The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 8, 1934, Page 5

3 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1934 Page 5 ANOTHER SERVANT OF BANKERS IS ELECTED CONTROLLER ° t e e e | Both Parties Recruiting Drive Proposals WorkTogether For 7-cent Fare (Continued from Page 1) the Board of 10 to 6, since Timothy J. Sullivan, Democratic vice presi-| dent of the Board of Aldermen, | will move into Deutsch’s seat. Taylor is a typical representative | Tamman; clubhouses. | in the state legislature for | an obscure assembly- | received some prominence | tue of an appointment to the ost of Commissioner of Welfare in| the O’Brien’s administration. | The bitter character of the Taylor- McGoldrick fight arose out of two reasons: one, the necessity of Tam- many getting its hands on the city treasury in order to help build up its own machine as against that of Fusion; secondly, the necessity for administering a beating to Fusion in preparation for the 1936 mayor- alty contest. Both Bankers’ Servants In either case, the masses of the city had nothing to gain. McGold- rick, outgoing representative of the “good government” bloc, was jan ardent and efficient servant of the bankers, whose main aim in life was “to restore the city’s credit”—that is, to pay every nickel the city owed the bankers, come what may. He frankly told the teachers that he would not advocate the returns of their wage cuts and followed a simi- lar policy with all the civil service employees. Taylor, on the other hand, was known as a plain machine politician of the old Tammany school while he was at the head of relief work in the city. Dozens of incompetent administrative posts in that depart- ment while he headed it. | in an attack on the unemployed has already been made clear by the co- operation of both groups in the al- dermanic inquiry relief committee, a body which frankly states as its objective the cutting down of relief in the city. 7 Cent Fare Looms An atiack on the five cent fare is the next thing on the calendar, according to all indications. As the smoke of the election battle clears, the prediction of the Communist Party that both the Democratic and Fusion Party would work together to raise the fare is already being confirmed. The Wall Street Journal of yesterday cynically remarks in a long article on its editorial page: “Tt is reasonable to assume that Meyer LaGuardia and his asso- ciates wili feel free to press for- ‘ard mere vigorously now. If, as vy students of city finances the five-cent fare is doomed, is as gocd a time as any to it? “At any rate, the situation now can be examined without emotion and without immediate fear of re- pr’ral at the polis,” it says. All of which proves to the very hilt the contention of the Commu- nist Party that the struggle for the New York workers is only begin- ning and that labor must go for- ward from Election Day to greater and broader battles against the bankcrs and their puppets of beth parties who rule for them in City Hall. Theater Days Set to Equip Child Center The New York district of the Young Pioneers has obtained a building on East 12th Street, which will be used to give workers’ chil- 4) Gren a proletarian education. There will be classes on arts and crafts, plays, sports, and children’s classes on the class struggle. This build- ing, which will be known as the Downtown Children’s Center, will be a marked step forward to win- ning the children away from bour- geois clubs and giving them a work- ing class education. Because the building must be equipped with tables, chairs and other materials for which funds are required, the League of Workers’ Theatres, together with the Pioneers, will give a proletarian week-end in ecmmemoration of Harry Alan Po- tamkin, on Noy. 10 and 11, matinee and evenings at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, 26th Street and Fifth Ave. Eyening prices will range from 25 cenis to 99 cents. The Sunday matinee will have two Amkino pic- tures, “Broken Shoes,” and “Killing to Live.” The evening program will consist of the play, “Strike Me Red,” by H. A. Potamkin; dances and other plays. Admission to the matinee sh ig will be 20 cents. Communist Candidate Arrested in Terror Drive in Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 7— Police attempts to hamstring the election campaign of the Commu- nist Party were continued up to the jast moment of the campaign with the arrest last night of Allen Puckett, Communist candidate for Stete Auditor, and raids and mass arrests of workers suspected of sup- Porting the candidates of their class. Puckett, arrested while distrib- uting Communist election leaflets, held in jail without bail and permission to se? Tammany hacks were appointed to | That both parties will get together | For New York Section Outlined | RESULTS OF ELECTION FOR GOVERNOR Late returns indicate that the Democratic sweep catried 25 Democratic governors into office, compared with four new Repub- lican, one Farmer-Labor and one Progressive. The following list, which does net contain returns from two States, gives the results thus far recorded: Arizona ... Arkansas .« Colorado .. Connecticut . Georgia . Idaho ... -*B. B. Moeur, D. *J. M. Futrell, D. .*E, C. Johnson, D. *W. L. Cross, D. 'E. Talmadge, D. 'C. Benn Ross, D. Iowa .. ..Clyde Herring, D. Kansas ..*Alfred M. Landon, R. Maryland ..*Albert C. Ritchie D. Massachusetts ..J. M. Curley, D. Minnesota ....°F. B. Olson, F-L. Nebraska . R. L, Cochran, D. Nevada ....Richard Kirman, D. N. Hampshire ..H. S. Bridges, R. New Jersey ..H. G. Hoffman, R. New York ....*H. H. Lehman, D. New Mexico ..Clyde Trugley, D. North Dakota ..T. H. Moodie, D. Ohio .. -Martin L. Davey, D. Oklahoma ....E. W. Marland, D. Oregon ...Charles H. Martin, D, Pennsylvania ....G. H. Earle, Rhode Isl. ..*Theo. F. Green, 8. Carolina ...0. D. Johnston, South Dakota ..*Tom Berry, Tennessee ..*Hill McAllister, Texas ......James V. Allred, Wisconsin ..Philip LaFollette, Vermont ..Charles M. Smith, R. Wyoming ....Leslie A. Miller, D. “Incumbent. ‘Police Held Off in March At Toledo TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov. 17.—Barri- |eaded inside the County Court | House here yesterday, 200 single unemployed workers, now in the second month of their fight for re- lief, held off the police for hours. One group, which was inside the Police Commissioner's office, uti- lized the telephones to call Presi- dent Roosevelt, Federal Relief Ad- |ministrator Hopkins. Governor White, and other governmental offi- cials, placing their relief. demands ee Washington and the State Cap!- tol. Demanding rent, food and cloth- ing relief, and a general 30 per cent relief increase for all the unem- ployed in Lucas County, the single men declared that they would re- sume their continuous picketing— “The Death March”—within 24 hours unless the demands were met in full. While they were garrisoned |inside the Court House and relay- ing their demands over long dis- tance wire to Washington, mass Picket lines of the unemployed and | employed supported them outside. Board Admits Textile Mill Blacklisting WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 7— That blacklisting and eviction of textile workers who took part in the general textile strike is continu- ing was admitted yesterday by the National Textile Labor Relations Board. z “In the majority of mills,” said a statement by the Board, “those who went out on strike have been taken back without discrimination, but the Textile Labor Relations Board is still receiving numerous com- Plaints that strikers are not being rehired, and that many are being evicted from company houses.” The Textile Board calls on the employers to take back these work- ers, in a gesture to appease the tex- tile workers’ protest. But the promises of Roosevelt, and of Fran- cis Gorman, leader of the U. T. W., when the general strike was be- trayed, that there would be no dis- crimination, are shown to be empty. Weeks after the end of the strike, according to the admission of the Board, strikers are still blacklisted and evicted. Gorman is attempting to prevent a re-strike of the textile workers against these conditions. He termed the strike which blacklisted thou- sands a “splendid victory.” Poultry Union Wins Detroit Strike Victory DETROIT, Mich. Nov. 7.—The strike of Detroit poultry workers, which started Friday, ended today with a complete victory for the workers. The twenty-six wholesale poultry houses in the city, together with the Eastern and Western markets, signed a closed shop agree- ment with the militant United Poultry Workers Union, affiliated to the Food Workers Industrial Union, granting all demands. The agreement calls for wage in- creases ranging up to fifty per cent, the reduction of hours from sixty end seventy a week to foriy-cight, time ahd one-third for ovyeriime and. for Sunday and holiday work, equal division of work, and an in- crease in piece work rates from one Alabama ........ Bibb Graves, D. || |Central Committee Let- ter Is Discussed by All the Units ECTION 1, District 2, has very seriously discussed the party re- cruiting drive, and has worked out |a plan for the drive which it is ex- cruiting activities of the Section. Committee was sent to the mem- bers of the Section, it was accom- panied by an application card with the slogan that no Party member will be considered in good standing unless he will be able to return the card signed by an applicant. The units are discussing the Cen- | tral Committee letter, and holding jopen unit meetings, to which non- Party members are invited. The Section Committee has taken steps to mobilize effectively Party members in mass organiza- tions into the Party. Leading Party members of trade unions and other mass organizations in the Section are being called in for special con- Sultation with the Section Bureau to discuss with them the prospects and methods of recruiting, and check up on their activities. Special meetings of Party mem- bers of various nationalities have been called in to take up the best methods of penetrating more deeply into the ranks of the proletarian masses in the Section, who speak these languages. ee cere EASURES have been adopted to enable the Section to check up and control the recruiting cam- paign from week to week. Every letter sent to the units raises some problem of recruiting. At meetings jof unit organizers in the Section, jTecruiting is placed on the Agenda. The membership committee of the , Section has prepared a chart on re- {cruiting by the units, and will no- tify the individual units on their ‘progress, checking up on _ their work, their difficulties, and advising them how to strengthen their re- jcruiting activities. The recruiting drive will be on the agenda of ev- lery meeting of the Organizational |Department of the Section until the end of the recruiting drive on |Jan, 21, 1935. Special care is being taken to re- | tain the new members. Besides in- dividual instructions to the units on the mechanics of recruiting, the Membership Committee of the Sec- | tion will take up once a week with the individual financial secretaries of the units as to what happened to the members assigned to their units. Furthermore, the Section Commitice has made a decision to jcall in once a month all new Party |members recruited and assigned to the units during the previous Party member from the Section will discuss with them their impressions of the Party, the work they have been given, their difficulties, etc. During the first week of the Re- cruiting Drive, 23 members were \recruited. The average recruited | before was much lower. * ee Te is a brief summary of some of the proposals adopted and now being carried out by Section 1, {in the New York District. What jabout the other sections in District }22 And sections in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Detro't —the ,concentration districts of the Party? | What plans have you made to car- ity out the letter of the C. C.? How do you propose to intensify your re- cruiting of miners, steel and metal workers, auto workers, railroad workers, packinghouse workers, marine workers. What methods are you utilizing to bring militant workers from the A. F. of L. into |our Party so as to develop a strong jcorps within the unions to unite the workers around the program for rank and file control and militant |struggle for the workers’ interests? What steps are the shop nuclei tak- ing to root themselves more firmly in the mines, mills and factories during this recruiting drive? | pected will greatly increase the re-| When the letter of the Central | the | montk, at which meeting a leading | RESULTS OF ELECTION IN SENATE Elected Holdover Total Democrats ...26 43 68 Republicans . 6 18 Pe Farmer-Lab, . 1 0 1 Progressive .. 1 0 1 In doubt—New Mexico and North |) Dakota. | HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Present Elected Congress Democrats .. 309 Republicans 103 114 Farmer-Labor 2 5 Progressives 4 In doubt oe 28 Necessary for majority 218 | PARTIES IN CONTROL || IN STATE HOUSES | || 3 Democratic States . Republican States Progressive Party . Farmer-Labor .. He oo Jury Convicts Police Chief In Killing MENA, Ark., Noy. 7.—A jury has found Will C. Hungate, acting chief | of police of Mena guilty of man- slaughter. Last May, Hungate mur- dered a miner’s son in cold blood. ‘The conviction of Hungate is gen- erally credited here to the activities of the Inernational Labor Defense. Members of the I. L. D. branch at Commonwealth College, working under a united front banner, dis- tributed leaflets calling for his con- yiction and held meetings of Polk county farmers to discuss the case. The I. L, D. also gave the case na- tional publicity so that communi- cations demanding prosecution and | punishment of Hungate poured in on the prosecuting attorney from all parts of the country. The court room was crowded with farmers on the day of the trial. The charge of manslaughter car- | ries a penalty of only one to seven | years. The judge will sentence | Hungate in a few days, but it is thought likely that he will actually serve only a few months for his crime, Several years ago a Mena officer shot and killed a boy under similar circumstances and was never brought to trial. Last May 12, Hungate found Wal- H ter Parker, the murdered youth, and two companions, all from a nearby! C.C.C, camp, in the park at Mena. Hungate started an argument with the boys, and young Parker fear- ing that arrest would get him into trouble at the camp, started to run from the scene. Hungate pulled his gun and fired, killing Parker almost instantly. His alibi was that Parker was drunk. A doctor who examined the body testified at the preliminary hearing that Parker was not drunk and that the shot was a direct hit. Parker's father, a miner living at Joplin, Mo., attended the trial with the boy’s mother. Since the mur- der of his son, the elder Parker has joined the I. L. D. As the jury was being selected to try Hungate, every prospective juror was asked if he Knew anything about Commonwealth College or the I. L. D, If he answered yes to either question, he was immediately ex- cused. The presiding jurist, Judge A. P. Steel, attempted to divert the trial into an investigation of the I. L. D. Names of I. L. D. members were held on record, with a threat to prosecute them for contempt of court for issuing leaflets on the case, Stucents, intellectuals, writers ‘and artists: The “Daily” points to the way out of the social chaos affecting your lives, your Professions. Contribute to the |for Unemployment Insurance held jin Springfield on Oct, 28 and re- Illinois Jobless! Parley Calls S tate Actions | United Front Stressed | Of Prinei | in Manifesto of State Conference CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 17—The manifesto of the Illinois Congress | cently released called upon the work- | ers of the entire state to rally be- hind the congress demands in the fight for adequate relief and un-/| employment insurance. | The manifesto calls on the Iilinois Workers Alliance, Federal and State Aid Association, Chicago Workers | Committee on Unemployment, Un-| employed and Workers Association, trade unions of the American Fed eration of Labor, Railroad Broth hood, Progressive Miners of America independent unions, unorganized} workezs in the shops and factories | and all workers’ groups to unite with the Unemployment Councils | around the nine-point program | adopted by the 800 delegates at the | state congress. These demands, set forth in the| manifesto, call for: 1—The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. | 2—Public works in working class neighborhoods at union wages and conditions with a guaranteed thirty- | hour week, and a guaranteed mini- mum wage of sixty cents an hour. | 3—Direct cash relief of $8 weekly | Principal of Public Schbol 23, Brook- Brutal Acts pal | BaredbyUTA Mother Named Seiae' by Head Who Takes Food from Children | Charging extreme brutality school principals who do not hes: tate to starve a child into subi sion, the Unemployed Teachers As- sociation sent a letter yesterday to the Superintendent of Schools, asked a public trial of Mr. Jesse Seehof, | yn, | In support of the charge that Mr. Seehof “has been cne of the mo: miserable offenders” among pri cipals “who have used the child’s | bread ticket as a disciplinary whip,” | there is attached to the letter a} copy of record of such cases kept | by the principal. Utter contemnt | for the poverty-stricken parents who | voluntarily report on their condition | in order to beg help, is noted down | by the principal in such expressions | as, “Mother whining beggar” and | “Member of a gimme family.” The sheer heartlessness of this director of the lives of hundreds of children would be almost unbeliey- able but for the following proof taken from the record: (bold-face, for each single worker and $13 for a family of two plus $3 or each de- | pendent. 4—Immediate winter relief—shoes, clothing, blankets, coal, medical aid) and other needs. | 5—For the right of all workers | to unions and ozganizations of their | own choice; recognition of repre-| sentatives and committees at all) relief stations and relief admin- istration; against police terror, and | for the repeal of the Criminal Syn- | dicalist Law, the Vegrancy Law and | the Pauper Act. | 6—Against evictions and fore- closures of workers and impover- ished armers. T—Repeal of the State Sales Tax. | 8—All war and military funds to be used for unemployment insur- ance and relief. 9—Against discrimination and Jim-Crow of the Negro people; against discrimination of single, foreign-born, women and youth. Around these demands, the con- gress called upon all Illinois work- ers and their organizations to unite | in mass demonstrations on Nov. 24. In preparation for these demon- strations, the congress urged city and county conferences at which committees will be elected to pre- pare these mass meetings. Silk Federation Will Hold Its Convention Soon in New York NEW YORK, Nov. 7—The Amer- ican Federation of Silk Workers is holding its annual convention Nov. 24 and 25. Prank Schweitzer, who is well-known for making the mo- tion to call off the national textile strike, is the secretary of the Fed- eration. The American Federation of Silk Workers, modelled after the Full- Fashioned Hosiery Workers Union, is affiliated with the United Textile Workers of America. This Federation is very new. The majority of the members are not in the union even a year. It is very urgent that the local unions elect delegates whose policies are at all time in the interests of the organization. The convention will be held in Hotel Woodstock, West 34th Street, New York City. SIX MILK DRIVERS HELD FARGO, N. D., Nov. 7—Six milk wagon drivers were arrested here in |the strike of three hundred drivers. They are charged with rioting. The milk wagon drivers struck Sunday $60,000 drive. i for higher wages and union recog- nition, | future, ours) | Monganello, Salv., 7A1, 284. Was seen getting his free milk but never came to class. Not to re- ceive free milk and bread in the s. Frank Titero, Age 7, 2B2, 120. Clothing received stocking, trousers, shirts. Truant, not de- serving. Santore, Daniel, 349 Manhattan Ave. Family of 12, one brother. in army, only income from him; Shoes, free lunches, food at times. Dominick, 8A2. Removed from lunchroom by direction of Mr. Seehof (Frequent absence). Michael, 6A3. Removed. Imperti- nent to helper. Extreme disorder. Another child who was deprived of his lunch for “disorder” was the son of a veteran, father of four chil- dren. They had received shoes, and the mother had received food “when necessary.” A notation on the record stated that “conditions were bad.” Mr. Seehof had the child removed ‘tom the lunchroom for “disorder.” The sheer contempt of this auto- crat, who receives a fat salary of some $7,000, cannot restrain itself at the following appeal of Mrs. Cole- santi, written voluntarily with the help of her daughter: “Father is out of work and six children in the family. My mother | and father willing to work but can’t find any for a long time already. We need shoes and clothing for our clothing is all torn all of us are undernerished because we don’t get enough food. ‘When we ask for shoes and cloth- ing they don’t pay no attention. because my sister Gertrude didn’t get enough food she was pale and thin and anemic and because she didn’t have enough clothing she got sick was in the hospital and died Aug. 18, 1934.” The princpal’s comment abcut one of the children in this family was “member of a gimme family”! Withdrawing lunch tickets from a child of ten, because the two cl dren did not appear on holida: in the true manner of a brutal overseer, the principal notes down on the record, “Mother whining beggar.” Other records in the hands of the Unemployed Teachers Associa- tion contain further proof of the arrogance and brutality of the prin cipal. The letter, signed by Isidore | Begun, Chairman of the Executive | Board, which asks for a public hear- ing of the charges before the Soard of Superintendent, also asks firmly for guarantees that children, parents and teachers who are subpoenaed as witnesses, will not be victimized by reprisals of any kind. Defense of (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 7 (By Wireless.). —That the 17th anniversary cele- bration of the October Revolution is not only @ survey of the glorious achievements of the proletarian dic- tatorship but also a survey of the defensive forces which, to the last ounce of strength, will protect these achievements from capitalist de- struction is the main theme of the editorial in today’s “Pravda,” organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Says ‘Prayda’: “The achievements of the work- ing class during these seventecn years are boundless, All that reyo- lution has accomplished in the land of the Soviets cannot be subjected to calculation. Marx was right when he said, ‘Revolution is the locomo- tive of history” The proletarian revolution awakened within millions of toilers the great dormant forces of resurrection and renovation, or- ganized these forces and directed them towards creative work. “Now everybody sees what a peo- ple of 170 millions, aroused by revolution, may accomplish, but during the stormy days of November 1911, it was necessary to possess the sagacity, the unwavering will and the oztimism of Lenin and Stalin in order to foresee these possibilities in all their greatness. On the very day of the October Socialist Revolu- tion at the session of the Petrograd Soviet, mass organization everything and wiil ‘proletariat to world U.S. S.R. Stressed on Anniversary * * Soviet Achievements Will Be Guarded With the Last Ounce of Strength, Says “Pravda” revolution.’ The past 17 years have showed the whole prophetic force of these words. During these years there grew up a whole generation of peo- ple who did not know the old damned system, a generation en- tirely Soviet from the first day of its birth. These new cadres the Socialist economy created out of people of an older age. The most Temarkeble achievement of the Socialist revolution is the growth of this new people. This is most strik- ingly noticable in the villages, where hundreds of thousands of peasant boys and girls, questioned about their future professions, do not reply incoherently, ‘peasant,’ but categorically and clearly: Tractor driver, combine operator, chauffeur, machinist and mechanic. These are the people who, receiving every dignity of man and being the mas- ters of their fates and of their country are now the tone-givers in the villages. Imitated by the col- lective farm youth, they are the heroes of the Soviet village. Honors Go to Labor “A prominent perzoa of our time is one who works well. He is the one who gets honor end fame. This honor is accessible to everyone and such people are ever morg increas- ing in the et Union, “A recent decision of the Central Executive Committee concerning the awarding of participants in the ex- pedition of the ice-cutter ‘Litdke’ eloquently testifies who are the heroes of the Soviet country. Read the brief characteristic statement two or three brief lines concerning those awarded. What manhood, bravery and daring! The whole staff of the exvedition and crew was awarded, each one individually, testimonials of organization and bravery. Who are these brave com- manders, scientists, mechanics, fire- men and sailors? They are rank and file Soviet workers. Only yes- terday no one knew who they were, today they are raised on a pedestal before the whole country. For the first time in the history of naviga- tion a Soviet ice-cutter, during one navigation season, completed a straight cruise through the north- ern Arctic Ocean from the Far East to the West. This was accomplished by valiant Soviet seamen. Millions of Such active people have been created by the Révolution, and they have become genuine heroes. “Thus the new class, making the world anew came on the scene and from the heroic flyers of the U. S. | S. R. to the miner Nikita Izotov there follows one line of active) struggle on the part of millions and | millions of workers for a new world for the toilers of the Fatherland. “The election campaign to the Soviets are proceeding on just such events. Out of its struggles of 17 years the Soviet regime has won and is now drawing new forces of activity from 90 million electors, of whom 10 millions are voting for the first time. The elections will still further strengthen the organs of) proletarian dictatorship. “In the countries of capitalism | millions of workers and peasan’ are doomed to hunger, poverty and ruin. The incendiaries of war are hunting through the world for a convenient pretext again to start a! world slaughter more devastating and bloody than that of 1914. His- tory knows all kinds of wars, ag- gressive, defensive, imperialist and liberating. But never yet had any- one fought with a country whose whole toiling nation understands what it defends and for what it fights. The routing of intervention, to which the Soviet country was | subjected during the first years of | revolution, is merely a weak ex- ample of what the country of the Soviets will do when wer breaks out, when its boundaries are attacked. became the master of life. From the greatest persons of our time, Lenin and Stalin, to the best col- | lective farmers, men and women, The country where prominent heroes of labor are springing up | ings of the city.” every day is an. invincible country + Whose heroes are indefatiguable, _ Editor of College Paper Expelled for Anti-War Article Explusion from the U: of Santa Clara last w , Was the price paid by Edward Hor- ton, student editor, for pul ing an anti. editorial in the university weekly. The edi urged the students not to fight in case of war. In their announcement of the explusion of this anti-w nt- er, the university aut ities tried to conceal the reason for their action by stating that he had been insubordinate when cautioned about alleged radical activity. Accuses Head Of Fostering Military Drills Charging that “the New York educational authorities are encour- | aging the spread of militarism among children of public school age,” the New York Teachers Anti- War League made public a letter last week which called on the Board of Education to remove both the Junior Naval Reserves and the R. O. T. C. and “all other forms of mi tary training from the school b The letter, signed by Irving Adler, | the secretary of the league, charged that P. S, 115, P. S. 40 and P. S. 46, Manhattan, were being used for military drill by troops of the Junior | Nayal Reserve. Principal Thelluson | of P. S. 115, accused by the Anti-| War League of circulating the liter- ature of the Naval Reserve among the children in the school, con- | firmed the report but stated that | last year’s drilling as well as the present drilling had been authorized by the extension activities division of the Board of Education. Super- intendent Campbell denied having | any knowledge of such permission for the Junior Naval Reserve to drill in the schools. | The leaflet distributed among the children stated that among its aims were “to train and instruct boys and | young men in systematic methods of | by naval and merchant marine opera- j tions, military tactics, procedure | and discipline.” Principal Thelluson, who had circulated such leaflets, | asserted in the face of this that if |he found the activities of the or- ganization were militaristic he would | stop them in the school. | The refusal of the Board of Edu- | cation to allow meetings of branches of the American League Against War and Fascism in the school} buildings while it permits military drill in one form or another, makes it vital for increased protests to reach them to force them to stop the war drive in the schools. 1 Pointing out that many civic, parent and teacher organizations had objected to R. O. T. C. units) in the schools, the Anti-War Leagu declared, “How much greater must | this ‘opposition be when the very | same instruction is given to mere | children!” Immediate removal of naval re- serve troops from the schools was demanded by the League. | Student Vigilantes on Cal. Campus; Provost Urges Radical Drive Organized student violence made | its appearance at the University of | California at Los Angeles last week when vigilantes chosen from among the athletes began patrolling the university campus. A meeting of the athletes held previously hai cided to get rid of the radicals “ force if necessary.” At the same time, Dr. Ernest Moore, provost and vice-president, | who had suspended five student | officers on charges of promoting | radical activities, issued a fascist | appeal to universities and frater- | nities throughout the nation to “be | come active helpers of the United States in its day of difficulty” with radical agitaion among the stu- de: The suspension of the five stu- dents was met with such protests both from Leland Stanford Univer. sity as well as from the northern branch of the University of Cali- fornia at Berkeley, that President Sproul is on his way to Los Angeles to take the case in hand, himself. He gave as his excuse that he had | not received the “full explanation” | he had previously asked for from Provost Moore. Board Urged To Halt Policy of Crowding Elementary Schools | | ith | A sharp protest against the prac-} tice of consolidating classes in th elementary schools was issued t day in a letter to the Board of) Education by the Unemployed Teachers Association. Reminding} the Superintendent of Schools that the large classes which will result from reducing the number of ele- tary scheol teachers by 287 will r threaten the health of the cn, the U.T.A. urges thé Board} eriously consider changing the lseady, there are classes of fifty no individual attention is I Further censolidetion cf lasses will make the threat to teachers and children even greater. The letter is signed by Isidore Jeducation budget for 1035 as ane Begun, chairman of the executive board, é Bureaucrats Halt Fight ToSeat Begun Chair Stops Other Rank and File Moves; Two Meetings Planned A special meeting of the Delee gate Assembly held Nov. 1 could not be swung by the rank and file to support -a motion for a new elece Bronx, and placing Isidore Be; 's name on the bal- lot, thus ing the members a chance to elect until Jam alified to The rank and f e of Dek ftice. ted to the U. S. A. while in jail, is , Linville could only say that he had voted for Debs—but now he believed he had been ac- tually unqualified to run. He thus took a more reactionary position than the Attorney-General of the U. Sin war time. The vote was 93 to sustain Linville, 38 against, The Progressives (a group who use radical phrases but in deeds sup- port the administration’s control of the union) refuse a united front with the rank and file. The administration did its best-to delay a ma: i of protest against the y Oath Law, |but were finally forced to set. the date for some time in January. An open meeting on Nov. 16th was an- nounced, to prepare for the cam- | paign against the Ives Law and at- tacks on teacher tenure. The academic freedom commit tee brought in an outline of an active campaign to force a retrac- tion of Superintendent of Schools Campbell's reprimand of the four teachers at James Monroe High School. These union teachers had been disciplined because they had dared to protest to the union of- fice against the action of anothér union teacher in stopping a speech on peace in their school. Their reactionary Principal Hines heard of this, and marked down the four teachers for “disloyalty and lack of cooperation.” The rank and file delegates tried to broaden the campaign proposed the committee on academic freedom. Using the pretext that only the Monroe teachers’ cases could be considered, Linville ruled out of order the rank and file mo- tions to link up the campaign with a@ struggle against war and fas- cism in the schools as evidenced by the Ives Law and the heresy hunt started by Supt. Campbell and President of the Board of Educa- tion Ryan, and their chief in- quisitor, Smith, of the Board of Examiners. The attitude of the bureaucrats wes portrayed by the remark of one of the administration supporters, Kline, who opposed the motion to include in the academic freedom meeting a fight for Begun’s and Burroughs’ reinstatement in the schools, “The report calls for a consideration only of the Monroe cases—not for every cat and dog that might be dragged in.” Controller Assailed on 500 Appointments by U. T. A. Secretary A reply from Controller McGold- tick’s office to an inquiry by the Unemployed Teachers Association concerning the appointment of 500 teachers was characterized sharply by Miss Citron, secretary, as show ing “either gross ignorance or delibe erate misrepresentation of the facts.” The letter from the Con= troller stated that 250 appoint. ments for the year 1934 had been made cut of the accruals fund of the Board of Education and that he increased appropriation in the education budget of 1935 had dis rected the appointment of 250 ade ditional high school teacters for he fall term of 1935, Quoting from the 1934 bi Miss Citron showed that the first 50 appointees had been provided for in the budget, and not from he accruals fund. Furthermore, iss Citron points out that the ounced by the Board of Educa jon, contained an appropriation r 509 as stated by the letter, The U.T.A. response to this statement is, “We deplore your effort to jus- tify and condone the financial sleight of hand of the Board of Education whereby 250 appoint= ments for which the city provided funds mysteriously disappear.” = Teachers of France Defy Minister in t Fight Against War Defying threat of punishment’ for lack of patriotism, French teachers, at a meeting, pledged themselves fight against war. The of Education, aroused at blow against the war tions of the French g ment, informed them that would apply to them the n penalties for war-resistance 4] is applied to others, and a threat to punish them their lack of patriotism. He received a militant The Secreiaty General of Teachers’ Syndicate v “In school, as out of teachers will continue Peace without any conformism whose to.