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

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1934 ————S=====— RUSSIAN REVOLUTION SHOWS WAY TO END WALL STREET RULE OHIO MINERS OPEN ¢ —_——__—_ REVOLUTION ALONE CAN SOLVE PROBLEM OF ENDING CRISIS Terrorism and Starvation of New Deal Show That American Working Class Must Prepare For Seizure of Power By Milton Howard Seventeen years of Socialist construction, of triumphs over all obstacles, of the building of a new society through the proletarian dictatorship under the unswerving leadership of the Communist Party—such are the achievements we celebrate today on the seventeenth anniversary of the October Revolution. Lenin and Stalin, the leaders of the Bolshevik Party which achieved the historic honor of being the first to break through the ring of capitalism, have written of the les- sons of the October Revolution. Elsewhere in this issue is reprinted the article of Stalin summing up the fundamental meaning of the October Revolution. But for us in this country, in this country of the Roosevelt New Deal in the fifth year of the crisis, what are the lessons which the October Revolution holds for us, and for the great mass of the toiling popula- tion of the country? Today the life of the great maj- ority of the people of the country, the workers and impoverished farmers, is a life of misery, hunger, insecurity, perpetual fear of evic- tions, mortgage foreclosures, loss of work. Have Solved Problems In the Soviet Union today the workers and farmers have solved all these problems. It is the way that they solved these problems, the example that they set for the rest of the work- ers of the world, that is of the greatest significance today for the workers and impoverished farmers of this country. What are the essentials of this example which the October Revo- lution set for the toilers of the world, oppressed by capitalist ex- ploitation and imperialist oppres- sion? Stalin in his interview with H. G. Wells recently made many of these essentials crystal clear. You have anarchy in production, , crisis, unemployment, hunger, and }| insecurity, Stalin in effect told the American workers. You want to get rid of these things. But how? By Planning? But it is impossible’ for capitalism, for Roosevelt and Wall Stroet, to get rid of the anarchy of production, Stalin pointed out to the American working class, And } he gave the reason: / “No capitalist will ever agree at any price to complete the abol- ition of unemployment, the aboli- tion of the reserve army of un- employed whose mission is to put pressure on the labor market to ensure low paid workers, Here, | then is the first big gap in the | ‘planned economy’ of the capital- ist society.” Further, Stalin gave the next fundamental reason why the work- ers and impoverished farmers of this country can never hope to achieve a planned society without overthrowing capitalism: “You can never compel a cap- italist to cause himself losses and consent to a lower rate of profit for the sake of satisfying the public requirements,” Stalin pointed out. In short, before the workers and impoverished farmers of the coun- try can hope to rid themselves of | the yoke of capitalist robbery, hun- | ger, crises, and insecurity, they must do one necessary thing—they must abolish that which stands in the way of a real planned economy, the capitalist system and-the capi- talist class. In a revolutionary way they must abolish the capitalist state and set up their own state, the dictatorship of the proletariat. A Revolutionary Lesson Such is the revolutionary lesson of the October Revolution, the in- ternational lesson which holds good for every country in the world where the capitalist class dominates the life of the country. Capitalist Democracy Yesterday, 35,000,000 —_ people, mostly workers and small farmers, voted on election day. But did this mean that the majority of the toil- ing people of the country are tak- ing a real part in rurning the country, that they are participat- ing in a truly democratic way in ruling themselves? This democracy under Roosevelt and the capitalist system is a fraud. There can be no real democracy for the majority of the people of this country, the toiling people, until they liberate themselves from the exploitation of capital, the Tule of the Wall Street monopolies. How can there be democracy, Lenin and the Bolsheviks asked, if the majority of the population must depend on a handful of capitalist employers, bankers, landlords, who own and control the country’s econ- othic life? How can there be real democracy for the majority of the people in this country if the Wall Street trusts control the means of prcduction and the state? And the Bolsheviks proceeded to establish real, proletarian demo- eracy for the toiling population by leading the masses in smashing the state power of the capitalists, and setting up a new form of state power, the Soviet Power in the form of workers’ and farmers’ councils democratically elected in the factories and on the farms. “The proletarian dictatorship gives the masses a milifon times more democracy than is even con- ceivable under capitalist democracy,” Lenin declared. This is the second international lesson of the October Revolution which is of the greatest significance for the workers and | o—— farmers of the United States to- day. Here in the United States the crisis deepens. Roosevelt has failed to solve a single question of the crisis. He has only succeeded in increasing the misery of the people in order to swell the profits of the Morgans and Rockefeller monopo- | lies. Roosevelt Tool of Monopolies The Roosevelt government jis the agent and tool of the biggest Wall Street monopolies. Behind the Sweet promises of the New Deal are the brutal realities of intensi- fied capitalist exploitation. The shooting of workers on picket lines, the police terrorism against the unemployed, the growing move- ment toward the outlawing of strikes masked by such sweet words as “industrial truce,” all show the way Roosevelt will move in the coming months as the class strug- gle sharpens all over the country. Roosevelt organizes fascist reaction. Roosevelt prepares for imperialist war. He is the chief organizer of reaction and terrorism against the working class. Today as we celebrate the tri- umphs of the working class of the Soviet Union, their building of a Socialist society free from the curses that make life miserable for the workers under capitalism, the revolutionary lessons of the Octo- ber Revolution take on an imme- diate meaning. We must follow in the footsteps of the Russian Bolshe- viks, the footsteps of Lenin and Stalin. It is the question of the overthrow of capitalism, the seizure of power by the working class that now becomes part of the every-day struggle for bread and for security. The Roosevelt “New Deal” looms more and more to the masses as the program of the class which ex- ploits and oppresses them, the Wall Street capitalists. More and more “the idea of storming the citadels of capitalism is maturing in the minds of the masses.” (Stalin.) The crisis of American capital- ism deepens, and the misery of the masses deepens bringing closer the time of which Lenin spoke during the first days of the October Revo- lution, the days when “millions and tens of millions of people learn more in a week than they do in a year of usual routine life.” This is what happening in the United States. As the masses strug- gle for bread, for relief, against ter- rorism, against evictions and fore- closures we must spread the inter- national meaning of the October Revolution, we must raise the slo- gan of a Soviet America, toward a Socialist society free from the plun- dering of the Wall Street exploiters! Hail the October Revolution! Hail its revolutionary lessons! For the | dictatorship of the proletariat! For the smashing of the Wall Street dictatorship and the setting up of a government of workers’ and farm- ers’ councils, a Soviet America, Workers Urged to Jam Trial of Arrested May 26 Demonstrator Workers have been asked to pack the Tombs Court, General Ses- sions, Part. 6, tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, when Phillip Nicholas, who Was arrested for participation in the May 26 demonstrations, comes up for trial. Nicholas, who is charged with “felonious @ssault,” participated in the huge demonstration and march at the Fifty-fourth St. Night Court, following the police attack upon the demonstration at 50 Lafayette St. The workers, who were barred | from the court, marched down Broadway. Nicholas was seized at West Firty-fourth St. by police, pushed into a taxi, slugged and arrested. All witnesses have also been asked by the International Labor Defense to appear at the trial to save this worker: from a long prison sentence.’ Corning Relief Men Take Strike Votes on 20 Per Cent Wagecut CORNING, N. Y., Nov. 6.—Wages on all relief projects here were slashed 20 per cent last week and hours increased. Under the old wage and hourly rate, relief work- ers were paid 50 cents an hour for a 24-hour week; the new schedule established a 30-hour week at hourly wages of 40 cents. Indignation among the relief workers is high and the Steuben County Relief Workers’ League is calling meetings for taking strike votes against the wage cuts. Small business men, home-own- ers, professionals, pinched by the economic crisis, are turnitg to the revolutionary movement fer the way out. Ack them fer contribu- tions for the Daily Worker's 360.000 fund, Board Rehies To Act on Fired Book Workers The National Labor Relations Board can do nothing to make the decisions of the Regional Labor Board effective, was the reply of H. A. Millis, chairman of the N. L. R. B., to the delegation of strikers \of the Macaulay Publishing Com- pany discharged for constituting a union shop committee, when they came to Washington to demand im- mediate action on the decision of the Regional Labor Board that they | be reinstated. | The delegation of striking work- ers accompanied by a committee of prominent writers was headed by Gertrude Lane, organizer of the Of- fice Workers Union, of which the strikers are members. In view of the fact that the Trade Book Publishers Code, which was signed after the Macaulay strike started, is not retroactive, according to Mr. Millis, the hearing was held under Public Resolution 44, which makes Section 7a of the N. R. A. applicable to uncodified industries. | Mr. Millis, however, claimed that the N. L. R. B. was not clear whether the resolution could be en- forced. He also refused to tell the delegation when or how soon this question would be made clear. The question is being discussed with “persons responsible for the formu- lation of the law,” according to Benedict Wolf, executive secretary of the N. L. R, B. Precedents established, according to the N. L. R. B,, are against their being able to enforce the law. The strikers returned to New York fully convinced that the N. R. A. will do nothing for them and de- | termined to continue strike activi- ties and mass picketing. . They are convinced more than ever that only by strike action can they gain the | reinstatement of the fired workers, | and maintain union conditions in | Macaulay's. | This experience of the Macaulay strikers, according to Gertrude Lane, | is only additional proof to what has | already been shown in the experi- ences of workers in other industries, namely that the N. R. A. and its! labor boards are anti-labor in char- acter and that strike action is the most dependable means for the fight against the onslaught of the em- | ployers and for the gaining of the demands of the workers. | Mine Union Akron Workers Issue Challenge To Canton I.W.O. (Special to the Daily Worker) ILEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 5—The International Workers Order of Canton, in this district, wires $50 for the Daily Worker drive. Challenges I.W.O. of Akron to match it. Cc. C. CERNA, Secretary. Calling Detroit! ETROIT, Mich—This district stands twelfth among the districts, having filled only 40 per cent of its $2,500 quota. When the Daily Worker last heard from it, Section 5, with a quota of $200, the highest among the sections, had contributed only 25 per cent. The Polish language group, with an allotment of $150, the highest among the organizations, was on the record for less than 10 per cent. Most of the sections and mass organizations are not responding to the “Daily's” call for immediate funds. on top. Three workers—Karamekas, a Red Builder; eYt Section 6 is already on the way to doubling its quota and the Bulgarians and Macedonians are almost Son, a manager of the Russian Co-op.; and Ben Green, of the Workers Bookshop—have challenged each other to a Socialist competition to raise $100. | The big affair for the “Daily” in this district, however, takes place this coming Sunday, Nov. 11, at the Finnish Hall, 5969 14th | Street. A banquet and dancing are on the excelient program that has been arranged. Detroit depends upon this affair to put it high up on the list, * . LL.D. Challenge AN FRANCISCO, Cal.—‘At our last District Buro meeting, Oct. 27, a resolution was passed to contribute $5 towards the Daily Worker $60,000 Drive, and also to challenge each branch in the District to contribute $1.00. Enclosed find money order.” ELAINE BLACK, Org. Sec., LL.D. District 13. * * * Goal — 150 Per Cent 'LAMATH FALLS, Ore—The quota for this Section has aimost been filled. But: “We intend to make our Daily Worker drive 150 per cent”, writes M. A. Flynn, Section Organizer. “We are laying the basis for a mass unemployed organization in this Section and are carrying the Daily Worker circulation in con- nection with this organizational work, as the ‘Daily’ is one of our best educators. “We are planning a series of socials and entertainments to raise Daily Worker funds and will give all co-operation within our power.” . ‘ . . Black and White — Unite! ASHINGTON, D. C —A $6 contribution comes from A. P. “This is from the bakery shop where I work,” he writes. “Negro and white workers, together like brothers and no more like enemies, collected this small sum.’ * ” A Cough in Time 1) yp) Mae Colo.—“We thought it was time for us to cough up for the drive. We feel better with our change of cough”—from the patients of the Ex-P. T, Home. One dollar is enclosed. * * * 'HE above are some more reports from the drive front. As in the case of Detroit, the activity of some sections and mass organiza- Nominee Put | On Charges PITTSBURGH, Pa. Nov. 6.— Word has been received at the of- | fice of the United Mine Workers’ rank and file “Coal Digger” that | John Sloan, rank and file candidate for international president opposing John L. Lewis in the Dec. 11 elec- | tions, must appear before the in- ternational board of the union in} Washington, D. C., Nov. 8, to an- swer charges of violating a consti- tutional clause prohibiting “working with a dual organization.” Sloan, a Westville, Ill, miner who , has been a militant fighter against | the Lewis bureaucrats, enjoys the | suport of broad numbers of the} rank and file miners and repre- sents a real threat to Lewis, hence | the latter seeks to take no chances | on a possible defeat by eliminating | Sloan from the ballot. The charges on which Sloan is to appear were dismissed against him by an international commission last | summer, but the sub-district board | members in that Illinois field, all Lewis puppets, appealed from the finding of the commission when it was learned by the U. M. W. A. | “czar” that Sloan would be an op- ponent in the elections. Lewis has also caused charges to be brought against John Guynn, of Ohio, rank and file candidate for international vice-president. The date of his hearing has not been set. tions show that there is little reason for the inactivity of their brother groups in the same district. All sections and organizations can fill their quotas quickly if they take the work seriously. The Daily Worker calls upon the lagging ones to get to work at once. be filled by Dee. 1. All quotas must Newspaper Guild Heads Place Demands Before Roosevelt for Action HYDE PARK, N. Y., Nov. 6.—The plight of the unemployed news- paper man was placed before Presi- ‘dent Roosevelt by a delegation of officers of the American Newspaper | Guild here yesterday. The group also ‘raised the issues of publishers’ in- terference with the organization of news gatherers, the restoration of | pay cuts and a minimum wage scale. Leading the delegation was Jona- than Eddy, executive secretary of the organization, and Heywood Broun, a national vice-president. | Morris Watson, Carl Randau and | James M. Kieran accompanied the national officers. Pointing out the acute nature of the situation in New York City, the center of newsdom, the delegates told the president that there were 800 unemployed newspapermen in the city Usted with the Guild. The formation of a separate N.R.A. code for the large press associations or the revision of the present news- paper code was demanded by the delegation. No definite statement was made by Roosevelt, although he did ex- Press interest, according to the dele- gation. Rochester Workers Hail | Upstate Contingent of Hunger March Delegates (Special to the Daily Worker) ROCHESTER, N. Y., Nov. 6—The | upstate contingent of the State | Hunger March, led by a workers’ | band and joined by several hundred } workers, marched from the Central Park Unemployment Council to the Lithuanian Hall here yesterday, where the marchers reported. George Brickner, Socialist Party | state committeeman, said that his | party had acted exactly like the other capitalist parties, adding that the rank and file wholeheartedly support the Hunger March. He called upon the workers to carry forward the struggle for unity and to rally behind the National Con- gress for Unemployment Insurance, which will be held in Washington on Jan. 5, 6 and 7. Ben Lapidus, leader of the up- state contingent, and Henry Shep- ard, District 4 organizer of the Communist Party, spoke on the need of building the Unemployment Councils and carrying forward the unity of the entire working class in the fight for the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill. J gids, Plan Relief Fight In Chicago CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 6.—Repre-| sentatives of eight working class or- ganizations met here Saturday to] plan action against the new relief| cuts which range from 10 to 35 per} cent, and demand immediate in-} creased winter cash relief and en- actment of the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. | The delegates unanimously voted | to call an emergency conference of all working class organizations for | Saturday, Nov. 17, at 1 p.m., at Mir- |ror Hall, 1136 North Western Ave Trade Unions, labor and mass or- ganizations, churches and workers in the shops have been asked to} Jelect two delegates to this confer- | ence, which will lay final plans for the united front demonstration and march on Saturday, Nov. 24. | The organizations represented at the conference last Saturday include the Rank and File A. F. of L. Com- mittee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief, Workers Committee on Unemployment, Cook County Un- employment Councils, Fraternal Federation for Unemployment In- | surance, Polish Chamber of Com-/| |merce, City Committee of the! Czechoslovakian Organization, New| League, | A delegation elected by these,| headed by Patterson of the Chicago Workers’ Committee on Unemploy- |ment and the militant trade union- | ist Hans Pfeifer, presented an ap-| peal to the Chicago Federation of| Labor Sunday, to join in the forth- | coming conference and mobilize for | the Nov. 24 demonstration. A com-| munication to this effect was sent} | to the Federation also. John Fitzpatrick, president of the | | Federation, read the communica- tion, and refused to grant the dele-| | gation the floor. Despite this, Hans | Pfeifer took the floor in the face of | |Fitzpatrick’s threats, raised the] |question of relief and unemploy- | ment insurance, and called upon the | | delegates to endorse the march. | A motion was made from the floor | to join in the movement, and after considerable discussion in which the delegates asked to support the! march, a vote was taken. Although} it was clear that the “ayes” were| in a majority, Fitzpatrick ruled that the motion was lost. | A motion was made and passed to} refer the matter to the Executive Board which meets Friday. The} | committee preparing the march has | called upon all locals to send dele- |gates to the board meeting and press for participation in the united | front, All groups are asked to communi- cate immediately with the United Front Committee preparing the | march, at 160 North Wells St., Room 300, Chicago, Denver FERA Strikers Held On Riot Charge’ DENVER. Colo., Nov. 6.—Fifteen | of the striking FERA workers felled by police guns and clubs when po- lice charged picket lines here last week are being held in bail of $500 each on charges of “rioting.” Inj addition, charges of “assault on an | officer” have been filed against three of the FERA strikers, includ- ing’ Henry Brown, who was_ shot. | Alditional bail of $500 each was, placed on these three. | Brown, the father of eight chil- | dren, had been working nineteen | days a month at $3 a day—$57 dol- Jars a month for all the relief needs of a family of ten. In the gencral wage cut, averaging 50 per cent for all the FERA workers, Brown was | cut to nine and one-half days, thus | making a total wage of $28.50 for a family of teri for all relief needs. | Similar slashes were handed each | worker. Meanwhile, Relief Direc- | tor Shawver, whose dismissal is de- | manded by the FERA workers, Te- | turned relief money as “surplus,” | in order to make a good record. His | Own expenses mounted 50 per cent, | including $8,829 in September for | “traveling.” The Youth Young Communists in| Drive to Increase Membership By JOHN MARKS Hundreds of thousands of Amer- ican youth are entering the field of working class economic and polit- ical struggles. The youth were the backbone of the militancy that characterized the recent textile strike. They took their place on the flying squadrons and a number of youth gave their lives in the fight against the intolerable condi- tions in the mills. The militant response of the youth to thé strike is most encouraging if we consider the fact that for many of them, this was their first taste of the class struggle. In the strike battles many of their illusions regarding Capitalist democracy have been shat- tered. The class nature of society has been revealed in all its naked- ness. The militant textile youth are an immediate potential source of strength for the Communist movement. The courage and de- votion that they displayed on the Picket lines is the material from which Communists are made. They must be won for Communism. In Political Ficla Likewise in the fleld of political struggle the youth are displaying encouraging signs of political awakening. Is not the response of the large strata of youth to ‘the Must Be Won for the Revolution movement against war and fascism @ source of joy? Is not the decision of the youth at the First American Youth Congress to reject the fas- cist program that was proposed at the Congress and the adoption in its stead of the militant program, Proposed by the Young Commu- nists, also an indication of tre- mendous political advance? Hundreds of the youth, religious, non-political, Socialist, etc. that have united to fight war and fas- cism must be immediately won for Communism, as fighters in the revolutionary movement which is destined to do away with the sys- tem that breaks war and fascism. Must Build Y.C.L. But, the organizational channel through which youth must be won for the Communist movement, the Young Communist League, is yet a small organization. The influence that it wields and the possibilities that it has for growth are in no way reflected by its present size. n the next period of time, tens of thousands of youth must find their place in the Young Communist League, The Y.C.L. must be built up into the best co-worker of the Communist Party. It must be made known to masses ow youth as the only political youth organization in America that is the champion of every interest of the young workers, working class students and farming youth. The Y.C.L. must become a reserve, a school that will supply hundreds of loyal and trained workers for the Party in a very Short period of time. The Y.C.L. is now engaged in a drive to increase its membership from 7,000 to 12,000 by January 1. It is possible to recruit more than 5,000 new young Communists in the period of the next two and a half months. But, it can only be done with the full support of every Party member, every Party unit and Party Committee. Cannot the Party dur- ing its own recruiting drive win at least 2,000 youth for the Y. C. L.? Are there not hundreds of youth who can be won for the Y. ©. L. in the mass organizations, in the trade unions where there are mem- bers of the Communist Party? The thousands of Party members who spread the Daily Worker can also undertake to sell the Young Worker and thus bring the message of the Y. C. L. to thousands of youth who have never heard of the Young Communists. Each Party unit can recruit at least five youth for the Y. C. L. only through the distribution of the Young Worker and youth literature, and through a little effort among the youth with whom they have daily contacts al- ready. The Young Communists have par- ticularly weak connections with the sot in industry. The Party can elp to strengthen the young Com- munists’ base in the shops by giv- 5,000 Young Fighters To Be Recruited for Communism youth from the shops where there are Party nuclei at present. Every Party unit, every fraction, every member, will not be working properly during the Party recruiting dive, unless new fighters are gained for the Young Communist League. The building of the Y. C. L. must be done in a planned way. .The Party, through every one of its or- ganizations, should discuss the prob- lem of building the revolutionary youth movement immediately, and Outline definite tasks that will be accomplished. It is our aim to build the Y. C. L. into an organization larger in size than the Party in the shortest pos- sibe time. The first concerted work | to achieve this aim must be actom- Plished in the period of the next few months. The Central Committee likewise calls upon all Young Communists to/ increase their efforts to build an or- Banization of 12,000 by Jan. 1. Not only must the Y. C. L. achieve a decisive incrense in membetship but it must come out of the drive with firmer roots among the youth. The recruiting drive should stimulete work at the shops, in the trade | of the defense, unions, and in the youth organiza- ing special attention to recruiting tions that are controlled by the rul- ing class LOCAL MASS STRUGGLE FOR AUTONOMY Local Unions Prepare for Rank and File Cons ference To Fight Against Lewis and His Appointive Powers By TOM KEEN! STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Nov. 6.—United Mine Work- ers in District Six, Eastern Ohio, under the leadership of the Rank and File Committee, are la ing the preliminary basis for a fight for autonomy. The first call has already been sent out and endorsed | Students Plan Fight for Free 'TuitioninCuba © HAVANA, Noy. 6—Widespread in- terest has ben aroused by the prep- tration of students in Havana, |} scheduled for Noy. 9. Organized by | the left-wing student organization | (Ala Izquierda Estudiantil), the con- } centration is taking place under the | slogan of unlimited free tuition for poor students in the National Uni versity. } The Government.has announced that in place of the 3,000 students | who were granted free tuition in| the past year, only 500 would be} allowed scholarships during the | coming school year. | The Ala Izquierda, which is the! acknowledged leader of the free | tuition movement, has been the ob- | ject of a fascist crusade carried out | by cowardly attacks of armed gangs. This campaign, which has as its | watchword “to destroy Communism | in the university,” is admittedly the | work of the ABC and other reac-| tionary elements, such as the Ma-| chadist-Catholic newspaper editor | Pepin Rivero, dierctly inspired and | aided by Batista, | Scottsboro March in Brooklyn: | weighman over Barto by a plurality (Continued “from Page 1) speakers will be Ruby Bates, star defense witness; Angelo Herndon, gro working class leader; Dr. Corruthers, William Blank and F. D. Griffin, section organizer of the International La-| bor Defense. The ILD. is in complete charge according to the latest statements of the boys, de- clared by them to be final and to nullify all papers they signed for} Leibowitz, under coercion of prison | authorities and on the deception | by Leibowitz's agents. Harlem I. L, D. Calls Meet The Harlem Section of the LL.D. hes called a membership meeting for tomorrow evening, Nov. 8, at 8 o'clock in the Harlem Workers | enter, 415 Lenox Avenue, to dis- | cuss the latest developments in the| Scottsboro case and the immediate asks of the organization in the| fight for the boys. All friends and sympathizers of | the boys, as well as I. L. D. mem-| bers, are urged to attend the! meeting, at which William Fitz- gerald, Harlem Section Organizer of | the I. L. D,, will make a report on | the case. A supplementary report | on the organizational drive of the iL. D. in Harlem will be made by Mike ‘Walsh. NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 6.—The in- fluence of Alabama lynch officials, Operating through Samuel S. Leib- owitz, renegade defense attorney, and a group of Harlem Negro mis- leaders, reached into this city today to prevent a hearing for three of the Scottsboro mothers before the Newark Baptist Ministers Alliance Meeting at the Hopewell Baptist Church. The three mothers who were de- nied the opportunity to appeal for} their sons against’ the Alabama! lynchers and the Leibowitz attack | on the defense are Mrs. Ida Norris, for whose son Clarence with Hay-| wood Patterson, another of the boys, lega lynching on Dec. 7 has been | decreed by the Alabama Supreme/| Court; Mrs. Ada Wright and Mrs. Viola Montgomery. The mothers were accompanied by Ben Davis, Jr., attorney for Angelo Herndon in the famous Atlanta, Ga., “insurrec- tion” trial, and now editor of the Negro Liberator. While refusing the mothers per- mission to address the meeting, the Alliance heard an appeal from Dr. George Haynes of the bogus ““Amer- ican Scottsboro Committee,” and} permitted the reading of a state- ment by Leibowitz slandering the! International Labor Defense, the} organization which has full charge! of the defense and whose two-/ fisted policy of obtaining the best legal defense for the boys, plus mass pressure on the lynch courts, has kept the boys alive for the past three and a half years. The moth- ers were kept waiting for two hours inside the church, then driven out with the “promise” that they would be called in later. They waited an- other hour in the streets for the call that never came. Workers in trade unions: sup- port the Daily Worker, collective organizer and leader against the stretch-eut, wage-cuts, and for | lea improved working conditions. Contribute to $60,000 campaign. y several local unions. Plans are completed for the calling of a broad conference to coordinate the work of the rank and file fight a , and his czarist ap- powers. local! distvict in ent a lete~ ter to other locals ing that the question be put to all members, | Whether they favored a fight for autonomy, the calling of a cone ference for this purpose, and World and the Scandinavian Unity | rations for the national concen- | whether they would endorse such a call with the signature of the local, Six Locals Endorse Conference Six strong locals—Neffs, Blaine, Flushing, Fairpoint, Stanley and Witchhazel—acted upon the letter immediately, passed resolutions en- dorsing the autonomy fight and conference call and communicated their decisions to Smithfield. A committee is now being set up which will draft the conference call and prepare the meeting. Considerable opposition to Lewis has been already evidenced in the Ei i At the Til- ton edbird) of the Warner Collieries Company the miners uncovered sufficient evi« dence to prove that John Barto, checkweighman of the mine anda ig light of the local Lewis machine, was juggling the weights against them. At the next meeting of the local the question of Barto’s dishonesty was reised, and the miners dé- manded that a new election for checkweighman be held. The Lewis machine was successful, however, in postponing the election until a special meeting, as provided for in the constitution, could be called. Last week the special meeting was duly called, a vote was taken, was elected check- of only two votes. 2 Locals Reject Green Letter Now the Lewis leadership of the district office refuses to remove Barto and install Tylus in his place until “written evidence” of the former’s dishonesty be presented. The “written evidence” is being gathered. Green’s letter ordering the ex- pulsion of all Communists from local unions received but short shrift in many of the locals. At the Florence mine of the Wayne Coal Company (L. U. No. 284) the secretary started to read Green’s letter, was interrupted by the mem= hers, and the missive was consigned to the waste basket In the Smithfield local union a letter was sent in reply to Green, condemning the order as a delib= erate move to split the workers and “contrary to the constitution of the United Mine Workers.” The rank and file miners of Dis- | trict Six have accepted the "Coal Digger” as their paper, The Lewis machine has already made open boasts that the name of Oscar Guynn, rank and file candies - date for international vice-prest= | dent against the Lewis slate, will not appear on the ballot. Charges have been preferred against Guynn by the Lewis stool pigeons, of “working with a dua] organization,” and under a clause of the constitu- tion no member can be a candidate for office while charges are lodged against him. The date of Guynn’s hearing, be- fore the international board, has not. yet been set. That of John Sloan, candidate for international president against Lewis, will take Place on Nov. 8. On the basis of a united front for unemployment insurance, a number | of fraternal and benefical organiza- | tions and local unions, which have already endorsed the Workers’ Bill (H. R. 7598), are calling an Eastern Ohio Conference in Bellaire (Bo- hemian Hall) on Dec. 9, where plans will be laid for broadening the sup- port of the Workers’ Bill in antici- pation of the opening of Congress” in January. Machinists Victorious In 3 Month Strike MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 6—The three months’ strike of 700 workers and machinists of th Paeschke and Frey Company, enamel ware plant, was terminated today 48. | a victory for the workers, who voted yesterday to accept an agzcement — providing for a 12% per cent wage increase, union recognition and the appointment of an arbitration group. Clothing Plant Strike _ Starts in Cleveland CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 5—De~ manding the reinstatement of sey- eral workers fired for union activ- ities, a 10 per cent wage increase — and the right of collective bargain- ing, 700 employees of the neg Company, one of the country’s re est manufacturers of boys wa clothing, went on strike today, wh the National Labor Relations es was deliberating two disputes be- tween the Amalgamated Workers of America and 3 management. ad