The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 2, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OVEMBER 2, 1934 Relief Fight Is Major I ssue as Iowa Workers Go to Polls MEADE AND CONROY Nazi-Japan | PactRevealed | HEAD STATE TICKET IN BIG FARM STATE Government Plan ls Ruintyg Poor Farmers in Southern Section of State; Drought Used by Authorities as Excuse . 1.—The Communist Party here is climaxing the broadest election campaign of its history in this State. Workers in Dubuque, Knoxville, Sioux City and othe centers, as well as farmers in the agricultural districts wil go to the polls on. T — atmosphere of growing militant resistance to the miserable relief restance to tne mace eiet| SOttshoro March F. E. R. A. and bitter opposition to| Set for Tomorrow the Agricultural Adjustment Ad- (Continued from Page 1) r 1 ministration. Large numbers of} farmers in this state have. suffered | severely from the double hunge- | threat of the drought and A. A. A.| crop reductions. 4 thorities to railroad eight members i " ‘ |of the I. W. O. to the chain gang oe Bene See jon framed charges of “distributing Unemployed workers in Dubuque, | insurrectionary literature.” Knoxville, Sioux City, Des Moines | and other places have struck on | relief jobs against starvation relief wages, and have been met by police | and fascist attack, and the arrest of | their leaders under the criminal syndicalism law. at Le Mars, facing abrogation of the | moratorium laws that had promised | them temporary relief from ‘ore- closures, put up determined and militant struggles against the evic- | tion program. The drought, wnich | attacked especially the southern | part of the state, has been used by the government as a further means of putting the poor and middle farmer out of business, giving them | feed relief only at the price of re- ducing their stock to subsistence level and binding them more hopelessly with debts. The four most important demands of the Communist Party here are: For higher wages, for six-hour day, five day week without reduc- tion in weekly income in mining, packing, transportation, and manufacturing industries. For jobs or relief to every un- employed worker without discrim- ination because of race, creed, color, nationality or political affi- liations; For a 30 hour week at prevailing union scale on relief jobs, paid in cash; for the aboli- tion of paupers oaths, inquisition methods, and all red-tape in the welfare departments. For enactment into law of state |membership and friends to parti- | berg is recruiting White Guards to Unemployment Insurance bill as the Workers Nnemployment and |ing organizations are the Trade Far East. Secial Insurance Bill H. R. 7598, pending passage by the United States Congress of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insu- rance Bill, For immediate repeal of the State Criminal Syndicalism law; against the use of insurrection, inciting to riot, vagrancy and other laws to suppress workers’ organizations and struggles. | gressional District; Tomorrow's demonstration will | be addressed by four of the Scotts- boro mothers; Israel Amter, Com- munist candidate for Governor of New York; James W. Ford, Com- munist candicyte in the 2lst Con- Angelo Hern- don, hero of the Atlanta “insuzTec- | tion” trial, and other veteran fight- | ers for the lives and freedom of the Scottsboro boys and against the brutal oppression of the Negro peo- ple. The four Scottsboro mothers |are Mrs, Ida Norris, Mrs. Ada | Wright, Mrs. Josephine Powell and | | Mrs. Viola Montgomery. Mobilization Points Directives for the demonstration, | issued by the I. L. D., urge all or- | ganizations to mobilize at 1:30) | o'clock with heir banners, slogans ; and bands at the following points: | Organizations from Harlem,! | Yorkville and the West-side sec- | |tions at 126th Street and Lenox |Avenue east of Lenox Avenué; or- jganizations from the Bronx at 127th Street, east of Lenox Avenue; | organizations from mid-town, | |down-town and Brooklyn at 128th | |Street, east of Lenox Avenue. Un- | attached workers are asked to mo-|} | bilize in front of the Harlem of- | fice of the I. L. D., between 126th and 127th Streets, on Lenox Avenue. The demonstration is endorsed by | scores of New York organizations | |which have called on their entire | |cipate in it. Among the support- | {Union Unity Council, Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, | | Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, * | InParis Paper | Military Plot Against Soviet Union Is Given | Full Support of Reich PARIS, Nov, 1—Charles Cicard, | special correspondent of “Paris- Soir,” gives interesting details of the secret military-political agree- ment between Germany and Japan. | The Agreement is for a period} of 5 years. Among its chief initiators | |Cicard names Prince Tokugawa, |General Araki and Admiral Mat- | | suita. | The “Third Empire,” according to | |the agreement, recognizes the .legi- | |timacy of the Japanese pretensions to Eastern Siberia, up to Lake} | Baikal, Japan, on its part, supports |the wresting of Ukraine from the Soviet Union in favor of Germany. | The Agreement, says Cicard, as/ a logical sequence, acknowledges | territorial compensations to Poland in Volynia and Podolia (western | regions of Soviet Ukraine), Since |the realization of ihe arrangement | is calculated over a long period, the | efforts of Nazi Germany are di-| rected to a prolongation of com- plications, of which it is not yet able to take advantage. German | diplomacy, having these considera- tions in mind, counsels Japan to remain patient. “The Japan-German Agreement,” rites Cicard in plain language, | ‘comes to an obligation not to local- ize the Far Eastern conflict. Ger- many is not yet prepared to realize such a broad plan, but the govern- | ments and the General Staffs of the two countries are already at work: they are preparing to the smallest detail, the basis of tech- nical, political and military colla- boration. They are working in clos- | est contact; information reaching | us on the subject does not leave any | doubt about the existence of an/ agreement, which aims to expose | the whole world to fire and sword.” | Sending Specialisis | Cicard writes further that Ger- many will send to Japan, in the course of the next six months, 500 engineers and aviators, while ten aviation engineers with the well-| known constructor Milch, have al-| ready gone to Japan. The chemical | trust I. G. Farbenindustrie is or- ganizing branches in Japan for the production of poison gases, in charge of their agent Igler. Krupp sent its representative Lemke to Japan. ... In the meantime, Rosen- carry on acts of provocation in the | wide Scottsboro march, the New} York District Committee of the | |the New York Districts of the Com- | jmunist Party and Young Commu- | Communist Party yesterday issued |nist League; the Associated Work-/| an appeal to all workers and pro- ers Clubs, Inc. Women’s Councils, | fessionals in the city to take part Unemployed Councils, League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the | National Scottsboro-Herndon Ao-| tion Committee, with headquarters | Jobless Leader Heads Ticket | 2 Harlem. Ira R. Meade, state secretary of | Appeal By Revolutionary Writers the Unemployment Council, who is! Declaring that the revolutionary under indictment on criminal syn-| writers of the world cannot re- dicalism charges, and Robert Con-|;Main silent in face of the lynch} roy, militant young Negro worker, | terror in the United States, fifteen will head the Communist slate.| outstanding revolutionary writers | Meade was nominated for Governor /Of France, Spain, China, Cuba, the | and Conroy as Lieutenant Governor. | United States, Norway, Sweden and doe VanNordstrand, Section or- | Greece, have issued the following ganizer for the Communist Party|®PPeal to the writers and intel- is candidate for Secretary of State. | lectuals of all countries to rally to Other candidates are as follows: |the defense of the Scottsboro boys Secretary of Treasury Florence} Butler, Mason City; Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Lansing, Mason City; Attorney General, N. B. Whiting, Iowa City; Superintendent of Public Instruction, K. Kirk- Patrick, Ames; Railroad Commis- | sioner, Ed Krueger, Waterloo. For State Senators, Charles Logs- den, Des Moines; Henry Mosher, Ft. Dodge; John Dennison, Sioux City; and M. N. Makins, Mason City. Nominations for state repre- sentatives were also made in the important areas of the state. 100 Marchers Are Still in Jail (Continued from Page 1) first the management refused ad- | mittance to delegates arriving after | 11 o'clock and were forced to give | in, they tried to put the delegates | through a delousing process, The trial of the arrested dele- gates continued this morning, but court opened an hour and a half late, owing to the fact that Judge Bergan, Mayor Thatcher, Chief of Police Smurl and Safety Commis- sioner Cooke were in conference, searching for a method of getting out of the whole situation. The beaten-up workers are still in a very serious condition. Peté De Jessus, a tobacco worker of New York, was so badly beaten that he | cannot walk. Bill Landes, a sea- | man from Néw York City, who had several places opened on his head, was released and paroled in custody ef Joseph Tauber of the I. L. D.) When Landes came to the conven- tion he was given an ovation, but | was too weak to make a long speech. Timothy Holmes, national or- ganizer of the Needle Workers’ In- dustrial Union, a delegate to the State Hunger March, yesterday telephoned the New York office of the union, stating: “All needle rep- resentatives came through police brutality. All send greeting to the militant needle workers.” and the oppressed Negro people: “The Scottsboro Negro boys have been kept in prison, in the shadow of the electric chair, for more than three years. They are daily threat- eened with being seized by the mob and murdered by hanging or burning. Three times they have been sentenced to death. Public opinion, aroused by the world cam- paign of protest organized by the International Red Aid, has up to now frustrated the murderous de- signs of the anti-Negro capitalist and landowning class. “We revolutionary writers can- not remain silent in face of the lynch terror in the United States. We cannot look calmly on while the ruling white class is seeking to murder the innocent Scottsboro boys. “We call upon the writers and the intellectuals of all countries who have rendéred humanity an linvaluable service by exposing the horrors of German and Austrian fascism. We call upon all those who placed themselves at the disposal ;of the powerful movement which wrested Dimitrov, Popov and Tanev from the clutches of the indescrib- able terror regime of Hitler and Goering. Work in order that the lynch terfor in the United States Shall become an object of loathing in the hearts of all decent men and | women. “We stigmatise the lynch terror with burning words. “We protest against the mon- strous trial which has been staged against the innocent Scottsboro Negro boys. “We demand their immediate, unconditional and safe release. (Signed) Paul Nizan Aragon (France), Rafael Albert (Spain), Jose M. Vacas Rodriguez (Cuba), Hu Lanchi (China), Louis Fischer (U. S. A.), Otto Luihn (Norway), Jean Richard Blech (France), Harry Martinson Viad Pozner (France), D. Glinos, | Greece), Emil Siao (China), N. V. Nezval (Czechoslovakia), Costa Var- | malis (Greece), M. Teresa Leon (Spain), Moa Martinson (Sweden). | Calling for the largest mass | mobilization at tomorrow's city- (France), | (Sweden), Andre Mairaux (France), | in the march, “To the New York Working Class! To All Professionals and In- tellectuals! “For three long years we have battled stubbornly to prevent the horrifying legal lynching of the in- nocent Scottsboro boys by the State of Alabama. You workers have} responded splendidly and gen- erously to the call of the Commu- nist Party and the International | Labor Defense. It was the great |mass protest movement that you participated in and made possible | that has so far stayed the hands of | the executioners, that has so far saved the boys from the fate. of | our martyrs, Sacco and Vanzetti. “Dec. 7, is the date for the legal | lynching of Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris. This day of bloody ruling class vengeance is drawing near. We must: not let three years of stubborn struggle that roused the world be in vain. The situation demands greater de- termination, greater efforts, the intensification and broadening of the mass protest movement more than ever. “Workers of New York! Defeat the dastardly maneuvers of the rul- ing class to weaken and destroy the defense that has kept the boys alive. The unholy alliance of Samuel Leib- owitz, the Negro misleaders and the lynch bosses shall not succeed in paralyzing the defense of the boys. Patterson and Norris must be saved. The Scottsboro boys must go frée. The elementary human rights of 13 million Negro people are involved in this fight. The fundamental rights of all workers are involved in the fight against this ghastly persecution of the Negro people. The white workers cannot have any rights as long as the Negroes are oppressed, framed-up, lynched, de- nied their human rights. “The Communist Party of New York calls upon you to answer the conspiracy of the lynch rulers and their agents; Leibowitz, the Negro misleaders, the Amsterdam News. Pour out into the streets of Harlem \tomorrow at 1:30 pm. Gather at {126th St. and Lenox Ave. Demon- |strate, march for the freedom of \the Scottsboro boys, against lynch- ing and Negro oppression—aganist | the lynchers and their agents. | “All workers’ organizations, trade unions, social, fraternal and cul- tural organizations, all societies, lodges and churches are urged to turn out in full force with banners ete placards.” | PLAN C. P. RALLY IN JACKSON | JACKSON, Mich. Oct. 30.—The election campaign here will wind up in a mass rally at Webb Hall at 8 |p. m. on Nov. 5. The immediate issue is the firing of 800 relief workers. The meeting will expose the false promises of Mr. Hunt, the relief director, to put the workers Communist Demands Party Lists 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 the maintenance of all the civil and political rights of the masses. 3.—For unemployment and social imsurance at the expense of the employers and the state; for t ance Bill (H. R. 7598). fhe Workers Unemployment Insur- 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; c: farmers; for the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill. Vaiaaia of Ae Wegres ork#ee oh 5.—Against Jim-Crowism and ancellation of the debts of poor 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 .—Against the sales tax; no taxes on persons, or their property, earning less than $3,000 per year; steeply graduated and greatly increased taxation on the rich. 8.—Against Roosevelt’s war preparedness program; against im- perialist war; for the defense of the Soviet Union and Soviet China. Guard the Communist Vote! Join the Army of Watchers At Nation’s Polling Places! With the election campaign reaching its final stage at the nation’s polling places next Tues- day, Communist election workers, campaign committees and sym- pathizers are confronted with the most important and most difficult task of the campaign—the safe- guarding of the Communist vote. Capitalist democracy, designed to place every barrier in the way of a free choice of candidates by workers, does not stop at any means in preventing a full expres- sion of working-class wishes at the polls. Where legal trickery have failed to disbar revolutionary can- didates from the ballot, where election laws have not succeeded in barring the most oppressed sec- tion of the population most. likely. to vote Communist, capitalist de~ mocracy does not hesitate to use illegal means. Every Communist vote on Nov. 5 will represent a worker ready to fight against capitalism in its daily attacks on the working class as well as in the general unremitting struggle for complete power for the workers. As such, every Commu- nist vote must be safeguarded to the utmost capacity of Commu- nist local, county and state cam- paign agencies. The Job of Watching The job of watching against theft and suppression of the Com- munist vote must not be left, how- ever, to election campaign com- mittees alone. Every working class mass organization, every Commu- nist Party section and district or- ganization must be sure that it has made the most complete pos- sible preparations, Every sympathizer, every Com- munist and every worker who in- tends to vote red should, if he is able, report at once to the Com- munist campaign committee in his neighborhood or committee for duty on Election Day as a watcher. Specifically, the work of pro- tecting the vote is being organized in every district so that the follow- ing results are to be assured: No polling place is to be without an official watcher for the Com- munist Party or United Front ticket where such exists. No Communist election slate is to be without a staff of legal ad- visors to check up and fight im- mediately against any irregularity which will endanger the Commu- nist vote. Rights of Watchers The rights of a polling place watcher may vary in some respects from state to state, but generally the watcher has the following rights: He may challenge any voter if he has grounds, He may inspect any and all records in the polling place, reg- istration rolls, ete. He may in- spect any ballot during the counting of ballots. He may take such other action as he deems necessary to protect the interests of his party from fraud or dis- crimination within the polling places. It is his duty to remain in the polling places until the vote has been tabulated. | Every watcher should keep in | touch as closely as possible with the Communist election campaign committee nearest to his polling place, Marchers to Speak At Garden Sunday (Continued from Page 1) Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock at Madison Square Garden into a gigantic meeting of protest against the brutal answer of Lehman to the demands of the unemployed for food and shelter, Amter, who is in Albany with the Hunger Marchers, also an- nounced that the Hunger Marchers would march into the Garden in a body on Sunday afternoon and would relate details of the am- buscade and the ferocious, unpro- voked attack that followed. Amter’s complete statement, fol- lows: “The murderous assault launched on the Albany Hunger Marchers as they entered the State capital was a premeditated attack for: which Governor Lehman bears the full responsibility. By this unpro- voked, fascist” attack against de- fenseless workers who were exer- cising ther elementary democratic right of petition for redress of grievances, Lehman proves again that he is a savage defender of the interests of his own banking firm, which is one of the two or three largest in America, and of the banks of his colléagues, and of the capitalist class as a whole, and4 that he will go to any length to try to crush the struggles of the “Lehman’s fiendish answer to unemployed for the right to live. the starving, homeless unemployed who came to ask him for food and Shelter at the expense of the rich- est State in America and of the wealthiest bankers in the world, is in keeping with the financial sup- port which his banking firm is extending to the bloody Hitler re- terror, which he, a holder of huge blocks of stock in the New York milk trusts, used to crush the strike of 45,000 milk farmers last year. “To the workers of New Yerk State, on whose votes this more and more open fascist banker- Governor relies to carry him back into the highest office in this State, we say: Drive this capitalist and defender of capitalist interests out of office! Shower him with your protests against his hideously cynical answer to the cries of the more than 2,000,000 unemployed in New York State for adequate win- ter relief. Fill Madison Square Gar- den on Sunday afternoon in a gigantic meeting of protest against the fascist attack on the delegates of the starving unemployed who were on their way to the State capital to peaceably petition the State Government for adequate winter relief. Vote for Commu- nist candidates on November 6 and against the candidates of the cap- italist class!” Hathaway and Bedacht To Take Part in Final Meetings in Brooklyn Section 6 of the Communist Party will hold its final election campaign rally on Monday night jwhen Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, Congressional candidate in the 23rd Congressional District, will lead a parade of Com- munist supporters from Graham and Barret Streets to Grand and Sixth Streets, where the meeting will be held. Max Bedacht, Communist candi- date for United States Senator, will speak at an election rally tomor- row at Ukrainian Hall, 101 Grand Street, under the auspices of Sec- tion 6. A Vote for Communist Candi- dates Is a Vote against Company back in a week. gime in Gerthany, and with the “Unions.” Workers! Farmers! Make Your Vote Count Against Hunger, War and Fascism by 1 \euses him of selling out the dye: Lehman Won't Act on Demands (Continued from Page 1) | silent rose as if to go. Asked by the delegates if that was his answer to the bloody attack by the Capitol police, Lehman an- swered: “I will consider what you say. While the Communist candidates placed their demands before Leh- man, the corridors of his Park Ave. |apartment echoed with the demands of the workers who picketed on the street below. The pickets, assem- bled overnight by the United Ac- tion Conference on Work, Relief and Unemployment, carrying plac- ards and shouting their demands, paced slowly before the Park Ave. apartment. Inside Lehman’s apartment, Wil- liana Burroughs, a former school teacher who was fired for her ac- tivities in behalf of the over-worked teachers of New York, set forth the number of whom were on the Hun- ger March. Pointing out the dis- crimination against the Negro work- ers on relief, Burroughs demanded that Lehman immediately proceed to Albany to meet with the dele- gation, Carl Brodsky set forth demands \for an immediate special session of the State Legislature for the ap- propriation of $200,000,000 winter} relief and the enactment of the Workers Unemployment Insurance, Bill the central demand of the Hun- ger Marchers and the central plat- form of the Communist election platform. To Lehman’s whining platitude that he would now see the march- ers if they came to New York, Brod- sky flung at him: “These march- ers are now in Albany. More than a month ago you knew that they would be there. We demand that you go to Albany at once.” At the State Office Building, thousands lined the streets while workers picketed, demanding that Lehman proceed at once to Albany, meet with the marchers, call off the police and release the arrested workers, and call a special session of the State Legislature for the en- actment of their relief demands. Allentown Dyers To Join Strike (Continued from Page 1) 1733, again, while speaking before the strikers, referred. to the Daily Worker. This time he spoke on the editorial appearing yesterday en- | titled, “Mr. Ammirato, Agent of Gorman,” in which he was exposed | for advocating physical violence against the Communists in the union, and also it was disclosed that the Textile Journal reports Ammirato as having also voted for the Gorman settlement of the gen- eral strike. He carefully avoided saying any- thing on the contents, merely shouting that the Daily Worker ac- strike. Despite his efforts, however, he could not whip up any applause, as by this time the workers are; aware that the Daily Worker has not accused him nor anyone else of having sold out the dyers’ strike, but has been continually pointing to the need for rank and file con- trol as an insurance against a sell- out by any leaders. The continual hammering in the Daily Worker has compelled him again to assure the strikers that no agreement will go into effect unless it is first approved by the workers. | From the cold response given to| Ammirato’s attack on the Commu- nists, it is evident that the workers want a solid front irrespective of political opinion. It was Charles Vigoritto, Vice-president of the lo- eal and one of the most active in the strike, who got the most en- thusiastic support from the work- ers, when he said: “Everybody must be on the picket line and that means the business agents as well. They are not better than anyone else.” The pressure of the rank and file in the strike was likewise evident in the talk of Tony Venturo, a young striker and member of the settle- ment committee. “I’m against cut- ting down the number on our set- tlement committee. Five is not too much to represent 15,000 strikers in this local. Let us keep it as a rank and file committee.” This was like- wise greeted with general applause. The silk strikers at this morning’s meeting again reiterated their de- jmand for a general membership meeting for Saturday to consider steps for a general silk-weavers’ strike. This came after the union manager, Eli Keller, reported that the Executive Committee could not be gotten together before Saturday. The workers denounced this as out- right sabotage and pointed out that a meeting could be called in several hours, if desired. A decision was also made for a mass meeting of strikers at the Union Hall on Saturday at 2 p.m. where the workers will hear the decision of the Executive Board on their request. As a step to- wards improving the work of the rank and file group in the dyers and silk weavers’ local, a mass meeting is called at the Modern Woodman Hall, 215 Main Street, for this Sunday, November 4, at 7:30 p.m., at which Rose Wortis of New York, trade union leader, will speak on how the silk union could be made to serve the inter- ests of the workers ,and how we can help to win the dyers’ strike. All workers active in the rank and file movement in the unions are invited to this meeting. JAPAN RAISES NEW Party, Lehman, who had remained during the entire meeting, OBSTACLES IN DEAL TO PURCHASE ROAD Hirota Opposes Guarantee on Payments—Wants Line Ownership Transferred While Soviets Still Have Responsibility to Run It (Special t» the Daily Worker) | TOKYO, Nov. 1 (By Wireless).—By continually , sabotaging all negotiations for the sale of the Chinese East- ern Railway, Japan is proving her unwillingness to safe- | guard peace in the Far East. At the time when the U. S. S. R. is manifesting the greatest desire to contribute to - @the speediest conclusion. of the negotiations, the Japano-Manchu- rian press is again commencing to Elevator Strike circulate false information concern- Shuts Buildings "* ssine ezasoie ie te osey bargaining of the Japanese officials, who, when Soviet Ambassador Yu- renev estimated the price of the railroad at 145,000,000 yen, could find no other reply than counter- Posing a price of 140,000,000 yen, attempting to outbargain the Am- (Continued from Page 1) the Executive Board of the union will take up this question. Strikers’ Demands The strike call was issued by James J. Bambrick Wednesday night, effective early next morning, after a month of fruitless negotia- tions with Lawrence B. Cummings, president of the Real Estate Board, and the Regional Labor Board were broken off on the preceding day. The strikers’ demands include: recognition of the union, the 40-hour out” system, no discrimination against Negro workers and no over- time. When overtime is put in, time and a half for overtime is de- manded. The following wage scale is de- manded by the strikers for a 40-hour week, including dinner and relief hours. Elevator operators, $35 a week; porters, $32; head porters, $40; as- sistant starters, $40; starters, $45; chief starters, under certain condi- tions, $65; chief elevator mechanics, $75; elevator mechanics, $60; me- chanics’ helpers, $40; carpenters, $60; painters, $45; plumbers, $60; plumbers’ helpers, $40; chief elec- tricians, $75; electricians, $60; elec- tricians’ helpers, $40; chief engi- neers, $75; engineers, $60; firemen, $45; special officers, $35, Nearly a thousand strikers who lined the curbs and entrances of the buildings affected, carried piac- ards appealing to all unions. “On Strike—Garment Workers ae Us Win,” read some of the signs. Ride With Strikebreakers,” placards read. Almost a million workers em- ployed in the needle and other trades in the garment center, it is reported, are affected by the strike. Workers Support Strike An excellent response in support of the strike by hundreds of work- ers employed in the needle market could be seen in front of most of the large buildings affected. Hundreds of workers remained in the lobbies of the buildings refusing to go up in cars run by scabs, un- til chased by the police under the direction of Inspector Alexander G. H. Anderson. “We will tie up every building in the district,” Arthur L. Harckham, Secretary of the Union and chair- man of the Strike Committee, said, “unless the demands of the strikers are granted.” A leaflet issued by the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union and distributed in the market, greeted the strikers and called upon all needle workers to take the fol- lowing steps to help the strike. Firstly, the workers should co- other mit no workers to go up to work in the buildings on strike; 2) That ittees of ° sional strikebreaking agencies and employment bureaus. Employment of gangsters, under police protec- tion, has been reported in numer- ous cases. _ 99 Buildings Settle Ninety-nine buildings have set- tled with the union by noon yes- terday, according to union officials. they said, on the basis of a reduc- tion in hours from 64 to 48 and a $2 increase in The sentiment of the strikers is week, elimination of the “‘stretch- | “For Your Own Safety, Do Not | bassador by five million. When the Soviet Goverment, manifesting the maximum compliance, agreed to this proposal, the Japanese com- menced again to present new de- mands, once more hindering the conclusion of the sale. Concerning the question of the transfer of the railroad, Japan put forth the demand of transferring all rights to the railroad to Man- chukuo immediately after signing the sales agreement. The owner of the railroad would then be Man- chukuo, while the responsibility for the property and operation of the railroad would still be borne dur- ing this time by the U. 8S. R. R. Although the Soviet side agreed to the transfer of railroad rights to Manchukuo immediately after signing the agreement, the Japano- Manchurian authorities demand that the railroad be transferred by inventory, which is pure cheating, since the railroad is being sold not at its actual value but according to a fixed lump price. The next question which has raised difficulties is the issuance of debéntures to the U. 8. S. R. by Manchukuo on that part of the purchasing sum which is not sub- ject to immediate payment and the guaranteeing by Japan of these Manchukoan debentures, both as regards money and commodity part payments. Hirota objects to this demand of the Soviet side, propos- ing that, instead of receiving de~ bentures, the U. S. S. R. accepts the principle of trusting Manchus kuo and of transferring this tree mendous transport-economic com- bine to Manchukuo immediately after signing the agreement. The Japanese éven weht as far as rejecting proposals which they had previously made themselves, Thaelmann Faces Axe, Nazis Prove {Continued trom Page 1) cist puppét press under headlines of “No Quarter to Foes of the Father- land,” the official statement has pro vided a clause especially for “Thael- mann’s case.” It makes a point of emphasis of decreeing death for those accused of betraying German Agreements including 2,700 workers | call in 65 bi have been made, | military secrets or other information to foreign nations. Throughly reli able information reports that the prosecution is provided with many dossiers and forged documents, all “proving” and making assertions that Thaélmann betrayed his coun- try to France and Russia. The flood of cables and letters received heré must on no account be lessened, but must be increased to the point where the butchers in Le ae administration who re« celve them must finally rel Thaelmann. : ing M. P. Confronted With Tell-Tale Arms Letter Public by the récent ammunitions inquiry in the U. 8., which referred to Sir Bolton Eyres Monsell as the “friend of the admiralty,” who could help get a contract for sub- marines, was held before Sir Bole ton’s eyes this afternoon in the | House of Commons. His lordship indignantly denied the charge, al- though the letter provided concii ive proof of his guilt. rie Communist Candidates Are | Leaders in the Fight for the Right to Organize, Strike, Picket, being made to prevent scabs from & leaflet issued by the Left Wing of Local 22 of the ILG.W.U,, all ers, cloakmakers atid other needlé trades workers were organize all thé members in support of the re. to keep up the strike until their | strike demands are granted by the own-| Calling conscious ers. Some strikers expressed dis- | workers to stand solidly behind the satisfaction with partial settlements | building service workers,” the Fur below the strike demands and at-| Workers Industrial Union called on tempts at arbitration, They felt all furriers to take steps similar to lingness to fight it out. . 3 The support offered the strikers; Numerous other unions responded by the needle workéts has atly | to the call of Local 32-B by acting encouraged them. Every effort is in solidarity with the strikers. Voting Communist! “ | —