEW YORK.—Continuing the po- licy of the American Federation of Labor misleaders of betraying the interests of the workers by support- ing capitalist candidates, William Green, President of the A. F. of L.,| has issued a statement urging the re-election of Senator Wagner of New York, one of Tammany’s favorites. FAMILY OF NINE ILL OF DEADLY FUNGUS NEW YORK.—Concetta Pagello, cight-years-old daughter of Louis | Pagello, Italian worker of 30 That- | ford Ave., Brooklyn, is deag and nine other members of his family are se- viously ill of poisoning as a result of eating fungus plant which they. thought were mushrooms. Members of the family picked the fungus in Islip L. I., in an effort to save money on food, 6, Pee INSULL STILL FREE ATHENS, Greece, Oct., 16.—Sam- | uel Insull, Chicago millionaire whose high-powered swindling caused_ the sensational crash of his $2,000,000,000 public utilities trust, continues to take potshots at the American authorities. He has refused to give up his pass- port and defies any efforts to obtain his return for trial. The American authorities, who let him slip away, | are not over-eager to secure his re- | turn, o 8 +e DE VALERA IN NEW DEMOGOGY MOVE LONDON, Oct., 16.—In a new move to fool the Irish masses, Eamon De Valera, President of the Irish Free State, today caused rumors to be circulated that he intends to break all ties with the British Empire and establish an Irish Republic. The rumors became current following the breakdown of negotiations here on the question of the annual payments which Britaini extorts form the Irish | masses. De Valera’s entire past re- cord of compromise with British im- perialism makes it certain that, what- ever gestures he may make, he will never fight for the complete inde- | pendence of Ireland. = | LITVINOFF DEMANDS SHOW DOWN MOSCOW, Oct., 16.—Maxim Litvin- | off, Soviet Commissar for Foreign ffairs, last night demanded a show- down from the Rumanian represent- atives who are negotiating for a So- viet-Rumanian non-aggression pact. Hinting that while Rumania was talk- ing peace, it was actively preparing for war, Litvinoff questioned the sin- cerity of the Rumanian government, which is member of the anti-Soviet border bloc formed by French im- perialism, RENEGADE HELPS COPS SMASH MEET Arrest Hathaway and Four Others in Tampa TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 16—The Com- munis, Election Campaign meeting here Friday night was broken up by police with the aid of a newly dis- covered labor traitor, Jose Borbolla, president of the local Labor Temple association. C, A. Hathaway, taking Foster's place on his tour through the South because of Foster's illness, was ar- rested along with four other work- ers, including Macho Lima, a local workers’ leader. All were released later. Thousands of workers here are in- tensely indignant at the breaking up of the meeting, and at Borbolla’s treachery. They pledge to expel him from the presidency of the Labor Temple this week. Hathaway was prepared at this meeting to call on workers of Florida to organize protests against the rul- ing of the Communist Party off the ballot, on the Florida law limiting the ballot to parties which have already in the previous election obtained 30 per cent of the total vote. WORKERS BACK RED NOMINEE ‘Attack On Juan ‘Aviles Prooves Boomerang Although viciously attacked by blackshirted Porto Rican fascists at @ meeting held recently’in Harlem, Juan Aviles, Communist candidate in the 17th Assembly District, is con- tinuing his active campaign among Spanish-speaking people in upper New York City. ‘The methods of terror used by the Porto Rican reactionaries in or- der to break up Communist meetings have aroused Spanish - speaking workers in the Harlem section to greater militancy and to greater in- terest {2 the Communist program, Aviles reports. The demands of the Communist Party which have found special fa- vor with the Porto Rican workers are: “Complete national independence of Porto Rico on the basis that Por- to Rican workers will be free to es- tablish their own government.” “Unemployment and social tnsur- ance at the exnense of the employ- ers and the state.” “Free food and clothing for un- employed workers’ children. and free hot lunches for school children.” The program of the Porto Rican lack shirts calls for an “indepen- dent” Porto Rico, with a govern- ment, however. composed of Porto Rican capitalists instead of Ameri- can. In practice they collaborate with American imperialism to stiffle the indenendence movement, That the so-called desire of the Porto Rican nationalists in Harlem to help Porto Rican workers is a fake was amply proved when they refused to unite with the rank and file of Porto Rican workers in a de- mand that all workers’ homes de- stroyed in the recent hurricane in VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: {, Unemployment and Social Insurance . at the expense of the state and em- ployers. %. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 3, Emergency relief for the poor farm- ers without restrictions by the govern. ment and banks; exemption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced Dail Central Orga collection of rent or debts ‘(Section of the Communist is ah Vol. IX, No. 248 EBB 2 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Oftice at the Act of Mareh 3, 1879. New York, N.Y., and onstrate in jail. workers were arrested, but only after a struggle in which the demonstrat- ing workers, aided by others living in the two neighborhoods, defended themselves militantly. Among those arrested was Eleanor Henderson, who had originally been jailed together with Brown, and after serving ten days, was joining in the demonstration for his release. Answer Tammany Atlacks. The demonstration was a smash- ing answer to the Tammany attacks on the struggles of the 1,500,000 New York unemployed and to the persecu- tion of the Negro workers. About 1,000 workers, carrying placards de- manding the release of Brown, as well as of. the Scottsboro boys, gathered outside the house at 225 E. 12th St., where Magistrate Aurelia has been living with his mother and brother. When a committee of six entered the house to demand the re- lease of Brown, Aurelio’s brother cal- led the police and soon a gang of ‘Tammany huskies, who had evident- ly been waiting in readiness, sped up and began beating men, women and children. One worker’s head was split open and blood began streaming down his face and body. Re-Form Ranks. Undaunted and shouting slogans such as “We demand the release of Sam Brown” and “Free Tom Moo- ney and the Scottsboro boys”, the workers reformed their ranks and marched to the new home of. Mag- istrate Aurelio at 166 Second Ave, Here an even bigger demonstration took"place, with more than 3,000 par- ticipating. Again the police, rein- forced by detectives, 10 radio cars, attacked, and again they met the de- termined resistance of the workers, several cops getting hurt. Workers were’ dragged over pavements, punched in the face, stamped upon, and one dick pulled out his gun and threatened to shoot. Twenty-two were herded into patrol wagons and rushed away, but hundreds contin- ued to march up and down Second Ave:, singing the International and other revolutionary songs. Later they went to Union Sq. and joined the demonstration there for the de- fense of Samuel Weinstein, militant furniture worker who has been framed up on a murder charge. ‘The workers carried their struggle into the courtroom when the 22 who were arrested were arraigned in the Night Court at 314 W. 54th St. be- fore Magistrate Aurelio himself. Aurelio, who had hidden away dur- ing the demonstration, now struck a bold pose behind his protection of cops and dicks. About 500 workers, all who could get in, jammed the courtroom when the hearings opened at 9:30 pm., with Joseph Tauber, Elias M. Schwartzbart and Max Krauthamer, representing the New York. District of the International Labor Defense, defending the work- ers, Postpones Trial Tauber demanded an trial, but fearing the wrath of the workers, Aurelio postponed it till this morning when the arrested demon- strators will appear in Essex Mar- ket Court before another magistrate. When Tauber asked that the de- fendants be released in hi§ custody, Aurelio again refused. “These peo- ple . are “not criminals,” declared Tauber. “They are being charged with a disturbance which the police are responsible for.” A storm of ap plause burst from the workers pres- ent, including many who had been in the courtroom previously and had had no connection with the demon- stration. Aurelio hurriedly sum- moned cops and detectives and threw the demonstrators out of the court- room. Tauber protested strenuously, declaring that many defense wit- nesses had been ejected, but the mag- istrate overruled him. He then set bail of $100 each for 21 of the work- ers, Who were charged with dis- orderly conduct, and $400 for Herbert coma charged with felonious as- sault. The Pen and Hammer, a militant organization of scientists and profes- sional workers, sent a telegram to Acting Mayor McKee vigorously pro- testing the brutal police assault. Porto Rico be rebuilt at the expense of the insular and the U. S. Goy- ernment, Porto Rican workers, show your solidarity against the Porto Rican and American bosses and the Porto Rican black shirts who betray you, by voting for Juan Aviles and the aaa Communist: ticket on Novem- y | immediate TAMMANY COPS ATTACK BIG DEMONSTRATION FOR SAM BROWN; ARREST 22 Thousands Fight Back, ° Negro Unemployed Leader Protesting Jailing of Re-Arrest Eleanor Henderson; Workers Dem: Courtroom Swinging fists, clubs and blackjacks, police Saturday afternoon at- | tacked with characteristic Tammany ferocity a stirring demonstration of several thousand workers held before the home of Magistrate Thomas A. Aurelio as a protest against his recent sentencing of Sam Brown, Negro worker, active in the unemployed struggles in Harlem, to six months in Scores were injured and 22¢ Big Grafters Get Away Sam Insull and his son, dashing to a taxicab in Paris, They are wanted in connection with swind- ling of small stockholders out of millions in the bankruptcy of the Insull power trust in the middle west.| Insyll went to Greece where he is safé from extradition. The Insulls also forced hundreds of thousands of employees and con- sumers of their gas and electricity to buy their worthless stock. TO HOLD 3 BROWN PROTEST MEETS Patterson ~ Speaks at Rally Tonight William L. Patterson, national sec- retary of the International Labor De- fense and Communist candidate for mayor of New York, will be the chief speaker at a mass meeting tonight, at 8 p.m., to demand the release of Sam Brown and protest against the police attack on the-Sam Brown de- monstration Saturday. Brown, milit- ant Negro worker, has been sentenc- ed to six months in jail for his act-j ive role in the struggles of the unem-| Of Commerce. This idea was rejected ployed workers of Harlem, The meet- ing tonight will be held at Ambas- sador Hall, 3875 Third Ave. On Wednesday, Oct., 19,.at 8 p.m., I. Amter, Communist candidate for governor, and Richard B. Moore, out- standing leader of the struggles of the Negro people, will speak at a meeting at Dunbar Center, 605 Her- kimer St., Brooklyn, called by the Sam Brown Provisional Committee. Patterson and Moore will also speak at a Sam Brown protest meeting on Monday, Oct. 24, at8 pm., at the VOTE COMMUNIST «Worker 3 Raunict Porty U.S.A... FOR: Equal rights for determination for the the Negroes and self- Black Belt, Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the poliitcal rights of workers. Against imperialist war; for the de- fense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, EW YORK. MONDAY, OCTOBER, 17, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents To Increase Local Jobless Struggles NEW YORK.—One hundred and fifty active leaders in the unem- ployed movement from various or- ganizations met yesterday afternoon at 35 E. 12th St. and accepted unan- imously the report of the National Committee meeting of the Unem- ployed Councils and also endorsed the manifesto calling for struggle for winter. relief. In connection with this the dele- gates endorsed the provisional com- mittee for winter relief formed last week by the Unemployed Councils with co-operation of the A. F. of L, Committee for Unemployment In- surance and several other labor bodies. The meeting also endorsed the National Hunger March to Washington to demand $50 Federal relief in addition to loeal relief. It was decided to increase the lo- cal struggles in all neighborhoods for immediate relief and in the course of these fights to form new commit- tees of the unemployed and councils and to strengthen the movement for the National Hunger March. All of the delegates pledged to se- cure support for the local united front conference called by the pro- visional committee for winter relief, Sunday, October 30, at the New Star Casino, 107 Park Ave. Each organization pledged to bring into the unemployment struggle one more organization not yet actively conr.:!ted with the movement. Dele- gates from the shops will also at- tend the conference. The conference October 30 will lay the basis for a militant mass struggle for immediate cash relief for all unemployed work- ers in the city of New York and vi- cinity, for a fight against evictions, against the job sharing plan of Mc- Kee and Hoover which is designed to throw the burden of the crisis fur- ther on the backs of the workers, VOTE STRIKE IN N. J. DOLL SHOP Worke rs at Regal Shop Out Today TRENTON; N. J., Oct., 16—Workers of the Regal Doll factory in a meet- ing held here this afteroon under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League voted unanimously to strike Monday morning for a 30 per cent increase in wages. In spite of the rain the hall was crowded with workers representing all the key departments of the factory. Two representatives of the American Federation of Labor, Cannon and Farula, the latter president of the Doll Workers Union, were not allowed | into the hall by the workers who re- fused to accept their leadership. The local press issued a statement that the boss was willing to leave the matter of settling the strike to the Mayors Committee and the Chamber by the workers, Besides a 30 per cent Increase in wages, the workers are demanding the 50 hour work week, time and a half for overtime, no forced overtime, one hour for lunch, sanitary conditions and recongnition of the shop commit- tee. The meeting voted unanimously to form a Doll Workers Industrial Union. The strike meeting was addressed by Rebecca Grecht, John Stuben of the ‘Trade Union Unity League and U. Pynne, a young worker and Frank Garlson. The Regal-shop fs one of the larg- Harlem Lido Ballroom, 160 W. 146th| est doll factories in the country. The Street. strike will involve over 800 workers. tional Li beration eration Struggle PRINTERS CALL FORREFERENDUM. Reject Plea of Howard | and Cassidy for Cut Over 3,000 members, of local ‘Big Six” Typographical Union heard a report of the negotiations of the leaders with the bosses on the book and job wage scale. Mr. Howard, | president of the International Union, presented the proposal of the em~ ployers for a 17 per cent wage cut, a modification of the priority rule, and concession to the foremen on) hiring and-firing. ‘The bosses’ pro- | posals also contained a scheme to put all men to work at a rate 65 per cent} below the scale, Mr. Hewson, local president, tried to pose as being against these pro- posals. This was a political trick to) get the support of the member's and | to put the entire blame on Howard} and his committee. This was shown when in the discussion Hewson gave the floor to everyone favoring the sell- out, but refused to recognize the militants, members of the Amalga- mation Party, who were opposed to the sell-out. In spite of these maneuvers, rank | and file members showed definite op- position to all proposals, and voted that all proposals go to a referendum, which will take place Wednesday. Socialist Backs Pay Cuts Ed Cassidy, Socialist candidate for Congress, made a characteristic speech in favor of the employers, shedding copious tears at their plight. members to accept the wage cut and submit to all proposals made by the employers. The Amalgamation Party has is- sued a call for united action against the manuevers of Howrad and Hew- son and Cassidy to cut wages and destroy union shop conditions, and has urged members to vote against the proposals brought in by Howard, an dto insist through militant action on a shorter working day without a wage reduction. LL.G.W.U. Machine Backs Bluestein NEW YORK.—At a meeting of Local 22 of the LL.G.W.U. held last Wednesday in Bryant Hall, the question whether or not Bluestein, the manager of the local, should re- main in office, was taken up. Many honest dressmakers were not permitted to enter the meeting fall, because they were known to be fight- ers for the rights of the workers, left wingers. However, many of the local henchmen were allowed to enter with- out even showing union books, In this way the burocrats were able to railroad thru a yote for Bluestein to remain in office, by a majority of 26, He. attacked the militants, and urged | U. ELD. Lawyers. ‘Expose Left to right are W. Chamlee, fore the U. Scoti:dore, Alabama, by the bosses. calls Mass Fight for Court Has Killed All Limiting Child Labor, | Scottsboro appeal argued last Monday | Labor Defense. as to the “impartial” character of the S. Supreme Court, which they at- tempt to depict as above the bitter struggles now raging between the ex- ploited masses and the capitalist op- pressors. By spreading such illusions, our enemies seek to‘disarm the vigilance of the millions of white and Negro workers whose angry protests ¢ the Scottsboro lynch verdicts, against the bitter national oppression of the Negro people, have thundered from one end of the world to the other. Record of Supreme Court. It is therefore imperative to exa-| mine the record of the U, S. Supreme Court. That record, from hie incep- | tion of the court to the present day is a record of vicious attacks rights of the toiling masses, especially on the rights of the Ne- gro masses. In 1856, the U. S. Supreme Court upheld the brutal institut ion of chat- tel slavery by its infamous Dred Scott | decision. By persistent support of the South- ern landowners in its “interpreta- tions” of the 14th Amendment, the Supreme Court has practically nulli- fied that amendment and delivered the Negro masses of the “Black Be of the South into a new brutal slav- ery. . A few months ago, when it was out of 400 present. forced to decide against the crudely BROWDER, COMMUNIST. LEADER, GREETS THE VICTORIOUS NEEDLE TRADES UNION NEW YORK.—Hundreds of del- egates to the national convention of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union cheered Earl Browder, greet- ing them in the name of the Com- munist Party yesterday. Browder hailed the N. T. W. I. as having demonstrated in actual fact, in hundreds of shop strikes and in the great victory of the fur work- ers in New York, that strikes can be won, wage cuts stopped and wages and conditions improved in the very heart of the crisis, He contrasted this record of the N. W. I..U. with the treacherous ad- vise of Matthew Woll to the Inter- national Ladies Garment convention last May, when Woll said: “Leave aside the thought of collective ad- vancement in these trying times.” Hillquit Supports Woll Browder quoted again from the speeches of the I. L. G. W. conven- tion, Morris Hillquit, chairman of the national committee of the Socialist Party, who said: “I accept practically all of the policies outlined by my good friend, Mr; Paden ‘They are good.” Catch Basin” Browder pe: that the Socialist Party is the party of Kauffman, Ninfo, and Dubinsky, arch traitors to the New York needle workers. He called attention to the tactics of the needle trades employers in this elec- tion. They know that there is little hope of getting support of the needle workers for. the openly reactionary, Shows Causes of Crisis, Reveals How Socialists Aid Wage Cut Drive wage cutting, aus program of the Republicans and Democrats. So they push forward the Socialist Party as a “catch basin” to hold safe for capitalism those masses who are in revolt against the misery and vU.| starvation represened by the other two parties. Browder then showed how, behind the phrases about “socialism” Hill- quit, Bect attorney for the cap- italists wi used to own the Baku oil fields, and pleads with the U. S, cap- italist court to seize the oil from those fields as “wrongly stolen” by the workers of Russia from their ex- ploiters. Thomas’ “Block Aid” He showed how Socialist leaders, including their presidential candidate Norman Thomas approved the block aid swindle, how they lay the basis for more wage cuts through “bal- ancing of the budget,” and by “con- trolled inflation” of the currency. Thomas told Secretary of War Hurley that he “would probably be for” the next war, And by many instances, the A. F. L. New York State Federation of Labor Convention, etc. Browder showed there exists a working agreement be- tween the Socialist leaders, and the Tammany and Republican , leaders, for wage cuts and starvation. Communist Program Against Socialist phrases and treachery, against Socialist talk about placed the program of the Commu~ nist Party, the revolutionary way out of the crisis. He said: “In the United States it is much more simple than it was in the Soviet Union. There the workers had to seize power first, and afterwards create the technical basis for social- ism,” whereas here, the industries are already developed. All that is lacking is Soviet Power.” He said: Road to Power “The road to such a revolutionary government, lies along the road of militant class struggle for the daily needs of the workers. It lies in building powerful fighting trade unions, which will prevent the cap- italist wage cuts, speed-up, and leng- thening of hours in the factories. It lies in the building of a powerful movement of employed and unem- ployed workers, united in unemploy- ment councils, to fight for and win adequate unemployment relief and insurance. It lies through supporting the war veterans in their struggle for back-pay, for the bonus. It lies through allying with the bankrupt farmers, in the fight for posession of their farms, against mortgage and tax forecloosures, and for national government relief. “It lies through the close unity of the foreign-born with the native- born workers, and especially of the Negro with the white workers, in the struggle for full equality, and for self-determination of the Black Belt. It lies in the struggle against the terror of the capitalists, and for workers rights, for the liberation of all political prisoners. It lies through mass actions and mass organizations, through hunger marches and dem- onstrations, through building up from below a new power, the power of the working-class and the exploited massse It li2s through strike struggles, and struggles of all kinds in the shops and factories, turning them into strongholds of the workers, pre- paring for the explusion of the para~ site bosses. It lies in the develop- ment of struggles in every neighbor- hood and shop, in every town and city, and the unification of these local struggles in great national ac- tions, It lies through the the mass bonus march of the veterans to Washington at the opening of Con- gress, “It lies through the Farmers Na- tional Relief Conference, which is bringing hundreds of farmers’ del- egates to Washington, to stand out against the Congress of the rich for a real program of relief. It lies through the hunger march of the delegates for the Unemployed Coun- cils and the Trade Unions, which will go to Washington on Dec. 5, to con- stitute the Workers’ Congress against the Congress Hoover-Roosevelt-Tho- mas and Wall Street. “Tt lies through the building of a mass Communist Party, and the rolling up of the biggest possible Communist vote in the @lections on November 8th.” wy, The enemies of the Scottsboro boys, entire working-class are busily spreadi Scottsboro Frame- Up of Ceksiainepe ee Joseph Brodsky and Allan Taub of New York, who appeared on October 10 be- S. Supreme Court to present the argument for new trials for the nine innocent Negro children railroaded to death sentences in The International Labor Defense increased protest demonstrations to free the children. SUPREME COURT HAS LONG ANTI-LABOR, ANTI-NEGRO RECORD | employers, | British troops is one of Workers Must Have No Illusions in “Fairness” of Boss Court But Must Vigorously Push Scottsboro Boys Legislation Aimed at Pronounced “Tilegal” The United States Supreme Court has yet to render its decision on the by the attorneys for the International of the Negro people and of the g illusions within the working class formulated Texas law disfranchising Negroes, the Supreme Court carefully pointed out to the Texas bosses the loopholes in the law it decided against ‘and openly showed how such a law |could be put over “legally”. The ad- | vice was immediately carried out by the Texas ruling class. Guardian of Wall Street. The U. S. Supreme Court has been [ant guardian of Wall Street against all is legislation forced through the te legislatures under pressure of blic indignation and aimed at lim- jiting child labor, taxing wealth and giving some small measure of pro- tection to labor. It pronounced as | unconstitutional the 1906 Act by con- ress limiting child exploitation. It again overruled similar legislation \passed by Congress in 1919 under pre: re of mass indignation. For 18 |years it opposed the income tax act, lbecause it made a small levy on wealth, while at the same time op- posing all efforts to limit the huge | profits of the utilities and other cor- |porations, It scraped the Oregon minimum wage law of 1914, as well as similar laws passed later in Mas- |sachusetts, Minnesota, Arkansas and Washington, and in the District of Columbia. The capitalist legislators of those states could well afford to indulge in sham gestures of “protect- ing” the interests of the working class, confident in the knowledge that such legislature would never get by the U. S. Supreme Court. illegal an Arizona law forbidding the use of injunctions against workers on strike for better conditions. It threw out a New Jersey law control- |ling the fees of employment. agencies. The same court refused to inter- vene to stop the legal murder of Sac- co and Vanzetti by the Massachusetts bosses and their state machinery. Beginning tomorrow, the Daily Worker will deal with the personal records and social background of the nine old men who at present com- pose the United States Supreme Court,—a court notorious for its an- ti-working-class, anti-Negro record as shown by the above brief excerpts from that record. The conclusion for every worker must be that only thru |intensifying the mass protest can the |Scottsboro boys win their freedom, TOM MANN HAS BEEN DEPORTED North Ireland Rulers Place Him On Ship BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Oct., | 16.—Tom Mann, veteran leader of the British workers, ever since the “New Union” movement last centuty, or- ganizer of the dock workers, leader of the British Minority movement, similar to the Trade Union Unity League in America, active Commun. ist, was deported by ship from Belfast Friday. Tom Mann acted as honor- ary pall bearer in the gigantic mass funeral for Baxter, shot by Belfast police quring the relief demonstration by 10,000 jobless and workers last week 7 The Supreme Court also declared | The Workers of U.S. Must Support Battle of I rish Masses for Better Wages, Relief and N | | | didate | against starvation | wages | battles | liberation “U.S. Bosses for Imperialist Gains at Expense of Irish Masses,” Foster Labor Party of Great Britain, Colleagues of Norman Thomas, Betray Irish National Lib- “DEMAND TROOPS BE WITHDRAWN Protest M urder Jobless Fighters William Z. Foster, presi of the Commi under doctor’s care with attack of angina pectori: ¢ or ntial can- Party the following statement to the pr determined in connection with the struggle of the Belfast workers and un- employment relief and their heroic with the armed forces of British imperial- ism mobilized to crush their re- sistance. “The advent of W. Z. FOSTER thousands of unemployed and em- ployed workers in the North of land into sharp class battles with ¢ the Ulster police e most portant developments of the and the rise of the class struge throughout the world. In America only the Communist Barty © ganizes support for the revoluti struggles of the Irish masses.” “The unbearable conditions of the workers and peasants in both the North and South afford the sharpest contrast between the constantly im- proving conditions and the rising s cial and cultural level of the pressed nationalities freed by Russian revolution and now ec ing side by side with the R working-class to Socialist soci “Mass unemployment in Ireland in sharp contrast with the abolition of unemployment in the Soviet Union.” “The millions of workers of I birth and descent in the Uni States must be organized for support of the battle of the Irish masses for better wages and working condition, and for national liberation.” “The Wall Street rulers of America are no friends of the Irish work and peasants. They try to use tb heroic struggles of the Irish work and peasants to further their own imperialist interests at the expense of the Irish masses, the British workin class and American workers. Labor Party of Great Britain and i leaders like Henderson, the colleagu®: of Norman Thomas, are the bittere’ foes of Irish liberation as they are of liberation of the masses in India.” “The mobilization of Irish Amer- ican workers for support of the lid- eration struggle in Ireland will be carried out successfully only if it part of the fight against the program of hunger, war of America imperialism. The attempts now b made by American capitalism and i agents in the ranks of the workii class to make the issue of Irish eration one of support for its sharp- ening conflicts with Great Brite and for attacks on the Soviet Unioi its special appeals through its han- gers-on of the professional Irishman type attached to the capitalist parties are designed to rally h American workers to, its reac program, must be exposed on a wide -scale.” “Ireland has been divided in two parts both of which are held in sub- jection. Britain maintains gar and naval bases in Ireland, as Lloyd George has stated plainly, to further its conquest and imperialist war aims. The struggle of the Irish masses for is consequently of the utmost importance for the American working-class and the world’s work- ing class in bringing into the clear light of the day the war purposes of imperialism in connection with the mass struggle against imperialist war.” “The solidarity of all American workers with the Irish workers and peasants is a vital necessity. I urge the immediate calling of represen- tative mass conferences, the holding mass meetings to demand the with drawal of all British troops from Iree land, the organization of financial support for the Irish Workers Revo- lutionary Groups and their paper, “The Workers Voice” In the most energetic manner we must proceed to the organization of mass support for complete independence of the British empire, Ireland, under a workers and farmers government and the unifle cation of the country under a gove ernment.” Expose U. 8. Capitalism “In the course ot organizing this movement we must expose the be- trayal of the revolutionary liberation struggle of the Irish workers and peasants by agents of Irish and Am- erican capitalism and drive them out of the ranks of the workers who re- vere and carry on the fighting tradt- tions of James Connolly, now borne forward by the Irish Workers Re~ volutionary Groups and the heroie class battles in which _ they take & Jeading part.” —----~