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

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1934 Page 5 HUNGER MARCHERS STIR ELECTION RALLY AT GARDEN CANDIDATES TELL OF VITAL ISSUES FACING Amier Shows How Only, 5 Communists Fight for the Masses By Sender Garlin (Continued from Page 1) working class, and particularly toward the starving millions. “The Communist Party,” said Amier, “acusses Lehman, the Wall Street banker-governor, with direct responsibility for the murderous at- tack upon the hunger marchers. ‘We challenged Gov. Lehman to make his appearance gt this meet- ing to explain, if he can, the brutal onslaught against the hunger marchers, but apparently he does not dare accept our challenge.” Amter teld how the bloody as- sault upon the hunger marchers failed to keep them from putting through the program they had mapped. Not only did the hunger marchers enter Albany, present their demands for adequate winter relief to the state authorities, but in addition held a militant meeting attended by more than 3,000 work- ers on the very steps of the state capitol in Albany. As evidence of the fine spirit of solidarity expressed in the hunger march, Amter told how Tim Holmes, Negro needle trades leader, ad- dressed this meeting and was warm- ly received by the Albany workers. Negroes Especially Attacked When the Albany police attacked the hunger marchers, Amter re- counted, they singled out the Negro workers for special attack. But the Negro workers not only did not buckle under, but courageously met the cossack-attack of the police. “One Negro woman worker, a hun- ger marcher,” Amter reported as the crowd cheered thunderously, “beat up no less than eight cops after she hed been cursed at and mishandled.” Amter told how their experiences with the forces of “law and order” hed caused 32 of the hunger march- ers to join the Communist Party. crisp, biting manner, Amter d the hypocrisy of the Re- ican gubernatorial candidate, in pretending sympathy for ger marchers. He cited the actions of Hoover in ordering the miliiazy attack upon the bonus ers in Washington, and of similar terroristic acts on the part of Renublican and Demceratic poli- tivions in every part of the county. ‘a ng his respects to the Social- yor of Bridgeport, Conn., fayer McLevy, Amter told how this Socialist executive had approved of the slugging and arrest of anti- demonstrators in that city recently. “cTunger, war and fascism,” Amter conciuded, “are the crucial issues | fecing the workers at the present | moment. To vote for the Communist | Party is to strike hard at the capi- talist system and the misery which it preeds.” His head bandaged, Carl Green- burg, one of the hunger marchers, described the almost incredible brutslity of the Albany police when the marchers scught to entor the city last Tuesday. The crowd booed as Greenberg told hew police pummeled him after he had been clubbed into virtual insensibility. Greenberg graphic- ally described the subsequent ar- rests of the hunger marchers, how they were grilled in the Albany police station, of the successful fight of the I. L. D. to free them and of their conference, where they mapped their campaign for immediate relief and Unemploy- ment Insurance. Olzin Cites Freedom in U.S. S. R. Moissaye J, Olgin, editor of the “Mcrning Freheit” and candidate for Congress in the 23rd Congres- sional district, Bronx, describing his reccnt visit to the Soviet Union, said that the pictures of Russian work- ers being sabred by the Czar's cos- sacks which he saw in the Museum | of the Revolution in Moscow coin- | cided perfectly with the pictures of | boss terror against workers as re- vealed in Albany recently. “The pic- tures of pogroms against Jews in czarist Russia coincide with the scenes of lynching of Negroes in the South.” When he looked at the pic- tures of czarist oppression, Olgin said, he felt like saying, “U. S. A., I recognize you.” The Communist candidate said thet the United States has well- equipped factories, rich land and unlimited natural resources. All that is necded, he said, is to con- vince the masses of workers and farmers of the United States that these vast riches belong to them and must be made available for them. Clgin cited the growing struggles throughout the country to show that the workers were “look- ing ahead and were beginning to un- devstand that only the taking of pol:tical power by the working class will put an end to this system of hunger and war.” Bon Gold Electrifies Audience Bon Gold, candidate in the ‘Seventh A. D., Bronx, electrified the audience by his vigorous appeal for support in the Communist cam- paign. Beloved by thousands as a devoted, courageous leader in the needle trades, Gold showed how the “New Deal” has brought worsening conditions, increasing unemploy- ment and lower wages for the work- ers. He denounced the collabora- tion of the corrupt laber officials with the capitalist parties and de- ‘Grain Harvest clared that the active participation WORKERS and leadership of the Communist Party in scores of outstanding strike struggles is convincing proof that it s to the best interests of the work- to support the Party on election day. James W. Ford, candidate in the 21st Congressional district, told of he increasing militancy of the Negroes in Harlem in their strug- zles for relief and against discrimi- nation. The Scottsboro Battle “Around the Scottsboro case,” Ford said, “the Communist Party has developed a real mass struggle for the liberation of the Negro people. This campaign extends far beyond the limits of this State, for we find in Alabama—in the heart of the lynch terror—our Party has nominated a Negro, Com- rade Davis, as candidate for gov- ernor.” A stirring ovation greeted Wil- liana Burroughs, militant Negro teacher and candidate for Lieuten- ant Governor, when she arose to; speak. She told of the fight of the Communist Party for political, eco- nomic and social equality for the Negro people and recounted her experiences in the public school sys- tem to show the persecution of Ne- gro working ~ class families and their children, That the Communist campaign does not end on election day, was emphasized by Charles Krumbein, district organizer of the Communist Party. “The struggle will not end Noy. 6,” he said. “It will be re- newed with greater energy on the | basis of the chief demands of the Communist Party. We shall con- tinue to fight for the immediate needs of the workers—in shops, fac- tories and offices—and our cam- paign will not cease until the abo- lition of the capitalist system and the establishment of a Soviet America.” Briehl Tells of Farmers Lot Fred Briehl, upstate farmer, who is the Communist candidate for At- torney-General, described the mort- gage-ridden lives of the farmers of the state. “Government loans are | obtained only after the most heart- breaking efforts, and then it is nec- essary for the farmer to mortzag2 his life away.” Briehl declared that “some people accuse the farmers of practising confiscation when they don’t pay their debis. During the war. the capjtalists confiscated lives to protect their property. I say that now is the time to confiscate prop- erty to protect our lives.” Briehl declared that it costs New York state dairy farmers five cents to produce a quart of milk for which they are paid three cents, and which sells in the city for from 13 to 16 cents. “We farmers,” he concluded, “can no longer be called men with weak minds and strong backs, for our minds become strong as we join | the ranks of the Communist Party.” Isidore Begun, expelled school- teacher and Communist candidate for city controller, told the Garden audience that thousands of teach- ers, technicians and other white- collared workers aze recognizing that “their fate is dinked up with; that of the working masses.” He told of schcols being closed down! throughout the state, of cuts in| educational services, of classes in-{ creased, of the building \program being halted, of the closing of train- ing schocls and recreation centers, All the capitalist parties are united in cutting wages of teachers! and civil service employes, he said. | As for the Socialists, Bszun charged that the Socialist administration in Milwaukee had instituted two cuts in teachers’ wages, and on one occasion civil servants were not paid for three months. Sets Record In the U.S.S.R. MOSCOW, Nov. 4.—The celebra- tions of the 17th anniversary of the victorious October Revolution will: take place on the eve of the largest ! grain collections in the history of | the Soviet Union and with the triumph of the collective farms overwhelmingly assured, the latest reports from the grain centers re- veal, As a result of the orgenization of the collective farms and their tre- mendous material success in raising the living standards of the farmers, the entire toiling peasantry is a devoted supporter of the Soviet Government. Reports from industry also reveal that the Soviet Union as a result of its victories in industrializing the country will be second only to the United States in the production of pig iron, Jailed on Literature Charge, 4 Are Freed BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 4— Fanny and Andrew Poole, two Negro workers, who were arrested with five others in a raid two weeks ago and charged with possession of radical literature, were released’ along with the other workers on Saturday when the charge was :lis- missed, One of the workers, Pete Turney. was rearrested on charges of criminal libel. i “in the case were arrested at a pro- | protests to the management of the ‘of the roads. Congressman Keller, Bridgeport Trial of 6 Postponed Anti-Nazi Workers Case Put Off Until After the Elections BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Nov. 4.— Yrankly stating that he did not wish the administration of the Socialist Mayor McLevy to get “unfavorable publicity,” Judge Shannon of the City Court yesterday continued for next Saturday the trial of the six anti-Nazi demonstrators arrested last Friday. Shannon stated bluntly that he was putting the case of until after the elections so that the “Com- munists would not make political capital out of the trial.” By “poli- tical capital” Shannon referred to the exposure which the Communist Party is making of the anti-work- ing class policies of the McLevy ad- ministration The trial of three other workers, arrested for distributing Commu- nist Party eelction leaflets was also postponed for next Saturday for the same reason. Despite vigorous protests of Sam Krieger, one of those arrested at the anti-Nazi demonstration on Friday, Shannon refused to hold an im-| mediate trial. The Bridgeport workers involved test meeting against the arrival of a Nazi agent from New York. McLevy had refused to grant a permit for this demonstration. Needle Trades Union In Drive for Funds To Defend Leaders The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union is now in the midst of a drive to raise funds for the de- fense af its twenty-eight leaders who are under federal indictment | growing out of their struggle against racketeering and gangsterism in the fur trade, the union announced yes- | terday. Collection lists bearing the | pictures of the indicted leaders are being circulated among the work- ers for their contributions. All friends and sympathizers of the | union have been urged to assist the union in this drive for funds. The trial is set for some time this month. The concert and ball given by the Prisoners Defense Committee of the union at Irving Plaza last Sunday was a matked success. Members of the union and their friends showed ; full realization of the importance of this affair, the proceeds of which | will go to support the families of those active workers of the union now in jail under various frame-up | sentences in connnection with thetr | activity in behalf of the union. An! excellent program, arranged by Max Kochinsky, heading the Prisoners’ Defense Committee, and a fine or- | chestra kept the crowd well enter- tained. Finnish Federation Raps Ohio Newspaper On Election Issue ASHTABULA, O., Nov. 4—The District Committee of the Finnish | Workers Federation and local Fin- nish organizations have addressed Ashtabula Star-Beacon against the publication of the names of workers in this city who have signed Com- French Cabinet Faces Crisis Over Opposition To Fascist Measures PARIS, Nov. 4—The Doumergue sovernment faces a severe crisis over its efforts to promulgate laws to facilitate the development of Fascism in France. The Radical- Socialist cabinet members, who at the last moment yesterdfy night switched their promises to support the Doumergue dictatorial laws, and forced the issue before the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, fore- cast a stormy parliamentary battle over the issue, with the dissolution of the Chamber and new elections freely predicted. The issue arose as a sequel to the Feb. 6 events, when the reac- tionary forces in France utilized the fascist rioting to put over measures which led more and more to fascist ends. This was followed by the general strike of the French work- ers, and the establishment of the united front of the Socialist and Communist Parties of France, rally- ing millions of workers against fas- cism, Doumergue began his campaign for the new pro-fascist measures by a radio attack on the united front, trying to get the more timid Social- ist leaders to rupture their united actions with the Communists. This having failed miserably, he then be- gan to work on the Radical Social- ists whose large bloc in the Cham- ber of Deputies gives them the final word on measures passed. The main object of the Doum- ergue proposals, over which the par- liamentary crisis is now develop- ing, is to increase the dictatorial power of the Premier, to have the power to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies, without the consent of the Senate, and to issue more laws by decree for war preparations, for lowering living standards, etc. Doumergue, in order to get the Radical Socialists to support his measures, threatened that if they were not put over “anarchy” would result. He also held over them the threat of renewed fascist riots, and the perspective of forcing through the laws by a fascist coup supported by the Doumergue government forces. The Radical Socialists, who | have cabinet positions in the Doum- ergue government, were faced with a crisis in their own ranks, feeling the pressure of the masses against the fascist decrees, and yet at the same time desiring to aid Doum- ergue against the growing united front of Socialists and Communists. At first they promised to support the laws, and this was so announced in the French press. At the last minute, they rescinded their ap- proval, and now the issue is forced into parliament, Mooney Appeal Again Ignored By Roosevelt Bureau) 4—Once (Daily Worker Washington WASHINGTON, Nov. more President Roosevelt has cold- shouldered Tom Mooney, although twenty-one Senators in recent months signed worker demands for immediate release of the framed labor leader. the U. S. Supreme Court is sched- uled for argument next Monday. John W. Jenkins, chairman of the Tom Mooney Defense Commit- tee of Washington, went to the White House to try and see Roose- velt, and was informed by Marvin H. McIntyre, one of the President’s secretaries, that the executive couldn’t be connected in any way with a matter which he considered solely in the jurisdiction of the state of California. “I wore out a pair of pants and @ pair of shoes running from: the Senate to the White House, carry- ing letters from Senators to the President,” Jenkins said today, “ang | then, in two minutes’ time, I re- jceived an answer that the Presi- dent, who sent twenty-six battle- ships to protect the sugar barons in Cuba couldn’t send one turnkey to San Quentin to turn an inno- cent man loose.” Jenkins attempted to tell Mc- Intyre it was Presidential action in response to worldwide workers’ demonstrations that prevented ex- ecution of Mooney, setting a prece- dent for action by Roosevelt now; but he didn’t get a chance. He also vainly tried to have Roosevelt view the motion picture, “The Strange Case of Tom Mooney.” The film will be shown at a Mooney-defense benefit performance here on Nov. 18, in the Knights of Columbus munist nominating petitions. Hall, 10th and K Streets, N. W. Mooney’s appeal to | ‘Hitler Holds Storm Troop War Parley — BERLIN, Nov, 4.—Hitler has been holding a war conference with the Storm Troop leaders and outstand- ing militarists in Germany, plan- ning action for the seizure of the Saar in connection with the Saar plebiscite, to be held Jan. 13. The Fascist press is whipping up |a@ chauvinist campaign against France as a pretext for the mo- | bilization of Fascist forces to oc- cupy the Saar. The French gov- |ernment’s proposal to the Saar | League of National Commission that it will supply troops is being played | up by the Nazi newspapers. Claiming that the Saar is Ger- man territory, the Voelkische | Beobachter, intimates that only | Fascist troops can enter it, and would be a violation of the rights of the German fascist government. Union Continues Long Fight Against World Button Plant Lockout Workers employed in the World Button Works, 114 Fourth Avenue, locked out on October 22, are still out. The manufacturer has been menuvering for a long time in an attempt to smash the union. How- ever the workers’ ranks are firm and they are determined to smash the loukout. The World Button workers are members of the Independent Cellu- loid and Plastic Novelty Workers Union of 820 Broadway. On Satur- day, Noy. 17th the union will hold a dance at 11 West 18th Street for the purpose of raising funds to con- tinue the struggle. ‘that the movement of other forces| ‘Workers Fired District Supervisors Say ‘Further Cuts May Be Necessary’ six thousand relief workers are be- ing given lay-offs, direct relief is being slashed 25 to 33 per cent, and still further work relief cuts are being planned here, the Illinois Emergency Relief Administration announced yesterday. Indignation against the relief cuts is running so high that case work- ers are afraid to leave the offices. Resolutions protesting the cuts signed by the entire staffs of four relief stations have already been sent to the relief authorities. The work relief employes hav been delayed, and are notified that they will be called back, but the official letter to the District Super- visors states that not all will be recalled, and that “further cuts may be necessary.” The cut in direct relief went into effect Friday as a direct slash in the grocery orders, with no increase in the food baskets. Leo M. Lyons, Cook County re- lief administrator, in announcing the slash in a confidential letter to the district. supervisors, instructed them to prepare for further slashes. In answer to these attacks, the Chicago Workers’ Committee on Unemployment, the Rank and File Committee for Unemployment In- surance and Relief and the Unem- ployment Councils and other or- ganizations have called upon all em- ployed and unemployed workers to join in the united front demonstra- tion on Saturday, Nov. 24. Children Demanding Thaelmann’s Release Barred at Consulate A group of more than 30 delegated Young Pioneers, representing the children’s section of the Interna- tional Workers Order, the Mittle |Schule and other children’s organi- | zations, picketed the German Con- sulate in New York on Saturday morning, in protest against the im- prisonment of Ernst Thaclmann and all other victims of fascist terror, The children elected a delegation to see the consul. As the delega- tion was going up to the consul’s office, they were kept from entering by a guard. The consul’s secretary then appeared and announced that | the consul would not see them. The delegates then assembled in a nearby park. They resolved to report their visit back to their troops, and to enlist more thous- CHICAGO, Il, Nov. 4—Twenty- | Chicago Relief NEGRO COMMUNIST - Cut and 26,000, ON PENNSYLVANIA _ ELECTION SLATE |Morris H. Wickman Is Staunch Fighter for Negro Rights and Is Leader in Struggle of Workers in Keystone State PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 4—Morris H. Wickman, Negro Communist candidate Congressional District of this for Congressman in the First State, is typical of the prole- tarian leadership which the struggles of the Negro working |class have evolved through long and bitter experience. | Hunger March Report Today, | Hunger Marchers from Browns- | ville and East New York will report tonight at 8 o’clock at the Hinsdale Workers Club, 572 Sutter Avenue, jat @ mass meeting under the aus- |pices of the East New York and |Brownsville Locals of the Unem- ployment Council. All workers are | invited. | The three Hunger Marchers to |Teport, Lerner, Woodrow and Ni- kossky, veterans of the police a [bush at the Dunn Memorial Bridge jin Albany on last Tuesday night, j will record the details of the police jattack, jailings and savage assaults |made in the station house, and the | bitter struggle which forced the Al- |bany civic authorities to grant food j}and lodging to the marchers. Their |struggle and overwhelming victory in smashing through police bans |and holding their scheduled two- |day conference and march on the |State Capitol, and the program of relief demands and actions planned at the conference will be reported | upon. | The Brownsville and East New York Unemployment Councils, which 1, week led the rent strik- ers of 515 Saratoga Avenue to a vic- autobiographical statement submitted by Wickman to the Com- munist Party election campaign committee here reveals dramatically kman developed into a leader of his class, emin- qualified to bear the standard the Communist Party in Congress of himself in his | “I was horn Sept. 2nd 1902, on a |farm at Holly Hill, South Carolina, Born of a slave mother and a kid- napped father. Lived on a farm | doing every farm task until 16 years old. Attended country school until 8th grade. With a family of 11 it was extremely difficult to provide the family with bare necessities. Father seldom freed himself from the debts and increased farm only to the extent that the family grew and the rentiers and farm owners absorbed labor power. “At the outbreak of the World War, I left home for Charlestown, South Carolir Fearing my par- }ents would demand my return, I im- | mediately left for Savannah, Geor- gia. There I worked in sulphur, | nitrate, fertilizer and coke mills. Homesick, I wrote friends who in- formed my parents of my where- abouts. After I returned home, I planned to attend school at Col- |umbia, South Carolina. (Allen Uni- versity—7 years, 1918 to ’25). My |school life and expenses were upon + |myself. Up until 1924 after school ;months I worker at every job to jbe had. In the army as porter, | butler, then to hotels, etc. I worked tory against evictions and rent in-|as bellboy, elevator operator, sales< creases, have invited local Commu- | man, janitor. These were my major |nist candidates in tomorrow’s elec- | means of employment. I worked a tions to speak at the meeting. eee on the docks in Savannah, Another marchers’ contingent will | 2nd around the waterfront in Nor- report to workers participating in an | folk, Va. eleventh-hour demonstration and| “I led one strike in school that parade at 13th Avenue and 44tn|ended in the State Department. of Street, Borough’ Park, and simul- | Education. While in Charlotte, N. taneously another group of march-|C., I led a strike, demanding that ers will.address a meeting in the |the same food be given to workers, Bensonhurst Workers Center at 7309 | maids, beliboys, waiters, etc, with a |20th Avenue. Both meetings will be|Clean place to eat and change at 8:30, They are arranged under | Clothes. the auspices of the Communist| “My first contact with the Revo- |Party and the Unemployment Coun- |lutionary movement was through a | cls. jmagazine article discussing the ands of working class children in| support of Thaelmann and all anti- fascist fighters. Queens C. P. Watchers Must Report at 5 A.M. The Communist Party Election Campaign Committee in Queens yesterday called on all Communist polling place watchers to report at 5 am. tomorrow at one of the fol- lowing four headquarters for last minute instructions and assign- ments: Long Island City, 4206 27th Street. Astoria, Workers Center, 25-20 Astoria Avenue. Woodside, 58-20 Roosevelt Avenue. Corona, 102-09 34th Street. Pension Act. Decision Laid to Rail Union Chiefs j a o- 200,000 Railroad Men) | voice was raised in warning; not Deprived of Pensions by Supreme Court By Special R.R. Correspondent CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 4—The de- cision of the District of Columbia Supreme Court made October 24th, that the Railroad Retirement Pen- sion Act was unconstitutional, can be directly laid at the door of the Grand Chiefs of our 21 standard railway unions and the officials of the Railway Employes National Pension Association. Heads of both these organizations are opposed to mass union action and rely on ‘‘fa- yors” from Congressmen and gov- ernment officials in return for labor votes. Everyone familiar with the agi- tation centering around the passage Jast Summer admits that it was the rank and file demand for this legislation in the form of personal visits to Congressmen, protest reso- lutions and telegrams which finally forced it through the closing ses- sion of Congress. Yet between the time President Roosevelt signed the. Act in July, 1934, and the time when Chief Justice Alfred E. Wheat declared it unconstitutional, the mighty power of railroad labor wes. delib- erately kept inactive, unalert and unprepared for this counter attack addressing the National Convention of the Pension Association as late as Sept. 10th made the statement that there was nothing to fear in Washington and that all the rail- road workers had to do was to trust their leaders. This, in spite of the fact that the roads had already filed their brief against the ccnstii tionality of the Bill and the finan- cial journals were predicting just chat happened. As for the union officials, not one one mass meeting was held to pre- pare to fight back, and the roads were given every assurance through acceptance of compulsory arbitra- tion in questions affecting wages and working conditions, violations of agreements, etc., road by road, that the strike power of the half million organized railroad workers would under no circumstances be set in motion as it was to force the passage of the Adamson Act in 1917. The roads objected to the Retire- ment Act on the following grounds: inclusion of all railroad employes as beneficiaries; application of the Act to those employed one year prior to the passage of the Act; in- clusion of “prior service” in com- puting annuities; and the two-thirds payment assessed on the roads. Judge Wheat has laid the basis for the repeal of these “objection- able” features in his decision. He declares the Act unconstitutional because it covers persons not en- gaged in interstate commerce such as clerks, maintenance-of-waymen and others in sections of the in- dusiry not covered by strong unions. In this way he opens up the possi- bility of depriving 200,009 railroad workers of the benefits of the Act. Judge Wheat (speaking for the roads), next attacks that section of the Act whcih provides that all workers in the employ of any road during the year preceding the pass- age of the Act are eligible for pen- sions. He siates that the roads discharged 142,000 men during this year and that to include them would be an undue hardship. He further secks to rob any of these workers who might be re-employed from their prio service earnings as a basis for computing pension benefits. Finaily he contends that “to re- quire the plaintiffs to contribute huge sums of money to be devoted to the payment of pensions based on services long since completed and fully paid for, seems to me to take their property without due process of law.” Not only would such a change in the law rob work- ers of a substantial part of their pensions, it would attack the whole question of seniority and interpret the pension as a gratuity, a reward for “loyalty,” for strike-breaking, etc., instead of being a recognition of services rendered. An Unsatisfactory Bill The Railroad Retirement Act as finally amended and passed is far from satisfactory to railroad labor. Its sets the precedent for employe contributions where formerly the roads paid the entire cost of their private pension schemes. It places not limit on the amount of assess- ments which can be levied on the men, leaving this decision to a board of three presidential appointees, whose chairman has the deciding vote. It provides for pensions in many instances less than half of what a man formerly earned and provides no minimum for the lower paid men whose pensions would run as low as from $20 to $30 a month. Contrary to the propaganda of the roads many of the men will be worse off under the Pension Bill than they were under the private pension schemes of individual roads. The Pennsylvania Railroad expects to save $3,000,000 a year under the Bill, The average pension paid by the road is estimated at $63 a month. Under the Retirement Act the average is $80, a difference of only $17, one-third of this con- tributed by the men themselves. Then why have the roads gone cut of their way to attack the con- stitutionality of the Bill? Because > Organized Mass Action Will Protect Workers Against Decision they are quite willing to retain the plum of employe contributions PROVIDED they can amend the Act in line with the other features of their private schemes. And they are quite confident that by threat- ening the repeal of the Bill alto- gether they can eliminate the “ob- jectionable” features. Their confidence is based on their experience with our Grand Lodge officials in the wage cutting nego- tiations of the past few years; their acceptance of mediation in settle- men of grievances in recent strike ballots; and their abandonment of all use of the railroad unions as or- ganizations of struggle. The only protection we railroad workers have against the repeal or destruction of the Pension Bill is our own organized strength. The rank and file must get into action immediately over the heads of our officials, if necessary, befere this case goes to the Supreme Court. Resolutions of pzotest against the decision of Judge Wheat and the inaction of our union leaders should be passed in every lodge. Joint pro- test meetings between lodges and Pension Chapters should be ar- ranged. Delegations from such lodge and protest meetings should be organized to visit senators and representatives. Petitions should be circulated; protest telegrams should be sent to Roosevelt and Eastman. More than this, we railroad work- ers must take the OFFENSIVE. ‘The Pension Bill must be improved in the interest of railroad labor We must prepare to win these im- provements as we won the Adamsor Bill in 1917, BY STRIKE! 'U. S. Reports | Further Rise | InLiving Cost WASHINGTON, Noy. 4. — The |cost of living for the worker and j bis family rose during September | for the fifth consecutive month, and unemployment continued to grow in 90 of the country’s leading industries, the United States De- partment of Commerce revealed to- day in its monthly survey of cur- rent business, Not only has the cost of living risen in the recent months, but the advance for September was the sharpest since August 1933, the sur- vey revealed. “The cost of | | i living of wage earners advanced during Sep- tember for the fifth consecutive month,” the survey states. “Every component of the index advanced during the month except the price of gas and electricity. Food prices rose 4.4 per cent. The sec- ; ond largest increase was in housing. The average of all items rose 1.8 per cent, which was the | sherpest increase since August | 1933.” | This advance in food prices brings the food cost index 25 per cent higher than it was eighteen months ago when Roosevelt took Office. On employment and wages, the survey stated: “Declining manufacturing out- put in September was accom- panied by a contra-seasonal de- cline in the number of factory employes and a larger relative drop in payrolls.” The survey attempts to gloss over the rapid growth of the crisis by fixing the blame for the drop in jobs and payrolls on the textile strike. In the same paragraph, however, the report goes on to state,. “employment was lower in 90 industries surveyed monthly.” “Industrial production during September was unchanged for the second successive month, but de- Clined further after allowance is made for the usual seasonal in- crees®, M:\ufacturing output was lower for the month, both actually and after allowance for the sea- sonal trend.” the report showed. Contributing to the decline were substantial reductions in the tex- tile and auto indufiries and smaller relative losses in iron, steel, lumber, leather and shoe, the survey re- vealed. Canitalist Politicians Pass Laws to Destroy Feod. Communist Public Officcholders Will Fight to Destroy the A. A. A. ; Sacco-Vanzetti Case and the 1.W.W. Later I met Alfred Levy. This meet- ing in Central Park West made the first real impression and opened the channels that immediately led me [into the movement. | “TI attended the first Unemploy- }ment Convention, Chicago. (Party records will show life.) The trip to the Soviet Union was the real be- ginning of my firm conviction of the correctness and practical work |of Communists. This impression in contrast with a trip later to the \South, created the undying deter- {mination that only along the path |travelied by the Russion workers | and peasants led by the Bolsheviks, |can the Negro masses and all op- | pressed toilers free themselves. Only the Soviets bring land, freedam, | bread and peace. | “During my life in school two |things happened that had some effect but. little explanation. After |the Wold War, feeling was high | against Negroes. I remember in the | Spring of 1922. One of the best ball | players was on his way to the cam- us on Sunday. A group of white kids were playing ball in the street, The pitcher happened to lose con< trol and the ball reached this waik- jing student. He in turn, hurled the ball back to the players. In doing so, Jone was struck on the leg. No ex- citement was raised and the kids | took it as a part of the game. In the night this player travelled the same | street coming from his gril friend’s house. Unexpectedly a mob closed in on him threatening to do him | bodily harm. The voiced fury grew to open attacks and a cry to lynch, Leroy ran all the way and told a few wakened students. Within 20 minutes -the campus was almost surrounded. A body of students came down stairs and demanded to know what the trouble was. E. W. | Murry asked for a gun and said he | would go to the mob and demand an explanation. Finally, we to- | gether advanced to the armed mob, | For about 40 minutes the discussion centered whether or not to let him go. The discussion, however, when the students were aroused, grew so sharp that the mob retreated with a promise not to harm Leroy.” Workers Join the C. P. At Election Meeting LUDINGTON, Mich., Nov, 4— Four workers out of 35 attending a |small campaign rally here applied |for membership in the Communiss |Party after hearing local Communist |candidates explain the election pla | form and program of the Commu= jnist Party. | The following night, at another jcampaign rally,, enough workers |were enrolled in the Communist Party to start a unit here with a total of ten members and the promise of a quick growth in mem- bership. a Workers! Farmers! All Out to the Polls Tomorrow. Vote Communist Against War and Fasei: Nem SENN NR RENE