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Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1934 | but 6n effectiveness, on competence, |on productivity. I consider the idea of insurrection out of date.” Board Rejects| Roosevelt Cannot Institute Methods of Speeding Call Wisconsin' Nazi-Japanese | } I | | ‘4 ag Matt Drive Described Candidates Planned Economy, Says Stalin STALIN: “Of course the old system is breaking down and dis- integrating. This is true. But it is also true that new efforts are Conference on Collaboration . % r) ° B M ‘D q| 9 In Madison, Ill. (Continued from Page 1) Moreover, experiences shows that being made with ditterent methoas| WV Q) ers ii) is vea p er ¢ o , | : i save this dying system. From cor-| Sa | — , mae economy. All this is good. But as| “tzowever, you know the situation aie: —. ~ } . Hi 'y anag Oj at Y Mass Protest Called to | 45 Roosevelt or some other|in the United States better than 1,|ct Premises, you draw an_inco Preparation for Joint Wishnak Calls on Districts to Follow New York | Lead With Delegated Mass Meetings—House Parties Suggested As Effective Actions “The most determined action is now required to make the 360,000 drive a success! three-edition Daily Worker is porter of the revolutionary w The future of the eight-page, now squarely up to every sup- orking class movement.” George Wishnak, business manager of the’Daily Worker, Force Reversal of | New Ruling MADISON, Ill, Oct. 9—After a | six-hour hearing throughout which | the anti-Communist prejudices of officials and the witnesses they |called were flagrantly evident, the County Board of Elections here re- jected the nominating petition for Communist candidates in Madison County. A mass meeting of protest has captain in the modern bourgeois | because I was never in the U.S. A, world wants to undertake anything|and follow American affairs prin- Serious against the foundations of |cipally through literature. But I capitalism he will inevitably meet |have some slight experiences in the with complete failure. For Roose-|field of struggle for Socialism, and velt doesn’t own the banks, indus-|this experience tells me that» it) try, the big enterprises, the big | Roosevelt really tries to satisfy the farms. All this is private property. | interests of the proletarian class at Railroads and shipping are all in|the expense of the capitalist class, the hands of private owners. And|the latter will replace him by an- finally the army of skilled labor,| other president.” , technicians, are also not| “Capitalists will say, ‘Presidents sevelt but with private em- | come and presidents go, but we cap- ployers and working for them. | italists remain. If any particular “We must not forget the func- | president doesn’t defend our inter- ‘All Groups Are Asked |To Send Delegates to rect conclusion, You correctly siate that the old world is breaking down. But you are not right when you think that it will break down of | itself. No, replacement of one Oct, 28 Parley Social order by another social order is a complex and lengthy revolu-| MILWAUKEE, Wis.,. Oct. ae tionary process. This is not simply | State conference to plan action for a spontaneous process, but it is a|the enactment of the Workers Un- struggle, it is a process connected | €mployment Insurance Bill, in- with the conflict of classes. Capi- | crease relief, and adoption of the S but we cannot | Farmers Emergency Relief Bill will it to a tree which | be held here on Sunday, Oct. 28, at simply compa: is so rotten that it must fall to the | 10 a.m., at. 808 West. Walnut Street, | ground by itself. | under the auspices of the State “No, revolution or replacement of | Committee of the Unemployment War Action Against Soviets Is Studied PARIS, Oct. 9.—The “Pariser Tageblatt” has published an article which, in describing the current education of many young Japanese students in Berlin and the nimber of young Nazis who are now being taught Japanese, helps to fill in the foreground of the picture of Ger- man-Japenese collaboration for war. in outlining a@ fe tions of the state in the bourgeois! ests, we will find another.’ What a a % * was|Councils and- the International! This article states that, “the Uni- pcre th mnt, i. culining 3 ‘ : ; i ests, we will fin one social system by another was|Councils an e International | : 5 ste areles for raising money. | been organized and legal action will) world. ‘This is an institution, an|can the president counterpose| always a fierce ‘arungie, ‘a painful| Workers Order, versity of Berlin has enlarged its “Money is not raised by simply hae ms eer ni tay the| organization for the defense of the | against the will of the capitalist /iife and death struggle. And every All labor unions, unemployed or- ret East seminar. es Rak Gahan saw ‘} z r ¢ arbitrary ing of country, an Organizaiten for safe- | 2 i * of ew Ww - , : | this seminar’s only ti sitting: down and holding out ou 7 ; . ry, al : class? ... time when people of the new w ganizations, fraternal, cultural and } , hands,” he proceeded. “We have OFKEFS ENEMIES | ,One of the most violent opponents) guarding ‘order,’ an apperatus for| “Human society is divided into|came to power they were forced to | benentt societies and farmers’ groups |*°, tach Oriental languages, but it to utilize every means at our dis- ofthe Communist Party efforts to collecting taxes. Economy in the Rinker v, Wealthy and. ex-|defend themselves against the at-| pave by ey fect deletes | 22S now become a Nazi school for posal. qualify its candidates at the hear-| real sense of the term has little to| C2 27d Poor, wealthy ave been asked to elect delegates Exposed ploited, and if we neglect this basic tempts of the old world to bring propaganda in the Far East. y i fees | The call to the conference poinis |” «The number of German students More Delegated Rallies ing was Roy B. Goodell, head of | do with the capitalist state. Eco- | P! 4 : ic-|back the forces of the old order.| 2 : i e number : e "eras Cee cai airings Federal Work Relief in Madison | nomy is not in its hands. On the ed pod ep lah a These people of the new world had |CU® that for over a year the State | studying Japanese has continually fuch a delegated mass meeting as County and former scab-herding| contrary, the state is in the hands | ‘OS e n Pp , | Legislature of Wisconsin has not we had in New York Sunday night, for one thing. This should be: ‘representative of Communist Party. units, mass organizations, trade unions, workers’ clubs and other workers’ groups. “The delegates should bring do- nations from their organizations. The meeting should be featured by reports of the activities of the vari- Leon Levine (alias Jack Reed), of the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, N. Y., whose photograph appears herewith, has been expelled from the Young Communist League as a dangerously irresponsible and un- reliable individual against whom all workers and their organizations should be on constant guard. According to his own story, which “efficiency expert” in the Granite | City Stamping Works. | An incipient frame-up of Com-| munist candidates on charges of | forgery was nipped in the bud the militant conduct at the hearing of I. Jackson, Communist Negro candidate for County Clerk. A leaflet has been issued by the Communist Party here exposing the of capitalist economy. Therefore I fear that despite all the enérgy and ability of Roosevelt he will not | achieve the aim which you mention leven if he has this aim.” Wells further developed his theory of. “soci: in the Anglo-Saxon understanding of this word.” He said, “If we begin with state con- trol of banks, then proceed to con- this means that we neglect the fun-) damental fact. “I don’t deny the existence of intermediate middle strata, who join either one side or the other of the) two classes that are fighting each other, or occupy a neutral or semi- neutral position in this struggle. But I repeat that if we neglect this fundamental struggle between two | basic classes, that means that we always to be on guard, ready to resist the attacks of the old world | on the new order. | Yes, you are right when you say that the old social order is breaking | down, bui it will not break down iyy | If. Take fascism, for exai Fascism is the ctionary ce attempting to preserve the old world | y violence. Wha you do with | fascists? Will you persuade them? | appropriated relief funds. Yet 355,- 000 workers and their dependents throughout the state are on the relief lists and other hundreds of thousands of destitute workers get no relief whatsoever. Groves Law a Mockery The Groves Law (Wisconsin Un- | employment Compensation Act), the | only State law in the country which grown. While only a smail fraction of all the German students in col- lege may ever hope to find jobs, the future of those .who learn Japanese is assured. 3 oe “Why do we find officers of the German army and aviators studying Japanese? Naturally, they, attend college in their street-clothes. Japan knows that Russia’s air force far surpasses her own, and that Jap- ous bodies represented. | Between /he prefaced with a statement that action of the election officials as a/ tol over transport, heavy industry, | ore ie tacts [Convince them? But this will have | pretends to establish unemployment ra Na ea! oer deat Plas i w he calling of the confer- |); t . 7. a y ht r( 5 | 3 y, erce, mS | aot “ ‘ \no m. insurance, not ’ nefits erefore, rmany | phe py Meh ghewag ely. gees his intention was not to give any | move to deny the right of workers all-embracing control will be equiva-| “This struggle is taking place, and ce, does not provide benefit: should decide to fill its quota. Once such: a decision is passed, the mem- been successful. Yet, though the Daily Worker has pointed this out information for an expose of the espionage apparatus of the capital- ists and of their government;— ac- to vote for candidates of their own choosing. 3 Airmen for lent to state ownership of all branches of national economy. This | exist between them, There is in- dividualism bordering on banditism, will take place, The result of this struggle is being decided by the class} jthe working class, because these ee strata do not play an in-| “Communists do not idealize the method of violence. But Commu- | nists don’t want to be caught un- the working class: Be prepared to answer force by force. Do every- to present unempioyed, teachers, | domestic workers, railroad men en- persons, The Wisconsin Act, which is in the breach as instructor. F “The feeling in the Unjversity of i y t vill izati jof proletarians, the class of work- mares . t i} c | gaged in interstate commerce, lum-| Berlin’s seminar in Japanese is 1 bers will work infinitely harder to - rang to his own “confession,” he ‘ ign a er Ae eee tin Fis eas lps de Son Gite ree eae |ber men, fazm employes, men and|ihat war between Russia and Pe as cial S viets Honor | individualism en the other are not | “Capitalism will be destroyed, not |py itself. ‘They see that the old| Women employed by the federal | Sepere will: come, and: Game 000, + epaiabeergts mh i | absolute antipodes like black and|by ‘organizers’ of production, not | order is defending. itself by force, | 0vernment, or workers employed | Japanese and German students feel ee cepa partion, ae seas white. Many intermediate stages | by technical intellectuals, but by|and therefore Communists say to|in shops empldying less than ten | themselves to be comrades-at-arms, and together- pore over possible sites of victorious slaughter on the - y si the drive has * and there is discipline and organi- | dependent role. For the engineer] thing to prevent the old order from accord with the so-called “Ameri- | ordnance maps, “as if war already libata ick tie have been Reeord Fi ht zetion which is the equivalent of |or the organizer of production|crushing you. Do not put fetters/can Plan” for unemployment re-| Were an actuality. f eanget Pini is’ serious mistake. £ socialism. | doesn’t work as he would like. but)on the hands with which you will! serves, was passed at a special ses-| ‘Moreover, these Japariese’ stu- Every Communist Party unit “Bringing about planned econ- jas he is ordered, as the interests of overthrow this system. fe }sion of the State Legislature on|dents are very welcome guests should arrange at least one house (Special to th omy depends to a great extent on|the employer demand. Naturally! «as you see, the process of re-| Jan. 29, 1932, It provided that the | among Nazi circles, and they them- party a month for the drive. MOSCOW, Oct. 9—(By Wireless), |the organizers in economy, on tie |there are, exceptions. Theer are /sacement of one social system by |law would not become effective un. |ccives are the only foreign sttidents House parties should also be the —For “heroism displayed and self- | skilled technical intelligentsia who|there are exceptions. There are) another is for Communists not sim- policy of individual sympathizers and of organizations sympathetic denying work,” the Central Execu- tive Committee of the U.S.S.R. has can be won step by step to the, side of socialist principles of organiza- freed from the. poisonous capitalist |influerce. Technical intellectuals, | ply spontaneous and peaceful, but a complicated process, long and vio- til 175,000 workers were employed in the State. In June 1933, the law to whom this strange form of gov- ernment, so abhorrent to all othe> 7 was amended to reduce the coverage | cultured people, is agreeable.” te the paper. Not only may ad- awarded the famous Soviet airman | tion.” junder bier Bree bac pee sah lent. Communisis cannot neglect | 5 139,000 workers, S | pcveace orien Ses : mission be charged, but collec- STALIN: “There is not and ean 70m miracles,” and be of enormoys reckoning with fact ae ener ieee eat bien Gad ’ ‘ \ ats taken, |not be an irreconcilable contrast | US¢ to ee sis hari y "| Stalin continued, “Communists | o¢ 45. to°410 fornob more thet teh Seamen S Strike | “Then we have the question of Gromov and his heroic crew broke | between the individual and the |C@US¢ enormou: eane ,,|base themselves on a rich historic’ eeks in any one year to @ worker, | } eabéétion lists. ‘Thousands have |a world record Sept. 29 when they | Collective, between the interests of} “In addition, how can you forget rience which teaches that out- : : been distributed—yet few have been Gromoy and his companions the jtitle of “Hero of the Soviet Union.” flew 75 hours without landing in the separate individual and the that in order to redivide the world d classes do not voluntarily leave To receive this benefit, a worxer . . i i | iv y ve it have power? It seems to} + a ember the Must have resided in the State for Ties U 3? Shi S tion on this| a closed circle for a distance of| interests of the collective body. It} you mus‘ |the stage of history, Remember the | US! | . : ae. be ios Aueaiey moot 12,411 kilometers (8,135 miles). The |cannot be, because collectivism, so-|me, Mr. Wells, that you greatly Un-/ history of England in the Seven-| WO years, or have been employed j turned in immediately, no matter whole crew comprised Pilot Gromov, | Cialism, doesn’t deny, but combines, |derestimate the question of power, | teenth Century. in the State for forty weeks within Did not many say how little the collection. Engineer Filin, and Pilot Spirin. individual interests with the in- |that it is entirely omitted from your|that the old social order had de-|that period; workers who are on| (Continued from Page 1) “Another excellent method of se- Leon Levine All three were honored in addition | terests of the collective body. So- Sra at aty WI Ls ranted ene >}cayed? But was not Cromwell strike are disqualified from benefits; | 4... expectations of the strike coms curing donations is the Red Week-| (Allas Jack Reed) with the Order of Lenin. This is|cialism cannot disregard __the even with t # st vicing the ques, | needed, nevertheless, to finish it off | to get benefits they must register at | mittee, end. Red Week-ends for the Daily | the second time the title of “Hero |interests of the individual. Only a|are incapable of raising the ques-|)y forceo | State unemployment offices, and if Worker should be set aside in every district, and on these week-ends nothing should take precedence over the Daily Worker drive. They should be spent wholly in making collections. Broaden Canvassing “Every section of the cities, jhad gone to the New York police headquarters and offered himself to | Lt. Pieck. and Capt. McDermott of | the Radical and Criminal Squads as &@ spy on the workingclass move- | ment. From one to the other he had then been sent and gone to Capt. of the Soviet Union” has been con- ferred, having been granted only once before, to the airmen rescuing the Cheliuskiners, Pilot Gromoy was born in 1899 | and commenced flying as early as| 1917, He served the Red Army in 1919 and afterwards was engaged in | instructing flyers and testing new! socialist society can give the fullest Satisfaction to those personal in- terests. Further, socialist society gives the only stable guarantee of safeguarding the interests of sep- arate persons. In this sense there |4s no irreconcilable contrast be- tween ‘individualism’ and socialism. “But can you deny the contrast |tion of the seizure of power and |have not the power in their hands? | “At best they can offer to sup- |port some new class which takes | power, but they themselves cannot | |overturn the world. For this there is required a big class, which would | replace the capitalist class and similarly become complete master, “The fact is that classes which | must leave the historic stage are the | last to be convinced that their role | is finished.” | “It is impossible to convince them of this. They imagine that it is Possible to patch up fissures in the | rotting edifices of the old system, | any work whatsoever is offered, and the work refused, the worker is automatically disqualified from fur- | ther benefit payments. | For Genuine Social Insurance The workers Unemployment and | Social Insurance Bill around which the conference is called, was initi- “The first day was a--test of strength,” Hudson declared: ““The difficulties confronting. us were that practically all the ships in port had just arrived from sea, which meant that the crews on them were uh- prepared for the strike and eyen uninformed about it. ltr toa ibl di “The ships’ crews which had oe towns and neighborhoods should be Hunt of the USA Army Intelligence airplanes. G: between classes, between the class|@S the capitalists were. This class |that it is possible to repair and} ateq by the Communist Party and |dorsed the 'strike during .the past rplanes. Gromov has achieved a ; ¥ ri saye th bling edifice of the | ions t canvassed for funds. Workers Dept. on Governor's Island,—to Mrs. ent of the wealthy, the class of cap-|is the working class, | save e crumbling edifice o: *| dvafted after thot ds of workers | two weeks of . preparatio: are: at should be taught the difference be- rs. | number of splendid flights. In 1926 y uisan tween the capitalist press and the Daily Worker, and the necessity of giving financial support to the lat- ter. “We must, moreover, in seeking funds, solicit A. F. of L. locals, visit members of these locals in their homes. We must seek the donations of young people’s clubs, of every kind of workers organization. Easly, wife of the notorious spy- | herder Ralph Fasly of the American Civie Federationto the equally notorious and malodorous Jung of the American Vigilantes in Chicago, —and at last landed in the employ of Western Union Co. in New York, who gave him a job at 21 W. 45th Street, and who wanted him to at- tend the meetings of its messenger he accomplished a remarkable three-day speed flight through Eu- rope and in 1929 he made another European flight in the airplane Krilya Sovietov. Gromov was also commander of the giant airplane | ; Maxim Gorky. | | Engineer Filin and Pilot Sterrs- | man Spirin are both of working | class origin and received a uni-| jand plantations These people see nothing except ; | italists, and the class of the toilers, |of the proletarians? On the other |hand, the wealthy class, possessing |banks, factories, mines, transport, in the colonies. their own interest, their own striv- ings towards profit. They don’t subordinate themselves to the will of the collective body, but strive to “It is naturally necessary: to ac- |cept the help of the technical in- | telligentsia, and in turn to give them aid. But we must not think that | the technical intelligentsia can play en independent historic role. Re- making the world is a great, com- plicated, and painful process. A great class is required for this great work.” old. order. Therefore the dying classes take up arms, and begin by | all means to defend their existence | as the ruling class.” | Stalin continued: “First the main} thing for a revolution is the exist- ence of a social basis. This basis | for the revolution is the working clase, “Second, the necessary assisting | }Communist election platform, had planned the bill. It provides for the payment of benefits equul to local average wages in no case Jess than ten dollars a week for | every worker unemployed through | no fault of his own. | The Workers’ Bill, included in ihe | states: “For unemployment and so- sea yand will strike when. they ar- rive in. port. “Despite the difficulties the strike has been initiated. The strike is on. The results achieved are proof that the strike will develop to larger proportions.” Hundreds Join Pickets Hudson pointed out that. while i i y i 4 Y - | fort is cal ri sj | Cial insurance at the expe of | the capitalist newspapers were aj | versity education aft | Subordinate any group to their own| Wells further touched on the ques- | force, which ii called @ party by | cial v ‘3 Socialist Party branches and /Povs and also to smell OE WHO WAS | Revlon. “ROA TET rceey |oRaiAte “Any group. to Heir” owt |4idh ‘de Commusiae cropmparidy aH | the’ Conan This includes the |the employers and the State; for| tempting to minimize the. resulis members must be shown how the wen 8 oy Gig aver eicaitione ee of splendid flights to their credit | Wil. On the other hand, the class|the West. He thought that “under | intelligent workers, as well as those |the Workers Unemployment Insur- | 0f the first day fight against war and fascism, Ne 3 | against hunger and oppression, can be made more powerful by build- the telegraph messenger boys. He was sent by M:s. Easly to spy and have been awarded various honors at numerous times. Spirin wrote nine books on training pilots. of the poor, of the exploited, own- | ing neither factories, nor mills, nor banks, who are compelled to live modern conditions this propaganda | sounds very old-fashioned, because | it is propaganda of violent actions. | elements from the technical intel- | ligentsia who are closely connected | with the working class. The intel- | ance Bill; for emergency velief to the impoverished and drought- stricken farmers without restriction thus prevent it from spreading, hundreds more seamen joined the flying squads which were ‘contatt- ing the Daily Worker. They must on the Communist Party convention by selling their labor power to the |This propaganda of violent oyer-|ligenisia can be strong only if|by the government or banks; ex- pe ae crews and prepared them be. shown that it is in their in-|in Cleveland. He was given money capitalists, and who are deprived of | throw of the social order was suit-|united with the working class. If) ‘or action. teresit—in the interest of the unity of .the working class—to contribute to our drive. Experience has proved that we can get contributions from this source. Need Appeals At Meetings “Not a single meeting, lecture, debate or affair should be allowed to-go’ by without an appeal for funds,:-without a collection being “Competitions between clubs, trade unions, sections, units and districts must be employed fully. They must be real Socialist com- petitions—supported by hard, pro- ductive work. And reports of these competitions, reports of ac- tivities of all those engaged in the drive, should be sent to the Drive Editor of the Daily Worker. ‘They will be published. “If these suggestions are adopted I-feel“sure that our drive will quick- ly-pick up—that the $60,000 goal ‘will soon be reached. The necessity is: for quick and serious work.” for this trip and he actually did turn up in Cleveland and did make an unsuccessful attempt to get into the convention under the pretext of being a fraternal delegate from the |New York “Red Front” organization. Subjected to a thorough examina- tion he was forced to admit also that he had taken for himself some moneys which he had collected for worker's organizations, From his failure to consult any- body about his plan of “gathering information” (even, if his word is German CP. Urges ‘Thaelmann Actions | (Continued from Page 1) the possibility of satisfying their most elementary needs. How can such directly opposite interests and strivings be reconciled? As far as |I know, Roosevelt has not suc- | ceeded in finding the path towards reconciliation with these interests. | able when it was a question of the | undivided domination of one or an- other tyranny. But in modern con- |ditions, when the ruling system | will break down anyway, and is disintegrating, it is necessary to put | the emphasis not on insurrection, to strengthen the mobilization of | the masses in the coming weeks. | “The first line of struggle was | | our fight for our hero Dimiroff and | | the awakening of the proletarians | |of the world to what was happen- | accepted as to his intentions) it is| ing. This revolutionary. awakening, Under ‘New Deal’--Speed-Up Auto Profits Up 33 ‘Per Cent it goes against the working class it| is converted into nothing. | “Third, power is required as the} lever for the transformation. New | power creates a new legality, a new | order, which is a revolutionary orders.’ At the conclusion ofthe conyer- sation, Wells stated among other things: “At the present time throughout the world there are only two personalities whose every word is listened to by millions, you and Roosevelt. Others may preach what they will, no one either prints or listens to them. -I cannot yet ap- King Alexander and Barthou Killed clear that he knew that the Young Communist League or the Com- munist Party would never counte- {mance such a crazy, double-role scheme. Whichever way we may look upon Levine's actions, one thing is cer- | this world-encircling ac‘ion, is the | only thing which prevented a das- | | tardly, treacherous death for Thael- ;Mann, as John Scherr and other | | dear comrades died. | “We ask our’ brother section, | | therefore, in the face of Comrade | Grows, Wages Slashed to $13 N.R.A. Aids Auto Magnates to “Get Out of Red” |praise what has been done in your |country, where I arrived only yes- terday. But I have already seen happy faces, and healthy people, and I know that you are doing something very great. The contrast with 1920 is astonishing.” tain,—he is not to be trusted and he | Thaelmann’s immediate peril, to in- ers’ organization. | Description: He is 17 years old, of bloody ‘justice’ of the fascists and \is not to be accepted into any work- | CTeasé its mass action and to pre- | pare to deal a fatal blow to the| (This is the second of a series of short articles on the results of the Roosevelt “New Deai” as outlined —By Cutting Real W: ages of Auto Workers cent reduction in employment—but only a 36 per cent drop in produc- tion, equivalent to almost a 300 per New Orleans Sirikers Say Bag Company Pays emption of farmers from taxation; | cancellation of the debts of poor | farmers; for the Farmers Emer-.| gency Relief Bill.” (Continued from Page 1) | White Guard, the same charges | Were made against Communists. Armies Being Mobilized In Jugoslavia it was announced | that King Alexander would be suc- ceeded by a military dictatorship in the name of Prince Petar. It is feared that the country will be plunged into civil war. The armies are being mobilized, and ‘are. pro- ceeding towards the Itslian fron- tier. The situation is tense with “The shipowners will do’ every= thing possible to check the strike,” said Hudson. “But the seamen have the ball rolling and will keep it rolling.” Telegraphists to Vote Licensed officers and radio: op- erators were preparing .yesterday to intensify and extend their. cam- paign along the waterfront. Ed- ward Drollette,. chairman of. the licensed officers. section of the | strike committee, issued a call. to all ships’ officers to join the strike for better wages and working con- ditions. f ‘Members of ‘the American Radio Telegranhists Association: were pre- paring to meet to take’ a final vote on strike action. mae Oe The Rank and File Action Com- mittee of the International Longs shoremen’s Association, with head- quarters at 1 Union Square, issued a call to all longshoremen urging them to follow the lead. of the Brooklyn dockers of Local 808 of the I, the whole dictatorship of Hitl in “Today,” th ine of R ti ine Sete ee ee: bare peony Sgr anckied aE | Slavic descent and 4 ; ictatorship o: ler. in “Today,” the magazine of Ray- |cent increase in speed-up per i King Alexander, who was born in| “iruce” and struck in Bicknell May Elect about 6 ft. tall Aha WHERE ere “We propose that you Jaunch a| mond Moley, leading publicist for | worker. | Less Than $5 Weekly 1888, received his treining in the | With the seamen on the S. S. Steel Communist As Mayor, Says Indiana Manager INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 9.— Charles Statfeld, Communist elec- tion. campaign manager in this State, ‘yesterday declared that there is: a-strong possibility of electing a Communist Mayor in Bicknell, im- Portant coal mining community. With the place of Communist candidates on the State ballot vir- tually assured by the filing of nom- inating petitions far in excess of the legally required number, the Communist Party is launching an energetic election campaign. side from the State ticket, Com- tMunists are being put forth in many cities. and towns for Congressiona! and local offices. |200 pounds, heavy built; he has|St0fm of protest in the shape of blond hair and blue eyes and he | /<tters. telegrams and delegations to dresses neatly. | the consulates, the Hitler-embassies, | sii asy Sie the ae Mass Fight Urged for Scottsboro 9 Down with the Swastika | (Continued from Page 1) | “Furthermore, we propose that | you intensify the protest movement. against all ships flying thé swastika, | not only demanding that the swas- tika flags be hauled down, but by | refusing to unload any German ship | until the cap'am and crew agree jboys, to carry on ten times as much | Not to join in the terrorism directed work, to mobilize actions ten times | against German anti-fascists, and |@s great, and ten times as many,|to add their protests against the | ‘The cry must go up everywhere, | trial of Ernst Thaelmann. | Voicing the determination of the! “More than that, it is necessary, | American masses—a determination | on the day of Thaelmann’s sentenc- |which I have seen everywhere as|ing, to institute a wide boycott | T have toured the country with Mrs. against Hitler Germany and to \Ide Norris, Scottsboro mother—| refuse to unload any German ships. | \that the Scottsboro boys must be til tI = Rae ate tee Until that day there must be or. Roosevelt. Moley’s magazine cen- tends that the “New Deal” has Proven its success and deserves the support of the people in the coming Congressional elections. Each argument of Moley will be treated in'a separate article from day to day.—Editor.) 8 By MILTON HOWARD Raymond Moley, Roosevelt's ballyhoo specialist for the coming elections, boasts of the “success” of the “New Deal” in the auto industry. He exultantly lists the following profits as proof of this extraordi- nary “success”: Automobiles and Trucks—net income for the first six months of this year, $70,125,000, a 53 per cent increase over the same period last year. Automobile parts and tires: Net profit for the first six months In Department 84 in the foundry, one man ground 150 pipes an hour | last year. Now he must put out | 300, a 100 per cent increase in speed-up. In the Dodge plant one ‘line of men worked five days. Now one fourth of the force was fired, the number of days reduced to four— but the output has been maintained at the old rate, a terrific increase | in speed-up. In the Packard plant, the men work 11 hours a day despite the eight hour provisions of the code, | and their wages have been cut from 80 to 68 cents an hour. For this killing speed-up which breaks the bodies and the spirits ef the werkers, the auto workers received during the post year in actual weekly wages the munifi- cent sum of about $13 a week. NEW ORLEANS, Oc!. 9—Em- Dloyes of the Mente and Co. bag factory are on strike for better wages and hours. The employes charge the company with disregard- ing even code wages. They are worked, they declare, as much as fourteen hours a week overtime, with wages sometimes as low as $4.91 a week. President Mamie Lee of Local 2071, United Textile Workers, de- clares that the company pays wo- men from $4.61 {0 $7.90 a week and men from $6.30 to $10.90 a week. They are on a 54-hour week instead of the code 40-hour week. Company officials admit that they make no effort to pay the code minimum of $12 (the Southern minimum) and claim that they are not governed by any code, although they are part of {he textile industry. court of the Czars, where he was a page in the Russian court. He as- cended the throne of the country created by the Versailles treaty in 1921, and his rule has been marke by ‘the most vicious terror against the workers and peasants, and es- pecially against the Communist Pazty of Jugoslavia. Shet on Main Street The shooting took place in the famous main street of Marseilles, known as Cannebiere, a few mo- | ments after the playing of the na- | tional anthems of France and Jugo- slavig. automobile in the procession. The police declared they believed there |Was more than one assascin, as the fusillade of bullets was too great for one revolver. It was also. de- claved that the assassin may have had a submachine gun. . The king was in the fourth Red Drive Started By F. J. Dillon (Continued from Page: 1) Collins’ crass betrayals and his col- Jaboration with the strike-breaking Automobile Labor Board. Dilion’s record is in some respects even more foul-smelling than that of Collins. , ‘i In Flint, where he has been sta- tioned, Dillon was actively associ- ated with the betrayal of the gen- eral strike movement in~ March. When the workers of “the Flint ‘Fisher Body No, 1 plant struck in ene ec | i (Roosevelt's bland Secretary of ‘ May despite. the Washington set- ganized an unbroaken series of “ Barthou end the king were sit- who broke es ak =| ‘This determination must x "ye ‘i of 1934, $21,491,000 compared with | Laber Perkins boasts of an “2ver- &; ti tlement,: it was Dillon: who broke Fe Fates to Spe ce nae eae ea date; | se cy" poial-abmonatratons | ese een age auto wage of $26.” Not only | Pat Cush Will Speak’ [inte tie betion or pot umped in Glens Falls, N. Y. GLENS FALLS, N. Y., Oct. 9.— Ruby Bates, star Scottsboro defense witness, will tell the story of the | hideous frame-up of the nine in-| ithe White House, into the halls of | “@*vn*t the Hitler regime, the U. S. Supreme Court, the In connection with these funda- “court of last illusions” in Wash-| Mental issues and concrete measures ington, into the mansior. of Gov-|it is highly imporiant to achieve a jernor B. M. Miller at Montgomery, | United front with all Socialist or- Ala. Let them know of this deter- | 8@mizations, and groups, and with This is indeed rich success—for the automobile factory owners and the stockholders of motor shares. But how did the auto workers get along during this period ,of the Roosevelt N.R.A-New Deal? What does this boast reveal the hollew- ness of the myth of high auto wages, but the estimable Perkins | | forgets to mention that the auto workers get at hest only six months work a year, In Allentown Tonight ALLENTOWN, Pa., Oct. 9—Fol- lowing his two-day stay in Phila- into the bottom of the car when the shots were fired. They were carried, bleeding’ profusely, into a | Nearby volice station where they | beth died. Scores Trampled the strike when it was at its height, Former Scab F The May issue of the Rank-and File Federationist revealed that sev- eral years ago, Dillon, who is a pat- tern maker by trade, acted as a nd bringing |delphia and an engagement in| geores of people were trampled | Scab in a strike in Indianapolis. nocent Negro lads at a meeting to mination. Voice this demand to| #ll Socialist dis‘ricts and sections. | share did they get in this Roose-' their actual cash income to about | Easton, Patrick Cush, Communist | down when ve Ttioe Piehone ohio Needless to say, Dillon's anti-red be held here under the auspices of ‘them. The great international cam- | yeltian feast? $13 a week. y ieze t + the John Brown branch of the In-| ternational Labor Defense tomor- row night, in the Labor Temple, 61, Elm St. ‘The meeting is called to protest the recent decision of the Alabama Supreme Court denying a rehearing of the appeals for Haywood Patter- Shee Clarence Norris, and the st of Dec. 7 as the date for the Jegal murder of the two boys. paign for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann stands by the A group of workers in a C. C, C. | following chief slogans: | camp send $7—a sailor on a U. S.| “Immediate release for Thael- battleship sends $1—a worker in| mann! Duluth sends a quarter! All cry “Dewn with the Brown lynch that the $60,000 campaign must verdict! succeed! It will succeed if every “No more executions! reader does his part. Maks collec- | “For international solidarity in Save the Scottsboro boys! | A quick survey of the auto work- ers’ conditions reveals a picture of grinding speed-up and miserably inadequate wages. Speed-up.—A Ford auto worker reports in the Au‘o Workers’ News: “In the foundry in the cleaning de- partment two months ago, 38 men put out 1,600 exhaust pipes a day. tions, hold affairs, discuss the Daily the fight for the German anti- Worker! | fascists! Now only 6 men are forced to put out 1,000-1,200 a day.” An 88 per The fat increases u.der the N.R.A:-New Deal in auto profits are therefore wholly understandable. They came about as a result of ‘the fact that the N.R.A-New Deal per- mits the auto employers to impover- ish and plunder their workers. The | “success” of the New Deal in auto | has meant a slash in the real wages of the auto workers—to provide the 53 per cent increase in auto profits, ' candidate for Governor will speak here tomorrow night on his swing around the State. Cush will appear in Reading on Thursday, in Perkasie Friday, and in Lancaster on Saturday. The re- mainder of his schedule follows: York, Oct. 14; Harrisburg, Oct. 15: is said that almost 20,000 persons pushed against the police lines, at- tempting to get through. Petrus, the police say, sprang for- ward and fired a number of shots at the king and then at Barthou. Both were shot three times. A Shenendoah, Oct. 16; Pottsville, Oct. 17; Shamokin, O} 18; Wilkes- | Barre, Oct. 19 and 20, and Scranton, Oct. 21 and 22, mounted guard then struck. Petrus over the head with his saber and other police rushed in and shot him down the crowd to sieze the assassin. It drive will not stop the A: F. of L. rank and file from pushing forward their efforts to build an industrial union in the auto industry, organ- ized on a national basis under mili- tant rank and file control. = ~~ The success of the Daily Worker $60,000 drive means a rete ne newspaper, Donate and a tions today. Send the money im- mediately to the “Daily.”

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