The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 5, 1934, Page 7

CHANGE | —THE— | | WORLD! | By MICHAEL GOLD T ENIN called the film the most powerful cultural weapon ™ the militant working-class could use. Now many years later, after blunders and false starts and a curious apathy among working-class leaders, the film is about to come into its own in proletarian America. We are commencing to learn how to use this wonderful machine. In the Dakotas there has been established a circuit of some 90 farming villages and towns where Soviet and proletarian Amer- ican films are shown, through the distribution channels of the Garrison Film corporation. Tom Brandon, who is the field organizer oe this company, is now in the middle west, organizing more circuits. He is enthusiastic about the possibilities. “The farmers’ circuit now covers three states,” he writes. “Four pictures have already been shown in the 90 places on the circuit. The pictures were among the best; Potemkin, Fragment of an Empire, End of St. Petersburg, and now Gorky’s ‘Mother, with sound. “The operator travels in an old Ford from town to town, but his 16 millimetre sound projector is new and does the job well. The farmers eat it up. They flock in from miles around, and see the Pictures in barns, schools, town halls; once even in a big funeral parlor loaned by a friendly mortician. “We are now organizing similar circuits in Michigan and Illinois, for the auto workers, steel workers, miners and farmers. We are showing the best Soviet films, also such pictures as ‘Kameradschaft,’ Chaplin comedies, the Thaelmann picture, and short newsreels of working class life from the Film and Photo League. “It's a great experience for me personally. It is really thrilling to see it demonstrated that the American workers and farmers are not’ what Hollywood says they are—morons. No, they want good pictures, they love good pictures, and in America today, that means OUR pictures. If this thing keeps growing at its present rate, we are going to give Hollywood some real competition soon in the way of audience-appeal. We have already given several hundred thou- sand real Americans a sample of our new world, and they want more. Let’s all become more film-minded. Who knows but that this machine may prove to be the best organizing weapon in a machine country like America?” . . . “I’m From Missouri” i Koi is something about a picture that is more convincing than most words. “I'm from Missouri, you’ve got to show me,” says the average man. In a moving picture you can show him. You can show him the contrasts of capitalism; the palaces of the rich, and the garbage dumps where the workers live. You can show him how capitalist cops treat strikers, how the armed forces of the capitalist state are used only against workers, and never against capitalists. You can show him, as if he himself were there, the great things that are being done by and for the workers and farmers of the So- viet Union. You don’t need to argue; you show him. It is an emo- tional impact that goes into his deepest being. wuch of our written and spoken propaganda is sterile because it works only on one layer of consciousness. It is abstract and logical. It does not talk to the whole man. It is a kind of algebra, and I am afraid many workers are prejudiced against algebra. But the movie uses images and emotion, and sinks into the deeper and more primitive and unconscious layers of the mind. To illustrate: when you read about some accident in the news- paper, it may give you a slight shock, but on the whole, it seems unreal to you. If you saw. that accident, the blood and agony of it, with your own eyes, the greatest writer could not move you as much, You would always remember your experierice. The movies can make the revolutionary movement seem real as rain or food to workers. The movies are an experience. This is life itself, unforgettable, not an argument about life. Psycholigists have discovered this fact also; and in the most modern schools today, children are being taught through moving pictures instead of books. * * . “Three Songs About Lenin” o= Film and Photo League has been in existence for some years, but outside of a few good newsreels, hasn’t done much to bring this great cultural weapon to the working class. As yet, they haven’t produced a single reel of comedy, agitation, satire or working class drama. Many bourgeois amateur film groups have produced dozens of such shorts. The cost is comparatively slight; we have writers, directors, and film technicians in plenty. And we have this great audience waiting for us. An organizer seems to be needed, perhaps, to gather all the threads together. Meanwhile, I should advise workers and film technicians both to see the new Soviet picture, “Three Songs About Lenin,” when it ap- pears. Here is film-propaganda raised to the peak of the highest art. The director Vertov has used only news-reel shots as his material. But he has woven them into a pattern of sight and sound that is as stunning as a great symphony or grand opera. Even Will Rogers seemed to have been moved by it, as he confessed in a recént broad- cast. When you can touch a super-Babbitt like Rogers with your proletarian art, it is something real. It means that you have presented life with such force and clarity that he can’t argue against it. Vertov deals with Soviet life. He has brought out the enormous epic it contains into his furiously moving images. I hope somebody in the Film and Photo League finally learns how to do a film a tenth as good for proletarian America. The workers and farmers out on the circuits are waiting for it hungrily. * * * Contributions received to the credit of Mike Gold in his Socialist competition with Jacob Burck, David Ramsey, Harry Gannes, Ann Barton, del and the Medical Advisory Board, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—$500. A. McKean . Aocoraeon ii. } Harty Rutland . coe. 1,00 Eva Ostrow ... + 1.00 P. & G. Workers Lerner .. Previously received .. » 165 ~ 2.00 266.62 $282.27 For Boys and Girls of All Ages OUR __ .. 5y Ruth Shaw and Harry Alan Potamkin LENIN .. . 65 illustrations by William Siegel Here’s a story of Lenin and his work that will thrill every.youngster . . . '95e Total to date INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS 381 Fourth Avenue, New York I am interésted in your publications, BOWS AGAINST THE BARONS Hepler me your catalogue and by Geoffrey Trease | NAME . as a folk hero of oppressed nd age ng ee at ' 75¢€ | ADDRIGB ene — INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS 381 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK, N. Y. A new tale of Robin Hood DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1934 * By SENDER GARLIN “Georgia treats her niggers bet- jter than any other state in the junion,” Hon. Eugene Talmadge,| assured jgovernor of Georgia, | during an interview in his suite in the Commodore Hotel. “Good niggers get along fine in Georgia, in spite of what you folks up North sometimes hear,” the governor continued. Yet, according to a writer in yesterday’s New York Times, ihe great state of Georgia has the highest lynching record for the past five years—excelling even the great state of Alabama! Prior to the interview Talmadge had received the welcome accorded & returning hero when he spoke at a luncheon of the Advertising Club, jof which Grover Whalen, former chief gendarme of the city of New York, is president. Talmadge’s speech, vaguely entitled, “The New South,” recounted the achievements of his administration, chiefly a $3- a-year license plate for automobile owners. One Strikebreaker to Another Grover Whalen, in presenting the sembled businesmen when he quoted Talmadge’s declaration during the recent textile strike that “when any citizen of Georgia wants to work they have an inalienable right to do 80.” “Tt is a great honor,” the South- ern governor began modestly, “for Georgia cracker to have the pleas- ure of addressing the greatest ad- vertising club in the world. It was 146 years ago that my grandfather left Newark, N. J., and walked to Atlanta, Georgia. Later he walked back to Newark, took himself a wife and brought her back to At- lanta on a donkey.” Having properly introduced him- self, Gov. Talmadge plunged into economics. “Forty years ago,” he said, “land brought $40 an acre in Georgia. Recently I bought out my sister's interest in some land and I paid her only $5 an acre.” Competition from Europe was the chief cause of the slump in prices, the chief executives declared, and pointed out that thirteen million bales of cotton are grown outside of the United States. Years ago, Gov. Talmadge said sadly, “A man who owned red land could live in town and have niggers work his land, but now every large landowner is a poor man.” “Too Much Relief” Indian war-whoops from the banqueteers greeted Gov. Tal- madge’s declaration that “the gov- ernment should not be in business. We in Georgia and we in the South don’t believe any man knows how to run another man’s business just because he has been elevated to a bureau.” Federal relief projects is what the mic| governor had in mind, he later Georgia governor, brought forth @ to storm of applause from the as- | | Chain Gangs Not So Bad, Lynch Executive Says; ! Vague on Negro Rights, Herndon Case made clear. 3 “Relief and charity is the func-! | tion of the church,” Talmadge con- | tinued. “When the government goes | to tending all the charity and re-| !lief, there’s nothing left for people | to do but dress up, go to church | |and sing out of songbooks. Take} charity and relief away from the} | churches and you take from them | [the entire bedrock of religion,” the governor declared vehemently. \s An inkling of the miserable wages | #” | workers are paid in the South was | suggested by Gov. Talmadge when| « he asserted that there is a danger | that “some folks on relief are get- | ting more than folks on jobs.” | Gov. Talmadge’s speech at the| Advertising Club was lacking in de- | |tails on how his militia clubbed | and shot textile workers during the recent nationwide textile strike, and | how he imprisoned hundreds of | strikers in concentration camps in | an effort to prevent picketing. | I therefore thought it advisable | seek a special interview with | | Georgia’s Chief Executive. The| luncheon being over, I presented | myself to the governor who sug-| | gested I meet him in his rooms at | : {the Commodore in a half hour. | “there are two kinds of elections, | Upon my arrival there I found half | the primaries—what we call the ta dozen aide-de-camps, including ‘white primaries’ and the regular Hugh Howell, of his staff. These | élections. A nigger that has some gentry remained in the room dur-|Property and pays his taxes can jing the entire interview, and some | always vote—even in the white pri- |of the questions put to the governor | Mary. All niggers can vote in the | brought glassy stares into their eyes, |Tegular election, but that's not so which would undoubtedly have sig-|important, you see, because the GOV. EUGENE TALMADGE nified a slightly greater risk for the | primary usually decides what can- | questioner if the interview took | didate is due to win.” | Place in Atlanta. “Strike and Go Home” | The governor, “Oh, that textile strike? You ask {slightly built, who wears tortoise: and chews on an unlit cigar, gave |the appearance of being sunk a middle aged, | elled glasses | strikes. It is most decidediy not, *~ | young man, providing, of course, ‘ieee F i” | there's no intimidation or violence. | meditation when the questions about It’s alright for folks to quit work if | Negroes, strikes and chain gangs 7 |started popping after the innocent, | preliminary ones about the gov- |, f ; ; Jernor’s chances for re-election next |198- Like I already explained, if |Tuesday had been disposed of. they Just quit and go home and) | Discussing his prospects for elec- don’t cause no trouble, we'd have no call to put ’em in those camps. Take the way my niggers quit on me, tion, Gov. Talmadge informed me that in the recent primaries he had | They just left my farm and went | | home. There’s nothing illegal about carried 156 counties out of 159 in s he i j the “state. | AS 8 result He is NOW| hat, but these textile agitators, thay | jthe candidate of both the Demo- |‘ ‘cratic and Republican parties, tried to picket, I mean stop other |folks from working. “I've heard that Negroes are b sometimes not permitted to vote in| The governor was insistent that | right to stop other folks from work- | e “Good Niggers Get Along In Georgia,’ Gov. Talmadge Tells ‘Daily’ Writer Es ® ; spend all your time farming?” | “Well, between crops, I'd tend to | my law business,” he replied simply Vague on Herndon Case Gov. Talmadge was surprisingly vague on the Herndon case. “I un- derstand,” I infermed him, “that a young Negro by the name of Hern- don was sentenced to serve 20 years on the chain gang for speaking at ;@ relief meeting in Atlanta. What |}do you think of that case?” | “Well, I don’t know much about that case,” the governor countered | “except that I know that that young |nigger got a fair and square trial, and the jury must-a known what they were about.” i Asked about John L. Spivak’s dramatic exposure of the chain gang | system in Georgia, the governor said | that he had neyer read the book, | but assured me that “chain gangs aren't half as bad as some tolks make them out. In this the gover- nor was vigorously seconded by the political flunkeys who sat by his side. “Yaah,” said the governor, “these fellows on the chain gangs are in the open air, they see mules and children and sometimes get cigarettes from folks passing by, and being in a chain gang is cer- tainly much healthier than being | locked up in a prison cell—like folks es in other states.” Besides, Gov. Talmadge informed |me—almost confidentially —“if a |convict behaves himself, the guard jlet’s him go loose after a few | months.” “You mean he lets the prisoner | go free?” I asked naively. | “Oh, no, I mean he takes the | chain off the convict for a spell.” What—Social Equality! | Returning to the Herndon case, | |I asked the governor whether it was sandy-haired man|i¢ my administration is against |"t true that the young Negro or- ganizer was convicted on an “insur- | |rectionary” statute passed shortly | before the Civil War. The governor was vague on Amer- |ican history, but— | | “What these agitators are want- | | ing is not relief, or even unions, but social equality, and there’s no place for that kind of stuff in the state of Georgia.” “What do you mean by ‘social | equality’?” I asked. | “Well, this idea of niggers coming | into front doors of white folks’ | homes instead of back doors and | carrying on as if they were the same | as whites...” I was about to ask another ques- | Georgia and other states in the|he was not against the rights of|tion when Gev. Talmadge suddenly | South,” I suggested. | Ve | “Well, I don’t know about other | Working man right here and now,” |states in the South, but I will tell/he exclaimed pounding his fist \you that in Georgia we don’t have| against his heart. “I own a farm any trouble at election time,” the | governor said. | I've done in my day with these here “Are all Negroes permitted to | hands.” “Before you were elected gover- vote?” I persisted. “Well, sir,” he repied cordially, | nor,” I asked Talmadge, “did you myself and there’s a lot of work | distinct pleasure” |labor. “Why, you're talking to @/remembered that he had another | appointment in the lobby of the ;Commodore. Grasping my hand, | Talmadge assured me that it was “a | | to make my ac- quaintance and asked if I wouldn’t |please mail him a copy of the in- terview. ! I shall. ALIQUIPPA, Pa., (By Mail).— George Issoski told the story of his |frame-up to the Daily Worker, each fact related by the raidroaded steel worker another link in the chain of evidence which closely connects the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corpora- tion, Aliquippa, Beaver County and State authorities in the plot by rance State Hospital for the Insane, for his activities in the Amalga- mated Association of Steel and Tin Workers. In a mill accident in 1916, Issoski’s back was seriously injured and since that time he has worked on and off for the corporation, each time being rehired at a lower rate, up until his final discharge in 1929. Since that time he has been with- out work, but when the Amalga- mated operated its organization drive in the J and L plant late this Summer he worked hard to build the union and signed up himself early in September. On September 11, Issoski made an evening visit to the A. A.’s local headquarters in Aliquippa for some application cards, fifty of which he took home under his shirt for friends who were anxious to join the union. As he neared home a friend in- formed him that police were follow- ing him, but he disregarded the warning and a few minutes iater was accosted by a pair of the cor- poration’s armed thugs in uniform. The guards commanded him to surrender the application cards which he carried. Issoski denied having any, but the thugs tore open his shirt, captured the cards, and, cursing him violently, threw nim into their car and took him to the Aliquippa jail, where he was charged with being “drunk and disorderly.” The next day, at a hearing before Justice of the Peace C. R. Hayward, of Aliquippa, Issoski was found guilty as charged and fined $16 and costs. Having no money to pay the By TOM KEENAN bd George Issoski, Steel Worker, Railroaded | Into Insane Asylum for Union Activities fine, the prisoner was sent to Beaver County jail, at Beaver. for framing Issoski, the commission Railroaded to Asylum made up of Dr. Margaret Cornelius, Here he was kept incommunicado|Dr. M. M. Mackall, and Attorney in a cell, and a few days later was|James K. Stone. (Dr. Cornelius sent to the insane asylum at Tor- | threatened to cut off the relief sup- the lunacy commission very bitterly which he was committed to Tor-| rance, Pa., without a single mem- | ber of the lunacy commission which was responsible for his commit- |ment ever examining him in any way—one of the most brazen frame- ups which even Beaver County has ever known. Today Issoski was asked, “Did any of the members of the commission examine you in any way before you | plied Mrs. Issoski and her seven | children if she refused to sign com- | mitment papers, but in vain; and Attorney Stone distinguished him- |self in the service of J and L last |year as one of the deputized thugs who massacred the Ambridge picket line.) | The governor has tried to throw the whole blame on Beaver County | “What was the result of their ex- amination?” “They said I was sane.” “And did they then make any moves to cause your release?” | “No, they kept me there until | Oct. 24." (The day Issoski’s release | was demanded by Governor Pin- chot.) Your correspondent asked the victim if he had been beaten while in the borough and county jails. He declined to answer the question. “Now that you are released, do| you intend to give up your activi- | ties in the union?” | were sent to Torrance?” officials as being under the steel The steel worker replied, “Not company’s domination, but the fol- one.” lowing reveals the position of state “Did they question you in any | authorities: way?” Issoski was asked, “When you ar- “No.” rived at Torrance did the doctors Pinchot Acted Late Governor Pinchot has attacked TUNING IN | 7:00 P. M.-WEAP—Campaign Talks—Sen- | ator Robert F. Wagner; Represen- | tative Theodore A. Peyser | | there examine you?” “Yes.” WABC—Everett Marshall, Baritone 9:00-WEAF—Gypsies Orchestra WOR—Campaign Talks—Governor A. Harry Moore of N. J.; Judge Wil- lam Dill, Democratic Candidate WJZ—Minstrel Show WABC—Rosa Ponselle, Soprano 9:30-WEAF—Joe Cook, Comedian; Donald Navis, Tenor; Frances Langford, Contralto; Voorhees Orchestra WOR—Lum and Abner—Sketch WJZ—A Good Soldier—Sketeh WABC—Gluskin Orch.; Block and Sully, Comedians; Gertrude Niesen, Songs; Chiquito, Songs 9:45-WOR—Breckinridge Campaign Talk WOR—Frank and Flo, Songs WZ—America in Music WABC—Summing Up the Campaign —Henry P. Fletcher, Chairman Republican National Committee | 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read WJZ—The New Deal, America’s Hope for the Future—Postmaster General James A. Parley, Chair- man Democratic Nat'l Committee WOR—Sports Talk—Ford Frick WJZ—Amos ‘n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—Myrt and Marge—Sketch 7:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy and Music WJZ—Plantation Echoes WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 1:30-WEAF—Cempaign Talk—Robert ‘Moses, Republican Candidate for Governor WOR—Mystery Sketch WJZ—Red Davis—Sketch WABC—Paul Keast, Baritone; Orch. 7:45-WEAF—Frank Buck’s Adventures WOR—Dance Music ‘W5Z—Dangerous Paradise—Sketch WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Campaign Taik—E. Harold Cluett, Republican Candidate for Senator WOR—Lone Ranger—Sketen WJZ-—Jan Garber, Supper Club WABC—Bat X Days—Sketch 8:15-WABC—Edwin C. Hill, Commentator 8:30-WEAF—Symphony Orchestra; Gladys WABC—Same as WJZ Swarthout, Soprano; Margaret | 10:30-WEAF—1934 Mobilization for Human Speaks, Soprano; Frank Chapman, Needs; Play—The Lost Generation; Baritone; “Fred Hufsmith, Tenor The Real Values of Life—Robert WOR—Variety Musicale E. Sherwood (Also WABC, WJZ) WJZ—Campaign Talk—Governor WOR—Lehman Campaign Talk Lehman 11:00-WEAF—The Crummits—Sketch “No, I shall continue them.” “Whether it is hard or not, that | is the only way the workers will | ever better their lot, isn’t it?” Issoski grinned, “You bet,” answered. Pinchot .Will Use Whitewash. The A. A. top leadership, how- ever, has washed its hands of any meetings or other forms of protest against the framing of Issoski. They intend to “leave it up to the gov- ernor—he will handle it.” The goy- | ernor will probably handle it—with |@ whitewash brush, as he did in| jthe case of the Ambridge murder investigation this spring, for elec- tions will soon be over. Meanwhile, an investigation is | being conducted into a second case of this kind. Workers refuse to re- veal the name of the victim, but he. has been twice railroaded to Tor- rance, and has been there since January, 1934. Only a few days ago he was able to smuggle a let- ter out to friends of his, and the | case is now being “looked into” by | |state investigators assigned by Pinchot. The Amalgamated lodge in Ali- quppa has succeeded in holding | two mass meetings in the borough, | but is still unable to hold member- | | ship meetings because of the ter- ror. Borough police wear regular | war-time steel helmets, and carry | extra long riot clubs on duty, in| place of the shorter maces. he | Page! 7 This is the last instalment of the sixth article by John I Spivak in the series, “Plotting the American Pogroms,” appear- ing weekly in the New Masses. In these articles, Spivak exposes the widespread organized anti- Semitic activities, closely linked with Nazi Germany, of such or- ganizations and individuals as the Order of '76, Silver Shirts. Congressman Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania, and, in the pres- ent article, Ralph M. Easley famous red-baiter and George Sylvester Viereck, high pressure Nazi agent in this country. By JOHN L. iil. ET me quote from a secret r Easley sent to Viereck on Ju 1934. The emphasis is mine Dear Mr. Viereck: In thinking over the situation WHICH HAS GROWN OUT OF MY PROPOSAL FOR YOU TO HAVE YOUR FRIENDS IN GER- MANY ANSWER THE STATE- MENTS contained in the pam- phiet THE JEWS IN NAZI GER- MANY purporting to be “the factual record of their persecution by the National Socialists” and is- sued by the American Jewish Committee of New York, I am wondering if, instead of answering that Memorandum, IT WOULD NOT BE BETTER IF THE NA- TIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY IT- SPIVAK PLOTTING the AMERICAN POGROMS attack on the Jews and if so, why, as an American “patriot,” did you to distribute a book which you knew carried insidious anti-Semitic propaganda? 6. How much money did you get from George Sylvester Viereck to help defray the cost of distrib- uting this anti-Semitic book? 7. How much did your wife, who is your assistant, get to help defray the expenses of distribut- ing this book? 8 Your wife expressed the hope that hefore long she would r own to carry ion of this anti- Who proposed to is office of her own, she confided to sev- mate friends? book, for tt pay about whic eral of her 9, You solicit and receive con- tributions for anti-Communist propaganda. How much of this came from wealthy Jews and what portion of it was used to dissemi- nate this anti-Semitic book? 10. Why did you not inform the public or Judge Proskauer and other prominent Jews whom you tried to get to indorse this book that it had been imported into this country by George Sylvester Viereck? ll. Did you inform your asso- ciates, such as General Delafield, when you, they, and prominent Jews who were fighting anti-Sem- itism in this country were meet- | HIBALD Ewino STEVENSON i drs John L Hew Masses, ST Bast 271n Street, New York City. Spivak Dear Sirs surprise. cheracterizetions, conclusi quite evident that your letter altogether, either mr: or are en, parties t 4 in spreading any ant nY prOwhazi movenent whi SELF SHOULD PREPARE A STATEMENT SUPPORTED BY DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE and | showing the entire undermining work which it claims is being done by Communists in Germany. Perhaps both Jews and gentiles who have been contributing money to the Federation in the belief they were fighting Communism will in- quire into the strange connections of this “patriot,” who last spring personally called on Under Secre- tary of State Phillips to try to stop the boycott of German goods—pre- cisely what the Nazi agent Viereck desired. ee bet 'HE following letter has been sent to Mr. Easley by registered mail: October 26, 1934. My dear Mr. Easley: Your secretary informed me this morning that on advice of counsel you should not let me interview you on your anti-Semitic activities which you carried on under the guise of fighting Communism. She added that counsel advised you to ask me to submit the ques- tions I wish to ask you and that you “would give them due con- sideration.” Herewith are the questions which I hope your legal | advisors will permit you to an- swer: 1. In your fight against Com- munism you distributed a book | COMMUNISM IN GERMANY, | which contained anti-Semitic | propaganda: Where did you get | this book? 2. Did you know that this book had been imported into this coun- try by George Sylvester Viereck, | a Nazi agent? 3. Why did you try to get Judge Proskauer, or other prom- inent Jews, to sponsor it? And why did Judge Proskauer refuse? 4. Did you ever inquire of George Sylvester Viereck, or any one else, Who was paying the cost of printing and shipping of the anti-Semitic COMMUNISM IN | GERMANY which you were dis- | tributing? | . * . 5, Did you suspect that Nazi | propagandists were behind this | Contributions received to the credit of David Ramsey in his Socialist competition with Jacob Burck, Mike Gold, Harry Gan- || nes, Ann Barton, del and the Medical Advisory Board, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—$250. Eva Ostrow $ 1.00 1] MR. DOUGHBAGS PASSES BY! _neaiadeimmrecenet 9 Mr ehh Previously Rec'd . 27.24 |) Total to date $28.24 || v del conazncmace 7 am COUNSELOR AT Law Mr. Ralph M. Eeeley has shown me your letter to him of October 26, which I read with interest, but without Your interrogations are so replete with your om @nd innuendoes that it ie 8 not sent with en h desire to ocquire accurate information, circumstences, 1 have advised Mr. Easley to i 1 should neglect my duty, however Yise you that eny assertion or innuendo jesley, Mr. Easley or Mr, Met and that any publication on your part of ferences to that effect will be dealt with a (archi ) | fidentially to George | mittee, | wanted New York. 29, 1934, Semi ing secretly, had been first s by George Sylvester Viereck? I the meetings sgested to you am referring to your proposed committee of 100 which you tried to get formed. 12, Since your fight is against Communism and radicalism what has that to do with your efforts to get the Jewish boycott of Gere man goods in this country stopped? 13. The American Federation of Labor, of which Matthew Woll is vice-president and is also act- ing president of the National Civic Federation, went on record favoring the boycott of German goods. Did you tell Mr. Woll of your recent activities to get this boycott stopped and what did he say? 14. Why did you go to the State Department and discuss with Under-Secretary of State Phillips the stopping of the Jew- ish boycott of German goods? What has that to do with Com- munism? 15. Why did you report con- Sylvester Viereck on the activities of the American Jewish Committee, an organization formed to fight antr- Semitism in this country? 16. Why did you plot confiden- tially to have the American Jew- ith Committee issue a statement which would give the National Socialist Party of Germany an op- portunity for a blast of publicity in defense of anti-Semitic actiy- | ities and confidentially report on this to Viereck, the Nazi agent? 17. You met secretly at the home of Dr. Stein, 375 Park Ave., | with Royal Scott Gulden, head of the secret espionage Order of ‘76, who, you knew, was carrying on anti-Semitic propaganda. What are your relations with Gulden? 18. Did you meet with Col. Ed- | win Emerson, the Nazi anti-Sem- itic agent in this country? What was the purpose of your meetings? 19. Did you meet Sidney Brooks ~~. of the Republican Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Com- the son of Col. Edwin Emerson, and what reason did you have to meet with him? 20. Your wife distributed this anti-Semitic “Communism in Ger- many,” giving free copies to Wil- liam Dudley Peliey of the Silver | Shirts. Did Viereck suggest giving | him these copies? 21. What other propaganda material did Viereck ever give you to distribute which was imported from Germany? 22, What financial contribu- tions did you receive from Nazi agents to carry on the work of distributing material which they spread throughout this country? JOHN L, SPIVAK, The response to this communica= tion, sent by Archibald E. Steven- son, is above. reproduced in facsimile Contributions received to the credit of Del in his Socialist competition with Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, the Medical Advisory Board, Ann Barton, Jacob Burck and David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—$500. Sec. 1 Unit 10.. Sec. 1 Unit 11 . Eva Ostrow A Dispute Previously ‘ Total to Date. 3 9.28 1.00