The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1934, Page 3

RNR Ire = DAILY WORKER W YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1934 Page 3 20 YEARS IN LABOR BATTLES IS RECORD OF OHIO C.P. CANDIDATE Sandberg Was F irst Communist Leader In Regina, Canada Led Cincinnati-Columbus Division of Ohio Hunger March in 1931—State Secretary of I. L. D.—Ran on C. P. Ticket Before CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 23—The Communist candi- date for the United States Senate from Ohio, W. C. Sandberg, is a skilled worker of the best proletarian type. He has proved his loyalty to the cause of the working class by twenty years of heroic struggle. Like most leaders of the workers’ struggles, he has not es-@——————— FOR U. S. caped unpunished by the ruling class; Sandberg spent four years in Leavenworth Prison as a result of his anti-war activities. Sandberg started out as a ma- chinist by trade, working in Minne- | apolis, Minn. At the age of twenty | he joined the I.W.W., and was the I.W.W. organizer for St. Paul and| Minneapolis —the Twin Cities —in | 1915 and 1916. In 1917, as a member | of the Machinists’ Union he took part in a strike against the Min- neapolis Steel and Machinery Co. The strike was lost and Sandberg was blacklisted as a machinist. Learned Steamfitter’s Trade After that, Sandberg learned the trade of steamfitting, and has worked as a steamfitter at various times since then. In order to have more than one string to his bow, he made a study of X-Ray machines in his spare time, and for three years worked as installation man and trouble shooter for a national con- cern, under another name. a Meanwhile his labor activities continued. He was a delegate from the Left Wing group to the Minne- sota State Convention of the A. F. of L. in 1917, after the U. S. gov- ernment had entered the war. At) this convention, although Sandberg | ~~ was just a youth he’ showed. his | cme an ue adtooe reat Colorado LL.D. ToConcentrate. On Scottsboro posing Gompers’ War Resolution, | which pledged the unions against | | SENATE Communist candidate for U. S. Senator from W. C. Sandberg, Ohio. A record of his working- class activities appears elsewhere | on this page. | strike action during the war. Arrested Under Espionage Act The. workers were not only to be | sacrificed on the field of battle in | their employers’ interest; they were | also to give up the fight for decent | wages and living conditions at) home in the factories. As a result | of this speech, Sandberg was ar-| rested and charged with seditious | utterances under the war-time | ionage Act. No delegates to the anges would testify against| DENVER, Colo. Oct. 23,—The him, however,-so the charge was | fight for unity in the stx1ggle for dropped. the lives and freedom of the Scotts- State Parley To Stress Fight for Unity To | Save Nine Boys |High handed rulings and bureau- |the uninvited delegates, S. P. Lpailede: | Comsiniiaitat Bar Militants | From Parley Refuse To Unite With Communists Against War and Fascism By HAROLD J. ASHE | (Communist Candidate for Secretary of State) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 23.— and improved living standards, cism; against deportations and cratic conduct characterized the re- cent conference against war and fascism here dominated by the of- ficialdom of the Central Labor Council. The chairman of the conference ruled all discussion of the compo- sition of the conference off the floor in an effort to bar delegates from fhe Communist Party, the Young Communist League, the Icor, the International Labor Defense and the American League Against War and Fascism, on the grounds that they had not received official in- vitations. The chairman explaied quite, jbaldly that the delegates were ex-| | pected to confine their activities to |the distribution of handbills, the {selling of tickets and such other) tasks as might be assigned to them. | William W. Busick, Socialist or- | ganizer of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, who was secretary of the conference, ex- plained that the Central Labor ance Bill (H. R. 7598). out restriction by the governmen: 5.—Against Jim-Crowism and Bill of Rights, (bonus), increased taxation on the rich. 6.—For the immediate payment of the Party Lists Following are the eight demands on which the National Congres- sional Election platform of the Communist Party is based: 1.—Against Roosevelt’s “New Deal” attacks on the living stand- ards of the toilers, against rising living costs resuiting from monopoly and inflation, for higher wages, shorter hours, a shorter work-week, 2.—Against capitalist terror and the growing trend toward fas- oppression of the foreign-born; aganist compulsory arbitration and company unions; against the use of troops in strikes; for the workers’ right to join unions of their own choice, to strike, to picket, to demonstrate without restrictions; for the maintenance of all the civil and political rights of the masses. 3.—For unemployment and social insurance at the expense of the employers and the state; for the Workers Unemployment Insur- 4.—For the repeal of the, Agricultural Adjustment Act; for emer- gency relief to the impoverished and drought-stricken farmers with- t or banks; exemption of impov- erished farmers from taxation; cancellation of the debts of poor farmers; for the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill. lynching; for equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt; for the Negro veterans’, hack wages 7.—Against the sales tax; no taxes on persons, or their property, earning less than $3,000 per year; steeply graduated and greatly 8.—Against Roosevelt’s war preparedness program; against im- perialist war; for the defense of the Soviet Union and Soviet China. Council Executive Committee had passed on the list of delegates and that the conference had no author- ity to enlarge itself. Denied Delegates Seats The chairman parroted this ex- Letters Score Police Arrest Of Anderson | Participating orgdnizations, be- Demand C. P. Candidate sides A. F. of L. unions, included | Ne ae the Socialist Party, Young Peoples | In Michigan Be Given Freedom | planation. Busick then started mak- ing a report on plans for the mass meeting, and the chairman stead- fastly ignored the motion to seat| Socialist League and the Workmen's | Circle, Among the speakers for the mass meeting planned are Wm.) Green, president of the eran DETROIT Mich., Oct. 23.—Let- Federation of Labor. Buzzell, hea i of the Central Labor Council is| ‘TS Of protest against the arrest of scheduled to be chairman of the | John Anderson, Communist candi- mass meeting. Both Green and/ date for Governor following a Buzzell have been attacked repeat-| speech ry workers in Fisher Body mas, Rie nae! eon ew Shes Plant Number 23, have been sent staunchest. supporter. Upton sania was Abe arson Communist Party to Mayor Frank speaker, but declined. Evidently the | Socialist Party seeks a united front | Couzens and Secretary of Labor with the Epic movement, for a ma- | Frances Perkins. jority of seated delegates are mem-| ‘The text of the letter to Mayor bers of the S. P., whether they | Couzens said: | by the District Committee of the | But this did not end for him the fierce war-time persecution of the champions of the working class. He continued. to oppose the war, and refused to register for the draft. He was forcibly inducted into the army, but refused to wear a uniform, whereupon he was subjected to a General Court Martial and sen- tenced to twenty years in prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. His jail term in.that grim institution was not ended until 1921, when Presi- dent - Wilson issued his Christmas | Amnesty Proclamation as a result of mass. pressure all over the boro. boys, and. against the forces seeking to disrupt that struggle, will be the central point on the agenda of the Colorado State Con- ference of the International Labor Defense, to be held in Denver on Sunday, Oct. 28, at the Labor Ly- ceum, 1545 Julian St., beginning at 10 a.m. and continuing through- out the day. Delegates from trade union locals, as well as from affiliated and sym- | conference. country. After release from jail, Sandberg,, instead of being squelched, re- entered. the revolutionary move- in this city have voted to send | delegates. The conference will be the climax | ment. with fresh fervor. He became the first Communist Party organ- izer in Regina, Canada, and helped form the Workers’ Party there. He was the leader of the Cincinnati- Columbus division of the Ohio Hun- ger March in 1931, and also the Ohio Division of the National Hun- ger March of that year. He has been. Communist candidate for councilman and for State repre- sentative in previous elections. At the present time he is the Ohio Secretary of the International La- bor Defense. Sandberg lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three children— & six-year-old son, Glendon, and 34-month-old twins, a boy, Carl, and a girl, Frel. W. C. Sandberg has proved his strength and leadership. Ohio work- ers can be sure that a vote for Sandberg is a vote for a real fighter in the interests of the working class. Ohio Onion Strikers Fight Meagre Relief TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. 23.—Strik- ing onion workers in Hardin Coun- ty, receiving only two cents a meal allowance from the State Relief Ad- ministration, have begun to organ- ize a county-wide movement to de- mand more relief. Governor White has been asked to order a grand jury investigation of .the terror in the strike area. County officials, gee door are co-operating ie growers in oppressing the strikers, who have been out since June against slave conditions, “AFFAIRS FOR THE of the Scottsboro-Thaelmann week in Denver, which began Oct. 21 with the canvassing of churches in the Negro section of the city by | committees from the I.L.D, wearing “Save the Scottsboro Boys!” and | “Free Thaelmann” badges. The conference will formulate plans for the organization of a broad united front of workers’ or- ganizations and workers and sym- | pathizers for general working class defense against the rising fascist offensive, for the defense and liber- ation of the Scottsboro boys, Ernst | Thaelmann and other anti-fascist prisoners in Germany, and the three Brighton boys. It will seek to set up a local committee for the | Protection of Foreign Born. The conference will be followed by a concert and dance the same evening at Eagles Hall, 1031 Fif- teenth Street. It will be preceded by a mass Scottsboro protest rally this Friday evening at the Macedonia Baptist Church, 26th and Clarkson Streets. One hour before the rally, four! street corner meetings will be held in the Five-Points neighborhood by the Scottsboro Branch of the I.L.D., the Communist Party Election Cam- paign Committee, the Relief Work- ers Protective Union, and the Un- employment Council. From these open-air meetings, the workers will mrach with their signs and banners to the Macedonia Church. List of Endorsements of Workers’ Bill Sought NEW YORK.—The Arrangements Committee of the National Con- gress for Unemployment and Social Insurance, which will be held in DAILY WORKER > washington'D-C., on Jan, 3.6 and == 7, has asked that all endorsements Boston of the Workers Unemployment and james Casey, managing editor of the Dally Worker, speaks at Dudley St. Opera House, 113 Dudley St., Oct. 27,/ 8PM. Los Angeles, Cal. Annual Workers’ Press Concert, Sxn- day, Nov. 4 at Mason Theatre, 127 8 Broadway. Concert Program. Promi- nent speakers. Philadelphia, Pa. Social and Entertainment, Saturday, Oct. 27, at 305 ith St.. 8:30 p.m. Music, Dancing, Recitations, Refresh- Social Insurance Bill sent to its of- fice, Room 437, 80 East Eleventh Street. A compilation of the endorse- ments made in the past is being prepared for publication in a maga- zine to be issued by the Congress | Committee. Communist Candidates Are | Leaders in the Fight for the ments. Auspices: Office Workers Union. Admission 15¢. | Workers Are Invited. represent the S. P..at the conference or not. Demand to Hear Gallagher When a motion was made to in- vite Leo Gallagher, militant labor attorney to speak, the chairman tried to ignore the motion. A storm of protest broke, however, and in stating the motion he re-worded it so that the delegate body merely recommended that the speakers’ Negro churches and organizations | Ciation, was never put to a vote, Jiterature. Busick’s explanation being that there were many other labor lead- ers that might have been invited. The majority of the delegate body of the conference was hand-picked and was composed of “trusted” functionaries of the S. P., the Work- men’s Circle, the International La- dies Garment Workers Union, Young Peoples Socialist League and Amal- gamated. They, with hardly an ex- ception, are known for their anti- Communist and anti-militant stand on numerous questions that have arisen in Los Angeles labor and radical circles in the past year. Clearly, from the opposition to seating any of the uninvited dele- gates or of even seriously consider- ing any other speakers than those selected by the Central Labor Coun- cil Executive Committee, the So- cialist-led “united front” against fascism has as its first objective the ignoring of all militant groups that have steadfastly been fighting fascism. UNIT EXPRESSES CONDOLENCE NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 23.—Unit 3 of the Communist Party here has adopted a resolution expressing the regret of its membership on ihe of Comrades Kay, members of the Unit. “We emphatically protest the ille- gal arrest, detention, finger-print- ing, and photographing of John Anderson, . Communist. Candidate for Governor in the state of Michi- gan on Wednesday, October 17th, as violation of his rights and an in- terference with the campaign of our Party. “We further protest the action of Miners Sa y District Mine ~ Man Must Act Action Demanded From Lewis Man Who Joined Unemployed Council By TONY MINERICH | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 23.—The |most startling news in this part of the country is that the District Pres- dent of the United Mine Workers | |in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, “Billy” Hynes, has joined the Un- |employment Councils. In this sec- |tion there is a sharp fight against | the company union, the Independent | |Miners Brotherhood, while most of |the mines are controlled by the powerful H. C. Frick Coal Company. Hynes, an appointee of John L. Lewis, is very demagogic. During the big strikes of last year, he was making radical speeches. When the miners were in a bitter struggle, he was talking of the Tom Mooney case. He was not connecting the case with the strike, which would have been good. But he was talk- ing, so that some of the miners would say that he made a good committee consider him as a speak-| the investigating squad officer in| Speech, and yet in a practical way er, This motion lost by a vote of! striking John Anderson in the ga-/|he was working against the strike.) pathetic mass organizations in all |15 to 10, A motion to invite Harry | rage of the Police Headquarters, to| parts of the State, will attend the | Bridges, leader of the longshore-| which he was taken; and furthre, Councils, A number of trade /men’s strike and now head of the| the illegal search made by the in-| them, but because thousands of |union locals, language clubs, and | International Longshoremen’s Asso-| vestigation. squad and stealing of | Fayette miners are in the councils Hynes joined the Unemployment not because he favors e |and play a leading part in them and “We demand that the police keep |in the county committee. | their hands off the candidates of| At a meeting of the Leith local, | the Communist Party and request | at which Hynes was present, one you to make a statement on this | of the coal miners took the floor. maiter.” Telling Hynes how the Counci) had | The letter addressed to Secretary fought for them, won relief for | of Labor Perkins follows: “We em-| them and fought against discrimi- | phatically protest the illegal arrest ‘nation. He wanted to know what | Hearings’ Are Initiated For 8 Demands in Election) Jobless Youth Must Meet Propaganda With Energetic Fight | For Workers’ Bill By LEO THOMPSON The growing struggles and re- |belliousness of the unemployed | youth, especially in the C. ©. C. eae have forced the Roosevelt government to finally officially | recognize the seriousness of unem- | ployment as a special problem of | the working youth. After millions |of youth have suffered five long years of untold misery and slow | starvation—the Roosevelt “Mobil- ization for Human Needs” adminis- tration proposes to “study and in- vestigate” what can be done to help the jobless youth. Through this “Mobilization for Human Needs” campaign, the Roosevelt. government is organizing conferences and “Youth Today Hearings” throughout the country | with the co-operation of nine na- tional bosses’ youth organizations. | These youth organizations are the Boys’ Club of America, Boy Scouts of America, Camp Fire Girls, Cath- | olic Youth Movement, Girl Scouts, | Jewish Welfare Board, Young Men’s Christian Association, Young Women’s Christian Association and | the National Federation of Settle- | ments. | The purpose of these conferences and “Youth Today Hearings” is, ac- | cording to the administration, “to | find out where social agencies work- | ing for the betterment of youth | have failed to help during the de- | pression.” Such “courts” of “Youth | Today” hearings will be held in the | main cities by the federal govern- | ment together with these organiza- tions. These “youth courts” will take testimony and personal life- accounts of boys and girls, in school and out, with and without jobs, “to find out where the Federal govern- ment for unemployed youth aid is inadequate.” The first “court” of this kind to be formed will be held in New York City, Oct. 29 (time and place still unannounced). This “court” in- eludes such people as Newton D. Baker, Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt, Miss Ida M. Tarbell. Mr. Daniel A. Poling and the presidents of the above- mentioned youth rganizations. All Young Communist League or- ganizations must at once, take steps to counteract this unprecedented campaign of the Roosevelt govern- | ment among the youth. The aim of this campaign is to win the youth for the Roosevelt program | of dollar-a-day slave camps, war | preparations and fascist formations. | We must expose the fact that the | bosses’ government has no real in- | tention of giving help to the une: ployed youth. For the past fi years the government has even re- | fused to recognize the plight of the | youth from: the effects of unem- | ployment. We must win the youth | for the support of the Workers’ Un- | employment. and Social Insurance Bill. This is the only bill which guarantees real relief, $10 to each unattached youth and adequate re- lief to all youth living with their parents. The following steps must be taken at once by all Y. C. L. and Com- munist Party organizations: (1) To activize all Y. C. L. mem- bers among the unemployed youth through the Unemployment Coun- cils, special youth meetings and at- Utah Section Goes Over Top to Meet ‘Daily’ Drive Crisis Chicago Pen ‘aad Viagtaiee Clk Cae $10, Doubles Its Quota—Districts Are Urged to Hurry Into Action to Insure Drive’s Success The Helper, Utah, Section of District 19 (Denver) is the latest section to complete its quota! The Daily Worker received $23 from it yesterday, to meet the emergency situation of the paper. This puts Helper $5 above its $65 quota. Communist Election Drive Hits Stride In Hamilton, Ohio “This does not mean,” the sec- tion states, “that the section will now cease its activities in behalf of the drive, and take a rest and consider the job well done, but we will continue our efforts to raise money for the fund.” HAMILTON, Ohio, Oct. 23 The Communist Party is making a final drive in the election cam- paign in Butler County, Ohio. Mass meetings are being held in the various wards in the city of Hamilton and in Middletown. A final rally in conjunction with the anniversary of the Russian Revolution will be held Sunday, Nov. 4, at which all the candi- dates on the county ticket will Won Over Handicaps Though Helper is the youngest § on in the district and its t tory contains mostly poor miners, nothing was allowed to deter the collecting of money. The $23 was the result of a banquet held under the auspices of the Daily Worker, Coal Digger and the Labor Defend= er. Members of the I. L. D. and the speak. A similar meeting is be- || Workers and Farmers Protective ing planned for Middletown the || Union did strenuous work in gathe following evening. ering food and selling tickets Candidates for the Butler The spirit of the Helper section may well be taken as a model by | other sections in the district—par- County workers to vote for, in addition to the state candidates, are: ‘ 3, ticularly by Section 3 (Salt Lake aeen tap dag Resrmecalt: City). “Much larger than Helper, af ba this section has raised only $12.50 kad Commissioner—Rob- || o¢ its $125 quota. County Treasurer—A Im a Ts is up to the lagging scetions. to Smith. get dewn to business. The Denver Representative to General quota is small, but the Daily Worker looks upon all districts as equally important in the matter of finishing their quotas quickly. Den- ver gave promise of being the first to complete its total; it is the ‘re- sponsibility of its sections to see that it gets its 100 per cent imme- diately. Individuals, mass organizations and other workers groups must be drawn into the campaign to safe- guard the Daily Worker. Personal visits should be made. More parties held. Collections should be taken at every opportunity. Chicago Pen and Hammer In Chicago, the Pen and Hammer club, has made its first contrioution —$10. It has also raised its quota from $25 to $50. It has challenged TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. 23—Center-| the John Reed Club to a Socialist ing around the case of discrimina~- | competition. The club is planning a tion of four high school teachers | series of parties, lectures and show- for “radicalism,” Toledo members of | ing of movies for the drive. the American Federation of Teach-| In Seattle, a district which has ers, Local 250, are fighting for | not yet even reached the $150 mark, academic freedom and job security. |though it has a quota of $1,000, The system followed by the board| some of the sections are turning is to transfer teachers from their | over. Five of them have contributed Specialty to another field, as for | to the largest sum that has recently example, from teaching economics |come in—$57. Three workers clubs to mechanics. In line with this|—the Astoria Finnish, the Taft policy, Chairman Clyde Kiker of| Oregon Women’s and the Astoria the legislative committee of the lo- | Finnish Working Women’s—are in- cal teachers union, business agent | cluded among the contributors. But of the State Federation of Teachers, | the Seattle sections should look to and social science instructor, was Helper for an illustration of how transferred to the position of | sections should work. watchman and janitor. The Daily Worker has also re- Assembly—Anthony Williams. Congressman of Third Dis- trict—Walter Jones. Teachers Fight For Security In Toledo Denounce Continuous Transfer Orders of School Board Whereupon Kiker promptly went ,on strike, coming to school but re- fusing to do janitor'’s work. The grievance committee of the ceived $12.50 from the Russian Na- tional Mutual Aid Society Br., 97 of Haverhill, Mass., and $8 from the Mount Carmel, Pa. I.W.0. union is pressing for an open hear- ing, while the state organization has offered to pay Kiker the equiv-. But many of the districts are still alent of his teaching salary to or- waiting Birmingham has not ganize teachers’ unions throughout contributed even a dollar of its $150 Action Wanted the state. death of the 19-year-old daughter | land investigation by Federal au- | thorities of John Anderson, Ameri- |can citizen, candidate for Governor |in the state.of Michigan. and released. This arrest interfered with his campaign and is an act of intimidation following his speeches before Fisher Body Plant No. 23 in Detroit against the company union. By these acts your agents are help- ing the manufacturers and com- pany unions. “We demand that you repudiate the actions of these officers and dis- | rights of our Party and as aiding |and abetting the company unions | and the automobile manufacturers.” Both letters are signed by Earl |. Reno, organizational secretary of the Communist Party in this dis- | trict. Capitalist Politicians Pass Laws | to Destroy Food. Communist | Public Officeholders Will Fight NORWICH, Conn., Oct. 23.— Members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers here are aroused against Abe Phillips, Socialist Party member and chairman of the executive board, especially for his unauthorized arranging of an S. P. election rally under the union’s aus- pices, . To the surprise of even the local executive board members, a leaflet appeared on the streets announcing the following: Socialist Rally and Labor Mass Meeting by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Textile Workers and All Other Speakers: A Miller, Secretary- Treasurer of the N. Y. Joint Right to Organize, Strike, Picket. | “Mr. Anderson was held a day | charge them as interfering with the | | Hynes thought of such a good or-| ganization, What could “poor” Hynes do. He said that it was a good organization. | The miner then asked: “why don't you join?” Hynes did join. But this did not settle the question. One | of the miners remarked: “If he knew jthat it was such a good organiza- tion, why didn’t he organize us into a Council before?” Now that Hynes is in the Coun- (cil, the Fayette County miners are ‘going to demand that he become an |“‘active member.” That is that he will go on committees to the wel- fare and demand relief for all of the miners and other workers, The miners also decided that the leader- ship of the Councils will remain in the hands of the rank and file. “Some leaders of the labor move- ment head a movement so that they can later behead it,” one of the miners said, remembering what hap- pened in the San Francisco general strike. tractions, etc. (2) To organize mass meetings| The school board has postponed of jobless youth, draw up youth de- |# number of meetings but the mands for unemployed relief, and |teachers are determined that the jelect delegations to go to these issue be fought out. They have Youth Relief Hearings to fight for |@Sked the board to adopt resolu- |the Workers’ Unemployment and | tions granting public hearings and Social Insurance Bill. | Suaranteeing full rights of teachers (3) To approach with speakers in event of disciplinary action quota. Kentucky, Louisiana, South Dakota and Houston—of these on may almost say that they are not in the campaign. This is an abnormal state of affairs. These districts may be sparsely settled, they may not contain many sympathetic organ- izations, but their quotas were set with these things in consideration. ritory, Y.P.S.L., Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., | Boys’ Club, Students’ organizations, for a united front struggle against the demagogy of these Roosevelt “Youth Hearings” and for the/ | Workers’ Bill. | (4) All district committees to is- sue statements to the press, issue | | leaflets, hold meetings among the | |youth on the meaning of these. | Youth Hearings. | |) To stress need of immediate | | youth unemployed relief in election | campaign. | Every Communist Vote Is the Vote of a Worker Prepared to | Fight For His Rights, Amalgamated Clothing Union Members Score S. P. Leader at Norwich Membership Rally Journalist; Chas. Dispenza, Gen- eral Organizer of the A. C. W. Germania Hall, 32 Market St., at 7:45 P.M., Friday, Oct. 19. was the first speaker, was careful not even to mention the S. P. But prior to the introduction of Gertrude Klien. an S. P. member Although the Socialist politicians |in Hillman’s burocracy, who was | nist candidate for Congressman-at- Large, spoke and pointed out that | this attempt to fool the workers in | the union was a raw deal. The | large audience was quiet and lis- | tened very attentively to the Com- all youth organizations in your ter- | 28ainst them. The board has thus ” |mendation. |from the Fourth District; The Daily Worker asks these dis- | tricts to go to work! | Note—C. P. Sections and units, . individuals and all workers groups Four Communists Run: | should cena reports of drive ac- In Spokane Elections| ‘ss ' the Daily Worker. far avoided voting on the recom- I. L. D. STOPS PERSECUTION SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 23—The es Communist Party in this city will) PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 23—When have four dida the the International Labor Defense ballot. ponenathey oie here stepped in on a case involving The candidates are: J. H. Van|® Negro woman, Mary oe on. & a r tive | framed assault charge, the case was seh ce ereag P ritio ann Ay dismissed by Judge Long. The ex- Wilson, State Representative from | Pose of the race prejudice that pre- the Eeverti District; Harlowe | Vailed throughout the case was too Wildman, State Representative Much for the court. from the Fourth District and J. A. BOSTON, MASS. Winburn, sheriff for Spokane) _ Baditin? AD County. aris _____ | DAILY WORKER and 4 ‘ 15th ANNIVERSARY WHAT'S ON CELEBRATION Philadelphia, Pa. @ Speakers: WELCOME Banquet and Concert to greet six released Anti-Fascists, Friday, | Oct. 26 at 8 p.m. at 1208 Tasker St. Aus-| pices, LL.D.. Adm. 20c. | JOSHUA KUNITZ lectures on “Creators | of Soviet Literature,” Thursday, Oct. 25,| 3 p.m. at Brith Sholom Hall, 506 Pine| St. Auspices: Philadelphia John Reed | Club. Adm. 25c. | Cleveland, Ohio James Casey Managing Editor “Datly Worker,” N. Sparks — New England District Orgai- in the Amalgamated thought Bell would get away with the trick by not distributing the leaflet in the shops, but only on the streets, work- ers found out about it and de- | manded an explanation. Phillips in- | really to make the campaign speech, one worker rose and de- manded to know if this was a polit- ical meeting and by what right such arrangements were made without the knowledge of the union mem- bership. Another member, named munist candidate. | STAG Party, Workers Center, 1943 Colt-| The Socialist woman finally man Rd. Saturdey, Oct. 27, 8 p.m. Beer, | spoke, but she got very little atten- | eats and entertainment. Auspices, Local | tion. There was a great deal of | 10? sancti noise, and when she mentioned i i ° Tose and challenged her to ask the | Russian Revolution and Final Election izer Communic: Party VIOLIN — PIANO” SELECTIONS @ Russian Solo and Chorus @ Workers Drama formed them that “the code for the Frank, a member of the local execu- industry would be discussed.” The tive Board, demanded that if the workers, however, wise to the trick, | decided that Phillips will not be. chairman of the meeting. Since the issue was already made Board; Gertrude W. Klien, Labor quite clear, when the meeting took place, the General Organizer, who Socialist spoke that speakers of other political parties be invited. Klien thereupon had to make the promise that she would refrain from politics. textile workers about this “victory.” | The meeting ended in a hurried manner. No appeal for S. P. votes was made. No one bought any of the S. P. campaign literature. And Phillips is facing the difficult task of holding his office as the workers At this point, Bob Kling, Commu- seem determined to remove him. Campaign Rally, Saturday Creatian Hall. 9518 Commer Soviet Film showing “War Against the Centuries"; Joe Weber and Claude Light- foot, speakers. Adm. 25¢. Detroit, Mich. “MOTHER,” Soviet Film Movie, show- ing on Friday, Oct. 26 at 5200 Woodward. | 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. @ Dance Group 3, e Saturday, October 27 At 8 P. M. DudleySt.OperaHouse 113 Dudley Street, Roxbury Subscription 25 cents