The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1934 Head of California S. P. Slate Abandons Free Paterson Silk Union Members Demand Keller’s Removal | r Leaves Hall On Elections, After 800 Reject Autocratic Rule Gives Up fie Pan When City Official Offers Meeting Hall Milen Dempster, Running for Governor on the | Socialist Party Slate, Folds Up After Days of Idle Boasting in Sacramento Capitalist Press Ashe (Former State Secretary of the Socialist Party and now Communist candidate for Secretary of State and editor of the Los Angeles Hunger Fighter) SACRAMENTO, Cal., Oct. 8.—When bigger and better white feathers are shown, the Socialist Party will exhibit them under the personal supervision of Milen Dempster, its Gubernatorial candidate. St press that they, the Social- S$, would hold a free speech fight in Plaza Park following their State ion, the Socialist leaders folded up and stole away much as a blush of ig their cheeks. of the park was speeches aS a Following days of idle boasting in the Sacramento cap- N.Y, Send 50 Delegates muzaling Communists. The Socialisis, however, saw in it a chance to make political capital— Dempster’s campaign has been a wash-out to date. “We fully expect to be arrested,” _ To Pittsburgh Representatives of AFL Trade Union Group to said J. E. Miller, Socialist Party or- ganizer, “but we won’t be in jail long. Francisco and Sacramento ready to defend us and post bond for us. This ban on public speeches is a violation of the free speech clause of the Constitution and we are ready to go to court to prove it.” e have lawyers from San| | Attend Parley | NEW YORK.—The regular meet- ing of the New York A. F. of L. |Trade Union Committee for Un- }employment Insurance and Relief | decided Saturday to send fifty dele- |gates to the Third Annual A. F. of L. Rank and File Conference to be And with this brave declaration, | | . the Socialists girded themselves for |De!d in Pittsburgh, Oct. 27 and 26 battle. Be it said in Miller’s fayor,|2t the National Slovak Hall, 516- he, if noi Dempster, was sincere, |518 Court Place. Delegates have Before the Communist or Socialist | @!ready been elected from rank and conventions opened in the state|file groups of the International capital, Miller sought out the writer | Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, and suggested a united front. He |International Association of Ma- did so, however, reckoning without |chinists, International Brotherhood Dempster, of Carpenters and Joiners, United A committee from the Commu-|Hatters of North America, Amal- nist convention called upon the So- cialist convention and offered to join with the Socialists in the free Speech fight. This offer was flatly refused. Now workers of Sacramento can see which party displays bad faith, which one may be trusted and which one may not. At 7:20 am., ten minutes before the Socialist free speech meeting was scheduled to start, Raymond Henderson, Socialist attorney of Bakersfield, with cops standing by. | rose to the platform in the park and announced that there would be no meeting in the park, but that it would be held in the Plaza Thea- tre across the street. About a quar- ter of the audience, prompted only by curiosity to see through to a finish the Socialist trickery, re- Sponded to Henderson's invitation. Meantime, despite the Socialist Party's “holier than thou” refusal of a free speech united front. with the Communist Party, the latter had mobilized to attend the meeting and aid in any way possible. When Dempster failed to speak, Louis Lagomarsino, Sonoma County as- sembly candidate on the Commu- nist ticket, took the platform and in the name of the Party started speaking in defense of workers’ rights to free speech. Promptly the same bulls that had} stood by while Henderson publicized the Socialist indoor meeting grabbed Lagomarsino and over the militant Protests of the workers took him to the patrol wagon. Then, before Lagomarsino’s comrades could fol- Jow his lead, two rank and file Democrats who had come to sup- Port Dempster took the platform and were also arrested. Even some Democrats are more militant than Dempster. That James S. Dean, City Man- ager of Sacramento, collaborated With the Socialists in their scheme, Was admitted by Henderson in his speech in the Plaza Theatre, “Ladies and gentlemen,” said Henderson, “we are fortunate this evening in having the use of this theatre. We called on the City Manager again this afternoon about our right of free speech in the park and he still insisted he would have to arrest us, but he finally promised he would see what he could do. He got us this theatre to use this evening, and, as we think it is much cooler in | here and more comfortable than asking you to stand in the park, we were glad to take it. I think we owe our benefactor a vote of thanks.” While the City Manager was us- ing his kind offices to find a thea- tre for the Socialist meeting, so that he would not be embarrassed by his cops being forced to pinch Socialist speakers, the same city of- ficial was intimidating the manager of Dante Hall, where the Commu- -nists were scheduled to hold a huge Convention rally the same evening. ‘The doors of the hall were locked The newspapers announced that the hall had been denied to the Com- munists. Even this trick did not prevent large number of workers Showing up at the hall. However, from 7 o'clock on police were on hand to intimidate the workers and Prevent them from assembling. A Red Builder on Every Busy Street Corner in the Country Means a Tremendous Step Toward the |gamated Clothing Workers, |other groups. The meeting decided to throw its support to the impending marine strike on the Atlantic and Gulf | Coasts to aid in securing relief and to participate in any actions organ- ized in support of the marine strike. |" The Committee pledged itself to urge the support of all A. F. of L. members in New York to participate jin a 24 hour general strike in |January 1935 to demand the en- and | actment of the Workers’ Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill. A | resolution to this effect has been in- troduced to the 54th Convention of the American Féderation of Labor | by rank and file delegates. Main Points in CP. Program for Spain | (Continued from Page 1) and employment of the unemployed. (7) Full sickness, accident, unem- | ployment and disability insurance | at the expense of the state, the na- tionalized industry and the unex- Propriated owners, (8) National liberation of all op- pressed peoples (Catalonia, Biscay, Galicia) on the basis of the right of these peoples to self-determina- tion up to separation from Spain. (9) Complete immediate libera- tion of the colonies. (10) Abolition of the gendarmerie | (Civil Guards) the storm police | (Guardia de Asalto) and all armed | forces of the landlords and cap- | italists; general arming of the work- ers and peasants; eradication of the | bureaucracy hostile to the masses of | the people and election of public | officers by the soviets, (11) Abolition of the permanent | army as the instrument of the land- lords and capitalists and of the ranks of officers and generals; dem- | ocratic election of officers by the | Soldiers, election of deputies by the | Soldiers into the soviets of workers’, | Peasants’ and soldiers’ deputies; es- | tablishment of a workers’ and peas- | ants’ Real Army for the defence of | the interests of the masses of the | people, (12) Proletarian solidarity with the oppressed of the whole world and fraternal union with the U. S. Ss. R. CP. Urges Protest In Scottsboro Case (Continued from Page 1) | tribute and help to collect funds to finance appeals. Send funds to the National Office, I. L. D., 80 East | 11th St. “The lynch verdict of the Alabama Supreme Court is a challenge to the working class and to the oppressed Negro people. We must answer this challenge with the greatest mass de- fense movement that the world has yet seen. “Forward to greater victories! The Scottsboro boys must be freed! Dictatorship ot the Proletariat! “District Committee, Communist Party, Distriet 2.” Gerard Makes Threat to Jews onCommunism |Predicts U. S. Pogroms | Greater Than Those in Czarist Russia EAST ORANGE, N. J., Oct. 8— James W. Gerard, former ambas- |sador to Germany and a profes- sional “friend” of the Jewish peo- |ple, in a speech last night warned the presence of Jews in the Com- American people to believe that ry and Communism were synon- jimous. He predicted the possibility jof a pogrom here that would |“make those of the Czar’s era in| |Russia look like a small parade.” | Mr. Gerard spoke at the first of a} series of forums arranged by the Junior League of the Sharey ‘Tefilo | |Temple. He urged influential Jews |to use their influence to stop the| movement of the Jewish masses | toward Communism. | Speaks of Maisacre In effect Mr. Gerard threatened the masses of the Jewish people. He told them baldly that unless they {kept away from the Communist movement they would be the victims |of the greatest massacre in history. | He used the timeworn bromide that Communism “seeks to tear down culture and government.” But jit is a known fact that it is the Communist government in the So- |viet Union that is building culture | | while the fascists are busy destroy- | ing everything that stands for) progress and cultural advance. And | |in the Soviet Union the Jews have | | reconstructed their national culture | when in every other country every | jeffort has been made to destroy every vestige of Jewishness, Lines Up With Rich Jews Mr. Gerard and the wealthy Jews for whom he is spokesman are }among the worst enemies of the | Jewish masses. By trying to keep |them from Communism they are really trying to prevent them from |joining the great anti-fascist front jof the workingclass. They are not |interested in preventing pogroms. |In fact, Mr. Gerard who poses as |@ friend of the Jewish people has jin print and in public said many |nice things about Hitlerites. But | the wealthy Jews use him in an ef- |fort. to frighten the Jewish workers jaway from the struggle against fascism, Every Jewish worker knows that the Jews are not synonymous with |the Communist movement. As part |of the American working class they |have participated in many class battles. Gerard’s statement that | Jews and Communists are identical is taken from the storehouse of | fascist lies. | In demonstvations and on the \picket line the Jewish workers and the rest of the working class will answer the efforts of Gerard and the rich Jews to split their ranks, | by conducting greater and more) militant anti-fascist and anti-capi- talist actions, ‘AFL Building Union Chiefs Talk Split (Continued from Page 1) | heels of the most amazing victory ever won by an American labor union. The strike was the largest and most impressive America has ever known. “Under the report of the Winant Board, approved by the President, governmental machinery is at work in a concentration upon the textile industry that sets a néw high mark for Governmental operations of this| kind. “For the first time in all history the financial condition of the in- dustry is coming under govern- mental scrutiny at the hands of the Federal Trade Commission, At the same time the Department of Labor, with 110 persons in the field, is making a survey, now almost half finished, of wages, hours and work- ing conditions, Meanwhile the Na- tional Textile Labor Relations Board is about to hand down the first of its orders in discrimination cases. The textile industry is most certainly facing a new day and a higher level.” Gorman thus praised the Winant report which robbed the strikers of every one of their | demands. “We are now engaged in a tre- mendous oranizing campaign. We are out to thoroughly unionize the whole one million textile workers. All textile workers are in one union and all will continue to be in one union.” The Winant Board, set up by | Roosevelt, on whose recommenda- | tions Gorman sold out the strike, did not recommend any increased wages for the strikers, did not grant any form of union recognition, and did not wipe out the stretchout. The textile strikers went back to work with even worse conditions than when they came on strike. They have been blacklisted by thousands and many are being sen- tenced to jail for their strike ac- tivity. This is the sell-out which munist movement was leading the} Daily Worker Drive _Lags as Districts _ Fail to Push Plans | Branches of International Workers Order and Language Organizations Fall Behind— Show Insufficient Initiative The work of various groups throughout the country re- veals quite plainly that the Daily Worker $60,000 drive is not failing because the working class does not recognize the value of the paper. It is falling behind because, in many | districts, work is not being carried on properly, efforts to} raise money are not serious, and® full advantage of opportunities is not being taken. One has but to see how produc- tive groups tie up their regular day to day work, or special occasions, with the drive, to understand the situation. In Calumet, Ill, for instance. Branch 3506 of the I.W.O. pre- pared an affair for the benefit of Polish flood victims. But the Branch had in mind the Daily Worker drive! Consequently $10 was raised for the paper. “We think,” observes the Branch, “this is a real achieve- ment. We solicit other branches of the L.W.O. to do the same. You will hear from us again.” From two other I.W.O. branches come similar news. In Jacksonville, Fla., the Harry Sims branch staged a Daily Worker picnic and raised $50. This branch raised the money in a really simple way, a way that all readers of the Daily Worker should study. also sends $5. Another contribu- tion comes from the Left Wing of the Croatian Fraternal Union, Branch 541, in Trafford, Pa. The Yugoslavia Workers Club of New Kensington, Pa., is also represented. But in New York, the Lithu- anian, Italian and Finnish organ- izations and the Jewish Workers Soviet Papers Publish News Print Instructions to the People of U.S.S.R. on Citizenship Rights (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 8 (By Wireless). —The newspapers are publishing instructions on elections to the So- viets and congresses of Soviets for the R. S. F. S. R. Special interest is possessed by the section dealing with instruc- tions on the determination of the list of electors and electoral com- missions. In the electoral comndssion which directs the electoral campaign from the center of the district and the village, instructions provide for wide representations of trade unions, men and women workers directly connected with industry, collective tarmers of both sexes, and also na- tional minorities. On the basis of the constitution of the R. 8, F. S. R., the following are citizens of the Republic: All Clubs have not yet begun to move. To what shall we attribute the | Sorry results from some sections of | those who will be 18 years old on the day of elections have the right to elect and to be elected to Soviets; all who make their living Kelle U. T. W. Members Dem: | Speech F ight and End of Expulsions; Condemn Gorman-Keller Strike Leadership at Plaingoods Department Meeting PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 8. — Eli Keller, Lovestonite renegade, walked out of a membership meeting of the Plain- goods Department on Saturday, after the members rejected his attempt to appoint his own chairman. More than 500 were present. Only the recording secretary walked out with 2 Keller and the meeting continued, the country? | ti ial sf {The Disirict 7, Detroit, butetin [bck SiGe, temmne Wetcane to offers a clue. : 7 . |house-work, making possible pro- ‘In last week's bulletin,” it as- | ductive labor for the former; red serts, “we suggested that sections |army men and red sailors; the citi- challenge each other. Up to date (zens in these categories who have we have heard nothing from the | United Front Made with C..P By S.P. Local Socialists of Somerville, Mass., Vote Unity on Specific Issues CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 7.— The Communist Party of Cam- sections. | “It seems to us,” it adds, “that language groups are fast asleep.” Socialist Competition This is part of the reason for the drive’s dragging. No Daily Worker campaign can get very far without Socialist competitions. The records “We explained,” the Branch show that those districts, sections lost their ability to work to some extent. Among the persons not citizens of the R. S. F. 8. R. are the toilers who are citizens of other Soviet So- cialist Republics of the Soviet Union, who can elect and be elect- ed; also foreign workers and farm- ers engaged in labor. In previous elections in Moscow, | treated in a separate article from writes “the part the Daily Worker plays in educating and leading the workers in their daily struggles.” The other branch is in Philadel- phia—Branch 77, These workers donated $10, collected at a party, and they are already planning an- other affair. Language Organizations The Daily Worker has heard little from the language organizations in New York. One might*be forced to conclude, therefore, that it is impossible for language groups to collect money for the fund. But a glance at the activities of some lan- guage groups outside of New York City shows otherwise. From Osage, W. Va., comes a con- tribution in behalf of the Russian National Mutual Aid Society of America, Branch 128, From the Greek Workers Educational Club in Philadelphia comes the news that it has doubled its quota from $25| to $50, and will have the money in the “Daily” office soon. The Fin- nish Workers Club in Pittsburgh and units engaged in Socialist com- | Leningrad and other cities some petition are always the heaviest foreign workers engaged in Boviet | contributors, Detroit, where this | factories were elected as members lack exists, has completed only 14|0f Soviets. : Nine Ships Struck All Communist Party districts, sections and units, all organiza- tions, which have not yet entered | Socialist competition should do so at once. bridge and the Socialist Party local of Somerville, following the propo- sals made to the Socialists by the Communist Party, have formed a united front of struggle on spe- cific issues, A permanent working body has been elected from both groups, and a united fight has been voted against war and fascism; for joint struggle for relief and picketing in local strikes; for free speech where this elementary right is denied; and for an exchange of speakers on topics affecting both groups, The first attempts for a united front were handicapped by reac- | tionary elements in the Socialist Party. Alfred Baker Lewis, candi- Example Offered To all those who have not yet put themselves into activity, who have not yet contributed, who have not yet. arranged parties for the | Daily Worker, who are waiting until | the last moment to send in their | funds, we recommend the following | letter: “Dear Comrades”—it reads: “Herewith is $2 in cash as my bit toward the Fund. COMRADE HATHAWAY’S APPEAL... MADE ME REALIZE I MUST NO LONGER HESITATE TO HELP MAKE THE DAILY WORKER A LARGER AND MORE USEFUL ORGAN FOR THE WORKING CLASS.” R én sev eli | ‘New Deal g Ralsve Textile Profits But Real Wages Hit New Lows |N.R.A. Election Ballyhoo Boasts of Profits; But Is Silent on $5 (This is the first of a series of short articles on the results of the Roosevelt “New Deal” as outlined in “Today,” the magazine of Ray- mond Moley, leading publicist for Roosevelt. Moley’s e con- tends that the “New Deal” has Proven its success ahd deserves the support of the people in the coming Congressional elections. Each argument of Moley will be day to day.—Editor.) ee By MILTON HOWARD The Roosevelt “New Deal” is a “success,” and deserves the support of the people in the coming elec- tions, declares Raymond Moley in the latest issue of his magazine “Today.” The New Deal has been a success in the textile industry, Moley tells the readers of “Today” and lists as proof the following profits in tex- tiles: Seventeen leading textile com- panies report net income for the first six months of 1934 of $877,000, an increase of 65 per cent over the first six months of 1933. Quite so. But during this period the living standards of the textile workers dropped to starvation levels. The cost of retail food in an av- erage textile town rose 23 per cent, according to the figures of the De- partment of Labor. At the same time the curtailment order of the N, R. A, calling for a 25 per cent reduction from the 40-hour week slashed wages 25 per cent. In addition, the stretch-out reached such killing speed that be- tween August 6 and Augus! 12 600 complaints were filed by textile workers with the N. R. A. Industrial Relations Board for action. The Board dismissed more than 40 per cent of the complaints and did little about the others. Gorman brazenly hails as a “vic- tory.” The result: textile workers driven to produce from 50 to 100 per cent 65 Per Cent-- a Week Wages more in a given time, with thou- sands of workers laid off. ‘Wages in textile mills have reached new depths of degradation under the Roosevelt N. R, A. codes with their “minimums” and spread- work effects, In a typical Southern textile mill, the Newman Mill, No. 2, at New- man, Ga. the following were typical weekly pay envelopes: Quill twister (skilled)—for eight hours’ work, $2.40; Doffer (skilled) — for eight hours, $2.40; Twister machine operator (skilled)—for eight hours, $2.80; Sweeper (unskilled) — for eight hours work, $1.92; Card ma- chine operator (semi-skilled)—for sixteen hours work, $4.80; Girl spinner (skilled)—for eight hours work, $2.40; Frame operator (skilled)—for 16 hours work, $5.10. These are WEEKLY earnings of a typical textile town. These are the average payments at the N. R. A.! code rates, from $12 to $14 a week. With rising prices, company de- ductions, sickness, lay-offs, and stretch-out, they give a picture of unexampled misery and starvation in the textile centers where almost one million textile workers grind profits for the employers. The conclusion is inescapable: the “success” of the New Deal which Moley asks the workers to continue in the Congressional elections has been only a successful wringing of new profits from the workers by lowering their real wages and their daily standards of living. More profits—and more misery. | That has been the “success” of the Roosevelt New Deal in the textile industry. “I will not contribute to the Daily Worker $60,000 drive,” asserts Mr. Ralph Easley. The Daily Worker can get along without Mr. Easley! But it cannot get along without the contributions of the working class. | Send your contributions today! inNewYork Harbor (Continued from Page 1) stitute would act as strikebreakers. “We do not recognize this strike,” Mr. Westerman said, when asked if he would ship men aboard struck vessels. Shipping Hall Deserted “If the I. S. U. were conducting the strike it would be different. I dont see how anybody could rec- ognize this strike when the govern- ment and the leaders of the I. 8. U. have acted so patriotically to settle matters.” When it was, pointed out that the shipping hall of the Institute was apparently closed and that there were no men there awaiting jobs as is usually the case, Westerman’s eyes shifted (he can’t look one straight in the eyes) and looking down at the desk he said, “When there is a call for men we will ship them.” Westerman explained that he is an ex-Y.M.C.A. man and that he is interested in social welfare. On his desk were copies of the Daily Worker and the Dog House News. He said he reads them to see what the reds are up to. “Have you got an extra police guard on the building, Mr. Wester- man?” he was asked. He escorted the Daily Worker reporter to a spacious window and proudly Pointed to a large detachment of foot, mounted and radio car police stationed around the Institute. Five Tugboats Struck in Norfolk NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 8.—Police have opened a campaign of terror against the striking seamen. One striker has been arrested and mem- bers of the “red squad” have visited the strike headquarters, The local strike committee has called on all workers to wire protests to the Mayor and Chief of Police against Police interference with the strike. Five tugboats are on strike in this port. N-TLW.U. Urges All to Join Rally Today (Continued from Page 1) port to the Spanish revolution. “The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union calls upon its mem- bers and sympathizers and all needle trades workers to support and participate in the demonstration before the Spanish Consulate, 53rd St. and Madison Ave., tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 9th, at 12 o’clock noen, called by the Communist Party. “Victory to the workers and farmers of Spain struggling for working class power! “Long live the solidarity of all workers in the struggle for freedom! —Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union, 131 West 28th St, New York City. Our Readers Must Spread the Daily Worker Among the Members of All Mass and Fraternal Organ- izations As a Political Task of First Importance! date for Governor on the Socialist ticket, spoke against the united front on the grounds that all forces of the Socialist Party should be used in the election campaign. When this argument failed he de- Jayed the vote for a united front and made it clear that a united front, as far as he was concerned, could not be gained except by sin- cere and honest pressure from the rank and file. At a local meeting, held at the Lewis mansion, where the question of a united front was raised, the Cambridge Socialist Party refused the united front proposals. In addition to the issues which were voted in the Somerville local, the Communist Party asked for united struggle on the gaining of relief. This question is an un- usually burning one because of the tremendous numbers of unem- ployed. Soviets Are Set Up, ‘in Southern Spain (Continued from Page 1) ers are hastily throwing up barri- cades to prevent troop movements in or out of the city. On the north coast of Spain, the workers captured the important fort Murcel, giving them a strategic vantage point, new stores of arms and ammunition. The cruiser Lib- ertad was sent against the fort and bombardment has just been opened. The fort is replying. Basque Workers Arm In the Basque province, hereto- fore also only slightly affected by the fighting, workers and peasants are rapidly arming themselves, join- ing in the fight to defeat the fas- cist regime. The Communist Party is calling for the establishment of @ workers and peasants’ govern- ment. The general strike which had heretofore been mainly effective in the central part of Spain, in Cata- lonia and the Northern provinces, has now gripped all of the South of Spain. Fighting is going on in Seville, where the workers stormed the army barracks. All shops were closed down. Considerable fighting is going on at Logrono. Workers seized the town of Cerro Deliro Alhama, and flew the Red Flag over the town hall. Total of Dead Mounts The number of dead is mounting Keller had police at the meeting. A motion demanding the removal of Keller was passed. .The Gor- man-Keller leadership of the recent strike was condemned. Keller, who as general manager of the Paterson Federation of Silk Workers (U. T. W.), has been car- rying through the Green-Gorman expulsion policy here, delayed the membership meeting and after he was forced by the members to call it, failed to notify many shop chairmen, and réfused to hire a large enough hall. He finally called the meeting at union head- quarters where only about 800 can get in. The department has about 4,000 members. Constitution Violated George Anthony, a paid organizer of the union, opened the meeting, stating he was appointed by the executive board of the union to be chairman. Such procedure is con trary to the union’s constitution. The members insisted on their right to nominate and elect their own chairman. Both Anthony and Keller refused to permit the nomi- nation and election. Every time Keller or Anthony tried to speak the members booed and refused to listen until a chairman be elected. Keller tried to get the secretary to read the minutes of the previous meeting. Finally Keller stated that if the members would not accept An- thony as chairman he would ad- journ the meeting. He then de- clared the meeting adjourned and walked out of the hall. Only the recording secretary followed him. A member of the executive board then, with the consent of other members of the board, declared the meeting opened. A militant worker, Shiber, was elected chairman and Filian elected recording secretary. A committee composed of members of the executive board of the de- partment werlt to the office and demanded the minutes. Keller re- fused to hand over the minutes to the committee. Important Decisions The members of the executive board present at the meeting then took up the following points: (1) That the merger of the National Textile Workers Union with the U.T.W. be approved on the basis of the agreement reached by the negotiating committee. (2) That all members be immediately re- instated and considered in good standing. (3) That L. Valgo be re- instated to the executive board. shop strikes and for the develop- ment of a struggle against the wave of wage-cuts and discrimination ‘were passed. ° Motion Condemns Gorman A motion condemning the na- tional strike committee and Gor- man and a motion condemning Keller for their misconduct of the general strike, were then adopted. Another motion requesting the Joint Executive Board to call a general membership meeting for the removal of Eli Keller was unon- imously adopted. Fifteen dollars was contributed to aid the striking silk workers. It was decided that a special membership meeting of the Broad Silk Department be held within two weeks for the purpose of electing new members to the executive board to fill existing vacancies, The elected Committee of Twen- ty-Five was authorized to continue functioning for the defense of the rights of the members and to give leadership to the struggle against the attacks of the employers. the army general staff, was in con- stant touch with Generals Domingo Batet and Lopez Ochaca, leaders of the government forces in Catalonia and Austrias respectively. The only means of communication with them is by army wireless on truck. The fighting in Barcelona is particularly severe, showing that the workers hourly. Estimates reach well over 100, with thousands wounded. When authorities sent troops in a truck to Cerro Deliro Alhama, a workers’ ambuscade met them, kill— ing many. The revolutionary general strike has gripped Granada. The govern- ment now admits that the situation appears grave for it. Columns of troops were sent to converge on Ovieda and Bilbao. All communi- cation with the Austurias is cut off, and the government of Madrid is isolated from these provinces. Lerroux Cabinet Meets The Lerroux Cabinet is meeting continuously in a desperate effort. to turn the tide of battle. The took up the fight in real earnest when the bourgeois national gov- ernment capitulated to the Madrid fascist forces. Louis Quintanilla, famous paint- er, whose home was said to be used as the headquarters of the Socialist Youth Executive Committee, was arrested_and faces court-martial and execution. In the North, warships are being sent to bombard Gijon, where the workers are in control. Reports from that city tell of the growing strength of the armed workers who are well equipped with light field artillery, machine guns and thou- sands of rifles. Casualties in the {minister of war, conferring with fighting here are reported to be Particularly heavy. Vote Communist in the F ight Against Relief Cuts and Forced Labor! Join the Communist Party ! e Other decisions in support of the. (_—_—_~]