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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1934 Page 3-7 COMMUNIST NOMINEES IN ALABAMA FIGHT COMPANY UNIONS N.R.A. ORE MINE PACT Wide Drive) jctricts Have Not Urged to Free Philadelphia (OLD PARTIES PUSH — _ CP. Election | March Today Reached 50% Mark In $60,000 Drive casa FAKE JOB SLOGANS IN PENN ELECTIONS SIGNS AWAY RIGHT Phil Frankfeld | TO STRIKE WEAPON Communist Candidates Point Out That Plans To Company Unionize Mines Can Be Smashed By Building Strong Party in Pits National Council Board| | Candidates To Speak on Calls On All Groups | the Campaign Issues | Promise “Employment” to Desperate Mining To Intensify Fight Desperate Plight of the Daily Worker Makes It| Sunday Afternoon Population—But Workers Turn from Two | NEW YORK —The National Ex- | * ee . Boss Parties to Communist Party cbaive Shand OFS Uneaorient | Imperative That Every District Fill sien t) | Council again yesterday called upon Its Quota Quickly By Jerry Coleman | all organizations and individuals to é : intensify the c: for the re- —— faci enya 3 With more than two months of the $60,000 drive gone, the districts | have still not climbed to the half-way mark! BESSEMER, Ala., Oct. 26.—Since the end of the red} tease of Phil Frankfeld, member of | ore strike last June, the bosses have been trying to smash se executive oes ee Coun- srhag sae ak Sno) * . ’ s ‘ ctls, now serving a two four year y sf : the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ Union and establish |ta0."tn ‘siawnox Prison for his Although more than $5,000 was received from October 19th to the their own company union. But the Communist Election cam- | activity in behalf of the jobless | 25th, 19 districts finished below $100. Six did not send in anything. paign here has raised the fight against this menace to a new New York, which is obligated to send in $4,200 a week in order to| keep the 8-page New York Daily Worker after Election Day, contributed workers in Pennsylvania. high level. $1,000 less than that amount. But the money from Nem York, combined PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 26.—! | As the election campaign nears its |final stage, the Communist Party | Blection Campaign Committee, is WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Oct. 26. — The election cama arranging a whole series of affairs and meetings to bring to the work- | Paign in the state of Pennsylvania gets more heated every ers of Philadelphia its platform. |day. The central plank in the Democratie Party platform The first of these events will be an |. : ss automobile parade tomorrow. is that every man who wants to work is to have a job. The The parade will form at Kensing- | Republicans and Democrats appeal to the unemployed, ton and Lehigh, and will proceed who make up half of the entires through the streets of Kensington, | working class population in the coal By Steve Nelson atched before by the Party. Even + The statement by the National The strike settlement granted the | fakers, the bosses, the gun thugs,| Executive Board is as follows: New Deal style of union recogni- tion, which stated that the bosses | would deal with representatives of the union, and reached. Thus the union leaders like Cole, Lipscomb, and Sooit, signed away the right to strike. if a grievance | couldn't be settled between them, it | would be taken to Washington, | where a final decision would be/| and the city officials against the | Communists serves to take the | workers’ attention away from the |popsickle union, while they are filled with lies and slanders on the Communist Party. In this way the labor fakers are helping the bosses build the popsickle union, and are fighting ageinst the best interests | of the miners. “Phil Frankfeld, the leader of the Unemployment Council of Alle- gheny County, Pennsylvania and member of the National Executive Board of the National Unemploy- ment Council has been thrown into Jail by the authorities of Pennsylva- nia for militant activity in a fore- closure sale. At this time of rising unemployment throughout the with the $1,000 which put Philadelphia over the top and the sums from Chicago and Boston went almost the whole way to the total of the week. Most of the districts are still not heeding the emergency call of the Daily Worker! MILWAUKEE Milwaukee, which has a quota of $1,000, sent in only $40. This dis- trict has contributed, in all, but 37 per cent of its quota. Neither its Communist Party units nor its mass organizations are taking the drive| seriously. For example, out of about 20 I. W. O. branches, only 3 have South, and West Philadelphia Avenue, A request for a permit for this parade was at first held back by Superintendent of Police LeStrange. But after failing to persuade the Inspector Rankin approved parade with several slight changes \region. The kind of jobs they pre- |of the N. R. A., mainly advocated |by J. A. Gorman of the Anthracite |Conciliation Board. | According to this plan of Gor |man, 36,000 miners would get “jobs, further cutting of wages of the men in the city of Scranton, where-the: ending at Eighth Street and Ridge | pare is forced labor along the plans|Communist Party could never hold a@ meeting even in a hall without it being broken up (in 1932 William Z. Foster, candidate for President ‘as arrested), today open air meet- ings held in the city because ms that it was impossible, |@Md earn a maximum of $13 per|Of the stubborn fight put up oy the op ea the |Week. This plan is an invitation for |local comrades who are supported by the workers in the unemploy- i | P who are working in the min ment movement. ‘These same leaders continually | Fight For Reliet Peace eg eee. Mase contributed. The trade unions, the I. L. D. and the workers’ clubs, are | i" the route. Mine ssa oT Bad The largest meeting where _the preach against striking against the; Jn this situation the Communists lll tien the ieeas “ae ine oe similarly guilty. workers, all sympathizers, | ue conditions in the mines are|COmmunist Party presented “our, government. Thus they would stop | the miners from striking for their rights on the excuse that they would be striking against the gov- ernment. At the same time the shop and mine committees are booted from boss to boss and never get, any sat- isfaction. When a grievance is sent to Washington, it either dies on the way, or after it gets there. Company Union Drive The Tennessee Coal, Iron, Railroad Co, the Republic Steel Co., the Sloss-Sheffeld Iron and Steel Co., and the Woodard Iron Co. took advantage of this state of affairs immediately. The scabs and company gun thugs were supposed to have been fired when the strikers came back into the mine. Instead, the bosses kept the scabs and gun and | are working harder than ever, in Spite of difficult conditions. The fight for relief, for unemployed miners, the fight against discrimi- nation in the mines, and so on, which are the key to defeating the company union, are being pushed by the Communists. The Welfare Dept., which is controlled by the T. ©. I. and Republic bosses, is re- fusing to put militant union men on relief. This is intended to force them to move out of Bessemer. Therefore the fight for relief is both & fight against starvation and the popsickle union. The fact that the scabs are al- lowed to carry guns and drink all the whisky they want to without police interference exposes the fact that the city officials are hand in hhand with the bosses. The hard- ernment of the country are trying to throttle the movement by im- prisoning the leaders of the Un- employed. “We must put an end to these at- tacks upon the unemployed workers and their leaders since this is only the beginning of a general attack upon the unemployed and the low- ering of their conditions. “The National Unemployment Council calls upon all of its affili- ated bodies and all other workers organizations to send resolutions protesting the imprisonment of Phil Frankfeld and demanding his im- mediate unconditional release.” National Executive Board, National Unemployment Council Mesaba Range A.F.L. NEWARK Newark sent $78. This district has finished only half its quota— and the Newark section proper, which has crossed the line, has con- tributed most to this half. sections and mass organizations merely creeping along. The Hudson County and Union County sections, particularly, are holding back the district. Emergency calls, however, have already been sent out in Newark, Committees have been appointed to visit all mass organizations which | are meeting this week. Over the week-end, collections will be taken up at every affair. Those who have funds for the Daily Worker have been asked to rush them to the District Daily Worker office, DANGER GROWING Every district must realize that it can no longer avoid its duty, The Daily Worker has announced an emergency because it has been forced to do so. Every day brings the deficit of publishing the paper, higher and higher, and the “Daily” must have imme- diate funds to meet the situation. | All | Here we find again, the Communist Party | Emergency contributions must be at once received from every who have cars, or who can get |them have been asked to be present at Kensington and Lehigh Avenues, tomorrow at five o'clock. | A general election campaign tag | day has been arranged by the Dis- trict Election Campaign committee thorough systematic canvass of the workers’ sections of the city. Daily Workers and Election Platforms will be sold... and an intensive at- tempt to get political and financial support by the workers of the Party will be made. The first symposium on the cur- rent election campaign, with rep- resentatives of the Republican, Democratic, Socialist and Commu- nist parties present to present and worse today in view of the existence of two unions, the leaders of neither of which wants to put up a real |fight for the miners. The United |Mine Workers helped in bringing jabout the bad conditions which ex- isted in the past, and the new further played into the hands of the |Operators by splitting the ranks of jthe miners and continuing the |Lewis policy, a policy of class col- |laboration, working with the N.R.A,, j ete. Even the reactionary “Scranton Times” laughs at the idea of a strike being mentioned by the new union, saying that this “is the sixth threat of strike which will not end election platform in the Anthracite region was a symposium arranged in. the city of Scranton at the Court |House where 3,000 workers ap- |plauded speakers of the Party, where a Democratic representative Was so badly exposed that not @ for Sunday, November 4. The en- union, the Anthracite Miners of| Single vote was received either by. tire party will be mobilized for a | Pennsylvania, headed by Maloney,|'® Republican or Democratic ‘Pat- |ties. All that the Democrats had to offer was the flag, “liberty” arid “beloved” Roosevelt, etc. This meet- jing is only an indication of the féel< jing amongst the masses of workers | ho are compelled to live on starva= tion relief, which is now threatened |to be cut by the beloved honorabla Roosevelt in his last radio speech; The workers are now turning from the two old parties to the Commus |nist Party. in a strike.” | For the first time in the history district! E district must speed mota! defend their platforms will be held C. P. Program Spreads of Luzerne and Lackawanna Coun- thugs and used them in the be-/| ware stores and pawn shops will not U F 0 " vend pees Sunday afternoon, 2 p. m, at the} yn view of the above situation, | ties, the Party has a full slate, and ginning of a company union. sell rifles or ammunition to the se Force to Oust District Quota Received Received Percent | Broadway Arena, Broad and Chris- |the Communist Party election pro-|stands third after the Republicans After the mines had operated a/ union men. These facts show the Rank and File Men| : zoston cous pe ha wine et quota| tian Streets. A. W. Mills, district | gram finds fertile ground in the An-|and Democrats on the ballot. The few days, they shut down and a big | tenseness of the situation and that SEO, 2 New York City pyre} aizee dvd iiss | Ot@anizer will speak for the Com- |thracite region. Wherever a group | Socialists and Socialist Labor Patty, drive for membership in the com- | hell ey peak loose any Hens, inai-| HIBBING, Minn, Oct. 26.—at a| 3 Philadelpnia 3,500 992.58 3520.75 100.59 | Munist Party. |of workers gathers and the Com-|and Prohibitionists, etc., have no pany union took place. At the Mus-| Union ‘fakers encourage this indi- # : «| 4 Butfalo 730 58.66 279.14 37.22 ee munist program is explained to|congressional, senatorial and legis- coda (T. I. C.) Ore mine (the larg-| vidual action by refusing to organ- Gal Oeisel oe ee en een 5 Cleveland. Noon unas seat ass | Unem loyment Councils them, the workers unhesitatingly | lative candidates running. ©The esi in Alabama) most of the efforts |ize the unions for a real fight Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter | 7 Detroit 2.500 117.07 934.38 37.37 P come out in support of the Party |Communist Party is the only oppo- were concentrated. Jack Brown, the | against the bosses. In spite of the| workers (A. F. of L,) held in Hib.| ® Chicase 6,500 487.11 2246.41 3456| Of Phila. Ask Protest | program. This has been done in| sition against the program of the chief company gun thug, and Will| betraying actions of the union fak-| ping Minnesota on Ontobar Sie, e4 — = 20.40 315. HH 39.39 x FS ‘ ‘i | dozens of towns which were never boss parties in the elections. Jones, a shack rouster, canvassed |ers, the Communists are mobilizing | the reactionaries in control forcibly | 11 North Dakota 250 1.50 10 6 On Discrimination) : the union men trying to get them |the miners for a real fight for bet- | siected the regular elected delegates 12 Beattie 3.200 a2 218.08 13 levee — - -~— a i] into the company union. At the| ter conditions in the mines and for| py Tocal 32 of Hveleth on. the [12 ees on =e ae oa PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Oct. 26.— WHAT'S ON , Los Angeles, Cal. i same time both white and Negro | relief—-which is the key to defeat- “ | & am i - grounds that one of the delegates, |15 New Haven ‘70 134.60 425.86 56.78 |The Unemployment Councils of Annual Workers, Press Concert, Sure | scabs set themselves up as leaders | ing the company union, G. Peterson is a Communist. They | 16 Sharlotte m9 190 68.25 455 | Philadelphia have urged every or-| # day, Fev 40 Main Tome, | __ of the company union. However.) President Van Jones of the Mus- | also threw out of the meeting of iy mimagse™ 1,000 om sit si1o |Zanization and all indviduals_to| Philadelphia, Pa. Brondway, Concert Program. Pouile 8 after several weeks, they could only | coda Local spoke up as a real union | the council, non-communists who | 19 Denver 400 20.65 291.97 72.299 |send immediate protests to the Bell| ELECTION Rally, Saturday, Oct nent speakers. t recruit about 100 members, while|man when he said that as long as | fought for and defended th. - | 20 Houston 300 4.00 13 |r Kensington and Lehigh Ave. 5 p | i. | ‘or and defended the con. ‘elephone Company, 1316 Arch 8t., t : : the bona fide union retained “its the Communists fight for the work- | stitutional rights of the miners of |2! St,Teuls My es at 307° |Stating that they will cancel their | KenGoeton taber teccum, ana & Cenbris | Philadelphia, Pa. i membership of 1100. | ets he would not fight them. the Mesaba Range. 23 Kentucky 200 2.00 “| telephone contracts unless the com-|Sts., where Jack Stachel will speak on | Social and Entertainment, Saturday, — , The Communist Party unit at the} ‘The election campaign, with John| The Eveleth Local is solidly sup- | 24 Louisiana 200 A 4.35 217 |pany immediately installs a tele-| the Textile Strike Oct. 27, at 305 8. 11th St., 8:30 p.m f Muscoda mine exposed all the lead-| avis, a white worker, and Ranc | porting its delegates and stands by | 35 iors. = sd ene) 3. | phone irt the Council headquarters.| Detroit, Mich. ee Dees Cotes wervske nae e ers and the meaning of the com-| Smith, a Negro worker, both from the provisions of the Range Cen- Miscellaneous 1,000 61.77 6.17 For the past three weeks, the} tecrurE on “What I Saw in Fascist Admission 5c. pany union. The work of the Com-/ Bessemer, running for Governor|tral Council constitution, which Councils have applied for the in-| Germany” by Rev. John H. Bollens, Work- y. munists started action in the union | and Lieutenant Governor respect-|gives every member of the union | 2 Districts $60,000 $5713.46 $25007.68 418 |stallation of a telephone in their|ers Open Forum, Sunday, Oct. 26, 3:30| Buffalo, N. Y. unemployment insurance, but the} mind: both in Nazi Germany and| 3. Unemployment. “Unemploy-/|that the state leaders of the S. P. right to organize, strike and picket, RD. ¥ a law aes ita oe See scans bed is ciereety silent | in Soviet Russia the railways are| ment cannot be remedied under|have repeaedly rejected the~pro-| adequate relief to needy teeaek DUDLEY STREET oneal AY more than 2 pieces u on question, Speed-up, com- | government-owned and_ operated. | capitalism.” posals of the Communist Party for|and cancellatiaon of back taxes and CT literature, and a crime to distribute | pany unions, the right to organize| But the workers in the Soviet| This sounds like a very revolu-| united action against the capitalist | debts, equal rights for Negroes and on Pn * it. in unions of the workers’ own| Union have Socialism, the workers | tionary statement. But like similar | offensive, against war and fascism. snk ame and President Van Jones called all the union members up to the com- ively, on the Communist ticket, the right to be a member and sup- headquarters, 919 Locust St. Two p.m., Finnish Workers Hall, 5969 14th St. Dance given by the Butalo City Gomer brings a new angle into the fight|porter of a working class political g weeks ago the proper contract was| Worcester, Mass. LW.O. and Russian National Mutual pany office to show the power of | against the company unions by ex- | party. will be Clarence Hathaway of New |negotiated and a deposit made, and i, eRe a ae ee the union. At the appointed time| posing the support the boss politi-| Previous to this action by the Hathaway To Speak York, waitor of the Dally, Worker, six businessmen signed papets of | ann-war Congress at 20 Andiontt iree | 700 Main’ ‘Tickets ta Gav, Mo oe the miners swarmed to the office.| cians give these. Range Council reactionaries, the} At Final Milwaukee | ther speakers will include Morris | reference. Sunday, Oct. 28. Given by American| door 25c. Ed Ball, the superintendent, was thunderstruck at the sight. Jack Brown was so scared that he called Sheriff Hawkins from Birmingham. It showed conclusively how power- ful the bona fide union is. During all this time, when the mines had worked, the scabs had drawn big pay checks, but the bosses cut the union men so much that their pay checks were about one-third or less than those of the “The defeat of the company union depends for the most part upon the work of the Communists in the unions in Bessemer,” the Communist candidates pointed out. | Judging from the way the Party has {held up so far, and the fight it is organizing, it is safe to say that the company union will be driven out of the ore mines. Urge Members of Your Union to Read the Daily Worker! membership of the Eveleth Local rejected the expulsion policy of the Range Council and also elected a delegation of eight to the Oct. 21st Range Council meeting where they were ejected. Chisholm Local of the M. M. & S. W. also threw Green’s letter into the waste basket, which called for the expulsion of Communists from the local, The Central Labor Council of Hibbing filed Green's letter, C. P. Election Meeting MILWAUKEE, Oct. 26—A mass election rally to be held on Satur- day, November 3rd, at 7:30 p.m. at the Milwaukee Auditorium will wind up the election campaign of the Communist Party here. The meeting will also be the celebration of the seventeenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Childs, candidate for Governor of Wisconsin and Fern Dobbins, can-~ didate for U. S. Senator. An artistic and musical program is being arranged for this meeting with the help and participation of @ number of workers’ cultural or- ganizations. | Communist Candidates Are Leaders in the Fight for the On Monday, Mr. King, one of the telephone company’s managers, came to the Council headquarters, and after a long investigation dur- ing which he was assured that the Councils were a national organiza- tion and new references were given him, departed with the assurance that the telephone would be in- stalled, Yesterday the Council's deposit was returned and the application League Against War and Fascism. Newark, N. J. SECOND Annual Dance and Hallowe'en Ball given by Jewish Workers Club, Sat., Oct. 27, 8 p. m. at I.W.O. Center, 516 Clinton Ave. Popular talent. Adm. 35c. Proceeds to Children’s School. Dr. G. O. Vennesland Dentist 4816 N. Western Avenue LOngbeach 0757 Chicago, Ml. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER scabs. The chief speaker at this meeting’ Right to Organize, Strike, Picket, | for telephone service was refused. Beautiful Raised When the company union got 4 eaeeenatee sf ah a eee es ee pane ne piles eee ES Rn ie Hammer & Sickle eee ames Casey, man e tan meee Ae agaast ba e e Ps é A Dally Worker, speaks Dudley Street | rs ra House, 113 Dudley 8t., t. rai . enna eten.as Michigan Socialist Candidates Ignore Needs of Workers 2." "> fs seeps — feeding scabs and weak union men 27. Supper at & p. m. Russian Prog. ald Bait Mouslet fish sandwiches, ribs, dopes, and ae 6 => = — ~ - sors ———— 6, eaieas pegs Hall, 3% ving Ave, peldsnre bagi i d ¥ iid . é ’ 2 ass. Excellent Concert, Orchestra T Gran’ popsickles. At this time the union’ Ng Mention of the NRA the socialist leaders who wrote, ism (Fascism), the most brutal, jon reading further you discover that| Economie Break-Down)| Music. Ann Burak will speak on Tex- | R. BEAUDETTE "pits, wD miners started calling the company union the “popsickle” union. _ At Raimund and Sloss the union had weakened because it had not fought against discrimination. The union men were being terrorized and told that they either had to turn in their union books or get off the job. Many union men have been framed up and fired. It is significant to note that the Communist Party units were weak- est in these places, and it was here that the union was the weakest, and Is Made in Platform Of Socialist Party By A. B. MAGIL Are there automobile factories in Michigan? The question sounds like a joke, but it isn’t, It’s the most natural question to ask after reading the state election platform of the So- cialist Party of Michigan. Believe it or not, the word “automobile” this platform are concerned. No mention of the N, R, A, of the Roosevelt government, of the corrupt Comstock state adminis- tration, of persecution of Negroes, of the state sales and head taxes, of the onrushing danger of war and fascism! But what does the Socialist Party Platform contain? 1, Social ownership. This ancient Socialist Party nag is trotted out once more and the workers in- terroristic rule of the capitalist class. The decisive question always is: which class has the power? 2. Production and distribution. “We must plan production for use and not for profit. We must pro- vide a medium of exchange that will automatically maintain the balance between production and consumption.” A Variation of an Old Theory The idea that the whole capitalist chaos of overproduction and under- its aim is to hide the fact that the lot of the unemployed can be remedied, i. improved, under capitalism through organized strug- gle. Unemployment cannot be wiped out under capitalism; for this, as the experience of Soviet Russia has | shown, the means of production | and state power must be in the hands of the workers. “Until work is provided, unem- ployed men and women and their children should be given a cash Laid to Exchange, Not Exploitation cialist Party are not silent on this question; large sections of them aze | satisfied neither with the platform | nor the candidates of the S. P. In| Flint, for example, the Socialist Party members declare that they will not vote for their candidate for | governor, Arthur E. Larsen, because tile Strike. Subs. 25¢. Michigan Film Circuit presents Detroit Premiere—SOVIET TALKIE FILM SOVIET TALKIE FILM Based on Novel by MAXIM GORKY ‘“*‘MOTHER’’ with MUSIC and ENGLISH TALK vited to jump on. The platform |consumption, with its attendant| allowance that will maintain them|he is a minister—an expression of || SAT., OCT. 27—VANDERBILT HALL, Cumberbilt near West ¥nd the popsickle union grew the| does not even occur in the platform | makes the “revolutionary” pro rd bse opin i t ” the healthy disgust of the prole- —T to 11 P. . fastest. of a party which professes to rep-| for “the immediate fivisier tba crises and mass unefnployment, is|in comfort and decency. y_disgu: Pi | ) . M. Leaders Do Nothing During this time the union lead- ers and especially, Cole, Lipscomb, and Scott, have not proposed any action to defeat the company 5 = ¥ ; War and Fascism in Chicago, de- these fakers talk all the time, and| Neeif to’ the workers and former | MaNeY and credit." falo to say | Direct Credit Society, which has|a 8 per cent eat im the femliy tors | SPIE the boyeattof the Congress by || WED.. OCT. 31—PERRY HALL, 1049 East Ferny—t P. M me nothing, Of HG: state, ipmares their Ghost what class will socially own and considerable influence in Michigan.| get (actually the cut amounts to the officialdom. In Kalamazoo too,|| THURS. NOV. 1—MARTIN HALL, 4759 Martin—7 P. M. At the same time, these union | fakers are tying the hands of the | members with Washington red tape. While the union waits on Roose- velt’s boss-controlled labor boards, the bosses put all their efforts into building the popsickle union. When time is so precious, the bosses have all the advantage. The successful work of the Com- munists at the Muscoda mine was the signal for a big anti-red drive. The labor fakers are trying to drive the Communists out of the unions. The homes of three mili- tant union men were bombed. The pombing was done by the bombing ring in the Trades Council and by the company gun thugs. The City u reductions with the shorter week—| any change in the private owner-| It is clear that the Socialist lead-| for these demands. ers. Anderson is the Communist Program: _ Police politely ignore the bombing | hut the S. P. platform does not|ship of the means of production |ers are determined to end poverty Silent on United Front candidate and his is a fighting plat- Sam . : : re of militant workers’ homes. HowW-| mention this subject. Both the| and distribution, in Michigan even if it is necessary] The platform is significantly|form that demands higher wages, [| Violin—Piano Selections -- Russian Solo and Chorus ever, a police watch is kept over scabs’ homes to prevent bombings. The Bessemer City Council passed This united front of the labor resent the interests of the workers in the automobile center of the world. Tt This is no mere verbal slip. expresses the real character of a vital needs, substituting pious phrases, seasoned With the rankest kind of opportunistic proposals, about the “cooperative common- wealth,” for a concrete program of immediate struggle against low wages, speed-up, company unions, miserable relief, pauperization of the farmers — against the whole brutal oppressive rule of the over- lords of one of the most powerful open-shop industries in the world. Gives Lip Service Judge Arthur Lacy, Democratic candidate for governor, has been compelled to give lip-service to the 30-hour week — though he says nothing, of course, about no wage Republicans and Democrats in Michigan have had to talk about choice? They don’t exist as far as private ownership to social owner- ship and democratic management of the natural resources of the state and the machinery of pro- duction and distribution, including democratically manage all this; in other words, it avoids the central question of pewer. Because to do so would bring up the bothersome question of kicking the capitalist class out of power, and this is something that the Socialist lead- ers would rather not discuss in public. Under cover of “social ownership,” talk these leaders op- pose the seizure of power by the working class. “Our candidates, if elected, will take immediate steps to put this program (social ownership) into ef- fect.” It is well known that no- where — including Milwaukee and Bridgeport, Conn.—have the So- cialist leaders, when elected, made There’s a Difference Workers should bear this in in Germany have National Social- due not to the exploitation of the worker's labor power and his in- ability to buy back what he pro- duces, but to a wrong medium of exchange is borrowed from such A variation of this idea appeared in the theories of the technocrats, who ‘saw the root of all evil in the money system rather than in the profit system. The epic plans of a certain epic author, who is now running on the democratic ticket for governor of California, may also have contributed to this and other portions of the S. P. platform. For instance: “Michigan could immediately establish a Socialist system of proc- essing and distributing farm prod- uce. There would be no need to wait until the world, or even the nation, has gone forward to the Co- operative Commonwealth.” to borrow the New Deal demagogy of ex-Comrade Sinclair. statements in the S. P. platorm, And lo and behold, the prayers of the Socialist leaders are answer- ed.. On Oct. 19 the Wayne County Welfare Administration (embracing Detroit and surrounding towns), in- about 8 per cent in view of the | State sales tax which previously did not affect welfare food checks), plus a large slash in medical and dental care. And the Welfare Depariment in- sists that this “cash allowance” will maintain the unemployed in decency, if not in comfort, though the workers who receive these star- vation “allowances” seem to dis- agree. The Socialist Party platform also contains proposals for the extension of educaticnal facilities and for the repeal of the state criminal syn- dicalism law; ia practice, however, the S. P. leaders wage no struggle silent on the united front. It would not do to tell the workers the truth: But the rank and file of the So- tarian members of the S. P. with the petty-bourgeois leadership. In Kalamazoo the whole executive} committee of the Socialist Party | attended the U. S. Congress Against Socialist workers, side by side with Communist workers, are helping to build the A. F. of L. Rank and File Committee for Unemployment Re- lief and Insurance, pitting their united front against the united | front of the trade union bureaucrats and the Socialist leaders. But Socialist workers do not have | to vote for a minister or for a plat- form that ignores their most ele- mentary needs. An auto worker is running for governor of Michigan. He is John Anderson, leader of the | Progressives in the Mechanics Edu- cational Soeiety of Amrica, inde- pendent union of tool and die mak- the 30-hour week, abolition of the speed-up and the spy system, the foreign born, immediate repeal of | the state sales and head taxes. z SAT., OCT. 27—FORDSON THEATRE, Dearborn—Midnight Show, SUN., OCT. 28—JERICHO TEMPLE, 2705 Joy Road—2 P. M., Con~ tinuous to 11 P. M. MO OCT. 29——-YEMANS’ HALL, 3014 Yemans—7 P. M. TUES., OCT. 30—FINNISH HALL, 5969-14th St—7 P. M. — Boston, Mass. — DAILY WORKER and 15th ANNIVERSARY. CELEBRATION Speakers: JAMES CASEY . Managing Editor, Daily Worker diay. N. SPARKS New England District Organizer, Communist Party Workers’ Drama -- Dance Group 113 Dudley Street, Roxbury Subscription 25 cents Farmers! Vote Communist for Debt Cancellation and for the Abolition of the A.