The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1934 orker Daily QW TR OPE OMTEEETT OREN BA ENTRY A SORA TENS “America’s Only Working Class Baily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1994 PUBLISHED DAELY, EKCBPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING C6., INC., 36 E. 19th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-195 4. Cable Address: “Daiwork,” Mew York, MY. Washington Bureau: Room #4, National Press Pladioe gion ennon: . ee Ee ee ‘Falapbone: Dearborn 3931. > Mail: (except Manhattan and Bron), 1 year, 4.00 6 months, $3.50; 3 months, 92.00; 1 month, 0.75 odiite. Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Oansde: 1 year, 99.00 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.60. BY Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 78 cents, nnn WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1994 SOOO SSE Perkins Begins ORE than 400 business executives listened the other day with pleasure to Fanny Perkins, Roosevelt’s Secretary of Labor, expound her views on unemploy- ment insurance. The subject of unemployment insur- ance is becoming increasingly a forced popular is- sue with the agents of the Roosevelt government. Roosevelt's special board of experts is preparing voluminous reports to he issued before December on a score of “social insurance” proposals, all neatly timed for the Congressional elections. There is no question but that it is the Roose- velt strategy now to conceal the past year's ravages of the N.R.A.-New Deal with a new barrage on the question of unemployment insurance. But it will be with a special Roosevelt brand of fraudulent unemployment “Insurance” that the Roosevelt gov- ernment will try to delude the masses this year. Perkins’ speech gives us 2 pretty good idea of just how Roosevelt will work his unemployment in- surance fraud. Our present system of relief is nothing but a “dole,” Miss Perkins stated belliger- enily. Therefore, it must go and he replaced by a “system of compulsory job insurance,” Perkins said. Sounds radical, doesn’t it? Actually its mean- ing is quite reactionary, and wholly in the interests of the employers. ND what is this “compulsory Insurance” which Perkins advocates with such “radical” ardor? It is a trick to side-step the Communist Party de- mand for unemployment insurance to be paid for by the employers and the government! Perkins’ compulsory insurance is similar to the state plans now in existence—a plan which com- pletely ignores the present jobless, and touches only those who will lose their jobs in the future! And even more important, this Perkins plan pro- vides that the workers themselves shall pay for their own insurance! It provides to pay for this insurance out of the wages of the workers—not from the profits of the employers or the taxes collected by the government. The Communist Party in the coming Congres- sional elections proposes the only jobless insurance plan that offers any real advantages to the work- ing class. The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598, proposes cash relief at government and employer expense. A vote for the Communist Party is a vote for a real fight for unemployment insurance to be paid for at the expense of the employers and their gov- ernment—not at the expense of the workers whose living standards have already been degraded by the Roosevelt New Deal. The effort to elect Communist Party candidates is part of the whole mass strug- gle te win real adequate relief and real unemploy- ment insurance. The greater the Communist vote, the more impelling the fight for real unemployment imsurance will be. Socialist Workers, Speak! JF THERE ever was a time when the So- cialist Party leaders should speak up it is now. Why are they remaining so silent on the dastardly betrayal of the textile workers by Gorman, Green & Co.? Outstanding individuals in the Social- ist Party are implicated. Didn't Emil Rieve, a Teading socialist, approve of Gorman’s treachery in the strike? Other socialist leaders worked hand in glove with Gorman all through the strike. But right now, when tens of thousands of work- ers are being blacklisted, when Southern textile Workers are being forced at the bayonets’ point to sign yellow Gog contracts, when the bosses are tryi to ride rough-shod over the textile work- ers, why shouldn't the socialist leaders express themselves, give the workers their stand on the shameless, vicious sell-out of the strike? During the textile strike the socialist “New Leader” had a united front with William Green, Gorman and MacMahon. Socialist members wrote to O'Neil, the editor, protesting. Now the fruits of this united front are being reaped in the most vicious onslaught against the heroic textile strikers. « . . URING the strike Norman Thomas was Voluble ™ enough. He spoke at strike meetings. He made statements for the press. Norman Thomas claims to be a leader of the “militants” in the Socialist Party. The only militants can be those who now enter determinedly into the textile strike, who ferm a united front against the workers’ enemies. ‘Those who betrayed the textile strikers, flinging them into mills to face the worst discrimination ever handed cut to any workers in this country, certainly cannot be classed either as “militants” or “socialists,” Do the Socialist Party members in the textile industry, facing the blacklist, approve of this silence of their leaders who were accomplices in the be- trayal? Here are the most brutal, fascist attacks levied against workers’ organizations, against the rights of union members, all assisted by the foul treach- ery of Gorman’s crew. If the Socialist Party leaders are sincere in wanting to fight fascism, in struggling to win im- proved conditions of the workers, they must speak up on the question of the united front of socialists and Communists in the A. F. of L. unions against just such miserable sell-outs, to make them im- possible in the future. . . . OCIALISTS! There must be no tolerance of the betrayers in the A. F. of L. The united front in the trade unions against just such policies must be established now. Ask your leaders to express themselves on this question. What are they going to do? - Sccialists and Communists have the immediate task of uniting their forces within the trade unions pgcinst the rotten, corrupt, shameless betrayers— Gormans, the Greens, the Wolls. the Lewises. "= Socialists! Get your leaders to speak up! ay! * Lace ) a On Preparation for the Strike Oct. 8 ONGSHOREMEN and seamen in every dock along the Atlantic coast are talk- ing strike. Mass meetings indoor and out- door are being held daily on the water- front of the eastern coasttine. Gauging the sentiment of the men on the ships and docks by their response to the calls for a strike, set for Ovt. 8, issued by the International Seamen’s Union and the Marine Workers Industrial Union, in- evitably leads us to the conclusion that a marine strike of unprecedented proportions is on the order of the day. Proper preparation for the strike, in advance, is the first and most important step the seamen and longshoremen are confronted with. No stone should be left unturned in an effort to prevent the top officials of the International Longshoremen’s Association and the L.8.U. from going through with their plans to engineer a repetition of the West Coast treacheries on the Atlantic coastiine. To best guarantee the success of the sirike, joint strike preparation committees of seamen and longshoremen, regardless of what union they belong to, together with the unorganized men, should be set up without delay. United action of all seamen and longshoremen under the leadership of rank and file united action committees is the first prerequisite for the success of the strike. Longshoremen and seamen, further delay may mean defeat of your struggle for the improvement of your conditions, for larger crews and gangs, for better wages and for the victory of your strike. Set up united front strike preparation committees, dock committees and ship committees at once. Take the leadership of the strike out of the hands of those who have, by their action in the past, shown that they do not have your interests at heart. Conduct your struggle and negotiations yourself through joint rank and file committees. Lead the strike yourself and its success will be as- sured. . . . HE preparation of the marine strike on the At- lantic coast presents special problems to every Communist Party member and sympathizer con- nected in any way with the marine industry or in- volved in marine concentration work and to the Party as a whole. ‘The Party organizations along the entire eastern and gulf coastline, districts, sections and units, as well as all other organizations they can mobilize, should be welded into action to get behind the seamen and longshoremen in preparation for the strike, Not a single Party force is to remain with- out a task. The Daily Worker is taking every step possible to cover the waterfront, It is the task of the Party membership to get the Daily Worker to the sea- men and longshoremen. To increase the circula- tion of the Daily Worker among the marine workers, means increase the influence of the Party among them. The role of the Daily Worker in the marine strike and in the preparation of it will exceed its influence in the textile strike when the member- ship of the Party will take this task seriously. From now on the Daily Worker will print daily reports on the development of the marine strike movement. It is of utmost importance to each Party unit, section and district, as well as to the Daily Worker, that the “Daily” be spread in in- creased numbers among the marine workers. Each unit, section and district of the Party on the At- lantic waterfront should send in their orders imme- diately. The attempts that will be made, in an effort to defeat the strike, by the officials of the LS.U. and IL.A., to divide the men by raising the “red scare,” can be best defeated by meeting the issue from the very start. Bringing the Daily Worker to the marine workers is a step in this direction. The success of the strike preparations and the strike itself rest largely on the shoulders of every Party member. All the waterfront sections and units of the Party should throw themselves into the work without a minute's delay. O’Ryan Resigns MUHE resignation of Police Commissioner O’Ryan does not mean that the work- ing-class of New York gets any guarantees against violations of the right to organize, picket, and demonstrate in the streets. It merely means that La Guardia has decided that the crude, dictatorial methods of his militaristic police chief will not do in the present period. A militarist like O’Ryan works crudely. If he wishes to break a strike, he at once tries to club the workers into submission. La Guardia is shrewder. He even will appear at the strike scene to give the workers the illusion of “democracy” and “liberalism.” But he will then work to divide the ranks of the workers with all kinds of promises. He will work to break up the Picket lines by using the method of Roosevelt—he will promise to “investigate.” And then he will use clubs on those militant workers who stand in the way of his trickery. All the while that he is trying to break the strike or disperse the picket lines, he will spread the illusions of “democracy.” As in the case of the attack on the Austrian consulate demonstration, he will mask his police brutality with the technique of “defending de- mocracy.” The trouble with O’Kyan was that he did not know how to utilize this “democratic” machinery to cloak his brutality and reaction. He was too open. That is the meaning of the split between O’Ryan and La Guerdia. HE exchange of letters between La Guardia and O’Ryan confirm one significant fact—that it was none other than officials of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers who initiated the fascist-like measure of police licenses for trade union represen- tatives. Thus it was shown that these reformist A. F. of L, bureaucrats, with close ties to the Socialist Party, were willing to suggest police supervision of trade unions in order to. fight the Communists— willing in short to pave the way for further re- actionary attacks against the labor movement in the name of “defending the trade unions from Communism.” The right to picket, strike, and demonstrate in the streets of New York remains, just as before, a question that can be decided only by the organ- ized insistence of me workers themselves. better conditions through mass picketing and strikes, must be defended by the workers against the efforts of the LaGuardia regime to weaken them by a combination of “democratic” trickery and police brutality. The Communist Party, which will continue to Jead the fight for the right of the workers to picket and strike, for the right to protest and dem- onstrate in mass actions, urges the workers not to be fooled by the trickery of a La Guardia or a Roosevelt. Stand by your own class Party, the Communist Party. These | elementary civil rights, the right to struggle for } iC. P. in Japan| |Is Successful) Despite Terror Most Strikes Credited to Japanese Party; Peasants Revolting PARIS, Sept. 25.—L,Humanite, organ of the Communist Party of | France, recently published news of | intense Communist activity in| Japan which has filtered through | the rigid military censorship of | that country. In describing the methods being used in the effort to exterminate the Communist Party of Japan, one of these reports states: “Considering the . impracability and the rage which characterize the terror tactics used here against communism, it might perhaps be thought that communism is being rooted out. But before us we have | the profoundly moving spectacle of the constant successes of those who are ready to take every risk for the victory of Communism. In certain circles, Communists are feared as death is feared.” The heroic battles and successes of the Communist Party of Japan are apparent even in government Statements, which admit there have been 821 strikes in Japan during the first half of 1934. A good many of these have been in factories and industries which have been manu- facturing armaments and war-ma- terial. In the country, open revolts of the peasants have become more and more common. ‘Evidence’ Is Manufactured By Japanese (Special te the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Sept. 26 (By Wireless). —According to information received from Harbin, Japanese authorities | in Manchuria, when examining ar- | rested Soviet citizens, manufactured their testimony, in oder to support, with such forgeries, their silly ver- sion of a plot engineered by Soviet. workers of the Chinese Eastern | Railway. For example, Romaniuk, a sta- tion-agent who was arrested on Sept. 10, while performing _ his duties, was requested to sign a con-/| fession written in Japanese. Ro- maniuk objected, stating that he did not understand the Japanese lan- guage, and did not believe that the Statements which he was being asked to sign were genuine, since most of his testimony had not been | translated to him, In reply to his protests, officials of the frontier police compelled Ro- maniuk by force to sign the con- fession prepared for him. Similar “methods of examination” j were used on Stoker Pilenko, who} was arrested on Sept. 7 at a station in Manchuria and compelled to sign a document written in the Japanese language, which he did not understand. Hitler Warns Workers ‘At Congress of Nazis;| 52,000 Made to March} (Special _to the Daily Worker) NUREMBERG, Sept. 25.—During the recent congress of the National- Socialist Party here, which cost German taxpayers 72,000,000 marks, 52,000 unemployed, drafted into Hit- ler’s “volunteer labor” brigades, pa- raded in front of the Fuehrer, af- ter listening to a speech which loftily praised the glory of Nazi achievements, and told all who did not agree with Hitler that they had better look out. “Attention! Right step—” came the orders, and 52,000 German work- ers, whose enslavement has con- tributed to Hitler’s ability to say that he has reduced unemployment, shouldered—not arms, but shovels, and marched past the person who calls himself their leader. When the “chain-gang” had dis- appeared, Hitler said something about the new dignity of work in Germany, and Goebbels said that “Nazi propaganda is still insuffi- cient” and that “at certain times in history, statesmen must have the courage to be unpopular.” Campaign Committee to Give C. P. Program to Enrolled Socialists NEW YORK—The Communist Party Campaign Committee, in re- sponse to repeated suggestions from sympathizers, is planning to circu- larize the 26,000 enrolled Socialist weters in New York with copies of the Communist Congressional elec- tion platform and the Communist proposals for united front actions. Election campaign workers in Sec- tion Three, Manhattan, west side to 59th St., report that 30 enrolled So- sialist voters in one election district Promised to yote Communist and to aid in the Communist campaign after the issues of the campaign and the Party program had been dicussed with them. The campaign committee esti- mates that about $1,000 is necessary for this preliminary effort to win enrolled Socialist voters to the Com- munist position in the campaign, j Seattle Paper to Print C.P, Campaign Edition {_ SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 25.—The Voice of Action, official newspaper of the unemployed movement here, thas decided to publish a special 150,000 copy issue in support of the ;Communist Party’s election cam- ‘paign. The edition will appear on i Nov. 2. Special election material will pre- fee in the issue. All local or- {ganizations and workers are being {asked to help raise funds and to| act as volunteer advertising solici- tors to defray the expenses of the | enterprise. Unions, unemployed Jo- cals and other groups are being “BE PATIENT!” The Most Burning Question --- Unity of Action BELA KUN Member of the Presidium ef the Communist International By (Fourteenth Installment) 2. OTTO BAUER AGAINST UNITY OF ACTION TTO BAUER, once the leader of the great major- ity of the Austrian working class, puts the ques- tion as follows: Not unity of action, but organi- zational unity of the labor movement, This means he is aiming at the reunification, after its collapse, of the Social-Democratic Party of Austria, Up to the February days of this year Otto Bauer pre- vented unity of action by answering every offer of the Communist Party of Austria with the words that the unity of the Austrian labor movement was embodied in the Social-Democratic Party of Aus- tria. Times have changed and the relation of forces between the Communist Party and Social- Democracy has changed too—even Otto Bauer must admit that. But he still continues along the old line; under the pretext of uniting the revolutionary forces he wants the reunification of the bankrupt Social-Democratic Party, that is to say, prolong- ing the split under the new conditions of fascist dictatorship in Austria. In an article published in the Arbeiterzeitung, now appearing in Brunn, he writes: “The great majority of the Austrian workers all think alike. Ninety per cent of the workers want irreconcilable revolutionary struggie against fascist dictatorship. Ninety per cent of the workers are convinced that the goal of this revolutionary strug- gle must be a dictatorship of the proletariat, which shall settle accounts with the murderers of the workers, demolish their apparatus of rule, distribute the estates of the aristocrats, the capitalists and the church among the agricultural laborers, the small tenants and peasants’ sons, socialize the big undertakings and enterprises now in possession of big capital, and not until then, when it has ful- filled these historical tasks, set up a commonwealth of freedom and equality for all. Ninety per cent of the workers are agreed in the recognition of the goal and of the way that leads to it. We have unity of thought. This demands also unity of or- ganization. It makes possible the unity of the party.” We agree with those Social-Democratic work- ers who honestly think that the working class in the various countries is ever more sharply con- fronted, not only with the question of unity of action but also with the problem of the organiza- tional unity of labor movement. If one really wants to prevent fascism, to destroy its source— capitalism, if one wants to overthrow the rule of the bourgeoisie, this requires not only a “partial and occasional” unity of action but the organiza- tion of all revolutionary workers in one party and the rallying together of the majority of the pro- letariat, nay, of the majority of the whole toil- ing people, under the banners of this revolution- ary workers’ party. FOR OVERTHROW OF CAPITALISM We Communists hold that the overthrow of capitalism is on the order of the day. In dif- ferent countries the struggle for the overthrow of capitalism is being conducted on a different level of development, but the objective conditions for this struggle are everywhere maturing. Women Force Opening of Schools in Burbank by Energetic Protests’ tesignes. BURBANK, Cal., Sept. 24—Mass| cil storm the meeting of the board of education. It was at this meeting that two members of the board The straw vote which the Coun- was instrumental When we untiringly called upon the workers, no matter to what Party or organization they might belong, when we called upon the Social- Democratic Parties and reformist trade unions to engage in joint actions with us, we always declared: Form the united front together with us against capital, against its attacks on the toilers, against fascism and the imperialist war which is threat- ening. Do this no matter what may divide you from us in questions of principle and tactics. We steadfastly adhere to the view that the founding of the Communist Parties and of the Communist International was the first step to uniting the working class on the basis of the class struggle after this basis had been deserted by the Social- Demccratic Parties. But we know that the Party is not the whole class; you workers, no matter of what organization, belong to the same class as we, to the class as whose representatives we regard the Communist Parties. The unity of ac- tion of the workers against the emergency of the hour, against fascism which is threatening all of us directly or which has already burst upon us, also leads to overcoming the splitting of the labor movement and to establishing organizational unity in it. If you want organizational unity, then first realize unity of action. GREAT SINGLE MASS PARTY We Communists thus stand for the organiza- tional unity of the labor movement; we stand for a great single mass Party of the proletariat. We think, we hope, that the great majority of the Austrian workers, after the heavy price they have paid for the lessons of the February struggles, really do think alike. We believe that 90 per cent of the Austrian workers already want the irreconcilable revolutionary struggle, also against those who in the hour of the outbreak of the armed struggle sent Christian-Socialist mediators to Dollfuss, the hangmen of the workers, and were willing to recog- nize the fascist dictatorship for a term of two years. We think that 90 per cent e€ the workers in Austria are convinced that the goal pf a revolu- tionary struggle is not “a” dictatorshty of the proletariat, as Otto Bauer writes, but the dictator- ship of the proletariat which the Communist Party of Austria, on the basis of the program of the Communist International, has set the Austrian proletarians as the goal of their struggle. This program, the program of the dictatorship of the proletariat and of the armed struggle for this dic- tatorship has already—as Otto Bauer must himself acknowledge—organizationally united thousands of former Social-Democratic workers, including lead- ing functionaries, in the most difficult conditions of illegality for revolutionary struggle in the Com- munist Party of Austria. What, then, stands in the way of uniting the labor movement in Austria? The endeavors of those who are compelled, made wise by the palpable experiences of history, to ac- knowledge the dictatorship of the proletariat, but who want to prevent a uniting of the Austrian workers on the basis of the program of struggle for the dictatorship of the proletariat which has already been recognized by the Austrian working class, and who even hinder unity of action for more immediate aims. (To Be Concluded) Bedacht to Give Chief Report at Nominating Meeting of State C. P. NEW YORK—Max Bedacht, can- in having asked to send paid greetings, action by working-class parents under the leadership of the Bur- bank Women’s Council has com- pelled the opening of all the public schools here, which, it was threat- ened, would remain closed all year because of “a lack of funds.” The mass pressure of parents which forced the reopening of the schools also compelled the resig- nation of two members of the board of education. Two candi- dates for these vacant places have been selected by the Women’s Council to run in the special elec- tion, which will take place Oct. 12. In order to get the last of the schools opened last week, It was necessary for a mass delegation to taken showed that 5030 to 215 of the voters favored the complete opening of the schools. The board’s plan had been to open only half of them, using tents to provide for the children of the closed schools. The excuse was that the Burbank schools do not come up to all the newest earthquake specifications for buildings, but none of them were damaged by the earthquake of March 10, 1933, and they have been used continually since that time. The board's original pretensions that it was not influenced by the straw vote and mass action was completely given the lie when it was compelled to open Washington School, didate for United States Senator on the Communist ticket, will come from Cleveland on Saturday to make the chief political report for the Communist Party at the State nominating convention to be held at the New Star Casino on Satur- day from 12 noon to 6 p.m. This convention, the first of its ‘kind for the Communist Party in New York State, to be held for the designation of state candidates whose names are to appear on the Communist Party ballots in Novem- ber, will be thronged with delegates of many workers’ organizations, The Daily Worker can Better Aid On the World Front i——By HARRY G. With Eyes Wide Open Coneern Qver Police r Those Who Rule Germany _ EB Trotekyite youth vam guard in France, march- ing boldly forward under the banner of the counter-reyo- lution, land several paces ahead of the rear-guard—in the ranks of the Second International, “To some,” explains the American Trotakyite sheet, “it will appear as a departure from our traditional position. .. .” Not at all! The traditional position of Trotzky has always been to assist the Socialist leaders, the Bauers, the Adlers, the Wels, to deepen the split in the ranks of the working class. The. traditional position of Trotzky has\ been to slander the Communist In- ternational, the Leninist Interna. tional, rendering definite service to the forces of Fascism. r Sela Sela «THE decision ... to join the So- cialist youth of France,” con tinues the Trotzkyite organ, soon to be absorbed into the chauvinist bowels of the Musteite movement, “should not come as a surprise to any of our members or sympa- thizers.” No, they have more of such surprises for you. Prepare for many shocks. In order to emphasize still further that there is no gap at all between the Bauers, the Leiparts, the Wels, and the Trotzkyites, the obliging editor tells us: “As will be noted in the docu- ment, not a principle, not an idea, not a line of the Fourth Interna- tional is renounced, revised or com- promised by the Young Leninists in taking this step. They do it with their eyes open, their banner flying and in the interests of the revolu- tionary youth.” To the tune of “With My Eyes Wide Open I Fell in Love with You,” and with the words from “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (‘Into the Valley of Death Rode the Four Hundred”), the Trotzky- ist youth bravely carry the banner on which only the word “Lenin” is written, and lay it down at the feet of the very Socialist leaders whom Lenin castigated as traitors to the working class to the very day of his death. Hip ee oe course, there is no retreat from from that abortion known as the Fourth International. There should be no surprise whatever. Every idea of the counter-revolu- tionary Trotzkyites is here carried forward to its logical conclusion, to menshevism, to social-fascism, to efforts to help the Socialist leaders side-step the united front in the fight against fascism. It is altogether fitting for the American Trotzkyite sheet when singing the requiem over the demise of its French youth section as an independent entity in the world of counter-revolution that they should prepare the minds of their readers for more such “surprises.” ache Saou REAT concern for the welfare of the police was expressed by the Socialists in the recent Swedish elections, For example, an election manifesto issued by the Social Democratic committee at Malmo declared: “What did the Right do for making the police effective when quite alone in possessing power? Would the police ever have been able to get their quarters in the most modern police building of the North without a social demo- cratic majority in the town coun- cil? The reorganization to come, too, providing the police with suffi- cient technical resources is a con- sequence of social democratic initi- ative... .” Translated into concrete, every- day experience this means that the Socialist leaders were for bigger clubs for the police, better revolvers, machine guns, more up-to-date gas equipment, everything necessary to break strikes and protect the em- ployers against the demands of the workers for higher wages, better conditions and union recognition, eis yan ATEST statistics in Germany on wealth-ownership show who ace tually stand behind the Fascist dice tatorship. According to these fig- ures there are 2,465 millionaires in Germany. Of these, 360 possess 2,500,000 to 5,000,000 marks, while 115 have admitted to the finance office that they own from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 marks. ‘There are 40 who are counted in the class of multi-millionaires, pos- sessing over 10,000,000 marks. It is these 40 men who rule in Germany and whose will is supreme in the councils of the Nazis, Ohio CG. P. Candidates Balk Attempt to Keep Them Off County Ballot HAMILTON, Ohio, Sept. 25—A total of 846 signatures submitted to the Butler County Board of Flec- tions has assured the place of Come munist candidates on the county ballot here. These signatures rep- resent almost twice the required number. An effort made by election offi- cials here to keep the Party off the ballot was frustrated by the ener- getic action of local workers, who demanded a public hearing when the board of elections attempted to rule that 424 of the signatures were invalid. The demands for a hearing resulted in immediate acceptance and. approval of the signatures. The county slate of the Commu- nist Party consists of: Merion Davidson of Hamilton for Sheriff; Robert King of Middletown for Commissioner; Alma Smith of Hamilton for Treasurer; Mary Weaver of Hamilton for Auditor, and Anthony Williams of Hamilton Your Struggles if You Build its Circulation for Representative in the General Assembly, 2 f t i i i 5 t