The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1932, Page 3

Lad DAILY WORKER, NEW Y' ORK, WEDN ESDAY, CCTOBE R 19, 1932 International Notes By GEORGE BELL LETTING THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG. \\ Hoover, Roosevelt, and Thomas all ‘grate of “industry's obligation to t! E= and his welfare”—until' No- lember 8th is over. But Mr. Lami- and, a French engineer, writing on the “The Social Role of the Engi- neer” (read. by industrialists and not intended for workers’ eyes), drops the mask of capitalist “benevolence”. melting is the art of transform- ing iron ore into banknotes... in general all industry is the art of transforming raw materials into banknotes . . , All the engineer's ac- tivity is summarized in the’ minimum cost of production. This dominant preoccupation will prevent him from being sentimental. A factory is not the Salvation Army; remember: it is a machine to make money.” This brutal exposition of the true function of industry under capital- ism has but one virtue—instead of be- ing hypocritical, it is frank. Pie er “SAVE CIVILIZATION IN CHINA.” Stephane Lauzanne, editor-in-chief of “Matin’,’ influential Paris daily, Jaunches an appeal to the Great ewers to “save China from chaos id Asia from barbarism” (meaning shevism). He writes: ‘Among the seven or eight govern- nxents comprising the anarchic entity |* called China today, there is one that is never talked about, but that is none the less the only really power- ful regime: the previsional Soviet cvernment establish, . at Yui-King in Kiangsi. since November 7, 1931. “It is gaining enc’ mous territory every day and has a aisciplined army cf 5¢0,000 men which is beyond doubt the best army in Chia ... It is curi- ous, to say the least, that the Europ- can powers with int_rests in China have taken such little notice of this government, begotten by Moscow (!) and planted in the hart of China.” This is an unblushing appeal to the imperialist powers to intervene in China to annihilate the Chinese Sov- icts, as well as a plea for Japan’s ef- forts to “saye Manchuria from the Red wave”. The only true allies of the Chinese Soviets are the Soviet Union and the working classes thru- out the world, It is up to the work- ¢:s of America to protect the young viet government of China against * Imerican intervention on any pretext atever. Is SPAIN A WORKER'S Mur UBLIC? Sccialists all over the world are Pointing to Spain as the model of what a revolution should be like — not like “barbarous Soviet Russia”. Here is one of the recent “revolu- tionary” deeds of the new Spanish Republic; The Spanish Army and Foreign Le- gion still occupies Morocco, waging war against the defenseless natives. ‘The French militarists, in their third Morocéan campaign being fought at present, have asked the Spanish ca- binet to allow French bombing planes to fly over the Spanish colony of Rio de Oro to exterminate the in- surgent African tribes that have sought refuge there, “A revolutionary” Spain and “demo- cratic” France as bedfellows in colo- nial imperialism—what will the soci- ists offer by way of apology for this rt of “revolution”? o 8 MORE WORKERS’ JOURNALS SUPPRESSED IN GERMANY, BERLIN.—The police “have sup- pressed “Die Junge Garde”, organ of the Young Communist League, for three months. The “Propagandist” and the “Party Worker” both organs for members of the Communist Par- ty, have been suppressed for six months. Apparently, Von Papen is really afraid of the growth of Com- munism in Germany—such press ter- , tor is always a token of abject fear of a collapsing capitalist class. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ON TRIAL. BUDAPEST.—Nineicen persons, in- cluding 11 stydents of Budapest high schools are cn trial for alleged Com- munist activity. The “confessions” on which the case is based were ex- torted by third-degree torvure. WHITE GUARDS qAaNt HOLD YOUTH 1 heir Congress Meets In Paris Openly PARIS (By Mail).—The national congress of the Russian white guard- ists in France is proceeding in Paris. The l:adors ef the no- torious ‘Mil- itary Asso- ciation,’ Generals | Miller, Ked- rov and Shatilov are present at the con- gress, The well-know n former Rus- sian indus- trialists -Gussakov Gen. Miller Gutschkov, who will be remem- in connection with the trial of je members of the Industrial Party Moscow, are also present. chairman of the congress, Pol- yanski, declared that th? only aim of the congress was to pursue the struggle- against Bolshevism to “a victorious conclusion.” General Miller addressed the con- gress in the name of the Military As- sociation and turned his attention in particular to the youth. The youth of the white guardist emigrants are causing trouble and disappointment. They cannot remember, or only very incompletely, the ‘good old days,” in consequence they show a lack of enthusiasm in many respects which nake the old emigrants fear anxi- | ously that their hopes and enthusi- isms will die with themselves. Age ney be able to live on its ‘glorious | betwe vast,” but youth ts less satisfied. with { In the Culture ard Recreation Donetz Basin, U.S.S.R. with accommodations for 100, was is free for workers. Resolutions of Central Committee of Communist Party Point Out Gains Are Insufficient; for Impro ved Distribution TOWARDS 15th ANNIVERSARY OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION! TRADING AND FOOD SUPPLY IN THE SOVIET UNION REGISTERS NEW GAINS Recreation Park for Soyiet Workers Park of the city of Rykowo in the This summer a recreation home for miners, opened here. The recreation home Not A Penny Comrades: In yesterday's “Daily” you read that we collected only $18,000 instead of the $40,000 which we needed to cont’nue the pub- Keation of the “D>ily” without in- terruption. Yeu know that only cur failure to rise the $40,090 dur- ing our finencial campaign made it necessary for us to hold the Na- tional Da'ly Worker Tag Days. We emphasized the fact that only quick and considerable returns on the Taz Days would enable us to pull through, What has been your answer? é SO FAR NOT A CENT COL- LECTED DURING TAG DAYS Funds From ° of Tag Days Any District! HAS COME TO THE DAILY WORKER! Comrades, you seem to be under the illusion that, come what will, the “Daily” will be able to appear. But remember that there are no miracies, Without your help the “Daily” cannot exist. ‘Rush all funds! Get greetings to the FIFTEENTH SOVIET ANNI- VERSARY ed'tion! Get NEW subs! The entire Party membership, a$ well as all mass organizations, mnst rally their forces and come to the reseue of the “Daily.” DAILY WORKER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. MINERS DENOUNCE ARREST. OF BYRGE Candidates in Ky. i MIDDLEBORO, Ky., Oct. 18. — Ten thousand leaflets calling a series of protest meetings against the arrest and murder frame up of Silas Byrge and a mass rally of miners and farm- ers at Pineville is the first reaction against what appears plainly an at- tempt to smash the Communist elec- tion campaign by terror. Speakers at the Pineville protest and election rally will be Ed Gar- land, Communist candidate for sher- iff of Bell county. and Frank Rey- nolds, Communist candidate for con- gress. Murder, Charge. Byrge was arrested Friday in Mid- dlesboro and moved to Harlam jail where a charge of murder was made, connected with the ficht between miners and deputies attacking them at Evarts, Ky., in May, 1931. The real reason for the arrest and frame-up charge is seen in the fact that the Harlan county deputies and Middles- boro polite raided Byrge’s house and | seized a quantity of Communist elec- tion literature. Added to this 1s the proclamation for the capture, “dead or alive” of Tilman Cadle, a Kentucky miner, who went as 4 worker delegate to the Soviet Union and has returned and plunged into the fight to win better living conditions for the min- ers, The terror drive started a month ago With an attack by thugs on Paul Wilson, Communist Party organizer, It included an arrest of Jim-Garland when he went to Pineville court house with the signatures-to place Ed Garland and other Communist candidates on the ballot. ‘There shou'’d be a mass protest all over the country against this ter- roristic attempt to crush the Commu- nist campaign in Kentucky. Adopt resolutions and send them to Gover- nor Ruby Lafoon at Frankfort, and to Harlan county authorities, U.S. Experts Say Germany Wil] Have to Pay Debts WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 18— As the United States’ experts sailed today to attend the meeting of the preparatory committee of the world economic conference, ,Von Papen’s declaration that German _ private debts cannot be pafd unless trade ob- stacles are removed or lowered was skeptically commented updn in po- litical circles here, No one here could picture a Ger- nan government declaring an end to private debts (these veiled tributes loaded on the workers of Germany) press dispatches irfdicated. it, particularly when it is not their own. Gurikov delivered a significant speech on the problem of ‘activism of passivity.” _ The congress is taking place quite openly and legally. The murder of President Doumergue by Gorgulov has not damaged the great friszndship een the white emigrants and the French. abs Rally for Communist | San Francisco Eviction Leads to Hot Battle Led by the Unemployed Council and {erowd of workers,from the neigh- |borhood fought against the eviction | bere Friday of an unemployed family with three children, Riot squads and deputies attacked the crowd and arrested 12. The In- ternational Labor Defense put up $25 bail each within two hours. The charges are unlawful assembly and interfering with an officer. qos Jobless Jam Court House TOLEDO, Oct. 18. — Police and deputy sheriffs attacked a big crowd of unemployed workers who had fol- lowed their committee of the un- employed council to the court house to demand relief, The crowd re- sisted the attack. One woman and several others were injured and two | demonstrators arrested, . oo. if School Children Starve DES MOINES, Ia., Oct. 18, — So many high school students here come to school without lunches because teachers ask the others to try and bring two lunches, to help them out. The Young Communist League and a campaign for free lunches in the schools, Tnaccurate Report to “Daily” on Darrow- Scottsboro Interview Because a report from Youngs- town, Ohio, was published before there was an opportunity to check it up carefully, an erroneous story dealing with an interview with Clar- |ence Darrow on the Scottsboro case was printed in the Daily Worker, is- sue of Oct. 3, The story sent to the “Daily” de- clared that when interviewed by members of the Scottsboro Defense Committee, Darrow declared: “Let them burn! Get the hell out of here! I don’t want to have any- thing to do with them.” The Daily Worker has just received from the Ohio organizer of the In- ternational Labor Defense the fol- lowing report of the conversation: Darrow: “Oh hell, I don’t want to talk about this case now.” Fradin (for Scottsboro commit- tee): “Can you make arrangements to meet the committee later in the afternoon?” Darrow: “Hell, no, no, you can find it all In the papers—al! you want to know about the case.” Fradin: “But the papers (the Vindicator and Telegram) do not p ida eny statements on your with- wal from the case.” Darrow: “What do I care about your papers? Let's go.” CANADA HUNGER MARCH WINNIPEG, Canada, Oct, 17.— Several hundred unemployed workers and farmers were today encamped in this city preparing to march on the government offices to demand unem- ployment insurance and immediate relief. They have been marching into the city since the middle of last week, under the leadership of the Unemployed Councils. An enthusi- | astie mass meeting was held last night in Market Square % SAN_FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 18.— Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, a their parents are unemployed, that the Unemployed Council are making “\energy the economic organizations in 0 ONE HUNGRY IN SOVIET UNION While Millions Starve In Capitalist U. S. At the plenary session of the Cen- Committee’ of the Communist rty of the Soviet Union, which took place in Moscow from the 28th of September to the 2nd of October in- clusive, three important resolutions were adopted on Soviet trading ac- tivity, food supply and heavy indus- try. These resolutions are constructively self-critical and lay bare the weak- nesses as well as register the victories of the workers and peasants in the; Soviet Union in developing trading activity, increasing the food supply and extending heavy industry. A necessarily brief outline of these resolutions will enable the workers of this country to form a celar and real- istic picture of the situation exist- ing today in the Soviet Union, at a time when the capitalist press, “whist- ling in the darkness” of the deepest economic crisis, reports that “food riots” and other similar “disturb- ances” are taking place in the social- ist fatherland. Retail Trading Shop Increase The resolution of Soviet trading activity first of all places on record that the People’s Commissariat for supplies, acting on the decisions of the Central Committee, opened 7100 State shops in 1932, 2800 of which are in towns and the others in the rural districts. At the same time 5,900 retail stands were opehed, increasing the total of retail undertakings by 67 per cent in the first seven months of 1932. At the end of July, 1932, 26,300 shops and 9000 retail stands were thus in operation from one corner of the So- viet Union to the other. The “Centrosoyus” central) opened 13,100 stores in 1932 and 22,500 retail stands. This means that the retail enterprises of the Co- operative Central increased in the current year by 20 per cent to a total of 167,700 stores and 49,700 stands. System of Distribution Criticised ‘The wholesale undertankings also increased. Between the first of May and the first of September,( for in- standce ,theré were 635 wholesale trading enterprises opened in several points of the remoter regions of the Soviet Union—East and West Siberia Central Asia and Kasakastan. 4 The resolution however, goes on to criticize the system of distribution of the wholesale enterprises, the con- sumers’ cooperative societies and the trading companies and points out that these are still working too me- ehanically, although on the other hand measures have been successful- ly adopted enabling the retailers of Moscow, Leningrad and other towns to be supplied directly from factories with articles of daily consumption. ‘The purely mechanical system of distribution, the resolution states, leads to accumulations of necessary articles in one place and lack of them in another, The resolution contains therefore measures for the overcom- ing of these disproportions and for further developing the Soviet trad- ing enterprises, Soviet trading activity, the resolu- tion of the Central Committee de- clar2s, with the collective and indi- vidual peasant farms, does not mean, as the right opportunists and kulaks would like to interpret it, that the hep-men (tradesmen under the New jomic Policy—Nep) and the spec- ul 's are permitted to resume their activities. On the contrary, it sig- nifies “the el'mination of the private trader, of the middleman and 5; ulator who seek to enrich themselves at the expense of collective trading.” Production of Articles of Daily Consumption Gains The resolution of the production of articles of daily consumption begins by enumerating the measures taken by the Central Committee for the extention of this production. Although these measures were in- sufficiently carried out, the produc- tion of articles of daily consumption —the resolution points out—increased in the first six months of 1932 by 28.5 per cent as compared with the same period last year, The resolution then enumerates the various faults and in order to remov2} them it commissions the People’s Commissarint for Labor and Defense to lay special emphasis in these ar- ticles when drawing the economic plans of production. It also estab- lishes that the attention of the whole Party today is turned to the produc- tion of articles of daily consumption and proposes that the Party should continue to support with increased | | | 1 i further developing this production. Smelting Industry Goes Ahead The resolution of the Plenum of the Central Committee on the smelt- ing industry records that while the 16th Party Congress was obliged to admit that the smelting industry was lagging behind, since then this in- dustry accomplished a great forward stride. ‘A new coke industry has been es- tablished on the basis of up to date technique. Seventeen new coke plants have been set working, with an out- put of seven million tons. Six other coke plans with a capacity of 1.7 mil- lion tons are about to be opened. In the undertakings in the Southern part of the country the blast furnaces have been renewed and the capacity of many of them has been increased. In summarizing since the 16th Par- ty Congress eight blast furnaces have been reconstructed and their capa- city increased. Twelve new blast fur- naces have been set working, nine (cooperative | “Revelations” on USSR in New Film, Pleases! ener eee By SAMUEL BRODY. (Workers Fil James D. Fi has _ be the Soviet Union—Moscow to be cise—and returned with a film record which is being ballyhooed the press agencies as “the first uncen- sored newsreel come out of heart: of Red Ru Whether film was actually smuggled out the Soviet Union or whether this is just another good old way of keeping the movies up to the level of Amer- iean tabloid methods makes very little case. We| have seen far more imp nt “revel-| ations” in documentary- films sent| out by the Soviet Union itself thru) its regular channels of distribution If there is anything really sens: | tionel in this short Fitzpatrick Tra- veltalk it is its author's running comment on the various sequences. After some fairly objective remarks on-such questions as the liquidation of illiteracy, the special care of work- ers children. the gradual disappear- ance of religious superstition, and the tremendous increase in industrial out- put, ete. Mr. Fitzpatric as unex- pectedly as if someone had poked a gun into his ribs to force him to it, blurts out the following monstro: ity: “Whether this state of affairs represents a forward or a backward movement fs still to be seen.” (1) But it's beginning to look as though you can’t fool even a Broadway audience. Despite this supreme attempt by Fitzpatrick to clear his conscience with the enemies of the Soviet Union. | @ packed theatre warmly applauded | his film, which censored or uncen- | sored speaks most eloquently in over- | whelming favor of the land of the| Five-Year Plan. On the same program at the Rivoli Theatre there appears “Rain,” being one of Hollywood's latest contribu- tions to the art of torturing innocent audiences. Take your bromo along | if you want to sit through this one. im and Foto League) 1 th ay | | MOONEY PLEA FOR SCOTTSBOR Dividing Negro and White Toiler Is Boss Plan NEW YORK, Oct. 18—The Inter- national Labor Defense today re- ceived a letter from Tom Mooney in San Quentin Prison urging the world- wide intensification of the effort to} free the nine Scottsboro boys. The letter, addressed to the International Red Aid, of which the ILD is the American Section, said in par “The International Red 's call to support and intensify the ficht to prevent the legal lynching of the Scottsboro boys, and for my fr2edom, is one of the most powerful pleas ever made for international solidarity in behalf of political prisoners. “The legal lynching of the Scotts- boro boys must be prevented. This insolent challenge of the ruling ¢lass must be met. Militant workers the world over, regardless of color, must stand shoulder to shoulder and d2- mand that this legal lynching be stopped. “The Scottsboro case, with its back- ground of hysteria and race prejudice, | is symbolic of a deliberate policy to} separate black workers from white workers; to set up antagonisms be- tween workers of various races and nationalities. The working class can never emancipate itself unless all workers, regardless of race creed, col- or or nationality, stand together in the common struggle against the mas- ter class. Regardless of the decision | of the United States Supreme Court, the fight for the Scottsboro boys must be intensified and continued until the yare free! FAIL, TO ARREST CHINESE SECY 0 BOYS Chen Not Communist, But Trotzky Renegade! Chen Tuhsiu, whose arrest in Shanghai, South China, was reported yesterday, erroneously to be the sec- retary of the Chinese Communist | Party. Chen is not the secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and is not a member of that party, but a dis- credited Trotskyite who was expelled} from the Communist Party of China, The imperialist police in Shanghai who made the arrest, and the entire imperialist press of the United States and Europe hailed the arrest as “the most important Communiet arrest ever made in Shanghai.” “The struggle against militarism must not be postponed until the | moment when war breaks out. Then it will be too late. The struggle against war must be car- tied on now, daily, hourly.” LENIN, gigantic furnaces on an American system. Twenty new Martin fur-/ naces have been opened. Sixtesn new blast furnaces are under construc- tion, beside dozens of new Martin steel plants and four blooming mills, a number of pipe manufacturing plants, ete. During the first eight months of 1932 the production of the smelting industry rose by 22 per cent as com- pared with the same period of last year. This increase does not, how- ever, suffice to fulfill the schedule of the Plan for the smelting industry, Therefore the resolution, after point- ing out the causes for the lagging behind calls for a number of meas- ures of designated to increase the production of the smelting industry. The resolution points out that the workers of the smelting industry fur- nish a model example of Bolshevik readiness to fulfill the schedule of the of them in 1932, These include six | Plan, | 70-year-old Southern reactionary, has | | Negro masses in a number of cases robbery, peonage and national op- jer nm and the need of the most brutal repressive measures to sup-} Page Three McREYNOLDS, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, ~ ~ ALWAYS VICIOUS ENEMY OF THE NEGROES” Member of Court Which Is to Decide on Scottsboro Lynch Verdicts Upheld Massacre of Negro Croppe rs by White Arkanse s Landlords it would be wise, in the face of t through the hideous lynch verdicts against seven of the nine inn tice McReynolds, whose vicious ar Those nd Owen Roberts. Read thei lease of the Scottsboro boys. IN MANY ATTACKS Hit Compensation for Injuries HAV. A, Cuba, Oct. 12 (By Mail) More than 200 workers | demonstrated here before the American Consulate on Oct. 10 against the attempted legal lynch- ing by the American imperialist | bosses of the Scottsboro boys. Justice James Clark McReynolds, consistently shown his hatred of the} coming before the U. S. Supreme Court. McReynolds is one of the nine members of the Supreme Court which has still to render its decision on the appeal argued by International Labor Defense attorneys on Oct. 10 nst the murderous lynch verdicts ntencing seven of the nine inno-/} cent Scottsboro Negro boys to burn in the electric chair in Alabama. Fer Legal Lynching of Croppers Ig the Moore vs. Dempsey case, McReynolds in a dissenting opinion in which he was joined by Justice George Sutherland, upheld the dig- nity of the white boss lynchers of the South The case was an out- come of the brutal massacre of Ne- gro croppers by Arkansas landlords. The Arkansas Courts were engaged in an attempt to carry through a mass legal lynching of Negro crop- pers for the “crime” of daring to de- fend| themselves when a white land- lord’ gang fired on a meeting of croppers, held in a church in Elaine, to organize with a view of marketing their own crops and resisting land- lor robbery of the croppers, The attempt to legally lynch the croppers was so flagrant that the majority of the U. S. Supreme Court upheld their appeal against the lynch verdicts and ordered a new trial. Mc- Reynolds, howeyer, warned the court against interfering with the decisions of local judges “acquainted with lo- cal conditions.” In opposing the ap- peal against the Scottsboro lynch ver- dicts, the Alabamg Attorney General, Knight, similarly suggested that the court must not interfere with local conditions and the Alabama lynch verdicts against the Negro children. The warning was repeated by Hoover in his address to the Bar Associa- tion. Knight broadly hinted that the Alabama courts have a better un- derstanding of “local conditions,” that is, of the growing resistance of the Negro masses against landlord 1 | press these struggles of the toiling Negro mases. Anti-Labor Record he entire record of McR2ynolds is one of vicious attacks on the rights of the working class. He dissented against the majority opinion which upheld legislation enacted by the New York State legislature, under pres- sure of public indignation, compelling publicity for the New York organiza- tion of the Ku Klux Klan and its membership. Writing the decision in the Jensen case, McReynoids ruled that an in- jured stevedore could not recover damages under the New Workmen’s Compensation Act, on the ground that his work was of a maritime na- ture and therefore under the juris- diction of the Federal Government. The hypocrisy of this decision and the anti-working class role of the Su- preme Court was glaringly XP a short time later when mas dignation foreed Congress to enact a Statute making compznsation laws applicable to dock workers. McRey- nolds then led the court in opposing this statute, Hits Longshoremen He later wrote another notorfous decision in a Pacific Coast case “which laid down the doctrine that injured longshoremen could not se- cure damages in the absence of an act of Congress specifically applying to them”—which act he haq earlier led the court in nullifying! Again in the 1931,32 term, McRey- nolds joined in the Hughes opinion which nullified the administrative features of the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, | making the act inoperative and de- priving the workers in this dangerous field of any vestige of protection, de- nying them even the most meager compensation , for injuries, loss of limb or life as a result of the fearful speed-up and neglect of safety meas- ures by the bosses and contractors. The working class gan have no ‘l- lusion in the “fairness® and “im- partiality” of this highest court of capitalism, this court of last illu- sions, Only mass pressure, only the thunderous protests of white and Negro workers can effect the release of the nine innocent Scotts- boro Negro boys, seven of whom are under death sentences in Ala- 4 § bama, |, Willis Van Devanter, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hugt iling masses of the whole world, to carry cent Scottsboro Negro children. Jus- nti-Negro, anti-working class role, is exposed in today’s Daily Worker, present are Justices Benjamin Cardozo, Harlan F. Strong, George Suth- s, Justices Louis D. Brandeis, Pierce But- and intensify the mass fight for the re- he tremendous anger of the te aily Work r records in the Farmers Union Montana ‘ON WORKINGCLASS,) = State Convention Backs Nat’] Farm Conference Militancy of Rank and File Farmers Shown By Declaration for Resisting Mortgage Sales Conservative Leadership Tries to Restrain Farmers Who Want to Fight Food Trust BULLETIN, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 18—The Minneapolis unemployed coun- cil is calling all employed and unemployed workers to a demonstration Sunday at 2 p. m. at Bridge Square to support the farm strike. Farm pickets now blockading the roads arcund St. Paul and Minneapolis are invited to send truckloads of farmers to the demonstration, to form a united front for struggle for higher prices to farmers and lower prices to city workers, PLENTYWOOD, Mont., Oct. 18—)the convention just held, the resolue The Farmers Union state convention | tion to endorse the National Confers at Wolf Point, Montana, Frida‘ cd | ence, introduced by Matt Oja, dele- Saturday, unanimously passed a res-|gate from Heyser, and Emil Moe, olution endorsing the Farmers Ni delegate from Plentywood, went over tional Relief Conference to be held | unanimously. in Washington, Dec. 7 to 10. The| ; convention had 148 delegates from all| Rank and file delegates tried to get yer adopted the whole Sheridan County’ over Montana, a °9 “ ° | holiday plan, which includes many The Farmers Union 's one of the|of the militant tactics and demands farm organizations which up to now] of the U. F. L. outlined above. have been largely controlled by the | leadership of the Farmers’ Union rich farmers and businessmen in the | fought bitterly against militancy, and agricultural area. It first proposed|the program as a whole did not go .” which grew into|through. But against all opposition, under leadership of | the delegates to the convention forced the state holiday board to incor- 2S! WHAT A U| | porate a plank ds follows: DOING FOR THE UNITY “We demand and we state that WITH bee wien bs any farmer who has been fore- FARMERS? | closed shall stay right on his farm | Save nelly ang un-|| and take the full value of the crops iombamployed Councils, ard ,3| | without interference by the eom- write to the Daily Worker news of| | P&nY or other mortgage owners. Wnniever thes axe doing to help| | The delerates pledge to enforce rs fe this right by mass action, get food from| | Ruth Bert, of the Producers News, for the city] the striking unemployed, and form united| | Plentywood, speaking for this plank, front demonstrations for relief.| | secured great applause from the con- Send in any news on the progress| | vention delegates, and from 150 vis- of the united front of farmers and’ | itors present from all parts of the workers’ and unemployed workers: | Bad. The state holiday program of the the new, broader “Farm Holiday As-| leaders is still only for “withholding. sociation.” Farmers Union leaders|farm products and establishing an like Milo Reno, its Iowa state pres-| orderly marketing of them,” but a ident, became national leaders of the| great many of the delegates favor Holiday Association | the militant Sheridan County plan, The first ners | and it may be adopted by the county Union were for no strike, but merely | Holiday associations of Roosevelt, withholding of surpl Daniels and McCone counties, ket for a limited t | Fe er re ners Barricade In Canadian Prison TON, Ont., Oct. 18.—Over prisoners in the Portsmouth demonstrated for over four terday, defying guards and The turned the “holiday” tant sort. arrested KING 1,000 prison eague, places mee locat shorter working day and an in- strike committees to lead picketing, | in tobacco rations. A large and have extended the struggle to| body of the prisoners barricaded include demands for no tax payments | themselves in the tailor shop and or mortgage payments for a period| ¢#ptured and held the worden, Gil-'- of time, or where the farmers feel| bert Smith, for a short while. The militant they demand abolition of | Prisoners ed to return to their taxes and mortgages on poor farm | cous until 'y were fired upon by The UFL and the Communist Party | troops. and | ting urge unity between city worker: unemployed workers joint p’ The Portsmo most noterious prison, one of the ell-holes in North on the roads and joint demonstrations | america, has the scene of dem- against tax2s debts, evictions and! onstrations in the past. For many joint demands for relief from the} years the silent system was in effect county governments for both city un-| }-hind its grey walls. The prisoners employed and hungry farmers. All) we. worked long hours and were these struggles led to the Washington | p conferenc: to lay demands for relief, | etc. before congress. Resist Mortgage Seiz This struggle has so penstra ranks of the Farmers Union iven very little food and no tobacco. The pressure of the prisoners forced the authorities to abolish the silent tem and give out a small tobacco ion. Yesterday the prisoners dee ded an increase in this ration, d the t at WORKERS’ ORGANIZATIONS Greet the Soviet Union on Its Fifteenth Birthday THROUGH THE DAILY WORKER SPECIAL EDITION NOVEMBER 7TH RATES: $3, 5, 8, 10, 15, 25, 50, 100 ORDERS MUST Send Them in By November Ist to the Daily qlorker 50 KE, 13th STREET NEW YORK-CITY AND INDIVIDUALS ACCOMPANY GREETINGS MONEY