The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 14, 1932, Page 3

if —} 7 ea g International Notes By ROBERT HAMILTON BROADWAY CRITIC IN MOSCOW Alexander Woolcott, noted drama- tic critic, is now in Moscow for his first visit. In an interview with the “Moscow Daily News” he declares: “Soviet Russia is the most exciting country in the world at the present moment. That's why I’m here. I delayed making this trip for two whole years, but at last I managed to get here. I’ve only been in Soviet Russia for three days, so I can’t pre- ‘tend to be an authority on its social and economic problems, But I'm seeing all I can, and I’m having a tine time.” SOCIALIST WAR PROPAGANDA ON GERMAN RADIO The German broadcasting system is closed to all proletarian programs or speeches. But the Social Deino- erats of Germany can use the radio for their programs. A sample of their programs shows us why. A memorial service for the German soldiers who fell in the war was broadcast from the Reichstag building in November, the program being carried over all the German stations. THE PRO- GRAM WAS ORGANIZED BY THE SOCIALIST WAR CRIPPLES LEA- | GUE. A Socialist speaker declared in his memorial speech: “We fell for Germany's splendor -.It must be beautiful to live through a real trench atack....My sword, so often viewed with joy.... Germany, I am ready!” This is the unashamed return of the German Socialist Party to the chauvinist war-fever of August, 1914. This explains why the German cap- italist government allows the Social- ist League to use the radio, Workers, discuss this with your Socialist fellow | workers in your shops! Schleicher Special Court Gives 10 Yr. Jail Term to Worker (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Dec. 13.—Pushing the ‘Von Schleicher offensive against the German working class, the Excep- tional Court at Waldenburg, Silesia, yesterday sentenced the bricklayer Seidel to ten years hard labor on a charge of resisting police as a mem- ber “of a riotous mob.” Seidel was & member of a crowd of workers which tried to prevent the eviction of @ sick worker and his family. In contrast to this savage sentence against a worker, the Osterode Ex- ceptional Court yesterday sentenced three’ fascists to only two years im- prisonment for throwing bombs on the premises of a Jewish tradesman The Duisburg Wxceptional Court, also handed out light sentences of six and jtwo months respectively to two fas- cists charged with deliberately set- ‘ting fire to clothing of political op- ponents. The government yesterday sup- \pressed until the first of January the Communist daily newspapers in the Rhineland and Ruhr, “Ruhrecho” in Essen, “Freiheit in Duseldorf, and. jthe “Sosialistische -Republik” in ‘Cologne. FARMER, MINERS DEMAND RELIEF Will March on Helena to State Legislature (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) But they made her unlock a base- ment, and the meeting started. ‘The Agency was afraid to call po- lice for another battle such as has been staged at) Chicago relief sta- tions before, and yielded to one de- mand after another. Relief Agents Get. Hungry. About half way through the meet- ing, the relief agents asked for an adjournment for lunch. The unem- (ployed delegates answered that Chi- cago. jobless had been hungry for months, and refused the request for ad: nt. eo aoe i “Lose” Relief Orders. | CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill., Dec, 13. ‘The unemployed council here is ar- ranging a big welcome and mass ‘meeting to hear the report of its delegate, a Negro, on the National Hunger March. Many are joining the unemployed which is fighting particu rly to make the local relief agents wy some attention to relief orders ed by jobless workers and pre- to the agency, after which nothing is heard of them. When the loyed repeatedly protest, they are usually told the orders have been open hearing last week brought. d, which heard in detail of many unemployed work- hunger conditions and f orders. It was brought ihe relief for Negroes is in a certain Mrs. Jones, ag iy e $92 i ine rc is to demand; “Where marriage certificate?” “Are @ moral life?”, etc. & Group of mine strikers on the steps of the general store in Wilder, Tenn. The operators called in the troops in an attempt to break the strike. TEXTILE BOSSES BACK GOV. ELY /Plan to Abolish Labor | Laws | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | Present basis in order to compete | with the minority. “Massachusetts is trying to com- pete with Southern mills which have practically no limit on night work for women and children, States with 55 and 6-hour laws do not enforce them and Alabama has | no limit at all. Massachusetts is | surrounded also by New England states which allow what our laws prohibit. The Bay State alone for- bids the work of women and min- ors in textiles after 6 o'clock while permavting them to tapos in al other industries up to 10 0’ . |. That the state labor commiss.cner is fully behind this new attack is known by the following quotation |from the editorial. He is only try- ing to put it over more smoothly: “ ,, , Examination of the state- ment Dy the labor commussioner would indicate that he and Mr. Kendall are not far apart. The commissioner favors a ‘conference and ‘parhaps experimentation by means of a brief moratorium on the 6 o'clock law to determine whether the ‘policy at present pur- sed by Massachusetts is the wisest | course for the immediate future.” The line of the employers is being | developed in preparation for the ses- sion of the state legislature in Jan- | uary, | The editorial concludes by stating | that: “The moratorium is proposed as | @ means of helping to solve the ugly dilemma which now confronts | our cotton textile industry.” | The “dilemma” is to be solved with new wage cuts, re-establishing night work for women, and bringing the children into the Massachusetts mills to increase the profits of the power- ful corporations in which /Crovernor Ely has large interests. Already in the Wood mill in Law- rence attempts are being made to | force workers to work 6 and 7 nights |@ week instead of five. The police forces are being pre- pared for suppression of workers’ re- sistance as evidenced by the recent | conference held in Boston by all dis- trict attorneys and local police com- missioners to prepare ways and means to prevent organization and suppress strike struggles. The American Federation of Labor officials are expressing “indignation” and foaming over this “double cross- ing” by the democratic governor whom they worked so hard for at the election. They are now searching for a new “messiah” among repub- lican politicians. The Boston Times published by the Muste influenced groups admit that over 50 local and State “labor lead- ers” supported Governor Ely but are now looking “for better men with real integrity,” etc. The National Textile Workers Union is fighting to expose the Ely scheme. It sent a protest delegation to the governor immediately and published its call to workers for unity in action aganist the employers. The National Textile Workers Industrial Union has called upon members of the United Textile Workers, and unorganized workers to join in mass action to de- feat the attack on social legislation. The union is mobilizing workers in the mills to prepare strikes against. any further lowering of their stand- ards of living. ‘The Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union in Boston has taken the initiative in inviting all workers’ or- ganizations in Boston to a conference January 29 to prepare united action. This should be done in each textile and shoe center in Massachusetts. A broad united front action mobil- izing the most determined mass re- sistance will make it possible for the workers to defeat this vicious scheme of Governor Ely and his bosses. Vote Fraud Pot Boil Over in Jersey; Grand Jury Indicts 113 NEWARK, N. J., Dec, 13—Vote frauds which came to the surface following the theft of more than 7,000 ballots “guarded” by police in the basement of the City Hall a week after the Nov. elections, resulted yesterday in 50 indictments naming 113 persons handed down by the Es- sex County grand jury. The jury made certain recom- mendations for change to be made in the present election system calculated to present the election frauds as an | isolated event, and to conceal the fact that such corruption is deeply rooted in capitalist politics and ex- ‘tends all over the country. “Here are those God Damned Com- munists again!” - Seven workers waiting for relief jumped up and offered to “knock hell out of” the fellow who objected, and he subsided. DAIL Y WORKER, NEW YORK, WED! NESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1932 Page Three WORKER CORRESPONDENCE | 1 recently. When the hunger marchers came ous in such a deliberate manner. Now I know the reason for this: I know a fireman who was depu- | tized as a “cop” during the march. He told me that when they were | being given instructions they were | told to try to provoke the marchers into a fight, and to use their guns, and “shoot to kill’. They were to “choose the leaders. especially”, Also a friend of mine was told the same identical thing by a regular cop. This proves that the police officials, Major Brown, etc., pursued a policy of de- liberately provoking the marchers, shooting them up, and then drive them out like the bonus marchers. It is thanks to the courage and great patience of the marchers that these hyenas in uniform did not get their aim and the marchers left this city victoriously, yet without any casual- ties. I went down to see the marchers in their camp. The first thing that struck my attention was the vicious and apparently deliberately savage attitude of the police towards these hunger marchers, Until today, I was not fully convinced that this savag- ery on the part of the “defenders of law and order” was deliberately or- dered and instigated by the police officials. I did hear and see the special gas squad upon the hill and the police guards near the “dead line”, in the camp taunt, curse, and in general use methods tending to provoke the marchers. The same taunting and brutality on the part of the police I noticed during the parade on Tuesday on Fourth and Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. One of the spectators crossing the street and was just about to pass the left flank of the police line that sur- rounded the Hunger Marchers like a ring of steel, when immediately he was attacked by two cops. He was knocked down to the pavement. About three more cops joined the other two and kept on beating this |man. The cops kept on barking at | the marchers like a bunch of savage blood hounds all along the parade. Yet I did not see a single marcher‘as much as utter # word in protest. It looked as though they clenched their teeth, but refused to be pro- voked. When the cops kept on shout- ing to each other, “Hey, Tom, where is my Hamburger?”, meaning a hun- ger marcher beaten up into pulps, even then all I saw the marchers do in response is sing louder and with more pep. ‘TOLEDO DELEGATE Worker Tells of Quiz- zing by Officials TOLEDO, Ohio.—I was elected to go as a delegate ‘to the National | Hunger March from Toledo in a truck with fourteen others. At Union- town our truck broke down. The truck could not be fixed but my | mind was set on reaching Washing- | ton so I hitch-hiked to Grandsville. I stayed there the rest of the night, sleeping in the jail. ‘That night, three city cops, Ww state coppers, two deputy sheriffs, two gouncilmen, the county mayor and one federal agent, came to ques- tion me. The federal man asked me if I was a citizen. I said no and that if he deported me I would carry on the fight in my own country, He said I was a Bolshevik, anarchist, and what not, I saiéI had been out of work 29 months, if that was what he meant. He got sore and left me with his bunch, E. Vv. Toledo Delegate, es Ed. Note—This comrade was mili- tant in his answers to the dicks, but should remember as all workers must. not to answer questions in jail. Every worker should read “Self-Defense for Workers.” We do not want to lose any more fighters than we have to as the fight sharpens. By studying this, workers will learn how to de- feat the frame-up system. A Congressman Meets An “Old Friend” and Is Tur ne d Down WASHINGTON, D. C.—Here are a few incidents around the Hunger March, ‘When some of the marchers were brought to the homes of sympathizers the cops made as much noise as pos- sible in order to try and arouse the neighbors, Representative La Guardia when he visited the marchers recognized the brother of an old acquaintance as one of them. He asked him why he was “messing in this crowd.” The comrade answered him: “I’m sorry T’ve ‘messed’ with them for only three years. I’m sorry I wasted so much time in other tions.” When La Guardia left he extended his hand which the comrade refused to take. A comrade saw some detectives Jaughing and moved closer to listen. One was asking the other, “Do you know whom I saw in that bunch? It was Bill. He actually told me he felt like life was new and tried to convince me.” 9 Y) me that the cops should be so vici-@ HAS VISITORS Was Order | Right now I am to the city, it seemed a little queer to Soldiers Help Bonus | Marchers onWay; Air} Corps Men Donate! We had a very successful trip by freight train from California to St. Louis, Mo, In our travels we had transport | |furnished us by U. S. Army Air-| |ports which donated tunds and | |food to us and transportation by air for 100 miles, dj The old soldiers in the army were very much interested in the Bonus March and wished us all| sorts of good luck and told us not | to forget and make Hoover pay the} Bonus. | All the old soldiers told us that | they were with us in our fight, as they were in 1917, but that they had a different class to fight the next time war is declared.—Vet. BONUS MARCHER HELD IN VA. JAIL Writes of Training of Prison Guards OCCOQUAN, Va.—Just a few lines to let you know that the comrades are in the best of spirits. Everyone is in close touch with the March at this jail. They gave some of the guards a@ special tear gas training to use against the marchers. In this prison near the Mason-Dixon Line | You can see the bitter hatred against the Negroes.’ There are about twice as many Negroes as white prisoners. Many of. the. Negroes even do’ not know of the Scottsboro case. But us- dex the circumstances I am trying to explain this to. them and organize them when they, get out. So that just goes to prove that no matter. the Red movement. Tam a-member of Post 191 Workers Ex-Servicemens League. I want to say that every worker who is not a member of the TLD should become one. We need this organization more and more and have got to make it strong. I hope comrades will write to me and send pipe tobacco if possible, Mail is censored and only one letter a week. I get out Dec. 29. | Charles Israel. Occoquan, Va. Jail. | Along the Line with | a Marcher; Mid-West WorkerWrites It Up In St. Louis, Missour! (Columns 2, 3 and 5) were greeted by @ band that played the Internationale and other revolutionary songs and 6,000 workers turned out to greet us. These workers marched to the city | hall and won relief for two hundred families and suspension of the toll for the National Hunger Marchers. In Vincennes, Ind., we were met by 200 cops. Salvation Army men who were made cops would not let us stop there. But a worker got on a telegraph pole and lit a sky-rocket. A greeting from the workers of Vin- cennes. ‘The one connection we had in Bucknell, Ind. (pop. 8,000) got busy and with the support of the miners and farmers prepared a place for us to eat and sleep. Here we had a mass meeting of 300 workers who gave us an enthusiastic send-off and pledged their support in the fight for unem- ployment insurance, In various mass meetings on the way, farmers gave us fruits and veg- etables and pledged their support. In Cincinnati we were greeted by 1,300 workers who had forced the city government not to interfere with us and to give us a place to stay despite the city’s first refusal, In Parkersburg, Va., we were forced to pay toll. The whole state militia was called out and terrorized tha workers. One comrade was sent out and he found # sympathetic worker despite our not having any organiza- tions here and he told him of a hall. This hall was secured and the work- ers helped us prepare the meal for the marchers. As a result of this action we were able to win this work- er for our movement and he is go- ed to help organize the unemployed ere, We could not stay here very long because we had a big jump to Cum~- berland. We arrived here and were lined on all sides by cops and not allowed to stop on the way. We were guarded out into the swamps and made to stay there until the next morning. Many comrades were sick from this capitalist reception of rep- resentatives of the working class. Harry Winston, . GREETINGS FROM A NEW MARCHER Td like to express my views om the meaning of the Hunger March to me, To me it shows the determina- tion of the workers to fight for their rights to live, no matter how hard they struggle, what hardships they suffer. This is my first experience in the class See loan where they ‘put us. they canit stop |" MARCHERS, WORKERS, AND VETERANS WRITE OF THE TWO MARCHES “Shoot to Kill” of Capital Police Head Fireman Deputy Tells of Orders to Worker Acquaintance | Writer Learns What Police Are; Hails March | Discipline WASHINGTON, D. C.—I am a Washington worker, working a little, making on the average about ten or fifteen dollars a week, despite the fact that I am skilled in my trade. I know what it means to be jobless because I was unemployed for almost two years straight until very Chats with Our Worcorrs From these letters from our Worker Correspondents we learn of the com- radely attitude of solidarity from workers and farmers, and from rank and file soldiers too, marchers. The by-standers also ad- mired the courage and discipline of the marchers in face of the flerce Provocation the officials practiced, Now our correspondents should write us of the reports of the re- turning delegates, how they are re- ceived by the local workers, what these workers think about the march, and what organization results from these meetings. It is important to get the opinions of the employed and part-time work- ers, particularly where the militancy of the unemployed has given courage to the workers in the shops to fight wage cuts and lowering of the stan- dard of living, DENVER PAPER SLANDERS MARCH Woman Writes of Ly- ing in Post Article DENVER, Colo.—tI am sending you a clipping. If the writer had to live like some of the Hunger Marchers, he wouldn’t write like this. (The clipping was a filthy lying descrip- tion of the Hunger March calling them sissies and morons and telling the old story of “gold from Moscow.” It was in the Denver Post.—Ed.). I buy the Daily Worker once or twice a week. It makes me so mad when I read how the poor people are treated. My husband hasn’t had any work for 36 months. Can’t sell any- thing. Too many people doing that. When some of the San Francisco Bonus Marchers came through here last summer I gave them some po- teto chips and bread as the stores were Closed. It was all I could spare. I stay away from meetings because of this, but I buy the paper. Unemployed Woman Worker. Ed.—This comrade should not only | attend meetings but join the Unem- ployed Council. The workers’ organ- izations do not just expect money Those workers who) can give financial support do so but the main thing is for each worker to be an active member of the fight- from workers. ing organizations. + Wash. Police Also Terrorized Local toward the | ® ‘WOULD ABOLISH ‘THE PROSECUTOR Taxes on Mines to Get! Jobless Relief Fund CROSBY, Minn. Dec. 12. — Emil Nygard (not “Mygard,” as first re- |ported) the Communist mayor-elect |here, has issued a declaration of po- licy for the first Communist mayor- alty administration. Most of the other city offices are still in the \hands of the workers’ opponents, but, | Nygard will rely on the mass move- |ment_ of the employed and unem- |ployed workers to force action on the | following: | | 1, Municipal relief without discri- mination and employment on civic | work for jobless workers. | 2, Abolition of the city prosecu- |tor’s office, which is used now mostly |to send workers to jail: and abolition of the police commission for the same reason. 3. $15 a month relief for each un- employed worker and $1 additional for each dependant., the payments lon the city debts to be stopped if ne- |cessary to raise the relief funds, and taxes on the mining companies to be |continued, for the same purpose, A |relief committee of miners, employed | and unemployed, to be in charge of | distributing the relief. ' | 4 Reduction of city officials’ sal- | ‘aries by 15 to 35 per cent, with a 30/ |Per cent reduction in the mayor's sal- | jary of $50 a month. | 5. No cutting off of light and |water from unemployed or partly | employed miners, the city to pay the |bills out of the $22,000 surplus in the |treasury now. What the Workers Want. | These are not just Nygard’s pro- gram they are the demands of the lorganized unemployed in Crosby. | Crosby is a mining town, the metal | mined being iron and manganese. | |Practically half of the voting popu- lation of Crosby elected Nygard, an avowed Communist in the face of a \slanderous, demagogic campaign by his opponents against “Soviet dump- ing of manganese.” Nygard’s vote was 529, against 660 divided between \his two opponents. Nygard himself is a 26-year old| miner, unemployed and a leader of | jthe jobless miners here, for tho last | two years. He is a strapping six- | footer, of Scandinavian descent. | Describe the Soviet Union. The biggest event in Crosby re- \cently, aside from the election of} |the first Communist mayor in the | United States was the mass meeting of miners from Crosby and. vicinity, | Sheridan County Defeat Gov. Rolph Frees 200 Bootleggers; Mooney in Jail SACRAMENTO, Cal., Dec. ernor James Rolph primed him: today for a generous gesture he will make tomorrow to prove that Cal- ifornia “justice” is not dead. This move, however, will not aject Tom Mooney or Lawrence Emery, the Imperial Valley prisoner, or any of the other working class fighters con- fined behind California prison walls. Instead, about 200 bootleggers will receive a pardon from the Governor on the day the repeal of the State Dry Law becomes effective. "We're going to give ‘em a fancy little document they can hang in the parlor,” said the Governor in regards to the bootlegger’s amnesty. But as far as the Mooney case is concerned the Governor considers that a closed book, R. R. BOSSES PUSH FOR WAGE CUT Men Urged to Build Rank and File Groups (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) its various agencies have put gov- ernment treasury resources at the disposal of the railways for payment of their “fixed charges” is shown by the Thiehoff report which lists total of $324,000,000 received from this source up to Nov. 1. Practic- ally every cent of this huge sum has gone straight into the coffers of the bondholding concerns. Not a cent of it has been used to increase employment in accord with the promise made last February, when the 10 per cent reduction went into effect, to put more men to work. On the contrary the latest figures show that the railway companies, be- tween February and August, drop- ped 111,000 men from their payrolls. Thiehoff Delivers Ultimatum Thiehoff concluded by delivering the following carefully worded but clear ultimatum to the rail workers: “We have simply directed your attention to the fact that the con- ditions in the railway industry are such that if a 10 per cent reduc- tion was in any wise justified a year ago, there can be no question that a greater reduction is justi- fied and necessary today... What we are proposing is that this dead- al March Supporters WASHINGTON, D. C.—When the marchers were kept from going fur- ther into the city and were forcibly delayed at Fourth St. and New York | Ave., I was among those watching. | In order to see better I climbed upon a tar wagon, whereupon a po- iceman ordered me to get off. I did. Then he took me to his superior officer and deliberately lied, saying that I had been inside of the tar wagon. He then grabbed me by my lumberJacket and attempted to make | me go home. Meanwhile, he was! threatening to beat the hell out of me. I refused to go home and climbed up a hill on the other side of the street. Another cop, who saw the other try to throw me out, told me to “get the hell away from here.” When I agen refused he went to the officer in charge. Then orders were issued ‘that everyone without a Press | permit, issued by the District Police } authorities, must get off the grounds. Then I started moving. But a cop,| who wanted to get “the little Jew-son | of @ bitch” for not going immedi- ately, came up behind me and told me that I wasn’t moving fast enough for him. So he hit me with his Stick. And it hurt. | The reporters for the capitalist newspapers saw this. I know that, because a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, the son of the Assistant Treasurer of the United States, told me he saw the cops try to run me away. But they didn’t say anything about the cops hitting anyone who wanted to greet the Hunger March- ers. —D. Cc. Come OnVets”,Writes W. E. S. L. Organizer WASHINGTON, D. C.—I ami send- ing @ call from Washington to every veteran who has a bonus coming to him to march for their back pay. We had backbone enough when we went to France to fight for Wall St. Certg@nly we should have backbone by ti with ard meet their here. real od enough to fight for ourselves in Washington. We must answer the police attack on the Hunger Marchers, in which there was a large number of veter- ans who came here to get their back pay that is due them. N. F, DOUGHTY, Commander of the Cincinnati Bonus Marchers and W.E.S.L. Organizer. JUST ANOTHER STUNT WASHINGTON, D. C.—I was one of the thousands of spectators who | viewed the Hunger Marchers, It galled me to see how underhandedly and sneakingly the filthy rotten dogs of police deliberately geared up their motorcycles, thereby letting out a deathly carbon monoxide into the faces of Herbert Benjamin and other, comrades who were leading the pa- rade. I was tenipted to run into (ae panks and warn the comrades, but was held in check by a fat cop, who held me under threat. This was only one of the instances of brutalities inflicted by the police which was observed by outsiders. The comrades in Washington helped i ) unemployment, country into a tremendous workshop, stories of famine, |Dec, 4, to hear Walter Frank on the Soviet Union. |filled to overflowing. As Frank told |of what he had seen in the Workers’ Fatherland, where right during the terrific unemployment in capitalist countries, the Russian workers, led ‘The hall was he Communist Party abolished turning the whole ever more and more factories opened and a continual rising stand- of living through their own control of industry and abolition of capitalist profits, the audience be- came enthusiastic. Destroy Some Lies. The woman who presided at the ing had been reading horror mothers killing starving children in the Soviet Union, which she found in Catholic propaganda circulated in the papers) As Frank destroyed these false-| hoods, one after another, she almast | cried, she was se relieved to get the) facts. The Frank meeting was the talk of | the town for days, and all workers say there should be a Soviet America. Frank went to the Soviet Union as an elected delegate of 4,000 members of the AF.L., on the May 1 workers’ delegation sent through the Frienge of the Soviet Union. He is an oftiem: in the building trades council of the | AFL. in Minneapolis, and is now on | a tour for the Friends of the Soviet Union. Frank, in his speech, called on the workers to give full support to the Communist mayor. Build s workers correspondence group i your factory, shop er neighborhood. Send regular letters the ‘Dafty Worker. Dear Comrades: SUNDAY, JAN. 8, 1933, MARKS THE NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAILY WORKER. These were nine hard struggle in the life of our paper. During these years, the Daily Worker bas made itself indispensable in the various struggles of the American working class. As the central organ of the nist Party, it has rallied the workers for the support and defense of the Soviet Union, It has constantly carried on To Ali Workers & Organizations! line date of Jan. 1, 1933 (the date of expiration of the present wage reduction agreement) be wiped out by mutual, agreement between us and thet, when any further change is made, it shall be made accord~ ing to the orderly processes of law, after calm deliberation, instead of having action forced on one side or the other, by virtue of a fixed expiration date.” In behalf of the railways and their Wall Street owners Thiehoff has presented the railway workers with the alternative of accepting the tailway for further confer~ ences on additional wage cuts lead~ ing to arhitratiog and wage reduc- tions under the Watson-Parker law, or of fighting. He has in effect dared the union officials to call on the membership for strike action. Thi- ‘Communist Mayor in Crosby Calls for Support of Relief Program Communist Vote in Montana Tripled in Last Election; Candidates in ed Only by Fusion of 3 Boss Parties "1775 RED VOTES | IN MINING STATE “Liberty Party” Shows | Capitalist Nature BUTTE, Mont., Dec. 13—The Com- munist vote in Montana this year | was over three times the vote in 1938, | according to figures for the state, just | announced. Foster and Ford, Communist can- didates for President and vice-presi- dent got 1775 votes, as compared with |the vote of a little over 500 for the |national ticket in 1928 State candidates on the Communist | ticket got votes ranging around 2,000, |John Makkale, Communist candidate |for supreme court justice was given }2,082 votes; Rodney Salisbury, Com- | munist candidate for governor has | 2,008 votes. | In Sheridan county, which in- | cludes Plentywood and is an agricul- tural and cattle raising region, the Communist candidates on the county ticket were beaten only by the com- | bination of the Republican, Demo- | cratic and “Liberal Party,” all three of which united on a single ticket. ‘The “Liberal Party,” Coin Harvey's party, which before the election called a joint convention with Father Cox's Blue Shirts “Unemployed Par- ty” and seems to have considered |merging with it, got only 1,449 votes jin the entire state, The Socialist Party, which boasted that it would obtain the largest vote in history in Montana, got 7,000 yotes. | Parade to Greet Ada Wright in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa—The Inter- |mational Labor Defense is organiz- ing a parade from the Broad St. Sta- tion starting at 7 p. m., Dec. 20th when Ada Wright and Carl Hacker arrive with the ashes of J. Louis Engdahl, to the Hungarian Hall, 1144 N. 4th St. where a meeting will be jheld in honor of the late national organizer of the LL.D, A local Scottsboro victory was |scored here when the Young Friends |Hall, 140 N, 15th Street was secured {for a United Front Conference of all \religious, fraternal and trade union bodies on January 19th, 8 p. m. ehoff knows these gentlemen. Fear of Rank and File Revoit Behind the wordy defense of the Position of the railways and finan- cial concerns, and the polite conver- sation between railway and labor un- jon chiefs between whose appearance no difference can be discerned, there lies the fear of a rank and file re- volt against further wage slashes which would have the pawer to pre- cipitate a nationwide clash between workers and employers which might bring down the whole tottering structure of pytamided watered stocks, bonds, notes and for which the rail workers are be- ing harassed and driven to new low living levels. This is the development that both railway company representatives and rail union officials fear in like meas- ure. To put over the wage cut with- out arousing mass resistance from the rail workers—this is the problem the union bureaucrats and com} officials are jointly trying to solve. HISTORY Ready tor Christmas Dec. 1982. presents, a dition FOR GIRLS and BOYS T claim that this is the first book of its kind for the youth of the world and that it is the only book which meets their greatest cultural needs in this revolutionary century.—W. M. B. SCIENCE and By William Montgomery Brown +d A $1.50 book for 25 cents, five copies for $1.00, stamps or coin; paper bound, 320 pp., 27 chap. Money refunded if after examination the book is not wanted and is returned in good con- , The Bradford-Brown Educational Co., Galion, O. years of Comma- Wale... 0 cic the fight Address City .. WORKER, 50 EAST ON ITS NINTH ANNIVERSARY Onward to A Biever and More Powerful Daily Worker! 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