The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 5, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DA II WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1934 BOSS-CONTROLLED CITIZENS UNION BACKS S. P. NOMINEES COMMUNISTS REACH 10,000 March for VOTERS DESPITE ‘ttsboro Boys BOYCOTT OF PRESS World-Telegram, Faced With Dilemma, Urg Election Either of Republican or Vladeck, Socialist Nominee By Alexander Trachtenberg There is in New York City an organization known as the | mobilize the masses of Harlem for Citizens Union. On the eve of every election it publishes a list of candidates it favors for election. Although it wishes to be considered a non-pe the main candidates of the Republican Party. It is inter-| communist” bands on their hats,| oro Conference at Freedman’s ested, of course, in “good govern-®——— an organization, it endorses in (Continued from Page 1) ————— | st Parties participate in this im-| ;Portant action against the brutal oppression and persecution of the} |Negro masses, but campaign loud- | peaker cars of those parties at- tempted, although unsuccessfully, | 'to detract attention from the march and the fight for the lives | and freedom of the nine Scottsboro boys. In sharp contrast, the Com- |munist Party loaned four of its election loud-speaker cars to help ; the march. The cars took an ac- | tive part in the entire demonstra- | | tion. | Negro and white marchers, men, | women and children, bore “Vote jarms and chests, signifying their mediately and rush reports of their plans to the Daily Worker.) Nov. 6. — Scotisboro Emergency Conference in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Noy. 8.—Scottsboro Mass Trial in| West End, Boro Park Section,| Coney Island, Brooklyn. Nov. 9.—Scottsboro conference in South Brooklyn, Brooklyn, | Nov. 11.—United Front Scotts- boro Conference at 1516 Central| Avenue; Cleveland, O. | Nov. 12—National delegation to Washington to place demands on President Roosevelt for the free- dom of the boys, Nov. 16.—Protest demonstration in Detroit, with call for demonstra- tion and I. L. D. policies endorsed by the Detroit Baptist Ministers Alliance. Nov, 17. — Scottsboro protest march and demonstration in Chi-| cago, Ill. Nov. 18.—United Front Scotts- Auditorium, Audubon and Oleander Elevator Strike Ends With Gains (Continued from Page 1) Board brought no results. Strike| action and the solidarity of the| workers in the needle trades brought the victory. | The union maintains its original | demands for a 40-hour week, a $35 minimum weekly, no stretch-out, no discrimination against Negro workers and time and a half for overtime, Planson stated. All economic demands, he said, are subject to the decision of a board of arbitration to be set up within two or three weeks. The board is to be composed of an equal number of representatives of the employes and the owners with an| impartial chairman, A truce was deciared at the con- ference, with owners in the gar- ment district with 7 p. m. Wednes- | York it cannot afford to give in on ganization that will organize all the building |service workers in New the demands for equal rights for Negro workers, for the 40-hour week for the minimum wage of $35 and for the elimination of the stretch-out system. It is up to the members of the union to see to it that these demansd are won. Meetings to Hail Soviet 17th Year (Continued from Page 1) arranged by the League of Work- ers’ Theatres, as well as a number of bands and mass choruses con- stitute the program. Two celebrations have been ar- ranged for Brooklyn. »One at Ar- cadia Hall, 918 Halsey Sireet, Brooklyn, near Broadway, with M.| J, Olgin and Manning Johnson,| DYE STRIKERS JOIN PATERSON PICKETIN PRINTERS G PAPER Open Shop Publishers Are Compelled to Agree To Meet in Conference With Men Who Have , Been Striking at Plants for 6 Months d PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 4.—The largest and most im- pressive demonstration of labor Paterson saw in a long time took place on Saturday morning, when at least 5,000 work- ers, chiefly striking dyers and silk weavers, but also many of other organizations, turned ou Soviets Celebrate in front of the Evening News and Morning Call to back the strik< ing printers. Six were arrested and among the re ists | Stre New Or) , La. hei the several beaten b; lice wi ‘Se ment,” which t the|ments or speeches of Communist | Pegi gr : peed a geese 3 phat Re en oe in|day as the deadline for those who egies Tain Gone Oana M. ered ice awe ba one oo candidates or even announcing the | T° 0S ter. ‘Nesco and ke rete | Queens, New York City. have as yet not signed up with the|be the speakers, Fred Biedenkappp, | : ing printer who stood on the side= the game according to places of their meetings, while at He “e ilers, Negro and white. “AS | Nov. 24—Emergency Conference |union. The buildings that have not jeader of the shoe workers, will act | Gains at th Year walk. Two policemen beat her so tpiahed by ‘the powers ‘that’be, It ithe same time: lavighing space for | 2s ne Une Daneod ‘hy the offloes | ihe geen ee Signed up by that time will be|as chairman. The program will be “| severely that she had to be taken advocates “economy in govern-|all these things for the Socialist|Of the New York Amsterdam News, | Nov, 27.—Scottsboro Day in|Struck Thursday morning and pick-| provided by the Workers Ihterna- to a hospital. Among those arrested 1 ment,” which means that the|Party candidates. They know that|the workers indignantly booed its| NOV. 27 et duty will be resumed, Planson 3 s i Publisher, William H. (Kid) Davis, Cuba, Colombia, Porto Rico, Costa tional Relief Band, the Lithuanian, (Continued from Page 1) was Kalaga, Communist candidate for Assembly, Seventh District. s A mass meeting to. protest this police brutality will take place at Carpenter’s Hall, 56 Van Houten elected officials who are endorsed are expected to vote against ex- penditures which would rei the taxes of the rich and their cor porations. blicity given to the Socialist | lao Be ghee tht ciation cam. | one of the leading tools of Samuel | Rica, Panama and Ecuador and in paign as at other times will be fully | S- Leibowitz, renegade defense at- | other South American countries. repaid by that party’s carrying con-!torney, and Alabama lynch offi- | fusion to the masses on the most | cials in the attempt to scuttle the | declared. The same holds true for the buildings whose owners did not have authorized signatures on the agree- ments by the deadline, many of Jugoslav and Brooklyn Workers Clubs coruses, as well as by the Workers Laboratory Theatre. Another Brooklyn meeting on Nov. 7, wil be held at the Brooklyn work, Throughout the country, in every corner of its vast territory, extensive work of construction is proceeding. The whole country is DETROIT, Mich. Nov. 4—The defense of the boys. | Baptist Ministers Alliance of the A glance at the roster of the offi- cials of the Citizens Union will re- veal immediately the kind of good government it wants and why it in- sists on keeping down the expendi- tures on relief and other social needs to the lowest possible mini- mum. The president of the organ- | democratic management,” as stated | ization is a millionaire, head of sev- eral chemical companies. The vice- presidents are representatives of large financial interests, directors of banks, trusts and insurance com- panies, Standard Oil, etc. ‘This enlightened capitalist’ politi- cal organization, which is consid- ered the “cream of the cream” in New York City, has issued recently | Teach the masses in order. to or- its Voters’ Directory and the press has publicized it widely. The lists of the candidates of the Republi- can, Democratic and Socialist par- ies for various offices in New York y have been published and the candidates whom the _ Citizens Union recommends to the voters | have been especially noted. Last year, for instance, the Citi- vital issues confronting them, by the creation of illusions among the workers that socialism can be brought about “by the |dustries to social ownership and in the Socialist Party congressional platform. The capitalist press and the re- form organizations such as the Citizens Union which the capital- jists maintain, know well that the ;Communist spokesmen in election | campaigns as at all other times aim |ganize them for struggle for their |everydey needs, to expose the bour- geois state and bourgeois democracy jand for the overthrow of capitalism altogether. That is why they boy- cott and fight the Communist elec- | tion campaign. Through its own press, through |millions of pieces of literature, through participation and leader- zens Union endorsed the Republi-|ship in the small and large skir- can-Fusion slate of LaGuardia, but among the local candidates it en- | mishes and struggles of the white jand Negro workers and poor farm- doreed quite a number of Socialist |€rs during the recent period, the candidates. The election of Alger- |Communist Party and its candi- non Lee, for example, was favored (ates throughout the United States because it would be “a great bene- jhave come in direct contact with fit to the city.” Similar opinions |the masses. The masses are begin- have been voiced in the capitalist press regarding Norman Thomas. jning to understand in larger and jlarger numbers the Communist This year again we find a galaxy program and are giving it more and of Socialist candidates supported by the Citizens Union. It divides its support into three categor!es—‘en- dorsed,” “qualified” and “pre- ferred.” Some of the’ Socialist lead- ers have earned a double dose of support from the Citizens Union. Socialists “Preferred” In examining the list of candi- dates for the State Senate and As- sembly as listed by the Citizens Union we find many Socialist can- didates reported as among them the Negro misleader Crosswaith, who is a candidate in Harlem. Some Socialist candidates are listed as “preferred,” while others appear under a double-head- er—“qualified and preferred.” Sev- eral of the Socialists are given the highest honor of “endorsed” as against all the candidates of the other parties running for the same office. This highest accolade is ac- corded, for instance, to the associ- ate editor of the New Leader, Fei- genbaum, to the director of the Rand School, Bohn, and to Amicus Most, who used to travel through the country organizing workers in 8. P. branches by telling them that it was a revolutionary party, that it was supporting the building of So- cialism in the Soviet Union and similar phantastic stories. Is it any wonder that the World- Telegram, which runs its own list of endorsements in addition to that of the Citizens Union, also en- dorsed some of these Socialist can- didates? The World-Telegram, ac- cording to its own declaration, sup- ports only such candidates for Con- gress “as would give their full sup- port to the New Deal and President Roosevelt.” In endorsing Socialist candidates the World-Telegram reached a snag in the case of one Socialist lumi- nary—B. C. Vladek, the manager of the Jewish Daily Forward, who re- cently returned from the A. F. of L, convention where he spoke as an invited guest of William Green. Viadek is also a LaGuardia ap- pointee on the housing commission. The World-Telegram was faced with a dilemma. Vladek surely earned unqualified endorsement. As the leader of the most reactionary Socialist institution, the Forward, and one of the spokesmen of the Jewish trade union bureaucracy, sharing honors with Dubinsky and Hillman, he surely would be the ideal man to depend upon in Con- gress. But there was a Republican candidate for the same office whom the World-Telegram wanted to en- dorse. Since you cannot have two Congressmen occupying the same Seat, it did the next best thing and printed its endorsement as follows: “8th District, Kings, Sigurd J. Arnesen, Republican, or B. C. Viedeck, Sccialist.” Either of them could do the job, mused the bosses of the World- Telegram, and the record of Vla- deck certainly justified that as- sumption. It is understood, of course, that no candidate of the Communist Party has been mentioned in the honor rolls of the Citizens Union, nor given endorsement by the World-Telegram or any other capi- talist newspaper. In fact, the news- Papers have been fighting the elec- tion campaign of the Communist Pe-'- “~ refus'ng to print state- Workers and Farmers! Vote Communist Tomorrow for Immediate Adequate Winter Relief! | “qualified,” | |more their support. The masses ate | beginning to realize more and more \that the Communist Party is their party, that it fights for them and |with them all thé time and they | will vote in larger numbers for the |Communist candidates and Com- {munist platform in the present election. The militant struggles of the | workers cannot find as yet full re- jflection in the Communist vote on election day, because of the great masses of white workers who are disfranchised, of the Negro masses who are not allowed to vote, be- cause, due to capitalist government |restrictions, the Communist Party is not everywhere on the ballot and | because many of the workers are |still prisoners of capitalist ideology, |thanks to the enemy within the la- jbor movement,—the A. F. of L. and |Socialist bureaucracy and other la- |bor misleaders, Workers! Vote militantly as you fight against the bosses and the N. R.A. Vote next Tuesday for the Com- munist Party, the party of your class! Vote for the demands of the | Communist Party, your demands, jfor unemployment insurance and relief, against wage cuts and the whole N. R .A, against capitalist terror, for full rights to the Negro People, against war and fascism. Vote a straight Communist | ticket! | CP. Leader of Pecs | Miners Murdered (Continued from Page 1) mands. The struggle was being waged, he told them, not only for the enslaved miners of Pecs, but for all the starving miners throughout Hungary. And it was the hundreds of thousands of miners in the en- tire country who, furious at the Open strike-breaking of the fascist Government, and unafraid of the |country-wide movements of troops jand militia, forced the promise of |better conditions and higher ‘wages. Although the mine-owners sneered at their own promises once the miners had come to the surface, the tage of the workers at having been betrayed changed to a grim deter- mination to organize their Com- munist leadership, in order the bet- ter to prepared for future struggles. Instigated by the furious mine- owners, the fascist police made ar- |rests of Communists and militant |workers everywhere, eleven Com- jmunists having been arrested be- |side the three strike leaders. After hours of torture, {hurled through the window by the enraged and baffled fascists. The public slaughter of one of their jleaders is arousing intense indig- nation throughout the working masses of Hungary and the world against the savage Goemboes dic- tatorship. | the Party Throws Its Forces Vigor- ousty Into the Circulation Drive, the Daily Worker Remains Un- |known fo Thousands of Workers. Hofiman was} | Unless Every Section and Unit in | The march, which went up Lenox Avenue from 126th St. to 141st St., | orderly | West to 7th Ave., north to 145th st., | Action and pledged its support in transfer of banks and public utili-| West to 8th Ave., south to 135th st., | all activities for the defense of the ties, natural resources and key in-| ast to 7th Ave., south to 132nd St., | Scottsboro boys, 4 | and back to Lenox Ave., ended with | Alliance, representing all the Negro |@ huge demonstration on the block | | between 13st and 132nd Sis. There | | the workers heard the Scottsboro | | mothers, Herndon and other speak- | jers. The first speaker, Ben Davis, | |Jr., editor of the Negro Liberator, | {was lustily cheered when he re- | | ported on Haywood Patterson’s te | | pudiation of Leibowitz and his geng | }and his expression of unshaken | |faith in the I. L. D. and its attor- | neys. A tremendous ovation was given Angelo Herndon and the} | Scottsboro mothers, Mrs. Ada | Wright, Mrs. Ida Norris and Mrs. | | Viola Montgomery. All three of the | mothers sharply attacked the latest maneuver of the Negro misleaders | in describing them as “women | |claiming to be the mothers of Scottsboro boys.” Mrs. Norris de- clared that their photographs had been published enough during the past three and a half years to re- | | move any doubt as to their iden- tity. Together with Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Montgomery, she called on the people of Harlem and of the entire country to support the I. L. D. in its fight to,save the boys. “We must show Leibowitz he can’t put over anything on us,” she declared. “Defeat Lynchers!” Vote | Communist!” Charles Krumbein pointed out that the Scottsboro case is one of the most important issues that the Communist Party is putting before the masses in this election cam- paign. He called on all workers to vote the Communist ticket as | the best means for freeing the Scottsboro boys and smashing the lynch terror. Richard B. Moore | stressed the short time remaining in which to defeat the lynch ver- dicts and called for an intensifica- tion of the mass fight. Angelo Herndon pointed to his case as an example of the power of mass pres- sure on the lynch courts. Samuel Patterson spoke on the tasks of the National Scotisboro- Herndon Action Committee to mo- bilize the widest united front strug- gle for the boys, and called for | Mass support for a national delega- | tion to Washington about the mid- dle of this month. Mr. Hyde, of the National Committee for the De- fense of Political Prisoners, pledged that body to continue its vigorous support of the militant policies of the I. L. D. in the Scottsboro case, while Nat Stevens stressed the two- fisted policy of the I. L. D. of mass pressure, plus the best legal de- fense. The marchers carried an effigy of Gov. B. M. Miller of Alabama with the legend “Gov. B. M. Miller, Official Alabama Lyncher,” and placards protesting the fiendish lynching of Claude Neal, Negro | youth, in Florida on Oct, 27th, and | denouncing the collusion of Ala- bama, Florida and Federal author- ities in the kidnapping and lynch- ing of Neal, who was tortured for 36 hours before his murder. The capitalist press, which main- tains complete silence on the re- pudiation of Samuel Leibowitz, renegade defense attorney, by four of the Scottsboro mothers and by Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, yesterday published a re- port that Leibowitz in a statement in Birmingham, Ala., promised a “complete change of scenery and | atmosphere” in the “conduct of the | case.” The promise was made to | Alabama lynch officials and the | lynchers’ press, and refers to the | attempts by Leibowitz and a group | of Harlem Negro misleaders to oust | the International Labor Defense and its policy of mass pressure, which alone has kept the boys alive | during the past three and a half | years. Patterson and Norris are the two Scottsboro boys whose legal murder has been set for Dec. 7 by |the Alabama Supreme Court. | While the Leibowitz gang has |hitherto centered its claims to “control” of the defense around | Patterson, the news dispatch quotes | Leibowitz as admitting that he has |no authority to handle the appeal of Patterson to the U. S. Supreme | Court. Patterson’s repudiation of Leibowitz, declared by him to be |final and signed jointly with Clar- ence Norris, was published in Sat- urday’s Daily Worker. re Se SCOTTSBORO PROTEST (EDITOR’S NOTE.—All organ- izations supporting the fight for ‘he Scottsboro hoys are utged to “--eaiza protest ections imm2- 1 | boro committee for Friday, Novem- Grant, and A. Gerlach, secretary of Detroit area yesterday endorsed the Detroit Scottsboro Committee of The Ministers’ Baptist churches, also decided to have a Scottsboro day in the churches and endorsed a mass demonstration called by the Scotts- ber 16th. The Scottsboro Commit- tee of Action was organized at the initiative of the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. The Ministers Alliance gave its endorsement after hearing a delegation from the com- mittee consisting of Sarah Victor, hree Negro workers, William No- vell, James Anderson and George the LL.D. Their Instructions (Continued from Page 1) vublished in the Daily Worker, Watchers should not leave the polling booth at the end of the day until the final tabulation has been officially recorded by the re- sponsible officer in charge. Watchers should get. in immedi- ate communication with the Section headquarters of the Party if any- one attempts to intimidate voters or tamper with the voting ma- chine. Communist Deputy Attorney Generals will be stationed at all the Section headquarters. Watch- ers should not call on the State Election Campaign Committee for this purpose, ‘Watchers should provide, either through their family or the Sec- tion, for relief during the day so that they can eat and vote. Watchers should carry a plentiful supply of nickels with them to en- able them to use the- telephone without loss of time. Every watcher should insist that he be given the leaflet which con- tains detailed information as to his legal rights in the polling whom having had agents’ sig- natures in the absence of the owners. The agreements make it obligatry that “only members of Local 32 B be employed as starters, elevator operators, watchmen, porters, main- tainance men and all building Service. employes in buildings owned or controlled by said employer in the Borough of Manhattan.” The agreements make it also obligatory for both parties agree to the arbitration and abide by the decisions of the arbitration board. When questioned on the reported plans of the union to strike the buildings in the financial and resi- dential section, Mr. Planson stated late Saturday night, thet while it is the intention of the union to unionise all the buildings in New York, no definite plans have been made as yet. “If we don’t get what we want, watch our smoke,” Planson replied when asked about the expectations of the union in connection with the arbitration and the plans for union- ization of other territories through- out the city. The building service workers should utilize every opportunity they have to get every worker in the trade organized, and to unite all the workers in the industry into one union with a broad participa- tion of the rank and file members in its leadership. Such a union will be instrumental in forcing the arbitration board to adopt the original demands of the strike. Shows Importance of Strike Action “We had enough of arbitration with Mrs. Elinore Herrick of the Regional Labor Board,” Planson stated during the first day of the strike. “We have much more ef- fective means at our disposal now.” Their victory has once more proven the contention of the Com- munist Party that the N.R.A., with its regional and national labor boards, have not been meant to and never have improved the con- ditions of the workers and that strike action is the best means at the disposal of the workers through which to gain increases in wages, shortening of working hours and the raising of the standard of liv- ing of the American working-class. booths. Academy of Music, ers, program, The workers of Manhattan will celebrate the 17th birthday of the victorious onward march of Social- 50 Lafayette Street, with James W. Ford, mem- ber of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and Harlem section organizer, and Rose Wortis, organizer of the Trade Union Unity Council and Communist candidate for State Comptroller as the speak- The Freheit Gesangs Verein, the Red Dancers and the Pierre Degeyter Orchestra will provide a ism on November 7th at Cooper Union, Eighth Street and Third Avenue, with Ben Gold, National Leader of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union, and Mac Weiss, Editor of the Young Worker and leader of the Young Communist League as the speakers. Steve Kingston of the district committee of the Communist Party will act as chairman. The Freheit Mandolin Orchestra, Ukrainian Chorus and the Workers Dance League will pro- vide the program. The workers of Harlem will cele- brate at Rockland Palace, 155th Street and Eighth Avenue. I. Amter, candidate for governor and gén- ral secretary of the National Un- employment Councils, and Harry Haywood, National Secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, will be the speakers. Samuel Pat- terson will be the chairman. The I, W. O. Symphony Orchestra, Daily Worker and Italian Workers Chor- the foundation, the firm base upon which the splendid edifice of So- cialism is being reared. “The seventeenth anniversary celebrates one year of achievement, one year of revolutionary work in the building of Socialism, but see the results of this day to day work! This year new blast furnaces and steel fusing ovens have been set in operation. New mine shafts have been constructed, equipped with modern machinery. Gigantic machine-building works have been started. New railway lines have been laid, running superpowerful locomotives, the products of So- viet labor. During this year hun- dreds of new Soviet farms and machine tractor stations have been established. During this year of day to day work, Soviet explorers and pilots have been an example of courage, valor and heroism before the world. The Chelyuskin, which attempted to navigate the north seas, perished in cold waters, but immediately after, the Soviet ice- breaker, the Litke, for the first time in history completed a passage through the polar seas from Vlati- vostok to Murmansk. Bolsheviks are persistent. They know how to at- tain their ends despite all difficul- ties. World Records “This year Soviet aviation beat two world records. U. S. 8. R. sportsmen also attained new rec- cords. Soviet science and technique uses and W. E.'S. L. Band will pro- vide the: entertainment. The New York District of the |4 Communist Party calls upon all workers to get tickets in advance, to reserve places for themselves and their shopmates and friends, to turn out in the greatest numbers. Section 17 Watchers Will Confer Tonight) A meeting of election watchers in Section 17 of the Communist Party will be held tonight at 8 pm. in the Brighton Workers Center, Last minute instructions will be given and assignments to polling places 3200 Coney Island Avenue. will be announced. If the union is to become the or- Class Against Class! Vote Communist! (Continued from Page 1) peatboonataetn Ek Pa: tells which way the whole Roosevelt “New Deal” will rapidly develop after the elections are over. In the wave of police arrests which is sweeping the country wherever the jobless assemble to de- mand bréad and cash relief, there is already visible another symptom of the way the Roosevelt govern- ment is moving swiftly toward more and more open fascist reaction. In the midst of the election cynical contempt for the masses, Roosevelt met the country’s most powerful Wall Street bankers in ‘Washington, pledging the full support of the N.R.A.- New Deal for the protection of their profits and investments. At the same time, Roosevelt during the election campaign moved openly toward the outlawing of strikes through the treacherous manoeuver of his “industrial truce.” In his “truce,” operating with the country’s richest corporations and monopolies to tie the hands Roosevelt knows that his capitalist class policies have brought new misery and hunger to the work- ing class. He knows that the masses will not en- dure this intensified speed-up and exploitation. He sses in the enormous sweep of the tile strikes the beginning of new, enormous working class struggles against the drive of monopolies. And Roosevelt, the Street, is moving toward the fascist paralyzing of the employers. * all working class action against * ° 'HILE Roosevelt's policiés have been the policies of Wall Street, while these policies have brought new millions in monopoly profits for the Wall Street parasites, they have also deepened day, after 18 months of the “New is heading for new depths. Unemployment rises steadily. ing to official reports. Roesevelt’s policies are a wedge which drives an ever deeper gulf between the and the masses, enriching the parasites and pau- perizing the masses, In this campaign, Roosevelt hi the masses only the most hollow of talk about housing, trivial and infrequent gestures about unemployment insurance. In the midst of the Roosevelt campaigning period alone almost 1,000,000 workers lost their jobs. Production is ap- proaching the all-time low made last year, accord- An Editorial the masses. campaign, with Roosevelt is co- of the masses. talist. system. ’Frisco and tex- the Wall Street agent of Wall elections. strike wave will the crisis. To- Deal,” the crisis On the life and death questions that confront the 48,000,000 workers, impoverished farmers and their families, on the questions of wages, cash relief, rent, evictions, mortgages, jobs, unemployment insurance, and the way to end the miseries of the crisis, Roose- velt and his agents have said little, and what they did was in the interests of the capitalist class, not But it is on just these questions that the Com- munist Party wages its election struggle. the immediate class needs of the working class, on the fight against the yoke of capitalist robbery, that the Communist Party bases its election pro- gram and its daily organization of the workers. . The Communist Party has proven itself the only force in American political life fighting the Wall Street program embodied in the Roosevelt “New Deal.” The Communist Party, as the party of the working class, demands that the welfare of the masses shall be provided for at the expense of the profits of the bankers, employers, mortgage-holders and coupon clippers. A vote for the Communist Party is a declaration of war aganist the “New Deal” and the whole capi- It is a declaration of war against the menace of imperialist war and the approach of fascist reaction. The class struggle between the masses and their capitalist exploiters will not end the day after the The elections will not solve the vital problems of the masses. Hunger, unemployment, misery, will grow as the crisis gets worse. rise to new heights. As the employers unleash their terrorism, the masses will close their ranks, their revolutionary consciousness will deepen, and the “idea of storm- ing the citadels of capitalism will grow in the minds of the masses” (Stalin), capitalist class ers’ councils, as flung before promises, vague capitalist legisla the chambers of Vote Communist! Tomorrow, by voting Communist, we strike a blow at Wall Street capitalism. But in mobilizing a large Communist vote tomorrow we are but pre- paring for the class battles, for the daily class strug- gle, which will grow in sharpness and bitterness un- til the working class smashes the power of the bourgeoisie altogether and establishes its own gov- ernment, a Soviet America of workers’ and farm- ‘tures! Carry the fight for the masses, for relief into Vote Communist! the bankers! It is on The Send Communists into the have made a’ number of very im- portant discoveries and inventions. congress of writers was held which received worldwide comment from the writers and press of other countries. Soviet films were award- ed first prize at the International | Cinema Exhibition at Genor. “These are the results of every- day construction in the Soviet Union! If we wish to see how the Soviet Union has changed its aspect in the course of only one year, we do not have to view its gigantic en- terprises at Magnitogorsk, the Kra- matorsk machine - building works, the electro-stations in Georgia; we do noi have to go to Irkutsk and the Far East, to the barren waste- lands where the creative genius of | the proletarian revolution has per- formed its most perfect work, Growth and Change “If we wish to see how the aspect of the country has changed in one year, we have only to walk through the streets of Moscow.. There you will hear the grinding teeth of ex- cavators, the purring of paving rammers; you will see lofty scaffold- ings of construction work in prog- ress; streets widened, straightened, embellished. The workers of Mos- cow, who have watched the devel- opment of their city for seventeen years since the revolution, still halt admiringly, observing the meta- morphosis of streets and houses, watching the tremendous enter- prises that are undertaken. All this is part of the daily work of the revolution. New Soviet Elections “But Bolsheviks are never dé ceived by success, They know there {s much work still to be done. The Soviet Union is still suffering from many shortcomings and deficiencies. The slogans of the Communist Party on the Seventeenth Anni- versary of the October Revolution will serve to concentrate the at- tention of all workers on what must be done in the nearest future. The Seventeenth Anniversary of the Oc- tober Revolution corresvonds to the re-elections of the Soviets. Re- elections of the Soviet must give rise to new and increasing activity of millions of workers; must mobi- lize them for solving the problems facing the Soviet Union. Much has already been done, but the bound- less sources of creative energy of the revolution are far from ex- hausted. “The work of the October Revo- lution is steadfastly proceeding. The great tasks bequeathed by Lenin are being accomplised by the work of the shock troops and by daily routine work and struggle. Under the leadership of Stalin, the ingenious strategist of the prole- tarian revolution, the Soviet Union is victoriously building Socialism. Its peaceful work of Socialist con- struction is an inspiring example to workers of all countries, all over the world.” at Build Up a Daily Worker Carrier Route! Urge Members of Your Union to Read the Daily Worker! Put the Daily Worker First on Your Pol‘tical Calendar! 8t., on Monday evening, at 8 o'clock, The demonstration was under the auspices of the Conference in Aid of Striking Printers, which unites the A. F. of L. locals of dyers, silk. weavers, hosiery workers, bakers; musicians, plumbers, pressmen and typographical workers, the Commu; nist Party, Young Communist League, Central Branch of the So« Cialist Party, Order of Moose; Knights of Pythias Lodge and many. workers’ fraternal organizations. As a result of the demonstration the publishers of the News, the most vicious open-shoppers, were forced to agree to a conference witht the printers, who have been on strike now for six months. The demonstration is generally accepted as a great victory for the Policy of militant labor and the Communist Party, which has been the most active force in organizing it. As a result a tremendous en- thusiasm has beén aroused in the ranks of Paterson labor, as a pow- erful blow was dealt the two papers which, under the leadership of the. publisher, Haines, are instruménts for the open-shop movement here. At ten in the morning, hundreds were in line in front of the two buildings, carrying signs represent- ing the various organizations in the united front. Thousands milled around the streets leading to the Picketing. But the entire Paterson police force was there to keep éveryone moving for féar that too large a demonstration would de- velop. All leaves for policenien were cancelled, The striking dyers at that time were holding a meeting at the Roseland Ballroom, hearing the report of their delegates to Washington. Throughout the meet- ing the workers were impatient, anxious to make good their pledge of solidarity with the striking print- | ers. Despite the promise made by the officials of the dyers that co-opera- tion would be given for the dem- onstration, not even an announce- ment Was made to the workers. It was only through sending a tele- gram direct to the Roseland Ball- room meeting that the printers were able to force the issue on the floor Although not organized for the demonstration, when the dyers poured out of their hall, about 11:30, they formed behind the committee of printers outside into a line which soon extended for the entire dis- tance between the hall and news- paper buildings—about four blocks. For at least a half hour the streets in the heart of Paterson were choked. While the picketing progressed, a committee elected at the united front conference was successful in gaining admission to the News pub- lishers. But when the publishers saw the names of the committee, which also included Moe Brown, Communist candidate for Gov- ernor; Berger, vice-president of the typograhpical local, and other mili- tant workers, the committee was told to get out, as the building “was private property.” Finally the workers were told that they are willing to confer with a committee, in which they named Wardle, presi- dent of the Labor ‘Council, Maiso, official of the Building Trades Council; Ammirato, president of the dyers; Charles Vigoreto, vice-presi- dent of the dyers; Kondla, of the printers, and several others. The workers, realizing that the publishers only wanted to avoid conferring on the excuse that there are “reds” in the committee, agreed. But although Wardle and Maiso had been elected on the original com- mittee as well, they did not appear at the demonstration. Wardle is now a candidate for the Board of Freeholders on the Republican ticket and has the endorsement of the News; Maiso is also an active Republican politician. Ammirato was particularly indig= nant that he was the only one of the higher labor officials named on the commit'ee, to be on hand. Ex- pressing himself very violently. against Wardle and Maiso, he re marked that they “left him hold- ing the bag.” But disagreeable aS his task was, the shouts of the work=. ers outside left no choice in the matter. A conference with the em= ployers was set for next Tuesday. During the demonstration thé strikebreaking role of the capitalist press was strongly impressed upon the workers, and hundreds of Daily Workers were sold. The Communist platform, in which was enclosed a call to the members of A. F. of L. unions to vote Communist, was dis- tributed in thousands of copies.