The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1933, Page 3

\] —— 4 ” Alabama ILD CALLSFOR ) DELEGATES AT NEW TRIALS BULLETIN NEW YORK.—William L. Patter- son, national secretary of the In- ternational Labor Defense, urged all organizations to support the plans for the National Scottsboro Tag Days, Feb. 25 and 26, in a state- ment issued yesterday. The state- ment points out the urgent need of funds to carry on the legal and \mass defense activities of the LL.D. in preparation for the new Scotts- boro trials on March 6, a 8 Lynch Plot Unest' hed NEW YORK.—Plans for a gang lynching of the Scottsboro Boys in event the courts find it impossible to carry out the legal lynching are un- der way in an organized manner in Alabama, the International Labor Defense learned last week. A “vigil- ance” organization, with ramifica- tions in several counties has been formed for this purpose, according to information received from reliable sources, William L. Patterson, na-! tional secretary of the IL.D. an- nounces. The first steps in organizing this “vigilance” committee were taken di- rectly following the decision wrested by mass protests from the U. S. Su- preme Court granting the nine inno- cent boys a new trial. The formation of “vigilance” committees was spon- sored by an editorial in the Huntsville | ‘Times, for two announced purposes. The editorial was immediately re- printed in the organ of the Scotts- boro lynchers, the Jackson County Sentinel. Intimidate Star Witnesses The first announced purpose was to see that Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, State's star witnesses in the case—one of whom has retracted her lying testimony of “rape” in-a letter) published last week—were well taken | care of, fed, clother ard housed until | the new trial. The obvious intention of this is to intimidate the girls, and | bribe them, so they would stick to their perjured testimony at the new trials, called for March 6. | The second announced purpose is to “keep Communists out of Hunts- vil'e,” supposing the change of venue brought the trial to that city. By Communists is meant not only mem- bers of the Communist Party but all representatives of the I.L.D. and all militant workers and poor farmers | rallying throughout Alabama to the defense of the framed-up Scottsboro boys. It was the Huntsville police who seized the letter of Ruby Bates in an effort to prevent it falling into the hands of the I.L.D., which is de- fending the boys. . Lynch Gang Well Organi With the growing uneasiness throughout Alabama in regard to the new trials, with the landlords fearful of the effects of the world-wide mass protests and the irrefutable evidence of the boys’ innocence, the Alabama lynchers have grown fearful that their courts will be: forced to release the boys. The “vigilance committees” of white landlords and bosses has be~ come an organization for the pur- pose of carrying through a gang lynching in case the legal lynch verdicts break down in the courts. As such, it has spread over several counties. ‘Urge Delegates at Trial The white and Negro toilers, and all persons opposed to lynching must increase their vigilance, must jnten- sify the mass fight to expose these plans of the bosses and prepare to give physical defense to the boys. The International Labor Defense is urg- ing the election of delegations from every working class organization, Ne- gro and white, throughout the coun- trg, to attend the new trials, and to form a workers’ jury. The presence at the trials of workers’ delega- tions from every part of the country will be the best insurance of the safety of the Scottsboro boys. TRY SOUTH RIVER WORKERS TODAY SOUTH RIVER, N. J., Feb. 19.— Nine defendants in the South River Strike case are coming up for trial tomorrow (Monday) at the Middlesex County Court House, New Brunswick, N. J., on various charges, including perjury, unlawful assembly, and riot, malicious mischief, and others, Framed Charges. Thomas Scott was arrested and is still in jail under a perjury charge, framed because of his activities in assisting the defense of the cases. Altogether, 27 workers were involved in the case which grew out of a strike of some 1700 needle workers in South River last summer. Around 50 armed thugs, hired by the bosses for the purpose of strike- breaking, attacked the pickets, killing a 9-year old boy and’ wounding four of the strikers. The enraged work- ers, whose number grew to about 8,000 besieged the murderers at the City Hall, where they were hiding, and kept them there till 1 A. M. “Rescued” by Troops. ‘Troops, sent by the governor, car- ried out the customary boss “justice”. ‘The thugs were liberated, while over 100 workers were arrested, of whom 27 were indicted. Necessary Steps. Necessary steps for the defense of these workers have been outlined as follows: A large attendance of work- ers in the courtroom to demonstrate solidarity with those on trial. Pro- test resolutions from all working class and sympathetic organizations to be sent to Judge Lyon, County Court House, New Brunswick. Fi- nally, immediate contributions for the defense fund to be sent to the 1. L. D,, 385 Springfield Ave., Newark, . | without any result. My savings di ; appeared as did whatever money I) DAILY WORKER, N vEW Bosses Forming International Notes By ROBERT HAMILTON COLLAPSE OF TROTSKYIST MOVEMENT IN GERMANY Some weeks ago we reported the} liquidation of the German Trotskyist | group, the “Left Opposition,” the ma-} jority of the group branding Trotsky as a slanderer of the Comintern and the Soviet Union—and particularly of Comrade Stalin—and taking a clear-| cut stand for the Communist Inter- | national, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the Communist Party of Germany. The manifesto of the majority reads as follows, in part: | “The majority of the Left Opposi- tion declares that it is finally break- ing with the Trotskyist movement) politically and organizationally . . .| Trotsky’s predicfions for the Soviet) Union and for Germany are bankrupt. | Trotskyist opposition in Germany has} come to the end of its rope. On| behalf of the majority of the organi- zation we herewith announce its li- quidation. “After Trotsky, despite all our warnings, used the cerasion of pub- lication of the book by an American philistine, enemy of the Soviet Union and Communist-baiter, Tom Camp- bell (big Montana wheat rancher), to call for severest “distrust of Stalin” and to proclaim “Stalin's impending betrayal of the Revolution,” childishly putting credence in the statements of this gentleman, our patients broke... “There is scarcely a problem of the international movement in which the Trotskyist perspective has not proved to be wrong: Soviet Union, Spain, Germany.... “Long live the Comintern, long live | the Communist Party of the Soviet) Union, “Long Live the Cormunist | Party of Germany!” | This has been followed by a tuther disintegration of the Trotskyist move- | ment throughout Germany. The edi- torial board of the “Rote Kurier” (organ of the Trotskyist organization | in Saxony) announces that it agrees with the majority and also advocates the liquidation of the Trotskyist group. The editors of ‘“Oktoberbriefe’ (organ of the Trotskyist group in the Sozialistische Ar eiterpartei) an~- nounced that their paper is ceasing | publication in conformity with their adherence to the majority decision. “Permanente Revolution,” organ of the ‘Trotskyist group, publishes © number of theses of the majority, among them the following: “The history of all factional struggles within and outside the Communist International has prov- | ed that the C. I. was right. There | is no place outside the ©, I. for | any other group alleging it is fight- | ing on the basis of the class | struggle. 1 |Seattle J obless in Defy | get rid of the hundreds of unem-| | seized street cars for rides to their | lent attacks, but thus far have failed | | the notorious, | staging 8 mass demonstration before | | fully, The leaders who opposed it are 7000 WIN MANY | DEMANDS IN CLEY. of Mayor’s Ban (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) tions for the state hunger march to{ Olympia on March 1 and to partici- pate in the nation-wide demonstra- tions against hunger on March 4,| when Wall Street puts its new hun- ger and war president, Roosevelt, into | its White House at Washington. Outside Workers Sheltered The city administration failed to} ployed workers who came into Seattle last week during the occupation of the city-county building. Hundreds of workers were taken into workers’ homes in East Madison. The Unem- ployed Citizens’ League in the Negro| district cared for three hundred, Force Free Car Rides. Many unemployed workers who} participated in the demonstrations homes. During the three days of oc- | cupation of the city-county building | the workers selected special corps to | keep order and everything was peace- | ful and conducted in perfect order | until the brutal attack by the police | and plainclothes thugs. Although plentifully supplied with tear gas the | cops were afraid to use it because | they knew they would face a con- certed defense by the thousands of workers, The mayor and the political lackeys here are trying hard to whip up a situation that will make it pos- sible for them to open up more vio- | because of the exposure of their every move by the workers. Will Defy Mayor's Ban Mayor Dore, js trying to emulate but now forgotten, mayor of Seattle in the days of the 1919 general strike—one Ole Hansen. Dore announces that there will be no more workers’ demonstrations in Se- attle. Tomorrow (Monday) the work- ers will defy this attempted ban by | the Japanese consulate. Militant United Front Growing With the sabotaging leaders of a section of the unemployed kicked out, and new leaders elected in whom the | workers have confidence, there is growing from day to day a powerful | united front of workers based upon | the militant action against hunger | The rank and file of every Unem- | ployed Citizens’ League participated | if now practically jsolated. DAVENPORT, Iowa—The editors of “The Left” a quarterly review of | revolutionary literature and art,| published here, have donated $2 to| the Daily Worker fund. WORKER CORRESPONDENCE DENIED RELIEF; GETS IT BY UNITED STRUGGLE | NEW YORK CITY.—TI have been} an unemployed “white collar” worker | worker for five months, I have a) to the Emergency Work Bureau. We |4.N wife and her old parents to support. During this time I have “haunted” both private and state agencies with| no result, Of course Tt had Spplied| at the Emergency Relief Committee; | there I was told to write. I did twice | could borrow, My straits becam desperate and 1 lost enough pride| to think of accepting charity, some- thing I have never done before. I went to the Unemployed Council, | Stated my case and they recom- mended me to the Unemployed Office | Workers Ass'n. Here I received the) first bit of encouragement I had had in months; no applications to make) out: no patient waiting: immediate action. ‘There was a membership meeting) that day and I attended. A protest meeting was held the following day in front of the offices of the Emer- Bency Relief Committee for the pur- pose of protesting the closing of re- gistration which means turning away thousands of unemployed starving) workers, I participated. | The committee, wnicn nad been) rebuffed at Relief spoke at the open air meeting, some addressing an audience for the first time. They told their aims and of their results. A petition was passed thru the audience | and 245 workers signed it. This pe-| tition which is to he presented to} the Board of Hstimate asks for $1) per day during the period of unem- ployment, free shelter for homeless workers, and free employment agen- cies. The failure of the committee to teach Mr. Mathews did not finish their work for the day. After the meeting the committee aczompanied | me to the Home Relief Bureau at) 201 Christopher Strect, Here they | demanded an audience with Miss) Goldman, the head of the bureau. After a wait I was admitted to het office ard when she heard my case she told me to fill out an application and she promised that my case would be Investigated in two days— the customary wait is several weeks. ‘This was done, I was given a food check, and promised a job. As a worker who has never before participated in any organized move- ment I realize now for the first time the value of unity amongst workers. It goes without saying that I am going to continue to firht together with these workers for what I feel 1s rightfully ours. | Join the Unemployed Office Work- ers Ass'n, 799 Broadway, Room bid WANTED TO REPORT NEW YORK.—Will Fellow Worker “X” of the Federation Bank please communicate with the Office Workers Union, 799 Broadway, Room 303? All information will be held con- fidential. CE, QUIET OFFICE WORKERS GET MILITANT. NEW YORK.—Recently an unem- | ployed office worker and myselt went | are both members of the Unemployed | Office Workers Ass'n and through | collective struggles heve obtained | some relief. We waited many hours | for these crumbs of charity and were disgusted. When we finally got on the street Wwe saw a militant demonstration of | nemployed needie workers. They, shouted the slogan, “WE DEMAND WORK.” We fejt these were our demands also and we joined in this | Militant demonstration. | Some of the officials looked trom | the window and recognized us—two | office workers participating jn this | demonstration. When we came there again we were told by some official, “I could not sleep. all night when I saw you.” My friend was given a new pair of shoes, which she had been demanding for weeks. It shows that they were anxious to “sooth” Eo CORRESPONDENCE GROUP MEETS TONIGHT The Worker Correspondence Group of New York will hold a special edu- cational meeting on Monday 8 p.m, sharp, at 114 W. 2ist St., Allen John- son, editor of the Hunger Fighter, will speak on the “Role of Worker Correspondence in the Revolution- ary Press.” All workers are invited. CHICAGO SHOE STRIKE SPREADS CHICAGO, TL, Feb, 19. — The third shop joined the strike here | yesterday noon; 75, all in the shop, walked out and marched to strike headquarters, Most are young workers, CHICAGO, Feb. 19—On the heels of the strike of 104 workers at the Fashion Bilt Shoe Co., 80 workers of the Rudolph Shoe Co, struck at 10 a.m, Friday under the leadership of the Shoe and Leather Workers In- dustrial Union, The strike is 100 per- cent effective. After walking out, the workers marched to the strike head- quarters of the Fashion Bilt workers five blocks away. Thirty-five women and 33 men strikers joined the union. The boss, Myer Rudolph, met with the workers’ committee and agreed to grant five of their demands including recognition of the shop committee, He refused, however, to grant the de- mand for a 20 per cent increase of wages, and the strikers are deter- mined to fight till this is won. The Fashion Bilt strike is solid and the bosses have been forced to start negotiations with the strike commit- tee, The Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union is making efforts to elie |; of New Brighton.” spread the strike struggles to other shops Districts Fail to Match Pace of Individual Workers and FROM DISRUPTING | Friday’s Total Is $366; Only 5 Districts Send Delegates in Philadel. Fair Amounts “Enclosed find $2 donated by the Working Women's Council of Roch- ester, N. Y. for the Daily Worker,’ | writes the treasurer of the Council. . From the Lithuanian Workers organization of Baltimore, Md., comes | $3, raised at a social and tea party | The Supreme Lodge of Lithuanians | of America, Branch 48, Minersville, | Pa., sends “a check for three dollars to keep the Daily Worker going.” .. . And from New Britain, Pa.: “Within you will find a contribution of $2 | sent to you by the Ladies Social Club | ... A student at} the University of Illinois at Cham- paign, Il, sends a dollar and writes, “The days of capitalist oppression are shortened every day that the ‘Daily’ | lices.” . . . And a Chicago worker, enclosing a dollar, writes, “I am con- vinced that the workers will not let the Daily Worker stop for one min- ute. We need the ‘Daily’ for the class struggle and we are going to have | itl” These letters prove that money can be raised for the Daily Worker, if | only sufficient effort is thrown into | this vital campaign. If the districts | and large mass organizations did as | much as these indivdual workers and small groups, it would take very little time for the $35,000 to be raised. | But the districts still lag behind | and fail to match (proportionately) the efforts of these small groups and | individual workers. | This can be proved by & glance at | Friday's donations, which totalled | $336.80. Boston, a fairly large dis- trict, sent in $3.50, just a half-dollar more than the small Lithuanian | Workers Group of Baltimore. Phila- | delphia also sent in only $3.50. Call- | fornia, New Jersey and Connecticut | sent in only $1 each! Fifty cents | | was the day's total for Seattle, and | rookin Pittsburgh and Minnesota sent, re- | spectively, 20 and 25 cents! And Buf- | falo and Detroit did not send even a | cent! ' The districts which enabled the | day's total to reach $366.80 were New | York, whieh raised $188.27; Chicago, | $116.27; Milwaukee, $19; and Cleve- | land, $17.81. Colorado broke a long silence to send in $10.50. | Districts must increase their work | ten-fold in order to make this cam- | paign a success. These donations from | workers and small organizations prove | that the Daily Worker drive can be | a success, if only the districts buckle down to real hard work, { * hig % | Total received ij. usin mtnnnnmnin$ 366.80 | Previously recelved <enannemnennnnnns 1028.23 | Total to date 095.08 | a V De Nauw A Blackwell J Arakalin 50 ‘TOTAL $3.50 Anonymous 35 TH to date $229.76 Collected by Unit 13, DISTRIOT 2—N. ¥. Section 2: W Weise 1.00 Borris . Sympathizer 1.00 Franolick 1.00 Royal Cafeteria, Kwaitkowsky 25 50% Proceeds 8.20 3 Benidoff a Isador Lerner — 1.00 Natl Ukrainian Bx Shoe Workers 0 Center 4.30 | 5.00 5 M Barah 1.00 Zukuntt Workers Club 4.80 J Canboris Brownsville Wkrs 8 Antoniadas Club 3.50 Anonymous Downtown Workers G Carausis Club 33 & Garg: 1 East Side Workel GA Stavakis 05 Club A Comrade 1.00 L Cette 1.00 | ¢ Unit A Edelson 330 Engdal J MoNutly 1.00 Two Shale 2, J Loeb oO Boro Park 3.63 Collected by Unit 16, R 10.00 Section 2: 2.00 F Parlanis 28 1.00 J Fragis 25 120 & Ostres 10 1.35 Collected by Unit 4, Section 6 20.79 Seetion 4: Unit 7, Sec. 15 10,00 J Votkos 10 J Gottited 0 M Platis 05 Unit 14, See 2 2.00 Crison 05; Unit 13, 8.28 Anonymous 210 Unit 9, See 2 6.00 -B Marpos 10 1.5 J Stroghila 10 6 10.00 QR E 235 Collected by Workers Sam Tesohin 2 School % Cohen 10 Ann Richards: Collected by Unit 2, I Ross 05, Section 2: 10 A Friend 1.00 Kay ig Collected by Unit 6, to Aid Paper | LH Waldman Valdman W Shearer A lf Luttman E M Somers H P Vicbner R Rubin Sonia Margolis Mandell 8 Buttler Hertzman 8 Buttler Fanny Menck A Luther F Berlaut hris Viayo: 25 , 10 10 0 100 ¢ Al Apner M Apner 19 2 0 1.00 f 210 1,00 2h 1.00 10 10 M Luther H Herbert Anonymous Anonymous “10 Anonymous 25 3 Worth: 10 A Syetts 05, a ly Fien 05 M_ Solofsky 25 J Stewart 105 J Haut 25 Collected by Unit 3, Robaff 25 Section 2 Collected by Unit 10, Anonymous 10 Section 5: Anonymous 05 Harry 10 A Worker 105 S Wassenburg 0s BR Isin M Shanholz I Silverman M Pherman M Klausner S$ Waserman S Shalita Gibtros M Mandell y Biondo Murray 2 Sparacino 25 Kirsh J Borden 0 Wosoft Collected by Unit 1 B Friedman Bly Section 5: Collected by tion 2 T Hionidis Anonymous Wndrot Anonymous Collected by Unit Anonymous Section 9: Patticis jolomon. Blank Turner G Diertot Friedman 8 Hergosheimer “25 Sarah | Strauss 10M Weinfeld Sam Gellman “10 Krenes L Allen 1.00 Collected t Collected by Unit 8, Se Section RB Dusk' B Constantin 1,00 _ J_ Gordon Papas 2h M Martorase Papas 210 -F Burns Ruchky 110 Leltman Markowits 115 Steve S Cohen Collected by TOTAL Section TH to date i Joseph Harway 1.00 DISTRICT 8 Collected by Unit ¥. Chicago Section 5: © Hough 25 E Meyer Loviteh 2 H Luke ‘15 Restaurant, - Collected by Unit 24, coln and Center Seetion 0: Streets 6.00 F Grieco 50 A Worker 10 4 Balino 10 Friend 10 3 Aila, Anti-Imperialist Worker LA Hurst LW Shirby Handmedaxian J Merdaxian oa Collected by Unit 8, Section 5: Mallet 25 Rouge 206 I Fiedman 15 W Ruby ‘10 Ray's Grocery I Stern ‘05. A Friend Nat Felerbers .10 W Forand M Adler 10 A Forand N Stanley l11 Cost Aollected by Unit 16, A Friend Seetion 5: A Friend © Gluckman 0 A Friend 10 Collected by Unit 2%, A Friend 30 Section 3: Section 7 35.00 J Rafteldt Freiheit Singing E Rattelat Society 11.35 E Witskop Section 5 rf in Section 1 7 E Raffeldt Albany Park Open Meindall Forum J Perin North Side Whrs Forum t G Ryeris West Side Jewish Wirs Club TOTAL si ection 3 a TU to date $4741.99 Collected by Wm. DISTRICT 8 Schilling Philadelphia S Goodman 50 TOTAL $116.27 TU. to date $610.06 DISTRICT 9 K Kousabrian Social Worker 00 T H Soott Minn. H Smythe Elmer Matson TOTAL Total to date § TH to date 310.36 PISTRICT 10K. ¢ DISTRICT 5 Lincotn Unit 1.08 Pittsburch TH to date $26.00 A Sokolsky DISTRICT 12 TH to date 37 Seattle DISTRICT 6 W_ Sparks TH to date s: DISTRICT 15—Cal Dane 1.00 leveland 2.00 East 78tb St. Block 2.00 Committee TU to date $109.65 J Meglin, tist DISTRICT 14 P Btark New Jersey Working Womens J Hallam 1.00 Club 2 TU. to dete st2.07 DISTRICT 15 Connecticut J Caristo 1.00 TH to date $124.90 DISTRICT 18 unit 1-14 A Dattoli J Stevens Milwaukee Geo Brink, Dist. Office 19,90 TH to date $95.00 DISTRICT 19 Colorade Collection at Lenin 10.00 Memorial meet J Hrdzich S Hochis T Pranich Anonymous TOTAL Total to date $19.72 | Brooklyn Mass Organizations On the Job To Save “The Daily” NEW YORK.—The 78 delegates of the 57 Brooklyn branches of work- crs’ organizations at the Conference To Save the Daily Worker, held yes- terday at Manhattan Lyceum, showed by thelr serious and determined dis- cussion that they realized planned work followed up by a consistent check-up, was the sole means of in- creasing the circulation and planting the Daily Worker on a sound foun- dation. ‘The report of the editorial depart- ment given by the city editor, Vern Smith, was a basic factual descrip- tion of the difficulties of getting out what should be an eight-page news- paper on four sheets of paper. Com- Smith showed story after story of the utmost importance and inter- est to New York workers that he was compelled to leave out because of the lack of funds for more printing. He showed the coming of tremendous struggles of the workers, and the absolute necessity of the existence of the Daily Worker to carry on these struggles for the life of the working class. Taking the delegates step by step through the composition of a work- ers’ newspaper, Smith brought home to the minds of the assembled dele- gates that lack of the necessary funds which made for many defi- clencies of the Daily Worker. The report of Comrade Franklin for the District Committee of the Daily Worker showed the danger- ously low figures of circulation was a result of the unsystematic methods of work carried on. He showed how for the last nine years “The Daily” was only able to exist because of the sacrifices made by the workers them- selves, and how only by bringing in| wide masses of workers in this pres- | ent drive would a successful conclu- sion be reached | Committee In Each Organization | Among the proposals brought in by | the District Daily Worker committee was the building up of a Daily Work- | er committee in each organ carry on work for the 1 funds, the building of carrier t and politicalizing the workers of the organization on the role of the Daily Worker, The greatest deficiency of the con- ference was the almost complete ab- sence of branches of the Interna- tional Workers Ordc-: and the Inter- national Labor Defense. The whole discussion carried on by the delegates showed that they un- derstood that it was the duty of each deletate to bring back a full report to their organization, and that they realized that only planned systematic work was required to build the Daily Worker. A committee of thirteen | was elected as a Borough Committee to supervise the work in Brooklyn. | Each member of the committee was to be personally responsible for a/ number of organizations and the cor- rect functioning of the Daily Worker Committee in them. This conference is followed by a conference tonight of all Manhattan organizations, at 7:30 p.m., at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth Street, and tomorrow night of allsorganizations in the Bronx at 7:30 p.m. at 891 Prospect Avenue i 3| Unemployment $1|t0 the hall. ‘Police Killed Husband | month in Yalta, Crimea, where she | | Was sent in an effort to bring about | YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1933 Page Three Lynch Gang in Sco ttsboro Case TOILERS STOPS. P.! Meet and Plan for Jobless Aid PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 19—The So- | cialist Party, the Hosiery Workers’ nion and the Unemployed Citizens : called a conference for Sat- Feb. 18, to offset the united front conference called by the Un- loyed Councils of Philadelphia unday, Feb, 19, arning of the conference called by the Socialist Party, the Unem- ployed Councils sent an open letter to Franz Daniels, chairman of the Conference, inviting iference to send 10 delegates a similar number of dele- resenting the Unemployed of Philadelphia, so that) joint actions can be carried ugh in Philadelphia around the ands: (1) Against the commis- | plan, (2) against evictions, (3) or adequate cash relief from the} city and state. | some th > P. Sabotages United Front. j Mr. Franz Daniels, who is also the! organizer for the Socialist Party conference in Kensington, failed to answer this letter, nor did any com- | mittee appear at the proposed meet- | The Socialist Party, together | the other organizations, pro-| ceeded with the plans for their con- ference to be held Feb. 18. On Saturday, Feb. 18, at the time scheduled for the conference, 135 | delegates, representing 78 working-| jclass organizations, including the) delegates from the Hoslery Workers’ | Union, Citizens Unemployed Protec- | tive League, A. F. of L. unions, fra-| ternal organizations, as well as| delegates from the Communist Party | and Young Communist League, came The delegates were in-| formed by the janitor that the ar-| rangements committee had cancelled the conference the night before. — | E. Kornfeld, the officially elected |delegate from the Hosiery Workers’ | | Union and a member of the original | arrangement committee has tried inj} every possible way to get in touch} with the various leaders of the So-| cialist Party, Hosiery Workers’ Union, | including Mr. Daniels, but none were | to be found. Thereupon, Kornfeld, | in the name of the original arrange- | ment conimitteé, opéned the confer- | ence and proceeded with the regular | electoins of the cominittees of the conference. i Conference Votes to Proceed. | While he was in the process of | electing the various officers of the| conference, Mr. Daniels appeared and | declared: “That the steering commit- | tee has decided to postpone the con- | ference for Feb. 26 and that they | will invite legitimate labor organiza-| tions. He therefore ordered the con- | ference dissolved.” The delegates, | pecially from the A. F. of L. locals) and Citizens’ Unemployed Protective | League, opened up on Daniels and/| told him that he could not make a fool of all these delegates, and the) conference voted to proceed. | After a thorough discussion of the problems presented the conference | voted unanimously for the following | four resolutions: Plan of Action. ! 1.—Endorsing the City Hunger March, which will be held Thursday, Feb. 23, at 12 noon from the follow- | g points: Tenth and Christian Sts., and Market Sts. 13th and Thompson Sts., to the Reyburn Plaza, where a delegation will be sent to) the City Council demanding appro- priation for relief for the unem-! ployed and against evictions. | Endorsing the State Hunger) Mareh to Harrisburgh on March 1.) 3.—Endorsing the struggle fer the| release of Tom Mooney, a8 well as| the National Tom Mooney Congress | to be held in Chicago April 30. | 4.—Resolution calling for united) front action of all working-class or- | ganizations for unemployment relief} and insurance, as well as the strug- gles against evictions. The conference then elected aj} united front executive committee | | consisting of two members from each } leity organization, and one from) | all other organizations and A. F. of | L. unions. Ernest Kornfeld of 2932) N. Sixth St. was elected temporary chairman of the conference. A com-| mittee of 10, headed by Kornfeld, was elected to go to the conference | ealied by the Unemployed Counetls, urging that conference to participate | in the united actions proposed. st Gonzales’ Wife Dead: NEW YORK.—Dolores Gonzales, wife of Gonzalo Gonsales, a Mexican worker who was murdered by New York police in June, 1940, died last her recovery from the consumption from.which she suffered at the time | of her husband's death, the National | Office of the International Labor De-~ | fense learned today. Mrs. Gonzales has been in the Soviet Union for two years, during which time the Soviet section of the International Medical Aid did every- thing in its power to bring her health back. She was under the care of physicians, in a modern sanitorium, since her arrival there. 662 Brond St. LITTLE THEA. Win Attention comrades of Newark! Now Playing ‘Comradeship’ (All English Titles) ‘The First Workers’ Picture from Europe AN EPIC OF LABOR Prepare Sea War | A ship of the U. S concentrated in the Ps ting the lowdown on the “Japanese Menace” to Morgan's Billions. Yes, they are preparing “another war to end all wars,” vy, now get- PRESENT WARS THREATEN WORLD Need to Stop Shipment of Munitions BULLETIN | LONDON, Feb. 19.—Beginning Monday, Lloyd's and other marine insurance companies will cancel all existing war risks on open covers and contracts on voyages to the Far East, and will effect a large inerease in war risk rates A clarion warning to the workers to intensify the fight inst the capitalist war-mongers is contained in the ominous developments in the war situation in the Far South America, in the fiercely ra trade and finance war and the fran- tic 2eal with which the United States and all other imperialist powers are rushing their war preparations and trying out the instruments of war- fare. Included in these sinister de- velopments are: War In Far East Sharpens. 1. The tremendous sharpening an explosive nature of the imperialist antagonisms over the division of the spoils in China as evidenced in the successful mobilization by the U. S. government of the League of Nations powers against Japan. These powers are now demanding that Japan per- mit international imperialist partici-| pation in the spoils secured by its bayonets in Manchuria. They fur- ther seek to throw Japan back to- wards the Soviet frontiers in an ef- fort to solve their contradictions at the expense of the proletarian power. Official War Declaration. 2. Preparations by the Para- guayan government to give the un-| declared war with Bolivia the “pres- tige” of a formally deciared war in order to pave the way for the entry into the conflict of the Chilean and Argentinian governments European Powder Barrel. 3. The setting up of ri ances by the govel alli- Italy 1 war of nts and France. The Frenc nd Brit- ish governments have vered a virtual ultimatum to Austria, de- manding the return or destruction of Italian arms which, with the con-+ nivance of the Austrian government, were being secretly transported across Austria to Italy's Hungarian allies. ‘The Italian press (supported by the German press) is attacking the note as a French document and as “an- other step in a gigantic anti-Italian| maneuver of the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Ru- mania) carried out with French sup- port. ‘The French press is declaring that “the Triple Alliance has been rfe-| born” and warning that France will} not tolerate any move to revise the infamous Versailles System Japan-U, 8. Friction, 4. Decisions of U. S. government to maintain the concentration of its entire Battle Fleet in the Pacific and to construct fortifications and naval bases in the Aleutian Islands, The danger of anoth bloody world war is now greater than ever before and this places sharply on the order of the day: The building of anti-war committees in the shops, on the docks and in the workers’ or- ganizations to stop the shipment of munitions, to defend the Chinese people and the U. S. R. and to fight agai war DANG imperia PERU COMMUNIST HEAD SENTENCED 10 DIE IN LIMA 7,000 Politicals in Jail Strike; Hit Boss Wars , Peru (By Mail)—Eudocio imprisoned secretary of Party of Peru, has , it Was an- today. nez and the other members of the t Committee of the Commn- Party of Peru have been tor- tured for months in the prisons here and are leading a hunger strike of cal prisoners in the Perv- a nist Anti-War Strike The strike was Called upon an- nouncement by the government of Se z Cerro th political prison- 1 were to be drafted Peruvian army and sent to there to be placed in the anks of the battles now go- between Colombian and troops, as screens for the ers into th Letic front known Communists, and of workers who support- anti-war program, were in Peru and Colombia at the reak of hostilities between the 9 countries, because of their mili- tant stand against Imperialist war The hunger strike started in the prison of Real Felipe, extended to nm, and then to Guadalupe d throughout the country. Prepare General Strike same time, the Commu- is preparing a general trike under broad united front tac- tics, which will mobilize thousand upon ¢ 5 of the political pris: gainst the hunger nchez Cerro. These going on under of extreme terror, with n Communist under ar force of 3.000 stool city of Lima alone rged with the task of provaca- tions xgainst the working class. Torture Prisoners The Central Committee members are confined in the Real Felipe jail, where they undergo the most fiendish tortures d They are kept in cells five yards below the surface of the ground, through which water is constantly running. From these dun- geons they are never removed. There are no hygienic provisions of any sort, and the food served to them is so rotten and putrified that it has made them all seriously sick. Rabinez is held completely incommunicado, and separate from the other prison- ers In spite of these conditions, Rabinez has found means of communicating with the comrades outside, and have sent out call, direct from these dungeons, calling for working class solidarity throughout the world against war, and for the struggles of the Peruvian workers. ACT TO SAVE LIFE OF TAMPA TOILER Protest Deportation to Fascist Mexico NEW YORK —Emphatic protest against the deportation of Jim Nine one of the Tampa Workers sentenced to 10 years on the chain gang, was wired by the International Labor Defense yesterday. Reports of hurried preparations for Nine's deportation have just come out. In this manner, it is the in- tention of the Labor Department to kill Jim Nine by sending him to Mexico, where he would face certain death at the hands of the Wall St. flunkies of the Mexican government, Energetic action by workers thru- out the country, and immediate pro- tests to be sent to Sec. Doak, are the only means of saving the life of this militant worker. Jim Nine was con- victed together with 12 other Tampa workers for their activities in orga- nizing the Tobacco Workers Indus- trial Union. Appeal action on his case has just been secured through a writ of man- damus compelling the convicting judge to sign the appeal record. Four he workers convicted are still in under murderous chain-gang tences. Two are in the insane ylum, unbalanced by unbearable sweat-box and other tortures ine flicted upon them. UNLESS YOU RESPOND AT ONCE TO THE DAILY WORKER’S CALL FOR HELP! USE THIS BLANK: AMOUNE. eee e eee eee teense eeeeaeeeseenenes Name...s.cceres AGAreSS. ..rcccccceccersevacsvcccevsctecs sibse OUBLA se aaee ane Rush all funds to the Daily Worker, 50 E£. 13th St., New York City, Grand Bazaar fer NEWARK, N. J. the Daily Worker | MARCH 11th AND 12th at KRUEGER’S AUDITORIUM