The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 13, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1934 Page Three Lynn Relief Union Wins Right of Workers to Run for Office New Decision Fr, Halts Ousting Of Communist Union Meeting Is Called for Friday To Fight Power Company LYNN, Mass., Sept. 12. — The newly-formed E, R. A. Workers Pro- | tective Union of Lynn won its} second decisive victory yesterday in| forcing local, State and Federal re- | lief jadministrations to restore the righf of E. R. A. relief workers to decision was yesterday wnded down from Washington vaiter the local relief workers union and numerous workers’ organiza- tions had protested the attempted barring of Joseph Leedes, Commu- nist candidate, relief worker and organizer of the union, from tha Political campaign. Aided by the local units of the Communist Party and the International Labor De- fense, the relief workers succeeded | in arousing wid-spread protests. Following closely on their first victory of forcing the E. R. A. to take back a $4 weekly wage cut to the relief workers, the confidence of the workrs is growing rapidly. The next meeting of the union has been called for Friday, at 8 p.m., at the Mixed Locals’ Hall, Sherry Building, 70 Monroe St., where plans will be made for a fight against the Lynn Gas and Electric Company, which has turned off gas and elec- tric current at the homes of thou- sands of workers. As the first step, a committee will be elected to de- mand a public investigation into the exorbitant profits of the utility company, Mass Fight Smashes Attempts To Frame Up Communist Candidate NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 12.—An at- tempt by Newport ship and dock owners and police to frame Alexan- der Wright, Negro Communist can- didate for the U. S. Senate, collap- sed last week as a result of mass pressure on the courts and the mili- tant self-defense of Wright. Judge Christan, who had under- taken the frame-up job after mass anger drove police Judge Locke out of the case, found himself faced with an audience of angry white and Negro workers, and a revolu- tionary leader who quickly and ef- fectively put the ruling class and its court on the defensive. A pour- ing rain had not deterred the work- ers from attending the trial. Police witnesses, who charged Wright with “inciting to riot.” stated he had told the workers to peti- tion the government for relief and to organize to defend their right to live against the starvation program of the ruling class and its govern- ment. The judge said that was “bad stuff.” Wright demanded if he ad- vocated that the workers should starve, whereupon the judge hastily dismissed the charges, declaring he did not want any more back talk from Wright. The workers cheered the victory and held a celebration meeting in front of the courthouse, with Wright as the main speaker. sapied Frisco Judge Convicted Workers Without Trial, I.L.D. Attorney Charges SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12.—How six workers were sentenced to 60 days each in jail without being given a hearing or any semblance of a trial was revealed here today when International Labor Defense Attorney George Anderson began a move to have the cases reopened. All six workers were active in the recent general strike here. Anderson charged that the labor- hating Judge George J. Steiger had visited the men in prison and there imposed sentence without their hav- ing made a plea or had a hearing. Judge Steiger’s animus against la- bor has been marked in numerous vicious sentences against militant workers arrested in the boss reign of terror and vigilante-police raids which followed the general strike. The defense attorney demanded that the records of the cases be produced in court. Superior Judge I. M. Golden has ordered their pro- duction, at the same professing he “could not believe such things could happen.” Anderson’s charges have caused a sensation here. Eighteen Gain Freedom On Bail in Hlinois Thru Efforts of the I. L. D. (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Sept. 12—Determined activity under the leadership of the International Labor Defense has forced the release on bail of all but two out of 20 militant workers who had been held in Illinois prisons as a result of their militant activities in Hillsboro, Ill, and on the South Side of Chicago. Of 14 defendants charged with “conspiracy to overthrow the gov- ernment” in Montgomery County, only one, Guerrila, is still in jail. The others, including members of the town board of Taylor Springs, have been freed on bond raised by the IL.D, and united front defense committees. Five of the six workers sentenced to Joliet for leading a demonstra- tion at the Oakwoods Relief Sta- tion in Chicago, are free on bond pending an appeal of their convic- tion. Both cases involve workers whose ‘crime’ consisted in leading unem- ployed workers in struggle for bet- jer relief. 17th Year of the Soviet Union NEW YORK.—An invitation has been extended by the Friends of the Soviet Union, 80 E. 11th St., to the Socialist Party urging the election of Socialist delegates to the F.S.U.| November 7th workers’ delegation | that will tour the Soviet Union and} witness the 17th Anniversary cele-| bration of the founding of the So- viet Republic. The letter of invitation follows: “To the National Executive Com- mittee of the Socialist Party, So- cialist Party State organizations, Socialist Party locals and all So-| cialist Party members: Cites War Danger “The National Executive ‘Com- | mittee of the Friends of the Soviet | Union invites the Socialist Party to) send delegates to the Soviet Union as part of its November 7th cele-| bration delegation, “The long dreaded hour of a new) world war is drawing closer. Alarm: ing news from the Far East indi-} cates the rapid culmination of a situation fraught with danger to world peace. That Japan, through its press and provocations on the border and -Chinese Eastern Rail- way is preparing to strike against the Soviet Union, is quite obvious. Japanese reactionaries, fascists and jingoists are urging the military dictatorship of Japan to proceed “irom words to deeds.” The Soviet Union, however, despite all provo- cation, sticks to its tried and proved policy of peaceful Socialist con- struction, Organizations Choose Delegates “A better understanding for the masses of American workers and farmers, of the Soviet Union and the advances being made through Socialist construction would be a tremendous force in favor of world peace and the holding back of the war-mad fascists of Europe and Japan. The Friends of the Soviet Union, in an effort to create such an understanding of the U.S. S. R., sends delegations of American workers and farmers to that coun- try twice a year, for the May 1 and November 7 celebrations. The dele- gates are not picked by us, but elected directly by their fellow workers in factories, mines, etc., or by organizations to which they be- Jong. “Such delegations are received by the Soviet Trade Unions and tour the Soviet Union for approximately one month, in this way being able to see for themselves the progress being made in the various phases of Socialist construction, The dele- gates visit the factories, collective farms, electric power projects, schools, rest homes, creches, thea- tres—actually making a real com- prehensive survey of the progress of Socialist construction. Upon the delegates’ return to the United States we arrange various meetings at which such delegates report. Fight for World Peace “We are planning to send an especially strong delegation for the November 7 celebration, which will leave during the third week in October, because of the extreme urgency of the international situa- tion. The National Executive Com- mittee of the Friends of the Soviet Union is eager to include in its delegation several Socialist Party members, as it recognizes the role the Socialist Party members can play in maintaining world peace and staying an attack upon the Soviet Union. “The Socialist Party has on a number of occasions declared its willingness to fight against imperi- alist intervention against the Soviet. Union. The members of the So- cialist Party generally, have proven their willingness, by participating in various actions against such in- tervention. We therefore expect that we may count upon you at this historic moment.” Urges Socialists To Hail S.U. Calls for S.P. Delegates To Tour U.S.S.R. in November hvee Wie Wenders Paine. | For ‘Daily’ in Two Months As a result of the two-month in- tensified circulation campaign ducted by the Daily Worker readers were added to the “Daily’s” lists. Most of the readers were gained in New York, which finished with a mark of 2,931. But Houston came out the winner in the percentage of quota filled. It reached 237.3 per cent of its quota. Others whose percentages came out high were North Carolina, St. Louis and Bos- ton. New York, however, only got 20.3 per cent of its quota. What the drive showed is that in some districts where the Daily Today's Saturday DISTRICT Cireulation i—Boston 2—New York City \—Philadelphia 4—Buffalo 5—Pittsburgh 6—Cleveland 7—Detroit &—Chicago 9—Minneapolis 10—Omaha i1—North Dakota 12—Seattle 13—California 14—Newark 15—Connecticut 16—North Carolina 1i—Bitmingham 18—Milwaukee 19—Denver 20—Houston 21—St. Louis 22—West Virginia 28—Kentucky 24—Louisiana 25—Florida 26 South Dakota Canada and Forelgn TOTAL | Worker is pushed energetically new readers can be had easily. In those districts, of course, where it is not pushed, it suffered losses:. The districts are now faced, there- fore, with the task of tying up the present drive for $60,000 with con- tinued activity in behalf of circu- lation. A tremendous rise in circu- lation should go hand in hand with the financial drive. The Daily Worker appeals to every reader to help in carrying out the decision of the 8th convention of the Party which set a minimum of 75,000 readers before the end of the year. On to 75,000 readers and $60,000! Sn ee aE Today's Increase or Increase Percent Mon.-Fri, Dee. over since start of Circulation Aug. 27 of Drive Drive 436 R28 418 2081 119 22 88 —120 Mass Meetings Will Protest Jailing of Four HANCOCK, Mich., Sept. 12—A series of mass meetings are being arranged throughout the copper country in defense of four relief workers who haye ben sentenced here following a county-wide relief strike. The four workers, whose cases will be appealed in the Cir- cuit Court at Houghton during the last week of September, were jailed when police attacked a picket line at the Laurium airport. Of the eight workers arrested at that time, four cases were dropped at the trial, and of the others, Rich- ard Hirvonen, Communist strike leader, was given a four-month jail sentence and the three others were given 30 days each. In the copper country, the follow- ing schedule of meetings has been ararnged: Sunday, Sept. 16, at 1 p.m., at Laurium Airport, Calumet; Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 7 p.m., at Hub- bell, Mich.; Friday, Sept. 21, at 7 p.m., at Trimountain; Monday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m., at Franklin and Ravine Streets, Hancock. The mass meetings will also be made the preparatory steps in or- ganizing a county-wide unemploy- ment conference to be held Tues- day, Oct. 16, at 8 pm., at Lincoln Hall, Hancock. COUNCIL PICNIC SUNDAY EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, Sept. 12—The Unemployment Councils of Columbiana County will hold a pic- nic Sunday, Sept. 16, at George’s Grove, seven miles from East Liver- pool on Route 30. The proceeds will be used to finance the Coun- cils and the Communist election campaign here. A.F.L. Council Hits Unity of Furniture Men KENOSHA, Wis., Sept. 12.—The full force of the top bureaucracy of the American Federation of Labor in Washington went into action upon hearing that the general executive board of the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union had dele- gated Joe Kiss, national secretary of the union, to address the Sim- mons Federal Local 18456 of Ken- osha, Wis., on the subject of unity in the ranks of the furniture work- ers, Local 18456 has a membership of over 2,200 George Troeger, president of the local, read off at the membership meeting held*in the German-Ameri- can Home on Sept. 7 telegrams re- ceived from the executive council of the A. F. of L. in Washington, charging that Kiss represents an outlaw union. Another telegram was received from George Fay, gen- eral secretary of the Upholsterers’ International, stating that the N. F. W. I. U. is a strikebreaking and scab organization, outlawed and not rec- ognized by the Federal government, urging that the Federal local not only deny Kiss the floor, but kick him out of Kenosha as a radical and a Communist. Sie At the membership meeting when the question came up for voting there was an almost unanimous ac- clamation vote of “aye” to hear Kiss speak. However, after long maneuvering and open threats from the president that if Kiss speaks it will mean breaking the rules and instructions of the higher body and by taking several open votes, the final vote was 167 to hear the N. F. W. I. U. representative and 243 against it. N.Y. Jobless Set for Rally At City Hall Unemployment Councils Demand Appropriation for Winter Relief NEW YORK All workers’ groups, employed and unemployed, organized and unorganized, have been urged to mobilize for a mass demonstration at City Hall to- morrow at 12 noon, when the Board of Aldermen will meet to vote on the LaGuardia relief tax program. Demanding immediate appropria- tions for financing adequate Winter relief, the Unemployment Councils will present a tax program to Mayor LaGuardia. The Council tax pro- gram calls for an end to the debt service payments to the bankers, taxes on big business and public utilities, and a tax graduated up- wards on large incomes and in- heritances, in addition to taxation of large realty holdings and present tax-exempt ‘operties. The Cou S$ point out that the present proposed schemes of La- Guardia call for taxes on the em- ployed workers and future drastic s in city relief. Absolutely no provision is made in the LaGuardia schemes to take care of the addi- tional unemployed who will be thrown on the relief lists this com- ing Winter, and the amounts to be provided for relief are actually less than the present amounts expended. The Chelsea and West Fifty-Third Street locals of the Council will mobilize today at 418 W. 53rd St. at 12 noon and march to the 18th precinct Home Relief Bureau at 519 W. 54th St. The New York County Council yesterday urged all locals of the Council which are themselves not demonstrating today to support a ____ | these locals. They demand the im- 902 9 | mediate removal of the Supervisor, Miss Burt, who in the past, they point out, has discriminated against Negro and Jewish workers and all forms of unemployed organizations. Locals 2 and 3 of the Workers Committee on Unemployment will mass af Rutgers Sq. today at 10 a.m, and march to the relief bureau at Sheriff and Broome Sts, Chicago Lawyers Move To Combat Communists, Stifle Militant Action (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Sept. 12—A drive against militant workers, aimed against the Communist Party and calling for the concentration of “at- tention on mines and other in- dustries which employ foreign labor largely,” was called for at a mecting of the Americanization section of the Illinois Bar Association Friday. While the meeting discussed methods of facilitating naturaliza- tion of foreign born, ana similar ac- tivities, the real keynote of ithe meeting was made of General John V. Clinnin, chairman of the sec- tion, “The prime purpose of this move- ment,” he stated, “is to combat Communism in every form and to safeguard and promote the Consti- tution to the end that those who seek to change it or avoid the pre- sent set-up in government be sup- pressed.” The mobilization of the lawyers of the State of Illinois behind the policy of reaction is part of the general policy the bosses of Illinois have been carrying on for months, organizing group after group in pre- paration for the most vicious at- tacks against the working class. DETROIT EMPLOYMENT DROPS DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 12—Em- ployment in Detroit dropped almost 11 per cent in the last two weeks of August, according to the Detroit Chamber of Commerce, What the Communists Want in the Textile Strike First Aim Is To Win Immediate Demands of the Workers By Alex Bittelman The Daily Worker has already had occasion to ‘state the aims of the Communists in the textile strike. Here we wish to elaborate further on this important question. It has already been demonstrated to all who wish to see that the Com- munist Party seeks first of all to help and lead the workers to vic- tory in the textile strike. The first aim of the Communists, therefore, is to help the workers: win their immediate demands in this strike. The brazen slander of the reform- ist leaders of the A. F. of L. (Green, Gorman & Co.) and also the sland- ers by Norman Thomas, leader of the Socialist Party, that the Com- munist Party is not interested in the workers winning their economic demands—have been exploded once again, Stress All Demands The Communists differ from Gor- man & Co. not only on the ques- tion of revolution, but also, and be- cause of it, on the question of win- ning the immediate demands of the workers in the strike. Gorman & Co. have become frightened of the ers secure victory. The Commu- nists, as was brilliantly demon- strated in the Pacific Coast strike and in the San Francisco general strike, can neither be bought nor browbeaten. The reformist lead- ers of the A. F. of L. can be both bought and terrorized. But the Communists also differ from the A. F. L. leaders and the Socialist Party in that they, the Communists, seek to raise every struggle of the workers to higher political levels. What does this mean? It means first that the Communists seek to make the tex- tile workers on strike conscious of the fact that in their present strike they are fighting not only the tex- tile employers, but also the govern- ment and its N. R. A. The workers, of course, cannot fail to see that the machinery of the government in all the textile centers, in the South, in New England, Pennsyl- vania, etc., is used to suppress the Strike brutally by murder and the shedding of the blood of striking workers. But not many of the striking wozkers as yet realize that this is no accident to be explained only by the corruption and blood- thirstiness of the local government Officials, such as mayors, police chiefs, etc., but that they are fac- ing the workings of a class govern- ment of the capitalists, Not many strike. They seek to liquidate it as quickly as possible, using the N. R. A. trick of arbitration, and naturally, at the expense of the im- mediate demands of the workers. The Communists greet the militancy and determination of the workers. The Communists say: the more of this determination, the better, be- cause only in this way can the strik- workers as yet realize that the responsibility for the bloodshed and murderous attacks upon the strik- ing pickets rests not only with the Jocal government authorities, but with the federal government as well. Dispel Tlusions About U. S. The Communist Party and the Communist textile workers seek to make their fellow-strikers conscious of this fact. Why? Because as long as the masses of textile work- + ers have illusions that the federal government is their friend, that Roosevelt and the N. R. A. are not as bad as the textile employers and ithe local goveznment officials, the i strike is in danger of being broken precisely by the federal government i through its N. R. A. arbitration, as- i sisted in this by Gorman, Green, : ete, i In other words, the policy of the : Communists is to raise the strike to higher political levels, ie. to make the workers conscious of the facts that in this strike the front of their enemies includes also the federal government — the govern- ment of the United States — and also to guard against betrayal, , against being stabbed in the back and sold out by the reformist lead- ers of the A. F. of L. This is one of the purposes of what the Com- . munists call politicalizing the strike, making the workers direct their struggle also against the govern- ment. It is one of the chief means of enabling the workers to guard against the maneuvers that are coming from the federal govern- ment. Points Revolutionary Way Out This is not the only purpose the Communists have in politicalizing the strike, in raising it to higher levels. The Communists also seek that the workers should learn in this strike, as in all strikes, that the way out of their misery and suffer- ing is the working class revolution, the overthrow of the capitalist gov- ernment and the establishment of a working class government, a Sovies government in the United States. It is this that the social- | Politicalization Means Speeding of Struggle for Soviet Power fascists seize upon to make the workers believe that the Commu- nists are interested only in revolu- tion, but not in fighting for the immediate interests of the workers. We have shown already that this is nonsense, sheer slander to cover up their own betrayals. The Communists ‘frankly tell the workers that as long as the capital- ist class is in power, and as long as the capitalist system prevails, there can be no end to exploitation, hunger, fascism and war. Only the overthrow of capitalist rule can put an end to the iniquities and brutality of capitalist rule. The Communists frankly tell the work- ing class to organize and prepare for the overthrow of this rule, for a Soviet America, But, and this is important, the Communists also never tire of telling the workers that the road to the working class revolution lies through the daily mobilization of the working class in the struggle for its daily immediate demands. By raising these daily struggles to higher political levels, by making the workers more conscious of their class interests and of their revolu- tionary aims, the Communists pre- pare the working class for the revo- Jutionary struggle for power. The more the textile strikers will be- come conscious of their revolution- ary tasks, the better will they fight for their daily needs and the close: will they come to the decisive hour of struggle for power, et eit, French Group Cites | Thaelmann Torture Delegation Arriv Leader—Nazis NEW YORK.—Moving picture smuggled out of fascist Germany, cessive days—Sept. 19, 20, 21 and Theatre, 28th St. and Broadway. PARIS, Sept. 12—The d as a part of the campaign of the World Committee Again: | at Paris Afier 10-Day Attempt | Millinery To Visit Imprisoned German Workers’ | Ban Intervie s of Ernst Thaeimann, recently | will be shovan here on four sne- |t 22—at the Twenty-Eighth Street | elegation of intellectuals and | workers from the South of France who have been attempting, | Constitution of the International st Union Clique Suspends 19 for Opposition Officials Order Suspensions To Stop Fight fer Elections NEW YORK, N. Y.—A new chape of reactionary clique I been open trade ‘uspension of 19 biockers from all rights in the union on the charge that they have violated the by being at the head of the fight for a constitutional election, in op- War and Fascism and the World Committee for the Freeing | Position to Zaritsky’s bureaucratic 54 of Ernst Thaelmann, to see Thaelmann, have Paris. They spent ten days in Ber- © lin, in the course of which they | found all ears deaf and all door: closed against them. The delegs tion was headed by Madame Crozet, @ professor of mathematics, and by M. Cristofol, Secretary of the In- dependent Guild. rep tains the following statemen “We spent entire day it, in the attempt to obtain pi ission to see Ernst Thaelmann We were shuttled from office to of- fice. We therefore had a ie op- portunity to learn that Herr Goeb- bels has seized on the idea of de- manding that the different envoy and consulates of patent legali diverted from their attempts to see anti-fascist prisoners, and especial- ly Ernst Thaelmann. The refusal came on the grounds that it was not possible to enter into the interior politics of Germany. Goebbels Bars Interview “We finally had a long interview with the Undersecretary of the Min- istry of Propaganda, Herr Bade, who returned to us, in the name of the Minister of Propaganda, the let- ter which we had served on Goeb- bels. He first saw fit to answer— as we could have told him—that we had been sent to Germany by an independent guild and by a highly biased group. He explained that Thaelmann and Torgler were still alive, and that Thaelmann would be returned to} brought before the Supreme Court | in two or three months. “Herr Bade declared—and this certainly bears witness to the work) ational campaign for} i of Ernst Thaelmann — 1at he could be sentenced to “onls eight to ten years in ja In addi- tion, we gave him some ur facts on the opinions held outsid of Germany on this matter. Hi Bade then explained that the trial] of Thaelmann would be a pitfall for| Communism, Silence Answers Questions “We then asked Herr Bade if he| y that the French newspapers had made public the fact that Thaelmann was being mistreated in prison, and that we were now doubly sure of this. We got no answer to this statement. His silence told us that our information was correct. “While we were w ng to see Thaelmann, and also the concen- tration camps and the women’s prisons, this high official revealed to us that neither Goebbels, nor the government, not Hitler, has power to grant us this privilege, which can be granted to us only by the highest court. “Then, on the next day, having become convinced by the Gestapo that we would never be given the opportunity to see Thaelmann, we got ready to go home.” CP Leadership to Be Urged at Irish Congress NEW YORK.—The Irish Work- ers’ Clubs of the U.S. A., in a state- ment supporting the National Irish Republican Congress tobe held in | Dublin Sept. 29 hail the Congress as an “historical event for the pur- pose of building a united front of action against the native O'Duffy fascism and the oppressive rule of British imperialism.” The Congress has been called by group of prominent Republicans who seceded from the last conven- | tion of the Irish Republican Army. | Pointing out the increasing mis- | ery of town and city laborers end | tenant-farmers of Ireland, and the rapid growth of class divisions, which provide the background for the Congress, the statement de- | clares that the Fianna Fail govern- | ment, swept into power in 1932 by | the Irish people in its desire for, national freedom, has done nothing | to touch the basic positions of i British imperialism and native lJandlordism and capitalism in Ire- Jand, At the same time, the Irish Re- publican Army leadership have stifled attempts to smash the fas- | cist movement, and have through their policy of inaction helped the growth of the O'Duffy-Cosgrove fascist faction. Among those invited to the Con- gress, around which all sincere anti-imperialist and anti-fascist elements are gathering, are trade- unionists, followers of Fianna Fail and Labor Parties, tenant farmers, farm laborers, the Irish Republican Army, and the Communist Party of Ireland, | The statement of the Irish Work- ers, Clubs, emphasizing the neces- | sity of adopting a real united front policy and program at the Congress which will successfully combat O'Duffy fascism, continues: “We are in full agreement with the statement of the Workers’ Council of Tralee, County Kerry. No new political party is needed in Ireland. We think that it will be to the best interests of the irish struggle if the Congress takes up: “(1) Concrete steps for the united struggle against fascism; (2) means to fight for the daily needs of the masses; (3) a Clear statement of the | struggle for the overthrow of for- eign imperialism and native capi- talism. “This struggle can be won only under the leadership of the Com- munist International and the Com- munist Party of Ireland. This can be achieved only by recognizing the leadership of the working class over the anti-imperialist national libera- tion struggle. The Irish workers in the clubs here in America urge upon the Congress, through our elected representative, Frank Ryan, the! adoption of the Communist Party proposals for the successful accom- | plishment of these historic tasks.” Fur Shop Chairmen, Committees Will Meet NEW YORK.—Fur Workers In- dustrial Union shop chairmen and shop committees of trimming asso- ciation shops which have been out on strike will meet today after work at 131 W. 28th St., to clarify im- portant questions for fur workers in those shops. A meeting of all clothing floor workers has also been called for the same day at 6 p.m, at the same ad- dress. \1 15th Year of C.P. Is Hailed By Bittelman’ Commenting on the 15th Anni- versary of the Communist Party, which will be celebrated at the Bronx Coliseum Friday evening, Sept. 21, Alexander Bittelman, char~ ter member and one of the leaders of the Party since its birth, said: “Our Party was born in the period of the first round of war and revo- lution. We celebrate our 15th An- niversary in the period of the sec- ond round of war and revolution. n between these two periods lie 15 years of devoted, courageous, self-sacrificing struggle to establish the Communist Party of the United States among the masses. “Today we appear before the workers of this country as their only dependable leader. The Red leaders of the historic San Fran- cisco General Strike; the Red leaders of the unemployed struggle of which New York has seen so many outstanding examples; the Reds leaders of Negro liberation and of the exploited farmers; the com- rade in arms of the glorious Party of the Soviet Union and of the Communist Party of Germany; the + {of the Mill appointments. When the blockers began their struggle for democracy in the local, for an election, etc., almost the en- tire membership of the local was involved. Zaritsky was made to get out of a meeting of the local he himself called. They would not stand for appointed administration, Possi' ies for a victory of the membe: Pp, under t leadership ery United Front Com- mittee, were good, spite of the efforts of the few Lovestonites and Trotskyites to knife the s the back. Unaware of the fact that Golden, who led the fight to a defeat, was no more representing their interests than Zaritsky does, since he has only personal and clique interests at heart, they accepted his proposal to give up the fight and turn the matter over to the courts for ¢le- cision. The result was logionlly fatal to the blockers. This, although costly experienee, opened the eyes of the blockers te the role played by Golden, the Lovestonites, the Trotskyites as well as those of Zaritsky, who brought these miserable conditions upon the blockers by working hand-in-glove with the bosses. The rank and file of the blockers are emerging from this defeat, strengthened by thig experience, more fit than ever be- fore to pursue the policy of mass action and to defeat the terror of the Zaritsky regime, in unity with the rest of the workers in the trade, Building Workers’ Rally Will Be Held Tonight NEW YORK.—A mass meeting of superintendents, janitors, fire- men, porters and elevator operators will be held tonight at 8:30 at 1472 Boston Road, near Stebbins Avenue, The meeting. called by the In-« dependent Building Service Hm- ployes Union, Local 3, Bronx, will discuss the N.R.A., licensing of sup- erintendents and elevator operators and the low wages-and- long hours in the trades involved. All workers in these trades have been invited to attend. MICH. JOBLESS WIN RELIE}, GREENVILLE, Mich., Sept. 12— One hundred unemployed workers and their wives staged a demon= stration here Friday and demanded that Welfare Director Emulous Smith issue orders for clothing for their children by 1.30 p.m. Smith, seeing that the crowd meant buii-e ness, promptly issued the orders. fighting and growing section of the World Party of Communism.” Outstanding leaders of the Come munist Party will speak at the celtic bration, and an elaborate prograin is being arranged. Working clais organizations have been invited to come in a body to help celebrate this milestone in the Communist Party's growth. MASS CONFERENCE for the DAILY WORKER @ MORNING FREIHEIT YOUNG WORKER BAZ TONIGHT (Thurs.), AAR 7:30 P.M., Sept. 13 at the WORKERS CENTER 50 East 13th Street — Second Floor @ Aijl mass organizations are urged to take this matter up at their next meeting and elect two delegates. @ If there will be no meeting o: f the branch, the executive com- mittee should appoint two delegates. All mass organizations, Iabor unions and Party units must be represented to this conference and help make this affair a success. —Philadelphia — . Leading Membe rs of the Daily Worker Staff JACOB BURCK, HARRY Cartoonist, and GANNES Associate Editor of the Daily Worker Will Meet the Philadelphia Daily Worker Shock Brigaders at Robert Min Celebrating the Fiftieth Birthday of Robert Minor, Veteran of Working Ciass Struggles, Saturday, Sept. 15th at 8 P. M. ADMISSION FREE TO THOSE WHO WILL P! Member of the Central Committee of the a or Banquet Communist Party Broad St. Mansion |} Broad and Girard Ave. AT THE ‘RESENT DOOR A SOLD COUPON BOOK FOR THE DAILY WORKER