The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 13, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1934 Dimitroff Appeais for Aid to Bulgarian Anti-Fascists SEVEN EXECUTED, Cotton Bosses|Supreme Court Ruling On Scottsboro Review Is Awaited by I. L. D. 43 FACE DEATH (Ct New Delay FOR AUG. 1 ACTION Reichstag Trial Hero Cables Anna Damon Urging | International Labor Defense to Rally Best Forces of U. S. for Protest Actions | “Save the Bulgarian anti-fascist soldiers from the execu-) until tioner !” This was the m of the Leipzig Rei eeived by A ge se s in connec- tion with the Aug’ 1 demonstra- n against war and fascism, were | xecuted Saturday. One was execu- ted late in Nove r. Forty-three more face the executioner. tion on the adest scale, a torm of protest over the American) ontinent, was called for by Dimi-j troff in his cablegram. The text) of the cable follows: “Anna Damon “International Labor Defense “New York “Six anti-fascist soldiers public- ly executed in Bulgaria, as was | soldier Natcho Lazaroff last | month. Forty-three soldiers sail- ors and other anti-fascists facing | imminent execution. Lazaroff, | Riter, and Stoyanoy were extra- | dited by Greek government. | “T appeal through International | Labor Defense to all anti-fascist organizations and individuals to immediately arouse a storm of | protest in the United States and Canada to save all from death, to compel Bulgarian government to release all anti-fascists. Please rally best forces use most effec- tive protest means “G. Dimitroft” Responding to this appeal, the I.! L.D. today called on the American: League Against War and Fascism, and all organizations and individ- uals opposed to fascism, to join in| protest actions all over the country, | directed to the Bulgarian and Greek governments. and the embassies and | consulates of these governments in} this country. Working-class organizations in New York, where there is a Bul- garian consulate, have been called on to cooperate with the New York district of the IL.D., whose offices afe at 870 Broadway, to organize) delegations to visit the consulate at 3569 Broadway, to lodge their pro- test against the mass executions carried out already, and those planned for the future, of the anti-| fascist fighters of Bulgaria. The telephone number of the consulate is AUdubon 3-3545. Protests from every part of the country to the Bulgarian Embassy and the Greek Embassy, at Wash- ington, in telegrams, and letters, were called for. Delegations to protest against the extradition of anti-fascists to their death in Bulgaria, and protests by telephone and telegraph, to the Greek consulates in New York, Chi- cago, Boston, and San Francisco, were called for. The Greek consulate in New York | is at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The tele- | phone number is Circle 7-6753. Cables of protest against the ex- ecutions have been sent to the Bul- garian government at Sofia by the International Labor Defense, the Trade Union Unity League, and the Marine Workers Industrial Union. Big Business | Would Ban C. P. (Continued from Page 1) leadership is used by the manufac- turers as an authority and support in- their fascist call to drive the Communist Party into illegality. The report quotes with approval the report delivered by William Green to Roosevelt on Communist Party opposition in the unions against the A. F. of L. bureaucracy. Report Is Detailed The report goes into details of Communist Party activity in leading the workers in strikes for higher wages and better conditions, point- ing with especial alarm to the re- cent general strike in San Fran- cisco, where only the treachery of the A. F. of L. leaders. prevented the workers from winning their full demands. This call to outlaw the Commu- nist Party is a reflection of the Party's growing influence among the masses, and the fear by the em- ployers that the Communist Party will organize effective resistance to} the new wage-cutting, relief-reduc- ing drive which has already been! planned with the cooperation of the Roosevelt government. The fascist threat against the Communist Party menaces every working class political organization in the country, and every trade union: It is urgent that workers of all political beliefs, especially from the A. F. of L. unions and the Socialist Party form a united front to defend every civil right against the menace of fascism. “Although We are in a campaign ourselves to raise funds for the histéric Washington Congress for Unemployment Insurance,” writes Stanley Mack, secretary of the 23rd Unemployment Council of Cleveland, “We feel it is our duty to support the Daily Worker ... fighter for relief and unemploy- ment insurance.” They contrib- ated $5 toward the Daily Worker drive, Have you done your share? ‘ na Damon, acting national secret ' tov. | Hammer plant elected Kaganovitch, | Kalinin and Maxim Gorki. The Mil- | itary Aviation Academy elected Kle- jin | masses of millions of toilers have nt by George Dimitroff, hero| ag trial, in a cable from Moscow re- ary of the In- U.S. Negro Elected To Moscow Soviet (Continued from Page 1) terrupted by stormy applause. The elections were all marked with ex- ceptional organization, mass initia- tive and enthusiasm. This activity, enthusiasm and ini- tiative of the masses of millions of workers and toilers is inspired and organized by the great Leninist Party, led by the beloved leader of the world proletariat, Joseph Stalin. It is not in vain that the workers in Moscow enterprises elected Com- rade Stalin, the best shockworker of the U.S.S.R., as first deputy to the Moscow Soviet. The first deputy elected by work- | ers of the Machine tool building| plant, Krasnyi Proletaryi, is Molo- The workers of the Sickle and menti Voroshilov, Ordjonikidze, Hos- sior, Andreev, also the U.S.S.R. ‘air| | hero, Kamanin, who participated in the rescue of the members of the Cheliuskin expedition. Those elected at the Stalin auto- mobile plant include Heinz Roscher, former leader of the Florisdorf Schutzbund, Austrian Socialist guards who participated in the heroic armed actions of the Austrian | workers, over the heads of the lead-| ers of the Austrian Social Demo- | cracy. The workers in many plants elected Georgi Dimitroff, hero of the Reichstag trial, and Ernst} Thaelmann, imprisoned German Communist leader, as honorary dep- | uties to the Moscow Soviet. Fellow Workers Elect Robinson ‘The Negro shock worker, Robin- son, was elected by the workers of the Ballbearing Plant, where work- ers of 37 nationalities are engaged in the mighty work of Socialist construction. Dealing with the results of the first day of the elections, Pravda, organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in an editorial entitled, “Demonstration of Tre- mendous Victories,” declares that “Already the first day of the elec- tions was @ tremendous demonstra- tion of the unification, devotion and love of all toilers to the Com- munist Party and Stalin, expressing the boundless confidence of all toil- ers in the enterprises in the Soviet Power. “The speeches of thousands of electors, the demonstrations of scores of thousands of toilers before the Moscow Soviet reflect the tre- mendous growth of the political consciousness of the working class and all toilers of the U. S. 8. R.,” Pravda continued. “The firm con- fidence in the final victory of So- |Cialism and in the correct line of the Communist Party, the pride in the tremendous achievements of So- cialist construction resound in these | Speeches and mandates.” Summarizing the results of four years of stubborn struggles in the work of the Moscow Soviet, the vic- tories achieved under the leader- ship of the Moscow Party committee and Kaganovitch, Pravda adds: “How different is the proletarian capital from the large capitalist cities and bourgeois capitals of the entire world! Unemployment, mis- erable hovels, dirty, neglected out- skirts, physical degeneration and decay—that is what capitalist towns give to the millions of toilers. Home building on an exceptionally large |Scale, growth of cultural institu- tions, steady rise in the material and cultural standards of millions of toilers, increase in births, sharp drop in mortality—such are the facts which the proletarian capital presents with due pride at this elec- tion to the Soviets, Invincible Power “Listening to the speeches of thousands of Moscow electors, one realizes how invincible ts the power of the U. S. S. R., and’ what gigantic reserves of revolutionary energy and | initiative exist in the masses of toilers. “The Communist Party led, and is leading, the toilers along the great road of struggle and victories. stubborn class struggle, the developed immeasurably. How piti- ful seem now the attempts of the class enemies to disrupt the gigantic Socialist construction in the U. 8. S. R. by means of sabotage and wrecking in the face of the tre- mendous development of Socialist economy, in the face of the invin- cible unification of all toilers around the Party of Lenin and Stalin. “Merciless vengeance toward class enemies, enemies of the people, who have made cowardly attempts upon the lives of the best. members of |the working class and upon So- cialist construction, boundless hatred and contempt toward those remnants not yet finally defeated, |all this resounds in the speeches and mandates of the millions of electors. “To consolidate the power of the U. S. S. R—vigilance; vigilance; once more vigilance, this is what the proletarians of the Red capital | we are determined to bring about | you in meeting the situation.” are unabatingly repeating in their | mandates to their deputies.” On Injunction) Boston Workers Press| for Strike to En- force Code WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 12.— Justice Gordon of the District of Columbia Supreme Court put over ext Tuesday the hearing on the ction of cotton garment | mant turers to prevent the 36- | hour week and 10 per cent wage in- | crease from going into effect. | This is the second postponement, | while 200,000 workers in the entire | industry continue to work under & pay-cut equivalent to four hours’ wages per week. | Meanwhile workers throughout the industry are growing impatient with the dickering of the National Industrial Recovery Board, From Boston comes the report that a| strike of the 2,000 workers in the cotton garment industry is being planned. This decision was made at a conference of representatives of the International Ladies Gar- ment Workers Union, the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers, United Garment Workers, and Raincoat Workers International Union. So great is the dissatisfaction of the workers because the shorter work week and a 10 per cent wage increase was snatched away by a& last minute trick of the government and bosses, that David Dubinsky, International President of the I. L. G. W. U. and Alex Cohen, Manager of the Shirt Makers Joint Board of the A. C. W, issued a protest against the continual delay on the injunc- tion. The officials of the garment un- ions, although having placed rep- resentatives on the special Indus- trial Committee which granted wage increase exemptions to the entire industry, have not yet an- nounced what action the unions will take if delays continue or if the restraining order granted the manufacturers is made permanent. In a letter to all locals, Dubinsky states: “The employers make take tem- porary undue advantage of the present confusion, as a result of the dilly-dallying on the part of the government and the Industrial Committee on the part of the Cot- ton Garment Code Authority, but reduction of work hours and the stipulated increase in basic wage rates contained in the original pres- idential order. “In the course of the next few days our office will map out a plan of activity and communicate with all affiliated organizations to guide On the other hand seven more manufacturers joined the growing list of those pushing the injunction. The Department of Justice, claim- ing that preparations to defend the government’s ruling have not yet been completed, furnished the cause for the further delay, It was further disclosed, yester- day, that the exemptions granted to the manufacturers have given impetus to a general wage reduc- tion drive, and for that reason the National Industrial Recovery Board, it is reported is taking steps to amend the exemptions so that no less than the code mini- mum of $12.00 in the South, and $13.00 in the North be paid for a full week’s wages. ILD to Appeal Herndon Case On Monday NEW YORK—The first step in bringing the appeal of Angelo Hern- don, young Negro Communist leader of the unemployed, sentenced to from 18 to 20 years on the chain- gang, before the United State Su- preme Court, will be taken Monday with the filing of the appeal with the Supreme Court of Georgia, it was announced yesterday by Anna Damon, acting national secretary of the Internationa! Labor Defense. ‘The appeal papers have been pre- pared by Whitney North Seymour, of the firm of Simpson, Thacher, and Bartlett, well-known constitu- tional authority, and former as- sistant Solicitor-General of tne United States, The appeal attacks the constitu- tionality of the old slave “insur- rection” law under which Herndon was convicted, especially in its in- terpretation by the trial court and the Georgia Supreme Court. In its original opinion, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that Herndon was “guilty” if his actions “would lead to insurrection at any time” in the future. In a revised opinion, however, after the court realized that this decision was clearly unconstitutional, it stated that “It would be sufficient if he intended that it (forcible resistance to the authority of the state) should happen at any time within which he might reasonably expect his influence to continue to be directly operative in causing such action by those whom he sought to in- duce.” Herndon was convicted on evi- dence that he organized a dem- onstration for unemployment relief in which both Negroes and whites participated together. “Enclosed you will find a money order for $10.25, the proceeds of a spaghetti party and dance ar- ranged by the day unit of Sec- tion 2 and a group of hosiery workers.” E. Kornfeld, Philade!- phia, Pa. Has your organization arranged an affair for the Daily Worker financial campaign? . | Defense Organization Publishes Account of Financial Receipts and Expenditures in Campaign to Free Nine Boys Reports from Washington, D. C., indicate that the United States Supreme Court will soon rule on the application by International La- bor Defense attorneys for a review and reversal of the death sentences against Clarence Norris and Haywood Patterson, two of the framed, innocent nine Scottsboro Negro boys. An answering brief, in the case of Clarence Norris, was filed with the court last Monday by the State of Alabama, The two boys, the first to be retried under the decision wrested by the world-wide mass fight from the U. 8. Supreme Court on No- vember 7, 1932, had been sentenced to die December 7, but the I. L. D. attorneys secured an order from the Alabama Supreme Court for a stay of execution to February 8. The I. L. D., which has emphasized all along that the nature of the forthcoming decision by the U. 8. Supreme Court depends mainly upon the strength of the mass fight for the boys, yesterday called on all organizations and friends of the Scottsboro boys to intensify the fight for their lives and freedom. Protest telegrams and resolutions should be rushed to the U, S, Supreme Court and to President Roose- velt demanding the unconditional and safe release of the nine victims of the Alabama lynch courts. Protest meetings should be held in front of the factories, in the neighborhoods, everywhere, and resolu- tions adopted to be forwarded to the President and the U. S. Supreme Court. 80 East 11th Street, Room 610, New and legal fight. Funds should be rushed to the International Labor Defense, York City, to help finance the mass The following financial statement, on receipis and expenditures involved in the Scottsboro case, has just been issued by the national office of the I. L. D.: CERTIFICATE We have examined the books and récords of the International Labor Defense, National Office, with respect to the Scottsboro Division. We certify, that the above statement correctly reflects the financial transactions for the period. Central Audit Bureau By M. GREENBAUM INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE, NATIONAL OFFICE SCOTTSBORO INCOME AND EXPENDITURES For the Period of April 11, 1931 to August 31, 1934 Income: Percentages Through I. b. $47,235.66 N. A.A. C. 3,482.20 A. 0. LU. 2,713.05 N.C. D. P. Total Income ..... $61,825.23 100. Legal, Court, Inyestigation, and Various Litigation Expenses: Pald by Paid by Per- Lh. D. Lawyers Total cent Various Decatur Trial Expenses $1,644.50 $1,325.65 $2,970.15 4.9 Investigations 4,328.95 5,197.84 1.19 18.5 Stenographic Fees for Trial Reports 259.76 645.24 1.6 Protection Payments, Lawyers 861.00 15 Court Records and Printing of Appeals 1,942.70 2,451.10 Bt Preparation 1934 appeals (June-August) 1,180.00 1,150.00 1.8 Paid to Attorneys for taxis, telegrams, telephones, during trials 1,007.30 1,007.90 7 Hotel Expenses, Railroad Fare and Vari- ous other Expenses for Lawyers and Witnesses 2,050.28 2,204.97 4,345.25 7.0 Payments to Lawyers: Fees and General Expenses 13,027.38 21.0 Total Legal, Court Investigation, etc. $38,181.05 62.1 Other Scottsboro Expens Prisoners and Parents Relief $3,156.40 5.1 Parents’ Fare to Kilby 287.00 0.3 Mothers Fares. ... 240.12 0.3 To $3,683.52 0.8 Campaigns: Mats and Photos . 04 Buttons and Penny Li Mailing and Advertising 13 Richard B. Moore Tour 0.3 Lucille Wright Tour 0.5 Engdahl-Wright Tour 04 Convention OL Organization and Traveling Bxpenses 22 Scottsboro March to Washingto! 23 Labor Defender—Adve: 02 Petitions... 0.1 Publicity and Publications a4 Total .. $7,670.38 12.3 Administrativer Telephone and Telegrams $1,858.01 3.0 Rent .. 323.35 0.8 Southern 926.87 1.5 Wages and Sub: 3,492.81 5.6 Stationery and Printin; 3,1 5.1 Postage... 4.6 Miscellaneous 34 ‘Total ... ato $14,866.82 24.0 Due from Scottsboro Campaign $2,526.52 41 Total Expenditures ..... $64,351.78 = 104.1 Roosevelt Calls War Council (Continued from Page 1) them into the present conference to discuss the phantom of “taking profits out of war” while mobilizing the whole country for a war for profits. It _is significant that the announcement was made at the same time that Roosevelt extended for an indefinite period General MacArthur's tenure as chief of staff of the army. This is the first time that such an action has even been taken, and is a good indicator of the seriousness of today’s announcement. General MacArthur is cheifly responsible for the construction of the present army machine. He has close connections with Wall Street and is one of the most aggressive labor haters in the country. He is being groomed in certain financial circles as the man on horseback to assume dictatorial control in the event of an emergency. The announcement of Roosevelt was the culmination of the war drive carried on under the smoke screen of the Senate munitions in- quiry. It will be remembered that it was Senator Nye who raised the slogan of “taking the profit out of war,” which has been picked up by Roosevelt, This demagogy when translated into concrete terms repre- sented the desire of the ruling class to tighten up the mechanism of the war machine, and under the guise of Federal supervision to guarantee the profits of the munitions makers. The precipitate action of Roosevelt shows that, with the ground paved by the Nye Committee, he has now ordered a war mobilization, turning the entire nation into one gigantic slave machine, behind the Pretense of making war unprofitable. é The fa¢ts on the corrupt practices of the munitions makers which had become so dangerous that the Nye Committee was trying to conceal them, hélped precipitate today’s action. Only today a letter was read be- fore the committee which quoted the late Senator Penrose, Republican boss of Pennsylvania, as telling Senator Watson of Indiana in 1920 to “give du Ponts what they want just as far as you possibly can without getting into a row.” Detroit A.F.L. to Send Delegates toCongress Of State Youth Groups DETROIT, Dec. 12—The Detroit and Wayne County Federation of Labor has endorsed the Michigan Youth Congress and elected three delegates. The Congress will be held in Ann Arbor on Friday, Sat- urday and Sunday. The delegates elected by the De- troit Federation are James Soucek of the Pattern Makers Union, Charles Baulsen of the Miscel- laneous Hotél and Restaurant Em- Ployes Union, and Morris Shepherd of Butchers Local 632, The Michigan Youth Congress, which will bring together repre- sentatives of the youth from labor, farm, church, student and social organizations, is an outgrowth of the first American Youth Congress, held in New York last August. It has been endorsed by the Michigan State Association of Y. M. C. A.’s, the Michigan State Association of Y. W. C. A.’s, the Detroit Council of Religious Education, the Ann Ar- bor Youth Council, the Ann Arbor Boy Scouts and other organizations. Parleys Called In Chicago On Elections |\Communists Place Nominations for City Offices CHICAGO, Dec, 12.—While the Republican and Democratic politi- cians .are getting ready for the | Spring elections the workers of Chi- cago are preparing their campaign to place workers’ candidates in the for aldermen, while the Communist Karl Lockner, Secretary of the ‘County Committee of the Unemploy- ment Councils, for Mayor, Herbert movement, for City Treasurer. The Communist Party is calling a city- wide conference to be held Sunday, Jan. 13, 10 a.m., at Mirror Hall, 1136 N, Western Avenue (corner Div- ision). The Communist Party calls upon all trade unions, all unem~- Ployed organizations, workers in shops, etc., to elect delegatés to this conference, The Ward conferences are taking on a real united front character, various trade unions and unem- ployed organizations already endors- ing the calls for such conferences. In the 2nd Ward, the Ward confer- ence call was signed by two locals of the Chicago Workers Commitice, by the locals of the Unemployment Councils, by the Communist Party and other workiing class organiza- tions. The same is true in other Parts of the city. The Communist Party calls upon all organizations to give the broad- est support to the United Front Ward Conferences Butler Clerks Plan To Take Strike Vote After an all-day conference Tues- day at the offices of the Regional Labor Board, representatives of the Butler Grocery Company and of the Grocery Chain Stores Executives’ and Employees’ Association failed to come to an agreement. The union has announced‘ that a strike vote will be taken among the 800 employees of the company, 650 of whom are already in the union. The Butler Company’s Board of Directors, in their meeting Tuesday afternoon, turned down the pro- posal that they pay the 200 workers discharged because of the closing of 8 stores a substantial bonus, place them at the head of the list of prospective employees, and grant union recognition on the basis of a preferential union shop, This would mean that in all hiring union members would get first choice. Disclosing that refusal to recog- nize the grocery chain union is at the bottom of the company’s ac- tion, James Butler, Jr., in reply to these proposals for a settlement, declared that “there is no proof that the Grocery Chain Store Executives’ and Employees’ Associa- tion really spoke for the bulk of the workers.” The Butler Company's closing of 8 stores, in which almast all the workers were union mem- bers, followed immediately after a poll conducted by the Regional La- bor Board, which resulted in a sub- stantial majority for the union, Mr. Butler further indicated that the company wants to divide the workers by forcing a company union, stating that “no agreement could be signed unless some repre- sentation is given to those not in the unions.” Meanwhile the officials of the Grocery Chain Store Executires’ and Employees’ Association, and of the Retail Clerks’ Intetnational Union, with which it is affiliated, have dropped demands for wage in- creases and shorter hours and ask only for the reinstatement of the 2, and “some form of recogni- tion.” French Police Launch Drive On Foreigners PARIS, Dec. 12.—For three days Paris has been in the grip of a government-directed anti-foreign attack. In various quarters large forces of police invaded localities inhab- ited by foreign-born workers and brutally béat both passers-by and residents. A great number of for- eigners were seized and carried off to police stations. Many of them were later deported. These attacks are part of the anti-foreign campaign now being pushed by the Flandin administra- tion. These are the means by which the government “insures a living for French workers.” The French working class is opposed, however, to this sort of “help” and is well aware that the campaign against the foreigner is not only no protection against unemployment, but on the contrary is the begin- ning of further mass dismissals and the continuation of the employers’ offensive against the working class Andre Marty, Communist member of the Patis City Council, de- manded an explanation of the Pre- fecture of Police. But the Prefect, not being present at the session, will render his “explanation” at the next sitting of the Council, | aldermanic and mayorality elections. | ious Wards to nominate candidates | | | Newton, young Negro leader, for) City Clerk and Sam Hammersmark, | j active for 40 years in the labor ‘No Free Speech to Forei, Daily Worker Anti-Semitie Talk Made by Coughlin (Continued from Page 1) | | pose of his demagogic talk about “profit-sharing” when he said: “Unless property distribution al restored and unless the propertyless | wage workers are given some own- | ership, a revolution cannot be avoided.” He also stated: “Labor should have | a voice in the management and in the social conditions in the factory. | I’m not saying you should run the factory. I'm saying you should have @ voice, perhaps not the loudest voice, but a voice. You shouldn't} demand wages that are too high, but a voice in management that/| will enable more profits to be made.” Anti-Semitic Jibe The anti-semitic reference came} in response to a question from the floor as to whether interest should be abolished. “No,” Coughlin re-/| plied, “but usury should. If I lend! you a hundred bushels of wheat | and ask you to repay me, hesides | the hundred bushels, an additional | three or four, now isn’t that fair? “But if I ask you to repay me ten thousand bushels, that’s usury- Méin Gott,” and here Coughlin gan to mimic a Jewish accent: vant mein ten tausend bushels...” This is not the first time Cough- lin has introduced anti-semitic in- nuendoes in his speeches, though he never before has done it so crudely. In a radio speech early this year he attacked Secretary of| the Treasury Morgenthau as a man opposed to any legislation in favor | of “gentile silver,” which, the priest | said, would benefit “the American people who today are in bondage to the gold controllers.” Protects Fords Asked during the question period why he failed to criticize Henry Ford, he said: “It’s the system we} want to kill, not the man. You can’t do it by eliminating one man. It’s the bankers in Wall Street who are really to blame.” Coughlin has during recent weeks | held secret conferences with Ford| and it is not unlikely that he is| receiving financial support from the master slave driver of American capitalism, who at one time en- gaged in widespread anti-semitic propaganda. According to the book by Jonannes Steel, “Hitler as Frank- enste®,” Ford donated thousands of dollars to: the Nazi war chest be- fore they came to power. Coughlin reiterated in an even more decisive form his opposition to Unemployment and Social Insur- ance that he had stated in response to a question by your correspon- dent at a press conference last Tuesday. Echoing the objections of the millionaire auto magnates, he said: “The automobile companies would go under if they were taxed five per cent for an unemployment insurance fund. Packard would have to go out of business, Hudson would go bankrupt, poor Charlie Nash (president of the Nash Motor Car Co.) would be looking for a job himself. Only Ford, General Motors and Chrysler could survive, and this would mean an increase in unemployment. Would Like Fire in Washington “What you want is to get a share. of the profits while you're working, | independent of insurance, in order to give your wife and children a living wage in your old age.” This pious priest also stooped last night to cruel jesting about the ter- rible hotel fire that occurred in Lansing, the State capital, early yesterday morning, in which near- ly a hundred people, including six members of the State legislature lost their lives. And he said some- thing that may have been some- thing more than a jest, revealing the anti-parliamentary tendencies characteristic of fascism: “Too bad this fire happened in Lansing; too bad it didn’t happen in Washing- ton.” (Perhaps an American Reichs- tag fire?) Coughlin developed a_ typical Hitlerite argument regarding the role of women: “Any married wo- man working, who knew before she got married she would have to work | should be sent to Pontiac;” (the State Insane Asylum is at Pontiac). “What we want,” he went on, “Is a wage to enable the laboring man to keep the queen of the home as she deserves to be kept.” This is similar to the Nazi propaganda that wo- men’s only concern should be with the kitchen, children and the chutch. Coughlin also attacked birth control, While making a constant play for the support of the workers, farmers and small business people, Cough- lin’s speech was strewn with con- temptuous epithets in regard to them: “sapheads” and “jackasses” were his favorite terms. T| | child ign-Born,’ He Declares— Crowded Chamber Applauds Communist Who Upholds American Revolutionary Traditions By Sandor Voros Ohio Bureau CLEVELAND, Dec. 12.—“I am in favor of free speech Already a number of united front | but not to foreign-born,” stated Harry L. Davis, mayor of conferences have been called in var-| Cleveland, before the legislative committee of the City Couns cil Monday afternoon at the public hearing of the Krewson Party has placed the nomination of | resolution protesting the removal of the free speech rostrum - ®from Public Square. More than 300 persons jammed the committee room in City Hall, necessitating the transfer of the hearing into the council chambers. Cited by the Legislative commit tee, Mayor Davis was the first to speak in favor of removal of the rostrum. Amidst patriotic flag-wav- ing and demagogical oratory he made a vicious attack on the labor movement, stating it was time to take official steps to control the radical movement. With typical fascist slandering reminiscent of Hitler's Reichstag provocation, he claimed that the same radical groups clamoring for free speech were the ones who years ago placed a bomb under the bed of his four-year-old intending to blow her to Pieces. He emphatically stated he opposed |free speech to “foreigners” and all those_who would condemn the gov- ernment or its policies. In spite of all his vicious slanders he felt com- pelled to sound a note of retreat and stated that he did not intend to abolish free speech as the Krew- son resolution stated, that he only |proposed to have the rostrum re- moved. from Public for “aesthetic” reasons. Cheer Communist Speaker E. C. Greenfield, chairman of the Small Home and Landowners Fed- eration, launched a sharp attack on Mayor Davis in the name of the 20,000 members of his organization. “The small home-owners who carry the’ greatest burden of the cost of the city administration were never asked whether they were native or foreign born, citizens or non-citizens when it came to pay their taxes.” John Williamson, District Organ- izer, in the name of the Communist Party sharply repudiated Mayor Davis’ references. and implications concerning the bomb attack, stating that individual terrorism, as is uni- versally known, is contrary to the aims and principles of the Commu- nist Party. He quoted published statements of the mayor from the local press about his intention of “smashing and destroying” the Com- munist Party. He made it clear that the real issue was not Mayor Davis versus the Communist Party but to withdraw all civil rights from the people who are suffering starvation, who are being evicted, to prevent strikes and picketing, and demon- strations for adequate relief. He was cheered and applauded when he exposed Davis’ attempt to draw a red herring over the issues facing the workers and rob them of all civil rights. He countered Davis’ patriotic flag-waving by quoting from the 8th Convention Resolution of the Communist Party, showing the Communist Party as the only party that carries on the fight for the American traditions of free speech and the right of revolution as stated in ‘the Declaration of In- dependence. He endorsed Krewson’s resolution in the name of the Communist Party but asked that it be amended so as to retain and reiterate those sec- tions of the Ohio Bill of Rights that refer to the rights of assembly, par- ade, petition, etc. He closed with a warning to the mayor that others also tried to crush the Communist Party but they didn’t succeed either, Relief Issue Frank Rogers, acting secretary of the Unemployment Councils de- clared that the workers have a right to suspect Mayor Davis because they know his record. He ordered the massacre of the workers on May Ist, 119, and in the great steel strike, Mayor Davis ordered the brutal at- tack’ on the unemployed and small home-owners on Oct, 29, demanded the removal of the rostrum immed- jately following this attack. The real issues are cash relief, food, coal and clothing, he said, and called on the people to challenge Mayor Davis by a tremendous mass demonstra- tion and city-wide relief march Sat- urday, Dec. 22, 1 p.m. on Public Square. J. C, Campbell, announcéd in the name of the American Legion, said he was for free speech but only when in favor of the present gov- ernment and that no others have a place in the United States, but must be put on a boat and shipped back where they came from. This last remark caused an up- roar among the audiénce. Many present immediately demanded tk2 floor and out of the uproar a w. man’s indignant voice was hear “My family has lived here over 159 phe Sie to you want to deport me?” W. C. Sandberg, secretary of the LL.D. remarked that the Legion has |no monopoly on the American Flag that many others fought under it jtoo. The workers are just as gocd Americans, but they have a broa“-r |point of view, they do not intend to ‘permit the United States to remain the paradise of the bankers and cap- italists and let the workers starve to death. After Councilman Krewson am- ended his resolution to read that in- stead of the council “protesting the intended removal of the rostrum” the council “is of the opinion the rostrum be retained” the heating was ordered continued next Monday, Square A ‘CLEVELAND MAYOR ; IN FASCIST ATTACK ON FREE SPEECH ee |