The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1934 f'age Three MORE A.F.L. UNIONS URGE CONVENTION TO BACK WORKERS’ BILL Kalamazoo Federation Acts for Bill 14 Philadelphia Locals Join Demand for Its Enactment SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2—While the issue of a genuine unemploy- Ment insurance bill is being pressed to the fore at the 54th national con- vention of the A. F. of L., now in session here, new endorsements of the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill are pouring in to convention headquarters, to sup- plement the 2,400 earlier endorse- ments by A. F. of L. locals and cen- ‘tral labor bodies which back up the f demand of the rank and file repre- sentatives that the convention go | on record for its endorsement. The Kalamazoo Federation of Labor, affiliated with the A. F. of L., has endorsed the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill and for- warded a copy of the resolution to Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, urging him to give wide publicity to the demand of the A. F. of L. workers for genuine unemployment insurance. A score of A. F. of L. locals have endorsed the Workers’ Bill in the past week, according to rec- ords of the endorsement received by the A. F. of L. Rank and File Com- mittee for Unemployment Insur- ance. Fourteen of these locals, all in Philadelphia, are: Westinghouse Federal Local 18872, Midvale Steel Federal Union, Joint Board of the Cloak and Shirt Makers’ Union, ‘Terrazzo Helpers’ Local 62, Jour- neymen Barbers’ International Union 2, Shirt Makers’ Local of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Fruit Clerks’ Union 753, Interna- tional Union of Operating Engi- neers’ Local 506-506A, United Tex- tile Workers’ Local 2030, Brass Bobbin Winders’ Local 14659, Dyers and Mercerizers Local 702, Interna- tional Moulders’ Local, Stone Ma- son’s Union, and International Union of Operating Engineers 835. The International Hod Carriers and the Building and Common La- borers’ Union, Local 31, of North Bergen, N. J., and the Locomotive Firemen’s Lodge 13 of Jersey City, and the Bartenders’ Union Local 485, of Spokane, Wash., have also endorsed the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. The Workers’ Bill, which was in- itiated by the Communist Party and is incorporated in the election platform of the Communist Party, has been endorsed by thousands of A. F. of L. local unions, State Fed- era'ions of Labor, Central Labor Unions and six State Federations of labor. Thousands of other working-class groups of veterans, youth, mass and fraternal organiza- tions have also backed the Workers’ Bill. The Workers’ Bill provides for the payment of average local wages to all workers who are unemployed through no fault of their own, whether unemployment is caused by sickness, old age, maternity, strike, lock-out, or any other reason. Only the Communist Party has backed the bill in its election cam- paign in addition to leading its fight for its enactment through the daily struggles of the working class. Jeanette, Pa., Central Union Acts JEANETTE, Pa. Oct, 2—The meeting of the Central Labor Union on Sept. 18 passed all of the reso- lutions sent ou’ by the A. F. of L. Rank. and Fil Committee for Un- employment ‘ surance and Relief. Among the resolutions were those on unemplo ment insurance, on federal loce| unions, for wage in- creases, for solidarity actions, to eliminate vacketeering from the unions, on exempting the unem~- ployed from paying dues, for in- dustrial unionism based on the class struggle, against the use of gunmen, against terror and the injunctions, and for the right of trade unionists to belong to any political party. Deportation of Zamor, Negro Militant, Asked By Haitian President NEW_YORK—The many articles written by Justin Zamor in the Daily Worker and in Le Cri des Negres, organ of the French Negro workers, has called forth the vengeance of President Vincent of | Haiti. Not only has the U. S. Labor Department been called upon to de- port Zamor, although he entered the U. S. legally, but, with his usual streak of brutality, President Vin- cent arrested Zamor’s sister, Leo- | nina Zamor, in Haiti. She has been in prison since Aug. 25, but because of the strict censor- ship which reigns over the island, the news of her arrest and torture has come to the International Labor Defense only yesterday. Beneath the trumped-up charge of having receivel illegal political material for the Communist Party of Haiti, is the fear of the Haitian administra- tion of the rapidly growing revolu- tionary movement and the excellent functioning of the Haitian Commu- nist leadership. All mass organizations are urged immediately to send protest tele- grams to President S. Vincent at Sert~ea-Prince, Haiti, and to the Haitian Consulate, 116 Broad Street, N. Y. C., demanding the release of Leonina Zamor. Every day of the Roosevelt New Deal shows the growing need of the Daily Worker. But the Daily Worker needs $60,000 to be able to deal more fully with the strug- gles of the working class. Support whe Daily Worker! Send your con- tribution today to the $60,000 drive. L.S.N.R., LL.D. Lead Fight To Safeguard Workers’ Jobs NEW YORK —The _ reformist leaders of the Negro Clerical Alli- ance (Souffe Movement) were ex- posed last week as conducting a gro clerks who refuse to pay ex- tortion money to the Alliance. Although its only clerk is a Ne- gro, a small Jewish store on Lenox Avenue, near 129th Street, was picketed by the Souffeites. While the pickets were led to believe that they were fighting for jobs for Ne- groes, the Souffe leaders secretly approached the management with a demand for the firing of the Negro clerk, who had refused to pay the $2 “membership fee” and $1 “monthly dues,” demanded by the Souffe leaders. Learning of the attempted extor- tion, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense held a protest meet- ing near the store and thoroughly exposed the Souffe racket. The sentiment of the workers at the meeting was so greatly against the Souffe leaders that the latter were forced to withdraw the pickets and later sent a delegation to the I. L. D. offices with an offer to take part in the Conference Against Job Dis- crimination, which was held in pickets, indignant at the deception practiced by their leaders, left the Negro Clerical Alliance and joined the Young Liberators, Youth Sec- tion of the L. S. N. R. | As a result of the victory of the | militant mass struggle around the Empire Cafeteria, Lenox Avenue | and 125th Street, many Harlem en- | terprises have taken on Negroes as clerks and countermen in the past two weeks. It is these new employ- ees that the Souffe leaders were at- tempting to victimize. Natioual Urban League Misleaders Are Revealed As a Jim-Crow Group NEW YORK. — The reactionary nurpose of the National Urban | League in launching its “nation- wide” organization of Workers’ Councils, has been glaringly re- vealed at the recent meetings held for the formation of the New York Workers Council. ‘White workers were present at the meeting, but James H. Hubert, of the National Urban League, in- formed them that the Council was “for Negroes only.” Clara Meltzer, a white worker, and T. Holmes, vice-president of the Executive Board of the Needle Trades Union, protested against this jim-crow policy. But Totten, of the Brother- hood of Sleeping Car Porters, stated he thought jim-crow coun- cils were the best thing for Negro workers, John T. Clark proposed that white workers be excluded from membership. Holmes and Welsh from the Plumbers Union protested, and the Council finally adopted a constitution permitting workers of all races and nationalities to join. T. Arnold Hill and the other Urban League misleaders were so bitterly opposed to this provision for the unity of Negro and white workers that they refused to attend further mdetings of the Council and refused to recognize the de- cision of the workers themselves. 1,500 Hear Hathaway At C. P. Anniversary Meeting in Cleveland CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 2—More than 1,500 persons filled Metro- politan Theatre here last night to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary ef the Communist Party. Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, the main speaker, pointed to the history of the Communist Party as a guarantee to lead the masses in their struggle against the capitalist offensive and towards a Soviet America. Arthur Murphy, Negro Commu- nist leader, a candidate for the State Legislature, and Max Gold- lust, Young Communist League candidate for the State Legislature, called for the workers to support the Communist Party election cam- paign. Revolutionary greetings were sent the Communist Party pledging increased mobilization of toilers in the fight of growing fascist terror, war preparations for the defense of the Soviet Union, and for free- dom for Thaelmann and all anti- fascists. The Communist Party literature exhibit at this meeting was an innovation and stimulated considerable Party literature sales. Furniture Strikers Win Fight To Bar Injunction BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 2.—Local 3 of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union won a victory over the New England Bedding Co. of Medford, Mass., and the Enterprise Moakler Co. of Cambridge, Mass., when Judge Gray of the Superior Court refused to grant the employers an injunction on Friday. The workers of these companies are on strike and the effort to ob- tain the injunction was the latest attempt of the bosses to break the strike. The use of gangsters and the threat of arrest have also failed. vicious campaign to force the dis- | charge from Harlem stores of Ne- | Harlem last Sunday. Two Souffe | \Leaders of Reformist Group Are Exposed in New Attempt To Victimize Harlem Negroes Revolt | at Tighe Maneuvers Breaks Out at Pittsburgh District Conference of A.A. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 2—At a | Pittsburgh district conference of 250 delegates representing thirteen im- | portant lodges of the Amalgamated | Association of Iron, Steel and Tin | Workers (A. F. of L.), much opposi- |tion Was expressed to the endless |negotiations conducted by top A. A. |leaders with Roosevelt's Steel Labor | Relations Board. | A resolution was introduced de- manding that A. A. leaders, headed |by President Mike Tighe, stop mill |by mill negotiations through the | Roosevelt board, and call a nation- | wide meeting of steel employers and the Amalgamated Association, to force action on the issue of wages, working conditions and recognition of the union, Roy Hallas, blacklisted president of the Clairton lodge, led the fight for the resolution. Another delegate made an amendment pro- posing that Tighe and Co. call a special convertion “to popularize through strike action in the event the Labor Board refuses to convene | such a conference.” | The discussion had proceeded only far enough to show that practically all the lodges were strongly in favor of the resolution, however, when this issue and to prepare to carry) Vice-President Miller of the A. A, who was watch-dogging the confer- ence for the Tighe machine, jumped to his feet. He demanded that For- beck “rule the discussion and res- olution out of order” as being “against the constitution and by- laws of the union.” It was then that Forbeck, Com- mittee of Ten leader and so-called “rank and filer,” showed his com- plicity with the traitorous top lead- ers by obeying Miller’s command, Tapping the resolution out of order and closing the discussion in ap- proved A. F. of L. fashion. Because of the lack of organized opposition among the militants, Miller was successful in stifling for the moment rank and file action. George Williams, president of the Cannonsburg lodge and candidate for A. A. pfesident against Mike Tighe, announced himself as strenuously opposed to the resolu- tion during the discussion, These district conferences have | now become weekly affairs, present- ing opportunities for the organiza- tion of unified opposition to the top leaders, the only method by which Tighe and Co. can be effectively combatted and direct action forced. | | Force Release Ot 2 Leaders PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. j—An enthusiastic mass meet- jing of all fur strikers was held on Friday afternoon. |The strikers expresSed the senti- {ment for the continuation of the {strike to a successful end. They were spurred on to continue with their fight by the fact that Gold- stein, of the Joint Council, came to Philadelphia and attempted to settle up with the bosses for a 40- hour week as he did in Buffalo. The meeting was addressed by J. Winogradsky, manager of the New York Fur Workers Industrial Union, who delivered the message of the New York Trade Board that all New York shops are to collect funds in solidarity with the strikers. He also brought $200 contributed as fololws: Furriers, $100; dress, $50; knitgoods, $25; dressers and dyers, $25. After the meeting all the strikers marched out of the hall led by J. Winogradsky and 8. Peshkow. Po- lice attacked the workers and ar- rested Winogradsky and Peshkow. The furriers continued their line of march led by Gross and Weiss, and when Winogradsky and Peshkow ar- rived at ‘the police station they found a large group of furriers, who succeeded in forcing their release. Protest Drive Urged Against Deporiation Here of Anti-Fascists NEW YORK.—The Committee for Protection of Foreign Born has issue a call for an _ intensified drive against deportation and for the right of asylum in the United States for political refugees from fascist. countries. No decision has as yet been made by the Washington Immigration De- partment in the case of Friedrich Beyarbach, anti-Nazi, who came to the United States as a stowaway. Beyarbach faces a concentration camp or death if returned to Ger- many. Fritz Richter, young seaman from Bremen, and 11 others who were ar- rested in the San Francisco general strike, also face deportation to Nazi Germany. Richter has a German record as a militant worker. Christ Popoff, who led workers’ struggles in Syracuse, N. Y., faces severe persecution if returned to Greece. The Palmisano Bill, passed at the last session of Congress, grants per- manent stay in the United States to Czarist White Guards, but at- tempts to exclude refugees from fas- cist countries. The widest protest is urged on the above cases and in Support of the Bill for Right of Asylum proposed by the Committee for Protection of Foreign Born in order to force the Labor Depart- ment to recognize the right of asy- lum in the U. S. for refugees from fascist countries. Strike Sellout Scored by Aluminum Workers NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., Oct. 2. —At a recent meeting of the Cen- tral Labor Union here a motion to greet the settlement of the alumi- num strike and especially the pres- ident of the union, was rejected after a militant member of the Aluminum Workers Union took the floor and spoke against the agree- ment. He branded it as a sell-out. The delegates from the United Mine Workers, who were helping spoke against the motion. The mo- tion was rejected by the rank and file delegates of the Central Labor Union. Pi the strike, also took the floor and| j Rally Is Set | In Cleveland | ~ On Social Bill CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 2—The Unemployment Councils here will! cally employed and unemployed | | workers to a giant mass meeting tomorrow night at 8 p.m. at Pros- pect Auditorium, 2612 Prospect Avenue, at which Herbert Ben- jamin, national organizer of the Un-| employment Councils, will speak. Benjamin's subject will be: “Roose- velt's Social Security Program and the Fight for Real Unemployment and Social Insurance.” The workers’ fight against the present miserable relief and the mobilization for the National Con- gress for Social Security to be held) in Washington, D. C., on January 5, 6 and 7, will be the main issues dealt with by Benjamin. Benjamin will also address an as- semblage of the active members of the Unemployment Councils of Cleveland at a meeting to be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at 3631 Cen- tral Avenue, A, R. Onda, secretary of the Cleve- | land Unemployment Council, will! make a report on the Congress Against War and Fascism, which was held in Chicago, at the mass meeting Wednesday night. Brooklyn Workers Club Fights Eviction Order, |Of N. Y. Bible Society NEW YORK.—The members of the Borough Park Workers Club have called upon all workers in the neighborhood to fight the eviction order served on the club by the New York Bible Society. Nine months ago the clubrooms were opened at 4704 18th Aye., Brooklyn, under a two-year lease. Under the terms of the lease, the membership equipped and re- decorated the premises at an ex- pense of $500. A short while ago the Bible Society took over the building. Two weeks ago the new owners notified the chub members that they must vacate. When a delegation visited the new owners of the building they were told this action was being taken because they are a working class organiza- tion. A petition circulated in the neigh- borhood in protest over the eviction order has been signed by 2,000 workers and small business men. The signatures include those of ten- ants in the same’ building which the club occupies. Workers’ ogranizations have been asked by the club to send resolu- tions protesting the eviction to the New York Bible Scciety, 5 Hest 48th U. S. Seeks To Deport German for Joining Thaelmann Delegation (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Oct. 2—Federal au- thorities seized Eric Becker, mili- tant Chicago worker, yesterday and threatened to deport him to Fas- cist Germany. Becker’s “crime” was to go with a delegation to the Ger- man Consulate demanding the re- lease of Ernst Thaelmann, Becker, Bill Galatsky and two others were brought to trial for participating in this action at Mon- day's session and Becker's arrest took place at that time. They are defending themselves now before a jury. The International Labor Defense is calling on all to send protests to Inquiry Shows! Relief Denied Needy Miners Food Is Thrown to Hogs While Pennsylvania Strikers Starve WAYNESBURG, Pa. Oct. 2— The use of relief funds and food allotments to starve Greene County miners into submission to the coal operators was exposed today as a State Emergency Relief Board com- mittee began an_ investigation which is substantiating the charges of miners that thousands of sacks of flour were fed to hogs by the relief authorities while aid was re- fused striking U.M.W.A. members. Testimony of miners and their wives revealed that Pau! Keenan, recently deposed relief head of Greene County, refused to allow medical aid to a striker who had been seriously injured by the hoofs of company thugs’ horses. A former coal operator, the evidence showed that it is no accident such a man headed the relief administration in the coal area—Keenan at one time during the strike got up a petition signed by 270 people from other parts of the state, protesting to the governor against the granting of relief to striking miners. The questioning of relief officials brought out the admission that Mr. Docge, of the Buckeye Coal Coni- pany, sat in on important meetings of the relief administrators when matters concerning the dispensing of relief orders to miners was to be considered. | When local mines closed down recently hundreds of miners and their families starved for two weeks before protests to Harrisburg and Washington brought aid from | the F.ER.A, Bag Workers ‘Strike for $13 Minimum Pay | in New Orleans Plant NEW ORLEANS, La., Oct. 2—/ The wo:kers of the Mente Bag | Company went out on strike for a/ 40-hour week and a $13 minimum | per week Saturday. The strikers have closed the plant down com- pletely, and are standing firmly be- hind their militant leadership de- spite the efforts of the police to; raise the red scare. The workers are mostly Negro women and are among the most ex- ploited textile worke-s in the United States. They are organized into Local 2071 of the United Textile | Workers Union. They were organ- ized by organizers from the Trade Union Unity League and the In- ternational Longshoremen’s Asso- ciation. Behind this militant leader- | ship the workers are determined to win their demands and to refuse all fake proposals from Francis | Gorman and other U.T.W. officials. Allentown Mass Rally Demands the Release | of 3 Jailed Workers! ALLENTOWN, Pa,, Oct, 2.—More | than 1,000 workers packed Center Square here Friday night and de- manded the release of Steven Pukanecz, Communisi candidate for | U. S. Representative in Bucks and | Lehigh County, Edward Freed and Conrad Huster who were arrested Sept. 17 for distzibuting Communist leaflets. The leaflets exposed the Gorman sell-out of the textile strike, and) urged workers to continue striking until the workers’ demands were won, The charge was later changed to “disorderly conduct,” and a sentence of 15 days was imposed on each. A motion by the International Labor Defense attorney for an appeal was denied. The protest demonstration, called | by a United Front Committee, had representatives from Unemployed Leagues of Lehigh County, Inter- national Workers Order, American | Workers Party, International Labor | Defense, Socialist Party of Beth- lehem, Communist Party of Lehigh County, individuals from the Amer- ican Federaion of Silk Workers, Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, Woodwork- ers Union, and the Rev. Paul Cot- ton, Negro Workers’ Union, L.S.N.R. May Affiliate NEW YORK.—The executive board of the National Council of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights decided at its last session that steps be taken immediately to affiliate the L. S, N. R. with the International Trade Union Commit- tee of Negro Workers. The I. T. U. C. N. W. was founded by militant Negro workers repre- senting seven countries and 20,000 organized workers at a meeting in 1930 in Hamburg, Germany, at the First International Conference of Negro Workers, Some of the basic aims of the International Committee are:,Aboli- tion of forced labor, peonage and slavery; equal pay for equal work; against the confiscation of peasant and communal lands; against taxa- tion of Negro workers and farmers; to aid to develop trade union or- ganizations among Negro workers; right of self-determination in the Black Belt of the United States; to fight against white chauvinism, so- cial reformism, and the reformist programs of the Negro misleaders, missionaries, etc. Many workers have set them- selves a quota of $1 a week for the “Daily” $60,000 drive. Hew much Brings Thousands PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct, 2. in California, Pa., and selected ers. The rank and file are holding® mass meetings in all parts of the district. At these meetings the various candidates, and other rank and file | coal miners, deal with the sell-out Policies of the Lewis machine and | with the program of the rank and| file. Successful meetings were held in Centerville, Acmetonia and other places. At the first meeting in Cen- terville, there were about 500 min- | ers present after a big rain. When a picnic was held at the same place, the following week, more than 2,000 miners attended. More than 1,000 miners attended the meeting in Cheswick. A mass meeting is to be held on October 7 at the Stark Ferm at Ex- port, Pa. A big movement is on to clean out all of the present corrupt of- ficers and organizers in the district and replace them with rank and file nominees. Chas. Nolker, can- didete for president of the U. M. W. A. district, has promised to chase | all of the appointed organizers out of office as soon as he is elected Meetings of R; |Mfornia, Pa. Mass Movement To Clean Out the Lewis Machine| of Miners Out to ank and File .—The rank and file coal min- ers in the United Mine Workers held a conference recently a slate of coal miners to run against Pat Fagan and the other Lewis henchmen, in Dis- trict 4 (the Pittsburgh District) of the United Mine Work- and put militant workers in their Places, Knowing that the district and International officers will again try | to steal the elections, tha rank and file miners of this district will have @ delegated conference at Cali- on the first Sunday following the elections, which are to be held Dec. 11. The delegates from the local unions will be asked to bring the duplicate return sheets from their local union, so that the rank and file miners can themselves count the votes. The district candidates of the rank and file in the U.M.W.A. in- clude Charles Nolker for district president; Ted Gaul, candidate for Board member of sub-district seve E. C. Culp, Negro miner and can- didate for district teller; Joseph Yablonski, candidate for board member from subdistrict fou: Scotty O'Hara, candidate for vic: U MWA eth. BackSecialWorkers Militant Nominees In Pittsburgh Area 123. Workers Protest ‘Support Fight of Unemployed When Police Attack Jobless in Bureau NEW YORK.—Unemployed work« ers on relief living on New York's | West Side are hailing the employes of the West 44th St. Home Relief Bureau in one of the most unusual developments in New York rélief history. The alliance between social worke ers and those on the relief lists is a@ direct result of the brutality Shown by the police toward deélee gations of the jobles: A delegation of unemployed, led by Barney Oster of the Unemploy- ment Council, was waiting for | promised hearing at the Relief Bu- jreau Thursday, when Patrolman Gottlieb, policeman on steady duty | there, entered the office with other | police and began to slug Oster with | blackjacks. Several of the employes |protested. Oster, however, was | beaten unconscious and arrested jens with six others. |. The grievance committee of the |local Home Relief Bureau Workers | Association issued a leaflet to the |employees registering their protest jand demanding the removal of the |supervisor if she were found re- |sponsible for calling the police, | Saturday morning for the re= lief administration r ing with |@ petition circulated through cer- tain stool-pigeon elements, calling ; |for the discharge of the courageous grievance committee. Many of the president; Bob Crawford, candidate |Signers of this petition, however, for district secretary treasurer; Wil-|have already asked to have their liam Duke, and Schultz, candidates for auditor, and others. names removed from the document and have pledged to support the grievance committee. Vigilante Raid’ On Workers Aided byPolice| COLORADO SPRINGS, Oct. 2. —Vigilante terror appeared openly in Colorado several days ago when the mass demonstration here of the Workers Protective Union of Col- orado Springs, was smashed by po- | lce after a vicious aftack by the Police-controlled vigilante organt- | zation failed. Members of the vigilante organ- ization, known as the ‘Colorado | Workers Union,’ appeared at the méeting armed with blackjacks furnished by the police depart- ment. When the demonstration speakers refused to be terrorized, the vigilantes, led by two rene- gades, Frank Kouba, expelled from | the Communist Party, and Was- | singer, a former member of the | Workers Protective Union, started the unsuccessful attack. A few minutes later, the police and fire department arrived and attacked Allender, Who was then speaking. Again the workers de- fended the meeting, and a fierce battle followed. Several detectives and a number of workers were in- jured. Binks, a Negro worker, and Case, a white worker, were ar- rested and beaten by the police. The vigilantes were organized two weeks ago by the police de- partment, the city officials and the | Junior Chamber of Commerce, to | smash the militant Workers Pro-| tective Union and “to drive Feste, | the Communist candidate for Goy- ernor, out of the city.” | The International Labor Defense, the Communist Party and the W. P. U. urges workers to send tele- grams and resolutions to City | Manager Mosely and Chief of Police Hugh Harper demanding the re- lease of Case and Binks and a halt to fascist terror. | Clairton Unemployed Protest Attack Made | by Steel Town Mayor CLAIRTON, Pa. Oct. 2—The} Unemployment Council of Clairton | will protest: against a vicious letter | handed to the county press yester- day by Mayor Ostermayer, in which he attacks the Unemployment Councils for “racketeering” in re- lief matters by “extorting” money from merchants of the city in re- | turn for relief-order patronage. | Ostermayer, like all Monongahela | Valley Mayors, is a tool of the steel | companies, and attempts to prove | as “extortion” the solicitation of | donations to the Councils from mer- chants in the same manner as fol- lowed by any church or fraternal | organization when contributions for some fund or other are sought. Ostermayer tries to weave out of | the incident a whole “red network” | extending into surrounding com- | munities, where he charges the same “operations are carried on.” The success of the Daily Worker $60,000 drive means a better, larger newspaper. 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