The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1933, Page 3

A Glance at Districts in ‘Daily’Drive In today’s installment ef this analysis ef the situation in the districts three are considered, New York (2), Chicago (8), and De- troit (7), Tomorrow all the re- maining districts will be treated,— Editor, Tr financial drive for the $35,- 000 necessary to keep the Daily Worker alive has started, Organ- ization for the drive has been se- riously attempted in -three dis- tricts, New York (2), Chicago (8), and Detroit (7). Some activity has been reported from seven other districts namely philadelphia (3), Buffalo (4), Pitts- burgh (5), Cleveland (6), Kansas (10), Connecticut (15), Newark (14), Ne response to communications from the Daily Worker and no re- ports of activity have been re- ceived from nine districts namely Districts 1, 9, U1, 12, 13, 16, 17 ,18, and 19. A.detailed checkup of activity of all districts will be made throughout this drive. THUMBNAIL REPORT ON EACH DISTRICT Here is a thumbnail picture of the situation in each digtrict: DISTRICT NEW YORK; The permanent Daily Worker City Com- mittee elected at a mass conference has adopted a program some points of which are: representatives of the organizations, such as workers’ clubs, International! Workers Order, Icor, Women’s Council, Schules, Interna- tional Labor Defense, language or- ganizations, shops, _ revolutionary trade unions and A. F, of L. unions are to involve the membership of their organizations in the campaign; the drive to become part and parcel of the organizations’ every day ac- tivity and not a separate and distinct drive. All organizations to see that the employed and unemployed members raise funds also outside the organ- ization; organizations and shops to elect committees of three to re- main permanent Daily Committees. MONEY TO BE TURNED IN TO “DAILY” IMMEDIATELY Collection lists have been sent to central organizations.| The commit- tee urges money be turned in imme- diately; canvassing days are to be arranged in territories where cen- ters are located; lectures and affairs to be arranged immediately. The City Club Committe repre- senting 22 workers’ clubs in New York has pledged itself to raise $2,000. They have distributed 2,000 collection lists. Leading members of the New York language organizations have met and adopted a program. The Pocket Book Workers Indus- trial Union has adopted a program, elected a Daily Worker Committee and distributed lists, MEMBERS OF BUILDING TRADES JOIN DRIVE Sympathetic members of the build- ing trades unions have discussed and laid plans for the drive, Functionaries’ meetings on the drive have been held in Sections 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 11 and Long Island 9 and 10. Three thousand collection lists have been distributed to the Party in New York. Sections 5, 7 and 15 haye not taken up the financial drive. Bg Se ISTRICT 8, OHICAGO: A bulletin called the “Shock Brigader of the Daily Worker, District 8” will be'is- sued. It will give news of the pro- gress of the campaign in District 8. A conference of Party and non- party | delegates and sympathetic readers was to be held Sunday, Jan. 15, at People’s Auditorium, All deci- sions at this conference will be car~ vied out by mass organizations, Party members, language groups, ete., par- ticipating. A program of activities was to be adopted and committees elected to carry the drive. The Daily Worker representative reports an enthusiastic response to the drive. Hammond, Ind., arranged a mass conference for Jan. 15. Section 3 had @ conference on Jan. 8 but has not reported the results, Other sections in_ District 8 have respon ed with calls for meetings and con ences. ANOTHER CONFERENC! IN CHICAGO, JAN. 20 A conference of all workers and sympathizers of the Daily Worker will be held at Orchestra Hall, 3355 Oketa Ave., Chicago, on Friday Jan, 20. Workers in the territory are asked to attend. ISTRICT 7, DETROIT: The Daily Worker representative of the Dis- trict 7 reports the following: 72 DELEGATES ATTEND DETROIT CONFERENCE A conference was held on Jan. 6 with 72 delegates representing 40 or- ganizations present. The delegates with full authority from their mem- vers pledged District 7 to raise $2,000 ag its minimum quota. An executive committee of seven was elected. Con- ferences are to be held every two weeks during the campaign. Each organization is to elect committees of three to activize members in the drive. Four hundred collection lists have been distributed. TOMORROW—The situation in Districts 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 1%, 18 and 19. ~ NEWARK LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING SUNDAY, JAN, 22 Sokol Hall, 358 Morris Ave, MAIN SPEAKER: C. A, HATHAWAY District Organizer, New York District, GP, U. S.A MUSICAL PROGRAM: 1, W. O. Symphony Trio of { _ New York; ‘Newark Freiheit Geaangs | Ferein, AGREE TO STOP MINE PICKETING Officials of 2 Unions in Secret Sellout (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Siete aay cent wage-cut agreement (in actual practice this has become 22 percent) already signed by Lewis and Walker. ‘These maneuvers also expose the monstrous treachery of the Progres- sive Miners leadership, dominated by Musteites and Trotskyites, who, un- der the slogan of carrying on a strug- gle against the corrupt Lewis gang, are again surrendering to the oper- ators as they did on the question of the wage-cut. ‘The rank and file of the P. M. A.4 and the U. M. W. A. are against these sellout plans of their officials; they are beginning a move for a united front of all miners to compel the withdrawal of the troops a halt to the deputized gunmen terror and the release of 24 strikers now in jail on murder tharges, They are. starting to organize united efforts to provide relief and to prepare a state-wide strike April 1. Jobless Conference Jan, 24, The state conference on unemploy- ment Jan. 24 will give an additional impetus to this movement. Besides those already reported, nine Spring- field P. M. A. locals have elected del- egates to this conference. Locals in Springfield County and Women’s Auxiliaries are also electing delegates, as well as a number of U. M. W. lo- cals, Mass meetings are being held in mining towns throughout the state, explaining the situation and mobiliz- ing the miners to defeat the. con- spiracy of their officials. A mass meeting in Riverton, held |at the Town Hall, resulted in the organiza- tion of an Unemployed Council of 250 members, and’ ja meeting in Thayer organized 100. Meetings are being arranged in Pawnee, Pana and other towns. Webb, a delegate on the National Hunger March, and captain of the local Bonus [Expeditionary Forces camp, was arrested on a vagrancy charge. He was bailed out and re- arrested on a warrant issued by the sheriff of Christian county on “riot- ing” charge. Threaten Foreign Born. In Fulton County the immigration authorities are threatening to arrest foreign-born miners, members of the P.M. A. Throughout the coalfields the miners have enthusiastically greeted the news of the Chicago solidarity demonstration, held in | front of the office of the Peabody. Coal Co. on Jan. 7. A truckload of food is beihg shipped this week from Chicago to Christian County. All donations of money, food and clothing should be sent to the Workers’ International Relief, 2457 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago. LL.D. Again Offers Aid. NEW YORK —With the terror against the striking miners of Chris- tian County continuing, the Interna- tional Labor Defense, in a second wire to the Progressive Méners’ Union, has offered the membership @ united defense front, with the re- sourees of its national organization thrown into the struggle against the murderous offensive of the . coal barons. ‘ The offer was made despite a pre- vious refusal of assistance by the president of the P. M. A, GC, E. Pearcy. The wire is as follows: “Despite previous refusal, we re- new offer to render eyery possible assistance in defense of miners and fighting Christian County terror. We offer working-class united de- fense front, Will rouse mass pro- test all over country, Offer Chi- cago defense counsel. Desperate- ness of situation makes necessary reconsideration of our offer, Min- ers need every defense. “W.L. Patterson, Nat. Sec’y, “International Labor Defense.” BRIGGS STRIKE ENDS IN VICTORY Workers Smash 20 P.C. Wage Cut (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) into all Briggs plants, and quite a few other departments began to line up with the tool and die makers. Result of Daily Activities This strike which was organized as @ result of the daily activities in the shop—this Strike which ended in vietory as @ result of the proper or- Banigational conduct during the strike and the building up of leadership and initative amongst the strikers— made it possible that the strikers went back organized, feeling them- Selyes as part of the Auto Workers Union, which is now being built, in the Briggs Manufacturing plants. is strike is of tremendous im- portance, preparing the strike to the maximum possible extent, Jobless Gave Support ‘The Unemployed Council was in- vited to elect a member for the gen- eral strike committee and to mobilize the Unemployed Councils to parti- cipate in the picket lines, As a re- sult of the decision of the strike committee, the Unemployed Council joined into the strike activities on the third day in the morning, and became part of the picket line, work- ing shoulder to shoulder with the strikers. The joining into the strike Forced Labor 65 Feet Under- ground St. Paul Relief Slavery Workers Risk Lives in Descent on Spinnning| Rope Into Sewer Men Complain; Unemployed Council to De- mand Stop of This gas bill. My rent is $15 per month. I was given a slip which entittled mé to three days work at 50 cents an hour, 8 hours a day. This would total $12; so you can see what way the balance would be after I have put on the best pair of stretchers I could find to pay the rent. Not realizing what kind of a job I was being forced into I, with 20 others, went down into the sewer. We were let down 65 feet through a man hole in the street by a cable with one foot in a rope loop hanging onto the cable with our hands at times spinning around like a top, bumping against the sides as we went down. One old man over 60 years of age became so dizzy his hands had slipped down on the cable and was just about to fall off when he reached the bottom, Just two nights before there was & cave in right above, where several men had been working with air hammers cutting down the sand stone and rock. So much of the rock and dirt came down, that it broke thru the floor over the sewer. The floor consisting of planks 2 inches thick, buried the air hammers and tools. This we were not told about before we went down. There are two shifts ,a day and a night shift, I was on the night shift. The hole, or cave, is lit by gas lamps called lanterns, Pieces of dirt and sandstone fall down continually. Any worker who is not used to such work lis in dreadful fear of a cavein every moment. The air is very foul, There were rats everywhere. We were taken up at 2 a, m, to eat our lunch, that is, those of us who had any to eat, it being to unsanitary to eat in a sewer. Most of us felt however that we would rather eat our few bites of lunch where we were than take chances on being raised by such dangerous means of trans- portation, There were ‘two or three bosses over us all the time, If any one was caught standing idle they were soon given something to do. The work consisted. of shoveling sand and rocks and pushing an extra large wheel- barrow. The men all expressed their dis- satisfaction with the job which is the worst form of forced labor. One night was enough for me; so I went COUNTY ADMITS FOOD RELIEF DISCRIMINATION BELLINGHAM, Wash,—It is re- ported that an old man who used to work for the Government in the Forest Service became in need as a result of unemployment. The County Relief department heard about it and because he had some friends who were “influential” some food was sent to him right away. But some bacon which was sent was plainly of inferior quality and the old fellow kicked on it. When the County heard about the old fellow kicking about the bacon they sent someone down there im- mediately to find out what was the matter, The official soon learned that the bacon was very poor and replaced it by bringing some good bacon. As the official made the change, he stated that a mistake had been made in this case. He stated that the bacon which had been sent to him was what is supposed to be given to those who do county relief work, Thus admitting that there is gross discrimination in the adminis- tration of relief. POLICE INTIMIDATION ON RELIEF JOBS IN PA, PORTAGE, Pa.—Forced labor is on the increase in Cambria County. More workers daily are added to the’ many relief projects at 35 cents per hour in groceries. The Unemployed Council had its County Hunger March in November to Bbensburg. There was a two-hour fight with the Commissioners that got two of its leaders on the relief, Generally the relief is not given to members of the Communist Party or any other re- yolutionary organizations. But the police are always attempt- ing to terrorize the workers. On Jan. 4, while I was at work, Patrol- man Bender walked into the shoe ‘and clothing department of the Johnstown forced labor relief, He knows me, so he asked the other two workers there if their name is Tom Rodgets, I told Bender my name was Tom R, He said, with me and walked out. I sat on the table where I was when he entered, and as. he got to the door, I said come back here. He didn't return, nor did I follow as he cot ded. So I sup- pose his mission was to make. sure | Cents and try to keep the other fellows in fear of uniforms.—T. a Auto Workers Conference which has as its main task to give leadership impendini of the unemployed workers under| and the leadership of the Unemployed Councils further ¢lectricified the spirit and served as a tremendous blow against the company and con- eretely demonstrated the unity of the empolyed and unemployed workers. This victory against the 20 per cent wage-cut iis being discussed and taken up in all the plants in the auto industry in Detroit, and in all working class neighborhoods where automobile workers live, organization to the iB struggles in the auto industry and to the growing movement among the auto unemployed workers for’ jobs id relief. The Briggs strike has concretely and correctly demonstrated the growing possibilities we, have if we| That only make up our begin to settle down to the building up of anti-wage cut tees, hil ances and feel that this is the only committees and elementary organi- The city of St. Paul and the United Charities are giving a little work to the unemployed on a sewer job in the down-town district. been getting relief for some time, also some rent on the rooms we occupy, the charity worker teld me she could give me a little work on this sewer job, and that I was to use the money to pay a month’s rent and the balance of the money I could apply on mye As T have and protested to the charity worker who argued the question with me for 10 to 15 minutes then finally said that I should get my slip signed then she would fix it up. Two other workers have refused to take work at all, and one quit after work- ing one or two days. Many of the workers are afraid to protest or re- fuse the work, as the relief station claims that they have no other work, | -~A St, Paul Worker, FOR SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION Letters on the following sub- jects will be published as a group in the Daily Worker, making spe- cial distribution at strategic places more effective: Friday, Jan, 20—Letters on discrimination practices against Negroes. Saturday, Jan, 21—~Letters from farmers, CONN, MARCHERS GET READY FOR MASS FIGHT NEW BRITAIN, Conn.—We had a meeting to report on the State Hun- ger March. They would not receive our delegates land said Governor Cross was away. This was a lie. So we went and shouted our demands in front of the state capitol and decided for a mass march from every city in the state. At the meeting many workers joined the Unemployed Council and one worker took the floor to thank the Council for going with him to the city officials, We forced the city to give him a quart of milk a day for his children. He joined the Council and urged all present to do so. This worker works one day a week and gets $3.20 on scrip which he has to use at the city store with prices three times higher than at other stores. ‘We are bending every effort to build block committees and also the cir- culation of the Daily Worker. There are a lot of Italian workers here and so please send us details about the Italian Communist paper.—J, A. TENN. ROAD WORKER FRAMED BY FOREMAN CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — This town has about 30,000 jobless and about 20,000 get 65 cents a week in groceries. The rest get nothing, If you open your mouth, you are called a Red and thrown into jail and put on the road gang. The police are trying to find the Reds working for the R. F.C, When we wait for the county truck, the police will not let more than five stand together, They say they don’t want no damn Red to get us all together, and start trouble. The road foreman found a Daily Worker on the job and called us all to- gether. He said if he didnjt find the man who brought it, he would turn us all out and take away our cards. One worker went up to him and said he would punch him in the nose, The foreman didn’t say any more and when we went in this man was arrested, The next day the foreman told us this was the man the job. The worker was framed up, he didn’t bring the paper. We would I brought it out there. We would like to get his man out so please print this in the Daily and some points on how to organize.—C. U, W. Editor's Note—This worker should send in his name and the gang he was working on so that we can com- municate with the Chattanooga In- ternational Labor Defense and start @ campaign against the terrorizing of relief workers. This worker should try, until he hears from us after sending his name, to organize the workers in his gang by talking to them and getting them willing to fight against the police spies and persecutions of the foreman. Talk to them and decide on an issue that all of them are ready to fight over and then get in teuch with other gangs and elect a committee repre- senting all of them and make the de- mands upon the officials but have the workers there to back up the committee. 6c AN HOUR IN PENN. WOOD CUTTING JOBS HAZELHURST, Pa.—Last Satur- day when we received our lousy re- lef checks, Mary Locke, the agent, called one worker by name and said he should be hanged. That must be eae ee oe ea favor . “The rich chemical companies are sending workers out to cut wood for chemieal extraction at a dollar a cord that used to get $235 a cord. Tt takes @ good man to eut a cord a day and to are cutting down on the flour with the excuse of increased demand and seareity of flour! The workers still think that Roose- friend of the ‘forgotten the | | work out new attacks on the masses of the people, higher taxes for | lower incomes, etc., his Tammany cops in New York gave these demon- strating workers in front of his house a taste of the “new deal”. system. “Capitalism can plan new attacks on the working-class, but not a way out of the crisis,” Browder said. Using the method of Marxist- Leninist analysis, ‘the Communist leader tore through Soule’s neatly- spun theories and laid bare their contradictions and class origin. So complete and convincing were Brow- der’s arguments that in his final rebuttal Soule, who is probably the leading bourgeois liberal economist in the country, was compelled admit that he found it difficult to find any flaws in Browder’s con- tentions. The rebuttal was in fact a retreat. Admits Hoover's Planning Flopped The debate was held under the auspices of the American Youth Fed- eration, William L. Nunn, professor ef economics at Dana University, was chairman. Soule- began by assuring his au+ dience that he was not defending eapitalism nor trying to save it. He then proceeded to speak approvingly of the “planning” schemes designed to save capitalism, though he ad- mitted that they were not in the interests of the working masses. The Hoover administration has adopted economic planning, he said, and then conceded that all Hoover's attempts at planning had turned out badly. As examples of economic planning, he cited the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which has given mil- liens to the banks, railroads and other corporations, and Roosevelt domestic allotment plan to raise farm prices, which Soule declared was ‘based, on the whole, on a fairly sound economic philosophy.” In his reply Browder restated the Subject of the debate to read: “Is a Planned Economy Possible under Capitalism?” He showed that the R. F. C, was effective not as a means to rehabilitate the capitalist system, but merely as an emergency prop to keep the entire structure from collapsing. Concerning Roose- yelt’s domestic allotment plan, which is similar to the Jones “parity plan” bill, just passed by the House, Brow- der said: “It proposes a state subsidy on condition that the farmer reduce his production, In other words, the masses are to pay the farmer double price on condition that the farmer produce less of what the masseg con- sume! This is the ‘planning’ of economic suicide, of a society in decay; furthermore, it will not post- pone the collapse, but hasten it and make the catastrophe deeper.” Soule, in typical liberal fashion, tried to minimize the true meaning of capitalist planning as attacks on the working-class and attempts to throw the whole burden of the crisis on the backs of the toilers. On the eontrary, he pictured eapitalist plan- ning as an “active factor in changing capitalism” and bringing about Socialism. Cites Pinchot Plan On this point Browder cited the plan of Goyernor Pinchot of Penn- sylvania to abolish cash relief and Substitute planned distribution of food by the state. Browder exposed the true character of fais plan i ting out that in tl way the Peels Ba capitalists and their state government will be able to cut the cost of relief from $1.10 per per- son per week to 41 cents a week for adults and 27 cents for children, Browder showed that the capitalist kind of “planning” is not bringing us nearer to Socialism “except in the sense that it is taking us nearer to 'The | the catastrophic collapse, out of the ruins of which will arise the planned economy of the workers.” He declared that only the workers ean provide the force capable of real planning, and cited the successful planned economy of the Soviet Union, He pointed to the National Hunger March, which he deseribed as a plan- ned action, “an exhibition of organj- zation and discipline as has rarely been seen in this country.” Basic Contradiction Prevents Planning Browder touched the core of the problem when he declared: “The basic contradiction of cap- italism, private property in the means of production, whieh splits up Society into the two chief oppossing classes, renders futile all efforts to to} ‘Earl Browder, in Debate, Spikes ‘Planning’ Hokum Proves Planned Economy Possible Only Under Rule of Workers Shows Boss Planning Means Attack on Toilers; Liberal Editor Forced to Retreat By A. B. MAGIL Earl Browder, secretary of the Communist Party, debating with George Soule, editor of the “New Republic”, Friday night on the subject, “Is Eco- nomic Planning Possible Under Capitalism?” exploded a@ lot of pretentious bourgeois theorizing and effectively proved that while the capitalists can do a lot of bad planning, no pianned economy is possible under the existing * plan. The capitalist class iteelf is unable to act as a unified class, It is torn by various contending groups and the only way one group can plan is by destroying other groups. This has been the history of the trusts. “Capitalist planning after the war, the introduction of various rationali- zation processes, carried out under the slogan of ‘scientific manage- ment, was a phase of the growth of the productive forces, but it did nothing to eliminate capitalist con- tradictions and crisis. Precisely the achievements of this kind of plan- ning brought the especially deep nat- ure of the present crisis. Expose Pragmatism. “Planned economy is possible only by the abolition of private property in the means of production, The best proof that capitalism . cannot plan is that now, in this emergency situation, it is not planning. All the evidence brought by Soule merely proves the capacity of the capitalists to plan new attacks on the working- class, but not a way out of the crisis,” In conclusion Browder demon- strated that all Soule’s ideas are ex- pressions of pragmatism, what he called, the “typical philosophy of the American bourgeoisie.” “This approach, he said, “is also typical of the technocrats. Pragma- DUNNE SAYS REDS! WIN CONDITIONS| FOR WORKERS. Exposes A.F.L. Agents | Before Senate Committee (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) regarding Dunée’s testimony e evidently angered by his t yesterday that they we violating their oath of office lowing Dunne and W Hushing insisted on entering in | | testify.) | the records his defense of Green and read from the records of the A, F. of L. Convention in Cinncinati the statements in reference to the s ‘ter work day, strike action, increase in wages, etc. Hushing also cited the record of the A. F. of L. Convention unseating Dunne at Portland in 1923 and defended John Lb. Lewis and the Officials of the United Mine Workers. Dunne again erupted don the ni Hushing introduced for the reco: the testimony of Dunne before th House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization last autumn c posing the bill for the deportation worker aliens who subscribed to tl program of or supported the Co. munist Party. Hushing introduced only extracts from Dunne’s testmony before this committee. Dunne proposed that the entire proceedings and testimony before this committee be introduced Hushing claimed Dunne’s testi- mony before the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization proved he was representing a foreign government. He stated, obviously on the defensivé, that the A. F. of L. had done all that was possible to serve the interests of workers and denied categorically that the A. F. of L. officialdom was serving t terests of the bankers and employ as Dunne had charged | Charges Without Evidence | He said that he would prove that| the Communists were financed by f the Soviet Government but he pro- duced absolutely no evidence to sub- | stantiate this charge. He said that the Communists were | responsible for the “trouble” in the Tilinois coal mines. Dunne ques- tioned his use of the word “trouble” and said that the Communists and the Communist Party were not in the leadership of the struggles of the miners in Southern Illinois, much to their regret, and that if he would read the Daily Worker of a certain date he would find a detailed criti- eism of the leadership of the Pro- gressive Miners Union. Hushing announced that John L Lewis would appear personally on Tuesday before the Committee to answer the charges made by Dunne. Hushing prefaced his attack upon the Trade Union Unity League andj its representative by proposing an amendment to the Black Bill prohi-| biting foreign goods produced “under forced labor conditions” from inter- state commerce. The exchange of remarks between Senator Black and Hushing on this point showed clearly that this amendment was directed against the Soviet Union. ‘The whole performance of Hushing was evidence of the bankruptcy and fear of the A. F. of L, officialdom of the militancy of the masses of the membership and of the influence of the Communist Party and the T. U. tism is the philosophy of the as-| 1, 1, cendant bourgeoisie, but when the bourgeoisie falls into a crisis, prag- matism also falls into a crisis. Pragmatism asks of everything the question; does it work? And if we ask the pragmatists the question concerning capitalism: doe sit work? we must say, no, it: doesn't, But if we ask concerning the dictatorship of the proletariat—concerning the Soviet Union: does It work? we must answer, yes, it does work.”” “Pragmatism is now of no use to the capitalists, but it is worse than useless to the workers. Those who want to control the future cannot wait till the future has become the past and they see it from behind, but must be able to see into the future, to know what it holds in store for them and to participate actively in helping to transform the future into the pre- sent.” une tae The capitalist press decided to keep silent about this debate, fearing to publish Browder’s exposure of cap- italists “planning.” Only the Daily Worker prints this and many other exposures of the bosses attacks on the workers. Rush funds te save the “Daily!” Turkish | Exile Warns of Fascist War Plans Against Soviet Union NEW YORK.—A militant Turkish worker, exiled from that country for his active participation in working- Class struggles, writes a letter te the Daily Worker in which he points out. that the eapitalist government of Turkey has carried on a vicious attack against the workers and peas- ants, and the Communist Party has heen declared illegal. Recalling earlier attack on the workers, the letter de- scribes the railroad strike of 1925, in which the workers won a 25 per cent increase in wages after a three-week strike. Although the workers fought against a terrible speed-up system and a daily wage of 30 to 40 cents in American money, the government initiated a vicious terror against the strikers, arresting seven of the lead- ers. A series of attacks carried out by the government in the strikes of the year 1929, in which many workers were arrested and imprisoned on long sentences, eulminated in the attack on the Communist Party in December, 1932, when seventeen members of the Party, including two women, and two members of the Central Committee, were taken pris- oners, The letter cajis upon the U. 8. workers to support their Turkish brothers, Speaking from his seat among the audience Dunne said: “The charge of representing a foreign government made by Hushing is a serious matter. Under certain circumstances this charge, which amounts to a charge of treason, is met with the death penalty, Communists are charged with treason for many other reasons but not for representing foreign gov- ernments, Such charges are merely an effort to cover up the delinquen- cies and failure of the A. F. of L. officialdom to do anything for work- ers. “Lenin orders,” cited by Hushing is an outstanding example .of the ignorance and desperation of the A. F. of L. bureaucrats. Recalls Sellouts .-Dunne said in regard to his rela- tions with the A. F. of L. that he was unseated at the Portland Con- vention in 1923 as a Communist and for exposing the treachery of the of- ficials of the United Mine Workers. He said that the articles in the Butte Daily Bulletin referred to by Hush- ing were simply copies of statements made by Lewis, Frank Farrington and Walker themselves during the course of an election struggle in the United Mine Workers. In the course of this struggle for control, Farrington charged Lewis with selling out the West Virginia strike for $750,000 in stock and cash Lewis in return charged Farrington | with selling out the Peabody strike in 1922 for $100,000. These statements by Lewis and Farrington, said Dunne, were made public by John Walker while he was the head of the Illinois State Fed- eration of Labor. Communists Win Conditions Replying to the statements by Hushing that the Communists and the T. U. U. L, did not want any favorable legislation or better condi- tions for workers, Dunne challenged Hushing to show where he could mateh the record of the A. F. of L. or any of its unions in the struggle for Unemployment Insurance, against wage cuts, against evictions, for re- Uef, with the record of the T. U. U. L,, the Unemployed Councils and the Communist Party. In the face of interruptions by Senator Black and his threats to eject him, Dunne stated that the A, F. of L, officialdom did not dare to defend their program before the workers. Answering the statement that the communists were using the sub-committee on the Black Bill as “a sounding board,” as charged by Hushing, Dunne asked: What else 1s it good for?” ig Dunne said that the T. U. U. L. would use al) available forces to fight the A. F. of L. attempt to establish the practice that only supporters of the A. F. of L. and the government could be heard in Congress, in the Senate and before the committees of these bodies. A. flock of American Federation of | Are You Leaving, Gents The unexpected departure of the two worthies in the above motion picture grew out of the suggestion of a mass of angry Iowa farmers, each with two fists, who learned what courts are, who owns them and how to handle them from reading the D: Worker. Joim the drive for $35,000, DOAK HOUNDS MARCH LEADERS Larson Held in Utah; Anna Block in Boston BOSTON, Mass., Jan, 15.—Mrs. Tillinghast, Doak Deportation Agent in this area, is trying to perfect a frame-up for the deper- tation of Anna Bloch, leader here of the recent Hunger March to Washington. Protest cards are fleoding the office of Mrs. Tilling- hast, in East Boston, demanding the immediate release of Block. SALT LAKE CITY, Jan, 5—On the eve of the Utah State Hunger March, Comrade Oscar W. Larson. ardent leader and militant t for the workers’ cause, was 1 by local police and United immigration authorities while lunchro near the workers in fa lun headquarters, eating a long postponed “coffee and” and jailed “for the U. 8. government proceedings.” Held on Doak Order developments of Comrade se indicate that he will be held so time. The bail is set at $1,000, which according to Depart- ment of Labor regulations must be backed by Liberty bonds 0 r a surety company bond, which has not as yet been raised. i Pending deportation A private hearing was’ held Wednesday before G. 8. Gower, fed- eral immigration inspector. A tran- Script of the proceedings was for- ;Warded “tif Secretary of Labor W. N. Doak, who will make the final deci- If and when a tion is issued by Doak, Comrade Larson will be given the opportunity to petition the leeal federal court for a writ of habeas corpus, Workers Demand Release Two local attorneys have been secured, one recognized as possible the best in Salt Lake City for a case of this kind The workers are determined to put up @ strong, militant fight to defeat the object of the state and the bosses in their endeavor to deport their leader, and will mass solidly tegether fighting until Comrade Larson, whose only crime is organizing the workers and fighting for the unempleyed thousands that they may have a better living, is released. Labor and Rail Brotherhood offi- cials were rallied to the support of the Black Bill on Friday morning as result of the exposure of the attitude of the A. F. of L. and of the purpose of the Back Bill made by Dunne and Weinstock. Many manufacturers ob- viously called. by Black, most of them from the textile industry, stated that they were in favor of the bill. The textile bosses supporting the bill were mostly those whose factories are. equipped with the most modern ma- chinery and they hope with the pass- age of such a bill they will be able to drive out of business many of their competitors not able to comply with its provisions. Admit Growing R. R. Jobless The legislative representative of the Brotherhood of Railway Train- men, appearing after a number of textile manufacturers, admitted that rationalization and speed-up gether with the crisis have reduced the number of workers coming under the jurisdiction of his organization in what he ealled “normal times” from 220,000 to 60,000. He said that trainmen must now have nore than twenty years service te hold a regular job, and that there are many members of his organiza- tion who have twenty two years of consecutive serviee on the railways that are unable to hold a regular run and are on the extra list. He syp- ported the Black Bill but stated that he doubted its effectiveness ip meet- ing present day conditions. K. F. Stout, Legislative reprenta- tive of the Brotherhood of Main- tenance of Way Employers, affiliated to. the A. F. of L., supported Green's endorsement of the Black Bill. He stated, however, that in normal times 400,000 men come under the juris- diction of his union but that today there were only 200,000 working. Senator Black especially welcomes employers and representatives of em- ployers’ .ssociations supporting his bill, It is obvious that the main line of Black and those supporting his bill which even a number of A. F. of L. officials talking off the record to newspaper men regard as “just an- other share the work plan,” is to strengthen the theory of the unity of the interests of the employers and workers in solving the crisis. “The struggle against militarism must net be postponed until the moment when war hreaks ent. Then it will he too late. The struggle against war must be cam ried on new, daily, henrly.” t LENIN, }