The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 8, 1934, Page 1

Special Lenin Edition Jan. 20—Rush Orders! Daily ,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER Vol. XI, No. 1 &>* Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, M. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1934 WEATHER: Rain. (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents NRA Codes Beat Down |USSR Envoy Troyanoesky Living Standards to Low Point, A. F. Workers Now Worse) Off Than Under Hoover WAGES BUYS LESS N.R.A. Cuts Wages By Spread-Work Plan | | By SEYMOUR WALDMAN | (Daliy Worker, Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. —| The overwhelming majority of | workers in the United States “have been forced to a lower living standard” under the Roosevelt National Recovery Act, the American Federation of Labor, one of the Blue | Eagle’s chief supporters, admits in| its January Monthly Survey of Busi- | ness to be issued tomorrow. | Lower Wages | Only the lowest wage groups, that | is, the numérically few sweatshop in- dustries, the A. F. of L. survey de- clares, show any gains under N.R.A. codes. Though the hourly wage rates “average higher by five and one-half cents per hour,” in many cases it is not enough to compensate for shorter hours and “in no case is it enough to compensate for higher prices,” the Federation announcement adds. The A. F. of L. does not attack the vicious spread-the-work (spread- the misery) plan, despite the fact that it declares: “Millions who got jobs during the year are better off, but those who had jobs at more than a minimum wage, have lost ground.” Rising Living Costs In addition, the survey points out | that food prices, as compared with @ year ago, have risen seven per cent, while clothing and furnishings in- creased 21 per cent, “so that. the worker's real buying power is con- siderably lower.” The Federation of- ficials, however, neglect to state that | since April 1933 the general average of retail food prices in 51 cities has risen nearly 17 per cent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor. The survey states: “In wages, there have been defi- nite gains under codes for the lowest wage groups; but workers of average or higher wages have been forced to a lower living standard. Hourly wage rates average higher by five and one-half cents per hour, but in many cases this is not eough to compensate for shorter hours; and in no case is it enough to compen- sate for higher prices. “Workers’ incomes in our 16 chief producing and distributing industries averaged $20.53 a week in November, 1932 and $20.56 in November, 1933. Meanwhile, food prices are up 7 per cent and prices of clothing and fur- nishings are higher by 21 per cent, so that workers’ real buying power 4s considerably lower. Millions who got jobs during the year are better | off, but those who had jobs at more than a minimum wage have lost ground.” Laud N.R.A. Notwithstanding all this, the open- ing paragraph of the A. F. of L. survey, under the headline “Workers Review the Year,” sounds like a pub- lioity release from the N.R.A. bally- hoo machine, | “Workers have made three impor- tant gains in 1933: (1) greater em- ployment; 1,809,000 who were out of work last year—and now have jobs in industry, and 4,600,000 have tem- porary work under C.W.A., P.W.A. and C.C.C.; (2) shorter hours: aver- age weekly work hours in industry generally are shorter by four hours per week than at the end of 1932; (3) organization: workers are better organized to handle their problems and share in industrial control than they were last year.” The report does not state that wherever the employers have required the use of the A. F. of L. officialdom | (Continued on Page Two) a In the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Sports, by Si Gerson. Page 3 Baltimore Seamen Defeat Forced Labor Lewis Prepares To Steal Election. Page 4 Letters from Food Workers, Page 5 “What a World!” by Michael Gold Tuning In, Stage and Screen, Music, What's On. The Wreckers Are Smashed, by Ben Field. Page 6 Editorials: A Secret War Memo- randum, A Socialist In Shan- ghai, The 7 Cent Fare. Soviet Factory Provides not only Work, But Life, by Vern Smith. Farmers Support FSU Convention Foreign News. of L. Admits Truckmen’s Strike Effective In Newark NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 7.—Sev- eral hundred truckmen of Local 478, A. F. of L. Teamsters’ Union, went on strike in Newark on Wed- nesday against a wage cut. They struck after the bosses refused to give back a 10 per cent cut of last year and imposed an additional 10 per cent cut. All trucking has been stopped in the city. Scabs are being advertised for in New York City to come to 362 W. 57th St., New York. All workers should stay away from this address. Chicago TUUL Meet Hears Report On Meat, Steel Unions 77 Delegates Take Up Strike Lessons And Concentration CHICAGO, Il, Jan. 17.—The im- mediate organization of large numbers of workers in the basic industries and particularly in the packing houses was put forward as the most important task confronting the Trade Union ing the Chicago area T. U. U. L. con- ference today. “The workers in the basic industries are more dissatisfied than ever,” said Weber. “Under the N. R. A. their exploitation is more intense, their hours longer and their pay reduced. Those organized in the A. F. of L. find their struggles for better con- their leaders. The N. R. A. arbitra- tion board is the graveyard for this | Winters’ hopes of the workers.” T. U. U. L. Won Strikes Reviewing the fights of the past year, Weber pointed out that although thirty-five hundred workers had been led out on strike by the A. F. of L., almost none of these strikes resulted in victories for the workers. But the Trade Union Unity League, which was able to lead strikes of sixty-five hun- dred won at least partial victory in the overwhelming majority of these strikes. In a thorough going discus- sion of successes and failures of the past year Weber criticized the leader- ship as well as the rank and file mem- bership, showing how in the strikes that were lost some had been called prematurely 4nd without sufficient or- ganization while others have been lost through lack of preparation of the workers inyolved. Daily Worker Articie Herbert Newton of the Packing House Workers Industrial Union called jattention to the twenty-eight page Daily Worker and the article “Who Are the Reds,” in arguing against the bringing up of the “Red Scare.” Reports from the various sections of the Trade Union Unity League con- sisted of consMeration of the or- ganizational staff, strengthening of Negro work, establishing of new branches and the attivization of women in auxiliaries. Seventy-seven accredited delegates representing some fifteen thousand in- dustrial union members sat in the Hungarian Workers Hall, giving their utmost attention to the problems are growing daily more militant. 4 Workers Killed, 12 Hurt in Explosion PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 7—Four | Workers were killed and twelve seri- \ously injured when two 25,000-gallon tanks of lubricating oil at the At- lantic Refining Co. exploded. Unity League by Joe Weber in open- | Vlitions “sabotaged right and left by’ which today confront the workers who Traveled With Bullits, Greets People Of America (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7. Alexander A. Troyanovsky, the first Soviet Union Ambassador to the United States, sent a message of greeting “to the American people” in the course of a short speech made here today about ten minutes after his arrival from New York before a little army of sound news-reel men. “I'm very glad to come to Wash- ington and to act as the first Am- bassador of the Soviet Union to the United States,” the genial Troyanov- sky spoke into one of the sound boxes parked outside the east wing of Union Station, a place always re- served for distinguished visitors. Some of the caméra and sound men didn’t get his first remarks. “Please, again, Mr. Ambassador.” Ambassa- dor Troyanovsky was guided again to the microphone. He smiled happily, and said: Greets American People the first Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States, and I am very pleased to come to Wash- ington now to see the American peo- ple.” He stopped a moment, then grinned broadly and ended with: “And so on.’ The crowd of Officials and newspapermen laughed good- humoredly. Jefferson Patterson, assistant chief of the Protocol Division of the State Department; Robert Kelley, chief of the Eastern European division of the State Department, and John Wiley, former American Counsellor at the Berlin Embassy, now stationed here, officially welcomed the Soviet Am- bassador’s party to this country. Boris Skvirsky, former “unofficial Ambassador” of the Soviet Union and now Counsellor at the Embassy, was the first to alight from the train. Introductions followed all around. The entire party made its way to the east end of the station, where Ambassador ‘Proyanovsky posed good= naturedly with Skvirsky and the State Department officials for the cameramen and. delivered his: short, speech of greeting. Tomorrow afternoon at 5.15 Am- (Continued on Page 2) ‘Anti-War Revolt In Bolivia Spreading; Renew Chaco War Fighting Resumed By Armies Of Bolivia, Paraguay BULLETIN LIMA, Peru, Jan. 7—A further spread of the revolutionary struggle against the war policies of the Boli- vian bourgeois-landlord puppets of U.S. imperialism is reported, with an uprising in Achacahi, La Paz Prov- ince, following rapidly oa the heels of an armed uprising of 5,600 In- dians in the Guaqui region, near Lake ‘TViticaca. Anti-war fighters battled gen- darmes at Haqui and Tiahuancu City yesterday. Bombing planes are re- ported to be bombing Indian popula- tion centers in the Guaqui region, Pee ey BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 7.—Fighting was renewed in the Chaco war be- tween Paraguay and Bolivia last night, with the expiration of the truce at midnight last night. Heavy troop movements have been under way for several days in preparation for resumption of hostilities. The government of Paraguay, charging the Bolivian command with using the armistice to reorganize its forces, shattered in the fighting which preceded the truce, has re- fused to continue the truce. The Bolivian government accused Para- guay of rejecting arbitration. “I have the great honor to come as | Arrives at Washington ry Alexander Troyanovsky All Schools Closed In Teachers Strike Throughout Cuba Workers ‘In Sympathy Strikes; Ask U. S. Workers Aid (Special to the Daily Worker) CIENFUEGOS, Cuba, Jan. Every school teacher, janitor and | porter will go on strike Monday morning, the National Union of Ed- ucational Workers announced today. The strike call came after a series of conferences of educational work- ers in all provinces of the island. Workers, Students Aid Strike Workers organized in the Cuban National Confederation of Labor (CNOC) and students in the Left Wing,(Ale Izquierda) are supporting the strike. In many cases workers will come out in a sympathy strike, it is expected. In a last minute attempt to split the ranks of the strikers, the Grau government has decreed higher wages for teachers. However, this tactic has proved of no avail and the ranks of the school workers are solid. Among the demands of the strik- ers are: payment of back wages to school employes, free lunches for poor pupils, equal wages to all substitute teachers, adequate school equipment and regular payment of pensions. Worker, student and teacher or- ganizations of the United States are asked to send resolutions of support to the Cuban educational workers’ union, the Sindicato Na- cional De Trabajadores De La En- senanza, at Havana. To Protest, Nazi Refusal To Free Reichstag Four Huge Protest Meeting At Central Opera House Wednesday W Fed NEW YORK.—Continued refusal on the part of the Hitler government to release the Reichstag defendants, Dimitroff, Torgler, Taneff, Popoff, will be challenged at a mass protest meeting called by the New York Com- mittee to Aid Victims of German Fascism on Wednesday, Jan. 10, at 8 pm. at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. New York. The German organizations in Yorkville are preparing for this anti- fascist demonstration by carrying on @ house-to-house canvas and dis- tribution of leaflets in the territory in order to draw in the many hun- dreds of German workers who live in Yorkville. LL.G.W. Chiefs Added Bi Expel LeftWing Local 9 Leaders! Meeting Tonight Will Act Against Bureaucrats NEW YORK.—The entire left- wing administration of Cloakmak- ers’ Local 9, International Ladies Garment Worker Union—consisting of more than 20—was summarily removed late Saturday by the lead- ers of the LL.G.W. The excuse given for the dicta- torial action of LL.G.W. officials was that the left-wing leaders were “disloyal” to the union because they adopted the united front proposal of the Needle Trades Worker In- dustrial Union. 1 members of Local 9 are called to a mass meeting at Webster Hall, llth St. and Third Ave., tonight, immediately after work, and decide on action. Mid-West Farmers Call Milk Strike Against Price Cut |Companies Seek To Pay 70 Cents Less Per Hund >:d Pounds ,supplying ninety per cent of 'Chicago’s milk, struck sudden- ly Saturday against a proposed reduction of 70 cents a hundred pounds for their milk, led by the Pure Milk Association. Thousands of farmers lined the roads through- out the Chicago milkshed and made the~strike~ effective. Less than twenty per cent of the normal intake of milk reached Chi- cago while outlying towns received even less. Picket lines remeined firm from far into Indiana all the way to sections around Racine and Kenosha in Wis- consin. Farmers overpowered four armed men on a truck of the Meadowmoor Dairies, Inc., in Elgin and dumped the milk. Many other trucks were dumped near Ontarioville, Around Gary, Ind., and Waukegan there were trucks dumped, the few getting through carved city police. Not a drop of milk came through Kenosha County, which usually ships 100,000 quarts a day. The one farm organization to scab was the Wisconsin Cooperative Milk Pool, headed by Walter Singler. The swiftness with which the strike was called prevented the three big milk companies, Bowman, Borden and Wieland from laying in a supply. Many independent farmers are joining the strike. Strike Has Three Objectives The objects of the strike, as ex- plained by P.M.A. officials, are three- fold: 1. To drive out of business cut-rate dairy companies, designated as “chis- elers” by the farm leaders. These companies buy milk from unorganized farmers. 2. To prevent participation by com- panies buying supplies from the as- sociation in a price war that would ve down farmers’ returns for milk. 3. To force the administration in Washington to step in and make a renewed effort to carry out its prom- ises made to producers and allied distributors when a milk-marketing code was signed last August. This code was abandoned Jan. 1. The Agricultural Adjustment Asso- ciation says it will act on the strike Monday. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7.—One thou- sand milkers went on sirike her yesterday, demanding higher wages, recognition of their union and other benefits. By SENDER GARLIN by want more,” hundreds of Daily Worker agents Saturday and Sunday demanded additional copies for distribution of the special 28-page Tenth Anniversary Edition of the Daily Worker. Even after 251,000 copies of the paper had been run off the press and mailed to nearly 1,500 cities in every corner of the United States, addi- tional orders were flooaing the office of the Daily Worker. Requests for 1,600 copies were received by the “Daily” on Saturday, after the edi- tion had been entirely run off and disposed of. The cost of postage alone, for the special issue, was more than $1,200, Commenting on the widespread, popular response to the Anniversary Edition, Earl Browder, General Sec- NERA TEN TaN , retary of the Communist Party of the Workers Eagerly Seize Quarter Million CHICAGO, Jan. 7.—Farmers | llions Gu ROOSEVELT ASKS 4 BILLION MORE TO AID BONDHOLDERS | —— The Roo veltian trappings of income, expenditure: debt burden, taxe: of Wall Street sub: the strengthening of Wall Street’s Naturally, Roosevelt, as the age: about “public wor! ally the budget is directed entirely program, as the program of the country, The Communist Party, every the revenue, the purposes of the e: Forums, meetings, debates, and sections and units on the budget the toiling masses. } it is leading. The Class Character of sevelt Budget N EDITORIAL ‘HE capitalist class character of Roosevelt's latest budget proposals | becomes immediately clear as soon as we probe behind the Roose- | which cloak the actual figures. The Roosevelt budget, considered solely in terms of dollars, sources etc., is the most deliberate attempt ever made in this country by a capitalist President to lay a crushing weight of on the backs of the masses to pay for a program | War budget as containing tre- es, interest and profit guarantees, all as part of war policies and preparations. mt and servant of the ruling finance capital clique of Wall Street tries to deceive the masses as to the true character of the budget. He seeks to envelop it in a cloud of demagogy against the toiling masses. Wall Street monopoly capitalists to clamber out of the crisis on the backs of the masses, will be a fight against the laying of the Roosevelt budget load on the backs of the workers and impoverished farmers, oppressed and suffering masses of the member in the sections and ° units should therefore begin to take steps to raise discussions in the shops, unions, etc, on the details of the Roosevelt budget, the sources of xpenditures, etc. leaflets must be arranged for by the question and all its imp¥cations to For this purpose, the Daily Worker will begin tomorrow a series of articles on the budget whose purpose it will be to provide the mintmum suitable material for an energetic campaign of education and enlighten- ment of the workers on the whole budget question, and toward what U. §. Arrests Mail ‘Drivers For Strike Against $1.00 Wage Blue Eagle Covers Slave Pay, Long Hours On V Contract Job PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 7.—The United States government here caused the arrest of three workers on U. S. mail wagons who were striking with 19 others against wages of $1 a day, far below the N. R. A. minimum and against-a ten to twelve hour day. When the 22 strikers, who were or- ganized on the initiative of the Trade Union Unity League, went to the office of the Postmaster, they were told by George C. Baker, Assistant Post- master, that- since the U. S. govern- ment let the work out to a contractor, jthe government had nothing to do with it. However, as soon as the work- ers spread a picket line, the U. 8. government arrested three and warned in court that -“presecution will be pushed” if they try to picket the mail deliveries again. The contractor has the Blue Eagle end was paying $1 to $1.25 a day. ‘The three arrested workers, James McSwigen, Clarence Gardner and Edward Townsend, were defended in court by David Levinson, attorney for the International Labor Defense. It was revealed by Levinson ‘that the workers are forced to live in the stables of the con or, Harry Hur- itz, 1021 S. Third St., and rent taken from their wages, at least $3 a week. In court, Assistant Postmaster Baker said, “We do not inquire about the conditions under which the con- tract is to be fulfilled. The contract goes to the lowest bidder.” This, how- ever, did not prevent the government from having these Negro workers ar- rested in order to enforce the low wages, long hours and the fine system. Baker admitted that while the drivers are waiting for mail to be sorted they ere not paid, “there is no use paying the drivers for sitting outside waiting for the mail,” he said in court. NRA. Official Says Strike Breaking Co. Unions are Legal Admitted By Teagle, Oil Magnate And NRA Chairman WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Clear ad- |mission that the N.R.A. codes provide for strikebreaking company unions as a legal, official part of the Roose- velt New Deal, was made today by Walter C. Teagle, Standard Oil mag- nate, and chairman of the Business a and Planning Council of the N.R.A. ‘The Council is a quasi-official group |0f monopoly industry agents formed by Secretary of Commerce Roper to assist the Roosevelt administration in “co-ordinating” American production. Quoting General Johnson and Don- ald R. Richberg of the N.R.A.. Teagle declared: “The law does not prohibit the existence of a local labor organization which may be called a company union, and is composed of the employes of one company.” Emphasizing the strikebreaking character of the N.R.A. provisions for the open shop and company unions, Teagle said: Thoughtful proponents of the labor movement . . . concede its present usefulness in many in- dustries.”” Teagle is a Rockefeller agent and now wields great influence in the Roosevelt N.R.A. apparatus through his position on the Government Ad- visory Council. NEW YORK, Jan. 7.— Further examination of the proposed N.R.A. bank code under consideration at Washington reveals that it contains masked wage cuts for those employes who now receive their wages in checks. The code provides for a fee of 10-25 cents on all transactions where a check drawn on another bank is cashed by a different. bank. Copies of 10th Anniversary Edition SPLENDID RESPONSE SHOWS REAL REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT, VALUE OF “DAILY” AS WEAPON, SAYS BROWDER > US. said yesterday: “The enthusiastic way in which the entire Party responded to the problem of getting the historic Tenth Anniversary issue of the | Daily Worker into the hands of the masses indicates that we have large, untapped resources of revolu- tionary energy and enthusiasm. “The reception to the paper si an indication that the workers and im- poverished farmers, the starving unemployed and the professional and middle class groups are de- veloping an increasing loyalty to the Daily Worker as their most effective voice and weapon in the struggle against hunger, war and the menace of fascism.” 65 ese, New York City every section of the Party ran short of papers, fol- lowing mobilization of members for the sale of the paper in all parts of Greater New York. For this purpose detailed preparations had been made weeks in advance. Not only individual units of the Party, but locals of trade , unions and branches of mass organ- ; izations had been placing their orders for the Anniversary Edition. Most of the newsstands which sell the Daily Worker had disposed of Saturday’s paper long before noon, and scores of Daily Worker volun- teers announced “easy sales” thruout the city. ‘The largest press-run in the ten years history of the Daily Worker was made with the publication of Sat- urday’s paper. Actually, a half-mil- lion papers were printed, because the 35-year-old press which grinds out the “Daily” was unable to run the en- 16-page supplement were printed first, and then followed by an equal number of copies of the regular newspaper. The Daily Worker staff went in for some “shock-brigading” (U.S. style) in connection with the Anniversary edition, for they worked continuously from Thursday morning until Friday evening, with only four hours rest before preparing the Eastern edition of the special number. “It comes only once in ten years,” some of them consoled themselves, but in their words were deep pride in the preparation of an historic edi- tion which they knew would provoke great interest ang enthusiasm among thousands of readers—workers, farm- ers and intellectuals, rehgie 3 tire edition off at once, with the | result that the 250,000 copies of the * the quarter-million copies print- ed, 5,528 went to the Boston dis- trict; 90,000 to New York district; 9,508 to Philadelphia district; 2,421 to the Buffalo district; 9,909 to Pitis- burgh district; 11,764 to Cleveland district; 34198 to Detroit district; 37,720 to Chicago district; 5,040 to Minnesota district; 2,789 to the Kan- sas district; 4,912 to North Dakota district; 5,083 to Washington State 5,372 to New Jersey district; 3,839 to Connecticut district; 1,419 to District 16, with headquarters in Charlotte, N. C., and 769 to District 17, with headquarters in Birmingham, Ala.; 4,522 copies to Wisconsin district and 4310 to Colorado district, On the basis of relative Party membership and population, the Detroit district took first place in the size of its order—34,198, More- over, it had the largest amount of and greetings. district; 8594 to California district: | It was not possible, however, to publish all of these greetings in Sat- urday’s issue, but will appear in to- day’s and successive issues of the paper. Five thousand copies ordered by the Nationa] Miners Union had laid plans to carry thru an intensive distribu- tion of the Anniversary Edition among miners in Western Pennsyl- vania, Ohio and other states. Press Runs For Days ‘The 16-page Supplement was put on the press last Tuesday and ran until Thursday evening. The news section (western section) of the Anniversary jediton began running Friday morning at 6 o'clock in order to make mail trains that afternoon and night. Columns of greetings from workers mass organizations, Party units and (Continued on Page 2) ae mel ids ae. . abe arantee Wall Street Mortgage Holdings > ir Roosevelt Government | To Take Wall Street | Losses Over ‘MEANS HEAVY TAXES Whole Budget Seen As War Preparation WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—In- dicating the ruling class nature of the huge Roosevelt inflation- | mendous subsidies to plug up the losses of Wall Street banks and investors, tt was officially re- ported yesterday that the Roosevelt overnmen' iil add another four and “recovery measures” and “welfare” talk. Actu- | billion to the government debt in |order to guarantee the interest pay- In the immediate future, therefore, the fight against the Roosevelt | ents to the Wall Street bank hold- |ers of farm and real estate bonds upon which payments are now insde= | cault. Guarantee Investments The Roosevelt government pro- | 20Ses to issue four billions which. ft will turn over to the banks, insurance for their present mortgages, Roosevelt government will then guaf. antee not only the interest payments us at present is the case under the |Home Loan Act, but will actually’ | Suarantee the principal of the bonds, |zemoving as much risk from the mortgage bond holders as possible. Under these operations the goy- ernment deficit will soar to beyond the $32,000,000,000 set by Roosevelt as the proposed limit of the defiat. The budget as proposed by Roose= velt for the coming year will require the raising of $10,000,000,000, six (Continued on Page 2) Present Demands : Call For Recognition Of Job Committees; Union Pay || NEW YORK. — Fifty-five delegates jfrom 31 C. W. A. projects met yester- day at Irving Plaza, and formulated demands cn the Civil Works Adminis- tration and organized the Relief Workers League of Greater New York. The delegates came from C. W. A. projects in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond and the Bronx. Following the report of Richard Sullivan, of the organization com- mittee, and the New York secretary of the Unemployed Council, a motion was passed thanking Sullivan and the Unemployed Councils for their co- operation in the building of the Civil Works Administration workers organ- ization. Over nine hundred workers haye already filled out application cards. An organization drive to recruit thou- sands will immediately be begun. The demands of the conference include; Recognition of the Relief Workera League by the Civil Works Adminis- tration, prevailing trade union wagea for all skilled workers, $3 a day minimum for all workers with a four= day week minimum, work clothes on all projects, full wages when ill or disabled, adequate shelter and toilet facilities on all jobs, recognition of job committees, etc. The conference was still on aa the Daily Worker went to pee Calif. Board Denies ‘Pardon To Billings Electrical Workers Back Mooney Move FOLSOM PRISON, Calif., Jan. 7 Application by Warren K. Billings, framed-up and given a life sentence with Tom Mooney, was denied yes- terday by the State Board of Prison Terms and Paroles. 3 In a statement in connection with its rejection of Billings’ a the Board deliberately ignores the ‘rrefutable proof of the innocence of Mooney and Billings which has aec- cumulated throughout the 16 years of their imprisonment and hypocritically prates of “the gravity of his offense” and then takes refuge in the claim that the “law does not permit this board to pass upon the guilt or nocence of sny prisoner.” . * * HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 71—The fnfsal workers at the movie here hav d sciidly for of the campaign to free Mooney Billings. and for support of Mooney’ application to Roosevelt for Federal intervention. The union bought large consignment of Free Mooney stamps. F t cul & ” fn ae ‘New York CWA Men Organize League; | companies, and investors in = A 4 4