The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1933, Page 3

§. P. SABOTAGES LOS ANGELES DRESS STRIKE L.L.G.W. Leaders De- layed Until End of Season LOS ANGELES, Cal—In an ob- vious attempt to behead a victorious strike of the needle trade workers of Los Angeles, the Socialist leadership of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, affiliated with the A. FP. of L. delayed the general strike until the dress season was ending. The corrupt leadership was forced by the militancy of the rank and file workers to take some action against the starvation wages of two and three dollars a day, set by the NRA code. They stalled the workers along until last week, when they called for a general strike. ‘The manager of the publicity com- mittee is the Socialist Busick, whose anti-working class activity was re- cently exvosed in the Western Work- er. He received from the county, work orders, which he handed over to his friends for use, instead of giv- ing them to workers who really needed them. Lunches and carfare are being sup- plied by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union only to the 8,000 union members, the 2,000 non- members not getting any- The demands that the socialist leaders have'put forward are merely for the recognition of the NRA code and the union. The whole program of these fakers is to discourage any action on the nart of the workers. The militancy of the rank and file workers is not to be crushed, however. Strikers are being arrs d for picket- 2 Trade Work- leaflets to the sti leaflets warn that the International trying on negotiations behind closed doors with the NRA of- ficials and the bosses, meanwhile keeping the rank and file workers in_the dark. The Needle Trade Workers Indus- trial Union puts forth the slogans— Elect Your Committees .. . Hold Your Shop Meetings ... Act ... Don't Wait. ‘ades Workers Indus- proposes to fight for the crests on the basis of im- mediate united ection in the shops. [Greetings for 14th | Party Anniversary | ‘CT 9, MINNESOTA Anienii, A. HL, Emba: a. Johnson, G. P, Emba: A. K., Embarras 8. Wirta, Tmbarrass John Lahde, Brassas 8. K., Brassas Oscar Suvonen, Brassas H. Huhtale, Brassas E. Tuhonen, Brassa Emmi Lindberg, 508 andi Johnsen, Brassas ino Livo, Willwalk mo Korpi, Baie de . Lind, Baie de Wasai Jack M., Willwalk A., Willwelk Brassas Brassas Brassas, Brassas CITY AFFAIRS BEING HELD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE Daily, Worker Friday, Oct, 27: Movie showing of “Land of Lenin” and the “Struggle for Bread” at Queens County Lzbor Lyceum, 785 Forest Ave. Auspices Unit 24 Sec. 6. Cli-Grand Youth Ciub, 380 Grand Street, New York City, presents Mil- ton Howard, of the Daily Worker, in a lecture on “The Election Campaign and the Daily Worker.” A Surprise Mustorle, Culturally os Politicaliy interesticg will be T&ited by Tae eee AL at 1109 A308 Street, Brooklyn. Saturday, Oct. 28: Hinsdale Workers Club, 313 Hinsdale St., Brooklyn, will hold a big dance and entertainment. John Reed Club, Violin String Trio and Dally Work- ers Chorus will be there. Culture Club, 189 Sum- ner Ave., Brooklyn, «fall Negro Program of Recltations, Werk Spltitunls, Harlem Liberator Group. Welter Quirt, of the John Reed in a chalk tnlk., Violin aster musician, Solo by a Concert 2nd Dance sponsored by the Brownsville Youth Center, 105 That- ford Ave., Brooklyn. consist of Heed Club, and more. Entertainment Galore at arranged by United Coun- nx Section, at 1472 Boston ieee, Break. Left Wing Group Local 38 will hold as dence, movie showing and en tainment st 304 W. 58th St., N.¥.0, Concert given by Unit 16-8 See, 9 at 1955 7th Ave. near 113th St, House Party given by Unit 1 See. 15 at 1516 Bryant Ave., ground iets at 8.30 pm. Pullman Porter Concentration Unit of Sec. 5 will hold a house party at home of Dr. Lock, 200 Marcey Place, Bronx. Excellent program. Hoban te Eetkway, Workers Club, 2178A White ins Road, will hold » lec- ture on ors National Recovery Act and the Threat of Fascism.” Carl Reeve, of the Daily Worker staff, will be the sposker. jorkers ogee ar Relief presents hg et film, demonstrat- ie c ion” wi WMiton people, at 421 Stone Ave, Brooktyn, at $ p.m. Goncort ivan by Volt 18 Sec, 2 at 210 W. 08th St, West Otnb, Workers Laborstory TTheetre ana New Dance Group will be there, 3 | officials dared to arrest eight workers >|. ++ held incommunicado on charges Strikers Defy Bloody 26.—War declared! The working class against the boss class! Twenty thou- sand miserably exploited cotton pick- ers on strike! The battle cry rang out “$1 a hundred!” “Viva la $1 a hundred!” “A dollar a hundred!” For six days 25 strikers’ headquar- ters, relief kitchens and union lovals buzzed with activity, anticipation, and a new strength came into the faces of the American, Negro and Mexican workers. Then came October 10th—Bloody Tuesday! Armed thugs and ranchers marched boldly into the main street of Pixley—up to the headquarters of the strikers and let loose a volley of shots that bathed sunny ‘San Joa- quin Valley in the blood of these mili- tant workers, Some 85 miles away... Arvin... at the same time... another planned massacre .. . 100 strikers on the picket line at O, E, Mitchell’s Ranch ... sheriffs arrive, throw tear gas bombs } with, “Let ’em have it, boys.” ... The signal for the farmers and the armed scabs to start the blood bath. After the smoke had cleared up . . . th¥ee workers lay murdered . . . two at Pixley ... riddled with bullets |—the Union Hall, with bullet holes, including the tiny American flag which hung at the door... and one worker at Arvin with a bullet in his back, which caught him as he fled from the onslaught of the murderers ... Scores were injured .. . shedding blood in the bitter fight for the right to live. But the blood had hardly dried on the ground of this black valley when two workers’ funerals took place... one in Kern County ... one in Tulare County, where thousands of workers marched for hours through the towns to the cemetery in honor of their slain comrades . . . to commemorate their memory, to solemnly, militantly carry on the struggle where their comrades had left it. . . to build a living monument to their memory, to strike until they got the $1 a hundred! To build a more powerful union, Eye witnesses, participants and by- | Standers declared that this murder- | ous massacre was planned with the knowledge of the county officials ... newspapermen, cameramen and police officers were present before and at the time it occurred, yet these das- tardly murderers, sheriffs and police from Arvin and charge them with the murder of their fellow strikers of murder, conspiracy to murder, in- citing to riot, unlawful assembly and riot—without bail, Pat Chambers, militant leader of the cotton strikers—indicted on two counts under the vicious Criminal Syndicalism Law—facing from two to 28 years in the penitentiary—for sup- porting the slogan, raised by the workers after the shooting—“Disarm the ranchers and give the workers the right to arm themeslyes!” Altogether, 40 workers are held as a result of the cotton strike so far, all the way to murder! Suddenly the newspaper headlines screamed, “11 Farmers Held on Mur- der Charges!” A few days later three of them were released, then two more. Coroners’ inquests and Grand Jury | investigations could not plaze their fingers on the true murderers, This whitewashing of these thugs «+ + ds justice indeed! At Corcoran, 18 miles southwest of Tulare . . . 4,000 workers in a camp used durinz the strike as heaquarters, guarded their camp. Six babies died of mal- nutrition inside of one week... .A 22-year-old woman, who was refused hospitalization, because she was a striker’s wife, died of pneumonia .. . murdered by the county officials. The spirit of the workers was more mili- tant than ever before in the strike. Suddenly, the camp was condemned because of “incorrect water supply” . ++ Notice was se! to the owner, evict . . . this failed . . . warrants were issued to get some of the lead- ers ... but the camp was still guard- ed by the committees of strikers ... anyone going in needed a permit charged with disturbing the Peace | who is sympathetic to the strikers, to | f California Cotton Pickers ‘Honor Killed Comrades 3 Order Them to Work Continue Heroic Strike Negroes, Whites and Mexicans Stand United | In Struggle f for Decent Pay Terror and Guile of! N.R. A. Representative By EMMA CUTLER SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, Cal., Oct.! tempt was made to seize one of the leaders . . . Over 5,000 workers gath- ered around him and the six armed deputies who came to get him had to leave without their victim. County officials, becoming desperate because these attempts to break the Strike failed, appealed to the state and federal government ... and be- hold—Nira, the blue buzzard, flew into this valley of death, starvation and misery... . Carefully ignoring and stepping high over the blood- stains ... shrieked through its rep- resentative, “We want only to help this valley, to bring back peace .. . in a kindly light only . only ina kindly light.” A fact-finding commis- sion—to “bring the facts of life.” Five hundred workers packed the auditorium to listen to this puffed up, all-important, gloriously pictured Nira, which soon punctured itself in the eyes of the workers. The strike committee, compesed of representa- tive workers of all races, brought the | “tacts to iight” , .. the conditions of | the cotton pickers, the murder andj} terror used against the strikers ... and agreed to meet with the growers to demand a minimum living wage, “$1 a hundred!” And what was the answer of the N.R.A. in the “kindly light”? ... “Workers, go back to work, while we decide whether you actually need $1 a hundred to live on.” Unanimously from the workers — “NO! We will go back when we get the minimum of $1 a hundred!!!’ Thereupon the punctured vulture sneaked out of the valley of death, leaving behind it workers more deter- mined to carry on the struggle for a minimum living wage, determined to commemorate the murder of their comrades—determined to organize into more powerful defense organiza- tions to fight for the release of their imprisoned comrades. Nira the beautiful, Nira the great, did not fool these militant workers, with its talk of “saving the day” and “bringing peace” to them . . . but was forced to admit that it could do nothing . . . folded its wings and left in @ hurry. And the workers, having learned their lesson, through their own strug- gles, realized more than ever before that there was only one way out... Continue the strike until it is won! Organize and demand a minimum living wage! Fight in the International Labor Defense for the release of their com- rades in jail! Pocketbook Strike In Spring Valley, N. Y. SPRING VALLEY, N. Y¥.—Resist- ing the constant lowering of their conditions, the workers of a small pocketbook factory in Spring Valley, have gone on strike. Most of the young workers who had toiled 48 hours a week for $5 with $9 for the most skilled, joined the walkout. The bosses managed to keep some for a time with beer and lunches,—and N. R. A. promises. But the remaining workers found that solidarity with their strikers is their only guarantee to improve their | conditions. Affair Held In Spite Of Raid By Vandals On Vegetarian Club} NEW YORK. —. The Executive Board of the Vegetarian Workers’ Club, 220 E. 14th St., announced yesterday that their restaurant and club rooms have been open for business without interruption since the raid nade on the club’s estab- lishment by a group of unidentified vandals last week. Early last Thursday, several per- sons entered the club with a dupli- cate passkey and removed furnish- ings and kitchen equipment of the organization, apparently in an ef- fort to prevent a banquet which was scheduled for two days later. The banquet was held successfully in spite of the theft. Certain dis~ Tuptive elements who were formerly members of the club are suspected from the strike committee. An at- By MILTON # HOWARD hhave seen that speeches of the A. F. of L. officialdom, Roose- velt, Johnson, Perkins, etc., indicate the trend toward the fascisation of the trade unions. This must, of course, be looked upon as @ process, not as something definitely and completely accom- plished already. ‘There will be plenty of struggles, working class resistance to the ac- complishment of these fascist theo- ries. And this resistance on the part of the workers can effectively defeat bal sie process of trade union fas- bers! addition, there is no doubt that the various agents of the employers, the Greens, Perkins, Johnsons, etc., will not present a united front on the subject. They will maneuver, con- by the Executive Board. But that the Roosevelt government, be definitely headed in the direction of increasing State violence against the workers who organize to strike against their exploiters is clearly in- dicated by the speech he made only two weeks ago the In deeds, the workers have already discovered what murder and brutal- ie, waconete, ene raya, Woeoec the President. Bis Riedl Be vrghter eel aha dy oe berate re a ei burgh ererywhere the thet S08 ew T ohie, textile, tay baer orBhs Mage Meant that the Roosevelt, N. A. contains f: class at its heart. DAILY WORKE Philly Truck Men Strike; Officials See Through NRA Trickery PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26.— Police Superintendent Joseph Le Strange has ordered the mobilization of squads armed with machine guns; against thousands of truck drivers} who have gone on strike demanding , recognition of their union. Last month 12,000 drivers struck, when their union was granted a char- ter by the A. F. of L. with promises that they would be recognized through the N.R.A. When the rank and file returned to work they found they had been duped. The bosses would not recognize them. Officers of the union denied they issued a call for the strike. Moulders Stick to Demands in Strike Bosses Advertise for Seabs, But Fail to Get Them NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 26. — Under the leadership of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, about 100 moulders from three shops, the Connecticut Malleable Casting Co., the Krischners’ shop, and the N. H. Malleable Co., have been out on strike since Monday. The moulders are sticking together in their fight for 85 cents an hour and 50 cents an hour for helpers, with a 40-hour, 5-day week. The strikers are further demanding that no helpers’ work be done by moulders, recognition of the shop committee and of the union. The bosses are making every effort to break the strike, hiring young boys to give the appearance that the shops are operating, but the bosses cannot get skilled labor to scab on the strikers, as was proven by the at- tempts of a couple of the bosses to persuade individual workers to go back to work. The moulders were making from $16 to $18 a week be- fore, helpers from $7.20 a week up. Wednesday morning a parade of the strikers was held before the shops that are out, and the strikers marched into the G. F. Warner shop and the workers there promised to jcome down to the strike meeting Wednesday night. The bosses have been advertising for scabs in the daily papers here and one shop put up a sign for help wanted, which disappeared during the night. The strike committee has already | t! been set up. ‘The relief and finance committee has also been set up. Baltimore Negro Workers Drive Rey. Trigg From Platform BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 24—The Rev. C. Y. Trigg, president of the lo- cal National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People, was booed off the platform at a mass pro- test meeting in Union Baptist Church Sunday afternoon, against the lynching of George Armwood, pod the attempt to legally lynch Euel 2, Trigg, taking the floor and de- manding that the International La- bor Defense and, for that matter, all white workers, be excluded from the united front against lynching, was received in stony silence in the main meeting, but booed and hissed and forced to leave the platform at the basement meeting, The accounts of Trigg’s belly-crawl- ing before Governor Ritchie last Fri- day, published in the local papers, has roused a tremendous fury against the leadership of his organization among the Negro workers, Bernard Ades, I.L.D. lawyer, point- ing out the besic ‘causes of lynching in the white ruling class policy of at- tempting to split the unity of Negro and white toilers, was received with thundering applause, EVENING SCHOOLS HIT (By a Student Correspondent) the schools. Last Wednesday night, at Evening Public School No. 36, 40th Street and 4th Avenue, Brook- lyn, the teacher announced to the Pupils that there was no money to continue the school for the present. “We hope to continue the school next, week,” she said, Walk Out When They, NEW YORK.—The crisis is hitting | EW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1933 Spanknoebel With Documents By SENDER GARLIN. in the Daily Worker editorial office Samuel Untermyer. May I speak to j the editor, please?” keep me waiting like this . . . pleas: The voice showed the irritation of man accustomed for years to having | his own way. A piug in the ewiveibaard nected the special legal 2 cial adviser to Tammany ait leader of the Jewish anti-Nazi boy cott movement with Clarance Hatha- way, editor of the Daily Worker. “Hello,” said Hathaway. “Yes,” said Untermyer, “now, in connection with those documents yo! people published on ‘The Friends o! New Germany’—can I get the originals? I want to confront| Spanknoebel with them at the City | Hell hearing this afternoon. Can| you give me your personal assurance that the documents are authentic? Hathaway—Absolutely authentic. Our investigation, both before pub- lishing the documents and since, convinces us that their authenticity cannot be challenged. Untermyer—Did this reach Germany? Hathaway—No, the letter did not, but the envelope which was to con- tain the letter did reach Germany. Untermeyer chuckled. It was a very letter ever stingy, tentative and inhibited chuckle. Untermyer—Mr. Hathaway, was! this Nazi document sent through the | mails? Hathaway—No, they don’t handle their correspondence that way; they | send it by courier to the German! many. This letter was intercepted’ some time between the writing and the departure of the ship. Untermyer—Oh! Could you ar- range to send me the original letter, Mr. Hathaway? I'd like very much to confront this fellow Spanknoebel with it at the hearing this afte-noon. protected, and that you will give us your personal assurance that they will be returned to us. Untermyer—Can your man bring them to me directly to the hearing? Hathaway—Our man can put them in your hands immediately, before the hearing opens. Untermyer—Very well, Mr. Hatha- way, I will depend upon you. Thank you. Good-bye. Hathaway—Good-bye. ay ee [ate with a reporter's card, is- sued by the New York police de- partment, and carrying the vital Nazi documents in my inside coat Pocket, I took the subway down to City Hall. (The fare is still a nickel.) I skipped jauntily up the City Hall passage through the labyrinths City Hall, and into the Board of timate chamber where the Nazi } ing was being held before Ma: O'Brien. City Hall: Stormed by jobless workers demanding relief; veterans fighting for their bonus; where Communists have led scores of mass delegations; where Sam Nessin, un- employed leader, was nearly mur- dered—19 cons drazged him into the cellar of the building. They clubbed Nessin with their b!ack- jacks, they pummeled him with their fists, they kicked him when he lay unconscious and haif-dead; they ground their heels in bis face. |... Nessin had told Jimmie Walker, then Tammany mayor, “TI represent the workers; grafters.” City Hall: Where mayors wearing full dress, gardenias in~Japels, face microphones and weleome visiting “dignitaries”: fascist murderers from Italy and Roumania; where trans- | Atlantic flyers get the key to the town; where the millions in graft that go with the job %f “running a great city” are divvied up... _ TEE corridors of the City Hall were jammed with neople, all strainine to gain entry to the steps leading to | NEW YORK.—The telephone | rang about noontime | Wednesday. “Hello,” said a low, burring voice, “This is Mr. Untermyer, Mr. | “Just a minute, please,” Unter-} myer was told. A few seconds passed. “You ca ship captains, who take it to Ger- | Hathsway—I think that we can ar-| range it, with the proviso, however, | that the original documents must be; steps, full of naive confidence that r the police card would assure me safe of you represent the |’ How Untermyer Asked For an Got Nazi Letter From “Daily’ Wanted to Confront) | onal lead- ities in the United | States. the Board of Estimate chamber. The police had set up a cordon at the |foot of the steps. Th who sought | to move one inch forward were ene- mies—to be beaten back. ni take your | time,” . cop told a qui -mannered, ete man. “Cut out that shovin’,” they told) | men and women who stood by, qu‘ctly |w order to come mit them into the nate chamber, ; Board of bs EPORTERS and newspaper pho- tographers from the can‘talist press push confidently forward. They | Reporter ‘Has a Tough) Time Getting Into O’Brien Hearing sh their police ca but it doesn’t do them any good, e’ Only those who could prove that they most came from the powerful capi- in the city, New ‘York Times and Herald y passed muster talist news| Ike | the tker press card. shunted from one poli ice official to anoth | floor on which the hearing {he eld, I finally was directed to Lit | James Harten, in charge of the Ci Hall police, who began to gi the same run-around, Ha | somewhat more 1, but § ed not to let me in. insisted that I was being e r on the y didn’t you deliver stuff to Untermyer’s office instead of coming here?” the lieutenant asked, “Because,” I arcwered, “Unter- myer asked that i!cy be brought here, an‘ he was apparently under the mistaken impression that a Daily Worker reporter wow'd have as much standing at City Hall as he has.” “You'll admit that you haven't,” countered the lieutenant. “I’m afraid it looks like it,” I replied. Herten finally offered to deliver the documents himself to Untermyer, but I made it clear im that they were of such a e «that they could not be entrusted to any police- man. At this moment one of the ward heelers who infest the City Hall s! up to the lieutenant and said -whisner, that “the Commission- er says to let the newsnaper mon in.’ en then onened the steel door and let me in to the hearing. | Events New Workers’ Center — A Local n established at 1024 Sixth St., N. W. Election Campaign Rally PITTSBURGH.—Hill Section, C. P., is holding an election rally tonight at Miller's School, Miller St. Three Affairs for “Daily” CHICAGO.—A concert and dance tomorrow night by the Russian Work- | ers’ Organizations at 3151 W. Roose- velt Rd. Admission 30c. Another af- fair at 1902 W. Division St., row night, and one Sund: night, by la Unit 908, C. P., at Hungarian Worke: | Club, 1632 Mi ‘Ave. irs for the Daily au rom these aff: Worker. Halloween Dance GRAND United Comr 2 Hallowe | morrow ni Hamilton Ave., N WwW. “Adm Celebrate C. P. Anniv ersary NORTH DETROIT. — Com Party of N 1 14th Anni Trades Work- al Union will hold a social tomorrow night at 1 dance Peshine Ave. Report on 1 Sor iet Union CLEVELAND.— Samaroff, direc- tor of the Freihelt Mandolin Or- chestra, recently returned from the Soviet Union, will give a report of the S. U. tonight, 8 p. m., at Assembly Hall, 9125 Twelfth, near Clairmont. National | All pro- | Food Union Wins Gains In Strikes; Injunction ‘Terror Continues NEW YORK.—substantial gains in their conditions have been won by the workers of the White Rose Cafeteria at 304 Third Ave., aud at the Ale Rail, 106 E. 14th St, \a result of strikes led by the Foo Workers Industrial Union. Sh hours, more pay and recognition of the shop committees were gained in both shops. Thirty-three workers face for picketing in violation of an in- junction at the Hanover cafeterias, where a strike was called by the lunion against the discharge of} Workers for unino activity. Yester- | |day Manuel Rivera, a member of | the union was sentenced to 30 days in jail for strike activity. The no- torious paragraph ‘800 was invoked | officials rere that it] Ae to interfere” in the] of the injunction,! cont; aticting “previ assurances that the N.R.A. mediate wo’ inated | joining a union, at the Carnival Lunch ). 14th St., to compel the sses to live up to the’ gree= with the union inues strong. The Food Workers Indus- trial Trion calls un pon the workers to aid in picket the shop. Pockethonk Workers book Wo! s teday urged all pocketbook workers to attend the meetine to be held to- night in Stuyvesant High School for the discussion of a new tax of $10 which has been vrpposed by the ad- ministration of the vnion. “All workers,” said Lyon, “should attend the meeting to defeat the tax.” same purpose was broken off becausé of terroristic methods employed by union officials in an effort to force the tax on the membership. Resistance of Workers to Violation of Every Elementary Right to Organize, Meet, Strike, | Best Defense Against Fascist Trend meaning of the Roosevelt-Johnson- Perkins-Green trade union theory. give here a brief record of the N. R. A. massacres and terror: Philadelphia, Pa., Sept, 1.—Two Strikers shot to death when they sought to prevent scabs from enter- ing the Cambria Hosiery plant, flaunting the Blue Eagle. Ambridge, Pa., Oct. 6—An organ- ized steel trust army of hundreds, carrying every type of small arms, in- cluding sub-machine guns and fe-r- gas guns, for 45 minutes shot at Picket lines, leaving two known dead and 40 wounded. Strikers say as high as seven were killed. Tulare, Calif., Oct. 9—Fascist gangs killed four strikers and wounded 30 for-|in San Joaquin Valley, where 19,000 cotton pickers struck for higher pay. : Paterson, N. J., Oct. 20—Police . * §. Steel subsidiary) thugs, One striker killed. Homes and cars dyna- mited. Armed attacks on strikers continue to this day. Clairton, Pa—Gas attacks and beating of mine and steel pickets at the Carnegie Steel Co, plant (U. S, Steel subsidiary). Weirton, West Va.; Clarksburg, West Va., and Steubenville, Ohio— Repeated gas attacks and clubbings of strikers in the strike of 15,000 stel workers for union recognition. Springfield, Il., Oct. 20—One miner killed by U. M. W. A: henchmen, Three companies of state militia or- ganized against strikers, Peabody Coal Co. gunmen in repeated mur- derous attacks on Progressive Mfh- ers’ members, Gallup, New Mexico.—Martial law declared against strikers and strike leaders court-martialed and sent to shot into the ranks pf striking silk pickets and dangerously wounded two; another is in the hospital and Seores were clubbed. Fayette County, Pa., Coal Fields — Dozens of strikers, their wives and cece shot by Frick Coke Oo. (U, the penitentiary. Hundreds of ar- rests and assaults on strikers. Helper, Utah.—U. S, Army provides coal gunmen with machine guns arms. Repeated seenulls on n pikets and] is distinctly signalled in the general arrest of strikers, beatings and shoot- ing. IN evaluating the degree of fascisa- tion of the Roosevelt government it must not be forgotten that the essence of fascism does not lie in the superficial aspects which have come to be associated with the Italian and German fascist dictatorships—the dissolution of parliament, the medie- val cultural trappings, the racial mythology, etc. These are the| ideological trappings with which the bourgeois tries to mask the true character of fascism—the naked mili- tary dictatorship of the ruling class employers, It is entirely conceivable that Roosevelt, in his cunning, will main- tain some semblance of the forms of “democratic” government while act- ing with all the reactionary ferocity of a Hitler or a Mussolini, The development toward fascism ° Roosevelt Speech Sanctions Government Strikebreaking yee are becoming more articulate. Elementary Rights (E development toward fascism does not take place with dramatic openess. It is typical of the Roose- velt government that the increasing fascisation of the State is still con- cealed within extreme “social” dema- ogy. ; But it is the defiance of every) right of the workers, every gain in the improvement of the workers’ con- growing American fascism, The right to strike, the right of the workers to choose their own unions, the right to meet and speak working conditions, ete.—all must be defended with relentless | bulldog tenacity. For it is precisely in the daily abrogations of these fundamental democmtic rights that fascism re- cords its stead victories, The Roosevelt government girds it- self for the enormous terrific class battles which it sees looming inevi- tably ahead. The Communist Party, at the head of the working class, rooting itself deeply in the largest factories of atmosphere of culture, the universi~ and arrest of leaders. Indiens ties, schools, etc. Slowly, but very , the forces of cultural re- ditions, however “small,” which con- | stitutes the best defense against freely, the right to insist on better, these | Page Three {ZAUSNER GANG IN y NEW ATTACK ON PAINTERS’ UNION Union Calls A. F. of L. | Members to Unite to Oust Officials NEW YORK.— Branding a recem —for a while. | leaflet issued by the corrupt Zausner machine of the A. F. of L, Painters’ Brotherhood as an incitement to race hatred and race rioting, and having the purpose of smashing their union, the A) tion Painters’ Union called on rank and file painters in the A. F. of L. union to join with their mem- bers in a united front to establish dh croieg conditions on the jobs and out the crooked gang of rack- ing officials of the A, F, of L, The provocative leaflet cireulated officials purported to that three gangsters sent by to break up a picket line of of the Alteration Painters’ n had been beaten up by “Negro 3 The Amsterdam Paint this sae jail | ; Smashed tl viciously beaten up three S who were later sent to In the clash, a f L. was similarly ers, by the Zausner machine is for the purpose of covering up the t nt which was after Zausner cked and driven is Weinstock and other rank and file opp on workers from the meeting hall. The agreement on paper offered a m-hour day and a $9 to the workers, but in the ne Wages received range from $5 to $7 a day. Those who demand jthat the agreement be enforced are fired and discriminated against. Fear of the exposures of the Altera- tion Painters’ Union which has pre- vented the officials from effectively carrying out their sell-out plans, has prompted the slanderous attack against the union. Tannery Strikers Fight Seabs In Two Plants GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Oct. 26.-—~ Defending their jobs, tannery work- ers on for several windows of one of the two factories which attempted to operate with scabs today. The two plants at which militant demonstra- tions against the scab-operated plants occurred were t-e Martin Littell Co, and the Liberty Dressing Co. Representatives of strikers and employers have been negotiating a strike settlement and it is reported that the bosses have conceded the | demand of the workers for recogni- | tion of their indenendent union, and have offered a lower wage scale, which the workers have not accepted. | OUT OF TOWN Ae Urged to Balk New Tax | M. Lyons, orzenizer of the Po7ket-| s Ronk and File Group] Last week a meeting called for the! heavy industry, must set resolutely shout the task of organized counter- fensive FOR THE * Boston OCT. 28th: District Datly Worker Dance at the National Textile Workers Industrial Union Hall, 10 Beach St. Adm. 380, Philadelphia 28th: ce end Entertainment given by Office Workers Union at the and Hammer Club, 138 &. 8th Adm. 20c. oct. Wilmington, Del. OCT. 27th: Lecture and Entertainment given at the Workmen's Circle Hall, 223 Ship- ley Street. David Levinson, Phila. attorney, recently returned from the Soviet Union and Germany will speak on “German cere John Reed Club of Philadelphia will stage & new play and chalk talk. Prei- het Gesangs Ferein wil sing. Ad- mission 25¢, Cleveland OCT. 28th: Dance at the Lithuanian Workers Hall, 920 E. 79th Bt, at 8 pm Sterloptican lecture with stide of State Relief March views from the Soviet Union at Unemployed Work- ers Hall, 3874 Payne Ave. at 8 p.m. Gary, Ind, OCT. 28th: Banquet given by Unit 3 (Tollesten) at 1948 West 10 Place, at 9 p.m. mn free. Very elaborate end er will be served. Los Angeles NOV. 5th: Extraordinary Concert, Muate, Bn- tertainment and Drama to be held at 214 Loma Drive at 8 p.m. Detroit 28th: Concert and Dance given at Workers Home, 1243 E. Ferry Ave. at 8 p.m, OCT. 29th: Concert and Dance given at Yemans ocT. Hall, 3014 Yemans, Hamtramck. Dance starts al § p.m. Concert at 8 p.m. Artists from Canada, Aus- pices Section 8 P.C, Dance and Concert by Section 8 at Finnish Hall, 5969 14th St. California The great Soviet film “1905 adapt- fd from M. Gorki’s famous move) “Mother” will be shown in the fol- lowing cites on the dates Usted be- low for the benefit of the Daly Worker. Comrade Bd. Royce is touring with this film, Oct, 29—Fresno, y Oct, 30—Berkeley : Nov. 2 to 12 inclusive—Lee Angeles, Was 2 So ee HO. she os woes