The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1934, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY OVEMBER 22, 1934 U.S. CLAMPS WAR-TIME LID DOWN ON NAVAL INFORMATION Spy and Guard New Orleans Union Heads Call Parley on Social Insurance Division Put Into Action Swanson Signs Order for Complete Secrecy in New Construction WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. — The crumbling of the London Naval Gonference and the open aggressive lead of the United States govern- ment in increasing war preparations in general and pyramiding naval armaments in particular have al- Yeady produced overt war moves here. Under the signature of Secretary of the Navy Sw: m there appeared today a seties of orders re-activiz- ing the war-time Security Section 6f the Office of Naval Intelligence, whose function includes exporting spies to learn the naval secrets of other imperialist powers, placing ight guards around all navy yards, preventing any leaks of the far-reaching and deadly technical and organizational secrets of the War and Naval Department. Even the general information about naval construction which be- comes available through congres- sional discussions and other normal channels is to be cut off, according to the néw regulations. Utmost secrecy with regard to everything pertaining especially to the new warships now under construction is to, be enforced. WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. — The chief “investigator’ ‘of the muni- tions racket combine, Senator Nye, revealed today that he is gradually ering the results of his inquiry into plans for war-time government control over all industries in which war supplies are manufactured. In order to enter into battle mobiliza- tion in the quickest possible time government monopolies would be established over all plants produc- ing war ships, military planes, guns, ammunitions and war chemicals, he said. “Nationalization to that extent,” he concluded, “could be accom- plished for little money, would be great economy for the government, and would in nowise jeopardize our national defense. Paterson Strike March Tomorrow (Continued from Page 1) responsible for such advice. As was quite commonly expected among the strikers, the hearing ar- ranged by the Chamber of Com- merce proved only a means for molding a sentiment against the strikers. Virtually all who attended, including those who were styled as “public” representatives, were busi- ness people. Reverend Howard A. Adair presided. Mayor Hinchcliffe Was one of the speakers. George Baldanzi, in behalf of the union, stated that if there is any doubt about the workers’ stand on the proposed settlement, let the manufacturers open their plants and it will soon be seen how many workers will report to work. Fri- | day’s demonstration will be an answer to the Chamber of Com- merce. Silk Strike Headed Off The Joint Board of the Federa- tion of Silk Workers refused to per- mit the calling of the strike sched- uled for this morning, despite the unanimous vote for it given by the silk weavers, the bulk of those in the industry. Negotiations are now going on between the representatives of the union and the manufacturers, with Mayor Hinchliffe as mediator. At today’s meeting of silk weavers who are on strike, Elli Keller, manager of the union, who was the main target for angry workers, stated that the workers “ought to be glad that the manufacturers are willing to talk to us.” Plan Scottsboro Action Week (Continued from Page 1) free the Scottsboro boys and other victims of capitalist justice. To Parade in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21. — A mass demonstration and torch light parade will be held Frida} evening, Noy. 23, to protest the Scottsboro lynch verdicts and demand the unconditional safe release of the Negro victims of the lynch verdicts. The action, which is being or- ganized by the West Philadelphia branch of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, will begin with an open-air meeting at 7 p. m. at 39th and Brown Streets. With fully 750 organizations con- tacted by personal visits for sup- port of the Bronx County Con- ference to be held this Saturday afternoon at the Epworth Church, 834 Morris Ave., Bronx, the con- ference is expected to result in one of the broadest united front ac- tions for the lives and freedom of the Scottsboro boys and the rights of the oppressed Negro people. Davis to Speak in Yonkers YONKERS, N. Y., Nov. 21—Ben Davis, Jr., Editor of the Negro Lib- erator, will be the main speaker at a Scottsboro rally at the A. M. E. Zion Church, Irving Place, here, next Wednesday evening, Nov. 27. The rally is being organized by the Haywood Patterson Branch of the International Labor Defense. Sponsoring Committee Urges Representation at National Congress NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 21.— A call for a conference in support of the National Congress for Unem- | ployment Insurance, which will be held in Washington on Jan. 5 and |7, and for a wide campaign for in- creased relief, has been addressed to all trade unions, unemployed and mass organizations by the local sponsoring committee for the Na- tional Conference. The call for to be held at | Ursuline Street, on Sunday, Dec, 16, |at 2 p.m, is signed by the fourteen trade unionists who comprise the | local committee. They are: Jack | Turan, secretary of the sponsoring | committee and secretary of the Un- }employment Councils; C. Jones, secretary of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen; W. C. Marine, chairman, Branch 544 I. W. O. Stanley Postek, secretary of the M: rine Workers’ Industrial Union; James Hamilton, secretary of Local 948 of Firemen and Oilers Union; Frank Deegan, president of Local 12 Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union; Homer Brooks, district sec- retary of the Trade Union Unity the local conference, League; Alden Daste, Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers Interna- tional Union; Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen secretary, Home Local 1 of Brick- layers; Ishmael G. Hinyub, secre- tary-elect of True Blue Lodge of the Brotherhood of Railway Car- men; Enoch Brown, International Longshoremen’s Association; Jack Moore, organizer of the National Textile Workers’ Union; William Fisher, secretary of the Waterfront Unemployment Council. The call to the local conference, while urging all organizations to unite for a fight for adequate re- lief, points out the immediate need for the enactment of adequate and , genuine unemployment insurance as embodied in the Workers’ Unem- jPloyment Insurance Bill. The | Workers’ Bill, the call points out, | provides payment of benefits to all the present unemployed, and all workers unemployed through no fault of their own. Benefit pay- ments, the Workers’ Bill provides, ; shall in no case be less than $10 for each unemployed worker, plus | $3 for each dependent, and shall be ; raised through taxation on the higher incomes and the use of war | funds for the unemployed. The call to the local conference ; urges all local groups to elect dele- : gates to. the National Congress for; Unemployment Insurance, to be, held in Washington on Jan. 5 and |, 1985. Reporters’ Strike Closes Newspaper (Continued from Page 1) }ads by Lucius T. Russel, proposing to Catholic priests, Protestant a isters, and Jewish rabbis that they mediate the strike. But this is taken! as a grand stand play by the work- ers. At a meeting of 400 members of the New York Newspaper Guild at Hotel Astor Tuesday night, full sup- port for the Newark strikers was; reaffirmed, and a resolution was | Amter For nearly six years the unem- ployed have been compelled to fight for relief. Even before the crisis broke in 1929 there were more than 3,000,000 unemployed in the coun- try. At that time of “prosperity,” it was considered unnecessary to provide more than ordinary charity for the unemployed. They were called the “ne’er-do-wells” or casu- ! ally unemployed—workers either in- | disposed altogether to work or tem- porarily jobless. Today, with 16,000,000 unem- ployed, no one dares to call the un- employed “bums” or “hoodlums.” The unemployed are made up of all | sections of the population. Not only | the industrial workers, but profes- sional and white collar workers, small businessmen, etc., have been | reduced to relief and misery. Skilled technicians and engineers, doctors, | lawyers, dentists, etc., can find no work and have to be content to ac- cept work or home relief. Seven million young workers leave the schools and find no work—left to drift, hopeless. Negroes, always ! given an inferior position, live in misery—their children go hungry. | Economy Hall, 1422 and Engineers; Alphonse Morris, | (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 21.— | The Cleveland City Council yester- day refused to consider the bill for civil rights for Negroes proposed by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. Councilman Weber, who had promised to introduce the bill, backed down at the last minute. Reflecting the concern of the bourgeois politicians over the rising |resentment and united struggles of Negro and white workers against Jim Crow practices in this city, the | Negro Councilman, Dr. Leroy Bun- | dy, introduced for a second reading the bill offered last Jume by the International Labor Defense. The bill, which deals with equal rights |for Negroes in restaurants and | theatres, was carried and referred to the Council's legal committee. Under pressure of the rising vol- ume of protest against Mayor Davis’ fascist threats against the civil rights of the workers, Councilman Krewson introduced a bill prohibit- ing the removal of the free speech Clevelaaal d City Coulee Balks At Bill on Rig hts for Negroes rostrum from the Public Square. Krewson’s real character was ex- posed later when in an interveiw he declared himself against workers attending the meetings of the City Council and only in favor of the public square rostrum. One hundred and seventy dele- gates responded last night to the | call of the Communist Party for an emergency conference to compat iMayor Davis’ fascist proposals. Greenfield, of the Home Owners’ Association, was elected chairman, with John Williamson making the main report. After analyzing the class purpose of Davis’ attacks, and showing that Davis was acting not as an indi- vidual but as a representative of the interests of the bankers and key industrialists, and exposing Davis’ proposals as aimed to smash the growing movement for relief, better conditions and union organ- ization, etc., Williamson proposed detailed plans for a broad united front struggle. Butler Plans (Continued from Page 1) posing one group of fascist plot- ters in order better to cooperate | with another. Or he may be at- jtempting to expose all of the \financiers now involved with the hope of building his own mass fol- lowing to further his own indivi- dualistic ambition toward leader- ship in his own way. There is also the possibility that business back- ers have chosen this method of dis- \erediting the forthcoming veterans rank and file bonus march to Washington. i This might be accomplished by using the Dickstein Committee as a sounding board to raise a hue against veterans’ and unemploysd marches in general, attempting to stamp all with “fascist” labels and thereby discrediting all. Many Rumors in Capital All official spokesmen of the Gov- ernment Veterans’ Bureau, the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the American Federation of Labor, here, refused to comment upon the Butler inci- dent—but begged for further infor- mation, and frankly indicated that it was the foremost topic of con- jecture and gossip in official Wash- ington. There was no comment on the report from Warm Springs, Georgia, that President Roosevelt received it with a laugh and an ex- clamation, “fantastic.” It was generally admitted private- ly, however, that rumors concerning plots to turn the American Legion into a fascist organization in re- turn for payment of the bonus have been rife since General Butler be- gan his nation-wide tour. The tour covered several hundred cities throughout the country. It is said that, in addition, General Butler contacted individuals and groups in labor organizations. He has been writing widely played-up articles for the fascist-inclined publisher, Wil- liam Randolph Hearst. Fascist Effort Fail His efforts to talk up his “Inde- pendent Federation of Labor” among newspapermen in Philadel- phia and elsewhere undoubtedly is responsible for the Dickstein Com- passed, recommending that each|mittee’s having summoned Paul | member contribute at last one dol-|Comly French, Philadelphia re- |lar per week for the duration of | porter. Lieto $250 was sent imme-' Undoubtedly the public dis- lately. ‘ closure of the fascist plot indicates on March 6, 1930, raised the de- mand for unemployment relief and insurance. The Communist Party alone carried on the fight against the Hoover stagger plan, which William Green looked upon as the solution for the questions created by the crisis. When the people of this country, falling under the dema- gogic promises of Roosevelt, elected him President, and when he came forward with the “New Deal,” it was the Communist Party alone which analyzed the situation and Roosevelt's program and declared | that it was a program leading to worse hunger, and preparing fas- cism and war. Nearly two years have passed— ;the “New Deal” is in operation. After these two years, the people of this country, including many of the workers, voted on Nov. 6 for a con- tinuation of the “New Deal.” They still believe that the “New Deal” will bring them fruits. They still believe in Roosevelt, We wish to ask the 16,000,000 un- employed a few questions: 1—Is it not true that only in ' Fascist Unions T. E. Nig nrc al also that efforts to build a mass movement as a base for fascism in |the Unifed States have run up | against serious obstacles in recent months, as was illustrated When efforts to get veterans to act as strike-breakers failed, and when some veterans in reactionaries or- ganizations outspokenly opposed efforts to make strike-break- ers of them. In this connection it is significant, also, that the domi- nant groups of big business men have strongly rallied to President | Roosevelt, indicating a belief that all the necessary, especially the eco- nomic, aspects of fascism can be introduced under “constitutional” screens, and open fascist dictator- ship in that manner proposed. General Butler’s tour culminated in his speech to the V. F. W. con- vention in Louisville, when he was cut off the radio at a point at which he was declaring that veterans would not be strike-breakers. That night the convention endorsed the stand of the broadcasting company; the next day it reversed itself, en- dorsing Butler's stand. Endorse Fascist Program Then, with the approval of But- Jer, they endorsed a program essen- tially fascist in that it called for deportation of all Communists, and additional big-navy and armaments programs, while advocating rank and file demands sponsored by Communists, such as payment of the bonus, repeal of the Economy Act, ete. The American Legion Convention also went on record for denial of the mails to all “subversive” litera- ture, as well as for full payment of the bonus and government meas- ures to “take the profits out of war.” \200 Bargemen Out on Strike On West Coast Stevedores in Protest Against Shipowners Balks on Settlement SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21—Two hundred bargemen working in this port and members of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association have come out on strike when em- ployers refused to act om their de- mands. | Meanwhile, pointing out that the employers refuse to meet with the stevedores to arrange to carry into effect the settlement award of the National Longshoremen’s Board, the San Francisco Local of the I1L.D. wired to Secretary of Labor Perkins, asking that the Labor Department take action to enforce the agree- ment. One hundred and forty-four long- shoremen working at the Java Paci- fic motorship Silver Beach walked off in protest against the danger- ously heavy loads. The ship was tied up but the men returned pend- ing action by the Longshoremen’s Board. Police squads had to be called out to the waterfront to protect two hiring bosses known to be discri- minating against active union mem- bers. The attempts of the employ- ers to organize an “independent union” composed chiefly of strike- breakers is being fought by the workers, On one occasion nine “in- dependents” were beaten up by the workers, .Five I.L.A. members were arrested as a result of the battle. One significant point of the set- tlement award, upon which the workers forced action, was the pay- ing of back wages to make up the 10 cents an hour increase in wages won. It is reported that more than $25,000 was distributed in this port. But this did not slacken the deter- mination of the workers to fight for the preservation of their union, which the employers are still try- ing to smash. At an Anti-Spook affair, run jointly by the Chicago Workers’ School and the John Reed Club, a collection netted $4 for the Daily Worker Drive. This is a small sum, but it indicates what can be done by other organizations, ciubs and | Workers’ schools. Help the Daily) Worker reach its $60,000 goal! existence and intensive activities of powerful forces determined to bring | about further oppression of the American masses through fascist ‘dictatorship, and their readiness to jJaunch a new war for the further enrichment of themselves. Whatever your motives are if you fail to act with the honest and sincere op- ponents of fascism, you will actually give support to what you say you /oppose. We await your answer. “This committee has issued a call jto veterans throughout the United States to again march on Washing- ton by January 10, 1935. Its pro- gram is based on the uniting of all veterans regardless of organization or political affiliations, race, color or creed. Our demands are: 2 payment of the balance due on ad- Fascism and War, you will endorse ijusted compensation certificates; (2) the program adopted at Chicago on repeal of the Economy Act; (3) the Oct. 1 by the Congress Against War workers Unemployment and Social and Fascism, called by the Ameri- Insurance Bill. This march will be can League Against War and Fas- made by those veterans who realize cism. At this Congress 3,300 repre- that only through declaring unity sentatives of the American Federa- | with the working class and the un- tion of Labor, independent unions, employed, small home owners and veterans’ organizations, unemployed |small taxpayers and professional organizations, farmers’ organiza-| groups, and by giving support to tions, including the Farmer-Labor |these elements in their attempts to Federation, Socialist Party locals better their conditions, can they ob- and the Communist Party, pacifist | tain reciprocal support so neces- groups, the Y. M. C. A, fraternal |sary for the winning of the vet- lodges, and many students and jerans’ demands. This march, be- church groups, adopted a plan for |cause it is in the interest of the action based on the mobilization of |rank and file, is a march against Hickerson’s telegram to Butler follows: “If you are sincere in opposing Farmers who have been ruined by those localities where the Commu- the crisis, by the government crop- | nist Party exists and there is a reduction plans and by the drought, | fighting organization like the Na- beg for relief. In this situation the most im- portant question facing the whole working population is unemploy- ment. Only one Party puts this question into the very forefront of all struggles, not only of the un-' employed, but of all workers, and that is the Communist Party. i ‘ tional Unemployment Council, the standard of relief is raised; more | workers are on the relief rolls; dis- crimination against the Negroes, foreign-born and young workers is reduced? 2—is it not true that in those localities where the Communist Party exists, and there is a local of It was the Communist Party that | the National Unemployment Coun- the American masses against all manifestations of fascism and prep- arations for war. “Your own testimony proves the cil, evictions are completely stopped or reduced in numbers? 3—Is it not true that where there are Communists in any kind of or- ganization, there the workers are led in fighting ranks to protect their interests, in spite of all terror? Yet, in spite of these facts, masses of workers voted for the Roosevelt program on Nev. 6 last. Hence, today, Roosevelt feels he has the “country behind him.” As a result, at the conference held in Washington on Nov. 13, called by the “National Committee on Social Security,” Roosevelt made a brazen attack on the unemployed, com- pletely repudiated his promise of a Program of “full social security,” to comprise unemployment and health Insurance, old age pension, etc. He put health insurance and old age | pensions off to a distant date, and suggested something worse than the Wagner-Lewis bill of so-called un- employment insurance, which will j not give a single penny of protec- | tion to the 16,000,000 unemployed and millions of others now work- | ing. Pledge to Bankers Roosevelt brought forward this program not only as his own, but as a pledge he gave to the bankers on Oct. 25. The “mandate” he re- fascism, as is any action in the true interest of the rank and file. We call upon you to endorse it. We await your answer,” and what is the issue? The issue fs the right of the masses to protec- tion under the system—the right to live, the right to bring up a family. ‘Who has the program? Who has carried on the struggle? Only the Communist Party, by making the correct analysis, has furnished the program. For four and a half years, it has fought for the only unemployment and social insurance bill that will protect the army of unemployed and part-time workers. In 1930, the Communist Party drafted the Workers’ Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill, which today has the support of millions of workers, professionals, etc. Since 1930, the Communist Party has been in the front ranks fighting for the rights and interests of the unemployed, as of all work- ers, This issue will be fought out at the great National Congress for ance, to be held in Washington, Jan. 5 to 7, when there will be the biggest mobilization of workers in a convention demanding the enact- ment of genuine unemployment and social insurance. In this drive and tha dynamic force. Unemployment and Social Insur- | GENEVA, Nov. 21.—With a hypo- critical gesture of espousing the cause of peace, the United States government, through the medium of Hugh R. Wilson, Minister to Swit- zerland, today elaborated on the text of an “arms traffic control” treaty submitted yesterday to the League of Nations. Including the transportation of every instrument of warfare, from machine guns to poison gas bombs, providing not the least check against the quantity of arms exported, the treaty was commented on here, so far as rendering war less imminent or deadly is concerned, as a piece of inexpensive “publicity” which cost and lost American capitalism nothing in its role as chief war- monger. In short, it is agreed that the United States’ suggestion is nothing more than a request for a Heensing and book-keeping of arms transportation, Sweden Jails Communist for ‘Insult’ to Nazi STOCKHOLM, Nov. 21.—The re- sponsible editor of the Communist central organ, Carl Johansson, was | arrested by the police yesterday and gent to prison. He is to serve aj term of four months because of “in- sulting the Prussian Prime Minis- ter, Goering.” The German Em- bassy here relayed Goering’s de- mand that the editor be punished to the Social-Democratic Foreign Minister. STOCKHOLM, Nov. 21—After the conservative press had launched a larger campaign for a Swedish- Danish fortification of the Oresund, a plan providing for the drawing up | of land-batteries at important places, was handed in to the Navy Ministry of the coastal defense. McGuire Handled Secret Bank Funds (Continued from Page 1) indisputable \authenticity of But- ler’s story, Dickstein declared: “From present indications, Gen- eral Butler has the evidence. He’s not making charges unless he has something to back them up.” Johnsen Mentioned The name of General Hugh S. Johnson, recent N.R.A. administra- tor, was. yesterday added to the list of leading military and political figures involved in the plan to form a fascist military organization with the support of leading Wall Street banks. Despite the quick chorus of denials by the J. P. Morgan bank and General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, Representative Dick- stein of the House Committee con- ducting the investigation yesterday made it clear that whatever the fyture actions of the Committee, General Smedley Butler, _ whose charges brought the whole situa- tion into the open, has already given sufficient actual proof to give his story authenticity, The Mismi, Fla., unit sent $8 to- ward its quota in the Daily Worker drive. If every unit in the Florida district systematically raised funds, the district as a whole would now Maxim Litvinov, leading delegate from the Soviet Union to the League, immediately took advan- tage of the framework of the pro- posed treaty and declared that an amendment regulating the transit of arms would help to make the treaty really effective. Litvinov pointed out that the absence Germany and Japan from the arms discussion left out of the picture two countries which were rapidly being armed to the tecth and pro- posed that Germany be invited to} attend the discussions. These prac- tical suggestions for controlling the growth of armaments and for staving off the impending conflict were received by the representatives of the capitalist countries as “cyni- ‘Arms Traffic Control’ Treaty'!New Anti-Strike Seen As Inexpensive Ballyhoo Which Fails To Check Arms Powers Cool to Litvinov’s Proposal for an Amendment to Regulate Armament Exports Clauses for NRA. (Continued from Page 1) bankers and the Roosevelt adminie stration by repeating the slogan launched at the recent Roosevelte blessed convention of the American Bankers’ Association. The manufac turers, like the bankers, will help the Government work “with natural forces of recovery,” which, the “buss iness leaders of the U. S.” say “seem | definitely to be getting under way.” The bankers and the President have made it clear that by “natural forces” they mean steady cutting of relief to the unemployed and desti- tute and no adequate unemployment of | insurance law. Stripped of the demagogy about the “distress” which the “depres- |sion” has “inflicted and continues to inflict upon our people,” the man- ufacturers propose to dump the illusion breeding sections of the N. I. R. A, such as Section 7-A, and take over into their own bailiwick, in the form of “new legislation,” those functions of the N. I. R. A, which have proven worthy of fur- cal.” As an impotent mark of its|ther trial...” Obviously, those “peacefulness” the disarmament |“functions” which have proven conference approves the armsj|‘worthy” to the employers and treaty “in principle.” |Government officials who assisted 7 Groups Join Hartford Fight On Frame-Up HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 21.—A | Spirited united front protest meet- ing against the wanton shooting of Joe Allen, young Negro C. C. C. worker, by a white policeman, and subsequent attempts to frame the Negro youth on a charge of “breach of the peace,” was held here at the Union Baptist Church, 1921 Main Street, with the following organiza- tions participating: League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo- ple, the Negro Ministerial Alliance, the Hartford Negro City Council jand the International Labor De- fense. The Hartford Branch of the So- cialist Party and the Hartford Sec- tion of the Communist Party have announced their united agreement to support the defense campaign. A United Front Joe Allen Defense Committee has been set up, with the following representatives: Rev. Jackson for the N. A. A, C. P., Rev. Hopes for the Hartford Ministerial Alliance, Walter Murray for the Ne- ‘them formulate the codes, are such decrees as the “merit” clause (fire- at-will) automobile code, recently extended by the President without the public hearing promised the workers by General Johnson, and such flexible hour codes as the elec- trical code, which was drawn by Gerard Swope, President of the J. P. Morgan & Company's General Electric Company and a leading Roosevelt advisor, In stating its specific recommen= dation for moving the N. R. A. di- rectly under the wing of the big {manufacturers, the latter call for “clarifying definitions of collective bargaining and provisions for more {elastic working hours.” That is, |new legislation for containing an out-and-out open shop declaration and for legislation which will apply the flexible hour provisions of the electrical to other codes. The Association’s specific legislae tion proposal declared: “Prior to its expiration, new legis- lation should be enacted in order that those functions of the N. I. R, A. which have proven worthy of further trial may be continued. Pro- ,Vision should be made for the tran- sition period by permitting indus- tries in which codes are working satisfactorily, and which voluntarily desire to do so, to continue to op- erate under these codes temporarily, pending revisions necessary for ad- justment to the new legislation, “The committee recommends that the congress be urged to enact for a period of one year from the ex- ity Ci il, Joseph West for |Piration date of the present N. I. fhe 1, D, and Mise Laura Hud: |®. A, appropriate legislation which son for the L. S. N. R. This com- mittee has charge of the defense of the Negro youth, and has called on all other organizations to support the mass and legal defense cam- paign. It has retained Attorney Harold Stranch to defend the Ne- gro youth. Allen was released yesterday on bail of $100 provided by the I. L. D., when a motion for dismissal of the charge against him was denied at a preliminary hearing. A physician has been engaged to investigate his physical condition and to provide medical attention. ‘ Detroit Rank and File To Open Headquarters DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 21. — The Brotherhood of Painters and Dec- orators, Local 42 of the American Federation of Labor, have spon- sored a celebration to support the would permit the continuance dur- ling the period named, of the labor ‘provisions prescribed in existing codes, pertaining to child labor, minimum wages, maximum hours and collective bargaining, with clarifying definitions of collective bargaining and provisions for more elastic working hours added.” The Association also calls upon Congress for a “fair practices act to become effective on the expiration of the N. I. R. A. which” should “permit” any industry trade or ;Other representative group volun- jtarily desiring to do so, to adopt and make effective a code of fair competition practices containing prohibition of unfair practices and permitting if desired, provision for Publicity of prices.” This part of the act would be run by industry through “an indepen- dent administrative court of five members” without the help of the Labor Department. The fascist program of the bank- new headquarters of the A. F. of L,|@Fs and manufacturers is empha Committee for Unemployment In-| Sized by the fact that their legisla« have reached a mark higher than its present 57 per cent. Calls on All Unemployed to Join Communist Party By I. AMTER What is the duty of the unem- Ployed toward the, Communist Party? It is their duty to regard the Communist Party as the Party carrying on the fight in their inter- est. If there were no Communist Party, the struggle could not be so conducted; it would not be linked up with all the struggles of the working class. What is the Communist Party? Is it a group of professional revolu- tionists who make it their business to fight for the interests of the workers no matter where they may be? Is it, as it were, a “fire bri- gade” to be sent out wherever a struggle of the workers arises? The Communist Party consists of some professional revolutionists, but the overwhelming majority of the Communist Party members are workers in the shops and offices, unemployed and professionals, white and Negro, who recognize, threugh their own experience and through study, that the workers will get nowhere unless they fight for their interests. They are work- ers who have learned that we have to fight not only for relief and in- surance, not only for wages and | our rights, not only against fascism 8951 Twelfth Street. Prominent speakers from the rank and file com- mittee will report on the recent re- lief conference held here munist Party—the destruction of all working class rights. Therefore, you militants among he 16,000,000 unemployed—you who face a period ahead of the bitterest struggle against the Roosevelt-Wall Street program, and the other more demagogic programs that will be drawn up and put into effect in the future—is your place not in the ranks of the Communist Party—the Party that leads your fight, the Party that consciously or uncon- sciously you support--the Party that, of all parties in the United States and throughout the world, alone is feared by those who drive us to desperation? In your interest you must sup- port the Communist Party. You cannot stand apart—indifferent, “non-partisan.” The issue is clear and becomes clearer to more thou- sands every day. You don’t want hunger, you don’t want fascism and war, The greatest and only assur- ance that we have that this strug- gle will be fought out to a finish, is not only by building the fighting mass organizations — militant unions, Unemployment Councils, ete—but particularly by building that organization that gives pro- gram, policy and leadership to the ‘surance, tonight at 8:30 o'clock, at| tive proposals provide for Govern ment participation only for the pur- pose of using the courts backed by Government guns to keep labor from striking or doing away with the open shop policy of the Rooses velt Administration. This is what the manufacturers mean by the demagogically ornamented conclu- sion in its announcement: “The committee beileves that the principle and policy of its plan would stand the light of authorita- tive law, would be workable and would represent a practical method of establishing a desirable transi- tion from abnormal highly centrai+ ized control of competitive prac- tices to the normal and orderly method through which a free people in its own interest authorizes its private enterprises to demonstrate by voluntary action their capacity for self-enforcement of that cone trol in the light of their experi- ences.” Speakers who will “emote” the “industry’s platform for recovery.’ discussion at the next month’s congress of industry convention in New York, the publicity folder declares, include professor Moley, former Assistant Secretary of State and editor of the Roosevelt organ Today, and Donald R. Richberg, Executive Director of the Eme gency Council of the Roosevelt Ad- ministration. The Manufacturers advertise Moley as “the confidant of ithe Administration,” and Richberg as “No. 2 man of the Administra- tion.” ; Whipping Post Urged As Reprisal Against — Workers in Georgia Wherever workers have carriedon and war, but for putting an end to I" the Congress the Cc: nunists are ceived on Noy. 6 he thinks au-/a militant struggle, they have been , the whole system, which is called thorizes him to do so. This means ; called “Communists,” “Reds.” This , capitalism, and thereby alone put not only the lowering of relief, the has been said in order to keep the , 8M end to the robbery, exploitation removal of hundreds of thousands from the relief lists, the pauperiza- tion of further millions, but a gen- ere! drive against the whole work- ing class and increased terror. The struggle becomes sharper— workers from the fight—but it i ing class consider all fighters Com- munists. This is in reality an un- intended compliment to the Com- munist Party, \ shows that the enemies of the work- ! and misery of the masses. Without this Communist Party— no revolutionary struggle! Without | this Communist Party—a continual lowering of the conditions of the working class! Without this Com- fighting workers everywhere—the| NEWMAN, Ga,, Nov. 21—Estab- Communist Party. lishment of the whipping post in The issue is sharp. Every unem- | Georgia for punishment of petty of- Ployed worker—young and old—' fenders wes advocated last Wednes= must decide. Adult, workers—into day by Ellis G, Arnall, Newman at- the Communist Party! Young work- ‘ torney and speaker pro tem of the ers—into the Young Communist Georgia House of Representatives, League Become what our enemies Arnall declared he would sponsor call us all—a full-fledged, organized Communist! such a plan at the coming January | session of the Georgia legislature, — 3