The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1933, Page 3

Page Three RYAN, A.F.L. HEAD LEADS POLICE IN RAID ON: JOBLESS SEAMEN’S CLUB Cops Threaten Violence ‘to Manager of Club DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1933 When the Reichstag Fire Trial Opened in Leipzig NEWS BRIEFS Bankrupt Insull Has Millions Still. CHICAGO, Ill—A temporary order was issued in Federal Court today to halt Sam Insull from withdrawing money from a private million dollar | fund allegedly in deposit in the Harris Trust Company here. The millionaires who go bankrupt certainly know how to keep a couple I.O. Ford, Candidate for Cleveland Mayor, Led Many Strikes Workers Spurn Socialist Treachery; Sweeney | } | | | | | ie y a Organizes Gangsters to Break Up of millions tucked away for a rainy Restaurant; Ryan Gangsters | Workers Mectinws day. he ie Patrol Waterfront : ‘i Quake —— Southern NEW YORK—Led by Joseph Ryan, president of the International ‘alifornia. Longshoremen’s Associaton, and his personal bodyguard, police and im- oh | migration inspectors yesterday raided the restaurant of the International CLEVEEAND, Ohio.—‘“Tf I. O. Ford were mayor, the cops wouldn't be sent to this eviction.” “Oh yes, they the furniture was put back.” These stray remarks, overheard in a crowd, are a sample of what thou- sands of non-Communist workers think of the Communist candidate for mayor of Cleveland. They know him as a leader of many jobless demon- . strations, as a militant labor organ- izer and as an all-around champion of the workers’ rights. In 1931, when, the Communist Party entered its first mayoralty LOS ANGELES, Cal.— A sharp earthquake shook the major part of southern California early today. Po- lice reported a wall of the city jail building condemned after the quake of March 10 fell, besides many other wall cave-ins. Reports staté that| there were very few casualties. would; he’d send them to make sure Crawls Over Engine to Prevent Wreck. BROOKFIELD, Mo.— Elmer Gor- don, 50, scalded by escaping steam, Mass Fight Wins Deportation Delay crawled his way from the cab to the | In the second and third rows are the five on trial, flanked by guards. The men in civilian clothes, left to would be closed by force if the club ‘Taxi Union to Fight Taking 5 Cent Tax ‘Out of Workers’ Pay Seamen’s Club, at 18th and West Streets, and threatened that the place did not voluntarily end its activities. ‘The excuse for the raid offered by police was that they had been in- structed to find out whether or not the restaurant had a necessary per- mit from the Board of Health. advertising the Daily Worker were torn from the walls, and ‘© workers who were among the 20 odd patrons were abused with par- ticular maliciousness. One Negro seaman who protested against the Posters pie Lapeer debbie prorated Ih Case of Antonoff pilot of a runaway locomotive in the| right, second row, are Ernst Torgler, chairman of the Communist deputies in the Reichstag, and Marinus van {Strike Called By Men | provocative conduct of the raiders Hae wea & City Mansinges)- tl wed pitch blackness of night to save the| der Lube, Hollander; third row: Blagot Popov, Wassil Taneff, and George Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist ‘At Shindlers’ Garage |%%, "<7 é,ainclones, polls: made a surprising campaign,” ac- ER SRG passengers of his nine-car train from| jeaders, Second from the left, in the front row, is Dr. Sack, Nazi appointed defense lawyer. : Se . | about penis some maceeene Rs os cording to capitalist press comment. It was: surprising to them, since they had not realized that the Communist Party had sunk Its roots so deep among the workers of Cleveland. But now all of sudden, it seemed, a Com- munist spokesman was here, there and everywhere that workers gath- ered together—and was.even invad- ing the hallowed precincts of ccl- leges and clubs. Fords 1931 vote of about 5,250 came as a shock to the capitalists of Cleveland, representing a great in- crease over any previous Communist vote. It served warning on the poli- tical bosses that Communism was a serious factor with which they would have to reckon in the future. Where the Red vote was highest, it was a “Go slow!” sign to them in their attacks on the workers. Ford’s ready Irish wit and infec- tious humor give the lie at nearly every meeting to the stale gag that Communists “don’t know how to laugh.” A worker himself, born and bred in the American class struggle, he is at his best with an audience of work2rs, and they respond quickly to his class message. Organized Strikes Born in Bloomington, Ill., Ford has followed a number of trades. Be- tween 1907 end’ 1921 he worked as a river pilot, until the U. S. Steel Corp. blacklisted him for union ac- tivity. He had organized the workers and led in winning three strikes, the | first being at Paducah, Ky., when a 150 per cent increase in wages was gained. Ford joined the Socialist wreck, He saved the train, but was burned on hand, head and shoulders. We er Detroit Militant Will Tour Country For LL.D. NEW YORK.—Mass pressure or- ganized by the International Labor Defense has forced Frances Per- kins’ Department of Labor to grant Todor Antonoff, militant De- Japanese Excursioners Drowned. JUMAMOTO, Japan. — At least 80 Persons were drowned off Misumi yesterday after a small overloaded excursion boat had capsized here. The ship carried 130 persons, of which 50 were rescued. Only 22 bodies have troit worker, a 30-day stay of ex- ecution of his deportation to Bul- garia. | The fight to prevent Antonoff | from being sent to Bulgaria, where any militant worker faces immedi- ate murder, will be continued, the | ILD has announced. | Around the struggle to save An- tonoff, a fight to-smash the de- portation terror, to win for work-| ers the right of political asylum in| the United States, and to win citi-| zenship after a year’s residence in| the country, will be waged. A series of mass meetings in! key points has been arranged, | where Antonoff will speak along with local workers’ leaders who also face deportation. The tour Will go through Boston, Buffalo, Cleve- land, Toledo, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and New York City. Nominate Candidates For Lynn Elections LYNN, Mass.—At a meeting held ‘or not, and his left foot amputated |Packing Workers in been recovered thus far. Ace Fighter Loses Leg. MACON, Ga.—William (“Young”) Stribling, famous fighter, will certain- | ly never fight again. With even chances of whether he will even live due to an auto crash, his career as champion boxer is ended. ieoey Magee U.S. Justices Open New Term. WASHINGTON, D. C. — The Su- Preme Court began a new term yes- terday after a summer recess of four months, Boy, wouldn’t you like a four-month vacation every year, and all you have to do is listen to what the pig guns want, and then hand down a few wise words. Pittsburgh Make Gains PITTSBURGH, Pa.—An attempt of the Oswald and Hess Packing Co. to fire the treasurer of the Packing- house Workers’ Industrial Union from the job was thwarted when the employees threatened to strike. The Workers’ Jury to Hear Utah Mine Strike Case i I.-L. D. Plans State-Wide Meetings to Keep Syndicalism Trial Facts Before Workers HELPER, Utah—a workers’ jury of miners, their wives and children who have been slugged, jailed and tear-gassed by militia, gangsters and | police, has been organized by the International Labor Defense, to sit in at | the hearings on Criminal Syndicalism and riot charges begin Thursday | NEW YORK. — The first strike jagainst the 5-cent tax on taxi fares, '300 Steel Workers is ."5 cect Sat re In Buffalo Strike |Shindler’s garage on Knickerbocker Ave. The tax, which went inte effect Sunday at 12 a is supposed to be paid by the passengers, but is to| be taken out of the drivers’ earnings. | When the men at S>indler’s refused | to take cars out if they were expected Gain Demands in Atlas Casting Company BUFFALO, N. Y¥., Oct. 2—About 300 workers of the Pratt and Latch- | worth Steel Company: struck yester-| day. Within one week the shop was| organized and affiliated to the Steel| and Metal Workers Industrial Union. All workers, including the machine) |to pay the tax, they were threatened | with blacklisting by the boss. They | are on strike under the guidance of | the Taxi Workers Union. | The taxi drivers, embittered against | the tax, are expected to come out on | strike in many parts of the city, it| against seven workers and strike-leaders. | | The defendants are Charles Guynn,@ Paul Crouch, and Charles Wether- bee. Crouch faces two riot charges. The legal conduct of the defense will be in the hands of Harry G. Metos, Salt Lake City Attorney, re- | tained by the 1.L.D., who will be as- | sisted by two local lawyers, and by Irvin Goodman, Portland, Oregon, I. L. D. attorney, prominent in the Mooney defense. Arrangements have been made for | the workers’ jury to report back to the workers on the proceedings in the court, at mass meetings called by the I. L. D. throughout the state. Another delegation has been elected to present to Attorney-General Chez @ demand for a grand jury session open to the public to bring indict- ments against Mayor West and/ Sheriff Bliss, of Utah. | A combined fund-raising and sig- | nature-collecting campaign is being Gallup Mine Grant: All N.M.U. Demands GALLUP, N. Mex, Oct. 2—Miners | i |of the National Miners Union re-| Company are, the recognition |turned to work at the Southwestern | Unic mines last week, with all demands granted, “This victory, reads -a statement | © by the union, “provides us with a fighting wedge as a weapon against the operators of the other mines, The NMU also issued a warn- ing to all miners not to be misled by the fake gesture of the United | Mine Workers,, reactionary A. F. of L. union, in protesting the N. department and electricians, tid | ee ner ee ee ee eae eet bers of the American damage VAs Leagues, was especially active in| Tabor, signed and paid up with the | discouraging the militant sentiment | vad jof the men by promising that the tax | Prior to the calling of the strike,| would not go into effect and that he| negotiations have been carried on) would use his personal political in- | between the shop committee and the| fiuence against it. Proposals of united management for four days. {action by the T Workers’ Union The demands presented to the) against the tax was met by threats of the| from O’Brien. abolishing of the “minutes”! me ‘ax Work system, gang work, and a general in-| 115+ the 5-cent crease in wages from 20 to 30 per| ¢, misery for the sync ,._|industry and calls On the second day of the negotia-| sanize committees tions, the company agreed to in- crease the wages, but refused to re- cognize the union and the abolish- ing of the “minute” system. The} strikers flatly refused to accept the) offer of the company and voted un- animously to stay out for union rec- ognition. Jim Crow Plan Fails s Union declares will mean great- 76,000 men in the upon them to or- of action against | it in every garage. The union’s head- quarters is at 37 E. 13th St. Drivers, Bakers Strike) At Marseillaise Bakery | NEW YORK.—Drivers and bakers | of the Marseillaise French Baking! where you belong.” Before the raid- ers departed, making no arrests, the manager of the restaurant, which Sells food at*low cost to jobless sea- men, was told by a detective: “This place is just a hangout for Reds and troublemakers. If you don’t close it, we will.” The entire procedure was viewed with evident satisfaction by Presi- dent Ryan of the Longshoremens Union, who is also secretary of the Central Trades and Labor Council. While he took no active part in the questioning of the workers, which was apparently calculated to discour- age them from frequenting the place, his personal bodyguards aided police in herding them into the back of the room. Later yesterday police and I. L. A. strong-arm men patrolled the docks to stop any action of longshoremen protesting against the extension of the wage agreement now in force pending the adoption of the N.R.A. marine code. The agreement was-to expire yesterday. The Ryan hench- men pointed out members of the Marine Workers Industrial Union to the police, Alien Squad and immigra- tion inspectiors. Ryan's action in leading the raid on the International Seamen’s Club and the subsequent strong arm pat- rols on the waterfront were dubbed yesterday by officials of the Marine Workers Industrial Union as at- tempts to forestall any rank and file protest against the adoption of the oppressive N.R.A. marine code on which hearings are now being held. Party in 1907, but denounced its waged, to collect $1,000 for the de- ps vestes 7. ve = ss . Jeadership during the world war, be-|in Lasters’ Hall, 34 Andrew St.,|plant is 90 per cent aie fense and signatures demanding the |R. A. code. “This’ gesture was eaanene Takats Pathol Mara Co. at 293 W. Fourth St, after) Metal Union Members ing arrested for sedition after’ one| attended by more than two hundred | Truck drivers were the first t0) release of the seven, the end of ter-|made only because ‘of the pressure | Simprm ed i me Men in| waiting for two months, during Si 3 such speech. workers, the. Lynn Unit of the | Walk out when the worker was fired.| ror in Carbon County, and repeal of | made by the rank and file which | the intention of dividing them from|Which time the Blue Eagle was at Silver Code Hearing In 1927, Ford joined the Commun- Communist Party endorsed three Others in the plant refused to start work until the union leader was re- the state criminal syndicalism law. |forced the bureaucratic, leaders to | the white workers. But the employer| perched in the bakery windows, to | NEW YORK. re delegation of ist Party. He has been its candidate| candidates Who are to participate i Th ym} was forced 2 CTC | act,” | failed to appear, when he discovered| have their wages increased and s bch cake aces Me ree aie oes in the city election to * held o to yield to the aaihnall | Chicago Evictions | pia ag a that union leaders were invited to|their hours shortened, decided to| Deh or the Seat cet ae ee well as for Mayor. also 5 esent Mayor, J. | se : ad, the work Hatanad | shave eey in many struggls and demonstrations. sade eaten sida About three weeks ago a_ strike Increase By 60 P.C. Neckwear Officials totais Souument eunbee al Tae |ers’ Industrial Union arrived in Only a few days ago Ford was lead- ing the single jobless in their de- mands for doubled relief at the Charities Bureau, 21st and Payne— a demonstration which forced a number of increases. He also led a recent demonstration at the Doan Charities office, 106th and Superior, protesting the brutal atack on a job- bless delegation in which Antonace was nearly clubbed to death. And he was one of the organizers and leaders of the city-wide demonstrations on Sept. 1 against the Charities decision to cut off rent payments. Fred Manning’s only opponent will be Frederick S. Reynolds, secretary of .the Unemployed Council. For Councillor at Large, F. Austin Ben- son, secretary of the Lynn Workers took place in the plant whereby wage increases ranging from 5 to 18 cents an hour was gained. Center and for the School Commit- tee, Dr. Arshag Aharonian. Arizona Unemployed Hold Hunger March PHOENIX, Arizon , Arizona, Oct. 2— With the approach of winter, bring- ing in its wake intensified suffering Steel Workers Jeer A. A. Labor Fakers BUFFALO, N.Y.—William H. Dagy, organizer sent here from Pittsburg by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America, and John J. McNamara, president of the Hoisting Engineers local, were compelled to leave Liberty | CHICAGO, Tll—Evictions in Chi- cago during August numbered 5,315, not counting a small area on the southeast side not covered by the figures of the Daily Law Bulletin. The August figure is 60 per cent higher than the 3,478 recorded for| July and als6 a little higher than| Accept Arbitration In Strike Sell-Out, NEW YORK —After”a conference | arranged by the N.R;A, between the United Neckwear Workers Union of- ficials and the bosses of the Allen St. Association last week;-Glick, business | many struggles and at present Com- munist candidate for supervisor, and | N. Field, secretary of the union. | Another victory was registered by) The workers joined the Bakery | Washington yesterday to participate Workers Industrial Union and un-| in the hearings on the silver code der its guidance are demanding a/ which started on Monday morning. 9-hour day and an increase in| The delegation consisted of William the Buffalo district of the union.| Wages of $5 a week. Rather than | Armbruster, James Lustig and Harry After a short strike of the Atlas|COncede the workers’ demands the Casting Company, the workers re- | boss hired scabs and thugs at high turned to work with the recognition| wages and declares that he will of the S.M.W.LU. and a flat increase} break the strike “even if I have to |Lumber Code Gives the 5,200 for June. They are close to| tie 8.772 evictions during August a|#8ent of the unien, called about 40 year ago and about 12 per cent above |of the 400 strikers \e a4 ecoiane ba |inform them that wo main | the monthly average of 4,600 evic-/roints for which thé: strike is being | sah ii aw cir ee | waged has been submitted to arbl- | Xe | tration. | in wages, also the abolishing of the} 27.3 per cent cut to the molders. This | makes the gain in wages equal to 47 per cent. Durable Metal ‘Worker lose my business.” The union ap-| peals to all consumers to help them defeat this strike wherever this company’s bread is sold, Zacker, the union’s attorney. The de- mands which the delegation will pre- sent include a 35-hour week, mini- mum wage scales for all crafts in the industry, abolition of piece work and recognition of the union. ein atin atin ke. ly 2 to 1 Lead Over Socialists for the unemployed, a hunger march | Hall under a barrage of boos, | | The strike was called four weeks : - ‘ th sbvtks: | New York No wonder the early straw votes bh pel Be eet coin: peg ere Wea eee canton ond Workers $12 Weekly ;8go to ool Le catpacee ‘Win Strike Victory | Another victory was recorded for iommi leade! o! Inemployes 2 especially | the Metal Worl ‘ stl P ra Meh yeni od neared ae ng PTE gained a tremendous victory under! WASHINGTON—New locals of the | East Side section of the city,.and to| wow yori.-Gul workers of the| when 200 Workers centre paion R E D PR ESS the leadership of the Steel and Metal! American Federation of Labor in the | prohibit empioyers~from- working at | sie O. K. Wheelock, Socialis Party, and two other minor candidates, Wheel- ock is a little businessman, with no record in workers’ struggles. Further, the S. P. leadership stinks in the nostrils of many Cleveland workers since the scandalous attack on Tom Mooney made by National Secretary Clarence Senior at the party’s state convention here. i Senior may have been able to cover up this incident elsewhere by mise leading denials, bht not in Cleveland, where rank and file Socialists heard him with their own ears. In fact, one S. P. local here went on record demanding Senior's expulsion for this attack on Mooney. Mayor Miller boasts of his “econ- omy” record—one result of which has been the elevator smash at the Sloan building, due to the laying off of in- spectors. He has slashed viciously into workers’ wages to save the packetbooks of the rich. His layoffs have increased unemployment, while he has introduced forced labor and Seventy-five branches, comprising about 2,000 workers from this county, participated in the demonstration. The State Convention of the Un- employed Council has been called for Oct. 8 and will last two days. The convention will be opened by a mass meeting at which Herbert Benjamin, Workers Industrial Union, and _re- turned back to work after a short strike organized 100 per cent. | | National Organizer of the Unem- ployed Council, will be the principal speaker, West Coast lumber industry have re-|the bench. When strikers protested to ported to Washington that the big| Glick, the union”-efficial, that his | operating companies, having secured | agreement to arbitvation is selling | a 40-hour week and 40 cents an hour|out the strike andthat he did not | minmum wage rate in their code,|consult the entire ody. of strikers, | have cut working hours to thirty a/|he declared that hé“‘s'sure that the week, giving a wage rate of $12. | decision will be in. bur favor.” Carvin Metal Cap Company at 410 Morgan Avenue declared a, strike against wages of $10 a week and 49 hours of work. They demand a 40- hour, 5-day week and a minimum) of $16 weekly. The Steel and Metal) Workers’ Industrial Union is leading weeks against the Durable Metal Products Co. at 468 West Broadway, New York, returned to work with all demands won. Wage increases amounting to 30 per cent, a 40-hour, 5-day week, time and a half for overtime, Brooklyn, N. Y. Comrade Editor: e Why No ction on lum | | the Leon B At present the “Daily,” the I. L. D. and the election campaign manager dangering his release at the end of tionar’ roup of Tammany ap- 3 oo the year even more so, and will make pointees, whose whims are carried | I therefore want to protest and sev- erely criticize one of the main short- It is six months since Comrade | are in possession of information of Leon Blum was arrested during the | the death of a Negro worker while course of a strike in the Pretty Laun- | Working in a ditch, by a cave-in, at Great Meadows prison where Blum is Gry, and so far not one attempt was | confined. In spite of the threat. to made to even take a writ of habeas | tock up Blum in solitary with the corpus so that he could prove his in- e of instigating mutiny among Nocence in # court. He was rafl-|the prisoners by refusing to work road Board, most unless safety devices were provided mop Net dba: ee iat and other important information, into law, regardless of the constitu- tional rights, and. the Party allows ene of its best fighters to be at the mercy of this cruel board with nine years of his freedom jeopardized in their hands. I wrote a letter to the district be- fore, but all that was done was to refer it to the LL.D. without a check- up taken. Both Blum and I are tired them keep him in. their talons for the other nine years, unless real work is done. I would not object if there was no way out, but it is neglect that is so criminal and unforgivable. In line with the open letter I hope you will consider this important enough and give space to prove that this is a classic example of how not to do work. comings. I refer to the shameful mis- handling and neglect of the Leon Blum case, and worse yet, the thro ing aside of one great opportunity to combat the most vicious and cru~ elest of all capitalistic weapons, the New York State Board of Parole. Leon Blum, a worker and organizer of the Laundry Workers Industrial Union, was arrested during the This Board’s whims are so open and vicious that I personally know of a number of inmates who wrote | writs themselves: and without legal | or organizational aid of any kind, | fought them in the courts and won| their discharge from jail, although | the courts working hand in glove with the Parole Board would not set any legal precedents, but advised the board to release them, which shows the flimsiness and weakness of their BAZAAR @ Daily Worker @ Morning Freibeit ® Young Worker , Friday, Saturday, Sunday Madieon Square Garder MAIN HALL > ADMISSION Ea hig are leer he, sec ae tan ier tight ae or nothing was done in the three weeks | of this shameful way of being treated Comradely yours, course of a strike on a framed up| charges and therefore of their legal Lodge has been used as Fé edabeerd Pired-sived (they call this lapsing in- but promises given me that some] and wish that either the whole case YETTA BLUM. | | charge of parole violation. The! existence. Friday iS Se ing joint, and his latest exploits have| to bad company) bie Heh oe ee oe to per be dropped and we be told so, or else rte Snape Sine Pe Oa ee was) Only last year a capitalist judge, ney... : - ery time I came around for in-| work done properly to insure his re- Brooklyn, N. Y. sib ary st eX | A. I. Nova, of Brooklyn, N. Y. caused laturdi Rey been in aiding the NRA to defeat} ‘The Party as well as others ate | formation I was told that surely the |Jense, Comrade Editor: : ploited group of white and Negro} 3 number of bills to be introduced in| Rar aay Deine the street car men and the striking | guilty in allowing strike activity, and Swift teamsters. His cops have| therefore the Laundry Workers’ In- batoned, gassed and shot the unem-| dustrial Union, to. be made illegal, ployed and small homeowners time} punishable with arrest, without even after time. making an effort to force a trial. Congressman Martin L. Sweeney,| 1 hold the International Labor De- next'day or the day after the lawyer, the publicity man or the news re- porter is going up, but there it still is only a promise in order to get rid of me as though it would be for me personally, The few so-called protests (stand- ing by themselves) sent to the Gov- ernor and the Board only served to antagonize them against Blum, en- I am a constant’reader of the Daily Worker and a very studious observer of the policy and tactics of both the paper and the Party. workers in the city of New York. For that ‘crime” he was never tried by a judge or jury, but simply con- demned and sentenced to 14 months in the state’s prison and hurnedly railroaded into a cell by this same the Legislature for the immediate abolition of this board, and he cited numerous precedents as to their il- legality and their continuous viola- tions of the constitution, Lit. Fund .... «+10 Total for Sat... . 50c Igading candidate for the bosses and fense, the Communist Party and the body of legal racketeers, the most! The Blum case should be given es- ikers and loudest-mouthed dema-| «Daily Worker,” and the individuals | ,,7he “maces have a swell way of 4 M rotten, autocratic triumvirate of any/|Pecial attention, because the Board) With Advance Ticket Obtainable At in the hot-air contest, has done as| at the head of them, responsible for yer ie Lee tbat in wigan Entirely J ustified ! of the Tammany appointees, has made his union activities a spe-| Every Organization, 10 Cents Less tie for the workers in Congress as|the long imprisonment of Comrade Buttenkant, and now it is more “im- a Laws Violated cial crime, punishable only by them. At The Door, Meg wiih, Miller ag supporter of [saat ae geecause Of the outright | portant cases.” | ‘The Leon ‘aback | W/E CONSIDER the gerious criticism of the Daily Worker and of the | gureiy such procedure is an_ob-| just how long will the Party stand é case had to be finished first. How other organizations referred to in the letters of Comrades Yetta Blum | vious violation of the State and Fed-| {0% Such abuse from politically p-'| Combination Ticket for All NRA strikebreaking and price-rais- ing and a dodger of unemployment insurance, ‘The Sweeney forces have organized gangsters and thugs to break up workers’ meetings in the present campaign, both at 105th and Lorain a and at Templet and Lakeview. Bold as he is in his platform demagogy, Sweeney is afraid to meet Ford in debate before an audience of workers. I sincerely believé and so do some | ridicuJous? Why couldn’t is be linked ati , that there was every op-|up and fought for together with the Beant af to have nies released a Gonshak case? vi ere Was action, © Not 0: Both Taback and Blum are can- was the legal end neglected, but not | aidates for judges in the Bronx, and La iy any of these when Taback’s notnination was an- thought it worth while to send a | nounced in the ‘Dally” why couldn't greeting of encouragement, not | plums’ name be mentioned? Why, cent for cigarettes, not any sort of | if the LL.D. exposes the Parole Board literature. It was all left to me tO] in a case, didn’t it at the same time and J. S. entirely justified. The fight against the Parole Board System, while immediately involving the freedom of Comrade Blum, is actually the fight against a vicious legal system which enables the authorities to terrorize workers and at will, without even a trial, throw them into prison, The Daily Worker urges the International Labor Defense, the Trade Union Unity Council and the Laundry Workers’ Industrial Union to un- dertake immediate steps to secure Blum’s release, combining the develop- ment of a broad mass protest moyement with the necessary legal measures. . * . eral constitution, the sections that assume to guarantee to all the right of trial by a judge and jury of our peers, for any, crime whatsoever. Now, my grievance and grounds for criticism is the fact that Leon Blum is away six months, and as yet not 6ne attempt has been made to bring him before a judge on a writ of habeas corpus, (yet gangsters such pointed lackeys? There is surely no limit as to how far they will go if there isn’t any honest and conscien- tious efforts of protests and mass actions made immediately. As Blum’s case stands today, he is in their hands for nine years of servitude if they please to go the whole route in being vicious, I believe there are many comrades 3 Days DANCING EVERY NIGHT To the Tune of 60 CENTS take care of. also use Blum’s case as an example? He failed to show up at a recent| very time Y complained and in-|T, as well as Blum, would like anower as Owney Madden are taken before | in the Party and the Laundry Work-| VRRNON ANDRADE’S Unemployed Council picni¢ at which bien ‘on aid and action I was ac-| to these questions, DAILY WORKER is ready to give full support in the building up of | Judges on writs within 24 hours after Pat orton! js ey will ee ORCHESTRA _ he, as well as Ford, was supposed to| cused of being personal. How could Leet 0} @ mass movement capable of forcing the immediate release of Comrade | #*Test). wake tie MAEM ae GEIL cote te ‘speak. I help being so, even if I were, when, pportunities, And as to expasing the Parole ause e left at the mercy Harry L. Davis, Republican, suffers |i T asked for’ the Daily Worker or| Surely the movement is not, so rich Blum. However, we emphasize the need of serious and practical steps by | Board, why is the “Daily” out of the|of this board. The International Neg ci ~ “from the same handicap as Miller,| Fretheit to be sent, I was ‘promised | in the kind of devoted comrades that the I. L, D. and the revolutionary trade unions even as a basis for an picture altogether? There are in-| Labor Defense and the Party can ; effective campaign by the “Daily.” We cannot in this case, or in other | stances galore where workers are suf-| and should get hold of the above) NATIONAL PRESS BAZAAR in that he has been Mayor once be~ that it would be done but after many | Blum is, to be able to afford to throw fore, He was Mayor in 1919 when the} such promises I had to do so myself, | him away at random. One has far| cases, sustain an effective campaign by artificial publicity methods. The | fering at the hands of this Board.) citations and prepare expeditious COMMITTEE bloody attack was made on the big|/I had to subscribe out of my own|to go to find the equal to him, to| organizations cited in the letters of the two comrades—the Commuhist | Why can’t these cases be taken to-| legal activities and with the proper May Day parade. Davis is trying to| money for the New Masses, the Lib- | his devotion, to his sacrifice and bril-| Party, the International Labor Defense, the trade unions—must under- | gether apd one concerted drive be | mass action, should win the release) 5 pag 19th Street (6th floor) drown in demagogy the memories of| erator, the Labor Unity, the Times |lant leadership. I challenge any! take the necessary legal steps and begin the building of a mass move- | ade with the Blum case as a pivot,/ of Leon Blum, which will set a pre- New York City his anti-working class record and that of the Hoover administration, Keep Your Party on the Ballot. Reg- ‘ster Communist October 9 to 14 and the Nation. Nor did the I. L. D, | comrade to deny this. make any attempt for him to get In so far as capitalizing for the permission to recoive these. I have | cause, th:re was no better opportunity to send them to him through other | for the Prr'y and the TLD. to ex- inter pose one of the most vicious reac- s ment. ‘The Daily Worker hopes’ that the publication of these letters, to- gether with our editorial opinion, will serve to stimulate immediate action and honestly expose these poisonous tools of the bourgeoisie. And it should be done now, while the N. Y. City school of crime is on the Daily all around to win Comrade Blum’s freed¢ Worker's frying pan cedent for the oppressed worker for the future. Comradely yours, —J. 8. { Telephone: ALgonquin 4-9461 CVVOCO