The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1934 > Page 3 _ Ohio Jobless Place Relief Demands Before Governor 40 Poe Cut Relief Rise Plan Wide Campaign for Nat’] Congress for Social Insurance (Special to the Daily Worker) COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 21—A delegation of five jobless workers elected at the late Conference of the Unemployment Councils met with Governor White here yester- day, demanding a 40 per cent in- crease in cash relief. The delega- tion, Frank Rogere, A. Lewis, Allen Few, Janie Langston and R. Ferrel, opposed the sales tax proposals made by Governor White in a special message to the State As- sembly yesterday. Governor White hedged when asked by delegate Rogers for en- dorsement of the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill, stating that he “expressed approval” of the ‘Workers’ Bill, but was against it for the State. Major Henderson, state relief director, came to his aid when told by Rogers that increased relief “4s a life and death question” for thousands of families in Ohio, and necessitates the raising of taxation on the incomes in the higher brack- ets. Immediately, Governor White rushed to the defense of the big business interests, retorting “most of the manufacturers are busted.” A. Lewis, Negro leader of the Cleveland unemployed, demanded a stop to the Jim-Crow policy of the administration. Governor White and his relief director emphatically denied that discrimination existed against the Negro people, but were confronted with the interjection by Janie Langston, delegate on the committee from Columbus that “I’m being discriminated against right here in Columbus.” The unemployed conference ad- journed after electing a committee to prepare for a State Convention of the unemployed around the com- ing National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance, which will be held in Washington on Jan. 5 and 7, 1935. “We havee lived on relief all Spring and summer,” writes G. M. of Gloucester, Ohio. Never- theless, this worker managed to collect $1.37 on his collection list for the $60,000 fund. All lists should be rushed into the Daily Worker office at once. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Philadelphia, Pa. ‘Thanksgiving Eve Dance, Wed., Nov. 28 at State Dance Hall, 20th and Market Sts. Good Dance Orchestra. Come in costume. Prizes for best costumes. Chicago, Ill. Gala Dance and Entertainment, Sat- urday, Nov. 24, Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch St. Auspices: Wiggins Br, ¥.C. id C.P. 512, Gala Affair and Dance given by Rus- sian Organizations on Saturday, Nov. 24 at Douglas Auditorium, Kedzie and Ogden Aves. Affair given by Unit 302 and 309 at 2817 Clifton Park Ave, Saturday, Nov. 24th. Refreshments, dancing. Dance given by Sec. 11 OP. — al yard Section, Sunday, Nov. 25, 322 B. 43rd 8t., 9 p.m. Adm. 15c. Affair given by Russian Organ: tions, Saturday, Noy. 24 at Peoples Auditorium. Newark, N. J. House Party given by 1.W.O. Br. 512 at 111 So, Grove St., Irvington. Sun- day, Nov. 2§ at 6 p.m. Real turkey dinner will be served. Adm. 25¢, House Party at home of Estelle Hoft- man, 321 Lesiie St., Sunday, Nov. 25. Concert and entertainment, Sunday, Nov. 18 at 162 Lincoln Pl., Garfield. Concert and Entertainment given by Passaic Unit, Saturday, Dec. 1 at Maciacs Hall, 40 Third’St., Passaic. ‘Adm, 20c in ‘advance; 25¢ at door. Cincinnati, Ohio Big Affair. Musical Program, Good Food, Ed Hamilton, Speaker. Wed., Nov. 28, Workers School, Elm and Opera Place, 8:30 p.m. Philadelphia, Pa. An evening of entertainment given by Unit 102, Bat., Nov. 28, 8:30 p.m. at 2342 S. 8th St. Buffalo, N. ¥. Daily Worker Dance, Friday, Dec. 7 at 760 Main St. Adm. 25¢. WHAT’S ON RATES: 350 for 3 lines on weekdays. Friday Saturday 50c, Money must accompany notices. Cl Tl, Pirst Annual Dance given by Painters Br. 565 1,W.0. ir dag Dec. 8 at 56 N. Mirror Hall, restern Ave. Adm. 25¢ in adv., 35¢ at door. ‘Ten Theatre tion. Second League of Work- ers Theatre. Performances by Gary, ‘Tri-Cities, Milwaukee and Chicago Groups. Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave., Friday, Nov. 23 at 8 ‘Adm. 35c, “Oan the Negro Achieve Economic and Social Freedom Under Capitalism?” Speakers, Herbert New- ton, T.U.U.L., and Euelld L. Taylor, Director National Bar Association, Pen and Hammer, 20 E. Ontario St., Sunday, Noy. 25, 8 p.m. Adm. 15¢. Boston, Mass. First Film showing of “Ernst Thael- mann, Fighter Against Fascism,” Sat. Nov. 24 at Lorimer Hall, Tremont Temple Bldg., 83 Tremont St. Four shows: 2 4 p.m.-7 p.m.-9 p.m. Afternoon 25c. Eves. 35c. Michael Gold lectures on “The Crisis in Modern Literature,” Thursday, Nov, 22, 8 p.m. at Steinert Hall, 163 Boylston St. Auspices: “Leftward.” Philadelphia, Pa. Oakley Johnson ks on “Educa- tion and the World Crisis,” Workers’ School Forum, 908 Chestnut St., 8 p.m. this Friday. Adm. 25¢. Unem- ployed 10¢. Jubilee Concert of 20 years of pro- letarian musical development of the celebrated proletarian composer, Comrade Jacob Schaefer, Friday, Nov. 20 at Mercantile Hall, Broad and ster Streets. “Kein Einzer Schpan” pan’ will be performed. Tickets 40c, at ‘316 Washington Square Bldg. 7th and Chestnut Sts. | Schools Elect Delegates as United Front Grows Here and Abroad NEW YORK.—Echoing the call of |the International Student Commit- | tee against War and Fascism for |a@ World Congress of Students and | Intellectuals, to be held at Geneva, | Dec. 29 to 31, the National Student | League and the League for Indus- trial Democracy have issued a united front appeal to American students to elect delegates from their schools, In Europe the call has met with enthusiastic response. At the re- cent Congress of Youth Against War and Fascism at Sheffield, England, 46 English students were elected to the Geneva Congress. Nineteen English and Scottish schools and universities will be represented. The B. O. N. 8. S., famous Bulgarian anti-fascist student association, has Pledged 11,000 leva to finance their Jarge delegation. Spanish students, undaunted by the terror raging in Spain, promise at least 60 delegates, and are publishing a magazine, “Fronte Universitario,” as the or- gan of the preparations committee. Joint Action Under Way Outstanding in the preparations so far, has been the sending of rep- resentatives from the World Student Committee to the Congress of the International Socialist Student Fed- eration urging them to endorse the World Congress. The Socialist Stu- dents instructed the delegation to contact its. various national sections. Acceptance has in turn been re- ceived from the French National Socialist Student Federation on the Proposals of the French Student Committee. Joint action in sending a large delegation of French Stu- dents is under way. Socialist students are working to- gether with the Student League of Canada in building student anti- war committees in Toronto and Mc- Gill University and in other schools throughout Canada. Headway Made in U. S. Preparation in the United States has made headway in the past two weeks. A call to the World Student Congress was issued to the Amer- ican students signed by students and intellectuals reresenting widely divergent points of view but agree- ing upon the necessity of holding such a congress. The regional conferences have al- weady elected delegates. The New England Regional Conference is snding a group of delegates. The University of North Carolina has elected a university representative. In New York, the election of dele- gats, in high schools and colleges is planned for the near future. In all parts of the country, action is being taken to send students to the Congress. S. Gerber, district or- ganizer of the National Student League in California will be the of- ficial representative for that organ- ization. The World Student Congress will find important work to be done. The growing strength of organized stu- dent opposition to war and fascism has made it necessary to coordinate and integrate the work on an inter- national scale. The problems of students in all countries have now become identical. Tactics must be worked out to meet the suppressive measures levied against students in the fight for their needs and in- terests. American students must send the largest and broadest pos- owe ipa to Geneva for Dec. Harry Bridges Invited To Visit I. L. A. Locals Of Northwestern Ports EVERETT, Wash., Nov. 21—Spe- cial invitation to visit this local has been tendered Harry Bridges, presi- dent of the San Francisco Local of the International Longshoremen’s Association, by the LL.D, here. Word has been received that simi- lar action was taken by the Port- Jand local, which especially asks Bridges’ help in the defense of the 28 Portland longshoremen framed on murder charges. Bridges was the militant leader of the maritime strike and now heads the national rank and file move- ment in the A. F. of L. Workers School Opens In New Haven Sunday NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 21— The third annual session of the New Haven Workers School will open -|here on Sunday at 222 Lafayette St. with Joseph Milton, district agit- rop director of the Communist as ctor. A total of 25 students are ex- peeted from mass organizations and from units of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League, all of whom will attend on the rec- ommendation of their organizations. The chief course will be in the ele- ments of Communism. Symposium Tonight On Jobless Insurance PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Noy. 21—A symposium on Unemployment and social insurance at which speakers from various civic, fraternal and vited to speak will be held to- morrow night, Thursday, at 8 p.m., at 995 North Fifth Street, under the auspices of the North Philadel- phia Unemployment Councils. The meeting has been arranged to popularize the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill and to bring the call to the National Congress on Un- employment Insurance, which will be held in W: on Jan. 5-7 to the workers of the city. x mass organizations have been in- | Toes. ‘American College Students | Join in World Preparations Fight for 18 Is Demanded For Geneva Anti-War Parley Husband Made To Recognize Wife’s Position She Persists Her Place Is in the Ranks of Struggle NEW YORK, Noy. 21—An active Communist Party member in an Ohio town refused to recognize that his wife’s place was in the struggle, until her persistence forced reali- zation of that fact upon him. That is the gist of a letter received last week from a woman living in East Ohio, by the Working Woman Con- test Editor. The letter is one of many written by women through- out the country who are partici pating in the Working Woman Con- test by writing letters telling what they would do, if their husbands would not let them attend working- class meetings. Letters have come, since the in- auguration of the contest in the November issue of the magazine, from little coal towns in Tenessee, from industrial cities like Detroit, from Chicago, from farms in the West. “The sixteen valuable prizes them- selves would be an incentive in the prize letter contest” the woman be- gins, and goes on to say; “My hus- band, a class conscious worker went out to meetings every night. We had two daughters who wnt to school. This made my lif a lone- some one. I had been reading pamphlets which my husband bought at meetings. “The part of the Communist Party program which told of the equality of women seemed very at- tractive to me. I told my husband of this, But he said “You must stay home with the childrn. I do not see what you could do anyway.” But I was not satisfied. I ap- proached a woman Party member. She said she would gladly take up my membership at the next unit meeting. “I becam a member of the Com- munist Party. I became very much interested in the work. When the chance came, I read aloud to my husband, about the importance of organizing the working-class women. I read what Lenin said on the sub- ject. I talked to him in a com- ardely manner about his anti-Com- munistic attitude towards women. He finally confessed that he had “never thought about it that way.” Now we hoth work in the Commu- nist Party. He encourages me Women who wish to participate in the contest must write letters direct to Working Woman Contest Edito:, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. The letter must be based on what the woman should do, who has a husband who himself has other interests, but won't let her at- tend working-class meetings. There are sixteen prizes. The first prize is a hamper of white Rose canned products. ‘Westinghous, adjustable heat, elec- tric iron. Other prizes include sub- scriptions to various periodicals, an initiation and three months dues payment to the International Work- ers Order, etc. The contest ends at midnight, January 25th, 1935. Providence Workers Will Conduecct Bazaar PROVIDENCE, R. I., Nov. 21— The Labor Educational Association will give its first annual three-day bazaar here on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, Noy. 29 and 30 and Dec. 1. Music, dancing and_entertain- ment will be provided for patrons of the bazaar which promises a large selection of food stuffs, and other consumers goods at attractive prices. The bazaar will be held at 1755 Westminster St. The second prize is a} Councils Urge On West Coast | Cleveland Fraternal Orders Act on Social Insurance Meeting | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Noy. 21— The Executive Committee of the |Fronte Unico Delle Organizzazioni Italiane (United Front of Italian | | Organizations(, at a meeting held here last Saturday, endorsed the call to the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insur- ance to be held in Washington, D. C., on Jan. 5 and 7, 1935. A general meeting of the dele- gates to the Italian United Front, which is composed of thirty-eight organizations, including Italian fra- ternal groups, the Sons of Italy, In- dependent Sons of Italy, Progressive Republican Clubs and other mutual aid, fraternal and social clubs, will be held here Sunday. In addition to endorsing the call, the executive committee has or- dered 200 of the official Congress calls, 200 of the magazines pub- lished by the National Sponsoring Committee, and 2,000 post cards which set forth the demands for unemployment insurance and to be mailed to Congressmen. These will be distributed to the delegates at the meeting Sunday. The united front was called last May by the four local branches of the International Workers’ Order, Branches 2505, 2549, 2550 and 2562. 4 second, third and fourth meet- ig was called on June 24, Aug. 29 and on Oct. 28, each broadening further the united front. The United Front of Italian Or- ganizations here plans to send at least ten delegates to the National Congress for Unemployment and | Social Insurance. Sin g le Men Urged to Join Relief Struggle CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 20.—In rapid succession, drive after drive is being made on the unemployed workers of Chicago. On Nov. 1 a series of relief retrenchments were ordered by Cook County Relief Administra- tor Leo M, Lyons, who declared his intention of bringing all relief to the levels prevailing in Rockford, where he recently was administra- tor. Relief budgets there are less than half of the amounts paid in Chicago prior to his sweeping re- lief cut of 10 to 35 per cent. On the work relief jobs, 26,000 workers have received work assign- ments totalling only three-quarters of the previous month’s assign- ments. Plans have been drawn for firing 1,000 relief staff employes Close on the heels of these orders has come another to provide neither \clothing nor shoes to single unem- {ployed workers. The several thou- sand unattached workers who have been able to keep out of the flop-| houses have been denied winter fuel. On numerous occasions when these workers protested against this order denying them fuel, they were told to go to the vermin-infested flop-houses. With only a five-dollar monthly food order, and no provision for fuel of any kind, these men are faced with continuous slow starvation. Yet, before even this miserable monthly dole is given, they must give two days’ labor in the streets. The United Front Committee for Saturday’s demonstration has ap- pealed to all these single unem- ployed workers to join in the gi- |gantic united front on that day in the demand for jobs at union wages, increased cash relief, winter cloth- ing and the enactment of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. Workers will assemble Saturday at 10 a.m, at two points—Union Social Groups Back National Congress Call Ask Mass Protest for the Freedof of Workers in Sacramento Jails The National Unemployment Councils yesterday appealed to all workers to arouse a stotm of pro- test dmanding the freedom of the eighteen who are now imprisoned in the County Jail of Sacramento, Calif, and are on trial under the criminal syndicalist laws. These workers, who were engaged in militant activities on behalf of the working population of the State, face a vicious law enacted during may be sent to long terms in prison unless @ wave of mass protest is raised. Several of these workers are mem- bers of the Unemployment Councils and all, while in jail, have been denied such literature as the Daily Workers, New Masss, Labor Defen- der, Western Worker, etc. The sheriff, Don Cox, is indifferent to these workers’ rights, and has cut them off from the outside world. The National Unemployment Councils have called upon all work- ers to send resolutions and letters of protest to District Attorney Mc- Allister and Judge Dal Lemmon of Sacramento demanding the imme- diate release of the eighteen work- ers; letters of protest should be sent to Sheriff Don Cox, County Jail, Sacramento; and letters to the workers themselves should be sent to Nora Conklin, et al., County Jail, Sacramento, Calif. The National Councils also called upon all workers and their organ- izations throughout the country to send resolutions demandingt the im- mediate release of the four workers arrested last May in Oklahoma City, Okla, These workers were ar- rested at a militant struggle for relief after the welfare had stopped all relief aid to the jobless. Protests should be sent to the sheriff, County Jail, Oklahoma City, Okla. Negro Will Face Court Today for Possession Of Workers’ Literature BIRMINGHAM, Noy. 21—The trial of Fred Walker, Negro worker charged with violation of the new “Down's” ordinance prohibiting pos- session of revolutionary literature, is set for tomorrow before Judge Martin. Walker is represented by Attorney C. B. Powell, of the Inter- national Labor Defense. Frank Halsey, another Negro worker, has been sentenced to from 3 to 5 years in jail on a framed-up charge of throwing a stink-bomb during a strike in a Negro theatre on May 26. Joe Persey Bragg, 18-year old Negro youth was indicted last week by the Jefferson’ County Grand Jury on a charge of assault with in- tent to murder in the shooting sev- eral weeks ago of a white woman, Mrs. Frank Slayton. The “evidence” against the youth is purely circum- stantial and of the flimsiest sort. Railroad Police Shoot Jobless Negro in Dayton DAYTON, Ohio. Nov. 21.—A | young Negro worker, Louis Arring- ton age 27, was brutally shot down while picking coal on the Pennsyl- vania Railroad tracks here Monday. Although coal has been shipped here for distribution among the un- employed, the relief administration is denying it to those on the welfare ilists. Especially are the Negro peo- ple being denied fuel. The single workers stormed the welfare office here when they were | denied surplus food orders, and four members of the Unemployment ; Councils, Hobert, Gray, Dundric and Evans, wer arrested. They are be- ing defended by attorney Lands. The workers are continually be- Park, Ogden and Randolph Streets, and at Twenty-second Street and Wentworth Avenue—both lines of march will converge on City Hall, ing told that there are no more surplus food supplies, whie the com- modities are being hauled from place to place in the city. the days of the Palmer raids, andj Bremerton Communists Lead |Dock Workers Competition In Northwest iL ocked Out In Daily Worker Fund Drive in T renton q Raised Quota Quickly by Showing Paper to New Workers The Communist Party sections in Seattle must arouse themselves! Their inactivity is cheifly respon- sible for that district's low per- centage in the $60,000 drive. Seattle still is below 50 per cent. Though Klamath Falls and Ya- kima, Washington, have gone over the top—the former now having 150 per cent of its quota—nearly every other section is standing still, in the face af the determination of the Central Committee that all quotas be filled by Dec. 1. Five sections have not yet con- tributed a penny. These are Bel- lingham, Portland, Olympia, Ev- erett and Centralia. Tacoma has acquired hardly 10 Per cent. Spokane has contrib- uted only one-third of its quota. , Astoria, which is in Socialist com- petition with the Seattle Section, remains at $53, nothing having been heard from it recently. Is such poor work unremediable? The Navy Yard Unit in Bremer- ton, in the same district, is a shin- ing proof that it is not. While other units in Seattle and through- out the country give excuses for not being able to raise money for the “Daily,” this unit presents a picture which should be a Bolshevik in- spiration to every unit in the coun- try. “Our unit would like to write you of our activities in the $60,000 drive, and the lessons learned,” its or- ganizer states. The drive for funds for our Daily Worker was the best thing that could have happened to our unit. Our quota was set by the district at $10. In less than two week’s time we collected $17. This Plan Worked “The Navy Yard here is per- meated with stool-pigeons and Secret Service men from the In- telligence Division. In mapping out methods to raise the fund, we stressed the importance of getting it from newer workers rather than from known sympathizers of the Party—although we contacted them, too. What I mean by newer workers is, workers our unit had not contacted before. In do- ing this, each comrade used his own initiative in picking the worker, and in doing so brought the face of the Party right to the front. The conspiracy of silence of the capitalist press out here in the West in regard to the strug- gles’ of the workers in the East, and the struggles of the workers in Spain, and the truth about the Soviet Union, were great weapons in our hands to get the workers to give to the fund. “Going over the top of our quota does not mean we are through. We intend to drive for more funds till the $60,000 is raised—and also after- wards. The contacted workers are continually being given more litera- ture in the hope of getting them to support our paper further by sub- scribing and eventually coming into the Party.” There is little to add to this stir- ring picture. It is up to the other units in the Seattle district to take example! The sections must not wait a minute longer. Their leaderships must bring every unit completely into the drive. Territories must be fully canvassed, every worker approached—parties held. Mem- bers of section committees must make personal visits to units and mass organizations to activize them. The Daily Worker calls on Seattle to go full steam ahead to finish its quota on time! eR cat NOTE:—The Daily Worker desires reports of activities of all Districts, Sections, Units and individuals in the $60,000 drive. These reports will be printed. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov, 21—On Saturday at noon, at one stage in his sweep through the South in- specting the Tennessee Valley Au- thority, President Roosevelt was met with a protest signed by 250 Students at Fisk University de- manding a stay of execution for the Scottsboro boys and an investiga- tion of the lynching of Claude Neal in Florida. Dr. T. E. Jones, presi- dent of the University handed him the protest as well as a statement from the National Scottsboro-Hern- don Action Committee prepared by James W., Ford. The presidential party was making its last stop in Nashville at Fisk University, listening to Negro spir- ituals sung by the student bodies of Fisk, Meharry Medical College and the Tennessee State Agricul- tural and Industrial College for Ne- Mr. Roosevelt’s car drew up an hour and a half late before Jubilee Hall, the girls’ dormitory, made famous by the well-known Jubilee Singers, who went out from Fisk more than a half century ago sing- ing slave songs in order to raise funds to help build the school. Jones Greets Roosevelt Fisk University Students Meet Roosevelt With Demand for Action on Scottsboro Case statement was handed to President Roosevelt. The Fisk choir sang “Done Made My Vow to the Lord” and “Ain’t Gonna Study War No More,” an old post-Civil War Negro spiritual. Mr. Roosevelt's sweet smile of agreement with the latter song’s sentiment must have been feigned when he thought of his war program of vast expenditures and concentration of the whole govern- mental apparatus in preparation for war. Only three days before at the White House two of the Scottsboro mothers in a delegation of promi- nent Negro and white citizens had been refused an audience by Presi- dent Roosevelt. Mr. McIntyre re- ceived the delegation in the corri- dors of the White House, declaring: “You will never see the President.” Three songs, including “Popule Meus,” were sung by the Fisk choir. These were followed by “Hand Me Down the Silver Trumpet, Gabriel,” by the students of A. & I. college. The traditional rhythm of the Ne- gro people was more evident in the singing of the agricultural students than in that of the reknowned Fisk singers. The students of Fisk at the present time are drawn largely President Jones of Fisk Univer- sity, white, made a short speech of welcome after which the Scottsboro which was not the case with the early Fisk students, while the stud- ents of A. & I. college come from poorer families and mostly from the backwoods of Tennessee. Scottsboro Banner Raised Before the final strains of the last song, James Weldon Johnson's so-called national Negro anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the presidential party began to move slowly away. Just as the President’s car reached the turn of the drive- way, a large banner was raised in full view of President Roosevelt. On it was inscribed, “MR. PRESIDENT: SAVE THE LIVES OF THE NINE SCOTTSBORO BOYS.” Mr. Roose- velt tried to ignore the banner by continuously waving his hat to the singers, but Mrs. Roosevelt turned very red when she saw the sign. Only a few of the assembled crowd, those on the left of the driveway, saw the banner. Ford Gives Foes Statement Just before the arrival of the presidential party, James W. Ford, a graduate of Fisk who had come directly from Washington represent- ing the Scottsboro-Herndon Action Committee, rushed out to give Presi- from the more prosperous Negro families and have little contact with the feeling of the Negro masses, dent Jones the statement he had promised to hand to the President. University. Millions of Negro people who are persecuted daily in forms similar to that of the Scottsboro boys, watch you. They wait eagerly to see what you do or say here. They will judge your actions. We ask you, Mr. President, to state openly your position on the whole system of lynch terror. We ask you to use your power and bring to pun- ishment the lynchers of Claude Neal. We ask you to use your power and have brought before Congress and passed the Bill of Civil Rights for Negroes. We ask you to use the precedent established by the late President Woodrow Wilson in the Tom Mooney case and imme- diately stay the execution of Hay- wood Patterson and Clarence Norris and to give complete freedom to all of the nine Scottsboro boys.” The president of the Student Council had met late Friday night in conference with James W. Ford and decided to draw up individual protest letters to the President, but because of the lateness of the hour it was decided to present the joint letter, The Student Council made a decision to send letters from in-~ dividual students the following week to Moosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga. Mr, John Hope Franklin, president It in part declares: “Today you have come to Fisk of the Student Council, is in charge of collecting the letters. Labor Official Heard at Trial’ Of De Jonge | Admits A. F, L. Opposes | Criminal Syndical- ism Laws PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 21.—Three American Federation of Labor offi- | cials called by the prosecution to aid the frame-up of Dirk De Jonge and other militant workers charged with {criminal syndicalism were compelled ;en cress examination to admit that Secretary Quizzed Gust Anderson, Secretary of the Labor Council, the de- Portland Central being cross-examined by fense, was asked: “The A. F. of L. is officially against all criminal syndicalism laws?” “As vicious anti-working class Iegislation?” “Yes.” Anderson, who was on _ the |‘‘strategy committee” which killed the movement for the general strike here in July, said that Joseph Ryan’s repudiated sell-out order during the longshore strike, was “all explained.” “Ryan explained all that,” he answered to a question of the de- fense. “Besides, that often hap- pens.” He Didn’t Know’ Anderson, who was called by the prosecution especially to testify on attitude of the American Federa- tion of Labor officialdom toward Communist workers, “didn’t know” that many locals and central bodies of the A, F. of L. had rejected Green’s anti-Communist order. He “didn’t know” that there was an A. F. of L. rank and file convention in San Francisco in October, but he admitted that the A. F. of L. had withdrawn its open opposition to unemployment insurance in the last year. The case of De Jonge will go to the jury .early next week, after a three week trial. De Jonge will himself address the jury, explaining why, as a fighter for the working- class, he is a Communist. Veteran Sues To End Relief Discrimination For Militant Activities BELLINGHAM, Nov. 21.—Discri- mination in the administration of veterans’ relief funds is charged in the suit brought by George Bradley, Communist candidate for the United States senate and Char- jles Watson against Julian Brown, George F, Rhode and Irwin H. Sly as members of the Veteran’s of Foreign Wars’ relief investigating committee. Bradley, who has been unem- ployed since 1932 and with a wife and child to support, testifies that he has received only $83 in aid from the relief fund from September 29, 1933 until April 30, 1934 although Julian Brown told him he would be adequately provided for if he ceased his working class activities. Both Bradley and Watson were refused sufficient aid because of their “red” activities. “I believe you’re on pretty thin ice,” said Judge Ed E, Hardin in whose court the case is being tried. “Tt is the duty of the relief commit- tee to make inquiry without regard to the political or religious beliefs of the applicants. It is the commit- tee’s duties to ascertain his needs as a veteran. Trial of 16 Nazi Foes Is Opened in Boston (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 21—The 16 anti-fascist workers arrested here this spring in a demonstration against the Nazi propaganda cruiser Karlsruhe was assigned yesterday to Judge Ernest Hodson for trial in the Pemberton Square Court. The International Labor Defense, defending the anti-Nazi fighters, today called on all workers and worknig class organizations to send emphatic protests to Judge Hodson demanding the immediate uncondi- tional release o! all the prisoners. Workers are urged to pack the court Toom, All workers who witnessed the demonstration and the arrests were asked yesterday to report at once to the offices of the International Labor Defense, at 12 Heyward Place. Officials of the I. L. D. also stressed the necessity of raising funds at once to continue the defense work which is being hampered by lack of money. Thanksgiving Eve. Wed., Nov. 28th COME IN “PHILADELPHIA DANCE STATE DANCE HALL 20th and Market Streets BENEFIT DAILY WORKER care Protests to Ryan Get No Results—Men Re- placed on Job TRENTON, N. J., Nov. 21.—Trene ton longshoremen have been locked out of their union hall and jobs, | but by their union officials, accord ing to a resolution adopted by @ | group of members of Local 1356 of the International Longshoremen’s Union. Protests to Ryan and other offi« cials of the I. L. A. have brought no response, while the workers starve and their jobs are worked by men sent in by the I. L. A. local of Philadelphia. Their resolution telling the story reads as follows: “Brothers “In August of this year, we the longshoremen of Trenton organized a local known as I. L. A. 1356, con- sisting of 95 longshoremen. Our officers were appointed before the charter was issued by our self- appointed president, Hoenstein. “Immediately after the charter was issued, Mr. Baker (Philadelphia organizer) swore our officers in without election. We have re- quested our constitutional rights for an election of officers, but have been denied this. Because we have requested our constitutional rights, Hoenstein told us that he was run- ning this local and he would throw us all out and take in new mem- bers that he would rule and dom- inate. “We did not agree with him, causing considerable friction. We tried to explain to Mr. Hoenstein that it was not a one-man local. It was organized as a rank and file local and no one man could run it, “The body voted the charter closed, but evidently Mr. Hoenstein ignored it, passing out books and buttons to men who did not belong to the local. By doing this he flooded the local, causing us to be locked out of the union. “Organizer Baker dictated our charter open against the protest of our members, allowing our local to be flooded. Organizer Baker brought men from Philadelphia to break our local and try to lock us out. We have been refused admit- tance to our hall; they also refused to accept our dues or allow us to go to work to earn our bread and butter. “We have communicated and pro- tested to President J. B. Ryan of the LL.A. snd Secretary J. J. Royce of the I. L. A., and secretary of the A. F. of L. Also to the U. S. Labor Board in Washington, the Mercer County Central Labor Union and President Green of the A. F. of L. “We have been unable to obtain any logical reason for this lockout from the above beloved brothers. “We are making a sincere ate tempt to appeal to anyone who can enlighten us on this subject, or these actions. Kindly explain what it all means, as we do not under- stand such tactics as those of union men. “We remain sincerely and fra- ternally the locked out members of Local 1356 of the I. L. A.” Unemployed Leaders Face Trial in Hillsboro For Syndicalism, Dee. 3 CHICAGO, Noy. 21—Trial of the nine Hillsboro defendants, arrested for leading demonstrations for un- employment relief in Hillsboro, Hil., has been set for Dec. 3, following a preliminary hearing before Judge Jett at which a special prosecutor from the Attorney General's office was present. The defendants are to be tried on charges of criminal syndicalism and “attempts to overthrow the government.” The Hillsboro Dee fense Committee and the Internae tional Labor Defense are appealing to all organizations to flood Judge Jett and State Attorney Horner with protests, demanding the re- lease of the nine defendants and the repeal of the criminal syndical- ist law. Protests should be fore warded to both officials at Hillse boro, Il Councils Stop Eviction Of Jobless Negro Family PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 20.— Intercepted on its way to the South Philadelphia relief station last week, a committee from the Unem- ployment Councils stopped the eviction of Mary Anderson, a Negro mother of two children. As the committee was on its way to the welfare station, they were stopped at Tenth and Locust Street by a boy who informed them of the. eviction. Running to 420 Fulton Street, they found Mary Anderson and her two children on the street while the constable loaded her fur- niture on a truck. Although twelve Police stood by, the workers seized the furniture and placed it back into the house. ss COSTUME