The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1934, Page 2

Page DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NO BER 13, 1934 ILLINOIS JOBLESS ACT FOR UNITED FRONT DEMONSTRATIONS CHICAGO PARLEY ON Mayor Predicts NOV. 17 WILL PLAN Hish New Taxes CITY-WIDE ACTION County and City-wide Marches and Meetings) Answer New Driv Throughout CHICAGO, Ill. manifesto the Spri ahd S Tnsur: all organ nd other orgs un in full of tions of o if | | spin County, linois liance, together with the staging | mt Councils, Carlinvil Joint actions are likewise being prepared in Madison, Edwardsville, Belleville, East St. Louis, Blooming- and Fulton County. actions all indicate the in the sentiment. for unity and prov the corr Manifesto of the Spring: gress which calls for uni +| the St CHICAGO, IIL, Nov, 12.—The -un-- employed workers in Ch o- show. | their istance to the sweeping re- lief cut that has “been” tarried throughout the city: Every day workers’ committees and demonstra- tions are held inside the relief sta- tions against the enforced starvation active memb ment Council of. Cicero, was fined $50 for insisting that he get addi- tional relief since he could not keep his family on the reduced budget as given by the relief stations. | Couneil Growth Spurred At the meeting of Branch 20 of| the Unemployment Council last} Monday, 17 workers made applica- tions for mentbership. The next day at least 20 workers came into the| headquarters asking’ When the next} meeting will beheld. Ty ome present at the last ion the relief cut. ing that his budgt Was cut 55 per cent. Drive Against Union | In relief bulletin 2062 dated Nov. 1, all case workers are ‘instructed not to allow union dues in the| budget for workers on direct relief or on work relief. This is an at-j| tempt by the starvation expert,| Lyons, to break up the labor unions,| Especially to hinder the unionize- tion of those on work relief. A series of mass meetings is being organized under the auspices of the local District Councils of the Cook County Unéemp! ent Councils. These meetings are part of the preparations for the Unemployed Conference on Saturday, Noy. 17, at | Mirror Hall, 1136 Northwestern Ave., and the demonstration Nov. 24, against relief cut, and for increased relfef. Communists Lead Cuban Peasants | (Continued of Canada were stoned. Delega- tions and telegrams of protest from hundreds of factories and from the | bus and street car workers of Ha- vana were dispatched to the Men- | dieta government. Predicts et Power HAVANA, Nov. 12.—Declaring | that the setting up of the first} Soviet government in the Western Hemisphere would probably take m Page 1) place on Cuban soil, a spokesman for the Communist Party of Cuba, | in a copyright interview with the the con-| Men- | United Press, outlined tradictions in the predat: dieta Government, forecast its in-| evitable overthrow by the organizo power of the workers and peasan' and explained what would be t! primary obligations of the prole- tarian dictatorship. | The repudiation of all foreign loans, both foreign and domestic the abolition of treaties, particularly the new “reciprocity treaty” with | the United States, were some of the} immediate tasks to be faced by the; Soviets, 1 | | | | members of the Communist Party | in-Cuba,” he said, “This represents | an increase of about 500 per ce since the fall of Machado-in Augu: 1938. About 30..per cent» of. ti members in Cuba aze Nogroes. are organized throughout the coun- try and are especially strong in Havana and Oriente. Perfect dis- cipline prevails and -we are in- finitely more efficient-than any of the other parties in. the ccuntry, which are constantly torn by discord and dissension.” The spokesman declared that seizure of power bythe proletariat | would take place when “the coun classes face desne appears imminent.” “And that time is not far off.yhe added, 4 y-\than for others as the amplifiers { |one or two scant details to a re- | the right of the yeterans and their We}, e to Slash Relief Entire State the issuance of the ghout the State, w War Me-Romal | 3 Publicity Stunt For I. Klein | NM rs. D, t faved. g mother, } t ed at a cord if Union Square | y rday and — un od a stone shaft which seemed to be first a monument to the business enter-: prise of Mr, Samuel Klein and quite } incidentally a memorial to soldiers.| who in the last World; slaughter. Cash Patriotism rate, one couldn’t help het impvession from the le to some 2,000 by- dedication of the "3 s Tans of Foreign Wers. It seems that Mr. Klein put up most of the money, or part of it, for the monu- ment. His underpaid employees” will be glad to hear it, no doubt. Bernard Deutsch, president of the Board of Aldermen, Congress- man William 1. Sirovich, and chair- man Louis Gleich were all equally vociferious in their praise of the public spirited Mr. Klein. It was cold yesterday, and per-/ haps a little colder for Mr. Klein | broadcast the long embarrassed pauses which netuated his “un- ecustomed as-I-am-to-public-!} speaking” effort. But what he f to gain in the plaudits of the wind-whipped audience he made up later in terms ef 25- icity in the evening newspapers. Mrs. Steinkamp, after pulling the cord which uncovered the monu- ment, paused, long-enough to give how her two sons had | s in a Columbus Ave. e- never to return. and shepherded back to Mount Vernon where she lives with a daughter. Silent on Vets’ Cuts Congressman Sirovich, however, improved the occasion by boasting before the microphone of his de- votion in Congress to the veterans. He had no word of criticism, how- ever, for the consistent policy of e Roosevelt government in cut- aL cv" type of cxponditure for ’ relief and medical cate. | too, revealed the true| meaning of the ceremony when he concluded his address by that quota- tion of George Weshington which has become so uniquely useful to the imperialist : war’ makers: “In time of peace prepare for war.” The turnout wasn’t so good, de- spite serious efforts on the part of the Department of Public Welfare’s Veterans’ Bureau to mobilize large masses of New York veterans for the occasion. Thousands of post cards had been | mailed out to veterans who are cer- tified with the various veterans’ or- genization as applicants for or re- cipients of home relief. This bit of genteel coercion didn’t seem to swell the crowd; however. Call, of -W.. E: 8. L. Mingling with the audience at the dedication ceremonies were membi of the Workers Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League distributing leaf- lets, which read ni part “Fellow. veterans, the best way we can commemorate our buddies who went west is by fighting for porter about left the | dependents who are living, by fighting for the enforcement of the New York State veteran welfare laws, which div eficin’s_ are violating, by fighting’ for the pay- ment of the bonus; repeal of the conomy Act and for the: passage of the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill. Meat ‘Catttors Strike in Philadelphia Shops PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 12.— The Meat Cutters’ section of the Food Workers International struck f are actual Other deman are wage in- | in. f from 10 to 50 cant | fi ~.. $7 forty | dellars, and recognition of the} union. A hurried conference on day brought an offer of recog- tion and a flat in of two a week, if p’ doned ‘till an agreement W this and continued pic! “How know, ing,” “Unit “will the. ct! Sec. 8 (Dist. 2) re! ent Unit 7 has already contributed $119.07 to the $60,006 fund! ja ' Blaine’s qurstions, (Continued from Page 1) our he said: must talk frankly. Four hundred thousand families-in our city ing on relief. Until the economic s on is so improved that the state and federal governn will be relieved from this responsi- bility, taxes will not only be high, | they will be very high.” Demagogic Attack In the typical LaGuardia fashion, he Mayor larded his speeches with vogue attacks on “those who have had control of our industries and finances.” Sensing the fact that no attack on the masses Of the city cannot be made without a thick dash of demagogy, he stated: “I submit that it comes with ill grace from those who have had control of our industries and finances, who are so lacking in vision and in courage and in ability and ingenuity as to pre- vent the inevitable crash that was bound to come and anyone could see in the so-talled days of our prosperity. The community can- not stand by idly and see our ehil- dren starve. As Mayor of this city, I refuse to do it.” Hodson Admits Relief Inadequate Preceding the mayor, Blaine sked a series of questions cal- culated to show the importance of private relief in addition to public agencies. In answering one of Commissioner Hodson admitted that the rejief dispensed by the city is inadequate and that further cuts might be expected. He stated: “No one appreciates more than I do that for many of the families under our care the relief we are able to give them is inadequate. You cannot maintain the normal standard of living with the relief funds available .. . Regardless of what a family has hitherto been accustomed to, all must share equitably and on the same basis so far as relief funds are con- cerned.” At today’s meeting with the aldermanic leaders Mayor LaGuar- dia will disclose his tax program, it is understood, New Tax Proposals Aldermanic President Bernard 8, Deutsch earlier in the day listed a series of tax measures under con- sideration by the city authorities. Among these were: the sales tax, the payroll tax, the occupancy (apartment) tax, a tax on hotel rooms, a tax on meal checks over 50 cents, increase of the utility tax ‘to 3 per cent, increasing thé pres- ent business tax from 1-10 of 1 per cent to 1-4 of 1 per cent, a tax on mortgage interest, a tax on bank deposits, an inheritance tax, and a transit tax. Current reports, however, indi- | cate that the levies under most careful consideration are the sales, payroll and transit taxes. Every one of these would hit the over- whelming majority of the popula— tion hardest, with the unemployed and working population affected above all. A transit tax of two cents on each subway, elevated and bus fare would probably boost the fare to the relief, for the reHef of | rs.” Cc Ss. | ing on the same theme, are under the care of and liv- | By AL STEELE operators, starters, porters and other building service workers of 75 build- ings in Manhattan’s garment center has again been delayed by the lead- ers of Local 32-B of the Building Service Employees International Union. This time action was prevented by another secret conference, held in an unnameéd midtown hotel, at which James J. Bambrick, president of the union, Ben Golden of the Regional Labor Board and repre- sentatives of the owners were pre- sumably present. Bosses Benefit While the leaders of the union are postporiing action, each time for \a different reason, in the hope of reaching some “peaceful” under- | standing with the owners, no time is lost by the real estate operators in making extensive preparations for a war that will, they hope, break the union and make the dealing with union labor no problem for them. It has been reported that owners and agents of buildings, both in office and loft as well as in apart- ment buildings, have employed as many as 5,000 strikebreakers ready for action in case of a strike. Demanding city and state investi- sent the following telegram of pro- test to Mayor LaGuardia and Gov- ernor Lehman, over the signature of James J. Bambrick: “We have in our possession a copy of a memo sent to all real estate owners by the Realty Advis- ory Boatd for Labor Relations. It ing employes who go out or are forced out on strike must be secured through the uSual channels, namely, advertising, employment agencies, including the state.’ We vigorously protest the use of state agencies in supplying strike-breakers, depriving our men of their livelihood. also demand that you investigate records of men hired by the Val O'Toole, Pescia, Holmes, Pinkerton and Fagan detective agencies, who are hiring known gorillas and gun- men, to determine whether these men have police or criminal records. These men can only provoke’ vio- lence and bloodshed.” # After three postponements, the | |last one setting 11 a.m, yesterday | as a deadline, the strike of elevator | gations of their charges, the union | We, Union Officials Again - Block Strike of N. Y. Building Service Men | Chiefs of Local Meet Secretly With Bosses and Regional Labor Board Officials In reply to an inquiry from a} Daily Worker reporter, Mayor La- Guardia stated that the telegram of Mr. Bambrick was referred to the State Department of Labor and the New York Police Department. “We also get complaints from thé other side, you know,” he added. “They've been referred to the proper authorities,” Sentiment against the dragging out of the negotiations and “arbi- tration Settlements”. by the union leaders is reported growing among the men on the job. The readiness of the men to act was clearly in- dicated yesterday, when a consider- able proportion of the men walked off the job at 11 o'clock, the hour set for action, The union reported that no strike action has been taken anywhere yestefday. The conference, begun during the forenoon, had not yet concluded, as the Daily Worker went to press. The Daily Worker was informed late yesterday that the owners of the Lefcourt Buildings, at 1359, 1375, 1384 and 1412 Broadway and 148 West 36th St., have been given permission by Arthur L, Harck- ham, chairman of the strike com- mittee of the union, not to pay the strikers for the time lost by them during the strike. Workers Complain Similar complaints have made to the Daily Worker by workers about 498, 500 and 512 Seventh Avenue. When questioned, Mr. Harckham stated that he had not been ap- proached by the owners on this and had never heard of it. That the workers would resent | such action if ever taken by the says, in part: ‘Men to replace build- | leaders of the union seems obvious | from the sentiment of the workers. It is quite apparent that the bosses are getting ready for war on the union and the economic de- mands of the workers. It is also becoming ever more obvious that the rank and file workers are get- ting more and more impatient with the dilly-dallying of the union leadership, The membership of the union should get ready without delay and bring pressure to bear upon their leaders to act, and act quickly, if the concessions won are to he saved and further improvement of their conditions achieved. very quickly from 7 cents to 10 cents, Deutsch admitted. Confitming what the Daily Worker has repatedly stated edi- torialiy—that it is not principle but political expediency that accounts for the administration’s hesitation in adopting the transit tax—the aldermanic head said: “What's the good of talking of a transit tax? Do you think the Board of Aldermen will pass it?” As for himself, Deutsch said, he wasn't worried about “political re- prisals” and the whole tax matter could just as well have come up. before Election Day as after. He wasn’t “politically minded,” he ad- mitted coyly. Contending that “a great ma- jority of relief recipients were for- metly residents of other cities,” the Council of Real Estate Asso- ciations yesterday wrote to Mayor LaGuardia demanding that “the federal government be made to realize that we are unable to cope with this situation any longer.” Signed by Joseph Goldsmith, pres- ident of the Association, the letter states the opposition of the realtors to new taxes. Nation-wide Hunger and the Fight for Relief (Continued from Page 1) the people is Federal relief and unemployment in- surance, the Roosevelt government “warns” against Federal relief proposals! Could capitalist brutality, capitalist ruthlessness and brazenness go further? Hopkins makes it clear that the Roosevelt gov- ernment plans the lowest possible for the American working class. Wherever there is a single person working in a family, relief will be denied to all the others “The program of re-employment who are jobless. must center on those actually in will not apply to thoes whose family incomes were “adequate prior to the depression,” Hopkins states, “and who are not in need, but who are in compe- tition with those in need.» This every young worker, every jovless worker, whose immediate relatives have some kind of meager income. The Roosevelt government ing down the accepted living standards of millions of faiilies. Roosevelt will, of course, do nothing that will interfere with one cent of capitalist profits to aid the jobless and the hungry, Hopkins makes that “The objective should be to find clear enough. employment in private indusiry operated for protit,’ Hopkjus declared, the welfare of the millions of suffering American workers and farmers that Hopkins is worried about; it is the maintenance of capitalist profit and the capitalist system. * Hopkins goes further. tion. It is the hunger program of banks, the industrialists and landlords. It is a pro- gram that protects the rich and places the crushing burden of the crisis on the backs of the masses. . * 1 ee urgency of the rélief crisis that now looms be- fore the American masses as W! is given significant expresion by Hopkins himself, when he states: “To say that our industrial system cannot pro- vide for this security is indzed to Could the revolutionary character of the fight for immediate cash relief and Fe: | ment insurance ke more clearly indicated? The sptech of Hopkins drives | that the struggle for the relief of ‘ He proposes a scheme that will spread work among the American working class that will slash the real and cash wage of every | worker in America. Rather than talist class, the employers, bankers and landlords, pay for the feeding of the jobless, Hopkins will make the starving feed the starving! | Such is the cutline of the program which Roose- velt has in store for the millions of | ers who face permanent unemployment and starva- An Editorial living standards velt brutality! need: 2)" This is menacing to it is openly driv- maintained and It is not make the capi- American work- the Wall Street inter approaches admit defeat.” deral unemploy- home the fact the jobless and for unemployment insurance is now the most vival link to be firmly seized in the whole struggle against the Wall Street program of Roosevelt. It is apparent that Roosevelt is getting ready for a showdown on the relief question. He will use smooth talk, and then, if necessary, bullets and tear gas to maintain his policy of placing the relief bur- dens on the backs of the working class. But it is a certainty that the American working class will not submit meekly to this callous Roose- The Communist Party, and the Unemployment Councils all over the country, proclaim the unem- ployment program of the working class against the hunger program of the Wall Street capitalists. The immediate needs of the working class are embodied in the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill for which thousands of A. F. of L. locals, So- cialist Party branches, working class groups every- where have registered their support. This bill expresses the demand for the follow- ing vital needs of millions of jobless American workers, as well as the entire working class. I. Immediate cash relief for every jobless fam- ily at the same rate as prevailing wages, with $3 extra for every dependent. 2. Federal unemployment insurance to be paid for by the employers and the Government, and ad- ministered by the workers tiemselves. 4. All funds for the jobless to be raised by tax- ing the rich, stopping payments to the bankers, and turning over all war funds for the jobless. This is the program of the working class which the Communist Party opposes to Roosevelt’s pro- gram of hunger and permanent misery. The Communist Party works incessantly to win these immediate demands for the working class. Through this daily fight, the Communist Party prepares the masses for the overthrow of the whole system which dooms so many millions to misery. The Communist Party would not worry as Hop- kins and Roosevelt are now worrying, about the profits of the employers. would open every warehouse in the ccuntry and dis- tribute the “surplus” goods to the workers who need them. Unemployment would be abolished in the same way as the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union have abolished it, by placing the factories and mines under the control of the working class, Tuling through its dictatorshin. At one sweep, the great curses of unemployment, insecurity and pov- erty would be abolished. The rule of the Wall Street parasites would be forever ended. The fight for relief is part of the class strug- gle between the workers and the Wall Street parasites. The approach of winter draws the lines sharply. Mobilize the maszes against hunger. De- mand federal unemployment insurance! On to the Congress for Social Security to be held at Washing- ton January 5 to 71 The Communist Party Huge Anti-War Rallies Stir U. S. (Continued from Page 1) ulaire,” stressed with militant in- sistence the need of unrelenting struggle by the working class of each country against its own ruling class as the best guarantee against war, Ruling Class Only Enemy “Workers,” he said, “have no | enemies save their own ruling class. |tm the last war the workers of every country were told that they were fighting to save their-country, but the only country which was saved was that one where the working class were able to turn the imperial- ist war into a civil war against their own oppressors at home.” The conclwsion of Perizaud’s speech brought from sevetal French workers in the hall shouts of “vive la guétra sociale’ (long live the social revolution) and from German workers in the audience cries of and salutes of” Red Front.” Other speakers at the meeting were Rabbi Israel Goldstein, Wini- fred Chapell, Dr. Harry F. Ward, Rev. William Lloyd Imes, and Edwin Alexander, student suspended from City College for anti-fascist activity on the campus, Treadwell Smith presided. 10,000 in Milwaukee Rally MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 12— ‘With only three days’ preparation, a tremendous united front anti-war anti-fascist demonstration was held here on Sunday, Armistice Day. Ten thousand participated in the march and mass meeting, despite the fact that the weather was thirty degrees above zero. This demonstration revealed once more the will of the rank and file of the Socialist Party and other workers’ organizations for a fight- ing united front. Thousands in Parade At 2 o'clock thousands of workers, children, students, women, profes- sionals and intellectuals began pouring into the Court House Plaza. Hundreds of banners, signs, flags and standards made their appear- ance in a sea of color. Among the dozens of organizations represented were the Wisconsin Workers’ Com- mittee on Unemployment, the Un- employment Councils, the Commu- nist Party, the Socialist Party, Young Communist League, Red Fal- cons, Young Pioneers, American League Against War and Fascism, Wisconsin State Federation of La- bor, ¥. M, OC. A. and numerous church organizations. The arrangements for the dem- onstration arose out of a conference in Mayor Hoan’s office, held last Wednesday night, where represen- tatives of the above-mentioned groups and many others were pres- ent. Numerous committees were elected to organize the parade and demonstration, The arrange- ments and speakers committee had on them representatives from vari- ous groups, including the Conimu- nist and Socialist Party. The chief marshal of the parade was Rev. Ralph* Compere of the People’s Church. In the front rank, leading the parade, were Herman O. Kent, Milwaukee County secre- tary of the Socialist Party; Frank Ingram of the Wisconsin Workers’ Committee on Unemployment; Sev- erino Pollo, of the Socialist Party, chairman of the meeting, and Morris Childs, district organizer of the Communist Party. Militant Slogans The parade stretched out two miles and was characterized by the militant slogans shouted and signs such as: “Unite Against Imperialist War and Fascism,” “Free All Anti- Fascist Prisoners,” “All War Funds to the Unemployed,” “Tax the Munition Racketeers.” Thousands of spectators lined the streets, many of them joining the line of march. As the marches passed down Wisconsin Avenue, the principal street of the city, and reached Second Street, thirty Amer- ican Legionnaires with full equip- ment, arms, lined the curb in front of Richman’s Clothing Store, pro- tecting a patriotic war display in a show window. Some Legionnaires made provocative statements and threatened to capture the numerous. red flags in the parade, but the discipline, militancy and earnest- ness of the marchers prevented any such attacks and kept the Legion- naires in their place. Cite Fascist Menace Many songs were sung by the marchers, the “Internationale” and “Solidarity Forever” being the fa- vorites. The march ended where it had begun, on the Court House Plaza, slogans such as “Long live the united front,” were shouted and the various organizations, Commu- nist and Socialist, mingled with each other. The speakers’ list was very long; outstanding among them was Mayor Hoan, the Rev. Walter Geske, Mrs. C. M. Barr and Mrs. Meta Berger. Mrs. Berger opened her speech by stating, “This is one of the greatest moments in my life. The workers uc. nev f:. tue united front, for only through the united front can we fight war and fascism.” Mrs. C. M. Barr, speak- ing for the American League Against War and Fascism, declared that “War and fascism are the greatest dangers to the working class. We must carry on a daily struggle against this menace. To- day’s demonstration is the first step toward a united front. If we do not make the united front now we will find ourselves in a united front in fascist concentration camps.” Every “mention of the united frent by the speakers was met with thunderous applause and cheers by | the thousands of listeners. There is tremendous enthusiasm among the masses of workers and unem- ployed in Milwaukee for the united { front, (Special to the MOSCOW, Noy. 11 (By results of the celebration of munist Party of the Soviet Uni Dyers Again Vote | Down NRA Scheme (Continuca from Page 1) i} morning, however, will give a still| better demonstration, since today; is a holiday, if serious efforts are made by the active strikers of every shop to pull out all stay-ai- homes for mags picketing. The employers, having failed to}! put over their latest proposal, it is believed, will now make an effort to bring in scabs and armed thugs. The conference between the work- ers’ settlement committee and the employers, scheduled to put the finishing touches to the latest terms, has now been called off, since the workers refused to’ accept the proposal. As this dispatch is being sent, a meeting of shop chairmen and del-) egates is in session in Paterson, at) which the next steps are to be de-| termined. Dr. Benjamin Squires | of the Textile Labor Relations Board is scheduléd to appear be- fore the workers and “explain” the settlement terms. Thus far, the officials of the union have been announcing that a secret ballot in each individual shop will be arranged anyway, but their actually going through with it is doubtful. The workers are unanimously cpposed to the idea, but are quite willing to have a full mass meeting with a vote taken there, Furthermore, it was learned that the officials of the Dyers Federa- tion are insisting that the em- ployers accede to some minor changes in the proposed contract, hoping that they could propose virtually the same contract under the guise that it is a new one. The Paterson newspapers are es- pecially active in agitating for the adoption of the proposed terms and, in an effort to break the morale of! the strikers, are prominently dis- | playing stories about the possibility | of the strike lasting all winter, and | that the manufacturers will move, out of the city if they cannot get! “Jasting peace.” The manufacturers, through Mr. Manuel Schavick, their attorney, insist on the two year agreement, on the grounds that “the em- ployers have been hard hit by the strike and their business is suffer- ing severely, We need and demand a lasting peace, otherwise there will be no adjustment of the strike.” Five more silk shops, including the Peggy Silk Co,, were pulled out. on strike today in a drive of the silk weavers to smash the wage- cutting campaign. This morning Paterson saw the largest picket line of silk weavers, when the ef- fort to revive the strike activity begun. Tomorrow, several more large shops are scheduled to be pulled out. The enthusiasm is spreading among strikers who, until recently, have been left in a dis- gusted state as a consequence of the general strike betrayal and the misleadership of local officials. The following telegram was sent from the Soviet Anniversary mect- | ing last Saturday, to the striking | dye workers: | “Dyers Strike Committee, care of Anthony Ammirato, Roseland Ball- room, Paterson, N. J. — Please transmit solidarity congratulatory message to striking dyers from 600 workers gathered at Carpenters Hall Saturday evening to celebrate 17th Anniversary Russian Revolu- tion. We greet decision to fight on for original demands on contract stop Guard against compulsory ar- bitration stop Fight on to victory. (Signed), SAM REED, Chairman.” Union Aids Jobless Parade (Continued from Page 1) ter-Professional Association for Un- employment Insurance,-Small Home IWinois, and the Unemployment Councils. The United Committee for the Ney. 24 Demonstration has applied to Mayor Kelly for a permis for the march to start from two psints on Saturday, Nov. 24 at 10 a, m— from Union Park, Randolph and Ogden Streets, and from the South Side, Twenty-second and Went- worth Streets. The march will Proceed through the Loop to the City Hall and to the Mlinois Emen- gency Relief Commission located at 1319 South Michigan Avenue. The conference on Noy, 17 will elect a large delegation with rep- resentation from each participat- ing maior organization to present the demands of Chicazo’s unem- nloyed to the City Council and the Winols Emergency ‘lief Com- miss'on. ‘The tentative demands around which the united frent is based are: 1—Public works at union wages October Socialist Revolution, “Pravda, and Land Owners Federation of |: Beily Worker) Wireless) —Summing up the the 17th Anniversary of the ”” organ of the Com- ion, writes: “Tf the October demonstrations of the past years were the splendid reflection and result of the strained creative labor of the peoples of the U. S. 8. R., a refiec- tion and a result of the tremendous victories of Socialist economy, cul- ture and science, then this year's October demonstrations served as an especially striking picture of the many-sided strengthening of the proletarian dictatorship of the So- viet system, won through hard struggle. “No one social system in history-- could attach to its celebrations such @ genuinely happy and immeasur- able character in its size as the fese tivity of the anniversary of Octo- ber, because never, prior to October, ” 1917, had there existed a regime: which so exhaustivély expressed the \the aspirations and fancies of the vast majority of the people as the Soviet regime. Seventeen years ago* the Soviet regime was an aim bare- ly achieved. Building New Society “Now it is already outlining a |new society resting on the powerfub foundations of socialist economics,:. which can be felt and seen with the naked eye. Socialism has deeply permeated the everyday life of the many-millioned population of the country of the Soviets. That is why the columns of demonstrators are sO monolithic, that is why the peo- ple’s march, which stretched from town to town and from village to village throughout the country, was so sttiking and magnificent. “The whole Soviet country is cer. tered in one passion—to rush ahead. to the new heights and splendid. zeniths of socialism. That is why if s0 extensively honored its best in- dividuals, expressed its love arid loyalty to the party of Lenin—the organizer of the October victory, to its great friend and leader, Stalin, These October days again showed how strongly welded are the prole- tarian ranks and tojlers around Lenin’s party, around Stalin. “The result of the seventeen years of the Soviet regime is summed up in the October days, end the result echoes not only within the country but far beyon? its boundaries. The ideas of the sos clalist revolution are the progres- sive ideas of our days, the most progressive ideas of this century! Information concerning the cele- bration of the October Revolution beyond the Soviet boundaries shows” how deeply the cause for which the’ tollers of the U.S.S.R. fought and are fighting, the cause of socialism, . has penetrated and permeated the’ toiling masses of the world. ; Socialism Growing “The light-house of socialism, lit. seventeen years ago in the Soviet Union by the Bolshevist Party, is.~ becoming sronger and ever more strikingly shows the road to the great international proletarian army fighting for its liberation. It. lights the brave heroic soldiers o! the Spanish revolution. It guided” the legendary detachments of. the Soviets of China, the prolet fighters of fascist Germany. I show. the road to all those who do not desire meekly to carry the yoke. of capitalist exploitation and fas: cist barbarism. “The Soviet Union entered the eighteenth year of its existence fully armed with its achievements and with a complete consciousness of its greatness and responsibility= in its forthcoming tasks. Elections,* to the Soviets are unrolling in full swing. c “The country again verifies that. it is passing the road started 17 years ago, again perfects and im- proves the organs of proletarian dictatorship by sending there its best people with demands from each Soviet to exert maximum care concerning the flourishing socialist’ economy, concerning the further improvement of the life of the toil- ers, concerning strengthening the defense capacity of the Soviet bor- ders. The Soviet regime entering on its eighteenth year will be still stronger than in each of the past seventeen.” —building of the subway—work- ers’ homes. 2—For cash relief—against the relief cut inaugurated on Nov. 1 and amounting to at least 10 to 35 per cent, 3—Yor immediate Winter relief— shoes, new cicthing, blankets for the unemployed. 4—Yor the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, 5—Recognition of all commit- tees at the relief stations. The united front committee has urged all working class organiza- tions, especially the locals of the American Federation of Labor, Railway Brotherhcods, workers from shops, school teachers, frater- nal organizations, professional to elect delegates to the Nov. 17 con- ference and mobilizes their mem- bership for the mass march. Com: munications should be addressed to Room 300, 160 North Wells St Chicago SOVIETS’ 17th YEAR - : SERVES AS BEACON TO ALL WORKERS Pravda Editorial Summing Up Results of October Celebration Points to Vast Strengthening of Proletariat by Recent Achievements i