The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 26, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1934 A.F.L. STEEL HEAD ADMITS AGREEMENT WITH ANTLSTRIKE PLAN INTERVIEW SHOWS Sik Workers Vote Asturias Commune 1in3 States Face A.F.L. AND SOCIALIST MILLER UPHOLDS [or Jobless Bill N.R.A. TRUCE PLAN Pittsburgh Press Recognizes Sentiment for Strike Action Among Steel Workers—Duquesne Rank and File Score Election Delays PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. ‘ on are by no means opposed to a “truce” gamated Assoc in the steel industry such as —Top leaders of the Amal- suggested by President Roose- velt, but differ with the steel corporations only regarding the terms under which the truce revealed here today when Vic Presi t Edward Miller, Tighe’s right hand man, admitted that the union has submitted a counter truce Proposal to the one recently turned down by William Green in Wash- would be concluded—this was to have full charge of their appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court. The Action Committee announced the promotion of a number of Scottsboro benefits by individuals National Scottsboro Week will be (Continued from Page 1) by Sarah Berlinsky, of Paterson, and forced to get up and apolo-| gize | Frank Schweitzer, secretary of the | Federation, stated that he was] , originally in favor of taking in Ne-| groes, but at a recent convention of | T. W. convention southern convinced him ntatives delivered an_ especially ogic speech on the question, | tating that “he was born in the} South, had a Negro mammy, and has Negro friends, ut doesn’t think ! that the time is ripe for opening the | union to Negro workers.” The reso-| lution was tabled. The convention, although ex- pected to unite all forces for a gen-| eral struggle against the present wage-cutting drive, opened Satur-/| day morning with an attack against | the Paterson striking dyers and silk| Is the Forerunner | Of Victory in Spain Syndicalism Trials Page 1) | (Continued from | The trials are expected to last sev- | | eral weeks | | The defendants include Albert | Hougardy, section organizer of the | Communist Party; Martin Wilson, section organizer of the Interna- tional Labor Defense; Pat Cham- bers and Caroline Decker of the | Cannery and Agricultural Workers’ | Industrial Union, which has led | tremendous struggles in Centrel)} California in the past two year: and Nora Conklin, Unemployment Council Organizer. Protests against these frame-ups, }demands for the release of all the | defendants and for the repeal of the California Criminal Syndicalist law, should be sent to Governor Merriam and District Attorney Neil McAllis- ter at Sacramento. Portland Sentence Today DELEGATES STRESS UNITY AGAINST WAR United Front Is Keynote of Broad Conference in Milwaukee—Pittsburgh Youth Rally Lays Plans for Permanent Activity MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 25.—Active Socialist Party |members and American Federation of Labor members joined with representatives of the Communist Party at the first state-wide conference of the American League Against War and Fascism on Friday and Saturday in calling for a broad, ————=—-—= powerful united front in the fight jagainst War and Fascism. ‘Mrs.Williams Urges The two-day conference was ate jtended by 217 delegates from or- ganizations with a total member- Support for I. L. D. peed 5 PORTLAND, Ore. Nov. 25.—Sen- |ship of 78,074. The opening session eo and clubs to raise funds for the | WOFX¢rs. 5 |in Jefferson Hall was attended b; j Miller would not disclose the | scottchoro appeals. Attack Dye Strikers | tence will be passed here Monday Z | share! tings 21000 y { terms of the counter proposal, William MacMahon, president of | on Dirk DeJonge, organizer of the (Continued from Page 1) ees pe ‘ ce ESE san claiming that Tighe, who is away, | Torchlight Parade Tonight Young Communist League, found | 12 ORRIN PSI. | ie largest single group of dele- has the only copy of the offer, upon doe aaresceemionss the United Textile Workers, to 3 framed and sentenced to die. Only gates came from trade unions, 50 which the steel employers have as yet declined to act. Asked if it wasn’t true that strike sentiment exists among the rank and file, who have no faith in the labor boards and hearings, Miller replied: “We would prefer not to Say anything at present on that subject, having made the mistake of giving too much notice of strike once before,” but admitted that “the | workers are very much dissatisfied with existing conditions and the opened in New York City with a which the Federation is affiliated, | in opening the convention, launched torchlight parade and mass meet- | ing in Lower Harlem tonight, 8, o'clock, under the auspices of the | an attack against the striking dyers because they, in their determination Fredesick Douglas Branch of the to maintain rank and file control of | League of Struggle for Negro Rights. | the settlement, yey er beta | The march will start from goth | ‘he Gorman-MacMahon officialtom | Street and Third Avenue and pro- [ee ciae seh eee ee e tied, ee ceed to the Porto Rican Workers |The dye strikers were termed “ir-| Center, 1888 Third Avenue, where | “esPonsible for their policy. This the workers will be addressed by wea done. chvicubly to, 90a MP Two young coal miners who were captured by the fascist troops, being led to prison. Only international united front actions can save their lives, | “guilty” last week on a charge ot | criminal syndicalism arising out of | the raids here during the West Coast marine workers’ strike. charges, here and in other cities in | pending. Appeals are being taken in the case of DeJonge and Don Cluster, the I. L, D, helped me then as it is helping me now. “I am going to stick with the of them from locals of the Amer- jican Federation of Labor, eight |I.L, D. because I know it is doing |{om independent unions, the Rail- Oregon, to be corivicted in the past |I. L. D. if they really want to help | month, Trials of the others are |the Scottsboro boys, DeJonge is the second of eleven |éverything humanly possible to save 0d Brotherhoods and the Trade | defendants on criminal syndicalism | the Scottsboro boys. juice, Unity League, There were ten delegates from city Central to support the |r sbor bodies. Marvin Baxter, Socialist m= - their mothers, | ,-"West Allis, echoed the feelings \of the delegates when he made an limpassioned appeal for the united $6,000 | front. “I want everybody and the whole Negro race. “MAMIE WILLIAMS.” Funds for the I. L. D. vd ie the U. T. W. refusal to give signifi- anne pene se Peay cS leant financial aid to the dyers. The | Work, Communist candidates in the jonly time MacMahon drew any ap-| recent elections, and by other = plause was when he presented a’ \* ‘4 speakers. $500 check for defraying the ex. | band of hired butchers is universally wet) | known to comprise escaped convicts, penses of the convention, as the) yurderers, mercenaries, and the who was convicted three weeks 820, | Scottsboro-Herndon Fund, to carry| A special caucus of the Socialist by the International Labor Defense. jon the legal and mass campaign to |Party members took piace during Protests against these convictions, | force the U. S. Supreme Court to|the conference. They drafted a and demand for the freedom of the reverse the lynch-verdicts against | statement corrying 26 signatures defendants and repeal of the Ore- | Haywood Patterson and Clarence | urging-the national executive com- gon C, 8. law should be sent to) Norris, in line with Mrs, Williams’ | mittee of the Socialist Party to ee delays of the labor the administration of the Commune ey and to arrange for the defense of the workers and peasants republic. | The documents and deeds of the Asturias Commune are now being (Continued from Page 1) Evaded Question Miller evaded an answer on the question of whether Amalgamated | Officials would accept recognition of | Workers March in Chicago Federation is completely bankrupt. | themselves, as ind gain collectively for the warkers if Such agreements incorporated the “majority rule.” He was asked, “In Appollo (where the union was ‘recognized’ by the | company last summer), has a wage scale been concluded for the mill?” “Not yet.” “What happened to the scale presented by the workers, upon which the company was to act in September, and which they ignored at the time?” “They have rejected that one.” “What action is being taken now to make them sign?” “The case has been referred back to the labor board.” * No Scale Signed No scale has been signed at the West Virginia Rail Co., Huntington, W. Va., plant either, where the Amalgamated was named as collec- tive bargaining representatives by a majority of the workers in the only election yet held under the board’s supervision. Meanwhile, in Aliquippa, where the workers have just gone through one of the board’s hearings on in- tithidation by the J. and L. Corp., | the union rank and filers speak of the board in a different, somewhat stronger manner. They say, “Did the miners ever have a National | Labor Board to win concessions from the coal operators? what do we want with one for the steel workers?” There, in the strongest lodge of the Amalgamated today, with ap- proximately 4,000 out of 5,000 em- ployes having signed cards for mémbership in the union, the sen- timent is violently anti-Tighe. Disgust Voiced in Duquesne In Duquesne, where the workers are faced with still another delay in the ordering of an election by the Steel Board, the same disgust is voiced by the A. A. rank and file. ‘The board has demanded that addi- | tional evidence be presented before it acts, proof that the Carnegie Steel Co. carries on trade of an in- terstate character. ‘The steel barons are preparing to fight the constitutionality of the Steel Board and possibly the N.R.A. in the courts. They have already indicated that company payrolls will be withheld from the board in | case elections are ordered. In every Amalgamated Lodge the workers are regarding askance the returns of the recent international election, which showed only slightly more than 5,000 votes cast in the/ whole country. Scottsboro Radio Talk Was Fake (Continued from Page 1) Mother Wright reported that she had stopped off in Birmingham to see the seven boys held in Jeffer- son County prison there. She had not been able to visit Patterson and Clarence Norris at Kilby Prison this time, but learned that Leibo- | witz had recently chartered a plane seating ten persons to take a group to visit the two boys. * Forged Telegrams The Action Committee decided to issue leaflets in the tens of thou- sands to acquaint the people of Harlem and other communities with the facts in the case, and especially to expose the latest lie of the Am- sterdam News, based on a forged telegram from Clarence Norris, al- leging that the I L. D. had threat- ened to withdraw the 60-day stay of execution won for Patterson and Norris by the I. L. D. attorneys and the mass fight should the two boys sign for Leibowitz. Members of the Action Committée pointed out that such a threat was absolutely con- trary to the policies of the I.L.D., and referred to the readiness of that organization to turn over all Paners in the case to Leibowitz sev- eral weeks ago, before the boys themselves had exposed the decep- tion practiced on them by Leibo- witz and his cronies and had in- sisted that they wished the LL.D. iduals, to bar- | CHICAGO, Noy, 25.—One thou- sand persons, Negro and white, marched two miles through the streets of the South Side of Chicago last Saturday afternoon in a mili- tant demonstration for the release of the innocent Scottsboro boys. Thousands of others lined the side- walks. The march was led by the | Pioneer Drum and Bugle Corps. The mass march proceeded to the Pilgrim Baptist Church at 33rd and |Indiana Avenues, where a meeting was addressed by local Negro ana white leaders of the working-class. The workers pledged their sup- port to the activities here during | National Scottsboro Week, the tag days Nov. 24 and 25, to raise funds to push the appeals for Haywood | Patterson and Clarence Norris in \ the U. 8. Supreme Court. worst dregs of the underworld of | every land. White Guard Russians, S | and reports by Russell Woods, | Chased out of other capitalist coun- peeuisieny of the Federation, and | tries because of their criminal oe Frank Schweitzer, its secretary. | Riffs, who were paid to kill their ‘Both attacked the Paterson siik OW People for Spanish imperialism workers for their militant stand and | ‘2, Morocco—all under the leader- have so framed their reports as to| ‘ip of General Ochoa, the Spanish attempt to discourage the senti-| Gallifet, hangman of the prole- lment- for a general strike on the | ‘@iat, were the shock troops used grounds that the organization is| SY the hypocritical Catholic fascist weak. The Paterson local in clect-|‘wlers to teach the Asturias pro- ing delegates to the convention, has letariat a lesson of Christian ethics. elected a rank and file slate, de-| The defeat of Asturias was made \feating the Keller reactionary ma- | possible only because of the treach- chine by an overwhelming vote, | TY of the anarchist leaders in Cata- and the delegates stand instructed | lonia, permitting the Lerroux-Robles to fight for a general strike in the Te6ime to concentrate the bulk of industry; to resist the present its armed forces against the As- |wage-cutting drive; for establish-| ‘Urias Soviets. |ment of a uniform wage scale, in| Held Power 14 Days all regions, to repudiate the Gor-| For 14 days the workers and |man-Schweitzer sell-out of the re-| peasants in Asturias held power, lcent general strike and for rank | But these were 14 days of endless and file control and democracy in/ fighting, when most of the Red MacMahon’s speech was follot by the appointment of committees Then | the union. Thinks Winant Board Good | Frank Schweitzer, who has been thoroughly discredited in the union ; because he was the maker of the) motion for accepting the demand of Roosevelt to call off the general ap wgekoer cone oe Aire ee! declared that he believes | of the Workers Committee on Un- ‘ | employment, independent unions | much good will Some out of ae | and locals of the Trade Union Unity |eport of the Winant Board. He League massed before the speakers’ |said that if by February the Winant |stand. Although the Painters|Board’s report does not bring gains District Council instructed the|then we may talk of a strike, He |locals that they must not carry|had to admit, however, that the |their banners, many locals defied | workers were left in a worse posi- the edict, and painters in overalls /tion since the general strike was 5,000 Jobless | March in Chicago (Continua from Page 1) |carried their banners aloft. | Denounce War and Fascism Relief workers came carrying their picks and shovels; others carried the implements of their trades. Side by side, as they had |marched, the workers assembléd-at. |the mass meeting. Score of banners denounced war and fascism; others called for the release of the heroic leader of the | German Communist Party, Ernst Thaelmann, for the Scottsboro Boys, Tom Mooney and all political prisoners and working class heroes. From the South Side came a large |mumber of doubly exploited Negro workers; women were mobilized by the United Council of Working | banners of the Young Pioneers. | Karl Lockner, leader of the Cook County Unemployment Councils and Communist candidate for | Mayor in the coming Spring elec- | tions, spoke in the name of the delegation which presented the de- mands to the welfare department. | He reported on the denial of their | demands by the relief administra- | tion, and called for broadening the | struggle, maintaining the united | front, and mobilizing for the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment Insurance, which will meet in Washington on Jan. 5. Waltmeyer, of the Chicago Work- was loudly cheered when he +00 made a ringing appeal for main- taining and broadening the united |front. He, as chairman of the delegation to the officer of the mayor, reported on the denial of their demands by the city. While the Chicago Federation of Labor and the Federation of Jew- ish Trade Union had endorsed the demonstration, they did nothing to | mobilize their membership for the march, Grocers Support March A canvass of grocery stores was conducted by representatives of Local 34 of the Workers Committce on Unemployment, a local which has established a united front with the Unemployment Council Local 56, for the purpose of winning sup- port for the unemployed demon- stration. Almost every grocer endorsed the march, and most displayed the post- ers advertising the march. In ad- dition, they distributed leaflets an- nouncing the march with each pur- chase. The committees visiting the stores Pointed out that every increase in relief won by the unemployed would be réfiected in increased purchases at the grocery stores. Class Women; children under the | ers Committee on Unemployment, | called off. His remedy for the wage cuts in Paterson and Hazelton is to bring the bosses on charges be- |fore the Textile Labor Relations \Board. Continuing to defend him- {self on his action in the general} strike, he declared that those peo- |ple who were against the calling off of the general strike are Com- munists. He raised the red scare to excuse the calling off of the strike and leaving the textile work- lers in the deplorable condition that they are in now. As in the reports of MacMahon and Woods, Schweitzer made one of his chief points the need for |doubling the dues and payment of \the per capita, Promise to Organize Woods, in his report, outlined a |plan for a nation-wide organiza- tion plan providing for a network of | state and district organizations, with |directors and organizers, a $10,000 \fund, all contracts expiring on Sept. 1, etc. He claimed that unless Pennsylvania was first organized there is no possibility for a strike, However, in the discussion on the |constitution, it became evident that |this “organization drive” is only of- \fered as a substitute for the demand ‘for a general strike, and that no serious steps aré planned by ths |officials to put it into effect. When discussion developed on Section 2 of Article 1 of the Constitution, which reads: “Any person engaged in the weaving of silk or rayon, throwing and affiliated crafts shall be eligible as applicant for mem- bership.” Macri, of the Allentown local, amended to insert “regardless of creed, color, nationality or po- litical affiliation.” This amendment was proposed by a unanimous vote of his local, One of the reaction- aries rose to object on the grounds that this means that Negroes would be admitted in the organization, who up to nqw were kept out. An- other of the reactionary machine stated that he has no objection to the amendtment, but demanded that the “political affiliation point be left out.” But Eli Keller, Lovestone- ite leader and manager of the Pat- erson union, saved the day for the officials with a motion that the point in the constitution stand as read. The amendment was defeated, although about a third of the dele- gates voted for it. Thus Keller helped preserve the policy of keeping the Negro workers in the South out of the union. One of the points won by the pro- gressive elements at the conven- tion was to make conventions an- nually instead of once every two years, Army had no respite, Yet in spite of this, the Commune set up its governing apparatus, decreed all lands belonged to the peasants who toiled them; requisitioned food and supplies for the toiling masses and | the Red Army; established its press; took over the big industries and utilized them for the manufacture of arms for the revolutionary strug- gles; seized the largest bank in Oviedo, and confiscated 15,000,000 pesetas for food, clothing and Shelter for the unemployed, and for the necessities of waging war against the fascist regime. Sent Radio Message On Oct. 12, the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government of Asturias set up its wireless communication with the rest of Spain and sent a message to the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Madrid, declaring: “All of this region is in our hands. We have proclaimed the Republic of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers. We have 100,000 work- ers under arms, and a shock bri- gade of 10,000 men. We have taken the factories producing war mate- rials. On October 9 we occupied all of Oviedo, after besieging the city for five days. Then we proclaimed the power of the workers and peas- ants. A number of the Civil Guard and Storm Guard gave up to us. “We declared the abolition of pri- vate property. Alcoholic drinks were prohibited. A company of machine gunners coming from Leon were de- stroyed by us at Campomanes after a hard battle. Since Monday, Oct. 8, planes have bombarded us. We shot two down with machine guns. (Later they shot down five more, though they did not have anti- aircraft equipment.) The columns of General Ochoa, which penetrated Aviles, opened a cannonade on the workers’ homes; they killed women and children and the best known revolutionists. When Generel Ochoa penetrated Aviles he did not dare to enter the interior of the city. “The women fight heroically in the front ranks. We have replaced the proletarian prisoners by capi- talists whom we are guarding as hostages. . . . We possess resources and materials to resist for three months. By radio we know the sit- uation of the rest of Spain. “But nevertheless, if you cannot impede the concentration of forces against Asturias, we will not declare ourselves vanquished.” The heroism of the Asturias prole- tariat, fighting against superior forces, striving by might and main to retain the Soviet power, feeding the hungry masses, attempting to establish its stern discipline and or- der in the face of the bombardment and sabotage of the fascist hordes, aroused the admiration and respect even of its enemies in Asturias, as we shall learn, Ruled Against Odds Every bit of food and supplies requisitioned was done so on the or- der and receipt of the Revolution- ary Committee. The workers showed the greatest revolutionary initia- tive and ability to rule in the face of the greatest odds. Instructions were issued by the Revolutionary Committee against all acts of pillage, with orders to arrest and shoot pillagers. All of the work- ers’ parties and organizations were called to the central headquarters of the government to participate in studied by the whole proletariat of Spain as examples of what the workers are capable of when they fight for power. The Revolutionary Committee of Mieres (Asturias), when it achieved power, isssued a proclamation declaring that “acting on the will of the people and watch- ing over the interests of the revolu- tion, it is resolved to take all mea- sures with the necessary energy in order to direct the course of the movement.” Strict Discipline These measures provided for the registration of all workers eligible to bear arms. Registration bureaus were set up. They provided that anyone caught looting would be shot. Everyone possessing arms was called on to report at the Commit- tee’s headquarters, so that only workers could retain arms, while their enemies were disarmed. All food and clothing were confiscated for the use of the people and for the Red Army. All members of trade unions and workers’ political parties and youth organizations were called on to report with their ecards so that they could be assigned responsible tasks in connection with the workers’ government and the Red Army. In order td organize the fighting on the most effective basis, it was decreed: “It is strictly pro- hibited to fire shots at airplanes from “ifles, pistols or hunting guns, without the express orders of this Committee,” The Red Army, though hastily assembled, was well organized and disciplined, consisting chiefly of the Asturias miners, soldiers, munitions. factory workers, peasants. Leaders sprang from the ranks. Special corps of miners were organized to dynamite the troops sent against them. With the greatest daring and skill they carried out their work. As one Spanish bourgeois correspondent put it: “They carried out their tasks with amazing effi- ciency and without the slightest re- gard for their own lives.” Another correspondent tells of the Workers’ Red Army marching into Oviedo: Indescribable Spectacle “I watched them march through. It was an indescribable spectacle. The first of the men carried bask- ets with self-manufactured hand- grenades. With the shout: ‘For- ward, comrades!’ they charged into the withering fire of the Civil Guards, who were barricaded in the building of the telephone headquar- ters.” One doctor in Oviedo, who was impressed into the medical service of the Red Army of Asturias, writ- ing in the reactionary Spanish newspaper, “Estampa,” of his ex- periences, tell of the undying hero- ism of the Asturias workers. The wounded began to pour into the hospitals. Workers badly injured were impatient at the delay of the doctors. They wanted to get back to the firing lines. The doctor tells of one fighter who was brought in. “Patch me up quickly,” one wounded man demanded, “Do me first. I want to get back. We must take Santa Clara Barracks. It is full of Civil Guards.” “I looked at the man. He had a gaping wound on the side of his neck, ““You must go to bed,’ the doc- tor ordered. “The man refused to go to bed and went off without attention. The next day he was dead in the road- way. “A wounded man arrived, sup- ported by a thin youngster with the face of a woman. He carried a rifle slung over his shoulder and bando- liers of cartridges. Turning to me, probably because I was nearest, he declared: ‘It’s terrible.’ ‘What's terrible?’ I asked. ‘Comrade Bel- arme has been shot. When he saw that we were not making as much progress as he would have liked at the Prefecture, he dashed forward, without cover, to bomb the place, and they shot him down with a volley. ‘Do you think,’ I asked, ‘that your ideals are worth all that, all this slaughter?’ ‘We want nothing more than Communism,’ he answered. ‘But don’t forget my friend,’ I pointed out, ‘your at- tempt to establish Communism has collapsed everywhere else in Spain.’ ‘That was because the others didn't { Portland, Ore. lwe are not plunderers, or thieves |or murderers. We are proletarians {and our ideal is social equality. |Only those who work shall be per- | mitted to eat’.” Slaughter Frightful was finally defeated, the fascist |slaughter was frightful. Hundreds were massed against walls, men, }women and children, and mowed \down with machine guns. The |bodies of the deady and wounded |were piled up and burned together. The capitalist press in Spain and throughout the world began its usual campaign of slander against the heroic Asturias workers. They were accused of every atrocity in the long lying calendar of the his- tory of counter-revolution. At the very moment workers were |being imprisoned, tortured, shot, |purned, the world capitalist press | spread stories of the revolutionaries’ | “atrocities.” But no similar lies | were so quickly destroyed. After a brief period of vituperation, the most rabid fascist papers in Spain halted their slanders for lack of even the slimmest, shred of proof. The hero- ism, discipline, bravery of the As- turias workers overshadowed ll else, and inflamed the Spanish workers with the greatest enthusi- asm. Even Hitler's Nazi corres- pondent in Madrid was forced to deny the atrocity stories against the Asturias workers, comparing them with the Allied Anti-German war atrocity fables. We do not have space here to print the mass of complete and definite denials by the fascist forces themselves in and out of Spain. Preparing For Greater Fight The reign of terror in Asturias now is the worst in all Spain. But the proletariat, despite its frightful toll, estimated in Asturias alone between 2,500 and 3,500 dead, is manifesting no spirit of defeat; is tles, terrifying the butchers who rule over them with machine guns and cannon. So fearful are the Span- ish landlord-capitalist rulers of the Asturias proletariat to this day, that the Asturias coal mines have not been opened because they do not know what will happen if the work- ers get together again. A proposal was made in a Madrid paper that the mines be closed indefinitely and ultimately abandoned. To what depths has the despera- tion of the Spanish bourgeoisie gone when it seriously proposes slicing off one of its own vital limbs in order to destroy or disperse the proletariat with it. But meanwhile, the enraged cap- italist dogs are wrecking their ven- geance on Socialist and Commu- nist prisoners alike. The prisons are full to bursting. Every day workers are tortured or killed. The Asturias workers look to the workers of the whole world for help and support. Only mass united front actions of Socialists and Com- munists, rallying thousands behind them, can save the lives of hundreds of these heroic fighters who so gladly were ready to die for the workers’ cause. The epic of Asturias will forever live in the hearts of the workers of the whole world, glorious inher- itor of the Paris Commune and of the Russian Reyolution, the beaeon that will light the way to a rapid victory of the proletarian revolu- tion throughout all of Spain. Communist Alderman (Special to the Daliy Worker) WINNIPEG, Canada, Nov. 25.— Workers in Ward 3 here elected a Communist candidate, Martin J. Forkin, as Alderman, giving him a record vote of 4,400, 600 more than was received by the Socialist can- didate. A Laborite was elected Mayor and latest returns indicate that the City Council will contain a Labor maj- ority, including two Communists, Penner and Forkin, When the Asturias proletariat | Wright, | even now preparing for greater bat~ | be Elected in Winnipeg | Governor Eugene Meier at Salem, |appeal for support to the organiza- Ore., and to Judge Jacob Kanzler |tion which has kept the Scottsboro and to District Attrney Langley, &t ‘hoys alive for three and a half years, and is now carrying on the strug- gle for their unconditional free- dom, should be sen‘ to the national understand how to go about the |office of the International Labor business,’ he declared, unconvinced. | Defense, Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, New York City, by telegraph, air mail, and special delivery. Boston Meeting Tonight BOSTON, Nov. 25—Mrs. Ada mother of two of the Scottsboro boys, and Samuel Pat- terson, secretary of the National |Scottsboro-Herndon Action Com- mittee, will speak here Monday night at Dudley Opera House, at a Scottsboro mass meeting under the auspices of the International Labor Defense, jaffiliate with the American League Against War and Fascism, and recommending that the Second In- ternational take immediate steps to establish the united front with the Communist International. Gary, a Socialist Party member from Madison, criticized the So- jcialist Party leadership, He said j that “to place political expediency over class interests is crass oppor- tunism.” A delegate from the Racine | Trades and Labor Council urged that differences be put aside and that a solid movement against war and fascism be established. And J. J. Handley, secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin Federation of Labor sent a message appealing to labor to rally for the fight against | the fascists and war mongers. CONFERENCE IN PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH, Pa., Noy. 25. — Fascists Declared Twenty youth organizations par- ticipated in an anti-war conference held Thursday night in 5th Avenue High School, called by the Pitts- burgh Youth Committee Against War and Fascism, The delegates heard a report on anti-war youth activities by Caro- lyn Hart, now facing framed up charges in connection with a free Wall Street Men Named by a general discussion on the re- Among those whose names were |port and the program of the and mentioned by Butler and whom the | Anti-War Congress. Marion V. Rigney, representing Committee intends to shield are the Epworth League of the Metho- Roosevelt With Us’ (Continued from Page 1) int figures in the Roose- velt government and the Wall Street financial world with the Fascist plot, the C6ngressional Committee announced that it would not subpoena any of these figures such men as John W. Davis, Mor- gan attorney and close associate of Roosevelt in the Democratic party; Gen. Harbord, Thomas W. Lamont, Gen. Hugh Johnson, Admiral Sims and Hanford MacNider. Butler’s testimony, which was given last week, caused a nation- was sensation. He told how Mac- |Guire, an agent for the firm of Grayson M.-P. Murphy & Co., 52 Broadway, as well as Robert Ster- ling Clark, a broker with offices at 11 Wall Street, who is reputed. to worth more than $50,000.000, carried on negotiations with him. MacGuire told him, Butler said, that “we have three millions to start with on the line and can get three hundred million if we need it.” Afraid of Marked Money Details of Butler’s testimony now made public by the Congressional Committee reveal that the general declared that he declined the $1,000 bills offered him to go to Chicago to make a speech in favor of the gold standard. He testified that he said. to MacGuire: “Don’t try to give me any thou- sand-dollar bill. Remember, I was a cop once. Every one of the num- bers on these bills has been taken. I know you péople and what you are trying to do. You are just try- ing to get me by the neck. If I try to cash one of those thousand- dollar bills, you would have me by the néck.” To this, according to the summary of the testimony, Mac- Guire is alleged to have replied: “we can change them into smaller denominations.” According to Butler’s testimony, he then urged MacGuire to send one of the principals to him (Butler), as “he realized that MacGuire was only an agent and that MacGuire agreed to send Robert Sterling Clark and explaining to Butler that Clark had been in the army and had known Butler in China and that Clark had inherited millions.” Returning to MacGuire, Butler testified thet he did not hear from the Wall Street man again until he received postal cards from Italy, , Spain and France, and ying was coming out to Philadelphia” and would Butler meet him there? Testimony before the Committee. according to the summary, revealed that MacGuire had withdrawn vari- ous sums of money just prior to the time when he called upon Gen, But- Manufacturers Trust Co. showed withdrawals on Sept. 15 of $1,125; Sept. 16, $6,000; Sept, 19, $20,000; Sept. 23, $3,300 and Sept. 23, $16,700. ler. A ledger statement from the dist Church, sounded the keynote of the conference in her remarks to the delegates. She denounced the capitalist war makers, pointing cut terests are invariably fought by the youth of the nation, and called on all youth to unite immediately for the fight against war and war prep- arations. ‘ A committee representing each organization was set up, which will work toward the definite objective of opening a downtown headquar- ters to serve as the rallying point for all youth anti-war and anti- fascist activities in the district. ~ Handjicked Jury ; Acquits Insull (Continued from Page 1) sull stocks were rising on real earn- ing prospects. The use of such old stook market tricks as “wash sales,” buying and selling to the same ace counts to create a market that was really fictitious. 4) Faking the real earnings ace count with shady accounting to ins clude dividend income in the ope erating profits accounts. 5) Crooked manipulation of the czpital surplus accounts to concéal the depreciation of the stock and operating losses. 6) Selling stock to small investors when this stock was alfeady pledged as collateral to other banks, On the jury were such hand- picked conservatives and men of member of the rea¢tionary Union League Club, John D, Lent, rich director of the Western Clock Co. George Barkley, formerly Repu'- lican Sheriff of Kendall Couniy, William Austin, owner of 200-acre farm, and formerly State food in- spector, and William Westbrook of Millington, Til. Insull still faces other charges growing ott of the enormous trans- actions of his companies. His brother, returnéd from Canada where he had fled, also faces charges. But it is considered that these will either not be prezsed or | that the first acquittal will be fol- lowed by others. Insull’s transactions took the savings of thousands of small in- véstors in the boom days of Stock market. Halsey, Stuart & Co, the firm which sold the Insull se« curities, dirécted its appeal mainly cw kederspop- how wars made by the vested in- , | | se)