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

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1934 Page 3 Demonstration Today Will Protest Eviction Slaying UNITY OF JOBLESS ‘Housewives in District Bureau U rges URGED BY COUNCILS Chicago Reject Swifter Drive Action | Home Owners |, L. D. TO DEMAND > Rout Bailiff,’ CHANGE OF VENUE IN PHILADELPHIA) Meats _ Stop Eviction | Fresh Food Demanded Workers Will Assemble at Office of Cou nty| igs pu er | Welfare at 9 a.m. to Demand Punishment | ene care | of Those Responsible for Attack CHICAGO, MIL, Dee. 2—Dr, Her-| }man Bundeson, health commission- | ZR AS 5S EN ROE PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 2. — The Unemployment Declaring that Pittsburgh is not meeting its responsibil- jer, last week refused to take imme-| 3 |diate acti the demand of al... : ; reibier, | Councils here have called upon all workers to assemble abl eccteitees ke hatacohas tae sh ity, in the $60,000 drive, the Pittsburgh District Bureau the office of the County Relief Board, 1450 Cherry Street, |immediately condemn drought cat-| Yesterday called for a “thorough check-up on all work now _ For'Daily’in Pittsburgh |“Thorough Check-Up of Work for Fund Cam- ; paign Urged for Pittsburgh Which Is Behind Aids Aged Man All Other Concentration Districts | CLEVELAND, Ohio, | Members of the Small | Land Owners Branch 17 private dete FOR HILLSBORO 15 Defendants Will Be in Court Today—Lawyers To Argue Motion to Change Place of Trial— Cleveland Small Home Owners Federation Dec. 2. Home and CHICAGO, Dec. 2.—Inter vill argue f a change of venue Monday ro 15 opens in the Hills- in, a, : tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock, in protest against the mur- |tle relief meat as has already been | under way for the raising of ‘Daily’ funds.” 715 W. 3 » all ; der of William Heaterly. a 35-year old unemployed Negro, reat hes He: cisted ansea| Pittsburgh has reached only 71 per cent of its quota. apne oe aN ) set up a powerful united front last Tuesday at the hands of police#———~ | Besuatie eo his office, and ierue re. | it isin elghth place. ¢ - — | mortgage on the house - — —— o defense of the 15 framed who sought to evict him and his| |ports later : Dis Masissagrti’ should is dd |cent—from 45 to 68 per cent—by| sll the furniture and ~ ° a x t : id for bs al of se family from their home at 1011 G M | AEP i only raise amoun' © cena longings of the aged m ¢ } > Ss | c Callohill Street. roup eets leriven’ Committee of nine house-' sss9 that Pittsburgh still needs), gi tegen jumped far| lnea” whet the cake atthe aie ago e | it y were indisied, eam Heaterly was shot down in cold | |made ill by this canned FER.A.| but to go far over the top in the | ahead of California and 5 per cent| Small Home and Land Owners’ F Mi 1 W appr maedengtnee po thro | ! for funds,” the Buro st ; 7 = 1 2 ‘S y = Pesta elingary a ml ect had ioe In Cleveland jmeat, had called with cans of the) “All Greariieatiohik and units must ahead of Milwaukee, with both of| Federation arrived. An enraged Or + iC est cialist League to join the united front sembled before his home, battered | |meat and a news item from the} |Herald Examiner, which told of the intensify their attempts to fill the | whom it is in Socialist competition. | crowd of workers gathered to sup- The appeal points out that, port the 50 members of the Federa- | 4 | Fy ” i | es, 1 r tion to the character of the down the door, entered with drawn O S 4 ] Bill condemnation of the in To-| district quota immediately. | Must Fill Quotas | tion. M ] Ps 2 tior tt h ti ; Piha saritoccmacede its An kibemsl nsocia ne * Seg gs The First Stop | Among the small districts the| When Albert Scharlan, one of the} ~ ela ar aey weep poten bier His brother, Samuel, who since he | eee, After the committee left the! The first step in this direction, | percentage of the highest standing | detectives, appeared on the porch mee acl one was evicted from his home, had| ; 2 jhealth commissioner's office, they| \¢ continued, must be the immedi- | °%¢, North Carolina, is proof of the| the ancered group moved toward ay 1 Illinois Steel Yor e. The lived witn him, was captured as he! Sponsoring Committee learned that the meat in Toledo pi sieeaey or “etal pani Sak: | determined steps that these mi(!| him. He fled in a wild dash over Indiana anc mois Stee begin proposals: fled from the police gun fire, beaten | . |had been canned by a Chicago ‘a apart Considerable money | ‘ké to fill their quotas before the | lawns and back fences and through Centers Make Good | ‘1. the catntie and the into unconsciousness, and arrested.) for National Congress |packer. Bundeson’s refusal to take| *"* spa: Y | drive ends. North Carolina has only | alleys. The workers and small home venters Make pod | 1. The rancially 8 ; 7 has been collected but has not yet : paras i. ta | . most determined backing of the de- He is being held without bail on . ° immediate action, the Unemploy- > » | 60 per cent. West Virginia has 55 | owners moved inside, using a dupli-| R :, Call Ps Has Wide Backin , PlOY-| heen turned over to the “Daily. f “ 4 esponse to La fense. charges of assault and baitery,; < : = ment Councils pointed out, is sim-| ‘The Jewish Bureau has completed | Pe? cent of its quota, but the next| cate key to gain entrance. Inside,| Sai | 2. The sending of protests to the threats to do bodily harm, and ac- cessory after the fact. For Relief Rights of Negroes The mass demonstration at the county relief office Monday morn- ing will demand immediate punish- ment of the police responsible for the brutal attack, freedom for Samuel Heaterly, and immediate relief aid for the families of the two victims, as well as compensation to the family for the death of Wil- liam Heaterly. In addition, the Councils demand an end to the double-dealing relief standards for white and Negro unemployed, an end to all discrimination, cash pay- ment of rents by the welfare de- partment, and a city ordinance against evictions. United front proposals around these demands, and for a united struggle against evictions and ter- ror, and for the full and equal re- lief rights of the Negro people, have been sent to the Socialist Party, the National Association for the Ad- vancement of the Colored People, Negro churches, the American Civil Liberties Union, and to all trade unions. These groups have also been urged to arrange immediate protest actions and to support the demon- stration Monday. As a further step toward unity in the immediate demands of the em- ployed and unemployed, the Unem- ployment Councils have appealed to all these groups to support the National Congress for Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance, which will convene in Washington on Jan. 5 for a three-day session, Thugs Enter House PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec, 2.— ‘Thugs employed by the holder of a mortgage on the home of N. W. Foster, 805 Parrish Street, descend- ed upon his home, bashed in the windows and doors with an axe, and removed the furniture. Police are visiting his home almost daily since, and are openly threatening him with violence unless he vacates. Foster, an old man, purchased the home nineteen years ago. Having been unemployed for some time, he has been unable to meet the in- terest payments demanded by the Pennsylvania Bible Society, the holder of the mortgage. Jobless Leader Faces Charge Of ‘Conspiracy’ (Special to the Daily Worker) FARRELL, Pa., Dec. 2—The In- ternational Labor Defense yester- day obtained bail and secured the release from jail of Leon Callow, secretary of the Niles Local of the Trumbull Unemployed Workers Union, after he had spent ten days in jail on charges of “ overthrow the United States gov- ernment.” . Attorney Davis of the Interna- tional Labor Defense was present at the hearing before immigration officers who demand the deporta- tion of Callow, whose arrest is an attempt to behead the growing mass movement of the Niles un- employed. The Youngstown, Ohio branch of the International Labor Defense will hold a mass meeting Thursday night at 8 o'clock at the Central Auditorium in defense of Callow the workers of Youngstown in- clude Mary Powers of % Abe Lewis of Cleveland and Leon Callow. The International Labor Defense has urged all organizations to pro- test the ition by deportat proceedings sending resolutions to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Washing- ton, and to Immigration Officer Bangs at the Federal Building, Youngstown, Ohio. (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. Forty-three representatives from American Federation of Labor unions, Independent United Build- ing Trades, Mechanics Educational Society, Newspaper Guild, Italian United Front, and fraternal societies met at the Central Y. M. C. A. Wednesday and set up the Cleve- land sponsoring committee for the Washington Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance, Frank Rogers, Acting Secretary of the Unemployment Councils, re- ported to the conference, and was unanimously elected executive secre- tary of the sponsoring committee. State Representative-elect Marzel Levin, Democrat, spoke at the con- ference endorsing the Workers Bill and the Washington conference. Several City Councilmen who have endorsed the Workers’ Bill and promised to attend, did not show up. The conference elected an exec- utive committee of seven members and will reconvene Dec. 12, inviting all organizations which have en- dorsed the Washington Conference to send delegates. A delegate from the Metal Trade Council pledged to speak before the Cleveland Federa- tion of Labor asking for free office space for the sponsoring commit- tee. Temporary headquarters of the committee have been set up at 942 Prospect Ave., Room 469. Cleveland C. P. Recruits 208 New Members CLEVELAND, Dec. 2. — District Six of the Communist Party in Cleveland, Ohio, recruited 208 new members into the Party in the month of November, in accordance with the vigorous membership drive decided upon by the Central Committee. According to Phil Bart, organiza- tional secretary of the Cleveland District, the composition of the new members is better than at any other time. Out of the 208 new members 125 are native born, 34 Negro, 24 are good-standing members in the American Federation of Labor, and 14 are steel workers from basic con- centration plants. The recruiting proceeds along lines laid down in the Control Tasks of the district. Increased efforts are now being made to bring dues-paying mem- bership in the district up to the 3,000 mark by Lenin Memorial. 2 Councils Score Victory OverForced Labor Camp A committee from the Unem- to/ ployment Council locals on Seven- teenth Street and FKighty-first Street yesterday forced the 17th Precinct Home Relief Bureau to re- open the relief case of Alexander Mendoza, an unemployed worker, who had been cut off the rolls be- cause he had refused to accept a forced labor job at Camp Grey- court. The victory against the forced labor drive against single men in the case of Mendoza marks a num- ber of similar victories by the Un- employment Councils throughout the city in winning relief for work- ers who had been denied relief after refusing to go to Camp Greycourt. “Here’s another ten bucks toward the $60,000 fund representing the Daily Worker share of the dance proceeds put on by the Belden, N. Dak., Section,” writes W. J. Husa, Section organizer. “Here’s hoping other units and sections through- out our district puts forth their best efforts | in raising the quota as- signed. DETROIT, MICH. DAILY WORKER VICTORY CELEBRATION 4 Saturday, December 8th F 5969—14th Street, near Mc Graw at 8 P.M. INNISH HALL GOOD PROGRAM — DANCE — GOOD ORCHESTRA REFRESHMENTS Admission in Advance 15e At Door 20¢ from the public the facts about a jrecent epidemic of. amoebic dysen- jtery because such knowledge would have threatened the financial suc- \cess of the World’s Fair, to which the epidemic was traced. called upon all housewives to refuse the canned F.E.R.A. meat, and to demand meat orders for fresh meat purchaseable at any meat store and | paid by the relief commission at full cash rates. organizing to bring thousands of cans of this meat to Bundeson’s office and to Mayor Kelly, and de- mand immediate action by the city. Jim-Crow Relief Rule Set Up in Los Angeles 1 | LOS ANGELES, Cal,, Dec. 2— |The Los Angeles County Relief Ad- ministration is a Jim-Crow outfit in the administration of relief and in the giving of aid to the desti- tute. An order was signed last week forbidding Negro social workers from visiting any but Negro appli- cants for aid. White social workers, cants. High administrative officials in the relief organization here as well as elsewhere are all whites, and Ne- groes, regardless of how skilled and competent they may be, cannot rise higher than the job of case super- visors at the very most. Less than $50,000 has been raised in the Daily Worker drive. Only the utmost speed in fund-raising | activity will enable all districts to complete their quotas and reach the $60,000 goal! a ilar to his recent stand on keeping} The Unemployment Councils have | The councils are) however, may still visit Negro appli- | {ts quota of $100 and has challenged every other language organization in Pittsburgh to beat it in raising money for the “Daily” before the drive closes, Seattle Advances Pittsburgh, which is behind De- troit, Chicago and Cleveland, the other concentration districts, now being threatened by Seattle, which has made a leap of 23 per is i on the list, North Dakota, has not) even reached the half-way mark. These districts certainly can do better—and so can Houston, South Dakota and Kentucky, who sent nothing last week, The first two have reached only 9 per cent of their quotas while all Kentucky has raised $2, These districts must work to the utmost to go over the top in the next two weeks. By Farrell City Council ; Speed Congress Plans FARRELL, Pa., Dec. 2.—The City Council of Farrell endorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill and other relief demands of the unemployed as presented in a reso- lution drafted by the Relief Work- ers Union Local 234. The resolution, which was unani- mously endorsed by the City Council, called for an immediate 25 per cent i.crease in relief to all families, and at least $2.50 weekly relief to single unemployed work- | ers; civil and public works projects to provide jobs for all unemployed workers, and enactment of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, Preparations have been speeded here for a mass conference for the | election of delegates and the popu- larization of the National Congress | for Unemployment Insurance which will be held in Washington, D, C., on Jan. 5-7, 1935. Workers’ Bill Endorsed | Alabama Organizers Freed on Bond After Downs Law Arrests BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 2—/ Raymond Harris, Communist leader, and C. J. Johnson, organizer for the National Convention for Unem- | ployment and Social Insurance, have been released in bond, pending trial on Tuesday, on charges of} violating the new Downs ordinance prohibiting possession of Commu- nist literature. The International Labor Defense, which is defending the two workers, yesterday urged all workers and their organizations throughout the missioner Downs, City Hall, Bir- mingham, Ala.. demanding the dropping. of the charges, revocation release of all workers arrested un- der it. Preparations for the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance are advancing rapidly with a delegated conference address the conference. they fe s | Sigel grata vera is CHICAGO, Il., Dec. 2.—Final ar- | authorities, Governor Horner, and Ss Peer and Chester Stoll, the other angements are being made for the States Attorney Hall, for the repeal detectives, and drove them out. The 8 |Midwestern conference of steel and|of the Ilinois Criminal Syndicalist workers returned the f ‘ the house. Bae 1 etal workers, which takes place on| Law and the freedom of the Hills- WI ice, |Dec. 9 here. An affair to greet the| Soro 15. é Sonn Pattee tone ae rere delegates will be held on Dec. 8 at| 3. The calling in the near future cheerful, laughing crowd, who de-|8 P-m. at the Workers Lyceum, 2733 | by the respective committees in the rided their “investigation.” Hirsch Blvd. The conference has| united front of a state-wide confer- : {been called by the Steel and Metal|ence to mobilize all forces back of Workers Industrial Union, the fight to repeal the law. Chicago proper made the final { 4 oh Say Peitilgre - ebipae . ° obilization for the Midwest Con-| to the legislature a bill for the re~ Vote for First Time \eresics at the shop delegates’ meet- | Pe gt ths 4-910, Anti: Revolution i {ing on Nov. 25. Most of the locals/ Statute, which is the Illinois Crime In Pennsylvania Town |have already elected delegates. Calls| inal Syndicalist Law. aa Fe lhave been sent out to the Mechan-| 5. The institution of a petition , FRANKLIN, Pa., Dec. 2. — For the| jes Educational Society, Local 23,/campaign throughout the whole first time the farmers cast 28 votes the Independent Die Caster League | State of Illinois. for the Communist candidates. The | of America, Inc., and others. The I. L. D. also appealed to all vote came as a surprise to the capi-| From out of town, Terre Haute,| Workers and their organizations to talist politicians, since there are NO | Indiana, Peoria, Ilinois, have al-|rush protests to the Circuit Court unions or other labor organizations. |;eaqy replied that delegates are at Hillsboro and to Governor Horner It was evidence that Communism | sjocteq, |demanding the freedom of the 15 was beginning to root itself in this) Brother Schmies reports tHat the| defendants. gorner ‘of reaction: |Cleveland District has been mobil-| The defendants were arrested jized and delegates elected. How-| while participating in the strug- lever, there is no response, as yet,| $les of Montgomery County work- Communists Receive of the anti-working-class law and| | Hunger Striking Farm Leader Takes Liquid, jfrom the tri-cities of Rockford,|¢S for unemployment relief. nor has| St. Louis Davenport and Moline, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, In an attempt to smash the struggle for relief, they were hurriedly in- BRIDGETON, N. J. Dec. 2—/and Detroit districts answered the| ‘dicted on 15 charges, including “con~ Threatened with forcible feeding, William H. O'Donnell, militant farm strike leader on a hunger conference among the members in| ize the Communist Party, country to rush protests to Com-|strike in the Cumberland County | Chicago. jail against his imprisonment, con- | sented yesterday to accept nourish- | ment. He took orange juice and water. | The threat of forcible feeding was | the only reply to O’Donnell’s hun- ger strike made by Governor A. Harry Moore. Moore, who told O’Donnell’s wife that he was power- less to free O'Donnell, yesterday) being planned for December 16.| permitted parole for 253 criminals, | Roger Baldwin has been invited to! including five murderers, through | the State Court of Pardons. | Business Organization Launches Drive Against Union Labor By NAT ROSS BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 2.— |The increased activities of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Legion in the past few weeks, the growth of police terror, the arrest of Ray Harris, Communist Organizer and Cc. L. Johnson, leader of the ar- rangements committee for the Washington Congress for Unem- | ployment and Social Insurance, the |conviction of militant workers—all of these fascist developments must raise an alarm before the working class of Birmingham. At the meetings of the South- eastern section of the Chamber of Commerce the capitalists definitely planned to sharply attack the living conditions of the workers. The big capitalists decided to fight for the N.R.A. wage differential (lower wages for the South) to demand cutting of unemployed relief, to op- pose shorter hours and the recog- nition of the labor union. A con- crete example of the fight for lower wages in igham is the de- mand of the laundry operators for a reduction in the N.R.A. minimum wage from 162-3 to 14 cents an hour. The drive to lower wages is seen in the F.E.R.A. order with- drawing the 30 cents minimum for relief work. The press says the following re- garding the cause of this order: “Mr. Hopkins found on his tour in the South that there was an actual shortage of unskilled and domestic labor largely because that class of laborers, largely Negroes, could get more money for less work in the F.ER.A, This condition was rather serious in the cotton and tobacco areas, and employed workers were howling because the $240 a day going to those on relief work was more than they were getting. “The drive against the workers is seen in the plan to cut the relief rolls in the state from 104,000 families to 50,000. Illiteracy Increased An official report made on Bir- mingham relief says the follow- ing: “The whole picture points to an increasingly serious relief situ- ation. The general feeling in the iron and steel industry is that em- ployment during the Winter will remain at about its present level. The future of the commercial coal industry does not seem bright...” To top the whole rotting economic situation one social fact should be pointed out, namely that illiteracy among children of school age has increased from 10,000 to 106,000 in the state since 1932. It is clear that fascism is de- veloped by the capitalists to help carry out: the starvation policy against the workers. Fascist growth arises in Birmingham out of the | following: 1, Fear of the militant mood of the masses and the growing unity of white and Negro workers es- pecially since the coal and ore mining strikes. 2. Fear of the growth of a | trade union spirit among the un- organized workers and above all Year of the prestige of the C. P. which is spreading daily. 3. The use of the treachery of Leibowitz and the Negro fakers to try to electrocute the Scotts- boro boys and to use the Scotts- boro developments as the pivot of attack against Southern workers. 4. The Roosevelt administration is using the Southern section of the Democratic Party particularly Birmingham (the home of J. P. Morgan’s Tennessee Coal and Iron Company) as the testing ground for the New Deal develop- ments in fascist methods and technique. . 5. The support given this drive by the A, F. of L. bureaucracy and the S. P. leaders in Bi 5 The development of fascism is seen in the declaration of Tom Knight, that “Communism should be stamped out by armed force if necessary.” It is seen in the ord- inance passed at the initiative of Commissioner Downs that a long sentence or the convict gang awaits anyone who “shall print or know- ingly circulate any book, paper .. . advocating the doctrine that organ- ized government shall be over- thrown by force, violence or any unlawful means, or shall have in possession more than one copy of such book, etc... .” tions of the K.K.K. Emest L. Knight, secretary, U.M.W.A. local Dixiana, Alabama, writes to the press: “We had a march here re- cently of supposedly K.K.K.’s who had but one motive in mind and that was to attempt to destroy or- ganized labor. Only recently 16 K.K.K.’s broke into the home of a militant Negro in Birmingham, stripped his two grown daughters to the waist and lashed them. At the same time the head of the White Legion, Tom Gulledge, who admits he was a strikebreaker in the Gas- tonia textile and the Kentucky mine strikes, works hand in hand with the police attempting to break up worker’s meegings. The Provocative Role of the Labor Fakers The arrest of Harris and John- son at the former's home is one of the many recent police actions against the rights of the workers. That this drive is not wholly suc- cessful is seen among other things in a lengthy editorial in the Bir- Fascist growth is seen in the ac-| 8Tess, mingham News called “Hunting Communists may be overdone.” The growth of bloody fascism in Birmingham would not be possible were is not for the aid and support given to the fascists by the Negro and white reformist leaders and above all by a number of big offi- cials in the A. F. of L. In a state- ment issued a few weeks ago, Robert Moore, president of the State Fed- eration of Labor, said: “Labor’s pro- gram involves first a showdown with Communism. . . . We intend to go to bat with the Communist element which has worked its way into our organization. A Communist round up is under way with the vice- presidents of each of the eight Ala- bama districts making personal sur- veys in an effort to definitely spot offenders who will be summarily ousted, and their names turned over to the government authorities.” Behind this piece of police prov- ocation Mr. Moore proposes a pro- gram of labor legislation, the main demand being, according to Mr. Moore, a State Department of La- bor and appointment of A. F. of L. bureaucrats for state jobs. Already it is announced that Mr. Moore himself will head the Department of Labor working with a Democratic machine whose connections with the K-K.K. is more clear every day. The best exposure of how the A. F. of L. bureaucrats believe in their so-called labor program is seen in connection with the Congress for Unemployment and Social Insur- ance. But despite the fact that dozens of A. F. of L. locals have endorsed the H. R. 7598 Bill and despite the fact that a number of unions and honest union officials have endorsed the Washington Con- the Birmingham Trades Council officialdom made a violent attack on the Congress preparations when two of the Trades Council delegates introduced the question to the delegates last week. Next Step in Birmingham There is no question that the miners and steel workers of Bir- mingham are raring for action against the conditions of starvation and fascist terror. This places great tasks and responsibilities on the It is necessary to first and fore- most develop a real united front movement above all in the trade unions. The preparations for the Washington Congress must be used as the main immediate instrument for really developing a powerful trade union movement for unem- ployment insurance by uniting the rank and file massec against any misleaders who stand in the way of this central need of the Birming- ham trade unionists. Klan Increases Fascist Activities in South | Communist Party Calls | for Strong Fight on Terror Plans to develop the united front of the unemployed organizations (Unem- ployment Council, Relief Workers | Union, Hod Carrie:s Union, ete.) | and all workers and other organiza- tions to lend full support and weight in the sending of delegates to the Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Congress in Washington. In this connection the whole united front movement must intensify the struggle for immediate relief and the trade union masses must repu- diate Moore who helps the fascists and the capitalists by his anti-Com- | munist drives, and instead unite all} union men in a common front for union recognition, against the com- pany union and the wage differen- tial for Birmingham workers. At the same time all forces cen- tering around the unions and in- | Defense is urging a nation-wide call. There is high enthusiasm for the Workers of five different | shops, where they have no local, as yet, have undertaken to establish one by the time of the conference. | Two To Face | Trial in South | On Tuesday (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 2.— Raymond Harris, Communist leader, | and Lester Johnson, secretary of the| Local Arrangements’ Committee for} the National Congress on Unem-| ployment Relief and Social Insur- ance, face trial Tuesday morning} before Judge Henry Martin at City | Hall on charges of violating the anti-working class “Downs Law prohibiting the possession of revo- iutionary literature. oe The charges followed the action) | | of police in raiding Harris’ room without a warrant, when several/ copies of the October Communist were allegedly seized. A number of A. F. of L. local| leaders of the rank and file move-| ment, several preachers and masses of workers, white and Negro, are al- ready protesting this new drive) against the rights of workers to or- ganize and police attempts to ter- rorize the movement for unemploy- ment and social insurance. The Birmingham International Labor flood of protests to Judge Martin, | Commissioner W. O. Downs and| | to start spiracy to advocate overthrow of the government,” “conspiracy organ- and at- tendance at meetings for which po- lice refused to issue permits. The defendants include 12 miners, three of whom are members of the City Council of the village“ of Taylor Springs, Montgomery County, and Jan Wittenber, Chicago artist, and John Adams. U.S. Navy Building Will Be Speeded This Month, Capital Reports Show WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.— After the formal renunciation of the naval limitation treaties some time between Dec. 10 and Dec. 20, all branches of the Roosevelt admin- istration will be stepped up to war- time activity in order to keep Amer- ican imperialism’s lead in naval and arms construction, it was learned here today. Two weeks after the treaties are abandoned Congress will meet. One of the first moves by the Navy De- partment will be a demand for im- mediate appropriations with which construction of seventy- eight war ships. These ships com= prise one aircraft carrier, two light cruisers, 51 destroyers and 24 sub- marines. Sixty-eight ships are now in the course of construction, or have been appropriated for. NEW 1.W.0O. BRANCH BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Dec. 2—A newly-organized English speaking branch of the International Worke ers Order will have the Community Center at 836 Fairfield Avenue as its permanent meeting place. The next meeting of the organization will be held tomorrow. A group of coal miners from Rock At the same time it is necessary Chief of Police Hollums with de-| Springs, Wyo., contributed $4 to the mands for the release of the defen-|Daily Worker financial campaign, dants and repeal of the vicious|Have you collected as much as pose “Downs law.” \ sible for the $60,000 fund? volving the broadest masses should be involved in the struggle against fascism, for the repeal of the Downs ordinance, for the disbandment of the K.K.K. and other fascist bands, and for the rights of the unions, of the working class and the Negro | masses. It is clear that the fight for the Scottsboro boys’ freedom at this time must become a real pivot in the whole struggle against lynching and fascist terror. The Communists | must point out patiently and con-| vincingly that the Scottsboro case represents not only the central fight for equal rights for Negroes but also at the same time a fight for better conditions and for the rights of the white workers. We must state boldly that any one who attacks the Ne- groes, who fights against unity of the labor movement, is an enemy of the white as well as the Negro workers, In the present period of develop- ing fascism and the mood of the masses to struggle for their own in- terests the task that lies at the bot- tom of all our work is building a powerful Party in Birmingham, above all in the big mills, mines and factories. We must increase our speed in winning of new militant Negroes and the fighting white workers in order to overcome the lag in our present recruiting drive. The Communist Party calls on all workers in the South and all the workers and organizations through- out the country to flood W. O. Downs, City Hall, Birmingham, Ala., with protests demanding the repeal of the “Downs” ordinance, the dis- bandment of the K.K.K., the freeing of Harris and Johnson and all other workers arrested for their revolu- tionary activity. Hear JOHN L. SPIVAK Expose ANTISEMITISM IN AMERICA Milwaukee Dec. 9, 2:00p.m. Rese teere ni Auditorium Dec. 9, 8:30 p.m. Hotel Sherman (Grand Ball Room) Randolph at Clark Maccabee Auditor- ium, 5050 Woodward at Putnam Engineers Auditor- ium, Ontario & St. Clair Auspices NEW MASSES Admission — 50c, except in Milwaukee—25c and 50c Admission Ticket Given Free With New 6-Months Subscription to the NEW MASSES, $2.00 only at WORKERS BOOKSHOPS: MILWAUKEE — 312 W. State CHICAGO — 2019 W. Division St. DETROIT —1981 Grand River CLEVELAND — 1522 Prospect St. Chicago Detroit Dec. 10, 8:30 p.m. Cleveland Dee. 11, 8:30p.m.