The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 6, 1934, Page 2

, SUPPORT URGENT HERE FOR ANTI-FASCIST STRUGGLE IN SAAR © COURT VEILS PROOF OF BRUTALITY TO 18) UnionsMerge IN CALIFORNIA TRIAL) (° 1 2° Sis Pact on Mines Aimed to Halt Fight on Nazis Fascist Foes in U. S. A. Urged to Rally Mass United Front Fearing the spread of the anti- fascist struggle in the Saar, the French mining and heavy industrial combines were forced to come to an agreement with Hitler on the Saar, declares a statement of the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism. Calling on all anti-fascists in the United States to rally to the support of the Saar anti-fascist united front in the present critical situation, the statement says: ‘The united front which has fought for the maintenance of the present administration of the League of Nations (status quo), has the moral and material support of millions of anti-fascists, and liberty loving people all over the world. From England to Australia, from the United States to the Scandinavian countries, a wide-spread solidarity movement is assisting, materially | and morally, the united front in the Saar territory in its campaign for status quo. Unity Spreads *The result of this significant effort resulted in the deepening and the vigorous upsurge of the anti- fascist struggle in the Saar. Tens of thousands of Saar citizens have joined the united front. In the min- ing territory a defense organization against the invasion of the Hitler hordes, the “Masasenselbstschutz” came into existence in an effort to display all possible forms of resist- ance. Catholic farmers, Catholic trade unionists, came to the Social- ist and Communist workers in order to strengthen the common resist- ance “This deepening anti-fascist struggle has intimidated the masters of the French mining and heavy in- dustrial combines, which in the field of French internal politics have to fight against the same growing anti- fascist trend. “They have viewed with alarm the struggle of the Saar population and the enthusiastic solidarity of French, German, and other workers and anti-fascists around it Made Peace With Colleagues ‘In order to prevent the rapid spread 4f anti-fascist struggles in the Saar, the French heavy imdus- trialists have therefore made their peace with their German colleagues and the French government accord- ingly came to an agreement with the Government of Hitler... “We and all of the forces who have helped to bring the Saar resistance to its present effective- ness, must continue our solidarity and brotherly aid for the struggling population in the Saar. We do not relax but reinforce our efforts! We do not surrender to a treaty of Hitler-Laval and to an agreement | between the Lords of French and German heavy industries! Blood Stained History “We submit the so-called guaran- tees of the French-German pact just concluded in Rome concerning the protection of free political opin- ion, civil liberties, freedom for labor and for the minorities to the judge- ment of anybody who is conversant with the blood-stained history of the recent two years in Germany. “We call upon all anti-fascists and all sympathetic organizations to rush declarations of support to the United Front in the Saar, address- ing Max Braun, Fritz Pfordt, chair- | men, Freiheits Front, Saarbrucken, | Saar. We urge as well speedy con- | tributions, the broadening of the sale of Saar Freedom Certificates, so that funds to back up the battle for status quo in the Saar may be sent across quick], Scottsboro Nesro Rally Defies Klan Page 1) (Continued from or three roads that cut through | the outskirts of these neglected | communities, with a population of about 800. The roads are dirt roads | and have not been repaired for years. One of the largest gas plants in South Jersey is located only a mile away, and yet no gas lines| have been laid to these Negro com- munities. There have been many frame-ups of Negroes in the courts -of this area. Negro families on -Telief receive at least 60 per cent less than white families of the same “size. Until recently these communi- ties have been without militant leadership, Last Summer, how- ever, a local of the Agricultural and Cannery Workers Industrial Union -was organized in the vicinity and iduring the Seabrook Farm strike the local developed struggles among bean pickers and was success- ful in unifying the Negro andj Italian farm workers. Later, the bosses succeeded in breaking this unity by favoring the Italians. To-| -day, however, the Italian farm ~workers can see that in the end their wages were cut as a result of the destruction of the local. Klan Threatens But on the “Acres” there re- “mained the local’s Defense Com- “mittee of the International Labor Defense, which continued to func- tion, devoting its activities to the defense of the Scottsboro boys and -of the Seabrook farm workers sjailed for strike activities and Slated for trial soon. _ This committee made arrange- .ments for the Scottsboro rally and Tinvited Ruby Bates, star Scottsboro defense witness, to address the “meeting. Permission was obtained e a STEP FOR SEIZING CHARHAR Occupation Will Follow | Ordered Evacuation by Chinese Troops MOSCOW, Dec. 5,—The_ report comes from Shanghai and Peiping; that the Japano-Manchurian au- thorities have demanded the evac- uation of the province of Chahar by the Chinese authorities and troops. This means in practice that Japanese imperialism is taking the final step toward the annexation of the second province of Inner Mon- golia. The first, Jehol, was occupied more than a year ago, and incorpo- rated in Manchukuo, Japanese im- | perialism has now obviously resolved to carry out the same process with regard to Chahar. The preparations for the occupation of Chahar by Japanese troops commenced imme- diately after the occupation of Jehol. For over a year the Japanese mili- tary apparatus has been working for an inconspicuous frontiers” of Inner Mongolia. After the occupation of Jehol, the Jap- anese commanders organized the building of extensive roads, reaching | in many places far beyond the frontiers, further new telegraph lines, broadcasting stations, store- rooms, airdromes, etc., all calculated to facilitate the penetration of troops, military transports, and po- litical agents into Inner Mongolia. Even since the Japano-Manchurian troops occupied the junction of the caravan roads of Chahar—the town of Dolonor—the representatives of | Japan have insisted again and again on the withdrawal of all Chinese | forces from this province. Pravda, organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, com- ments: “Japanese imperialism is employing all possible means to sub- mit the whole of Inner Mongolia to its power, piece by piece. But since the Japanese authorities are | obviously anxious not to complicate the position of the pro-Japanese groups in China, or their own po-| sition, they publish a denial stat- ing that there is no question of an occupation, but of a demand for the ‘evacuation’ (by the Chinese) of the territory between the frontier of |@rS or representatives may be, it is| “shifting of the} DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1934 KES LAST PROVINCE “Moley Calls Profit | New Deal Aim | (Continued from Page 1) — | masses as a promise for a new 60- cial order, have been a monstrous and deliberate deception. | Crisis Deepening Asserting the futility of the Roosevelt policies as the solution for the crisis, Dr. Virgil Jordan, President of the National Industrial | Conference Board, proclaimed, as the manufacturers listened in grim silence, that: “We are little, if any, nearer recovery today than we were two years ago when political changes interrupted the early stages of the process of recovery which had begun in the Summer of 1932. The total volume of industrial production in the Fall of this year was not very different from that of the Fall, 1933 or the Fall of 1932. . . . There has been little growth in the aggregate produc- tion of goods needed to maintain the present and raise the future standard of living.” Admitting that the whole effect of the N.R.A. codes was to intensify the Hoover spread the work pro- gram within the past eighteen months, Dr. Jordan blasted the re- employment ballyhoo of the Roose- velt government by stating: “Although the number of persons employed has been larger, the total man hours of employment in man- ufacturing shows no great increase over this period. . . . While great changes have taken place in prices, wage rates, currency, credit, etc., the problem of recovery remains | substantially where it was two years | ago,” Fascist Proposals In a remarkable statement, preg- nant with fascist political implica- ions, Dr. Jordan warned: “The government is in fact in the hands of an organized mob, and no matter how idealistic its lead- JESUS ROSADO,Secretary of the Young Communist League of Spain MADRID, Dec. 5.—Now being | court-martialed before the fascists | of the Lerroux government and in immediate danger of execution are two young workers, Jesus Rosado| |and ‘Trifon Medrano, both leaders | of the Young Communist League of | Spain. They had been arrested at |the height of the revolutionary | struggle and while news of their secret trial has become current, the outcome of the savage court-mar- tial,procedure of the fascists may | mean the death of the youths, it is | feared here. Jesus Rosado is the secretary of |the Y. C. L, of Spain, He joined the Y. C. L, more than five years |ago and has been always a con- | |scious fighter for the program of | \the Young Communist Interna- | tional and the Communist Party of | Spain. At the time of the expul- | }sion of a sectarian group which | hindered the development of the | Party, Rosado took a decisive place | jon the side of the Communist In- | ternational and the Party. After | the expulsion of this group, he be- | Jehol and the Great Wall, toward |impossible for unorganized industry | came secretary of the Y. ©. L. of | Chahar.’ It is also stated that the demand is not made by Japan, but by Manchukuo. “But in the first place the ad- ministrative frontier of Chahar in the South runs practically parallel with the Great Wall, and in the second, who is not aware that Mari- chukuo and Japan are identical? This is not a ‘correction of frontiers,’ out the annexation of another Chi- nese province, of great economic and strategic importance. In the South and South West, Chahar borders on this province—Kalgan. In the North West it borders on the Mongolian People’s Republic. “Japanese imperialism is striving tenaciously to gain a foothold in this region, as starting point for its far-reaching plans of annexation on the Asiatic continent. The occupa- tion of Chahar is the most impor- that event of the imperialist policy of Japan since the events in Jehol and North China, when the Jap- anese troops reached the suburbs of Peiping.” State Department Linked to ArmsPlot (Continued from Page 1) Germany and Austria alone. A dispute arose as to whether the munition makers were rearming all of Europe. Senator Vandenburg ap- parently wished fo localize the sales to Germany, and shield the sales to the other imperialist powers. But | that the situation did apply to the rearming of Germany was admitted by Major K. K, V. Casey, head of the smokeless powder department of the du Pont trust. Documents were read from the | files of the du Pont concern which quoted Allen W. Dulles, a State De- partment official, as saying in 1925 that he was “aware” of these ship- ments to Germany, A letter from Aiken Simons, vice-chairman of the du Pont company on Oct. 15 stated | that “Mr. Dulles said that he was aware that powder and other muni- tions were shipped out of Germany with the connivance of the Allies—| the reason being that the resulting sales swelled the reparations’ fund.” Money collected on the Daily Worker coupons should be turned in immediately. Don’t wait until the entire block is filled. Rush every available cent now to the Daily Worker! from the school board for the use of the school house on the “Acres.” This permission was later revoked, due to the opposition of Negro mis- leaders raised the pretext that the pres- ence of Ruby Bates would lead to “riot and violence.” The Committee ‘decided to hold the meeting in front of the school house, with the result that more than 400 persons mtended and pledged their full support to the Scottsboro defense, unanimously denouncing the local politicians and School Board and adopting protest resolutions to be sent to President Wilson. Alabama and the U. S. Supreme Court. The committee, learning of plans by the Klan to do violence to Ruby | Bates decided not to jeopardize the safety of this important Scotis- boro witness, and provided other speakers, : and Klan elements, who | Governor B. M. Miller of| to cooperate with a mob if recovery \is to be on the basis of private en- |terprise. .. The government must |shift to industry both to respon- sibility and the power to act, and stand by only to see that the es- |sential job of recovery is done and |done well... . Industry must have a plan of action for itself, a pro- gram of specific things which it will {undertake to do and an organized |machinery by which these things jcan be done.” | Referring to the strikebreaking, Jopen shop, wage-cutting program |for recovery, which the National As- {sociation of Manufacturers proposes to present to Congress in January, Dr. Jordan said: | method of action has come, Your platform today and the events of recent weeks are only the first steps. Much more must be done and done swiftly.” Warning the assembled monopo- lists of the rising radicalization of the masses, Dr. Jordan declared: “What is needed is a carefully and courageously laid road along which industry will undertake to move of itself... . This is the Jast call for recovery on the basis of private enterprise. And unless it is answered decisively in the next six months, it will be too late.” Emphasizing and confirming this fascist invitation to Wall Street monopoly capital, Raymond Moley, leading publicist for the New Deal, |invites the assembled manufacturers to be prepared to take control of |the government in the event of a radical upsurge of the masses. Moley | declared: “Will Need Industrialists” | “It seems to me that even if some radical like Sinclair should conceiy- ably win control of this country, ordinary citizens like myself will still need you in order to keep things |going. You will have to run indus- try, in any event. In fact, I, par- ticularly, want you to keep on run- ning it. ...I feel a profound mu- mility when I contemplate the tre- mendous responsibilities that you have met and are meeting day after |Tidence in your ability to continue.” Anti-Strike Laws | Moley painted a picture of the tremendous devastation which has been wrought by the capitalist crisis, |Pointing to this devastation as pro- | viding an opportunity for a renewal of production. He showed that there is available sixty-five billion dollars of potential demand for goods which |industry is not now fulfilling, un- aware that this figue is evidence |not only of the size of the potential market but is even more an index | to the poverty and destruction which |has resulted from the deepening | crisis. Sounding the key-note in a wel- |coming speech to the assembled in- | dustrialists, C. L. Bardo, President |of the National Association of Man- jufacturers, continued the open shop ‘offensive preparations which have | been in process since the first day of the convention by announcing the plan \which has been drawn up pro- viding for a series of anti-strike laws to be pressed in the coming months as the Congress and the State Legislatures convene. | “The National Association of | Manufacturers,” Bardo declared, “with the cooperation of state or- ganizations, will seek to have laws enacted.in every state legislature which will effectively protect American citizens in their right to | “The time for a plan and a | day, and I have the greatest con- | Spain, showing a broad understand- | ing of the problems of the revolu- | tionary youth movement and the | | greatest loyalty to the working class. Until the time when he became | | national secretary, he was secretary | of the Y. C. L. of Asturias, whose | history is closely connected with the ’ (Continued from Page 1) | side, must be drawn into the strug- | gle against capitalism and for so- | Clalism. They must be made con-| scious class fighters for their im- | mediate needs, and for the ulti- mate overthrow of capitalism. They |must come to realize that not through class collaboration, through | bargaining with the capitalists, but through militant class struggle can they reach their goal. The Foes of Workers Surely no honest Socalst worker | will ever believe that Bill Green, | Mathew Woll, or the LaFollettes, people who have always served the capitalist parties, who are now whole-heartedly supporting Roose- yelt’s banker-dictated “New Deal,” will join in the building of a new party which has as its aim the waging of the day-to-day class struggle, overthrow of capitalism and the building of socialism. These people are the defenders of capitalism; they are staunch believ- ers in private profit. They are the arch reactionaries, the agents of the capitalists in the labor movement. If the future of the Socialist Party lies with the Greens and | the Wolls, as the “old guard” sug- gests, then every honest worker should already begin to ask him- self: Do I desire such a future? Be- cause, that future—a future deter- mined by Green, Woll & Co—would be fascism. One only bas to call attention to the role of these people during the period of the crisis. Under Hoover they opposed unemployment insur- lance as a “dole.” Now they loyally support Roosevelt’s unemployment “reserves” as a substitute for insur- ance. They have made themselves a part of the N. R. A. They have broken strike after strike. They have given most active ald to the bosses in keeping the workers on the job under increasingly unbear- able conditions. Yes, the future of a working class political party truly desirous of fighting for socialism is dependent | on the ability of such a party to win | the organized labor movement. But | the winning of the organized lakor | movement FOR SOCIALISM will | not be achieved through an alliance Spanish Fascists Try 2 Youn g Communists: } oe sea TRIFON MEDRANO, Member of the Central Committee of the Young Communist League of Spain. ‘Rosado, Secretary of Spanish Y, C. L. Stands Before Immediate Danger of Execution political and personal life of Ro- sado. Both in Asturias, at the time he was secretary of the district, and | in the leadership of the Y. C. L. of Spain, he had shown exceptional working capability and activity. During the negotiations which were carried on by the League re- cently with the Young Socialists’ League, he was head of the delega- | tion of the central committee of the Y. C.-L. Court-martialed with Rosado is | Trifon Medrano, a Y. C. L. member of four years standing and one of its central committee. Secretary of the district committee in Madrid, he was with a young worker named | de Grado at the time the latter was murdered by the Civil Guard. Ar- rested many times, he always par- ticipated at the head of the strug- gles of the youth and proletariat of Madrid. Especially was he ener- getic and self-sacrificing during the | last strike of Sept. 8, when he and | | Rosado were appointed by the C. C. | for carrying out negotiations with | the Y. S. L. He was the speaker representing the Y. C. L. at the tremendous meeting which took place in Madrid | at the beginning of September. | As with many young Socialists as | well as young Communists the fas- cist Lerroux-Gil Robles administra- tion is taking brutal vengeance on the heroic and certainly undefeated youth of Spain. Pindted Front Against A. F. of L. Heads Can Alone BringVictory. with Bill Green and Mathew Woll, or with the Olsons and LaFollettes. Influence Must Be Destroyed It will be achieved ONLY through the fight against the class collabora- tion policies of these people and) against their leadership in the labor movement. Their influence must be) destroyed; they must be driven out) of the leadership; a revolutionary socialist leadership must be estab- lished—that is the road toward win- ning the labor movement for So- cialist policies. The Communist Party is consist- ently working in the trade unions, fighting in the forefront of every struggle, striving with the workers to win improved conditions, carrying on revolutionary propaganda, win- ning the workers for the overthrow of capitalism. The Communist Party in its ap- peal for united action has also urged united action in the trade unions against the class collaborationist policies of the bureaucracy and for policies of class struggle, which alone can result in immediate victory for the workers, while at the same time preparing the trade unionists for the struggle against war and fascism and for power, The two lines here are clear: The Waldman-Thomas groups are for the closest alliance with the extreme Right of the labor movement on the basis of class collaboration policies and a conception of gradually “im- proving” capitalism. * The Communist Party and the truly Socialist forces in the Socialist Party, through unity on the basis of class struggle, can win the labor movement for the revolutionary struggle to overthrow capitalism and for socialism. To this alliance be- longs the future! This disillusionment of great masses of workers with the New Deal, the tremendous strike wave, and the struggles of the unemployed, the Negro masses and the poor farmers is proof that those who fol- Jow the Right line of Waldman and the Centrist line of Thomas will find themselves on the side of re- action fighting against the masses. The united front as proposed by the Communists against hunger, fas- cism and war is the omy way to working class victory. work without coercion or moles- tation from any source.” Continuing close cooperation which is being organized between the industrialists and Roosevelt, Bardo declared: “We fully subscribe to and urge the extension of the labor truce re- cently requested by President Roose- WEibe cscat | The Congress for American In- ,dustry will present its final conclu- |sions tonight, and t will be sub- mitted to Rooseveit and to the in January, With leading manu- facturers arriving every hous from all parts of the country, the present Congress for American Industry, takes on the form of a formidable mobilization of American capital for the greatest anti-labor offensive and drive towards political reaction in the history of the country. Branch 1544 of the ¥. W. O. in Kupmont, Pa., sends $5 to make up the sum that is needed to complete the “Daily” drive. Every I. W. 0. branch should fill iDemocratic Congress which meets its quota before the drive ends, jat the local office in the recent |the Kosher Butchers Union, |the Lithuanian Sons Benefit Asso- Plans Are Pushed For Social Bill (Continued from Page 1) All other places except Washington, D. C. (which is asked to remit 70 per cent to the national office) should send 10 per cent. This money} is to cover expenses of the National Committee. Big Campaign in Phila. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec, 5.— William Jones, of the staff of the Afro-American, largest Negro news- paper, @ man who has long been| active in the defense campaign for | |the nine innocent Scottsboro boys, | has pledged his fullest support and | cooperation with the local sponsor- ing committee for the National Congress for Unemployment Insur- ance. He has promised to give coopera- tion through the columns of the Afro-American, and through per- sonal visits to Negro churches and lodges. He has further promised to speak at the mass send-off meeting which will be accorded to the dele- gates to the congress from the Philadelphia district. The mass meeting, at which Herbert Ben- jamin, executive secretary of the congress; Mary van Kleek, of the Russell Sage Foundation, and Mother Bloor will speak, will be held Fri- day, Dec. 28, at 8 p.m. at the Broad- way Arena, Broad and Christian Sts. Delegates Elected Credentials for delegates received period are from the Lace Weavers Union, Unemployed Citizens League, the County Relief Board Workers, the | Trish Butchers Union, the Irish Workers Club, the St. Kagene Church in South Philadelphia, and ciation Each of these groups have elected two delegates. The South Philadelphia Unem- ployment Councils will hold a mass meeting for the popularization of the congress on Tuesday evening, Dec. 11 at 8 o'clock, at 419 Spruce t. The speakers’ conference, which was set up here to train workers to address groups on the congress, will | meet again this Sunday at 8 p.m.,! at 154 North 15th St. Three States Inactiee California and the State of Wash- ington are far behind other sections in response to the National Con- gress, the National Committee an- nounced. Neither the “Voice of Ac- tion” nor the “Western Worker” has carried on a campaign for the Na- tional Congress. In every other State except West Virginia and Cal- ifornia. and Washington, work for the congress has begun. Fraternal Groups Lead NEW YORK.—Fraternal organiza- tions in the metropolitan district are taking the lead in electing delegates to the National Congress for Unem- ployment and Social Insurance, it was announced by the New York Sponsoring Committee, Room 641, 80 East 11th St. Four lodges have responded al- ready, despite the fact that the sub- committees have only just begun to work. These are the Foresters of America, Brooklyn; the Bohemian Workers Sick and Death Benefit So- ciety, Garfield, N. J.; Granada Mu- tual Aid Association of Manhattan; Branch 140, International Workers Order, Brooklyn, “We are prepared to back your movement to the limit commensu- rate with our resources, inform us of our obligations,” the Granada Mutual wrote to the local sponsoring committee, Set Up Washington Committee WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5.—A sponsoring committee for the Na- tional Congress has been set up here. Sub-committees have been established to work toward bringing trade unions, fraternal groups and representation of the large Negro population into representation at the congress. The local committee has announced that a city-wide con- ference will be held in Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 19. Trade Unions Represented BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 5.—Seven local unions of the American Fed- eration of Labor were represented at a conference held here last Sun- day by the local sponsoring com- mittee for the National Congress. An enlarged conference which will greet the Baltimore delegates will be held here Sunday, Dec. 30. Rochester Meets ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 5.— Seventeen trade unions and frater- nal groups were represented by of- ficial delegates at a meeting of. the local sponsoring committee here Sunday. The Rochester committee is planning to bring the entire Cen- tral Trades and Labor Council into the enlarged conference meeting on Monday, Dec, 17. Meeting and Conference in Shamokin SHAMOKIN, Pa., Dec. 5.—Calls have been sent to one hundred and fifty organizations throughout the county for a conference on Friday, Dec. 14 to enlist support for the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance. A mass meeting to bring the cam- paign to the widest number of work- ers will be held Saturday, Dec. 8. I. Amter, national secretary of the Unemployment Councils will be the main speaker. In preparation for this meeting, 3,000 leaflets have been distributed. Three organizations have thus far responded to the call for the local conference. These are a lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose, a ledge |Jury Incomplete After |7 Days; 2 Panels Have| Been Exhausted (Special to the Daily Worker) SACRAMENTO, Cal., Dec, 5—The criminal syndicalist trial of eighteen | militant workers arrested last sum- | mer in vigilante raids on workers’ | mecting places entered its seventh day today with the jury far from being selected. Both the regular and first special panels have been exhausted. A second special panel is now being examined. The defense and prosecution have both exercised 25 challenges to date, with 70 challenges each remaining, as the defense strives to bar pros- pective jurors who are openly hos- tile to the defendants, while the State attempts to exclude all class conscious workers from the: jury. With the presiding justice, Judge Dal M. Lemmon, supporting him, District Attorney Neil McAllister, defeated for re-election, yesterday blocked an exposure by the defense of the inhuman treatment to which the defendants have been subjected in an overcrowded, unheated jail. Leo Gallagher, International La- bor Defense attorney, strenuously objected to this treatment of the defendants, pointing out that they are political prisoners and in no sense criminals, Judge Lemmon was forced to promise that in the future proper consideration would be accorded the defendants. The defendants include Pat Chambers and Caroline Decker, or- ganizers of the Agricultural and Cannery Workers Industrial Union, and leaders in the 1933 ranch strike; Albert Hougardy, northern Califor- nia organizer of the Communist Party; Nora Conklin, a leader of last year’s hunger marches in Sac- ramento; Norman Mini and Lorine Norman, active in the Workers School, and Martin Wilson, an or- ganizer of the International Labor Defense. All face sentences of 14 years, if convicted. Protests should be sent to Judge Dal M. Lemmon and District At- torney McAllister, both at Sacra- mento; and to Governor Merriam of California. Guild Group Walks Out at Hearing (Continued from Page 1) hearing, the publishers and the big business men who are openly run- ning the N. R. A. got Blakewell Smith, acting general counsel of the N. R. A. to act quickly and reopen the case. Walker Jittery Stanley Walker, City Editor of the conservative New York Herald Tribune, appeared with a group of editors from all over the country who recited their publishers’ lines in familiar schoolboy fashion. Walker went completely jittery and pale as he stammered his dema- gogic attack on the reporters’ fight to obtain adequate minimum code’ wages, In addition to Broun, the Guild delegation included Jonathan Eddy, executive secretary; Morris Ernst, counsel; Herman Volk and J. Andrew Crafts, statisticians; Dan de Souza, president of the Washing- ton Guild; Carl Randau, president of the New York Guild; and Morris Watson, chairman of the Guild Press Association committee. Addressing acting Division Ad- ministrator Tate, Broun stated: “I wish to withdraw my appear- ance from this hearing and the ap- pearance of all other representa- tives of the American Newspaper Guild. We had come prepared to show you that onsthe average an American newspaperman must work for 20 years before he achieves a salary of $40 a week, and the fic- titious quality of the publishers’ proposals which, when translated into dollars mean no contribution to re-employment or additional purchasing power. Exposes N. R. A. Role “We are withdrawing now be- cause of the extraordinary action of the N. R. A. in forcing the re- opening of the Jennings case. On Monday the Guild had won. It had won its first significant victory at the hands of any Board in Wash- ington and we are quite ready to applaud the courage of that deci- sion. “On Tuesday we learn that the case has been reopened. At whose request? Not at the request of the Guild or Mr. Hearst, the two interested parties, but (I quote from the free columns of the Wash- ington Herald) at the request of the Acting Genera] Counsel for the Na- tional Recovery Administration. “In other words, when that fast- running back, Elisha Hanson, was thrown for a loss it was the N. R. A. itself which sent a substitute to take his place. “Behind Mr. Blakewell Smith we see the figure of Donald Richberg. We know that he conferred long and earnestly with the National Labor Relations Board yesterday afternoon. We know, because we saw him. “As long as the corridors of Mr. Richberg are filled with the mys- terious, high-pressure representa- tives of the publishers we feel that we belong elsewhere. Back to Picket Line “When and if N. R. A. purges itself we will return. We charge definitely that on this occasion and on several former ones N. R. A. has allowed itself to be terrified by the publishers. The American News- paper Guild is not afraid of the Saar Railway ; United Front Broadens Drawing Masses Inte Status Quo Fight (Special to the Daily Worker) SAARBRUCKEN, Dec. 5 (BY Wireless). — Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, Goebbels, has quietly purchased from its previous pube lisher the Saar anti-fascist weekly, The Westland. The Westland is now a provocative fascist sheet. | SAARBRUCKEN, Dec. 5. -(By Wireless) —United action ‘between |the two large railroad employee's union Was achieved at a joint can ference this afternoon, Moreover, the International Transport Feder- ation and the German Workers’ Brotherhood have merged in the face of the Hitler menace of the Saar. A representative of the late ter association named Dobisch, forecast that the unity of the rail- Wwaymen assured, united action among the miners will certainly follow, and then the unity of the peasant workers. Secretary Fimmen of the I. T. F. spoke and said he hoped the “united front of the Sear will be emulated by united actions in all countries. What inter= national trade union unity has not yet done, we must accomplish here.” Fritz Pfort, leader of the Com- munist Party of the Saar pointed out how the united front of the Communist and Socialist Parties had broadened out to become a popular mass front. * The confer- ence concluded with the adoption of a fighting program and in a de- mand for the status quo. Coughlin Launches Drive on Workers (Continued from Page 1) “the abuse of the profit system” Coughlin made it clear that, in the words of the Pope, “private owner- ship is ordained by nature itself.” In regard to Henry Ford, he insisted on Ford's right to continue to appro- riate millions which the workers had created and to operate his vicious slave-driving ‘system, bit merely pleaded for a few more crimbs (“Sharing the profits”) for the workers, In the course of his speech the radio priest did not. hesitate to con- tradict statements he had made in @ press conference yesterday morn- ing at which I was present. Where- as he had said, in response to my question, that “The N.R.A. has helped the laboring man, though not as much as it should,” last night he characterized the N.R,A. as “a lot of hooey.” In the: press conference he had placed all his hopes on Roosevelt; only. a few hours later in his speech he jeered at Roosevelt as a man who is “moving in circles” and declared that “the State has proved under ‘democracy in America to be a hi-jacker.” Coughlin again showed that he is building a political movement for the 1936 elections when, in response to a question after his talk, he stated that the foreign-born’ could become only honorary members of his organization, that. what he wanted was voters and 19-year-old citizens who would vote in two years. Asked what he thought of the frame-up of Tom Mooney, he dodged shrewdly with: “I don’t know anything about it.” * The Communist Party is prepar- ing to launch a campaign to expose the dangerous character of -Cough- lin’s activities and to’ win: away -his thousands of supporters. It. will call on the Socialist Party for joint action in this connection, and warns especially the Socialist workers not to be misled by this demagog who is building a fascist movement against the working class. lose but our jobs. We are beginning to learn how to fight the pub- lishers at those times when we must fight. é “This is not a battleground. We don’t want to be ambushed. We are going back to the picket line in Newark. The air is cleaner there. Good morning.” When the Guild delegation, headed by Broun, visited Francis Biddle, the millionaire blue-blooded chairman of the Labor Board, they were fed with the empty sweet words offered all militant delega- tions, it was reliably reported. They realized this when Biddle, who had been in conference with Richberg yesterday morning, did not protest against his superior’s action. Several of the delegation, includ- ing Broun, were taken in by Biddle’s soft soap: It is indeed ironic that on the day president Broun attacked the N. R. A. news- paperman Broun’s Scripps-Howard syndicated column should appear eulogizing Biddle as a “brash” young man who “seems determined to proceed upon the assumption that Section 7-A means precisely what it says.” Broun’s name is now added to the list of hundreds of thou- sands of workers who have léarned that Section 7-A means-what. Rich- ‘berg said it’ means—company union legalization. ° z C. E. Rogers, the representative of 31 colleges with, journalism de- partments, presented figures show- ing that for 91.6. per cent of news- paper workers affected by the code, the so-called minimum ranges from $12 to $16. This, he said, “is much of the Eagles, and a Bible Class, publishers, We have nothing to] too low for experienced men.” i f Unions Merge j