The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 30, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, 'W YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1934 Page 3 BONUS MARCH LEADER IS COMMUNIST CANDIDATE IN DETROIT John Pace! Is Nominee For Oftice Is Leader of Workers’ | Struggle in Michigan Automobile Center In Spokane; Spread Election Program SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 29.— More than 25,000 copies of the Communist election program and 2,000 copies of the Voice of Ac- tion, newspaper of the unem- ployed groups in this state, were distributed recently in Spokane and vicinity as part of the election activity being car- ried on here by the Communist campaign committee. The state slate of the Commu- nist Party here is: J. H. Van Orman for State Representative in the Fourth Dis- trict; R. K. Wilson, for State Representative in the Fourth District, and J. A. Winburn for Sheriff of Spokane County. DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 29.—John Pace, militant ex-serviceman who is best remembered outside of Michi- gan for his leadership of rank and file bonus workers in Washington, in 1932, has not been divorced from the scene of working class day to day struggle in Michigan since his return. Currently he is candidate for Congressman on the Communist ticket in the 16th Congressional District. Pace’s working-class background is rooted in the soil of the Ken- tucky farm where he was born in 1897. His parents were farmers and his father worked in the winter in mines and lumber mills. At the age of 14 Pace worked as a cotton- picker in the summer and trapper in the winter. Later he worked in lumber mills and mines until 1918, when he joined the United States Marin Corps during the World War. After his discharge from the army, Pace returned to the farm in Kentucky. He then came to De- troit and secured work in the steel mill in Ecorse. In 1924 he worked in the machine shop of the Ford plant and later in the Hudson plant. At one time a Bible teacher and Red Cross worker, later active in the Ku Klux Klan, Pace finally learned the true role of these reac- tionary organizations and found his place in the ranks of the mili- tant working class, where he quickly became an outstanding leader. In 1931 he took an active part) in the fight against evictions and for increased relief in ~ Lincoln Park, suburb of Detroit, where he} lives. As a result of these struggles he was drawn closer to the Com-| munist. Party which he joined later | the same year. In 1932 Pace was the rank and file leader of the his- toric bonus march to Washington, where he was arrested and sent to jail for his activities in the fight to| secure the bonus for the ex-service- | men, Since then Pace has been active in unemployed struggles which have won him wide influence among the workers and the hatred of the employers and their flunkeys. On two other occasions his activities have resulted in his arrest and imprisonment. He is at present Michigan State Secretary of the Unemployment Councils. George Bradley is candidate for Inited States Senator, C. P. Election Headquarters Is Raided Green’s Letter Scored By Western Garment Workers Union (Special to the Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 29. —Groups of “Vigilantes” raided 3 Communist election headquarters last night, breaking plate glass windows and causing several hun- dred dollars in damage. The election headquarters are located at 1197 Stockton St., 37 Grove St., and 1292 Valencia Street. wg eg SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28—The West Coast Federation of the In- ternational Ladies Garment Work- ers Union, during its two day con- vention here, went on_ record against the expulsion policy or- dered by President Green of the A. F. of L. The Federation now includes over 6,000 memers, and has locals in Los Angeles, Francisco, Portland and Seattle. Other important progressive de- cisions were, to protest the 30 per cent wage differential for coast dress workers, and for a 30 hour, five day week. The convention decided for a special Chinese organizer, nese, the most exploited in the in- industry, into the union. This is the result of a long fight waged by the left wing in the. union, Discrimination Cited Against Negro Women | west | and | field organizer, to bring the Chi-| Air Pilots Demand Cancellation of Long Line Mail Contract WASHINGTON (F-.P.).—Cancel- lation of the air mail contract of the Long and Harmon Line has been demanded of the Post Office WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Out of some 2,000,000 Negro women em- ployed in industry, only 15 per cent come under N.R.A. codes, Mary Anderson, director of the U. 8S. Women’s Bureau admitted at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Nationa] Recovery. Discrimination in many of the codes, she said. Department by the Air Line Pilots’ | San| FRANK SYKES FOR CONGRESS | |Workers Get Increase | Week. Plants Meet Union Demand In Pay in West Coast | Strike Action LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29.—Ten furniture shops have partially met demands of the striking upholster- ers pending arbitration. The work- ers have gone back with a 65c per hour minimum wage, 60c for girls, with a 40-hour week. The agree— ment recognizes the shop commit- tees of the Furniture Workers In- dustrial Union, Original demands to serve as the basis for arbitration are for $1 per hour and a 35-hour Mass picketing is still going on, however, in the unsettled shops, in-— cluding the important shops of Rob- erti and Universal, where 25 and 15 men respectively remain at work. Relief is being handled for the strikers by a rank and file commit- tee, which works in conjunction with the Workers’ International Relief. The International Labor Defense has given legal advice and | will defend strikers in cases of ar-| rest. ‘Charge to County,’ Striking Relief Men Say After Good Meal (Special to the Daily Worker) TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. 29. — One hundred and fifty single men now striking against forced labor who were deprived of dinner by flop- house officials marched into restau- rants here and ordered food. After finishing their meals the strikers told the owners of the res- taurants to “charge it up to the county commissioners.” Mass picket lines which have been formed around the courthouse de- mand relief and the abolition of the flophouse system. DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 29—Frank Sykes, Communist candidate for Congress in the First Distreit of Michigan, is an outstanding leader of the struggles of the Negro masses | in Detroit. Born in 1907 in Louisiana, the son of a poor tenant farmer, Sykes started working on the farm at the age of 11. At 14 he got a job in a} sawmill and later worked on rail- | roads. In 1923 he came to Detroit. He got a job in a steel mill and later worked for seven years in the Ford plant. In 1930 he joined the Com- munist Party. He also became ac- tive in the Unemployment Council, Auto Workers Union and League of Struggle for Negro Rights. Sykes has led many struggles in North Detroit and in the Negro sections, where he is now section organizer of the Communist Party. against Negro workers is rampant! Leaders in the Fight for the Communist Candidates Are Communists Active \10 Furniture| About to Be Laid Off, Worker Is ‘Happy’ He | Has $5 for ‘Daily’ Chicago, Til. | Editor, Daily Worker, | Dear Comrade: | In answer to your appeal to save our daily paper, I am enclosing | $5.00. I am about to get laid off in a few days and I am happy that I| have these five dollars to give, for I know they will do good for humanity, | I have been working all my life. I have contributed to many things. I even joined the army in the last war. But none did me any good. So I have my worries as to what will beccme of me if I ever get sick. I am a single man and I have seen many single and healthy people reduced to living skeletons by eating at county soup lines. I ask my- self—will I ever survive these conditions? This is my reward for being | a good citizen and a hard-working patriot! support so many thousands of others that are against us. | A worker is induced to buy a home for $5,000, and after he has | paid $10,000, and can’t pay any more, he is ordered out, and he doesn't | grumble, A man can work all his life, and see his hard earnings taken | away from him by one parasite after another, and he remains apathetic | about it. But sometimes when you ask one of these to organize and! protect himself, he feels too proud. When you ask one for 25 éents for somebody who is fighting, being jailed, being shot down for him and his class, it seems too much for him. Once I read in a capitalist paper that 85 per cent of the people are like a flock of sheep. It is years since then and I am wondering now if people feel they are a flock of sheep. My sympathy goes whole-heartedly to you. For in spite of all diffi- culties, you keep on fighting for the working class, being shot down, jailed and getting fractured skulls fighting the exploiters and enslavers. It is a pity that we cannot support one paper of ours, when wel. Keep up the good work! My only regret is that I cannot give the whole $60,000, but you have my word that any time I get a chance I will do my best. Yours as ever, A.T. PLACKA. | 650 Jobless Demonstrate COVINGTON, Ky., Oct. 29.—Six hundred and fifty workers demon- leadership of the Unemployment. Councils demanding adequate relief, payment of rent, and issuance of Winter clothing. For the first time in the history of this city, Negro and white work- ers demonstrated together, jointly raising the demand for doubling the present relief. employment Councils of Greater Cincinnati, which includes the Northern part of Kentucky and such cities as Newport, Dayton and Covington, the workers in the local unemployed groups are ousting the local politicians and electing leader- ship from their own ranks. The Covington unemployed organization Unemployment Councils and the former “Khaki Shirts” have changed their name to the True Brothers fully with the Councils. The unemployed workers after their mass meeting at Goebel Park here, marched with. banners and placards to the Court House, where a meeting was held and a commit- tee presented relief demands to the Right to Organize, Strike, Picket. city officials. Association, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. The | company is charged with paying pilo's less than the scale fixed by a National Labor Board decision, working them longer hours than is permitted by Department of Com- | merce regulations and refusing col- lective bargaining with the union. U.S.S.R. Is Building New Porcelain Plant MARIUPOL, U. S. S. R., Oct. 29. —As evidence of the vigorous de- mand for and interest in radios, chinaware and ornamental objects a new porcelain factory is soon to be finished here. The cost of con- struction was $50,000,000 and the establishment will employ 9,000 workers, Household china, vitrified ware for plumbing and electrical porcelain insulators will be made. WHAT’S O Milwaukee, Wis. ‘Halloween Mask Ball, Wed., Oct. 31, 8 P. M., Labor Temple Hall, 8th and ‘W. Walnut St. Red Hot Music, floor show and refreshments. Adm. 25c. Ausp. Y.C.L., Dist. 18 and C.P., Sec.1. Chicago, Ill. Barn Yard Hy-Jinx Dance—Hallo- ween Night, Oct. 31, at Peoples’ Au- ditorium, 2457 West Chicago Ave. Spooke games, bewitching program. Adm. 280. Detroit, Mich. Gala Halloween Dance featuring 10 piece orchestra, masks, costumes, grand marcn and girls popularity contest. Finnish Hall, 5953-14th St., cor. MeGraw., Wed., Oct. 31, 8 p.m. Adm. 20¢. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Los Angeles, Cal. Annual Workers, Press Concert, Sun- day, Nov. 4 at Mason Theatre, 127 S. Broadway. Concert Program. Promi- nent speakers. Buffalo, N. Y. Dance given by the Buffalo City Comm. TW.O. and Russian National Mutual Aid, Saturday, Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. The ‘Teck Theatre Building (3rd floor), 760 Main St. Tickets in adv. 20c, at docr 25c. Detroit, Mich. Banquet and Dance given by Ukrai- nian, Polish and Lithuanian Workers Organizations. Martin Hall, 4959 Mar- tin Ave., Sat., Nov. 10, 7 P. M. Wm. W. Weinstor speaker. Adm. Banquet 25e, Dance 15¢. They Fear Communist Party in South By NAT ROSS In the past ten days a flood of fascist statements and actions has spread over Alabama. This fascist upsurge is not an accident. It arises out of the following situation: 1, The Alabama ruling class is preparing a sharp attack on the Wages, conditions, and unions of the workers, 2. They are trying to head off the growing spiri: of struggle among | the textile workers who are getting ready to strike again, among the steel workers and miners, among the share croppers and Negro Masses as a whole. 3. There is great fear of the grow- ing prestige that the Communist Party is gaining as result of its being officially placed on the ballot with white and Negro candidates. 4, The Alabama and the southern ruling class are the springboard of the rapid drive of the New Deal towards fascism. The Democratic leadership of Alabama is working in the main under closest guidance from Washington, as seen in the latest Scottsboro developments. The success or failure of the fascist developments in the South will have an important effect on the develop- ment of the revolutionary move- ment throughout the country. Southern Authorities Speak Tom Knight of Scottsboro lynch fame, now running for Lieutenant Governor, declares before the State League of Young Democrats, that “The chief dread and concern of every loyal Democrat should be the specter of Communism. We need not fear the Republican Party, neither need we fear the Socialist Party. But we must fear the Communist Party. It is a movement which should be stamped out by armed force if necessary.” Commenting on this speech, the Montgomery Advertiser says edi- torially: “Communism as a political prin- ciple should be combatted as a political principle by sound reason- Boss Candidates Sa y| ' ete.” Communists Fight Growin In Kentucky strated here last week under the! Under the guidance of the Un- | of America and are co-operating | Flint Workers Spike Slash In Relief Rate FLINT, Mich., Oct. 29.—Alarmed over the growing mass resentment against an announced 50 per cent relief cut, the relief department | here announced over the local radio station that all cuts would be re- stored if the workers would make application at the welfare depart- | ment. At the announcement of the cut last. week, the A. F. of L. Buick local condemned the starvation relief policy and elected a commit- tee to take up relief cases | The Unemployed Workers Asso- | ciation elected a committee of | seventeen to meet with the welfare Officials and to report to the suc- ceeding meeting if the cut was not restored. At the third meeting of the newly- formed Unemployed Workers Asso- has affiliated with the National | ciation grievances and cases of dis- crimination were taken up and a | committee appointed to place de-| mands before the relief officials. | Numerous cases of inadequate food, clothing and fuel were presented. It was also reported that some of the welfare officers had em- | ployed men to open a window and remove food intended originally for the unemployed on relief. The As- sociation pledged to trace the thieves Halt Eviction ‘In Danville, Pa.| Unemployment Council Wins Recognition of Grievance Committee DANVILLE, Pa., Oct. 29.—Seven | hundred workers assembled before | the home of Herbert Buck on Canal | Street last week and for the second time forced Constable Young to | Postpone the eviction and sheriff sale. to Wednesday, at which time un- employed workers will again as- semble to stop the sale, Last week, workers from the Sun- ury, Northumberland and the Shamokin Unemployment Councils massed with banners and signs against evictions. When District Attorney Robbins tried to split the workers from the different towns by calling them “outsiders and troublemakers,” the local workers greeted and shouted | their approval of the support from the out of town workers. Enthusiastic plans were made for | building a strong Unemployment Council in Danville despite the dif- ficulty in finding a meeting place. Many workers joined the Council. Last week, Snyder, who was ar- rested on charges of “interfering with the constable,” was discharged after it was clearly shown that the whole case was a frame-up, War- rants are still out for the arrest of | Harold Thomas and Herbert Buck, but when they appeared at the mass meeting last week, the police feared to serve the warrants be- cause of the large assemblage of workers. After the meeting, the local relief supervisor asked for a meeting with the representatives of the Unem- ployment Council. The supervisor agreed to recognize the grievance committees from the Council as well as to have those workers whose cases are being taken up to be present. Plans are being made for the cir- culation of a petition and the building of a mass campaign to pass a local law declaring a mora- torium on evictions of the unem- | ployed and tax exemption for small home owners. Group Formed in South BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 29. Spewed up by a decaying social order and nurtured by a vicious reign of terror against the working class, a new and openly Fascist group has appeared on the scene in Birmingham, calling themselves the “Black Shirts.” Their official organ, “The Ala- bama Black Shirt” was issued and distributed here last week. Openly proclaiming itself the state branch of “The American Fascistic Order of Black Shirts,” the group lists as its commander and publisher of its paper, T. E. Brooks, who announced a drive for 100,000 members to begin imme- diately. ing.” But it adds, “There is of course a place in the police jurisdic- tion for combatting any form of violence, whether it springs from radical political sources, etc., etc.” Continuing the anti-Communist drive, the Birmingham News writes: “Another proponent of legisla- tion against Communist activities is A. L. Hanks, who is seeking the speakership. Communist activi- ties have seeped into every social, political, commercial, educational, industrial, and agricultural ac- tivity of Alabama, he says. Com- munism is an actual state and local menace, and laws must be enacted to stop it. The results of the November elections will not show the extent of Communist influence in Alabama, as it is largely among Negroes, who do not vote. The Communist vote in November will only represent about one-third of the white Communists in the state, as only about one-third of eligible voters go to the polls.” A “theoretically” polish to the fascist drive is given by the Birm- ingham News, which continues to pour out lavish praise on Mussolini. It says: “There is a tremendous difference between the Italian and German forms of what is called fascism. . . . Mussolini's system of government operates successfully in Italy ... and it seems suited to the present temperament of the Italian people, as well as to the peculiar conditions in that country.” Alabama Fascists Active Following on the heels of this editorial, the Alabama Black Shirt branch of the American Fascisti dedicated to “the world-wide fight against Communism,” announces a drive for 100,000 members limited to white males. One article of this new American band of fascism says: “When our forefathers started to write the cons‘itution, they meant to establish a Fascisti government because they started that document with these words, ‘We, the people.’ They did not say, ‘We, big business, The terror drive is continued in other forms. Principal Wood, of the Council School in Ensley, which has 2,000 Negro students, was trying to organize his eighth grade students as stool pigeons for the TCI, against the labor unions and the revolution- ' attack on the rights of the masses. | workers and citizens to vote, with- ary movement. The left wing move- ment issued leaflets protesting this, and demanding Wood’s removal. The other day the student body, with the support of their parents, walked out to support this demand. In order to hide the facts, the press declared that the students walked out because Communists threatened to. bomb the building. On the basis of this damnable lie, the Age- Herald says: ‘It is hard to find words to describe the ruthlessness of such (Communist) tactics. The authori- ties, we are sure, are now prepared to deal competently with this kind | of brutality.” In order to help this fascist drive along, the prominent Reverend Edmunds declares why his “Chris- tian Communism” is different from Marxism-Leninism. He gives four “reasons”: “First, Russia is governed by a few people. The Christian ideal is for everybody to have part in the government. “Second, there is no freedom in Russia; the Christian ideal is for freedom. “Third, Russia is built on revolu- tion; Christianity is for peace. “Fourth, Russia's religion is athe- ism, which is an impossible basis on which to build character or a nation.” At this point the Birmingham police announce that 3,302 arrests were made in September. At this rate ten per cent of the city popu- lation is arrested annually. And yet the authorities vainly try to hide their own capitalist landlord vio- lence by blaming the Communist Party. Such is the situation in the sup- posedly parliamentary and free period that precedes election day. The Democratic candidate for gov- ernor, Bibb Graves, former KKK leader, is having many conferences and making plans about reform of the counties, the courts, the prison system, and so on. But he says no word against the terror, against the attack on the Scottsboro boys; no word about the vital issues that confront the masses in Alabama. The socialist candidates, who are in the main composed of well-to-do insurance brokers, lawyers, and wholesale furniture dealers, etc., also see fit to do nothing about the The Socialists refuse to answer the United Front appeal of the Com- munist Party precisely on the struggle for civil rights. Communists Fight Fascist Terror In this situation only the C. P. | comes forward with a program which is in the interest of the | Negro and white masses of the | state. Only the C. P. proposes a program of struggle against fascism, lynching, and for the rights of the toilers.. The Communist candidates are workers who are active in the labor unions and in the struggles of the workers against the capitalist class. Giving full support to the congressional platform of the Party in the struggle for unemployment insurance, for self determination in the Black Belt, the struggle against imperialist war, and for the revolu- tionary way out of the crisis, the Party in Alabama presents the fol- lowing State planks before the people of Alabama: 1, Emergency session of State | Legislature to devise ways to im- mediately appropriate fifteen mil- lion dollars for cash Winter, relief for the unemployed. Minimum $9 cash weekly relief for families, with- out forced labor. Against the Community Chest drives: all funds from the rich—none from the work- ers. 2. For abolition of the N.R.A. wage differential. For higher wages in Alabama to meet higher cost of living, equal with wages throughout the United States. 3. Against eviction of unemployed workers and needy croppers and tenants. Against foreclosures of small farm owners. 4. Adequate relief for all farmers, providing food, clothing, seed, fer- tilizer and implements. Cancella- tion of back debts, and reduction of rent for farmers. Repeal of Bank- head Bill. For the right of croppers and tenants to grow, gin and sell their own cotton. 5. Equal rights for Negroes, and their right to any job, with equal | pay. For laws against acts of dis- crimination, Jim-Crowism, segrega- tion, and lynching of Negroes. Death penalty to lynchers. For abolition of all remnants of chattel slavery (peonage, landlord s‘ore and commissary, chain gang, forced labor, etc.). 6. For the absolute right of all e Vaceiem tn ‘Misbaina ye Workers’ Candidates Demand Right of All to Ballot out payment of poll tax. Against all discrimination which prevents Negroes from voting, holding office, and sitting on juries. 7. For recognition of the labor unions. For right of workers and farmers to organize, strike, picket. Against the use of police deputies, troops, or injunction against strik- ers. For disbandonment of K.K.K., White Legion, and other armed fas- cist bands. 8. For a 50 per cent reduction in electricity, gas, water, and phone rates. 9. Equal pay for women and youth. Abolition of child labor in | industry and agriculture, with State maintenance of child laborers. 10. For a nine months grammar and high school term. Free school books, supplies, and hot lunches for needy children. Adequate pay for teachers. 11. All funds necessary to carry out this program to be raised by reducing unproductive expenses (police, military, prison, bureau- cracy); and by steeply graduated income, property, and inheritance taxes on all who earn over $3,000 yearly, and whose capital is over $15,000. Against the sales tax. That the struggle of the Com- munists is having favorable results is seen from the statement in the | press that: “It seems practically assured that the next legislature will pass a law to make it possible for those delin- quent in their poll taxes to qualify for a vote by paying up two years back poll taxes. In the Black Belt this proposal brings a fear of the Negro vote.” As one of a number of steps that the Party is taking in the struggle against fascism, and for the rights and needs of the masses of Alabama, the Party is calling on the white workers and Negro people of Bir- mingham to come before the Jeffer- son County Court House on Mon- day, November Sth, at 3 p. m., to demonstrate their support of the committee which will go before the authorities demanding the unquali- fied right to vote in line with plank six of the State platform. The sale has been postponed | i700 Workers | Communist Nominees || t r I k e on Vote Indiana | Officially Lists INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 28.— Official sample ballots have been distributed. by the State election authorities here which indicated that the Communist Party of In- diana is officially on the state ballot, The Communist State nominees are: Wenzel Stocker States Senator; McAlli: Ellen for Secretary of State; Allen Puckett for State Auditor; Ruth L. Griffin for State Treas- urer and Rene Theyssen for Superintendent of Public In- struction. More Jobles InU.S.A.,Green Repo rt Shows in for Fay United s \Fails to Suggest Need | of Genuine Relief for Unemployed By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—An in- dustrial unemployment increase of 847,000 during the New Deal year from September, 1933, to Septem- ber, 1934, was announced last nicht by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor and Roosevelt booster. Green’s monthly statement on industrial unemploy- jobless total of 10,955,000, following a fourth successive monthly in- crease. He commented: “For the first time since the President's Re- employment Program started in | ceeded last year’s level.” “The total number at work in the United States was 39,764,000 in Sep- | tember, 1933; by September, 1934, | it had declined to 39,367,000. ing these twelve months the nor- mal increase in population has added close to 450,000 to the army | provides no work.” Even the temporary seasonal | gains, said Green, “are small.” He pointed out: “Trade union unem- ployment repor's show that the seasonal gains in September were carried out in the first part of Oc- | tober: Unemployment declined from | 21.6 per cent in August to 20.3 per cent in September and 20.0 per cent in the first part of October. Even these temporary gains are small.” Green characteristically fails to even suggest the necessity for such genuine unemployment relief for ; the present and future unemployed as is provided for in the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, in- | itiated by the Communist Party | j;and the National Unemployment | | Councils, if deep misery and more starvation are to be avoided this winter, the sixth year of the crisis. Pointing to the nearly 17,000,000 persons on the July relief roles, | \| Fr ment showed a September, 1934, | July, 1933, unemployment has ex- | Dur- | of job seekers for whom industry whom “the Federal government is Is Put On Chain Gang Had Defended Himself | Against Mill Agents In Gastonia By PAUL CROUCH | GASTONIA, N. C., Oct. 29 McMahan, blacklisted striker, \* sentenced to eighteen months jon chain gang for the “crime” lof attempting to defend himself on Oct. 1, when he and his brother, |Otha, were attacked by more:thant }a dozen ill agents and beaten wi blackjacks. Otha was ac- quitted. Both have been held in jail since they were brutally beater at the Loray mill gate and-:them arres' Man The Loray mill isthe enkes owned mill which he storm center of the 1929 | strike here. oe McMahan | The brothers were among the hundreds of active |strikers, members of the United Textile Workers, who were black= listed when the strike was betr by Gorman. They had ..dis | tinguished themselves by their | militancy on the picket line and. | were special targets for the hatred of the mill owners. Monday, Oct. 1, all blacklisted strikers were instructed by. the |union to apply for the return-ef |their jobs. When the McMahan brothers approached the Loray milk gate they were attacked by ahout | twelve or fifteen members of the “black hundred,” an organization of thugs formed by the mill-own- jers during the 1929 strike. Carver; one of the leaders of the assault |on the McMahan brothers,-:pare ticipated in the murder of Ella: May: Wiggins in 1929. 3 While the McMahan b trying to defend thems |the thugs armed with blackjacks, “Cat” Davis, one of the “black hun- dred” leaders, was cut. It appears that he was struck with a ‘knife by Carver who was trying to-hit | Fred McMahan. This was uséd as the pretense for a chatge Of ssault with deadly weapon,” de- spite the fact that the two worker? were attempting to defend them= selves against more than a dozen thugs. | Myra McMahan, wife of Fred, | obtained warrants against the | thugs of the mill owners, but “the authorities have not even bothered to make formal arrests or have a “hearing” to whitewash them, as they did in the case of Carver and the other murderers of Ella May, A most significant aspect of the trial ofthe: McMahan boys” in Gastonia this week is the fact’ that the foreman of the jury is president of a local of the United Textile Workers at Belmont, There is tremendous resentment against him on the part of the union members, and the member- ship of his local is demanding his immediate removal. Fred McMahan was sentenced by Hoyle Sink, the same judge who +.» Supporting,” Green says: “Could | only Jast week deported a militant jany statement show with greater | Striker at Concord from the state force the immensity of human need | by imposing a two year chain gang today, the urgency of an immediate | Sentence to take effect in one week | Federal program to put men back if he Were found in North Carolina, |to work in industry? Could not' No appeal in any of these cases | the administration invite all indus- has been taken by the United Tex- tries to co-operate in a general pro- | tile Workers, and the top leaders gram to increase production and |Ship of the union does not even put men to work? If the nation- | make any effort to raise bail for wide level of all production were |the U. T. W. members in jail. Fred lifted 30 per cent in a balanced McMahan was sent off to the chain program, adjusting production to|8ang last night to begin his eigh= consumption needs, each industry | teen months sentence, would then be assured that all| other industries would increase | their production, and the wealth | produced by putting labor to work | would create income to buy the! product of all.” Murderers of Striker Free BELMONT, N. C.—There has not yet been even a coroner’s inquest in connection with the death of Riley, a striker murdered by the In reality, however, Green's plaint | National Guard here in September. to industry and government to “ad- |He bled to death are being just production to consumption | Y i heeds,” something impossible under | “**PP* with bayonets, capitalism, especially a capitalism | ~ decaying toward fascism, and his | 0 employment relief or protest the measures impending for severe cuts employed and the destitute, show his unity in action with the united front of big business and the Roose- | velt government to cut down relief as soon as possible and to defeat the rising sentiment for real unem- | ployment relief. | The current week-end Washing- jton Review of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, foreshadows the big business- | Roosevelt Administration drive, un- der the slogan of “promoting recov- ery, to cut down relief and to de- feat the mass campaign for unem- ployment insurance.” by figures given recently by Fed- eral Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins. The national average of direct relief for a family of four and a fraction people, said Hopkins, is under $20 a month. repeated failure to even ask for un- | in the little being done for the un- | How serious impending at‘empts | to cut down relief are is made plain | 00 Unemployed Mass Before Welfare Offices —— ‘ CLAIRTON, Pa., Oct. 29. — Five hundred men and women démon= strated before the local relief office ‘here last week while a committee of | ten representing the unemployed’ ‘of |Glassport and Clairton presented | relief demands to the superviso! The committee set forth !mands for increased cash reélié} | winter clothing and fuel. A com- | mittee from the Young Communist League also presented demands for adequate cash relief to young Wwork= jers and an end to to all form of , discrimination. Michigan Film Circuit~ of ‘““MOTHER™~ DETROIT . | Wednesday, Oct. 31—FERRY HALL, 1348 Ferrs, perl NON fe Thurs; 1—MARTIN HALL; 4959 | “Martin, 25, 3-11 P.M. | Friday, Nov. 2—CARPATHIA HALL, 3500 | Elmwood, 25e, 7-11 P.M. ie LOS ANGELES, CALIF. SUNDAY NOV. 4—8 P.M. MASON THEA. 127 Broadway | Admission: 25¢, 35¢ H ANNUAL WORKERS PRESS CONCERT : BOB MINOR speaking on “The Workers’ Press and the Elections” — His final appearance Program; String Quartette; Workers Lab. on the Coast! ‘Theatre; Mandolin Orehestra and Surprise Solo Artist. as