The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1934, Page 2

-~been. wary of lending money too ; Moré directly in line with the Wall Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MO Y, OCTOBER 22, 1934 CLEVELAND COMMUNISTS PLAN WHIRLWIND CAMPAIGN Browder to Speak At Final Meeting Election on Nov. Pledge to Double Party Rolls Bef’re November 4 Made by Members at Rally; Big Unemployed Demonstration Plan ned for Next Week CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 21—Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, will speak in Cleveland | 4av conducted simultaneous dem- on November 4, it was announced at a membership meeting of the Communist Party and invited sympathizers, held Wed- } nesday night at Prospect Auditorium, with 1,000 attending. | administration of relief John Williamson, district organ-* izer of the Communist Par the main report at the meeting. He} stressed the election campaign and| the recruiting drive of the Party. | “The election campaign should | be the unifying campaign for all| other campaigns of our Patty and} class struggle organizations,” he | said. “With proper work it greatly stimulate the growth of the Party and mass organizations.” He called on all Communists and sympathizers to intensify their work in ‘the election campaign, urging a} whirlwind finish up to Nov. 6, to} give the Communist Party the larg- | est Vote in Cleycland’s history. i} ty, made | can} On the recruiting drive he pointed | § out that the fluctuation in the Party | is still very great. Out of 1,200 mem- bers recruited by the district during | the Jast year, only 500 were retained. | To. ‘correct this, he called for an} overhauling of the life of the units, | making meetings more interesting for_new members educating them in thé" theory of Marxism-Leninism, and not overloading them with work. _ On a call for pledges that each Member present bring five workers | to the Party by Noy. 4, Williamson met with an enthusiastic response. ‘The meeting pledged to double the Party membership in the District by that date. Short informational reports were given by Ruth Bennett and Maude} White. Bennett, head of the} League against War and Fascism | announced a ‘Free Thaelmann’ dem- onstration to be held Tuesday, Oct. 16, in front of the German Consul- | ate at the Midland Bank building. | White called for a renewed in-| tensification of the campaign to} free the Scottsboro Bcys. John} Schmees presented a resolution calling for solidarity with the Hun- garian miners of Pecs which was! unanimously adopted. Frank Rogers, the chairman, | speaking for the secretary of the} Unemployed Councils announced a huge demonstration to be held Mon- | day, Oct. 29, 7 p.m., in front of the! City Hall for cash relief. Rogers announced that Browder | would speak Sunday, Noy. 4, at 2 p.m. at the Masonic Auditorium, East 35th and Euclid Avenue at a| great mass meeting, which would} be a combined celebration of the) 17th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and an election rally. The meeting will conclude with a parade. FDR. Step Shows Pact With | Bankers (Continued from Page 1) Anderson, of the Herald-Tribune writes: “.., Both the government and the banks have come to realize that as a matter of necessity they must both work together... the general impression in Wash- ington is that the government will make a distinct effort to placate the bank resentment .. . im a general effort to get to- gether...” Find Agreement The “fears” of the bankers have been merely in regard to certain sections of Roosevelt’s policy con- cerning inflation in bank credit as a measure toward reviving business. Roosevelt's advisers have been pur- suing a policy of attempting to for¢e a more liberal, inflationary stand in regard to bank loans to private business. The banks have freely in the present period, with .adt evidences pointing to deepening -erisis: In addition, some sections of Wall Street have been critical of the Treasury policy of loading the banks with Government bonds for which there is a declining market. But it is now apparent that Roose- velt and the banks have arrived at some formula by which Roose- yelt places the Government policies Street bank policies before. than ever .. Roosevelt Demagogy | ' What line Roosevelt will take in his speech to the bankers is not yet clear, but it is a certainty that whatever “criticism” he makes will be aimed at giving the impression that it is the Government which has won a “victory” over the bank- ers, rather than that it is the bankers who are increasing their control over the government. The enthusiastic statements of J. .P.. Morgan representatives on Roosevelt’s bank policy are a sure indication that as in industry the Wall Street monopolies are now in direct control of the N.R.A., so in finance the Morgan-Rockefeller banks are being given free rein by } mill owners of 25,000 Silk Dyers Roosevelt in financial policy. UMWA Loeal | Fighting For | Insurance EASTHAMPTON, Mass., Oct. 21.| —Local 1845 of the United Textile Workers, consisting of blac! ed strikers, voted unanimously to re- quest the local Congressman to. vote for the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598). | Last Thursday an Unemployment | Relief League, whose chairman and cretary are blacklisted strikers, was formed, and its program is a| militant struggle to obtain relief for all. It too unanimously endorsed | H.R. 7598. | The leaders of the local union| have agreed to prohibiting mass picketing and flying squadrons, with the consequence that only 212 of the 900 in the mill were pulled out on strike. Most’ of these have | been replaced by scabs, and now all of the 212 are on relief. The “investigations” on discriminations are dragging out, with no end in| sight, and will undoubtedly have the usual futile results. Meanwhile | the company has established a company union, threatening work- ers, it is reported, with a 10 per cent | wage cut, if they do not join the| company union, | HOLYOKE, Mass., Oct. 21—The Holyoke are now conducting a vicious drive against | the textile workers here as a reply to the 100 per cent response in the recent strike. At Skinners the second floor | stopped working, throwing weavers out of jobs. Workers on other floors who worked eight hours now work six. The union leaders have persuaded them to accept eight looms instead of six. Strike Thur: day (Continued from Page 1) pointing out how the officials have repeatedly postponed strike action, | and kept the dye workers at work | during the general strike. In its latest leaflet calling for strike prep- aration the Dye Workers Club calls for a strike on the 25th; that each | local elect a strike committee and prepare for action; that special shop meetings be called immedi- ately at which action and picket committees be elected. In order to insure complete effectiveness in tying up the industry, the club urges that a joint mass meeting of dye and silk workers be called, as the silk workers are likewise facing a strike situation. The club urges joint action and that the contract of both branches of the industry expire at the same time. In the appeal the workers are warned not to rely on Gorman to sanction the strike. Keller Fears Rank and File While there seems little likeli- hood that the dyers can be kept from striking, Eli Keller, Lovestone- ite and agent of the United Textile Workers officialdom in the union, is making desperate efforts to prevent | the workers from striking and thus | far has been successful in prevent- ing a membership meeting where definite action could be forced by the rank and file. It was only after the Rank and File Committee of twenty-five in the silk workers locals called a meeting on Saturday that the Joint Board finally an- nounced a meeting on Saturday, the 27th. Four hundred workers came to the mass meeting at Carpenters Hall called by the Committee of 26, and expressed a determination to force a democratic election of an Executive Board, and for a mem- bership meeting where the rank and file can decide for action in face of the present attack by the silk bosses. Keller sent several of his deputized agents into the meet- ing to try and disrupt it, but the workers soon threw them out. Not, however, until a fight, in which several chairs were broken, took place. Police were then called by the Lovestone led fakers. The work- ers refused to meet in the presence of the police, until finally the po- lice were forced to leave. The meeting decided to discon- tinue the Committee of 25, and in its place elected an emergency executive committee of 17, which will function until such time that the Keller and the U.T.W. offi- cialdom permit the election of an executive board through demo- cratic procedure. ; unemployed |Frankfeld and Egan are now sen- Jobless Mass At Pittsburgh Relief Offices Demons trations Held Throughout Entire State Friday PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 21—Un- employed workers Alleg County, together with those organ- ized into the Unemployment Coun- cils throughout the state, on Fri- of local unit seven de- with the funds for onstrations before each of relief station, raising mands in connection the unemployed. These seven demands were: (1) Increased relief and surplus food orders; (2) shoes and Winter cloth- ing; (3) 24-hour service on coal orders; (4) the withdrawal of the | (Continued from Page 1) tional. but observers assert that the manufacturers are apt to regard |this as a problem that merely needs the application of what is termed with a wink, “strenuous persuasion.” | On the morning of the appear- | ance of this article, a gang armed | with revolvers and iron pipes broke into the office of the Industrial Union, shouting for Ben Gold and Irving Potash who had refused of- |fers similar to the one m.de to} Langer. The workers defended themselves. Sixteen were wounded and two killed, one a gangster. According to Ben Gold, “A few minutes before the gangsters in- vaded the union office, an unusually well-dressed woman came up to the second floor of the building where the Fur Department is located and asked Jack Schneider, one of the organizers, for a working card for the firm of Fox and Weissman. | “The visit of this woman was not accidental but part of the planned cialist City Central Committee de- cision, “got funds somehow—our committee did not discover how— to carry on and to hire a firm of Tammany lawyers to get an injunc- tion, uncontested by the bosses, the first and principal provision of which was to prevent the bosses from hiring members of the left wing.” Basing their action on this in- junction, the Associated locked out the workers from the shops and ordered them not to return to work without books and working cards from the Joint Council. Addressing a meeting of manufacturers, Dud- ley Field Malone who had secured the injunction, promised to drive the workers into the Joint Council and “exterminate the Communists” by the aid of the police with whom he had influence. The ring was complete. Every card was stacked against the work- ers. What happened is history. The Industriel called a strike and the workers responded. Morris Langer and Harry Gottfried are dead and milk prescription orders; (5) re- | attack. It has never been the prac-| their murderers go free. But the lease of Frankfeld and Egan; (6) | tice for any furrier to ask for a/| Joint Council has been smashed passage of the Worke! ment Insurance Bill; (7) abandon- ment of the P.R.O. vem by which relief officials seek to avoid the complaints of the unemployed workers. The P.R.O—Public Relations Office—is the State Emergency Relief Board’s attempt to escape | the ordeal of listening to delega- tions of unemployed workers bring- ing to their attention the some- times criminal neglect of relief authorities and demand instantane- ous action for remedying such cases, According to the statement of Dr. B. J. Hovde, whom the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh “released” so that he could devote his full time to “liberalizing” the methods of relief administration in Allegheny County—“the P.R.O. must be so organized and so equipped with authority that it can speed up action on complaints the PR.O. must relieve the units and the central office. of the duty of regularly interviewing committees.” The P.R.O. buffer-office could grant only “emergency relief orders covering the length of time it ‘nor- mally’ takes. . client cannot immediately such regular arrangements.” Hovde told the unemployed work- ers of the county that “they would not lose any of their present priv- ileges” in regard to the hearing of complaints and the dispensing of relief, but he now proposes that the make 109 | Public Relations Board be set up so | as to deprive the organized unem- Ployed of all the privileges which they have gained to date after many hard battles, both before re- lief boards and against police ter- ror, (For example, the struggles of Workers for which tenced to long prison terms.) Southern Pre Party and Y.GL: Set Task of Recruiting 1,000 Members By NAT ROSS The recruiting drive initiated by the Central Committee, is of special importance for the Communist Party in Alabama. That the situa- tion in Alabama is favorable for building a mass Party is admitted even by the capitalist press. The Birmingham Post, in a recent edi- torial, states: “Birmingham, recognized as the most vulnerable spot in the South, has been selected by the Commu- nist movement as its Southern headquarters. .. . Widespread un- employment and our large Negro population make this field ripe for the harvest.” The Birmingham Age-Herald, in an editorial commenting on the textile strike sell-out, declares: “What is to be borne in mind is that in view of realities the rank and file of workers may conclude that they have profited little from joining the union . . . at least under A. F. of L. auspices. Under pressure operatives may take into their heads that they would be better off if they were to line up with more radical or- ganizations, . . . It would not take much in some textile centers to drive labor into the eager em- brace of Communism.” Lessons of Recent Strikes These fears of the Southern capitalists are in most cases well founded. I think it is no exaggera- tion to say that the working class in Alabama has learned more about its own interests in the past few years than in the entire half cen- tury following reconstruction. The strikes in Alabama since the begin- ning of the year, in which the Com- munist Party played an active role, involving more than 75,000 workers, in coal and ore mining, in ste textile, etc., have taught the work- ers lessons of the greatest im- portance. Large numbers of union men will tell you that now they realize that their own big officials are lined up with the capitalists against the rank and file. They will tell you that now they under- stand the role of the government, the meaning of Roosevelt's New Deal, and all its arbitration schemes and sellouts. Union men will tell you that for the first time in their lives they can see the need for soli- darity and unity of the working class, above all, unity of white and . in cases where the | Union when they received jobs. Such procedure is only followed in |the ‘Socialist?’ union, the Joint | Council, where the working card | system has been installed, in order to force the workers to. belong to their union. “The shop of Fox and Weissman, for which the woman requested a |} working card, happens to be one of |the few shops controlled by the | Joint Council and not the Indus- | trial Union.” | In the course of the month fol- lowing this raid, the same Joint Council, in the words of Norman | Thomas who was forced to person- ally disavow them despite the So-| ship drive. ‘Ss Unemploy- | working card from the Industrial| anq the workers in the ranks of | the Industrial Union are in control of the field. The filthy underworld | wave has broken around and tem- | porarily receded from their organi- | zation. But Lepke and Garrah are still lin the fleld, too, with their gun- | men and their high pressure strike- | breaking squadrons. They still own |a dozen other rackets connected with labor. Last week four men drove up to a group of taxi drivers of the Ritz-Carlton line and threat- ened them with death if they didn’t join the Taxi Chauffeurs Union, newly armed with a federal A. F. of | L. charter and making a member- Weinstock To Speak On A.F.L. Convention In Chicago Today CHICAGO, Oct. 21—The rank and file of the Chicago Federation of Labor are anticipating with great eagerness the mass meeting being arranged by the Chicago A. F. of L, Trade Union Committee for Un- jemployment Insurance and Relief, where Louis Weinstock, National Secretary, will speak on the 54th Convention of the A. F. of L. that was held in San Francisco recently. Such expressions as, “This is what we have been waiting for,” are heard when approaching these workers to come to the meeting. The mass meeting will take place Monday, October 22, 8 p. m. at the People’s Auditorium, 2457 W. Chi- cago: Avenue. Admission free. Everybody invited. Weinstock will also discuss the |preparations for the coming Rank and File Conference of the A. F. of L. which will be held in Pitts- burgh on October 27 and 28. ® U.S. S. R. Dooms A Spy to Be Shot (Continued from Page 1) CRS tion of military detachments, land- ing fields, airdromes, fuel stores, etc. A Czechoslovakian citizen, Kad- letz, who had been asked by Fuchs to make sketches of Leningrad marking electric stations, gas plants, and water-supply stations as pos- Sible objects of air attack in case of war, instead of carrying out this scheme, informed the Soviet au- thorities. For espionage in Murmansk Kot- Sasser recruited three employees in the office where he worked, Soviet citizens, Greenfeld, Petrovsky and Golubchikov. With the arrest of Fuchs, Kot- Gasser and Bortsikovsky, a large Negro workers in common struggle. |; Such have heen a few of the les- sons the Alabama workers learned from their own experience in the recent strikes. It is necessary to add a word about the great na- | tional textile strike. | The Southern workers will tell you that there used to be a time when the workers above the Mason- Dixon line would join unions and of the Mason-Dixon line the work- ers would be striking, and south of the line workers would be strike- breaking. But the textile strike showed that that day is over. The textile strike also showed what | wonderful fighters and union men | the Southern white workers are. It showed how Negro workers and croppers strained every effort to |help the textile strikers. And | above all it pointed out that it is |the duty of the Southern white | workers to stand in the very front lines in the fight for equal rights for the Negro masses, without which there can be no single step forward in the Southern labor movement. The Drive Against Labor Unions In Alabama today we find that production in steel, coal, iron and textile is at a low point. In this situation the most crucial single factor in the labor movement is the determined drive of the big capitalists, headed by the steel cor- porations, to smash the unions, and to replace them by the | company union. The frenzied at- tack on the labor unions is all the more sharp as the big corporations see the rank and file moving against | their own labor bureaucrats. The | drive to smash the labor unions can clearly be seen by the actions of the Republic Steel Corporation against the workers in Raimund Ore Mine. |In order to get a job in the mine | the worker must turn in his union book and sign up with the company union. If he refuses to do this he is evicted from the company shack. At the same time he will get no relief from the welfare board, whereas formerly the worker out of a job got relief either from the steel corporation, or from the welfare board. Not only that, but the lives of the Negro union men are ac- tually threatened unless they Jeave the smelters’ union. Furthermore, the fact that the union fakers are actually helping the big corpora- tions is seen by the recent rail- roaded expulsions from the union of John M. Davis, Communist can- didate for Governor in the coming those below wouldn’t—when north | labor | ) elections and outstanding leader of |the rank and file. That the drive against the labor unions is part of the whole plan to widen the N. R. A. wage differential while prices fly ‘upward daily, and at the same time to cut the relief to unheard of low levels as Winter approaches, is be- coming clearer every day to the | bitterly oppressed and angry work- ers of Alabama, Bankhead Bill Means Slavery In the agrarian Black Belt, the Roosevelt New Deal leaves its dead- jliest traces. Twenty-six thousand farm families have just been cut | off the relief in Alabama. Hitting the nail on the head, one white farmer in a letter to the Birming- | ham Post says that before the Civil War there was Negro slavery, but |now with the Bankhead Bill there is Negro and white slavery. Just \recently Senator Russell of Georgia | said: “‘The Bankhead Bill will cause fmore distress to small farmers of | Georgia than anything since Sher- man’s march to the sea.” The activities of the Share Crop- | pers’ Union, especially the small | but historic cotton picking strike, | has so frightened the landlords and |the Washington authorities, that |the referendum on ihe Bankhead | Bill for 1935 has been postponed in order to study what to do about Negro and white croppers, tenants and small farmers participating in the referendum. In this connec- tion Seth Storrs, Commissioner of Agriculture in Alabama, recently declared that to allow tenants and | croppers to vote will mean that the Negroes will be the determining force in planning the economic fu- ture of the South.” And of course the landlords and the Washington authorities cannot allow such a thing. Part and parcel of the drive to lower the standards of living of the Southern masses is the increasing drive toward fascism. This is par- ticularly true of Birmingham, where the U. S, army admits that a million and a half shells a month is a con- servative estimate of the capacity of Birmingham factories. Only re- cently the City Commission passed an ordinance making it a crime to possess more than one piéce of Communist literature. Communist literature sent via express is con~ fiscated by the police. The all around attack on the Scottsboro boys is part of the whole terror drive, directed mainly against the | Negroes, and also against the work- ers as a whole. Trying to bring its stinking and bloody corpse out of ‘Lepke’ and ‘Garrah’ Control Election Fight Union Rackets in New York Shows Bosses Control City “A moskeag Mill Owners Have Last Word,” Say t Manchester Officials MANCHESTER, N. H., Oct. 21.— How important capitalist interests dictate the policies of “democratic” government agencies was graph- ically illustrated here when the local section of the Communist Party sent a delegation to city authorities to demand an explanation for their refusal to grant a permit for an election rally in Victory Park. One of the large Amoskeag Mills is lo- cated here. The delegation was led by Elba Chase, Communist candidate for Governor; Forrest Crawford, nom- inee for Congressman in the first District, and Homer Chase, son of the gubernatorial candidate. With unprecedented frankness, officials of the Park Department declared that they would not give a permit to the Communists despite the fact that permits had been granted to Socialist candidates. This, it was explained by Mr. Livingstone, Park Department offi- cial, was because the city author- ities considred the Socialists “per- fectly harmless.” : A permit was offered if a prom- ise were given to use only local speakers who would pledge them- selves not to criticize the New Deal or to mention the recent textile strike which affected the major in- dustry of this town, “The Communists are liable to be the match that will set off the Manchester powder = keg,” Mr. Livingstone told the delegation. On the insistence of the delega- tion Mr. Livingstone finally offered a permit for a Wednesday after- noon on the grounds that the work- ers in the Amoskeag mill are at their machines then and would not be exposed to Communist prop- aganda. When this stupid offer was rejected, Mr. Livingstone pleaded impotence in the matter on the grounds that after all, “the Amos- keag mill people have the final word in the matter,” Following the interview the Com- munist Party announced its inten- tion of going through with the demonstration despite the refusal of a permit. quantity of espionage material was found. The court..sentenced Fuchs to eight years imprisonment, Kotgas- ser to six years, Bortsikovysky as a traitor to the Socialist Fatherland, to die by shooting, and Petrovsky, Greenfeld and Golubchikoy to ten years imprisonment each, ss Admits Situation Favors C. P. Plan To lecsines Sale of Daily Worker in Alabama the grave, the K. K. K. at its Ala- bama convention, just. held, de- clared: “The klan will either run Communism out of the country or will itself be run out.” In his letter to the American workers, Lenin says: “The more obduracy and bestiality it (the bourgeoisie) displays, the nearer comes the day of the victorious proletarian revolution.” Such, one might say, is the situation in Ala- bama today. Despite the terror and brutality unleashed by the ruling class, the Party is becoming in- Creasingly active. It is reaching into the big industries and among the trade unionists. It is struggling to achieve a united front, despite the refusal of the Socialist Party to answer our recent United Front, offer. During the present election campaign, in which the Party has been able to place Negro and white candidates on the ballot, we are in- tensifying our struggle against the Social and national reformists. We are striving to come out openly be- fore the masses as the only Party that represents their interests and leads their struggles. Toward a Mass Party It is in this situation that the District Buro correctly set itself the job of bringing 750 new members into the Party between Oct. 1 and Jan, 1, and 250 into the ¥.C.L. A large portion of these new recruits are to come from the s:eel and tex- tile mills and the mines. Three hundred of these new members are to be from the trade unions, at the same time as we strike to make every eligible Party member join a union. Two hundred of these are to be women, One of the main features of the drive is to bring no less than 100 white workers into the Party. At the same time the District Buro Proposes to increase the sale of the Daily Worker and Southern Worker in the District by 500 and 1,000, respectively. In this drive District 17 is challenging our brother District 19 in the West, and we feel that the Party in District 17 will with greater determination and courage, and with deeper devo- tion to the cause of Negro libera- tion and the proletarian revolution, be able to quickly start on the road to building a mass Party in Ala- bama, | Drive for ‘Daily’ Goes Over the Top l In Philadelphia District Proposes to Raise: au Additional P$1,000—Secured $3,500 in Eight Weeks, One Month Less Than Time Set We have succeeded in fulfilling our $ ,500 quota for the Daily Worker drive. It took us about eight weeks to do this, We now propose to raise another $1,00 as an additional quota, The $60,000 Daily Worker rive was considered in Phila- delphia an important political Wari ces Ask C. P. Nominees To Come Back Los Angeles Campaign Rally Wins Support for Pettis Perry LOS ANGELES, Oc%. 21.—In response to the enthusiastic sup- port offered by workers in the neighborhood of 49th Place and Central Avenue to a recent election rally of the Communist Party, another rally will be held at the same point on Noy. 5. More than 300 workers, includ- ing 100 Negroes, attended the open air meeting which was held pre- liminary to a larger rally sched- uled on the following evening for Pettis Perry and Archie Brown at the Walker Auditorium, Police had denied a permit for the use of amplifying apparatus at the meeting and hung about the outskirts seeking a pretext for dis- persing it, but failed because of the militant response of the crowd Speakers were Pettis Perry, Com- munist Party candidate for Lieu- tenant-Governor; Lawrence Ross, candidate for Congressman 14th District; Lolli Dobbs, Young Com- munist League leader; Archie Brown, candidate for State Treas- urer, 3,000 March For Scottshoro Boys (Continued from Page 1) bail, pending appeal against an 18 to 20 year sentence on the chain gang. He called on the workers to intensify their fight for the Scotts- boro boys, and to crush all forces seeking to disrupt that fight. Anna Damon called for a deter- mined fight to prevent the murder of Patterson and Norris on Dec. 7 and to save Angelo Herndon from the chain gang. Haywood Exposes Misleaders Harry Haywood briefly outlined the history of the Scottshoro case, the death sentences against eight of the boys at the original Scotts- boro “trial,” the entrance into the case of the L.L.D., the confirming of the lynch sentences by the Ala- bama Supreme Court, the reversal of the sentences by the U. S. Supreme Court, under pressure of the angry masses, white and Negro, the re-trials at Decatur, Ala., where new death sentences were imposed on Patterson and Norris; the recent decision of the Alabama Supreme Court confirming those sentences and setting Dec. 7 as the date of execution for the two boys, and the filing of appeals by the LL.D. at- torneys with the U. S. Supreme Court. “It is precisely this critical moment, when unity of all forces is so essential, that Leibowitz, Kid Davis and a group of Harlem min- isters have chosen to attack the do- fense,” he pointed out, calling on the workers, Negro and white, to defeat this latest attempt to sabo- tage the defense. Workers Defend Speaker Against Provocateur He told of the boys and their parents signing affidavits repudiat- ing Leibowitz and expressing their faith in the IL.D., of the attempt by Leibowitz’s body guard, Terry, to have Davis run out of Montgo- mery, of the trickery and coercion used against the boys in the effort to drive a wedge between them and the organization that has kept them alive for the past three anda half years. Shouts of “That's right! That’s true! and muttered impreca- tions against Davis, Leibowitz and company roused from the crowd as Haywood smashed home his expo- sure of them, and when a drunk, evidently acting under instructions, attempted to attack Haywood, the workers immediately rallied to his defense and drove the drunk away. Ruby Bates, frail and weak from her recent illness, but in deadly earnest in her determination to “undo the wrong I did the boys when I was forced to lie against them,” told the sordid story of the frame-up of the lads. ~ Other speakers were William Fitz- gerald, Pedro Uffre, who called on the workers to force the Scottsboro issue into Congress by electing a Communist to that body, Merrill C. Work, Communist candidate in the 2ist A. D., and Mike Walsh, chair- man, and Griffith, of the Brooklyn IL.D., who later relieved him. The meeting decided to hold another demonstration on Saturday, Novem- event. The preparations for ¢the drive to solve the financial problems of the ‘Daily,’ as well as the drive itself, were viewed. by the Party and the mass organizations around the Party as an integral part of our daily struggles against the Roosevelt program of hunger and war. We look upon the Daily Worker as one of our sharpest in- struments in fighting against . the attacks of the eimployers, and the task of ensuring its existence is part and parcel of our daily strug- gles. The securing of our quota of $3,500 within eight weeks (one month less than the time set for the drive) and the unanimous vote to. raise $1,000, proves conclusively that the Philadelphia workers: appreciate the Daily Worker and understand - the role of the ‘Daily’ in the building of a mass Communist Party and the strengthening of our daily strug- gles. Policy of Concentration The success of the drive was made possible only by: 1, The carrying through of a policy of concentration in the Party » District and by making this drive | an integral part of the daily ace tivities of the Party and the mass organizations, 2. In this drive we made every possible effort to create a mass base for the drive. We do not have the exact figures, but we can. safely state that thousands of workers contributed. 3. The drive involved. the whole Party, the Party committees and the leading bodies of the mass.or- ganizations. We can safely state that beginning with the District Bureau down to every Party unit, to every mass organization, this drive became the task of every lead- ing comrade who was personally made responsible for the carrying through of the quota of the orsani- zation. ‘ 4. The drive was organized and divided in the following periods: Mass Picnic at the openiny of the drive which brought in $250. Banquet of Shock Brigaders which brought in $900. Fifteenth Party Anniversary, $900, and finally, this Friday's. affair, which brought in $1.000. The rest of the money was raised by sections cut of town or through individuals who sent the money direct to the office. At these affairs the total atten- dance was around 6,000 workers and these affairs helped to popularize and create the necessary enthusiasm for the drive while politically ex- plaining the role of the Daily Worker. 5. No organization contributed to the Daily Worker from their treas- uries. All money was raised through individual work of the members or through collective work, through arranging of parties, affairs, mass meetings, etc. where the Daily Worker was brought forward polit- ically. There is not a single Party unit or mars organization around the Party in the city of Philadelphia which did not arrange one or two affairs or meetings for the Daily Worker Drive. This is the key to the success of the drive, which has Proven to us and will prove to the whole Party that by mass approach and placing the Daily Worker as a part of the daily tasks of our move- ment, the workers will readily sup- port their mest important press weapon. Enumerate Weaknesses . While enumerating these achieve- ments we must also state definite weaknesses in this drive. The weak- nesses were: important sections of our district did. not yet realize the political importance of this drive (Reading, Anthracite, Lancaster and partially Baltimore). Secondly, while the campaign was brought to the opposition groups of the different trade unions, in very few cases were efforts made to raise the question of support of the Daily Worker officially in the local unions of the A. F. of L. Thirdly, there was: an insufficient linking up of this financial drive with the increasine of the circulas tion of the Daily Worker. - The District Bureau of the Party, realizing these weaknesses and es- pecially realizing the importance. of the Daily Worker, in view of the attack on the conditions .of the workers and the growing fascist ten- dencies in the U. S., pledges itself to continue the drive for an-in- creased circulation, with the same tempo, to overcome the existing weaknesses in the drive, and to turn the enthusiasm developed curing the course of the drive to strengthen the work, to build our Party and above all to activize all those who generously donated for the Daily Worker, to bring the Daily Worker to thousands of workers, who must read it. 3 Signed: District Buro of the C.P. 3, A. W. Mills. for District Baro S. Miller, Daily Worker Rep, | ber 3. Textile Workers, A Communist Vote Is A Vote Against Gorman’s Treacherous Strike Sellout Fg t }