The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1934 Page 3 _ Cleveland Jobless to March Dec. 16% Per Cent Slash in Food —-> 18 In Sacramento Court | 22 Against Relief Cut Grand Jury |Building Trades War Aid to Masses Indicts Two Divides Unions Into In Spain Asked In Cleveland Orders Voted Rents Will Not Be Paid, Relief Administration Charged With Syndicalism |State Acts to Exclude | All Workers from : By Barbusse |Protests Reach Court) Framed Relief Clients Are Charged With Collections for Terror Victims Should Be ‘Two Contending Groups DEFENDS 18 a ' Two Bodies Now Exist, Each Claiming To Be Has Announced CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 3——The Cleveland Unemployment Councils have appealed to all unemployed groups and all other working class organizations to join in the mass march on City Hall on Saturday,| Dec. 22 to demand the immediate withdrawal of the newly announced 16% per cent cut in relief. The Cuyahoga County Relief Ad- ministration announced the new Sweeping slash last week to take effect in December—two weeks be- fore Christmas. According to an- noun¢ements emanating from offi- cila sources, the relief board con- sidered elther of two plans—to slash relief by 16% per cent in food al- lowances or to effect a 10 per cent cut in food allowances and a 20 per cent cut in clothing appropria- tions. Official statements announced the food cut. In addition to the cut in food checks, the relief board announced that the November and December committments for rent payments will not be met—leaving the way open for wholesale evictions. In the face of these retrench- ments in relief, applications for aid are fast reaching unprecedented figures. In the recent period, 3,700 families have applied for relief aid, bringing the total number of fam- ilies on the December relief iists to 57,700, The mass march on Saturday, Dec. 22, will assemble at the Public Square at 1 p.m, march through the city’s streets and proceed to the City Hall, where the workers de- mand that the relief board and the City Council meet in a special ses- sion to act on the demands of the unemployed. On this coming Thursday, a dele- gation from the Unemployment Councils will meet with the County Commissioners in the offices of the Cuyahoga County Relief Adminis- tration to place before them the following demands: 1,. Immediate withdrawal of the relief cuts. 2. Extra winter relief—$40 cash for each family; $15 for single per- sons. 3. The use of the sinking fund of $5,000,000 for relief by the city defaulting on all payments to the bankers until such time as Congress passes the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. All-White Jury Convicts Negro Despite Alibi CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 3.—An all- white jury, from which Negroes were carefully excluded, returned a ver- dict of guilty against Cecil White, 21-year-old unemployed Negro steel worker, framed on a charge of “rape.” White was immediately sen- tenced to an indefinite term in the reformatory. The lily-white jury ignored the testimony of six witnesses of un- impeachable character that White was miles away at the time from the locality where the alleged attack on Mrs. Anha Elavski took place on June 21 last. Under the questioning of Yetta Land, International Labor Defense attorney of Cleveland, it was estab- lished that Mrs. Elavski had at first denied that White was her attacker when asked by police to identify him. She had also told a commit- tee from the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, “I am not sure White is the man, but the police say he White was one of many Negroes “taken into custody” during a police reign of terror and mass arrests of ‘Negroes shortly after the crime. He was tortured in an attempt to make him “confess,” One policeman even went so far as to tell him, “Cecil, you are going to be hanged tonight unless you plead guilty.” The I. L. D. has filed a motion for a new trial, charging bias and prejudice based on the peculiar con- duct of the case and the exclusion of Negroes from the jury. Your unit may have filled its quota in the Daily Worker finan- cial campaign, but the drive will continue until the full $60,000 is raised. Do your part to raise this sum. WHAT’S ON RATES: 35¢ for 3 lines on weekdays. Friday Saturday 50¢, Money must accompany notices. Chicago, Ill. | First Annual Dance given by Painters Br, 565 L.W.O, Saturday, Dec. 8 at Mirror Hall, 1156 N. Western Ave. Adm, 25¢ in adv., 35¢ at door. Michael Gold speaks on “Crisis in Modern Literature” at Medical Dental Arts Building, 185 N. Wabash Ave, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 8 p.m. Ausp.: Pen and Hammer. Workers “Theatre presents “Three Miniature Nights,” Dec, 7, 8 and 9, at Workers Playhouse, 505 South State Street. Philadelphia, Pa. Concert and Report of the Inter- national Women’s Congress Against War and Fascism, Mother Boo: main speaker, Friday, Dec. 7, at Boslover Hall, 701 Pine St. Adm. 15e. Augp.: City Comm. Working Wo- men’s Councils. Youngstown, Ohio ‘Mass Méeting at Central Auditorium, 225 W. Boardman St., Thursday, 6, 8 p.m., to hear latest news on the Scottsboro case; also to protest ageinst attempt to deport Leon Cal- low, si; Leon Callow and Mrs, the Jury SACRAMENTO, Calif, Dec. 3.— The right of workers in California to organize, strike, and be members }of the Communist Party, went on © \trial last week with the opening by the State of its drive to railroad to |Jail on criminal syndicalism charges eighteen militants whose devotion to the working class during the West Coast strike evoked the frenzied hatred of the bosses. With the prosecution acting to exclude all workers from the jury, the panel of prospective jurors was exhausted on the third day of the trial, The defense, led by Leo Gallagher, International Labor De- fense attorney, scored a point in forcing the disqualification of the sheriff and coroner for selection of the new jury panel. These-officials were voluble in their protestations of impartiality, but when grilled by Gallagher admitted that they had participated in the Vigilante raids on strike headquarters, introduced anti-Communist resolutions in the on the working class, McAllister Prosecutes Neil McAllister, red-baiting Dis- trict Attorney defeated for re-elec- tion in the recent elections, is con- ducting the prosecution in the most vindictive spirit. “Incompetent, im- to him, were questions put by the defense to prospective jurors, such as “Do you belong to the American Legion?” “Is it the Bank of America home?” “Do you own stock in the P. G. E. Bank of America or Grow- Elks and carried on other attacks material and irrelevant,” according | that owns the mortgage on your) Leo Gallagher, attorney for the International Labor Defense, in charge of the defense of 18 work- ers charged with criminal syndi- calism in Sacramento, ers’ Association, which may be |brought out in the evidence behind this prosecution?” McAllister was forced to a hasty re-reading of his indictment against the 18 workers, when it developed |that he had forgotten that among the indictment counts were picket- 7 | from All Sections | of Country ing and the mass fight against im-! | perialist wars. Flood of Protests The eect of the flood of protests from all parts of the country against | the attempt to railroad the 18 work- | jers to the penitentiary was me-| flected in the extreme efforts of Judge Lemmon to appear “impar-| tial.” In the courtroom talk among reporters, it leaked out that Judge| |Lemmon had confidentially informed | |a Hearst reporter that he had “ab- ‘solutely no sympathy with the Reds,” but felt his “reputation” is at stake. | |To a question of the defense, the |judge admitted that the criminal) | Syndicalist law, under which the 18 , defendants were indicted, is a blow | |at the constitutional rights of the | jtoiling population, The defense had |asked a prospective juror: “Do you believe in the right of | workers to defend their constitu- | tional guarantees of free speech, assemblage and press?” The judge ruled the question was “4mproper,” and declared: “Restrictions have been placed up- on that right by the criminal syn- dicalist_law.” The I. L. D, is developing a na- tion-wide campaign for the repeal of the criminal syndicalist laws in| California and other states, and| yesterday called on all workers and their organizations to rush protests to Judge Lemmon and the District Attorney’s office in Sacramento and | to Gov. Merriam demanding the re- lease of the 18 defendants and re- peal of the California criminal syn- dicalist law. Congress in Detroit To Map Social Needs For Youth of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 3—The first Michigan Youth Congress will be held here on Dec, 14, 15 and 16. The congress, which is an outgrowth of the American Youth Congress held in New York in August, will take up the major issues facing the youth today and adopt a program for them in industry, agriculture and in the schools and colleges. The congress has been endorsed by the Michigan State Association of Y. M. C. A's, the Michigan State Association of Y. W. C. As, the Ann Arbor Youth Council, the De- troit Counoil of Religious Education, the Ann Arbor Boy Scouts, Youth Incorporated, and by various indi- viduals representing labor, church and student organizations. The sponsors of the congress in- Workers’ Ticket Gets 3,311 Votes in Nebraska OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 3—Final elec- tion returns in the state give 3,311 votes to J. J. Schefcik, who ran for governor on the United Front Work- ers and Farmers Ticket. Bert Sell, candidate for Congress in the Fifth District on the united front ticket, received 1,150 votes. Kyle Pugh Will Face Court on Syndicalism MEDFORD, Ore., Dec. 3.—Kyle Pugh will face trial on criminal syndicalism charges Dec. 5, after months in jail awaiting trial. Irvin Goodman, Portland I. L. D. at- torney, will represent Pugh in court. A committee of workers visiting the judge and prosecutor report that protests on this case have been very effective, but there have not vite delegates from all organizations. tye maintain, strengthen and| broaden the fighting united front in struggle against the cut in relief, | for cash relief, for immediate Win- | ter relief, for jobs, for public works, | for increase of wages in the shops, for the right to organize, for the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill is the central task confronting , the Chicago working class. This was placed before 25,000, Chicago workers at the huge united been enough of them. Send them Unfortunately, some of the lead- ers of some organizations which par- ticipated in the united front are wavering on these questions, hesita- ting, offering some very poor ex- cuses why we should not continue the united front. The united front today becomes really a growing de- mand among the masses and to secure a real united front, not only for one action, but as a fighting organ of the masses, it is possible when this united front will be Kensington Workers To) ‘Assemble at Eviction) |Site Today at 9 a.m. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 3.— The Unemployed Councils of Ken- sington, have appealed to all work- ers to assemble at the home of Mrs, Farrow, widowed mother of three children, living at 2820 Hart- lone Street, Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock, to stop a threatened evic- tion. When the sheriff appeared last Saturday to carry through the eviction, he left soon after his ar- rival as workers massed before the home. The sheriff made a short speach inwhich he asked the workers to contribute money to provide another home for the Far- row family. Meeting with no re- sponse, he left with his gang, and announced that he would be back “Tuesday morning to see that you clear out.” By Bill overcome the wrong and injuries perpetrated against them and we recognize that the organized la- bor must do its full share in mak- ing such protests effective, .., Therefore be it “Resolved: That having the foregoing clearly in mind, the Chi- cago Federation of Labor agrees to the request of the Chicago Workers Committee on Unemploy- ment to approve the demonstra- |periors to keep silent at that time. front mass meeting on Nov. 24 by | tion, | tightened in the neighborhoods, em- Karl Lockner, the leader of the Chi-|bracing organizations and workers cago unemployed, the Communist from the shops, This is the task didate for Mayor, and met with! : rene prea which confronts even working class enthusiastic approval. organization, every worker who is The Chicago working class, its or-' giving to the united front, not lip ganizations, trade unions, organiza- Service but a real sincere desire to tions of the unemployed, the Com- establish a fighting unity of the munist and Socialist parties, and working class on the basis and prin- other working class organizations, ciples of a class program. had united for action on Nov. 24} Cites United Action for immediate concrete demands which the workers of Chicago ap-| While registering the fact that in proved and were ready to fight for.|the march of 25,000 Chicago work- To consider that to enforce these ers on Nov. 24, in which side by side demands it is sufficient to have one banners of the A. F. of L. unions, of action really means to fool the the Communist Party, Socialist masses. While it is true that even |Party, unions of the T.U.U.L, of one action for these demands is an|the American Consolidated Trades important step forward, the unitea Council, the Young Communist front must be maintained, strength- League and Young Peoples Socialist ened and broadened in struggle for League, different fraternal, social the demands around which all of 2nd cultural organizations were car- the organizations participated in at vied there was real fraternization in the Nov. 17 conference, and masses the ranks of the marchers, frater- of workers in the demonstration on Nov. 24, It is therefore necessary to carry on the united front. It must be concretized especially in the neigh- borhoods. It is necessary, therefore, that in every neighborhood, a united front action committee, embracing the Unemployment Council, Chicago Workers Committee on Unemploy- ment, trade unions, all working class organizations, including the Com- munist and Socialist parties, to de- velop local activities around the re- lief stations, to draw into these the workers from the shops, Negro peo- ple, young workers, children, in short, to involve the whole toiling Population for the immediate needs and demands of the masses. Will Build National Congress These activities will give a real mass base for.a broad representa- tive delegation from Chicago to the National Congress for Social and Unemployment Insurance, in Wash- ington, Jan. 5, 6 and 7, and for demonstration on Jan. 7, the day of Congress. That is the only conclu- be drawn from the successful united front demonstration on Nov, 24, presentation of the demands of the! ‘Das! |tolling masses to the United States sion, that is the lesson which must | (nization between Negro and white, |we must say here that many of those who were forced to endorse the march did nothing to make it a success. At the meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor on Sunday, Nov. 18, to which a large delegation from the United Front Conference appeared, demanding endorsement of the march on Nov. 24 and its de- ‘mands, and which demands on the ‘part of the delegation were sup- ‘ported by a large number of local unions of the A.F. of L. and a large section of the delegates to the Chi- jcago Federation of Labor. It is on the basis of this that the Chicago Federation of Labor adopted a reso- lution which reads in part: “Whereas: This cut will lower the standard of living of those | subsisting on relief below even the low standard that they previously had, and “Whereas: The Relief Commis- sion has issued another order to ; the effect that those living on re- | lef if offered a job, the payment for which equals the relief budget, | must take that job or be denied relief,... and “Whereas: Vigorous and em- phatic protests are the only means left to the workers to defeat and |The facts are: The Painters Dis- tion to be held on Saturday, No- vember 24th, for the purpose of righting the wrongs and injustices perpetrated upon those on the relief rolls and more especially as a protest against the new rules of the Emergency Relief Commission which will compel workers to work for less than starvation wages, or be denied relief. . .” Role of C. F. L. Leadership One would expect that after such a resolution the Chicago Federation of Labor leadership, headed by John |Fitspatrick, Oscar F. Nelson and Edward Nockles, together with everybody else would do their ut- most to mobilize the locals of. the |A. F. of L. to come to the demon- stration. But not a finger was iTalsed by the leadership of the Chi- jcago Federation of Labor official- jdom to mobilize the masses for this jdemonstration. As a matter of fact, the Chicago Federation of La- bor officialdom, while giving support and endorsement of the demonstra- tion on Nov. 24, was interested | nist rather not to build the demonstra- tion, but to weaken it, if they could. trict Council of the A. F. of L. issued an order to the local unions under its jurisdiction, prohibiting them to carry banners in the parade. Despite this ruling the painters’ local defied the ruling of their bureaucrats and came with their banners, flying high above the columns in the union sec- tion of the parade. Victor Olander, secretary-treasurer of the Illinois Federation of Labor, member of the Illinois Emergency Relief Commis- sion, endorsed the cut in relief against which the march was or- ganized. The Jewish Trade Union Federa- tion of the A. F. of L., which is un- der the leadership of a Socialist of the old guard type, likewise en- dorsed the march, but on the very eve of the march a motion was made to withdraw the endorsement. This motion was defeated because of the pressure from below and also, as they put it “After all, the Chicago Federation of Labor also gave their endorsement,” The Jewish Socialist organ “For- ward” kept quiet about the demon- Extortion | | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 3—Un-| der the frame-up charge of “ex- tortion and blackmail” preferred against them by the Broadway of-| fice of the Cuyahoga County Relief Association, Mrs. Viola Jubach and! Mrs. Mary Martin were indicted by| the Grand Jury for securing winter | clothing for the destitute family | |of Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Viola Jubach, who, as a/| member of the Unemployment Council, 13th Ward Assembly, was on the Charity Committee for more than a year, long encouraged the emnity of the relief authorities for her militant stand in behalf of the unemployed. She was put in charge | of Mrs. Martin’s case six weeks ago, | but the relief authorities refused | to see this committee all during| this time. On Oct. 17 Mrs. Martin was fac- ing eviction. She telephoned the relief office, and Mildred E. New- Man was sent out to investigate. When Newman arrived, Mrs. Mar- tin sent for Mrs. Jubach to present her case, Newman at first refused to do anything, but later signed an order for clothing for Mrs, Martin and her children. Twelve days later, Oct. 31, two| days after, a large demonstration of unemployed before the City Council was attacked by the police under Mayor Davis’ order and after Mayor Davis made the public threat | of breaking up all future demon-| strations, Miss Newman preferred | charges against these two militant’ women. She charged that the two women imprisoned her for two hours and kept her prisoner till she was forced to sign a clothing order. Asked why she waited so long with making her charges she answered that she was advised by her su- The frame-up nature of this charge is clear to all workers. The relief authorities had long been try- ing to get rid of Mrs. Jubach, who has been long active in the Unem- ployment Councils. With Mayor Davis’ promise of open police ter- ror against the unemployed and the workers, it was thought that this was the most opportune time to achieve their aim, believing the unemployed would not dare demon- strate in protest. Resolutions and petitions are be- ing circulated demanding that all charges to be dropped against Adam |Siedlitzki, arrested at a protest |demonstration in their support. | The most active supporter of the National Congress for Unem- ployment and Social Insurance is the Daily Worker. “Daily” alive! Contribute every the Legal Building Trades Department of union convention called in W: Green of the American Federa Green’s chairmanship elected Wm.@ J. Williams of the United Brother- hood of Carpenters and Joiners as president, and Herbert Rivers of the Hod Carriers and Common La- borers as secretary-treasurer of the the American Federation of Labor WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (F.P.).—Following the building ashington by President Wm. tion of Labor, two bodies now exist, each claiming to be the “legal” Building Trades De- partment of the federation. The seven unions meeting under which the officers of the depart- ment wield under the N. R. A. con- struction code. “Big Three” Claim Majority The “big three” unions (carpen- new department. This~ group, be-| ters, electrical workers and brick- sides these two unions, includes the|layers), to whom the old depart- bricklayers, electrical workers, sta-|ment ri ed seats in San Fran- tionary engineers, marble workers cisco, claii with the four unions and teamsters, Didn’t Answer Call Pres. M. J. McDonough of the old Building Trades Dept. and the} McDonough, however, claims for 12 building unions that refused to|his group “the greater economic answer Green’s call, took the posi-|strength,” although the other side tion that the legal convention of|has more members. “In case of a the department had already been/|strike,” he said, “our 12 wades held in San Francisco. | would stick together with more “Our 12 unions will go on just|solidarity than the others.” as before,” said McDonough, an-| Green expressed pessimism as to nouncing that he would continue to|healing uhe breach between the two occupy the B. T. D. offices in the|groups. “I have exhausted my ef- A. F. of L. building. |forts to bring the two sides to- The unions in the McDonough | gether,” he said. group are the asbestos workers, | boilermakers, iron workers, elevator |vice presidents of the new depart- constructors, granite cutters, lath-|ment were elected by the seven- ers, metal workers, painters, plas-|union group. Thcy are R. J. Gray, terers, plumbers, roofers and stone /|bricklayers; Daniel W. Tracy, elec- cutters, |trical workers; John Possehl, en- One of the reasons for the in-|gineers; Wm. McCarthy, marble creased sharpness of the struggle|workers; Joseph V. Moreschi, hod for control of the Building Trades| carriers; and Thomas I. Hughes, Dept. is the considerable influence | teamsters. supporting them to represent large majority of the building work- ers, C. C. C. Workers’ Votes Put in Unsealed Box 2-Day Bazaar to Open In Cleveland Saturday CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 3— S/ers, the church and Besides Williams and Rivers, six | | Sent to LL.D. By HENRI BARBUSSE ri three years which Peasants of Spain overthrew the hy, the leaders of the Spanish Republic have fully shown their degradation and treason. It has bee come quite apparent that the demoe cratic governments strive to sab0< tage the national revolution, and to bring about on the ruins of the old regime of Primo de Rivera and Alphonse II, the reestablishment of a Directory and of royalty. The new regime, which had cone tinued to remain anti-proletarian, is openly showing if to be reace tionary. The Catholic Fascist Party of Gil Robles—L’Accion Popular— which supports the large landown- the militarists (and is in turn supported by them) against “Marxists and Jews” has, during the last few months, exercised an ever growing influence on the jinternal policy of Spain. After hav- jing been behind the scenes real |master of the country, and having jencouraged a tremendous increase jin the membership of fascist organi« |zations in Spain, Gil Robles official- ly took power. Following the sudden removal of Minister Sanper, Gil Robles became minister. These startling and disgraceful |collusions, accompanied by various | Persecutions against the workers and peasants, measures in the in- terest of the large landowners and Jesuits, police provocations, and the despotism of the authorities with reference to Catalonia—called forth such violent and general indigna- |tion, that the strike broke out and |spread very rapidly over the whole country. Sent Army Against Workers The government sent out the army against the workers, including the jcolonial troops, cannons, machine Keep the | Preparations are under way for the annual bazaar of the Communist Party here on Saturday and Sun- day. On Saturday night there will be an international costume ball with} prizes for the best costumes. | On Sunday afternoon, the various workers choruses will supply the | program, In addition the John} | Reed Club will present a play, while the Socialist Sport Group will pre- |sent an exhibition of athletic feats and symbolic sport presentations. On Sunday evening an excellent Soviet movie and the moving pic- tures taken of the election campaign In Cleveland will be shown. CLLEAR WATER, Wash., Dec. 3. guns, bombs, tanks and airplanes, as —After a group of boys in the C.C.C. | well as the fascist organizations and. camp here won the right to vote in| professional strikebreakers. the Nov. 6 elections, their ballots} And now over the territory of the were placed in an unsealed box. The | whole peninsula, around the still boys, of whom there are 215 in the| flaming struggle of the Asturian camp, claim that their ballots were |miners, there rages the wildest and mishandled because it was known | most savage repression, which is they opposed a candidate! by the/ literally annihilating the Spanish | name of Northrup, a big landowner population. 60,000 imprisoned, 3,000 near the camp and controller of the | killed, 6,000 wounded—this is the local political machine. |balance-sheet at the present mo- The boys have lodged a protest | ment. with the Attorney-General, Wash- ington, D. C. Though the Macedonian Peo- ple’s League of Massillon, Ohio, has gone over its quota, it con- tinues its work of raising money for the Daily Worker. No group The bazaar will be held in Pros- cent you can! Gebert stration and when it did mention it, it announced that it will take place not on Saturday, Nov. 24, but on Sunday thereby misleading its readers as to the time and place of the demonstration and when a dele- gation of workers carhe, protesting | against this, they apologized and promised to correct it. They cor- rected it in such a manner that they hardly made any more notice of the | demonstration. 'The Cook County Executive Com- mittee of the Socialist Party like- wise went on record endorsing the march. They also told the united front committee that they would send a delegation to the united front conference. The delegation did not come, although the chair- man of the Cook County Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, McDowell, was present at the con- ference, but he spoke as a member of the Chicago Workers Committee on Unemployment. The Socialist Party did not mobilize the masses. It did not issue a single leaflet and did nothing towards building the march. The organizations which really worked for the march, and threw all their forces to build it were first of all the Unemployment Councils and the Chicago Workers’ Commit- tee on Unemployment, the A. F. of L, Rank and File Committee for Relief and Unemployment Insur- ance, and naturally, the Commu- nist Party and the Young Commu- League. Demand More Than Endorsements ‘We are placing this question be- fore the whole working class, not only in Chicago but nationally, so that the workers can learn that the leaders in the trade unions and the socialist organizations and the So- cialist Party, when they are forced to give endorsement to the united front, do this as a gesture. Of course, we, as Communists, greet even such endorsement. We see in this a step forward. But we are not satisfied with it. But there is more than that. With the endorsement of the march, about which the Federated Press re- Ports as follows: “Chicago Federation in United Front With Socialists and Communists. “CHICAGO (F.P.)\—The Chi- cago Federation of Labor, on rec- ommendation of its executive board, has endorsed the hunger march on the city hall which is scheduled for Nov, 24, permit or no permit. Participation in the march with the knowledge of the federation are the Socialist Party, pect Auditorium, 2612 Prospect Ave. | Chicago United Front Built Around November 24th Demonstration of Unemployed Must Be Maintained and Broadened Through Action the Communist Party, the Work~ ers Committees on Unemployment (Socialist), the Unemployment Councils (Communist), the Jew- ish A. F. of L. unions, and the Federation of Social Service Em- ployes. The central committee is the Committee for United Ac- tion on Nov. 24. Churches, in- cluding the Pilgrim Baptist Church, have also endorsed.” Federation Attacks C. P. ‘The Chicago Federation of Labor endorsing the march at the same time opened the most vicious at- tack against the Communist Party, which is a part and parcel of the united front. In the resolution en- dorsing the march, the Chicago Federation of Labor declares: “Whereas, we are fully aware of the difficulty in keeping such a protest demonstration in the hands of the men and women who would honestly strive to ac- complish the object and purpose of the demonstration but self- seeking individuals, Communists and other irresponsible and free- lance groups will undertake to exploit such a demonstration for their own ends, regardless of the wrongs and injustices done to those on the relief rolls, which the demonstration would serve to correct.” And John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, in speaking about the resolution re- ferring indirectly to the participa- tion in this demonstration by the Communist Party, declares: “We heard of the participation of many individuals and groups, and there is some conflict as to just what rights these groups have on the premises.” Once more the attempt is made to eliminate Communists from the United Front, But the Communists are part and parcel of the working class, they are part as the members of the A. F. of L., of the Unem- ployment Councils, of the Chicago Workers’ Committee on Unemploy- ment, they are in the shops, and in the mass organizations of the working class, and that their rights cannot be questioned is indicated by the fact that at the united front conference the greatest ovation was received precisely by the revresenta- tives of the Communist Party be- cause the workers feel that the Communist Party is the Party of their own class. The slanderous attack of Oscar F. Nelson, vice-president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, in the chamber of the City Council against the Communist Party, charging that it is not interested in the improve- should stop until the money that is still needed is raised. The government of the “radical” Lerroux, after having handed over the military dictatorship to General Franco (who formerly, as a refugee lin France, wept crocodile tears on jthe subject of democracy), and to |General Goded—is carrying out, on a big scale, the mass slaughter which |was begun in Austria by Dollfuss, |killed too late by others like him. | And now we witness a political pogrom the like of which is unpre- cedented even in the annals of con- temporary capitalist barbarism. They |shoot, behead, and hang. A mighty and threatening wave of |protest must arise everywhere and |must rally all forces against these methods of provocation and mass |slaughter. Mighty international soli< |darity must hasten to the aid of |the “Alliancia Obrera” (Workers | Alliance) which so nobly and so ment of conditions of the unem- |heroically fought for liberty and the ployed and employed workers, and |right of existence, for bread and its aim is to destroy organized la- for social justice—a struggle con= bor, such a monstrous lie that no | ducted over the heads of the parties, worker who has the slightest un-|and under the banner of united derstanding of the labor movement | front. can be misled. The members of Stresses Fascization the A. F. of L. know that the Com- | And we, here in the various coun= munists in the A. F. of L. are fight- | tries, must not try to close our eyes ing precisely to make organized la- | to the fact that there is an astound- bor a strong movement, a fighting, militant movement, that they are fighting for increase of wages, for shortening working hours, for work- ers’ democracy in the trade unions. The unemployed know that the Communists for years have been in the very first ranks of the struggle for relief for the unemployed, for the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598, which was originally drafted by the Com- munist Party. The fact that the officialdom of the Chicago Federation of Labor, while giving endorsement to the march, at the same time opens a barrage of attack on the Commu- nist Party is a clear indication that they are beginning to recognize in the Communist Party a powerful | factor in the ranks of organized labor, that the slogans of the Com munist Party and esnecially its per- sistent struggle for the united front, received support. In the words of Marx, “When the idea penetrates the masses it be- comes a power.” The idea of the united front is penetrating the masses and it is becoming a grow- img power! ‘The Chicago working class must continue its united front struggles. ‘The Chicago working class must win decisive concessions from the capi- talist class, from the Roosevelt New Deal administration. The Chicago working class, on the basis of their present experiences in the united front is entering the election strug- gles on the basis of the united front. In every working class ward there must be broad united front conferences initiated by all working class organizations in the given ward for the purpose of nominating @ working class candidate for alder- man and work toward his election, The election of a representative of the working class into the City Council will give additional strength and an additional weapon in the hands of the working class in strug- gle against capitalism and its pro- gram of hunger, fascism and war. Every member of the Party, every Party organization, every organiza- tion of the working class must do everything in their power to main- tain, strengthen and broaden the fighting united front of the Chi- cago working class ling similarity between the historical events in Spain and the fascization which is developing in all the capi- talist countries. What occurred yesterday in Italy, \in Germany, in Poland, and in the |Balkans, what is happening today jin Spain, will take place tomorrow jin France, in England, and in every other country—if we fail to raise a jmassive block of protest against jsuch events, and if we will fail to force united resistance. - This is not a matter of conflict |between political parties, This soars |far above such conflict. It is a me*- ter of supreme struggle for liberwy and social progress which is now being checked in some countries, |and is in danger in others. This is a question confronting the whole of |humanity. A question of slavery or | salvation, a question of life or deaths We ask everybody to subscribe to this appeal. Funds for transmission to the |Spanish LL,D., for the victims of |the terror, the prisoners in jail, the | widows and orphans of the workers and peasants who have been mur- dered, and the wives and children |of the prisoners, should be sent to |the national office of the Interna | tional Labor Defense, Room 610, 80 |East 11th Street. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Buffalo, N. Y. Daily Worker Dance, Friday, Dee. at 760 Main St. Adm. 25¢. Detroit, Mich. Daily Worker Victory Celebratic Dec. 8 at 8 p.m. Finnish Hall, 4th St., near McGraw. Good Proe gram, Dancing, Refreshments, Adm. in adv. 15c, at door 20c. Chicago, Til. House Party, Priday, Dec. 7 at 6052 Gidding Ave. at home of Henry Glaz. Adm. free. Ausp.: Sec. 8. House Party given by Unit @ ©. P., at 1410 Winnemae Ave., Sature day, Dec. 8 &p.m. s Newark, N. J. Concert and Dramatic Evening at $16 Clinton Ave., I. W. O. Center, Sunday, Dec. 9, 8 p.m. “Del,” cars toonist ‘of Daily Worker, wet. T, of New York. 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