The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1934, Page 3

Negro and White Workers Invade Texas State Capitol Austin Jobless Cotton Textile Bosses Utica Textile|F Made 79 Million Profit Demand Reliet Aid Payments 2,000 Families Dropped DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1934 In 1933, Report Reveals from Relief Rolls in Labor Research Association Issues Figures on Travis County AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 18—Five-hun- dred Negro and white workers, with their children, invaded the state capitol demanding adequate relief from the Texas Board of Control. This demonstration was so well planned that it took the state offi- cials by complete surprise. “Boss” Thorp, Austin’s red-baiting Chief of Police, was not informed of the workers’ plans, hence had no chance to attack the demonstrators. The workers, mobilized by the Austin Unemployment Council, en- tered the building in orderly fashion, maintaining prole arian discipline throughout. Soon the entire first floor of the capitol was crowded, while press correspondents left their | typewriters to observe the demon- stration. Many of the demonstra- tors had not eaten for several days. 2,000 Cut Off Relief A committee of three, headed by R. 8. Mayhall, chairman of the Council, was elected to present the demands of the workers to the Board of Control. The committee told the Board that two-thousand families had been summarily drop- ped from the relief rolls in Travis County. “They are being cut off now with Winter ahead,” Mayhall shouted, pounding his fist on the table. Its these devilish officials doing it. That's where the money goes. Where one case gets too much, as you Board members claim, 100 don’t get enough.” The committee also claimed that 300 children in the Tenth Ward are unable .to. attend school because | By Labor Research Association | It is estimated that in 1933 the \cotton textile industry rolled up |profits of approximately $79,000,000. Wamsutta Mills, New Bedford: trade magazine reports that this jecompany “had a very good six months and showed a fair profit for ‘the first half year, after all charges, jand that the Wamsutta manage- |ment, the directors and the banks, ‘are very much encouraged.” Pep- perell Mfg Co.—net profit of $1.- 607,685 for year ending June 30, 1934. This is $683,355 more than net profit for previous year and “best showing” since 1920. Apponaug Co.—for year ending June 30, 1934, showed net profit of $160,154; Victor-Monaghan Co.— ' $451,718 for same period, while dis- tributing $291,037 in dividends. Duplan Silk Corp. showed net profit of $659,564 for year ending May 31, |1934. Industrial Rayon Corp. re- |ports a net profit of $1,208,524 for | first nine months of 1934. | Lowell textile workers especially should note the fact that the stock ‘of Boott Mills, quoted at around $40 |a share on the stock market, pays $4 a year dividend which thus yields to the investor about 10 per cent. |The Amezican Wool & Cotton Re- porter calls it “a mill share worth owning.” Pelzer Mfg. Co, with plants at Pelzer and Tucapau, 8. S., subsidiary of the New England Southern Corp. of Boston, is re- | garded by the same trade journal as Huge Profits Amassed by Manufacturers a company “in excellent financial condition.” It reports also that | Charlottesville Woolen Mills, Char- lottesville, Va., “has averaged to pay | its stockholders more in dividends | per annum per loom than any other | mill in the country. On both com- | mon and preferred stock issues | Charlottesville hasn’t failed to pay dividends for something like 30 years—if not longer.” Jonathan Rich & Brother of Woolrich, Pa., is likewise regarded as “in excellent | financial condition, full of liquid assets, a great success... .” “Rise in Inquiries for Mill Stocks Is Noted,”—reads headline in Daily News Record the day after the strike sell-out was agreed to by U, T. W. leaders. It was expected by brokers | ment of preferred dividends on Oc- | tober 1 by a number of mills in this | section is expected to further in- crease interest in mill stock, , , it is expected that the usual dividends | will be paid.” | Gifford A. Cochran, former head | of Alexander Smith & Sons, carpet | manufacturers, left an estate valued at $3,497,917 net, when he died in 1930, it was recently announced. With profits reaped from exploita- tion of carpet workers, Cochran was able to maintain lavish race horse stables, three horses alone being valued at $47,000. they lack sufficient clothing. “Yet,” | the committee asserted, “you claim that some people are getting fat | and. prosperous from the relief. | Within the shadow of this building | and all around you, people are | hungry and starving. What are you | going to do about it?” 1 The Board promised to investigate the cases of those who had been dropped from the rolls. The work- | ers left, promising to return unless | steps were taken to feed the hungry. Miners Fight Maloney Plan | | By STEVE NELSON WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Oct. 18.— The second session of the United | Anthracite Miners’ Convention was j opened with quite a few delegates opposing the five-point “peace” pro- posal of Thomas Maloney, district president, and Father Curran. The |delegates objected to the idea of further conciliation. The miners |are fed up with conciliation. Gor- man, umpire of the conciliation board acting for the agency of the Plan to Hold Scottsboro |300 Picket in Cleveland |tion for Local JoinsFor Meeting Hunger March Syracuse Workers Win Food and Shelter for Marchers UTICA, N. Y., Oct. 18.—More than 800 cotton workers here, the entire membership of the Utica local of the United Textile Workers, met yesterday to discuss and plan ac- the state-wide hunger march which will converge on Al- bany Oct, 31 to place relief de- |mands before Governor Lehman and demand the calling of a special session of the State Legislature to enact the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. At a recent meeting when Vincent Majewski, president of the local spoke in favor of the march, the |membership of the local voted to |elect delegates and to take steps to finance their delegation Workers in Syracuse have forced in Greenville, S. C., that “the de-|the local Federal Transient Bureau | mand for cotton mill stocks would | to agree to provide two meals for | keep their hands off the demonstra show a noticeable improvement in| the hundreds of marchers who will| tion, Martin s:ated that no police the next few weeks. Scheduled pay-| pass through ‘the city in the trek to| Would be on hand other than the Albany. The Transient Bureau will provide supper for the marchers on Oct. 28, and breakfast for the marchers on Oct. 29. Lodging for a number of the marchers has also been promised. The local committee which is march campaign here has demanded of Mayor Marvin of Syracuse that he order housing and feeding prep- arations be made for the marchers in that city. In spite of rainy weather, over two hundred workers attended an open air meeting in Chancellor Park, Utica, Monday night to hear Ben Lapidus, organizer of route one of the march, explain the demands of the hunger marchers. Textile organizing and directing the hunger | At Coal Parley to Demand Freedom | workers from New York Mills de- clared at the meeting that they | of Ernst Thaelmanni would take up the election of dele- PRES gates at their union local. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 18.—| Workers in Rome have intensified |their drive to elect delegates and report that a minimum of ten | marchers will be elected. Arrange- ments have been made to have a | Three hundred workers formed a militant mass picket line at tne Nazi consulate here “4 Soot ue |release of Ernst Thaelmann, leader ‘of the German workers, Scores of |P@%’ of column one, the Buffalo mounted poiice and doubie rows of | marchers, leave the main route and uniformed police stood guard at the|&0 through Rome to join the Rome consulate doors at the Midland Bank | delegation. A send off rally will be building. The mass picket line at-| held in Rome on Oct. 27. tracted hundreds of other workers| Intensified preparations for the into anti-fascist action, with the, march have forced the Buffalo Re- pickets shouting slogans, “Free! lief Administration to increase the Thaelmann,” ‘Free Seitz,” “Down | weekly food allotment for the un- with Hitler,” “Long Live Thaelmann | employed from $85,293.50 to $93,- and the Communis: Party of Ger- | 733.97 for the current week. Conference ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 18.—Plans are being pushed here for the mass Emergency Scottsboro-Herndon Conference called by the Interna- tional. Labor Defense and_ the League of Struggle for Negro Rights for Saturday, Oct. 20, 3 p.m., at the Peoples’ Finance Building, 11.N. Jefferson Ave. Within the last few days many churches, unions and other organ- izations have been visited to urge the election of delegates to the con- ference, All groups are being urged to unite in the fight to prevent the legal murder of the Scottsboro boys on Dec, 7. The conference will work out plans to intensify the fight for the lives and freedom of the boys and against the growing fascist attacks by St. Louis police on the struggles of unemployed Negro. and white workers for relief. It will also ini- tiate a struggle for the passage by the Boatd of Aldermen of a local Bill of Rights for the Negro peo- “ple, ‘and against the attempt to railroad to the workhouse six local workers, framed up in connection with the picketing of the saloon of Abe Fishman in protest against his brutal attack on an eight-year old Negro lad, Robert Koonts. The conference will be followed an entertainment, featured by a revolutionary program and danc- ing. WHAT’S ON Bridgeport, Conn. REPORT of delegates to Second uv. 8. Congress Against War and Fascism will be given at a Mass Meeting at Amer- jean-Russian Sokol Hall, 500 Halle:t &t., Thursday, Oct. 18, 8 p.m. Detroit, Mich. ‘WORKERS Movies Saturday, Oct. 20, ‘Yemans Hall, 3014 Yemans, ‘Hamtramck. ‘Two show: and 9-11. A 23-hour pro- gram of real living, working and fighting conditions ef werkers of California. Ad- miesion 15¢. Chicago, Ill. NOVEL-New-Spot-Lite Floor Show and Dance Saturday, Oct. 20, 8:30 p.m. at the S. W. Home, 2147 W. Chicego Ave. Novel- ty dances, new red vodvil numbers. Re- Duke Croswell and his Or- uspiees: Blue Blouse “Theatre Adm, 20c. Philadelphia, Pa. JOSHUA KUNITZ lectures on “Creators of Soviet Literature,” Thursday, Oct. 25, 8 p.m. at Brith Sholom Hall, 506 Pine St. Auspices: Philadelphia John Reed Club. Adm. 25¢. Newark, N. J. FILM Showing of “Golden Mountzins,” a Soviet film, Sumday, Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. at LW.O. Center, 516 C'inton St. Adm. 25¢. Auspices: S.M.W.LU. Perth Amboy, N. J. ENTERTAINMENT and MASQUERADE Dance given by L.W.O. Youth Br. ¥-27, Sat., Oct. 20, 8 p.m. at Workers’ Home, 308 Elm St. Adm. 25c. Minneapolis, Minn. REPORTS of the Second Congress Against War end Fascism at Unitarian Center, 1526 Harmont Place, Monday, Oc- teber 22, 8 p.m. Delegates frem various or- ganizations will spe Na*‘ional Labor Board, “aired” over 1,100 grievances. This work of “air- ing” required a couple of months and lately decisions are being handed down 99 per cent against the miners. ‘ However, with certain modifica- tions the five-point peace plan of Maloney went through, with many delegates voting “No.” The original motion called for a thir-y-day con- sideration to be allowed to Gorman and the U. M. W. A. The dele- gates compelled Maloney to agree to a five-day limit. Dougher Applauded | Joe Dougher, militant leader of |the miners and Communist candi- date for Congress in Lackawanna linto the union. Dougher was ex- lini, state president, and his hench- men, edged being a member of the Com- munist Party, and Cappellini knew that it would not have been so easy to carry on his maneuvers if Joe Dougher remained in the union: * The presence of Joe Dougher in more reactionary leaders in the union, although miners applauded when they saw Dougher in the con- vention hall. A motion was passed that Dougher’s reins‘atement be taken up by the local union after many delegates pointed out that Joe Dougher was a real fighter for the interests of the mine workers. Miner Praises Dougher One miner stated that he didn’t know much about Communism, but he knew that Joe Dougher was a good fighter. Even Schuster, secre- tary-treasurer of the union, had to pay a compliment to Dougher that he is a good scrapper. A number of delegates felt dis- gusted with the way the new union was being led by Maloney, who al- ways in the past posed before these miners as a fighter for their in- terests. Delegates from the Nanti- coke section and some from Pit’s- ton and South Wilkes-Barre stated that they will not wait and that if a strike is called in their collieries tomorrow nobody should be sur- prised. The delegates from the policy committee of eight locals from the Nanticoke section openly told Maloney that he did not act any different than Boylan. WICKS IN TURTLE CREEK TURTLE CREEK, Pa., Oct. 18.— Harry M. Wicks, Communist Party candidate for U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania, will speak in the au- ditorium of Union High School here tomorrow evening at 8 o’cleck. His subject will be “What Will a Communist Senator Do in Wash- ington,” and will cover the Com- munist position on the following is- sues: unity of white and Negre workers; the “New Deal” and N.R.A.; veterans’ bonus; unem- ployment and social insurance; sales, property and other taxes; and strikes and relief struggles. A Communist Vote Is a Vote Against War! Vote Againsi Hunger, Wage Cuts, ‘Company Unions! Vote Com County, appeared in the convention | with a letter asking for readmission | | pelled in Scranton by R. Cappel- | because Dougher acknowl- | the hall was a shock to some of the | | many.” x | Following the demonstration at | the consulate, more than 300 work- lers marched through the downtown | streets, stopping traffic and shout- | ing slogans. Solicit Subs for the “Daily” | Local upstate march headquarters have been set up at 881 Broadway, Buffalo; 4042 Main Street, James- town; 233 Central Park, Rochester; 49 Niagara Street, Canandaigua; 510 South Townsend Street, Syra- cuse; and 621 Elizabeth Street, Utica. orce Permit! inPhiladelphia |Workers Will Assemble at Reyburn Plaza on | Saturday Afternoon | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 18.—| |The Board of Park Commissioners | | were yesterday forced to gran: a permit for the mass unemployed demons‘ration to be held at Reyburn Plaza Saturday at 2 p. m., after | innumerable worker's delegations had besieged their offices. When the Park Commissioners informed the Unemployment Coun- cils that the permit for the demon- stration had been refused, workers’ organizations and groups of liberals immediately sent committees to the | Board. Yesterday the secretary of | the Board, Mr. Martin, informed a committee from the Councils that |the demonstration would be per- | | mitted | Will Withhold Police | To their demand that the police | aI | usual park guards. | After a week of negotiations, the Socialist Party leadership of Phila- | delphia refused to enter the united | | front demonstra ion at Reyburn! Plaza Saturda: On previous visits, | David H. Felix, “left wing” leader | of the Philadelphia Socialist Party had promised to support the fight for the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill, but stated that he could not speak for other members of the Socialist Party. | Joseph Schwartz, chairman of the Socialist Party County Committee referred the Council delegation to the County Committee meeting, where all united front offers were refused by Balsky, Socialist Party organizer. Appeal to S. P. Members | The Unemployment Councils of | Philadelphia have appealed to all members of the Socialist Party io support the demonstration tomor- {row at Reyburn Plaza. A committee of one-hundred | elected at a recent conference here, | will report to the assembled work- ers aS Reyburn Plaza on their meet- ing today with the City Council, | | where they will set forth the de- mands of Philadelphia's 400,000 job- less. These demands call for union wages and conditions on all relief jobs; immediate doubling of present | relief without any discrimination | against Negro, foreign born, women |and young workers, payment of | rents, issuance of Winter clothing, and enactment of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, the bill initiated by the Communist Party and incorporated in the Com- munist election platform. | | Fight Government Strikebreaking with Communist Votes, Fighting Not to Contribute and Strength Of ‘Daily’ Depends On Drive--Ella Bloor » s: Make Collections for $60,000 Drive Means To Be Remiss In Duty to Working Class, S, ays Woman Leader If I could reach every worker and poor farmer in the to defend their interests. If every textile worker who has been betrayed by the | Gormans and Greens; if the farm-© ers, who are facing famine, and the calamities which always follow in| the train of famine—poverty, dis- ease and death—read the Daily Worker they would get the whole truth every day. Before their eyes would be ex- posed the crooked arbitration schemes, the A.A.A., the N.R.A— the entire substance of the New Deal. They would learn the way out—the truth that the workers and farmers have the power in their own hands. But how can we make the Daily Worker this living, fighting force? First. we must really feel this force ourselves, and use it in every phase of our work. Every struggle re- cords our achievements especially, brought to the minds of the work- | ing class today. Tomorrow will be too late! The Daily Worker must be put/ into the hands, into the minds, into the lives of every striker—every worker. And we can do it! But how can we do this ef- fectively? It is plain that first of all we must keep the Daily Worker in publication, keep the improved Daily Worker, support it so that it} can continue to improve itself. | Without the Daily Worker our Legion Leader Scored At Meeting in West) LOS ANGELES, Oct. 18.—Amer- ‘can Legion hecklers Saturday night at the protest meeting at the wrecked headquarters at 4822 W. Adams St., were answered not only by Communist speakers, but by members of the crowd who belonged | to the Legion. When a former com- mander of the local post protested that he himself had not been guilty of inciting acts of violence against workers, several bystanders imme- diately came forward to relate ter- roristic activities of the Legion lead- ership, ‘Textile Stretch-Out Is Major El ® 'Speed-Up Is Unchecked By Roosevelt Textile Assignment Boards | | | By CARL REEVE chairman to “investigate” jover a year. The Roosevelt N.R.A. ruled that wages should not be n- creased, hours should not be short- ened, and stretchout should not be decreased. 1 against the results of these “in- vestigations.” They demanded the 30-hour week, end of the stretchout, higher wages and recognition. Af- ter three weeks the Gorman leader- ship of the United Textile Workers betrayed the strike, and sent one half million textile workers back into the mills without one of these demands granted. The Roosevelt- Winant decision ending the strike, gave the strikers nothing. Now a ‘new board, the Textile Work As- signment Board, has been set up to continue “investigations.” The new order of Roosevelt, while denying the workers all their demands, provides that on permis- sion of the “impartial chairman” of the new Textile Work Assign- ment Boards, the employers may increase the stretchout after next Feb. 1. Stretchout now continues unchecked. The Communist Party through- out the entire struggle of the tex- tile. workers against unbearable conditions, has fought in the front ranks for all of the demands of the textile workers. The Communist Party has predicted from the be- ginning that the Roosevelt govern- ment and its N.R.A. boards would swindle the textile workers out of their demands. Before the strike, the Communist Party outlined correctly the treach- erous course of the Gorman-Mac- Mahon A. F. of L. leadership. The Communist Party from the first ex- posed the betrayal role of the So- cialist Party leaders, such as Emil Rieve, and the Lovestoneite rene- gades like Keller and Rubdinste:n, would play as a part of the Gor- man-MacMahon sell-cut mechinc. During the course of the strike, the Communist Party, through its speakers, through the columns of The textile workers struck Sept. | | the Daily Worker, and its organ- Party in the general tex! jizers, every day gave the correct |prove that the Communis line for winning the demands of the strike. The Communist Party, warning of the coming betrayals, urged the building of united front rank and President Roosevelt this week set file committees in each mill, the use |paign are carried ‘1 up three boards under a common of mass picketing, flying squadrons jof the workers ever: the |and marches to make the strike ef- | demands. stretchout in the cotton, wool and fective, the mobilization of the | active on the picket lines ani ilk textile industry. These “investi- | whole working class against the ter- |phases of the strike. ;gations” have been going on for | ror and the spread of the strike in | support of the textile strikers. The Planning and Research Division|Communist Party called for the|to win their demands, the workers ‘solemnly “investigated” textile rank and file to take the struggle | must build the solid unity of the) workers’ demands last June, and|into their own hands in order to | entire working class. |defeat the traitors at the head of the U.T.W. Restrike Begun Gorman bstrayed the strike, the Communist Party de- clared that the textile workers would continue the fight for their demands, would re-strike against the decisions of Roosevelt's boards which have denied all their de- mands. In fact the Roosevelt gov- ernment, together with the employ- ers has launched an even more in- tense wage-cutting, union-smashing drive against the textile workers. This re-strike movement against wage cuts and discrimination, against the stretchout, and for the general strike demands, has already begun, especially in the silk and dye industry. The Communist Party, in the course of its election campaign, places as one of its major planks ‘the fight to raise the living stand- ards of the workers, th edevelop- ment of the strike struggles for these economic demands, and the unity of all workers to fight against the attacks of the employers and their government. The first demand in the Commu- nist Party program is “Against. Roosevelt's ‘New Deal’ attacks on After for higher wages, shorter hours, a shorter work week, and improved living standards.” The second de- mand of the Communist Party in the election campaign is “Against capitalist terror and the growing trend toward fascism; against com- pulsory arbitration and company unions; against the use of troops in strikes; for the workers’ right to join unions of their own choice, to strike, to picket, to demonstrate without restrictions; for the main- tenance of all the democratic rights of the masses.” Other demands are for the Workers Unemployment and Social nsurance Bill, and for equal rights for the Negro workers. The activities of the Communist the living standards of the toilers, | | tile strike | | it Party is a fighting party of the working class, is a party which puts into ac- | tion its program, among the masses of the workers. The Communist |Party demands in the election cam- ut in the fight | y day for their The Communists were | id all) The Communist Party election Program points out that in order t In order to do) this they must expose and defeat | the Greens and Gormans and Du- | binskys, the A. F. of L. and Social- | jist Party leaders, who are betray- :ng the struggles of the workers |into the hands of the Roosevelt | boards, and defeating the workers’ demands. The textile workers. can now \clearly see that the program of the Communist Party in the textile strike was correct. The Green-Gor- man leadership, and the Roosevelt government, the government terror Of troops, succeeded in defeating the textile workers’ demands be- cause the rank and file was not |strongly enough organized to take the strike leadership and the nego- \iations into their own hands. The |Democratic, Republican and Social- ‘st parties alike played their part in \breaking the strike and betraying \the strikers. Under the leadership of the rank and file, together with the Com- |munist Party, many of the de- mands of the workers can be won. ;But “the only way out of the crisis for the toiling masses is the revo- Jutionary way out—the abolition of captalist rule and capitalism, the establishment of the Socialist so- ciety through the power of a work- ers’ revolutionary government, a Soviet government,” as the Con- gressional platform of the Commu- nist Party points out. The workers of the Soviet Union were able to }win complete security and raise their material and cultural stand- ards to the present high level only through their revolution and through establishing a working class government which ran indus- try for the workers’ and farmers’ benefit and not for profits for a few. The carrying on of a successful election campaign of the Commu- [nist Party will help win th |diate demands of the text: ers. ' A vote for Communism is a vote ection Issue Communist Platform for Raising Workers’ Living Standards against the Democratic Party of Roosevelt, which broke the textile strke; a vote against the Socialist leaders who helped Gorman put over the betrayal; a vote against the Republican Party, which sup- ports all of Roosevelt's measures against’ the workers, A vote for the Communist Party in the election campaign is a vote for rank and file led strikes to win the textile workers’ demands, to win the de- mands of workers in all industries. Those textile workers who saw the Communist Party in action in the general textile strike should vote Communist. C. P. Vote Will Strengthen Demands ACommunist vote will strengthen the everyday struggles of the work- ers for their demands. But that in itself is not enough. It is necessary to build and strengthen the Com- munist Party if the rank and file are to kick out the traiiors like Green and Gorman and win their Struggles. During the election cam- paign the Communist Party is car- trying on a recruiting drive for new members. Those textile workers who fought militantly on the picket. lines, who closed down mills in the face of troopers’ guns, who carried on the flying squadrons, and who now cee the defeat which FR eli. and Gorman handed them, belong in- side the Communist Party. The heroic textile strikers, who in ac- tion carried out the program of the Communist Party during the strike, should join their own working class party. By building the Communist Party we can see to it that the re- strike movement does not go the same road of defeat along which Gorman and Green led the general strike. Textile Workers — Support the Communist Candidates in the elec- ton campaign. Many of these can- didates were active fighters in the textile strike. Vote Communist. Build the Communist Party. Build the Communist Party. Strengthen the fight against N.R.A, dec'sions which rob the workers of their demands. Make more effective the coming strikes in the textile industry. Kick out the Greens and | Gormans and take control into the | hands of the rank and file. Join the |of a mass organi. |U. S. A. for even one hour I would use that hour to téll | them about the Daily Worker—and about its need for $60.000 whole work of educating, organiz- ing, leading the workers and im- poverished farmers would be an impossibility. An inadequate paper by the same reasoning, is an into!- erable handicap. The present Daily is, of course, far from perfect, but one has only to look at the pages devoted to New York trade unon news, at the space given to national struggles — trade union, unemploy- ment, attacks on workers, etc.—to see how much we have gained. When I say that we must feel the living, fighting force of the Daily Worker ourselves, I mean that every reader of the paper— every trade unionist, ev member ation, every mem- ‘kers’ ber of any wor does not at once contribute and get others to contribute at once to the $60,000 fund. The same holds true for those working class organiza- tions which are not rallying their members and friends to the drive. I appeal to every worker and farmer, therefore, to help fill this | group—must | and the reality of mass pressure,| feel that he is remiss in his duty | the power of numbers must be|to the working class if he or she | hatred. Page 3 \Ch ica g 0 High School Strike in 10-DayTruce udents Still Threatened—C. P., Fights Jim-Crow (Daily Worker Midwest Burean) CHICAGO, Oct. 18. — Morgan Park High School strikers returned to classes on Monday unde> circum- Stances which threaten to provoke race hatred. Police instructions. to search all Negro students for weap- ons, continued insistence by fascist elements and politicians for a Jim- Crow school, and carefully whipped up chauvinistic spirit combine to make the situation menacing. The decision to end the.-anti- Negro strike for a “ten day trial period” was made by the so-called citizens’ committee of adults. Pre- viously this committee has pretend- ed in its open statements that the white students took action inde- pendent of their parents in calling the strike. However, there is no doubt of the power of the pros- perous property owners to stop the action Police Provocation The police orders to search Negro students for weapons is a ridicu- lous provocation. Throughout the dispute in Morgan Park, white students and adult hoodlums have been on the offensive, have made all threats and incitations. Negroes have been quietly going about their studies, with those white students who could not be stirred up to race In ending the strike, the fascists | have not altered their demand for |Jim-Crowism. They are merely of- |fering to send the children back | to school for a ten-day period | pending action by the school*board jin herding and segregating the Negro students. great political necessity—to take a| Vile provocations to lynch action paramount part at once in raising|have so far been defeated. Masses the $60,000. This can be done by|of Negro workers in Morgan Park collections, by parties, by various| have been rallied to struggle for means. It can be done and I am| free schooling for their boys and sure it will be done! The working | girls in Morgan Park High. Led class will confound its enemies! by the Young Communist League, these workers have defeated at- tempts by Negro politicians and preachers to give up the fight and submit to segregation. Nightly mass meetings have been attended by hundreds, who defeated time and again police attempts to break up the meetings. In spite of terror by police, scores of white workers have gone into Negro territory, working side by side with the residents, forging a militant organization against Jim- Crowism. Opposition Work in Ore. Union Pushed VIRGINIA, Minn., Oct. 18.--As a result of the Conference of the Mesaba Iron Range section of the Communist Party, held on Sept. 30, steps will be taken toward strength- | ening the rank and file movement | within the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ Union (A. F. of L.). At the section conference it intl made clear that the majority of | the miners are now in the union, | an A. F. of L. affiliate, but the re- actionary leadership within it is not interested in developing a struggle for the needs of the workers. The village attorney at Hibbing, Minn., gave one of the reasons for their | work when he stated that “unless the workers are organized into the | M. M. 8S. W. U. they will join a radical union.” Among the outstanding decisions at the conference are: That all members of the Communist Party, who are eligible, should join the union and fight for rank and file control. Also, that members of the Finnish Workers’ Clubs, Finnish Youth Clubs, and all other militant organizations should be urged to join the union and help fight for the militant policy. In view of the fact that many farmers often work in the mines during the busy season, the com- pany tries to use them as scabs. It was therefore decided to urge such farmers to likewise join the union, and help weld the unity between the workers and the small farmers. Rank and file opposition groups are to be built in every local. | It was decided to begin system- | atic recruiting into the Communist | Party from the ranks of the miners. | In line with this, classes are to be | opened designed to teach the pro- | gram and tactics to be followed in the union. The work in the pres- | ent Congressional election cam- paign was taken up. | | Vote Communist for a Soviet America! —_—_—— |Chica FRIDAY October Music @ Dancing @ go, Ill. RED ELECTION BAZAAR PEOPLE’S AUDITORIUM °457 West Chicago Avenue ADMISSION: Single Day 10c; Three Days 25c—Auspices: Dist. 8, C.P. pate AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Boston James Casey, managing editor of the Daily Worker, speaks at Dudley St, Cesc House, 113 Dudley 8t., Oct. 27, . M. Los Angeles, Cal. Annual Workers’ Press Concert, Sune day, Nov. 4 at Mason Theatre, 127 & Broadway. Concert Progrem. Promi- nent speakers Chicago, Ill, Concert and Dance given by John’ Reed Br. I.W.O., No. 546, Sunday, Oct;.21 at Folkets Hus, 2733 Hirsch Blvd Halloween Party & Masquerade Dance, Sat., Oct. 27 at North Side Workers Hall, 548Wisconsin St. (1900 North on Larrabee St.). Auspices: Unit 4180. P, House Party given by Unit 408, Sature day, Oct. 20, 8 p.m. at 1971 Mand Ave, Refreshments, good music. Adm. 10¢, Detroit, Mich. Concert and Dance, Sunday, Oct,’ 24 at 3014 Yemans Hall, Hamtramek. Con- cart, 7 to 8:30 p.m. After the concert, Dancing till 12. ——Boston, Mass. JAMES CASEY. Managing Editor of the “Daily Worker” will speak at Dudley St. Opera House 113 Dudley Street Saturday, October 27 th. Ausp.: Dist. DailyWorker Comm. - SAT. — SUN. 19, 20 and 21 Program Every Night DAILY WORKER “DEL,” EMILE Communist Party now. VICLIN PHILADELPHIA, Pa. CONCERT FRIDAY, October 19th, Broadway Arena, Bread and Christian Sts. M. J. OLGIN Editor, Morning Freiheit, Speaker CARTOONIST DAILY WORKER, BABAD, FROM SOLOS; BERNICE CORNELIUS, ACCOMPANIST. 8 P. M. IN CHALK TALK; “ARTEF"; GABRIEL BRAVERMAN, munist for a Soviet America!