The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 18, 1933, Page 6

f Page Stx Published by the Compredatly Publishing 18th St., New York City, N.Y. Telephone Ine., dally except Sunday, at 50 B. |. Cable “DAIWORK.” Co. ALgonquin Address and mail chacks to the Daily Worker, 50 E, 13th St., New York, N, DE CESPEDES FEARS NEW STRIKES AS HE CLAMPS DOWN WALL STREET RULE “Workers Hold Out While Welles and Puppet President Work Out Schemes to Gouge New Sums to Meet Debts HAVANA, Ang. 17.—With the stril solid in many parts of the island, President de Cespedes admitted yesterday that his chief fear was of another general strike. to American Banks ikes of the Cuban workers remaining The whole waterfront of Havana remains paralyzed by the dock workers’ | Strike, and the Mauretania and the Franconia, large passenger liners, steamship aise wages | double time other demands | ers are still out in street car, bus | i bakers. Street | an ilway car and ra 1 are still out in| Camaguey | The Cuba Ni and Cube- American Ca any’s railways | xemain x are the ports of | Antilla, afa and ers | along the r | Raise Revolutionary Demands | Largely under Communist leader- ship, the strike holding out for their ecor nds, and raising ing of all re; onary unions, f the demand for ic- | tions on the re the smashing of & ‘ica’s imperia istic grip on the island, and for the) distribution of the land among the Peasants. President de Cespedes appeared Openly as a puppet president yester- day, when it was freely admitted in government circles that he had not | announced his new program because every detail of it had first to be] approved by Sumner Welles, the | American ambassadon, Prepare Tax Exactions The chief problem which de Ces- pedes and Welles are considering is taxation. The ruined small farmers are far behind in their taxes, which are crushing in size, and the first task the new Wall Street-de Cespedes regime has set itself is to gouge new taxes out of the workers and farmers to pay Cuba’s immense obligations to American bankers. Eyen if his program were ready and approved by Welles, de Cespedes Would still find difficulty in carrying it out, since a majority of the Con- gress and Senate are either out of the country or hiding in fear of their lives, because of their support of Machado, and it is not yet possible | to get a quorum to meet. Soldiers Hunt Out Porristas Meanwhile workers, students and Peasants had the active support of Soldiers of the Cuban army in the hunt for murderers of the Machado Tegime. Soldiers with machine guns @nd rifles covered the docks when dose Gans, a Porra leader, hid him- Self on board the American liner | Morro Castle, and were persuaded | With difficulty not to raid the ship. | Forty-two soldiers and two polite- | men were reported ured as a bat- talion of the Cu y besieged a house in Havana a large to be| former headed by @hief of police, The Porristas: had a nd Were fighting w ledge | that they could | Deadly New Bomber |: H ‘ A new t v Y than the Ohi, and equippe | f™ being tried o ‘Will be one of tr Wijable flying fi Tt} y's most for- is at- 0,000,000 to build types to | a new aircraft car- | > fier, and four sers equipped wi Tiying decks, part of the current} $238,000.000 naval building program, Which will be completed next year. “Go to Hell” Says Arms Maker Asked About War Orders ‘BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 17.—Mrs. Tudor, wealthy Boston Liberal, told to “Go to hell,” by John the Harrington & jarason Arms Co. in Worcester, she and Mrs. Ruth ey of Stoneham, Mass., at- ted to interview him on the War preparations going on in his alant. ‘Mrs. Tudor and Mrs. Mowrey, “members of the Women’s Interna- League for Peace and Free- , have been conducting an in- dent campaign of picketing fore New England munition fac- and attempting to get work- to sign a petition to Roosevelt for reduction of armaments. plans were widely publicized a time by the capitalist press, what they learned during their >, lences are not reportd. ,In a letter to the New England w@bor Research Association, Mrs. ‘udor reports conversations with yorkers at the Winchester Repeat- ag Arms Co. in New Haven, Conn., ‘ho said they were manufacturing 1 large quantities for war. The Werintendent, on the other hand, md them the plant was making ‘othing but sport arms, washing- acnines, skates, etc. He said They ‘ade nothing out of the last war ‘ad that the firm was now in re- ivers’ hands. This last was later enied and the workers gave the to the statement that no money id been made out of the war. The itendent admitted that the 4 sold gunpowder to South “merica. { “Help improve the “Daily Worker.” nd in your suggestions and criticism! *t us know what the workers in =" shop think about the “Dally.” |of Welles to protect American prop- | ert | lease of Joaquin Ordoqui and of oth- have | Workers’ Delegates Plan for Support of Cuban Masses) 35,000 Workers Repre- sented at Cuban Conference NEW WORK.—A protest to Presi- dent de Cespedes, who with the aid | of American cruisers is attempting to call a halt to the Cuban revolu- | tion by clapping down the Machado | trick of martial law, was forwarded | last night by the Emergency Confer- ence on Cuba, called by the Anti- Imperialist League Wednesday night | at Webster Hall. The protest was is- sued in the name of 175 delegates representing 122 workers’ branch or- | ganizations with a membership of | approximately 35,000, 60 units of the Communist Party and four units of the Y.C.L. More than 500 workers and organ- ization delegates took part in the meeting, which acted on the report on Cuba made by William Simons, national Secretary of the Anti-Im- perialist League. “The main question before Cuba} today,” declares Simons in his re- port, “is whether the regime of Ma- chado will continue after Machado has been forced out. | “The new government, backed by | Roosevelt’s cruisers, claims that the revolution is over. Will the masses stop at this?” asked Simons, giving a comprehensive review of the Cuban situation. Conclusive evidence was given by Simons of the powerful role the masses of Cuba, aroused in a general strike that paralyzed the island, played in the gusting of Machado. The masked intervéntion of the trusted imperialist representative Welles was shown to be part and parcel of the open military interven- tion which followed when the general strike of the workers destroyed the negotiations, The leading role of the Communist Party of Cuba and of the CNOC (Na- tional Labor Confederation of Cuba) in initiating the strike, and in pre- senting the demands of the workers to de Cespedes was emphasized in Simons’ report to the conference. In a resolution adopted and for- warded to President Roosevelt, the conference demanded: “Withdraw immediately from Cuba | the cruisers you have sent there.| And by withdrawal we do not mean| merely s ng them to the Guanta-| } base in Cuba. You have] cruisers to Cuba to safeguard e Cespedes government which you ve set up through the intervention erty in Cuba.’ | The resolution was signed by Rob- | Dunn, chairman of the confer- ence, and national chairman of the Anti-Imperialist League of the U Cespedes resolution was in foll r declaration of martial law is aimed to drive back to work those workers still on strike. We insist on the right of the workers’ organ- izations to exist legally, inckuding the Anti-Imperialist League, the Communist Party and the National Labor Confederation of Cuba. We demand immediate termination of martial law, and the immediate re- pa Bucle Daily cyorer’ Shall the Butcher Have His Way ? SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $: excepting Borough of Manhattan and Gronx, New York City. Canada: One 6 —By Burek British Prepare to Tighten Grip on Iraq Kingdom Massacre of Assyrians Signal for Plans to Intervene LONDON, Aug. 17.— Preparations for the tightening of British military control over Iraq were foreshadowed by the hurried return to London to- day of Prime Minister MacDonald, on receipt of reports of a massacre of Assyrians in Northern Iraq. ‘The London newspapers report that a rebellion of Assyrians, a Christian racial minority, had been drowned in blood by Bequir Sidqui Beg; Iraq commander in the north, who-is said to be pro-Turkish. Five hundred As- syrians are reported to have been massacred, They report at the same time that King Feisal, who was recently re- ceived with extraordinary ceremony by King George, is preparing to fly to Switzerland, “for a cure.” These reports imply a weakening of British influence over the coun- try, which is a rich oil field and a strategic British air base for an at- tack on the Soviet Union. Great Britain maintains an air force and supports a standing army in Iraq. Iraq was recently made an “inde- pendent” kingdom after having been a British protectorate since 1920. The deep dissatisfaction of the people un- der the crisis has given power to the anti-British influence of Turkey. To keep up a six-page “Daily Work- er,” the circulation must be doubled. Do your share by getting new sub- scribers. er imprisoned strikers.” All organizations present “agreed to draw up special plans for carrying the Cuban campaign of support to the American workers by means of open meetings and discussions, by sending telegrams and resolutions, and by collecting funds for the Cu- ban revolutionary workers. They also voted to support the mass meeting on Cuba which will be held tonight, Friday, at the New Star Casino. Machado FamilyUnder Guard in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 17.—Senora Elvira Machado, wife of the former Cuban President, her two daughters and their husbandr, and three grand- children were closely guarded in the Pennsylvania Hotel here, with armed men guarding the corridors and close- ly scrutinizing every person who enters the hotel. ‘They had intended going on to New York, but changed their minds and remained in Philadelphia, while 100 New York policemen waited to guard them on their arrival in New York. It was said they had been warned of danger from enemies of Machado in New York. Chinese Flood Peril Increases Big Area, Great Cities Are Endangered SHANGHAI, Aug. 17—The flood- waters of the Yellow River have got beyond control in Shantung province. General Han Fu-Chu, governor of the province, has sent warning to Kiangsu province, to the South, that the river is likely to flood both pro- vinces and regain its old bed, which it left 81 years ago. ‘The present bed runs northeast to aa outlet 300 miles north of the old. If it regains the old bed, whole cities are endangered. More than 900 square miles are under ten feet of water in Western Shantung, around the point where the new bed branches off from the old. ‘The Peiping-Hankow railway, the second most important railway in China, is inundated, and the main railway bridge over the river is un- dermined and may topple over. All traffic has been suspended, Nazis in New Attack on | Torgler Defense Plans Try to Get Names of Refugee Defense Witnesses LEIPZIG, Aug. 17.—Fear of the Nazi authorities in the face of the world-wide campaign in defense of Ernst Torgler, George Dimitroff, Vassil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff, ac- cused of setting the Reichstag on fire, is revealed by the attempts of Karl Werner, chief federal attor to get the names of refugee witnes: who have proved that Hermann Goer- ing arranged ihe fire himself. It was made public today that he had written to George Branting, leading Swedish lawyer, and Romain Rolland, French lawyer, members of an international commission of lead- ing lawyers and public men, who have gathered first-hand evidence for the public People’s Trial which will be held at The Hague simul- taneously with the Leipzig trial, ask- ing for their evidence. Most of the witnesses who can prove that Goering set the blaze were forced to flee for their lives from Jermany, and they and cheir test- imony are under the protecti»1 of the international committee. None would be safe if he returned to Germany, or even if the nature of his evidence were known to the German author- ities. First-hand evidence makes certain that the only way in which the in- cendiaries, and Marinus van der Lubbe, Fascist stool pigeon who was the only one reported found at the scene of the fire, could have got into she Reichstag is through the private passageway from Goering’s official residence. Publication in German papers to- day of Werner’s letters is the first official recognition in Germany that the Reichstag fire is widely recog- nized as # frame-up, as declared by the Communist Party, even by the bourgeois press and liberals outside Germany. A!l foreign newspapers carrying any news of these facts have been forbidden circulation in Germany. Anti-Nazi Week Dates Announced in Many Cities Other Cities Urged to Organize Drives NEW YORK.—The National Com- mittee to Aid Victims of German Fascism today made the following announcement: “All friends of the movement to aid the victims and demand freedom for the class war prisoners of the Hitler murder regime are requested to cooperate in the following protest and collection weeks: “Newark, August 14 to 21; Chicago, to August 20; Frisco, to August 21; Buffalo, to August 21; Cleveland to August 21; Philadelphia, to August 21 “Detroit, Rochester, Los Angeles, Grand Rapids, Trenton, Yonkers, Bridgeport, Denver, Erie, Toledo, Syracuse, Providence and other cities should decide upon protest and col- lection weeks for early September. “A protest mass meeting was held in Denver, August 12, with speakers from the International League for Human Freedom, I. L. D., Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, United Front for Unemployment In- surance, Communist Party and So- cialist Party. “Pittsburgh protest and collection week will be held August 26 to Sep- tember 5.” Gandhi Wins Point, Stops “Death Fast” BOMBAY, Aug. 17. — Mahatma Gandhi's “fast to death,” begun yes- terday, was ended today as the Bom- bay government granted him a few special privileges as a political pris- oner in Yerovda jail, Poona, where he is serving a year for “civil dis- obedience.” M.S. Aney, acting president of the All-India National Congress, was ar- rested with a party of Congress vol- unteers who refused to disperse when about to “commit an act of civil dis- ; 3 months, $2; 1 month, 75e, Foreign and $5; 8 months, $3. AUGUST 18, 1933 months, KENNEDY SCHEME AIMED — 10 THWART MOVEMENT FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE Workers’ Bill Asks Payment for Whole Period of Unemployment but U.M.W.A. Misleader ‘Lower Manhattan ne In an address before the secretary-treasurer of the Uni not turn back.” Mr. Kennedy, who > Asks for Only a “Number of Weeks” By PHIL BART \ of bublic Affairs, Thomas Kenned: ed Mine Workers of America, came forth with a program for “unemployment insurance.” .In his speech, which is printed in the August 1 number of the “United Mine Workers’ Journal,” he even says. “Labor having set its face toward unemployment insurance, will is high in the circles of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, is well aware of the “tupn back.” At the Cincinnati Convention of the A. F. of L. last year a resolution was adopted endorsing so-called state un- employment insurance. But it has been discarded for the “new deal.” The NRA, with its wage cuts, with the elimination of the existing relief rations has replaced even the lip- service of support for unemployment insurance. But Kennedy starts off, “The American Labor movement today stands four square for compulsory unemployment insurance!” Of course the American workers are swinging more and more towards the support of compulsory unemployment insur- ance!” The American Federation of Labor Commiitee for Unemployment Insurance can record some 800 locals and three State Federations which have endorsed the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill. This move- ment is gaining wider support in the ranks of the labor movement. This Jobless March to Relief Buro Today Conference Tomorrow; Jobless Women Form Federation NEW YORK.—A march to the Home Relief Bureau on Spring and Elizabeth streets to demand adequate relief, payments of rent and no dis- crimination against any worker is organized for this morning by local 2 and 3 of the Workers Committee on Unemployment. Workers on the lower East Side will meet at Rutgers Square at 10 a.m, At the same hour the Unemployed Council will gather the residents from upper East Side at 7th Street and Avenue “A” and mareft to the relief office. To develop a movement all over the city against evictions and relief cuts, a. conference was called on the initiative of the Greater New York Unemployed Councils for tomorrow at 10 in the morning at Irving Plaza. Letters were sent to all mayoralty candidates for the coming elections to appear before the delegates from hundreds of organizations and state their position on the “proposed Work- ers Ordinance.” This ordinance calls for the city government to assure “a base rate of $10 weekly cash relief for every couple, $7 for single work- ers and $3 for each dependent,” pending the adoption of .unemploy- ment insurance. Letters were addressed to Mayor John P. O’Brien, Fiorello La Guarda, Charles Solomon, and Robert Minor, respectively candidates for Mayor for the Democratic, Fusion, Socialist and Communist Parties. A meeting of 200 homeless women at the City Federation Hotel formed itself into a League of Homeless Women. An organization committee of 25 was elected with Margaret Kane as organizer and Margaret Meade, secretary. Temporary headquarters were established at the Neighborhood Center, 432 East 16th Street. Job- Jess women are urged to get in touch obedience. He was sentenced to six months in prison. with the organization at this ad- dress. Still More Communists Reported Lawyer Reports ‘Rote Fahne’ Editor and Others Will Be Made to Stand Trial With Torgler and 3 Bulgarian Leaders in September By WILLY TROSTEL, FTER the German authorities had maintained silence for weeks re- garding the trial in connection with the Reichstag fire, several partly contradictory reports have recently reached the public. First the foreign lawyers from Brunn and Strassburg, who had of- fered to defend the accused, were in- formed that they would not be per- mitted to act as defending counsel. The Leipzig Court then announced that the preliminary investigation was concluded and that the trial would take place ‘in the first half of September. Shortly afterwards the Bavarian Minister for Justice, Frank, declared that the trial would not take place until December, and stated at the same time that Van der Lubbe could not have set fire to the Reichstag alone, although he did not repeat the charge hitherto brought against Torgler, Dimitroff and the other ac- cused. On the other hand, the “Berliner Boersen Zeitung,” which is more or less the official mouthpiece of Vogt, the investigating judge, reported that the trial would nevertheless take place in September. But this paper likewise spoke only of the trial of the incendiary Van der Lubbe. Final- ly, the Leipzig Court announced that it had appointed official Aefenders It is obvious that here we have to do with a tactical move and not a real retreat on the part of the Nazi authorities, who calculate as follows: As ever wider circles of prominent and world-famous newspapers, schol- ars, artists, and statesmen have taken up the cause of the innocent victims of the Reichstag fire frame- up, and ever broader masses are be- ing mobilized on their behalf, it would be unwise to talk a lot about Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff and Ta- neff, as this would only further the campaign for their rescue. More Commutists Accused It is not a case here of a retreat on the part of the Nazi criminals. On the contrary, all reliable news ‘in connection with the judicial mur- der which is being prepared indicates that the number of the accused’ is being increased. The fact that.the prosecuting authorities are endeavor> ing to involve Werner Hirsch; the: former editor of the “Rote Fahne,” in the trial, who was arrested at the same time as Ernst Thaelmann, is. sufficient evidence that here an. at= tempt is being made to stage a mon- ster trial. This is also confirmed by the statement which the investigat- ing judge, Vogt, made to the Bul- garian lawyer Detcheff, who has been instructed by the parents of the there are other accused. The lives of Comrades Torgler, Dimitroff, Taneff and Popoff are in serious danger. The statements of the Bulgarian lawyer Detcheff are exceedingly alarming. They were published in the “Anti-Fasvist Front” of July 28, and read as follows: Lawyer Goes to Berlin “I went to Berlin in order to ob- tain from the accused permission to act as their defender and in order to inspect the dossiers. went to the investigating Judge Vogt, and requested permission to speak with the accused and to see the dos- siers. Vogt replied that the prelim- inary investigation was already at an end and that I must apply to the Public Prosecutor in Leipzig. “I went to Leipzig but the Public Pros- ecutor told me it was not true that the preliminary investigation was over, and that in addition to Dimit- roff, Popoff, Taneff and Torgler, there were other occused. The in- vestigation was still going on, he said, and only Vogt could decide whether my demands should be granted or refused. “I therefore went back to Berlin and made a fresh request to Vogt, who informed me on July 18 that the matter rested with the Public Pros- ecutor. ... It is clear that they in any case warited to prevent me from seeing the accused and the dossiers, because they were afraid I might find proof of te innocence of the accused. Forbidden to See Taneff In Berlin 1) pad accused Bulgarian comrades to de- fend their sons. Vogt said that, in for the accused. Fa \ f tt \ ae \ i 3 | addition to Torgler, Dimitroff, etc. “But I refused to give way and went once again to Vogt. On the same day he went away on his sum- mer vacation, while Dimitroff and Torgler were lying in iron fetters. I therefore spoke with Vogt’s rep- resentative, to whom he had referred me, and declared to him that accord- ing to Paragraph 137 of the German criminal code, foreign lawyers have the right to act as defending counsel in Germany and to speak with their clients. But my words fell on deaf ears and I learnt from Vogt’s rep- resentative only the terrible fact that a few days previously Taneff empted to commit suicide, but had been saved by the prison his lit doctor. “He refused to reply to my ques- tion in what way Taneff had at- tempted to commit suicide and what reasons had induced him to make this attempt. I was very excited and requested that I at least be allowed to see Taneff, if only for a moment and without speaking to him. The investigating judge declared that this also was out of the question.” Taneff’s fate is now the fate of thousands and thousands who are being tortured behind barbed wires, behind prison walls, on whose lives attempts are made, which attempts sometimes fail and then the victims are rescued by the prison doctor. What happened to Comrade Taneff yesterday can happen tomorrow to Comrade Popoff, to Comrade Dimit- roff, and Comrade Torgler. And if by a miracle they neither commit “suicide” nor are “shot while at- tempting to escape,” then a trial awiats them which is being prepared by an unscrupulous band of forgers who have at their disposal the pow- erful means of a huge State ap- Paratus. ‘ Accused in Reichstag Frame-Up Maneuvers of Nazis Reveal Fear of Interna- tional Wrath at Frame-Up—Intensified Cam-): paign Can Free Victims of Fascists Prompt aid, which can only be ren- dered by a powerful international mass movement, is necessary. “People’s Trial” At the Hague It was a splendid idea to arrange a trial by a people’s Court in the Hague at the sane time as the trial in Leipzig. The preparation of this trial alone has rendered inestimable service to the cause of our innocent comrades. But in addition, if this action is to be effective, the factories and trade unions must be fully mob- ilized, huge meetings must -be held and the streets and squares must re- echo with the campaign. Lawyers, writers, and workers del- egations must go to Germany. The German Consuls, the German Ambas- sadors abroad must be allowed no peace; they must be bombarded with petitions, besieged by delegations. Nazis Forced to Maneuver Nothing is farther from our thoughts than to harbor optimistic illusions. Nevertheless, we sce that the Nazi authorities are compelled to resort to maneuvers, to issue con- fusing reports in order vo frustrate our campaign. The fact that Com- rades Torgler, Dimitroff, Taneff and Popoff are still alive and that by their innocence they constantly re- mind Goering and Goebbels of their guilt in connection with the Reich- stag fire, the fact that these com- rades have not been simply killed by the unscrupulous tools of Goehring and Goebbels—all this proves that these gentlemen cannot simply ig- nore public opinion, The trial is bound to lead to their exposure; on the other hand, if they kill the pris- oners who ace now in their power without bringing them to trial, they will expose themselves still more. The more insistently public opinion calls them to account, the greater will be their embarrassment; and finally there will be no other course left open to them than, with a hu- manitarian gesture, to release the prisoners. Workers Can Free Communists This will happen all the sooner, the more powerful the world move- ment for the release of Comrades Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff and Ta- neff becomes. In our fight for the release Of the victims of the Reich- stag fire frame-up we are faced with a relatively small clique of Nazi lead- ers. They, on the other hand, are opposed by millions and millions. Millions of voices mean also millions of fist:, And those who yesterday called for the rescue of Torgler will tomorrow call for his revenge. A tremendous responsibility rests upon us, It demands upon our mob-] ilization work when our imprisoned comrades Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff will be freed and when German Fascism will receive its first mortal blov; is the reason wy Mr. Kennedy comes to the rescue, not’ to support the movement for which the work- ers “stand four square,” but to do everything possible to disrupt this movement. Only Words—No Actions If this were not true then we must ask, why is it that neither the In- ternational Executive Board nor you as a member of it, Mr. Kennedy, have carried on ‘any activity towards mob- ilizing the miners in the campaign for the adoption of unemployment insurance? On the contrary, threats are made against whole locals and. individual members who are active in this nation-wide movement to gain compulsory unemployment in- surance for American labor. Every move of the members of the A. F. of L., of which the United Mine Workers are a part, to organize sup- port for this movement is met with expulsions and even physical attacks. Do you expect any worker to believe your words when your actions point in just the opposite direction? Kind of Insurance Now, let us see the kind of unem- ployment insurance and. social pro- tection the secretary-treasurer of one of the largest unions in the A. F. of L. proposes for the workers? In the first place, he discards from the outset any form of sociab insurance in case of sickness, old age, mater- nity, etc. He even adds the cate- gorics to his exemption list “those unwilling to work or .those on strike.” In other words, if a worker is offered a starvation wage and re- fuses to accept it, he is “unwilling to work” and not eligible for unemploy- ment insurance. Those on strike are not to get support, but their exist- ence is dependent on the care given by “their own labor organizations.” Contrast this proposal -with the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, which states that-“No worker shall be deprived of unemployment insurance because of refusal to take the place of strikers or to work for less than union rates of pay.” How Much? Now, how much benefit is to be given and for how long a period? Mr. Kennedy answers, “The amount of benefits to be paid.and the num- ber of weeks during which they shall be paid must depend upon the local conditions in each state and upon the amount of contributions paid into the fund.” This labor misleader proposes to pay on the basis of "local conditions” and for a period depen- dent on how much the state can provide. Just as the NRA, he wants a much lower standard for the worker, What a vast difference between this proposal and the concise meage ure proposed in the Workers’ Bill that unemployment insurance shall “guarantee the average wages in the respective industries and territories in the United States.” But in no case shall it “be less than $10 weekly for adult workers and $3 for each de- pendent.” And it further emphasizes that this be paid “for the entire period of unemployment.” One would expect that’the least » “labor leader’ ’would ask for is rep- resentation of trade unions and other workers’ organizations to administer the fund. But this would be asking too much from an A. F. of L. bureaus crat. Mr, Kennedy wants “the ad- ministration of the scheme of unem- ployment compensation and the ree sponsibility for the keeping and in- vestment of the unemployment funds to be in the hands of a state commission, either a special commis- sion created for the specific purpose or an already existing state commis- sion or department of labor.” Let the department of (anti) labor which breaks strikes and deports militant workers be in charge of distributing funds to the unemployed. . Of course he wants an “advisory board” for la- bor. . But the Workers’ Bill demands “That the unemployment. insuranee fund shall be administered and con- trolled by the workers through unem- ployment insurance commissions com- posed of rank and file members of workers’ organizatiovs.” > The actions of Kennedy, Lewis, Green and their whole crew point to a long record of opposition to un- employment insurance as well as every measure which willhelp the employed and unemployed workers. The recent betrayal of the 170,000 miners in Western Pennsylyania by the gang of which Kennedy is an oute standing figure is sufficient proof that the whole talk for unemployment in- surance is aimed to’ obstruct this growing movement among the Amer- ican workers, Unemployment insurance can and will be won. But not by the speeches of “labor leaders” before audiences in universities. 7 For this purpose it is necessary to develcp a nation-wide campaign to get endorsements by trade unions, workers’ and veterans’ organizations, demonstrations, hunger» marches, petitions before local governments de~ manding their endorsement of the Workers’ Unemployment - Insurance Bill. c; In the mine fields a wide campaign should he developed to*expose the whole character of Kennedy's pro- posals and the record of the U.M. W. of A. on this issue. By these means we will gain mass support among the miners for the adoption of the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill,