The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1933, Page 5

ibe Page Five A. F. L. MEMBERS HIT GREEN DRIVE ON FIGHTERS FOR JOBLESS * | International || Notes i | By ROBERT HAMILTON THE JINGO H. G. WELLS H. G, Wells, noted British novelist, | has been engaged in a war of words with the London “Morning Post,” in | which he endeavors.to play the hon- est pacifist. The columnist of the | London “Daily Worker” takes this occasion to reprint- some of the hon- orable. gentlehian’s. propaganda dur- ing the World ‘War. Here is one gem from the wartime writings of Wells: “Y was agreeably stirred by, the imegination of the shells smash- | ing the Emden (famous German | cru’ser) and the men inside the Emden.” . Three days after war was declared, Wells wrote in the “Daily Mail”: “Neyer was war so righteous as war against Germany. . . . That is why I, with my declared horror of | war, have not signed any of these | ‘Stop the War’ appeals,” In the “Daily News” Wells wrote: “I find myself enthusiastic for this war against German militarism .. - into this war we have gone with clean hands to end the reign of brutal and artful imperialism forever. .. . Now that we haye begun to fight, we will fight, if needful, until the children de of famine in our homes, until every ship we have is at the bottom | of the sea. (We mean to fight this) war to a finish.” Strange words, indeed, for the author of the “Outline of History!” | We recall this to warn workers of | the two-faced pacifists such as H. G. Wells, who ten years after the World War shrieks his anti-war attitudes | to the four winds, but keeps his | mouth shut about the bombing of | Irak tribesmen afd Hindu revolu- tionists, and who will whoop it up for murder again-when the next im- perialist conflict-breaks out. PLAINCLOTHESMEN BEATEN IN GLASGOW Ten policemen were injured, five being taken to the hospital, after a clash between. Glasgow police and the local unemployed, in which the police swung their clubs. One unem- ployed worker also was injured and removed to the hospital. A number of policemen in plain clothes mingled with the crowd, but were recognized as dicks. Their pres- ence provoked'the anger of the marchers and“hot scenes followed, the police having’ to beat a hasty re- treat. The marchers then re-formed their ranks and marched off to the | | ‘Lot's beat it; this is a working- class district. .You'll only find potato peels here!” — (From Hu- manite) tunes of bagpipes, Jéd by 600 ex-ser- vicemen and their band. The discip- line and militancy of the marchers deprived the police reinforcements of any excuse for attacking the demon- stration. 3 RESUMPTION ‘OF SOVIET-SPAN- TSA | RELATIONS MADRID, Jan. 6 (By Mail) —Nego- tiations are under way between Spain and the Soviet Union for the resump- tion of diplomatic relations between the two countries, according to @ report appearing in the “El Socialista,” organ of the Spanish So- cialist Party... As soon as friendly relations are rey imed, it is announced that Span- iy . shipyards-.will. begin building a number of large ocean-going passen- ger and cargo vessels for the Soviet Union. The report states that a Soviet commission is now enroute to sh to arrange: final details of this ee ee RED ION GAINS IN és GIA ERFURT, Germany, Jan. 2 (by mail)—The shop council election at the Thuringian plant of the Rhein- in Soemmerda re- r victory for the revolu- tionary trade union opposition. The reformist list gained 342 votes or 28.1 per cent of the total vote, compared with 17.7 per cent at the last elec- tion. The reformists fell from 40.5 vo 37:8 per cent,’ and the Syndical- ists from 34 to 1 per cent of the vote cast. vote shows that the Commu- nists have been more effective, how- ever, in combatting Syndicalist illu- sions among the workers than in en- Ughtening thé Socialist workers in the plant. ge Postpone, Trial ‘of Norfolk: Unemployed NORFOLK,” Va.--Corporation court officials have postponed to the Feb- ruary term of court the appeals of Joe Benson and Roy Rudd, leaders of the unemnlayed, Woe, are now held peace on Feb 26 the, cases of Lew Seid- tan and Beverholdt, Negro workers in connection with the rent ee mail come up. They are those of ior Owens and Tom Williams, framed up for putting back furniture in an eviction. Ellis Ires, Ne worker, is already serving a jail term of 90 days on the same charge. Calls for Affiliation of Alteration Painters Union to T. U. U. L., By J. Bi KER, (Organizer of Downtown Local, Alteration Painters Union.) To prove to the rank and painters that the Alteration Painters | Union will not deteriorate, we should | affiliate with the only rank and file eentral body, the Trade Union Unity League. Under the leadership of the T. U. | U. L. we could broaden our activities | to a national scale and | unions not only establish local in New York and vicinity, but also in all cities and towns throughout the country. Only by broadening its activity will the Union serve the purpose of the rank and file and once and for} all stamp out the vicious attacks of | the bosses and get rid of the graft- | ing, corrupt labor “union” their gangsters. The Alteration Jainters’ Union is the only organization that is today organizing the painters through daily struggles for the bettering of their conditions. Our policy being the same as that of the T. U. U. L. in organizing both the organized and the unorganized on the jobs, it is the only body to which we can affiliate. fakers and GEORGIA ADMITS IT HIT TOILERS Herndon Verdict Is in| Hunger Plan (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) leading and supporting the struegles of the masses. both Nevro and white. for their immediate needs and for the abolition of the system of rob- bery and class-terror and national oprression of the Negro people. He declared; “Herndon has dared to defy us and make the imoudent. blatant statemert of the bardened revolu- tionist. telling us that he did not care what became of him. I ac- cent his chatlence. He amounts to nothinz as he has said. The damn- able Communist system which he represents Js being drareed into the light fer the first time in the State of Georgia if not for the first time in the United States. It is that whict we must kil because a tiny spark may set the entire country on fire.” Neero and white workers and sympathizers throurhout the coun- try must answer this attack on the | working class, this attempt‘ to crush |- its “Strueles against “starvation and to illeealize its political party, the! Communist Perty. with thunderous protests and fhe’ building of a tre- mendous mass movement for the re- lease of Herndon, and the squashing ‘of the charges against the Atlanta Six: Demand the immediate and un- conditional release of Herndon! De- feat the Georvia Slave Code of 1861! Demand the richt of free speech, press and open meetines and the right of Negro and white workers to organize tozether in struesle against starvation and ov- pression! Demand the ritht of the Communist Party and other work- ine-class organizations to eval existence! Demand abolition of the chain gana! Unconditional Free- dom fer the Atlanta Six! Stand for Equality for Negroes. For hours at a time, the assistant prosecutor attacked the Communist vosition on the Negro question, the Communist demands for full, uncon- ditional eouality for the Negro peo- nle and for sel*-determination for the Negro majorities in the “Black Belt”, The court room was prac- tically turned into a political forum. No attention was paid to the ordi- nary forms of a regular trial. The defense attorneys answered the Red-baiting of the prosecution, by boldly raising the class and na- tional oppression issues in the pro- secution of Herndon. Descriptions of the two horrible lynchines, from Georre Padmore’s book “The Life and Strugples of Negro Toilers” were read into the record by the-defense attorneys. A clear analvsis of the crisis of capitalism with its mass un- employment and drying up of in- dustry. and the fostering of race prejudice by the bosses to incite lynch terror against the Negro mas- ses was given by the defense at- torneys. Witnesses State Hirelings. In a direct attack on Assistant Sol- icitor General John Hudson, who had conducted the trial during its first two days, Attorney Davis exposed the fact that the state had no grounds on which to ask a conviction aside from race and class prejudice which it was attempting to stir up. The fact that all witnesses for the state are employed either by the state or county was stressed. “Not evidence, but preiudice is being stirred up by John Hudson”, declared Attorney Davis. “He can come here and preach a sermon—I think he is a preacher, anyway—full of empty words but he has no evidence that Angelo Herndon in any way at- tempted to incite to insurrection.” The prosecution of Herndon was conducted under an old slave law of 1861. Six other working class orga- nizers, two Negroes, and four white, including two white girls, are facing prosecution under the same statute. 2,000 FREE TWO IN ERIE file} SLAVE LAW USED ! | IN HERNDON CASE Need Action to Save Negro Worker! («CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) years on the chain gang on the basis | of this old slave code. “Whoever shall excite an in- surrection or revolt of slaves, or attempt by writing, speaking or otherwise to excite an insurrec- tion or revolt of slaves, is to be punished wiih death,” said the | old Georgia slaye-law. “Whoever shall circulate ... any printed or written paper for the purpose of | exeiting insurrection, revolt, con- spiracy or resistance on the part of slaves, Negro or free persons of color in this state... shall be guilty of high misdemeanor which is punishable by death.” The Georgia law defined insurrec- | tion as “res ity of master or state.” | against inciting to insurrection was | directed against any anti-slavery propaganda, and served the purpose of keeping the slaves in subjection. The law of the state was the great- eSt power of the masters. Disobedi- | ence to the master became insurrec- tion to the master’s state. Adjust Law to New Needs. The principle laid down in this | law is the principle of unconditional | subjection of working masses to the | Tuling class. The ruling class of | Georgia officially recognized this. | That is why, in 1866, in the post-! slavery days, it decided to continue the law on the statute books. It merely modernized it. It took out the words “master” and “slave.” It recognized officially the abolition of chattel slavery, at the same time recognizing wage slavery and the na- tional oppression of the people. the wage slave and especially to the doubly-exploited Negroes. not interfere with the continued identity of master and state. The ruling powers of Georgia could well afford to drop the word “master” from the law. This change gaye the | and yet it changed nothing; the mas- | ters of slavery days remained the | masters in the after days. For the workers, Negro and white, in the United States, and especially in the South, are slaves. And added ers, the Negro workers are ground down by a system of national oppres- sion, by which they are segregated, Jim-Crowed, thrown on the chain- gangs, lynched. Conditions in South. In the South the condition of the | jobless, is worst of all. Take Georgia: | everywhere unemployment, . every- where abandoned farms. There is scarcely. a handful of farm owners Jeft in the whole state. The farms have been taken over by bankers and big plantation owners in payment of debt; or they have simply been abandoned by Negro and white farm~ ers who could not scratch the barest living from the soil. On the planta- tions of Georgia today, overseers with guns stand over the Negro share- croppers and tenant-farmers, driving them to work like convicts. The Negro and white farmers of Georgia have been terrorized into submitting to theft by the landlords and bankers, even beyond the limits legalized by the system of share- the South. In Monroe County, some Negro farmers got through the banks, government loans amounting to se eral thousand dollars. These checks were brazenly confiscated by the bankers and rich farmers of the ter- ritory. More Robbery. The Farm Board bought thousands of sacks of flour and shipped it to the big plantation owners and mort- gage bankers. These, tn turn, sold it at high prices to the poor farm- ers and Negro share-croppers, al. though the flour was plainly marked: “Not to be sold.” Supporting this whole system of starvation and terror, is the chain- gang and the lynch rope—those two props of the rulership of the white landowners, factory-owners and the bankers in the South. In Atlanta, the capital of Georgia, unemployment has thrown thousands on thousands out on the streets to starve. Last summer, relief stations giving a few crumbs to 22,000 work- ers in Atlanta, closed down alto- gether. Shortly before that, the fak- ers of the Community Chest had col- lected over $800,000, in great part from the workers. But now they claimed they were without funds to continue even the miserable relief of the charity bureaus. The most militant workers, Negro and white, had formed an Unem-~- ployed Council. This Unemployed Council now issued 10,000 leaflets, exposing the fakery of the Commis- sioners and calling for a demonstra- tion. On June 30, 1932, Negro and white workers of Atlanta gathered before the county courthouse, and de- manded the immediate re-opening of all relief stations and immediate re- lief for the unemployed. ‘forced to Vote Relief. The next morning the County Commissioners, in fear, held a meet- ing and voted $6,000 to be used as relief for the unemployed. The white rulers rooked about for some means to smash the growing militancy of the workers, to crush the growing unity of Negro and white. They found the old slave code of 1861. They would use it to kill the organizers of the workers. Bala Assistant Solicitor John H. Hudson of the state of Georgia: “As ERIE, Pa—A demonstration of| fast as the Communists come here, 2,000 workers on January 17 com-| we shall indict them, and I shall pelled the city administration to re-| demand the death penalty in every lease two workers arrested for dis-| case.” tribution of leaflets and resulted. in| In July, Angelo Herndon, the 14 new members for the Internation- | young Negro leader of the Unem- al Labor Defense. ployed Council, was arrested on_or- Davis, Section Organizer of the| ders from State Solicitor John Boy- Communist Party, has been sent-| kin. enced to 30 days in jail or $50 fine| Anyone who still has illusions that for participation in a demonstration| the ordinary democratic rights of against eviction. free speech, press and assemblage are istance to lawful author- | to the oppression of the white work- | cropping and the crop-lien laws of | Negro | in the Daily Worker Drive? We ex-| It changed the application | pected to get the whole office force|of the campaign in the distri of the law from the chattel slave to| together to dig out the typewriters) The abolition of chattel slavery did | Tesult of the appeals for aid. law a more democratic appearance, )———_______ | | i | the Daily Worker: an old unemployed | The Democratic Mayor Cermak’s (Democrat and pal of Roosevelt gun thg’s armed with shotguns, which they used in shooting down four jobless workers who demonstrated with 2,000 others before the Lawndale Relief Station In the back can be seen a number of at 3123 South Kedzie Avenue. the: arrested workers behind bars. Party in Action WEINSTOCK, 8 | OTHER PAINTERS | ARE § SUSPENDED. | Council Buroer ats Act Under Orders of Green | conTinvED FROM PAGE ONE) { st committee referred to the question of Weinstock Black in regard to $s union m bership and uctivities, and predicted that this was a prelude to an efJort to an attack upon him and the Rank and File movement for unemplo: ment insurance, inner uinon demo- cracy, for the reduction of high offi- cial salaries, which has enlisted the support of more than 1,000 A. F. of L, local unions. Violate Union Rules Violating all constitutional Sions the nine delegates were s pended from the District Cou pending hearing of the charges. Dur- jing the discussion, which was fea- tured by the use of the most vile and |abusive language by certain officials, lit became clear that the exposure of the reactionary and corrupt actions of District Council and international | j officials of the Brotherhood of Paint- Drive Moving Slowly; Districts Must Act! < Where is all the ae action | and desks from the flow of contribu- tions we were sure would come in as| In- | stead, contributions have been com- ing in very, very slowly. Reports are the life blood of the | present drive. Reports, to be of any} value, must bring with them, not| Unemployed, But Sacrifices Home to Read “Daily” Here is an example of sacrifice for worker in the South actually gave up his home rather than stop reading the “Daily,” which bis daughters/| objected to. His son writes: j “You can publish this about my dad. My two sisters have been | living in Birmingham, Ala., about | ten years, and we 'n Florida could hardly live here in Fla., and so they wrote us to come to Birming- ham and stay with them and they would make a home for us. I only stayed one week. Dad he stayed four months and of course always read the Daily Worker, and they could not stand this. “My sisters are both workers in an office and they told him if he wanted to stay with them, then he would haye to quit the Daily Work- er, and when the reds had their meeting, dad wanted to go, and they told him not to go if he want~ ed to stay with them. Then they | asked him if he would give up his | good home with them for the Daily Worker, and he said, yes, and left for Florida. My sisters are strong church-goers.” | DISTRICT 6 ers in the strike of last fail before ome 500 members at the Mock Trial ara ——|held Jan. 14 had enraged the bu- reaucrats, The Detailed Charges The charges contain the following Fon’ practically every one of which | the hand of the Executive Council of the A. F. of L., and its colleagues in the Democrat and Re publican parties in the campaign to | oust the mil tt leaders and destroy MS the rank and file movement: They are S accused of slandering President Will- only money, but and also an analy constructive jis of the ¥ iam Gresn (this applies especially to Money is needed and the cam- | Weinstock; they are accused of slan- Painters’ Brotherhood officials pa’gn is moving so slowly that the life of the “Daily” is threatened. sing the General Executive Unless we all make this tremend- Board of spending $467,000 for “gen- | ous effort to raise the “Daily” out | ° nize a peri eS when the | of its financial crisis, the future |Uion was ng members by the thousands; anether charge of sla will be gloomy without it, ‘Ss based on the exposure of a st Get together—talk about the con-|‘ititment by Viec Precident Ackerly dition of the Daily—Do something | which called for three separate scales | about it. That means: contr bute, of wages and divided the membership; j collect! still another charge is that of ac- Distriet 2 (New York)—The Coun- cusing the Executive Board of trying Clubs, central body |to pestpone the national convention of 12 English Language clubs in New |hecause it is afraid of the member- York City, reports thas the clubs| ship. have adopted the program of the The charge that David Shapiro, Daily Worker Campaign Committee,|secretary of the District Council Five hundred lists have been dis-|*igned the strike “settlement’ with tributed among its membership of |Ack<tly, and spent $22,000 for pick- eting the wrong building, is also rated 750. ‘Total received Thursday Total previously recoréed - Total from all districis DISTRICT 1 irick, Portland, Me... T 2 d irom Waghin; The national character of the drive the militant membership and mployment insurance is em- phasized by stock attended the Rank and File Convention in Cincinnati ‘at the time lof the A. F. of L. convention, that "2 9 Tepres nted the Rank and File move- = 2100] ment o9|nine members are acting under the inst ructions of the Communist Party roy the A. F. of 'L. The Detroit Victory In ‘Detroit recently somewhat simi- “lar charges were preferred against 3|R. M. Kroon of the Painters Union, _—_| through the influence of a henchman 00) of President Green, Francis Xavier | Martel, president of the Detroit Fed- 15. eration of Labor. The charges were Unit Anonymous — H. Simonson, N.¥.C La Famille Waters, B, Burnett, N. I. Diamond — I. Schwartz — I, Flovmenhaum — Unit No. 19, Se From Staff of T. Jack Stachel Andrew Overgeard James W. Ford . L. Tath . Honig Eiste Newman Jean Barrish ea elt Total Distriet DISTRICT 3 Thronrhout District Office 1a | dismissed by the local union to which 100 Dr. Wm. E. Lee—Cleveland A. W._F. Steckel, Columbia I, N. Thomas—Barturion he belon; Deny Local Union Rights In New York the charges are delib- Total District 6 —___§ 4.00 DISTRICT 7 erately brought in the District Coun- V. Ke attle Creek, Mich. 1.00 cj] re they will be heard by the DISTRIC Executive Board and this prevent the Br. 38 — LW.0, — Newark. Be Marae Jerse Cle “Sllocal uinons, which support the nine | militants, pessing upon the charges Total District 14 § 3.85| acording to the constitution and by- granted to the workers of the United{ States, should read the articles of in- dictment against young Angelo } Herndon. Said the grand jury: | “The accused did call and at- tend public assemblies and mass | meetings, the purpose of said | meetings being to organize a | combination of persons, white | and colored. “The accused did introduce and did circulate papers and writings with the intent and purpose of inciting insurrection.” Brutal Treatment. It was for these “crimes” that young Herndon was made to stand trial for his life, Bail was set for Herndon at $25,000. He was held in Fulton County Jail, systematically starved, and treated, as he himself said at the trial, “in- humanly.” For days he was forced to stay in a cell with a corpse. The trial itself began on Jan. 16. It lasted for three days, and ripped open the whole system of wage-slav- ery, discrimination and Jim-Crowism | in Georgia, Negro and white. work- ers jammed the court-room to the doors, hanging on every word. In line with their usual policy, the prosecutor addressed Herndon, and the Negro witnesses called by both sides, as “niggers” and “darkies.” The defense protested. For the re- mainder of the trial, these terms wer barred. ‘The system of barring Negroes from one of the ordinary civil and constitutional rights—the right to serve on juries—was sharply at- tacked by the attorneys, two young Negro lawyers employed by the In- ternational Labor Defense. As in the case of Euel Lee in Maryland, and in the case of the nine Scotts- boro boys, the I. L. D. demanded the right of Negroes to serve on juries. The right was not obtained at this trial, but the basis has been laid for exposing the whole Jim-Crow sys- tem as applied to the courts. The State showed that Herndon had organized the jobless to demand THE ROAD A COMMUNIST NOVEL By George Marlen 82.00 RED STAR PRESS ». 0. Box 67, Station D, N. ¥. relief. ‘The State showed tha t|/®WS. ein Pe icaernnleg Herndon ‘possessed literature—liter- ake i ature that goes freely through the| The Rank and File Committee has \already begun to rally the local unions throughout the country against this new attack and states that the vic- tory in Detroit can be repeated by |mobilization in the local unions and making clear to the membership that |this is actually an attack on unem- |ployment insurance and the right of ‘the rank and file to Aight fo for it. conviction, a death sentence,” said the prosecutor. Angelo Tatton cone 2 the wit- | J AP A N ¢ V T ATTACKS STRIKE ness stand. He spoke, exposing the The State as a Commu- United States mails. showed that Herndon, nist, had advocated unconditiona: equal rights for the Negro people | and the right of self-determination for the Black Belt, where the Ne- groes are a majority of the popula- tion. “Stamp out this thing now with a) starvation of the Negro and white jobless, the miserable conditions of the workers, the oppression of the Negroes. He declared: “You may do what you will with Angelo Herndon, You may indict him. You may put him in jail. But there will come other thousands of Angelo Herndons. If you want to really do any- thing about the case, you must go out and indict the social sys- tem. But this you will not do, for your role is to defend the sy: tem under which the toiling ma: Ses are robbed and oppressed,” The all-white hand-picked jury | brought in its verdict. Eighteen to Japanese workers are carrying on @ | vigorous struggle against the rapidly worsening conditions of the masses, lcorrectly connecting up their econ- lomic struggles with the struggle against imperialist wars and working for the defeat of their own imperial- ists in the war now raging in the |Far East. Peasant revolts against taxation and seizure of their lands |for debts are also growing. Support Japanese Toilers In their attempts to crush the rev- the charge that Wein-- in Washington, and that the} (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | ‘MIMEOGRAPH SUPPLIES Weiveieee Proves Green Lied Before Black Bill Committee in Capital The following statement has been issued by Li uis Weinstock, National | Secretary of the American Federation of Labor Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief, regarding ‘he false statements made by | William Green, in Washington, Jan. press. ident of the American Federation of ! Labor, before the House Labor niftee on § r we National American Federation of Lat Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief has no connec- tion with the American of Labor is a deliberate lie. Lou | Weinstock is a member of the Ame ican Federation of Labor Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper- hangers of America, affillated to the American Federation of Labor, local | union No. 499 in New York City. He is a duly elected delegate to Pain ers District Council No. 9 represent- | \ing his local union. He is elected delegate representing his cal union to the A. F. of L. Trade! Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief, and is the duly | elected national secretary of the A. F. | of L. Trade Union Committee repre- senting 1,000 local unions affliated to the Americar eration of Labor in this countr Put “Labor Movement” On Record. | “Wm. Green, president of the A. F. of L. appeared before the Senate | Judiciary Committee on Jan. 5, 1933, and in his testimony on behalf of the | | Black Bill gave his unqualified sup j port and endorsement of the Black | Bill not only in his own name but jin the name of the entire labor move- ment. Amends Bill— or Bi ck Exposes Green. Louis Weinstock appeared before |the Senate Judiciary Committee on | Tuesday, Jan, 10, 1933 and exposed | the k Bill as the the “share-the-wo:k” plan unless {t takes in the following amendments— |no further reduction in s and the establishment of a minimum wage | These two amendments were sent in to Senator Norris upon his request. | Weinstock also exposed Wm. Green, stating that Green’s unqualified en- dorsement of the Black Bill without mentioning hours and wages is con- sistent with his previous policies hare-the-work” plan. | Weinstock stated very definitely | that the rank and file membership in the American Federation of Labcr is in absolute disagreement with the | of Labor Executive Council by giv- | ing its endorsement to the bill that would further lower the living condi- ti of the workers. “Put A. F. of L. Officials on Defensive. The amendments made by Wein- stock were supported by members of j organized labor as well as unorga- | nized. Wm. Green and the Executive | Council were forced in the defensive. After Weinstock's testimony they sent Hushing, legislative representa~ tive of the American Federation of Labor, to testify. Hushing in his tes- timony made a sharp attack on the Communists, He called Weinstock a Communist because he proposed that by adopting the 30-hour week, it shall include no further reductions in pay and the establishment of the minimum wage scale. Hushing said our trade union 'eaders. During the 1922 convention of the American Fed- tion of Labor in Cincinnati last | November, Weinstock led a crowd of Communists and tried to break into the meeting. The convention used them admittanct And shing. also like Wm, Green, gave unqualified endorsement to the b cf the A. F. of L. Trade’ Union Com- mittee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief, is not connected with the American Federation of Labor. Hushing Did A Bad Job. Hushing’s testimony was not satis- factory to Wm. Green, therefore, Wm. Green appeared before the Senate 18. G:een was forced to appear be- fore the House Committee because Weinstock, the real representative o! the rank and file had exposed him | before the workers of the United States, Instead of admitting that this is only @ maneuver on his mee eis he | INK |: PAVEE, 200 mente Machines § UNION SQUARE MIMEO SUPPLY 108 E, 14th St. Room 203 AL, 4-4763 Free Advice for Cudting’ Stensiis OPEN FROM 9 A.M, to 7 P. /RUSSIAN ART SHOP PEASANTS’ HANDICRAFTS Federation | legalization of | hen he endorsed the W. C. Teagle | policies of the American Federation | “Weinstock has been condemned by | Block Bill and stated that Weinstock | | Judiciary Committee again on Jan. | 18, and given wide circulation by the “In connection with the second testimony made by Wm. Green, Presi- — - pread slanderous lies against Wein- ock in his testimony whieh; was printed in all newsp The A, F. of L ie ‘Union ‘Committee for Unen sy ment Insurance and Relief, bes: 2¢ 1,000 local unions which are affiliated with it, receive daily the endorsement of many more loc: in their fight for unemployment in- surance, immediate relief, and in their fight against the racketeering {STIRS | NAD ACTION § BERLIN. WORKERS To Defend C.P. Center from Attack Sunday BERLIN, Jan. 20 (By Mail).—Ris- ng indignation is sweeping the pro- | letarian sections of Berlin over the outrageous fascist provocation plan= ned for Sunday, when storm detach- | ments of the National Socialist (Fas- | cist) Party will parade, under police | protection, in the Buelo Platz in front of the Karl Liebknecht House, head- |quarters of the Communist Party of | Germany. Today lightning demonstrations of workers took place in the Buelow | Platz in protest against the fascist provocation and the police attitude. Numerous protest resolutions “have been adopted in factories, The Com- | munist deputies. of the Reichstag | have made fruitless protests to th | police president of Berlin and the Ministry of the Interior, although |the latter admitted that the fase. | parade must inevitably appear -pro | vocative. The deputies informed t+ | police that the Berlin workers defend the Liebknecht House tncer | all circumstances. S. P. Press Silent Today's socialist press is absolutely silent about the provocation, but the bourgeois democratic papers pub sharp protests against the police er= mitting the parade. The “Acht. Ubr Abendblatt” writes: “The parddé is a deliberate provocation,” and warns the police that “terrible consequences may and, in fact, must ensue,” The “Berliner Tageblatt” writes: Of course, the fascist parade is an: un- equivocal provocation, reminiscent of the fascist parade in Altona last July which led to serious disturbances and |many deaths. If the police continue their permission for the parade, they cannot be exonerated fren blame for the consequences.” Hold Press Interview Today the Communist fraction in the Reichstag held an interview with the press, with the daily papers | strongly represented. The Commu- nist deputy, Olbrich, reviewed= the situation, pointing out that Sunday's event might be of decisive inmpor- tance in the development of the.Ger- man political situation. The fascist action, he said,is a deliberate provocation, felt assuch by the entire proletariat. Thesfas- cists are seeking to detract attention trom the internal crisis, he poimted out, by instituting a reign of terror. Many workers have already beem*kill- ed, worker's property damage@wand meeting halls raided. Sunday's ¢em- |onstration represents the crowning provocation, Olbrich declared. He sharply condemned the scandslous attitude of the police and infotmed | *| the press that the Communist Party is appealing to all workers to Gaffend {the Liebknecht House. : | Replying to a question, Olbricti de- jared that the Communist Party sternly rejected the weapon of” in- | dividual terror, relying on the s#@ap- jon of mass action. Whether the Party would call a strike would. de- end on the course of Sungey's | events, he said. LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING SUNDAY, JAN. 227 Sokol Hall, 358 Morris Ave. MAIN SPEAKER: C, A. HATHAWAY District Organizer, New York District, C. Pa U. BAL” MUSICAL PROGRAM twenty years on the chain-gang—in reality, a death sentence, for who can serve 18 years on the chain-gang and live! Smash Slave-Code! Now the bosses are trying to bring to trial, on the same slave law, the Atlanta Six—four white and two Negro workers, arrested in Atlanta in 1930 for organizing the toilers. Angelo Herndon must not be sent to the chain-gang! 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