The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1934, Page 3

AFL Steel, Coal Locals DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1934 Page 3 © Prepare for Rank and File Meetin | Philadelphia J obless Speed Mass Meeting for Saturda rath » | i MOVE FOR OUSTING OF LEWIS AIDES GROWS IN STATE National Conference in Pittsburgh on Oct, 27) Will Have Delegates from U. M. W. A. and | By TOM PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. : A. A. Locals in Fight on Misleaders KEENAN 14.—Rank and File Workers I. L. D. Survey Reveals Richard B. Moore Speaks—Meeting Greets Six | Deaths in Fight for Anti-Fascists, On Bail Pending Appeal Living Conditions | ea REET ETOP TEM (Special to the Daily Worker) jtary of the I. L. D., opened the PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 14—Kight- | meeting and introduced the chair- | NEW YORK-—Twelve Negro) 42, thousand persons, Negro and | man, M. Stern, representing the Na- vorkers were killed while engaged | white, joined Friday night in | tional office. Other speakers were Twelve Ne gro 18,000 Gite Rousing Ovation ‘Police Smash W] L tA SS EMB LE ‘Workers Slain To Herndon in Philadelphia; In 1934 Strikes Vow to Fight Lynch Rulers HomelessBoys’ Picket Lines Nineteen ‘Jailed When Boys Rally; To Mass Again Today IN REYBURN PLAZA DESPITE COPS’ BAN |Prominent Liberal Answers Council Appeal | for United Demonstration of All | were jailed in New York on Satur- in a struggle for better living con- | thunderous welcome at the Broad- ditions, during the first nine months | Way Arena to Angelo Herndon, - m hero of the Atlanta “insurrection” of this year, a survey by the In‘er- | 1-141, six local anti-Fastists released A. W. Mills, District Organizer of the Communist Party; M. Epstein, | of the Jewish Bureau; Wickman, | representing the Marine Workers’ | |day. when police descended upon their picket line at the Brace-Mem- orial Newsboys Home, in the second | Nineteen homeless men and boys | Workers and Sympathizers | | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 14.—Dr. Philip D. Book- staber, prominent Pennsylvania liberal, state chairman 0? day of their demonstration against of Western Pennsylvania in the A. F. of L. unions are re- sponding enthusiastically to the calls sent out for the A. F. national Labor Defense shows. The on bail pending appeal, and Rich- | Industrial Union; James Wilson, of | unsatisfactory. conditions. Thirteen| the American Civil Liberties Union and a member of tha of those arrested yesterday were | State Commission on Unemployment, in response to the ap- of L. Rank and File Conference in Pittsburgh Oct. 27-28, with many of the locals, notably in the steel lustries, already planning for the election of delegates. In the United Mine Work- ers, no less than four districts in this area are waging a determined struggle against appointed. and elected officials of the John L. Lewis machine in preparation for the com- ing international elections Dec. 11. In District No. 5, U. M. W. A. which has autonomy but is Lewis- dominated by President Pat Fagan. the conference is seen as an excel- lent means of coordinating the com- paign to oust Fagan and supplant him with Chas. Nolker, Scotty O'Hara, and Robert Crawford f4| distri@ president, vice pzesident, and secretary treasurer, respectively. Local unions at Renton, Russellton, Harwick, and Harmarville have re- ceived calls and should lead the anti-Fagan movement in the Rank and File Conference. Fight Lewis Appointee Districts 1 and 2, U. M. W. A. are under the yoke of Lewis appointees and are fighting for autonomy. In District. No. 3, U. M. W. A., West- mozeland County, where Presideni Frank Hughes and George Metrick | head the Lewis machine, the local unions of Expor', Yukon. (where the first one-car-a-day strike occurred), Westmoreland City, Manor, Rill- ton, and Wyano have received calls ig p'ans for the sending District No. 2, U. M. W. A. loca: tral City, Homer City, Wind- Hoovers: and Po-tage are fight to gain autonomy and cust President James Marks and John Ghizzoni, international board |under a stagger system of one or | member. At Central City the dis- trict has attempted to split the local into four parts, and at Hoov- ersville, Marks and Ghizzoni were unsuccessful in attacking Frank McKenna for serving as a chairman | of the Unemployment Council and! local president. Fayette Locals Militant District No. 4, U. M. W. A. in Fay- ette County, home of the Frick and Rainey interests, has been so. well fought for by the rank and file that already wholesale recruitment in the Unemployment Councils from the U. M. W. A, ranks has taken plac. In many places the presi- dents of locals are also the militant chairmen of U. C. locals. District No. 6, U. M. W. A. in Eastern Ohio, is also fighting to get rid of Percy Tetlow, appointed pre: dent, and set up an autonomous district. Here petitions have already been’ circulated demanding elec- tions, the wo:k led by local unions at Adena, Glen’s Run, Lansing, “Powhattan Point. and Dillonsville. In all of these fields, rank and file fights, varying somewhat in each different section, are now in prog- ress, and the Confezence offers the opportunity of each district and local union profiting by the other's experience. Struggle In Steel Locals In steel, the struggle against the reformist policies of Mike Tighe. & Co., at the head of the Amalga- mated Association, who betrayed the steel strike this June, should be greatly speeded by the Rank and File Conference. The sell-out of the strike by Tighe and. Wm. Green, though it drove many workers out of the ranks of the A. A. for good, left a goodly number of loyal union men siill holding their books, dissatisfied with the raw deal which they had re- ceived, but unable to date to wage a concerted war to wrest control of the organization from present lead- ers. In A. A. District 1 especially, the Western Pennsylvania area, there exists now a stiff opposition to Tighe and his policies, but it is un- organized. The support evidenced at a recent district confezence for the resolution passed and sent out by District 6 (Detroit)—a protest against splitting the union for sep- arate local hearings before the labor board and demand for a nation wide conference between steel em- ployers and the A. A—is proof of this sentiment. All this rank and file power can be organized and di-ected into well- planned channels through the utili- zation of the Rank and File Con- ference as a foundry to hammer out future policy for the arti-Tighe fight. All A: A. locals have been sent the Conference calls and those of the type typified by Cleirton are already planning to have delegates present. Aluminum Workers to Attend Delegates from the Aluminum ‘Workers Union, where a successful fight is growing around the placing of contzol of the union back in the hend: of the rank and file, will also attend. In all three of these industries the workers are faced with an im- Mediate struggle not only within and mining in- Tableeiness | Rises in Ohio, _ Report Shows 112,000 Are Jobless | in Cleveland; Ohio | Steel Mills Shut CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 14— Employment in Ohio dropped two per cent in the one month period from August to September, official government figures released yester- day show. In Cleveland alone, the number of jobless on Oct. 1 was put at 112,000, an increase of 6,000 in one month, and 28,000 more than last May. A comparison of the figure for |total unemployed (which, it must spired, and err only on the side of understatement) , statistics for relief show the num- jernment figures show about $4,600 | month of May. shows that only 53,422 families re- ceived relief during May. Steel mills throughout the Ohio area are either closed or operating cropper, member of the Sharecrop- two days work a month. Albany Painters Back Workers Social Bill ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 14—Local 201 of the Brotherhood of Painters jhere endorsed the Workers Unem- |Ployment and Social Insurance Bill \at its last membership meeting. The | local voted a resolution against the | expulsion of Painters local 499 / ordered by the New York District Council 9, and support the 'local’s appeal for re-instatement into the ASE; 20r. DL: be remembered, are government in- | lory and Luckenback S. S. Co. lines, and F, EF. R. A.| him was shot: |ber who are denied aid. Thus, goy- | longshoreman. unemployed in Cleveland during the | Ala. | The monthly report | opened fire with machine guns on of the Federal Emergency Relief | parade of U. M. W. A. miners, Sep- Administration for the same month| tember 9. With him was killed: | | total number of workers killed in| ard B. Moore, National Field Or- the Young Communist League, and | members of the Local of Unattached | such struggles was 54. | ganizer of the International Labor Wie’ list of egress totlows: Defense. _ ; | four women and two men, sen: ‘ | In an impressive answer to those | tenced by the pro-Nazi jurist, Judge 1, Ed England, Negro coal striker, | forces which are once more trying | Heiligman, to a total of four years member of the United Mine Work- | to disrupt the fight for the safety | in jail for leading a “Free Thael- ers of America. Shot and killed by and freedom of the Scottsboro boys,|mann” demonstration before deputy and chief of police on the the audience responded with pro- | local German Consulate. picket line at the Red Diamond ionged applause to the appeal by| The speakers all called for the Coal Company, on April 18. Moore for a more intensified | widest support of all workers and 2. Murphy Humphrey, Negro, struggle than ever before against | sympathizers io the marine strike. longshoreman, killed in the New the Alabama lynch rulers and their; A banquet in honor of Herndon Orleans dock strike, May 2. | agents, and for the complete free- and the six anti-Fascists, held after 3. George Bell, Negro miner, shot | dom of Angelo Herndon. | the mass meeting was well at- the six local anti-Fascist figh‘ers, | the | | murdered by night-riders, at Ope- by Jefferson Coun‘y special officers| William Powell, District Secre- | tended. in the strike of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. May 8. Withhimwas/—ss—<“‘is—SSSCSCS ‘ 4. W. H, Ford, another Negro) Ue F. Quarters miner. 5. Rich Foster, shot by thugs in the T. C. I. steel strike at Birming- ham, Ala, May 9. With him was killed: 6. Henry Witt. 7. Ed Higgins, Negro coal miner, secretary of the Empire local of the United Mine Workers. Sho: by & leader whom he had charged with being a stool-pigeon. May 14. 8. Charles Sharlo, Negro long- shoreman, killed by company guards in the strike against the Clyde Mal- ‘Are Destroyed | Act Follows Threats by American Legion and Local Paper LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14—Carry- ing out the threat of the American | Legion, vandals almost completely | demolished the Communist cam- | paign headquarters at 4822 W. Ad- ‘ams on Tuesday night. Prior to the scurrilous attack the Boulevard Record, community ad- vertising sheet that ran the original ihreat of the local Legion Com- mander Wilbur LeGette, published a series of provocative threats and accusations as statements of Dave Clark, Hollywood sub-section cam- paign manager. These wild non- Communist statements were ob- viously calculated to mislead work- ers throughout the Sou‘hwest area lika, Ala, Sept. 13. i and create sympathy for the Push Council Growth eae eee at Galveston, Texas, in May. With 9. John Elmore, another Negro 10. H. 8. Collins, at Birmingham, Murdered when deputies 11. Ed Woolens, another Negro coal miner. 12. Comit Talbert, Negro share- pers’ Union and active in the cot-— ton-pickers’ strike. Kidnaped and ‘In Los Angeles | ‘Labor Council Rejects Green Expulsion Call Kalamazoo Body Hears Anderson, Candidate of C.P. for Governor KALAMAZOO, Mich. Oct. 14.— The Central Trades and Labor | Council of Kalamazoo at its last meeting overwhelmingly rejected |the letter of President William | Green calling for the expulsion of Communists and other militant workers from A. F. of L. unions, John Anderson, militant trade unionist and Communist candidate for Governor, addressed this meet- ing by special invitation on the is- sues, facing the workers in the election campaign. He was well re- ceived. Pittsburgh City Council Evades Open Meeting With Jobless Workers | Youth of America and six were members of the Local of Unatiached Men, who had joined the boys on | the picket. lines. Picketng started Friday after forty-five boys were ejected from the home and their organizer, Mike | Goldenberg, had been baten, and intimidated by hoodlums in the home. Eleven were arrested Friday. | | Organized Two Weeks Ago | About two weeks ago the boys in the Brace Memorial Home organized and presented their demands to the director, Aaron Tutak. The demands |ealled for better food in sufficient | | quantities, clothing when needed, | toilet articles such as tooth paste \and shaving material or cash, recog- | |nition of the committee from the | | Lecal of Unattached Youth, and| | changes in the house rules. | At the present time if the boys miss breakfast they do not get din-/| ner. All are compelled to arise at 6:30 a.m. They must check in no| | tater than 8 p.m. Present Their Demands Under the leadership of Mike Goldenberg, the boys, one hundred out of 175 in the house of whom are organized, presented their demands | last week, at which time the director | |Promised to meet their demands. | |Last Monday some improvement was noticed in the food and clothing was given out to some of the boys. | On Tuesday night Goldenberg's room was opened (no one except the superintendent and Goldenberg sup- posedly having a key) and he was beaten by three ruffians. His assail- ants fled before he could recognize them. On Wednezday a note was placed under‘ his door. The note “Mike—This is only the be- ginning of what. is in store for you and your committee—The Vigil- antes. 2nd warning.” On the follow- ‘ing day he was expelled by the | director. | Police Jail Eleven | | On Friday forty-two boys picketed | peal of the Unemploycent Council for a broad united front ——————*to secure the rights of the job'ess to assemble at Reyburn Plaza, hag Demonstrate In Massillon tober 20, at 2 p.m. Speeding its plans for a gigantio meeting in the face of a police ban and the denial of the Park Com- missioners to grant a permit for the mass meeting Saturday, the Phil- adelphia Unemployment Councils have addressed similar appeals to Steel Wo = kers Place Relief Demands Before City MASSILLON, Ohio. Oct. 14— Smashing throggh Mayor Bush’s repeated refusal to meet with a4 committee from the Unemployment | Council, six hundred steel workers. unemployed and part-time work- ers in the Central Republic Steel Company here, massed at the City Hall, Wednesday, and forced the mayor to meet with the workers’ elected representatives, Practically every mill in this steel section is closed down, hundreds of workers have been thrown out of the mills since they ‘closed down on July first. Others are working only one or two days a month. In the past two weeks two hun- dred steel workers have swelled the fighting ranks of the Councils in ihe fight against evictions, for cash pay- ment of rents, inczeased relief with- out discrimination and issuance of Winter clothing. Displaying their pay checks of $2.65 for two weeks waes, the steei workers assembled at the City Hail | and presented their demands. Im- mediately after the demonstration, a meeting was held on the Court | House steps where Leah Fay out- lined the program of the Unemploy- ment Councils. Eighty-six unem- | ployed and part-time workers joined | | National Among Jobless Miners | Clark was quoted as calling all | jthe house until police broke up the | the Council after the meeting. |Iinme and jailed eleven. Saturday eet PAR es in U.M.W.A. District 5 | BROWNSVILLE, Pa., Oct. 14.—So | | “reactionary hoodlums” instead of drawing a distinction between rank | members of the Legion a set of | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 14.—The | the boys, this time supported by the bse! ms ’ | Council of Unattached Men, picket- | | Pittsburgh City Council has again | eq again, undeterred by boiling | dodged a hearing of complaints of water which was hurled at them Catholic Priest, Fascist | Supporter, Is Made City ‘and file veterans who belong to the strong has grown the movement call Tapia aad the None tidden polit- | the Unemployment Councils at U.M.W.A. miners who are organiz-| ical leadership which attempts to | which relief representatives were to ing Unemployment Councils with | keep. them in. line with the. anti- attend to hear charges of neglect |from the windows of the Brace | Memoria] Home. |. From their headquarters at 104| PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 14— | Madison’ Street the boys, Negroes,| Mayor William McNair has seated Assessor of Pittsburgh) |, The letter sent by William Green forced to join the U.C. |in adminis‘ration of state help in almcs: duplicating memberships, | labor policy of the organization. the city that Wm. Heinz, president of ark immediately demanded a eee EEN UM.W.A. District Five, has been) correction from the provocating | Ata meeting ef tne Council last jocal at nowspaper.. Workers in the terri- | ¥eek the hearing was agreed to by to all A. F. of L. locals calling fer pojth, the expulsion of all Communisis was tabled. | | their union, but against the fascist! to the worth of the Unemployment Miners who aré meinbers of the Unemployment Council recentiy “put Heinz en the spot” by asking him to give an outright cpinion as company unions of Frick, the U. S.| Councils. | Steel, and Melion. The whole bur- | |den of this bitter fight rests with | pointed When Heinz. a Lewis man ap-| to -his office efter Bill) |the rank and filers, whose lot’ is|/ Feeney was raced during the strike ‘cessful growth of company unionism, | In the building trades mechanics department a strugle is now under |way, led by the “Right to Work League,” against racketeering A. F. lof L. officials and business agents, jand the lessons of this will be jbrought to the floor of the Rank jand File Conference by delegates. Statements of SMWIU and “Coal Digger” Two statements were issued to- day drawing attention to the im- portant work which faces the Gon- ference, and the benefits to be de- rived thereform. One of these was from the editozial office of the “Coal Digger,” rank and file organ of the | U. M. W. of A.: made thus harder by the indiffer-|in Fayette County last year, an- ence of the bureaucrats to the suc-|swered, “They are good organiza- | ] tions,” the miners asked him why he didn’t join. He joined. Leith Unemployment Council local was the first to take up the | building of the unemovloved organi- zation elongside the U.M.W.A. local unien there. many of the. miners being unemployed at sent. Los Angeles Relief Men Set Up Organization LOS ANGELES. Cal., Oct. 14.— Seventy-nine relief workers met here last. week and organized the Public Workers and. Unemployed League. The program of the newly- formed group calls for militant ory are organizing an outdoor mass meeting on the lot next to the headquarters. Another delegation will lodge a further protest with the same police station, that origin- ally promised protection. against the direct threats of wrecking. A committee from the Legion even threatened with similar treat- ment the owner of a small paint and hardware store in the neigh- borhood who keeps 4 supply of Communist election campaign lit- erature in his window. A. F. of L. Leaders Assist Shipowners; Lock Out Ship’s Crew LONG BEACH, Cal., Oct. 14— With the help of I.L.A. officials, shipowners defeated a united strike of union seamen and longshoremen against use of scabs in the crew of | the SS. Golden Peak Line) here last week. (Oriental all parties, and the date was to have been set for this week, but Councilmen are still dodging the meeting. The unemployed workers, how- ever, refuse to be iricked by this maneuver and are preparing to take amass delegation down to the next meeting to force action on their de- mands, for the stopping of evictions and the use of city police to carry them. through, and for provision of clothing for needy families without discrimination against Negro work- ers and their children. | Promised orders of shoes for | children now kept out of school be- | cause of their néed have failed to appear, and the workers are deter- | mined to force Director George | Mills to act quickly. 'Plan Oakland County, | Michigan’ Hunger March | . BERKLEY, Mich., Oct. 14—The |Relief Workers Protective Associa- tion of Berkley is rallying the work- ers throughout the whole of Oak- Italians, Jews, Germans, and two full-blooded American Indians,| |rallied their forces to again picket ‘the house today. | Detroit Workers Jeer Local Italian Fascists in Columbus Day Rally DETROIT, Oct. 14—A mighty chorus: of boos greeted the playing of the Italian fascist anthem Fri- day afternoon at the Columbus Day ceremonies held at the Columbus | Monument on Washington Boule- vard here. The ceremonies were organized by the Italian Fascists of Detroit | under the direction of the Italian | Consul, with the active assistance | of the city authorities. So loud were the crowds’ jeers | the: the band was nearly drowned out. Police began picking out) handling them. { The parade to the monument was | led. by: the police band, and Police | Commissioner Pickert, notorious | strike-breaker, who is trying to in- | troduce. Mussolini’s methods into | Detroit, was one of the chief speak- ers. this city’s most outstanding uphold- er of Fascism, Father James Cox, as | one of the adminisirations trough- | feeders—a city assessor at a salary of $4,500 a year Cox is noted for his endorsement of Hitler's purge of the sto:m troops in June, has lauded the German butcher, on sevezal occasions, and once declared that what the U. S needs is fascism under Roosevelt For a while he considered heading an American Fascist party, but re- linquished that ambition for the assessor job under McNair. The “reverend”. bears the distinc- tion of being the first organizer of a really fascist organization in Pittsburgh. A few years ago he deluded many of the youth, mostly | religous, of the district into joining the “Blue Shirts,” an organization which deveted most of its time to trying to terrorize and breek up | meetings of the Communist Party | tions. URGE JOBLESS INSURANCE ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 14. —A resolution demanding federab} unemployment insurance was in- | troduced today in the House of | | | .Ong hundred longshoremen went|jand County for a county hunger Deputies at the 51st Triennial Con- | | The corrupt Democratic Comstock vention of the Protestant Episcopal | all prominent individuals and to or- zanizations to support the demon stration. At the mass meeting Saturday a committee of 100, which will have presented the demands of the city's 400,000 unemployed to the City Council on Thursday, Oct. 18,. will report. The demands, adopted at a recent conference on unemploy- ment held here call for union wages and conditions on all relief jobs at guaranteed minimum wages not less than 60 cents an hour for a 30-hour week; no discrimination against Ne- gro, foreign-born, women or young workers; doubling the present relief to be paid in cash; no evictions, cash payment of rent, and enact- ment of the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. In addition to Dr. Bookstaber, who has endorsed the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill, other Prominent speakers will address the meeting. Israel Amter, national sec retary of the Unemployment Coun- cils and Communist candidate for Governor of New York State, will address the meeting National Steel Board Announces 4-Day Delay on the Union Hearings PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 14—The Steel Labor Relations Board has announced another four- day postponement of the hearing on request of Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. employes of Aliquippa, for an election and the stoppage of terror- ization of steel workers by company thugs and borough police. During the early part of the week of Oct. 15 the board will sit in | Chicago, where hearings will be held on the complaint of employes of Youngstown Sheet and Tube: Co., Gary Screw and Bolt Co., and the Continental Can Co. plants of the mid-west district. On its way back to Washington the board will stop in Pittsburgh. Judge Walter P. Stacy, head of the steel board, has announced his withdrawal from the Textile Labor Relations Board. One Out of Every S& On Denver Relief Lis DENVER, Colo., Oct. 14.—One out, of every six persons in Denyer is on the relief rolls, according to a recent statement by City Auditor W.-H. Nichols. A check-up of relief lists shows that 66 per cent of the family heads on the rolls are receiving direct r-- Lef while the remaining 34 per cent are on work relief. About 20 per cent of the total relief expenditures workers from the crowd and man- and other working class organiza- | €° for administration expenses. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Boston James Cassy, managing editor of the Daily Worker, speaks at Dudley St, Opera House, 113 Dudley St., Oct. 27, “Preparations for the Rank and File Conference are being taken up enthusiastically by the U. M. W. locals. Many of the miners have | been for years active fighters against ;the coal bosses and their lieuten- ants, certain U. M. W. leaders, and during the course of this time have |organized and led many rank and file movements in the union. These workers will be glad to participate iin an A, F. of L. rank and file con- ference in which are represented other broad categories of industrial workers.” The other statement was from the office of the Steel and Metal Work- ers Industrial Union: “The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union greets the pzepare- tions being made by steel workers organized in A. F. of L. unions to mobilize their forces at a Rank and File Conference. We see in this conference an expression of the de- termination of all steel workers to build one powerful union in the industry. : “When the steel workers in the A. A. overthrow the reactiona:y offi- cialdom and adopt the principles of (militant industrial-unionism, con- | trolled by the rank and file, this will make possible the amalgamation of ‘all unions on such a basis. In the {meantime we will con‘inue to or- | ganize the unorganized steel work: for the fight against reactione \Jabor leaders, company unions, anc / the employers,” | out with the union men of the crew,!march this month to demand in- but were intimidated back by LL.A. | creosed relief. officials and ship bosses after two) 4 delegation of the R.WP.A. re- hours of striking.” ‘cently, went. to the county seat at The union men in the crew were Pontiac to protest against new pro- locked out as A result and a com- visions which cut relief. The relief Pletsly seab crow was recruited. The | officials rejected all their demands. ship was held up for two days, how- |The R.W.P.A.. is going. to ever, and the resulting cost to own- | whether these officials won't change ers in dockage and iost time would their minds when they are con- have paid for several trips of crews | fronted with a mass delegation under union conditions. from the entire county. mass action of the employed relief workers and unemployed through demonstrations and the election of job grievance committees in the fight for union wages and condi- tions of the relief projects and for jobs or equal cash relief for all un- employed, Job committees have been set uo on the projects with revresentation from several S.E.R.A. jcbs in the vicinity. see | | State: Government was represented | | by the “Liberal,” Attorney General | | O'Brien,. who also spoke. { | Every day of the Roosevelt New Deal shews the growing need of the | Daily Worker. But the Daily Worker needs $60,990 to be able | to deal more fully with the strug- (gles of the work'ng class. Suppert the Daily Werker! Send your con- ‘tribution today to the $60,000 drive. Telephone Calls, and Letters from Negro Workers Show Full Support for LL.D. Defense Polic Whole-hearted support for thet militant defense policy of the In- ternational Labor Defense which for the past three and a half years| ef the Scottsboro boys, and indig- the wire of Jack Mitchell, all of lwihilen appeared in the Daily Worker of October i3th that I must write and tell you so. Iam 100 per cent for the LL.D. aud the heroic and dauntless Reds. The program and tactics are not only correct, but have al- nation against vhe attempts by Samuei Leibowitz and Harlem re- formist leaders to disrupt the de- fense fight Were expressed yester- I, also like Mr. Mitchell, am 2 Negro who comes from the South, and I also want to say that he sure does speak for me and many, many day in scores of telephone calls by | others when he writes you: “Refuse Negro workers to the Daily Werker| to believe Haywood Patterson and and in the following leite:. by spe- Clsrence Norris repudiate I.L.D.” cial delivery, from, James Davis of| and “I voice sentiment for millions Philadelphia. | of Negroes when I solemnly declare October 13, 1934. thet Patte-son and Norris will never Dear Brother Hathaway: I was so moved by the liters o° down or leave I.L.D. which has laywood Patterson and Clarence thrilled world with inspiring de- Norris, the Scottsboro boys, and by ' fense.” voluntarily on their own will turn) ifighting determtnation ready been tremendously effec- | tive. My faith in the LL.D. and | the Communist Party is such that | even if along the way I do not | readily understand some move, I | would nevertheless support | | with my whole heart. | | However, if it were not that the/ 2.L.D. was involved, I would feel a! jlittle hurt to think that anyone in! that splendid orgenization could |for a moment have even dcubted the good sense, the loyalty and) of our! you brothers behind the prison bars in | | xiey Alabama. When I-read Hay- | wood Patterson's and Norris’ let- | ters, I couid barely restrain myseif .rom_ crying. I sincerety trust that you will | understand the friendly spirit in which I write you. The LL.D. and the Communist Party with the Church. The resolution, which was | presented by Robert Rogers, of Brooklyn, demanded ‘hat “industry itself should pay the cost of this involuntary idleness and premature old age,” aP.M. Los Angeles, Cal. Annual Workers’ Press Concert, Sune day, Nov. 4 at Mason Theatre, 127 & Breadwa. Concert Program. Promi- nent speakers. "PHILADELPHIA, Pa. DAILY WORKER |\CONCERT FRIDAY, October 19th, 8 P. M. Broadway Arena, Broad and Christian Sts. M. J. OLGIN Editor, Morning Freiheit, Speaker “DEL,” CARTOONIST DAILY WORKER, IN CHALK TALK; EMILE BABAD, FROM “ARTEF”; GABRIEL BRAVERMAN, VIOLIN SOLOS; BERNICE CORNELIUS, ACCOMPANIST. CHICAGO, Ill. Daily Worker are baz'ng a real trail through the ceuntry. You are the real pioneers and I re- “pect and revere you as such. But T only wish, as a devoted friend, fo raise the came anestion that Mr, Mitchell did. Most, sincerely, | (Signed) JAMES DAVIS. | | |“THE STRANGE CASE MOONEY” — of TOM Claremont Thea. 3226 N. Clark St., Buck. 8770 Adults, 10¢; Children, 5c. ck Come and hear what Tom Mooney has to say Tuesday - Wed. - Thurs. Oct. 16-17 + 18