The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1934 WA SPANISH WORKERS HOLD 175 MACHINE GUNS IN CITY OF MADRID ASTURIAS MINERS Seamen Talk\Peoria Jobless Move | Hunger March’ To Draw A.F.L. Unions ARMED WITH RIFLES IN MOUNTAIN AREA International Protests F With Executions—Communists orce Fascists to Hesitate and Socialists Fight Side by Side (Special to the Daily Worker) a MADRID, Nov. 9.—There are 175 machine-guns and) Y| being paid 40 cents an hour, far/|rinois Workers’ Alliance, has or- That the report in the Daily Worker recently of peasants a ; Ng doe ctill in rol of the united front revolu- by a delegation oe the Water-|neiow the trade union rates in ganized picket lines at the relief day tore an arrested werker from | . eyes re * rub y ar i thousands of rifles still in control of the uni ~,|{ront Unemployment Council of | poosia sation in protést against “pauper |thetr hnds.and forced /the relief | 2 the Philippine Islands raising red flags was only the be- 1 tionary leadership of Communists and Socialists in Madrid ee ae ON Een The committee asked Storry to| act affidavits” and low relief, have leaas te iene rele ordies: ginning of a widespread and growing struggle of thousands 4 alone, according to private and accurate information gained from 85 to 7% cents a day for both | CxP!ain his position before a meet-| appealed to the members of the! ‘tne workers massed at the relief | Of Share-croppers, tenant-farmers, and peasants is confirmed from revolutionary leaders in the capital. This is just one of the reasons why the big land-owners, the generals, of Spain are to be leaders more workers and the Jesuits and Scottshoro Aid ‘ | ToWashington Baltimore Dele gation, Protesis Conditions | on Relief Project | WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 9.—} (PP).—Plans for a possible hunger march on Washington by unem-/ ployed seamen from North Atlantic! ports were reported here yesterday | meals and lodging, and against poor and inadequate food in the Balti- mote séamen’s reliéf project. They also dethanded immediate issuance of Winter clothing. In addition to their demands for Into Action for Relief PEORIA, Ill, Nov. 9—A committee from the Unem- ployment Councils called upon the president of the Peoria Trades and Labor Assembly, Mr. Storry, who is also “labor | representative” on the Peoria County Emergency Relief) Commission, regarding his position on the question of work relief systém on which workers are@ ing of the unenfployed and em- Ployed workers, and, if he disagreed with the schemes of the Relief Commission, that he join with a committee from the Unemployment Councils and other workers’ or- A. F. of L. to support a city-wide demonstration on Nov. 24, to elect representatives to the arrange- ments committee, and to endorse | the demonstration. On Nov. 1 the Illinois Workers’ ;by the Lawndale’ Unemployment | |cut ordered for all Chicago on Nov. Chicago Police, | Force Relief! Demonstrators Take Member Away from | Lawndale Officers | | CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. police at the Lawndale relief sta- tion branished guns, hundreds of unemployed workers here yester- 9.—While | station in response to leafiets issued Club in protest against the relief | Jobless Stop|PEASANTS SPREAD EVICTION FIGHT IN PHILIPPINES Tenant Farmers Defy Landlords’ Attempt to Take Over Land—Situation Becomes Tense As They Demand Bigger Crop Share New Fascist Steps _ By Samuel Weinman by the Philippine Herald, Manila newspaper published by the ~Simperialisst and native exploiters. Sept. 17, the Herald ran @ despatch from Tarlac Province Trouble in Tarlac Grows—Tenants which was headlined “Tenancy » baa Hl ; rh | 2 more prisoners to be | i a decent standard of relief, the Bal- hon erica to protest against their | aniance of Bloomington arranged a | ey te gtr beret ga sa | Asked b B Ses Defy Landlords to Take Over Lands Eales, © more.» lite) el eae t Pl d timore seamen ask the right to elect | > Storry ak Jain his posi- | 48S Meeting and invited the State | Mande Winter clothing. The head | Y OS: —Philippine Constabulary Asked to 4) | For they know that c ions anne |their own committees to supervise | 44 fg be Sr . beamed . grat president of the Illinois Workers’ | supervisor offered to deal with the Intervene.” kim {a_ have broken. the | their relief quarters and for further an at & maeling of workers: 1 Alliance, Mr. Morgan, a member of | unemployed individually, but Tivin (Continuea from Page 1) The Herald admitted that “the tion is a lie. And they are ened. m behind the censor’s m, are some of the facts m them. Miners Still Armed 7] (Continued from Page 1) and particularly in the South, under | the “New Deal.” Davis Reports on Developments On reports by various members | of the Committee that rank and {improvements in conditions. | better than that given to seamen in | While relief in Baltimore as a re- sult of a long struggle has been| any other port, it remained inade- quate even before the recent slash, the men pointed out. Unless the | arranged by the Unemployment Councils, but refused to join a dele- gation to the Relief Commission. He also promised to give the com- mittee a letter of introduction to all local unions of the A. F. of L., where the matter of low relief standards and low rates of wages on the Socialist Party. Mike Morton, | section organizer of the Communist Party, and a local member of the | Communist Party, Bill Beck, also| spoke. Morton, in his speech, | pointed out that the Unemploy- ment Councils in their State Con- | insisted that the workers’ committee of ten act for all the cases, The supervisor’s answer was to summon police squads. When Tivin had been taken from the hands of the police, } the workers formed a ring around him and prevented the police com- the basis for the original NIRA. It | was in direct response to a demand by this Chamber of Commerce that } President Roosevelt made his recent radio speech extolling the private profit system and seeking a no- tenancy trouble in Concepcion, Tar- lac, remains tense as the tenants there still insist on their demand for a bigger share of the crops than that of the landowners.” Wholesale Evictions The landlords have resorted to Tn Asturias there are 25,000 rifles a : ference on Oct. 29 decided to take |ing near, strike truce between labor and in- ord tn the hands of the revolutionary fle followers of Father Divine had |demands and improvements are im-| work relief will be explained tothe | art in 0 a eens cpaeee prose crate se Unempiovment |4ustt¥. ‘The committee, headed by | Wholesele evictions of tenants. At miners in the mountains, and the |expressed interest and sympathy |mediately forthcoming, the hunger 4. F. of L. membership, with a 24° 3 owe: demonstrations, in| qiut ts macbelia la] nes ages William L, Sweet, treasurer of the : a ny ce dalires a revolutionary spirit of the miners with the work of the National|march is threatened. hope that the membership will re- Sant eect ti The a eal {s lizing the workers in the Rumford Chemical Works, proposed rganizer society puns and steel-workers remain un- broken At Bejar, half-way between Madrid and the Portuguese frontier, the workers in the factories have never id are refusing to until they are as- opped the strike that began | |Scottsboro-Herndon Action Com- mittee, the meeting decided to push efforts to form a united front with these elements on the question of the fight for the lives and freedom of the Scottsboro boys and for the rights of the opp. ed Negro people. Ben Davis, Jr., editor of the Ne- | A conference of seamens repre- sentatives fram the Waterfront Un- employment Oouncils of Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, and Norfolk to consider the ques- tion and to map out a fight for a centralized shipping bureau will be held Nov. 11. spond to a city-wide demonstration on Noy. 24 against relief cuts and starvation wages on work relief. In Fulton County the Unemploy- ment Councils, together with the Illinois Workers’ Alliance, are plan- ning a central demonstration for the whole county, and efforts are being made to get an endorsement no Illinois Workers’ Alliance, and to work jointly with the Illinois Workers’ Alliance and other work- ers’ organizations in counties and cities where Unemployment Coun- cils and these other organizations exist side by side. The membership of the Illinois neighborhood for participation in the united front confererice on re- Mef cuts on Saturday, No. 7 at} Mirror Hall, 1136 North Western Avent. The conference will lay Plans for a huge united front dem- onstration of employed and unem- Ployed against relief cuts, for Wintér relief and for the Workers Unem- that the N.R.A. be serapped and that congres provide in its stead: 1, That it be made “unmistakable in new legislation that the collec- tive bargaining which is contem- plated is bargaining with represen- tatives of all groups of employes that desire to act through spokes- men, and that neither the right of Pangbanca” for the attack upon the tenants, Former Senator Benigno S. Aquino has been hired to lead the landlord attack. The evicted tenants, however, are not taking the blows lying down. ‘The Herald frantically shrieked that these “ejected tenants are now rais- ing red flags around the lands they here will be no victim- eatin: bo 4 t Workers’ Alliance voted unani- | ployment Insurance Bill. innet . used to till destroying the crops al- ‘ gro Liber , reported on the latest of that demonstration by the City a a minority group ... nor the direct i no alteration in bar- | <tens in the jegal and mass defense | Record Red Vote Council of St. David, a mining town | mously to carry out the united —— |right of individual bargaining is gene, Leto ped atta aang weet ing agreements and wage COM- | mght for the boys. He pointed out | of 1,500 population. This town|front with the Unemployment Workers in trade unions: stip- | precluded,” and that “the right of th 2 cist tne coders (haihnelven?” that the LL.D. was in complete} council is composed of rank and}Council in its sincere effort to| port the Daily Worker, collective |employes to choose their own rep- sashagheh ad 5 In numerous places throughout Spain railwaymen, factory-workers and transport workers are forcing the employers’ organizations to abandon their attempts at victim- and are for¢ing the em- ter of Madrid, a few days ago * correspondent sat at a series of meetings of 1a committee of factory werkers. There were three ommunists on it, four Socialists and four Anarchists. Within four days their united action had forced the directors of the large factory where they worked to drop all the plans of victimization they had al- ready announced; they forced them reinstate all the men they ‘had st refused to take back, and they forced them to give up the resume work on pre-| charge o f the appeal of Patterson and Norris to the U. S. Supreme Court, and declared the ILD. would fight vigorously against all jattetnpts by Samuel S, Leibowitz, renegade defense attorney, and his reformist Negro henohmen to de- |tract attention from the fight to| prevent» the legal murder of the/ two boys on Dec. 7. He cited the | atements of Patterson and Nor-| ris, in letters to himself and Joseph R. Brodsky, chief 6 f LL.D. counsel, ;that papers which they had signed | for Letbowitz had been secured | |through deception and coercion, | which was encouraged by Alabama lynch officials, in the effort to have the boys renounce the I.L.D. Both boys declared their final repudiation |of Letbowitz, |300 Per Cent Rise in New Bedford In California (Continued from Page 1) as against utopian barter schemes of Upton Sinclair. NEW BEDFORD, Maas., Nov. 8,— The Communist vote here increased 300 per cent over the vote in the last election. Walter Burke, candi- date for State Secretary, received 835 votes, only 19 votes behind the total for the Socialist candidate for the same office. Burke was very active in the re- cent textile strike. High Vote in Berkley, Mich. BERKLEY, Mich, Nov. 9 — | He reported that the Scottsboro | Mass campéign was spreading rap- | idly throughout the country, citing crt they had started to break the | the fact that the Baptist Min- |C#>!talist candidate, Baldwin, ob- of collective bargaining on | isterial Alliance of Detroit had |‘#ined 911. | Arend Wickerts, running openly as |a Communist in the final election |for Mayor, received 379 votes. The The high vote for Wickert was file miners, most of whom are mem- bers of the Unemployment Coun- cils. In Bloomington, the Communist Party, in a united front with the An Estimate of the Election Returns and Our Tasks (Continued from Page 1) is registering large gains, year’s Mayoralty vote in that city. ‘The growth of the Communist Party vote, win- ning former supporters of the Socialist Party and is developing growing mass influence. These gains appear in such indus- trial centers as Ohio, California, New York and Massachusetts, The Socialist Party vote, on the contrary, is either stagnant or declining, running far behind the Communist Party in many places. Even in Bridgeport, the Socialist Mayor McLevy, running for Governor, ran 4,000 votes behind his last secure a united front with all work- ers’ organizations in the struggle for cash relief and the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill. organizer and leader against the stretch-out, wage-cuts, and for improved working conditions. Contribute to $60,000 campaign. An Editorial crats ate trying working with the machine of the A. PF. of L. and 3. Tendencies are evident for the growth of the break away from the two old parties, and for work- ing-class independent political action. The bureau- a bourgeois farmer-labor party, to create a new party for tricking the masses, Already the “right wing” of the Socialist Party, Waldman; Solomon, are “progressives” for suoh a party. 4. The Communist Party will exert its full strength to develop mass struggles for the daily needs of the masses, for the united front of ail toilers in defense of the economic and political in- to mislead this in the direction of resentatives is to be free, not only from coercion on the part of em- ployers, but from coercion from any other source.” 2. That “each industry’—specific- ally on its own intiative, with spe- cific authority to terminate at will, under Government sanction pro- vided by an agency having only a veto power of supervision—be al- lowed to formulate “rules of fair competition” including “provisions as to minimum prices and provisions for dealing with over-capacity and over-production.” In this connec- tion the committee specifically urged that price-fixing arrangements, such as open-price filing, “depend upon the circumstances of the par- ticular industry.” Follows Swope-Johnson Plan » The importance of the Chamber of Commerce committee’s program, made public today with an an- nouncement that it will form the basis of the organization’s recom- mendations to the new Congress, Terror Is Extreme This heroic resistance to evictions ¢ meets with extreme terror. The constabulary has established head- quarters and remain on duty day and night all over Tarlac Province for the landlords realize that the peasants will seize the land the moment the constabulary is with drawn. That the peasant struggles are highly effective in smashing the landsharks is proven by another despatch from Tarlac three days later (Sept. 20) in the Herald. This time the headline reads “Court Re- turns Grabbed Lands—Tarlao Homesteaders Are Given Their Old Farms by Supreme Court.” Eighty homesteaders who had labored for years to make farms out of wilder- ness land were deprived of their land by a court. decision in favor of @ group of land robbers. Pressure of organization and armed resist- ance compelled the higher court to reverse the decision. wage ra | veted to support the I. L. D. against | This is going on all over Spain. | the Leibowitz forces trying to dis- It is a measure of the strength of | rupt the defense. the workers whom the reactionaries | May Picket Koch’s Store terests of the masses, against the menace of. war and fascism, in which the Socialist and A. F. of L. workers particularly, will be drawn in, With the growing radicalization of the masses ‘The strugglés of the tenant farme ers coincided with the miilitant strike of thousands of cigar makers in Manila which were marked by achieved despite a vicious campaign against him in the local press. He |is an outstanding leader of the un- | employed. lies in the enormous influence of these industrialists. Taken as a whole, the report follows closely the recommendations of the notorious néw working class support, is a definite indication of growing class consciousness throughout the coun- try. / claim to have “broken.” | Action Effective It is against this strength and militancy of the Spanish workers that the military fascist execution- ers are being set to work. They are trying to work in the dark be- hind the censorship. But already nere is proof positive that the ternational action of the workers of cther countries against the Spanish government hes that government into a state of alarm and hesitation. As a result of huge demonstra- tions of French workers outside the Spanish consulate throughout Southern France, the Spanish am- bassador in Paris has received urgent orders to try to get the French government to put a stop to these demonstrations. The dem- onstrations are going on. At Toulouse, at Perpignan on the Spanish frontier, and half a dozen other towns, tens of thousands of French workers demanded the halting of the fascist terror in Spain. The panicky protest of the Span- ish ambassador, the anxious and angry comments of the Right Wing press in Madrid, are visible signs of | the extent to which this interna- tional agitation is helping to frighten the terrorists and to save the livés of thousands of Spanish workers. Every action against the Spanish terror saves the lives of Spanish workers. Union Moves To Stop Flight of Knitting Mill The 90 employes of the Claire Knitting Mills of 432 Austin Place, Bronx, are on strike under the leadership of the Knitgoods Work- ers’ Industrial Union. The firm is under contract with the Knitgoods Workers’ Industrial Union, and has made a number of attempts to turn | the shop into an open shop. These attempts failed. Now, with the aid of the bosses’ association and with the Chamber *¢ Commerce of Shelton, Conn., the mim has made arrangements to moye out of town with the aim of breaking the union in the shop and to work under open shop conditions. The union has made arrange- ments to picket the shop in Shel- ton, Conn., as well as the offices of the firm here in New York. The union calls upon all the knitgoods workers not to accept jobs with the striking firm. Leave a copy of the Daily | Worker with your street car con- | ductor. Get him interested: then thrown | The meeting set up a sub-com- | mittee to co-operate with the I. L. D. in a campaign to defeat the plans of the management of the | Koch Department Store, West 125th | Street, to turn over monies raised |in the names of the Scottsboro boys | to the Letbowitz gang. It was de- | cided that this sub-committee, in | co-operation with the I. L. D., will the management of the store present conclusive proof that the |I. L. D. and only the I. L. D. has of the Scottsboro case: oof will include the retain- ers from Patterson and Norris, giv- jing the I. L. D. full charge of the | conduct of their appeals to the U. S. Supréme Court, and the state- ments by the Scottsboro mothers that only the I. L. D. and the Na- tional Scottsboro-Herndon Action Committee are authorized to collect funds for the defense of their boys. It was decided that should the store management persist in its re- fusal to turn over its so-called “generous percentage” of a Scotts- boro sale it is conducting to the Ac- workers, Negro and white, will be asked to throw a picket line around the store, with placards and leaflets asking the patrons of the store to demand that the funds collected in the name of the boys be turned over to the defenders of the boys. To Circularize Organizations The committee went on record to cireularize resolutions among all Negro and white organizations, | clubs, churches, workers’ groups, ete., for support of the I. L. D. in | the fight to save the boys. The committes has opened offices at | 2376 Seventh Avenue, from where these activities will bé directed. | Louise Thompson, field organizer of the International Workers’ Order and one of the assistant secretaries of the Action Committee, has been | placed in charge of the office. | There was enthusiastic discussion from the floor on the various pro- posals made to intensify the cam- paign against the lynch verdicts and for the freédom of the boys. One prominent member of St. Mark’s Church, of which Rev. L. H. | King, a lieutenant of Samuel Leibo- itz, is pastor, reported that oppo- sition was growing within the con- | gregation against Rev. King’s dis- | ruptive activities against the Scotts- | boro defense. He read a resolution | adopted by his church club, de- manding that the three Stottsboro mothers who are here to rally mass | support for their boys and expose | the co-operation of Leibowitz and the Negro misleaders with the Ala- bama lynch officials. be permitted to address the congregation. The mothers are Mrs. Ida Norris, mother of Clarence Norris; Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of Andy and Roy Wright, and Mrs. Vicla Mont- ery, mother of Olin Montgom- Sixty theusand dollars will in- sure the Deity Worker for the next yoar. Cencentrate on raising ask him for a contribution to the 2 { this sum by the end of November. ’ | tion Committee or the I. L. D. the | WALKILL, N. ¥., Nov. 9.—Fred Briehl, Communist candidate for At- torney-General ran far ahead of his Socialist opponent in his home town, receiving seventeen votes to ‘his opponent’s two. | The Communist candidate for |governor, I. Amter, got five votes, while the Socialist candidate, Solo- mon, obtained only one. The other Communist candidates also ran ead of the Socialist candidates. Max Bedacht, the Communist ‘eandidate for Senator, received four |votes to three votes for Norman Thomas, Williana Burroughs, the Communist candidate for lieuten- ant-governor got five votes to her Socialist opponent’s two; Rose Wor- tis, Communist candidate for State comptroller, also received five votes, while the. Socialist candidate got two, 'HESE then must be our main conclusions: The tremendous Democratic vote registers the demand of the masses that Roosevelt carry through the “New Deal” as they understand it, as an al- leged program to better their conditions and end the crisis. In this sense, the very size of the Demo- cratic vote will register itself in coming months in mass actions of the masses for the fulfillment of the | Roosevelt “New Deal” promises, It will thus lead to a more rapid exposure of the “New Déal,” which will be confronted with the basic questions of the 1, masses, 2. There are evident tendencies for the re- organization and re-alignment in the old parties as it becomes evident to the bourgeoisie that the old two party system is breaking down as a means of deluding and tricking the masses. This will ex- press itsélf in the growth of tendencies for a third party, Progressive parties, Farmer-Labor parties, ete. indicated in the struggles, third party ruse In this situati Front takes on become part of the purpose of as @ weapon in United Front, Communist vote, we must teach the masses the connection between their economic and political developing more effective exposure of the reformists in order to break the masses away from the capitalist parties, in order to defeat the ate mass struggle and the path of revolution. the capitalist policies of the “New Deal.” United Front must be developed especially now for radicalized workers from the two old parties, and trapped by the bourgeois third party movements. With the practical steps in developing this Communist activities in the election campaign, we shall deal in later editorials and articles. strike wave, in the increase of the to keep the masses from immedi- jon, the development of the United paramount importance, and must every daily, mass struggle against The accelerating the break way of the the struggle to prevent their being and some of the lessons of the By Paul Crouch District Organizer of the | Communist Party in the Carolinas The strike vote at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, for the re- employment of those blacklisted for militancy in the general textile strike, is not an isolated event, but is an outstanding example of the sharpening class struggle in the Southern industrial conters. This strike, scheduled to begin Monday if the demand for rein- statement of the blackqlisted strik- ers is not granted, involves six mills employing normally about 3,006 workers. In many other mill cén- | ters in the Carolinas the workers are |demanding strike action for rein- |statement of the blacklisted strik- |for the basic demands adopted by the convention of the United Tex- tile Workers. These strike developments are most significant. And one of the out- standing lessons we must learn is the importance of building the Com- munist Party. Only a strong, well- organized Communist Party func- tioning in every large textile center can make future betrayals, such as j the Gorman sellout of the genezal strike, impossible in the future. The workers are rapidly learning this act. The bosses already know the Communists are always in the front in the struggles for better condi- tions, Today they are concentrating their attacks against the Commu- nist Party. In Danville, Roxie Dodson, Iccal president of the U.T.W., who called off the stzike locally without per- mitting any vote of the workers be- |fore the nation-wide betrayal by Gorman, has had James Crews ex- | pelled from the lecal on the charge |of “being a Communist.” Crews was | secretary of the Strike Committee |and fought against the treachery of Roxie Dodson in calling off the strike, Southern Workers Ready for Communist Party and Prepared Them | Blacklist, Starvation Wages, Betrayal of Textile Strike Have Opened Eyes of Many Workers, for Party Recruiting the rank and file in the United Tex- tile Workers, especially the workers of the South. Mass picketing, the formation of fiying squadrons—these showed the increasing militancy and class consciousness of the Southern textile workers. These workers learned many lessons during the strike. They saw the National Guard, the armed forces of ihe state, used against the strikers. Men and women were tear gassed, stab- bed with bayonets. At Belmont, N. C., in the same Gaston County where Ella May Wiggins was shot down during the 1929 strike, a striker, Riley, died from bayonet wounds, murdered by the National Guard, Tilusions about Roosevelt and the Gorman leadership of the union were lost, at least so far as many workers are concerned, when Roose- velt called for “the end of the strike” and Gorman immediately ordered the strikers back unde: the same stretch-out and _ starvation wages. Many of the strikers—those who had besn most militant—did not get back into the mills. Thous- ands are blacklisted. Many of these workers openly state: “I wish we had listened to the advice of the Communist Party” (referring to our advice to establish rank and file strike committees and to beware of betrayals). Recruits for Communism Thousands of these militant tex- tile workers, who formed mass picket lines, who organized fiying squad- rons, have demonstrated that they are the matetial of which real Com- munists are made. They have in- telligence, courage, class conscicus- The general strike was forced by ness to a considerable extent, and they have seen the strike-breaking capitalist government in action. These workers must be recruiled into the Communist Party. In our ranks they must learn how to és- tablish rank and file control of the union, to remove the reactionary leadership and guarantee victorious struggles. Roanoke Rapids again focuses attention on the South. To un- derstand the sharpening struggles here one must know something of conditions. Words and cold sta- tistics can give only a faint idea of the privation and misery in the Southern mill towns. Even sta- tisties on the actual earnings of the textile workers, the prices they have to pay for commodities, are very difficult to obtain. Occasion- ally some significant facts may be found on the back page of a local newspaper, such as the report in the Charlotte News about the ter- rific increase in the price of food during the past five months. $1 a Week Per Person Most cotton mills are operating on a 30-hour week basis (as a re- sult of the 25 per cent curtailment). The code wage (except for “learn- ers”) is 30 cents per hour. Some- times this is openly disregarded. I have seen pay énvelopes of experi- enced textile workets marked “20 cents per hour.” If the worker gets the code wage that means $9 per week. In many ceszs there ere ceduciions for “hospital,” for “re- creation,” cic. And of course there are the deductions for rent of the company-owned houses, for lig) water and fucl. After paying for these items, few workers have more ‘| recrulting campaign a suceess—to lies for a week, Families in the mill towns average between six and twelve persons in number. The average family today in a cotton mill town does not have more than one dollar per person for clothing and food for one week and often much less than this, What the Roosevelt “New Deal” and the N. R, A. are bringing the workers is shown by the statistics on rising prices in Charlotte, pub- lished on the back page of the Charlotte News of Oct. 24. In- creased prices of some commodi- ties during the past five months as reported by the News are: butter, 14.2 per cent increase; round steak, 16.2; pork chops, 34.4; lard, 39.8; eggs, 46; white bread, 5; flour, 8.5. While textile is the main in- dustry of the Carolinas the same conditions are found in the other industries —tobacco and furniture. At the present moment hundreds of furniture workers are on strike at High Point, N. C. In the to- bacco industry wages and condi- tions are even worse than in tex- tile. The Communist Party in this District faces the tremendous task of giving leadership to the work- ing class, Negro and white, indus- triai workers and share croppers, in struggles for the very right to live, against the most ruthless ex- ploitation and oppression. This must also be linked up with the struggles for Negro rights and self- determination, defense of the Scottsboro boys, and constantly bringing forward our final aim, the overthrow of capitalism and the es- tablishment of a workers and farmers government. Our first and forzmost task must be to make the bring these militant Southern Swope-Johnson plan which was made public last Fall. It was dis- cussed at length during the Con- gress of Industry, and, as the Daily Worker long ago disclosed, remained the guide-post of dominant indus- trialists, although public reaction prevented its being executed in full. Under the first point enumerated above, the Chamber of Commerce committee, in effect, demands uni- versal application of the President Roosevelt-William Green auto sell- out. It would mean open-shop con- ditions. Experience under the pres- ent N.R.A. has demonstrated re- peatedly that the famous Section T-A promise of collective bargaining means nothing when “minorities”— company union groups—are recog- nized as collective bargaining. The Chamber of Commerce’s demand for “unmistakable” provisions for such Tecognition amounts to a demand that the false promise created by Section 7-A, that labor would be “allowed” trade union rights under the “new deal” be officially revoked. Dye Strikers to Discuss Proposals (Continued from Page 1) the agreement, many strikers have expressed themselves strongly in opposition, stating that it was like ® rope around their neck. While negotiations with the dye house owners were proceeding, mass picketing spread the strike to sev- ral. more bleacheries. At the Sicn- dard Bleachery, where 500 are em- ployed, where a large picket line asked the workers comin? to work in buses to turn back, police, under the leadership of Chief of Police E. Schmaltz, sailed into the workers. Many were injured, including one of the police. A scab, trying to get In addition, the Consolidated with 300 workers and the Teichman- Screen Printers of Passaic, employ- ing 150 workers, are reported closed. The first of two mass meetings of striking silk weavers took place to- day with 400 present. Again the workers expressed themselves strongly in favor of calling out all silk shops in Paterson. Eli Keller, manager of the union, in speaking before the workers, was very indignant at the expose of him in the Daily Worker, which showed that Keller, under the guise of be- ing for a nation-wide strike, re- fused to take action in Paterson. Yesterday, in an interview with the Daily Worker reporter, Keller de- nied being in agreement with Gor- man, but failed to explain why he carried cut the order to call off the strike in Paterson without even a mesting. He now claims that into the plant, was likewise hurt. |ing police killing three strikers and wounding many others. The ten- ants and peasants supported the cigar makers’ strike by sending del- egates to Manila who brought funds and joined the picket line. Anti-War Rallies ' On Armistice Day (Continued from Page 1) Legion is preparing for an Armis-'” tice Day celebration, in support of; the Wall Street government, rank= and-file legionaires and one Legion post are participating in two large street anti-war demonstrations and four indoor mass meetings on Sun- day called by the Américan League Against War and Fascism. More than a hundred trade union, professional and labor defense or- ganizations will take part, carry- ing their own banners. Prominent speakers including Professor Spen- cer of the Y. M. C. A. College, Waldo McNutt, national chairman of the Youth Section of the American League, Rev. J. C. Austin, pastor of the Pilgrim Baptist Church, and Thomas M. McKenna, local secretary of the League, will. address the meetings. 4 On the South Side a march will start at 43rd and Prairie Sts. at 2 p.m, to the Pilgrim Baptist Church at 33rd and Indiana where the meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m, On the West Side, there will be a meeting at the Temple Judea, 1227 Independence Boulevard at Tp.m, On the North-West Side, as- semble at Wicker Park, near North and Milwaukee, at 2:30 p. m., and march to the Workers’ Lyceum, at 2,733 Hirsch Boulevard, where the meeting will begin at 4 p. m. There will also be a mass meet= on the North Side, at Olivet ripe 1,441 North Cleveland at p.m, To March In New Brunswick NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Nov. 9—New Brunswick's first anti-war: Armistice Day demonstration this Monday night will see a broad united front movement, including local church and civic organiza tions, college groups and workings class bodies. Many ministers will announce “#2 action from their pulpits tomorrow. A parade will form atSeminary Place and Col- lege Avenue on the Rutgers Campus at 7:30 p. m., and march up the main street of the town to the Presbyterian Church, where a mass meeting will be held, with speakers from various groups. Students, intellectuals, writers and artists: The “Daily” points * ery only the convention of the Silk Federation can take action, which than five dollars left for both clothing and food for their fami- workers into the ranks of the Com- munist Party, could be nothing less than a gen- eral strikes s 2 to the way out of the social chaos affecting your lives, your Professions. Contribute to the 360,000 drive. ‘ «