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Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1934 VISA ASKED FOR MME. SUN YAT SEN FOR ANTI-WAR CONGRESS League Against Fascism and War Sends Bid Chinese Anti-[mperialist Leader Is Invited to U. S. Gathering NEW YORK jon has beén made by the American League Against War and Fascism in Wash- ington for a visa Madame Sun ‘Yat Sen, widow of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. who was the first Chinese Republic. Madame Sun Yat Sen has been invited to the United States to address the Second U. S Congress Against War and Fascism, which opens in Chicago on Sept. 28 and continues for two days. Maxim Gorki and Romain Rolland have also been invited to attend ap- Plications for their visas filed. Madame Sun Yat Sen is a leader in the struggle against Japanese im- perialism in China, and only re- cently made an appeal to all China to unite “in a holy war against Japanese expansion” in her native land. She is a member of the powerful Soong family, and received her education in American univer- sities. Her brother is T. V. Soong, and her sisters are the Madames Chiang Kai-shek and H. H. Kun Wives of leaders of the Nanking government, of which she is an ardent political opponent. The Second U. S. Congress Against War and Fascism is ex- pected to bring thousands of dele- gates from all sections of America, and several noted delegates from abroad. At the first Congress, held in New York last year, Henri Bar- busse’s rousing addresses against the world trend toward war and fascism were a feature. This Con- gress instituted the first American mass movement of protest, and brought together in common causé many peace, labor, farmer and pro- fessional organizations, This year an even larger number of delegates is expected. Special attention will be paid to the prevailing situation in Ger- many, the Far Eastern ambitions of Japan, the war now raging in Latin America, the struggle in Cuba where actual warfare exists, despite official denials and regardless of the various meetings of the League of Nations. The Congress is expected to make vigorous protest against the ex- tensive preparations for war now being made throughout the worid, and especially in the United States. It will rally the American masses against these war preparations, and will work toward the stoppage of munitions manufacture and trans- port in the advent of war. It will demand the transfer of all war funds to social relief, and will urge all peace and anti-war organiza- tions to support the total and uni- versal disarmament policy. It will Oppose all attempts to attack the Soviet Union, whose peace policy is sincere. Among the well-known Ameri- fans who are members of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the American League Against War and Fascism ave Dr. Harry F. Ward, Robert ant Morss Lovett, George S. Counts, Lincoln Steffens, Anna N. Davis, Roger Baldwin, Sarl Browder, Dorothy Detzer, E. C. Lindeman, Reverend William Spofford, Colston E. Warne, LeRoy E. Bowman, and Rabbi Benjamin Goldstein. Our Readers Must Spread the Daily Worker Among the Members of All Mass and Fraternal Organ- izations As a Political Task of First Importance! NEEDLE WORKERS PATRONIZE SILVER FOX CAFETERIA and BAR 326-7th Avenue Between 28th and 29th Streets Food Workers Industrial Union QUALITY BAKING CO. 44-19 Broadway, Astoria, L. I. J. and Z, DEMIRJIAN, Props. Oriental Famous Shashlik delivered at read alt jenies within a day's notice AVANTA FARM Ulster Park, N. Y. Workers resting place. Good food. Quiet. Bathing; $12 per week; $2 per day; 10 A. M. Bort to Poughkeepsie. Ferry to Highland; 3:20 P. M. Train to Ulster Park. Round Trip $2.71, WORKERS COOPERATIVE COLONY 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST has reduced the rent, several good apartments available. Cultural Activities for Adults, Youth and Children. Direction: “.exington Ave., White Plains Trains. Stop at Allerton Ave. station | Office open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Telephone; Estabrook 8-1400—8-1401 friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. —————— LICENSE NOTICE. “NOTICE is heresy given that license number A-9730 has been issued to the un- | day's dersigned to sell beer at retail, under the resident of the | Memorial Meeting Set in Los Angeles For Sacco-Vanzetti LOS ANGELES, Aug. Memorializing the seve anni- versary of the legal murder of Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vansetti by the capitalist class, the International Labor Defense in Los Angeles will hold a mass meeting Aug. 22 at the Cultural Center, 230 S. Spring Street Befitting the memorial ; class war victims, the meeting will be used to rally sentiment against increasing fascist terror of the vigilantes in California— in San Francisco, San Pedro, Imperial Valley, throughout the agricultural areas of the State— and for the unconditional release 16.— of Angelo Herndon, the Scotts- boro boys, Ernst Thaelmann, Tom Mooney and all class-war prisoners. Barge Strike Solid Despite Split * Tactics | Only 10 of 100 Strikers Follow Bosses’ Tool in Scab Move ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 16—With the strike on the Mississippi Valley Barge Line now in its seventh day, the employers are attempting to split the ranks of the men by de- stroying their confidence in the strike leadership. The bosses found a pliable tool for this end in a man named Stokes, who managed to have himself elected to the strike committee, using his position to gain the con- fidence of some of the weaker strikers. On Monday Stokes at- tempted to lead a mass walk-back to the job. Of the 100 on strike, he succeeded in persuading only ten men to go with him. When he was confronted on the hill stretching to the riverfront by a committee of strikers, Stokes brandished a pistol. Police close by made no attempt to disarm him, but instead helped him and his cronies to the dock. Despite this, and the increase of police forces, the men are even more determined than ever to stay out for their demands, the most important of which are: Fifty cents an hour instead of 35, proper start- ing time and an eight-hour day when called out, time and a half for overtime, workers’ control of hiring and recognition of the dock committee. Many truck drivers and teamsters have pledged not to handle freight from this scab company. While the bosses threaten to fillthe jobs with white workers, they are finding it very difficult to get men. The strikers are very much en- couraged by the support that is be- ing rendered by the members of the T. U. U. L, the Unemployment Council, who have given their head- quarters for the use of the strikers, and the Communist Party, on the picket line and otherwise. A thou- sand leaflets were spread today by the strikers and the T. U. U. L., calling for mass support and ex- posing all the issues of the strike. The two terminals of the Federal Barge Line in St. Louis, both or- ganized in the Marine Workers’ In- dustrial Union, have pledged sup- port, and in their spare time the men on these docks help picketing, which is carried on day and night. Rout Fascist Clique At Youth Congress (Continued from Page 1) no delegate be barred, as Miss Ima has attempted to do, and that only accredited delegates vote. Among the resolutions which have been favorably acted upon by the above mentioned united front group and which will be brought before the Congress for approval are: The Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill, a united front anti- war-fascist resolution similar to the program of the American League Against War and Fascism, one call- ing for vocational training with pay for all youth from the age of six- teen to eighteen, and others con- demning the fascist trends inherent in the transient camps and appren- ticeship brought forward by Ima and her federal government ad- visers. Browder and Thomas Invited Having been forced to listen to the sugary speeches of government brain-trusters some of whom ad- vocated self-help instead of govern- ment relief for youth, the Execu- tive Board of the Congress voted to invite Eerl Browder and Norman Thomas to address the delegates. The furthér business of the Con- gress will follow the plan of dis- cussion in the various sessions, re ports to resolution committee, dis- cussion on the floor and election of continuation committces to build the united front of the young peo- ple of America against unemploy- ment, war and fascism. The elected chairmen of yester- session were Alex Taylor of the Emergency Employees Associe- Aleoholic Beverage Control Law, at 373 | tion and Waldo MacNutt of the Amsterdam Ave., New York, N. Y., ses _consuniption. Daniel Bilenkis ~ Purity Dairies 373 Amsterdam Ave., Ciassified GOING by car to San Francisco or Los Angeles. Place for three more. If in- “terested call Gr. 5-9879 for 0} New York, N. Y. CHICAGO, wanted car going to New York | ousty to take 1 passenger. Kieidman, c/o Gibbs, 1131_N. Campbell Ave, Chicago. Rocky Mountain Y, M. C. A. con- ference. The first two days of the Con- gress have proven that it is possible for all youth groups to work to- gether for the smeshing of fascism. Unless Every Section and Unit in the Party Throws Its Forces Vigor- Into the Cirewlation Dee the Daily Worker Re™cins - saeen to Thousands of Workers, Browder Cheaad As He Speaks of Breach in Reactionary South By CYRIL BRIGGS NEW YORK.—In a magnificent gro and white workers, nearly 3,000 persons roared a thunderous wel- come to Angelo Herndon, young Negro Communist hero of the At-| lanta, Georgia, slave code trial, | Wednesday night- at Rockland Palace, Harlem. The throng, 70 per cent Negroes, gave a stormy ovation to Herndon, Earl Browder, national secretary of | the Communist Party, Joseph | Brodsky, Scottsboro defense att ney, and other outstanding leaders of the revolutionary movement. In significant recognition of the Com- munist Party as the organizer and ation, the whole crowd, including | many Negroes heretofore unfamiliar with the revolutionary movement, came to its feet singing the Inter- nationale as Browder was intro- duced. Mighty Shout Greets Herndon Another stormy scene ensued as cheers from outside the hall heralded the arrival of Angelo Herndon. As one, and with a mighty shout of welcome, the au- dience came to its feet cheering and applauding as Herndon was borne up the isle on the shoulders of white and Negro workers. The In- ternationale again rang out, as the assembly greeted the heroic Negro, temporarily rescued from torture and death on the Georgia chain gang by the protests and dollars and pennies of the working class. The meeting, from beginning to end, held the character of a spirited demonstration of iron determina- tion to struggle against Negro op- pression, against lynching, hunger, fascism and imperialist war, for Negro liberation and the emancipa- tion of the entire working class. | Outlines by various speakers of the Communist program on these vital questions were greeted with cheers and applause, as were appeals to further build and cement the unity display of fighting solidarity of Ne-| leader of the fight for Negro liber- | o Issued to those who turn their loans to bail fund into outright contributions. |of Negro and white workers being achieved under the bold, correct |leadership of the Communist Party. } Browder Greets Herndon Comrade Browder greeted Hern- jdon in the name of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and briefly and concisely outlined the issues involved in the Herndon case: “What is it that made the name of Angelo Herndon travel with such swift wings around the world? It is because Angelo Herndon stands as an outstanding example of those who have begun a revolution in the United States, who have be- gun to transform the rotten, re- actionary solid South of feudal re- action, to organize the forces of revolution in the South, who have started the process of unification of the oppressed black and white in the struggle which is already changing the solid South so that it is no longer so solid. “The solid South is spoken of as solid because it was the solid basis for reaction in the United States. The blight of this reaction has been not only over the white and Negro toiling masses in the South but over the entire country. Every forward step this country ever made had to be against ihe solid South because the solid South meant a slave- owning ruling class. Even capital- ism could not go forward except to carry out a four years civil war to smash that solid South.” Fires of Revolt Light Up South Comrade Browder then showed how after capitalism had won its victory with the aid of the Negro masses, it betrayed the Negro peo- ple and ‘“re-enslaved the Negroes in a new slavery, if anything more complete and far-reaching than the old chattel slavery.” “Three years ago,” he declared, “there seemed not a ray of hope in the South. There was no light anywhere. Everything was black, dark reaction. Today that is no longer true. Throughout the South today the fires that were lighted by Angelo Herndon and his com- raGes light up every nook and cor- ner of the South. “Lhroughout the South today there are sparks of revolt against this slave empire which are being rapidly tanned into fiames of mass struggle, and it was because of the deadly fears of the white ruling class, fear of this program, that they seized upon young An- gelo Herndon, the fearless bearer of this program and sentenced him to 18 to 20 years on the chain gang, tor the crime of holding Harlem Throng Greets Herndon as Symbol of Revolutionary Unity of Black and White © ae |Heroic Negro Tells of Struggles, Which Led to His Persecution meetings of black and white workers together.” Herndon told of his work among white and Negro unemployed of Atlanta, Ga., the victory of the un- employed workers in forcing the city authorities to continue relief, and Herndon’s subsequent arrest and frame-up He paid a glowing tribute to the powerful protests of white and Negro workers and in- tellectuals, protests which, he de- clared, forced the lynch rulers to hold their hands and finally won his temporary freedom on _ bail pending appeal to the U. S. Su- preme Court. He called upon the Negroes present, especially, to take note of the victories won by the united struggles of Negro and white workers, and to repudiate reformist misleaders, like Walter White, William Pickens, George Schuyler, etc., who consistently betray the Negro liberation struggle. Call For Intensified Fight Anna Damon, of the national office of the International Labor Defense, Israel Amter, national Secretary of the Unemployed Coun- cils, William Fitzgerald, Harlem Section organizer of the I. L. D. Ruby Bates, key witness in the Scottsboro case and others appealed for an intensified campaign for the complete freedom of Herndon, the Scottsboro Boys, and Ernst Thael- mann, courageous leader of the German working class. Ben Davis, editor of the Negro Liberator and one of Herndon’s de- fense attorneys, told of Herndon’s courageous conduct in the Lynch court, of his ringing defiance to the lynch rulers of Georgia and the whole South, The assembled workers and in- tellectuals pledged themselves to a relentless fight far the complete freedém of Herndon, and the Scottsboro Boys and Ernst Thael- mann, and emphasized their de- termination and sincerity with a flood of dollar bills for the Hern- don and Scottsboro appeals. 14 Women Back From Paris Parley (Continued from Page 1) the congress hall—the most remark- able women in the world. “The biggest delegation was from’ Great Britain, outside of France, of course, which had over six hun- dred. Great Britain had seventy- seven. We were third with forts But I think we were the broadest because we represented about 600,000 women, you know.” Mother Bloor told how she led a delegation from the congress to the German Embassy in Paris to protest against the imprisonment of women in the concentration camps of Germany. “They tried to shut us out,” she said. “I went in alone while the girls stood outside and waited. Po- lice outside kept pushing the girls about, but they all stuck together until I came out.” Saw Paris Sights “What did you do after the con- gress?” “The congress ended on the sev- enth. We left France on the tenth. In those three days the girls roamed all over the city and saw more than tourists could see in a month.” The ship was about to dock. “Girls,” Mother Bloor called, “we've got to stick together.” She turned toward the reporter. “Is there anybody at the pier waiting for us?” she asked. There certainly was. A large banner blazed forth the words: “Welcome — American Women Delegates to Women’s In- ternational Congress. Forward to the Defeat of War-makers and Fas- cists in the U. 8. A.” ‘Welcomed At Pier A committee of about 50 women, representing Women’s Councils, trade unions, anti-war groups, the Communist Party and other or- ganizations, leaned forward eagerly to catch the first sight of their rep- resentatives to the Paris Congress. “Les Soviets Partout!” Soviet everywhere! A cheer went up as the delegates came into view. It was the wel- come of American women to their sisters who had brought with them the message of an international gathering against war and fascism —it was the welcome to delegates who brought back a renewed hope and an inspired program of strug- gle to defeat the twin horrors of a decaying bourgeois society, the hor- rers of imperialist war and fascism. Returning with Mother Bloor as pare of the delegation were Mabel Byzd, secretary of the delegation; Clara Bodian, Anna Barnett, Lela Jackson, Ida Kunca, Martha Lew- andowska, Maggie Pritschau, Mary Rayside, Elizabeth Nicholas, Ida Haltunnen, Jennie Palermo, Capi- tolie Tasker and Olga Botchvaroff. Herndon and Bloor On Boat Ride Tonight NEW YORK—Angelo Herndon, | Mother Ella Reeve Bloor and the entire American delegation to the Paris Anti-War Congzess will be among the guests on the Show Bont Cruise which will leave Pier 1, the Batiery, on the S. S. Ambassador [at 8:30 o'clock Wine Guardsmen to (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, Aug, 16—Gov- ernor Horner of Illinois pledged the use of the National Guard against all working class movements in a speech at Camp Grant Sunday. Speaking to 10,000 guardsmen en- camped for preparations for the military exercises which will cul- minate in a march to “capture” Chicago, the governor pointed the way for intimidation and suppres- sion of struggles of the starving workers. This march of the Thirty-third Division of the National Guard has already begun. The guardsmen plan to reach Chicago tomorrow. Admitting in his speech the fail- ure of every capitalist attempt to solve the crisis, Horner stated: “These are days of stress and un- certainty. No one can look ahead Governor of Illinois Pledges Fight Workers and tell what further troubles may be in store for us, “But with an efficient National Guard we can look forward to- wards the future with a feeling of some degree of security regarding the peace of our state.” Governor Horner's idea of “peace” was shown by his ordering of the police attacks against the Hunger March of 1933, and his participation in the Montgomery County frame- Taxi Drivers Flay NRA Code In Washington WASHINGTON, D, G,, Aug. 16.— Presenting a taxi code drawn up and approved by the rank and file taxi workers of New York, Samuel Orner and William Gandall of the Taxicab Drivers Union opposed th? proposed N.R.A. code at the na- tional taxi code hearings held here up. The governor told the guardsmen: “With you on guard there is little danger of the violence of Commu- nism.” Horner, who has claimed that the State of Illinois has no more money for relief of the unemployed, ad- mitted that the state had had plenty of funds for the National Guard, Cotton Strike Is Voted By U.T.W. (Continued from Page 1) in their reports unmistakably showed that Southern mill condi- tions are unbearable and called for support from the North in strike action, A delegate from Florence, Ala., where the mills are striking, told of the increased speed-up and declared, “The strikers of Alabama are looking to the North for sup- port. Starvation methods have been used against us in Alabama. I have affidavits with me to prove that the bosses have demanded the virtue of young mill girls working under them.” Attack Stretch-Out J. Dooley of Roanoke Rapids, S. C., spoke in condemnation of the stretch-out (speedup). J. A. Frier, of Columbia, S. C., showed how in a few year’s time the stretch-out has increased the number of picks per minute from 160 to 176. “We are determined to have a reduction in the machine load,” he declared. C. W. McAbee of Inman, S. C., told of the domination of the company store. Workers are forced to sell company store coupons at a 25 per cent discount in order to obtain a little cash, he said. “We have met with the North on common ground and in a common cause,” said R. G. Strickland, of Selma, N. C. He showed how now six workers do work formerly done by 23; and there are now four loomfixers doing work which a few years ago was done by ten loom- fixers. Picks per minute have been speeded up from 136 to 144, Wages of weavers were $27.95 and now are $21 for 40 hours. All workers, out- side of weavers and loomfixers, get only 30 cents an hour. “We hope the convention will go on record against the differential, which makes us work under lower wages than the North,” he declared. “We don’t want your wages dropped down to our level, but we do want you to help us bring our level up to yours.” Support Alabama Strikes A resolution of A. Cox of Hunts- ville, Ala., was unanimously passed on the Alabama strikes, which de- clared: “The employes of the tex- tile pionts of Itontsyilln, Alhoma, [were forced to strike as a last method for self protection. These workers must be fed if we are to continue peacefully, avoiding vio- lJence. There has been much dis- crimination against these striking employes through the local branches of the Federal Relief Agencies in the State of Alabama. We feel that the Federal Relief Administrator, Harry Hopkins, and the State Ad- ministrator, Thad Holt, are not aware of these terrible discrimina- tions.” A resolution was unanimously passed yesterday protesting to the N.R.A., to Frances Perkins and to the Department of Justice against the use of the National Guard in strikes, Green Agent Wants Stalling on Wednesday. They charged that the proposed code was drawn up by fleet owners and General Motors Corporation, which seek to lower the already poor living and work- ing standards of the taxi drivers. The Taxicab Drivers Union dele- gation, as the only grop which in- cluded Negroes, met refusals on the part of the Pennsylvania Hotel to accommodate the Negro delegates with an emphatic protest. The en- tire delegation composed of Elmore Britt and Timothy Hill, Negro driv- ers, and Adolph Rabin, Orner and Gandall, registered at the Whitelaw Hotel. In his speech at the taxi hearing, Orner emphasized the fact that the proposed code does not eliminate Negro discrimination, or provide decent living conditions for the drivers. Gandall exposed the pro- posed set-up of the code authority as giving the taxi workers no repre- sentation whatsoever, Pointing to Article 5, Section b, of the proposed Code, Gandall showed that the code legalizes the company union even as Section 7A of the N.R.A. does. The American Federation of La- bor, represented by Boris Shiskin, gave tacit approval of the Code George L. Googe, of Atlanta, sent by William Green, president of the A. F. of L., to address the conven- tion, pleaded with the delegates to go to Roosevelt before September for arbitration of their demands. Googe praised Roosevelt and the New Deal and said he did not be- lieve Roosevelt knows of the condi- tions of the textile workers, other- wise he would act, The only applause he got was when he demagogically mentioned “militant picketing.” Wednesday night the delegates passed resolutions calling on the A. F. of L. executive board to arrange a world labor unity conference against fascism, and criticizing the United States Government for giy- ing credits and loans to the Nazi government. The resolution made no mention of the persecution be- ing carried out in Germany against Communists and said nothing about Thaelmann, Torgler or any political prisoner in eee Nazi Officials Admit Job Crisis in Cities BERLIN, Aug. 16—One of the “achievements” of the Hitler gov- ernment in the sphere of communal politics has been the introduction of what is known as a “state of emergency” in the municipalities. This can be declared in any town which has especially great expendi- ture for unemployment and poor relief. In all these towns the un- employed coming from other places —and even these belonging to the town itself—are given barely enough to maintain life, Authority as proposed. He spoke at length on “the right of collective bagaining,” but failed to explain the strikebreaking role of William Green and the other misleaders of the A. F. of L, Get Subs for the “Daily” Di the Finance Drive! = DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY Office How 8-10 AM., 1-2, 6-3 P.M PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet, Pitkin and Sutter Aves,, Brooklyn Dr. Maximilian Cohen Dental Surgeon 41 Union Sq. W., N. Y. CG After 6 P.M. Use Night Entrance 22 EAST lth STREET Suite 703-GR. 17-0135 Dr. S. A. Chernoff GENITO-URINARY Men and Women 223 Second Ave., N. Y. C. OFFICE HOURS: 11- 7:30 P.M. SUNDAY: 12-3 P.M. Tompkins Square 6-7697 I. J. MORRIS, Inc. GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS 296 SUTTER AVE. BROOKLYN Phone: Dickens 2-1273—4—5 Night Phone: Dickens 6-5369 For International Workers Order LL.D. District Ready For Five Tag Days Starting Tomorrow NEW YORK—Boxes and other materials for the Scottsboro- Herndon Defense fund tag days to be conducted by the New York District of the International La- bor Defense from tomorrow to Wednesday will be available throughout this period at the district office, 870 Broadway, it Was announced yesterday by N. Bruce, assistant district secre- tary. The response to the call of the I. L, D. for the broadest partict- pation in these tag days by working class organizations has been excellent, Bruce seid, and it is expected more than 2,000 collectors will be on the streets during the five-day period. Scottsboro Day Rally to Hear Herndon Talk Nationwide Protest Is Planned on Sacco- Vanzetti Day NEW- YORK.—Thousands of New York workers and intellectuals will ,| Tally in a mighty city-wide mass welcome to Angelo Herndon, heroic Negro leader, at the Bronx Coli- seum next Wednesday evening, Aug. 22, Sacco and Vanzetti day. Throughout the country the anni- versary of the murder of these de- voted fighters for the working class will be commemorated as National Scottsboro Day in the mass fight for the complete freedom of Hern- don, now out on bail, and the un- conditional and safe release of the nine Scottsboro boys, of Ernst Thaelmann, courageous leader of the German working class; Tom Mooney and all other class-war prisoners. The Bronx Coliseum meeting, called jointly by the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, is being supported by scores of organiza- tions in the city. In addition to Herndon, Clarence Hathaway, ed- itor of the Daily Worker, and other speakers, an excellent revolutionary program has been arranged for the Bronx meeting. 20,000 New Readess by September 1 means 20,000 Additional Recruits for Organized Class Struggle! Free Speech Fight Wagea In Portland Six Jailed for Speaking At August 1 Meeting Fight City Ruling PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 16.— Portland police and the Fascist Citizens’ Emergency League (armed guard of the Chamber of Com- merce) are bringing to a head the issue of free speeih here. Six of the speakers at the Aug. 1 demon- stration, held under the auspices of the American League Against War and Fascism, were arrested, charged with speaking in a public park with- § out a written permit. The ordinance which was violated has not been enforced for so long that the Mayor, who gave the League verbal permission to “hold the meeting wherever they liked,” pleaded ignorance of it. The ar- rests, which included Dr. Virgil MacMickle, Rev. N. B. Akerman, chairman of the City Committee of the League; Richard Lovelace, disabled American war veteran; Kenneth Fitzgerald, young working- class journalist; Henry Robinson, and Beatrice DeBorde, unemployed worker, did not take place until Aug. 7, when Dr. MacMickle was arrested as he entered the Masonic Temple, where the Rosenfeld-Bevan meeting was taking place, and where he was scheduled to speak. The Red Squad, accompanied by other officers, made the arrests. The cases were “continued indef- initely” by the Municipal Court after Mayor Carson blundered on the witness stand, admitting that he had declared the meeting per- missible. Although the speakers escaped sentences, it is predictéd that the incident is the start of a free speech war in Portland, partic- ularly pertinent to the formation and rapid influence of the Ameri- can League Against War and Fas- cism here. 500 Workers in Akron Hear C. P. Candidates At Open Air Meeting AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 16.—Moré than 500 workers heard I. O. Ford, Communist candidate for Governor of Ohio, speak at an open-air meet- ing in Perkins Square Tuesday night. Other speakers were Joséph Tesitel, local Communist candidate for sheriff, and Fred Yale, running for clerk of courts. HOPEWELL JUNCTION Believe It or Not So Bring Your Racket, And Your Bathing Suit And Your Best Pals — Spend Your Vacation in a Proletarian Camp — CAMP KINDERLAND NEW YORK Vacation Rates for Adults $14.00 per Week (Tax Included) Bungalows, Tents, Warm and Cold Showers, Healthy Foods Swimming and Rowing in the Beautiful Sylvan Lake Cultural and Sport Activites Every Day Cars Leave for Camp Daily at 10:30 A. M.; Friday and Saturday 10:30 A. M., 3 P. M. and 7 P. M., from 2700 Bronx Park East. The Camp Will Be Open Until September 11 WE’RE ACTUALLY PLAYING TENNIS | —And It’s No Rumor This Time. We Supply the Court And A Grand Lake And A Darn Good Time! 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