The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 9, 1934, Page 8

Daily .<QWorker camTmAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PANTY 0.5.4. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) “Amertea's Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXOEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRGDANLY PUBLISHING C@., ENC. 50 KE. 18th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgenquin 4-795 4. Gable Addvess: “Daiwork,” New York, N. ¥ Wamhington Bw Room Press Buiiding, 4h and F St., : National 7810. Mi Bunga m 705, Chicago, Tl. Telephone: De: " 1 year, $6.00; By Mail: (e x), year, 3 6 montis, $3.50 nth, 0.75 cents. Manhatt@s, Bronx Canada: 1 year, $9.00; 6 0 y, 7 cents. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1934 Recruit Communist Voters | Into the Party HE large increase that was registered in the Communist vote on Tuesday, as the first returns come in from New York and Ohio, show the great possibilities that we have for building our party. Tens of thousands of workers for the first time voted for Communist candidates. They came in contact with the Party in strikes, in demonstrations of the unemployed, and in other struggles led by Communists, Their vote was an endotsement of our leadership of these struggles. It is of the highest importance that these work- ers who have followed our lead in struggle, and who registered their support by voting for owr candi- dates, be brought into the Party. In our present drive for an increase in membership, these Com- munist voters offer fine material for the Party. Our election campaign was aimed at mobilizing the workers against capitalism and its twin products, fascism and war. Those workers who supported us indicated that they are ripe for further struggles against the capitalist system. It is the duty of every Party member to follow up election contacts, and prove to them that the most effective way to fight capitalism is by strengthening the vanguard, by joining the Communist Party. This can be done if the comrades approach the task in the spirit of the special recruiting letter sent out by the Central Committee to the Party mem- bership. One of our basic tasks is to double the present membership of the Party. This can be ac- complished if we recruit into our ranks all those workers who voted for our program, and who fol- low our leadership in daily struggles. Every unit and section should, without a moment’s delay, consider seriously the recruiting of Commu- nist voters into the Communist Party. Two Conferences EXT Wednesday Roosevelt will address a conference of A. F. of L. officials, cabinet members, administrative relief officers and social workers called by his “Economie Security Committee” to dis- cuss unemployment insurance, The vast millions of unemployed, the workers in the A. F, of L., the ruined farmers and the Negro masses who are sys- tematically denied the crumbs of relief, will not be represented. They can have no illusions about this conference. There will be only proposals on how to prevent real unemployment insurance and on further slash in relief while intrenching forced la- bor schemes under the F.E.R.A. program. Roosevelt, in leaving Hyde Park yesterday to return to Washington, refused to discuss the ad- ministration’s policy on relief, unemployment insur- ance and relief financing. But by the yardstick of his past utterances and deeds it is possible to Measure what form the Roosevelt hunger dole will assume this coming winter. Speaking to the outgoing Congress last June, he declared: “Next winter we may ,well undertake the great task of furthering the sectrity of the citizen and his family through social insurance.” This 19 months after being swept into office on a platform promising unemployment insurance. In inaugurating the Community Chest drives, the 1934 Mobilization for Human Needs, however, he repeated the age-worn platitudes about “private” charity and individual initiative.” While jobs have dropped precipitously and wages have been slashed all out of proportion to the em- ployment declines, intrenchments and relief cuts have followed in all sections. This is the Roose- yelt answer to the demands for unemployment tn- surance and adequate relief. Only a broad mass movement such as the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment Insurance, which will be held in Washington on Jan. 5 to 7, with widest possible representation of the growing mil- lions of unemployed, and the employed workers in the shops will force the Roosevelt regime to act on the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. The most immediate task for all who are deter- mined to achieve adequate protection against loss of income because of unemployment, sickness, old age or industrial accident, and to fight for suffi- cient and adequate cash relief, is to consolidate this great mass movement into a fighting force. Every possible organization and group must be brought into participation in this Workers’ Congress for Un- employment Insurance. While the signatures on the Call for the Na- tional Congress indicate the sweep of the fight for the Workers’ Bill, wide popularization of the Call and election of delegates and establishing of local groups to sponsor the Congress, and wide and per- sistent mass struggle will alone force action by the Roosevelt regime. Nazi Crisis--More Terror HEARING more food riots in Germany, the Fascist rulers have resorted to some demagogie trickery. According to the Hitler government’s own figures, food prices have risen 12 per cent over last year. Wages in this period have gone down sharply. With starvation looming this winter, food hoard- ing is going on apace. The Hitler government al- DASLY WORKER, NEW YORK, lows the big manufacturers, the bankers, the wholesalers to raise food prices; but when it comes te the retailer, he is threatened. Dr. Hans Goer- deler has been appointed as special commissioner for the supervision of prices, but the aim is to make the small business the smali merchants, share the high costs with workers This, as the June 30th massacres, further nar- rows she mass base of fascism. ‘The worsening of the conditions of the masses is shown not only im the higher cost of living, the growth of starvation, and the struggies developing against it, but in the rise in evictions. The Nazis, whose program leads to starvation and evictions, in a few instances try to let. the masses biow off the steam of their discontent by lambasting a landiord or two in order to stop the growing struggle against the whole regime of Hitler, based on the bankers and big landlords. As ny enters this winter under fascism, greater food riots, strikes, fights against evictions, and an upsurge of anti-fascist battles. For th: reason, the Nazi so-ealled People’s Courts have been grinding out sentences against Communists faster than ever before. After an- nouncing the trtal of Ernst Thaeimann, imprisoned leader of the Communist Party of Germany, for the 15th of October, the Naat executioners lately have again become silent. What has become of Thael- mann? What new tortures are the Nazi butchers Subjecting him to, as the wrath of the masses against starvation grows? Each time the difficulties of the Naai regime are aggravated, new victims are picked from among the arrested Communists, This winter certainly will see the greatest struggles against the Hitler regime, and greater terror against Communists and anti- fascists. Only a constant vigilance of the workers and anti-fascists throughout the world can save the life of Ernst Thaelmann and of other anti-fascist fight- ers as they have done now for more than 20 months. The danger to Thaelmann’s life grows every day. The fight for his release cannot slacken for a moment, but must gain power and strength every day. Mitchell vs. DePriest NEW Negro Congressman, Arthur W. Mitchell, has been elected in Chicago, taking the place of the defeated Republi- can, Oscar DePriest. But the Negro masses, the Negro workers who feel the daily lash of starvation, mis- ery, jimcrow oppression and discrimination, who face eviction and unemployment, have no cause for rejoicing in this result, On the very next day after his election, Mitchell made jt plain that he has not the slightest inten- tion of “embarrassing” the Roosevelt government by carrying the fight for Negro rights into Congress. Yesterday Mitchell told the press that he believed “the race issue should not be the dominant idea of a Negro in Congress.” In these words the Democratic Mitchell pledges to continue the servile, spineless surrender to the lynch-jimcrow system which characterized the ae- tions of the Republican DePriest. How was Mitchell elected? Me was elecied by an unscrupulous campaign of trickery and deceit. The Democratic Party brought the Negro farmer, Sylvester Harris, from Alabama as proof that Roosevelt was giving the oppressed Negro masses relief from the yoke of landlordism and oppression. But he forgot to point out that Roosevelt's trans- action with the poverty-stricken Negro farmer, Syl- vester Harris, was only a cheap publicity stunt that solved the problem neither of Harris nor of a single oppressed, impoverished Negro in the, South. Roose- velit loaned the poverty-stricken Harris a few dol- lars to forestall his eviction. But how will Harris ever pay this loan back while he is being robbed and plundered by the Southern landiord? What will Harris live on while his landlord takes every cent of what he produces? Roosevelt's loan only tightens the chains of debt which bind every Negro sharecropper to the land- lords in the South with chains of feudal bondage. . * . |. ebigeenan Played cunningly on the hatred which the Negro masses feel for their oppressors by denouncing the “Republican evictions” and the “Republican jimcrow of the Gold Star mothers.” But does it make any difference to a Negro worker whether he is evicted by a Democratic or @ Republican landlord? Do not the Democratic landlords in the South evict and lynch Negro work- ers? And do they not evict in Chicago as well? And is not the filthy jimcrowism of Hoover the Official policy of Roosevelt as well? Has Roosevelt ever opened his mouth against the filth of jim- crowism? Has he ever opened his mouth on the lynch plot against the Scottsboro boys? Mitchell sings the praises of the Roosevelt “New Deal” as the new salvation for the oppressed Negro masses. “There is no prejudice against my people in the present administration,” he said yesterday. * . . | Eimear is trying to hide all these things from the Negro masses, Mitchell is a wealthy real es- tate operator who knows nothing and cares less of the grinding misery that faces the Negro masses. Mitchell will not fight jimcrowism because he is part of the upper strata of wealthy Negroes who are part and parcel of the capitalist system, and who are willing to betray the Negro masses to American capitalism for the bribe of patronage, crumbs of favor, and real estate profits in the Negro ghetioes. It is only Communists, Negro and white, who truly organize the Negro masses for struggle against the curse of jimcrow oppression, against the lynch system, against the double yoke of national and class oppression. The Negro workers of Chicago have @ tradition of militant mass struggle for re- lief and against jimcrow. It is this mass struggle of Negro and white worners against the landiords and exploiters that alone can win better conditions for the Negro masses. A man like Mitchell is only a tool of the landlords and the lynchers, Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party, | Party Life | Steps Are Taken |Fe Remedy Work |= Philadelphia W more than ever when the attack of the ruling class be- comes sharper we can see more clearly our organizational weak- nesses. In a period when our units must become stronger in order to withstand this attack and must be- come real leaders in the shops and neighborhoods, we must have the initiative te develop and lead struggles. We find units who still |don’t know what te do if a unit | organizer does not get the directives from the section, or if the unit | Organizer does not come to a meet- ing. Also the question of activizing our comrades which comes up at | every meeting, and is answered by the claim of the comrades that they are too busy in mass organizations and therefore cannot do any Party work. Those are the two weak- | nesses which must be remedied. In Section 3, Philadelphia Dis- | trict, we have taken the following | steps to improve the units: 1. A member of the Section Committee is assigned and must work with a unit buro. 2. To work out a monthly plan | and show the unit members how | to carry on active work in their neighborhood, 3. To pick one or two comrades to whom he will constantly ex- plain the work and prepare them as leaders of the unit. : 4. To see that the unit organ- izer together with the unit buro study the unit membership and are in a position to know the function of each member, in mass organization, union, ete, how much time is spent there, and to assign them to such work that they can do, 5. Every week to call in a dif- ferent comrade to the Buro and discuss with them the work in the shop, union, neighborhood, ete, To take up with him all the ques- tions. “Does he bring in the Party campaigns?” How does he do it? What are the results of his work? How many Daily Worker readers does he have? How many members did he recruit into the Party. 6. The Section representative is held responsible for the fulfill- ment of this task. 7. To have a strict check up on old unreliables who always shirk unit assignments, and make an example, if necessary. In this way we hope to train the |units to carry out their tasks as Communists by activizing the entire membership and becoming ihe} leaders in their shops and neighbor- | hoods. | ee bE A TEXAS COMRADE REPORTS The following letter was received | |from a comrade in Texas to whom | we had sent some literature. “T received the literature you sent and it sure was a help, I sure did |enjoy “Iron Coal and Komsomol.” The “Party Organizer” helps quite a lot with a new Party mem- |ber. I joined the Party in January, 1934. Now there are six members here. If I could have had access to |literature, I feel sure there would have been ten now. The unit here |is in the leadership o an organiza- tion created last March. The polit- ical level of this group is surprising. By fall, a good movement can be built among the farmers. “Faced by a drought, and under the whiplash of the A. A. A, the dirt farmers are rapidly waking up. Under the correct revolutionary | | guidance and leadership, the farm movement will be tremendous in |America. The most careful and} |never-ceasing work must be done by all Party members who are in contact with the farmers. “I wonder if all Districts carry on a campaign for the Daily Worker. If District 20 has, since I joined, I have never been ad- vised about it. It was mentioned only about three times at the con- vention and I—a raw recruit, and a ‘mail order’ one at that—was one of those who had anything to say | about the Daily Worker. I feel sure jif the District Committees would concentrated on the Daily Worker a “py” Communist Vote Shows New Gains (Continued on Page 2) for Governor in that year, and con- trasts with the 1928 Foster vote of 2,836. The 1933 county vote for Ford was 3,476 and the 1932 vote in the county was 2,514. Thus Ford doubled the vote in one year and received more in a single county this year than the ticket received in the entire state two Wars ago, Unofficial figures give Ford close to 13,000 votes for the State. In the county elections, Onda, running for commissioner, polled 5,376 Communist votes, compared with 1,599 for the Socialist can- didate. Landy Gets 1570 otes Landy, running for Congress in the 20th district, polled 1570 votes compared with 522 for Yellen, the Socialist Party candidate. On the State ticket, Langston, running for Lieutenant-Governor, (Continued from Page 1) increased; the wage-cutting campaign will be speeded up; and relief will be cut, as the capital- ists move to take advantage of their victory. This places before every member of the working Class the urgent question of organizing more mili- tant struggles to defeat the greater attacks of the ruling class. The struggle around the life and death issues raised by the Communist Party in the What the Election Results in New York City Show An Editorial election campaign does not end with the close of the campaign. Now more than ever it is necessary to organize the working class for a fight for more relief and unemployment insurance, for higher wages, for the right to strike, picket and organize, and against war and fascism. The tens of thousands of new Communist voters must be brought into the Party as the basic condi- tion for strengthening the fight against the capi- talist system. polled 6,567; Sivert, 6,404; Patterson, for State Treasurer, 6,450; Land, for Attorney-General, 6,719; Sandberg, for Congressman-at-Large, 6,053; Atkins, for Congressman-at-Large, 5,904, and Marshall, for the same Office, 6,228, Negro Woman Gets 5,246 Votes Lindsey, a Negro woman Com- munist running for auditor polled 5,246 yotes and N. D. Davis, run- ning for Prosecuting Attorney polled 5,568 votes. Other results were: Greenfield, 21st district, 1,649; Cowan, 2nd dis- trict, 1,803. Gorlich heading slate | available FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, ‘*ROLLED’’! Burck wilt give the original drawing of his cartoon to the highest contributor each day towards his quota of $1,000. LIKED CARTOON—CONTRIBUTES $1 “Here is $1, which is all I have at this moment, and is given as a token of my special appreciation for Comrade Burck’s cartoon in the Daily Worker of Saturday, Sept. 3, entitled: ‘Vote Communist!’ ” Eyery dollar counts toward Burck’s quota of $1,000! E. Simmons L. Osterman (gets cartoon). Ben and Sarah. Previously received Total to date .... $ 8.64 0 50 248.64 - 9252.64 fascism, and for a day-to-day struggle against British imperialism, the Communist Party of Ireland ad- dressed the following letter to the Labor Party Conference: “The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland notes the resolution from the Adminis- trative Council to be placed before your Conference this week-end, which asks the Conference “to avow its determination to continue Con- noliy’s efforts for the establishment in Ireland of the Workers’ Repub- lic,” and pledges the working class movement to resist by every means “the attempts of the counter-revolutionaries to subvert the National traditions enshrined in the Proclamation of Easter Week.” “The Communist Party desires to bring to the notice of the Labor Party Conference that the over- throw of the power of the present governing classes and the establish- ment of a Workers’ Republic with all power in the hands of the work- ers, allied with the small farmers, as a step to the construction of a classless Socialist society, is its final objective. At the same time it strongly holds that the immediate political issue before the Irish work- ing class is the destruction of im- Perialism, the unification and free- dom of the country, and that the war-cry of a Workers’ Republic di- vorced from this issue would be misleading and a possible source of misdirection of working class en- ergy, unless so joined to the in- dependence issue. Growing Fascism “While thus recognizing there are differences between it and the La- bor Party, the Communist Party of Ireland be¥eves, at the same time, that these differences should not be allowed to stand in the path of a common effort by all sections of the workers’ movement to strength- polled 5,801. Unofficial state reports give Ford 12,335 votes for Governor. Youngstown figures give Dallet 821 votes for Congress, compared with 338 for the Socialist candi- date. 6 ete Taylor Springs Workers Win TAYLOR SPRINGS, Ill, Nov. 8. —The Workers’ ticket, consisting of a combined Socialist and Commu- nist slate, carried the elections by a two-to-one vote. However, the candidate for sheriff, Frank Pascik, was defeated by only two votes, 139 against 141 for his opponent, In the present elections the Dem- ocrats received only 91 straight votes compared with 202 Democrats. last year. Reports from other parts of Montgomery County though still in- complete indicate widespread sup- port for the Workers Ticket. A ane Big Vote in Girard YOUNGSTOWN, O., Nov. 8.—Re- ports show that in Girard, a nearby town controlled by the Steel Trust, the Communist candidate for State Senator, Ben Gray received 846 votes compared with 887 for the Re- publican and 1414 for the Democrat. This vote, which represents a tre- mendous increase over previous elections, is of especial importance in the face of the open police ter- rorism of the Steel Trust against the workers. In Mahoning County, where Girard is located, the Socialist Party polled 200 votes for the entire county compared with 2,000 for the of State senator candidates polled 5,796, and Adams heading slate of State representatives candidates } last election, whereas Communist candidates doubled and tripled their votes, incomplete returns show. prorossa a united front against | [ rish Communists Offer Labor Party Plan For Anti-Imperialist Action en the fighting power of the wage- earning and farming masses on the immediate issues, in particular against the growing arrogance of the imperialist ascendancy and its fascist allies among the business and propertied classes, as expressed by the naked fascist propaganda in the press and in definite action by the pro-imperialist land holders, who are conducting what amounts almost to a campaign of guerilla civil war under the leadership of the fascists. “It has long been the opinion of the Communist Party and advanced workers generally, that in view of the events on the continent, where in a number of countries the ruling classes have called the fascists to power and destroyed for the time being the organizations created by years of working class effort, and in view of the undisguised support given by the wealthy classes and their newspapers to the fascist or- ganizations here and the toleration afforded these counter-revolution- aries by the policy of the present “Southern”. Government and the judicial apparatus of the State, that there is an obligation on all sec- tions of the labor and anti-impe- rialist movements to make common cause to defeat this menace to the liberties of the working class. Example of Joint Action in France “We would further draw the at- tention of your Conference and Ad- ministrative Council to the fact that in France the Socialists and Com- munists by means of joint united front action have frustrated the ef- forts of the reactionaries and the pro-fascist government of natiopal union in their designs on the demo- cratic rights of the French workers; in Spain the various workers’ organ- izations have established a joint body for the purpose of common ac- tion; in the United States the So- cialist Party and the Communist. Party have entered into agreements, and in Great Britain unity exists between the Communist Party and the I. L. P., although the majority of the Labor Party leaders have not yet followed the examples of the French ahd Spanish. i. “At the present time the Labor and Socialist International (with which we believe your Party main- tains some relations) and the Com- munist International (with which our Party is affiliated) are consid- ering jointly what action can be undertaken internationally in de- fense of the Spanish workers: “In view of these facts and the Administrative Council’s draft res- olution declaring for a Workers’ Republic and the expressed resolve to combat the Fascist menace, the Central Committee of the Commu- nist Party of Ireland advances the following suggestions for your con- sideration, in the sincere belief that along these or similar lines the working class front can be unified and strengthened against the dan- gers now threatening and the way opened for the realisation of a Re- public in which the toilers will be the ruling class, the Workers’ and Farmers’ Republic. Practical Proposals “Our. suggestions are as follows: “(a) That steps be taken to or- ganize a nation-wide.campaign by means of demonstrations, meetings and written propaganda, explaining the anti-working class character of Fascism and rousing the masses to daily struggle against it. “(hb That December 8th, the an- niversary of the execution of Liam Mellowes (the foremost exponent of Labor social principles in the Re- publican movement) and his three comrades, be set aside as a day of united working class rallies against Fascism and for National independ- | ence, and to popularize the ultimate aims of the working class moye- ment. “(c) To ensure the success of any steps by the Parliamentary Labor Party for the amendment of the Unemployed Assistance Act in favor of the workless, a campaign be un- dertaken to rouse the organized and unorganized workers in support of the demands of the unemployed for abolition of the present pauper scales of relief and the granting of adequate winter maintenance. “(d) That effectively to combat the attempts of the imperialist landholders to draw numbers of working farmers under their in- fluence for anti-Labor purposes and to the detriment of the real in- terests of the farmers themselves, the working class movement takes steps to organize the small farmers in alliance with the urban workers for mass action to enforce the de- mands of the Labor Party branches for relief from rates, division of branches, land allotments for labor- ers, and increased wages for the agricultural workers. . “(e) That in order to transform the struggle for a Workers’ Republic into a living issue and to arouse the working class to the fight for its realization, the Labor Party in the Oireachtas move for the aboli- tion of all vestiges of imperialist domination: dismissal of the gov- ernor-general, the dissolution of the Dail and the summoning of a gen- uinely representative assembly, in which all democratic sections could participate, and so remove the main barrier to the realization of a Work- ers’ Republic—foreign interference in the country’s domestic affairs. “That the operation of action on similar lines against the Northern imperialists be the subject of joint consultation between the Irish and Northern Labor Parties and the Central Committee of the Commu- nist Party and its northern sec- tions. “The Communist Party is sin- cerely convinced that action along these or similar lines is the only way to rouse the working class in the struggle for a Workers’ Repub- lic, against its Fascist imperialist enemy and to overcome the disas- trous divisions which have hitherto retarded the development of a powerful working class movement and given the counter-revolution its chance for mischief among the Trish people. “Should our proposals for a mutual understanding on these is- sues meet with the approval of your World Front \—_— By HARRY GANNES Sir Gunliffe’s Frenzy Negro Slaves Dare Speak Freneh Fascists Armed British Foreign Office has been exerting all sorta of pressure to stop the publi cation of “The Negro Work- er,” now issued at Post Box 154, Brussels, Belgium. We learn the reason for it in the September number of the magazine which has just arrived here. “The Negro Worker's” exposure of the slave rule of British impe- tialism in the African colonies, not only has driven Sir P, Cunliffe- Lister, British Colonial Secretary into a frenzy, but made him lose jhis diplomatic equilibrium. A Gold Coast delegation, headed by Nana Sir Ofori Atta, journeyed |to England to join the growing pro- |test against the fascist Sedition Bill adopted in that colony. The delega« tion was interviewed by Sir Cun |liffe-Lister, the Governor of the Gold Coast colony, and Sir Shelton » Thomas. id delegation demanded the withdrawal of the bill on the ground it tended further to shackle the Negro masses to the slavery of the British overlords. They pointed out it prevented the circulation of revo- lutionary literature, muzzled the native press, and allowed only the Propaganda of the slayeholders to be read. Sir Cunliffe angrily stated his re- fusal to withdraw the bill. He stood up at his desk, his face red with rage. He drew out a copy of “The Negro Worker,” his hands trembling with anger. He read extracts from it, exposing the role of British im- perialism. “Thousands of copies of this foul and obnoxious tract are being circulated among the na- tives,” he shouted. Then he flung the magazine to the floor, and ush- ered the delegation out. . 8 « | Ei Sas to the ruffied Secre- tary, “The Negro Worker” ?) writes: “We take pride in the fact that despite all obstacles, its message is penetrating the slave pens of British imperialism and is caus- ing discomfort to the exploiters, We can assure the ‘gallant’ and ‘noble’ Colonial Secretary and his ilk that we shall leave no stone unturned to break through the ‘barrier erected, and carry to the native toilers the message of revo- lutionary struggle as the only way out of the barbarous slave ex- ploitation and national oppression te which they are subjected by the British ruling class.” Scie haw [ReCaNTEy, in preparation for bloody street struggles against the united front, the Paris bourgeois press carried lying stories of the arming of the workers. We quote from a recent article in “L’Human- ite,” central organ of the Com- munist Party of France, written by Marcel Cachin on this subject. Referring to the failure of the Radical Socialists to fight for the », disarmament and disbandment of |} the Fascist gangs, Comrade Cachin, | says: 4 “They admit that the fascists are armed, but they also say that the workers of the united front are armed, and that, therefore, justice would demand the dissolution of both. We cannot permit them to distort the truth. * oe “NJOBODY can deny today that the Fascist leagues are armed, Their chiefs brag about it cynically. The leaders of the fascist Solidarite Francaise affirm this fact in their newspapers. We have already quoted a number of extracts from them. They conduct daily revolver practice in their training camps, whose addresses are known to the police. The Croix de Feu march in military formation between Paris and Chantilly. The gentlemen of the Action Francaise boast that they have already designated their vie< tims for assassination. These provo- cations to murder have been made time and again in their press with- out the slightest protest of the authorities. Seventy-five groups of fascists have prepared to raid the . homes of Socialist and Communist leaders. “Who can dare compare this at- titude of the putschists and assas- sins with the organization of the united front?” * Ree peabeeni will be a critical day in France, as the cabinet crisis will have advanced pretty far by that time, and the Doumergue forces have already mobilized their armed bands to take to the streets in a provocative demonstration against the united front. The National Union of War Vets, offi- cered by outstanding fascists, will demonstrate then, and at a signal from the Doumergue government will attempt to make the demon- stration a bloody lever to force over the fascist amendments to the constitution. Both the Socialist and Communist Parties are mobilizing the workers to be ready to mass their forces for action. “Populaire,” Socialist paper, and “L'Humanite,” Communist pa- Conference, we suggest that rep- resentatives of the incoming Ad- ministrative Council meet together with representatives from our Cen- tral Committee to enable whatever understanding for joint effort can be arrived at to be worked out in detail. “Further, that mutual abstention from hostile criticism shall be ob- served by all parties supporting the United Front, and this we under- take to observe in our weekly and monthly journals and spoken propa- ganda. “Trusting this letter will have the careful and sympathetic considera- tion of your Conference. “With fraternal greetings, “Yours sincerely, per, have both issued the following appeal: “All workers of the Paris region must be vigilant, and hold themselves ready to respond to the appeal of their organizations.” . SNAP INTO IT! Comrade Gannes swung into the $60,000 drive fully two weeks ahead of Del, but is ahead by only 10.8 per cent, or a little over $50. The $30 contribution below helps tremen- dously, but World Front is generally in a napping state. We call upon the witness for defense—and ac- tion! . Sympathizer .., S$ Williamsbridge Branch of League Against War and “SEAN MURRAY, “On behalf of the ‘CENTRAL COMMITTEE, be iT PARTY OF IRELAND.” ¥ po