The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1934 oe ELECTION OF COMMUNISTS WILL AID FIGHT OF MINERS Candidates Lead Fight For Unity Eight Point Program Main Issue in Mine Locals in Pa. By JACK JOHNSTONE ..,. With the miners facing the sixth “winter of the crisis, and with the development of fascist methods by the. capitalists in dealing with Strikes and unemployed struggles, the. fight for the unity of all min- __ &fs has become a burning necessity. That many unions now exist where once there was only the U."M. W. of A., reflects the growing desire among the miners for a pol- iey “of struggle and unionization. | ‘On the other hand, the division of | thé miners into a number of unions is the result of the sell-outs and @Xpulsions engineered by Lewis, | ‘Kennedy, Murray, Fagan and th eréoked machine. | ... To establish unity and raise the living standards of the miners an agreed upon program of demands and actions must be achieved. Such @ program would make for a unity Of organization throughout the “mining fields. | ; New Leadership Rising | - Within the U. M. W. of A. a -#brong rank-and-file leadership is developing around the organ of the | -militant miners, the Coal Digger. | -Fhey have nominated a full slate in the coming national elections in | the..U..M. W. of A, and are asking | the miners to elect them on the fol- lowing eight-point program of de-} mands and struggles which will} Serve as the basis for the unity of | miners’ actions. | 1. For the $6 day, 6-hour day | and 5-day week with the aboli- tion of the differential between tsothe- North and South, for one na- tional one-year agreement and a miners’ referendum on all agree- ments. 2. For unity of the employed miners and the unemployed and for support of the Workers Un- employment and Social Insur- ance Bill, H. R. 7598. 3. For the right to strike, against forced arbitration, aboli- tion of the penalty clause and the withdrawal of Lewis and the other union officials from the N. -R. A. labor boards. 4. Against discrimination and for- support of the Negro Rights | Bill. | the organization of Women’s Auxiliaries and youth sections of the union..and.for | @qual pay for the young miners. | 6. For the right of every local | union and district to elect their | own officers. For rank and file democracy and against appointive power. 7. Against the use of armed | . fortes in strike and against war | and fascism. | 8. To unite all of the miners driven from the U.M.W.A. by the | policy of John L. Lewis into one union of all coal miners. | ‘That the Lewis gang will resort | to desperate measures to check the growing unity of the miners can| William N. Jones of the staff of the | Needle Trades work be taken for granted. They have} stolen elections before and they will “steal them again unless prevented bythe militancy of the miners, | Must Halt Splits | The new militant leadership that |W. 130th St., by the International | Wor “is growing up in the daily struggles | ‘ofthe miners must direct their ef- | this program of struggle. They | must direct their efforts toward| s uniting the miners on this program | of struggle. They must especially | be prepared to fight the red scare | _that Lewis will raise in order to} “Split the ranks of the miners. C. P. in Forefront Every member of the Communist | —Pafty who is a miner is taking an * active part in the rank-and-file i struggle for unity. The Party has| i no interests other than the inter- | : @sts_of the miners, That is why it| : is sO hated by the coal operators and their labor lieutenants. A miner becomes a better, a more | skilled, and a more trained fighter, | When he joins the Communist : Party. The attempt of Lewis to ex- ‘ pel Communist miners should be met by the miners by joining the Party. Special attention should be paid | to the young miners They should be~acquainted with the treacherous | -actions of Lewis. They should be | trained and organized to fight for | their own class. The youth sections | of the union must be built, and the young miners must be recruited | into:the Young Communist League. The Elections In the coming elections for Con- + gress the rank-and-file must tell _ the miners that only the Commu- nist candidates will fight for their interests and all of their immedi- | ate demands. ' The election of Communist can- didates, the building of a mass Communist Party among the min- bid id the building of a powerful ““yank-and-file leadership in every local of the U. M. W. of A., will be ~Ymportent factors in the successful struggle for the eight-point pro- gram that is so necessary for the welfare of every miner. | “The Communist Party urges all miners to become members of their Party and to build a Communist unit in all the mines. In this way they will best defeat the efforts of the mine operators to lower their living standards. A powerful Com- mumnist Party which embodies all the fighting experiences of the working class of the world will look out for every interest of the min- ers, and will lead them in victorious struggles against the mine owners and the rest of the capitalist class. |renegade Scottsboro attorney, é ye ¥ ye. PHOTO TAKEN ORIGINALLY BY AGENCY SPY Z i = a a wenn This numbered group picture of the Youngstown Convention of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Bosses Attack C.P. Candidate) In Cleveland Relief Denied Jobless Leader After Bribe Is Refused ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 18—The city Democratic machine, headed by Mayor Barney F. Dickman in co-operation with Peter Kasus, | $1,000-a-month relief director, has | centered its attack upon the unem- | ployed leaders in numerous attacks upon Samuel R. Dukes, organizer |of the Unemployment Councils and | Communist candidate for Congress in the eleventh district here. ie Union is a photostat from the files of Charles W. Tuttle, head of the spy system of the Carnegie Steel Company, the United States Steel Company's most important subsidiary, Scottsboro tae | March Tomorrow (Continued from Page 1) promptly at 2 o'clock in order to fill other engagements for that afternoon. Other principal speakers will in- clude James W. Ford, Communist, candidate for Congress in the. 21st | District; Harry Haywood, National | Secretary of the League of Struggle |for Negro Rights, and Communist candidate in the 19th A. D.; Merle |C. Work, business manager of the |Negro Liberator and Communist |candidate in the 2ist A. D.; Anna Damon, Acting National Secretary of the International Labor Defen: | Ruby Bates and Lester Carter, star defense Scottsboro witness Wil- liam Fitzgerald, of the Harlem I. L. D.; Louis Sass, Organizational Secretary of the Harlem Section of the Communist Party; Louis Camp- bell, Unemployment Council leader |and Mike Walsh. Provisional Committee Formed Forty-four prominent persons many representing mass organiza- tions, assembled on short notice Wednesday night at the Lafayette Hall, Seventh Avenue and Street, to plan a vigorous campaign to prevent the legal murder of the Scottsboro boys on Dec. 7, and to unite all real friends of the boys behind the fight for their safe re- lease and against the latest at- tempts, led by Samuel S. Leibowitz. and er William H. (id) Davis, publi |of the New York Amsterdam News, | to disrupt the defense at this crucia period in the long struggle for the boys. The meeting formed itself into a Provisional Committee, electing Baltimore Afro-American, as chair- man, and unanimously voted sup- port for the Emergency Scottsboro Defense Conference called for Sun- day, 2 p.m., at St. Luke’s Hall, 120 Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. The for the Scottsboro Protest March through the streets of Harlem Sat urday, starting at 2 pm. at 126th St. and Lenox Ave., and issued a call to all organizations and indi- viduals to support both actions. Calls for Support of I. L. D. It was unanimously decided that a statement to be issued to the press on the present status of the Scottsboro case would be signed_by all present. The feeling of emer- gency and grim determination per- vading the meeting was expressed in the demand of all present for |the immediate carrying out of the decisions of the meeting. A press committee was elected and in- structed to go to work at once on the statement, which was drawn up and approved by the full meet: ing before it adjourned. The statement points to the re. pudiation of Leibowitz by Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, Mrs. Ida Norris, Mrs. Janie Patterson and the mothers of the other bo: and declares it is now defin! established that the LL.D. charge of the defense. in It calis on all groups and individuals to give| is the fullest financial and moral sup- port to the Scottsboro defense. It voted to send protest telegrams to President Roosevelt and Gov, B. M. Miller of Alabama demanding the safe release of the boys. While the meeting was in pro- gress telegrams of greetings and solidarity with the aims of the committee were received from An- gelo Herndon, hero of the Atlanta “insurrection” trial, and Eugene Gordon, noted writer. Both ex- pressed profound regret at their in- ability to be in New York City that evening. Herndon’s telegram came from Norfolk, Va., where he was speaking at a meeting that night. The meeting was opened by Anna Damon, Acting National Secretary | of the I. L. D., who briefly reviewed the purpose for which it was called. | Joseph R. Brodsky, chief of couns: of the I. L. D., gave a short his- tory of the Scottsboro case up to the present time, emphasizing the I. L. D. policy of always trying to secure the attorney best fitted for each stage of the long fight. Harry Haywood, National Secre- tary of the L. 8. N. R., and Com- munist candidate in the 19th As- 131st | , |in particular. sembly District charged the. cap- | italist. press with a conspiracy of | silence. against the boys, pointing out that while the New York Times and other papers had. broadcast Leibowita’s claim that he had charge | of the case, they have yet to pub- |lish a single word on the repudi- |ation of Leibowitz by the boys and their parents. He declared this was the same policy with which the | capitalist press met the original death verdicts, until the world-w | mass protest smashed. through its | conspiracy of silence, forcing the} publication of news of the militant actions of European workers who |stormed the American Consulates in indignant protest against the outrage. | James W. Ford, Communist leader and candidate for Congress in the 21st Congressional District, pledged the Communist Party to continue }its energetic fight for the Scotts-) boro boys. ‘Those present at the meeting, and| who signed the call for support to} | the ILD., wer Donawa, William _N. ro-American staff, Dr. Aaron Douglas, noted Dr. J. J. Jone! s, Dr. Reuben 8. r. J. d Tedman Smith, Milton Herndon of rs, Mr, and Mrs. Henry igs of the editorial y Worker, Joseph Koven, Review, Jones Vernon Herbert Hart, Samuel .G, Ratteyson, Industrial Laundry, rs , Led Hyman, president of the Needle - Trades Industrial Workers | Union, Anna Damon, Acting National ‘Ssc- [re the. LL.D., Louis D._Phrepauley lem I.L.D,, Harry Haywi 1 Secretary of the League of 4 da_ McKinney, aner, David Kinhead and the National Political Prisoners, | Reece, D. Hirsch of Defense of Osborne of the Vanguard, Joseph R. Brod- chief counsel of the I.L.D., Ja Y of the Ww | Ford, organize: |of the Communi and Communi: candidate for © the 2ist Co: gressional District, Tim Holmes, of the Industrial Union Bonita Williams, of the Greater New Yo! | Council of the L.S.N.R., Merle Work, Bi ness Manager of the Negro Liberator end Communist candidate in the 2ist Assem- bly District, Conred Kay, National Office of the Food Workers Industrial Union | M h, of the Harlem Needle N. Stevens, District Or York LL.D. District, Lov + Natson, Theodore y, Sol Harper, Oscar Waters, Harlem izer of the Barfus, Donaldson forts: toward’ uniting the miners on |Committee likewise voted support | Ferdinand Forbes, and Mary Sanzigran of the Vanguard. Attorney General Not | To Prosecute Firm | for Open Shop By NAT GANLEY DETROIT, Mich. Oct. 18—The decision of Attorney General Homer S..Cummings not to prosecute the |Houde Engineering Company Buffalo for violation of N. R. A. ulings has a special significance. | This: decision has given a setback 0 Bill Green's attempt to whip up |@ new wave of illusions in regard to the N. R. A. in general and its machinations inthe auto industry Naturally Commings | would never have made this deci- {sion without the full approval of Roosevelt. The Houde Engineering’ Corp. ;comes under the heading of auto |parts, manufactures shock absorb- ers, and has Henry Ford as one of its largest customers. An election carried through in the plant to de-~ termine the representatives of the workers in collective bargaining netted the following results: 1105 | votes for the A. F. of L. union, |647 votes for the association or company union, and 400 abstentions. | On the basis of this vote the Na- | tional Labor Relations Board made a decision. that the A. F. of L. had the right to represent the employees in the plant in collective bargaining | with the. employer. This ruling was |a challenge to the legislation of the jin the auto code. Recognition ef Company Union The open shop auto manufac- turers and the National Association of Manufacturers got together and |promptly told their governmental servants in Washington to go to jhell and that they would not recog- nize the Houde decision, “Automo- tive Industries,” organ of the auto manufacturers gleefully announced; “... a check-up of leading parts |manufacturers indicates that the advice of the National Association | Communist move- ;| with, Reid, | of | |company unions which was put over! Workers’Enemies | Exposed W. L. Lo, of New York City, a Chinese renegade, who was expelled | from the Communist Party about two years ago for disruptive activi- ties and for suspicious connections | with “Tong wars” in the “China- | town” of New York, has now come | jout as an open agent of the bosses | and a supporter of the traitorous | Nanking government, Recently he has .« | published a series | of articles in the Kuomintang pa- | per in New York, slandering the ment in general and the Chinese | Communist move- | ment in the U. 5. | A. and in China, in particular. He | Started out with an “open. letter” | to Chang Fa-Kwei, a Nanking! general who was touring this coun- try. In this “open letter” Lo posed a a leading Chinese Communist in the U. 8. A., who after listening to |the. “enlightening” talks of Chang, | had renounced Communism and.em- | | braced the doctrines of Kuomintang. In his articles he has tried to| incite fascist attacks against the Communists and against all or- | ganizations that fight against ex-/} ploitation and oppression by capital- jist or feudal imperialists. He has attacked, for example the largest mass organization among the |Chinese in New York,—the Hand Laundry Association, which has in ts ranks over 3,000 members, Description. He is 5 ft. 8 inches in height, 145 pounds in weight, stout and broad in general stature. His photograph is published here- Communist Candidates Are Leaders in the Fight for the Right to Organize, Strike, Picket. Immediately that the workers filed a petition with the signatures of 32,034 registered voters, thereby | placing Dukes and other working- class candidates on the ballot, the Democratic machine pivoted its at- tacks upon the leaders of the job- less. Last Thursday Dukes applied at the Finney Avenue relief station for payment of his rent and provision of clothing for himself and his 17-year-old-son. After a two and one-half hour conference behind closed doors, where the battery of relief officials hurled libelous charges at him, the relief heads at- tempted to strike a bargain with him. A special messenger was sent to | his home asking him to appear at the rélief station for a work relief job. Here he was told that his weekly food check would be stopped and was offered a work relief job at less than his present relief budget. Declaring that this was an attack not only upon himself but upon the relief standards of all the unemployed, Dukes refused and stated that he would continue the fight against the present relief. Reverting to their previous tac- tics, they then asked him to call on Mayor Dickman, who, they assured him, would provide a good job. When he branded this as an at- tempt to bribe him, police were called and Dukes was thrown out. Since then the relief heads have declared that he will get no more relief “until the matter was taken up with the State Relief Adminis- tration.” Italy’s Part Shown In Assassinations (Continued. from: Page 1) associate, has made no statement on the case as yet. 5 ‘The French police are continuing its investigation, but, of course, release only such facts as will aid the French Government in its ef- forts to strengthen the alliances in the Balkans, which was the object of Barthou’s originaly conference. Hungary Aided Plot Tt was revealed that the Hun- garian Government aided the Croa- tian nationalists to set up an ar- senal and target practicing ground at Jankaputa, where the plot for the assassinations was said to have been prepared. The French police are searching for Maria Vjoudroch, described as a “handsome blonde woman,” who smuggled the German weapons into France for the use of the assassin, Vote Communist to Protect Your Living Standards. Par aekis Spy System Far-Flung (Continued from Page 1) one bill from any art novelty con- cern which would prove that he was in business. Before this pres- sure he had trusingly delivered the records of steel organizers, John Meldon and Deter Chappa now in possession of the Daily Worker. These records are compiled on the basis of various types of in- formation. A great primary source are working class ones, From Tuttle's files the Daily Worker has secured a picture of a May Day celebration addressed by Pat Cush and on it Carnegie Steel’s “outside man” is plainly marked. Of course, in periods preceding strike the companies’ most important source is the inside man, How Spies Are Made Usually he is a worker who had got into trouble. As a prospect he is carefully observed and investi- gated as to income, family condi- tions, expenditures, etc. Sometimes several weeks are put into this study before he is approached with an offer of extra money and the certainty of a job. Sometimes, if the man is having financial trouble, he is fired just before the offer. In the approach, emphasis is placed on the lack of danger since he is to send in his reports signed either by a number or a fictitious name. Once he is in their toils, his life work is cut out for him. He will never be able to keep his hands clean in that particular industry or town. In “hooking” organizers even more caution is* exercised. As a rule, they are approached in a car while walking and if he shows no interest at all, the car drives on, In one of these cases the organizer succeeded in noting the license number— Pennsylvania S—8059—and the in- vestigation showed that it was a car owned by Kissel Skiles’ Rent-A- Car garage. From there it was im- possible to trace them, Time and again the espionage heads have come up against this inexplicable problem of the honest worker. They shrug and try again. That they can be successful is at— tested by the files Room 1010, Fred Rentz, one of the cleverest spies uncovered in the industry, operated for years. He came into the Party in Baltimore and transferred to Philadelphia around 1929. By 1930 he was acting as city organizer of the Metal Workers Industrial League and even as secretary of the District Control Commission. A worker who had known of his ac- tivity in Bethlehem happened into the Party office and demanded the investigation which. resulted in his exposure. As you see, it was.purely accidental. Regardless of his seem- ing value as a good capable com- rade, Rentz should never, under any circumstances, have occupied a position of trust in the Party. Five important shop committees were destroyed by him and he did other untold damage. Just how spies of his type are trained and planted will be told in tomorrow's Daily Worker, ac- companied by photostats of in- structions sent to operatives by one of the largest spy outfits, Corporations Auxiliary, A Vote for Communist Candi- dates Is a Vote against Company “Unions.” NRA Ballyhoo Proved False in Houde > a of Manutacturers to disregard the) National Labor Relations Board rul- |ing for majority representation will be generally followed.” The .Na- tional Association of Manufacturers | Went further and ‘came out with the | following counter proposition to the Houde decision: | “That provision be made for | minority and even individual col- lective bargaining with a ban on | closed union shops.” | “Minority representation,” of | course, means the recognition of the |company unions. “A ban on closed shops” mean the smashing of the legitimate unions of the workers. | “Individual collective bargaining” |can only mean the signing of a | “yellow dog” agreement by each in- | | dividual employee.. By calling the |“yellow dog” agreement “collective bargaining” the employers consider | themselves in strict accordance with |N.R. A. rules. | The following brief history of the Houde case shows the glaring dis- | parity between the words and deeds of the Roosevelt. government and its jabor agents in the A. F. of L, bu- reaucracy: 1. The President’s strikebreaking | settlement in the auto industry last \spririg. established the boss-con- | trolled Auto Labor Board to carry | out the. Auto Code with its open) Shop “merit clause” and its legaliza-.| tion of company unions by recog- nizing “proportionate representation jof employees in any given plant.” | | This settlement was completely ap- | proved by Bill Green and Co. 2. After the settlement General | Johnson and Richberg made state- ments upholding the interpretation \that the Auto Code recognizes the | company unions. 3. The N. L. R. B. handed down |@ decision in the Houde case that |the A. F. of L. having received a majority vote should be recognized | as the representatives of the em- | ployees. | 4. The Houde Corp., with the |complete backing of the auto barons jand the National Association of |Manufacturers refused to abide by The Communist Election | Program Demands the decision or give up its blue eagle. 5. At the end of September, Lloyd K. Garrison, chairman of the N. L. R. B., annoiticed that the Houde Case would be brought into the Federal District Court of West New York and be uted by the Department of Justice and At- torney General Cummings. 6. After this announcement the big employers gave a hearty horse laugh which was soon followed with the following item appearing in i= Detroit Free Press of Oct. 11: “Mr, Cummings announced that there was insufficient evidence upon which to proceed against the Buffalo manufacturers of automobile parts, notwithstanding the findings of the National La- bor Relations Board. The opinion of the Attorney General was in- terpreted as making ineffective future rulings of the N.L.R.B.” 1. Two days later, Oct. 13, “Auto- motive Industries” published an in- terview with F. J. Dillon, newly- named chief representative of the A. F. of L. in the auto industry in which Dillon says: “We hope that out of our work in the coming months will come a better mutual understanding with management and the pos- sibility of soiving mutual labor Problems by round table discus- sion on a cooperative basis. In our movement there is nothing in common with the philosophy of Communism.” * _ We thank Mr. Dillon for making it clear that his policy of crawling on his belly in front of the manu- facturers after they just got through kicking him in his posterior has nothing in common with Commu- nism. Certainly the rank and file in the federal auto locals of the A. F. of L. won't accept the latest decision in the Houde case by ly- ing down The outcome of the Houde case proves a number of simple points: 1. The Roosevelt Government and the biggest exploiters of the workers have the same labor policy. ® Auto Ruling United ‘Labor Front Urged to Break Down Company Unions They are birds of one feather and when it comes to a show down, they always stick together. 2. The workers can get nothing but increased misery from the N. R. A. and its numerous boards. All you can get is plenty of run- around to take your mind off real organization and struggle. 3. The auto manufacturers ad- mire Green and Dillon and their “cooperative spirit’—but they ad- mire their own company unions more. They believe that for the present ‘ime at least they can get better results in preventing and breaking strikes through the com- pany unions than through Green and company. In an émergency they can always cail upon them any- how. 4. Only an effective united strike struggle will force the employers to grant recognition to the workers’ own unions in the auto industry. The manufacturers, their govern- ment agents and labor burocrats are in one united camp against the automobile workers. They are al- ready starting wage cuts which will grow in intensity during the next production season unless we stop it. The auto workers must confront the united front of the manufacturers with the united front of labor. The A. F. of L. federal locals, M. E. 8. A., Auto Workers Union and other legitimate independent ‘unions in the auto industry must join hands in a common struggle to ‘abolish the N. R. A. boards, the open shop Auto Code and for higher wages, shorter hours and’ improved work- ing conditions in the industry. Our first step should be to get together and draw up a united workers code for the auto industry which should be presented by a joint delegation in Washington during the open hearings on Nov. 3. If we don't hang together, then we will hang separately. U. ‘S. Farmers Elect Delegate For Soviet Trip | Julius Walsted to Make Survey of Collective Farms in U.S.S.R. Julius Walstad has been elected as the delegate to represent Ameri- can dirt farmers on the friends of the Soviet Union delegation, which will reach Moscow in time for the Nov. 7. celebration. Walstad, en- dorsed by the Farmers National Committee for Action and- the United. Farmers League,.as well as by tens of thousands of other dirt farmers, will make a thorough sur- vey of State, collective and com- munal farms in the Soviet Union. The newly-elected delegate has been active in the struggle for bet- ter farm conditions in South Da- kota, his home state, Walstad, as well as the other delegates, will speak at a mass send-off to take place at the Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 FE. 4th St., on Friday evening. All interested in haying the delegation obtain an- swers to questions regarding the Soviet Union while in the U.SS.R, are urged to come to the send-off, where such questions. will be col- lected and given to the delegation. 5 Ousted At Nazi Consulate inN. Y. (Continued from Page 1) not been prepared, and other simi- lar_evasions. The Reich Ministry of “Justice” stated today that the maximum penalty that could be imposed on Thaelmann was ten years in pris- on, but the fact that official Nazi organs have called for the execu- tion of Thaelmann indicates in what great danger the leader of the German working class stands. The Nazis have repeatedly and deliber- ately inspired similar stories, de- nying their plans for the execution of Ernst Thaelmann, in an effort to slacken the campaign for his release, as well as for the freedom of other anti-fascist prisoners. German C. P. Asks Aid Information coming from the Central Committee of the Commu- nist Party of Germany declares that, notwithstanding the mislead- ing fascist reports, ‘Thaelmann’s trial may take place now any day} without warning. The ~ Central Committee emphasizes that the brutal savagery of the fascists is not to be trusted for an-instant and that such a maneuver of deprecat- ing the danger to Thaelmann's life must act as a call of alarm to rouse more and greater reserves of pro- to the “People’s Court” of Berlin! More and stronger demonstrations before the consula‘es and embas- sies! peals to all organizations and in- dividuals to save Thaelmann! In response to the call of the Anti-Nazi Federation to intensify the fight for the life and freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, the City Cen- tral Committee of the International Workers Order yes'erday called on all its members to join in picketing the German Consulate, 17 Battery Place, tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Philadelphia Plans Rally Philadelphia, Oct. 18—The Exec- utive Committee of the Pennsyl- vania League Against War and Fascism is arranging a Free Thael- mann demonstration here for Sat- urday, Oct. 27. The District Bureau of the Communist Party . has pledged its full support-to the dem- onstration and is calling on its members and sympathizers to par- ticipate. Tomorrow, picketing of the: local German consulate will be resumed. All organizations are being urged to send delegations to the Consulate demanding the safe release of ‘Thaelmann, and to join in picketing the consulate. Organizations and individual workers are also urged to flood the Consulate with protest telegrams, letters, resolutions and telephone calls. Detroit I. L, D. Protests . DETROIT, Oct. 18.—A delegation organized by the International Labor Defense visited the German consulate. in the Hammond Build- ing here last Tuesday and presented a. resolution protesting against the approaching lynch trial of Ernst Thaelmann and demanding his im- mediate safe release and the release of all anti-Fascist fighters held in prison dungeons. The woman in charge of the offices in the absence of Vice-Consul Fritz Hailer, who is now in Germany, Berlin and volunteered the informa- tion that many similar protests are being received. Anti-Fascists Freed 4 PITTSBURGH, Oct. 18.—Alle- gheny County jail was. cheated of eight anti-Yascists when workers on Tuesday forced the release of pickets azrested while marching |before the office of the German vice- consul with signs demanding the safe release of Ernst Thaelmann and denouncing the Hitler lynch courts. Nazi Vice-Consul John Loibl ap- peared to press the charge of. “dis- orderly conduct” against the pickets. He denied that there “is anything wrong in Germany.” Jacob Saligsohn, Internationa. test and indignation, More cables | Increase the letters and ap-| the Nazi concentration camps and |* to. send the resolution to |” Labor Defense attorney, shattered this pretense by reading excerpts from the “Brown Book of Hitler Terror,” and giving some of the general background of Fascism’s bloody rule in Germany. Telephone Nazi Consulate The consul protested violently when the six pickets were released by Police Magistrate “Lugan, follows ing a speéch by Fred Kearns, vet- erans rank and file leader. Yesterday morning Loibl was kept in a state of near-frenzy by a ,teles phone barrage laid down by mem- bers. of -the Young Communist League. Some of those-calling asked for reservations on. the. Hamburg Line in order to attend the ‘‘trial” of Thaelmann,-forcing the vice-con- sul to admit.that the “trial” is being kept secret from the Gezman public, LLD. Calls on §. P. For United Action (Continued from. Page 1) and reactionary forces in. this country, to prevent the burning of the innocent Scottsboro boys and do everything possible.to set them free. ' “The International Labor De- fense, which has been in the fore- | front of the fight in behalf of these boys, and which’ ‘has, through the mobilization of ‘fil- lions of people, throughout the world, succeeded in keeping these boys alive for the last three ‘ind a half years, urgently calls’ upon | the Socialist Party to’ join’ with it in this striggle to prevent: this hideous crimé and to obtain the unconditional freedom’ of »-these victims of the southern lynchers. “The International Labor: De- fense proposes that a committee of your organization meet with our committee as s0on-as possible to work out further. means. .of mobilizing even greater mass. sup- port in behalf of the Scottsboro boys. ‘ * “We trust that you. will realize the importance of this case and the need for the widest possible united action, and give it your immediate attention. We expect an early favorable response, “Very truly yours, “N. STEVENS, “For the District “Committee, LL.D.” Julius Gerber, secretary of the Socialist Party, suggested in a tele- phone conversation with the LL.D. that a committee of the I.L.D. ap- pear before the New York City Executive Committee on Wednes- day, Oct. 24. oe ‘The LL.D. points out thdt-imme- diate action is urgent, and has therefore called ‘upon all’ Socialist Party branches, organizations, cir- cles and other supporters of the So- cialist Party to join immediately in all of the activities in behalf of the Scottsboro boys. ‘The 1.L.D: has called upon these organizations» to send delegates to the Emergency Conference this Sunday. at 2.pm+ at St. Luke's Hall, 127 W. 130bh» St a Bates and Carter Write ~ Ruby Bates and Lester Carter, star Scottsboro defense witness?s have written Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, Scottsboro boys, congratulating them on their determination to have the Interna~ tional Labor Defense continue. in charge of their defense, Carter's letter, addressed to Clarence Norris, follows: 5 “Dear Clarence: Hye “will drop you a few lines as I have learned lately that some people have “been -trying. to take your case away from the I, L. D. again. I’m glad you still -have faith in the I. L. D. Well, I.will fight with them until you get your fresdom agaim.and I hope that is soon. Well, they are.fight- ing day.in and day out for all of you boys freedom; they know as I know you are not guilty, and: TI will help them all I'¢an until you are free. ay “So bye bye for this time, as ever, ‘i “(Signed) LESTER CARTER.” Ruby Bates sent the following letter to Haywood Patterson: “Dear Haywood: “Just read your statement in the papers where you want the I. L. D, to still handle the case. And-I wish to congratulate you for sticking to the I-L.D. the. only organization that «has rought this frame-up. to the ‘workers throughout the country. “To identify myself writing to you, I am one of the girls that first testified against the nine of you but: later repudiated this, ile in Decatur, Ala, I then-came-in contact with the I.L.D. and I have toured the country with, three of the mothers, Mother Norris, Pat- terson, and Mother- Wright... I dearly love all the mothers. They are very nice, and. I enjoyed beng We was touring.un- der the auspesis of the I: “The reception given to us on these tours were great, it inspired me so much to see the people rallying behirid the T-L.D. for the freedom of ail nine boys... . “T will continue to fight for the freedom of the nine of you“until you are free. I'am sure «noone _ will ever lead me to again sware false on my working class ‘broth— ers, Then I did not know what * ow thet 1 how: whoa! “Now that low who “are my friends. and. who are my enemies, I will never fall down on my brothers and sisters... _ “I will continue the’ fight, until “death takes me. away from the struggle. I will stick-with you:-and the I. L. D. for ever to smash this awful frame-up. “I trust that all is well, and wish your quick release. “Your friend, a “RUBY BATES” Billions for Jobless, Not a Cent for War Plans — aes rere csecintisonrnaner mrs ennenennstetnelnmniesleme tin teneseiatiatitlidcl