The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1934, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1937 \ Business Men Urge Fascist Drive on West Coast Workers 9 34. Sinwadaves Buffalo Parley|\ Cuban Government Are Indicted! Congress on Insurance On Scottsboro Mythical ‘Red Plot | Pressed As Roosevelt Stories Circulated On West Coast By Commerce Group Meve Seen as Part of Bosses’ Plan to Crush Militant Streetcar Strike in Los Angeles; E, I. West Sounds Keynote LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3.—Meeting in Los Angeles at| ‘felonious rioting” as part of the Portland Arrests Fla- grant Provocations to Smash Union By DAWN LOVELACE PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 3.—Thirty- four longshoremen, members of the International Longshoremen’s Asso- ‘ciation, have been indicted for campaign of anti-working class ac- a moment when it is gripped by street-car strike, the eleventh |tion being waged by the employers Western Divisional Conference of the Junior Chamber of |e Commerce issued a warning against the growing “red men-| ace.” of 1,500,000 Communists in the/ United States plotting to overthrow | tho government.” | West’s speech is the opening gun | in a campaign to fan a new wave of | terror against workers organizations | on the coast. This is particularly | in line with the steps being taken to break the street car strike here.| Sounding the keynote for the fas- | cist drive, West said: | not only deny the existence of God,/ only real unemployment insurance | but they prohibit religious worship. | In Russia they have destroyed the| churches and banished or killed a| large number of the priests.” Such an outburst against “reds” in Los Angeles corresponds almost | in every instance with a strike on the coast. | Two Strikers Held LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3—Two Striking street car employees, Paul Cross and Frank Striebel, are held at central jail on charges of sus- picion of arson, This followed burn- | ing of a street car at Third and| Bixel Streets Thursday night. Pres- | ident H. A. Featherstone of the| union declared that both Cross and | Striebel were at union headquarters | when the car was burned and that they were going to investigate the fire. ne street car fire was the major} t of the day. Sympathizers of the strikers Joined them in mass picketing of all) car and bus barns in the city. | Meantime, with P. A. Donoghue, | ‘West Coast regional supervisor here, | the federal officials renewed their attempts to end the strike. Confer- e State Parley On Social Bill Is Planned @ killed on Aug. | The indictments grew out of one of the most flagrant and determined E. I, West, National President of the Junior Chamber |instances of planned provocation of Commerce told “a mythical story? jand frame-up since the Mooney case. It brings to a climax of Fascist |intimidation the series of violent acts and provocations conducted by employers and police throughout the |marine strike here. | James Conner, a member of the company union “Columbia River Longshoremen’s Ass’n.,” was shot , after the Luckenbach Line had deliberately | violated even the anti-working class Ss SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 3.—Called jierms of the arbitration agreement, “This menace today is infinitely | together by the Unemployed Citi- |discriminating against LDA. men, worse than most of us even dream.|zen’s League, with the realization land afte: the I. L, A, workers struck All Communists are atheists. They | that Initiative Number Four is the Jon Luckenbach terminals. bill, twelve representatives of or- ganized labor, church and educa- tional groups are now sponsoring plans for the Unemployment In- surance Congress at Olympia in January. The sponsoring committee in- cludes I. A. Sandvigen, business tary, Machinists’ Union (A. F. of L.);_E. M. Weston, Boilermakers’ | (A. F. of L.) business agent; Alfred | Jussett, business agent, Packing House Workers (A. F. of L.); James Dallas, Flour and Cereal Workers (A. F. of L.); International Long- | shoremen’s Association L.), Everett Local; tnd Building Laborers (A. F. of L.). Elmer Miller represents the Seat- | tle Teachers’ League; J. F. Cronin | 4s chairman, executive committee, Incor- | porated; Dr. J. H. Givens, Church Commonwealth Builders, of the People; James Murphy, Na- tional Lumber Workers’ Union, and William Murray, chairman, Cen- | tral Federation, Unemployed Citi- zen’s League. Murray Elected Secretary Murray was elected secretary of A “riot”—obviously provoked after careful planning on the part of the company-controlled scab union,— Jended with a number of mysteri- lously fired shots, killing Conner. | Wholesale arrests of I. L. A. men |took place, and they were held, |charged with murder. Five company junion men at the scene were proved jagent, and Herman Wicks, secre-|to have guns—and evidence will| |show that the scab group were vir- |tually an armed gang. Two of them |—Grammar and Hermiston — ad- |mitted firing their guns. Both |Grammar and Hermiston have been released, freed of all charges. They lwere arrested only after a wave of (A. F. of = Charles Me- protest forced the hand of the Dis. trict Attorney. : | The Grand Jury indictments changed the charge to rioting, |placed against 24 of the men ar- |rested and held for murder orig- inally, as well as against 11 others not implicated before. These in- dictments, following on the heels \of the Criminal Syndicalism convic- |tions of militant Communists, are jan extension of open Fascist |methods, in which the Citizens’ |Emergency League, an armed vig- ilante group organized by the Cham- | ber of Commerce during the marine ences are slated between company) the sponsoring committee at last |strike, has played a leading role. and union officials. Ralph‘ Spooner Not Connected With the LL. An item appearing on the first | page of the Daily Worker on No- | vember 29, announcing that one | Ralph Spooner was in jail in At- | lanta, charged with “inciting to in- | surrection,” and was being defended | by the International Labor Defense, | ‘was incorrect. The story was re- ceived from a Southern source and appeared to be authentic, but, as later learned, was not authorized. The following statement has been | issued by the joint committee for | the defense of the Atlanta cases, of | the International Labor Defense and | the International Workers Order: “We wish to warn all individuals | and working-class organizations against the activities of a notorious swindler, Ralph Spooner, who has | on many occasions solicited funds | supposedly for defense of class-war | Tego! , and who is now circular- izing an appeal for funds supposedly - Gitaense of the recent victims cle? porseeution in Atlanta, Ga. | om), now in jail himself on a) charge of blackmail, is also circular- izing on behalf of his own defense, attempting to give the impression that he is connected with the In- ternational Labor Defense. “Spooner has been twice exposed as a swindler and impostor. The first time was two or three years ago when he operated a news agency in Washington, D. C. Under this cover he would order radical litera- ture without paying for it. About a | year ago he appeared in the Middle West and West and behind the mask | of some ‘Workers Educational Asso- | ciation,’ soliciting dues, and again! ordering literature.” Bernard Ades, I.L.D. Lawyer, To Go on Trial BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 3.—Ber- | nard Ades, International Labor De- | fense attorney, will go on trial in) disbarment proceedings, before the | local bar association, Dec. 5, for his militant defense of Negro workers | framed up in the local lynch courts. The charges against Ades are connected with his vigorous fight to save Huel Lee, framed Ne- gro worker, from legal lynching. Ades has challenged the right of the association to try him, on the ground that it refuses membership to Negro attorneys. He will be defended in the trial by Joseph Brodsky, chief I. L. D. counsel, with whom Benjamin J. Davis, Jr, Nogro I. L. D. attorney, | Will be associated in the défense. Fill punch-boards immediately to speed the completion of the $60,000 Daily Worker drive, | passes the Workers’ Bill on a na- union officials attacked the mili- tant rank and file Sunday’s meeting. | Immediate objective of the spon- | | soring committee is to send a call W C {to all A. F. of L. and industrial | e S t oast | unions, fraternal and religious or- | | ganizations for members to serve on a general arrangements committee which in turn will issue the call| | and arrange for the conference for | | Social and Unemployment Insur- | ance at Olympia early in January. Initiative Number Four is the State Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill. It is identical with the Workers’ Bill except for the in- clusion of a clause stating that it will be effective until Congress tional scale. Fifty thousand signatures are be- ing collected by the workers in the State, after which the Workers’ Bill Initiative Four will become the first order on the agenda of the legislature when it meets in Janu- ary. Should the bill fail of pass- age, it then goes on the ballot for a State referendum at the next general elections. U.S. Courts Back Military School Drill WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3. — The United States Supreme Court today lent a helping hand to the unflagging war preparations of the Roosevelt government in the nation’s educational institutions by ruling that all students attending land grant colleges must submit to mil- itary training. Their only alterna- tive, according to the decision, is to leave the school. Land grant colleges, of which there are many, aré either public colleges, or colleges founded by pri- vate groups or religious denomina- tions with the aid of federal land grants. The ruling of the court was made in the case of Albert W. Hamilton, Jr, and W. Alonzo Reynolds, Uni- versity of California students, who were refused exemption from mil- itary training by school authorities in 1933. When the two refused to take part in drill they were sus- pended from the schoél. Miners Face Court Dee. 10 ROSLYN, Wash. Dec. 3.—The trial of the Roslyn “riot” cases, growing out of the Roslyn-CleElum coal miners’ strike last April, will begin Dec. 10, it has been an- nounced in Ellensburg. Although Prosecutor Spencer Short has had these cases post- | poned three times, until after elec- | tions were over, still he has been contest. | Lately Short has been seen vis- iting frequently with Jack Lewis, mine foreman. It seems that since he can’t keep the support of the voters he is going to get in good with the mine owners by pushing these cases. Workers should immediately send protests to Prosecutor Spencer Short and to Judge McGuire, Bllensburg, Washington. | KELSO, Wash., Dec. 3.—Protests from all over the Northwest and from hundreds of local residents who have signed the petition for dismissal of the cases have forced Prosecuting Attorney C. C. Hallin to postpone the trials of Marx Far- rar and Arne Pisila on criminal syndicalism charges until the next term of court. This is the easy way out for Hallin, who has been defeated for re-election, and will not have to try the cases. “Red Drive on Court Upset” was the headline on an article in the Kelsonian-Tribune last week tell- ing of the failure of the protests to have the desired effect because the cases were postponed. It con- cluded by saying that Prosecutor Hallin and Judgé J. BE. Stone “have received a multitude of protests from over the Northwest demand- ing that the cases be dropped.” The local Internationai Labor De- fense Committee is continuing the drive for signatures on the petitions for dismissal of the charges, ex- pecting to get over 2,000 before taking them to the papers and to judge and pfosecutor. They will | also take the petitions to the new U n i on A = k & | Prosecutor-elect, Shirley March. For Shop Poll inBirmingham BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Déc. 3— The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers has demandéd an election here to de- termine majority representation in the industry. The Amalgamated claims a majority of employes in certain units of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. works at Fairfield and Ensley, and also a majority at the Gulf States Steel Co. mils at Gadsen. In calling for the election, the The relief officials have been compelled to place back on the rolls the four bondsmen for Farrar and Pisila, who were cut off at the prosecutor’s request. Immediately a committee went to Olympia to protest, and secured a reversal of the order. LL.D. Asks Volunteers To Aid in Defense Drive NEW YORK.—The national office of the LL.D. yesterday issued an- other call for volunteers to help in the campaign to raise the $6,000 im- mediately needed for the legal and mass defense of the Scottsboro boys. Volunteers to address and stuff en- vélopés were urged to réport to the a national office of the 1.L.D., Room G10, 80 East 11th Street, badly beaten in every court room | Industrialists Plan tional Congress for Unemplo: Maps Drive on Jobless | While U. S. Heads Discuss Ending All Cash Relief, Workers in Many Cities Prepare to Send Dele- gates to National Congress on Unemployment NEW YORK.—The nation-wide campaign for the Na- yment Insurance, which will meet in Washington on January 5-7, are being speeded, the reports from the local and national sponsoring committees continue to show. map out an intense drive upon the Jobless as relief demands continued to mount to hitherto unprecedented figures. At the conclusion of the first of a series of conferences between Roose- velt and relief heads meeting with cabinet members, Roosevelt and un- der Secretary Tugwell remained si- lent; Federal Relief Administrator Hopkins contributed the cryptic re- mark, “I can’t talk yet.” Hopkins’ plan, around which the meeting was called, includes a fantastic “works program,” a drive to lower still fur- ther the relief wages, and total abandonment of the “unemploy- ables” to the local relief units. Relief Lists Swell In New York City applications for home relief have risen 8 per cent in the month of November, as 25,426 families—more than 100,000 persons —sought city relief aid. Private wel- fare agencies, accompanying their report with a plea for funds, an- nounced that their relief applica- tions had mounted 19.8 per cent in the month of November. New York City’s Welfare Commis- sioner, William Hodson, in announc- ing the rise in relief applications, predicted that the coming Winter months would see still greater de- mands for relief. At the same time, he said that families are being faken off the rolls “in larger numbers than ever before.” In October 14,130 families were cut off, and the ex- act number for November is ex- vected to pass that amount, Relief Direetor Corsi recently said. A continued drive, Hodson out- spokenly admitted. was being con- tinued to thrust all possible families upon private Welfare groups, rela- tives and friends. An absolute standard of indigence is being re- | quired, he safd, of all applicants. Thus, every family is reduced to the state of paupers before relief is giv- en. Every last resource is ferreted out. Insurance policies are re- deemed, and the families forced to live on the proceeds at the barest subsistence levels, Youngstown Committee Meets (Snecial to tha Delly Work-r) YOUNGSTOWN. O., Dec. 3.—The local arrangements committee for the National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance, which will con- vene in Washington on Jan. 5 for a three-day congress, met here Sat- urday with a wide representation from local trade unions, particularly the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, Inter- national Union. President Irwin of the Sixth Dis- trict of the Amalgamated Associa- tion, McCarthy and Dunn of the Meanwhile, Roosevelt and his cabinet aides met in Warm Springs, Ga., toe ‘Westmoreland and Deforrest Lodge, and a representative of the Jambar Lodge of the Republic Steel Com- pany, attended. Thomas Evans, formerly director of the Y. M. C. A, Trades and Vo- cational Schools, was elected chair- man; Ben Gray, secretary; and McCarthy, treasurer. Plan City-Wide Congress The program mapped out by the delegates included a Mahoning Val- ley Conference on Dec. 23, at the Central Auditorium in Youngstown. Additional sponsors include Coun- cilman Patton of the Campbell City Council, John Taylor, president of the Federation of Engineers, Archi- tects and Technicians; representa- tives of the Colored Elks and Ma- sons; Miller, treasurer of the Truck Drivers’ Local of the A. F. of L.; Charles Stella, president of the Ma- honing County Italian Federation; Leon Callow, of the Niles Unem- ployed Workers Union, and the Russian Federation of Mahoning County. Delegates are now being elected to the Mahoning Valley Conference on Dec. 23 at Central Auditorium, Youngstown, Ohio. Unemployed League Gives Support PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 3.— The Unemployed Citizens League of Kensington, after a thorough dis- cussion on the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill and the Wag- ner-Lewis Reserves Bill, which was supported by Roosevelt last year, unanimously endorsed the Workers’ Bill and elected one delegate to the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance, which will meet in Washington on Jan. 5, 6 and 7. Two hundred young workers, members of the Polish Young Work- ers Club at 2538 Salmon Street, voted to elect delegates to the Na- tional Congress at their next regu- lar meeting after Frank Fisher, member of the local sponsoring com- mittee for the congress, addressed their meeting last Friday. Workers groups in East Bethle- hem report that at least fifty dele- gates, all workers in the mills here or those blacklisted for union ac- tivity, will reoresent the workers of this city at the National Congress for Unemployment and Social In- surance, Symposium Planned PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 3—A symposium, listing eight professional workers as speakers, one of whom is a leading member of the Socialist Party of Philadelphia, will be held here Friday, Dec. 14, at 8 p.m., at the Friends Mecting House, Race Street, west of Fifteenth Street. Open Shop Drive (Continuea from Page 1) ice. government of laws and not of men.” Open Shop Policy Mr. Emery further heralded the coming open shop drive by repeating with approval Donald Richberg’s interpretation of the Houde decision of the Labor Board providing for majority representation in factories and shops. Quoting Mr. Richberg, Mr. Emery said: “No one has been given any au- thority under this law, and I doubt whether anybody could be given the authority to herd all employees or jany number of employees into a vot- ing unit and then to compel them to majority vote. The right of self- organization certainly includes the right of each man to decide for him- self with what men he desires to be associated.” Following this line of open shop, Mr, Emery suggested for discussion the following actions to be taken with regard to trade unions: That they have “equal liability for the acts of agents”; that their funds be subjected to such regulation as “to Protect the funds against mis-appro- priation or use for illegal purposes,” the “illegal purposes” obviously be- ing strikes against labor board de- cisions. Thus, this morning, the closed preliminary session of the National Industrial Council, which will pre- sent its recommendations to the Ne- tional Manufacturers Association within the next day or two, has already outlined a full program for the execution of a major open shop offensive against labor, the greatest open shop offensive in the last decade. Mr. Emery, was a speech by Mr. Supplementing the remarks of John ©. Gall, Associate Counsel of the National Association of Manu- facturers who has just returned from an eight-week survey of labor relations in Europe, Mr, Gall, speak- ing early in the afternoon, referred to the practice of British capitalism wherein it “tends to exact of its labor unions a high degree of ac- countability.” From those remarks it is obvious that the Industrial Council will rec- ommend to the National Association of Manufacturers and to the Roose- velt government 4 program of. in- creasing merging of the trade unions select their representatives by a| 4 | with the state apparatus, of the prevention of strikes and the en- forcement of open shop wherever possible. The present sessions of the Na- tional Industrial Council are di- vided into sub-sections which were to meet last night and this morning to present a unified resolution to the larger body, the National Asso- ciation of Manufacturers, of which it is a part. In turn, the National Association of Manufacturers, upon the con- clusion of its meeting, will begin what promises to be the greatest aggregation of industrialists in the country, the Congress of American Industry, which will meet for three ‘days following the sessions of the National Association of Manufac- turers. The Congress for American Industry will comprise industrial- ists from every part of the coun- try, including many important in- yee sheen not members of the N. Thus, the open shop policies now being discussed are not only the Policies of the N.AM., but are be- coming the policies of the entire American capitalist class as repre- sented in the Congress for amer- ican Industry. Mr. Emery warned against the attempt of labor to enact the thirty hour week without reduction in pay. On the subject of taxation, Mr. Emery proposed that the govern- ment exempt from taxation the ac- cumulated surpluses of industry in view “of the unprecedented uncer- tainties of the present situation.” His most important proposal, how- ever, was that the industrialists con- sider the possibility of a nation. wide sales tax upon the everyday articles of consumption. He said there is @ practical pos- sibility of establishing a manufac- turers sales tax levied at a single point and becoming a substitute for the present selective and nuisance taxes and capable likewise of re- Placing all state sales taxes through an arrangement by the Federal and State Governments. He further urged that an income tax be levied on small incomes, stating: “However small the amount paid, the levy at a low rate would arouse a new sense of interest in the character of the tax.” He also urged that corporations be exempt from heavy taxation, stating: “Tt is reasonable to urge continued attention to the equalization of normal corporate and individual taxation. The spread between the two threatens continually to be widened. The effect is to genéralize the investment of savings. ...” Set for Sunday Protests Sent to U. S. Supreme Court and to Roosevelt Labor organizations in Buffalo, N. Y., are supporting the plans of the Provisional Scottsboro-Davis Emer- gency Committee for a broad United Front Conference next Sun- day, Dec. 9, at the Labor Educa- tional Club, 760 Main Street, to de- mand the freedom of the nine Scottsboro boys in Alabama and of Alphonse Davis, local Negro worker, convicted here on a similar “rape” frame-up. Among other proposals to be made to the conference will be the ar- rangement of a monster mass meet- ing, to be held at one of the city- owned auditoriums. Demands will be made on the Common Council for the free use of either the Broad- way Auditorium or the Elmwood Music Hall, In New York City, the Scottsboro Tag Days last Saturday and Sun- day will be followed by a series of benefits to raise funds to push the mass and legal fight for the boys. The first of these will be held this ‘Wednesday evening at the Finnish Workers’ Hall, 15 W. 126th Street. At the same time protest resolu- tions began flooding the U. S. Su- preme Court and President Roose- velt, demanding a reversal of the lynch death verdicts and the release of all nine of the boys. The follow- ing resolution was sent to President Roosevelt last week by Branch 18, Workmen’s Sick and Death Benefit Fund of the U. 8. A.: “We, the members of Branch 18, Workmen’s Sick and Death Benefit Fund, numbering 300, assembled at their monthly meeting, Nov. 19, protest the frame-up of the nine Scottsboro boys and the attempt being made to legally lynch them in the electric chair. You, as chief executive, are obliged to protect the lives of American citizens against outrage and violence. Precedent has been set for your intervention in this case. We demand of you the immediate, unconditional, safe release of the Scottsboro boys.” A similar resolution was sent by the branch to the U. S. Supreme Court. Kirov-Outstanding Leningrad Leader (Continued from Page 1) leaders of economy, culture, science, government and the Party express the deepest sorrow at the great loss. In a leading article Pravda, organ of the Communist Party of the So- viet Union, writes: “All eyes are directed toward the banks of the Neva where occurred the death of the great and burning tribune of the revolution, the sol- dier, the Communist Party leader and organizer of the glorious Lenin- grad proletariat. Great Work Hailed “we don’t want to believe that the voice of this inspired Communist agitator is silent fovever, that we shall not hear his veice again at Party congresses, at meetings of workers, where the big and small porblems of our great and wonder- ful times are decided. The echoes of his splendid speéch at the Seven- teenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union still sound in the country: “Our successes are really tre- mendous. In truth one wants to live and live’.” “The echo of the loud ovation given by the Congress to Comrade Kirov still rings through the Krem- lin Palace. The country has lost the best people’s tribune in this fearless flaming revolutionary, the nearest colleague, disciple and friend of the great Stalin. It is dif- ficult to believe that death has put its mask on this face carved of granite—the reflection of the firm- ness, staunchness and loyalty of the banner of Communism, the loyalty of the closest interests of the toil- ers. “But the fact is inexorable. Kirov is no more, The vile hands of the enemy have cut a golden thread in the fabric of the revolution. Ene- mies still creep into the camp of the revolution, so that by a pitiful shot from behind they think they can strangle the roar of history. Such enemies are thrice accursed and despicable, thrice detestable and doomed. “The revolution is invincible. The revolution is deathless. The fight- ing commander has fallen, but the Leninist staff remains. The sen- tinel has fallen, but the army re- mains, the army of fighters for socialism. “Together with Leningrad the en- tire country bows its bared head over the coffin of Comrade Kirov. We will bring his coffin to Moscow, to the capital of socialism, to Red Square. to the meusoleum of Lenin —the liberator of mankind, to the Kremlin wall of the great and noble fighters for the cause of the wo-:kers and peasants. And the toilers of the mighty Soviet Union will say: “Comrade Kirov, you lived, fought and died fot the cause of Lenin and Stalin, for the cause of the oppressed and downtrodden, tor the great Soviet Union, for Social- ism. Continuing our revolutionary path under the leade:ship of your teacher and our leader, Stalin, we keep sacred the memory of your noble life as a reévolutionist, a Leninist and a Stalinist. New cohorts of Bolsheviks will follow your footsteps’.” Tavestia, organ of the Soviet gov- emment, writes: “The counter-revolutionary scoun- HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 3 its expropriation plans. Names of Dead On Relief Rolls In California BELVEDERE GARDENS, Calif., Dec. 3.—Blatant indications of pad- jding of the relief rolls with the |names of dead men was indicated here recently when the county re- Held at Bay Before Embattled Peasants Organized Peasants of Realengo 18 Defend Land While Government Seeks Method of Driving Them Off for Benefit of Canadian Bank ‘Special te the Daily Worker) .—Frustrated in its first at tempt at an armed drive against the peasants of Realengo 18, the government has during the last two weeks been sidestepping and searching about for a way to carry through Realengo 18 is a region near Guan- $tanamo which is claimed by the ; Royal Bank of Canada. Efforts of the Cuban government to sur- vey it and turn it over have met with stubborn resistance by the |peasants who have organized them- {selves under Communist leadership. A number of its highest digni- taries, including the governor of the Province of Oriente, Perez Andre, and the Secretary of Justice Car- denas, have personally made visits to the zone to try to dissuade the peasants from their stubborn stand and get them to turn against their revolutionary leaders, A decree was even formulated which calls for the lief office sent a letter to the former | buying up of the lands by the gov- home of Saul Goldenberg, who has! been dead for seven years, informing him that he must work or be cut off the direct relief rolls. The post card addressed to Saul Goldenberg, 3263 Winter Street, here said: “You are hereby directed to report to the Ascot Community Garden |Plot at Valley Boulevard, east of Ascot Speedway, on Monday, Nov, 12, 1934 at 8 a.m. “Your failure fo report will indicate that you no longer need assistance, and therefore your case will be closed immediately.” His relatives state that Saul Gold- enberg has been dead for seven years. Roosevelt Speeds Cuts for Jobless (Continued from Page 1) roads, at the expense of the un- employed, foreshadows the emer- gence of attempts to foist the equivalent of Hitler labor camps on the victims of the six-year cap- italist crisis, Everything points to the increase in the tempo with which the ad- ministration is carrying out the di- rectives of the Chamber of Com- merce and the American Bankers Association—for federal relief tem- porarily and only where unavoid- | able, for huge war expenditures and for no unemployment or social in- surance. The demagogic slogan of the new administration-big busi- ness attack on the destitute and unemployed is “rational humani- tarianism.” Hoover called it “ruggled individualism.” |Relief Worker Jailed ForDemanding Clothing CENTRALIA, Dec. 3.—M. A. Neid- felt was arrested and sentenced to 30 days and $100 fine (suspended) because he insisted that after work- ing for the relief he be given a pair of overalls which he needed if he was to continue work. After Kis day’s work he went to the relief office and waited in line. When Neidfelt’s turn came, the head of the office announced that it was closing time. He insisted that he could not leave without clothing. He was hailed before court and sentenced, drel who murdered Kirov, beloved by the entire Party and dear to the whole country, has dealt us a deep wound. But the calculations which might be connected with this vile crime will not work out. You are not attacking that kind of people, gentlemen! “Throughout the whole revolution all kinds of agents of capitalism, from emissaries of generals with bombs to muddle-headed social rev- olutionaries, have attempted to up- set the Bolshevik ranks by the methods of the White Terror. They had not succeeded in doing this even at a time when the White armies were approaching Moscow and Petrograd. The iron ranks of the Bolsheviks moved solidly forward, sweeping all obstacles from their path and winning victory after vic- tory despite a desperately difficult situation, “And now when our economy has grown so powerful, when our cul- ture has risen so high, when mil- lions have rallied around the Party, now this frantic rage of our enemtes, these murders of our comrades will lead to one result—the rapid de- struction of our opponents. “The Party, of which Kirov was one of its finest sons, was never distinguished by such solidarity and never had such’ fitm confidence in victory as now. In lowering the mourning banners over the body of our comrade, fallen at his post, we always preserve this picture—the hero-fighter, the builder, the be- loved comrade, the inspired master of speech, a remarkable and gen- erous man. Such afe the persons who lead our country to victories. And the fertile soil of our socialist fatherland again and again creates heroes and fighters whose strength is invincible and whose victory in- evitable; for this is the strength of millions, this is the strength of in- ernment from the Royal Bank of Canada which claims them (actual- ly the lands do not belong to the company) and in turn to rent or sell the land to the peasants who \have the price. This “solution” is |no solution at all for the peasants, who hold that the land is theirs and that they are neither able nor disposed to pay for them in rent or any other form. Government Embarrassed The failure of the government ef- forts to deceive the Realengans and |get them to repudiate their Com- munist leaders is clearly reflected in the report which Secretary of Justice Cardenas has just rendered to Mendieta’s “Council of Secre- taries.” In essente the Secretary reports that the problems of Real- engo is more “complicated” than it appears, that thousands of peasants are organized in a “red regime’ in the territory and, while he says that the peasants have an aggres- Sive attitude, they are absolutely uncompromising on the question of giving up their lands. Cardenas draws the conclusion that the prob- lem is a “delicate” one, since the government faces a serious conflict if it goes ahead with the armed attack against the Realengo at the present moment. The embarrassment of the gov- ernment is revealed in the hys- terical manner in which its agencies of propaganda, the landlord-capi- talist press, is handling the news of Realengo. Immediately after Cardenas’ report, huge scare head- lines began to appear, announcing the establishment of a Communist State in the Province of Oriente and calling for a more “resolute” policy on the part of the govern- ment to exterminate this menace to private property. ‘The newspaper Avance, organ of “Pepin” Rivero, notorious fascist, speaks in the following clear terms: “Firm Policy” Demanded “The problem is really delicate, and just as we proposed originally, that the rights of the Realengans, who have occupied these lands since the War of Independence be pro- tected, we now believe that the gov- ernment must adopt a more firm Policy, because it is not possible to countenance the existence of a Communist regime in this Real- engo.” The Cardenas report declares that while the original Realengo wag made up of some 10,000 acres of land, the present area reaches over a half million acres of land, due to the influx of new settlers during the last 30 years. They speak in horrified tones of the “functions of government” which have been taken over by the executive committee of the Peasants Association, Accord- ing to Cardenas, “When a peasant needs a parcel of land, he comes to the executive board, makes known his wishes, how many persons are to work it and live on it, and then this body immediately indicates which piece of land he may occupy, authorizing him to live there, culti- vate the land, and not pay taxes or recognize any authority but its own.” In equal tones of terror the bour- geois press speaks of “the fierce Ne- gro leader, Lino Alvarez,” whose final words to the representaitves of the government who had come for the purposes of “conciliation” were: “We are teady to die before we allow our lands to be taken away from us.” Drive for ‘Daily’ to _End December 15 (Continued from Page 1) accept the responsibility of raisiry their share of the sum that is need- ed to make up the full $60,000. ‘The entire drive must be concen- trated upon and intensified to such an extent that~it be complete, at the latest, by Dec. 15. It cannot be prolonged until after that date! The Daily Worker relies upon the Jeadership' in the districts to see that no district fails to’ attain its goal within the next two weeks. Comrades—all together! MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE The Daily Worker Use this week-end to collect as numeraidle armiés of toilers, this much funds ag ible to help ful is the si of socialism, to which the whole world will finally | fill the Daily Worker $60,000 quote belong.” 6 soon as possible, aa LLL LLL LL LL LL i