The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1934, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1984 LITVINOV DEMANDS FIRM ACTION AGAINST CHACO WARFARE LEAGUE OF NATIONS REPORT CRITICIZED BY U.S.S.R. DELEGATE Committee Had Attempted to Pass Off With the Barest Examination U. S. and British Interests in Chaco Oil (Special te the Daily Worker) GENEVA, Nov.-23 (By Wireless) —Maxim Litvinov, Foreign Commissar of the Soviet Union and the Soviet dele- | gate to the League of Nations, discussed the report of the Chaco in today’s session of the Assembly of the League. The} Committee had attempted to pass off with the barest exami- nation the present imperialist com-¢€ ————-—-—— | | threat of revolution at the head of Partially favoring the tenants and small landowners. The Supreme Court of Spain declared this law null and void, thereby wiping out the limited autonomy already won in Catalonia and the meagre ag- om Page 1) (Continued order to bleed the rising revolution- ary tempo of the masses—hoping to bleed it into decisive defeat. As Madariaga, outstanding Spanish lib-| eral writer declared, in a special p f article to the Hearst papers, on bred Seah eee me Noy. 18, defending the fascist ers ee eee ee butchery. the Spanish prole- called throughout Spain, the anar- chists sabotaged the united front of armed struggle and the fight for ‘The | National independence. The Work- aims of the bourgeoisie was to get |¢"S Alliance, instead of taking the the proletariat to shoot so that its |!ead for the independence of Cata- weapons would be unloaded, The |onia, on the basis of the revolu- proletarian revolution is a maga-|tionary struggles of the working zine with a variety of ammunition | class, waited for the Catalonian always retaining a last bullet for | bourgeoisie to act under the lead- The weapon was not |¢rship of Louis Companys. On Oct. 6, after pressure from the | masses, Catalonia was declared in- tariat held a loaded gun of the the republic turning fascist. the enemy. held in firm hands and was not petition between British and Ameri- can interests in the struggle for the oil deposits of the Chaco, in which the South American countries Paraguay and Bolivia, are merely the respective tools of the two powers. In his speech, Litvinov declared his stand on the report in terms of withering sarcasm “T wish to give credit to the mode- rateness and carefulness with which the committee prepared document presented to us now. The recommendations which this report contains bear, in my opinion, a mild even too mild, a character. How- ever, despite this, the Soviet delega- tion would be ready to accept the report in its present form if it were accepted by the Assembly unani- mously, and without much discus- sion, But in view of there being a proposal to charge the committee with further discussion the report of the Soviet delegation proposes: For Fixed Term “First, an established fixed term for acceptance of the recommenda- tions by the parties concerned. This term must be as brief as possible by giving their governments suffi- cient time for making decisions and for consultation, if necessary, with legislative institutions. Simultane- ously, it must be so brief as to pre- vent armies from utilizing this period for unrolling advancing movements and making further territorial seizures. Embargo Must Be Strict “Second, the Soviet delegation proposes that the embargo be of a stricter character and should pre- vent not only the supply and sale of arms but also their transit. Ex- perience has proved that in those caves the facts that there was a supply of arms were established, it was not always easy to expose the origin of these arms and find the party guilty of their manufacture and sale. It is; however, much easier to determine which countzies al- lowed the transportation of arms through their territory. Jobless Mass At Reliet Units In Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 23.— | Mass demonstrations were staged | here Wednesday before units of the | Allegheny County Emergency Re- lief Board by the united. front of | Unemployment Councils, Unem- ployed Citizens League, the Inde- pendent Unemployed Citizens League, the Pennsylvania Unem- ployed League, and the Veterans Rank and File Committee. Large crowds of workers gathered before each welfare unit to protest against | the Public Relations Office and to force authorities to deal with emergency cases of unemployed | families. Police assembled in an attempt | and arrested eighteen men and wo- | men, but were forced to release all prisoners at hearings court on the following day. | At the North Side relief station | 1,000 assembled, and a committee | of seven was elected to present. de- | mands to the officials inside. While they were meeting with the super- visor a swarm of police reserves arrived on the scene, attempted to | provoke a disturbance, and arrested thirteen men and four women. In Hazelwood, at about the same | | time, 500 workers gathered before the local unit to protest, and Jack | Thomas, Unemployed Council lead- | er, mounted a chair to address the | crowd. A detail of police stationed there | tried to prevent Thomas from) to break up the demonstrations, | in police! aimed properly. Aim of Bourgeoisie Madrid proved to the hilt the declaration of the Communist Party of Spain: “The revolution does not just occur, it is organized.” Insurrection, as Lenin pointed out, | is an art. The organization of revolution cannot be restricted to | shock troops “prepared to do any: thing,” but must bring into the of. fensive the whole forces of the working class, and must arouse into | action the great peasant masses. The workers did not know who, | where and under what forms of struggle the revolution was bei jled, and what organs of pow | should be set up. The Socialist leaders did _ not know and could not apply the les- |sons of insurrection taught by Marx, and so brilliantly developed | by Lenin and confirmed by the vic- | | | | dependent. The anarchists foughs against the independence of Cata- lonia, sabotaging the revolutionary pudiendo pertenecer a él torious Russian Revolution, “To be successful,” wrote Lenin in his ar- ticle on “Marxism and Uprising,” “the uprising must be based not on | @ conspiracy, not on a party, but | on the advanced class. This is the first point. The uprising must be | based on the revolutionary upsurge | of the people. This is the second | point. The uprising must be based | on the erucial point in the history | of the maturing revolution, when | the activity of the vanguard of the | people is at its height, when the | vacillations in the ranks of the ene- | mies, and in the ranks of the weak, half-hearted, undecided friends of | the revolution are at their highest | point. This is the third point... . But once these conditions. exist, | then to refuse to treat the uprising | as an art means to betray Marxism | and the revolution.” (Lenin's em- phasis.) | Waited For the Fascists en la forma siguiente: iscipling. 3° Gas desercio con severidad. que estén dispuestos a defender con su sangre los intereses de nuestra clase proletaria. Este ejército quedaré compueste y se dirigird 1.0 Todos los que haya cumplide les diez ¢ oche afos haste treinig 7 cinco pueden inser tirse of Giércite Rojo, 9.9 Une vez ingresadoe n filas tendrdn que observar una férree © desobediencics al mtande serdn castigedes 42 Quedan excluldos de pertenecer al Giército Rojo aquellos . quq hayan pertenecido o la clase explotadéra. §! aplastamiento de los contrarrevolucionarios, fe, cmmservactd¢ de nuestras posiciones exige tener an Giército inven aqguetride ¢ | workers who went into action have initiative, which will not be lost in the next revolutionary upsurge. struggles of the workers and as open strikebreakers and counter- revolutionists. This delayed the ac- | tion of the working class, created | further hesitation and disorganiza- | tion and permitted Companys to/ betray the movement. Companys Maneuvered | Companys did not go over into the armed struggle, but maneuvered |and treated with General Batet of the Catalonia garrison. He feared the unloosening of the mass armed struggle which would sweep over | the head of the national bourgeoisie. He gave General Batet time to or- ganize his troops for assault. On Oct. 6, Companys’ invited Batet to join the independence movement. “The general,” declared the New For the Spanish Red Army BANDO HACEMOS SABER: Desde la aparicién de este bando queda constituido el Ejército Rojo, todos lor trabajadores ting | Madrid General Strike Proved Effective York Times cable of Oct. 8, “asked |learned the lesson of taking the! for an hour to consider the proposi- | ‘ tion, but before the time was up he | ordered his troops into the streets and began attacking buildings.” government headquarters and the radio station from which Companys was broadcasting his. pompous ap- peals. At this time, the workers went into action, but they had re- ceived a fatal blow from the anar- chist leaders, and were defeated. This gaye encouragement to the landlord-bourgeois fascist govern- ment at Madrid, and the tide of battle turned throughout Spain after this defeat. In the suburbs of Barcelona, at Badelona, a city of 30,000 inhabi- tants, and Sabadell, with 40,000 peo- ple, the workers took control; but with the defeat in Barcelona, with- out supporting actions of the pro- letariat throughout Catalonia (due the anarchists), the battle was lost. Since the anarchists had monopol- ized the leadership of the workers in this most important industrial center of Spain, their counter-revo- lutionary tactics sealed the defeat of the workers. Held First Congress In the early part of this year, | the Communist Party of Catalonia held its first congress, attended by more than 100 delegates from all parts of Catalonia. At that time, the problems. of the revolution in Catalonia were clearly outlined by the C. P. Congress, The main thesis declared: “The Communist Party of Cata- lonia, whilst proceeding to the carrying out of its historical task, the overthrow of the power of the bourgeoisie, and of the big landowners, by mobilizing the bread masses for the national and social emancipation of the toiling population of Catalonia, for the struggle of the right of self- determination right up to separa- tion, for the setting up of the So- viets of workers, toiling peasants, soldiers and sailors, will conduct an irreconcilable struggle against Spanish imperialism, and the traitors of the cause of the eman- cipation of the Catalonian people: the Esquerra, the Generalidad and its agents.” CAROLINA WORKERS Batet’s troops seized the central | JEER WHEN FARLEY PRAISES BULWINKLE Roosevelt’s Postmaster Grooms Notorious Enemy of Labor for National Role—Communist Party Exposes Reactionary Speech By Paul Crouch CHARLOTTE, N. C., Nov. 23.—The most -significant part of the speech here of Postmaster-General Farley was the extravagant praise of Major Bulwinkle of Gastonia in an effort to make a national figure of this reactionary fascist. “You are to be congratulated in having as your rep- to the fatal and initial treachery of | resentative in congress from this district the Honorable A. L. Bul- winkle of Gastonia,” Farley de- clared. “In the house of represen- tatives today there is no one who has been more active or more help- jful in the support of the President and his recovery program.” | Bulwinkle, who received far more |praise from Farley than all the other senators, congressmen and other officials present at the post office dedication combined, is one of the most notorious enemies of labor in the country, and. mention of his name recalls the murder of |Ella May Wiggins, the beatings of union members in Gastonia and the terror represented by the “black jhundred” gangs of the Manville- |Jenckes Company. He was ene of the prosecutors of the Gastonia strikers and union organizers of 1929, and attorney for the Manville- Jenckes Company. In the ‘recent textile strike the Manville-Jenckes Company again distinguishes it- self in wholesale terror, mass black- lists and firing of workers who “took their right to organize seri- ously.” Audience Not Fooled Farley’s praise of Bulwinkle was greeted with a number of boos from the audience. No name in North Caroiina is so symbolic of reaction- Ary capitalist oppression and brute terror as the name of the vicious Major Bulwinkle, whose very ap- pearance reminds one of a savage bulldog. It was evident from Far- ley’s speech that Bulwinkle is being The anarchist leaders have been | built up into a national figure to exposed as counter-revolutionists to|t@ke @ leading position in the the Catalonian masses; the impo- | R0osevelt administration. tence of the national bourgeoisie} North Carolina’s other arch-re- was clearly revealed. jactionary, 8. Clay Williams, capi- The Communist Party. of Spain talist and director of the N.R.A., in its resolution on the lessons of | Was in the stand by the side of the armed uprising declared with|Bulwinkle, Farley and a crowd of regard to the national struggle:|U. S. senators, congressmen, judges, | Speaking, twice pulling him off his) he socialist leaders did not pick | | perch. oe apmyt nent | the erucial point, waiting, for the Peli Se tact SAG faving excellent fascists to take the initiative. When discipline, immediately crowded the |iney did go into action, they did | speaker and prevented police from / not base themselves on the mass woe while he concluded his} irugsies at their height, nor did | He called for abolition of} ‘ ; |they treat the uprising as an art he P. R. O. and recognition of| anq failed to organize it for the valiente para edificer in sociedad Sociclista. Jota. Todes los dias deade las ocho de le maftana queda. eblertd l¢ oficina de inscripeion en las dependencias del Qyantamtedior El Comité Revolucionarie . t “T suppose that a similar prohibi- the committees of unemployed or-| tion on arms transit might prove | ganizations. | more effective than prohibitions on| 4 committee was elected to enter | the sale of arms. I agree with the! the office and present the resolu- remarks of my friend the Turkish| tions of the united front to Mrs. victory which could have been achieved, — What happened in Catalonia turned the tide of events. For four the Red Army.) (Translation of the above proclamation in Asturias, creating delegate concerning the introduc- tion of an embargo even before the aggressive side is established. How- ever, this is not important if we consider the brevity of the term which will be fixed for acceptance by «the parties concerned in the present recommendations. : “It is important that the em- bargo be applied with all strict- ness and energy after one or both sides refuse to accept these rec- ommendations. The long distance which divides us from the theatre of military actions and the com- paratively insignificant number of armed forces participating there should not lower the importance of the problem in our eyes. The decisions which we shall make here might have very important con- sequences in the examination of more serious conflicts and we must all remember this, For its part the Soviet delegation insists that the decisions of the Assembly concern- ing this question bear a decisive and firm character and that the Assembly manifests firmness in this realization.” Three Jailed In Detroit Fur Strike |at the Van Braam St. She | hundred years, the central rulers | of Spain have been trying to unify ‘Catalonia with the rest of Spain. 4 | When the 1931 republic was estab- Pane ae ee ae for ished, the Catalonian people — “e jachieved a restricted measure of aaa er Roe arirtmcaraiband eet independence which was gathered ‘at the Penn Ave. relief | {ast being curbed as the “demo- station to stage a similar protest cratic” measures of the republic meeting. Fred Griff was arrested | Were being whittled away by the : m St. meeting, | Tight, and later by the fascist de- : * ; | velopments. gpa eg enced alaperse | The crisis in the Samper govern- Immediately following the ar- | ment, which led to the formation of rests, large delegations of workers | Alvord, welfare supervisor. was forced to meet with the com- mittee and take up ten emergency | the Lerroux-Robles fascist regime, formed and marched on the City| Hall, where they demanded that | the Mayor release all the prison-| | ers. Griff was released on his own recognizance exactly one hour after his arrest. | The same delegation then entered Safety Director Bell's office, where | they protested the action of police in ripping signs off the backs of workers picketing the central re- Nef office in Building. A visit was next made to City Relief Director Southard Hay and to County Director George Mills, to force some action in eviction cases taking place. All workers arrested were charged with disorderly conduct but their cases were dismissed in police court by Magistrate Charles Papale. Demands presented by commit- tees at each welfare unit were: (1) For abolition of the Public Relations Office, (2) For the recognition of all committees of the unemployed and the armed uprising was pre- cipitated over the agrarian-national question in Catalonia. The Cata- PROCLAMATION Notice: We hereby announce the organization of the Red Army to which all workers, ready to defend the interests of our class with their blood, may belong. This Army will consist of and concern itself with the follow- ing: (1) All who are over 18 years of age and up to 35 may join the Red Army. (2) Once having joined they must ebserve its iron discipline. (3) All desertions and disobediences will be punished severely. (4) All members of the exploiting class will be excluded from joining the Red Army. The actions of the counter-revolutionaries, and the exigencies of our situation, necessitates the creation of a valiant fighting force to erect the Socialist society. the City-County | |Jonian Generalidad (local govern- ment) some months before the |clash had passed an agrarian law, on at City Hall, Note: The recruiting office will be open all day from 10 o'clock REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE. “Another frightful error was, the leaving of the-issue of struggle in } the hands of such vacillating, per-| sons-as Companys... . If the revo- lution is to be victorious, it must remain in all its forms in the hands of the exploited. This has been |once more demonstrated by our heroic comrades in Asturias and Biscaya.” Faced by the withering criticism of the toiling masses, by the sharp| movement away from the anar- chists to the Communist Party, the anarchist leaders tried to win back their waning leagership by calling a general strike in Saragossa and other parts of Catalonia in protest against the execution of two work- ers. But this gesture coming from a source tainted itself until the blood of the workers received no supporting response. The result of the fighting in Catalonia has sharpened the class lines in the national independence struggle, The bourgeoisie has heen weakened (if not annihilated) as a force in the struggle for national emancipation. The anarchists’ chiefs, who were against national independence, are being exposed in the eyes of the revolutionary mass- €s as counter-revolutionists. The Milk Diivors At Borden Co. Demand Union Representatives of the Interna- tional Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs Union (A. F. of L.) were visiting the Borden Farms Shop Groups Name Delegates To Bronx Scottshoro Parley day—Mother of Andy Wright To Speak The Bronx County Scottsboro Conference this after- Products Co. at 110 Hudson Street, yesterday afternoon to present de- mands for union recognition and against the company union, union officials at 265 West 14th Street noon, 2 o’clock, at the Epworth Methodist Church, 834 Mor- vis Avenue, Bronx, will be attended by many delegates from shops and special house committees, as well as unions, churches and other groups, the New York district of the In- (Special to the Daily Worker) organizations at local and county ‘DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 23.—In an effort to intimidate the militant fur workers, who are holding strong in their general strike for better conditions, police this morning ar- rested three of their leaders as they were leaving a conference with the owners of the Annie Shop, one of the largest in the industry. The arrested leaders are Nat Ganley, organizer of the Trade Union Unity League; J. Theodore, Secretary of the Fur Workers Association, which ig leading the strike, and Will Kai- ser of New York, National Organ- izer of the fur department of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, with which the Fur Workers Association is affiliated. “The three workers were ques- tioned at police headquarters and then released, The big fur shops, which have been refusing to consider the strik- ers’ demands, have been compelled start direct negotiations for a lement. A break in their ranks Will undoubtedly mean the begin- of the end of the strike. Sev- shops have already settled, iting all the demands of the ‘kers, while 22 are still holding t. The demands include wage ranging from 45 to 100 cent, a 35-hour, five-day week, and a half for overtime, equal for equal work, equal division work and union recognition. é units. (3) For immediate action in emergency cases. (4) For in- | creased relief, in cash. (5) For the immediate release of Phil Frank- feld. (6) For the delivery of shoes and clothes allotments to the homes of workers receiving them. Unemployed workers’ organiza- tions are presenting a solid united front to fight for the abolition of the P. R. O., a barrier which the Board has invented to escape meet- ings with the workers’ committees. | VETERANS TO MEET MONDAY The Rank and File Committee of the West Side, a group that de- mands the immediate cash pay- ment of the bonus, has called a meeting at 269 West Twenty-fifth Street, Monday night at 8 o'clock. The meeting will elect a delegate to the national convention of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League in Chicago on Dec. 6 to 8. It will also take up the matter of the rank and file convention that will be held in Washington early in Janu- ary. All veterans, regardless of their organizational affiliation, have | been invited to attend this meeting. A Canadian worker, David A. of | Nova Scotia, sent-$9 for his sub- scription and an extra dollar for the $60,000 fund. Subscribers: pin an extra dollar or two to your renewals, told the Daily Worker, Other union representatives went to the N. R. A. offices to present the. union de- mands to Ben Golden, chief exam- iner of the Regional Labor Board. The 3,500 Borden employes voted at a union meeting on Thursday night that unless recognition was granted, they would strike. A reply from the company within a week |was demanded. The Borden milk drivers voted to wear their union buttons openly and to resign in a body from the company union. The Daily Worker was informed }at the Borden Farm Products ; Company that “all officers of the | company are in their regular week- ly meeting and no statement will be made until later.” ternational Labor Defense an- nounced yesterday. Contact with the shops and the organization of numerous house committees in support of the Scotts- boro defense was credited by the ILD. to the Bronx Section of the Communist Party, which was re- ported to have mobilized all its forces to support the conference which is called by the Provisional Scottsboro Committee of the Bronx, Delegates’ credentials have been received from International Bak- ers Union, Local. No, 164, a Bronx local of the A. F. of L. Carpenters Union, and many other groups, it was announced. clude Rev. George Taylor, pastor of the Epworth Church, Rev. Val- vira of the Thessalonian Church, Mrs. Ella Morgan, president of the Blue Bird Association, and Samuel Patterson, Secretary of the National Scottsboro-Herndon Action Com- mittee. A feature of the conference will be the showing of a Scottsboro film prepared: by the Film and From Gallup, N. M., Unit 5 sent $10 raised at an affair for the benefit of the Daily Worker. “There is still a little more to be sent in from the proceeds of the affair,” writes C. Howe. Our sec- tion has been a little slow but we still hope to go over the top.” _ Another language group on the |Photo League. Z job: the Czechoslovak Branch City-Wide Youth Conference 2120 of the I. W.0. of Garfield, Mrs. Ada Wright, Scottsboro N. J. raised $8 through a Work- ers’ Press social. Language or- Speakers at the conference in-} mother, and other prominent fig- | ganizations: it is not too late tp arrange affairs. Raise your quotas and bring the $60,000 drive,.o a successful close! ures in the fight for the lives and freedom of the Scottsboro boys, will speak tomorrow at the city-wide Scottsboro-Herndon Youth Confer- ence at the Bronx Studio, 227 Len- ox Avenue, in Harlem, The confer- ence will begin at 2, p.m, Called by the Young Liberators, the conference is endorsed by many organizations. Among those that have already announced their elec- tion of delegates are the Social Problems Club of the Union Theo- logical Seminary, St. James Baptist Church, and several Harlem “Y” clubs. The conference promises to be the broadest and most important gathering of youth organizations on the Scottsboro and Angelo Hern- ‘don cases, ‘The organizing committee of the conference announced yesterday that the Harlem Branch of the Young Peoples Socialist League had refused to support the conference on the grounds that the City Cen- tral Committee of the Socialist |Party has not yet decided whether ‘it will support the National Scotts- |boro Action Committee, endorsed jdiscredited American Scottsboro |Committee set up by the renegade defense attorney, Samuel S. Leib- leaders seeking to disrupt the de- fense fight for the boys. The Young Liberators declared they would con- tinue their efforts to have the Y¥. P. S, L. join the conference. jby the Scottsboro mothers, or the: owitz and white and Negro mis- | Anti-Faseist. Conference Opens Today Wide response to the appeal of the City Committee of the Ameri- can League Against War and Fas- cism for a City Conference, to launch broad united actions against fascist developments and war prep- arations, this afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Irving Plaza, indicates that the Conference will have the broadest representation, The United Telegraphers Associa- tion, branches of the Workmen's Circle, the Epworth League, the! Menorah Society, the Catholic Labor Guild are among the many labor, fraternal and youth organiza- tions that have elected delegates, the committee said yesterday in a statement on its plans for the con- ference. The text of the statement follows: “We are certain that with such a broad representation the success of this conference is assured. It is! important at this late date for all organizations to be either repre- sented at this conference by a dele- | gate or an observer. We wish to Point out that any member of an organization is privileged to attend this conference. There is little doubt | in our minds that the result of this conference will encourage all those | present to report back to their respective organizations with a full and comprehensive survey and plan of action. “We urge all those opposed to! war and fascism to be present. at | this conference and make it a vital expression toward the support of | the program of the American League Against War and Fascism.” ex-governors, army generals and capitalists. Williams is the former head ‘and. at: present .a-miember -of |the board of directors of the Rey- nolds Tobacco Co., which last year paid about $36,000,000 in dividends and $12,000,000 in wages. Hardly had Farley finished his speech when he was handed a tele egram from District 16 of the Com- jmanist Party pointing out that the jfirst part of his speech praising |Bulwinkle was open evidence of the [alliance of the Roosevelt admin- istration with the most reactionary janti-labor elements to be found in |the country. The telegram called attention to Bulwinkle’s long record as one of the most savage enemies of the workers to.be found in the country. A statement issued by the Dis- trict Committee of the Communist Party called attention to the com- plete silence of Farley’ on those issues of greatest importance to the workers, unemployment insurance, the Scottsboro case, the right of workers to organize and to strike for better conditions, etc. As chair- man of the Democratic Party, Fars ley’s speech here was an open dem- onstration that Manville - Jenckes and the Reynolds Tobacco Co. and other big corporations can expect unlimited support from the national administration. Relief Cut Off Other than praise of Bulwinkle at considerable length and the an- nouncement that the three cent postage for letters will be contin- ued, Farley’s speech was of a most formal character with the usual stock praises of “our inspiring, courageous. president, Franklin D, Roosevelt.” There was very little applause when Farley was introduced by Bulwinkle ard when he praised Roosevelt to the skies. Many of the spectators were relief workers | Who had just received’ notice of more hunger as a Thanksgiving present. During the past few days thousands here have received no= tices reading: “Due to lack of funds there will be no F.E.R.A. work and F.E.R.A. relief orders during the week of Nov, 23° to Nov. 29, 1984. Prepare now to meet this’ problem.” No wonder that they did not feel like applauding Farley and that some booed the name of Bulwinkle! Striking Newark Reporters NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 23.—Strik- ing newspaper men and women of the Newark Ledger scored a point today in their fight for union con- ditions when L. T. Russell, publisher of the paper,: announced that he was willing to confer with repre- sentatives of the Newspaper Guild, which is leading the walkout. The declaration of Russell's readiness to discuss the question of settlement came after a day of: in- tensive picketing on the part of the strikers. Last night picketing. took on a mass character. A large number of newspaper workers from the New York Guild who had worked on the Ledger prior to the strike and were fired by Mr. Russell came to the aid of the Newark strikers. These Guild members, who call themselves the “Ledger Alumni,” formed a mass picket line and paraded throughout the city with placards and tentiers for two hours. Force Publisher of Ledger To Agree to Settlement Talk Says He Is Ready To Discuss With Guild as Public Support of Strike Grows Newstands at all busy traffic in- tersections are being patrolled by | Pickets 24 hours a day. Publication of the Ledger, which | was suspended for two days on ac- ;count of the strike, commenced | again today with very. little local |mews and“a number of editorials | attacking the Guild and distorting | the proposed agreement which the strikers had presented. to the pub- lisher. “ 3 Today the third issue of the Reporter, organ of the Newark Guild, was being distributed on’ the streets in thousands of copies. Pub- lic support of the strike is growing rapidly, The strikers are demanding recog nition of the Newspaper Guild, bet- ter working conditions and the ree instatement of eight editorial work- ers. who were fired from the staff of the: paper for no just cause. Police Inject New Lies in Trial | Fill all collection lists in the 4 $60,000 drive before Dec. 1) BOSTON, Mass., Nov, 23.—Police witnesses called by the prosecution at the hearing of the appeal of the sixteen anti-fascist workers and students sentenced to long terms in jail for demonstrating against the propaganda visit of the Nazi warship Karlsruhe, yesterday in- jected new lies into their testimony. claiming that the defendants had called them bums and shouted “Kill the cops!” When this provoc- astonishment and indignation from workers in the court, the judge threatened to clear the court. This new testimony, which strangely enough was not given in the lower court, clearly shows the extent to which Boston pro-Nazi officials and the prosecution will go in the attempt to keep the defend- ants in jail and crush the anti- ‘class and its allies. The defense, cross-examining the _notorious strikebreaker, Bennie Goodman, chief of the Radical Squad, proved that the defendants were arrested because they were known by the leader of the police 5 ative testimony evoked cries of /fascist struggles of the working ; Of the 16 Boston Anti-Fascists radical squad to be militant work- \ers and students, fighting for the linterests of the working class. The defense brought out clearly . that the defendants were picked out for arrest even before the police launched their attack on the dem- onstration, PERE Many workers who came to the hearing yesterday were barred from the court. Protests by the defense against this discrimination was an- swered by. Judge Hobson with the claim that the court “is not & theatre.” The court admitted that thou- sands of postcards and telegrams of protest were received since the arrest and original sentencing of the defendants. The Boston Inter- national Labor Defense yesterday urged all’ workers’ orgaviizations and individuals to continue to flood ‘the court with protests, as the only means of forcing the release of \the sixteen anti-fascists. Protests should be sent to Judge Ernest L. | Hobson, Room 402, Pemberton Sq. Courthouse, Boston, Mass. Cntribu- tions for ‘the defense are urgently needed and should be sent to the iLL.D. 12 Haywood Place, Boston, <== {