The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1934, Page 3

COMMUNIST VOTE WILL BE BLOW AT GREEN’S DRIVE Philadelphia’s Unemployed _|N.R.A. Swoops DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1934 Page 3 CHICAGO AFL HEADS United Front JOIN BOSS ATTACK ON C. P. MEMBERS Many Chicago Local Unions Vote Against Anti- Communist Drive of Top Leadership By BILL GEBERT Under the ancient guise of “rewarding friends and pun- ishing enemies” the Illinois and Chicago Federation of Labor leaders in the current election campaign are doing their best to chain the membership of the federations to th capitalist parties. In this attempt, the A. F. of L. leaders join with the ruling class in an attack on the Communists in the trade unions. Green’s anti- working class letter, which demands the expulsion of Communists from the trade unions, has been en- dorsed by the leaders of the Chi- cago Federation of Labor. A large number of delegates to the Chi- cago Federation of Labor bitterly opposed John Fitzpatrick’s (member of the Democratic Party) motion to expel Communists from the trade unions. For more than two hours militant delegates fought against the adoption of this anti-working class motion which joins the “Chi- cago Tribune” and “New Deal” in the drive upon the militant sections of the working class. The local unions of the A. F. of L. in Chicago, as well as the locals of the P, M. A. in the coal felds, are rejecting the anti-Communist drive in the local unions and are defying the boss policy of the offi- cialdom of the A. F. of L. and P. M. A. in their drive against mili- tant workers. The Communist Party calls upon the members and locals of the A. F. of L. and P. M. A. to repudiate and reject the program of the bureaucracy which serves the best interests of the bosses and unite their ranks to defeat it and rally around the program of the Communist Party. The Communist Party, which car- ries on daily struggles for the burn- ing demands of the workers, im- poverished farmers, Negro people, carries the election struggle for these demands: 1, Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill’ H. R. 7598; soldiers’ bonus; the Farmers Re- lief Bill; immediate refunding of all savings lost in the closed banks, amounting up to $5,000. % Against evictions, foreclo- sures of workers and impoverish- ed farmers. 3. For adequate cash relief for all unemployed. Cash relief for single and young workers. For repeal of the State Sales Tax. 4. For an extensive housing program, and public works, in- cluding the building of additional schools, parks, playgrounds, free hot lunches, books and carfares to children of unemployed and part-time workers; the building of @ subway in the city of Chicago. 5. For the right to organize, strike, and picket. For the right of organizations of the unem- Ployed to send committees to the Telief stations. For repeal of the Criminal Syndicalist Law and the Vagrancy Law. For the aboli- tion of the Red Squad. Against use of the National jjuard in strikes. Against injunctions. 6. Against Jim Crowism, segre- gation for full social, political and economic equality for the Negro people. For self-deter- mination in the Black Beilt. 1. For increase in wages; against speed-up; for shortening of the working week to 30 hours a week, with no reduction in pay. Equal pay for equal work for women and young workers, For the right of the Negro workers to all jobs. 8. For abolition of military training and organization of mili- tary groups in the factories. Against the deduction of National Guardsmen’s pay from their re- lief allowances. 9. For withdrawal of American troops and military and naval forces from all colonies and semi- colonies in South and Central America, Cuba ete. For defense of the Chinese people and the Soviet Union. For a revolution- ary workers’ government in the United States. C. P. Leading In Straw Vote In Cleveland CLEVELAND, Oct. 19. — In a straw ballot conducted by the Com~ munist Party results at the Doan Office Relief Station, East 118th and Superior showed the Commu- nists leading the Republicans three to one. The results were as follows: Democrats, 43; Communists, 40; Republicans, 13; 6 spoiled. A poll conducted on Cedar Avenue between 79th Street and 83rd Street showed the Republicans in the lead. The count was: Republicans, 42; Com- munists, 28; Democrats, 26. The total for the day: Democrats, 69; Communists, 68; Republicans, 55. Alexander Voros Wrought, chair- man of the State Campaign Com- mission of the Communist Party says regarding the election pros- pects of the Communist Party: “The Communist Party this year will poll the largest vote in the history of Cuyahoga County and in Ohio. Our meetings are every- where very well attended and we are reaching sections of the popu- lation who in previous years voted the old parties, but this year will vote Communist. The size of the Communist Party vote this year will suprise everyone.’ ? KenoshaFERA Workers Ask Wage Increase Delegates Elected to the State Conference on Social Insurance pes KENOSHA, Wis., Oct. 19—Near- jy six hundred F. E. R. A. workers met in the German-American Home here Wednesday night to or- ganize all F. E. R. A. relief work- ers into the Relief Workers Asso- ciation and voted to hold a mass meeting before the relef office to- day. A committee of 30 workers, rep- resenting practically all the F. EB. R. A. projects in the county, elected at a meeting of 350 relief workers, presented their demands to C. L. Holderness, county relief director last Friday. The demands call for wage increases to $15 for single workers and $25 for heads of fam- ilies, issuance of coal, budgets on @ weekly basis, workmen’s compen- sation for all injured workers. Single workers were given only $3.75 wages on Oct. 13, and were cut from two days a week to one. Due to the monthly budget, the single men are scheduled to get only $3.75 wages in another week this month. No coal has yet been issued. The married men have just started to work on their “coal budgets,” and it will be two or three weeks before coal is received. Meanwhile cold weather is already here. The meeting Wednesday elected Mike Kunza, militant young worker on the Alford Park project as dele- gate to the Wisconsin Social Se- curity Congress to be held in La- bor Temple, Milwaukee, Wis., Sun- day, Oct. 28, Ticket Filed In Nebraska Workers and Farmers Name Communists for State Posts OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 19.—Petitions have been filed for four state can- didates on the United Front Work- ers and Farmers Election ticket in Nebraska, The candidate for Governor is J. J. Sehefcik, president of the Neb- reska Farm Holiday Association, Secretary of the Farmers Union, and a member of the Communist Party. The candidate for Lieuten- ant Governor, Bob Burleigh, has been active in organizing the un- employed in and around Lincoln. Floyd Booth, candidate for Secre- tary of State, is a young Negro or- ganizer of the unemployed. Ellen Allen, district organizer of the Young Communist League, well- known among Omaha packing house workers, is candidate for State Treasurer. Local candidates have filed their candidacies in many counties on this ticket, ameng them Harold Hester, a Socialist, who is running for State Senator for Southern Nebraska, and E. M. Richmond, Secretary of the Nebraska District of the International Labor Defense, as state representative from the tenth district, in Omaha. Bert Sell, farmer, has filed a petition as can- didate for Congress from the fifth district. The United Front campaign was launched by a group of organiza- tions including the Farm Holiday Association, the Unemployment Councils, the Communist Party, the Young Communist League, the International Labor Defense, the International Workers Order, and individuals from organizations, such as the Socialist Party and the Farmers Union. The platform in- cludes the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, the Emergency Farm Relief Bill, planks against war and fascism, discrimination against the foreign born, against bcd for the right to organize and strike. Every day of the Roosevelt New Deal shows the growing need of the Daily Worker. But the Daily Worker needs $60,000 to be able to deal more fully with the strug- gles of the working class. Support the Daily Worker! Send your con- tribution today to the $60,000 drive. Communist Candidates Are Leaders in the Fight for the Right to Organize, Strike, Picket. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct, 19.— Employed, unemployed and relief workers will mass at Reyburn Plaza, Saturday at 2 p. m., in a mighty demonstration demanding that the | City Council act at once on the demands of Philadelphia’s 400,000 unemployed which were presented to them yesterday by an elected delegation of one-hundred backed up by a mass demonstration of one- thousand workers. While the City Council chambers echoed with the demands of the assembled workers yesterday, Norris Wood, chairman of the Eastern Pennsylvania Unemployment Coun- cils, point by point presented the demands—union wages and condi- tions on the relief jobs, immediate doubling of the present relief, no evictions, no discrimination, en- dorsement of the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill. Woods was chairman of the dele- gation of one-hundred representing eighty working class organizations whom City Council President Cox had agreed to admit to the Council meeting while their spokesmen presented the demands. Following a mass meeting at Rey- burn Plaza, the delegation had swollen to one thousand as they marched across the street to the City Hall. Frightened by the size of the delegation, Cox had sum- moned a swarm of police, who, per- sonally commanded by Director of Public Safety Wood and the city’s “red squad,” barred the entrance to the City Hall, permitting only the spokesmen to enter. The workers maintained perfect discipline and marched back to the Plaza where the mass meeting was resumed. Meanwhile, Jennie Cooper, secre- tary of the Unemployment Coun- cils, repeated the demands for suf- ficient relief and endorsement of | the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill. “I pledge,” she said, “the full support of the 2,500 mem- bers of the Unemployment Councils in the fight for these demands.” Russell Watson, young secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, pointed out that four out | of every five families evicted in the city are negroes. He demanded that the City Council officially endorse the Bill of Civil Rights for the Negro People, given to the Speaker | of the House of Representatives and to the President's secretary during the National Scottsboro March in April, 1933. | H. M. Wickman, Communist can- | didate for Congress, speaking in the name of the Communist Party | pledged the fullest support of the | Party to the demands presented. | “The starvation and misery from | which the workers are demanding relief is the inevitable effect of the capitalist system, and can only be abolished when the system is smashed.” Vischer Bayd, executive secretary of the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Techni- | cians, in the name of the trained | technicians on the city’s breadlines and in the name of the thousands of technical workers employed at starvation wages, demanded jobs at decent wages. Jennie Cooper, unemployed leader, speaking to the assembled workers in Reyburn Plaza, called upon them all to rally their friends and neigh- bors, the members of ‘their trade unions to jam Reyburn Plaza Sat- urday afternoon in a mighty dem- onstration for adequate relief, for | jobs at union wages and for the enactment of the Workers Unem- | ployment Insurance Bill, | Richmond Councils Call Mass Meeting in Fight For Free Clothing RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 19—A mass meeting demanding free shoes, clothing and hot lunches to .the children of the unemployed will be held here Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 8 p. m, at the Armstrong High School under the leadership of the Unemployment Council. The mass meeting follows a series of meetings held during the past two weeks in all parts of the city by the different branches of the Unemployment Council. The Coun- cil has on hand a registration of some 150 children who are unable to attend school because they have not proper shoes or clothing. Speakers at the meeting will be W. H. Friend, Unemployed Council organizer and Communist candi- date for congress; R. C. Mitchell, editor of the Richmond Planet, and others, A delegation to present demands to the Jriday, Och 2% meeting of the school board will be elected. | Will Demonstrate Today at Down on Retail 2 P. M. at Reyburn Plaza Coal Dealer Mass Meeting Will Demand Relief Increase But Administration Lets and Unemployment Insurance Large Corporations Go Unrebuked GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 19. —The Blue Eagle of the N. R. A |has swooped down and caught a | “terrible criminal” in its tal retail coal dealer who is acc of violating the wages and hours| | Provisions in the hard fuel code. The retailer is R. 8. French of | Middleville, near here, and he has been arrested on a warrant charging contempt of the District Court and} | placed in the county jail with bond set at $3,000. He declined to pay the bond. The case is expected to rival that of the New Jersey tailor who sev- eral months ago was thrown into jail for pressing suits for a nickel less than the code price. Coming on the heels of the statement of Attorney-General Cummings that gineering Co. of Buffalo, manufac- turers of auto parts, for openly de- fying the decision of the National Labor Relations Board that the A. F. of L. union should be recognized as the collective bargaining agency for all the Houde workers, the pros- ecution of this obscure Michigan coal dealer is intended as a smoke- screen to hide the fact that the big corporations are getting away with murder under the N. R. A, While the N. R. A. is swinging the Big Stick at this little business- man, no steps are taken against the! Packard Motor Co., which, accord- | ing to the October issue of the Auto Workers News, organ of the Auto Workers Union, has been working metal finishers seven days a week for a total of 70 hours in flagrant violation of the Auto Code. Unemployed Single Men | Seore First Victory In Forced Labor Battle TOLEDO,, Ohio, Oct. 19.—Single unemployed workers, who in a united front struggle have picketed the F. E. R. A. offices for the past} ten days, have won their fight) against forced labor, and are now continuing their struggle for full re- lief payments. Picketing of the Welfare office was first begun by the Single Men’s Pro- tective Union, and with the support of the Marine Workers Industrial | Union and the Unemployment Coun- | cila, the Unemployment Leagues and other organizations, the first fight was won, UMWA Local BacksCouncil Relief Fight CENTRAL CITY, Pa., Oct. 19.— The strength of the fast growing Unemployment Councils was again displayed in Somerset County dur- ing the past week as U.M.W.A. hiners defeated attempts of the John L. Lewis machine to oust Frank McKenna as checkweighman for his activity in leading the un- employed and stressing the need of unity between working. and jobless miners. McKenna has for some time been checkweighman at the Wilbur mine and president of the U. M. W. A. local union. Not long ago he was elected by unemployed workers as chairman of the Hooversville Un- employment Council, following which U. M. W. A. district officials tried to drive him out of the lead- ership of the local union by bring- ing “dual organization” charges. Last week, in the elections of the local union, he was opposed for checkweighman by five Lewis stools, but the latter received only @ few scattered votes and McKenna was re-elected by an overwhelming majority. In Central City the Unemploy- ment Council is growing by leaps and bounds, following the passage of a resolution by Central City U. M. W. A. local union endorsing the Councils and pledging cooperation The union's action was taken fol- lowing a meeting at which Mike Balya, blacklisted leader of the miners employed by Reitz Coal Company, urged the miners to join and help build the Unemployment Council. The result was an immediate in- flux of miners, most of whom are now working only two or three days in two weeks. These are now fol- lowing Balya’s advice in bringing their demands for relief to aug- ment the pittance earned in the shafts to the meetings of the Un- employment Councils. Balya, well known to all the miners of Somerset County as a militant fighter against the coal operators and their district Lewis machine and now unemployed has been elected chairman of the Un- employed local. One of his first moves as chair- man was to strike a scab road job which had begun on the Shadv Township Road, Cairnbrook. There the workers had been hired at 35 cents an hour and the issue was brought up at a council meeting. The following day Balya led 70 workers in a march on the job, pulling out every worker and halt- ing all construction until union wages, 57% cents an hour, shall be conceded all the road workers. A united front has been formed be- tween the Unemployment Council, the Hod Carriers local, and the un- organized workers, Farmer-Labor Governor Condones Vigilantes Olson’s Flag Waving! Gave Vigilantes Cue for Attack By S. K. DAVIS Communist Candidate for Governor of Minnesota The raid on the Workers’ Book- store in Minneapolis and the burn- ing of literature by Vigilante bands has raised a number of vital ques- tions in the minds of the workers. The first and main question is “How are such fascist attacks upon workers’ organizations possible in a state with a Farmer-Labor admin- istration which boasts of its “liber- alism,” “protection” of workers’ rights and even pretends to be anti- capitalist? Who organized these Vigilante bands and what encour- aged their attack upon a workers’ organization? For many weeks prior to this raid, the capitalist press and the Citi- zens’ Alliance openly called for the organization of these fascist Vig- ilante bands against the labor movement. On October 15th, the Saturday Press, the spokesman for the strike-breaking Citizens’ Alli- ance openly declared: “What .. . this city needs is a Vigilante.” In the present election campaign, both the Republican and Democratic parties openly called for violence upon the working class movement in this state. The strategy of these capitalist parties is to warn the property owners with the “red seare” and elect their candidates to office on this issue. Olson Incites Fascist Attacks With Lies The Farmer-Labor state admin- istration knew all along that such violent attacks upon the revolu- tionary workers organizations was pending and such fascist Vigilante bands being organized. Governor Olson and the Farmer-Labor Party have not only not opposed the preparations for these fascist at- tacks but have actually joined in this drive upon the workers. Gov- ernor Olson in his campaign for re- election and the Farmer-Labor Party are trying to outdo the other capitalist parties in their slanderous attack upon the workers’ party—the Communist Party. The Farmer-La- bor Party is working overtime in its attempt to outbid the Repub- licans and Democrats in lies and misrepresentation of the Commu- nist Party program and aims. In his keynote speech on October 6th, Olson made the following at- tack upon the Communist move- ment, as a part of his platform for re-election. Olson said: “The Communists would con- fiscate whatever little wealth the ordinary man now has. We would give him an opportunity to earn more. The Communists believe the individual is created for the service and benefit of the state, We believe that the state is creat- ed for the benefit and service of the individual. The Communists would abolish Christian morality. We would give Christian morality the first trial in commercial rela- tions that it has ever had. The Communists would reduce ail people to a dead level. We would uplift all people to a happier life.” In this statement, Olson deliber- ately lied and misrepresented the Communist Party program. Gov- ernor Olson and the Farmer-Labor Party don’t hesitate to resort to the most poisonous propaganda in their effort to appear as a respectable Capitalist party that knows how to run the affairs of the state in the interests of the capitalists. The Farmer-Labor Party is aping the most reactionary forces of the rul- ing class in this state, in its at- tempt to discredit the Communist Party. By such attacks upon the Communists, the Farmer-Labor Party and its candidates want to convince the monopolies and trusts that they, more so than their Re- publican and Democratic brethren, are fighting the Communists and all revolutionary workers. Communists Fight Against Robbery of the Masses * Do the Communists want to “con- fiscate whatever little private wealth the ordinary man now has?” This is a deliberate lie and falsehood. This is precisely what the Repub- lican, Democratic and Farmer-La- bor parties are doing now and will do in the future. Was it not the Farmer-Labor Party state admin- istration in Minnesota, as the Re- publican and Democratic adminis- trations in other states, which plac- ed thousands of workers’ homes and poor farmers’ homesteads on sheriff's sales? Was it not the Communist Party that organized the mass re- sistance of the workers and farm- ers and forced the Farmer-Labor Governor Olson to stop evictions and sheriff’s sales and grant a mo- ratorium? The Congressional plat- form of the Communist Party states: “The first acts of a revolutionary workers’ government would be to open up the warehouses and dis- tribute among all the working peo- ple the enormous surplus stores of food and clothing.” “Such a government would im- mediately open up all the factories, mills and mines, and give every per- son a job at constantly increasing wages.” “Such a government would im- mediately begin to re-organize the present anarchic system of produc- tion along Socialist lines.” “Such a revolutionary government would secure to the farmers the pos- session of their land and provide them with the necessary means for a comfortable living.” The Communist Party is the only party that fights for the cancella-| Lies About Communism tion of the debts of poor farmers and for tax exemptions for all per- sons and their property, earning less than $3,000 per year, and a steeply graduated ‘tax and greatly increased taxation on the rich. This is the only guarantee that the poor farmers and workers will not be driven from their farms or evic- ted from their homes. For the four years of the Farmer- Labor administration, thousands of workers and farmers lost whatever little private wealth they had, while the monopolies and the steel trust remained untouched. Secondly, Olson is deliberately trying to stir up anti-Communist feeling on the religious issue or what he calls “Christian morality,” Olson wants the masses to believe that the Communists would abolish religion by force and compulsion. This is another deliberate mis- representation and plays into the hands of the Vigilante bands. While the Communist Party defi- nitely considers religion as a class weapon of the bourgeoisie against the proletariat, it does not consider that this is today the chief issue before the masses. What the work- ers of the state and this country are confronted with today is the struggle against hunger, war and fascism. Example of U. S. 8S. R. Excludes Olson’s Lies Finally, Governor Olson has asso- ciated himself with the Vigilantes and Citizens’ Alliance in stating that “the Communists would reduce all people to a dead level.” Olson has not yet mentioned where this has ever happened. The Communist Mayor of Crosby, Minnesota, Emil Nygard, organized and led the struggles of the unemployed against forced labor and for the improve- ment of their conditions. Unlike Governor Olson, who used the National Guards to break the General Drivers’ Strike, a Com- munist Mayor has never used the Police or armed forces against his fellow workers. The Soviet government of Russia under the leadership of the Com- munist Party has demonstrated to the workers and farmers of the en- tire world that they alone have created a new system of society, which has eliminated starvation, and has abolished capitalist misery and persecution. And what has four years of the Farmer-Labor administration given to the people of Minnesota? How much “uplifting of the people to a happier life” has Olson done? As a result of the present capitalist rule of which the Former-Labor Party is a part, over 250,000 are unemployed in the state or work at forced labor; wages are low, mass misery is increasing and Vigilante gangs have started to terrorize Inciied Book Burning and Raid on Store In this campaign, Olson and the Farmer-Labor Party are encour- aging and stirring up the most nationalistic and reactionary ideo- logy among the masses. In their race with the other capitalist par- ties to the “defense of the Ameri- can flag” and for the perpetua- tion of the present American gov- ernment, which starves the work- ers and shoots them on the picket line, Olson and the Farmer-Labor Party are directly encouraging these Vigilante attacks upon work- ers’ organizations. In fact, the Vigilantes in their raids upon the Workers’ Bookstore took their cue from Goy. Olson. It was Gov. Olson who established the precedent of raiding workers organizations by the raiding of the Union headquarters with National Guards during the Truckmen’s strike. Olson even takes pride in the activities of the National Guard in breaking the drivers’ strike. The fact that the Farmer-Labor ad- ministration refused to lift a finger against those guilty of murdering defenseless pickets during the truckmen’s strike, actually assured protection to the marauding fascist gangs in the city of Minneapolis. Smash Vigilantes—Vote Com- munist! And the Farmer-Labor alder- men in the City of Minneapolis City Council voted pensions for the widows of the deputized thugs and for compensation to injured thugs, who were recruited during the truckmen’s strike. By this, they approved the murderous attack upon the strikers. The raiding on the Workers Bookstore is not an attack upon the Communists alone. It is a challenge to the entire labor move- ment of Minnesota. Workers and farmers of the state must reply to these Vigilante raids with greater organization and struggle for the improvement of their working and living conditions and the protec- tion of their democratic rights. The Vigilantes have directed their first blow against the Communists, because they know that the Com- munist Party is the leader and or- ganizer of the struggles of the masses against capitalist misery and starvation. Only the program of the Communist Party offers a way out to the toiling people of this state and country from this misery. SMASH THE VIGILANTES BY SUPPORTING THE COMMUNIST PARTY PROGRAM DURING THE COMING ELECTION! JOIN THE COMMUNIST PAR- workers’ organizations, TY! ie will not prosecute the Houde En- | NLY $2,913.79! This was the result last drive for $60,000! hese That $3,000 Received Last Week 1n60,000Campaign |New York District Still Not Meeting Obligations | Necessary to Keep 8-Page Paper in Publication week in the Daily Worker’s Of this money, New York contributed more than half. The bare figures show just how seriously the drive is being carried on in most of the dis. | tricts. With the exception of New, | York and three others, none con- | tributed even a hundred dollars. Only three contributed more than | | fifty dollars. | Faced with the fact that the 8-| |page New York Daily Worker will |be discontinued on Election Day | unless an average of $600 a day | ($4,200 a week) is received during | the next few weeks, New York sent in less than $1,700. | Even Philadelphia and Denver, | the Jeaders, gained little—Phile- | delphia 1 per cent and Denver 5/ per cent. | | Philadelphia, however, guaranteed to complete its quota last night, at @ mass meeting and concert ar- ‘Relief Slash Threat Looms | In Chicago Report Instruetions Given To Halt Jobs on Projects (Dally Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Oct. 19.—Work relief has been cut 5 per cent in Cook County according to reliable sources. Instructions have been is- sued to relief stations to stop send- | ing unemployed for these jobs. Explanation of this action is found in the fact that the 5 per cent cut has reduced October's budget so greatly that no more men can be put to work. Work relief is the only method unemployed workers here have of getting any cash, Failure to main- tain it without a change in the direct relief to cash means the stranding of thousands of workers, and the forcing of them back on the old commissary system, with limited grocery orders, and rotten boxes, Some new assignments for work relief will be available on Nov. 1, ranged for that purpose. The money that was received, on the other hand, showed that the Daily Worker drive is not dragging because i has been so ordained by heaven or some other supernatural force. The dollars that came in during the week proved, as the “Daily” states time and time again, that workers are but waiting to contribute—but that we are not seeking their con- tributions. The two New York sections which have finished their quotas made use, for instance, of personal visits to units and mass organizations for collections. How many other sections in the coun- try has done this? ‘What have the beckward Come munist Party units in New York to say in the face of the activity, for example, of unit 5, Section 1, nm their district? Went Over—Keeps On This unit had a quota of $50.00. It raised it to $100.000. t achieved that total. Now it has increased its quota to $150.00—and already has $128.65! It challenges any unit in New York and proudly announces that it will not cease work till the entire $60,000 is raised. Next Sun- day, Oct. 28, it is giving an affair at the Italian Workers Club, 233 E. 10th St., and it invites all the Daily Worker agents of other units to come to this party and learn how to coHect money for the Daily Worker. In Detroit, is another unit which knows the way to funds—unit 8 in Section 4 (Highland Park). On the same day that it turned in $6.00 to the Daily Worker, its members went out and brought back $20.00 more. This gives it a dollar more than ite quota. “Our unit will not stop here,” it asserts. “We pledge to double this ($26.00) amount, and challenge the other units of Section 4— especially unit 1—to compete with us in this drive.” Do Not Seek Excuses ‘These units are not relying on excuses. They do not plead that the election campaign is hindering their work, as does Section 9 in Chicago. They allow no obstacle in their path. But all the units are needed to make the drive a success. It is up Leaders in the Fight for the Right to Organize, Strike, Picket. A Vote fer Communist Candi- dates Is a Vote against Company “Unions.” WHAT’S ON Bridgeport, Conn. REPORT of delegates to Second U. 5. Congress Against War and Fascism will be given «at a Mass Meeting at Amer- ican-Russian Sokol Hall, 500 Hallett St., Thursday, Oct. 18, 8 p.m. Detroit, Mich. WORKERS Movies, Monday, October 22, John Reed Club, 108 West Hancock. Two shows: 7-9 and 9-11. A 2-hour pro- gram of real living, working and fighting conditions of workers of California. Ad- mission 15¢. Chicago, Lil. NOVEL-New-Spot-Lite Floor Show andé Dance Saturday, Oct. 20, 8:30 p.m. at the 8. W. Home, 2147 W. Chicago Ave. Novel- ty dances, new red yodvil numbers. Re- freshments. Duke Croswell and his Or- chestra. Auspices: Blue Blouse ‘Theatre of Action.” Adm. 20c. Philadelphia, Pa. JOSHUA KUNITZ lectures on “Creators of Soviet Literature,” Thursday, Oct. 25, 8 pm. at Brith Sholom Hall, 506 Pine St. Auspices: Philadelphia John Reed Club. Adm. 25¢. Newark, N. J. FILM Showing of “Golden Mountains,” a Soviet film, Sunday, Oct. 21, %30 p.m. and 9 p.m. at I.W.O. Center, 516 Clinton St. Adm. 25¢. Auspices: S.M.W.L.U. Perth Amboy, N. J. ENTERTAINMENT and MASQUERADE Dance given by LW.O. Youth Br. Y-27, | Sat., Oct. 20, 8 p.m. at Workers’ Home, 308 Elm 8t. Adm. 25c. Minneapolis, Minn. REPORTS of the Second Congress Against War and Fascism at Unitarian Center, 1526 Harmont Place, Monday, Oc- tober 22, 8 p.m. Delegates from various or- ganizations will speak. to the units to realize this. The Boece betoee ers new Daily Worker is in danger! District table m $60,000 Drive, October 41-18: District Past Week ao Date Quota Perc.Quota 1—Boston $ 92.95 $978.64 $ 2,000 48.93 2—New York City 1683.68 9292.16 30,000 30.87 3—Philadelphia 43.25 3,500 72.28 4—Buffalo 44.81 730 29.39 5—Pittsburgh 39.16 1,200 26.86 6—Cleveland 182.91 3,000 ae 167.24 2,500 32.69 346.97 6,500 28.95 34.5% 300 684 6.08 20 10.4 10.60 260 9.04 65.40 1,000 18.63 46.75 2,000 821 58.65 150 38.83 19.72 198 30.89 8.00 150 44.83 17—Birmingham 150 pee 18—Milwaukee 36.40 1,000 33.18 19—Denver 20.98 ‘wo 05.38 20—Houston — 300 13 21—St. Louis 9.50 500 1.38 22—West Virginie 1.00 28 33.69 23—Kentucky — 200 5 24—Louisiana 1.00 200 27 25—Florida — 200 30.49 26—South Dakota — 260 L Miscellaneous EEE 1,008 4208 %6 Districts $2013.79 $19,614.16 390,000 32.69 Communist Candidates Are | ——————ssea7 AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Boston James Casey, managing editor of the Daily Worker, speaks at Dudley Opera House, 113 Dudley 8t., Oct. 8 P.M. Los Angeles, Cal. Annual Workers’ Press Concert, Sn day, Nov. 4 at Mason Theatre, 127 & Broadway. Concert Program. Promi« nent speakers, Chicago, Ill. Concert and Dance given by John Reed Br. LW.O., No. 546, Sunday, Oct. 2% at Folkets Hus, 2733 Hirsch Bivd. Halloween Party & Masquerade Dance, Sat., Oct. 27 at North Side Workers Hall, 548 Wisconsin St. (1900 North on Larrabee St.). Auspices: Unit 419 C. P, y given by Unit 408, Sati 5 , 8 p.m. at 1971 Maud Avs Refreshments, good music. Adm. 10c. Detroit, Mich. Concert and Dance, Sunday, Oct. 21 at 3014 Yemans Hall, Hamtramck. Con= cert, 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 27th at 8 P.M. Ausp.: Dist. DailyWorker Comm. Negro Workers, Vote Communist Against Lynching and for the Negro Bill of Rights