The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 26, 1932, Page 3

International Notes By GEORGE BELL IMPERIALIST FEARS SINGAPORE.—In an_ interview with a reporter of the Singapore “Straits Times,” Judge Linebarger, American adviser to the bloody Nan- king Government, says: “If the peo- ples of the East do not get together to combat Communism, Singapore will have a statue of Lenin before TOWARDS 15th ANNIVERSARY OF ON! RUSSIAN REVOLUTION! WAGES RISE FOR TOBACCO WORKERS IN LUXEMBURG FACTORY IN THE USSR DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1932 Workers of 20 Nationalities Work Together, Have No Bosses; Tampa, Eviction Order by S. P. Sheriff in Bridgeport 2 dualuwcert for the passossion of said laared premisen with ets Deted a PAG capers the Sts day of OObober é by her Attorney WARY Fe 20 To the Shcetf ofthe County of PARELLAAA Pha rity hit Paartabis of too Torn of — BeMdipepert » AIM gid Caynty -ORRRTING, : the Piatt of Candecticut, * You are hereby commented to tase ek * c agen Sige MoURONINNI COOSA ’ Pence for Paietic County at fae i 4 ‘asig Coumty, om the 1th day of 00% PR WR orcionk inte ‘econ, then and there to answer unto he formading eomplaint, Ht wi Rscording to law. wot + Fae Oo ot Soeper 19 prielgad, ood ot Beddcapert sea | yey stcognined to Fre adverse party io the mum of $99 to answer all damagen | fe may sustain case Uhe.complainant shall fail to make L 8 comsieint ond sitamana due service and return make eceording to iw, b the. day of CtODer Page Three HUNDREDS AFL. LOCALS JOIN DEMAND FOR REAL . UNEMPLOYED INSURANCE _ | Connected With Resentment of Wage Cut ™ ae | Fo DPi Rk, Patel ge Oe | Hungry MembersAgainst $10000 aYear Fakers you're as old as I am, Only the American wheat loan of 15,000.000 bushels save the entire Yangtze valey from Communism this summer.” ; De Bs CORRE Florida, Workers Suffer Pay Cuts , Discrimination ‘ ® Huge National Rank and File Conference for Colonial papers, which don’t get into the hands of the workers back home, often are less discreet than their colleagues in the West. After unbounded ridicule of the Chinese Soviets, real alarm is felt in the im- perialists’s ranks—as the Lytton Re- ‘port also shows—and the world is again being called on for a campaign against Communism — which means an international war against the Chi- nese Soviets and (of course) against the Soviet Union. It is up to the workers of America to give Judge Linebarger and his consorts their an- swer: We shall defend the Chinese Soviets and the Soviet Union! SVERDLOVSK.—Deposits of high- grade bauxite (alurhinum oxida, used jin making almulmum) estimated at ‘4,000,000 tons, the largest in the So- viet Union have been found in Ka- mensk by geological survey parties. SIMFEROPOL.—Gas of tremen- dous heating power has been found on the Kerch peninsula (Crimea), through the drilling of a gusher in the village of Borzovka. Further surveys show the gas-bearing area to cover at least 400 square miles. Pre- liminary estimates place the supply of gas at more than one thousand billion cubic yards. Although the drill-hole has been plugged with an earth stopper more than 1000 feet deep, it is pouring out 25,000 cubic feet of gas daily under a@ pressure of 135 to 165 lbs. per square inch. The gas is 95 per cent methane (an important component of coal-gas) and has extremely high heating value. MOSCOW.—With the dtving of 130 feet of subway tunnel under the Okhotni Ryad and the sinking of 17 shafts in various sections of the city. the work of pushing the first line of the Moscow subway towards sched- uled completion in 1934 is under way. Worker Correspondence Describe Police Sam Brown (By A Worker NEW YORK CITY.—The following is an eye-witness description of | the protest meeting against the sentence of Comrade Brown, held in front | of the house of the Tammany tool, Judge Aurielo in New York City. The workers gathered peacefully on the corner of 12th and 2nd Avenue, | listening to a denunciation of the justice in the boss courts, We sent a | 6, thes ——-— committee of six workers judge’s home demanding the imme- diate release of Sam Brown. They were informed by a thyg at the door that the judge was not at home. Just then a police emergency car with about 10 police arrived and started to disperse the masses by swinging their clubs and billies and shoving us around like dogs. . One of “New York's finest” grabbed ® worker by the collar and let him have it on the head with his night- stick. As he fell with blood stream- ing, a few more of the thugs circled him and started to kick him about the head. Comrades, words cannot describe the condition they had this shtaaet after they got through with \im. Hold Ranks Solid. Then I witnessed the greatest ex- ample of solidarity of the workers. We all gathered together again and siarted to march around the block, aiming to get back to the house, but the police guarded 12th St. and re- fused to let us enter. But we never lost heart; we marched up and down } Second Avenue, “letting the people Attack on Demonstration Correspondent.) | around us know what we were here | for, so in one tremendous voice we | kept on repeating, “We demand the | release of worker Sam Brown”. Ca- pitalist newspaper photographers ar- rived, giving the police a signal to start things; they wanted to get ac- tion pictures at the expense of the workers’ blood. Here is where hell broke loose. A cop grabbed a worker and he was about to hit him when we all got to- gether to pull this worker away. Then a plain clothes man within our ranks pulled out his gun, ran to the defense of this cop, hitting a worker across the face with the butt of his gun, ; and kicked a woman in the stomach. Workers were clubbed right and left, We marched back to 14th St, at Union Square. There was an I. L. D. meeting going on and I told the meeting from the platform what had happened. Comrades, organize into one solid united front into the ranks of the Communist Party, the Party fighting for the working class, SARATOV—The largest dam in the world is bein built at Kamishen on the Vola, which with two others will raise the water level of the river to the high pqint reached in the record spring floods of 1926. The dam, 50 miles south of Saratov, will he finished by 1937. A steamer draw- ing 14 to 16 feet of water will be able to so all the way from New York to Nizhni-Novgorod through the Volga- Ton eena!, tonnecting the Volga with the Black Sea, and up the Volga when the new system of waterways is completed. LENINGRAD.— The first Soviet- made reflector telescore, 13 inches in diameter, and considered excellent in cual'ty and workmanship, has been presented to the Abastman Observa- tory by the Leningrad Astronomical Institute. BRITISH LEADER NAILS SOCIALIST LIES Lord Passfield. former member of the MacDonald Cabinet and famous Fabian theoretician under his former name, Sidney Webb, addressed a big Labor Party meeting in Leicester, England, on “What we may Isarn from the Soviet Union.” He described the U. S. S. R. as “a country full of hope, confidence and energy. which was creatng a new e'vilization with complete unity of eln and policy. This could not be seld of any other country.” ie also declared that the Com- munist Party in the U. S.'S. R. ex- pressed the aspirations of the whole population. Describing the process of planned economy, he emphasized that planned economy was possible only m™m ® country where the aim of pto- auction is not profits. In reply to questions, Webb stated “workers in the U. 8. 8. R. were per- fectly free to criticize the activitels of the administration, and frequently made charges at open megtings. “He also said that the Soviet Government was much more stable than any other government in the world, and that there could be no doubt as to the final success of the U. S. 8. R. Cur American Socialists never cease dinning into the workers’ ears “there is no freedom of criticism in Rvesia; the Soviet rule is an auto- cratic: dictatorship imposed on the masses by the Communist Party; the x ports of Socialist reconstruction in the Soviet Union are Communist propagandist lies." Here we have them given the lie direct by one of the biggest theoreticians and leaders of international Socialism, who can- not help admitting the truth about the Soviet Union. Who is telling the truth—Sidney Webb or Norman Tho- mas, Abe Caban, Abramovitch and their crew. VICTORY IN PRAGUE PRAGUE.—In the elections of dele- gates as official representatives of the city’s civil service employees the revo- lutionary union won a smashing vic- tory. The Internatonal Federation (Communist) polled 1,710 votes, com- pared with 850 in 1930, The Social- Democrats Icst 200 votes. dropping to 1,792. The Czech Socialists lost 350 votes, dropping to 2,204. The National Lcmocrats gained 139 votes, rising to 1 The Communist gain of 860 \ *s represents a gain of more than 7 J per cant. This is an example to 1+ imitated by all our comrades work- * ¢ in civil service positions, The New York Times Shanghai -seresnendent reports that a $600,- (9 defense bond issue, floated by tio Chinese’ Soviet Republic was SPN RUS Nid Le Rica aaa iM Al ait wt ait. Standard Oil Pension Plan Robs Even Dead Workers NEW YORK CITY.—It seems at this time that some one should expose the hypocricy of the Standard Oil ef New York. I have worked 15 years for that company and know that their employes are worked to the limit of human endurance. aah edd eile Sain tig Just now the president of the United States has appointed Mr. Teagle, a high official of the Standard aie —— Co., to a position on one of his nu- merous committees, and so the Stan- dard Oil feels it is necessary to make a pretense of being interested in the welfare of the laboring man. Mr, Pratt, another official has an- | nounced that the Standard Oil of N.' Y. intends to relieve the depression , by employing a number of men who are idle. He also announced that his 30,000 men would be put on a five- day week beginning the first of next of next month in order of share time with the unemployed. That an- nouncement gained for his company hundreds of thousands of dollars free advertisement throughout the coun- | try. It is self-evident that he in-! tends to make his present employees ; pay the wages of the newly employed, that is Standard Oil philanthropy. The company has worked out aj scheme where even dead employees must contribute to Standard Oil's | share, This scheme is a system of death and accident insurance and also pen- sion insurance for men who have reached the age of 65. Of course it is very convenient to discharge a man just before he is eligible for retire- ment, but some of them get through. The benefits from this insurance are graded according to wages, eleven grades in all—there is a difference of $400 between the grades in in- surance and a différence of $8 a year in pensions. They have very ingeni- ously figured out this cut in wages to reduce about 75 percent of the employees to lower grades, thus caus- ing them to lose $400 in life insur- ance and $8 in pension. So that if a man was eligible for pension 10 years from now he would lose $80 a year in pension. If he happens to liv2 10 years after retirement he will have lost $800. —A working man, HUGE MEETING FOR. MOONEY FREEDOM Callicotte to Explain} His Confession (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) odore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair, Sher- wood Anderson, Lincoln Steffens, John Barry of the San Francisco) Daily News, and Fremont Older, managing editor of the Call-Bulletin, will attend. Mass Support Essential Mooney’s innocence was established | 16 years ago when all the main wit- nesses against him were exposed as perjurers and when it was proven that they had been coached in their testimony by membmers of the San Francisco Police Department, District Attorney Fickert and his assistants, backed by the Chamber of Commerce and the public utilities corporations. Legal steps will be valueless in the vigorous drive now being pursued to bring Mooney’s 171 year struggle for freedom to a successful termination, unless backed by the demands of la- bor an dits sympathizers in Califor- nia, United States and the world over. New Legal Steps to Free Mooney ‘The mass meeting will be one of the means employed in rallying tens of thousands of Californians to sup- port the new legal steps being taken to re-open the Mooney case. In view of the action of the California courts, governors, and other officials in the past when they killed every step un- dom, it is obvious that only tremen- dertaken on behalf of Mooney’s free- dous public support will force the au- thorities to reopen the Mooney case and guarantee the possibility of suc- cess of any legal steps taken. A petition is being prepared to de- mand that Governor Rolph grant an- other open pardon hearing for Moo- ney. The two main points in this de- mand will be: (1) the obvious mis- Judge Sullivan’s report, which was representations and falsifications in used as a basis for denying Mooney's pardon last April; (22) Callicotte’s pmergoet huss provides new evi- dence adds to the mountain of evidence that has accumu- lated ‘Mooney’s absolute inno- cence. Demand for New Trial on Remaining Indictment Originally there were ten indict- ments returned against Mooney—one for each person who lost his life in the Preparedness Day explosion on July 22, 1916, Mooney was tried and convicted on one indictment. One of the last official acts of Pickert, be- fore relinquishing his position as Dis- trict Attorney after receiving @ po- litical death-blow, was to move for the dismissal, over Mooney’s vigorous protest, of all the remaining indict- ments. Fickert’s game was clear. All of the main witnesses against Moo- ney had been exposed as perjurers. Fickert knew that, with the exposure of the witnesses, their testimony could never again convict Mooney. This is proven by the fact that Rena Moo- ney and Weinberg were acquitted in the court of Judge Dunne, viciously prejudiced against the defendants, because the jury would not believe MacDonald. and the other perjurers who had sworn away Mooney’s life. All the indictments were dismissed except one. Judge Griffin, at Moo- ney’s request, reserved one indictment for Billings and one for Mooney. For 15 years Mooney’s every demand to be tried on the remaining indictment was refused. When Matthew Brady first ran for District Attorney, he made a public statement that if elect- ed Mooney would be trieq on the re- maining indictment, He never kept his promise, in spite of the fact that he has publicly stated his beliéf in the innocence of Mooney and Bill- ings, Judge Ward Stated He Was Willing to Try Mooney Judge Ward, of the Superior Court bench, has already gone on record as being willing to bring Mooney to trial. Callicotte bia ey Important tor ‘act The California Supreme Court in denying Billings’ pardon application in the summer of 1930 took the as- tounding position that if Billings did not commit the crime he certainly should know who did. Governor Young at that time took the Supreme Court's decision as a pretext for de- nying Mooney’s pardon. Governor Rolph and ex-chief Justice Matt I. Sullivan, his chief advisor, took the same shameful stand that “if Mooney didn't dot it, who did?” Paul Calli- cotte has furnished them the answer and his testimony will be of great {= adh ahaa emanated tobbed, tort ie BACK UP FIGHT OF U.S. WORKERS Demand Release of Jailed Workers The tobacco workers in Tampa, Fla., Winston-Salem, N. C., and in all the other cities in the United States would be interested to learn about the conditions of the workers! in the Rosa Luxemburg tobacco fac- | tory in Rostov. | The factory was one of the many that were taken away from the boss- | es during the great November 7th Revolution the 15th anniversary of} which will soon be celebrated thru- | out the world. Before and After the Revolution At the present time there are 2,600 workers in the factory. Some of the workers have worked in this factory since it was built. One old woman worker who is now on pension told us about the conditions before the! revolution. At that time she slaved so many hours that she could not keep count of them. She had to get up at five o'clock in the morning in order to be able to be at work in time and did not get home before ten o'clock in the evening. Now every one in the factory works seven hours a day. When, in 1905 the workers in this factory went ou; on strike for an increase in wages of one and a half kopeks (about one cent) an hour the bosses got the troops and police against the workers, Many of the workers were beaten and arrested. This old woman worker although she lives on a pension given to her comes to the factory and helps to train new workers. All workers who have worked a certain number of years in| industry are entitled to a pension from the Workers and Farmers Gov- ernment, | Workers Unity In this factory there are workers: from 20 different nationalities who before the revolution were oppressed by the Czar and who were fooled into hating each other. Now they afte working together peacefully and struggling shoulder to shoulder for the fulfillment of the Five-Year Plan and in that way bettering their living and cultural conditions, This is a very good example for us American workers whom the bosses try to keep | divided by pitting white against Ne- gro, and native born against foreign born. What the workers in Russia did by uniting and fighting under the leadership of the Communist Party of Russia we too can do in the United States, Support Tampa Workers’ Struggles On hearing about the struggles of the tobacco workers in Tampa, Fla., they expressed their solidarity with them et ally with those comrades who are now in jail, They want to establish close connections with the tobacco workers so that they can be} informed about their life and strug- gle. In their turn they will write regularly on how they are struggling for the fulfilment of the Five-Year Plan and how they are bettering their conditions, Undoubtedly the workers in Tampa, Fla., are sufficiently in- terested on what is going on in the Soviet Union to do this, Write to: Rosa Luxemburg Tobacco Factory, Rostov on the Don, U.S.S.R. FOSTER HITS BAN ON FACTS IN BOOK Scores Press Silence on “Georgia Nigger” (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) question. But it is an honest, accu- rate exposure of one of the vilest sys- tems of torture and slavery known to history, More: The mass of evi- dence it piles up of tortures on the chain gang, of the wholesale kid- napping of Negroes and their legal- ized enslavement under the most bar- barous conditions—all supported by official documents and pictures that cannot be lied away—constitute a smashing broadside against the en- tire system of capitalist exploitation and lynch Jaw. No wonder the capi- talist papers are suppressing these facts. Role of Betrayers In this conspiracy of silence, re- vealed in yesterday's Daily Worker, the role of the Socialist Party, the American Federation of Labor and the majority of the bourgeois Negro press is particularly despicable. These watchdogs of the bosses, always quick to catch the faintest whisper of their master’s voice, would rather draw a curtain of dsicreet silence over the horrible conditions revealed in “Geor- gia Nigger.” Rather than run the danger of arousing still more the awakening masses, both black and white, they would. keep intact these | prison camps and slave plantations as islands of feudal torture, shut off from the rest of the world, where the white planters and capitalists coin blood into money. Let no one imagine that the condi- tions exposed in “Georgia Nigger” are exceptional or confined to the State of Georgia alone. Nor let any- one think that they exist only in the South; they can be found in the North in only slightly less degree. ‘The young hero of the book, David Jackson, is a symbol of the millions ak onia ‘the attgtral The worker who was thrown o Cooney had been on the point of voting for Norman Thomas, but now he will not only vote for Foster and Ford, but is active organizing the unemployed of Bridgeport against S tote wo of Ve wtte compa: nos gnome with of he vruad Town al Grlare tegen complet ind eanemons aod of my endorsement pe Comstatile. ut of his house by socialist sheriff ocialist Party evictions, “Socialist”? Evictions HitBridgeportJobless Worker Thrown Out Switch Vote from _and by S. P. Sheriff Will Thomas to Foster Ford Mass Sentiment Among Socialist Rank and File Spreading Against S, P. Leaders BRIDGEPORT, Milwaukee. Conn.—Socialist Party officials are not confined to In Bridgeport, where the socialists elected two selectmen and three city sheriffs, the socialist sheriffs show themselves just as zealous as Al Benson in Milwaukee in evicting unemployed workers. In a recent ev: sheriff Pat J. Cooney, R. S., an un- employed worker, and his family were thrown out of their home. This latest victim of a socialist sheriff had been ready to vote for Norma! Thomas, but the eviction opened eyes to the true role of the Socialist Party, and now he will not only vote for Foster and Ford but is out orga- nizing his fellow workers to fight the “socialist” agents of the bosses. The socialist machine here is head- ed by Jaspar McLevy. Their vote of 16,000 votes last year, piled up with the help of capitalist pol ans, busi- ness men and the local press, put one alderman, Fred Schwarizkopf, into office, as well as the selectmen and the sheriffs. Schwartzkopf is notori- ous for his strikebreaking role in the | world war. S. P. Against Relief. In the last municipal elections, the S. P. did not mention Iccal unem- ployment relief. The socialist alder man, Schwartzkopf, stated that the local government cannot take care of the unemployed and, of course, the democ:etic members joined with him, so as to fool the unemployed by speaking of federal aid while at the same time assuring the Bridgeport business men that they need not fear tion, the order for which w: signed by the Socialist |any demand on the city treasury for j unemployment relief by the S. P. Help Persecute Foreign-Born, Under the leadership of McLevy, a campaign of persecution against the foreign-born workers, even tn his own pacty, is conducted. At-their last State Convention, held in New Haven, delegates from foreign-language fought against the by-laws iting foreign-born from partici- in the convention on an equal They also protested against the double dues which they are forced jto pay. It is a common practice at the membership meetings of the S. | P. to attack, in the most chauvinistic manner, the foreign-born workers. Sentiment among the worke:p is growing against the evictions by so- cialist sheriffs, not only in Bridge- port but all over the state. The Hart- |ford local of the S. P, under mass | pressure sent a communication about jthese evictions to the Bridgeport lo- cal. The rank and file membership | Was assured that no more evictions will take place especially during this | Glection campaign, That this gesture was dishonest the photo (see above) jof one of the latest eviction notices ‘py She:tff Cooney will show. Chain Gang Slavery Exposed in “Georgia Nigger” HOW “PEERLESS ROADS” ARE BUILT—The roads of which the southern white ruling class is so proud are built with the blood and sweat of workers beaten and tortured on the chain gang. Forced labor under the most barbarous cenditions is the lot of thousands of Negro work- ers and share-creppers as shown “Georgia Nigger”. right by John L. Spivak, author of Picture shows a Georgia chain gang at work. by John L. Spivak in his book, (Copy- “Georgia Nigger”, ing-class. He is a symbol of the Scottsboro boys, who like him were on their way to another city in a hunt for jobs, when they were picked up and framed on rape charges. And as in the Scottsboro case, only the united action of all toilers, both Ne- gro and white, can smash the whole system of lynch justice and put an) end to these fiendish prison camps and slave plantations, Only C. P. Fights for Negroes The Communist Party is the only Party that drags these issues out of the obscurity in which the capitalists and their lackeys have tried to hide them. Only the Communist Party dares to raise these issues not only in the North, but in the lynchers’ own domain. Communist organizers have gone into the South and risked their lives to organize the struggles of the Negro and white workers and share- croppers. Communists are leading the fight to save the Scottsboro boys and the Negro worker, Euel Lee, framed up on a murder charge, The Communist election program has been carried into the South by Com- rade C. A. Hathaway, substituting for me because of my illness, who has exposed the very conditions described in “Georgia Nigger.” Norman Thomas says that our pro- gram of self-determination for the Black Belt is a program of Negro Segregation. But “Georgia Nigger” proves to the hilt our bmi that the Negro masses are already segre- gated, segregated for the most savage exploitation and torture by the white ruling class. Only the fight for self- determination can smash this segre- gation system and gite the Negro masses true freedom, When the program, they only reveal themselves once mere as staunch defenders of Jim-Crowism and the worst enemies of the Negro people. The Negro masses are learning the true role of ; these betrayers} they are beginning |to realize in growing numbers that the Communist program is the only program that can put an end to the conditions revealéd in “Georgia Nig- |ser.” Tens of thousands of them will voice their determination to fight against lynching, Jim-Crowism, chain gang tortures and peonage by joining with their white comrades in voting Communist on Nov. 8th. Alteration Painters Give $10 to “Daily” ‘The Alteration Painters Union, Lo- cal No. 1, Bronx, has donated $10 from its treasury to the Daily Worker. This sum comes as an addition to a previous donation of $16.50 from the Hunts Point Shop, making the total sum received from the Bronx altera- tion painters $26.50. ns A. F, L. unions. | | {Plasterers Union, stepped in and re- NEW YORK. — Louis Weinstock, Secretary of the A. F. L, Committee for Unemployment Insurance, recent- ly returned from a tour visiting Cleveland, Detroit, Kalamazoo, Chi- cago, Minneapolis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. He addressed mass meet- ings held under the auspices of the Unemployment among the mem- bers of the American Federation of Labor is mounting higher and higher. Members unable to pay their dues| are suspended from their local urns | notwithstanding the fact that they | have been membe:ts in good stand- ing for many years. There is a gen- eral revolt against the leadership of the international unions. International officers, general orga- nizers are receiving $10,000 to $20,- 000 salary while the membership in the local unions is starving. It was called’ to Weinstock’s at- | tention that in many cities where the members go on strike against | wage cuts, the International officers | step in and stop the strike, lower the | wages and wherever the membership | refuses to accept the reduction, the | lical unions’ charter is lifted, and scabs are put to work under the pro- | tection of the international office. | For example: Plasterers Local 31 of | Pittsburgh, Pa., membership went out on steike against a wage-cut of $5.20 and for rotation of the jobs, Jos. Mcllveen, Itl. Vice-President of the voked their charter, called off the strike, accepted the wage cut, placed scabs on the job and took out an injunction against the strikers. Hundreds of Locals Endorse. Members of the A. F. L. who at- tended the mass meetings promised | their full support to the Cincinnati conference called by the New Yo:k A. F. L. Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance and the other ex- isting A. F. L. committees for unem- ployment insurance. Hundreds of lo- cal unions notified the New York A. F. L. Committee's office of their participation in the Cincinnati con- ference. ’ The A. F. L. convention is going Insurance Is Assured; Cincinnati, Nov. 22 STRUGGLE AGAINS PROVOCATION All workers and workers’ organiza- tions are warned against the follow- ing spies, swindlers and unreliable elements, who have been exposed as betrayers of working-class struggles Qperating or trying to operate from within of workers’ organizations or shops. DR. FREDERICK BLOSSOM, ot New York City, has sought to attach himself to the International Labor Defense, but has been refused ad- mission, because of his old and long record of political untrustworthiness, disruption and financial trrespensie bility in various organizations, About fifteen years ago he was connceted with the Birth Control League and left it af- ter a record of disruption, i n- conclusive in- vestigation o f finances and attempted bri- bery of one of the investigat- ing committee. After that he connected himself with the Socialist Party election campaign, where he also was found unreliable, . Then he went into the I. W. W, was treasurer of the Liberty Defense Union, where he solicited funds to be sent to his private address, not properly accounted for. He was ousted from the I. W. W. in 1924, after a very damaging rec- ord, which included provocative at- tempts to incite to such acts as that the J. P. Morgan office should be blown up, etc. He also had written a letter to the spy, Ravarini, who se- cured the arrest of Salsedo and Elia, ers MIKE SOROKA (Michael Siroka) of Gary, Ind., now in McDonald, Pa. Of Ukrainian nationality; about 30 years of age; 5 ft. 7 in. in height; light complexion, light hair, blue eyes, He came to to be held in Hotel Netherland, the | g ritziest scab hotel in Cincinnati. The | Wersen, Onin the Thomas’ and Hillquits oppose this} be. held in the A, F. L. Hall, 1318 | Walnut St., Cincinnati, Ohio on Nov. |22 and 23. This conference will dis- cuss the problem confronting the {membership of the A. F. L, The con- fe:nnce will work out plans for un- employment insurance, immediate re- lief, a program to fight against s pension and expulsion of member: {for exempt stamps for the unem- ployed, cutting salaries of the high officials, and eliminating as many as possible. The New York A. F. L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment In- surance will hold a conference in New York ‘City on November 12, and many local unions are expected to | participate. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oci. 25. — |It became known here today that the |Executive Council of the A. with William Green, p-sent. been meeting here secretly for tt jlast five days trying to decide how they will meet the rising demand of |the rank and file in A, F. L. unions for unemployment insurance. _Opin- jions of the council members’ rai {from open deflance of the member ship and no insurance plan allowed on the floor of the con jon, to a |plan proposed by the executive coun- |cil which can seem to promise some- thing without actually doing so. CORRECTIO: In the Daily Wo there appeared a news item on relief jobs in Reading, Pa. In this story it was wrol stated that the city | has a Sociclist Party administration. | At present ther is a fusion adminis- | tration in Reading. When the S. P. | was in office last year the unemploy- ed were subject to evictions, workers | arresting relief for the miners were | jailed and in general their actions | differed little from the present ad- ministration, of Oct. 21 jconference of the rank and file will | joined Ukrainian |} | Toilers’ organ- ization and succeeded even | in becoming its secretary. To- ward the end | of 1931 caused }a raid on an entertainme nt of the organ- ization (as | found out la- j{ter, turned over to the po- |lice a list of signatures collected for |the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, and caused the discharge |from the Steel Mills of about 40 | workers. | After being found out and expelled | from the organization, he left Gary, L,| and has since then turned up in Mc- Donald, Pa., where he is trying to enter working-class organizations to carry on his y trade, | JAMES W. FREEMAN, of India- | napolis, Ind. has run away with or- ga ion funds, dues, stamps, etc. | Ne ex-pugilist; about 30 years | of age, though he looks younger; 5 ft. 9 in. in height; weighs about 145 Ibs.; {has a broken jaw, small chin, rather dark, full forehead, sloping back at an angle; broad in shoulders, narrow in hip: He has a pleasing person- ality, deep bass voice and is a good mixer. He jerks his head when |facing an audience, is poor public | speaker, slow in his speech. | He disappeared shortly before the Hunger March in Indianapolis, tak- ling with him all kinds of funds. (at jleast some $60), dues, stamps and jother supplies. He also jumped a | $550 bail bond. Probably he will show up some- where else, under some assumed me, trying to do the same thing over again, and all workers’ organiza- tions should be on guard against him, WILL, REACH WORKERS IN SHOPS AND. 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