The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 6, 1934, Page 2

CIALISTS CONCEAL DEBS’ MI %ER SCORNED fE CATCHING’ “THO DS OF 5. P. aniversary Recalls Struggle Against the ortunist S. P. Chiefs, Anti-War and ad Eloquent Defense of U. S. S. R. By Alexander Trachtenberg Ye are in polities not to get votes but to develop power to ipate the working class.”—Eugene V. Debs. 8 is the 79th anniversary of the birth of Eugene This week’s New alist Party which he Leader, the official organ of helped to found 85 years ago which he was chairman at the time of his death in avotes a couple of in vat him which ends with “he loved and served his Ten. This is all the space the N& Leader would give to Debs, and, as uSual, presents him as some sort of Jesus rather than the revo- lutionary working class leader that he was. To think of Debs-is to remember that this year marks ‘also the 40th anniversary of the great American Railway Union Strike which par- alyzed all railways between Chicago and the West Coast. Debs organ- ized the A. R. U—an industrial union of railwaymen—and led it in one of > most militant struggles of American labor—the Pullman Strike. It is also referred to in American labor history as the “Debs Rebeltion.” Debs Defied Injunction The strike was broken by the use| of all the powers of government, a court injunction—the first of its kind—backed by military force. Debs violated the injunction and went to jail for six months at Woodstock, Ill. When the strike be-| gan he was still only a militant trade unionist. When he emerged from jail, he was a Socialist. Debs himself described his ideological transformation when he told how during the strike “There were de- livered from wholly unexpected qtiarters (federal troops sent by President Pleveland) a swift suc-| in 1920, when he was nominated for |gress should be distributed among cession of blows that blinded me/ President, that “we are in politics |the membership of all organiza- for an instant and then opened my| not to get votes but to develop tions.” eyes—and in the gleam of evety bayonet and the flash of every rifle the class struggle was revealed.” | During the 25 years which fol- lowed the A. R. U. strike—from the release from the Woodstock jail till his incarceration in a federal prison in 1919 at the age of 65 to serve a ten year sentence for struggle against the imperialist war, Debs became the outstanding revolution- ary leader in America. He partici- pated in exery,.major conflict dur- ing that period. He used his great etit of eloquence and his trench- ant pen to rally workers for strug- gle, to instill in them the spirit of revolt, of class solidarity, of mili- tant organization. He fought Samuel Gompers, Bill Green’s predecessor, and his lieutenants, for their class collaborationist policies. To John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, who declared in a| ches of space to a silly little EUGENE V. DEBS Photo taken in Atlanta peniten- tlary, 1920 | | the Socialist Party platform, the| | speeches of its candidates and the | | writings of its leading organ ar | designed primarily for vote catch- | |ing. But Debs told the delegation | |the majority of the workers, and | Which visited.him in Atlanta prison | | Power to emancipate the working | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1934 National Meet | On Social Bill Wisconsin Conference) Sets Up State Action Committee | MILWAUKEE, Wis., Noy. 5.—One hundred and twenty-five regular elegates from seventeen cities met ere last week at the State Con- ference for Unemployment Insur- ance to lay plans for a state-wide | action in the fight 1or the Worxers Unemployment and Social insur- ance Bill. | The delegates represented locals | of the American Federation of La- | bor, two Central Labor bodies of | the A. F. of L., independent and Trade Union Unity League locals, unemployed organizations, lan- guage, fraternal and mass organ- izations, and church, Negro and farmers’ groups. The Common Councils of Milwaukee, West Allis and Cudahy, three of the many cities in the State which have en- dorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. The reports of the delegates showed the discontent of the work- ers with new mass layoffs taking place, the starvation relief budgets, and the insecurity of their very lives. Farm delegates showed how the A. A. A. crop reductions and price maneuvers have worsened the conditions of the poor farmers and the workers. The delegates reported that the Wisconsin Unemployment Compen- sation Act (Groves Law) not only provided nothing for the present unemployed, denied all benefits to provided very little or nothing to workers who indirectly contributed to its reserves. Herbert Benjamin, national or- ganizer of the Unemployment Councils, called upon the delegates to support the National Congress for Unemployment and Social In- surance to be held in Washington, . C., on Jan. 5, 6 and 7. “Local ponsoring committees for the Con- gress,” Benjamin said, “should be set up in every locality and copies of the call to the National Con- The State Conference pledged class.” |support to the National Congress, | What do the last words mean if endorsed the Workers Unemploy- |not the utilization of the election | ment Insurance Bill, and elected a |campaign as another means of or-|State Committee of Action to pre- | ganizing the workers for struggle | pare for the National Congress. | for their every-day needs as well as | SES ROM DRE | for the overthrow of capitalism al- | « | together. Read the Socialist Party | iy B F | Congressional platform and try to! oreign- Or n ace find there a call to struggle. Listen | r 3 to the speeches of the leading “So- N T D i |cialist Party candidates—Thomas, | ew ; error rive | Solomon, etc.,.and try to find there | | a suggestion’ regarding the “devel- | ive é oping of the power” of the working | (Co#tinued from Page 1) | re ate the overthrow of capitalist \the Bela Kun Soviet Government | class rule. | of Hungary. | {| When we consider the danger of| The group had an appointment | war and threatening fascism, We | with Daniel W. MacCormack, Com- | cannot but remember. the way the | missioner-Geeral of Immigration, Socialist Party leaders betrayed the |late today. They will demand that St. Louis anti-war resolution of|he use his influence to halt the newspaper debate with him in 1904/1917, which, with all ‘its shortcom- increasing hounding of forelgn- ings, could have been made a pow- | that “There is no necessary conflict between capital and labor” (how like Bill Green and John L. Lewis of today), he replied: “I say there is no possible peace between them. Every hour of truce is at the price of slavery.” ,Debs wrote in 1912: “The §S. P. cannot remain neutral on the trade union question. As a revolutionary Party it cannot commit itself to the principle of reactionary trade union- ism.” Debs stood for revolutionary industrial unionism. He also be- lieved in working in the A. F. of L. cfaft unions. “We must bore from Within and without,” he declared in 1910, but the S. P. leaders shout from the housetops that this for- coe was invented by the Commu- ists. Warned Against Reformists erful instrument in the struggle | against imperialist war. Debs, | | Ruthenberg. and other revolution- | ary elements, however, did not fol- | low the social-pacificism of the So- | cialist Party officials. | Hailed U.S. S. R. We are on the eve of the 17th| anniversary of the Russian prole- | |tarian revolution. The Socialist | | Party leaders malign the Russian | Bolsheviks, are arrayed with the) lenemies of the Soviet Republic | | throughout the capitalist world. | What was Deb’s position on the | Russian revolution? His declara- | tions, “I am a Bolshevik from the crown of my head to the tips of my toes,” “I heartily support the Rus- sian revolution without reserva- | tions,” and in court, “I have been | |leader of the Pecs miners has been Just as Debs hated and bitterly accused of sympathy with the Bol- fought reactionary trade union lead-| sheviks of Russia. I plead guilty to €rs, so has he always warned against| the charge,” are illustrations of teformist Socialist leaders who were| Deb's enthusiastic support to the worming their way intothe Social- ist Party. In an article “Danger A d,” he wrote in-1911: “tt [the 8. P.] may become permeated and corrupted with the spirit of bour- geois reform to an extent that will Practically destroy its virility ané ef- ficiency as a revolutionary organiza- tion.” The reformist leaders would not heed Debs’ warnings. ‘They en- visaged a different party, a party of liberal reform, rather than of revo- lutionary action. The present leadership holds to the same view. But the spirit of Debs seems to be arousing in the} moribund S. P. The voices that are being heard from honest’ Socialist workers, who are beginning to learn from the experiences ‘of the crisis and the militant struggles of recent years may not be as yet as deter- mined and as clear as’ the present sifuation requires. But the general radicalization of the masses is bound to affect them as well and the leadership and activities of the | especially the | struggle for the united front, will| Communist Party, further accelerate the process of their revolutionization. - If these leftward moving mem- | bers of the Socialist Party will but listen to the call of Debs of nearly 25 years ago “to stand squarley on Sur révolutionary working class principles and make our fight @penly and uncompromisingly against all our enemies, adopting ho cowardly tactics and holding out no false hopes,” ‘they cannot but free themselves from the influence of both the reactionary “orthodox Marxist” and “militant” non-Marx- & (really liberal anti-Marxist) eaders of the Socialist Party. For Revolutionary Political Action In the present election campaign | first workers’ government. The Socialist Party does not print | | these utterances of Debs. It does} |no make the true heritage of Debs | the property of the rank and file | in the Party. But the rank and | file members and workers who still follow the Socialist Party are be- ginning to talk the language of | Debs. This is a step in the direc- | tion of their revolutionization. | Weare ready to claim jointly with these workers Debs as our own, for |he belongs to the revolutionary tradition of the American working | class. A vote for the Communist Party | is a vote for what Debs repre- sented during his 40 years of mili- tant working-class activity. |Communist Candidate, Released on Bond, Led Arizona F.E.R.A. Strike PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 5.—Clay | Naff, Communist candidate for ;Governor of Arizona, was released on $1.200 bond, pending trial on Nov. 23 on’ charges’ of “riot.” Naff was arrested on Sept. 6 after being slugged~ into unconsciousness by deputies and police attacking a picket line of striking F. E. R. A. workers. The attack. was made under the orders of Gov. B. B. | Mouer, an ex-Klansman. More than: fifty workers were in- | jured and ‘thirty-two jailed as a| result of this police attack. Protests should be rushed to Gov. Mouer and | Attorney-General Arthur LaPrade, | Phoenix, . Arizona, in order. that these workers will not be railroaded to the penitentiary. | Swore allegiance in 1918,” born working class leaders of workers’ struggles in this country, and increasing efforts to use the immigration laws against militant foreign-born citizens. Citing the resent underground hunger strike of the Pecs miners | in Hungary, the delegation in- formed the secretary of the lega- tion that this incident “focused the attention of all the civilized workers upon the terroristic sup- pression of elemental rights of the Hungarian people,” “Now we are informed that the killed, and that an attempt to white wash it as a ‘suicide’ is be- ing made,” Gellert added. “These indications of a new wave of white terror in Hungary will gain only hostility for the Horthy dictatorship in Hungary.” Rakosi served eight and one-half years at hard labor under a sen- tence meted out for his official acts as People’s Commissar of the Hun- garian Soviet Republic. Now he| faces another trial on the same indictment, with death virtually certain should he be convicted by the Horthy government. “Rakosi must be released,” Franz Gundor, Hungarian-American pub- licist and editor, declared. “We have just heard, also, that John Hock, Hungarian clergyman and writer, has been imprisoned for ar- ticles he wrote ten to twelve years ago. He was chairman of the Na- tional Council to which Horthy The legation spokesman, recog- nizing Gundor, proffered a private interview for him with the niin- ister, who had refused to see the entire delegation. Gundor de- clined it, saying his presence with the delegation signified his “full solidarity” with their cause. Red squad officers and uniformed Policemen greeted the delegation of eighteen spokesmen, holding all but four outside. The legation first refused to see any, saying it had “explicit instructions” against doing so, but the working class spokesmen’s insistence won them admittance. The Legation Secretary declared the Rekosi case was an “internal matter,” but when Samuel Gold- berg, lawyer, cited the denial of counsel to Rakosi as a. violation of international law, the speakers were heard through. Goldberg spoke for the International Labor Defense and the International Juridical Association. Other spokes- men were Emil Austin, of the Na- tienal Committee for the Defense of Rakos', and a represoniative of the Committse for the Defense of | ithe Foreign-Born. | LITANT SPEECHES, ACTS Parley Backs Comintern Calls For Unity of Toilers (Continued from Page 1) a brilliant example of a progressive devotion to the cause of Socialism, | an example of true international solidarity with the oppressed and exploited of the whole world. Already the working and peasant masses of China are following the fighting example of the Soviet Union and have set up Soviet power in a portion of their territory, The entire Chinese nation knows about the Ohinese Soviets, which for the colonial masses are a banner on which is inscribed the only road of salvation from the slavery of im- perialism and the yoke of their own exploiters. ‘The exploited and oppressed of the entire world protect the Soviet Union as a fortress of victorious Socialism, as a bulwark of peace, as the mighty smith hammering out the basis of a new Socialist culture, as the protector of the proletarian world revolution, the Socialist father- land of all workers of all countries, of all oppressed peoples of the world, the gleaming unquenchable lighthouse which comforts and beckons all humanity in its struggle against capitalist slavery. THE DANGER OF WAR Over the toilers of all countries is concentrated all the dangers of a new imperialist war. The capitalist world is arming itself fever- ishly, is conjuring into the world ever new and hitherto unknown develish instruments of mass destruction. War, however, can be swept away only through the gathering of all the forces of the proletariat in a united front for the battle against capitalism. A new devastating blood-bath for the workers can be prevented jonly through a complete break of the workers with the compromising reform Politics of the Social-Democracy, only through a victorious fight for the dictatorship of the proletariat. In order to find some way out of its crisis the capitalist world bour- geoisie seizes on ever slimmer margins of territory for the plunder of the workers, farmers and peasantry; these are the economically weak countries. The bourgeoisie is attempting to destroy the first troops of the working class. It is robbing the last few remnants of their demo- cratic rights, stealing more profit from their wretched wages and wors- ening their conditions, endeavoring to annihilate their revolutionary vanguard. Fascism, seizing power in Germany and Austria, seizing Power in Italy and Poland, is a threat to the toilers of all countries. As the storm-troop of the bourgeoisie against the working class, fascism is seeking as its first line of offense to organize itself against the ad- vance-brigade of the world-proletariat, the Soviet Union. UNITED PROLETARIAT WILL WIN But the working class and the toiling masses will be in a position to thrust aside this advance stab of fascism when the proletariat of a fighting united front masses its ranks and when, together with all toilers, it engages in the decisive struggle against capitalism. The politics of compromise, which the leaderships of the Socialist Parties conducted particularly in the years 1918-1920, frustrated the proletarian revolution in Germany, Austria, Hungary and Italy. Social- Democratic politics was the means by which the bourgeoisie tied the hands of the working class, split its ranks and weakened its forces in the face of the attack of the class enemy. The politics of compromising with the bourgeoisie has led Germany as well as Austria to fascism, There is no peaceful road to power for the proletariat, There is no peaceful road to Socialism. WORKERS, UNITE. True to its histortical mission—the preparation of the masses for the seizure of state power by the proletariat—the Communist Inter- national calis with greater impressiveness on every worker to place himself in the ranks of the united front, for the organizing of united action against fascism and war preparations; it calls on the workers of all countries to unite under the tried red banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, under the banner of the Comintern, for the overthrow of the power of the bourgeoisie. | The idea of storming capitalism stirs more strongly in the con- sciousness of the masses. The Social-Democratic workers are break- ing with reform and compromise, the tools of the bourgeoisie, and are passing over to the road of the class-struggle. In February of this year the heroic workers of Austria lumped together the reform-politics of the Social-Democracy with the bourgeoisie and fought against both, weapons in hand, in order to stave off fascism. Nevertheless they suf- fered defeat, because the Social Democracy, which had led them and armed them politically, had not prepared them for decisive struggle, had not led them in the attack on capitalism, The working class of France showed their first and immediate oppo- sition to fascism by the general strike of the February days. But their fight against approaching fascism would have been so much more suc- cessful, more powerful, had the proletariat been rid of its democratic illusions and swiftly massed under the banner of Communism. In October the toilers of Spain arose and by force of arms pro- tected their bread and freedom by beating back the attack of fascist reaction. In Asturias the workers fought for the power of workers and peasants under the leadership of the Communist Party. THE UNITED FRONT More and more frequently the organized workers of the Social Democracy are breaking with the Socialist and bourgeois organiza- tion, more and more frequently take up with the Communists the fight against fascism, capitalism and war. Brother proletarians! The Communist International turned to the Socialist and Labor International with the appeal and proposal that in all countries united action be undertaken by the Communist and Socialist parties for the organizing of support for the battling Spanish nation. Yet at the moment when the artillery of the ruling class shot apart the pits in Asturia where the miners had buried themselves alive for protection, at the very moment when the airplane squadrons were bombing the cities and towns of Spain, when every day, every hour thousands of heroic workers and peasants of Spain, their wives and children, were sacrificing their lives, at this moment the official leaders of the Socialist and Labor International, hiding. under for- malities of “the gravity of the question,” postponed their decision on united action for three weeks! COMINTERN POLICY ON UNITY The Communist International hereby sets forth its policies of the united front. Proletarians of all countries, demonstrate your solidarity with the fight of the Spanish masses! Step forward as one man against the Spanish bourgeoisie, which has called on all its forces in order to crush the working class and peasantry in blood! The Spanish workers, who have taken up the battle against capitalism, are the sons of our class. The workers of Asturias, who have raised the banner of the struggle for power by the workers and peasants, are our brothers. Their cause is the cause of the entire world proletariat. Class-brothers and comrades! Exert every ounce of strength for the united front of the work- ing class against fascism and imperialist war, for the fight for bread and freedom, for the hastening of the struggle for Socialism! Social-Democratic workers! Workers of all political opinions! Unite under the banner of the Communist International. Advance on the revolutionary road by which the Russian proletariat won its October Revolution, the only road of victory for the working class. All out for the fight against fascism and war! All out for the pro- tection of the heroic Spanish workers and peasants! Defend the Soviet Union—the Socialist fatherland of all toilers and oppressed, the bulwark of Socialism and international peace! Support the Chinese Soviets! Long live the united front of the working class! Long live the league of struggle of workers and peasants of the mother-countries and the colonies! Long live the proletarian world revolution! Long live the dictatorship of the proletariat of the whole world! Long live Socialism! EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL. Fascists Ask (7,000 IN CHICAGO Dictatorship |G REET ANNIVERSARY OF SOVIET UNION Say They Will Vote Communist After Hearing For France Workers Face Armed Attacks Incited By State and Press PARIS, Nov. 5-The Doumerguc government not only is mobilizing troops with a threat of civil war to Put over its fascist measures, but is whipping up a campaign of fascist tewor and the threat of street fighting against the Socialist and Communist united front, Paris capitalist newspapers are inspiring the same fascist bands who on Feb. 6 led the bloody street fighting in which 28-were killed to prepare demonstrations now to as~- sist Doumergue to put over his fas- cist constitutional amendments, The newspapers, in order to get the Radical Socialist deputies to support Doumergue’s proposals on Wednesday, are freely predicting bloody rioting and civil war should the government be forced to dis- solve the Chamber of Deputies in the face of an adverse vote. Pierre Renaudel, Socialist mem- ber of the Chamber of Finance Committee, speaking before the Socialist Party convention at Toul- lon today declared that the Goy- ernment is preparing the most ter- rible measures against the Socialist and Communist united front, but that the workers will be ready to defend their rights and fight fas- cism. He predicted bloody street struggles within two weeks. Similar to the Lerroux-Robles governments attacks on the revolu- tionary workers before the armed uprising in Spain, the Doumergue government is now circulating ru- mors that the French workers are arming themselves, The capitalist press prints stories saying that arms are being imported from ‘| Switerland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Spain and Germany by the Social- ist and Communist Party. On this pretext, it is reported here that the War Ministry is moving troops into the industrial centers for use against the workers, and to help the Doumergue government put over its fascist laws. The War Ministry denies it is making any special troop movements, though the Doumergue government admits that it is preparing for civil war eventualities. Premier Doumergue, Radical Socialist leaders showed their weather-vane reactions to mass discontent with the proposed fascist measures, made a radio speech, hoping to whip up a chau- vinist frenzy against the united front, Figaro, leading capitalist sheet in Paris, called on the government to prepare for civil war, charging that the Socialists and Communists were making this inevitable. It also spread the report that the rev- olutionary workers were arming. On Wednesday, Doumergue will appear before the Chamber of Dep- uties and propose passage of the government budget for three months, and concealed in the bud- get will be measures for granting Greater dictatorial powers to the Premier in line with its desire to inaugurate fascist terror against ie Socialist and Communist par- es... Fearing that these measures will meet with an adverse vote, Doumergue is preparing all extra- parliamentary fascist forces to help him put over the decree under the threat of civil war, and the institu- tion of an outright fascist dictator- ship in France. The Socialist and Communist Parties are massing the workers for resistance, exposing the fascist meas- ures, calling for keeping the ranks of the united front solid and pre- Paring to resist every attack on the workers, no matter under what guise it is proposed to put it over. City Police Plan Huge Mobilization (Continued: from Page 1) Fusion. While struggles are ex- pected in every borough, the sharp- est battles are anticipated in Man- hattan, with probabilities being that Harlem and the lower East Side will be the scene of any battles that may arise. What is seen as a possible ad- vance alibi in the event that Mc- Goldrick is defeated was entered by Mayor LaGuardia yesterday. Com- menting on a reporter's remark that the election would be honest, the mayor said: “If we do have an honest elec- tion, we'll win.” Communist campaign headquar- ters, bearing the experience of many years in mind, have warned all workers to watch most closely for every evidence of vote stealing and to make prompt reports of same. (A list of Communist district campaign headquarters is pub- lished on page 4 of this issue of the Daily Worker.) In anticipation of wholesale pilfering of votes and intimidation of red voters in dis- tricts where either Fusion or Tam- many are shaky and the Com- munist and Socialist votes may be a decisive factor, the State Cam- peign Headquarters of the Commu- nist Party has urged that all Com- munist and Socialist watchers work together to see that the votes of both parties are counted and that voters of neither party are intimi- dated. Representatives of the various political parties will be present after the Red Candidates Speak on Elections; Members of National Guard Coniribute Funds Special to th ¢ Daily Worker CHICAGO,, Ill, Nov. 5.—Seven thousand cheering workers greeted the 17th anniversary of the Russian revo- lution and the final election rally of the Communist Party, Sunday afternoon, at the Co iseum. Laura Osby, the only Communist candidate that the Federal Employees Make Conitributior To Drive of “Daily” To the Editor of the Dai:y Worker :— Realizing the added financial burden which befalls the Daily Worker, due to the publication of an additional Daily issue, we, 30me Class conscious federal em- Ployees offer a donation of $11.75, to the Daily Worker. As we have aided the Daily Worker up till now, we may be relied upon to support all other activities of the only honest | workers’ movement in America, she Communist Party. FEDERAL EMPLOYERS. Dye Strikers Hiss Defeatist Leader (Continued from Page 1) the Settlement Committee, aroused tremendous applause when he rose and in angry mood answered Stet- tin: “We're not in here to tell the workers to compromise. If the bosses have any offers to make, let them make them and we will bring them before you for consideration. Guys that make remarks like Stet- tin did, should be thrown out of the window.” Vigorito was followed by Enti, president of the Passaic local, who Stated: “We don’t want any out- siders like Gorman or McMahon to come here and help us settle the e. The members will settle their own strike. 30-hour week.” Stettin’s remarks were like letting the cat out of the bag for the work- ers, aroused even more, and they are watching carefully for the slightest move of the officials. There is common talk that Stet- tin be removed from the Settlement Committee. Workers from the In- ternational A Shop, of which he is chairman, are especially indignant and it seems quite certain that he will be removed as chairman, Some Officials for Compromise Another conference is now taking Place between the employers and workers. It is reported that several officials, whose opinion Stettin ob- viously expressed, are for accepting the offer of 64 cents an hour for @ 36-hour week. The bosses do not even concede the preferential shop, which would enforce the hiring of union men in the future. They merely give the union “freedom to organize.” The joker, however, which thus far has not bet been brought before the membership, is that according to the offer, the bosses will likewise have the freedom to fire anyone they please for union activity, with the union seeking justice of some N. R. A. Board, where there is no chance for them. tional Labor Board is not in any Sreat hurry to settle the strike, and are co-operating with the employ- ers in an effort to starve the work- steps designed to let things drag and try to cause a break in the ranks of the workers, it is reported, will be the plan of the National Labor Relations Board to have its speakers appear before the workers. According to the mood of the work- ers, however, they will face a solid front of strikers, more determined to fight until victory. Pickets made the reguwiar patrol around the entire river side region and were satisfied that not a single scab was working. The dye fore- men’s local has called all its men out. They are to remain out until the strike is settled. The teamsters are not handling any scab goods, which makes this tie-up the most complete the industry has ever ex~ perienced. A letter from the Allentown or- ganizer of the union reported to the strikers that the Mayor of that city other cities enter, will not be regarded. Charles pected to go in a body to the Em: be placed on the relief roils. quay munist Party. Z We have a good Settlement Committee. Passaic is out 100 per cent and we will stay out until we win $1 an hour and a Their suspicion now has been ers into submission. As one of the | refuses to let cars of pickets from and that only local pickets would be permitted at the plant there. But the workers newspapers. He left his were told that these restrictions organizer of an Unemployed Coun- throughout the day at the Chief Inspector's office at Police Heed- . David M. Freedman will be prasent in behalf of the Com- ©Kelly-Horner administration was forced to leave on the ballot, was the first speaker. She said: “You can keep us off the ballot, but you cannot keep us away from the working class. We Communists do not only come to the masses before election day. I am with them al- ways, suffering with them and fighting with them.” She called on the Chicago workers, “Who are tired of hunger, starvation, who are tired of speed-up, who are tired of Jim-Crowism and discrimination, to elect Communists in Congress. “The Communist Congressman will feel strong, because he will know the fight he is putting up on the floor of Congress is being backed by millions of fighters out- side,” declared Laura Osby. The fiery speech was greeted with great enthusiasm by the audience, which joined in a mass chorus of 7,000 Clarence Hathaway, Editor of the Daily Worker, in his characteristic, clear speech, brought to the work- ers of Chicago the significance of the Russian Revolution, the lessons which we must learn from the Bol- sheviks as contrasted to the tactics of the Second International in Ger- many and Austria. He presented a picture of capitalist decay, crisis and misery against the picture of peaceful construction of Socialism in the Soviet Union. He showed that the two events that were being cele- brated, the 17th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and the final election rally, had a very close con- nection. “On the same day while the workers of the Soviet Union are celebrating their victories under the leadership if the Communist Party, we are gathering our forces, under the leadership of the Communist Party for the daily demands of the workers—for a Soviet America,” he declared. Joe Weber, chairman of the mect- ing, appealed to the workers to support the Communist Party, to give funds to strengthen the work of the political party of the work- ing class. The collection of funds was conducted by the entire audi- ence with a great deal of interest and seriousness. Amongst the many donations came one which was hailed by the audience as a tre- mendous act of solidarity. The donation came from a group of Na- tional Guardsmen who pledged to, defend the Soviet Union and to vote Communist. Painters’ A. F. of L. local, in defiance of the red- baiting William Green letter, de- manding the expulsion of Commu- nists, donated $7 to the Communist: Party fighting fund. An outstanding event of this gathering was the fact that over 100 copies of “Foundations of Len- inism,” by Stalin, was sold to the workers. 4 Workers’Enemies Exposed P. Pollar (B. Bozurich) of Chi-' cago, Ill, whose photograph ap- pears herewith, has been expelled from the Communist Party some time ago as a swindler. He has swindled individual work- ers of his own nationality (South Slav) by “loans” which he failed to return and by getting their en- dorsements, under false pretenses, for bank loans, which were collected from the endorser, when he himself took no steps to pay out. Having been . in charge of the Party Litera- ture Depart- ment for over two years, he kept the rec- ords in such a flagrant confu- : sion, that no * was ready to mortgage a lot of books, which he claimed as ‘is personal property, but the sourc of which could not be determined, R. Hall of New York City, mem- ber of the Lower West Side Italian Workers’ Club, stands expelled from the Communist Party as a traitor and a swindier. He attempted to peddle slanders audit was pos- sible. At the ; against the Party to camel t ag same time he il, and ran away with $22 be Ve The need for strike relief is be-'jonging to the Italian Workers’ coming more serious than ever. Vigorito, who acted as chairman of the meeting, toldevery fairly heavy set; light brown hair; worker who is in need to register at light brown eyes, slightly off focus, the union and tomorrow all are ex- Club. Description: Medium height, though not noticeably crossed; sr-| short, upturned nose, short upper gency Relief Office and demand to/ lip, receding chin; drinks con- stantly; wears brown flannel shirt, Jack Edelstein, former member of Young Communist League in New York City, has been expelled from the Laundry Workers’ Industrial Union and from the Harlem Pros gressive Club for seabbing during the strike in All White Laundry. > ae “ ar, and Fascism