The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1934, Page 3

Se Detroit Jo Cops Slug and Jail New Haven, Conn., Jobless Special to the Daily Worker DETROIT, Mich., June 6.—The Unemployment Councils have called a demonstration 6f all employed and unemployed workers and P. W. A employés at all local relief stations on Monday, June 11, at 10 A. M. The démonstration, called by the Councils and supported by the Auto| Workers Union against the 15 per} cent cut on P. W. A. jobs and relief, | will demand; (1) immediate restora-| tion of all relief cuts; 30-hour week on all relief jobs, union wages at minimum of 75 cents hourly rates to apply with supplementary relief to| all families of five or more; (2) immediate restoration of free cloth- ing and surplus food orders (meat, butter, eggs, flour, etc); (3) no dis- crimination against single, Negro and foreign born workers; (4) im-| mediate relief without investigation | to all laid off workers; (5) free medical and dental aid; (6) an end to all évietions; and (8) immediate enactment by Congress of the Workers Unemployment Insurance | Bill (H, R. 7598). Pasi ee Single Unemployed March On City Hall NEW HAVEN, Conn. Police sluggéd and jailed leaders of the Unemployed Protective Association here Tuesday as 300 single uner- ployed men and women marchéd on the City Hall to demand relief. The jobless workers, under the leadership of the Protective Associa- tion (affiliated to the National Un- employment Councils) gathered at the Association headquartres, and in orderly ranks marched to the City Hall demanding $4 weekly cash reliéf and endorsement of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (HR 7598). The police, swinging clubs and blackjacks, attacked the march, seized three workers, two of whom were leading the march, and after brttally clubbing them, jailed the| workers on charges of “general breach of the peace.” Employed and unemployed work- ers packed the court today when the arrested workers were triéd be- fore judge Deviin. Lancaster Negro and White Stop Eviction LANCASTER, Pa.—Two hundred and fifty Négro and whité workers under the leadership of the Relief Workers League massed at the home of Mrs, Clark, unemployed Negro worker, here Saturday and stopped a threatened eviction. Mrs. Clark, a widow and mother of two children, who had paid $40 monthly rént until a récent reduc- tion to $30, was threaténed with éviction by H. Edéleon, a wealthy land owWnér when shé could no Jongér pay rent. Edélson, Who owns 150 houses in Columbia, housés in Lancaster and a largé hotél, drové by with the constable, and on seéing the large masé of workers took no steps to! evict. Chicago Packing House Workers Meet Tom’row CHICAGO, Ill, June 6.—A mass meeting of stock yards workers will be héld Friday at Kosciuzko Hall, 48th and Wood Sts. The principal speakers will be Bill Gebert. who will spéak in Polish, and Frank Gallaghér, general organizer of the Packing House Workers Industrial Union. How to achiéve unity of the pack- ing house workérs in preperation for joint actions against thé bossés will ‘be discussed. e mesting is calléd by the Packing House Workers In- dustrial Union, 10 W. 47th St. and 1703 W. Madison St. The admission for the meeting is freé. All stock yard workers are urged to attend. Lawson, Waldman, Si Gerson to Speak at Symposium Friday NEW YORK. — John Howard Lawson, noted playwright. who recently returned from Alabama, where be réported the strike cf the 8,000 ore miners, will be among the speakers at & symposium, “Get- ting the News.” arranged by the Film and Photo League at Irving Plaza. 15th St. and Irving Place, this Friday night. Othér speakers will be Seymour Waldman, of the Daily Worker Washington Bureau; Si Gerson, city éditor of the Daily Worker; E. A. Schachnér,, editor of “The Rank and Filer;” William Fuchs, Daily Worker sports writer, and Leo Hurwitz, néws photographer of the Film and Photo League. Frank Palmer of the Federated Press will act as chairman. Streetcar Men Accept 4e-an-Hour Pay Raise BOSTON (F.P.).—Union _street- car meén employed by the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co. havé accepted an increase of four cénts an hour with the present 44- hour week, according to an an- nouricémént of the vote tabulated by the presidents of the 11 local had participating in the ballot- ing. The increase raises the present maximum hourly wage rate from 65¢ to 69¢c. It also establishes the union rate in garages operated by the company and abolishes the so- called “call” men. Represéntatives of the Boston Oar Mén’s Union and the Boston Ele- vated Street Railway Co. having openéd negotiations for a new wage and working agreemént to replace the contract which expirés on July to an announcement at the localy 1, according *® meeting of No Schools, No Jobs for Many Millions of Youth, Educator Says WASHINGTON, — Unemploy- ment among young people was thé subject of a special confer- éficé called in Washington by U. S. Commissioner of Education Georgé F. Zook. “Tt is estimated that there are in this country at the present time about 4,000,000 young people between the ages of 14 and 18 who are not enrolled in high schools,” he said. “In the collegé age level, seven are out of college for every one in college. “The fortunes of nearly 12,000,- 000 young men and women who are not now in school or college are at stake. Not less than 3,000,000 in the age group from 18 to 20 alone ate not only out of school but out of work.” Pittsburgh Jobless Stop heriff Sale Workers Ambushed by Cops; Vicious Frame- Up Looms PITTSBURGH—In an effort to stem the rising militancy of the unemployed in déaling with evic- tions and sheriff sales hére, Al- legheny authorities are preparing to frame another unemployed worker in almost the same manner that Phil Frankfeld, Unemployment Council leader, was railroaded to a | two-year sentence. As a@ result of the successful ac- | tion of unemployéd workers in buy- jing the household goods of a Mc- | Keésport family for oné dollar at | & Coristable sale on May 21 and | then turning the property back to the family, Tom Johnson is in jail citing to riot, obstructing legal pro- cess, and intimidating an officer.” The McKeesport sale was nego- tiated in a legal manner, but when the constables returned to Pitts- burgh, the sheriff's office decided it was illégal. Accordingly another salé was posted for May 28. On that date, due to the short- ness of notice, only nine or ten of | the unemployed could be mustered, | and when they appeared on the {scene they were pounced on by several carloads of dépitiés, who beat them all severely and arrested three. At the police station, two of the trio were released, but Mansfield Robinson, because hé protested the beating, was thrown in jail and a | hearing set May 31, before Alder- man Geary. At 10 a. m. Thursday morning, | however, the alderman phoned Syl- via Schlessinger, the I.L.D. attor- ney, that the héaring would be held in 15 minutes. Schlessinger was in court at the time and could not be reached, so Geary held the trial immediately and dismissed Robin- son. In the meantime a frameé-up is being pteparéd fdr Tom Johnson, and @ warrant is reported to be out for Bill Mikades on the same charges, Call Conferences for Nominating Meets in Other Districts CHICAGO, Tl, United Front Conference, which District, placed workers who for many yéars have been otitstanding leadérs in the struggles of the workers in the South Side of Chicago. The 60 delegates representing 21 organiza- tions unanimously accepted the proposed candidates and pledged to mobilize the large number of workers in that district for tho support of their candidates. Herbert Newton was nominated the millionaire De Priest, who has been a willing tool of the white ruling class in their attacks upon the Negro masses. In accepting the nomination Newton stated: “I want to pledge to you dele- gates, and to the workers in my Congressional District, that I will carry on a relentless struggle against the hunger program of the Roosevelt administration, that I will carry the fight for the needs of the workers, for the rights of the Negro masses. I pledge to fight for the kind of unemployment in- surance that will at least to some extent better the conditions of the workers, for jobs, for cash relief and against Negro discrimination.” The nomination of Newton met with a tremendous outburst of cheering, which lasted for many minutes. Comrade Joa Jackson, another Negro fighter, has been nominated for Assembly from the Third Sen- atorial District. Comrade Jackson, in accepting the nomination stated: “T am a worker just like you fellow délegates, when I fight for you I fight for myself, one worker will not betray another.” bless Demonstrate June 11th; Bridgeport S. P./ 7; Mayor Breaks Election Pledges Ree under $1,000 bail charged with “in-| June 4—The | was held in the ist Congressional | in nomination | for Congressman to run against > | Stony Silence Greets S.P. Mayor's First | Annual Report Ry a Worker Correspondent | BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Faced with a growing demand for ade- | quate relief, Jasper McLevy, “So- cialist” Mayor of Bridgeport, re-| | turried from the Detroit Socialist | Party convention Monday, deliv-} ered his first annual message to| the City Council, offered nothing to the jobless, mentioned not one of his eléction promises, and held out the prospect of future heavy | taxes for the small home ownets. | | Not one ray of hope for Bridge- | port workers is contained in Mc- Levy’s six-page report, not one in-/ dication that the “Socialist” ad- ministration will lift a finger to improve the conditions of the workers and jobless. On the con- trary, higher taxes on the over-{ burdened small home owners is | held out in that paft of his mes- | sage in which McLevy praises Tax | Collector Challenger for his “effi- | cient” work and cries about the) present deficit of over $100,000. The deficit has been made larger | by the flagrant graft and cotrip-| tion in the many city départments, notably in the Welfare Depart- ment. McLevy made no reference to the present public invéstigation being made into the misappropria- tion of funds by the welfare heads and the Board of Education. When McLevy finished his re- port theré was not even @ hand- | clap from the “socialist” alder- | men or his supporters among the visitors. The stony silence which greeted McLevy’s report will be turned| into a roar of anger when the| workers fully realize that McLevy and his “socialist” administration is co-operating with the bosses | and the munition manufacturers, carrying out their program of | hungér against the working class. | Charlotte Textile Strike Ends | CHARLOTTE, N. C., (F. P.)—A | four week strike of 250 textile work- ers of the Kendall Mills at Paw Creek, N. C., ended on a noté of compromise, The workers returned to their jobs while a series of tests will be matie to determine the best DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1934 Co HY do the steel companies insist on the company unions? Why are they now preparing for war against the coming steel strike? The Mor-| gan-dominated American Iron and Steel Institute declares | that they insist on the compeny union for the good of the steel | workers—that the steel workers | want it. The steel workers, prepar- | ing for strike action, demand in} addition to higher wages, no dis- crimination against any worker (Negro, youth, etc.) and recognition of their own union. What are these company unions which have been fostéred by the N. R. A., and which the N. R. A. is! promoting in all industries? | Let us examine & typical company | union in a steél plant, the Inland Steel Company, with works in In- diana Harbor, Chicago Heights and} Milwaukee. The plan of “Employes | Representation Association,” was) amended June ist, to include, “changes that will co-operaté with | and support to the fullest extent the N. R. A.” as the company union’s “Workmen's Council” de-| clares, | Bosses Haye the Righis The company in a letter of May | 17 to the company union, accepting | thesé proposed changes, déclares: “The management of the Works and the direction of the working forces, including the right to hire, | suspend, discharge, or transfer and the right to relieve employes from duty because of lack of work, | or for other legitimate reasons, is | vested exclusively in the manage- | ment, except as expressly re- | stricted herein.” | pany must give one warning before | dismissal, except in case the em-| ployee has been “‘insubordinate, ab- sent from duty, changing work place without orders or prowling around the works from assigned place, etc.” | The company concludes, “With respect to any subject covered by this letter, except the matters in- cluded in sub-section (a) of para- graph six, the company will con- sent to arbitration.” Sub-section (4), paragraph six, is the above-quoted paragraph where the company declared it will not évén arbitrate questions of hiring, firing, etc, Thus we notice about this com-| pany union that the employees have no say in the hiring or firing of employees, even before an arbitra- work loads for the machines. The stretchout system caused the strike.| tion board which supports the em- ployers, The company tells the WASHINGTON (F.P.).—Startling | facts of how workers’ families are | starved for lack of milk are revealed in a national sutvéy of milk con- sumption among school children and their families, which the Con- sumers’ Cotinsel of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has been conducting in co-operation with club women. Returns have been received from 51 of the 62 cities covered, but only a féw findings have been reléased, pending completion of the study. They show, however, under-con- sumption of milk in close relation | to smallness of family income. In Kansas City, Mo., familiés in- vestigated in sciool districts sé- lected as typical “consume only about 38 per cent of the minimum Wore’ Families Are Stariad For Lack of Milk, Survey Shows amount of milk which authorities say is needed as a foundation for good Health.” reports the A.A.A. “Of | these families, the ones in the middle class, or medium income group, which is the highést income group répresented in the survey, purchase about twice as much milk as the families in the lowest income group. The average family income in this group in Kansas City is about $31.50 a week and in the low- est income group about $14.50 a week.” According to the Consumers’| Guide, published by the A. A. A. “less than three-quarters of the quantity of milk—in all forms—re- | quired by the cheapest possible adeé- | quate diet” was consumed through- out the United States during 1932.' Cheers Greet Newton, Jackson, Doty, Communist Candidates for Congress from Chicago South Side -“ERBERT NEWTON Edward Doty, member of the American Consolidated, was nomi- nated by Comrade Sharp. It took quite some time before the chair- man could restore order as the delegates jumped to their feet and cheered, There were many speeches of endorsement and a motion to unanimously accept the nomination. Doty, in accepting the nomi- nation, stated: “I am honored to be placed on the ticket of the Communist Party, since I feel that only militant, de- voted workers can run on this ticket. I pledge to live up to the responsibilities. I pledge to lead the workers in struggle.” i The nominations of the can- didates were followed by the en- dorsement of the State ticket, in- cluding two congressmen at, large and state treasurer and superin- tendent of public instructions. There were many loud cheers and applause when the names of the four can- didates were mentioned. The state ticket was unanimously endorsed by the confernce. ‘The discussion of the revort made *|pressed the sentiment of all the} by Sharp, proved that the conter- | ence was well aware of the prob- | lems facing the workers in their district, and a program was adopted | to meet these needs, | A large campaign committee was elected to organize the campaign. Some of the delegates, one from} the Congregational Church, has ex- delegates when he said: “I rep- resent my congregation, some three hundred strong, but I am going to see to it that every one of these three hundred workers becomes ac- tive in the campaign for the can- didates.” The conference has already ar- ranged for a number of open air Meetings and has pledged to make a@ splendid showing in the coming teg-days, to carry on our elections.., * Communist candidates for Con- gress will be nominated in three more congressional districts in Chi- cago next week-end. The second, sixth and seventh district nomina- tion conventions will be held June 9 and 10. i The preparations for the cam-: paign to put Communists in Con- a@tess and the state legislature are being conducted on the broadest possible basis. Every working Class organization is invited to sénd dele- gates to the nominating convention in their district, to help in the selec- ton of the workers’ candidates. The schedule of conferences is as follows: June 9.—Sixth Congressional Dis- trict Conference to be held at Lib- ae Hall, 1405 $8. 49th Ave., Cicero, Juné 10.—Second District Confer- ence, to be held at 2 pm, 6 W. 44th St. June 10.—Seventh District Con- ference, to be held at Wicker Park Hall, 2040 North Ave., 10 a.m. ee ae j LOS ANGELES, June 6—Two hundred and fifty calls to labor unions and other working class mass organizations will help rally Los Angélés workers to the Los An-! \t The restriction is that the com-| mpany Union, Fostered by NRA, | Fascist Shackle on Steel Workers By CARL REEVE Canada Defense Body Seeks 500,000 Votes To Repeal Section 98 TORONTO, Campaigning to secure half a mil Canada (FPP lion votes in a referendum to re peal Section 98 of the Oanadian criminal code, which outlaws the Communist Party in Canada, the Canadian Labor Defense League re- ports progress among workers and farmers all over the dominion. Eight working class leaders have eH jailed in Canada under the aw, On June 15, the last day of the voting, the C. L. D. L. will hold mass demonstrations in @ last drive to muster public opinion against the The inside of a steel plant, America’s huge key industry, in which | measure. hundreds of thousands sweat under working conditions and at miser- | able wages. Such plants as “employe representation associa-| tion” that they have nothing to do} with these questions. | Outlaw Strikes Secondly, the employees must, of course, sign away all right to strike in the “agreement” of the company union. The company “union” no right to strike to remedy griev-| ances or enforce demands, and has | no say whatever in the hiring or| discharge of employees. | Thirdly, the “agreement” provides a vicious system of compulsory “ar- | bitration.” What is the method of | “arbitration” of wages and working conditions? It is strikingly similar o the agreement just signed by William Green in his company union agreement with the Sinclair | Oil Co.: ‘Matters concerning which the Council (the Workmen's Council) has not been able to make satis- factory adjustment with the Gen- eral Superintendent may be dis- cussed with the President of the Company.” If an agreement cannot he reached here, “A representative or alternate (of the Workmen’s Council) shall have the further right to appeal to the Secretary of the State Department of Labor or the Secretary of Labor of the United States ... the findings | and recommendations of said Sec- retary of the State Department of Labor or said Secretary of La- bor of the United States shall be final and binding.” Thus we see that the company union is a fascist union, a union closély bound up with the strike- | the expense of the workers. these will be struck soon by, steel workers, | tion inside the plant which tries to prevent strikes, which puts through the employers’ speed-up, low-wage program inside the mill. The em- ployee is a member on pain of dis- missal and blacklist. The revised Wagner “Disputes” Bill makes the company unions | | the official unions of the govern- ment, and puts the force of the government behind strikebreaking | and outlawing of strikes, | In the steel industry, the workers | are fighting for the right to or- ganize and to strike, as well as for| their economic demands. The only road open to the steel workers whereby they can win their de- mands is the road of organization and of strike. The company union is the weapon | of the employers and the employers’ goverhment to enforce not only the open shop, but through the com- pany union to enforce the speed up, the low wages, the blacklist and Spy system, the rotten working con- ditions, which have brought in- creased profits to the steel com-| panies. The company union is the | weapon of the employers and the| government for increasing profits at | Only strike and real organization can better the wages and conditions of the steel workers, On the AFL Driver Heads Spike Strike Unity Of Chicago Bakers Bakers Union Local 2 Has Rank and File Leadership (Dally Worker Midwest Burean) CHICAGO, June 6.—Workers in five bakery plants have been on strike here since May 29 for shorter hours, higher wages and union rec- ognition. Led by Local No. 2 of the Bakers’ Union of the A. F. of L the 250 workers are standing solid for the 35-hour week, $1 per hour for skilled workers, 60 cents for helpers and 50 cents for women workers. Members of the International ‘Teamsters’ Union are still carrying bread for the struck plants, in spite of appeals to support the bakers’ struggle. The leadership of the truck drivers has rejected . every plea for unity. Ninety per cent of the workers in the plant have joined Local No. 2, which has an honest leadership. Unskilled and women workers have joined with the skilled workers in a solid front on the picket lines. The ‘strike committee makes daily | reports to the rank and file strikers, Strike Front] breaking government machinery as |'———. well as dominated by the company, which brings the government di- | rectly into the “union” as the final| authority. Government Controlled Unions | In the auto industry Président | Roosevelt personally engineered the | “agreement” between the Amricatr} Federation of Labor leaders and the ; auto magnates which gave thé com- pany unions in the atito industry Official government sanction, and which rapidly stitnulatéd their growth, The government is now trying to do the same thing in the steel industry. In the auto industry, | the govérnment prevénted a strike, | kept the auto workers under the) speed up, low wages, which they | were rebelling against, and pro-| moted the company union in order | to insure that the deféat of the| workefs would be madé permanent. | They are trying to follow thé same road in steel. Thé company tinion, backed by the N. R, A. and the Roosévelt gov- | ernment, is fhe employérs’ organiza- Los Angeles €. P. Calls. Union, Organizations to Convention Sat. geles county nominating convention of the Communist Party June 9 at pile Cultural Center, 230 S. Spring In each of the calls was enclosed & copy of the state platform of the Party, adopted at the staté conven- tion May 6. Party and sympathetic speakers meanwhile will popularize the con- vention and the platform in talks before workers throughout the country. Lou Shifrin, secretary of the provisional committee, signed the calls. . . CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 6.— I. ©. Ford, formerly candidate for Mayor in Cleveland and once a Fisher Body worker, has béen nomi- nated by the Communist Party as its candidate for Governor in the State of Ohio. Comrade Ford will open the cam- paign with a radio talk over station WJAY, Monday, June 11, at 7:45 p.m. The election Campalen Com- mittee plans, if it raises the money, to put Ford on the radio for a series of thirteen consecutive talks. Ford on the Radio Clubs are being organizéd, and collection lists are out. If money comes in this will be a new féature in a Communist eléc- tion campaign in Ohio. Workers in Cleveland and out- lying towns are otganizing radio partiés in halls and homes to hear Comrade Ford open the campaign . | Monday night. A signature drive is starting which must bring in fifty thousand sig- natures. Besides I. O. Ford, Yetta Land, well known Cleveland I. L. D, at- torn¢y, will run for Attorney Gen- eral of the Communist ticket. Strike in Textile Mill Near After Layoff of 400 WASHINGTON. (F.P.)—The lay- ing off of some 400 workers in the past few weeks, 90 per cent of them union members, by the Tubize Chatillon Corp., Hopwell, Va., has made a strike imminent, represen- tatives of the United Textile Work-/ ers union told the Natl. Labor Board The hearing was called to consider charges about 30 workers being fired for union activities in April and May. | | | | | | Mayor ‘Leads Scabs pete To Work at Midnight NEW CASTLE, Pa. (F.P.).—Lead- | ing a group of 60 strikebreakers to | work at midnight, Mayor Charles B. Mayne of New Castle tried to| break the strike which has tied up | the Johnson Bronze Works since | late May. | The strikers are out 100 per cent | for the abolition of the speedup, | nition. The low wage policy of the | company has earned for it the nick- | name of the “Penny Arcade” by the workers. | Strikebreakers have been brought | in and housed at a hotel a few! blocks from the plant. Mayor) Mayne’s action occurred after a fight during which two strikebreak- ers were severely beaten and many leaped into the river to escape the | wrath of the strikers. | Business conditions in the city | continue to reflect a downward | trend. The two tin mills are on| a three-day week schedule. The | steel plant, which has thtee blast | | furnaces, has not been used since | June, 1930. The Lehigh Co. cement |plant closed in early Spring after | | Only six weeks of operation. The | | Universal Sanitaty Pottery Co. laid | | off 75 per cent of its employes. The | railroad shops continue to lay off) crews afd shopmen. The Pennsyl- vania Engineering Co.'s plant is) completely shut down after running | for a few weeks with a handful of) men, Relief lists grow. ee | Mattress Makers | Prepare for Strike | NEW YORK.—A mass meeting of | mattress makers to discuss the de-| mands for the coming general strike | in the trade will be held at the| headquarters of the Furniture/ | Workers Industrial Union, 812 | Broadway, at 7:30 p.m. tonight. All| | workérs in the trade are invited to| attend this important meeting, | | Messengers’ Organizer on | | Tour; Appeal for Funds ly NEW YORK (FP.)—The Tele- | graph Méssengers Union is seriding | its general organizer on a national | |tour in a drive to establish a na-| | tional organization of messengers. | |They are appealing for contribu- | tions to enable them to finance the | drivé, the Telegraph Messengers Union, 114 W. 14th St, New York | City, says. Bronx Needle Trades Jobless | Council Meets Tonight NEW YORK.—The newly organ- ized East Bronx Local of the Needle Trades Unemployment Council, or- ganized to rally the employed, un- emploved and part time workers | tégardiess of union affiliation in the | fight for adequate relief, will meet | tonight at 8 p.m. at 1304 Southern | Boulevard, who are thereby kept informed with every development in the strike. Committees of strikers are visit- ing grocery stores, urging shopkeep- ers not to buy the scab bread of the Continental and Schulze Bak- ing Companies. The response of the storekeepers is reported to be) very good. Plans have been made to reach the rank and file of the truck drivers and win their support, since the leadership of their union has op- posed united action. In thé plants of Continental and Schulze, hours have been brutally long and wages at a starvation level. Many worked for as many as 60 and 70 hours a week for As little as $15 for bakers and $8 for helpers and women workers. Jubilee To Open Convention in Chicago CHICAGO, Tll., May 28.—A Mid- Western Youth Jubilee will onen the District Convention of the Young Communist League at 2457 West Chicago Avenue on Friday, June 8th. Gil Green, National Secretary of the Y. ©. L., Claude Lightfoot, jfor higher wages and union recog- | yc, organizer and Robert Minor, Central Committee of the Commu. nist Party, will speak. There will be dramatic sketches and dancing for all All workers are cordially invited. Chicago, Tl. “ON UNDERSTANDING SOVIET RUSSIA” Lecture by CORLIS LAMONT Saturday, June 9th, at & P. M. at MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING 185 NO. Wabash Avente Program of Russian Music Admission 45¢. Auspicés F.8.17. Set By Page Three Death on Chain Gang To Ignore Own Laws and Filing of Appeal By the I. L. D. ATLANTA fascists, Ga.. June 6 —Atlanta n their persecution of An» gelo Herndon, are sinking as low ag the German Nazis in their murder plans against Ernst Thaelmann, German Communist leader Angélo Herndon, heroic young N gro Communist orf#anizér of the une employed, is being rushed to the chain gang despite his alarming physical condition. The fact that the International Labor Defense has filled notice of appeal against the recent decision of the Georgia Sus preme Court upholding the infae mous verdict of 18 to 20 years on the chain gang for the young Come munist organizer is ignored. The move to rush Herndon to the chain gang was initiated today by the Rev. John A. Hudson, Assistant Solicitor General and fanatical pro- secutor of Herndon. Hudson has repeatedly voiced the murderous determination of the ruling planta« tion owners and factory bosses of Georgia to “burn Communism out of Georgia,” and deprive its toiling Mastes of militant leadership in their growing struggles against starvation, wage cuts for thé | ployed, Negro oppression and fase cist terror, Hudson intends to disregard the provisions of the laws of Georgia, as well as of more civilized com- munities, for delay in the carrying out of sentence while an appeal is pending. The move to put Herndon on the chain gang immediately is aimed at completing the campaign to murder him, begun in the Fultofi Prison Towers where he has been confined since his “trial” in Janu- ary 1933. Herndon has been sub jected to the most brutal tortures, held in solitary confinement in a filthy cell and is now in a danger- ous physical condition. Herndon was sentenced for lead- ing @ demonstration of unemployed Negro and white workers which forced the city of Atlanta to vote an additional $6,000 for relief. An old, forgotten slave law “against in- surrection” of thé Negro slaves, a law even more vicious than thé fascist, decrees of Hitler, was dug up to railroad Herndon to the chain gang. The same law is being used in an attempt to railroad six Negro and white labor organizers, the “At- lanta Six” to the electric chair. Herndon and Thaelmann are banner bearers in the fight for freedom for all. Every worker, every honest intellectual should fight for the freedom of Thael- man and Herndon. Smash the fascist murder plans against these two devoted, heroic leaders of the working class! Fight with Thael- mann and Herndon for the vie~ tory of freedom! Fight for the abolition of race hatred and op- Pression of national minorities! 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