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Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1934 Ford Explains Why Every Negro Should Vote Commu BAYS C. P. FIGHT FOR BREAD, LAND, EQUALITY Negro Communist Leader Siresses Necessity of ant Fight, Jim-Crowism, Lynch Terror, Hunger By JAMES W. FORD Secretary of the Harlem Section A life and death question faces the Negro people today at every turn. Either servile submission to capitalist and landlord violence and oppr alliance with the revolutionary Negro and white workers for the right to live, for decent conditions, for equality, for national liberation. There is no other choice. This question also confronts ev- ery Negro voter in the present elec- tion campaigns throughout country! In:election. campaigns, as in every struggle against wage cuts and for unemployment relief and social in- surance; for equal rights for the Negro people and against discrimi netion, two main camps face each other. On the one hand, the capi talists and landowners who rob and oppress the toiling population, white and black, their governments and their political parties, Repub- licans, Democrats, etc. On other hand, the revolutionary work- ing.class and its ical party, the Communist Party — the untiring champion. of the interests of all the, exploited toilers and oppressed _ groups, the organizer and leader of | their day-to-day struggles for bet- ter conditions for relief; against lynching, fascist terror and impe- Tielist war. Negro Voter Faces Choice “%fery Negro voter is faced with the choice of (1) endorsing his op- Préssors by voting for one or the other of the capitalist parties, or (2) rogievring his will to liberation By ‘voting for and helping to elect the Negro and white candidates on the’ticket of the Communist Party the Party equally of the Negro and white masses. The Communist Party does not come to the Negro masses only at election time. It is with them in their day-to-day struggles, every day, every week, every month, throughout the year. It is the only party that fights against lynching. jim-crowism, discrimination, and for complete equality and freedom for the. Negro people. It rallies the white masses to the defense of their Negro class brothers, as in the now famous world-wide mass fight for the Scottsboro Boys; for Angelo Herndon, the heroic Negro Commu- nist leader whom the Georgia lynch Mulers are..trying to murder on the chain gang; and for. hundreds of Other Negro victims of the lynch courts of the white ruling class, Discusses New Deal Negro Workers! You were told that the Roosevelt “New Deal” would bring you “salvation.” This infamous deception was peddled by Robert L. Vann, owner and editor of. the Pittsburgh Courier, and ethers who have shown themseives ever ready to sell out the Negro massess for a mess of pottage. Mr. Vann has ben rewarded for his at- tacks on the Scottsboro defense by a job in the national government— the same government which protects the capitalists and landowners in their robbery and oppression of the Negro masses; the government of the. capitalists and landowners. Has the “New Deal” bettered your conditions? Have Roosevelt's fake promises eased your hunger, your terrible suffering? Has the “New Deal” stopped lynching? Lynching, | as part of the increasing fascist at- tacks on the whole working class, has increased under the “New Deal.” Has the “New Deal” stopped job and wage discrimination against Negroes? Roosevelt has openly up- held lower wages for Southern white and. Negro workers. Mass firing of Negroes has taken place under the | N. R. A. codes. The cotton plough- uunder program has further impoyv- erished the Negro croppers in the South, while subsidizing the rich| iwhite landowners. Roosevelt’s Dem- jocratic Party is the party of the Southern lynch lords. The “New Deal” is the same crooked old deal of jim-crow cap- ism, of robbery and violent op- pre ‘toilers, only made worse by drive to fascism and war. Scores Betrayers wPhe Negro agents of the “New Deal” ballyhoo are trying to exploit the; anger of the Negro masses against the repeated treachery of the*Republican Party. But it is clear that there is no fundamental difference betwen these two parties of: decaying capitalism. The Negro masses are offared the insulting choice of supporting one or the other group of their oppressors. ~The Socialist Party is also ask- ing ‘you for your support. But where ‘are the Socialist leaders in the mass fight for the Scottsboro boys, for Angelo Herndon, against lynching the Against the | sty the! ion of the Negro and white | LEADS _ Open letter Is Issued to Officers: (Continued win these demands, they have re- fused to do so. Therefore, we are forced to conclude that the lead- ers of these organizations are not| interested in our welfare but are looking after and working hand in| hand with the shipowners. | Gentlemen, we realize the op- position which you will encounter against taking strike action on your ship. So we wish to clarify for you the situation existing on the At- lantic and Gulf Coast. I—Probably the first thing will occur to you is that the men on| the beach will scab on you. Your Port Captain, Port Engineer, and other officials of your company will} intensify this belief. We wish to} banish this fear as we assure you that the unemployed officers are well organized. They are on the crow policies of William Green and pone ao ne ey are 100 pen other A. F. of L. bureaucrats. They Seat mening the strike: | refuse to join the United Front| II—If the officials of your com- gle of Negro and white work- | Pany on of fey Pasi et en : a en; |Organizations fail to convince you| ear Bee ce ee \that the unemployed will scab on| gelo Herndon, for complete equality [you they will use the tirget of thé | from Page 1) | Submission to r , or the organized fight, in n ee so tttesetcuar cae | Hiecebal, | for the Negro people throughout the |" nis vicious thing is one of the | country and the right of self-deter- principal things we are fighting | mination for the oppressed Negro ation in the “Black Belt.” Are these friends of the Negro People? Cites C. P, Program Only the Communist election pro- gram represents the interests andj demands of all the toilers, black and white. Only the Communist program Points the way out of mass misery, starvation and oppression, the road of revolutionary struggle, for the election of working class represent- atives, for the ultimate overthrow jagainst. Hardly is there a licensed ‘officer who is not blackballed in one or more companies; the vast ma- jority unjustly so. Therefore, in order to stamp out this vicious practice, we have endorsed and in- corporated into our demands the Centralized Shipping Bureau, con- trolled by the elected rank and file members of licensed officers of or- ;Sanizations in the industry and also | |the unorganized. This will eliminate | |all discrimination and it. will be no \longer necessary for us to tramp | of the hideous jim-crow rule of the|from office to office humiliating exploiters, for the setting-up of a ourselves in the eyes- of the office workers’ and farmers’ government--| employees, of the shipowners and the dictatorship of the proletariat,|of all seamen. . which will wipe out unemployment | III—The shipowners’ officials will ‘and mass misery, race hatred, and | also tell you that the strike is over! national oppression. and that the I.8.U. has signd a Contrast the uncompromising | truce and that this. strike: is- called struggles organized and led by the | by the Communists. Communist Party for Negro rights| Well, the I.8.U. did sign: a truce, with the position of the Socialist, ‘tis true enough, but it was. only Republican and Democratic parties.| the officials and labor fakers who| Contrast the oppressive, jim-crow| signed it, selling out the member- | Policies of capitalism with the com-| ship of the .I.8.U. who have not| plete equality and freedom accorded | had a word to say about this truce. | by the Soviet Union to the naional|And today we find that the rank | | groups formerly oppressed by Tsar- | and file seamen of the 18.U. are) ism. in the forefront in taking. strike Abolish Race Hatred | action and striking ship after ship Contrast the capitalist policy of | despite all efforts of the 1.8.U. off- super-robbery and oppression of |Cials. They are in the. employ of minority groups, of condemning | the shipowners to fool the workers “Millions to starvation, with the | Nd are not interested in the work- | abolition of race hatred, national|¢S but only want to collect -dues oppression, unemployment arzl masa from hen to feather their own misery by the Soviet Union. | We licensed officers who are sup- Every bit of relief for the unem- a Bid "4 adi very | posed to have better than average ployed, every wage increase, every | intelligence wili not be fooled by recognition of the rights of the toil- | the cry of Communism. ing masses, has bean-won by deter. 7 i mined struggle, by the. fighting-uai IV—This strike will positively be (Continued fro Page 1) | ary workers. The cutting of relief will not keep financial support from | Daily Wo. New Methods Cited To Raise Drive Fund For Needs of ‘Daily’ Wherever There is Real Activity, Money for New! Daily Worker Can be Raised in Large Amounts, Stories From Districts Indicate ALT LAKE CITY, Utah.—The benevolent fathers of this community, feeling that the unemployed should be satisfied with what salt of the earth there is around here, hand out the munificent relief of $2 a week! But this place is also distinguished by its class-conscious revolution- the Daily Worker. “Although we are forced to live on $2 a week,” write the members ef Units 4 and 11, “we find that the Daily Worker must go on and there- fore we are sacrificing a few meals and tobacco in order to haye the ‘ser become the strongest weapon in organizing the workers ‘nd to counter-act the lying capitalist papers.” * . . SUCCESS STORY Beare: Wis,—The John Reed Club here is flying the flag ahead of all its brother clubs. in the United States. Not only did it chal- lenge the Trade Union Unity League to a Socialist competition in the Daily Worker $60,000 drive, but it has already come out the victor. It has raised $10.25—the T.U.U.L. nothing. It has, therefore, issued another challenge to the T.U.U.L. It now offers to raise $10 more against the TU.UL’s $15, Can such a challenge go unnoticed? And what have the other John Re¢d Clubs in the country to say? We hope they say it now! . . . IT WILL BE A HAPPY MARRIAGE ETROIT, Mich.—While other readers of the Daily Worker fail to tie up the $60,000 camraign with their day-to-day activities, a worker in this city has brought it to the fore in a unique fashion. The Daily’ Worker urges those of its readers who are seeking the bliss of married life to study this recipe for getting funds for the drive. “I am sending you $4—the whole letter reads—‘“that was collected | for the Daily Worker. At the time when everyone was enjoying them- selves at the wedding of Comrades Manuel and Elsie Diez, who got ma:- ried Sept. 29, Comrade Frank Krajack, the father of the bride, gave a speech and took up this collection in behalf of the Daily Worker.” * . * and fari THEY DON’T SPEAK THE LANGUAGE 'UPERIOR, Wis.—It is now some time since Tyomies Employees (who get out the largest Finnish paper in the United States) challenged all the other foreign-language newspapers to a Sotialist competition in the drive. But the other foreign language newspapers evidently must still be trying to decipher the Tyomies’ letter. No answer has come in. But the Tyomies keep on their good work. They have already con- tributed twice—they now contribute again. Their latest amount is $14.83. This is certainly a language that the other foreign lansuage news- papers ought to understand! * . . A COMRADE’S AGREEMENT ILEVELAND, Ohio.—As an example of initiative we have the cases of Cleveland and Detroit, which have gone to the extent of drawing up | regular contracts of the Socialist competition between them in the Daily Worker drive. Article two reads—The competing districts are to ex- change delegations of three comrades each, who are to be given’a place of proletarian honor on the platform at the respective District Lenin meetings. These delegates are to be selected from the winning unit by the. winning section .in each district. Article three informs us that the expenses of both delegations are to be paid by the losing district. The Daily Worker urges them both on! ‘New Deal’ Aided Steel Trusts (This is the third 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 magazine con- tends that the “New Deal” has proven its success and deserves the support of the people in the coming Congressional elections. To Raise Profits By Slashing Real Wages of Steel Workers ‘Moley Strives to Hide Of Roosevelt N.R.A. Program Wall Street Character! steel workers’ earnings received a crushing blow through the drop in steel production, so that total actual wages received in weekly pay envelopes by steel workers fell 35 per cent in the space of four weeks. The ability of steel work- ers to buy food, clothing, pay rent, ete., dropped by one third during this short period of New Deal Each argument of Moley will be blessings! treated in a separate article from But how did the Steel Trust day to day.—Editor.) ne * By Milton Howard In_all his pre-election ballyhoo for Roosevelt, Raymond Moley, the Propaganda specialist for the “New Deal” in his magazine “Today,” Strives to conceal the capitalist class character of the Roosevelt program. In the steel industry, for ex- ample, Moley cites the following profits as proof of the “succéss” of make such huge profits when pro- duction was declining? The answer is again found in the class character of the Roosevelt pro- gram, The answer is to be found in the following remarkable data compiled in the Steel and Metal Notes of the L.R.A. for August: ‘Thanks to the speed-up, the steel companies are able under the code to pay extremely low wages (despite slight increases in the New Deal: A net profit of $16,094,000 for the first six months of this year, contrasted with a deficit of $52,000,000 for the first six months of 1933. Here then is an enormous in- hourly rates) per ton of steel produced, the amount being $12.50 per ton as compared with $17.50 in June 1932 before the Roose- velt N.R.A. New Deal began to take effect. of Negro and white workers ene| Gaedee ae ert. poor inners inspired, organised and | we seen the deck and engine room Pees hie ge Party. Vote ticensed officers united in a com- . 3 mon struggle for our rights. We For Unemployment Relief and | see it in this strike. Not only that, Social Insurance at the expense of | put we are united ‘shoulder to gece pares oie te | shoulder with all seamen and before | ync! :|long we will be united with Jim-Crowism, for unconditional | joneshoremen as well. a ae equality for the Negro People every. We do not claim that we will tie where’ and the right of self-deter- up all ships at once. But we are mination in the “Black Belt”! {not worrying about a few seabby For ee he to na bea free- ne Beene prey because they will lom of speech, press and assem- | be tied up on the other side by the blage, for the right to strike against International of Seamen and Har- wage cuts and speed-up! bor Workers, so Mr, Shipowner will Against Jim-Crow and Lynch Law find his ships scattered all oyer the Capitalism! For Bread, Land, Equal- | world rotting at their moorings un- ity and Freedom! | til our demands are met. Sears | Gentlemen, we sincerely urge . . | your support to shorten this strug- Marine Strike |ele to win better wages and condi- tions for ourselves. Many licénsed ‘ officers have already struck and are G Se bo di* the picket line. ans on ‘a ar | V—This strike is a test ‘case | against arbitration. We find that the workers who have struck in many great industries who have ‘ac- an oil tanker, which arrived here aun ngs nes not ea! Tuesday night, said that when the | nything. our slogan “No ship came in the company shipping | Arbitration.” The eéyes of all in- master came aboard and plastered | dustrial unions are onus. They are up a no-strike notice issued by the eee panied Lota parece leaders of the International Sea- | ®nd morally. ey ir en- men’s Union on one of the bulk-|tire resources at our command. heads. A little later, however, sea- | Therefore, we say, with the help we jmen came aboard and advised the are given by the workers. of this crew that the strike was on. The |Country, the shipowners cannot |pumpman immediately stopped | force us to accevt arbitration. They work and ten of the men walked | Cannot starve us. out and cannot j off. More came later. make us go back to work against | It was learned yesterday that of- | out will until our demands are met. | ficials of the Seamen’s Church In-| 0, gentlemen. consider this: let- | stitute were attempting to ship a|ter. Strike your ships with your | scab pumpman and firemen aboard | crews. With all of us doing our the Tidewater. [pate a speedy -victory will be as- | Daily Worker Sold pet ate : | Seamen also reported that ship- | If you decide to strike your ship, ping agencies in Bayonne, N. J.,|Teport to our headquarters by tele- were attemptnig to ship young, in- | unas Oe ate can send out expec cure youths aboard the ha EDWARD F. DROLETTE. The walls and windows along the | | waterfront on South Street were | literally plastered with strike calls and strike bulletins issued by the | strike committee. | Copies of the Daily Worker were being sold everywhere. The Daily | Worker is pasted every morning on two large windows of vacant stores (on South Street. There are always | crowds of seamen gathered in front | | of these windows reading the strike | news. Ryan as Strikebreaker | Joseph P. Ryan, president of the and: jim-crow oppression? The So- Chairman, Licensed Officers Section, United Front Strike Commiitee, 140 Broad St.. N.Y.C. c 505 W. 19th St.. N.Y.C. 15 Union St., Brooklyn Bowling Green 9-9480. Red Sunday Planned In Cleveland To Gain Large Vote for C. P. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 10.—-The crease. in profit months during which the. Roosevelt N.R.A. program was in operation. Surely, the Roosevelt “New Deal” was “successful” for the big Wall Street steel monopolies. But it is precisely this tremendous increase in profits for the employers that makes the Roosevelt New Deal & curse and an intensified yoke of exploitation for the workers. The “success” of the Roosevelt New Deal in increasing profits has also been a “success” in driving down the real wages of the work- ers! within twelve|up by the N.R.A. code agreements, Since the price of steel was kept staying at 253 cents a pound for June, compared with 256 in 1929, the secret of the tremendous rise in steel profits during the last year of the Roosevelt New Deal is re- yealed—it was by permitting the Steel Trust to increase its exploita- tion of the steel workers that Roosevelt's program blossomed forth with such profit increases! Here then is the class meaning of Roosevelt's N.R.A. vote for the Roosevelt New Deal is to vote for the kind of intensified . To! democracy within the trade unions. cialist leaders sabotage the fight for Negro liberation with the argument that the oppression of the Negro people is of no immediate concern .to the white workers, They deny the Tight of the Negro majorities in the “Black Belt” of the South to con- trol the government of that terri- tory.. They support the bosses in denying these Negro majorities the right of self-determination, to the point of separation, of those terri- tories in which they are a majority ofthe population. They objectively support the oppression of these | International Longshoremen’s Asso- | Cleveland District of the Commu- | ciation, continued to play the. role nist Party issued a call today to | of strikebreaker. He asserted that all Party members and sympathiz- |he would replace the men who &rs to set aside next Sunday asa |struck in Brooklyn in sympathy |Ted election day. From ten in the | with the seamen of the Steel Mar- Morning until two in the afternoon, | iner andthe Lammot duPont. Ryan | Selected streets will velar ures | announced that he will endorse no | convince workers that they ‘ i should vote Communist. | strike and that he is awaiting a re- The Claveland Dieter hax ord | Port of President Roosevelt’s com-| 4755 ogg eentes of tne g oy | mittee, which is supposed to be | Derg rd adh _ ne issue of the Daily Worker on Oct. | studying dock conditions on the |28. The wind-up of all electi | East and West Coasts. ? Beg ‘snupheeaoead | 7 | activity will come on Nov. 4, when | _ Representatives of the Rank and } ‘ | Earl Browder will speak at the | File Committee of the I. L. A. were | Masonic Temple at 2 o'clock, on the | at the piers during the day urging \issues that confront the workers of Wage slave robbery which has. given the masses _new hunger and the Wall Street monopolies new profits. The Communist Party alone rep- resents the interests of the working class. A vote for the Communist Party is a vote against the New Deal wage slavery, While the Steel Trust stockhold- ers and bondholders were reaping new profits this is what was hap- pening, according to data prepared by the Labor Research Association, to the wages of the steel workers: “From June to July this year Briehl Urges Fight Against Mass Layoffs In Schenectady Speech in the plants of the General Elec- tric Company which have been tak- ing place for the past two weeks. More than 600 workers have been from the refrigerator de- partment and many more dismissals SCHENECTADY, Oct. 10.—Fred Negro majorities by a small minor-| the dockers to strike in sympathy Aty of capitalists and land-owners.| with the seamen and for their own | Wielding influence in the A. F. of v demands and. not to rely on: arbi- | TG" unions’ they support the jim-| tration maneuvers. i Ohio, Briehl, Ulster County dairy farmer who is Communist candidate for Put the Daily Worker First on Your Political Calendar! Attorney General, speaking here, urged resistance to the mass layoffs are expected in the coming weeks, | Briehl has held several highly suc- Anti Green Vote Seen To Be Strong) (Continued from Page 1) the meeting refers to him as mem- ber. (Special to the Daily Worker) | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 10 | —Walter Citrine, a leading member of the British General Counci! of Trade Unions, as predicted, has been imported by A. F. of L. offi- cialdom in an attempt to give an international chsracter and more ef a moral justification for their anti-Communist position and acts, as his speech yesterday morning to the convention clearly showed. “Free trade unions cannot exist under any dictatorship,” said Cit- rine in his opening remarks, “and the trade union movement is against all dictatorships — black, brown and red. All dictatorships must be crushed,” he continued. In regard to the German situa- tion, Citrine said that the Interna- tional Federation of Trade Unions could not tell the German move- ment what to do, but that before Feb. 27, that is, before the fascist suppression drive of Hitler; the German trade unions had decided to take all available measures against fascism. The Reichstag fire, he said, pre- vented these measures being taken. In connection with the résponsi- bility for the Reichstag fire, Cit- rine could not bring himself to make a categorical statement, al- though the International Inquiry Commission, holding hearings in his own country, has established the major facts. Citrine said that the Reichstag was “probably” set afire by fascists. Delegates Cool to Citrine The body of delegates appeared to be taking his anti-red diatribes and his anti-Soviet Union insinua- tions rather coolly. Following Citrine, President Green made only formal remarks conveying greetings of the conven- ton to the British Trades Union Congress. B. Charney Viadeck of the Jewish Forward Association greet- ed the convention, taking the op- Portunity to slander the Soviet Union by saying that the German, Austrian, and Russian workers were all suffering in the torture. cheins of tyranny and fascism. His re- marks appeared to make little im- Pression, half the delegates walking out before he concluded, Nothing like an official or even verbal action has as yet been taken by this convention that gives en- dorsemont to President Green’s re- cent letter to the affiliated unions calling for the expulsion of Com- munists, Rank and. Filer Scores Gangsterism SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 10. Following is the text of the | speech of James P. Dallas of the Seattle Cereal Workers Local 19169: | “When I left Seattle there was | a labor struggle in progress. Itj Was receiving the headline atten- tion of all the newspapers. Anti- labor employers in that vicinity were following it closely. Groups| of working men were being beaten | up, taken for a ride, their homes raided and in one case bombed. | You ask who was the dastardly employer doing all this, and I say) there was none. The Teamsters | and Brewers were locked in fratri- cidal combat while the employers ; looked gleefully ori, I am talking ! about my own home city, Seattle, where I have lived for twenty | years, “Many of the brothers engaged in this disgraceful business are my personal friends and acquaintances, | When I asked as to the cause of this trouble I was invariably an- swered something like this: ‘The teamster boss, Dave Beck, ganged up on the Brewery Workers and threw them out of the breweries. Now some of the Brewery Work- ers have a contract with one of the breweries and are fighting | back, using some of Beck’s own! methods on him. Why don’t you stop it? Den’t you know that this is ruining organized labor in the Northwest? Stop it—ba, ha. You can’t do that. If one of us got up and citicized Beck or his poli- cies in meeting, we would be knocked down before we got started.” For Trade Union Democracy “Such is the low state to which trade union democracy has sunk in: the Northwest. The rank and file of ‘the Teamsters and Brewers do not want to fight each other. They have enough to do with their em- Ployers, but they have little to say about the matter, and so this shameful business goes on, to the detriment of all organized iabor in the Northwest. “What is happening in Seattle is going on all over the country. Seattle has few gangsters compared to the larger industrial centers, and this is only a minor case, compared to the big time rackets you all know about. There is only one cure for such conditions—greater “The question being brought up here for the executive council is @ matter of whether labor is to have the right to organize in the group it wishes to. I believe thai is right. I believe that as a mem- ber of the rank and file union, the Brewers should be consistent in this matter, but I want to point out further that this is no cure for this struggle; it is only the beginning, and nct until the trade- unions are returned to their mem- bers, not until we have a rank and file democracy throughout the trade-union movement, will this matter be settled.” The success of the Daily Worker $60,000 drive means a better, larger cessful meetings in this section dur- ing the past week despite inclement. weather. newspaper. Donate and get dona- nist LOCAL OF DEFEATS U.MW.A. ATTEMPT : TO OUST LEADER Stoolpigeons of the Lewis. Machine Fail in Effort To Force Re-Election to Beat Stanevich In Russellton Local PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. the U.M.W. of A. are intensi 10.—Rank and file miners in fying the fight here to defeat the Lewis machine in the coming elections and instal thei¥’ own slate of officers in District No. 5, their latest victory the snowing under of district Workers’Enemies Exposed A CORRECTION In referring to the exposure of Leon Levine (Jack Reed) yesterday, the Daily Worker said, in part: “According to his own story, which he prefaced with a statement that his intention was not to give any information for an expose of the espionage apparatus of {he cap- italists and their government. . . .” This should have read: “Accord- ing to his own story, which he pref- aced with a statement that his in- tention was not to give any infor- mation, but only to get information, for an expose of the espionage ap- paratus of the capitalists and their government. .. .” APL. Group Backs Marine Strike (Continued from Page 1) meetings a demand should be made that a speaker from the United Front Strike Committee should be granted the floor to hear -repor's of the strike, to pass motions to go out on strike here and to elect a strike committee from each local to serve on the United Front S‘rike Committee. “Silas B. Axtell, Joseph P. Ryan and the rest of the top officials of the I. 8. U. and the I. L. A. are merely serving the interests of the ship owners and the corporations by accepting their proposals for arbi- tration. These same officials, who with crocodile tears complain that Section 7-A is not lived up to by the employers, are pursuing the same tactics as the employers do when they supply: men from the unions to serve as scabs on the jobs of strikers. “The rank and file of the I. S. U. and the I. L. A.. certainly realize that such, use of scabs can only serve to weaken the fighting front of all marine workérs for their. de- mands. The A. F. of L. rank. and file committee calls upon eyery I. 8. U and I. L. A. member to take up officials’ attempt to oust Mike @Stanevich as president of Russell- ton local. Stanevich was laid off along with over 150 other miners in’ the “Re= {public shaft at Russellton. this |summer, among them many of the | best local fighters. Recently stools |of the Lewis machine boasted. that they would obtain 500 signatures to |@ petition asking a new election of |local officers, but were forced. to isubmit the petition with only. 33 names inscribed. ; | Lie About Strength At the local meeiing which was to deal with the election, district representatives appeared and tried |to build up the sentiment against Stanevich, lying broadly of the large number of members who op- posed him. Ted Gaul, one of the local union \Officers and a rank and file fighter, finally gained the floor and de- manded that a vote be taken..The Tesult showed a total.of 120 to 62 ‘upholding Stanevich and repudiat-. ing the new. election which Fagan | Was trying to force upon them. 1,000 at Mass Meeting A mass meeting held-by rank and file leaders in Export last Saturday brought 1,000 miners from nearby shafts out to hear the platform ‘of \the Sloan-rank and file slate. The speakers were Chas. Nolker, presi- dent. of Curtisville local and cane |didate for District 5 president, ope ‘posing Fagan; Scotty O'Hara, Rene ton local president and candidate for district vice-president; Ted. Gaul, candidate for sub-district |board member; Stanevich, |Seott of Yukon, Mike Smetonic of | Curtisville, and Gatty Spagnoli’ of Export. i | These mass meetings of the rahk and file are being held every Sun- ead in different parts of the dis+ |trict fields, meeting with enthus Siastic response everywhere, President Fagan Alarmed President Pat Fagan is so alarmed jat the growing support of the rank. land file slate that he has sent jout. warnings against U.M.W.A, members attending meetings or |conferences of local delegates, | threatening to’ finé heavily anyone | Who disobeys this mandate and at~ |tends the “Bolshevik meetings.” | An indicator of the sentiment which is crystallizing around the janti-Lewis election fight was the jaction of a Tylerdale local union, near Washington, Pa. Last pay day |an organized group of local leaders jdistributed 100 copies of the “Coal Digger,” organ of the rank and file, the proposals made here in their The following local mecting lengthy locals. |discussion took piace on the issue “Action should start at once. I./of rank and file control and the S. U. manned ships and I. L. A. !paper, climaxing in the adoption of gangs on the docks should come a resolution endorsing the “Coal out on strike now, Such action will | Digger” as the official organ of the help in developing and widening the | local union. strike and giving courage toI.S.U.| In the Allegheny Valley Central and I. L. A. docks on the Atlantic |Labor Union, where rank and file Coast to join in this great battle. | delegates usually defeat the ma- “The A. F. of L, rank and file |neuverings of A. F. of L. misiead- commi‘tee calls upon all local |érs, the latter scored a partial de-+ unions and rank and file groups to |feat of the rank and filers in the send letters of protest to Silas B.|case of the “Oust the Communists” Axtell, International Seamen's’ etter of Wm. Green. The missive Union, 80 Broad Street, and to Jo-|Was “tabled” at the last meeting, seph P. Ryan, International Long- jfrom where it can be reconsidered shoremen’s Association, 265 West |Unless rank and file delegates or- 14th Street, demanding ihe imme- ae and pass a motion consign- diate stopping of the forcing of 1, |" it to the wastebasket. S. U. and I. L. A. members to serve as scabs in the place of the strikers. The committee also urges every local and rank and file group to |The U.M.W.A. local union of |Frederick, Col., recently passed a ‘unanimous motion endorsing — the |Tank and file slate headed» by John rs Sloan, of Westville, Ill, according strikers. + tova letter received at the office of aaa GTR ‘the “Coal Digger.” District officials Ce ~ . ‘tied to defeat-.the move by at- Uprisings eport jtacking the rank and file slate as Jia “gang of reds and. Communists.” pa : All Cabinets Meet. In Mine No. 10: of Library, Pa, | miners are forced to work a full day, \for a dollar or often less. One mem- |ber of U.M.W.A. local 73 recently. help raise funds and relief for the (Continued from Page 1) was learned that his passport was a forged one, supposed to have been issued by the Czechortovakian con- sulin Zagreb, Even his name and place of origin is now in doubt, and he is not known to have been prom- inent in any of the national minor- jworked four and one-half days to |draw $4.92, on which he must keep alive a family of nine. | i * Miners are. compelled to spend 60 cents on each shot to break a |Slate vein 27 inches thick, and there |43 so much rock to gob that a living | Wage cannot be made. aS An ity movements in Jugoslavia. The Complaints to the company only clue the police now have is*evince the retort, “If you don’t like a tattoo on his left arm depicting it get the hell out of here,” while a skull and crossbones with a royal | district officials, after “investigat« crown, under which were the words ing,” reported that no action can “Liberty or death.” \be taken as the company is living This is the emblem of the Mace- | up to its agreement. ~ ? donian comitadjis, a national revo- | lutionary group who fought against Alexander's tyranny. | In en effort to maintain the_ corrupt and bestial rule of Alex-_ ander, his 11-year-old son Peter is. being rushed by train from Paris | to Belgrade. Three regents have | Madison County Heads. Try to Force Workers Notto Vote Communist CHICAGO, TIL, Oct, 19—In_ line been chosen to rule for him during | his minority. “Efforts are being niade by the French police to destroy all photos and moving pictures of the actual assassination, because they seem to have much to cover up. Seven films of the assassination, which were being shipped today on the liner Bremen to the United States, were seized by French authorities. One of the things the French authorities wish to conceal is the | fact that the police fired indiscrim- inately into the crowd of spectators, wounding men and women aiter the assassin fired his shot into the auto carrying Alexander and Bar- thou. They probably have other reasons for concealing the actual deed, which has not yet been ex- tions: today. Send the money im- mediately to the “Daily.” ~ with the efforts of Republican and |Democratic State officials to rule the Communist Party ‘off the State | ballot, officials in- Madison County |are making -similar efforts to pre- vent workers from -voting- Commus \nist in November, ‘ The Board of Elections in Madis son County has announced frankly that it will make every effort “td find grounds” for preventing thé appearance of Communist candi+ dates on the ballot despite the fact that 3,018 signatures were filed heré last week as against the 2,864 res quired by law. The efforts of the election. aus thorities here is explained by the fact that, several of the county cany plained. didates of the Party have a fight ing chance for election.