The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DECEMBER 3, 1934 LEADERS SPUR PARTY BUILDING AT TRACHTENBERG BANQUET 30 YEARS OF WORK Guild Official Los Angeles Carmen Tenants Help |ROUMAIN APPEAL IN RED MOVEMNT [0 MectGreen’ Meet Lockout Threat || Newton Fight TQ BE HEARD SOON : ‘ On N.J. Strike 5 . : Ouster Order) LAUDED BY PARTY) 4 ie With Mass Picketing ,, ot. BY HAITIAN COURT so, Cea of Anti-Strike Record | Traffic Tied Up at Main Points During Rush Halt Eviction of of A. F. L, Head Hours—Thugs Seriously Injure Dele- Negro Leader | NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 2—Emmet| gate Sent by W. E. S. L. | Crozier, secretary of the Newark | ones DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY. Three-Year Term Based on Correspondence About Books, Interpreted by Army Men to Mean ‘Bombs and Explosives’ Message from Foster Cites Contribution to Cause of Labor—Stachel Stresses Need of Speeding Communist Recruiting CHICAGO, Dec. 2—A petition | demanding that the landlord of 615 Oakwood Boulevard stop eviction | By Milton Howard ic applause to the message sent Responding with enthu by William Z. Foster, urging the building of the Communist Party “for the laying of the foundations for the final strug-| discuss concrete measures of sup-| gle which will make our class the ruling class, 800 active Communist Party from mass and cultural organiza- tions greeted Alexander Trachten- berg, member of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party, at a banquet held in his honor Satur-| day night at the Workers Center, 50 East 13th Street. “On this occasion of the fiftieth birthday of Comrade Trachtenberg,” declared Stachel, speaking on be- half of the political bureau of the | Communist Party, “we must recog- | nize that with our vast experience we must set ourselves the imme-| diate task of rapidly building the Party. Our influence tremendously, but our campaign is crawling along. must learn from _ those works published by Comrade Trachtenberg, how to combine, as Lenin, said, the high theoretical de- velopment of the Bolsheviks and the practicability of the Americans. We must not only plan, but must nov carry them out.” Telegrams lauding Trachtenberg for his long service to the working class poured in from all parts of the country and from abroad, in- cluding a message of congratula- tion from the Comintern. Telegram from Foster The telegram from William Z. Foster, read to the assemblage by Max Bedacht, who acted as chair- man, stated: My Dear Comrade Alexander: I send you the most hearty and comradely greetings on the occa- sion of your fiftieth birthday, which coincides with over thirty years of your activity in the labor and revolutionary movement. I look back with great personal pleasure to the years that we have worked together in our common cause—for the interests of our cl Those of us who have been associated with yeu personally throughout the many years know of and appreciate the contribu- ticns that you have made to the upbuilding of the workers’ move- ment, to the building of our Party, to the laying of the foundations for the final struggle which will make our class the ruling class. We honor you on this occasion for your contributions to the cause of labor as well as for your loyaity and devotion to the Party and the class whose interests it represents. And especially for the great con- tributions that you have made to- wards the development of the Marxist-Leninist publications in the United States. It is well that our Party and the revolutionary labor movement in general shall give honor to its loyal and outstanding fighters. For it is through such occasions that we also are able to estimate the course that we have traveled and the distance that still separates us from our goal. In doing so we strive with all our power to ac- celerate the pace towards the reaching of our goal, And in this sense we know that the best and most fruitful years of your work are still ahead of you. Your Comrade and friend, WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. Other wires were received trom Robert Minor, John Williamson, Sam Darcy, Clarence Hathaway, James W. Ford, Israel Amter, the We Cooperative Publishing Society for} Foreign Workers of the U.S.5S.R., Anthony Bimba, Jacob Burck, Paul Crouch, for the Communist Party district of North Carolina, John Steuben, for the Communist Party workers in Youngstown, Ohio, H. Shepard, for the Communist Party district of Buffalo. Many Pay Tribute A long list of speakers at the main table who rose to pay tribute to ‘Trachtenberg for his long and. loyal service to the movement of the working class, included Jack Stachel, for the Politburo of the Communist Party; Mother Bloor, veteran revo- lutionary fighter; Moissaye Olgin, editor of the Freiheit; Charles Krumbein, for the New York Dis- trict of the Communist Party; Robert Dunn, of the Labor Research Association; Harry Gannes, for the Daily Worker; A. Markoff, for the Workers School; Heller, of the F.S. U.;'MacWeiss, for the Young Com- munist League; Merril Work, for the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; Isidor Schneider, for the New Masses; Orrick Johns, for the John Reed Clubs of the country; Radze, of the Russian Bureau of the Communist Party, and William Seigel, for the Artists’ groups in the John Reed Clubs. During the celebration, news came of the assassination of the Bolshe- vik, Kirov, and the whole assem- blage rose in silence to do him tribute. In reply to the many speeches, Tratchtenberg spoke of the still great need for bringing Marxist- Leninist theory to the working class, to the work of the Communist Party in its daily struggles. He traced his work in the revolutionary move- ment from the time when, as a soldier in the Czarist army during the Russo-Japanese war, he learned of Socialism from the peasant Soldiers, to the days of his 16-year membership in the Socialist Party, down to his becoming a member of the Communist Party after the split. “It is the daily work for the revo- is growing | recruiting | splendid | ” more than and representatives workers | lution that keeps us from ever grow- ing really old,” Trachtenberg de- |clared. “Many of the criticisms made here tonight on the work of the International Publishers are un- doubtedly correct. We have to learn how to improve our mass agitation, | our technique for bringing to the massés the literature of our great revolutionary teachers. We have achievements to our credit and we will strive to go forward with un- flagging energy to our goal, a Soviet America.” A bronze bust of Lenin was pre- sented to Trachtenberg; a film, “Soviets on Parade” was shown, and the meeting closed with the singing of the International. Tighe Admits Secret Parleys (Continued from Page 1) | June convention of the union, at |the suggestion of William Green, Tighe’s Gag Rule The Tighe machine is prepared, however, for the next convention and will do everything possible to jenforce the gag rule and bar rank and file delegates. He was asked | whether delegates from new lodges or those not paid up in their per jeapita tax to the international |lodge, will be seated at the coming jconvention, to be held in Cantcn, | Ohio, April 16, 1935. “We have a certain mode of pro- cedure,” stated the A. A, head, |“which provides that delegates can |not be seated from lodges which |are not paid up by Dec. 31st. The |last time this was not enforced, and |i don’t know whether that was a jwise move. This time, however, the international executive board will determine whether it shall be en- |forced, and we will see that it is.” | In the last two conventions, thousands of members were depriv- jed of a vote because all interna- | tional dues were not fully paid up by their lodges, and would be aimed | at throttling all rank and file sen- timent in the convention, In the alst two conventions, Tighe thinks the rank and file “got out of line,” by talking strike, Tighe “Explains” At this point he entered into a long explanation of the reason why rank and file delegates at the time talked strike: these workers had been working for so many years in non-union shops that their first reaction on entering the union was to become belligerent toward the |employers (horrors!); many of | them felt “they had been imposed on by the employers (in their minds)”; it was a sort of freedom of the spirit asserting itself, etc. “But don’t you suppose their low | wages, the sped-up, poor working conditions were responsible for their determination to force concessions?” Tighe admitted, reluctantly enough, that these things “probably had something to do with their attitude.” President Tighe declared: “The workers’ Interests are not opposed to those of the employ- ers’, if the employers will only see that. If they (the employers) would only take it into their heads to sit down around a conference table, we could then discuss our mutual problems, because they are mutual problems, there is an ‘in- terdependence’ between the inter- ests of the workers and those of the employer. The coal operators discovered, after they began to use them, that mediation boards are in the interests of employers. .. . But as yet the steel companies have refused to see this, They all seem to be connected by a hidden force which opposes the Board and its decisions, they all take the same attitude—” “Do you, at any time, favor strikes?” “No,” answered Tighe, “I am opposed to strikes on general principles,” Then, probably realizing that this blanket statement sounded pretty raw, even coming from an A. A. leader, who lets Bill Green do the “negotiating” for his union, he at- tempted a weak qualification. He excepted those cases in which “the employer takes a despotic attitude!” “Too Much Zeal” He remarked that many of the A. A. organizers displayed “too much zeal” in telling the workers that the President, in Section 7-A, had is- sued a “challenge” to the workers to organize into outside unions. “He didn’t issue any such challenge.” (At the Aliquippa hearings the J. & L. attorney objected strenuously to this “challenge” language used in an A. A. leaflet.). “Is it true,” your correspondent asked, “that in those places where the Amalgamated has a written contract wtih employers, the wage for the workers is set on a sliding scale based upon the market price of bar and sheet iron?” “Yes,” he replied, then entered into an explanation of the arrange- ment by which the Amalgamated Association, for 30 years has taken, draws closer, | | Support to the strikers. A commit- | Newspaper Guild, which is leading the strike of the Ledger editorial workers, will meet with William) | Green in Washington tomorrow to| port for the strikers. | Green wired the American News: aper Guild on Saturday offering | “such assistance as it is possible to| extend” from the New Jersey State |Federation of Labor. Heywood | Broun, national president of the Guild, in a reply to Green urged the “formation of a committee of New Jersey labor leaders to advise New- ark guild and give us benefit of or- ganized labor’s long experience of conducting campaigns of this kind.” Late tonight there will be a mass meeting of the strikers. Delegations of newspaper men from Cleveland, Philadelphia and Wilmington will participate and extend greetings of solidarity and support to the strik- ers. It is the tremendous support that the strike has won, not only from newspaper men, but from the ranks of all organized labor that forced Green to make his gesture of sup- port. On Friday night, the Bssex Trades Council at a meeting en- dorsed the strike, and voted full tee of five was appointed to organ- | ize a labor parade in support of the strike. In addition, some ten local unions of the A. F. of L. have ex- pressed their support of the strike and the issues involved. It was not until these New Jersey A. F. of L. unions acted in support of the Ledger strike that Green broke his silence. He then telegraphed Vin- cent Murphy, sectetary of the Es- sex Trades Council. The strikers ‘who have so mili- tantly shown their solidarity on the picket line should remember that it was Green who repudiated the San Francisco general strike at the crucial moment. It was also Green who urged the steel workers not to walk out on the eve of a proposed strike, and then left them to the tender mercies of an arbitration board that has done nothing to date, He will do nothing but make promises. The strike can only be won as it has been conducted so far, by militant picketing and by the active support of all newspaper men and all other workers who are will- ing to help the strikers, The support of the workers in Newark and nearby cities, especialiy A. F. of L. unions, should be ac- tivized. It should take the form of Picketing, financial aid and other expressions of concrete help. It is | important to rally the widest sup- port among all workers. And it is equally important for the Guild not to let Green and his official asso- ciates carry out their well-known policies of steering the strike into ineffective channels. Protests Urged Against Terror in Danville, Pa. DANVILLE, Pa., Dec. 2—A cam- paign of terror has been launched against the workers here, most of whom are unemployed, and who are fighting against evictions under the | leadership of the Unemployment| Councils. In order to put through an evic- tion which was several times stopped by the workers, State Troopers were |called, and two of the workers, Harold Thomas and Hubert Buck, who participated in the eviction Struggle, were arrested. In protest against these arrests and the terror, the National Unem- ployment Councils have called upon all organizations to send resolutions, telegrams and protests to: Manley Robbins, District Attorney; Parvin Sweitzer, Sheriff; Squire Ogelsby, and Charles Mong, Chief of Police. Protests to all should be sent to Mills Street, Danville, Pa, When T. H. 8. of Washington re- cently sent his contribution to the $60,000 fund, he added: “This is one dollar that the Community Chest didn’t get.” Workers: Send your funds to the Daily Worker, which exposes boss charity schemes at the expense of the workers. | care of the interests of the steel employers, enabling them to cut the wages of the workers at any time by simply driving down, tem- porarily, the selling price of iron or steel. Under this plan, the company submits a statement every sixty days to the union, showing the sales for that period and the prices obtained. On the basis of this, the wage scale for that mill is either raised (?) or lowered for the next two months. The union takes the company’s word for the prices. Of course, if they are suspicious they can examine the companies’ books, Tighe stressed the fact that their’s is a very “flexible system,” for, as he expresses it, “we must consider the employer's profits if the men are to continue to work at their jobs.” In 1932 the top leaders defended the workers’ interests in their usual thorough manner. The steel barons demanded a wage reduction of 30 per cent. The A. A. officials “com- promised”—the workers received a 15 per cent cut! The tide of resentment of the rank and file steel workers is rapidly rising as the Canton convention LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2.--The striking street car workers | are answering the company’s threat of a lockout with greater mass picketing than ever, which has been reaching its height at the rush hours, when traffic is frequently stopped alto- gether on main lines. Eight men have been arrested. They demanded jury trials and said they? would defend themselves against | charges ranging from disturbing the peace to malicious mischief. They will come before municipal court on December 26. War Vet Attacked LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2. — Quinn, member of the Workers Ex-Service- Men's League, who was attacked by thugs Friday in the corridors of the Labor Temple, outside the strike meeting of street carmen, is in a critical condition. Using brass knuckles, the thugs beat Quinn about the head, ribs and spine. When they had beaten him into unconsciousness they dragged him downstairs to the main floor. Workers there, in answer to in- quiries got the court rejoinder from the thugs that Quinn was “a Com- munist.” Quinn, a world war veteran from Sawtelle, who is disabled, was at the Labor Temple on a food committee of the Workers International Relief, | the Women’s Councils, the Relief Workers Protective Union and the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. These groups were planning to go on the picket line for the first time to join the strikers and supply them with hot lunches. Previously, several organizations have offered to join the strikers in mass picketing, which offers, to date, have not been accepted by union of- ficials. Quinn was taken by fellow workers of the food committee to a nearby hotel, where he went out of one fainting spell into another. From there he was removed to the Gen- eral Hospital. His false teeth were broken and the inside of his mouth was badly cut. He sustained head wounds and one arm is believed to be broken. He also may have in- ternal injuries. Sergei Kiroy Was UnrelentingFighter (Continued from Page 1) was very successful. Beginning in 1906 Kirov was again pursued by the police and again found himself in prison. Imprisonment then took a year of his life and work. But the prison gates had hardly closed upon the young proletarian fighter when he immediately commenced to carry out party instructions. Together with a group of comrades, after his release, he organized an excellent conspirative printshop underground in Tomsk. A new arrest again in- terrupted his almost completed work. Kirov was sentenccd to three | years in a fortress. He was put in an individual cell in a prison outside of Tomsk. This was Kirov's revolutionary universi- ty. He crossed the threshold of his ceil firmly convinced that he would leave it sooner or later, Meanwhile, jit was necessary to utilize his time for self-education. These were dif- ficult years. Punitive expeditions and gallows were visible all around. Solitary confinement in the Tomsk prison was for many revolutionaries the last stage to the gallows. Fre- quently, the quiet of the night was broken by farewell cries of con- demned prisoners. These three years steeled his nerves and will. After his release he worked in Irkutsk and Vladikavkas. Arrested Fourth Time Kirov spent several years as an illegal worker. Then the war began. In 1915 he was arrested for the fourth time and sent to Tomsk in the prison gang. Another year he spent in prison. The sentence in- cluded subsequent exile to Narim, but the February revolution inter- fered. Kirov took a direct part as a member of the Vladikavkas com- mittee of the Social-Democratic or- ganization. He worked through 1917 in Vladikavkas and when the flames of the October revolution burst over jthe Caucasus, Kirov was one of the organizers of Soviet Power, and a leader of the armed struggle against the white cossack gangs. The Bolshevik organization sent him to Moscow for weapons and ammunition for the Red Caucasian front which was being formed. Kirov returned to the Caucasus in 1918 through Tsaritsin with a big convoy of military supplies. But it was already too late to break through. The white guard gangs had succeeded in squeezing out the scattered partisan detachments of the Caucasian Red Army, The Party knew Kirov as a firm, Steeled fighter with his clear mind, quiet determination and sacrificing loyalty to the proletarian revolu- tion. He was charged with a re- sponsible sector of the struggle against counter-revolution—the de- fense of Astrakhan. Kirov wrote a brilliant page in the history of the civil war. Here at the lower reaches of the Volga, Kirov directed the work, gathering and organizing the 11th Red Army. Astrakhan remained in the hands of the Soviets because in the rev- Olutionary military council of the llth Army, which defended the Volga Soviet land, bubbled the boundless energy of Kirov, Fought Denikin Together with the Eleventh Army and at its head, Kirov par- ticipated in the defeat of Denikin and the restoration of Soviet Power in the North Caucasus and Baku. He was diplomatic repre- sensative of the Russian Soviet Republic in the still Menshevik Georgia. He participated in the negotiations with Poland. He then participated in Party work in the North Caucassus and in Azer- baijan. Here Kirov worked as secretary of the central committee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party and a member of the South Caucasian regional committee of the Commu- nist Party. Kirov as a prominent Party director performed great work for the foundation and the North Caucasus and the Trans- caucasus. The proletariat of Baku knew and valued and loved their leader and friend Comrade Kirov. At the Tenth Congress of the! Communist Party of the Soviet Union he was elected a candidate of the Central Committee, and at the Eleventh Congress a member | of the Central Committee of the Party. Passionate Revolutionary | He was a passionate revolution- | jary, an irreconcilable enemy of the | slightest deviation from Bolshe- jvism, Leninism. Kirov was a prom- | inent fighter for the party, for the | Central Committee, for the victory \ of Socialism in the U. S. 8. R. Kirov was one of the first wher- | ever the Party, under the leader- ship of Stalin, carried on a struggle , against counter-revolutionary Trot- skyism, the Zinoviev opposition and the right opportunists. Kirov was the nearest colleague, disciple and friend of Stalin. In 1926 after the defeat of the Zinoviev opposition, Kirov became secretary of the Leningrad provin- cial committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the northwest bureau of the central committee of the Party, and can- didate of the central committee, and candidate of the political bureau. Since 1928 he was secretary of the Leningrad regional committee of the Party. Since 1930, he has been a member of the political bureau of the central committee of the Party. Since 1934 he was a member of the Political bureau, secretaty of the central commit- jtee, and secretary of the Lenin- grad regional and city committee jof the Party. Kirov was a member of the pre- sidium of the central executive committee of the Union of Social- ist Soviet Republic for many years. He was the beloved leader of the Leningrad workers, among whom he possessed enormous authority. He was a real tribune whose whole life was a brilliant page in the annals of the heroic years of the proletarian revolution and its tre- mendous gains. Kiroy fought for 30 years for the cause of the workingclass as a gen- uine Bolshevik. His death reached him at his fighting post, C. P. Leaders Pay Tribute to Kirov (Continued from Page 1) ‘Lenin Town’ and the Leningrad region, Great Leader of Working Class “There is no possibility of giving an appraisal of his activity among the Leningrad toilers within a brief mourning letter. It would be diffi- cult to find in our Party a more suitable leader for the working class of Leningrad who so ably welded together all Party members and the whole working class around the Party. He created within the whole Leningrad organization an atmosphere of Bolshevik organiza- tional qualities, discipline, love and loyalty to the cause of the revolu- tion—an example of which was Comrade Kirov himself, “You were near to all of us, Com- rade Kirov, as a true friend and beloved comrade and as a reliable fighter in arms. We shall remem- ber you, dear friend, till the last days of our life and struggle, and we shall feel bitterness at our loss. You were always with us in the years of hard battles for the tri- umph of socialism in our country, you were always with us during the years of wavering and difficulties within our Party, you shared with us all the difficulties of these late yedrs, and we had lost you at the moment when our country had gained great victories. In all this struggle, in all our achievements, there is much that is your share, much of your strength, energy and fiery love for communism. Good- bye, our dear friend and comrade, strengthening of Soviet Power in Sergei!” |court and was sustained by Judge) | Miss Williams not only as an in-| |the building and the ‘Dye Strike Ends proceedings against Herbert New- ton, latest victim of an attempt to oust Negroes from certain sections of Chicago, has been signed by every one of the six white families occu- pying the house. Newton, with his wife and baby, | moved into the apartment of} Harriet Williams, white. The neigh- | borhood is in the heart of the Negro! territory, but this particular build- | ing, owned by Dr. Mitchell, white, The trial of Jacques Roumain, leader of the Communist Party of Haiti and well-known writer, is scheduled to come |up before the Haitian Court of Appeals, within a few days. Roumain was sentenced on October 23 by a military tribunal to a three-year term in prison on a framed-up charge of “a ~ Sergei Kirov has always excluded Negroes. There has recently been a concerted effort | by white owners and banks to force Negroes out of the neighborhood, and when the Newtons moved in, | Dr. Mitchell ordered Miss Williams | to put them out or surrender the | apartment. The white worker re-| jected the landlord's ultimatum, and the latter took the matter to| Thomas A. Green in Municipal Court. The landlord raised only one question during the trial, and that | was Newton's color. | The white tenants state in their} petition: ! “We consider this persecution of | justice to her and to the Newton| family, but also a challenge to our rights to have what visitors and sub-tenants we wish.” | An appeal from the chauvinist | ruling of Judge Green is being taken by Ben Myers, International | Labor Defense attorney. Protest meetings are being held under the auspices of the I. L. D. and the League of Struggle for Negro ights. Rent strikes, picketing of landlord's office and other actions are planned, along the lines of the historic and victorious fight in New York against the attempts of the Emigrants In- dustrial Savings Bank to evict Cyril Briggs, nationally known Negro} leader and member of the Daily Worker staff, from its building at 425 East 6th Street. Newton is a prominent Commu- nist leader, and was Commu- nist candidate for Congress against Oscar De Priest, reformist Negro leader. In Victory (Continued from Page 1) defeated the unsatisfactory con- tract proposed on November 10, de- clared, “I told you last time that | I will bring you no contract unless | it was a gcod one,” and with that | he moved for the adoption of the contract. Others of the rank and file representatives of the Settle- ment Committee spoke along the same line. Vigorito read the con- tract point by point and it was adopted by agreement. As the roll call of the shop chairmen was taken, each an- nounced that the shop meeting ap- proved the contract, accompanied by tremendous cheering of the mass of workers. Then by agreement of the entire mass meeting, the contract was acepted. Gains Due to Militancy It was made clear to the work- ers that their gains were due to the militancy, solidarity and mass picketing which marked the strike throughout its duration; but above all that the rank and file had held control and excluded Thomas Mc- Mahon, president of the U. T. W. and Francis Gorman, the betrayer of the recent general strike, from taking a hand in the negotiations. The chief objections to the pre- vious contract which the higher of- ficials of the union proposed on November 10, but which was re- jected by the workers, were the failure to grant the union shop; no right to strike; all disputes were left to an arbitrating committee of five; and other pcints which put the workers at a disadvantage. The union shop clause, however, became the chief cause for the deadlock. Union Shep Won The following are some of the changes in the proposals which were approved Saturday. The union is recognized to represent all workers in the industry. Every vacancy left by a union worker is to be filled by another union worker. Since the industry is 95 per cent organized, 100 per cent in the Paterson area, this will.mean in effect a 100 per cent union shop. No hiring of new workers unless workers in the af- fected department work at least 90 per cent of full time. The work- week shall consist of 36 hours and five days, and four hours a week additional is permitted during the rush season. In the event that a worker is called to report for work, he must start within one hour, and be paid a minimum for two hours’ work, No Split Shifts There shall be no split shifts, other than such as is caused by the lunch hour. Equal pay for equal work re- gardless of age or sex. No one shall be required to be responsible or supervise the work of others, un- less given more wages. ‘The employers agree not to accept. work from plants where the union has called a strike. The Dye House Color Mixers (injurious work) shall receive 10 cents per hour extra. The Federation of Dyers reserves the right to call a strike in any plant where the employer fails to carry out the decisions of the Griev- ance Board. The agreement, which is for a two-year period, also pro- (Continued from Page 1) lutionary incitement of the capitalist masters who have plunged the world into crisis, whose system dooms the working class to the curses of unemploy- ment and permanent star- vation! * * * UT this counter-revolu- tionary eagerness will get its fit answer from the working class of the world. The power of the Soviet Union is invincible. The mighty fortress of Social- ism, within whose gates the millions march forward to levels of culture and well-being unknown to his- tory, is guarded not only by the toiling masses of the Soviet Union and its glorious Red Army, but by the devotion and vigilance of the working class of the world. The hand of the exploit- ers robs us, and then strikes with the hand of the assassin. But this ter- rorism, this cowardly mur- der, can no more stop the march of the revolution, than the dark can halt the sun. Comrade Kirov! We give you this pledge, we shall give your memory that monument which you your- self would have wished above all things, we shall work to steel our ranks and smash the capitalist enemy upon whose ruins we will build the towers of the pro- letarian dictatorship, the Soviet America which will take its place amidst the Soviet of the world! To our enraged class ene- mies we give the word of the Roman gladiators, “Tremble, for you have cause to fear!” vides for a Grievance Committce of five, consisting of two of the em- ployers, and an impartial represen- tative agreed to by both. Disputes are first to be settled between the employer and the shop committee representative. If this fails, it goes to the union, and only after it fails there does it come before this Griev- ance Committee. In the previous proposal, such a committee was to be the agency for settling all disputes without the preliminary effort. At a mass meeting to hear the report of the delegates to the recent convention, called by the Broad Silk Department of the American Fed- eration of Silk Workers here, all the rank and file resolutions which were rejected at the convention were ap- proved by an overwhelming vote. This includes the resolution for or- ganization of the Negro workers; to condemn the U.T.W. leadership for betraying the general strike, and to reject the letter of William Green, ordering expulsion of Communists, Green to Get Letter In the latter case. it was also de- cided to send a letter to Green on their decision. The meeting like- wise voted to hold no election of of- ficers for two weeks. Eli Keller, the defeated and discredited of the union, is bound to be ousted in that election. The workers continually asked how it came about that Keller got ito the convenion since he was not elected from his own department. Keller only told the workers that since he was not elected by them, he is not obliged to report to them. The workers were very enthusi- astic as the rank and file leadership is now becoming consolidated to give guidance. The delegates re- ported how Paterson, because it was a militant local, was the target of the officials throughout the pro- ceedings of the convention, and that a well-oiled machine domi- nated the procedure. Use this week-end to collect as much funds as possible to help ful- fill the Daily Worker $60,000 quota as soon as possible, ’ ©plot against the State.” The charge ig based on the use of the word “material” in corzespondence be- tween Roumain and St. Juste Zamor of New York, which the government interpreted to mean bombs and ex- plosives. This information was re- ceived today by the International Labor Defense in a letter from one of Roumain’s defense attorneys, The letter follows: “We received your letter of Nov. 9 in which you inform us that you are very interested in the case of Jacques Roumain and would like to know the charges made against him, the sentence and the names of the defense lawyers. “Jacques Roumain has been ac- cused of a plot against the internal security of the State. This accusa- tion was based on the interpretation given by a government information service in New York of the ‘material’ used by Jacques Roumain in a letter to St. Juste Zamor, and in a letter of Zamor sent from New York to Jacques Roumain. “According to this interpretation, ‘material’ means bombs and ex- plosives. Mr. Jacques Roumain has protested this interpretation which he declares false, stating that the word ‘material’ means the books and pamphlets of the Communist doctrine, “Mr. Jacques Roumain appeared alone before a military commission composed of two colonels, two ma- jors and a captain, a third major acting as the military prosecutor. He was condemned on Oct. 23 to three years in prison. “M. Francois Moise and myself, his defense attorneys, have entered an appeal against this decision. The Court of Appeals will hear the case next week. “Sincerely yours, “THOMAS H. LEBAUD.” The LL.D. has issued an appeal to all organizations immediately to register their protests against the presecution of Roumain and against’ the state of terror in Haiti. Protests should be addressed to Charles Vin- cent, Haitian Consulate, 96 Broad Street, New York City, and with President Stenio Vincent, Port au Prince, Haiti. Kirov’s Death Stirs Masses (Continued from Page 1) Pleased at this shot and will gloat over it. But our enemies have mis- calculated. The working class and the toilers cannot be stopped by anything in their unswerving vic+ torious movement towards social< ism. Kirov is no longer among us, but the Party is alive, the working class is alive—of which the old Bol- shevik Kiroy was a loyal son and fighter. We bare our heads and swear that the cause for which Kirov fought and died will be cars ried to its victorious conclusion. Moscow Workers Express Anger “We will return blow for blow to the enemy. Death to the enemies of the working class! Raise higher the banner of the great proletarian dictatorship! Rally the ranks closer around our Party, around our Cen- tral Committee led by the great leader of toiling mankind, Comrade Stalin!” Today at the Moscow factories be- fore dawn the night shifts passed resolutions full of anger against the foul murderers and sorrow at their heavy loss. “We call on all toil- ers,” say the workers of Electroza- vod in their resolution, “to display special vigilance at the elections to the Soviets. Rally around the Len+ inist Party and its Central Commit. tee for the final destruction of the class-enemy, for the construction of the elassless socialist society.” Estimating the murder as an act of class-hatred, the workers state: “This loss is indescribably heavy, But let the class-enemy not rejoice, The working class is strong and powerful because it was educated by men like Kirov, by leaders of tho great Party of Bolsheviks, becausa it is led and guided by our bril~ liant Stalin.” 3 The workers in other factories state in resolutions: “We assure our great Bolshevik Party and our works ers’ and peasants’ government that we will sti further strengthen our class vigilance. and will strengthen the defences of our socialist fathers land with greater energy in the future.” In all the resolutions the workers demand a merciless revolutionary punishment for the foul murderers and for those who directed their hands, The funeral of Kirov will take place Dec. 6 in Moscow in the Red Square. 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