The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1933, Page 6

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Foreign and SEPTEMBER 12, 1933 NAZI PAPER SAYS TORGLER’S FATE IS DECIDED BEFORE 1RIAL ‘World ——By Michael Gold THE SURPRISE cgoee U.S. INTERVENTION IN | CUBA HIGH ON AGENDA OF ANTI-WAR MEET Topies of Group Conferences at Uniied States “Mr. Can You S | | pare a Dime?” —o Po MASS DEMONSTRATIONS IN EVERY CITY CALLED FOR - SEPT. 21, FIRE TRIAL DAY | Meetings and Telegrams of Protest, Collection | Ye used to laugh at his proud gut) Pad 7 7 . i He ceed to Joush Congress Against War Announced ; | | of Funds for Torgler Defense Asked And 500 casas who'd once | W. N. Jones to Speak | for in National Appeal i kissed a king's | Cae Sis eae Be Pate rot gremiokeriog 2 NEW YORK.—American intervention in Cuba will be the main topic of | __BERLIN.—“In view of the fact that the guilt of the Communist fire At ae old. golf clown rigged in| one of the six group conferences of the United States Congress Against War, makers is not open to any doubt, and following on the conclusions of the fb =a ch which will meet in St. Nicholas Arena, 69 West 66th St., Sept. 29 to Oct. 1. | preliminary examinations, the sentences on the accused can henceforth be 2 , | ‘There will be six such group conferences during the sessions. These will | taken for granted. ; : But listen! when the mills shut OUT be on the following topics: Latin America and War; War and Fascism in | | This statement, which appeared in ‘a recent “Dortmunder General- pan epee - folk lost there| Europe; the War Situation in theo— ee | ee ® Anzeiger,” a Nasi newspaper, indi- They made on us poor f lo | cates the fate which awaits the Com- Far bast; the Soviet Union—Inter- |Send-Off Me sti and | e wanion aie Anti-War Work; the U. Send Off Meet ng, d/ 8. Government—War Policies and|Parade Tomorrow for Youth Problems and/ Paris Youth Delegates In other session of the congress, | | munists accused of setting fire to the Reichstag on Feb. 27. ; The. “trial” of Ernst Torgler, | George Dimitroff, Vassil 'Taneff, and | Blagoi Popoff, Communist leaders, in the Hollow 1 the Reds came on tim e Ma Watkins Landlord he fetched a mob BA ara thugs ar. 1,000 at Funeral of Detroit Negro ed us, the old snake, he s ready to kill— was A landlord’s heart Coiled like a rattler Deep in the leaves For profit or death Strange bleak deseri Where nothing grows But profit and death But he c not, evict THE JEWS We may expect an increase of anti-semitism in this f more and more of the Nazi poison- begun to buy up American racke- teering scribblers. We can already suspect some of their publicity in magazines like Liberty. But there will be more, a great deal more. Yes, anti-semitism will increase, histoi most famous and venerable red herring. The Jews are not a unified group, ‘but, like every other race, are divided into economic classes. A rich Jew- ish clothing boss hasn't the slight- | est feeling for his proletarian Jew-| ish workers, and will hire Italian,| Irish, Jewish or eyen Nazi gangsters to assassinate his fellow-Jews, if| they are on strike: A Negro boss will do the same against Negro work- ers, an Irishman against the Irish, Ttalian, German or Chinese—each race is split by the class war. So when the Jews are attacked because of a small minority who are rich, remember that like every other | per cent are working | Don’t let Nazi lies fool saying that also a foe of} ing cl freedom, just as every| foe of the Negro is quite naturally | our bitter enemy. You never find one hatred without the other. Many of the so-called friends of | the Jew, the liberal people, have but | faintly-hidden anti-semitic preju-| dices. y will tolerate Jews who) follows without know their place, but the Red Jews séems to them something insolent beyond words. Y The is going through this of psycho- legical of their bourgeois will make any cdnce: will con: ferior, keep the lead But e will let the: proud-spirited a corapromise, ci If accepted it-is one of the surest ways of break- ing down a race’s developr Whoever ‘has felt race-hatred in the joviet Union f o clea. away ancient Over thi handicapped new—ell b equal place in the sun. ind the Jew, the Slav id brown Uzbek, the Voie man and the Siberian tribesma: work for the great goal | of Socialism, there is room and need for them all. It is the one land to-| day where there are no race prob- lems, even though over a hundred | formerly hostile races live together. | Some day the whole world will be| like that THEODORE DREISER | Which leads me to note briefly that Theodore Dreiser not only has| come out for Nira, but has made a| curious statement about the Jews) that is certainly worthy of debate.) The American Spectator, a rather | feeble imitation of the American Mercury, is a new broadsheet monthly magazine. Mr, Dreiser is one of its five editors. The others are Eugene ONei Emest Boyd, George Jean Nathan and James Branch Cabell. .These editors went through an editorial conference recently on the Jewish question (with wine, they add). The account of their discussion is printed in the September issue of their sheet. There is something very smug and fatuous about the style of the com- ment. The five editors are patron- izing, and indulge in Menckenite wit of the pre-war vintage. One reads it all with the feeling of the sons of Noah when they found their venerable daddy naked, drunken and silly on the ground. This dis- cussion is a sad self-exposure, and one really grieves and marvels to find ‘Theodore Dreiser in such a galley. the delegates will meet in occupa-| NEW YORK.—The VU. S. dele- tional groups, youth, women, professionals. On the basis of the conclusions of | these various conferences, the con-} gress as a whole will work out a conerete program of struggle against war, which is to be the basis of ac- | tion of a permanent organization to | be set up as a result of the work of | the congress. ‘The congress will open on the eve- | ning of Sept. 29 with two simultane- ous public receptions, one in St. country, @8§|Nicholas Arena, and one in Mecca | ‘This is due | gas fills the world, The Nazis have|te the fact that Madison Square | hall large enough | Temple, 135 W. 55th St. Garden, the on! for a single me on that date. i Word was received today that in addition to the speakers already an- mounced for these two meetings, William N. Jones, Negro, editor of the | Baltimore Afro-American, will speak. | His part in the defense of the Scotts- boro boys and of Orphan Jones has made him one of the leading Negro editors fighting on behalf of the Ne- gro people. ig, is not available Japan’s War Minister Forbids Cuts in Army, Navy Appropriations TOKIO, Sept. 11—Claiming the support of the emperor for his de- | mands, General Sadao Araki, Min- ister of War, today declared to Vis- count Takahashi, Finance Minister, that no considerations can be allowed tq interfere with Japan’s immense military program. He also declared that the whole educational system of Japan must be made over because, he said, it was producing “edycated Communists.” Jugoslav Workers in Canada Send Protest On TORONTO, Can.—The second an- nual convention of the Jugoslav | Workers Clubs assembled in Toronto | ;: last month sent a resolution of pro- test to President Roosevelt. The reso- lution protests the frame-up of the | Scottsboro boys and Tom Mooney. A| 2 pledge of solidarity is given to the| thé American working class as expressed in the closing words, “Long live the international solidarity of the workers!” as follows: ~farmers, | trade unionists, veterans, unemployed, | US Frame Up Cases| gates to the World Youth Con- gress Against War and Fascism, which opens in Paris Sept. 22, will be given a mass send-off, followed by a torchlight parade to the ship on which they sail, Wednesday night, Sept. 13. The mass meeting will be in Washington Irving High School, 16th St. and Irving Place, at 8 pm. The six delegates, and Clar- ence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Annie E. Gray of the | Women’s Peace Society, and L. Cooper, youth organizer of the Trade Union Unity Leaguc, will speak, An appeal was made by the American Committee for the Con- | gress that all funds collected for the Congress be turned in imme- diately to its office, 104 Fifth Ave. | Worker; 140,000 Under Arms ‘in Austria as Nazi Coup Is Threatened Dollfuss To Announce | Fascist Dictatorship VIENNA, Sept. 11—Nearly 140,000 men are under arms in Austria today, most of them at the |German border, others in Vienna |where Chancellor Englebert Doll- |fuss is expected to announce what will be in effect a non-Nazi Fas- [cist state of Austria. | Theodor Habicht, Nazi “inspec- |tor for Austria” announced over |the Munich radio that the Nazis |had 2 popular majority in Austria, {and predicted the seizure of Aus- |tria by Nazis which France has j declared would be a signal for war. | As a counter-measure, Dollfuss |has mobilized the regular army of 000 men, 17,000 police and mil- and 100,000 of the unofficial Heimwehr militia. Late today, at a mass meeting | Vienna, Dollfuss will announce cabi new policy, which jall indications seem to show. will be the open recognition that a Fascist dictatorship is the real | charity work was an essential | | NEWS ITEM: President Roosevelt, in his appeal to welfare organizations, stated that part of the NRA program. | | aX es Rochester Officials | Jail Aged Man, Cause Death of His Daughter | | ROCHESTER, N, Y.—Frank Costa, | | 64, was beaten up and sentenced to} 30 days in jait for his participation | in the recent relief strike here. His daughter, who was in a weak run- down condition, died from the shock of his imprisonment and the beating he had received. Frequent arrests of everybody ask-} ing for more relief are being made | at the Welfare Station. Mr. and Mrs. Laurio, parents of five children, | were arrested when they asked for a | larger grocery check. Phil Perrani was arrested when he appeared with his little brothers and sisters asking for clothing so that they could be | sent to school. | Joint Action Again | Wins Rent Checks | For Evicted Jobless NEW YORK.—Joint actions of Lo- cal 2 and 3 of the Committee on Unemployment and the Downtown Unemployed Council resulted-in two more ted workers getting rent checks from the Home Relief Bu- reau and moving expenses paid them, ‘Negro Miner Drops from Starvation on R.R. Tracks BLUEFIELD, W. Va—A Negro; miner, Daye Holmes, 46, was found here recently on the railroad tracks | unconscious from starvation. Had | he not been found soon after he fell exhausted he would have been crush- ed under the wheels of a train, Holmes had left Pratt City, Ala- | bama, where his relatives live, two years after the mines closed down. He thought he would try his lugk/ elsewhere. But things were bad every place he went. All he could get was a job now and then to buy his food and then he would be forced to hop the freight again. His clothes were | his job hunting. He had obviously just a bundle of rags; no one had a job for him. He was brought to the Salvation Army, given a bed there and food was served him. Something that had never happened,in the two years of lost a great deal of weight, his face was haggard and, lean, and he was so weak he could hardly keep his eyes open. But Dave Holmes won't give up. from the Salvation Army. He says he intends to “find a job or die He dcesn’t want to accept charity trying.” Victory Won by Gates! Ave. Block Committee | for Negro Family NEW YORK.—The Gates Avenue Block Committee recently} brought 4 Negro families who had been denied | relief to the Home Relief Bureau.) One family, a widow with 12 children, | wes given relief immediately as a) result of the determined stand put up by the commitiee. RFC in Ky. Helps Operators; Starves | Miners Needing Food| PINEVILLE, Ky—A meeting to| expose the RFC Red Cross held here recently was attended by 500 unem- ployed workers. Speakers exposed how the Red| Cross had furnished flour to the coal) | Struggle /funeral started from the Workers’ Killed by Police Jobless Get Relief in North Detroit; Party Files Candidates DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 11—One thousand Negro and white workers participated in the funeral proces- sion yesterday of Richard Johnson, a Negro worker who was shot by a policeman on the first of the month. Funeral arrangements were under the auspices of the League of for Negro Rights. The Home, 1343 East Ferry, where John- son’s body lay in state for several days, with Negro and white workers standing in the guard of honor. Negro workers were terrorized into staying away from the Workers’ Home, but thousands saw the funeral procession as it wound its way through the heart of the Negro sec- tion of this city to Brady and Rivard, where another meeting took place on the school playgrounds. Speak- ers at both meetings were Joseph Billups for the International Labor Defense, Haywood Mayben of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Alfred Goetz, Communist Organizer in the Negro territory; Eugene Mc- Adoo and D. Seltzer for the Jewish organizations. Johnson was killed as a result of a reign of terror against Negroes here. It came when he protested against a storekeeper kicking a Ne- gro women in the stomach. This is the second murder of a Negro by the police in the past three weeks. A committee was elected to visit the mayor and demand that the police who are responsible for the murders be fired and prosecuted for | the murders, and that the two Ne- gro families be compensated by the city. The committee will also de- mand an end to the terrorization and discrimination against Negroes. Relief Demonstration | Last Friday 2,000 demonstrated for the second time within a week be- fore the Welfare station on Davison and Joseph Campou in North De- troit, They forced officials to care Relief was also won for the second | °Perators to enable them to give this for several families and provide coal, | for the fire which it has been proven | Was set by Nazi storm troopers under orders of Hermann Wilhelm Goering Nazi leader, will open in Leipzig. Sept. 21. A counter-trial, in which the evi- denee-which the Nazi-appointed “de- fense” lawyers have refused to ac- cept, proving the innocence of the Comminists and the guilt of the Nazis, will open in London a week earlier, Sept. 14, according to latest reports. * * * Protest Meetings Called For NEW YORK.—A call to all national and local mass organizations to or- ganize huge demonstrations in every city*on Sept. 21, the day when the German Communist leaders go on “trial” for the Reichstag fire, hay been issued by the Natjonal Com- mittee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, and the International La- bor Defense. The appeal also called for the hold- ing of numerous. street meetings, neighborhood meetings, and meetings of organizations, for sending commit- tees and. delegations to visit every German consulate, to pass resolu- tions of protest to be wired to the German ambassador in Washington and to President Paul von Hinden- burg in Berlin, and to collect funds which should be rushed to the Na- tional’ Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, 75 Fifth Ave., New York, ic = = Eye-Witnesses to Speak NEW YORK.—Two eye-witnesses of the Nazi terror in Germany, H, Klein, former correspondent in Ber- lin“of the Chicago Tribune, and Mrs, Marie Helberstedt, teacher and refu- gee from Nazi terror, will be among the speakers at a mass meeting of protest against Hitler atrocities next Thursday, Sept. 14, 8 pm., at the Savoy Mansion, 20th Ave. at 64th St., Brooklyn. . . . : NEW YORK—At a_ recent meeting of the Vereinigte Deutsche Gesellschaften, an organ- ization composed of t1epresenta- tives of German and German- American businessmen’s organiza- tions, the Nazi “cell” proposed a large mass meeting under the aus- pees of the New York Nazi agents, at which Hanz Luther, German ambassador, would be in- vited to speak. To put this ove! the members known to be opposed tu Fascism were not invited, Hear- ing about ‘he meeting. however, the notified |present form of government of | Austria. The last week. Sam Cohen, the janitor at 58 Montgomery St. was suddenly fired ‘azi fight of Dollfuss tion to Fascism, Cabinet May Declare Austria Fascist State n onpo case. But when the third family was flour to the employed miners and| clothing and other needs. ‘The dem- presented the officials claimed they | then cut their wages. It was shown |onstration was led by candidates for could find no record of the case and| thet the RFC furnished feed for the | City Council, Earl Reno, Frank Sykes @ re-application would be neces-| operators’ mules while lots of unem-| #24 Nellie Belunas. The workers de- sary. The committtee objected to} Ps jmand a 30 per cent relief increase VIENNA, Sept. 11.—A plan to de- clare Austria a Fascist state on the talian model, working in close co- operation with Italy, is being di cussed by Chancellor Engelbert Doll- fuss’ Cabinet as a counter-move to the Nazi drive to incorporate Aus- tria into the Nazi state, The Austrian government is already | Fascist in form, but it has not been| openly declared so by the govern- ment. Nebraska Jobless See Governor, Ask Relief LINCOLN, Neb.—A mass delega- tion of 400, headed by the Nebraska Unemployed Federation, visited the state capitol recently. The delegates, coming from all parts of the state, spoke to Governor Bryan and Tax | Commissioner Smith, Three demands were presented: | $3,000,000 outside relief to supple- ment county relief, no forced labor on federal relief, payment in cash and representation on Federal Re- lief Committees, Red men, Negro and whites com- prised the delegation, the red men representing the starving Indians on the Reservation at Macy. TEACHERS PROTEST N. R. A. NEW YORK.—The Unemployed Teachers’ Association has sent a let- ter to Grover Whalen protesting the violation of the N. R. A. code by the Board of Education through dismis- sal of 292 permanent elementary school teachers. The letter points out that this action will swell the ranks of the 10,000 jobless teachers, Negro or the Irish—who now can 2 But there he is, and his contribu- | tell’ tion to the conference is the notion that the Jews are too clever a race, and should not mind a handicap, Thére are too many Jewish lawyers, for instance, and Mr. Dreiser sug- gests that they be limited from 100,000 to ten, and that similar quo- tas be made in other fields, It is of course a Nazi idea, though in the embryo. Mr, Dreiser doesn’t seem to understand the implications of his suggestion, or that he is advo- cating that a whole race be put in Of course, Mr. Dreiser has not studied this out, his comment seemed a casual one. But it is dan- gerous talk at a moment like this, when pogroms are in the air, and the anti-Jewish discrimination, al- ready so strong in America, may soon increase, Besides, if Mr. Dreiser will investigate, he will find his desire for a quota on the Jews in the pro- fessions is already a reality. Liber- als like President Lowell of Harvard, the Sacco-Vanzetti killer, have long an inferior position. He may have similar Jim Crow ideas regarding the since put the Jim Crow quota in effect. ; | fainted. There were 1,000 in the line but to union with Germany, which and England, on depends for loans, | whiche’ A | will not permit, | Waiting for Stale Bread, Woman Faints | TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—After_stand- ing in line for two hours in the hot | sun waiting for a loaf of stale bread at the Light House Mission, a woman which extended one and a half bloks. | by the landlord, Goldstein, and his furniture dumped out on the side- walk. Local 2-and 3, together with the Council put the furniture back into Cohen's apartment and forced the landlord to pay Cohen $15 for moving expenses.and the Relief Bu- reau to give him a rent check. The other family consisted of a 70-year old worker, Harry Guterlin, and his wife, who were evicted from their home at 244 Cherry St. They owed only one month’s rent, $14. A relief rent check and a truck from the Henry Street Settlement was se- cured and the family moved, this decision, and as a result the Re-| ployed families were refused relief) s -k- | Detause of their union affiliations) Let Bureau thugs hustled the work- | and politics. Witnesses testified that | Avenue Block Committee, consist- | *fter the RFC closed its doors, they | ing largely of Negroes, pledges itself | Were caught by nine workers slipping | to come back to the Bureau in great- | $3.30 worth of groceries to the home| er numbers in the future. | of a rich man in Pineville, | A committee was elected to go to| 7 | Frankfort and petition the Governor | fee Lorem. COUNCHL | for the removalffi of the crooked offi- | EVERSON, Wash—Afier forcing | cials. | the Welfare Board to give them Red | ee Cross flour, a group of 20 workers; Help improve the “Daily Worker.” decided to strengthen their ranks by | send in your suggestions and criticism! forming a branch of the Unemployed| Let us know what the workers in ‘Council. your shop think about the “Daily.” and raise in pay on Welfare jobs.| The Unemployed Council is broad- ening this movement throughout the city. File Ticket The Communist Party filed signa- tures to place candidates on the ballot for the fall elections. They are John Schmies for mayor, Phil Raymond, secretary of the Auto Workers’ Union; Earl Reno, secretary of the Unemployed Councils; Hay- wood Maben of the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights, and Frank Sykes for the City Council. uninvited members each other, with the result that the proposal was voted down, 30 to 10. Se se Chicago Demonstration Planned. CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 11.—Pro- test against American interven- tion in Cuba, and against the Hit- ler terror in Germany was ex- pressed by the Chicago District of the International Labor De- fense in wires sent today to Pres- ident Roosevelt and to the Ger- man embassy in Washington. A monster demonstration before the German consulate is being pre- pared by the I. L. D, in Chicago for September 21, when the four afé Scheduled to go on trial. | League Is Ex-Cop and 1, AMTER | (National Secretary of Unemployed | Councils) | | On Saturday, August 19, the Daily | | Worker contained an editorial en-| titled “A Dangerous Practice” con-| demning a leaflet supposedly issued by the Unemployed Council of Salem, | Ohio, in which the leaders of the Un- employed Leagues as a whole alleged- | ly were characterized as “stoolpigeons | | and sabotagers of unity.” It was cor-| rect for the Daily Worker to react in | this manner, on being apprised of the | alleged situation by A. J. Muste of the Conference for Progressive Labor | Action. The Daily Worker declared that it would at the same time try to procure all the facts, in order to put an end to such practices. The National Committee of the Un-| employed Councils has investigated | the matter and makes the following | statement: 1, The leaflet was not issued by by the “rank and file committee of | the Unemployed League,” a Muste or- ganization. 2. The leaflet did not charge the national and state leadership of the Unemployed Leagues with being stoolpigeons. ‘The leaflet deals with the “new deal,” with the necessity gf organization, It then proceeds to fie up the organization of the work- Wilson, President of Salem Unemployed the Unemployed Council, since none | exists in Salem, Ohio. It was issued | Unemployed Council Employed in City Hall ers in the National Sanitary plant in Salem into the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, the split- ting activities of the American Feder- ation of Labor leaders of Salem, and the winning of higher wages by the National Sanitary Workers. ‘The leaflet them states: “We unemployed started to or- ganize. But a few stool-pigeons and reactionaries got in control of the Unemployed League at the begin- ning. They have BLOCKED every move from the rank and file to put up a real fight for the relief we need. They have run the organiza- tion like Ozars, ‘They disgusted the members and broke down the or- ganization.” 3. The leaflet then speaks of the need of organization with rank and file control to fight for more relief, against evictions, against forced la- bor, unemployment and social insur- ance, ete, Good Leaflet The leaflet was a good leaflet-—and dealing with local matters, as it did, and comforms to facts. What are they?: 1, Wilson, the president of the Salem Unemployed League, is an ex- cop, who is now employed in the city hall one day a week, 2. Wilson 1s a czar, and although Temoved twice from office, refuses to boasts that no one can throw him Was Not Involved in “A out since he has the support of the; Unemployed League proposed unity Salem police department and the city| with the Unemployed Councils of the hall gang. “The reds shall not have| state, he went for the police to lock the floor as long as I am chairman,” | up the two reds. When a provocateur | says this despot. accused some rank and filers of be- 3, Wilson has threatened to jail| ing “bolsheviks,” he again went for, League members who refuse to work) the police to have them arrested. : in the community garden. | 6. There is another stool in the 4, Wilson has given instructions to | local league by the name of Angle-| Finnigan, chairman of the grievance | myer. nt committee, “not to allow members of! 17. The result of this impermissible | the Unemployed Councils to parti-| situation is that instead of the chair-' cipate or have the floor.” man and his henchmen being thrown, 5. When the rank and file of the! out on their ears, which they deserve,' From “Daily” Editorial The “Daily Worker” in the editorial “A Dangerous Practice,” which appeared August 19, states, in part: “The Daily Worker, while endeavoring to get evidence of all facts in the case, immediately declares that if the charges are true that such a leaflet was issued, that it must be condemned, There is no justification for such a leaflet. No doubt there are paid agents of the bosses inside all the mass organizations, but the way to fight them is to find them out, specifically, and not to charge generally that whole groups are spies. The meee give up office, but, on the contrary, |. make a rule especially of exposing File Committee of the Unemployed Daily Worker will help expose any specific case of bosses’ agents. zations directly supported by the Daily Worker”, . . A copy of tk2 leaflet which was allegedly issued by the Unemployed Council has just been received by the “Daily.” It is signed “Rank and mittee surely does not accuse its own organization as being comprised of stool pigeons, but states that “a few stool pigeons and reactionaries got in control of the Unemployed League.”—Editor. We those spies who enter the organi- League.” The rank and file com- Dangerous Practice” Decisions of Columbus Cunvention for United Jobless Movement Not Being Carried Out the vice-president and secretary re- signed from office. 8. At a meeting of the “sewing circle,” which Wilson has organized for the purpese of patching old cast- oft clothes for the unemployed—in- stead of fighting for decent clothes for the idle—when the rank and file protested against such activities, the meeting ended in an uproar. 9. The result of this situation is that out of the 385 workers who be- long to the Salem Unemployed League, only 20 attend the meetings. These are the facts, They prove: 1, That there are stool-pigeons at the head of the Salem Unemployed League. 2. That they are sabotaging unity with the Unemployed Councils. 3. They are keeping the workers from militant action. : Truax Does Nothing This situation is known to the leaders of the Unemployed League. Not long ago, Bauhof state secretary of the Ohio Unemployed League, was in Salem, and witnessed a spectacle of this kind. William Truax, Presi- dent of the Ohio League, was in, Salem on August 16, when the leaf- let under discussion was already in distribution. Truax did nothing to investigate the situation. It is not at all astonishing, there- for, that the membership of the Salem Unemployed League is in re-| the x bellion; nor that the meeting at which I. Amter, National Secretary of Unemployed Councils, spoke in Salem on August 17, was a big one and most, enthusiastic. Such practices as exist in’ the Salera Unemployed League cannot be tolerated in any working class organization, to say nothing of one that pretends to be militant. Atjthe same time, it is obvious that the-decisions of the convention of the National Unemployed League in July for unification of the unemployed or- tions—which were adopted on the basis of proposals of the Unem- Ployed Councils—are: not being car: ried-out. On the contrary, Salem i a striking example of how acts of hotage of local leaders against the will of the membership are tolerated We must recommend to. the leaders ofthe Unemployed Leagues that in the future they produce better evid- ence than they did in the case of lem. We are of the opinion that the Daily Worker acted correctly with reference to your claims of slander The facts are now before us and yout claims ate baseless. 7 fe must also recommend that the steps: toward unity, which the Unem- pleyed Couneil is trying to bring about, shall nodénger remain a wish but on the concrary, that concrete measures be adopted to accelerate the movement toward unification of the unemployed organizations, which is e sincere desire of all - militant * 4 } I