The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 18, 1934, Page 2

.uke Election Camp Neighborhood |. qbor Sp ry Mass Rallies Are Stressed Small House Meetings Useful in Recruiting C. P. Members “Take the Communist Election Campaign into the homes of the workers.” This slogan might summarize the call issued by the National Con- gressional Election Committee yes- terday for a drive during the re- maining weeks of the campaign to organize small, intimate neighbor- hood meetings in workers homes and backyards. The committee pointed to the ef- fectiveness of such meetings in in- troducing Communist candidates to workers, for informal and neighborly discus- sion of local and national election issues and in distributing Commu- nist literature and collecting funds. | Above all, the committee stressed the value of such small house meet- ings in recruiting new Party mem- bers. Alexander Trachtenberg, head of the Congressional Election Commit- tee, cited the example of Cleveland where scores of such meetings have been held with tremendously suc- cessful results. Similar success attended the lit- erature distribution and sales, and the. collection of campaign funds. “During every election campaign,” Trachtenberg said, “workers are be- wildered by the outpourings of demagogy of the capitalist parties. It is the job of Communists to di: pel their bewilderment and to pre- sent instead the Communist pro- gram, clearly and concretely.” “To do this,” Trachtenberg said, “we must develop new methods con- stantly. These small neighborhood meetings held informally in work- ers’ homes is one of the new and effective means. Hew To Penctrate Homes “How is it done? Simple. Party member, sympathizer, trade union member, anyone who sup- ports the Communist Party pro- gram can do it. “Go to your neighbors. Introduce yourself. Tell them that you are interested in the elections, just as they and most other workers are. Tell them quite simply that you are calling a small group of neighbors and friends together to discuss the election campaign. “You can do this more effectively if you have the help of several friends or if it is done through a Communist Party unit or other lo- cal organization. “Provide simple refreshments if possible. But above all provide lit- erature, thé Coiijtitinist local and Congressiona! election platform, the Daily Worker, other suitable mate- rial. Prepare and equip yourself to answer questions.” Bring Local Candidates Here Trachtenberg became em- phatic. “But no matter what hap- pens, if you find during the course of the meeting that you don’t know the answer to a question, don’t try to answer it. Admit frankly your inability to satisfy the questioner and arrange to get the answer for him or provide him with reading matter which will do so.” Whenever pessible, the local can- didate should be introduced at these | meetings, Trachtenberg said. “Keep these meetings on an in- formal, pleasant, neighborly plane. and you have a powerful means of recruiting Party members and of cementing the relations of the Communist Party and the Commu- nist leaders with the masses.” Trachtenberg declared. “There is still ample time to arrange thou- sands of such meetings, They-re- quire little preparation and bring impressive results.” S.P. Vote Reveals Desire for Unity (Continued from Page 1) figures as Louis Waldman and Charles Solomon, denounced the Declaration as being “illegal and anarchistic,” the new set of prin- ciples was lost by a small margin, 1,537 voting against and 1.189 voting affirmatively. Reformist Document The Declaration is the new plat- form of the so-called “militant” group and contains a denunciation of “bogus bourgeois democracy.” However, on all essential questions of revolutionary policy, such as the dictatorship of the proletariat and the need for revolutionary struggle against war and fascism, as well as for the struggle to transform im- perialist war into civil war for the stizure of power, the Declaration of Principles remains a reformist docu- ment disguised with radical phrases. The Norman Thomas-Daniel Hoan ‘troup sponsoring the new document has already shown by subsequent statements as well as in their sup~ nort of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, that the radical phraseology of the Declaration of Principles is dictated not by a change in policy toward revolution, but by the necessity of convincing the militant Socialist Party tank and file that the lead- ership is a revolutionary leadership. At the New York Nominating Convention of the Socialist Party leading opponents of the Declara- tion such as Solomon, who received the nomination for Governor, re- fused to state beforehand that they _ Would support the Declaration in y. event that it were passed by ? party referendum. | apiece. DAILY WORKER, NEW YCr«, TH RSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1934 aign Into Workers’ Homes, Hired Professional Men for Thug Duty (Continued from Page 1) are from Big Bill Edwards, Wood- row Wilson, Gene Tunney.” The previous day, Sept. 20, about 150 of these Ph. D's mobbed Ber- | goff's headquarters at 2 Columbus Circle, asseverating that they had been chiseled out of five bucks One of them, who chooses to go on the record as “Chowder- head Cohen,” stated: “We done a good job. We risked our lives and we was run out of the State and we stuck wid our captains, too, and now dis redheaded skunk wouldn't in offering opportunities | "ick in.” Talmadge His Friend The reference being to the action of Governor Talmadge of Georgia, who had a Bergoff contingent ejected from Potterdale of that State. Governor Talmadge is a friend of mine and a nice guy,” Bergoff said, “but he treated my men like a goddam crook. He is up for elec- tion again, and he was making political capital out of it with the mill workers. That’s how he gets their votes. Then he gets his real support from the mill owners by calling his ‘partial martial’ law. Then you know my men take a blow rather than give one.” It was due to a deplorable mis- | understanding that in the strike of the Standard Oil truck drivers a Bergoff man was found with a Mauser semi-machine gun in his car, an 8-shot “hickory stick” de- livering flat-nosed bullets. Louis Bergoff and the Val O'Farrell agency were both in on that deal, but the big money went to Peter DeVito of Queens. This LL.D. ad- mitted to a gross income of $503,353 that year, observing that all but $14,275 went for “business expenses and gifts.” This is not to be mar- veled at, since we know his con- . federates to have been Alderman Joseph Dermody of the 14th Assem- bly District and Joseph Lentil, Tammany leader of same. It was in their cars that the industrial adjusters :roamed ihe Brooklyn streets. That these aré praiseworthy men and true was further attested by a letter signed W. D. Anderson, read aloud in the investigator's presence by the Red Demon. Mr. Anderson is head of the Southern Tex-ile Manufacturers’ Association, and he has publicly indulged in a poignant complaint about “illegal intimida- tion caused by picketing—especially the invasion of, mill. towns by the so-called flying squadrons of pick- et: In Bergoff's words, legality isa pillar of efficiency and efficiency is a pillar of the agency. On the morning of Sept. 21, the postman delivered over a dozen airmail let- ters from below ihe Mason-Dixon line to 2 Columbus Circle.. Some of these were left carelessly. on Red Demon's large desk and the return addresses were printed in yester- day’s Daily Worker. Carried away by his: own -protestations: of effi- ciency, Red also pulled out his op- erative’s preliminary report on the Chicago Motor Coach Strike and then became engaged in animated conversation with his secretary for a time sufficient to allow anyone interested to copy its contents. Ber- goff has been a detective for 30 years. Undercover Department This report. illuminates the meth- ods of more than one agency. It is dated July 7, 1934, long before the strike began, and it contains the military plans of the “Undercover Department . . . composed of care- fully selected male and female me- chanics and work people. They furnish accurate information of the movement and contemplated ac- tions of their fellow employees. ‘Forewarned is forearmed.’” In this instance they cover the key points on the route system of the Chicago Motor Coach Company: \ “No. 15—Harlem and Addison Streets and Pueblo Avenue exten- sion coach: Main terminal. ‘Turn around’; neighborhood inhabited by foreign element and union labor sympathizers; sparsely settled. Dangerous at night, Eight guards; ten, night; auto and 5 s.a, men.” No. 24—Wilcox Garage: Very bi cafeteria and letrine accommoda- tions; house 150 men. Belt line tracks close by; alley on East; coal and ice on Norih low, disused build- ing opposite. Fifty guards, auto and 5 s.a. men.” “No. 36—World’s Fair Terminal: 12th St., at Lake Michigan: Fed by all three divisions. Might have 100 coaches parked waiting for crowd to. break. Seventy-five guards. There should be special telephone service at this point.” There are 43 such individual points to be covered. A final an- alysis shows 624 “guards,” 43 super- visors, 16 captains and 16 squad automobiles required per shift. The report is typed by a trusted stenographer (her notes are burned) and sent to the New York office. Representatives of the company and the agency confer and arrive at a suitable figure. Red cashes a check at his favorite bank. Proud of System Bergoff is inordinately proud of his system and jealous of his con- temporaries’ success. When Man- ning’s name was mentioned he pre- tended never to have heard of him. Subsequently, in another connec- tion, he referred to him as Tim. Manning's activity in the textile strike was revealed in a somewhat roundabout manner. Approached for information about espionage in Chieftain BERGOFF SERVICE BUREAU fudtus: vial Specialists | 2 COLUMBUS CIRCLE the textile industry, Mr. William | Lawson, formerly of the N. R. A. machine, now George | front, was strangely. reti- cent. He knew nothing about re- | ports received. Violence at Trion, ' Georgia? Oh, that was just a group of local iron-molders cutting up. How did he know? Hearsay. Perhaps Mr. Van Horn of the Silk Code Authority would knaw. | “Communists |in the textile in- dustry?” Mr, Van Horn asked “If I were on that story, I'd talk to Dave Cole of Paterson. He keeps tabs on them.” David Cole of the firm of Cole and Morill, 45 Church St.,. Pater- son, N, J., made sure about Van Horn’s recommendation and said no, he hadn’t heard about any sys- tematic record of union Isaders in silk, either. Perhaps Mr. Baker of | the Silk Manufacturers’ Associa- | ion could help. Mr. M. M. Baker is listed in the building directory downstairs. as the M. M- Baker Co., but “upstairs he is | | secretary of the association. His office is adorned by. a likeness of F. D. Roosevelt and an. inscribed | motto: “Property is the fruit of labor; it is a positive good in this | world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.” Mr. Baker obliged by supplying details about the geneology and domestic life of Moe Brown, Communist can- didate for Governor of New Jersey. | He said Brown came from fine | stock. It was Paterson's Chief of Police John A. Murphy who, in an in- formal chat, finally let the rat out of the bag. “The man to give you the. dope is Tim Manning. Why don’t you look him up? Last night he told me he shipped 500 men to Massachusetts. He works with manufacturers all over the coun- try and he can give you the rec- ord of anybody in the industry.” Mr. Manning of Newark Mr. Manning does business at 31 | linton Street, Newark, N. J. His door opens into a 3 ft. by 3 ft. cubbyhole, where he can look at you from all sides. His men walk | about silently and close the doors | behind them. Unfortunately, ac- cording to his assistant, Mr. Man- ‘ning was away. Why don’t the Paterson people give you the rec- ords themselves? ‘I couldn’t say. When is Mr. |Manning returning from Massa- chusetts?” | A sharp look. “Any day, He's j very busy in that section now. He /has been all around Rhode Island and Connecticut, too. I can't give you any records until he returns” | Bergoff and Manning specialize in | the “Protection Dept.” which Red | Demon states is “composed of big, (disciplined men with military and | police experience, for the protection ‘of life and property.” Much of the | actual espionage in textile is left to | the Railway Audit and Inspection | Company and its 13 main offices in | Philadelphia, New York, Boston, | Little Rock, Baltimore, Atlanta, New | Orleans, Houston, Pittsburgh, Cleve- ‘land, Detroit. Chicago and St. Louis. Record Rivals Sherman’s | This classy outfit and its well- | groomed “engineer” front at Phila- | delphia has a record that rivals John F. Sherman's. One of its | operatives was uncovered in Pater- son and fined $1,000 for attempting |to bribe Carl Holderman, then Vice- President of the American Federa- ,tion of Full Fashioned Hosiery | Workers. In Kenosha, Wis., another | operative tried to throw acid bombs |into the hotel room of another ‘hosiery workers’ representative, In 1930 they were found to have hired | people with specific instructions to | provoke violence among strikers in | Nazareth, Pa. Their’man, Harry C. Cummings, held a membership card |in_ the street car men’s union of | Allentown for a number of years. | He was delegate to the Central La- bor Union of that’ town. | Spied for Whitney In 1931 Railway Audit and Inspec- tion was found to have been em- ployed by Pres. A. F. Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men to spy on the Railroad Work- ers Industrial League of the T.U.U.L. This was brought to light by a cor- respondence between New York Central officials, In 1932 two scabs imported by R. A. & I. to break a strike of the General Materials Co., Cambridge, Md., were killed. And now, Robert Whitfield, sent by them into the Anchor Duck Mills, of Rome, Ga. has revealed the nature and circumstances of his mission. He was hired in their of- fices at the Trust Company of Georgia Building under the super- vision of Harry Preston, Vice-Presi- dent. He was to get $2 a day for information on his fellow workers. He was instructed to spend Sundays in their homes and sent minute in- formation about their habits, temper and small talk. Whitfield affirms that the agency’s network of spies spreads into every industrial center in the South. He has offered his information to. A. F. of L. officials. “That’s nothing new,” they said. Following is a partial list of com- panies which have employed Berg- off spies or gunmen: Steam, Railroad Companies: New York Central R.R., N.¥.C.; Penn- sylvanta R.R., N.Y.C.; Erie R.R., Cleve- land, Ohio; Lehigh Valley R.R., N.Y.C.: Delaware Lackawana R.R., N.Y.C.; Central R.R. of New Jersey, N.¥.C.; Ontario & Western R.R., N.¥.C.; Southern Pacific R.R., N.¥.C.; Baltimore & Ohio R.R., Bal- timere, Md.; Boston & Albany R.R., Bos- ton, Mass.; Delaware Hudson R.R., Albany, N. ¥.; N.Y.N.H.& ERR. New Haven, Conn.; Central R.R. of Vermont, St. Al- bans, Vt.; Chicago, Burlington é& Quincy R.R., Chicago, Ill; Chicago & Northwest- ern R.R.; Ohicago, Ill.; Chicago & Alon R.R., Chicago, Mil; Northern Pacific R.R. St. Paul, Minn.; Guif & Ship Island F. Gulfport, Miss.;.Fiorida East Coast R. Co., Jacksonville, Fla,: Nashville Chatta- nooga & St. Louis R.R., Nashville, Tenn.; Boston & Maine R.R., Boston, Mass.: Western Maryland R.R., Baltimore, Md.; Havana Central-R.R., Havana, Cuba; Great Northern R.R., Chicago, Il; West Shore RR. N.¥.C.; Big Four R.R., Cincinnat, Ohio; Philadelphia é& Reading R.R., Read- ing, Pa.; Susquehanna R.R. Co., N.Y.C Chesapeake & Ohio R.R., Richmond. Va.: Georgia R.R., Augusta, Ga.; Georgia & Florida R.R., Richmond, Va.; Central of Georgia R.R. Co., Savanneh, Ga.; Charles- ton & Western Carolina R.R. Co., Augusta, Ga. Electric Railway Companies: Interborough Rapid Transit Co. N.¥.; Brooklyn Manhattan Transfer Co., Brook- lyn, N, ¥.; Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; Chicago Railways Co., Chicago, Iil.; New Orleans Railway é Light Co., New Orleans, La.; Birmingham Rail- way Light & Power Co., Birmingham, Ala.; | San Francisco & Oakland Terminal R.R., Oakland, Cal.; United Railways of San Francisco, Cal.; Public Service Corp., New- ark, N. J.; United Traction Co., Albany, N. Wilkes Berre R.R., Wilkes Barre, Pa.; Philadelphia Oo., Pittsburgh, Pa.; Kahsas City Street Car Oo., Kansas City, Mo.; Rutland Railway Light & Power Co., Rutland, Vt.: Pittsburgh, Harmony, But- ler a New Castle Railway Co., Pittsburgh, Pe.; Union Railways Co. N.¥.C.; Tren- ton. Bristol & Phila. Street Railway Co. Phile:, Pa.; International Railway “Co.! Buffalo, N.Y.: Binghamton , Street. Railway Co., Binghamton, N.Y.; Wilmington Peoples Railways, Wilmington, Del.; Staten Island | Rapid Transit Co., Staten Islind, N. Y.; Schuylkill & Dalphin Traction.Co., Potts- ville, Pa.; Boston Elevated Railway Co., Boston, Mass.; Omaha, Council Bluffs, Street R.R. Co., + Trenten J.; Toronto +, Toronto, Canada; Ford Bescon Davis Co, Engingers,.N. ¥.; The Lykens. Valley. Const. Co., Potts Pr. Steamship Companies: International Mercantile Marine Co., N.Y.; New England Coal & Coke Co.. Bos- Mass.; Atlantie Coast Shipping Co.. American 4 Cuban Steamship Line, ;. Munson Steamship Line; Holland- Amer! Line, N. ¥.; Merchants & Min- ers Transpcrtation Go., Baltimore, Md.; Mutual Transit Co., Buffalo, N. ¥.; West- ern Transit Co., Buffalo, N. ¥.; Brady & Gioe Stevedores, N. ¥.; Funch, Edye & Co., N. ¥.; Frank J, Sullivan, Rockefeller Bidg., Cleveland, Ohio; Compagnie Gene- rele Transatlantique, N. Y.; Italian Lines, N. ¥.; White Star Line; Cunard Line; Pat- terson & Wyle, Agents, Boston, Mass.; Bush Terminal Docks, Brooklyn, N. Y.: T. Hogan & Sons, Stevedores, N. Y.; Old Dominion Steamboat Co., N. Y.; United Fruit Co., N. ¥.; Southern Pacific Steam- boat Co. N, ¥.; North German Lloyd Line; Hamburg-American Line; Scandina- vian-American Lines; H. D. Lambardu and Son, Boston, Mass.; Havana Steamboat, Cahans and Waldmans are trying as they viciously attacked every withing the ranks of the Socialist arouse all Socialist Party members. Rey. Ralph W. Compere of West Party member for two years, was course, consistent with the wishes o: Cahans and Waldmans. be able to stop the mounting: desi They have declared before that again for immediate negotiations front, they move closer to the A. united front. (Continued from Page 1) é of the Socialist Party membership which the To block this development for united front among the Socialist Party members, the Socialist leaders have taken some drastic action that should tering into united front actions with Communists. The New Leader declared that “this course is in- consistent with- a disciplined organization”; the united front with the worst enemies of labor such as Gorman, Green, Ryan*and Woll is, of But these saboteurs of the united front will not for the united front among their own membership. wanted the united front only from below. When the Communist Party addressed them time breaking bureaucracy and put every obstacle and impediment in the path of the realization of the Despite their actions, the united front will be achieved through the actions of all honest workers realizing its extreme necessity at this time. Communist Party calls on all Socialists, in their branches, in their county and state organizations to take steps for the establishment of the united front—for support of the Spanish workers; for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann and Caballero; against The Socialist Party, the United Front and the Elections An Editorial to thwart, just “left” expression Party. nists in the tra . In Milwaukee, Allis, a Socialist expelled for en- Ryan. but munist Party is f the reactionary ire and yearning ism. the Communists and. on the united ing to achiey, F. of L. strike- of ie against fascism The should not vote elections. ‘The fighter for the united front. this is that the Communist Party represents the real interests of the working-class, and in the election campaign its program is the best program against the New Deal and to speed the fight for the establishment of a workers’ government in this country, which would lead to the building of social- C.P. Urges fascist developments in the United States; against Roosevelt's strike-breaking truce; for rank and file democracy in the trade unions, and for the or- ganization. of the unorganized; against the grow- ing danger of war. There should be no delay in the establishment of the united front between Socialist branches and Communist units, between Socialists and Commu- de unions because the Cahans and Waldmans see fit to block it in order to aid the New Deal program of.Green, Woll, Gorman and Every Socialist should now see that the Com- the most persistent, most energetic.” ‘The basic reason for. A vote for the Communist Party is a vote for the fighter for the united front. Communist Party will strengthen the force striv- A vote for the the united front, despite all ob- stacles, vacillations and outright sabotage. A vote for the Communist Party is a vote and war. Every Socialist worker who smarts under the knowledge of the shameless resistance to the united front on the part of the Cahans and Waldmans for their program in the present greater the Communist vote, the greater the forces will be for the united front front between the Socialist and Communist Parties. Socialist workers, vote Communist! Gov. Lehman Aids Utilities {Continued from Page 1) $4,000 to $2,500 for married persons, and from $2,500 to $1,000 for single persons. This move was in line with Lehman’s entire tax program, to lay the heaviest tax burdens of the state on those least able to bear them, the working class, and the) lower middle class. In line with this policy Lehman fought against raising the one-half per cent tax on the gross earnings of public utilities to four per cent, an increase which would have provided $35,- 000,000 for relief and welfare pur- poses. 4 in its fight against the Wall Street Governor, the Communist Party, the revolutionary Party of the working class, through its candidate, Israel Amter, calls for: | an immediate appropriation, by means of heavy taxes on. the rich, on big corporations, on Walt Street . banks and speculators, . of . $200,- | 000,000 for emergency, unemploy- ment winter relief. This working class program of taxation, aimed against Lehman’s capitalist tax. Program, specifically provides that there shall be no increased taxes on the small property own- ers, no reduction in the salaries of lower state employees, and no tax- ation on consumers’ goods. This is plank Number Two in the New York State Election Platform of the Communist Party. In his relations to the farm pro- | ducers of the state, Lehman has} ruthlessly pursued a capitalist pol- icy calculated to aid the biggest milk monopolies and the large dairy Producers, at the expense of the, Boston, Mass.; Overseas Ship. Co., N. Y¥.; Cornell Towing Co., N. ¥.; Newtown Tow- ing ©o., Brooklyn, N. Y.; Baston District Ter. Co., Brooklyn, N. ¥. Miscellaneous: Standard Oil Co., of New York, N. Y.; Tide Water Oil Co., of New York; Texaco Oil Co., N. ¥.; Warner Quinlan Oil \Co., N. Y.; Gulf Refining Co., N. Y.;. Pressed Steel Car Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.: Carnegie Steel Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.; Baldwin Loco- motive Works, Philadelphia, Pa.; Barber Asphelt Co., N. ¥.; American Smelting Refining Co., N. Utah Copper Co., Salt Leke City, Utah; Nevada Consolidated Mining Co., Bly, Nevada; Scranton Coal Co., Scranton, Pa.; Calumet é Hecla Min- ing ©o., Calumet, Mich.; Aluminum Co. of America, East St. Louis, Ill; Wells Fargo Express Co., N. ¥.; Burns Bros. Coal, N. ¥.; Building Trades Association, N. ¥.; Adams Express N. Y¥.; Team Owners Association, N. Y¥.; Marble Industry Em- ployers Association, N, Y.; Brewers As- sociation, Kansas City, Mo.: sociation, Rochester, N. Y.; Brewers As- Sociation, Scranton, Pa.; Brewers Asso- ciation, Syracuse, N. ¥.; Colorado Brew- ers Association, Denver, Coiorado; Build- ing Construction Employers Association, Chicago, Ill; Postal Telegraph Cable Co., N. ¥.; Hotel Owners Association, N.¥.C.; Hotel Owners Association, Boston, Mass. Hotel Owners Association, Buffalo, N. ¥. Team Owners Association, Boston, Mess Team Owners Association, Yonkers, N.Y. Jacobs Castor Oil Co., Jersey City, N. J. Eckerson Dalry Oo., Jersey City, N. J: Washburn Bros., Jersey City, N. J.; Mose- role Bed Oo., Jersey City, N. J.; Macaroni Makers Association, N. Y.; National Pire- proofing Co., N. ¥.; Copper Range Con- solidated Mining Co., Painsdale, Mich,; American Zinc, Lead & Smelting Co., St. Louis, Mo.; Quincy Mining Co. Mich.; Isle Royle Mining ‘Co. Mich.; Upholsterers Association, N. ¥.: Marx Arnheim, Tailors, N. Y.;\ Interna- tional Tailoring, N. Y.; Sigmund Eisner €o., Red Bank, N. J.; Associated Retail Purniture Dealers of N. Y.; Sachs Bros, Purniture, N. Y¥.; Finkenberg Purniture, N. ¥.; J. Michaels Furniture, Brooklyn, N. Y¥.; John A. Swartz Furniture, Brook- lyn, N. ¥.; C.. Ludwig Baumann Purni- ture, Brooklyn, N. ¥.; J. Kurtz & Sons Furniture, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Amalgamated Leather Ce., Inc.; Wilmington, Del.; Win- slow Bros. & Smith Co. Tanneries, Boston, Mass.; United Dry Docks, Inc., * Brewers As- [Tomorrow’s article will lay bare the operations of the Steel Trust’s Spy system. The Daily Worker will print phetegraphs and mate- rial ont of the seeret files of Charles W. Tuttle, head of Car- negie Steel's underground ring.] Every Communist Vote Is the Vote of a Worker Prepared to Fight For His Rights. A Vote for Communist Candi- dates Is a Vote against Company “Unions.” small farmers and the city con- | sumers. His Milk Control Board has followed the crop-rediicing pol- icies of the Roosevelt government, smashing down the price the farmer receives for his milk through the infamous “surplus” schedules. Against -Lehman’s capitalist mo- nopoly program in milk, the Com- munist Party supports the stand of the United Farmers League, which demands a minimum of 5 cents for the farmers and not more than nine cents as a retail selling price, thus cutting the enormous profits of the monopoly milk trusts. But Lehman, and Moses as well, have the closest ties with the Borden Milk Trust, Lehman's Wall Street firm own- ing heavy investments in the milk companies. And the policies of these capitalist candidates will always be directed toward protect- ing the monopoly profits against the interests of the farmers and consumers. As it is. the city work- ers pay 300 to 500 per cent more for their milk than the small farmer gets for it from the milk trust, Serve Utilities On the question of the utilities in New York, both Lehman and Moses are active agents of the Con- solidated Gas, Electric Bond and :|Co., and the Associated Gas, which dominate the state. Lehman has introduced some minor: changes in the ‘utility laws permitting municipalities to run their own power plants, but only on the condition that the private profit interests of the big utilities will not be hurt. Lehman's close ties with Tammany Hall, with its bonds to the Consolidated Gas Com- pany monopoly, make him a too faithful servitor of the utilities to do anything else than protect their profits. As for Moses, he is blunt in his pledge to serve his masters. Two days ago, he stated publicly: “I am fer letting municipalities have their own plants. I am not, how- ever, for the expropriation of pri-. vate property without payment.” Communist Proposal This is precisely where both Moses as well as Lehman, as well as the Socialist Party candidate Solomon, differ from the Communist Party. The Communist Party, as the revo- lutionary party of the working class declares boldly that it looks upon the gigantic electric light systems }ment which would utilize the coun- jof New York as the legitimate prop- jerty of the working class, to be |seized from the handful of capital- ist parasites who control them, and to be used to provide cheap elec- tricity for the millions of workers jand farmers in the State. In the fight for the overthrow of the Wall Street power, the Communist: Party declares for an immediate slashing of all utility rates with the imme- diate cancellation of all the watered stock and bond claims through which the Morgan-Rockefeller banks plunder the utilities. In its fight against the Lehman-Moses utility program, the Communist | Party candidate, Israel Amter, bases himself upon the following plank in the Communist Party Eighth Con- vention Manifesto: “All the material conditions ex- ist for a society which could at once provide every necessity of life and even a degree of luxury for the entire population of the United States. “The first acts of a revolution- ary workers’ government would be to open the warehouses and dis- tribute among the people the | enormous surplus stores of food | and clothing . . . such a govern- ment would immediately open up all the factories, mills, and mines’ and give every person @ job at constantly: increasing wages.” - In -short, the Communist Party, fighting in this election against Wall| Street policies of Lehman and Moses, proposes not only imme- diate slashing of the utilities _prof- its and the lowering of rates, but the revolutionary way out of the crisis, the expropriation of the capi- talists altogether, and the setting up of a workers’ and farmers’ govern- try’s resources for the benefit of the majoriy of the population, the workers and small farmers. Scottsboro March | Set for Saturday (Continued from Page 1) organizations to stay the hand-of | the Alabama lynch courts. The demonstration and parade on Saturday will be a mass outpouring: of working class wrath against the Scottsboro frame-up and a mighty demand for the freedom of the nine victims which will set the pace for the swift series.of nation-wide ac- tions needed to smash the murder plans of the Alabama courts. Parade Route The parade will form at 2 p.m. at 126th Street and Lenox Avenue and will march to 119th Street where it will turn east to Fifth Avenue and proceed to 116th Street. From there it will go west again to Seventh Avenue and will head uptown to 135th Street. Thence it will. go to Lenox Avenue and will end at 131st Street with another open air meet- ing. Leading the parade and acting 2s the principal speakers in the dem- onstration will be James W. Ford, Communist candidate for Congress- man in the 21st District; Merril C. Work, Communist candidate for As- semblyman in the 21st A. D.; Harry Haywood, Communist candidate for Assemblyman in the 19th A. D. Anna Damon, acting national secretary of the International Labor Defense; Ruby Bates, defense wit- ness in the Scottsboro case, and William Fitzgerald, Harlem Interna- tional Labor Defense organizer; Louis Sass, Communist Party leader in Harlem, and Louis Campbell, Unemployment Council organizer, will also speak. 2 Four Meetings Tonight Tonight, in preparation for Satur- day’ parade, four open-air meet- ings are to be held at important points in Harlem. Charles Krum- bein, District organizer of the Com- munist Party will be the principal speaker at all four meetings. These will be held at 100th Street and Second Avenue, at 126th Street and Lenox Avenue, at 125th Street and Fifth Avenue and at 125th Street and Seventh Avenue. More than 50 Negro and white doctors, lawyers, professionals, nal organization leaders met last night at Lafayette Hall, 135th Street and Seventh Avenue, to form a special committee to support the fight of the International Labor Defense to free the Scottsboro Boys. The meeting was unanimous in condemning the treacherous efforts of Samuel Leibowitz and his Negro reformist supporters in their efforts to split and demoralize the legal as well as the miass fight to prevent the execution of Patterson and Norris on Dec. 7. Among those who attended or were represented at the meeting were: Eugene Gordon, well-known writer; A. Gilbert, attorney; Dr. Verner Du Bois; Elizabeth Scott, Dr. Ferdinand Forbes, Alexander M. Barrow, District Grand Master of |the United Order of Odd’ Fellows; Dr. H. Washington, Herman Os- borne, Dr. James J. Jones; Winifred Chappell of the Methodist Church | Federation for Social Service; Kyle Crichton, Editorial Board of Scrib- ners Magazine; Hilda McKinney, Theodore Smith, John Newton Griggs, attorney. Dr. Theodore Donolson, Turner W. Parker, Dr. Ferdinand Reed, Theo- dore Smith, Aaron Douglas, well- known. artjst; Dr. Reuben 8. Young, Horace. Gregory, writer; Oakley Johnson and Joseph Koyin, editors of the Monthly Review; Jack Sta- chel, Acting Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League; Milton Hern- don, brother of. Angelo Herndon; Dr. Robert Armstrong, Dr. Arnold Donowa; James W. Ford, Commu- nist leader; Theodore Smith, Ben Gold, well-known leader of the needle trades workers; Steye King- ston, Communist leader; Henry Fil- more Cabot, Roy Hudson, leader of the marine workers, 500 Denounce Leibowitz Plot NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 17—More than 500 Negro and white workers at a Scottsboro-Herndon protest meeting last Monday evening at the Bethany Church, denounced as a preparation for the betrayal of the Scottsboro boys the plot engineered by Samuel S. Leibowitz to oust the International Labor Defense from the case. ‘ : Lester Granger, Business Man- ager of Opportunity told the au- dience that the I. L. D. was the only organization that could carry on the militant fight needed to. save the boys, and bring out fearlessly. and clearly the issues of. class and national oppression involved in the case. Sam Strong, District Organizer of the I. L. D,, Rev. William Hayes and George Gregory, an I. L. D. at- torney, were among the other speakers. Miss Helen Ricks, daugh- ter of Rev. Ricks of Bethany Church, sang the famous Scottsboro song. The meeting contributed $50 to the Scottsboro defense. The meet- ing was arranged by the I. L. D. and the Bethany Baptist Church, Leibowitz Aide Threatens Davis (Continued from Page 1) Fred D. Pasley’s book about the lawyer, published last year. The book is accepted as an authorized version of Leibowitz’s career. Pas~ ley says: * “John Theodore Capozucea, nick- named Terry, whilom jockey and flyweight boxer. Leibowitz in the early twenties defended a Tony Muzio, charged with slashing the throat of a Frank Tuorto. Much tives, among them Capozucca, nis cousin, Leibowitz won an acquittal. Curiosity. and. grudging admiration getting the better of him, Capo- He has been with him ever since. each other. They are inseparable. Terry is Leibowitz’s eyes and ears and hands and feet in all matters of professional and personal detail. writers and trade union and frater- He thinks for him. He anticipates his every wish.” Roosevelt Plan Offers No Relief (Continued from Page 1) studying the matter and are work- ing on various plans. One of these plans, he added, calls for the gov- ernment paying the overhead ex, penses rather than making “even® partial contributions. No Concrete Proposals Yet As to specific recommendations, he declared that he didn’t know what they will be: 35 Secretary of Commerce. Roper, at his press conference today, made_ it. clear that his business executive" group, headed by Walter C., Teagié,” of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, fully. agrees with the Presi+ | dent's committee, Roper declared: “I.believe that the conclusions of both will be about identical, The business council. represents @ ... large section of business and has manifested a sympathetic attitude - and willingness to workout of the present disturbed conditions - with the Government. The whole point of the Government’s .pro- gram is ‘to transfer back to legi«:~ timate business as soon as. pos- sible all duties of supervising: its - own affairs with the.Government - acting in the position of an-ad-; visor. tisk . The President's indication of: what is in the wind on unemployment in-. surance, recalls Federal Relief. Ad- {ministrator Harry L, Hopkins’, (also. a member of Commitiee.on. Econo mic Security) refusal to-discuss ine dustrial unemployment. vinsurance,- Hopkins made it clear that -the. ad-.. ministration ‘hopes..to- go through - another Winter without granting real unemployment. insurance.» “Are imemployment ‘insurance:plans ‘get- ting into shape?” A reporter ‘asked: him, “No,” he shot baek,.“Our main» job is to get the’ unemployed off - the relief rolls’in the’ cities.” -He intimated that some sort of “work relief” is expected to do the ‘trick: Whatever plan for “unemployment insurance” is recommended. by..,the Roosevelt group, there is not. the slightest doubt that.some sort . of unemployment ‘“‘reseryes,” under which the workers will be asked. to contribute and under which present unemployed will be left out in the cold and the new unemployed given. consideration in. the -vague -future, will be decided upon. Hopkins. and. other: administration leaders have made ‘no secret of the fact that the Roosevelt; government is firmly .ope posed to the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill H. R. 7598, the only genuine unemployment. insur- ance measure that.-was. introduced before the last Congress, which has been enthusiastically . endorsed by. nearly 3,000 A. F. of L. locals and by four A. F. of L. international union’ conventions. E No C. W. A; Either Asked | whéther ne’ has “worked out any thethod. sich as’ reviving the C. W. A. of meeting thé con" ceded and generally ‘expected peak Winter relief load, Rodkevelt: re-". plied, “Not yet.” However, he ine directly se@thed talk of another C, W. A. by announcing that he will ask Congress to provide the means for financing the administration subsistence housing program, the cost of which, he- said, will: be from $1,400 to $1,500 a-year. Under this program the recipient: pays $100 a year for 14 or 15 years. The- Henry Ford garden idea-and small “industry” is‘ expected to keep: the « grantees alive. Aside from provid- ing something’ to talk about, and’ hence to divert attention from the main problem of unemployment in- surance for the 16 or 17 millions now unemployed, the Ford-Roose- velt plan offers nothing. to. the- overwhelming ; majority .of-. the presént unemployed: * sarge ok While big business -is being. -re- assured before. the elections, the workers and farmers are asked to wait hopefully not only until after the election, but. until some period in the unnamed future when,, the committee announced recently, “a, unified plan for economic security” _ will be ready. In other words, the Chamber of Commierce of the U, S. program for no unemployment. in-_ surance is the Rooseyelt program, The committee declared: oe “Following the approach. out- . lined by the President, the Com- mittee is trying to draw up a comprehensive program — whi will give protection to the. dividual from all the. vissitudes and hazards of modern life—un- employment, _ accident, sickness, |, to the amazement of Tuorto’s rela- | zucca visited Leibowitz at his office.. “A rare understanding exists be- tween these two, They compliment. invalidity, old age, and prem: ture death. ae j “It is, of course, not contem- plated that this program shall go into’ effect in its entirety im- mediately, but it*is planned to give Congréss “and the country a ‘look ahead’ as ‘well as’ some recommendation for immediate © action, to the end that there may be developed, from thé outset, a''' unified plan for © econormiv © security.” pete ic ae The big talk of, “social security” heard of late around Washington” is calculated to give the impres-_ sion, that the administration” tn=" pression studiedly ‘cultivated’ order to offset ‘the treinendous' de sire for genuine unemployment’ in surance already manifest in’ great: sections of the American’ working class, The Workers Unemployment supported ‘by thou- Insurance Bill, st ‘ted © Lou: sands of labor organizations and admitted by many social workers’ to be a bill that fills the needs of | the unemployed, was initiated, it will be recalled, by the Commu- nist Party as far back as 1930, Tt. is being put forth as a central is-. sue by the Communist Patty in the present election campaign, the only Party to put forth a p of genuine unemployment in; in the election campaign.