The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 25, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1934 National Unity Urged For Unemployment Insurance Bill ‘Bail Is Denied Relief Parley Unity Con vention — To Follow Jobless | Rallies on Nov. 24 National Unemployment Council Appeals to Organizations for Broad United Front for Demands of the Unemployed The National Unemployment Councils, in accordance with its continuous efforts to achieve national unity of all unemployed organizations, yesterday addressed a call to all unemployed groups and organizations for a unity confer- ence-to be held in Washington, D.C., after the National Congress for Un-® employment and Social Insurance. The full text of the call, signed by-I: Amter, secretary of tiie Coun- | cils and addressed to organizations, | both those organized on a national | seale and State, and local independ- | ent: groups, follows The winter ahead will be a very| bitter. one for the unemployed and} for the working masses. Fully 16,- 000,000 are unemployed at the pres- ent time and many of them are living on starvation relief. William Green states that there are 40,000,- 000 dependent on relief, while Harry L. Hopkins admits that no more than 16,000,000 persons are on re-| lief rolls of the country. This means that millions receive no relief what- | ever. | The intention of the government | is to reduce relief expenditures and ; in this it is supported by the lead-| ership of the American Federation of Labor, This public works pro- gram has turned out to be a huge jeke perpetrated upon the hungry masses. Private charity is again being resorted to at a time when needs and interests of the unem- ployed are the same regardless of the organization to which they may happen to belong. We note that all organizations are agreed on all basic questions of program. We know that the membership of all the organizations in the field are eager to achieve unity. We con- sider that those who fail to support efforts to realize unity are seriously injuring the interests of all the un- employed. Likewise we believe that it would be a most s@rious mistake to try to arbitrarily ex¢lude any in- fluential organization of unemployed from the unification process. Such a policy could only lead to sharpen- ing conflict and antagonism be- tween the unemployed organizations rather than to eliminate this. Propose Unity Convention The National Board of the Na- tional Unemployment Council, meeting in Chicago, accordingly de- cided to call upon the other un- employed organizations to take To Four of 13 In Atlanta Jail Eight Negro Workers Indicted for Giving Out Literature (Special to the Daily Worker) ATLANTA, Ga. Oct. 24—Bail was denied yesterday by Judge James H. Davis in De Kalb Supe- rior Court, to Nathan Yogel, white graduate instructor at Emory Uni- versity; Alex Racolin, white New York attorney; Clarence Weaver, Negro president of the Painters and Plasterers Union of Atlanta, Ga., and Mrs. R. W. Alling, white woman. The defendants are four of the thirteen persons arrested last week in police raids on private homes in Fulton and Decatur coun- ties. They were held for the Grand Jury on charges of “inciting to in- surrection,” under the old slave law used to railroad heroic Angelo Herndon, now out on bail pending appeal, to 18 to 20 years on the chain gang. On the same day eight Negro workers, among the thirteen per- sons arrested, were indicted in Pul- ton County on charges of distribut- ing “insurrectionary” literature. The “evidence” offered consisted of copies of the Labor Defender, offi- cial organ of the International La- bor Defense, and literature of the International Workers Order. The eight indicted workers are: James Moreland, chairman of the local International Workers Order branch, Fannie Anderhold, secre- tary; Lucille Lawrence, Julia Jones, Charles Weaver, Will Moreland,. Ed- gar King and John Grant. Exorbi- tant bail of $5,000 each was set by Communist Party Lists |8 Demands in Election | Following are the eight demands on which the National Congres- sional Flection 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 resulting from monopoly and inflation, for higher wages, shorter hours, a shorter work-week, and improved living standards. 2.—Against capitalist terror and ihe growing trend toward fas- cism; against deportations and oppression of the foreign-born; against 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; fer 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- ance Bill (H. R. 7598). 4.—For the repeal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act; for emer- gency relief to the impoverished and drought-stricken farmers with- out restriction by the government or banks; exemption of impov- erished farmers from taxation; camceilation of the debts of poor farmers; for the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill, 5.—Against Jim-Crowism and lynching; for equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt; for the Negro Bill of Rights, 6.—For the immediate payment of the veterans’ back wages (bonus), 7.—Against the sales tax; no taxes on persons, or their property, earning less than $3,000 per year; steeply graduated and greatly increased taxation on the rich, 8—Against Roosevelt’s war preparedness program; against im- perialist war; for the defense of the Soviet Union and Soviet China. | ing their indictment steps together with the National the court following Edwin E. Witte, Executive Director | Unemployment Council. to call a of the President's Committee on So- | cial Security, declares that 25 per cent of the wage earners of the country are unemployed. At the same time, the prospect of employ- | ment becomes more dim, by reason | of the downward tendency of in-! dustrial production. | The employers in the basic indus- tries of the country are indicating plans for drastic cuts in wages, which will lower the condition of | the whole working class. Together with this is the sharply rising cost of living which in one year amount- ed to more than 30 per cent. For a United Struggle It is obvious, therefore, that the unemployed organizations have the very urgent task of mobilizing and organizing the unemployéd to fight against. hunger, for jobs, for ade- quate relief, for unemployment in- surance. Tt_is not to the. advantage of the organized unemployed that they are broken up into various organiza- Unity Convention of all unemployed organizations, both those organized | on a natiorial and state scale as well | as the local independent orgariiza- | tions. The aim should be to es- tablish one mighty organization rep- | resenting the needs of the unem-| ployed in the United States. | Unity of the existing organiza- tions will not merely mean the adding together of the member- ship of these organizations. It will become a magnet that will attract large numbers of isolated organ- izations and at the same time help | in the organization of the mass | of unemployed still outside all or- | ganizations. The National Board of the Na-! tional Unemployment Council lays down no conditions for this unity, \except that it shall be carried through on the broadest. democratic basis and that the program adopted shall be of a fighting character based on class lines. Since prac- tically all organizations have en- tions. Our enemies rejoice and take | advantage of every division in our] ranks, Today the outstanding task | is to. unite the unemployed into one | fighting organization, to carry on the struggle for their. rights. The National Unemployment | Council which has always and con-} sistently endeavored to bring about} A number of organizations have & unification of the unemployed |set November 24 as a day of dem- movement, considers that it would |onstration of the unemployed. We be extremely harmful to delay fur-! propose that the program of de- ther this necessary consolidation of |mands and actions for this day be our forces. We believe that the/worked out on the broadest united dorsed the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill which was initiated by the National Unemploy- ment Council and otherwise act on identical issues and demands, there is assurance of a genuine basis for unity of the masses in the unem- ployed organizations. ——~ front basis possible, with full par- WHAT’S ON | ticipation of the loeal, county and |state organizations of the National |Uncmployment Council and that |this day of struggle shall be con- dered a step in the direction of \unification of the unemployed or- | ganizations, Our further proposal is that the Unity Convention shall take place in Washington early in January |and immediately after the National |Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance, to which, we un- derstand, your organization has been invited. We wish to emphasize that |the earlier the unification takes place, the stronger the unemployed will be in the coming struggles. The National Board decided to allow two weeks’ time for your de- cision and reply. If you are as deeply concerned with the question |of unification of the unemployed as| is the National Board of the Na- tional Unemployment Council, then your reply will not be delayed. In order to arrange a meeting at which the manner of bringing about unity may be discussed more fully, Wwe recommend that you designate | two representatives of your organ- |ization and that you fill out the attached reply blank so that we may arrange the meeting accordingly. In addition, we would like to have any suggestions that you care to make. Philadelphia, Pa. WELOOME Banquet and Concert t greet six released Anti-Fascists, Frid: t. 26 at p.m. at 1208 Tasker St. Ai Pices, I.L.D., Adm. 20¢. JOSHUA KUNITZ lectures on “Creators Of Soviet: Literature,” Thursday, Oct. 28, % pm. at Brith Sholom Hall,’ 506 Pins Philadelphia John Reed Auspic Club. Adm. 25¢. Cleveland, Ohio STAG Party, Workers Center, 1943 Colt- men Ra., Saturday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m. Beer, éats and éntertsinment. Auspices, Local 1202 of; &.M.W.I.U. Chicago, Jil. V Anniversary Celebration of the Revolution and Final Election igh Ra Saturday, Nov 3, at Oreatian Hall, 9618 Commercial Street. Soviet Film showing. “War Against the Genturies”; Joe Weber and Claude Light- foct, speakers, Adm. 26c. S|AILORS Dance given by M.W.I.U., Sat- trdar, Oct. 8 p.m. at Workers Hall, 9133 Baltimore Ave., Johnny Adams, Mas- ter of Ceremonies. Adm. 20c. HY-JINX on Hallowe'en Night. Dance, entertainment, games, costumes at Young Communist League Affair, Wed., Oct. 31 at Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W, Chicago Ave. Detroit, Mich. Mt . Soviet Film Movie, show- ing om Friday, Oct. 26 at 5200 Woodward, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. LZCTURE on “What I Saw in Pascist Germany” by Rev. John H. Bollens, Work- ers Open Forum, Sunday, Oct. 28, 3:30 P.m., Finnish Workers Hall, 5969 14th St. Pittsburgh, Pa. ELECTION Campaign Dance, 32nd Con- gressional District, Friday, October 26 at Pythian Temple, 2011 Centre Ave. Admis- sion in advance 20c, at door Ie. Tickets At Workers Book Store, 1838 Fifth Ave. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Boston James Casey, maneging editor of the Daily Worker, spéaks at Dudley St Opera House, 113 Dudley 8t.; Oct. 27, | &8P.M. Los Angeles, Cal. Annual Workers’ Pres: Concert, day, Nov. 4 at Mason Theatre, 127 & Sun- Broadwhy. Concert Program. fromi- nent speakers. Philadelphia, Pa. Social and Entertainment, Saturday, Oct. 27, at 305 S. lith St., 8:30 p.m, Music, Dancing, Recitations, Refresh- ménts. Auspices: Office Workers Union. Admission 15¢. Buffalo, N. ¥. Dance given by the Buffalo City Comm. | LW.O. and Russian National Mutual Ald, Saturday, Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. The ‘eek Theatre Building (3rd__floor), 760 Main St. Tickets in adv. 20c, at Aoor 25. - BOSTON, MASS, __ pas 4 DAILY WORKER and 15th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIO Speakers: | James Casey Managing Editor “Daily Worker,” _N. Sparks New England District Organ- izer Communist Party | VIOLIN — PIANO | SELECTIONS | @ Russian Solo and | Chorus | @ Workers Drama @ Dance Group ° Saturday, October 27 At& P.M. DudleySt.OperaHouse 113 Dudley Street, Roxbury Subser.ption 25 cents |as a weapon by which the steel | by the Fulton County Grand Jury. | The charges carry a penalty of 20 years imprisonment each. " Defense is being organized by the I. L. D., which has retained Attor- neys C. B. Powell of Birmingham, Jobless Endorse C. P. Candidates (Continued from Page 1) ployment Council. We, therefore, urge thé unqualified support of all candidates of the Communist Party wherever they have been named. We also recommend candidates on United Front Workers’ Tickets who have proved trustworthy in the struggle for the Workers Bill. “We call the attention of all work- ers and all organizations interested in the struggle for the Workers Un- employment and Social Insurance Bill that they can greatly aid in the effort to advance this vital measure by lending every support to all candidates who loyally fight with us on these vital issues. Similarly we must. use all our power to op- pose candidates who are unwilling to join with us in all the actions} that must be taken for the achieve- ment of genuine unemployment and social insurance, “We ask our affiliated organiza- tions everywhere to take all steps necessary to bring forward our de- mands and program in the present election campaign. Send delega- tions to all candidates. Write and call on them to state their posi- tion. Invite them to participate in debates and symposiums. Make} known to all workers whom we en-| dorse and why and thus help se- | cure election of our candidates and | defeat of those opposed to us. | “National Unemployment Council, | “I, AMTER, National Secretary.” Ala., Louis Tatham of Atlanta, Ga., and H. O. Hubert of Decatur, Ga., Many Locals of the U.M.W.A. Endorse Rank and File Slate By TONY MINERICH PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 24,— Many more locals of the United Mine Workers in District 5 havé endorsed and nominated the rank and file slate in the coming union election. Up to date only one local reported on nominating the Lewis- Fagan slate. The others have either endorsed the rank and file slate or most of the candidates of the rank and file. The sentiment of the coal miners is against the Lew- is machine. The U. M. W. of A. misleaders are taking steps to steal the elections. The Lilly local of the United Mine Workers in Brownsville en- dorsed the slate 100 per cent. ‘The Vesta 4 local, number 2399, one of the largest mines in the world, has endorsed the rank and file slate. Bsides this the Barking local, the Kinloch, Logans Ferry, North Bes- semer, Lowber, and Crescent locals have endorsed the rank and file Slate. It is also reported that the large Coverdale local nominated Charles Nolker, rank and file candidate for president, and Robert Crawford, candidate for secretary-treasurer. At the same time this local nominated a miner by the name of Feeny for vice-president. He is reported to be a supporter of the Lewis machine. The Naomi local also endorsed most of the rank and file candidates. The week before the rank and file candidates were nominated in the Bairdford, Harmarville, Russellton, Renton, Ellsworth, Crescent, Vesta No. 6, and McFedridge locals. Also in Curtisville No. 2, Nolker and some more of the slate were nomi- nated. So far only the Wyano local has nominated the candidates of the Lewis machine. There are sections of the district where the rank and file committee has not been heard from. But the rank and file coal miners are in the fight against the Lewis machine. They are fighting for the candidates supporting the 8-point program of the rank and file miners. In the nominations for Interna- tional officers the rank and file candidate also received many én- dorsements. In the United Mine Workers Journal, Lewis reports that he received 97 per cent of the total endorsements. At the same time he is taking steps to bar the rank and file candidates. Alabama School Head Routs Negro Pupils With Fake Bomb Scare BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct, 24.— Students of a Negro school stam- peded and fled from their desks Monday afternoon following reports that the building was about to be blown up. The building was searched from basement to loft, but no explosives were found. The report was delib- )erately spread by school officials in & monstrous provocation against the | Communist Party, following the dis- tribution of Communist leaflets ex- | posing the participation of the prin- cipal of the school, W. H. Wood, in the police reign of terror against Negro and white workers, uniting in the fight against hunger, lynchings and violation of their constitutional rights and for the freedom of the Meets Sunday In Toledo Will Elect Delegates to} National Congress for Social Insurance TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. 24.—Plans are being speeded here for a united front conference on relief and un- employment insurance to be held Sunday, Oct. 28, at which plans will be projected for a country-wide hunger march demanding sufficient winter relief and delegates will be elected to the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insur- ance in Washington, D. C., on Jan. 5, 6 and 7. The call to the united front con- ference was initiated by the North- western Ohio Unemployment Coun- cils at @ meeting on Oct. 7 of dele- gates from the Single Men's Pro- tective Union, the Mechanics Edu- cational Society of America, South | Side Workers Club, Automotive Workers Federal Union (Auto-Lite), Relief Workers Protective Associa- tion, the Marine Workers Industrial Union, and the Unemployment Councils. The Council proposal, which was accepted by the conference, urged! the calling of all working class or- Banizations to Sunday's meeting for Planning a county hunger march on Nov. 5 to demand a 50 per cent in- crease in relief, winter clothing, an end to evictions, and payment of Bas and electricity bills. The pro- | posals also urged the election of delegates to the National Congress on Unemployment and Social In- surance, These proposals were bitterly at- tacked by A. Preis of the Ohio Un- employed League, and by Cole of the Socialist-led Relief Workers Protective Association, Preis, while stating that he favored the “Lun-| deen Bill,” asked that the confer- ence be held for organizing a dem- onstration on Novy, 24. The conference rejected this al- most unanimously, calling the con- ference on the basis of the Coun- cil’s proposals, and if it was so voted, to support the Nov, 24 dem- onstration. Preis then proposed that the Oct, 7 conference constitute itself as an organizing meeting for the Nov. 24 demonstration. Rejecting this, the conference yoted to form a Joint Action Committee on Unemploy- ment, AFL Ranks Ready For Conference (Continued from Page 1) pacar inet iid the officials of the A. F. of L, faced the questions which are of greatest concern to the rank and file. Off- cial delegates to the 54th convyen- tion fromthe auto and metal in- dustries - will also report. On Saturday morning, at 10-am. the rank and file conference will open. The agenda of the conference will include 1) Development of the campaign to win unemployment in- surance, 2) The establishment of national rank and file trade union centers, 3) The Rank and File Fed- erationist, 4) The election of a na- tional executive committee. The Pittsburgh A. F. of L. Com- mittee announced today that ar- rangements have been made to re- ceive all delegates arriving. in Pitts- burgh on Friday, at the National Slovak Home, 522 Court Place, one flight. up, where information re- garding lodging, etc., will be given. Those arriving on Saturday should report directly to conference head- quarters at National Slovak Hall, Scottsboro boys. 516-518 Court. Place, Pittsburgh. Government Attorney Lays Base for Class Collaboration By TOM KEENAN PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 24—A year ago workers of the Weirton Steel Company who had organized in the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. L.) walked out on strike to demand recognition of their union for the betterment of their conditions. That strike was broken when Roosevelt's first N. R. A. Labor Board stepped into the situation and, with the help of the Amalgamated top lead- ers, induced them to return to work pending the calling of a Board- supervised election to decide | whether the A. A. should represent Weirton employes in “collective | bargaining.” |. Now, after twelve months of end- less delay, a company election, and much involyed court action, these steel workers are under the yoke of a company union, their wages and working conditions have been bettered not one jot, and recogni- tion of the union for which many |of them sacrificed their jobs is as | far distant as ever. Thanks to the | traitorous class-collaboration poli- cies of Mike Tighe and Company, all that the steel workers have to show for their pains is an injune- tion suit in federal court seeking to enjoin the Weirton company “from violating Section 7-a of the National Recovery Act.” The effectiveness of “arbitration” 6 bosses, with the aid of A. FP. of L. officialdom’s backing, stifle the struggle of the steél workers, is be- ing clearly demonstrated during the Weirton Trial Shows N.R. A i course of the court suit at Wil- mington, Del., where government | attorneys supposedly favoring the workers are requesting the injune- tion, while the mass of testimony introduced is revealing all the vi- cious practices of the steel com- panies —open terrorization, com- pany union schemes, coercive elec- tions, blacklisting, ete—in putting down the struggles of their wage slaves. Hundreds of Affidavits Witnesses have filed affidavits by the hundreds and gone before the federal court to prove that the com- pany staged an election on Dec, 11 and 15, in which employes were forced to cast their ballots in fayor of the “company representation plan” on pain of instant discharge. Clifford Williams, an A. A. mem- ber, testified he was told by his boss that if he did not vote for the com- pany union he would “see that I didn’t work there any more.” Ed Dickey was warned by his boss, Walter Frieze, “If you don’t vote for the company plan you might as well pack your suitcase and get out of town.” Described Slugging Eli Della, an active union worker, described to the court how Weirton police grabbed and slugged him while distributing A. A. leaflets. “On the way to the police station,” he testified, “Mill Cop John Lukisch hit me in the face five times, and caused my eye and mouth to bleed.” At the station the thug told Della “I wish I had broken your teeth for you.” Della has since been black- listed, along with many other active union men. Other testimony was introduced to show that “workers had been led to the polls to vote by a foreman while mill police equipped with riot clubs followed them.” As a result of this “wholesale co- ercion” and the ringing in of every office employe and company stool who could be mustered, the Weirton Co. put over an election in which they ignored “government supervi- sion” and claimed that over 80 per cent of the employes chose the company union plan, with many Amalgamated workers boycotting the election, It is this “representation plan” which Weir is now trying to palm off on the steel workers as their representative, the success of which is due chiefly to Tighe’s work in breaking the strike on a promise of a “fair election.” If any further indication of the nature of the company plan at Weirton be needed—“It is modeled after the plan used at other indus- trial plants, including the Bethle- hem Steel Company,” testified Er- nest Weir, head of Weirton Co. “Employee Representatives” In order to make sure that so- called “employes representatives” represent the right party, the com- pany pays them $25 per month and 50 cents each year for every em- ploye eligible to vote under the plan, in addition to their regular wages. Naturally, when these “repre- sentatives” assemble in conference their interests are a long way from those of the workers, but the com- on all important bodies, such as the “rules committee.” Weir testified he “{magined” that the presence of the latter has no effect on the ¢mploye “representatives.” Originally the government had Against Workers pany has its official representatives; the Weirton case.” _ Tighe Uses: Weirton Case To Halt Fight in Apollo Mill holding of an election at Weirton mills, but during the summer this was withdrawn and the request placed with the new Steel Labor Board. In other words, not éven this eae can Now result from the court suit. But the federal court, Judge John Nields, and also the government at- torney, Frank K. Nebeker, who is “prosecuting” the suit, have both already indicated which way the wind of “justice” will blow. In the spring trial, Nebeker ac- tually admitted that “enforcement of Section 7-a” of the N. R. A. might prove “detrimental to re- covery” of the nation. Judge Nields has laid the pre- liminary basis for clarification on the question of what the term “col- lective bargaining” really means: Company officials and business captains often have stated that this means only friendly conferences with employe representatives, from which no wage increase, better working condit-ons, or other tan- gible concessions need ever result. In the meantime A. A. top lead- ets are preventing workers from taking any direct action, as at Apollo, Pa., with the admonition, “Wait until we see the outcome of In the Weirton case steel workers are seeing the class lines clearly drawn: Weirton Steel, U. S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel, the couris, the government attorneys, the labor boards, and Tighe & Co., all these Daily Worker’s Role Cited in Struggles Of Textile Strikers Importance of Wide Support for Paper Stressed As Strike of 25,000 Silk and Dye Workers Is Set for Today in Paterson By Carl Reeve (Associated Editor, Daiiy Worker) The textile workers are again preparing their mass picket lines. Twenty-five thousand silk and rayon dye work- ers in New Jersey and New York are to go on strike this morning. Fifteen thousand silk workers will hold member- ship meetings in Paterson Saturday to ‘discuss the strike Mrs. Wright Bares Plot Against I. L. D. (Continued from Page 1) L. D. has not been buli-dozing me, and none of the mothers have ever said that the I. L. D. bull- dozed them. “My Heart Is With I. L. D.” If it had not been for the I. L. D., where would I be today, and where would the boys be? If anything would happen to the boys, I would die. I have gained in both health and strength since Iam with the I. L. D. Since I have been with the I. L. D., I have been treated better than I ever have been in my life. I remember when I was travelling in the Eu- situation. From. the South, . local unions of the United Textile Work- ers’ Union are telegraphing Francis J. Gorman, demanding strike against blacklist and wage cuts.. In Pennsylvania, the picket lines are increasing, with mills on strike in Lancaster, Coatesville and _ else- where, The local unions of the Burlington and Winooski, Vermont, United Textile Union have defied telegraphic instructions from Gor- man, and 1,300 workers have walked out on strike there. The re-strike movement in the textile industry has begun, as the Communist Party and the Daily Worker predicted that it would, The textile workers know that they were. betrayed. The general textile strike was the grea‘est strike ever carried out. by the American .work- ers, with far more than .one -half million workers on strike. The strike was betrayed by Gorman and William Green .and the. other ropean countries, speaking for the I, L. D. to save the boys. The white friends of the sympathizers of the I. L. D. treated me mighty nice, and I never got such good treatment until I worked with the LL.D. Since I have been working with the I, L. D, to save my boys, I have met many honest white peo- ple who are fighting with the I. L. D. to save the Scottsboro boys. The I. L. D. has also helped me out a great deal. It has spent much money in doctor’s bills on me.. When I was in Europe, I stayed two weeks in the hospital, and when I was in Russia I stayed three weeks in the very best hospital in Moscow, and | they gave me the finest service and attention. All of this cost a lot of money, and the I. L. D. paid for it. I still have confidence in the 1. L. D. and always did and always will have. Once I made a mis- take and signed with Mr. Leibo- witz because those Negro minis- ters were telling a lot of lies and frightened me, as any mother would be frightened, by lies about her boys lives. My heart is with the LL, D. and even when I made a mistake and signed. with Liebowitz, only my hand that signed the paper was with Mr. Leibowitz.. Iam going to always stick by the I. L. D., and I am sorry I ever signed with Leibo- witz, I have come back to the I. L. D; to stay, (Signed) Witness: John B. Murray, Notary Public, Bronx County No. 178, = I. L. D. Speeds Appeal Fight (Continued from Page 1) ADA WRIGHT. and his agents, have excluded the I. L, D. representatives from these same jails. “Primises of ‘life sentences’ and the ‘mercy of the governor of Alabama’ have been made to the innocent Negro boys, and threats have been made, in an attempt to force them to ‘repudiate’ the I. L. D. “In view of such methods to con- fuse and terrorize the boys, the task before us is clear. The I. L. D. must continue and intensify its fight, both on the legal side, and on the side of mass action without which the Scottsboro boys would have been burned in the electric chair long ago. I. L, D. attorneys, Joseph Brodsky, Osmond K. Fraenkel and Walter H. Pollak, have taken the necessary legal steps for the appeal to the U. Ss. Supreme Court. This was done on the instructions of the I. L. D. “We call on all true friends of the Scottsboro boys, of the oppressed Negro people, to rally behind the I. L, D. for their defense in the mighty united front already taking shape in the National Scotisboro- Herndon Action Committee, set up at last Sunday's big united front emergency conference, and which has temporary headquariers at 2162 Seventh Ave., New York City. “We call on them for militant, immediate, mass action to smash the united front of reaciion formed by the Alabama lynch-authorities, Attorney Leibowitz, and the Negro reformists. ‘ s “We call on them to join in the mass fight which alone can save the Scottsboro boys, “National Executive Comiittee, International Labor Defense.” Every day of the Roosevelt New Deai shows the growing need of the Daily Worker. But the Daily Worker needs $60,000 to be able to deal more fully with the strug- gles of the working class. Support the Daily Worker! Send your con- asked for a court order for the against the steel workers, tribution today to the $60,000 drive. | their | granted national leaders of the United Tex- tile Union. The strikers were forced back into the mills while the strike was effective and still spreading. They did not win a single one of demands. They were. not the thirty-hour . week, higher wages, recognition or aboli- tion of the stre‘ch-out, for which they were fighting. These griev- ances still remain. The Roosevelt Boards, still “investigating” the workers’ demands, are . putting through the wage cuts and the firing of ihousands of unioh mem- bers which followed Gorman’s sell- out. But the textile workers are de- termined not to accept the wage- cut, company-union drive which the Roosevelt government and ‘the tex- tile employers are trying to force on them, The textile workers’ are smashing the “no strike truce”: of President Roosevelt. Francis“Gor- man acted as an agent of the em- ployers when he recently promised that the million textile workers would not strike for six months. The textile workers have decided otherwise." z As in the general textile strike, so in the present s‘rike movement among the textile workers, the Daily Worker is playing an. im- portant role. “Send us ’one thou- sand extra Daily Workers,” comes the order from Paterson. The Daily Worker strengthens the picket lines, calling every day for rank and: file control of the strike, for militant mass picketing and flying: squad- rons, and warning against the at- tempts of A. F. of L. leaders like Gorman and. Keller to sell out the strike. seat In the general textile strike, the Daily Worker was eagerly read every day by many thousands’ of strikers. They said after the be- trayal, “The Communists were right.” They stood around in groups, during the strike, reading and discussing the editorials arid news stories in the Daily Worker. Not only in the general textile strike did the Daily Worker play an imovortant role, but this was the case in the marine strikes, “1 Toledo, Milwaukee and Minneap- olis. The Daily Worker is one of the most. important weapons of the rank and file of the A. F. of L., of the workers who are breaking through the Roosé¢velt-Green’ “in= dustrial peace”: policy and’ fighting for their economic demands-and for their right to organize and strike, Paper Needs Support. The strike wave continues. The textile workers are now re-striking in the face of the no-strike orders of Gorman and Green. The Daily Worker is again on the picket lines. But in order to increase its ef- fectiveness, in order to play. the im- portant role of agitator. sand, or- ganizer that it should play in the workers’ strikes, the Daily Worker must have your increasing. suppor’. The Deily Worker needs that sup- port now, in the heat of the strug- gles of the unions and of the un- employed. The Daily “Worker,- in order to be the important factor thet i+ must be, needs not only the passive approval of its readers. Every reader of the Daily Worker should be AN ACTIVE SUP- PORTER of the Daily. Worker This means that the readers. of the Daily Worker must assure the suc- cess of the present Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Only by speeding up the drive, by rushing. in funds, by exceeding the quo‘a, will the readers of the Daily Worker be able to guarantee that we will be able to increase our effectiveness, in the strike struggles. If the Daily Worker drive for $60,000 is success- ful, more strikers will receive the Daily Worker, more effective dis- tribution will-be possible. If the Daily Worker drive for funds suc- ceeds, the Gormans and Greens will find it harder to sell out strikes, the picket lines wil be stronger, the workers will be in a -stronger.posi- tion to win their economic demands end build their unions under rank and file control. nist Against Governm ent Bounties to Bankers and for Unemployment Insurance — oy