The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1934 METAL UNION CALLS CONFERENCES IN EAST AND MID-WEST | MILLIONS IN BIG PARADES ON SOVIET ANNIVERSARY DAY ORGANIZATION PLAN CompanyUnion|Governor FOR THE WILL BE DISTRICTS PREPARED Strengthening of Union’s Position in the Metal and Machine Building Industry Will Be One of the The calling of Eastern of all locals of the Steel and Main Tasks and Mid-Western conferences fetal Workers Industrial Union Plan Upheld By U.S. Board The strike of 118 welders em- ployed by the United Dry Dock Shipyards at Staten Island was broken on Thursday by the de- cision of the National Labor Board. | The board decided that the welders, v are organized into the Na- tional Mechanic Welders’ Local 13, an independent union, as a separate i has no right to collective barg; ng. The welders must use of Florida Moves to Whitewash Claude Neal’s Killers | Orders Grand Jury to Wait Another Week Before Starting Probe of I MARIANNA, Fia., The whitewashing of the fiendish lynching of Claude Neal, Negro; youth, is proceeding according to Nov. 11.—j mailing to the thousands of organ- in the metal and machine building industry, as the first steps in the putting into life n of the second biennial convention of the union f ation of an autonomous No-Strike Dye Pact decis the fo industry, was decided upon by the National Executive Board of the union at its last meeting held re- cently in Youngstown, Ohio, Office in New York aes ~ ; the usual capitalist schedule, with ar ie. jam ean oe ie | Governor Dave Scholtz of Florida Boilermakers’ Local 200 (A. F. of |@bsolving Sheriff W. F. Chambliss L.) as their medium to deal with | fr his decisive part in the lynch- the company, the decision stated. e The decision involved the black-| Governor B. M. Miller of Ala- listing of many of the strikers, who | bama has ordered a Grand Jury to have been out eight weeks. When | wait until Nov. 19 before beginning the welders went to work Thursday |an investigation of the delivery of morning many were not taken back | Neal to the lynchers by the sher- and told that there was no work. | {ff and jailer of Brewton, Ala. ejected byStrikers In line with the convention de- | cisions, the board ‘established the | National office for t metal and oy Page 1) machine building industi in New York, with James Matles, secretary | even Co! such a contract, and | of the New York Dis of the | insisted that it be disposed of right Union, as its secretary. there, Read the contract, read The Eastern Conference will in volve the New York, New Jerse: Connecticut, Buffalo and a= chusetts districts of the union, | of the contract on the spot, Ammi- | Relief Workers’ Union and the Un- Matles stated Saturday, and will be| rato introduced the attorney of the | employment Councils, who have held in New York on Nov. 17 the contract,” came from all parts of the hall Still hoping to avert the killing |union, former Police Recorder But the scabs who had been hired were retained. | At a meeting of the union Wed- | nesday night L. Lewis, section or- ganizer of the Communist Party, spoke on the role of the N. R. A. The union | | in breaking the strike. |membership took a rising vote of | thanks to the Women’s Council, the aided with relief and in securing The Mid-Western Conference will | Harry Joelson. Joelson had thus| relief from the Relief Buro, and involve the Cleveland, Cincinnati, | far commanded a considerable re- | Who have pledged to cpntinue aid | Chicago and all other locals further | spect among the workers. In fact, | to the blacklisted welders. | West. This conference will be held in the beginning of December in Chicago. ‘These two conferences,” James Matles declared, “will play an im- portant role in strengthening our position in the metal and machine- building industry, and should de- cide on an organizational drive in the industry, the strengthening of the National Committee, and also the placing of forces in the field to help the locals and districts.” Districts Respond The New York, New Jersey and Connecticut districts have already enthusiastically responded to the eall for the Eastern Conference, and ate making the necessary prepara- tions for a good representation, the union announced late today. The Chicago district of the union is taking the initiative in prepar- ing the Mid-Western Conference. Bob Brown, district secretary of the union in Chicago, has informed the New York office that his district is working toward having the repre- sentation of all locals in that dis- trict,, as well as the locals in Minneapolis, St. Paul, St. Louis, Detroit, Toledo and other cities in the region at the Mid-Western Con- ference. Special Paper The Steel and Metal Worker, of- ficial organ of the union, will come out in a special edition at the end of November, and will devote most of its space to the metal and ma-~ chine building industry and the ac- tivity of the locals in this section of the industry. An urgent appeal was made Sat- urday by Matles, in the name of the National Executive Board, to all lo- cals and districts of the union to immediately send their material and workers’ correspondence to the of- fice of the Steel and Metal Worker, Room 238, 80 East Eleventh Street, New York, and to place orders for large bundles of the paper without delay. Both conferences, Matles said, will do everything in their power to get the International Association he was greeted with applause from several parts of the hall. But as soon as it became clear that he was ja “pinch hitter” to advise them to | take the contract, he was booed off ithe stage. Joelson tried a sob story, | of how he devoted all his life to the workers’ interests, lost many clients on that account, and so forth, but he could not move the determined workers. Rank and File Leadership George Baldanzi, president of the Dyers’ Federation, rose and ex- pressed what appeared like a neu- tral “take it or leave it” position: He proposed that if a vote by accla- ‘mation is desired, he would arrange for the Hinchkliffe Stadium, where all the workers could gather. the workers felt that that meant | delay and no more than listening to a few speeches of the officials that there would be no opportunit to read the contract and discuss it point by point. The shouts con- tinued, “Read the contract.” Bal- danzi was jeered throughout his talk. Especially when he read the telegram from the Labor Relations Board telling the workers to go back to work and leave their de- mands to arbitration, which was taken as a hint that the contract \had better be approved. It soon became evident that it was the workers on the settlement committee who had the leadership of the workers. “If you want my personal opinion of this contract, its no god-damned good!’ shouted Charles Vigorito, vice-president of the union and a worker on the settlements comrmit- tee. With this he virtually brought down the house with applause and cheers. The officials, shaking with fright in front of their own mem- bers, saw themselves completely de- feated. Unanimous srer then on. the meeting went down to business. Tavano, also one of the workers of the settlements committee, read the contract and at each point a vote was taken. There But | aera ngnists, Brotherhood of Bols |was little diMiculty, as everything unions in the field to co-operate in | W885 unanimous and by acclamation bringing about joint action in the Among those who repo-ted was Tony heavy section of the industry for | Ventura, one of the young workers increased wages and unionization, 0M the settlements committee, who for struggle for cash relief and un- | 8ained the reputation of being a employment insurance for the un- “Tred” because he fought, but lost employed. in the fight in the settlement com~- The New York District Conven- | mittee to make May First a holiday tion of the union, which will con-|and close the shop, on that day. vene one day after the Eastern But he won when the question was Conference, will already benefit by brought before the masses. the important decisions which will When the whole contract was read have been made by the five East- over and changed to suit the work- ern districts at the conference and ers, Tavano, who was reading it, will take steps to put these decisions pointed out that several points he into life, New York union leaders declared were agreed upon in the stated. negotiations were not included in the typewritten form. It was < i Schavick, lawyer for the employers, Los Ange @S who crafted it. Upon examination it was found that all those points 4 included improvements for the PlansMeeting workers: no tending frame with less |than two men, one man shall oper- ate a calender at all times, no man For Herndor operates more than two jigge:s, or ‘two wizzes, one truck for every two Sone <t d machines in waiting departments, LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 11— extra man for every three printing Angelo Herndon, young Negro! machines, etc. Communist under sentence of 18) - re Ms to 20 years on a Georgia chain| Ammirato “Explains’ gang, will speak here on Sunday,} All eyes were directed to Ammi-/ at the Mason Theatre, on behalf of |rato for an explanation. And nere; the Scottsboro boys. is where it became clear that the Word to this effect was received! workers were to be given their first this morning from Anna Damon, taste of the “impartial” committee. acting national secretary of the In-|All these points, Ammirato ex-| ternational Labor Defense. Plans | plained, somebody decided to refer | have already been started for alto section 5 of the contract which later mass meeting on Central) provides for this so-called “impar- Avenue, in the center of the Negro | tial" committee. district, to further advance the . More angry than ever, and sure|{ shane ee eee ae that their suspicions against their two of the Scottsboro boys, Hay- | leaders were all well founded, the wood Patterson and Clarence Nor- | Workers decided that al tnose ris, from legal lynching by the|Pcints must also go in, with all other Southern white ruling class on De-| Changes made by the workers, | cember 7. Following disposal of the contract, j At the same time, Herndon’s ap- it was decided that all turn out for pearance on the coast will serve to/picketing on Monday morning. Strengthen the mass campaign for his own freedom. His own appeal will also be argued before the United States Supreme Court at the coming session. Just as mass protest must be the deciding factor as to whether the Scottsboro boys shall live or dic, so in the case of Angelo Herndon it will either force the “court of jast illusions” to free the heroic young Negro worker and leader or allew it to send him beck to cer- tain death for leading Negro and white workers in the struggle for Upon hearing that the Warren plant jat Union City was planning to |Start with scabs, the workers de- |cided to send several truckloads of {workers there for a large line to keep the plant closed. The contract rejected by the workers was the work of the Labor {Relations Board of Washington, }and through the efforts of chair- men of the textile Labor Board, Squires, and Sheiie-man who were sent to Paterson. The Paterson News in an editorial already .on- ‘ful’ efforts to pattern the settle- | ment after the A. and P. stores set- | |tlement of Cleveland, where leaders | | of seven A, F. of L, unions agreed {to a no-strike settlement, and gained nothing for the workers. The editorial was obviously writ- ten before the workers turned the tables by their unanimous vote. |The dyers were saved from an ‘agreement which was quite gene- rally characterized as worse han | the old, chiefly because they had |rank and file workers on the settle- |ment committee and decided that |there be no settlement unless they japprove it. Details of the 21 hours of nego- tiations which ended 5 o'clock Friday morning, illustrates the strikebreaking role of the Labor Relations Board at Washington. After what almost corresponded | to being third-degreed, and in a | sleepless tized condition, at the very | last minute the workers were sud- denly faced by Dr. Squires of the N. R, A. Textile Board, who told| j}them, “It is your duty to sell this | ‘contract to your people.” He then started to bulldoze them with | threats that if the contract is not | accepted, the government will step jin, that there may be “trouble,” that the National Guard may be brought in. The two-year contract ) Proposal was likewise reserved to |be a last minute surprise proposal. | The workers on the settlements |committee felt that there was little juse arguing with strikebreakers, |and decided to give the answer when |they get among the workers. Kala- chi, the representative of Union | City, stated in reporting, “I have | nothing to sell you, so I can’t do it.’ Secret Ballot Ordered In the meantime the national officials have issued a statement to the press that the vote of the work- ers will not interfere with their plans to order a secret ballot shop by shop. They claim that the 3,000 workers who jammed the Roseland Ballroom, and the mass meetings in Union City, Lodi and New York, who also rejected the terms, did not represent the sentiment of the 25,- 000 strikers, and expressed confid- ence that the workers will vote for the agreement. A secret ballot in every shop is precisely what the employers want, so that in case certain shops show a weakness, they could as already hinted, through individual shop agreements, break the solid front of the workers. The workers see this, but there is common agreement that the same unanimous decision will result from a secret ballot. | The Communist Party has already | called upon the workers to reject the agreement in all shop votes. In the meantime, it is learned that as soon as the employers heard of the sentiment of the workers, they stated that very likely they will not give approval, claiming that “unless certain unorganized shops pay 66 cents they cannot afford it.” When the Communist Party learned of the proposed agreement immediately a leaflet. was issued. It was welcomed by the workers and helped greatly in rallying support for the rank and file elements in It reads in part as “Fellow Workers: “Your ranks are today stronger than ever. Your union is a power in your hands. You have paralyzed the entire dye industry. Victory is near, Your militant fight has forced the bosses to make some small concessions in wages and hours, at the same time trying to get you back into the shops with- out granting you the demand of a union shop and a substantial in- crease in wages. Stick together as you have done up to now and show the bosses you are determined to win. Fight for a 100 per cent union shop with a contract for longer than one year. “The open shop, no strike con- tract in the agreement will prevent your from using your fight against the speedup or discrimination to improve your conditions. In the past year the cost of living has gone up and prices are still rising. Why should you tie yourself down to a/ contract for two years’ time? The} union must demand the right to strike when the agreement is not| lived up to. “Every worker on the picket line bread and security gratulated them on their “succes- | on Monday. Keep all dye houses Glarad i ; subway riders, the workers, profes- Meanwhile, the Federal govern- ment remains unmoved by demands for federal prosecution of the lynchers under the “Lindbergh Law,” which provides the death penalty for interstate kidnappers. The law has been vigorously used by the Federal government for the/ | Prosecution of the kidnappers of| within a fraction of the 36 hours rich men, In_a statement which Governor | Scholtz has had mimeograpred for | summation. LaGuardia Aid Bankers In Drive for 7-Cent Fare (Continued from Page 1) By SI GERSON LaGuardia administration will put over a crushing tax program long- desired by Wall Street. Among the contemplated taxes are the 2-cent transit tax (a 7-cent subway fare), a 2 per cent sales tax, and a 2 per cent payroll tax—every one of which hits the great masses of the city hardest, the wage-earners, the sional and small ousiness people. Besides the above taxes being considered by the city government, other levies are under advisement. Among these are: an occupancy or rental tax, an inheritance tax and a city income tax of 1 per cent. Aldermanic Presiden. Bernard S. Deutsch, when asked by reporters Saturday whethe> the sales and transit tax plans had been aban- doned, refused to commit himself. “I wouldn’t say whether the sales he parried. It is quite definitely or transit tax has been abandoned,” known, however, that both taxes are with especial thought being given receiving the utmost consideration, the transit tax. For the passage of the latter, the utmost pressure is being exerted. The strategy of the Wall Street bankers is to state that they will re- fuse to lend the city more money for relief purposes unless a series of “comprehensive” tax measures are adopted which will insure them a steady flow of interest and reg- ular payments of principal. Fusion Strategy With this strategy, the La Guardia administration is wholly in agree- | ment. Any hitch that may develop in the execution of such a series of | new taxes is based solely on ques- | tions of political expediency, the | city fathers being quite well aware of the danger that such a program! will be met by a storm of popular’ indignation which will mean, sooner | or later, the political deaths of more | than one aspiring “public servant.” Solving the matter temporarily | will permit the La Guardia adminis- | tration time to work up a news- paper campaign for the transit tax. By using the constant threat of starvation for the 400,000 families on relief rolls, the administration undoubtedly hopes to bludgeon the | people of the city of New York in- to accepting the 7-cent fare as the! only other possible alternative, thus | leaving unmolested the interest on! bankers’ loans to the city. Furthermore——and by no means an unimportant part of Fusion tactics—the delay will make it pos- sible for the administration to wait until Frank J. Taylor, Tammany Controller-elect, is involved in the Passage of the undoubtedly hated tax méasures. Taylor, who will take office Jan. 1, and has already promised to “go along” with Fusion on important questions, will probe nter State Lynching izations and individuals who have voiced their protest against his in- action and protection of the lynch- ers, he “deplores” the lynching as “unnecessary” and points with pride to the record of his state courts in legal lynchings of Ne- groes. The governor’s statement proudly relates how a lynch-trial of a Negro framed on a rape charge was rushed through and. the legal- lynching through, within 33 days. Governor Scholtz excuses himself for failure to act to prevent the lynch of Neal on the pretext that he could not have prevented it anyway. Marianna, however, is located between Tallahassee, the capital of the State, and Pensacola, a naval reserve base, and is easily accessi- ble to troops from either point that elapsed between the adver- tising of the lynching and its con- ably vote with La Guardia, thus dividing the responsibility between | both parties and making it difficult * for either to use it against the other | in future elections. C. P. Hits Tax Program Responding to the serious situa- tion before the masses of New York | City, the Communist Party has urged the widest united front strug- gle against “the callous playing with relief of which the La Guardia administration is guilty.” In a statement on the relief crisis, Charles Krumbein, organizer of the New York District of the Commu- nist Party said: “The ‘relief crisis’ which city | officials now admit is another one | of the periodic ‘relief crises’ that | have their roots in the bankers’ | policies followed by the La tation of their demands Ohio Jobless Plan State Relief Action COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov 11.— Thirty-six hundred city employes remain unpaid and are receiving “staple foods and clothing on cre- dit,” and sweeping mass layoffs are taking place in all principal factories as the working population of the State's capital face the worst winter of the six years of crisis. The Federal Glass Company has laid off the entire blower depart- ment; Buckeye Steel Castings is working only part time; Timken Roller Bearing is at present work- ing only seven days a month. Ac- cording to the relief administra- tion, the number of needy unem- ployed is on the rise. Eighteen hundred and eleven pay checks for School employees have been delayed for one month; eight- een hundred employes of the De- partment of Public Safety have not been paid. In a statement to county direc- tors and case supervisors of relief, State Relief Director Henderson asked that physicians prescribing diets for infants of the unemployed be shown “what was an uneces- sary expenditure of relief funds for high priced proprietary food in feeding infants.” Henderson asks that physicians prescribe evapo- rated milk, or at best, pasteurized grade “B” milk. Against these continuous attacks upon the living standards of the masses the Ohio Unemployment Councils have called a state-wide action to be held in Columbus on Monday, Nov. 19. Demands for adequate Winter relief and enact- ment of the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill will be pre- sented to the State Legislature for immediate action. The workers of Columbus have been urged to greet the Ohio dele- gates on Monday, Nov. 19, at 10 a.m. at a mass meeting at 701 Bast Long Street, and to send repre- sentatives from their trade unions, churches, organizations and mass and fraternal societies for presen- to the; State Legislature. Many Anti-War Rallies in France (Contin a from Page 1) Guardia administration. It is a callous playing with relief? of | which the La Guardia adminis- | tration is guilty. Mayor La Guar- dia skips from one ‘relief orisis’ | to another with one object in view —to please the bankers by plac- ing greater tax burdens on the masses of the city, to make the employed workers and small busi- ness people of New York pay for the expenses of relief while the bankers get millions in interest on their loans. “The Communist Party is un- | alterably opposed to the 7-cent fare, the sales and payroll taxes. | The city administration lies if it | continue the same policy of fas- tization and exploitation of the! working class.” The Communist members of the} Chamber of Deputies today de- manded of the new government | what steps it intended taking to improve the economic situation of the country. Flandin’s advocacy of Doumergue’s. fascist program will become clearly apparent when he lays his policy before the Cham- ber Tuesday. In his last radio speech Doumergue declared that the fascists killed in the fighting of February 6 were Highlight of (Special to_the MOSCOW, Nov. 11 (By Austrian Fighters March with Armed Workers in Leningrad—Singing and Festivities Celebrations Daily Worker) 3 Wireless). —Information coms ing from all parts of the U.S.S.R. tell that this immense coune try of the Soviets met the anniversary of the October Revo lution with tremendous enthusiasm. The scale of the October festivities were indeed grand: 1,750,000 demonstrated in ~~ Moscow, 1,500,000 in Leningrad, 400, ,000 in Kiev, 300,000 in Kharkov, | 250,000 in Rostov, hundreds of thou- Framed Negro ;sands in other towns and rural | communities, summing up the tens attempts to say that the 7-cent not armed. A Parliament Inquiry fare is the only possible alterna~- Commission now publishes an of- tive if the unemployed are not to ficial statement announcing that starve. There is a sum of $180,- |the Nationalists were fully armed. 000,000 set aside in the 1935 budget for ‘debt service’, that it, interest on bankers’ loans. Hold that up until federal unemploy- (Special to the Daily Worker) PARIS, Nov. 11. (By Wireless). —Even preliminary investigation already reveals a financial-political ment insurance is enacted, the Communist Party says, The bankers can wait very well. While one and a quarter million people of this city live on a semi-starva- tion level, there is no earthly rea- son why the bankers must be paid. “The Communist Party calls upon the Socialist Party, the Cen- tral Trades and Labor Council, all unemployed organizations, every labor, fraternal, professionals’ and small tax-payers’ organization, to unite in a wide fight that will compel the La Guardia adminis- tration to back down on their announced policy of gouging more out of the already imporevished masses of the city, The great bankers, the profit-bloated utili- ties, the small group of million- aires of the city, must bear the expense of relief. Starving Paul must not be bled further to pay starving Peter. The bankers must pay!” Further steps in the fight against the Fusion administration’s tax program-will be announced shortly, the district office of the Communist Party stated, STARVING JOBLESS ARE JAILED NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 11.— Nine unemployed workers who de- manded food were arrested last Thursday at the relief bureau at 739 Carondelet Street. One of the arrested women, who was in a weak- ened condition from lack of food, was kicked in the stomach by the} arresting policeman. More than an hour elapsed before an ambulance arrived to take the woman away. She was in a complete state of col- lapse. For a whole year the Daily Worker has managed to exist without a financial campaign. The present drive for $60,000 is to insure it against possible suspen- sion resulting from weekly deficits. Help maintain the two editions. Solicit for contributions from your friends, neighbors, shop-mates and fellow-workers in your trade union, Talk to your shopmates about the role of the Daily Worker in organizing workers against the effects of the New Deal. Make a shop coliection and rush funds for the $60,000 financial campaign, Protests Halt Order To Deport Kowalski DETROIT, Mich. Nov. 9.—Mass protest won a significant victory when it compelled federal immigra- tion officials to release Joseph Ko- walski, Michigan district organizer of the Polish Chamber of Labor, who was arrested Oct. 22 for depor- | tation to the Soviet Union. Kowal- ski was freed on his own recogni- zance after the immigzation offi- cials had at first attempted to set prohibitive bail. A steady stream of protest dele- gations, organized by the Polish Chamber of Labor and the Inter- national Labor Defense, to the of- fice of district immigation director Zubrick, as well as protest wires to Secretary of Labor Perkins, de- feated the attempts to deport this veteran leader of the Polish work- ers The arrest of Kowalski, who is a Soviet citizen, has been insti- gated by Polish fascists. Kowalski will be welcomed back when he appears as a speaker at the Daily Worker banquet this Sunday at 7 p. m., at the Finnish scandal surrounding the “Special Financial Company” which rivals the corruption and administrative grafting of the notorious Stavisky affair, which was the immediate cause of the February fighting. Despite attempts on the part of the capitalist press to play it down, the swindle involves over a hundred million francs and compromises such high officials as vice-admiral Dumesnil, chairman of the 8.F.C. administrative council, and Andre Dubois, director of the S.F.C. The chief point of the scandal, however, is the deliberate blind- ness and even participation of the authorities in the blatantly crooked operations. “L’Humanite,” organ. of the Communist Party of France, is demanding the immediate arrest, of the vice-admiral and other key men and protests the fact that only one of the directors, Joseph Levy, has been arrested. Prepares for War PARIS, Noy. 11.— The cold- Made Threats NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Nov. 11. | —Representatives of the National | Association for the Advancement of | Colored People threatened to pre- | vent the appearance of important | defense witnesses if he allowed the | International Labor Defense to aid | him, This is the charge made in| @ sworn affidavit by Alphonso Davis, Negro worker who has been sen- tenced to 20 years on a vicious, flimsy “rape” frame-up. In accordance with Davis’ wishes, the ILL.D, has filed notice of an| appeal. The I.L.D. is also appealing the sentence of five years against William Fisher, white I.L.D, mem- ber, who was arrested Aug. 27 at a Davis protest meeting, after defend- ing himself from attack by fascists who invaded the meeting. Says He Was Threatened “Shortly before my case came on for trial,” says Davis in his affidavit, “Mr, James M, Pollard, Sr., of the N.A.A.C-P., came to see me in jail, where I was awaiting trial and urged me to have nothing to do with the IL.D., and told me that unless I got rid of the ILL.D. there would be a number of witnesses who would not appear in my defense who knew of my whereabouts on the day of the alleged rape. “I make this statement not only voluntarily, but with a desire to ex- pose the fraud perpetrated upon me by the N.A.A.C.P. through Mr. J. M. | Pollard.” Davis, in originally accepting N.A. ACP. attorneys, nevertheless in- sisted that Stanley Chmiel, I.L.D. lawyer, sit with Attorney Nicholson of the N.A.A.C.P. throughout the trial. Jury Issue Not Raised Chmiel, in line with I.L.D, poli- cies in the Scottsboro and other Negro cases, suggested to Nicholson that he raise the question of the right of Negroes to sit on juries. Nicholson refused. When Chmiel wanted him to introduce evidence as to the character and previous record of the alleged rape victim, the N.A.A.C.P, attorney objected on the ground that he was a gentleman. and would not besmirch the charac- ter of a white girl. Davis was arrested July 30, on a charge of having “raped” Helen Lachut, white. Investigation by the LL.D. indicated that the “rape” was intercourse the girl had had with her white sweetheart and an at- tempt to cover up their intimate relations. Despite testimony by eight wit- nesses that Davis was at a party in his own home at the time of the alleged rape, an all-white jury found Davis guilty. Detroit Parley Plans Struggle As Relief Is Cut DETROIT, Mich., Nov, 11.—The| end of the election has brought a | real “new deal” to the workers of Detroit. The press carries the re- blooded preparation of capitalism for a new world slaughter was brought home with gruesome force- fuluness here today by the an- nouncement that instructions on what to do during air raids are to be printed on the covers of chil- dren's school books. The toll of civilian and non- combatant life that capitalist war experts expect in the event of an- other war was indicated by imme- diate plans to provide gas masks for firemen, policemen, hospital staffs and others. Camouflaged telephone exchanges are to be built for protection from enemy fliers and first aid and dis- infecting stations are to be built for civilian victims of air bombs and possible germ warfare. Public shelters will be constructed for homeless survivors of air raids. Plans are being studied for new toads to facilitate the evacuation of Paris. Large affairs — concerts, ban- quets, movie showings, or sympo- siums—arranged by sections and districts to wind up the financial drive by Dec, 1 will insure the fulfillment of the district quotas and the 369,000 fund. At every unit meeting the ques- tion of the Daily Worker must be disoussed and concrete work for the week planned to speed the fulfillment of the unit quota. In- tensify activity to complete the Workers Hall, 5669 14th St., near McGraw, y $60,000 quota by the end of November! port that 2,000 relief workers will be dropped in order to cut relief expenditures for November. At the same time plans are going forward to reduce the budgets of all wel- fare dependents five percent, as al- ready indicated in press reports several days ago. This is in ad- dition to a five per cent slash that went into effect Oct. 19, The announcement of the drop- ping of 2,000 relief workers comes almost simultaneously with the launching of a broad movement against the relief cuts, for adequate cash relief and unemployment in- surance, at a conference today, called by the Rank and File A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Re- lief. Together with the Unemploy- ment Councils this new movement is planning to initiate powerful struggles against the new hunger deal of the government officials. BRIGGS CO. SHOWS PROFIT A net profit of $1,187,776 or 60 cents a share is reported for the three months ending Sept. 30 by the Briggs Manufacturing Com- pany, Detroit auto body makers whose plant was the scene of a mil- itant strike against speed-up and company unionism during the spring. For the nine-month-period end- ing in September, the company’s net profits amounted to $4,825,576 4 nn Sa Ss N A A « P« millions of toileds who as Soviet y | citizens celebrated the day of their great victory. The Leningrad toilers, while dem- onstrating, gave a picture of their |new victories in all branches of so- cialist construction with str! Picturesque posters, streamers ant models. Armed workers, the innum- erable reserves of defense, passed and marked time. The Square im- mediately bristled with thousands of bayonets, symbolizing the readi« ness of the Leningrad workers to answer with striking blows any at- tempts on the part of the enemy to attack the Soviet Union. “For the defense of the country of the So- viets, the Fatherland of all toilers!” is emblazoned on numerous banners. Austrian Shutzbunders, who work in Leningrad plants, carried their fighting slcgans, appealing for struggle for Thaelman’s liberation. Prepare for Elections Leningrad is preparing for the Soviet elections. Precisely here on the Square where 17 years ago un- der the slogan, “All power to the Soviets,” the red guard of the revo-. lution stormed the Winter Palace, in this town where the Soviets wer born, the slogan of the Leni t workers, “We elect to the Soviets the best people of the country,” acquires a special significance. In these simple words all the 17 years of the revolution, the years of de- privation and struggle, years of the greatest victories, years of magnifiz cent epic and peaceful Socialist labor reflect one another in a re- trospective panorama. Decked in Flowers The toilers in Kiev, the new cap- ital of Socialist Ukraine, sang, decked themselves in flowers and= bore many picturesque posters. Here a column of thirty thousand ‘chil- dren demonstrating, carrying a tre- mendous model globe with greetings to the children of the toilers of all countries in all languages, made an indelible impression. Within the ranks of the demonstration the collective farmers from the nearby villages, men and women, marched with thelr whole families. The celebration of the 17th Annie versary of the October Revolution passed with extreme enthusiasm at Kharbarovsk, capital of the Far Eastern Region. Those which the toilers of the Far East gained in building Socialism are best of all expressed in the following words of Blucher, commander of the Far Eastern Army: “We fought for a Soviet Far East under very hard conditions. The partisans and the red guards endured deprivation and hunger, and went into battle poorly clad and armed. This is the future which we already see now. The Soviet Union has become a country of high technique. The Soviet coun- try makes the most remarkable ma- chines, and occupies first place in the production of pig-iron. For this future we fought, won and today confidently meet the 17th October. A powerful coal base has been cre- ated in the Far East. New enter- prises are commencing operations. The backward region of the Taiga is being transformed into an indus- trial region. From. the wooden plough we have been transferred to the tractor. Our achievements are great also in the field of cultural construction. Prior to the revolu- tion the region had 99 elementary schools, now it has 2,060, in which 221,000 school children are studying, 52,000 children studying in the mid- dle schools. The children of the Chinese Koreans living in the Far Eastern Region, who under Czar- ism were almost entirely deprived of study, have now embraced gen- eral education, and many of them study in colleges. All nationalities are equal citizens of the U.S.S.R.” Milwaukee Youth Hold All-Day Demonstration Against War and Fascism Milwaukee, Wisc. Nov. 11. — Hundreds of young workers in the Young Communist League and the Youth Section of the American. League Against War and Fascism joined here with 350 students of the State Teachers College in an all- day demonstration against war and fascism on Friday. The students, answering a call for a united front to counter-act the militarist Armistice Day celebra- tions, held an anti-war meeting in the auditorium of the school and passed a resolution, a copy of which was forwarded to President Roose- velt, condemning the war prepara- tions of the New Deal governmert. Following their meeting the stu- dents paraded down Wisconsin Ave- nue where they were joined by hun- dreds of Young Communist League members and other anti-fascist youth. Another meeting was held jointly by all the groups at 7 p.m. The young workers sent a delega- tion of six to the American Legion officials to demand the removal of a militarist display set up by legion officers in connection with armistice | day. ==