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COLORADO JOB Will Map State Drive For Social Insurance And Fight for Relief Five Organizations Issue Call, Urge All Workers’ Groups to Elect Delegates-Communist Candidate To Speak at Mass Rally After Sessions DENVER, Colo., Aug. 6.—A state-wide convention of unemployed and relief workers will be held here Sunday, August 12, at the Olympic C convention, which will open at ub, 3563 Curtis street. The 10 a. m., will be followed by a mass meeting in the evening when P. C. Feste, Communist candidate for governor, will speak. © The state unemployment conven- tion has been called by a joint com- mittee representing the Relief Workers’ Protective Union, the Co- operative Alliance, the Spanish Workers’ Club, the Unemployment Councils, and the Rank and File Committee of A. F. of L. workers. 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Meanwhile, the Communist Party, supported by masses of workers, is successfully breaking through the police and vigilante terror, Meet- ings will be held at the same cor- ners every Saturday night, and will be supported by hundreds of workers, Textile Men On Guard Against Thugs’ Attack HUNTSVILLE, Ala, Aug. 6.— Armed strikers were today patrolling their new strike headquarters in a two-block area in Merrimack, a small village near here, following the kidnapping of John Dean, interna- tional representative of the United Textile Workers of America: The strikers, who have been out since July 17, are aroused over the abduction and the attempts of the bosses to spread terror by armed gangs. They demand higher wages, shorter hours, recognition of the union and elimination of the “stretch-out system, Larks, Wilson Being Held In $10,000 Bail CHICAGO, Aug. 6.—An attempt by the packing house bosses to dis- rupt strike preparations of their workers is seen here in the arrest, Aug. 1, of Sol Larks and Wilbur Wilson, two militant workers, who are being held under exorbitant bail New York, N. Y. (Send no stamps) (LITERATURE DEPARTMENT OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY IS SELLING OUR BOOKS. Order them there or at THE WORKERS BOOK SHOPS.) of $10,000 each. All workers and their organiza- tions are asked to send protests to Governor McNutt of Indiana and the Mayor of Indianapolis, demand- ing the release of Larks and Wilson. $.O.$. COMRADES! Unemployed! Men! Women! Boys! Girls! Friends of the Daily Worker: Ina dozen cities new Red Builders have shown that anyone can rell from 25 to 150 copies of the Daily Worker each day on Uons, in If you below go my first b free each ters $1; Aprons 40c; 20c; cash with order; sizes. postpaid. CHICAGO 2019 West Divsiion St. NEWARK 7 Chariton St. Street corners, at factories, trolley junc- homes—everywhere! Why don’t you get into this Parade of Red Builders? same time help the Daily Worker in a taarch toward 20,000 new readers! Earn expenses and at the live in or near the cities listed to the addresses given and say: “I want to help the Daily Worker, give me undle and assign me a good loca- tion.” (Each new Red Builder gets 25 copies day for two weeks!) NEW YORK CITY 35 E, 12th St. BOSTON 919 Washington st. PHILADELPHIA 46 N. 8th St. BUFFALO 185 Virginia St. CLEVELAND 1522 Prospect Ave. DETROIT 5961 1ith St. MILWAUKEE, 1110 W. North Ave. If you live in or near any other city write direct to the Circulation Department, 50 E, 13th St., New York City. We'll put you on the job at once! — CHICAGO, ILL. — RED PRESS PICNIC Daily Worker Sunday, of the — Morning Freiheit August 19th WHITE HOUSE GROVE Irving Park Boulevard and River Drive Program: Games, Dancing, Refreshments Gates Open 10 A. DIRECTIONS: Take Irving M. Admission 15¢ Park Blvd. car to end of line where our buses will take you direct to grove, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1934 LESS CALL UNITED FRONT Page Three CONFERENCE SUNDAY Metal Men in Brooklyn Strike for Recognition NEW YORK.—An offer to grant all demands except recognition of the union made by the Bramson Siphon Company, 252 Junius St., Brooklyn, to twelve strikers, mem- bers of the Novelty Local 303 of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, was turned down unani- mously by the strikers. The workers, who had been forced to work fifty to sixty hours per week for $12.80, voted to remain out until all their demands are won. They are striking for a 25 per cent in- crease in wages, 40-hour week, time- and-a-half for overtime, and union recognition, West Coast Jobless Win Relief Fight Win Relief for Mexican Workers—Oppose Forced Labor LOS ANGELES, Calif, Aug. 6— Three jobless Mexican workers, sent | back from the county labor camps under the ruling of the county counsel that no foreign-born work- ers may be hired on county con- struction jobs, were placed on the relief rolls when a grievance com- mittee from the Relief Workers’ Protective Union demanded their Telief be continued. The Relief Workers’ Protective Union is leading a campaign for the abolition of the forced labor camps. Around this issue the relief admin- istration is attempting to split the workers, sending all unattached men to the camps, exempting only foreign-born workers, who are being denied all relief. Supporters of Governor Merriam, campaigning to keep him and his fascist gang in office, have begun a campaign of demagogy against relief supervisor J. R. Quinn, who helped institute these camps, on the grounds that the camps are disen- franchising voters. They do not mention, however, that under the sanction of the Merriam regime hoodlums are breaking into workers’ homes, attempting to intimidate workers from organizing, and do not mention that in the camps the workers are forced to work on the county roads for a few pennies un- der unbearable conditions. Relief Paper Reappears LOS ANGELES, Calif., Aug. 6.— After a lapse of eight months, the Hunger Fighter, organ of the Re- lief Workers’ Protective Union, has again been published in a four-page edition, Chicago Law Firm Hits High-Handed Methods of Hillsboro Jud g'e Jett CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 5—Judge Jett of Hillsboro, Til, was charac- terized as “high-handed” and as “using the tactics of a police ser- geant” in keeping the remaining ‘|workers of the Hillsboro Eleven in jail, by a well-known firm of law- yers here, The attorneys urged a nation- wide pzotest by lawyers against Judge Jett’s actions to be sent to Governor Henry Horner, justices of the Supreme Court in Springfield, and to Judge Jett. The letter fol- j lows: “In the Hillsboro case we find Judge Jett using the tactics of a police sergeant in keeping the re- maining victims in jail. “Even though very many people have appeared before him with more than enough property to bail out these workers, he continuously delays signing bonds under the pretense that he needs to make a thorough search into the status of the value of the property before he can accept it. He has had more time than is necessary for this purpose and it is apparent that he is using every scheme possible to keep the | defendants in jail, “We feel that if protests all over the country were sent by lawyers to this Judge Jett, protesting such action, as well as letters to the Su- preme Court of Illinois and to Gov- ernor Horner asking for an inves- tigation of the judge’s high-handed attitude, that there is some likeli- hood that we will get some action. Send protests to: “Judge Jett, Hillsboro, Ill. “Gov. Henry Horner, Spring- field, Til. “Justices of Supreme Court, Springfield, ll.” ? *“Hooverville” Jobless In Eviction Protests NEW YORK.—A delegation of seventy-five representing the ‘“Hoo- verville” and Red Hook sections of Brooklyn went to visit Mayoyr LaGuardia, to protest city notice by the Commissioner of Parks that these workers were to be evicted within 30 days. No provision was made fer the future lodging of these unemployed workers. LaGuardia was not there to re- ceive the delegation, but his secre- tary made another appointment for ‘Thursday with the Mayor.. No as- surance was given the workers that any provision would be made for them by the Mayor. MEET ON MEXICO-U.S. BORDER LAREDO, Texas—About 150 Mex- ican and United States workers meet here Aug. 1 in a demonstra~ tion against imperialist war and fascism. Speakers, talking in Eng- lish and Spanish, hit Yankee im- perialism, called for the formation Of a local of the American L2>7ue Against War and Fascism and de- manded the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, 2, In New and survey of bundle orders for Not Sufficient I dies. ferent days. copies. The total gain twice, but showed a small net Forty-two places stopped shocking news came from 15 counting, except where made bundle activity. Quick Drive Pi up. The Party membership |paramount political task that do our work! July 28 Week Produces Net Daily Gain of 369 Copies Added Orders) NE of the reasons we have only gained 6,000 new readers | for the Daily Worker, instaed of at least 10,000—only 29 per cent of our quota instead of 50 per cent—since the drive for 20,000 more circulation started, is evident from a the week beginning July 28. Bundle orders had fallen below those of the previous two weeks, instead of accelerating with the drive. gains for the week stands at 369 copies daily. Sixty-four cities and towns ordered new bundles during the week just past. Of these, Paterson and Newark, New Jersey, and Chicago ordered new bundles on more than one day. The total number of added copies was 729. Net bundle ncreased Orders A similar situation was found to exist upon examina- tion of the increased bundle orders. 35 places have increased the number of copies in their bun- Boston, Newark and Pittsburgh did it on three dif- Here we find that only through increases was 567 In both cases, new bundles and increased bundle} orders, it should have been double these figures. However, this condition would be favorable if it were not for the fact that cuts and stops reduced these gains. Twenty-five cities and towns cut their bundle orders in this 7-day period. This meant, not counting new bundles and increased orders, a loss of 226 copies. Chicago cut orders gain for the week. bundle orders. On July 31 this cities and towns. Chicago and St. Paul were chief offenders and sufferers. Five hundred and ninety-two sales were lost to the “Daily” on this ac- up for by new and increased ckup Necessary This situation is not healthy if we are to expect the circulation campaign to succeed. It calls for a quick picking must be impressed with the is facing us. It must not only weld its own forces, but rally those of the mass, fraternal and language organizations, as well as the trade unions, We can do our class enemies no greater favor than to allow the drive to fail! It must not fail! It will not fail if we Socialist Leaders Praise Police ‘At Wisconsin A. F. L. Meeting) By D. J. The 42nd annual convention of the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor was held in Racine, Wis., on July 17 to 21, Close to 350 delegates were present, approximately one- | third of whom were from Federal unions, formed within the past year. A resolution praising and en- couraging the San Francisco strik- ers, was unanimously passed and immediately telegraphed to the gen- eral strike headquarters on the opening day. The State President, Henry Ohl, Jr., and the Executive Secretary J. J, Handley have been Socialist Party members more than 15 years, but no one could see any difference be- tween their policies and those of the openly reactionary union offi- cials that were present. Although the convention was meeting at a time of unexampled struggles of the American workers; though the need for decisive and united action to combat growing fascism was never more apparent; though the menace of an approaching imperialist con- flict looms, despite all this the re- port of the General Executive Board (composed of Socialists and Pro- gressives) neither raised these ques- tions nor pointed out the course Labor should take to meet the vi- cious attacks of the capitalists. Green Servile Before N. R. A. William Green’s speech at the convention was an outright insult to the intelligence of the delegates. The servility with which Green fawned on the Roosevelt administra- tion disgusted the rank and file del- egates present, many of whom had good reason to know the true nature of Roosevelt's N. R. A. and arbitra- tion boards through the betrayal of their struggles by these agencies. Socialist Praises Police The first resolution to cause dis- cussion was one sharply condemning the police terror in recent strikes and adyocating the mass violation of injunctions. It specifically men- tioned the police brutality in the Milwaukee Car Men's strike. The Resolutions committee in its report recommended rejection . on grounds that many police had been sympathetic to the strikers and that the police on the whole were show- ing a much more sympathetic at- titude during strikes. This false and typically capitalist argument was made not by a hide- bour¢l conservative Republican, as might logically be presumed. Oh, No! It was none other than J. F. Friedrich leading Milwaukee Soctal- ist, and reporter for the Milwaukee Leader, S. P. paper. The delegate who introduced the resolution took the floor and exposed the role of the police, especially their brutality in the Seaman Body and Carmen's strikes, and succeeded in preventing the complete rejection of the res- olution. It was referred back to the res- olutions committee for changes. When it was reported back it was so changed, so emasculated, that even its author could not have recognized it as the same resolution. In place of the militant and vigorous tone of the original, the new resolution actually praised the “police of many cities who show an understanding attitude.” ! Industrial ys. Craft Unions from Kenosha, and Milwaukee. It criticized the craft union form of organization and demanded that the craft internationals keep “hands off” the Federal Unions. It spoke of the industrial form of organiza- tion as the best way of defeating the unified attacks of the employers. The Federation Union delegates were strong in support of this and fought for its adoption. Some old members of the craft unions took the floor and agreed with it, stating that experience had shown them the impossibility and impracticability of organizing the vast body of the un- organized in the factories into vari- ous craft unions. This resolution was adopted after slight changes were made, Fight on Jobless Insurance The issue which caused the sharp- est debate was that of unemploy- ment insurance. Practically the whole Kenosha delegation, as well as some from Milwaukee, 27 in all, had signed the resolution calling for endorsement of the Workers Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill. This was the only resolution on Un- employment Insurance introduced at the Convention. The officials did not even bring forward one of their own endorsing the Wagner-Lewis Bill. When this resolution was re- ported on by the legislative commit- tee, the recommendation was to amend it by striking out the men- tion of H. R. 7598 and substituting the proposal that the incoming Bx- ecutive Board prepare suitable le- gislation along similar lines. Immediately a delegate from the Kenosha Nash Federal Union took the floor and spoke for the original resolution. He exposed the Groves Bill very thoroughly as being in- adequate and discriminatory. Men- tioning Green‘s attack upon the supporters of the Workers Bill, he flashed back with the accusation that it was Green, himself, and the officials of the State Federation of Labor, who were insincere. Showing the need for unemployment insur- ance to be the greatest single prob- lem facing the workers today, he de- manded to know what the officials had done to secure it. Felix Olkives, President of the Kenosha Trades and Labor Council, member of the Progressive Party, and Green henchman, tcok the floor to attack the bill and its supporters. In a frenzied harangue that was marked by melodramatic gestures and jingoistic mouthings he said the Bill is Communistic and its propo- nents Reds, He did not bring for- ward a single argument against the Bill, as such. His entire efforts were concentrated on raising the Red Scare. Following this, Elmer Libert, Milwaukee Socialist and member of the Resolutions Committee spoke in favor of the Committee's report. Not openly, but in an underhand fashion, he attempted to squelch the sentiment for the Bill. He was forced to admit that the Groves Law is inadequate, but argued that it was the best that could be done, that such things could only be gotten slow-and-easy. Some of the del- egates in commenting on his speech were heard to remark that one could starve to death while waiting for this slow-and-easy process to be completed. Other delegates from the Federal Another resolution that caused much discussion was introduced by the Federal Lebor Union delegates i i Unions took the floor and vigorously defended the Resolution and the Workers Bill. One delegate said Jail Student Pickets In Mexico City Strike MEXICO CITY, Aug. 6.—More/ than twenty striking students at} the National University here were seized and jailed. Police lines were thrown around the medicine and law schools. Be- cause of the strike most of the buildings are closed, but the Sum- mer School patronized largely by American school teachers continues to be open despite the picketing of the strikers, who demand several changes in the reactionary school administration. Illinois Miners’ Leader Jailed Held After Hoisting of Red Flag in Town Near Hillsboro CHICAGO, Aug. 6—As mass pressure forced Montgomery au- thorities to set forward hearing on the 11 Hillsboro defendants to Aug. 8, another militant worker, Adama Chura, has been arrested in adoining Macoupin County on charges similar to those placed against the Hillsboro Eleven, of “in- citing to riot,” “sedition,” ete. Chura, a leader of the miners in Local No, 1 of the Progressive Miners of America, and organizer of the Mother Jones Branch of the International Labor Defense, was arrested after miners in Benid hoisted a red flag on top of the| City Hall on Aug. 1. He is held in} Carlinville, A special grand jury has been called for Aug. 8 on the Hillsboro cases, following mass protests or- ganized by the I. L. D. against the attempts of the authorities to hold the Hillsboro Eleven in jail, with- out trial, until fall. Meanwhile, the jailers have separated John Adams and Jan Wittenbar from the rest of the prisoners whose release on bail has not yet been effected. County authorities have also ‘hreat- ened the wives of defendan’= ~’~" Staples and Mrs. Holland, with vio- lence for their activities in o.g..- izing mass pressure in behalf of their husbands. Protests should be sent immedi- ately to States Attorney of Ma- coupin County at Carlinville and to the Mayor of Benld for the release of Adam Chura, and to Judge Jett of Hillsboro and States Attorney Hall for the release of the Hillsboro defendants. Funds are urgently needed and should be sent to the I. L. D., 1705 W. Madison Ave., Chicago, Six Classes Planned For Election Speakers NEW YORK.—Six weekly con- ferences have been arranged by the midtown section of the Communist Party to train speakers for the ap- proaching election campaign. The first is to take place on Thursday evening at 6:30 on the second floor of the Workers Center under the direction of Carl Brodsky, district campaign manager. Each session will be conducted by a speaker of outstanding talent in the revolutionary movement and part of the time will be devoted to practical classroom exercises. All the Young Communist League, trade members of the Communist Party, unions and other mass organiza- tions are eligible. Militancy Wins Strike In Til. Packing Plant MADISON, Ill, Aug. 6.—The workers of the Madison Packing plant who have been on strike for almost two weeks won a complete victory when the boss signed up with the Amalgamated Butcher Workers and Meat Cutters of North America. All scabs were fired immediately and the workers will get some in- creases in wages. The success of the strike was due chiefly to the militancy of the rank and file strike committee. The strikers at all times invited, and received, the full coop- eration and assistance of the Com- munist Party and the Unemploy- ment Council of Madison. 20,000 New Readers by Sept. 1 that if this Bill was Communism then he was a Communist. Another delegate, pointing to the fact that practically every Kenosha delegate had signed the Bill as introducers, H udson'T ndependent Union Reveals Tre! To Company Cone, x Leaders Gag Discussion at First Meeting, Bas Unemployed — Seek to Use Disgust With A. F. of L. for Firm’s Benefit By A. B. Special to the MAGIL Daily Worker DETROIT, Aug. 6—Further indications that the new so-called independent auto union, the Associated Automobile in the direction of company Call County | Relief Strike | In Wisconsin ANTIGO, Wis., Aug. 6—A county- | wide strike of relief workers, farm- ers on drought relief, and workers | on direct relief has been called in Langlade County, tieing up all re- lief work with the exception of the Crocker project) here, where about twelve men are still working. Re- lief has been won for all strikers. The strikers demand a 50 per cent increase in all relief budgets of workers and farmers on F. E. R. A., for full cash payment cf all relief, a 50 per cent increase in cash for farmers working on drought relief, jobs without discrimination for young workers, workers’ represen- tation in the distribution of relief, and for the return of all automobile license plates. Active in the leadership .of the strike, the Unemployment Council has issued leaflets explaining the nature .of the strike and exposing the twelve scabs now on the job. Daily picketing in the face of police provocation is being conducted on the jobs. Under the leadership of the Coun- cils, a mass meeting was called at the Antigo city park for last Satur- day in preparation for a mass march on the court house Rank and File Force Militant Program For S.P. Controlled Group JOPLIN, Mo., Aug. 6. — Fifteen rank and file members of the Un- employed Union here, disgusted with the inactivity of the Socialist | leadership, mobilized the member- ship around a platform of struggle. The rank and file group issued a leafiet to all the members calling for a 30-hour week at minimum wages of 45 cents an hour on all relief work, for supplementary re- lief, and for unity of all unem- ployed. Whereas the ordinary at- tendance at meetings was about 100, more than 250 workers attended the meeting. The program was adopted and a resolution passed to issue another leaflet to mobilize all unemployed. Force Release of Nine Mexican Workers Held In Calif. Terror Raids OXNARD, Calif., Aug. 6. — Nine Mexican workers, arrested last week in terror raids by immigration of- ficers, have been released follow- ing mass protests by local workers. The raids were accompanied by an organized drive by the ranchers’ vigilante committee to break up the organizations of agricultural and relief workers. Answering the threats of 25 armed vigilantes who attempted to break up a workers’ meeting Monday night, the Venturg Local of the Relief Workers Protective Union passed a resolution demanding that the armed fascist thugs be disarmed or workers allowed the right to arm in self-defense. Young Militant Put In Solitary Confinement In Los Angeles Jail) LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6.—Archie Brown, member of the Young Com- munist League, who was arrested for “disturbing the peace” while speaking in a hall on “Defense Tac- tics” and convicted on the evidence demanded to know of Olkives whether he was accusing all the K2- nosha delegates of being Commu- nists. Referring to the endorsement of the Workers Bill by 2,000 A. F. of L. locals, many city central bodies and four State Federations, he wanted to know if tifis accusation extended to them also, The delegate pointed out that the issue was not one of Communism, but of ade- quate cash insurance for the unem- ployed, and that raising the Red Scare was merely evading the issue. J. F. Friedrich, the Milwaukee So- cialist referred to above, again took the floor for the Resolution Com- mittee, especially to defend the Groves Bill. Admitting its inade- quacy, he weakly attempted to de- fend it on the same grounds as Libert; that it was the best that could be gotten. The spectacle of a so-called “workers’ leader” defend- ing this rotten measure which is less than worthless, which only gives (AT THE VERY MOST) but $10 a week for only 10 weeks, and which does nothing for the present unem- ployed, was disgusting to every honest observer. It revealed the complete bankruptcy, the utter base- of a member of the American Le- gion, has been denied all visitors, packages, and time off for good behavior because he speaks to iel- low prisoners in the Los Angeles County Jail about conditions in the jails. Attempts made by Brown to ob-| tain counsel on these “charges” have been quashed by jailers, and only infrequent reports as to his treatment are vailable. Brown's term is for 90 days. Visitors at~ tempting to see him are told that he has been denied all privileges, while fellow prisoners state that he has been placed in solitary con- finement as a result of his activity in the jail. International Labor Defense attorneys are attempting to determine the exact cause of his mistreatment and are trying to force his release. Pepe aes Steve Carey and Fred Hines, leaders of the Young Communist League, wore arrested and flung into jail on a charge of “Suspicion of Criminal Syndicalism” while ad- dressing a stret meeting Saturday | plant For “Sedition” Workers of America, organized at the Hudson Motor Co, in a split from the American Federation of Labor, is a move unionism, were revealed at the first meeting of the new organiza- tion in Amity Temple, Friday, night. Only about 100 workers wers present, less than half the num- ber that voted for secession the previous week The split was engineered by Are thur r, president of the now |defunct Hudson A. F. of L. local, and the notorious Richard L. Byrd, “labor” representative on the Auto+ mobile Labor Board. The Hudson local is the second to have split away, the local at the Oldsmobile in Lansing, Mich. having seceded from the A. F. of L. severat weeks ago. Bars Jobless Having failed in the attempt he made the week before to insert a provision in the constitution barring Communists and all those having any connection with Communists from the new unions, Greer resorted to a new maneuver at Friday night's meeting. He announced that he had been in conference with a number of lawyers who informed him that according to the state laws, only employed workers could receive a state charter. Therefore, only those working in the Hudson plant at the present time would constitute the new union and they would set up a membership com- mittee who would pass on unem- ployed applicants. Of the 18,000 Hudson workers, jonly about 2,000 are working now, many of these being company men or other workers considered “re liable.” By this trick Greer is try= ing to purge his union in advance, split the ranks of the workers and consolidate a machine of company men. Workers began to protest, but Greer, who was chairman, Tuled them out of order. The proposed constitution was read and when a worker moved that provisions be added providing for the recall of all officials by the membership and that no official should receive more than $25 a week, Greer also ruled him out of order, A woman worker proposed that the preamble contain a statement that the purpose of the union is to fight for higher wages, better working conditions and against speed-up. She was loudly applauded, but Greer made a contrary motion and didn’t even put her proposal to a vote. Company Control Is Aim Greer announced that he was conducting negotiations with rep- resentatives of seven other A. F. of L. locals. with the object of split- ting them off. However, the Asso- ciated Automobile Workers, in keep- ing with its company union char- acter, does not aim to set up a national organization, but merely to have locals in the various plants with the real control exercised by the individual companies. The secession from the A. F. of L. is the result of widespread dis- gust of the A. F. of L, rank and file with the betrayal policies of the leaders. Greer and Byrd, who were hand in glove with the Collins leadership and helped to put over the infamous Washington settle= ment, are exploiting this dissatis- faction in order to prevent the workers from organizing on a mili- tant basis and building, together with the members of other unions, one united industrial union. It is the task of the militants in the Greer union to organize a broad fight against the exclusion of the unemployed and to expose more concretely the maneuvers of Greer and the other company agents. OPEN AIR MEET IN UTICA UTICA, N. Y.—Five hundred per- ; Sons demonstrated in an enthusias- tic open-air meeting against im- perialist war and fascism on Aug. 1 under the auspices of the Interna- tional Workers’ Order and the Stu- dent Liberal Club. Speakers were Maxwell Whiteman, Walter Brown and Beatrice Harmes. Norman Hollander was chairman. Advertisement New Brocklyn Plant Opened by Ebling Brewing Co. CELEBRATING the 65th Anniver- sary of the firm, the Ebling Brew- ing Co., Inc, has opened a new plant at Third and Bond streets, Brooklyn, said to be one of the most modern of its kind. This plant was completed at a cost of $1,000,600, completing a total $8,000,000 which the company has spent. on new construction and equipment in the past year and a halt. of these expansions, Mr. Samuel Rubel, Ebling’s, 1,000 em- been added to the now totals $2,000,000 As a result according to president of ployees have payroll which annually. With the completion of the new brewery, the firm will be opera~ | ting three plants, one in the Bronx and the other two in Brooklyn. One plant will be devoted exeln- sively to the brewing of ale. The capacity of the company’s canip- ment provides for brewing 1,500, full kegs and 10,000,000 cases yearly. The opening of the new plant will be celebrated by a Brooklyn parade with floats and ceremonies at the brewery. Clubs and groups | night at the corner of Sunset and Le Moyne Boulevards. ness of the leadership and policies of Wisconsin “Socialism.” ‘They were released after 72 hours of “investigation.” ¥ of interested people will be taken through and permitted to see how beer ix brewed from the first to the last stage, (Ady.)