The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1934 Workers Organize Election Fight Against Gov. Lehman PLAN OPPOSITION 1C. P. OF MICHIGAN TO A.F.L. SUPPORT NAMES 80 ON SLATE | OF RICH BANKER IN STATE ELECTION | Files State and County Tickets—John Anderson, Acting to Guarantee Employer Profits Nazi-Japanese | Whitney, Brotherhood Chie f,|Report Shows Collaboration Admits Growing Joblessness Living Costs Is Revealed But Fights’ Against Insurance Soar Upward Preparation for Joint Attacks Rank and File Who Demand Fight for Basic Foodstuffs Rise,| War Action Against | Better Wages, Against Roosevelt Plan Federal Survey Soviets Is Studied | = aye Indicates By a Worker Correspondent MILWAUKEE, Wis.—On a na- , pointed out in his speech, that the PARIS, Oct. 12. — The “Pariser Brotherhood chiefs were responsible | Leader of Progressives in M.E.S.A.’ Heads and Morgan Investments Slate—Raymond Runs for Senator Tageblatt” has published an article hich, in describing the current cation of many young Japanese Governor Herbert A. Lehman, who was elected in 1932 tional campaign tour, Grand Chief Al. Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, spoke to three el pliers Sis tepeaegrdins | Despite a slight decrease in the two passed. But the rank and file know better. It was the men on the job that forced the issue when Whit- WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 12— week period ending Sept. 25, retail |food prices were still 29 per cent| DETROIT, Oct. 12—The Communist Party has of- / |students in Berlin and the number |B. of R. T. Lodges at Milwaukee, higher than on April 15, 1933, be-| with the approval of Wall Street on an “economy” platform, | of young Nazis who are now being and who has their endorsement for re-election as a reward | ‘aught Japanese, helps to fill in the for faithful service, yesterday received the support of the reactionary officials of the New York State Federation of | Labor. Unabashed by the fact that they were joining with the National City and the Chase National Banks, a committee composed of Joseph P. Ryan, head of the New York Cen- tral. Trades and Labor Council; George Meany, president of the State Federation of Labor, and John M. O'Hanlon, secretary treas- urer of the Federation, announced their endorsement of Lehman de- spite his well-known anti-labor record. The statement of the three de- clared that Lehman's record has given “ample proof of his sincere and consistent devotion to the wage earning hosts of the state.” Lehman’s record before and after taking office is the best indictment of his supposed love for labor. A big banker himself, he is the per- Sonal representative of Wall Street at the State Capitol. On all issues that confront the workers he has attacked their interests and sup- ported the bankers at the expense of the working class. = He has increased the taxation on workers. He has cut the wages of the Civil Service employees. He has refused to tax the big trusts. Last | “Year he brutally broke the milk ike of the poor farmers. He has cut the pensions of old people. In 1930 he “arbitrated” the needle Strike in the interests of the bosses. He has cut unemployment relief. He has attackéd the Workers Un- employment and Social Insurance Bill. He stands for fake unemploy- | ment insurance schemes that set up individual company reserves, thus breeding company unions. The labor fakers who endorsed | him. do not represent the real wishes of the rank and file of the | A. F. of L. Ryan has long been a member of the State Temporary Bmergency Relief Administration, which has been instrumental in preventing the workers of New York from obtaining adequate re- lief. With Schoelkopf, the labor- hating head of the T.E.R.A., he has been responsible for the repression | and clubbing of workers who tried | to. organ’ze on relief jobs. y To obtain unemployment insur- anes, higher wages and union con- ditions, the rank and file of the A. F. of L. should support I. Am- ter, the Communist candidate for Governor, and the rest of the Communist slate. Only the Com- munist Party fights at all times for the rights and the demands of the workers. New Reports Link Hitler to Shootings (Continued from Page 1) declares that German fascism may hhave had a hand in the assassina- tion. He points out that King Alexander was on his way to strengthen the alliance W ith France, which would interfere with the German fascist war plans in the Balkans. i The assassin was armed with Specially-inade Gormen weapons. ‘The German fascists inspired the murder of Premier Duca of Ru- mania, earlier this year, in order | to speed the organization of the pro-German fascist “Iron Guard.” Mussolini has made no open dec- Jaration on the anti-Italian rioting in Jugoslavia, but news is seeping out. of Italy of heavy troop move- ments to the Jugoslavian border. In France. the police arrested two men, Sylvester Malny, alias Sylvester Chalny, and Nalis Eti- komir, alias Nikomer, alias Yara- “slaw Novak, charged with being im- “plicated in the plot to assassinate King Alexander. The men are be- ing tortured by the French police . Who want to utilize their “confes- sions” in order to strengthen the ease of French imperialism in the reshuffling of war aliiances that is ravidly following King Alex- ander’s death. Though the facts attained have not been published, sources close to French authorities declare that -othe. plot has international rami- fications. involving ¢fforts to plunge France, Germany, Italy. Jugoslavia, “Rumania and Czechoslovakia into Wer, ~-‘The two susvects were arrested | at the Swiss frontier, as the po- | lice elaimed they were attempting fo'flee from France. The fact is, howéver. the Freneh police have been raiding the homes and _per- “$ecuting all national minority lead- | “ers from Jugoslavia now residing | in France. | “2The French police declare there | is a connection between the as-| sassination of the fascist Premier | “Dollfuss of Austria and King Alex- | ander of Jugoslavia. This directly | invoives Hitler. | The police further declared that * the two accomplices of Kelmen,| the assassin, are members of a secret society that met under the ' protection of the Nazis in Munich, | Germany. This indicates that they received weapons and support from the central headquarters in Munich men was to attempt the assassina- at the Bropn t they were ‘sent to Zurich, Switzer- | Jand, where they met a man who we | Lrotzkyites Workers’Enemies Exposed David Genender, of Cleveland, foreground of the picture of Ger- n-Japenese collaboration m war, This article states that, “the Uni- versity of Berlin has enlarged its for Far East seminar. In former times, this seminar’s only function was to teach Oriental languages, but it has now become a Nazi school for Propaganda in the Far East. “The number of German students studying Japanése has continually grown. While only a small fraction of all the German students in col- Ohio, a member of the Auto Work-| lege may ever hope to find jobs, ers Union, has been exposed as a| the future of those who learn spy working for the Automobile Japanese is assured. Manufacturers Acsociation and also for the federal government. Born in Russia, City of Braslow, he enlisted in the U. S. Army, and is a member of the American Legion Post 26 of Alaska. At pres- ent he was communicating with the Department of Military Affairs, In- vestigation Division, Harrisburgh, Pa. He joined the Baker Rauling | Local of the Auto Workers Union | in May, 1934, but, immediately aroused suspicions and was taken | under investigation, which resulted in definite proofs of his being a spy. Descripiion: Age, 45; height, about 5 ft. 7 inches; weight, about 175 pounds; brown eyes, slightly bald; dark complexion. Claims Pitts- burgh as his home, ‘but may be expected to operate also in Chi- cago and Detroit. Peter Stevens, of Massillon, Ohio, has been expelled from the Com- munist Party as a renegade, who joined the counter-revolutionary and began peddling their paper, the “Militant,” when he was called to account for his inactivity and failure to carry out Party assignments. In 1930 he joined the Young Com- munist League at Buffalo, N. Y. He was dropped in 1932 for inac- tivity and self-conceited refusal to work together with other Party members. He was readmitted al) the beginning of 1934 and placed on six-months’ probation, the main | \requirement of which was revolu- tionary activity inside and outside the Party, as for example, in the Bulgarian and Macedonian mass organizations, of which he was a member, He showed his insincerity by criminally neglecting all as-| signments and tasks. He is now trying to cover up his failure to do revolutionary work by aligning him- self with the Trotzkyite renegaces of revolutionary phrase-mongering, but counter-revolutionary deeds. Description. He is of Bulgarian or Macedonian nationality (at dif- ferent times he has claimed to be both); about 23 years of age; height, 5 ft. 11 inches; weight, about 140 pounds; long, black hair, brown eyes, dark complexion; speaks with a slight foreign accent and stam- mers a little. 1.8. U. Chiefs Put Scabs on N.Y. Ships (Continued from Page 1) feeding kitchens on the New York waterfront for strikers. The meeting will be addressed by Clarence Hathaway, editor of the| Daily Worker; Roy Hudson, chair-| man of the strike committee; | J. Olgin, editor of the Morning Frei heit; Jack Stachel, assistant secre tary of the Trade Union Unity League; Lloyd Stroud, member of the West Coast strike committee, | and others. The cast of the play | Stevedore will perform special num- | bers. | Speaking on the importance c! building up a strong relief appa. | ratus for the strike, Roy Hudson, | strike chairman, said: | “Without a doubt, the present | marine strike is an advance devel-| opment of the American. working | class. These marine workers have ljearned from the example of the West Coast strike and the textile strike. They have set up their own rank and fil committees. | “The men are picketing the piers, | closing scab agencies, striking ships. | They are fighting against the speed- | up, starvation and disaster. ‘Their | struggle is a struggle of the entire| working cass. | “In order to help them win, the W. I. R. Marine Strike Relief Com- | mittee has set up an apparatus to} feed the men. This work must be! supported and the feeding of the| men must continue. Support the strike, Send all contributions to the W. I. R., 870 Broadway.” The Daily Worker can Better Aid | Your Struggles if You Build its Circulation. gave them money. His identity was | not revealed. He instructed them | to go to Paris and meet another | man, unknown to them, who ar- | rived from South America. | They met tiis individual near | the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and re- ceived detailed instructions on how | to carry out the assassination. Kel- there, they were to try to finish | the job in Paris. 1 “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- anese are not expert aviators. Therefore, Germany springs into the breach as instructor. “The feeling in the University of Berlin's seminar in Japanese is that war between Russia and Japan will come, and come soon. Japanese and German students feel themselves to be comrades-at-arms, and together pore over possible sites of victorious slaughter on the ordnance maps, as if war already were an actuality. “Moreover, these Japanese stu- dents are very welcome guests among Nazi circles, and they them- selves are the only foreign student to whom this strange form of gov- ernment, so abhorrent to all other cultured people, is agreeable.” Plan to Fire Strike Headquarters Fails (Continued from Page 1) ferson Market Court on Oct. 18, Caught by 8 Workers The incendiary was caught due| to the keenness of eight sone who were in the strike headquar- ters at the time that Rooney tried to fire the building. Before turn- | ing to bed Lewis walked to the out- side corridor which led to the ram- shackle wooden stairs on the out- side of. the building. It was then that he noticed Roo- ney pouring something on the steps which later turned out to be gaso- line. Rooney was attempting to set the steps on fire’ with matches when Lewis, who had smelt ‘the gasoline, shouted to his comrades inside the hall and dashed for the firebug. | This attempt to burn the strike |headquarters is the latest in a se- |ries of provocations against the |strikers. On Thursday afternoon the pjcket-line in front of the In- ternational Mercantile Marine ship- ping offices at 2ist St. and the North River, was spied on by two |carloads of thugs for almost an hour. Later the thugs went in a body-to the pier where the Santa |Elena is docked. This ship has some of its crew out on strike, Communi Cites Support Given by C. P. to Struggles of Veterans The Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, militant organization of ex- soldiers, has endorsed the election campaign platform of the Commu- nist Party. In announcing the endorsement, the League issued the following statement: The Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League is a non-partisan veterans’ organization. Its membership is composed of ex-servicemen, who have worn the uniform of all the armed forces, military and naval, and who are part of that great | mass which composes a major por- tion of the population, the workers in the shops, mines and mills, to- gether with the poor farmers, small home-owners and professionals, of whom millions are veterans. Our organization does not discriminate | against anyone because of race, | |creed or color, nor are applicants | asked to state their political opin- ion. upon applying for membership. Ours is an organization which came into being and owes its existence to the great need of the veterans for a great militant organization in which they, as members, would be accorded full rights in the election of officers, full rights in expression of all opinion and voting upon all questions pertaining to participat- ing in and endorsement of any campaign, in which the organiza- tion takes part or anticipates or | discusses taking part in. In short, | we are upon a rank and file basis. | The main tasks of our: organization | jare of a necessity both: economic | House. From Munich, | tion in Marseilles, and if he failed | and political struggles for the im- mediate betterment of conditions for the veterans, for the payment | lowances taken away from them, | Workers’ Ex-Serv Lodge No. 942, 191 and 128, Sept. | 26. At this meeting it was plain to be seen that Caar Whitney was not interested in the trainmen’s major problems, but more so in attacking jthe Rank and File Brothers who issued a leaflet raising the follow- ing demands: 1. Six hour day, with | eight hours pay; 2. Full crew with ‘car limit law; 3. Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598, including social insurance; 4. Lower dues; 5. No hauling by railroad men of troops, scabs, strikebreakers or material to or from factories and industries where strikes are taking place; 6, Unemployed members to remain in good standing, and given ree dues receipt. No back dues to be collected when they return to ney bitterly opposed its initiation. Instead Whitney removed brothers holding office in various lodges for | fighting for the Old Age Pension, | Whitney remained silent on the | lower dues, on the Workers Unem- | ployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598), on the strike situation throughout the country and the hauling of scabs, troops and strike- | breakers and. material to. and from industries. When he spoke in Mil- | waukee, he attacked the rank and | file for. raising this issue, stating | the rank and file brothers were | trying: to destroy the Brotherhood. | Whitny's action in this critical sit- | uation is what is breaking the | brotherhood. The members are |ashamed to say that they belong fore the New Deal took effect, Com- | missioner Lubin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics has an- nounced. Despite an average decrease in the retail prices of all the foods included in the survey, the upward price trend continued in cereals, fresh milk, sliced ham and bacon, chickens, rib roasts, navy beans, fresh eggs and tea. Meats showed the greatest declines after they had Sky-rocketed following the whole- |sale destruction of live stock under the A, A, A. slaughter plans. Compared with those of Sept. 15, 1932, increases in retail food prices by cities ranged from 8.3 per cent in Chicago to 25.5 per cent in De- | troit. | 'e work, Salaries or executives to be | to the Brotherhood when compelled | The National Industrial Confer- reduced to average trainmen’s|by their leaders to work in the/ence Board, an employers’ agency, wages, in order to make this pos- sible. No assessment on employed members for “unemployed” funds. Czar Whitney admitted Green's (A, F. of L.) figures of 30,000,000 as against Richberg’s 23,000,000, seek- ing relief this winter is more cor- rect. But, Whitney supports the Wagner-Lewis. Unemployment Bill, which excludes the railroad workers and other classifications, and also does not apply to the totally un- employed. Whitney stated in his speech, that thousands of members have com- mitted suicide on account of the economic crisis. Had Whitney en- dorsed and made a fight for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill H. R. 7598, this would be work- ing in the right direction to help our brothers and all workers throughout the country. Instead Whitney and Company | strike area hauling scabs. | Aids Roosevelt | While Whitney is campaigning | for his re-election of Grand Presi- campaigning for the LaFollettes, | now running for U, 8. Senator and Governor of Wisconsin, and is soli- citing in President Roosevelt’s New Deal. The railroad workers have | alrady felt the effect of the new | deal in the shape of being elim-/ |inated from their jobs, namely) | through consolidation, mergers and | | streamline trains, etc. Since Whitney's campaign for | the railroads and fascist politicians, | the Milwaukee membership has put him on the spot, and decided to |reports an increase of 1.8 per cent in the cost of living for wage earn- ers in the one-month period from | August to September. |. dent of the B. of R. T. he is also| Minor, Dunne, Speak Monday In Frisco Rally SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12— Robert Minor and Bill Dunne, vet- eran working class leaders, will appear here on Monday at a mass | make every effort to expose his be- | trayal to the membership, by form- | ing a rank and file group in every | | lodge throughout the country, and | campaign rally, with Sam Darcy, Communist candidate for Governor, and Harold Ashe, candidate for Sec- retary of State. Ashe, before join- by @ United Front of all railroad |ing the Communist Party was State| worked with the railroads and the| workers regardless of our leaders | Secretary of the Socialist Party of in their struggles. Whitney also Casey Urges Speed In “Daily” Drive (Continued rom Page. 1) a bare livelihood. | ‘Take, for example, an incident to which the whole staff of the New York Times was treated several | weeks ago. It was on a Saturday |night. One hundred Congressmen, Democrats and Republicans, came ‘of L. Wall Street, who supported all their acts. This gathring was a sym-| bol that depicted the whole cap-| italist’ system—with the lackies al the ruling class, dining and plotting against the workers, Immediate Response Needed The Taily Worker, too, holds banquets, and its plant is open for | inspection: But to these’ banquets |come only workers—men and wo- | the workers, | the Daily Worker to carry to ev ery | ballot, |government to defeat the workers| in the Brotherhoods and the A, F. | California. Determined to throttle all at- tempts to bring the Communist platform before the masses, the police: aré continuing a policy of attacking and breaking up Party election rallies on the streets and in parks. These attacks are not al- ways effective, but on Oct. 1 four |workers were jailed for daring to | adaress open air meetings on be- half of Communist candidates, Mini Carson, campaign. manager jand candidate for United States | 1, | Congress, has issued a defiant open | jj] health, he was given a physical WO- | letter to the chief of police, chal- | id lebih | men from the shops, from the mills, | | from the docks, from the homes of | They come to help) lenging the right of his cops to in- teriere with the election campaign of a Party legally entered on the and declaring the renewed to the New York Times building to| corner of the land the méssage of |determination of the Communist be the guests of Adolph S. Ochs, the publisher. Wall Street's official \ representatives of Washington in- | \spected the -great Times - building jand then sat down with the pub- lisher for a sumptuous meal in his (own special banquet room. | Reactionary Records | These Congressmen were the same that put over the N.R.A. . wage- Slashing program on the workers of | America. They voted for imperialist war appropriations. They voted |against relief for the jobless, and | they voted for every reactionary | piece of legislation fostered by the | banking and industrial interests of | Wall Street. And here they were sitting at a | feast with the leading publisher of of the debt owed the veterans, for the enforcement of the existing welfare laws. We hold both the municipal, state and federal goy- ernments responsible for the wel- fare of the veterans. A policy has | existed among most veterans to vote for the candidate making the most Hberal promises to the vet- erans, promises which can easily be ignored and usually are con- veniently forgotten by the candi- date upon election. We hold not only the candidates responsible, but contend that the | leaders of the various political par- | ties are spokesmen for the policies of their respective parties. In this | Way, we demand to know which | party is sincere in its attitude to- ward the ve'erans. The Republican Party was power during the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. These leaders of that party not only vetoed the “bonus,” but disgrace- fully disregarded the debt owed the veterans. The Republican Admin- istration of Herbert Hoover not only met the unarmed Bonus Marchers with police terror, with the shooting of Hushka and Carlson, two unarmed, defenseless veterans, but waged open warfare with troops of cavalry, with tanks and tear gas against the men who had worn the uniforms during the World War. The Democratic Pariy is equally infamous in its policy toward the | veteran. The “New Deal” of Roose- velt with its National Economy Act, an act entitled “To preserve the credit of the United States,” has wrought untold hardship upon the sick and disabled veteran. Tens of thousands of sick veterans were turned out of their sick beds, out of the hospitals into the streets, tens of thousands of disabled vet- erans had their small disability al- icemen’s League Endorses ampaign Program tens of thousands of Spanish-Amer- Statement Rejects All st Party Election C @ in) munist Party. And at this time jin armed. struggle against their | fascist ruling class, and the white bosses of Ameri¢a are making a new drtive to split the Negro and white workers, it is éspecially enlarged and improved to be better | able to carry on the work of the | Communist Party. help the Daily Worker are funds to fight wage cuts—to fight fascism— to fight imperialist war—to fight for a workers’ and farmers’ goy- ernment in America! | The Daily Worker is facing a | Severe crisis. The workers must act the Central Committee of the Com-| urgent that the Daily Worker be/ Party to hold. election meetings on |the. streets. The letter gives, specific when Spanish workers: have joined | times and places where meetings will be held. An unusual feature of the Commu- nist election campaign here is the extensive use of the radio in San Francisco and Los Angeles. In San Francisco Station KTAB presents a speaker at 9:30 every Monday eve- ning who presenis the Communist Position in the election campaign, |. In the final -analysis, funds to| and in Los Angeles a similar talk is broadcast every Wednesday night at 10 o'clock from Station KTN. tions. The state ticket consists New Orleans Councils Fight | Council Member Denied Relief by Parish Administrator Negro and white workers, led by the Unemployment Councils, massed at the home of Fidest¢ Lemoine on Sept. 25 and stopped the scheduled eviction. Seeking to make. political capital out of the case, Congress- |man J, O, Fernandez, a supporter lof Huey Long, went to the Lemoine home, and promised to stop any eviction and get them relief; but dropped the case when it was found thet Fideste Lemoine was a member of the Unemployment Council. The family was evicted on Sept. 28. tor Henry F. Burt wrote that re- lief had ‘been denied the family because Pideste Lemoine had been fired from a relief job because he had “instigated a strike” on the project. “Fideste on C. W. A. received $9.60 weekly,” the report by the relief administrator to the Con- gressman states. “When C. W. A. was concluded, Fideste again ap- plied for assistance. The family was then again placed on relief in the form of grocery orders and on June 26, 1934, was given some rental | money to ward off an eviction no- | tice. From time to time such grocery orders and partial payment of rent have been givén to the family. “When Fideste in July, 1934, said ie was unable to work because of examination; the result of which in- dicated he was able to work. On | July 15, 1934, Fideste was recom- | mended for work relief at $35.70 a ;month which covered the family budget. Fideste reported for work on Aug. 2, but was fired the same day because he made a speech to | the men on his gang during work- |ing hours which instigated a small strike. “You will be interested to know,” | the letter to the Congressman says, | “that most of the difficulty caused jin this organization has been by the Communist Party under the leadership of an imported orga- nizer by the namé of Jane Speed. Fideste Lemoine has been one of Miss Speed’s right-hand lieutenants and has supported her activities designed to disrupt this organiza- at ones! Aci now, comrades! Hesi- tency means defeat. BUT WE MUST WIN! ican War and World War veterans had the small pensions and com- pensations reducéd or taken away. This was the first major act of the present Democratic Administration. The Democratic Party has refused consistently to incorporate in its election platform any basic vet- eran demands. The record of the Socialist Party is parallel with that of both the Republican and Democratic Parties. Mr. Norman Thomas addressed the Bonus Marchers assembled in Washington in 1932. He stated: “The Socialist Party wants a bonus for everybody.” This was an at- tempt to completély discredit the demand for the payment of the “bonus.” The Socialist Party, like the Democratic and Republican Parties, has failed to place any basic veteran demands on its party pla‘form. Therefore, we, the National Executive Committee of the Work- ers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, rejéct beth the candidates and the plat- forms of these parties. Now let us consider the Commu- \nist Party. This Party has given full support to all the militant struggles of the veterans for pay- ment of the “bonus.” It has whole- heartedly endorsed and supported our struggles for adequate relief, for unemployment and social in- surance, for the enforcement of ex- isting welfare laws and the repeal of the Economy Act. It has placed on its eleciion campaign platform the demands for the immediate payment of the veterans’ “Bonus,” and for the repeal of the Economy Act. This Party not only supports our demands as veterans, but car- ries on a consistent campaign for our economic and political rights as workers, for the right to organize «| Boss Parties—Traces Their Records the shops where we work, for the right to go on ‘strike, to picket. This Party fights against any forms of discrimination against the foreign-born. This Party fights against all forms of Jim-Crowing or discrimination against the Negro and equal social, economic and po- litical rights of the Negro. It is with the realization that ours is an organization primarily of workers and that our interest as veterans can best be served in com- mon struggles in which we draw as our allies all those whose interests are workers’ interests and unite with them upon a common , that we, the National Executive Committee of the Workers’ Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League, endorse the Elec- tion Campaign Platform of the Communist Party. This endorse- ment does not mean that we in- tend to dictate to any individual member of our organization or to tell him which way he must vote. We advise that discussions be held upon the merits of the election Platforms of all the political parties and that based upon these discus- sions our membership shall draw its own conclusion as to which: elec- that a-large vote for the Commu- nist Party is the best way of ex- ployment and Social Insurance Bill. FOR THE NATIONAL EXECU- TIVE COMMITTEE, WORK- ERS’ EXSERVICEMEN’S LEAGUE, tion platform is correct. We bélieve pressing our determination to carry on the fight for the “bonus,” and repeal of the Economy Ac’, and enactment of the Workers’ Unem- tion (relief supervision—Rditor). “This family 18 not receiving re- lief from this office,” the letter says, “because of the difficulties stated above.” The letter ends with the statement that relief is given to all regardless of political affili- ations. The Unemployment Councils of New Orleans which have: initiated huge demonstrations and won re- lief, smashed discrimination against | Negro workers, and fought evic- tions, is rallying the Negro and white unemployed to smash this discrimination against council mem- bers. Public Invited To Seaboard Strike Areas It was announcéd at the offices of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners that cars will leave the offices daily at 10 am. and 4 p.m. beginning to- day to take writers and observers into the waterfront strike area, The offices are at 156 Fifth Ave. room 534. Alfred H. Hirsch, secretary of the committee, stated that the purpose of the trips is to give aid to. the striking seamen by giving their cause publicity and by taking whatever steps are possible to pre- vent the use of violence against the Strikers. Any persons taking advantage of this opportunity. to view the strike at first hand are asked to be pre- pared to write or speak about their observations and be ready to inter- vene at a moment’s notice with the Police in case of violence. Hirsch further stated that the of- fices of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners will be used as a clearing house for information and publicity concérn- ing the strike. He asked that any- one having pertinent information on strike developments communi- cate immediately with the com- mittee. Any person who has a car which might be used for the purpose of taking people into the strike aren is urged to communicate with the committee NEW ORLEANS, La., Oct. 12. —| In a letter to Congressman Fer-| nandez, Orleans Parish Administra- | ficially filed its state and county tickets for the coming elec- A total of 80 candidates has been filed. of John Anderson, leader of the Progressives in the Mechanics’ Educational Society of America,, for governor; Phil Ray- mond, national secretary of the Auto Workers Union, for U. S. Sen- ator; John Maki, unemployed iron ore miner, for lMeutenant-governor; Mary Himoff, leader of the strug’ gles of young workers, for Stat: Treasurer; Lonnie Williams, sec« | retary of the League of Struggle Discrimination for Negro Rights. for Seat Géneral; John North, organizer of | the Auto Workers Union in Grand Rapids, for Auditor General, and John Ross, militant farm leader, for Secretary of State. The Congressional candidates are Frank Sykes, leader of the étrug- gles of the Negro masses; William ‘Young, Communist mayor of the Village of Platt, Mich.; John Pace, secretary of the Unemployment, Councils and the Relief Workers ~ Protective Association; Earl Reno, active in many labor struggles; Otto Wittrick, leading member of the Michigan Farmers League; H. Aldrich, . leader of unemployed struggles. in Muskegon; Harry K. Johnson, William Carley, Sigmund Borawski, George . Soorus, Frank Arvala, Leo. Sulkowski and -Daniel Burkhardt. County tickets have been filed in the following counties: Wayne (De- troit area), Washtenaw, Muskegon, Kent end Jackson. In Wayne County candidates aré: Sheriff, Max: Salzman; Clerk, Peter Vukcevich; Treasurer, Jack Mahoney; Prosecuting Attorney, Frank Sullivan. All supporters of the Communist ticket are urged to register by Oct 16 if they are voting for the first time or have moved since the last election. AFL Plan Gives No Autonomy (Continued from Page 1) to designate the officers and_ the policy of the new industrial unions as long as it sees fit. .This part of the decision, which is for the pur- poses of protecting the bureauctacy and the employing class from rank and file revolts discards without any attempt at apology the tradi- tional A. F. of L. theory of auto- nomy but because the bureaucrats fear the militancy and class con- Sciousness of the néw contingents of American workers in basic in- dustry they inténd to deprive them of all rights. John L. Lewis was brought. to the platform to support the com- mittee’s report. Without a blush he stole from the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League a slogan having wide mass appeal, the ‘slogan that perhaps lies clos- est to the hearts of the numerous delegates to this conyention from Federal Labor unions in basic in- dustries—the slogan of “Organize the unorganized.” Only one craft union head -took the platform. If there are degrees in labor fakery then President Howard of the I-L.U. must have the thirty third. It was Howard who kept printers at work setiing into cold type the poison poured forth on the organized labor movement during the general strike in Sen Francisco and the Bay Counties. It is Howard, head of the biggest union in the Allied Printing Trades, who is mainly instrumental in pre« | venting their amalgamation into a departmentalized industrial union. But it was this same . Howard, alone of all the heads of craft unions who dared to take the plat- form.and put the fundamental is- sue, deliberately, cynically and cold bloodedly squarely before the con- vention. He said that the A. F. of L. is confronted with the question of organizing the workers in the basic industries or of seeing them organized “under some other ban- ner.” Greater Circulation Will Decrease the “Daily's” Need For Financial Aid. For Orders on TORGSIN in U. S. S. R. 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