The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1934 Californ Unite Forces At Glendale Anti-Nazi Meet League Against War and Fascism Aids in Unity Efforts GLENDALE, Calif. Oct 26.— United front action between Social- ists and Communists, together with other, anti-fascists in Glendale, was realized at a mass meeting here in ‘the Socialist Hall, Brand Boule- vard and the Chevy Chase Drive. Members of the Glendale Socialist local agreed to participate unoffi- { cially_in the meeting, which is spon- sored’ by the American League Against. War and Fascism. Their executive committee has voted to write:to the national office to besei| Permission to enter the united front Officially. Particular significance is tached to the meeting because it was held near the two most im- portant air terminals in Los An-| geles County, in Glendale and Bur- | bank, and near several airplane | nffnufacturing plants. enice those of Lockheed and Ford. ‘Featured speakers were Seema Matlin, secretary of the American League in Los Angeles and dele- gate to the second U. 8S. Congress | Against War and Fascism, and Mrs. | Anna Barnett, delegate to the In- térnational Women’s Congress Against War and Fascism held in Paris. A. Sherwood, Jr., of the So- cialist local presided at the meeting. First steps toward a united front were. taken when E. A. Kope, mem- ber,.of the Communist Party, at- tended a meeting of the Socialist Joeal. and suggested joint anti-fas- cist.activity. At the next meeting -gepresentative of the American tae was invited, the objective being to use the League as a medi- um through which both political parties, as well as all others inter- ested: in opposing fascism, could function. Lllinois Set to Stop Jobless Congress | (Continued from Page 1) | at- nois Workers Alliance in a number of Counties, Special mention was made of Knox County, whose prin- | ciple city is Galesburg where the Tilinois Workers Alliance with the | support of the Unemployment Coun cils forced local authorities to grant | a 40 per cent increase in relief and| 60.per.cent, inerease in work rebet. | And- the complaint. of Burns, in} eharge of the relief administration | in Knox “County, stated that he} | Monday night at 8 o'clock to rally Nominees from Three Parties Will Speak In N, J. Steel Union J., Oct. 26.—The |} NEWARK, N. Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union will hold an election symposium in Newark, New Jer- sey, next Monday, 8 pm., at Ukrainian Hall, 59 Beacon St. Invitations were sent to Con- gressional candidates of all the Political parties. Thus far, the || following have accepted to speak: || Sam Strong, Communist Party || candidate for Congress; Dr. |/ Reiss, Socialist Party candidate for Congress; and the Republican Party candidate Lehlbach. Strong is the New Jersey organizer of the International Labor Defense. Canton Jobless) Will Protest Reliet Jailings as | Mass Rally Monday Will| Present Relief Demand} To Directors | CANTON, Ohio., Oct. 26.—A mass | protest meeting will be held at Ger- | man Hall, 812 Tuse Street East | the Canton workers in support of | the relief demands of the Massillon | unemployed and to put forth relief | demands of the Canton workers. | The mass meeting will also mobil- ize the workers to the jury trial of | Leah Faye, who was arrested while | leading a delegation to the reliet | station and whose jury trial will | come up Wednesday, Oct. 31. Leah Faye was jailed after the delegation of workers who have been denied relief were refused a | hearing by Ralph Bush, Massillon | relief director. Hours on all F. E.R. A. jobs have | been cut here and some of the relief grocery orders have been slashed to $1.85 a week for a family. Last Friday, when the Massillon American Legion Post left to attend their national convention in Miami, an angry crowd of workers assem- bled on the square while the Salva- tion Army, which doles out wretched | maggoty food to the jobless, filled the Legion trucks with jellies, baked foods and cakes. | Dew agreement early in September, | Ryan demagogically came out for | ia Socialist Local Acts in Unity with Communists Grants Shippers Wage Differential for Dock Workers | By PAUL CLINE One of the most brazen betrayals of his long career as a misleader of labor has just been put over by Joseph P. Ryan, President of the International Longshoremens Asso- ciation. After long drawn out nego- tiations with the ship owners, | Ryan last Monday suddenly signed actually provides for worse hours, wages and conditions than those conceded by the West Coast arbi- tration committee. Under cover of a | solitary and negligible concession of 10 cents an hour increase in pay, | Ryan’s new agreement re-fastens upon the east coast longshoremen the 8-hour day, 44-hour week, / continuation of the present miser- able working conditions, and allows | the shipowners to retain their most powerful weapon—exclusive con- trol of hiring. Thus, Ryan's betrayal grants the shipping interests a new “Southern differential” for their Atlantic coast labor as against their Pacific coast | labor—the 8 hour day in the Fast, | the 6 hour day in the west. In practice the “differential” means that a longshoreman in Frisco who works 8 straight hours will get only $7.60, nearly a dollar less! ! Seven weeks of dickering and | treacherous maneuvering were re- | quired by the I, L. A. burocrats be- fore they could prepare and spring their brazen sell-out. | Used Demagogy { In opening the negotiations for a | the 6 hour day, 30 hour week, with ! time—two of the three west coast strike demands, But the veteran faker carefully left out the third, and most decisive west coast de- mand—for union control of hiring halls! The Rank and File Action Committee of the I. L.A. in formu- lating demands corresponding to the basic needs and burning griev- ances of the Atlantic coast long- shormen, proposed the West. coast demands with two important addi- tions: against speed-up, for larger gangs and smaller drafts; for the a new working agreement which | right of Negroes to work on any not only spurns every basic demand docks without discrimination in of the longshoremen, but which | work or pay. During the three weeks of nego- tiations prior to Oct. Ist (the date of expiration of the old agreement) militant sentiment among -the masses of longshoremen mounted rapidly. heroic example of the West Coast strike, and the strike preparations of | the east coast seamen, the long- shoremen were ready and willing to fight for their demands. The Rank and File groups in New York, al- though weak, developed an active agitational campaign, popularizing the lessons of the West Coast strike, exposing and warning against Ryan's maneuvers, demanding rank and file control of the negotiations, urging the longshoremen to prepare for strike action jointly with the seamen, Makes Fake Threat On September 26th, matters had developed to the point where Ryan threatened to call the men out on October Ist, unless the ship-owners Goaded on by unbearable | conditions, given courage by the| | mobilized around the docks on | Monday, Oct. Ist, to prevent spon- | taneous walk outs and to enforce | the sell-out truce, However, Local | No. 808, in Brooklyn, meeting that night condemned Ryan and de- | | manded action by Oct. 5. But when | the longshoremen on the Isthmian | Line docks walked off in sympathy With the crew of the Steel Traveller, | the I. L. A. burocrats promptly senv strike-breaking replacements, Ryan is fully justified in his. open-boasts | that he prevented a strike of the |Atlantic Coast longshoremen.—at least for the present. But Ryan found himself in a | Somewhat difficult position after |that important concessions had that importan tconcessions had been wrung from the. Arbitration | Board, that the bosses and the gov- ernment, fearing the Power and militant leadership of the longshoremen and seamen, were | forced to grant the 6 hr. day, 30 hr. | week, 95 cents an hour—$1.40 for overtime, and partial union control | of hiring through the Placing of an I. L. A. dispatcher in the hall, Ryan, who had tried his damnedest to break the West Coast strike, | Sreeted the gains made as a “great | vietory”—but tried to make it out of course as a victory for “peaceful arbitration.” He kept ominously mum, however, about the bearing | that the West Coast concessions would have on the East Ooast agreement. The reason for this silence was | made clear upon resumption of ne- gotiation on Oct. 15 (after the sea- men’s strike had been choked off | Ryan’s New Longshoremen’s Agreement Is Cited As Most Brazen Betrayal of Coast Dockers New $1.00 an hour and $1.50 for over- | full force of gangster apparatus was ‘Gives Hiring Control To Companies; No Vote Taken On Plan the demand for the 6 hr. day, 30 hr. week. The following day, Thursday, the ship owners committee eagerly ‘announced its acceptance of the “yevised demands” which meant handing them several million dol- lars out of the coming year’s pay envelopes of the Atlantic Coast longshoremen. On Friday, the LL.A. racketeers were sent back to their respective ports to conduct a membership poll on acceptance of the proposed agreement. On Satur- day and Sunday the “‘poll” of 40,000 longshoremen, coopers and checkers was. completed. And on Monday Ryan announced that the men had voted for acceptance and signed the unbroken agreement! Fraudulent Poll Only a few facts need be cited to prove (if proof is at all necessary) that the poll was faked. In New York, for instance, a mass meeting was sup- posedly held of the longshoremen working along the North River. The meeting was so that out of the 5,000 men eligible to attend, 50 selected machine sup- Porters turned out. fifty voted that the abscent five thousand accept the agreement! Another fact: the West Coast mem- bership poll ending the strike em- braced less than 10,000 men yet it required over a week for comple- tion. “week end” membership “well organized” The selected Not a single tabulated count of granted “reasonable terms.” two days later, in the face of sea- men's Ryan executed a quick turn by signing a “truce” agreement pend- ing announcement of the West Coast arbitration decisions, ‘Then, | by the I. S. U. fakers), Putting through his moves with | sleight of hand speed, Ryan first scaled down the wage demand from $1.00 an hour to 95 cents an hour— with only $1.35 for overtime. Then two days later he dropped entirely the membership poll has been an- nounced from any city or any local. The masses of longshoremen know that Ryan lies when he says they voted for his sell-out terms in the new agreements! To be concluded tomorrow strike calls for Oct. 8, The Polish Groups | Cement Unit y In D etroit | yee i Socialist and Communist | Workers Plan Series | of Mass Meetings Close N. J. Plant (Continued from Page 1) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 28—A del- | (egation from the Polish Socialist | Branch “Spojnia” and the Polish | | Bureau of the Communist’ Party | jhere met last week and drew up a| | joint plan of struggle for the im-/ “could not hold the situation any | industry completely and strengthen Mediate needs of the employed and | longer,” blaming the Unemployment Councils for. this situation. It was decided at this meeting ‘that Karl Lockner, Communist | Candidate for Congress and leader | of the Chicago unemployed, State | Chairman of the Illinois Unem-/ ployment Council, is to be arrested | at sight, and under no circum-| stance is to be permitted to enter) Springfield. That the arrest of Karl Lockner must be made on| some invented excuse shows clearly | that they are ready even to frame | charges against outstanding lead- | ers of the unemployed in the state | of Illinois. i The Illinois Congress for Unem- ployment and Social Insurance has been called by the Unemployment | Councils and a number of branches | of the Illinois Workers Alliance, Local 56 of the Progressive Miners of America of Pana, Ill.; by the Belleville Local of the Federal and State Aid Association and also has| been. endorséd by many trade unions, unemployed organizations and masses of workers throughout the state. Tt is estimated that more than | 1,000 delegates have been elected to | attend the Congress which is to be| opened on Monday, Oct. 28 at 10 am., at Arion Hall, Fourth and Aclams Sireets. This Congress was called for the purpose of unifying the movement for the Workers Unemployment In- ;Surance Bill which received the en- ‘dorsement of hundreds of local unions of the A. F. of L. officially | endorsed by the Convention of ‘he P.M. A. held recently, by the Ill- inois Workers Alliance, by large numbers of locals of the United Mine Workers of America, by the} City of Rockford, Taylor Sp-in Zeigler, Belleville, Collinsville, Ber- : Wyn and other cities and towns in the siate. The Illinois Unemployment Coun- | cils will also propose a manifesto for | united actions throughout the State | zof Hlinois on Noy. 24 for the Work- sers Unemployment Insurance Bill, | 2for public works, Winter relief, and | to prepare and organize participa- tion of working class organizations | =in Illinois to the National Congress | ifor Unemployment and Social In-| zSurance which is to be held in| 7 Washington on Jan. 5, 6, 7, 1935 at| =the time of the opening of the U. S.| = Congress. 3, The State Committee of the Un- Semployment Councils has called up- son working class organizations, up- on trade unions, the A. F. of L., up- on all those who oppose the intro- =duction of fascism, to rally their Strength to prevent the attempts of tthe State government. to interfere ziwith the Congress for Social and ; Unemployment Insurance, by reso- :Jutions, telegrams, by delegations, by mass meetings, by demonstrations = throughout the state. All delegates aré to report either direct to the Convention Hall or to 2271-2 North Fifth Street to register. "| this | misleading and false.” the fight for 100 per cent union- ization, Keller Rouses Rage This, however, will not be the decision if Eli Keller, renegade Lovestonite and union manager, has his say. Silk workers are in a rage after learning of an article in the Jewish | Daily Forward this morning. an- nouncing that the meeting on Sat- urday morning is to take up the ex- pulsion of Communists. They re- port Keller as saying that since the National Textile Workers Union. has merged in Paterson with the U. T. W. and its membership joined ; the Federation, they have been car- rying on a campaign favorable to @ bosses. The Forward likewise | prints the outrageous slander that | Communists within the Union are | “inciting the rank and file against | the Jewish union leaders.” Such slanders have been an- swered by the rank and file group in the union, stating that this only | shows how desperate Keller is to save his clique control and prevent the issue of a strike together with the dye workers from coming up at the membership meeting. Keller is | reported as denying the Forward’s | story Officials Talk Retreat on Issues George Baldanzi of the Dyers has | issued a statement today in which |he declares: “The issues of the strike are questions of wages and hours, not the closed shop. From the conversations with these em- | ployers, we are led to believe that | their attorneys construe the inter- pretation of the 100 per cent union shop to mean that the owner will not be permitted to hire his own help. At this time we wish to brand interpretation as absolutely The rank and file committee has | already warned the workers against this retreat which the officials are talking of and that they should be- ware of maneuvers for a six months’ truce. Thomas McMahon, President of the U. T. W., and Mur- phy, International Representative of the A. F. of L. are here and they are doing everything in their power to patch up their six month truce agreement which is being torn into shreds as a re-strike movement spreads throughout the country. The Communist Party is holding a mass election rally on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. at which Clarence Hathaway, Editor of the Daily Worker; Morris Brown, Com- munist candidate for Governor, and Martin Russek, Communist candi- date for Congressman, will speak on “How the Dye Workers Can Win Their Strike.” The meeting will be held in Washington Hall, 74 God- win Street. In Lodi tomorrow at 11 a.m., an- other Communist rally will take place. Build Up a Daily Worker Carrier Route! | unemployed workers of Detroit and |Hamttamek and for popularizing | |the decisions of the Second Con-| \gress Against War and Fascism. The meeting between the repre-| sentatives of the two parties decided jto call mass meetings for the pur-| ‘pose of arousing the large Polish | population here in a struggle for} increased relief and for the enact- ment of the Workers Unemploy-! ment Insurance Bill, for a workers’ | code and a single class struggle in-| dustrial union jp the auto industry, jand for furthering the work of the Congress against War and Fascism. | The mass meeting will be held in| the Polish Hall on the East Side, | in Falcon Hall on the West Side, | and in the Workers’ Home in Ham- | |tramck, | To combat the efforts of the po-| }lice to organize divisions of youth| |police in the West Side, special (mass protest meetings will be held {to fight the growing menace of fas- cism, Jobless Picket State Capitol In Austin, Tex. Destitute Workers Say They Will Starve Unless Demands Are Met AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 26.—Forty men and women picketed the capi- Communist Party Lists 8 Demands in Election 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 resulting from monopoly and inflation, for higher wages, shorter hours, a shorter work-week, and improved living standards. 2.—Against capitalist terror and the 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; for | {°° Telief were’granted. the maintenance of all the civil and political rights of the masses. More than 2,000 destitute work- ers, including those who are picket- ing, have recently been cut off the that they would starve to death in 3.—For unemployment and social insurance at the expense of the employers and the state; for the Workers Unemployment Insur- | relief rolls in the county. The ance Bill (H. R. 7598). |Texas State Legislature, in its fourth extraordinary session of 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 impoy- erished farmers from taxation; cancellation of the debts of poor farmers; for the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill. this year, has refused to vote neces+ sary relief appropriations, while its jadministrative sessions have cost the taxpayers hundreds of thou- | sands of dollars. Last week, under the leadership of the Unemployed Councils, hun- dreds of Negro and white workers stormed the lower floor of the State Capitol, demanding Winter clothing and food. Scores of the ragged |®rmy who held the State Capitol |for hours, men, women and chil- | dren—Negro, white and Mexican— said that they had not eaten for days. 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’ (bonus). back wages 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, tol of Texas here today, declaring | |its corridors unless their demands | Detroit Communist Nominees Lead 1,000 In Relief Struggle (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 26.— More than 1,000 workers, gather- ing at the Welfare Station at Davison and Joseph Campau Avenues, this morning, hurled their demand for withdrawal of the recent relief cuts and for a twenty per cent increase in re- lief. The demonstration was or- ganized by the Unemployment Council of North Detroit and the united front relief conference. Led by Mary Himoff, Commu- nist candidate for State Treas- urer, who spoke from the steps of the welfare ‘station, the surg- ing crowd of Negro and white workers shouted their approval of demands for relief increases. The demands were presented to the station supervisor, Mrs. Cos- tello, by the workers’ commit- tee John Anderson, fighting auto worker and Communist candi- date for Governor, was warmly welcomed by the crowd, Jobless Win RelietRaisein Pennsylvania Westmoreland County Workers March on Relief Office GREENBURG, Pa. Oct. 2%6— Three hundred Negro and white workers from Westmoreland County massed at the office of the Relief Director Paul M. Keenan here last Friday where an elected committee of 28 forced him to grant the prom- ise that relief increases would be made effective on Nov. 1. The workers marched from 15 towns in the county, many of them being forced to walk because of a recent State ruling prohibiting them from riding in trucks, H. F. Robinson, county treasurer of the Unemployment Councils, headed the delegation of 28 Negro and white men, women and youth. An 11-point program of demands was presented calling for the im- mediate appropriation of adequate winter relief funds; cash relief at the rate of $2 weekly for each per- son on relief, $2.50 for single work- ers; cash payment of rents and tax exemption for small home owners; no forced labor, union wages and conditions to.apply on-all relief jobs; no discrimination; free milk, cloth- ing, shoes, light, water, gas and fuel; workers’ representation on the relief boards; and enactment of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, A county-wide petition campaign is being conducted by the rapidly- |growing Unemployment Councils for the removal of Relief Director Keenan for his discrimination against unemployed Negroes. Hunger | March Gains Backing (Continued from Page 1) the Arieta Building in Bleecker Square, The Independent Leather Work- ers Union elected five delegates to the march at a general membership meeting in Gloversville and an un- employed section will be set up 8.—Against Roosevelt's war preparedness program; against im- . * oat perialist war; for the defense of the Soviet Union and Soviet China, Councils Spike Eviction 3 Of Unemployed Family Protest Wins Release For Pittsburgh Worker | Railroaded to Asylum) (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct.. 25.— George Issoski, for years an em- |Ployee of J. and L. in Aliquippa, |was released from the insane asy- lum at Horrance yesterday, where he had been railroaded by Beaver County authorities for his activi- ties in helping to build the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. Issoski, father of seven children, disappeared on Sept. 11. An in- vestigation by the governor brought the demand for his release and disclosed that the steel worker had been arrested by Aliquippa police, charged with “drunk and dis orderly conduct”; was “examined by the Beaver County Lunacy Com- mission—Dr. Mackall, Dr. Cornelius, and Attorney Stone—and commit- ted to the asylum, where institution doctors and Dr. Pond, psychiatrist, judged him sane. Stone was the deputy in the attack on Ambridge pickets last year, and Dr, Corne- lius threatened to cut off relief to Mrs. Issoski and seven children if she refused to sign commitment papers. Philadelphia Workers To Hear Jack Stachel On Mill Strike Tonight PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 26.— Jack Stachel will speak on the les- sons of the textile strike at mass meeting at the Kensington Labor | Lyceum, Second and Cambria streets, tomorrow night under the auspices of the Communist Party. The Kensington Section has been active in mobilizing workers of the Anti-Fascist Movie anti-Fascists Fascism is calling upon all members and all affiliated organiza- Beginning today, the Unemploy- tions and all individuals who sup-|ment Council has established a ported the recent Congress Against | picket line before. the business es- War and Fascism to do their ut- jtablishment of G. Glick, Second most in bringing great numbers of | and Spruce Streets, who has taken Chicagoans to see the film, which|¢Viction proceedings against the Diamond family, one of his tenants PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 26.— Showing in Chicago For Thaelmann Fight CHICAGO, Oct. 26. — Chicago announced today through the Chicago Committee for the Liberation of Thaelmann that they are spurring the campaign of protest and demonstration for the freedom of Thaélmann by turning the scheduled film showings of the jmew Anti-Fascist film “Ernst Thaelmann, Fighter Against Fas- cism” into gigantic rallies for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann. : The Chicago Local of the Ameri- can League Against War and pires at the same time as the dye ment. Joint action of the silk and workers’ struggle. The dye strike is taking place the election campaign. The textile The members of the Communist are active in the dye strike. In Communist candidate for Congress mill section, (Continued from Page 1) dustry is necessary. The silk workers, organized into the same union, fighting the same blacklist and wage cuts, should fight for an agreement which ex- strengthen the whole fighting front of the textile which party is the party of the working class. once sprang to the support of the dye strikers, New Jersey district (Bergen County) is playing a leading role in all strike activities. Morris Brown, Communist candidate for Governor of New Jersey, is active on the dye strike picket will be presented today. (Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave. from 6:30 p.m, to 11 p.m.) October 28, (Temple Judea, 1227 Indepen- ; dence Blvd., from 3:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.) October 29, (Social Turner Hall, 1651 W. Belmont Ave., from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.) Communist Candidates Are Leaders in the Fight for the Right to’ Organize, Strike, Picket. Support the Strike of 30,000 Textile Dye Workers An Editorial lines: Silk strike, workers’ agree- dye workers will Washington, the ening the picket leaders consent in the midst of workers can see Party, which at Lodi, S. Saller, in the Seventh strike, In Paterson, nist Party. at 40214 Spruce Street. Diamond, in his five and one- were Brown was a leader in the 1933 dye and The Communist Party of New Jersey, as soon as the strike was declared, issued a statement to the strikers, calling for rank and file control of the strike, and the steps listed above, and pledging full support of the strike. 4 While the New Deal Democratic Party of Roose- velt, supported by the Republican Party in all anti- strike activity, is trying to sell tne strike out in Communists are active strength- lines. While the Socialist Party to Gorman’s sell-out policy, the Communist Party has continuously fought against his acceptance of arbitration schemes and called for rank and file control. DYE STRIKERS! — Keep control of your own Defeat all arbitration maneuvers. strike, conduct mass picket lines, until the strike is won. Vote Communist. Vote for your own Party —the Party of the working class. Join the Commu- Stay on Negro Workers! Vote Communist Against Jim-Crow and For the within the union. The union will appeal to all other organized labor groups in the aréa to support the hunger march. A committee from the leather work- ers union will visit the Mayors of Gloversville and nearby Johnstown to demand food and housing for the northern division and a permit for a parade through their cities. mass meeting to greet the marchers has been arranged. The United Action Committee mean- while is urging all workers and workers’ organizations in the State half years residence in the house,|to wire Mayor Thayer of Albany has paid $1,750 rental, and con-| demanding that he provide food tinued to pay by borrowing after he| and shelter and the right to free had been long unemployed. The] assemblage for the marchers. Welfare Department has refused to pay the rent. Eviction proceedings, which have thus far been stopped by the assembled workers, taken after Diamond owed*$5 back rent. Jones Backs LL.D. in Fight for Boys (Continued from Page 1) Jones declares, ‘‘ have men and wo- men been called upon to take such chances as those taken by members of the I. L. D. in this case. The Scottsboro boys themselves have not been in much more jeopardy at times than the men and women who have gone to their defense under the banners of this organization.” He points out that on the other hand, “the men who have recently fallen in behind Samuel Leibowitz have done nothing in the past that would justify a belief that they are willing to make the sacrifices and follow through with the dogged militancy needed in this case. “If they are in earnest,” he con- tinues, “there is no reason why Dr. Edward E, Haynes, William H. Davis and their associates might not ex- ert their full influence in this case without trying to oust the I. L. D., which literally snatched these boys. from the electric chair when they were doomed to legal lynching by an Alabama court.” Workers’ Bill. Endorsement Is Demande Delegation With Huge Backing Presents Bill in Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. 27—A delegation of workers representing a total of fifty-eight fraternal so« cieties, with a membership aggre- gating over 400,000, visited Mayor MeNeir and the City Council ‘Taés- day to demand their endorsement of the Workers Unemployment, In- surance Bill, and the appropriation of sufficient funds by the city to meet present needs of workers whose insurance ‘is lapsing because of unemployment, until the Work- ers’ Bill is passed by Congress. The visit to McNair brought ay categorical refusal on the part of, the city executive. He declared em phatically that he is against all un employment insurance. At the Council hearing, despite heckling from President Garland, who continually interrupted speak- ers, three of the delegates gained the floor to present their demands. When Councilmen discovered that it was the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill which the delegation asked them to endorse, they claimed long friendship with the bill. President Garland, however, tried to close the hearing without giving any indication whether the Council intended to consider the demands or not. The delegates ob- jected and finally forced the body to promise to send a communica- tion regarding any action Council takes, and Councilman Kane's final suggestion that some action be taken met approval of the others. Councilman McGee claimed that he “favored unemployment insur- ance,” but that the Workers’ Bill “is impractical,” ignoring the fact that this is the only bill which would really help the unemployed now on relief lists. The delegation was a representa tive committee elected at a confer- ence of fraternal organizations held here last month, at which the dele- gates present went on record unani- mously in support of the Workers’ Bill. Workers’Enemies Exposed Stanley Dziengelefski, of Dickson City, Pa. has been expelled- from the Communist Party a6- an. -out- and-out petty-bourgeois opportunist and turn-coat, who has betrayed the interests of the toiling massés by refusing to carry out the line of the Communist Party in workers’: mass organizations, by his anti- semitic attttude and Polish national chauvinism, and py slanders against the heroic German Communist Party and against the Communist International. . In 1924 Dziengelefski was a staunch supporter of the infamous Baltimore and Ohio Plan and of the general policy of class collab- oration. He studied at the Brook- wood College under A. J. Muste, and later joined the Communist Party. He has dropped out of the Party and rejoined several times. While his past record of instablity | Was well known, the Party gave him another chance and readmitted him again when the workers of Dickson built up an Unemployment Council of several hundred members and Dziengelefski promised to work in this movement along the line and policies of the Party. This he has deliberately failed and refused to do. When the Un- employment Council instructed him to organize the relief workers in Dickson, he sabotaged this impor- tant work. When a strike of the re- lief workers took place, he became panic-stricken and stated that— “the politicians will drive us out of the Council,” thus showing his; cowardice and lack of confidence in| the workers and their mass strug- gles. Then he began to oppose and slander the Communist Party. He expressed crass national-chauyinism by saying that he was not going to carry out any orders from “two Jews and one Irishman.” In an at- tempt to cover up his political bankruptcy he slided up to the American Workers. Party, saying that it had a better and more cor- rect program than the Communist Party. ‘ After he was expelled from the Communist Party, this renegade started to disrupt the work of the Unemployment Council and was driven out from there by the work- ers themselves. He then started to organize his own Unemployed League in cooperation with. other people who were kicked out, from the Unemployment Council for various reasons. 5 All workers’ organizations, espe- cially those of the unemployed, a: warned against this disruptive an treacherous individual. He bring: harm to all unemployed organiza tions, regardless of their political attachments. DELEGATES GO TO A. F. OF ly MEET CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 26.— Five elected delegates will leave to- night for the Pittsburgh A. F. of L. conference, three from the: Ma- chinist Union one Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Workers Associa- tion and one Boilermaker. Negro Bill of Rights