The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DARLT WORKER, NEW YORK, TUPSDAY, OCTOBER 1 1934 Strike Threat Makes Dock Board Offer Promises “ECHOES ~ WALKOUT WRING DOCK CONCESSIONS Pay nia < SAN FR both coasts of the U.S.A. Longshoremen’s velt’s National “National Longshore Board Forced To Decide on Increases, 30-Hour Week—Union | Must Compel Decision’s Fufillment ANCISCO, Oct. 15 >on the West Coast, the San Francisco general strike and y.cthe succeeding strike movements in the emarine industry on have compelled President Roose- OF FRISCO Westi nghouse WorkerNamed ‘To Goto USSR Pittsburgh Delegate to | Join Group Attending Noy. 7 Celebration The workers of the. Westinghouse plant of Pittsburgh, Pa.-a plant employing many thousands of work- ers, have elected Robert -Whisner as their delegate to go to the So- viet: Union for the Noy. 7 celebra- tion. Whisner, a worker in this steel and electrical products manu- The great maritime strike mendous interest in what is taking on record Board to go « place in the Soviet Union. for the 30-hour week, wage’ in- © Whisner will arrive in New York creases and so-called joint-con- * | City late Friday, Oct. 19, in time “trol of hiring halls for dock work- to address the farewell affair being 1 | facturing plant, has indicated a tre-| ers. % has not been indicated, how- “ever, whether the shipownérs will ““‘accept the decision of the board So far the decision remains on paper. The actual carrying out of ““the ‘strike-won concessions rests in the ‘hands of organized labor. While William Green and other "““leaders of the A..F. of L. hailed the “decision as a victory of organi «clabor, they failed to acknowle ~°*the fact that had the longshoremen * followed the Green-Ryan policies of sisno strike even this verbal cor * sion would not have been granted. During the strike the men had demanded complete control of the hiring halls. The President's board, -*=however, designates that the aock- -*ers' shall be dispatched += “ialls | where the union and the shipow! ers. shall have one representative each. The danger of discrimination ‘therefore, is not eliminated even if ecthe concession are carried out, for he ruling states definitely that the ..,employers. shall be free to select “their men from those eligible. In order to take matters of dis- **erimination out of the hands of the ‘union men, the Board decided that a ‘posed of employers and employees, shall take up all questions of viola- tions. “io “The wage scale set by the board is 95 cents an hour, a promise of « 10 cent increase over the present scale and $1.40 an hour for over- * time,:a 15 cent increase. The men «s Struck for $1.an hour for straight time; $1.50 for overtime; and: full union control of hiring hails. It is clear that the slight gains that the Roosevelt Board conceded the longshoremen in the decision were forced by. the strong organi- zation of the docxers on the West Coast, their militant strike action sand their threat: to renew the ac- tion if’ concessions were not grant- » ed. It is also certain that none of , the concessions will be actually - «carried out unless the rank and file on--Of the I. L.. A.. use the power of their organization to see. to it that ~,. they are fulfilled. A The decisions. of the National Longshoremen’s Board, it is under- -’ stood, are not designed to affect cy the East Coast dock workers, On the East Coast I. L, A. union men are working under a contract, which expired Oct. 1, the wage rate being 85 cents an hour and the 44-hour week being in vogue. The men were ready to strike for $1 an hour and the 30-hour week when the agree- “ment expired, but Joseph P. Ryan, "9" president of the I. L. A., agreed to establish a “truce” and not carry *--on the strike. ’ A committee of shipowners have rejected the demands of the dock- ers. In commenting on the West Coast decision, Mr. Ryan said that “the committee has indicated that it believes longshoremen deserve an increase in pay.” He failed to| Point out, however, that it was the | strike on the West Coast, which he -- did everything in his power tp sab- —- Otage, that made the committee ~.. Change its belief. Ryan further in- | dicated that he would be against any form of strike action on the East Coast to enforce the demands of against the “threatened repetition” on the East Coast “of the strife that marked the Pacific Coast ‘em strike.” a Hathaway to Address “< Milwaukee Celebration --- Of Soviet Revolution Clarence Hathaway, editor of the ="" Daily Worker, is to be the chief “speaker at the celebration of the * Russian Revolution Meeting to be held at the Milwaukee Auditorium on Saturday, November 3 at 7:30 »S" p.m. This meeting is also to be i2* utilized as the final Election Rally -* and the leading candidates of the * ” Communist Party will be among the speakers. In addition to the speakers a musical program is being arranged with the participation of a number of workers cultural clubs and organi- zations. All workers.and organizations are asked to keep ths date open and + urge their, membership to partic- ~~ ipate in the Celebration. Milwaukee District are: Milwaukee, Sunday, Nov. , laski Hall, 15th. and Grant St., 2:30 p.m.; Racine, Sunday Nov. 4, Sokol Hall, 1625 Racine Street, 8 p.m.; s—— Kenosha, Monday, Nov. 5, Polonia : Mall, Seventh Avenue and Fiftieth Street, 7:30 p.m. ; t-— PARTY RALLY IN TUJUNGA t TUJUNGA, Cal., Oct. 15.—Work- - ers in Tujunga are organizing a Communist political rally here in the “Garden of the Moon” audi- torium at.8 p.m, on Friday. Lawrence Ross, Communist can- didate for congress in the 14th Dis- trict, will speak’ on the state cam- peign issues. Local issues will be +, discussed by Clire Lee Purdy, Jack Abernathy will preside. Report Shows Naz arranged by the New York District of the Friends of the Soviet Union We Need the ‘Daily’; ‘Daily’Needs Our Aid, Says Max Bedacht Drive for Funds Is Our Most Immediate Duty, | Says I.W.O. Leader, Urging Renewed Energy | in Campaign to Raise $60,000 Needed By Max Bedacht . The Daily Worker needs our help. We need the help of our Daily Worker. Out of the columns ofthe Daily Worker sound the bugle calls for action into the ears of the militant workers of America. In the columns of the Daily Worker the masses of underpaid or unemployed workers® which will take place at the Man- *‘a labor relations committee, com- | Terror Rife in Saa (Continued from Page 1) sicion that they are sponsoring an anti-Hitlerite Catholic newspaper appearing in Saarbrucken. “Permanent Terror” One of the clergymen made an urgent appeal to the commissioners to use all their influence that the German population of the Saar,! willing to vote against the return to Germany today, shall have the op- portunity to express its opinion in @ second plebiscite after the fascist government of Hitler is gone. The Socialist and Communist members of the territorial counsel of the Saar are objects of permanent terror, One member of the “Land- | rat,” the Communist deputy Som- mer, has narrowly escaped asse: nation A police commissioner allegedly “too lenient to refugees”. was also attacked. by a man armed with an automatic rifle of German army origin. The commission had a long con- ference with the president. of. the Plebiscite Commission and different members of the Administrative Commission of- the League of Na-| tions in the Saar. | As a result of all its investigations ; a. report was issued summarizing the findings in the following points: (a) The existence of wide-spread | and organized: terror acts and vio- | lence has been established as well as open and secret pressure by Nazi hattan Lyceum at 66 E. Fourth St., — re that night. Whisner is securing the entorse- | ment of workers in other steel pants in Pittsburgh and vicinity, and therefore will be assured a-~ great number of sizable hearings upon his return home from the U. S. S. R. Boys Repudiate Leibowitz Scheme | (Continued from Page 1) martyr in the fight for the Scotts- boro boys and for Negro liberation. Mrs. Nerris Visits Son in Jail The statements of Haywood Pat- m and Clarence Norris were signed in the presence of Norris’ mother, Mrs. Ida Norris. whose statement repudiating -Leibowitz’s claim to be sole attorney in the was published in last Satur- day's Daily Worker. The state- ments of the two boys follow: Clarence Norris’ Statement Montgomery, Ala. Kilby .Prison, Oct. 13, 1934. To whom it may concern: In the presence of my mother, Mrs. Ide Norris. I make the fol- lowing statement of my own free will and accord: 1, I want my present appeal in the United States Supreme Court hopes. Tt would be most ‘difficult to or- ganize the masses without the Daily ‘Worker. Our efforts to lead the masses of America learn the cause of their tly weakened without plight. Through the Daily Worker | WW4 be greatly = these masses are led to.the organ- ization of their fighting power in unions, in militant workers’ bodies, and in our revolutionary Commu- nist Party. How could we do our work with- out the Daily Worker? The bank- ruptecy of the capitalist system leaves the workers only 9 perspec- tive of utter misery and despair. The only ray of hope comes through the single outlet, from the pit of capitalist misery—through the road of workers’ action, of workers’ struggle for a higher wage and living standard, of workers’ | struggle for social insurance, of workers’ struggle against the sys- tem of capitalism and for the sys- tem of socialism. The task is great. Efforts to ac- complish it are our duty, Its ac- complishment is asstred. But—it is next to impossible to mobilize the masses without the Daily Worker. Through the Daily Worker we must speak to the masses, Through the Daily Worker the masses must voice their prob- lems, their determination and their the Daily Worker. That is why the Daily Worker, its existence, its circulation, must be a major.concern for us. The waves .of. radicalization rise around us, Our Daily Worker will help us to organize these wayes into prole- tarian power. Hundreds of thousands of Daily Worker readers represent such a proletarian power. A bigger and better Daily Worker will help us to organize such a power. That is why the drive of the Daily Worker for funds is a most important proletarian event. That is why our hearty response to the call for this drive is our most im- mediate political duty. Every com- rade must respond. Every organ- ization must enter action. The drive to date lacks enthusi- asm. It is as if it did not matter to us whether we succeed or not. ‘We must not permit this lethargy to prévail any longer. We cannot endanger the success of the drive. We dare not endanger the very ex- istence of our Daily Worker. Comrades! To work. Concentrate your energy for a whole day, fora whole week, on one determined ef- fort to raise the required $60,000. We can do it. Let us do it. has saved my life for over three years. Subscribed and sworn to |before me this 13th day | of Oct. 1984. (Signed) HAYWOOD PATTERSON. & rs ON | Witness: Ben Davis | fotary. Public | Ida Norris Mrs. Powell Also Endorses I. L. D. | Mrs, Montgomery Denounces Re- | formist Maneuver The statement of Mrs: Josephine | Powell, sworn to in Atlanta, Ga., the longshoremen. He warned | Other meetings to be held in the 4, Pu-|I organizations against the Saar| to be handled exclusively by the population, the attitude of which is| International Labor Defense. I hostile to the Hitler regime. will accept any attorney they (b) The existence of a grave ap-| think proper to handle my case. prehension’ in the Saar population 2. All statements I. have made concerning the imminence of religi-| or documents I have signed which ‘ous persecution .both in ~Germany|, take my case out.of the hands of and in the -Saar...The .eommission| the International Labor Defense received reports of physical and) are to he absolutely disregarded moral insult and oppression inflicted 3. Any retainer. or . writing upon Catholics and Catholic clergy-|. Which I have signed to. any, other men, | lawyer except one retained by (©) The existence of a general! the International Labor Defense conviction in the minds of the Saar| © handle my said appeal in the voters that the coming plebiscite| United States Supreme Court is will not be. secret and will not be| '0 be disregarded. free. The Inquiry Commission did| 7 Still have the greatest confi- not fail to bring this fear of the dence in the Iniernational Labor Saar population to the attention of . Defense. ane organization which the Plebiscite Commission of the, 5 saved my life for three years. Saar. | (Signed) CLARENCE NORRIS. (d) The commission was finally in} Witness: Ben Davis. Jr. position to establish that the Saar Ida Norris Population, favoring the mainte-| statement of Haywood. Patte nance of the status quo, demands Mont, ‘ jag an opportunity of another vote O orane al a. whenever the Hitlerite dictatorship | Oot is Tena. is over in order to decide finally the | To whom. it-may pnts: fate of the Saar territory. In the presence’ of Mrs. Ida was res ae | Norris, mother of Clarence Norris, Striking Miners | I make the following statement Threaten Suicide of my own free will and accord: 1. I want my present appeal Page 1) in the United States Supreme Court to be handled exclusively by the International Labor De- fense. I will accept any lawyer they think proper to handle my case. 2. All statements I have made |. or documents I have signed which | take my case out of the hands of the International Labor Defense are to be absolutely disregarded. | 3. Any retainer which I have | signed to any other lawyer, ex- | cept one retained by the Interna- tional Labor Defense to handle my said appeal is to be disre- garded. 2 I still have the greatest confi- dence in the International Labor Defense, the organization which (Continued from ing standards of the people to the last degree of misery. The mine owners remain indiffer- ent. to this last act of desperation, absolutely refusing to give the min- ers the additional $1.50 a week) which would raise them from their voluntary suicide. Refuse to Taste Food | The frantic wives of the strikers attempted to send some. bread and meat down the shaft to the men,} who are without food, water or lights, and -desperate tragedy was written on their faces when: the food | Mrs. Viola Montgomery roundly denoynced the attempt of the Ne- gro mhisleaders and white and Ne- gro agents of the lynch rulers to get control of the case in order to” betray the. fight forthe liyes and freedom of the boys and the basic rights' of ‘the’ Negro people. Her statement follows: Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 13, 1984. I.am the mother of one of the Scottsboro boys, Olen Mont- gomery, I want my boy and ask- everybody who is convinced he is innocent to join in this fight to keep all of the nine boys alive and get them back to we mothers. I believe that why they are still alive today because of the I. L. D. and the way the I. L. D. has fought for their lives. I am one hundred percent with the I. L. D. T-has give up the hold world for the I. L. D., because I no the I. L. D. is my best friend. I have no faith in those beig preachers at all. I don’t want them around my hoy. Those big bellies: don’t care nothing about us little folk or our children. They has closed their church door in our faces to many times because we are poor worker people. I no just how the LL.D. has ben fight- ing for those nine children. I no the Jynchers has always want- ed to kill our children which the I. L. D. has stopped. That is why I am one hundred percent with the I. L. D. Everybody that be- lieve in right and justice join hand with me Mrs. Viola Mont- gomezy Mothers of one of the nine Scottsboro boys. I want the I. L. D. to continue the fight for my boy until he are. free. . : (Signed) MRS. VIOLA MONTGOMERY. (Seal of Notary Public) | follows: Atlanta, Ga., _ Oct. 13, 1934, I, Josephine Powell. wish to_ staté“I hes give ‘and am now | giving full power and- authority |. to the -International Labor De- fense to conduct the defense of Ozie Powell my son whp was. framed up in the Scottsboro case. If it had not been for the I. L. D. I know that my son and: the rest of the Scottsboro boys would has ben ded long ago. They has “got workers ‘all over the world to fight ‘for the freedom of ‘those boys ard°I has complete trust and will stick with the I. L, D. until deth. (Signed) JOSEPHINE POWELL. (Seal of Notary Public) Subscribed and Sworn to before me this 13th day of Oct. 1934. J. C. JOHNSON, Notary Public. Patterson Warns of Illusions In -his appeai to masses of the United States, sent by cable through the International | Labor Defense, William L. Patter- son warns of the danger of having any illusions in the “fairness” and “impartiality” of the U.S. Supreme Court, and stresses the need for intensified mass protest actions to prevent the legal murder of Hay- wood Patterson and Clarence Nor- | ris on December 7th. His appeal follows: Meshor, Crimea, U. S. S. R. International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street; New York City. Now more than ever before we must rouse millions of Negro and white workers to save the Scotts- boro boys from the electric chair. Give betrayers of the fight no quarter. Millions everywhere are ready to join the fight. They the toiling | Minor. CompanyUnion ‘Based on NRA’ Is GM Scheme Statement ‘to 130,000) Workers Appeals to Section 7-A DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 15—The General Motors Corporation, in‘ a’) statement to its 130,00-employes to- day, declared that their company} union plan, is based on Section 7A of the N. R. A: “Collective bargain- | ing” io the Genera] Motors Co., means company unionism. The au- thority of the Roosevelt goyern- | ment and the N. R. A. is invoked as | justification for the company union, | which has robbed’ the auto work- ers of all their rights. “The management may, however, assist any employe: organization in plans for employes mutual bene- fit,” one section of the General Motors statement says, “provided there is no discrimination.” Collec- tive bargaining,- the company de- | clares, must not imply an assump- | tion by the employes of a voice in those affairs “which the manage- ment by its very nature, must ulti- mately decide upon its own respon- sibility.” The entire statement is. an attack on the A, F. of L. unions, thinly veiled. Under the General Motors com- | pany union the employee has no! say in the hiring or firing, and greivances must be taken up with the foreman or supervisor, with higher executives in the company | having all say after these lower company officials are consulted. The company brazenly announced it will submit to arbitration only | what “will not injure the business.” The. company unions have’ flour- ished in the auto industry since the establishment by Roosevelt, with | William Green's permission, of the | Auto Labor Board. This N: R. A.| board has recognized the company union and strengthened it. Party Units Publicize C. P. Radio Broadcasts In California Campaign) LOS ANGELES, Calif, Oct. 15.— Two Communist Party units here} publicized a radio appearance of | Sam Darcy, candidate for Governor, | by telephoning many residents with- in the territory of the units on the evening of the brodcast to remind them of the hour and station at which Darcy would speak. Both these units recently raised | $15 for the election campaign at a small Jawn party. Harriet Prenter gave a brief talk at the party. - |. Additional radio broadcasts over station KTM by Communist. candi- dates for assembly, Tom. Patterson, district 69; John Leech, district 67; and Sam Jones, district 62, were an- nounced today by the .Los, Angeles Section Campaign Committee. . Patterson will speak on Monday, Oct. 22; Leech on Friday, Oct. 28, and Ronald Keith will speak. for Sam Jones, now in jail, on Monday, Oct. 29. The talks will be held at the regular hour, 10 p.m. ; The intervening schedule is as, follows: Wednesday, Dr. Biggelman; Friday, Joe Turchinsky; Oct. 22, Tom Patterson; Oct.-24, Sam Darcy; Oct. 26, John Leech; Oct. 29, Ronald Keith for Sam Jones; Oot. 31; Law- | rence Ross; Nov. 2, Joe Turch*-1sky; | Nov. 3, Lolli Dobbs; Nov, 5, Bob demand for the boys’ freedom to the U. S. Supreme Court. No illusions of fairness and | justice must be permitted for one moment. Remember how this court swept aside the basic issues in the last appeal and when the masses forced a reversal of the lynch verdicts, the court based it on a technicality and practically instructed lower court how to carry out lynching without inter- ference. Remember blow struck by this court against Sacco and Vanzetti. Into the streets. Stop the Scotts- boro murder planned for Decem- ber 7th. (Signed) WILLIAM L. PATTERSON, National Secretary, must be organized to voice the International Labor Defense. | Was immediately returned. A note accompanying the refusal of food said, “Rather than suffer the slow pangs of starvation, we will commit suicide by smothering ourselves.” Some of the workers who had} been dragged from the pit by sheer | force were delirious from hunger, others were at the point of deeth; |many were unconscious and the | condition of all was grave. | | Throughout Hungary other min- | ers, whose wages and living condi- tions parallel those at Pects, were |Testless and bitter. “Regiments of/| militia patrolled the cities, and everywhere the extreme desperation | of ‘the Pecs miners was mirrored on the faces of other workérs. Election Laws Designed To Operate Against Working Class ‘The efforts of the politicians who represent capitalist power in Illinois to keep the Communist Party off the ballot, reported in recent issues of the Daily Worker, are common |examples of the obstacles placed in | the way of workers who want to a choose candidates of their own CATTLE SLAUGHTER OVER | without regard for the hand-picked OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 15.—Workers | siates offered to speek in the Re- from the three large packing plants | Publican and Democratic primaries. ve ‘report that the, slaughter of | 7 rite ca ny golapeectahnd hens government drought cattle has! onty after a militant fight, and with to an end. The extra gangs|the open threat of the election laid off at the end of last | authorities that. they would: “take come wel 300 at Cudahy’s, 250 at Ar-/| note” of- those who voted Commu- meur's and 200 at Swift’ nist. ERE Ea | In Washington, Oregon and other PETITIONS FILED IN | western states, legal and extra legal | WILMINGTON | means were used to force working | WILMINGTON, Dec., Oct. 15— class candidates off the ballot. Relief Nominating petitions to place the, Workers who signed red nominating Communist Party on the ballot in| petitions were threatened with the | New Castle County haye been filed | loss of their jobs. |here. Efforts are being made to All this is part of the heritage of Place Kent County on the ballot.| the political chains which sham jIf this is successful, two-thirds of | democracy have drown about the the state wil have been filed, in- | American workers. - | cluding Wilmington, the most im-/ Many Legal Traps | portant industrial center, and). The vaunted “democracy” under Dover, the state capital, ‘which Socialists, for example, pro- i permitted on the ballot this year| ¢ ‘Democratic’ Election Law Bare Many From Polls |pose to place the government in the hands of the workers “by peaceful means” is full of legalistic tricks to limit free choices at the polls. Vast. numbers of nominating petitions must be obtained in virtually all the states, In Louisiana, for instance, only those who did not register as’ voters in any political party in the previous election, may sign the nominating. | petitions of any group. - In many other states, such as Ohio, Wisconsin, Mlinois, it is some- times necessary to collect a greater number of nominating signatures for Jocal or county candidates than for a state ticket. | Many states require «filing fees | based on a percentage of the salary paid to the office for which a candi- date-is competing. Once these serious obstacles have | been overcome, frequently with pro- | digious effort, as in Ohio, Pennsyl- | vania, Hlinois, Connecticut, new barriers arise before the individual working class voter. | All Kinds of “Tests” | Aside from residence, most states | have ‘literacy tests and many have poll tax, property and even moral qualifications: When ‘first the Re- | public was founded, James Madison. one of its early presidents, declared | that the right to vote ought to be confined to owners of land, indus- trial or commercial enterprises. He gave as his grounds that “In the future, a great majority will not only be without’ land, but will be without any sort of property. These will. combine under the influence of | their common situation—in which case the rights of property (that is, of the capitalists) and public liberty will not be secure in their. hands.” As a result slaves, women and jmen without property, were barred from the -polls. Since about. 1820, these stiff restrictions have been )Temain. In the southern States ownership of property, ability to read and write and the payment of a poll tax are ‘almost universally required. Among | these states are Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louis- liana, Maryland, Mississippi, North | Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, | Virginia, Oklahoma, Texes. Negrees Especially Victimizea These provisions militate with particular severity’ against Negroes and poor white farmers. In locali- ties where poor farmers, and Negro workers are engaged in sharp: struggles, restrictions can be and are | used to prevent them from voting for the Party which leads them in these struggles, the Communist Party. © ¢ Such difficulties, such restrictions, planned against American workers by’ the farsighted fathers of the | eased in part, but many of them| American ‘Democracy’ Shows Long History of Discrimination country and mercilessly applied by the descendants of the founding fathers, must make Communists ‘and active sympathizers doubly de- termined to see the legal and rou- |tine aspects of their election cam- ;Paign move without a hitch. “You can’t vote if you don't register,” is Alexander Trachten- berg’s admonition. “If there is any doubt.as to your qualifications as a voter, make it your business to find out from the nearest “campaign office of the Communist Party wherever you live. Every person who intends to vote Communist should check up on his friends, neighbors, shopmates, and should see to it that they, too, register. “The education and propaganda of the Communist Party for the needs and the rights of the working class are going forward with energy and determination in the election campaign,” Trachtenberg says, “And while ‘the size of the vote | we roll up is’ not a measure of our victory or defeat, it is a measure BANKRUPTCY OF N.H. A.F.L. IS REVEALED) AT STATE PARLEY Reactionary Barry Machine, Forced to Admit Funds Were Diverted, Gags Rank and File Demands at Convention KEENE, N. H., Oct. 15.—John L. Barry, who has kept control of the’ New Hampshire State Federation of Labor for 16 years, had been forced to admit, at the recent federa- tion convention, that, under his leadership, the Federation had become practically bankrupt, and emergency fuy voted for union organization w had gone into his own pocket. It was learned that Barry's o Deportation Hearings Open This Morning Out of the Country for Militancy Hearings on the cases of ‘Christ Popoff and Fortunato Eria,) whom the U. S. Government is trying to deport for their working class activ- ities, will be held this morning, at the U. 8. District Court, Room 235, Old Post Office Building. The Com- mittee for Protection of Foreign Born is fighting the attempt’ to de- port these two militant ‘workers, Popof is slated for deportation to Greece, where he would face torture and death as a Bulgarian identified with the struggles for Macedonian independence, Fria’ has been held on Ellis Island for the past six months for deportation to Italy fol- lowing his frame-up by his _em- Ployers to avoid paying him com- pensation due him in an injury in- curred while on the job, dren in Syracuse. Eria has a wife and two children living in Brook- lyn. t The Committee is urging all workers to attend the hearings this attempt to victimize these two work- ers for their working class activities. Nazis Are Silent OnThaelmannTrial (Continued from Page 1) grace the commercial’ highways with . swastikas, -where traffic goes to or from Germany, wherever con- suls_ or ambassadors wish to pub- licize Goering’s and Goebbel’s lying pacifying expianations—there must all -anti-fascists, of . every. opinion and every profession of. faith, in all countries, lock arms together under the banner of our fight for liberation. ae ence of Jurists, which the most, famous ‘lawyers of England, France, Sweden, Spain, “Poland, Czécho- slovakia, Switzerland, Holland and many other lands will attend in the middle of October, in order to'make & world trial of fascism and to unmask the trial-comedy against Thaelmann and many others. For Mass Trials of Fascism mass trials, gather the material for tlle prosecution, and speak your lions. “Build the great united front for the rescue of endangered anti- fascists! ‘“The ten days from the 10th to the 20th of October we praclaim to be international days of battling for the freedom of Ernst Thael- mann and’ all imprisoned anti- fascists! - . -“Do not be led astray: by any lies, illusions, and quieting reports. Powerful mass action alone will hurl back the hangmen. We must win Ernst Thaelmann as one wins a battle. For every battle against. Fascism is a battle won for truth, right, freedom and peace!’ “Save those who have been sen- tenced to death! Pull Ernst Thaelmann from his dungeon! 4 “Free Torgler, Ossietsky, Mieren- dorf, Neubauer, Litten, Ziegler, Renn, Klauss, Neukrantz, Frau Beimler, Else Steinfurth and all other menaced fighters for free-. dom! : this appeal be heard everywhere. A new wave of executions, bloodshed and mass-imprisonments has risen in Germany. The Fascist dictator- ship wants to strangle the fight of German anti-fascists against grue- fascist! ee gold of winter, against the unheard of, incredible preparations for war on the part of the Fascists. difficult. But the rage of fascism, too, is horribly Dioody. ; “The army of anti-fascist heroe: storms forward. All humanity must. help here. “We call upon all the people of the. world in whose hearts and brain the ideals of peace, righteous- ness and freedom are ‘still alive— blaze the road to liberation, tear the victims from the: hangmen.” PARTY ON BALLOT IN INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 15.— has been notified by the State Board of Election Commissioners that the candidates of the Party will appear on the ballot. This’ is one of the few states where the pressure of the working class put the Communist Party on the ballot of the effectiveness of our propa- ganda.” © z without effective protest by repre- sentatives ‘of the- bosses. U.S. Seeks to Ship Two ‘Popoff has a wife and three chil-| morning at 10 a. m. to protest the | Support the great Paris Confer- i “In all capitals and ports arrange | verdicts with the strength of mil- | “Let everyone do his best. that “The fight for liberation for the || .|German anti-fascists is horribly The Communist Party in Indiana | |lecal,. the, cigar makers’ union Manchester with Barry's sanctic | had not. paid its per capita tax t the Federation for the past si: years. x ‘ ie | The convention delegates learnec that.the Federation, which. boasts of 14,000. workers, now has,.a treasury of. only. $175. During .the last. two years, they were blandly informed that Barry. and his. “Qnachine”. had spent nearly $2,000 of funds raised specifically fora membership drive. This special fund, Barry said, was jused up for -“legislative duties.” Barry got move than $500 in a-four- months period alone, in addition to expenses, for appearances: before the |State Legislature's. committees |during the 1932-33 winters, -it. was | learned. ¥ ; Delegate Dan McBain of the Con- | cord: Granite Cutters’ Union, hit the highlight of the ‘convention ‘when he pointed out that the make-up of the “executive council’: was of “labor fakers.” -He recalled that the * council, which, ‘with Barry, -steam- rolled themselves: back into ‘office for another year, included: Mayor Daniel Reindal of Berlin, who had been kicked out-of his own labo: yorganization, the Coos Count; | Workers. Club; Carl Matthews o Newport, “expelled from the-Com- |munist: Party for betraying -labor; Mrs. Alice M. Goland, “ghost” head of a non-existent Keene textile union; Damon G.-Randlett, Con- cord Typographical: Union- president, who is.an official of the Democratic Party, and B. H. Crowell of Ports- mouth, Federation Secretary, who, \brazenly, and in the open, defends the boss-class. Barry, under questioning from the convention floor, admitted-that the Federation. would. be bankrupt “if it lived up to its constitution.” He said that many of the 60 affiliated ,locals had not been paying their per | capita tax in recent. years, Barry confessed that while, there are 114 A..F. of L. locals. in the state, ‘only about seven of them” .would -have been eligible to send delegates to the convention, if. he had not made | Per capita tax concessions to induce them to remain under his leader- ship! fi teas Can't Afford Organization Barry insisted, in fact, that thé Federation is so morally. and finan. cially weak. that it could not. “af ford” to launch a drive for new or- ganization work in the state. He insisted that the convention vote down a demand of the Manchester box makers local for such a cam- paign. He explained that it. would use’ up “needed money,” |. The reactionary Barry, who has \long been jin disrepute. among the majority of New Hampshire work- ers, even rode roughshod over op Position to endorsing a ‘state police |system. He smugly turned aside a |rank and file protest with the as- |sertion: “I would rather see New Hampshire workers face well organ- ized state constabulary forces than a bunch of inexperienced, boys; (Na- tional Guardsmen) with loaded rifles ‘in their neryous hands,” Joseph Lavaliee of Manchester, a carpenter union official, and a Barry crony, pushed through a resolution to establish a bureau “like the U. S. Secret Service” against “non-union and Communist actiyities.” _. A resolution against the Boston and Maine railroad management for continuing to recognize a company union, after the 1,800 shop, workers had voted for A. F. of L..unions, war also killed by the Barry ,machin B. H. Crowell of Portsmouth, Féc eration secretary and Barry hench man, led the double-cross against the shop workers when. he declared: “I don’t. think that .this attack is warranted. I have found .the. rail- road management, to_be. fair in deal- ings with me for the workers.” Even a_.free-Tom-Mooney. resolu- tion was. killed by the Barry regime. Communist Accepis Challenge Barry and his “machine” refused [to permit the convention to: con- ‘demn the “red-baiting” campaign ot | William: Green of the”A. F. of L.,” which calls for expulsion of Known Communists from A, F. of L. affili- ates. But they backed water‘ quickly when a delegate took the‘convention ‘floor and announced himself as a Communist, and told the forty dele- gates how and why he truly stood for trades: uni “The Communist’ delegate, Dan McBain, secretary of the Concord Granite Cutters’ Union, represen: one of the strongest locals in th! McBain, by his militancy and’ arguments, pushed through the .only worthwhiJe action taken at the convention, He won passage of a demand for changes in the state labor compensation laws _to include provisions for benefits to occupational diseases victims. He . also pushed through a resolution condemning Hitler and fascism. The Barty reactionaries refused, however, to accede to McBain’s de- mand that the convention: call for the release of Ernst Thaslmann and other political prisoners. They fell back ‘upon their pet standby “we do not. know. the facts. about this.case.” McBain - suvplied - the “facts” but, naturally, they wéré not heeded by the Barry sell-out clique. ' / Ss