The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1934 Textile Sellout Demands Workers Join Communist Party COMMUNISTS LEAD ers DAILY STRUGGLES ‘Rebel Against) ON PICKET LINES, Strength of the Rank and File Movement Can Only Be Assured by Wide Membership in the Party of the Working Class By Ned Sparks District Organizer, C. P. More than 100,000 New England textile workess are now back in the mills getting the same miserable wages, suffering the same. stretch-out, working the same hours with no union recognition, suffering exactly the same con- ditions as before the great general textile strike. in some mills wages have already® been cut even a little more. The stretch-out has even been increased; and already in New Bedford and other centers workers are being laid off. It is clear to everyone that this was not a “victory,” but instead one of the worst sell-outs in history. If we think over the events of the Strike, any textile worker can see that there were plenty of signs even from the start of the strike that Gorman and the top leadership of the U. T. W. were going to sell out. From the very first day the higher officials of the U. T. W. discouraged mass picketing. The flying squad- Tons that were ready to descend on Lawrence were called off and dis- organized by Gorman and the U. T. W. officials. Record of U. T. W. Leaders The officials did not organize the strikers, who were anxious to carry on all sorts of work and activity for the success of the strike, into the various committees necessary to conduct the strike. Instead Mr. Batty of New Bedford told the strikers to go fishing. Practically nowhere in New England did the U. T. W. officials allow a strike committee to be elected so that the rank and file would have the con- trol of the strike in their own hands. Practically nowhere did the U. T. W. officials even allow mem- bership meetings of the union so that the union members would be able to have a voice and discuss the conduct of the strike. Nowhere did the officials of the U. T. W. ini- tiate a real campaign to raise re- lief for the strikers. Instead they announced in New Bedford that only those strikers who had been in the U. T. W. more than a year would get any relief. The Communist Party warned the textile workers from the start that all these moves of the officials had the object of selling out the strike. Not only did the Com- munist party issue these warnings through the Daily Worker, through leaflets, through mass meetings, but every Communist in the union did his utmost to organize the rank and file of the strikers to carry out themselves all these necessary measures for the winning of the strike that the officials were pre- venting. Communists Active That is why the Communist tex- tile workers, Sam Harzigian, in Lowell continually organized the strikers for mass picketing despite arrests and the threats of the offi- cials to beat him up and kick him out of the union. / That is why Walter Burke and the Communists in New Bedford fought for the election of a rank and file strike committee. That is why Walter Petras, the young Communist in Pawtucket organized and led the strikers in turning the funeral of the picket murdered by the troops into a splendid demonstration of strike solidarity, despite the opposi- tion of Sylvia, the U. T. W. organ- iver. That is why Ann Burlak, the Communist textile worker, whose name and presence was hailed by the strikers all over New England as the symbol of their own fighting spirit, warned the strikers in numerous meetings against Gor- man and against arbitration. Gorman knew perfectly well that the main obstacle he would meet in trying to sell the strike out would be the Communists. This is the reason for the furious attacks both by him and the mill owners against the Reds,—both before and during the strike. But the fact is that the strikers refused to take much stock in Mr. Gorman’s Red Scare which, by and large, fell pretty flat. Why then, didn’t the Communists succeed in preventing Gorman’s sell-out? The main reason is be- cause there were not enough Com- , Munists in the union. If in every local union there had been a dozen Members of the Communist Party, we would have been able to really convince the mass of the strikers not to have faith in Gorman and the Winant Board. We would have been able not only to point out the necessary steps to spread and win the strike, but to get them carried out; we would have been able to get rank and file strike committees elected which would have kept control of the strike in their own hands. The strike would have ended in victory and the textile workers would now be working with higher pay, shorter hours, less stretchout and union recognition. Struggle Continues Every textile worker knows that the struggle is not over. There will be struggles again to improve the miserable conditions in the mills, But we must prepare now to see that the next struggles will not also be sold out. The best guarantee against this is for the best fighters in the last strike to join the Com- munist Party. You strikers in Lowell, who re- jected the sell-out and stayed out | for two exira days—your place is in the Communist Party! New Bedford In fact strikers who did such a splendid job closing down the tire fabric mills and who were burning with indignation when Batty called off the strike—young fellows from Rhode Island, New Bedford and Lowell who descended on Lawrence in the’ flying squadrons that were disorganized and broken up by Cottell, the U.T.W. organizer— young fellows and girls in Sayles- ville who rushed right up to the muzzles of the guns in leading the picketing and fighting—you are the ones who should join the Com- munist Party and the Young Com- munist League! The Communist Party will teach you how to see through all the tricks of the millowners and the misleaders like Gorman, Sylvia and Batty. It will teach you how to really build your union in the mills, It will teach you how to act in the union meetings to convince and win over your fellow workers, to throw the misleaders out of the union, to really win improved conditions on the job. It will train you, so that the union will actually serve the interests of the rank and file. The Communist Party is able to do this, it is able to always rally the workers for the path of victory because it is a party of workers serving the interests only of the working class, because it follows the teachings of the two greatest lead- ers the working class ever had— Marx and Lenin—because its line is jbased on the experience of the workers all over the world, because it is not trying to patch up this miserable capitalist system at the expense of the workers, but instead is fighting not only for better con- ditions for the workers now, but also for abolishing capitalism and establishing a government of work- ers and farmers. Textile workers, join the Communist Party! | | CP. in Chicago Urges Unity on Spanish Issue Bids S, P. Join to Plan Immediate Actions of Solidarity | CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 19. — The | Chicago District of the Communist | Party has issued a call to the So- cialist Party of the district to join in a united front to support the Spanish working: class in its fight against fascist oppression. In a letter sent to the Socialist Executive Committee of the Chi- cago district, the Communist Dis- trict Organizer has made concrete Proposals as to how best to conduct this fight. The letter says in part: “Cook County Executive Committee “Socialist Party “Chicago, Ill. “Dear Comrades: “The Spanish working class is carrying on a_ heroic struggle against fascist reaction in Spain through a united front of Socialists, Communists and non-Party work- ers. It is offering blood and life to halt the fascist forces that are threatening the working class. “The Chicago District of the Communist Party, in line with the appeal issued by our Central Com- mittee to your National Executive Committee, calls upon the Cook County Executive Committee of the Socialist Party to unite with us in a joint call to the Chicago working class and all working class organi- zations for demonstrations, mass meetings under our joint auspices to express our solidarity and protest against the bloody pogrom of the fascist monarchist reaction in Spain. “We might suggest immediately that a committee of three, repre- senting the Cook County Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, should meet with a similar com- mittee of the Communist Party to work out a plan of action to in- volye the broadest possible united front in solidarity with the Spanish working class and against bloody ” «praternally yours, “District. Committee, Commu- nist Party District No. 8, “B. K. GEBERT, Dist. Org.” Only the Communist . Election Platform Proposes Real Unemploy- ment Insurance. Vote Communist against N.R.A. Attacks on Living Standards. Fight Against Bonuses for Rich Landlords and Starvation for Poor Farmers by Voting Communist. Irish Farmers| Land Annuities | 90 Face Military Court As Devalera Enforces Imperialist Edict DUBLIN, Oct. 19.—Impoverished farmers throughout East Cork, Waterford and Kilkenny counties have rebelled against the collection of the infamous Jand annuities for English landlords and the attempts of the deValera government to seize their land on the failure to pay the taxes, and have cut off railroad, telephone and telegraph communi- cation with cities and troops cen- ters. Ninety farmers, arrested and in prison, are to be tried before a mil- itary tribunal, the authorities over riding in a fascist manner the most elementary constitutional rights of the Irish workers and working farmers. These farmers, fighting under the ; leadership of the Land Annuitants’ Defense Organization and with the support of the Communist Party of Ireland, have been openly repudi- ated by the Opposition Party and William Cosgrave, fascist chieftain who, by demagogic stand of con- demning the “injustice” of the tax annuities upon the farmers while declaring that they must seek re- dress in a constitutional way, is proving to the Irish masses how well he supports the aims of the Irish landlord class and the British imperialists. Reeve Speaks In Troy Tonight To Teachers “Steps Toward Unity in the In- dustrial Struggle” will be the sub- | ject of @ forum called by the Rank | and File in the Teachers’ Union to | take place tonight, Oct. 20, at 8:30 p. m., at Greenwich House, 29 Bar- row Street, New York. Carl Reeve, | Associate Editor of the Daily | | Worker will speak, Mathew Besdine | will speak at this meeting on the subject of “Attaining United Action jin the Teachers’ Movement.” | In Troy, N. Y., tomorrow, Reeve | will speak on “The Strike Wave In | America,” at the Workers Educa- \tional Club of Troy forum. The meeting will be held at 100 Fifth | Ave., at 2 o'clock in the afternocn. |Longshoremen. Describe Work of LL.A. Heads with Bosses When I first started to work in 1925 as a longshoreman, it was such difficult work, that I couldn’t con- ceive of having the strength to finish a day’s work. But, however, we always manage. And I have been ever since. However then there were more jobs and the officials of the ILL.A. were making their racket with the grow- ing membership and the selling of the buttons. Of course, the officials of the ILA. are defending themselves from the microbes of the crisis, be- cause they know that they have starving people willing to sell them- selves at any price. The rank and file longshoremen groups are spreading in the East as it did on the West Coast, like the lava from a volcano. We feel that in a short time, the fakers and racketeers of the ILA will be thrown out and honest leaders will replace them. I will never forget in 1931 when my mother felt sick and went to consult the family doctor; when he sent her to see a gynecologist because he couldn’t treat that ill- ness. She went to see the specialist and he told her she needed an im- mediate operation. She had no money at that time and didn’t trust the charity hospitals. What could be done? My father died in 1923. I left the house in the morning to get a job, I was determined to find one at any cost, on the same day. But if I didn’t, I ran around to the bosses’ houses all day until a job was assured for the following day. Most of the bosses I went to see in their home told me, “You know, I feel sorry for what happened to your mother, but a certain percen- tage of each day’s wages must be paid back, otherwise I can’t take you.” Finally my mother saved a bit and went to see the specialist again. It was too late. After several months she died. But I am sure that she didn’t die a natural death. She was murdered technically by the | present system of society. There- | fore, I have joined the rank of the \ Communist Party in order to carry jon a relentless struggle against the capitalist murderers and for my own self-preservation. I am con- Workers Tell Why They Joined Communist Party © Brooklyn Edison Co. Employe Tells of His} Experiences at Plant In 1932, 3,200 workers were lai off in the Brooklyn Edison Co. This action on the part of the Edison empoyers started me thinking. We, who do all the work, who actually produce all the profit for the Edi- son Co., are at their mercy. We are continually faced with unemploy- ment. In 1933, with the inception of the N.R.A., some of the layed off men were taken back, but at the same time our salaries were cut by giv- ing us Saturday off. It was not the Edison employers who lost anything from their tremendous profits, it Was we who were paying for the re- turn of these men by a wage cut. In order to protect their profits, | they resort to wage-cuts. In 1934, the Edison Co. began their campaign for a company | union, just at the time thet the| ganization, began to win the favor of many workers, Here, in order to block the growth of a rank and file union which would fight for the workers’ rights, the company gave us a company union. I began to see that all these ac- tions taken by the Edison employ- ers are the same taken by all em- Ployers. That these actions are ac- tions used by the capitalist class against the working class. In 1934 I joined the Communist Party, because it is the only organ- ized group that teaches and ex- plains the reasons for unemploy- ment, wage-cuts, N.R.A., war and fascism. I joined the Communist Party because it not only teaches and explains, but actually leads the working class in their struggle for higher wages, for security of job, for the right to organize and strike, for unemployment and social in- surance. A Brooklyn Edison Worker. vinced that if the Communist Party, and its most influential organ, the Daily Worker, reach the broad strata of the rank and file long- shoremen, our present strike will record another victory for the thou- | line-up with criminals. Brotherhood, an independent or-| Detroit Police; Release Jailed C.P. Candidate Anderson Nominee for Governor, Was Held | Without Charges (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 19.—John Anderson, Communist candidate | for Governor, who was arrested Wednesday and held without charges, was released late yesterday afternoon. Anderson was picked up while driving his car, by detective Mazuliak and Mazuziak of the Red Squad, who specialize in the per- secution of militant workers. Ma- zuziak punched him in the face. The Communist nominee, who is an outstanding trade unionist and leader of the progressives in_ the Mechanics Educational Society of America, was finger-printed and/ photographed and placed in the Anderson | has been bringing the Communist program to large numbers of work- ers and haa been oondvtting a series of successful shop-gate meet- ings at the Fisher Body plant. It was in an effort to put a halt to these activities that the police ar- rested him. This morning two other militant workers, Frank Miller and Francis Walker, were also released. They were arrested Wednesday by the same two detectives when they went to the Lemay Welfare Station to get relief for an unemployed family, Nebraska Beet Field Workers Plan Strike SCOTTSBLUFF, Nebr., Oct. 19— Workers in the beet fields of the | North Platte Valley, near Scotts- bluff, are threatening to go out on strike unless the beet growers give them 20 cents of the $1.25 per ton subsidy that they receive from the A. A.A. The growers are afraid of a strike. At a recent meeting with workers’ representatives, J. B. Segar, secretary of the Growers Association offered the workers a compromise settlement, which would give the workers less than half of their original demands. This would mean less than a 10} sands of starving longshoremen in the United States. per cent increase in the starvation wages of the workers. More Misery for Masses | Is Provided for in Every Plank By I. AMTER Communist Candidate for Governor of New York (Continued from Page 1) the seven million boys and girls who, according to the U. 8. Com- missioner of Education, Dr. Zook, have left school and college and are without work. In the New York Times of Oct. 6, in an article by Newton D. Baker, we find the fol- lowing statement; —~ “Since 1929 some six million boys and girls of the U. 8. have left school and college. Of these hardly more than one-third have found work to do, and most of that for- tunate third are on short hours and short pay.” Fully 16,000,000 Jobless In addition, Green does not con- sider the hundreds of thousands of white collar workers of whom there are more than 150,000 in the City of New York alone, as well as the professionals of every category. For instance, 95 per cent of the archi- tects of the country are unemploy- ed; 85 per cent of the engineers and technicians, 80 per cent of the building workers, 50 per cent of the railroad workers who alone repre- sent a mass of one million men; 250,000 school teachers are without work and with the cutting down of the school budgets on the plea of “economy” have no prospect of get- ting work. Hundreds of thousands of small farmers have been ruined by the A.A.A. and the drought, and have been driven off the land, Therefore, we Communists de- clare there are fully sixteen million unemployed. Who are the most stricken suf- ferers of the crisis? The Negro peo- ple. In Harlem, the largest Negro center in the world, there ate 204,000 Negroes of whom 85 per cent are unemployed. There are thou- sands of Negroes who are getting no relief and as a consequence the disease and mortality rate in Har- lem is among the highest in the country. This applies to every Negro community, owing to the segregation, congestion, unsanitary homes, the doubling up and the fire trap conditions under which they have to live. The most cruel effects fall on the children. According to Frances Perkins, “25 per cent of the chil- dren of the U. S. are undernour- ished”—this is, hungry. Even New- ton D. Baker, in the above men- tioned article, states: “Surveys show that one-fifth of all pre-school children today are undernourished; that one-third of all children are physically or men- tally handicapped.” Two and a quarter million chil- dren in the U. S., particularly the Negro children in the South, are getting no education. Schools have closed down because of cuts in the educational budgets. Schools are overcrowded. Many of them are literally firetraps. Pens of thou- sands of teachers remain unem- ployed and $60,000,000 is owed to them in back wages, No one can forget the infamous instruction issued by the relief Bureau of New York City, namely, “that those nationalities which are used to lower standards of living shall get a lower standard of re- lief, This includes Negroes, Latin- Americans, and Italians.” ’ The Democratic platform talks about impartiality in relief, but even President Roosevelt has ad- mitted that relief is a political racket and that each political party is taking advantage of it. It is not only the Democratic Tammany Hall chieftans who recommend and obtain relief for their followers, but also LaGuardia, who has built La- Guardia clubs in N. Y. ©., which serve the same purpose, and are used to terrorize the masses and build up political machines, Democrats Lie If the Democratic platform and Lehman contend that “fear has been dispelled among the unem- ployed,” they are lying to the popu- lation. Facing the situation of the starv- ing children as we do, how hypocri- tical is the proclamation of Gov, Lehman, endorsed by Pres. Roose- velt, declaring October a “milk month.” It is not necessary to convince parents of hungry chil- dren that milk is a healthful pro- duct nor have they deprived their children of milk because they thought otherwise. Lehman and the Democratic plat- form talk of stimulating agriculture which is the most important indus- try of the State, by boosting the sale of milk. But it is a fact in the State of New York that the maxi- mum that a farmer receives for a quart of milk is 3% cents while a worker in New York City has to pay 13 cents for grade B and 16 cents for grade A milk. The big milk distributors, Borden, Sheffield, etc, and the National Dairy Prod- ucts Assoc., of which Lehman is a member of the Board of Directors, and a large stock holder, obtains the difference between what the farmer receives and what the work- er has to pay in the cities. Na- tional Dairy Products, during the whole period of the crisis, year after year, has increased its profits and the Wall Street banker, Lehman himself, is a big recipient of these profits. Greater Misery Than Ever The Democratic platform states “that the welfare of the wage earn- er has been advancd.” Yet Presi- dent Roosevelt's Commission of Economic Security has admitted that 25 per cent of the wage earn- ers are unemployed; and Richberg, head of the N. R. A., has informed Roosevelt that the poyroll of the U. S. has increased only 85 per cent, But the Department of Com- merce reports that in the same period the cost of food has mounted 30% per cent. This completely wipes out the increase in payrolls. There- tion, “Are you not better off than a year ago?” asked in his speech over the radio on June 28, is a de- cided “NO!” The masses of the U. S. are not better off but on the con- trary there is a greater destitution and misery than ever before. Fascism Develops Section 7-a of the N. R. A. code was hailed as a safeguard of the rights of the workers to organize into unions of their own choice. It has proved to be a mockery of the rights that workers have obtained through generations of struggle. Section 7-a instead of supporting these rights has been used as a means of establishing company unions in the U. 8. and when Mr, Sloan of the General Motors Cor- poration made his proposal for com- pany unions in the auto industry he was immediately supported by Will- iam Green, Instead of being “backed up” by Roosevelt, workers who have gone out on strike to enforce their rights to join unions of their own choosing have faced Police clubs, gangsters, strike-break- ers, tear gas, machine guns and the National Guard—and Roosevelt was ready to send the U. S. Army into Rhode Island and California, In addition there have been formed all Kinds of Fascist organizations like the Vigilantes, Silver Shirts, etc.,, made up of public officials and business elements to crush the struggles of the workers. The San Francisco strike, the Textile strike, the New York taxi drivers strike, the strike of the leather workers of Gloversville, with the murder and wounding of scores of workers, show that the “New Deal” is facilitating the development and establishment of Fascism in the United States. The best expression of the “New Deal” can be given in the follow- ing three figures: 1. Harry Hopkins reported that over a period of eighteen months, from Jan, 1, 1933 to June 1, 1934, the Federal, State and local goy- ernments combined appropriated $1,340,000,000 for relief for 4,000,- 000 families. Although this sounds like a huge sum, it means an aver- age family of $18.61 per mont Although relief is higher in some parts of the country, ow- ing to struggle led by the Com- munist Party and the Unem- ployment Councils, it drops to as low as four to five doliars a month in Alabama and Georgia, where there is a great mass of unem- ployed Negroes. It is only $19 a month in Seneca County, N. ¥. 2. The Government that talks “economy,” as far as the workers are concerned, slashed the wages of 800,000 federal employes; through the National Economy Act it\cut down the disability allow- ances of hundreds of thousands of vets and threw thousands of dis- abled vets out of the hospitals to die. This same government is ex- Pending close to $2,000,000,000 for war, 3. The same government has given to the banks, railroads, and one big corporations $8,300,000,- 'Amter Analyzes 7 Democrats’ Campaign Platform ny ese Against This Program the Communist Party Organizes Struggle duction, put the workers back to work and increase the buying power of the masses. Instead these bil- lions have been pumped out of the U. S. Treasury into the treasuries of these trusts so they could pay in- creased profits. Richberg reported to Roosevelt on the first anniversary of the “New Deal” that the profits of the big corporations under the “New Deal” increased up to six hun- dred per cent. This is the “New Deal” that we Communists challenge. Its aim was not to improve the conditions of the masses but to fix prices, increase profits, drive out all small com- petitors, concentrate power in the hands of the biggest Wall St. banks, establish company unions, introduce fascism and prepare for war. Democrats’ Proposals What does the Democratic plat- form propose in this situation? Firstly, unemployment relief, which is to be met by a bond issue of $40,000,000. Not only is this sum totally inadequate in view of the rising number of unemployed and the growing destitution of the masses, but the method of relief is also against the interest pf the workers. There is nothing mysteri- ous about bond issues. State bonds are bought by the bankers. In- terest must be paid every year and finally the bonds must be paid off. The State’s source of revenue, namely, taxation, rests upon the shoulders of the workers and farm- ers In addition, the Democratic plat- form proposes an “unemployment | insurance plan” as against the | Communist Party demands, and Lehman in his acceptance speech deplored the fact that he was not supported by the Republicans in this proposal. Both of them agreed, however, that the insurance | they propose must be paid for by forced contributions from workers. Neither the Byrne-Condon Bill nor the Steingut-Mastick Bill nor the bill recently endorsed by the N. ¥. State A. F. of L., will supply the more than 2,100,000 who are now unemployed with a penny of in- surance. In addition, hundreds of ‘thousands of domestic, agricultural and other workers will get no in- surance, nor will workers on strike. Workers now employed, if dis- charged in the future, will obtain a limited compensation per week for a limited number of weeks after a designated waiting period and then would have no claim upon the in- surance administration, Communist Demands As against this method of relief and insurance, as endorsed both by the Democratic and Republican parties, the Communist Party is demanding an appropriation for winter relief from the state of $200,000,000, the funds to be raised not by a bond issue, but by taxation of all incomes civer $5,000. In| The purpose of these subsidies, fore the answer to Roosevelt’s ques- We were told, was to increase pro- other words, at the expense of those | Page 5 MASS MOBILIZATION - DAYS FOR ELECTION Week-Ends of Oct. 27 and Nov. 4 Designated as Red Election Days for Broadest Activity of All Supporters of C .P. Program CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 19.—The Communist Party election campaign committee here has arranged for two Red Election week-ends for Oct. 2’ 7, 28 and Nov. 8 and 4. The committee called for a huge mobilization for these two days in a declaration which said \C.P. Campaign In Full Swing In Montana Candidates Commence State - wide Tours; More Meets Urged BUTTE, Mont., Oct. 19. — All workers living in Montana were urged to examine the following itinerary of the Montana Com- munist candidates for Senate and Congress, and arrange for meetings in their towns on the dates when | the candidates will be there: Raymond F, Gray (for U. S. Sen- ate) and George J. Salisbury (for U. S. Congress) will speak together in the following places: Oct. 23— Trout Creek; Oct. 24—Thompson Falls and Plains; Oct. 25—Missoula; Oct. 26—Hamilton; Oct. 27—Helena. Comrade Gray will speak alone in Red Lodge, Billings, Roundup and Livingston, between October | 29th and Nov. 2nd. Comrade Salisbury will speak alone in Bozeman, Whitehall and towns near Butte, between Oct. 28th and Nov. Ist. On Nov. 4th or 5th, the Com- munist Party will hold an election rally in Butte, with all candidates speaking, For further information, apply to the State Campaign Committee, 106 W. Granite Street, Butte, Mont. Montana comrades, help build a real revolutionary movement in Montana by arranging for meetings and bringing friends and comrades to hear your Party candidates speak. ‘¢ “In order to reach tens of thou- sands of new workers with the elec- tion program of the Communist Party, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 27 and 28 and the week following, Noy. 3 and 4 have heen set aside for a tremendous election mobiliza- tion. “The Communist Party calls upon each and every Party member, each and every mass organization, each and every sympathizer, to partici- pate in these Red Election Days, jand to help us raise finances for |the Election Campaign. “We ask you to send special lete | ters to each of the members of your jOrganizations calling on them to participate and assign a few com- trades to halls where stations will be set up.” |Six C. P. Candidates On Ballot In Gogebie County, In Michigan IRONWOOD, Mich., Oct. 18.— ; The Communist Party has filed the names of six candidates in Goge- jbic County. The candidates are Lauri Tankka, for County Clerk; Francis Koski for Drain Commis- sioner; Arnold Keskitalo for Regis- |ter of Deeds; Annie Kangas for |Sheriff; Wilfred Keskinen for |Treasurer; and Jack Rantala for Director of Mines. The campaign here is being con- }ducted on a broader and more energetic scale than ever before. |The largest available hall is being |used for campaign meetings. More jthan 300 workers recently heard |Morris Childs, Communist candi- jdate for Governor. Philip Raymond, Detroit auto workers’ leader and candidate for United States Senator will speak at the Ironwood Memorial Building on Monday night. who are therefore responsible for unemployment. The Communist Party is carry- ing on the fight for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, the only bill which will provide every worker in the State and in the country with Unemployment In- surance without discrimination for the full period of unemployment, at the expense solely of the employers and the government. This pill, which was Grafted by the Com- munist Patty, today has the sup- port of 2,400 local unions within the A. F. of L., fifty central labor unions, 5 state federations of labor 5 international unions affiliated to the A. F. of L., fraternal, veteran, farmers, Negro, youth and all kinds of unemployed organizations. In addition it has been endorsed by nearly 70 city councils including those of St. Louis, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Aberdeen, Canton, Tacoma, Buffalo, Allentown, and Bridgeport. This represents a mass movement of millions of people. The Democratic Platform has only one sentence regarding the Negro people, namely, Congress to enact the Wagner-Cos- tigan anti-lynching Bill.” Gover- nor Lehman and the Democratic | Platform have nothing to say about the segregation of the Negro peo-| ple, about the frame-up which re- cently took place in Niagara Falls, against the attempted legal lynch- ing of the Scottsboro boys. They support the enactment of the Wag- ner-Costigan Bill, which is an at- tempt of the white lynchers to pre- vent white and Negro workers from meeting in groups to prevent lynch- ing, and is merely a weapon in the hands of the lynchers against the Negro people. As against this the Commu- nist Party demands full political, economic and social equality for the Negro people. We and fight for the right of every Negro to any job at equal wages and equal relief. We demand an end to all segregation and prac- | tices which compel Negroes to live in segregated parts of citics which in all cases, because of the congestion, are the dirtiest sec- tions of the city and where they , have to pay highest rent. We demand the right of Negroes to live in any part of the city, to enter and be served in any restaurant and theatre. The Communists demand the right of self-determination for the Negro people in the Black Belt of the South, where they are the ma- jority of the population, This is the self-determinaticn slogan which Wilson used as a | trick to draw the smaller nations into the World War, and which is practised nowhere in the capitalist world. It is the demand that has led to the formation of conspira- torial groups among the oppressed Croatians and Macedonians in Jugoslavia who, in desperation, re- sort to such terroristic acts as the assassination of King Alexander. This slogan, however, is really put who are in contrel of industry and in practise only in the Soviet Union, “we urge | demand | and it was originated by the Bol- sheviks. In the Soviet Union, dozens of nationalities which were oppressed under the Czars, today live side by side in peace and har- mony, each developing its own cul- ture. For this the Communists stand and fight, A Platform of Struggle The Communist Party calls on the workers to organize in the shops, to fight for increased wages, for the right to organize into unions of their own choosing, for the right to strike and picket, for the aboli- tion of the use of injunctions, the | Police and the military in strikes. | Roosevelt's proposal of “industrial peace,” of an “industrial truce” means the giving up of the right to strike and the acceptance of the miserable wages and conditions in the shops. Bill Green accepted the proposal—but the Communists and the workers reject it. The Communist Party demands cancellation of all the debts rest- ing on the farmers and small home- owners, and the abolition of the |Home Owners Loan and the Farm- ers Loan Corporations, which are not providing protection for either | the small home owner or the small farmers. The Communist Party is mobiliz- ing the masses of the United States against war and fascism, for the fight against the capitalist system which is trying to save itself at the expense of the workers and farmers, for the fight against the “New Deal,” with its developing fascism. In doing so we are carry- ing out the great revolutionary traditions of 1776 as applied to 1934, The Declaration of Independence says: “When a long train of abuses and usurpations, invariably pursu- ing the same objects, evinces a de= | sire to reduce them (the people) | under absolute despotism, it is their | right, it is their duty, to throw off such a government and provide new safeguards for their security.” Today we face a growing despo- tism that denies millions of work- jers the right to work and makes them the wards of charity. Our rights are being trampled on, fas- cist organizations are growing, anti- Semitism and lynch terror are in- creasing. In 1934, following out the revolutionary traditions inhere ent in the Declaration of Inde- pendence, we Communists declare that the only way the workers will | be freed from hunger, war and fas- cism is by doing what the Russian workers and the workers in Soviet China have done, and what the workers in all other capitalist coun— tries are preparing to do—establish a revolutionary workers’ govern= ment. Under the leadership of the Communist Party, we must or- ganize to overthrow the system of hunger and war. Unity of all workers on the basis of the fight- ing program of the Communist Party is the burning issue in this struggle. Men and women of the working class, Vote Communist! Join the Communist Parity! _The Communist Party Election Platform Defends the Right to Organize, Strike and Picket