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f | ip [ 20, 1934 Page Three To Hail New Liberator At Harlem Aftair Cast of “Stevedore” to Greet Ben Davis, New Editor NEW YORK.—Paul Peters, and George Sklar, authors of “Steve-| dore,” gripping strike drama of life ©n the New Orleans wharves, ap- Plauded the choice of the League of St for Negro. Rights in se- lecting Ben Davis as editor of their Newspaper, the “Negro Liberator,” and pledged, as one of the first acts of their support to attend the chris- tening banquet for the Negro Liber- ator at the Lido Ballroom on Sun- day, June 24, at 7:30 p.m. “One of the very few really fear- Jess men I have ever known,” Pe- ters said, “is a southern Negro named Ben Davis. Ben Davis has now become editor of the new Ne- gro Liberator. We expect to find ‘hut same courage and militancy shown by Benjamin Davis in the South, reflected in the pages of the Negro Liberator with Benjamin Da- vis as its editor. I am looking for- ward with a great deal of pleasure to the banquet in his honor.” Members of the cast of “Steve- dore” will attend the banquet on Sunday night, and perform for the assembled guests. They will do their share to make the banquet a success. Those artists who will be present are Esther Hall, singer; Rex Ingram, William C. Elkins, Leigh Whipper and Miss Mary Yates. Jack Williams, publicity man, will speak on the play, as will the co-authors, Paul Peters and George Sklar. * “Negro Liberator” Out Tomorrow Twenty-five thousand copies of the Special Edition of the new Ne- gro Liberator will be off the press. on Thursday at midnight. There will be articles from Lang- ston Hughes, Henri Barbusse, sto- ries dealing with conditions of the Negro worker and intellectual from the black belt and from northern Negro centers. Sections can get their bundles in the district literature department on the fifth floor, at 35 East 12th St. Units will get Liberators at sec- tion headquarters. Worker’s Freedom Won By Mass Pressure; Will Be Welcomed Saturday ci S NEW YORK. — Benigno Concep- cion will be welcomed by the Porto Rican Anti-Imperialist League at their headquarters, 240 Columbiia St. Brooklyn, Saturday at 8 p.m. The League, the International Labor Defense and the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign-Born brought mass pressure to bear on city officials, who released him from jail a month before his sentence was ‘up. Concepcion, an unemployed work- er, was given three months for hav- ing tapped the Brooklyn Consoli- dated Gas Co,’s line for 35¢ worth of gas last New Year’s Eve to keep his sick wife and four children from Gala anquet and Dance To Welcome BEN DAVIS, Jr. New Editor of the “Negro Liberator” Defense Lawyer of Angelo Herndon Sun., June 24 6:30 P. M. Lido Ballroom 146th and 7th Ave. — PROGRAM— Earl Browder William Patterson Harry Gannes James W. Ford Cast of “Stevedore” Red Dance Groups I.W.O. Symphony Orchestra DANCING FROM 10 P. M. TO 3 A. M. Music by Bonelli’s Lido Orch. ADMISSION $1 AT DOOR AFTER 10 P. M. 39 CENTS el Professionals Find | Hillsboro Arrests || “Worst Frame-up” | ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 19—A dele- gation of five writers and profes- sionals from the National Commit- | |tee for the Defense of Political | Prisoners who went to Hillsboro, | Ill, last Friday to investigate the| treatment of 11 workers arrested | May 31 when they demanded more | relief and charged with “treason,” found this to be “one of the worst | examples of frame-up and discrim- | | ination against workers’ organiza-| tions on record.” | Their statement concludes, de- | claring, “Organizations and indi- viduals who still believe that Amer- | ican citizens should be protected in their Constitutional and civil rizhts, should send protests to Mayor E. E. Ludwig, State’s Attorney George A. Hall of Hillsboro, and Governor Horner of Illinois. Signed: Orrick Johns, secretary; Jack Balch, Joe and Frieda Jones, and Donald Mac- kenzie.” ‘Rank and File in Pocketbook Union) Want Strike Action United Anti-Wolinsky Committee Hits Plan That Favors Bosses NEW YORK.—The United Anti- Wolinsky Committee, representing a united front of the members of the Pocketbook Workers Union against the corrupt Osip Wolinsky who was recently injected into the union ap- paratus as the legal adviser, issued @ call to all members of the union to come to a membership meeting of the union last night at Styvesant | High School and demand that prep- | arations be made for a strike in the trade. “We must insist on our demands for the 36-hour week, 10 per cent raise in wages and other improve- |ment in conditions,” said the state- ment. We must immediately organ- ize a strike machinery for New York and out of town, which will take in all the active members of our union. Only in this way can we win our demands.” Wolinsky and leaders of the union in an attempt to crush any move toward strike action, are trying to place all grievances in the hands of a commission where the bosses together with the so-called impar- tial government representatives, who are really representatives of . the bosses, will have the full say. Fur Conference to Lay Unity Base Opens Friday in N. Y. At Irving Plaza NEW YORK.—Plans for the Fur- riers’ National Conference, which will open in Irving Plaza Hall Pri- day at 7 p.m. are practically com- pleted, reports from the Fur. Work- ers’ Industrial Union showed yes- terday. The aim of the conference will be to lay the basis for one union in the fur industry, to mobilize the furriers to fight against the N. R. A. code, which endorses the most victous evil in the trade, contract- ing, and stands definitely opposed to unemployment insurance. The conference will open Friday night with a mass meeting which will be addressed by Ben Gold, Louis Hyman, J. Winegradsky, 8S. Burt and J. C. Cohen, rank and file member of the General Execu- tive Board of the union. There will also be delegates pres- ent from Local 3 of the A. F. of L. Fur Union in Brooklyn and A. F. of L. members from Chicago. Comrades Patronize JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE (Bet. 12th and 13th St.) Allerton Avenue Comrades! The Modern Was first to settle Bread Strike and first to sign with the Food Workers’ Industrial Union 691 ALLERTON AVE. Tompkins Square 6-9132 Caucasian Restaurant “KAVKAZ” Russian and Oriental Kitchen BANQUETS AND PARTIES 382 East 14th Street New York City NEEDLE WORKERS PATRONIZE SILVER FOX CAFETERIA and BAR 326-7th Avenue _ Between 28th and 29th Streets Food Workers Industrial Union SANDWICH SOLS uncer 101 University Place (Just Around the Corner) | letters from far flung sectors of | Daily that now is the time circu-| Red Builders | In Campaign | On Big Front, Letters and. Snapshots| Depict Fight for Circulation The drive to double the circu- lation of the Daily Worker by | January 1, and specifically to win | 20,000 new readers in two months | is beginning to be a tonic to those who sell the Daily. Every day brings | a batch of the coast to coast battle front | showing there is the realization on the part of the friends of the} lation is needed and now is the} time to get it. Here is ene day in the’ circulation | drive as the stereoscope might show it: O58, te Arrest Scottish Red Builder Four Times; No Go! ANOTHER LYNCHING Without a struggle, without a protest, Sheriff Haynes of Clarks- turned over to a lynch GEORGE JOHNSON ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 18.—Arrested four times and threatened with deportation to Scotland because he sold the Daily Worker, George Johnson was re- cently released by the local and Federal authonities through the ef- forts of the International Labor Defense, aided by other sympa- thetic elements. Although John- son is now on the job, selling the “Daily” and building up a carrier route in a residential district, the chief of police is again threatening, Cay sae Energetic Girl Pushes Boston Waterfront Sale In line with the campaign to double the circu- lation of the Daily Worker and to reach workers in 4 concentration in- dustries, Boston is pushing sales of the “Daily” on the waterfront. Rena Richter is working persist- ently to build Daily Worker car- % rier sales among the longshoremen jk on the Bostotpena RICHTER waterfront and is reporting consistent progress. Pyiete Alert Daily Agent Uses Car for Sales GEORGE NICHOLS George Nichols, Daily Worker agent in Sioux Falls, S. D., stand- ing beside his Ford car on which he painted in white letters, ‘Read the Daily Worker, the only work- ingclass daily paper in America,” Comrade Nichols has been instru- mental in placing the “Daily” on sale on newsstands in Sioux Falls. Sales Aid Fight Tor Social Insurance Bill By pushing sales of the Daily Worker, R. Tar- buskovic, of Tac- oma, Wash., was able to obtain over 100 signa- tures on a peti- tion calling for the adoption of Initiative No. 75, the Workers’ Un- FF employment and Social Insurance TARBUSKOVIC Bill in the State of Washington. Try this one. 4 Daily Booster Follows Josh Billings Advice JOE MC GRATH Pointing out the Daily Worker Telephone Tompkins Square 6-9760-9781 || teaches the workers to understand KRAUS & SONS, Inc. Manufacturers of Badges-Banners-Buttons For Workers Clubs and Organizations 157 DELANCEY STREET ‘Telephone: DRydock 4-8275-8276 the class struggle clearly, “to know things right,” Joe McGrath, of Romoland, Cal., an old classical scholar, sends us a quotation from Josh Billings, “It wasn’t the things I didn’t know that got me into trouble but the things I knowed and knowed wrong.” Joseph sends us the fifth lot of the ten one-month subscriptions he has been sending in regularly. Secretary, Greeted At Convention ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 19.—Plans }for a militant campaign for the | rights of Negro people in St. Louis, |laid down at the city-wide con- jference for Negro rights called by | the League of Struggle for Negro rights and attended by 43 delegates from 27 local organizations and 205 additional interested . individuals, Tuesday, June 12, are being carried through here. Harry Haywood, National Secre- tary of the L. S. N. R., was the main speaker at the conference. After presenting a brief analysis of the problems of Negro liberation in this country, and outlining the national program of the L. S. N. R., he pointed out the especially strategic position of St. Louis, the “Gateway to the South,” in the national struggle for the emancipation of the Negro people. He also exposed the role of Negro reformists and reform- ist organizations in St. Louis, par- | ticularly the “Pacific Movement of | the Eastern World.” Just a few days before the con- vention, delegates pointed out, there took place right in St. Louis, the brutal lynching of an unemployed Negro worker, Joseph Martin. Mar- tin, returning to his river-front shack one evening with a paper sack full of stale bread-crusts, which he had laboriously collected during the day, was spied by two police and commanded to halt. Because he was slow in obeying, the two policemen promptly shot him to death. Even the official report of the police ad- mits this unprovoked murder of an innocent worker. Resolutions were sent to the |Harry Haywood, Nat'l j ‘St. Louis LSNR Maps- Militant Action For Rights of Negroes 'ToHold Illinois ‘Meet on Relief ‘On Sun. July 8 |Plan 3-Point Program | for Increased Relief SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June 19.— The State Committee of the Un- employment Council has issued a | draft call to local, city and state | unemployed organizations for a | downstate conference on unemploy- | ment insurance and relief to be | held on July 8 A large number of A. F. of L. locals and local unions of the Progressive Miners of America have endorsed the call. | The three point proposed pro- | gram for the conference calls for: | 1) A mass campaign to be initia! for the Workers Unemployment In surance Bill; 2) A mass struggle for an increased, unified relief budget in all counties. The relief in Chicago, Peoria and Springfield is double the amount per family in the rest of the state; and, 3) Union rates of pay to apply on all relief Jobs, i MARION, Ill.—The County Com- mittee of the Unemployed of Wil- liamson County, an unaffiliated | group here, refused to affiliate with jt he Socialist-controlled Tllinois | mob of about 150 men, two Ne- gtoes, Isaac Thomas and Joe Love, accused of “attempting to assault” a planter’s wife on Sat- ddas lune §: Workers Alliance, at their me x June 12, attended by delegates | six branches and about 300 work- ers, Loren Norman, former Lewis tool in the U.M.W.A., and editor of the one of the principal supporters of the Socialist-controlled I.W.A. Nor- | Illinois Miner, ‘and recent convert | to the American Workers Party, was| Issue Agenda for Functionaries Meet | In Detroit Friday DETROIT, Mich., June 19.— An important meeting of Com- 5969 1 ve., it was announced by W All functionaries are instructed to attend for Brooklyn Negro Shot Dead by Cops Fletcher Bey Died on Sunday from Wounds Inflicted by Cops NE WYORK.—A Red Funeral will be held today for Fletcher Bey, gro worker in Brooklyn, who was shot by police March 10’as part, of | ist their campaign of terrorism against Negro and white workers, The funeral procession will start from the undertaking parlors aat 1865 Fulton St., Brooklyn, at 2 p.m All workers are being urged to at- tend. | Fletcher Bey died Sunday in the Prison Ward of Kings County Hos- Red Funeral Today | Mayor and the Board of Police | Commissioners, demanding imme- diate cessation of the lynch terror against Negro people in St. Louis, | the arrest and punishment of the | two cops who murdered Joe Martin, and the payment of indemnity to} his family. The convention also| protested the arrest of eight Negro children picnickers recently, who dared to use the dance pavillion in a public park. Resolutions were also sent to the Governors of California, Georgia, and Alabama demanding the release of Tom Mooney, Angelo Herndon and the Scottsboro boys, | and the right of striking workers! to picket, and militant workers’ or- | ganizations in those states to| operate without terrorization by| state and local officers, A committee representing the or-| ganizations at the conference, as well as several individuals, was elec- ted as the Committee to Combat Discrimination and Jim-Crowism, to carry through the program of ac- tion adopted by the conference. Detailed plans were also made at the convention for the first ‘big | decisive mass action in this cam- | paign, which will be the mass viola- | tion of thé jim-crow against Negro children which exists at the play- grounds in Carr Park, 15th and | Wash streets, in the heart of a Ne- gro neighborhood. This mass viola- tion will begin on June 29, and in the meantime, a campaign to or- ganize’ support among Negro and white workers in the neighborhood, and in nearby factories, will be car- ried on. A proclamation “to combat dis- crimination and jim-crowism” was adopted by the convention. An or- dinance to guarantee the rights of the Negro people was also drafted, | together with a program of action for the Committee. (Continued from Page 1) —$———_____ tion reports that police officials are delaying granting a permit for the demonstration. The Federation had applied for a permit a week and a half ago, but so far have received indefinite answers in response to numerous phone calls. A delega- tion will visit Police Commissioner O’Ryan and Mayor LaGuardia if the permit is not granted today or tomorrow. Organizations are being urged to send their protests to La Guardia demanding a permit for the parade Saturday. Picketing Consulate Organizations are continuing to picket the Nazi consul.. The Theatre Collective, the Millinery United Front Committee and the I.C.OR. will picket. the consulate tomorrow. Delegations will attempt to present “Free Thaelmann” demands to the consul or his secretary. The City College Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the honorary fraternity of college students and graduates adopted a resolution denouncing the failure of the Nazi government to release Ernst Thaelmann at a meet- ing at Town Hall Club Monday night attended by 225 members. This resolution, and another against fascism, was forwarded to Hitler and Hans Luther. Thaelmann Conference in Philadelphia Tomorrow PHILADELPHIA, June 18.— The campaign to free Ernst Thaelmann is gaining momentum here. Two shifts of pickets at the German Consulate, 1420 Walnut St., get ar- rested daily, but the picketing goes on. The John Reed Club, the Phila- delphia Committee for the Defense Soe * | of Political Prisoners, have already sent delegations to the Consul to demand Thaelmann’s release, and each time, the Consul was forced to get out of the office or hide. Va- rious other organizations have al- ready made plans to send delega- tions, and those who haven’t are being urged to do so immediately. Resolutions protesting Thael- mann’s continued imprisonment and demanding his immediate safe release, as well as the freedom of Nazis Say Torsler F ollowsThaelmann | Office Workers Union, International Workers Order, and many other or- ganizations. Students in the vari- ous high schools have adopted simi- lar resolutions, and sent them to the Consul here, and Hans Luther, German Ambassador in Washing- ton. On Thursday, June 21, 8 pm., a meeting of all activists will be held at 731 Walnut St. All organizations are being urged to see to it that their active members are present, and take part in laying more de- tailed plans for making the Thael- mann campaign more effective, Gen. Johnson Fires Gov't Worker for Union Work in NRA (Continued from Page 1) veteran workers were fired for “in- efficiency” following union activity. Johnson declared today, “There was nothing to it—I had the compliance board investigate.” The workers in- volved reported that the investiga- tion was merely the finishing touch to the smashing of the union, and that the purpose of the investigators “seemed to be to intimidate me and to white wash Johnson.” Donovan’s dismissal was brought last night before the District of Columbia Central Labor Union, which has a membership of 80,000. It unanimously adopted a protest resolution and sent copies to highest government officials, Johnson’s explanation of firing Donovan also was “inefficiency, in- attention to duty and insubordina- tion.” A statement by the union declared: “Donovan's record on the contrary is one of such efficiency that he was assigned by the N. R. A. Labor Advisory Board to the im- portant lumber and paper and pulp codes. A month ago he was named alternate for President Green of the A. F. of L. on the Industrial Rela- all other class war prisoners, have been adopted by John Reed Club, tions Board for the lumber indus- man asked the workers to affiliate| pital as a result of gun wounds in- with the I.W.A. because “it was] flicted by two policemen who forced more liberal and not so radical.” their way into his house on a pre- E. Jones, state secretary of the|text and shot him. To cover up Unemployment Councils, explained | their brutality, police charged him to the workers the programmatic difference between the I.W.A. and the Unemployment Councils, point- ing out how the workers have elec- | ted members of the Communist Party to the leadership of the Councils because they have shown in the struggles that they alone fight in the interests of the work- ing class. The workers voted unanimously | to reject affiliation with the I.W.A.| and invited representatives of the| Unemployment Councils to place the program of the Councils before the locals of the Unemployed of Wil- liamson County for the purpose of discussing affiliation to the National Unemployment Councils. Stop Evictions, Win Relief In McKeesport, Pa. By a Worker Correspondent MCKEESPORT, Pa.—The Unem- ployment Councils here have stopped sheriff sales and evictions and are | winning relief for hundreds of work- ers, Last week at a sheriff sale, three Negro workers were beaten and jailed. They were told by the cops to stay away from the Councils. This is done in an attempt to break the unity of Negro and white work- | ers in their fight for relief. Two more workers were arrested, W. Makedes, secretary of the Coun- | cil, and T. Johnson, a leader in the fight of the unemployed in McKees- port. More workers are joining the Councils, demanding increased re- lief, endorsement of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, and an end to the police terror. For the young workers, a Youth Section | of the Unemployment Councils has been set up. “Can Do Nothing,” Says Lyons on Ousting of 14 Bronx Negro Families NEW YORK.—“I know about the case but it’s not in my department. I can do nothing about it.” This was the answer given by Bronx Borough President Lyons to @ committee representing the Isaac Meyer Branch of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Interna- tional Labor Defense and the House Committee of the 14 tenants threat- ened with eviction from their homes at 1636-40 University Ave., Bronx, when they came to protest against Negro discrimination Monday. The L. 8S. N. R. I. L. D. and House Committee is going ahead with actions to force the landlord, | Cohen, to rescind his eviction notice. The organizations plan to hold a conference on the question on July 7. Anti-Strike Edict Defended by Judge Relation of New Jersey Mayor Aids Boss JERSEY CITY, June 19.—Joining with Mayor Frank Hague in his drive to outlaw strikes and picket- ing in Jersey City, Frank Hague Eggers, the mayor's nephew, ob- tained a dismissal of three com- Plaints charging the Miller Furni- ture Company with violating the workers right to organize into a union of their own choice and strike, Members of the Furniture Work- ers Industrial Union have been Picketing the plant since it was moved here from Brooklyn on the promise of Mayor Hague that strik- ing and picketing is barred in Jer- sey City. Many of the pickets have been arrested by the city police. Eggers, who defended the Miller Co. in the District Court against charges brought by Walter Zimer, Nick Palmieri and Salvatore Orena, workers of the plant, is also a judge in the District Court. He stepped down from the bench Monday to appear in the same court as coun- sel for the Miller Co. The trial of four pickets arrested try.” in front of the Miller plant was postponed until Thursday. | With having “policy slips” in his possession. A handpicked jury ab- solved the police of the crime. | A nationalist organization called | \the Moorish Science Temple to} | which Fletcher Bey belonged until a short time before his death col- |lected almost $1,000 of which only | $300 is accounted for—paid to a| |lawyer who did not even bail the/| | prisoner out. The slaying of Fletcher Bey is| only one instaance in the campaign | of terror unleashed by police in the | Brownsville section of Brooklyn. A| Negro woman, Mrs. Tims, was re- cently assaulted so badly she had to remain in bed for several weeks, and then charged with disorderly | conduct. The Fletcher Bey Defense Com- mittee organized under the leadre- ship of the Brownsvill section of |the International Labor Defense | will continue its work against police brutality and try to bring about the | arrest and conviction of policemen | |responsible for Fletcher Bey’s mur- der. | Union Protests Firing of Hackman |To Hold Mass Meeting | At 23rd St. Garage | reinstatement of A. Rabin, lead- |ing member of the Taxi-Cab | Drivers Union, who was discharged from Arthur's Garage because he refused to join the company union, a series of open air meetings will be held under the auspices of the | union in front of the garage at 132 E. 23rd St. at 3 pm. every afternoon this week, The open air meetings will cul- minate in a mass demonstration |in front of the garage Friday at |3 pm. | “The firing of Rabin is a chal- lenge to the Taxi-Cab Drivers} Union and its militant program against company unions,” said Samuel Orner, pesident of the union, “The Taxi-cab Drivers Union accepted this challenge.” During the demonstration Fri- day a committee of hackmen will visit Arthur to present the de-| mands of the union. The union has Issued a call to} all workers to support the hack-| men by participating in the dem- | onstration. | 13 Arrested in Coney Island on Trial Today | NEW YORK.—Thirteen workers, arrested Sunday for picketing Na- than’'s Famous, struck lunch coun- ter in Coney Island, will come up for trial today at 9 am. in the Coney Island court on Eighth St. The workers are charged with dis- orderly conduct. Freedman of the International Labor Defense is de- | fending them. WORKERS AND STUDENTS PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 19.— Demanding the reinstatement of Nathan Cohen, student, twice ex- Pelled for organizing students to fight for the re-opening of summer schools, workers and students dem- onstrated yesterday at South Phila- delphia High School for Boys. (Classified) YOUNG couple would like to join persons with car going to California. Share expenses. Box 58, Daily Worker Office. COMRADE — girl— wants position taking care one or two children at resort. Box 14. Daily Worker Office. Want men, women, boys and girls to aid the circulation drive by selling the Daily Worker each day on an assigned corner. Earn your expenses, Call at City Office of Daily Worker, 35 East 12th St. (In Store.) NEW YORK.—To demand the/: - | the International Labor Defense DEMAND REINSTATEMENT | OF PHILA. H. S. STUDENT | Victory Faces = Murder Trial In Detroit Trial Tomorrow; Mass Conference Speeds Defense Action DETROIT, Mich., June 19. — Ths trial of James Victory, Negro worker War veteran framed on ge of murdering a white up here Thursday o'clock, at Recorder nton and Beaubien Sts, ge Jeffries. is being defended by the nal Labor Defense. He is 1 0,000 bail. a A conference called by the James Defense Committee at the tr n Baptist Church was attended by fifty delegates from 16 organizations representing thou- sands of Negro and white workers, who are voicing their determina- tion to free Victory. Tony Gerlach, rict secretary, International Labor Defense, in dis- ing the frame-up at the cone ference stated, “The Victory framee up is a direct outgrowth of an ate tack against the Negro people led by fascist He: es. The newspapers of e sought to create the impres« sion that all Negroes are ‘Voodoo- slashers’ and rapers. Acting auto-bosses, they hope to destroy the growing Negro and white working class unity in order to put over their wage-cuts, lay-offs and denials of relief to the uneme- ployed,” In addition to the organization of a Tag Day for the week-end te raise funds for the issuance of ove? 20,000 leaflets calling on workers | to attend the trial and for legal ex- penses, the conference elected a delegation to visit Mayor Couzens to demand the removal of Heinrich Pickert, police commissioner, -who has ordered the recent attack on the Negro people, by instructing his police to arrest Negroes found -in white neighborhoods, The delegation ig composed of members from the following organ izations: Metropolitan Baptist Church, Nat Turner Club, League of Struggle for Negro Rights, In- ternational Workers Order, Polish |Chamber of Labor.and the Inter- national Labor Defense. This same delegation will also see Judge.Jef- fries who claims to be a “friend of the Negro people,” demanding that he hear Victory’s case ahd free this innocent Negro, A Workers Jury of six Negro and six white workers was also elected by the conference. This Workers Jury is to sit in the court-room, hear the case, and will bring back a working class verdict to a mass meeting to be held after the trial. Rev. White, pastor of the Metro- |politan Baptist Church took the floor and stated that it would’ be impossible to exaggerate the police persecution of the Negro people of Detroit, He said “Only by the Ne- groes and whites putting their shoulders together in a common struggle would it be possible to-de~ |feat this terror.” Max Salzman, representing the Communist Party at the confer- ence, proposed that the leaflet to be issued be entitled, “We Accuse” + the city officials, the capitalist press and the police department who have worked hand in glove te create race hatred in the ranks ‘of the Detroit workers. He stated that Police Commissioner Pickert had asked him not to condemn the Hearst “Times” at open-air mass meetings. Another conference of all workers and workers’ organizations inter ested in the fight for the freedom of James Victory is to be held.st bet fices at 4653 Woodward Ave., tus night. Further plans will be taken “ up at this meeting and the leaf- lets will be ready for distribution at that time. UNIELY* CAFS MEMBERSHIP MEETING All members of the old Unity. Co-operative Organization are called to a membership meet- ing to be held at the Workers’ Center, 35 East 12th St., Room: 204, Wednesday, June 20th at 8 P.M. WELCOME Our Workers’ Delega’ HEAR REPORT of Conditions in the Soviet Union . By the following Delegates Orvid Olsen Brooklyn Navy Yard Worker Millie del Vecchio Paterson Textile Worker Bob Miner Baltimore Marine Worker MASS MEETING. .| at Irving Plaza Irving Place & 15th St. mie Wednesday, June 20, 1934 Admission 15 cents Auspices Friends of the Soviet Urilor ae WORKERS PREPARE! 20 to 50% DISCOUNT SALE BEGINS JUNE 22 at all Workers Book Shops New York Workers’ Book Shop, 50 East 13th St, New York City.