The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 13, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1934 Page 3 PHILADELPHIA COUNCILS SET DEC. 23 AS ANTI-EVICTION DAY CITY.WIDE CANVASSINY. Farmers“ VOTE si Mayor Seeks |10 U.M.W.A. LOCALS TO BRING FORW ARD/ ce Attempt) for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill | Title As Seab CATT, RANK AND FILE t An Eviction H.R. 7598 JOBLESS INSURANCE iu peodaczs Bend wo] th satecivyomere by he in Pittsburg PARLEY IN JANUARY P, F Ruiiied |Eseorts Scab Trucks ;) t * seleg ; BRON E i by Price Chiseling _Daily,QWorker Rides in Parade With | 4jj Locals Are Bid to Conference on Struggle Are ‘America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper False Whiskers | for Local Autonomy and Against Lewis SPENCER, N. ¥., Dec. 12.—Roose- velt’s plan of driving millions of 50 East 13th Street By Tom Keenan f Machine, to Be Held in Martins Ferry ane oe er their vei New York (Daily Worker Pittsburgh Bureau) | a ese onto subsistance homesteads suf- . PITTSBURGH, ., Dee. — > # i a, 3 fered ad aEFUDE Hale’ ia ABs? Bee (Cut out and sign this ballot today) sbase senate Leagnece tae MARTINS FERRY, Ohio, Dec. 12.—Ten locals of the Campaign Aimed to Acquaint All Workers With Murder of Negro in Eviction Carried Through by Police Force | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 12.—Sunday, Dec. 23, has been declared Anti-Eviction Day by the Unemployment Councils here, and every possible force will be rallied to| arrange meetings, canvass workers’ homes, and acquaint} every person with the gruesome details of the tion when more than 25 determined added new feats to his already long} United Mine Workers of America of the East Ohio-West farmers met at Mrs. Wilson's small record of anti-working class activi- | Virginia district have issued a call for a rank and file con- dairy farm, near here, in Tioga ties by escorting scab trucks in the | ference of all U.M.W 8, t ce p i y County, to precent the eviction of present strike of transfer workers. | Ks i} UAW: locals, to take place:in Gaylon Bare this widow and her family. Mrs. of William Heaterly, an unemployed¢ Negro, who was shot during an evic- tion. The campaign is being undertaken | in the light of the fact that all details of the savage attack have been suppressed by the local news- papers. William Heaterly was shot two weeks ago when police smashed through the protecting lines of neighbors, battered down the door, entered the shack in which lived William Heaterly, his family and brother, and shot the Negro in cold blood. As the dead man’s brother, Samuel, sought to escape the dead- ly aim of the police, he was cap- tured, slugged into unconsciousness, and jailed. He is being held with- out bail, Meanwhile, the police- man who fired the shot has been exonerated by the Police Depart- ment. City-wide protests have met with brutal suppression by the police and city authorities. Last Thursday, a delegation of 100 was ambushed at City Hall by police, and 13 arrested. On the following Saturday, hun- dreds of workers picketed the office of constable Gillman, who led the police attack, and demanded his re- moval from office. The pickets, most of whom were Negroes, were dis- persed by police. Leaflets setting forth the Heater- | ly case will be distributed on-Sun- day, Dec. 23, as every home will be canvassed and all workers will be urged to rally behind the National Congress for Unemployment Insur- ance, which will meet in Washing- ton on Jan. 5 to 7. Side by side with this campaign, each worker will be asked to sign the Daily Worker ballot for the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill. Mass meetings will be held in every Un- employment Council local. Every workers’ center and work- ers’ club will be used as headquar- ters in this house to house canvass, and all workers have been asked to report at their nearest headquarters to obtain supplies. $12,000,000 FOR STEEL MILLS PITTSBURGH, Dec, 12—E. T. Weir, chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Steel Cor- poration has announced that within the next six months his organiza- tion will spend $12,000,000 on new equipment and other improvements in mills. A new mill will be constructed at the Corporation’s Great Lakes plant In Illinois. WHAT’S ON RATES: 35¢ for 3 lines on weekdays. Friday and Saturday 50c. Extra charge for additional space. Notices must be in by 11 A. M. of the previous day. Philadelphia, Pa. Canton Commune Commemoration, Saturday, Dec. 15 at 8 p.m. at Girard Manor, 911 W. Girard Ave. Speakers: Hansu Chan, editor China Today; Mother Bloor; also Workers Mandolin Orchestra, Workers Chorus and Play by Nature Friends. Commemoration Event under auspices of I.L.D. Adm. 25c. Tickets at the door. Film and Photo League of Phila. presents Eisenstein’s masterpiece “Potemkin,” Dredging-Canoe Rythm; Littoral-Film Sketch; Tom Mooney; Cannon Fodder; Sunday, Dec. 16, three shows: 7, 9, 11 p.m. at Federation Building, 1206 Walnut St. Adm, 25c. Philadelphia District I.L.D. Conven- tion Saturday, Dec. 15, 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 16, 10 a.m. at 1033 Girard Ave. your organization is represented. Anna Damon, acting national organi- zational secretary, will report. Paterson Lecture by Dr. S. Littman on “Health of the Worker,” Sunday, Dec. 16, 8:30 p.m. at Junion Order Hall, Union and Smith Sts, Newark, N. J. Illustrated lecture by Thomas Cobb, just returned from the Soviet Union, on “Soviet Russia—A New World,” 901 Broad St. Auspices Jack London Club. Adm. 25c. Time: Thursday, De- cember 13, 8:30 p.m. Evening of Revolutionary Plays given by Jack London Theatre in conjunc- tion with Y.C.L. at West Side High School, Wed., Dec. 12, 8:30 p.m. Ad- mission 35¢. Rockford, Ill. Lecture at SM.S.F. Hall, 1019 Third Ave. Sunday, Dec. 16, 2:30 p.m. Sub- ject: “Will Communism Bring Hap- piness to Humanity?” A. ‘Henderson of Chicago. ployed 10c. Unemployed 5¢. Chicago, Ill. Pre-Holiday “Liberation” Festival given by LS.N.R., Saturday, Dec. 15 at Roseland Gardens Ballroom, 47th and South Parkway. Music by Tiny Parham’s Orchestra. Entertainment by Negro Professionals. Dine and Dance, 10 to 3. Adm. 25c. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Columbus, Ohio Dance and Entertainment for Work- ers’ Press—Daily Worker, and Radnik—Saturday, Dec. 15 at 8 p. m. at Ivanoff Hall, 189% So. Parsons Ave. Adm. 25¢. Paul, Minn. Dance and Entertainment given by Unit 1 at St. Paul Labor Lyceum, 57 St. | cases, police murder Demands for Action Placed By Jobless Reading Joint Grievance Committee Present Its Program READING, Pa., Dec, 12.— The joint grievance committee elected last week at a general mass meeting of workers representing the Unem- ployment Council, the Italian-Amer- ican Independent League and the Goodwill Citizens League, met yes- terday and unanimously adopted a program of action demanding, that the investigation of cases be speeded up, that rent payments be made im- mediately, coal distributed, discrim- ination on relief jobs stopped. The joint program of action in full follows: 1—That case investigations be speeded up, seventy-two hours for new and twenty-four hours for old That supplementary vouch- jers be issued to cases that cannot be investigated in twenty-four hours. 2—That rent payments be made immediately for all on relief rolls. 3—That coal be issued at the rate of at least one ton per twenty-eight day month per family, with addi- tional coal to those families having no gas facilities for cooking. 4—That discrimination against workers on relief jobs be stopped. 5—that representatives of the un- employed chosen directly from un- employed organizations shall replace vacancies on the Relief Board. 6—The payment of relief in cash; Ten dollars per week per family, with three dollars additional for each dependent. 1—Full medical aid to the unem- ployed. 8—That the joint grievance com- mittee have access to see Miss Bol- ger (local relief administrator) or the Relief Board whenever cases warrant and a demand for a meet- ing is made by them, The united front joint action com- mittee voted full support to the en- tire campai4i for the enactment of the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Bill. TEACHERS WIN CONCESSION SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. 12,—Re- ceiving three months back wages of 68 public school teachers of Jessup, returned after a one-day strike. The school which includes 2,500 pupils opened today after the State De~- partment of Public Instruction sent in emergency funds. the eight. months coming to them,| Wilson will stay on her land and the fight to prevent future evic- tions has begun. The Federal Land Bank had al- ready foreclosed on this farm and the government officials had re- fused to allow Mrs. Wilson to stay and continue her payments. But the fear of what the organized farmers might do caused the bank to send their representative, on the night of the meeting, to tell Mrs. Wilson secretly that she could stay, demonstrating clearly to the farm- ers the force of united action. The farmers here are already aroused over their treatment at the hands of the Dairymen’s League whose policy of a regular below- cost-of-production price for milk, added to the consistent policy of cheating on the butter-fat tests has driven many of the small op- erators to the wall. They responded to the leaflet, which was distributed throughout the countryside by Rob- ert Mintz and Arvo Salo, Commu- nist candidate for State Senator in the last election, by coming from miles around through a driving rain and over almost impassable roads to form an action commit- tee that has pledged to fight the growing policy of evictions in this section. Anti shee Writer Sent To Coast Trial By Jack Crane (Special to the Daily Worker) SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 12— Gilbert Parker, notorious for his anti-working class articles, is cov- ering the criminal syndicalist trial here of 18 workers for the Associ- ated Farmers of California, one of the most reactionary, anti-labor groups of employers in this state in which innocent Tom Mooney has been held in jail for over 17 years. The Associated Farmers’ group played a leading role in the organiz- ing and arming of vigilante bands which have been used to crush the strike struggles of agricultural work- ers and for terroristic raids on work- jers’ headquarters and their homes during the West Coast marine strike and the San Francisco General Strike last summer. It was in these vigilante raids that the 18 work- ing class leaders, now on trial, were seized by vigilantes and turned over \to the police, acting in co-operation, That this reactionary group is now lemploying Parker to “color the news” of the trial and whip up |lynch sentiment against the de- | fendants, was revealed in open court yesterday when the notorious pen prostitute was referred to as a rep- resentative of the Associated Farm- ers of California. Leo Gallagher, defense attorney, forced an admission from a pro- spective juror, Albert J. Guy, that the vigilantes had brought pressure I have read the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill and vote FOR CT] Name AGAINST O Address Vote without delay and return your ballot at once to the worker who gave it to you, or mail it to the “Daily Worker” Jobless Men Who Took Food For Families Given Two Years Defense Witness in Texas Trial Tells How Sick Child Died in Home for Lack of Food Refused by Relief Officials BRECKENBRIDGE, Texas, Dec. 12.—To take food that belongs to you even when your family is hungry is considered a crime by the local relief officials and the courts, especially if you are unem- ployed. Tom Owensby, H. L. Stevens, and L, A. Roberts were sentenced here last Wednesday to two years in the penitentiary for taking food which was overdue on their relief card from the relief office to feed their starving families. Jack Owensby and P. D. Wimberly were acquitted. When officials in charge of the relief store refused to honor their vouchers because of a technicality, the men entered the supply room and took food without trying to hide their action. The conditions of the unem- ployed are so bad here that only two months ago a little girl died of starvation. Her grandfather, E. W. Sandin testified on the stand that when this child became sick the parents went time and time again to the relief agency to beg for a few cans of tomatoes in order to make some hot soup for her. They were turned away and told they would have to wait for thirty days. “The child was very sick with’a high fever and in this con- dition we had nothing to give her but bread made with flour and water and beans cooked in clear water without any seasoning of any | kind.” At the last moment, Sandin testified, he went himself to the agency but was turned down by Mrs. Plath and when he appealed to Mr. Maxwell, this gentleman mumbled something about an ap- Pointment and walked out of the office. The child became extremely ill and after three days of violent convulsions, died without the par- ents béing able to get a doctor un- til it was too late. Just a few weeks before the death of the child the officials of the re- lief organization treated themselves to a grand. banquet in the relief headquarters. In spite of all this evidence that was brought out in the trial, the judge callously sentenced these workers to long terms at hard labor. on the prosecutor’s office to force the prosecution of the 18 defend- ants. Guy, a member of the Young Citizens’ League, admitted during his examination that the League was hostile to the doctrines of Com- munism. He further admitted that the so-called Young Citizens’ League is generally known as the Vigilante Committee. Guy and several other mémbers of the new and third special jury panel were excused for cause. The court room was again crowded by workers from Sacramento and several nearby towns who availed themselves of every opportunity to express their solidarity with the de- fendants and their hatred of the criminal syndicalist law which is being used to restrict the rights of the working class and to railroad its best fighters to prison. Warrant Refused For Student Thug BERKELEY, Calif, Dec. 12.— Prosecuting Attornéy L. S. Fletcher has refused to issue a battery war- rant against Kenneth Cotton, freshman football player of Berk- eley and one of a gang that at- tacked a group of students protest- ing against the dismissal of radical students at the Los Angeles branch. Application for the warrant was made by Aubrey Grossman, one of the students attacked. Although the assault occurred outside the campus on the streets of Berkeley. Fletcher declared that disciplinary action must come from the university authorities, MeNair is once more proving that | it is no accident that such a man | as himself is chief executive of the | Steel City during the troublesome | days of N. R. A. | The drivers of transfer companies hauling A and P. goods are on strike. | On Saturday McNair twice rode | out of the A. and P, warehouse aboard trucks driven by strike- breakers, through the jeers and boos of the striking drivers. | At the stores, as deliveries were being miade, disturbances broke out on more than one occasion. The Mayor was booed, called a “scab,” and helped direct the arrest of workers who showed their resent- ers who startéd to go into action against the scabs. His honor announced very bravely to the reporters that “someone had to see that this food gets moved.” The only two trucks moved on Saturday were the ones McNair rode, On Sunday, in order to prove to the bosses what a consistent fellow he is, McNair again went out of his way to demonstrate his anti-union sentiments. He drove, accompanied by several armed officers, to the city line at Overbrook, There he boarded a truck being brought in from West Virginia, and accom- panied it on the way to the East Boulevard of the Allies. All of this scab escorting had been done in the company of depu- tized thugs, city police and state troopers. Only a few days ago, a one-day walkout occurred among the drivers hauling P. H. Butler products, At that time the Mayor first hit upon the idea of personally escorting scabs, and rode out with one of the trucks. Before this, the Mayor's activi- ties can be remembered at the time a steel strike threatened last spring. Then he issued his anti-picketing | order to the police of the city. Mayor Incites to Riot On top of this, also at the same time, he attended a meeting in Fifth Avenue High School, at which | Earl Browder was to speak, held by | the Communist Party of Pittsburgh District. There he mounted the platform and did his utmost to pro- | voke a riot by insulting Commu- nists as groups of misguided beings, “befuddled by a lot of Moscow agi- tators,” branding Communism gen- erally as “a lot of baloney.” | Then, during the San Francisco | strike, he ordered all city firemen | to turn in their union cards as a/ “protest against the violence” of the general strike. | He has appeared at evictions on the “hill” to see that the right of | private property is upheld above) any humanitarian law. In between his performance as and the present one, that of the drivers for the Kenny, Red Star, and Hannon transfer companies— the department stores in the city staged a Jubilee Day with a Christ- hind reindeers and a false set of whiskers as Santa Claus. ment against him, plus a few strik- | Liberty warehouse as far as the} ‘the workers, Martins Ferry, on Sunday, January 13, 1935, at 10 A. M. Herndon Tour Is Extende 'To Northwest To Spur Scottsboro, Campaign Along | the West Coast | SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 12.—The | | western tour of Angelo Herndon, | | heroic young Negro working class leader now in California, will be extended to the Pacific Northwest this month, it was announced today | by the Seattle district office of the | ; International Labor Defense. Hern- | don’s tour is part of the mass cam- paign against the Scottsboro frame- |up and the efforts of the Georgia lynch courts to railroad Herndon to death on the chain gang for organ- izing white and Negro workers in the fight for unemployment relief. | Speaking dates for the northwest | district follow: | Astoria, Dec. 17; Aberdeen, Dec. | | 18; Centralia, Dec. 19; Olympia, Dec. 20; Tacoma, Dec. 21; Seattle, Dec. 23; Everett, Dec. 26; Anacortes, Dec. 27; Bellingham, Dec. 28; } |Seattle, Dec. 29; Yakima, Jan. 2; | | Spokane, Jan. 3, and Coeur d'Alene, Jan, 4. Boston Strike Of Food Union ‘Stands Solid BOSTON, Mass. Dec. 12,—Work- ers of the restaurant at the Gil- christ Department Store are out on strike, under the leadership of Local 111 of the Food Workers Industrial Union. The strikers demand a 15 per cent increase in wagas; 48 hours a week for men, 42 hours for women; elim- ination of the company union dues; no discrimination for union activ- ities; sufficient and wholesome food furnished free to the workers; and union recognition, This is the first strike for most of and is an outburst against the continually worsening conditions. The requested wage in- crease would only compensate par- tially previous wage cuts. When a committee of workers scab escort in the one-day strike | presented the demands, the com-| pany asked for three days time to consider them. The reason given is that the union does not seem as “respectable as an American Fed- eration of Labor union.” The work- mas parade, and McNair rode be- ‘ers refused to grant the three days) and came out. Picketing is carried on regularly with good effect. Concrete Municipal De- mands Must Reflect Needs of Masses This is the third and concluding artcle of a seres on the results of the electons. By Bill Gebert (District Organizer, Communist Party, Chicago) How do *ve propose to organize the election struggle in the city of Chicago? On the basis of the ex- periences in the November elections, the District Bureau outlined and took steps.to execute a program in the elections. First of all, the Dis- trict Bureau proposes to develop a mass campaign around the burning issues confronting the Chicago workers. 1, First we must raise the ques- tion of struggle on such issues as the high price of electricity, gas, water and transportation, which we must demand to be lowered, Around these demands, in addition to such basic demands as adequate relief for the unemployed, cash relef, fight for the Workers Unemployment and So- cial Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598, against police terror, concretely, the abolition of the Red Squad, against evictions, foreclosures of workers’ homes, against Jim Crowism and segregation of the Negro people, combined with the popularization of the revolutionary way out, pointing out that the election of Commu- nists into office will strengthen the struggle of the working class against capitalism, it is possible to really ure an election struggle. This is Transportation 2. Chicago has no subway. Mos- cow si Chicago, Moscow 3,500,000 population, covers miles upon miles of territory, where the workers travel for hours to and from work. In the city, transporta- tion on street cars and elevated EB. 11th St. Sat., Dec. 15. Adm. 10c. Party and Entertainment, Sat., Dec. 15, at 439 Iglehart Ave. Given by Unit 2, C. P. lines are not adequate, and the building of a subway becomes a necessity for the whole toiling pop- builds a subway. Chicago has over | also. ulation. The bourgeoisie is not much worried about subways. Théy own automobiles. The majority of the workers use the elevated lines or the street cars to and from work. The industrial section of Chicago is located on the southwest side and the working class neighborhoods are on the Northwest side. A subway becomes a burning issue. In addi- tion to the conveniences the work- ers will get from a subway, the building of a subway means em- ployment of tens of thousands of workers, We place the building of a sub- way as one of the most burning questions. We will raise this ques- tion not only agitationally, but the Party has the task to work out a concrete plan of building a subway and around this plan to involve the broadest masses of workers, includ- ing the building and construction unions of the A. F. of L. and masses of workers in general. We are sure that around this issue additional thousands of workers can be drawn into the election struggle. 3. Hospitals: The present hos- pitals are overcrowded. Unemployed workers who need medical attention are hardly able to break into the hospitals. Service in these hospitals is impossible. We demand the build- ing of new city hospitals, and free medical service for the unemployed and part time workers. Here is an- other issue around which we can rally broad masses of workers. 4. Building of workers’ homes, in place of the present slums, is a burning issue confronting the masses, 5. Schools are overcrowded. Teachers are being laid off at the same time. Building of new schools, playgrounds for the children, parks, etc, is becoming a burning issue These are specific city problems and let no one come and tell us that these are “reforms of capital- ism.” These are not reforms. They are very necessary things in the lives of the workers today and the capitalist class and its government is not moving a finger to remedy this situation. But if we can put masses into motion on the basis of these special problems around the election struggle we can broaden the election struggle immensely. Naturally, here is a danger for all kinds of opportunism. But that de- pends upon our understanding of how to place this question before the masses how to organize and lead these struggles. Ward Conferences This outlook must be combined with a broad united front approach to the masses. The District Bu- reau outlines a concrete plan that in every working class ward broad united front election conferences are to be organized at which the concrete problems of the workers in the given ward, the workers in the factories, trade unions, are to be dis- cussed, a program adopted and can- didates nominated who are known as fighters in the ranks of the working class. In some cases it is advisable to nominate not only the leaders of the Communist Party as candidates for alderman in the given ward, but also non-Party peo- ple who are known fighting mem-~- bers of the working class, members of the A. F. of L., the Socialist Party, etc. Further, it is necessary to expose bourgeois democracy. There still prevails a mass opinion that the workers really elect somebody. We do not sufficiently concretize and explain to the masses the formula- tion of Lenin, that the workers really have the right only to choose between different groups of politi- cians, which one of them will ex- ploit and rob them. Here are some concrete examples: How Bosses Nominate Immediately after the November 6 elections, the bosses of the Demo- cratic Party in Illinois and those who control the Democratic Party went into a secret conference in French Lick, Indiana (where hotel mses are only $8 a day), to de- cide upon the slate for the Demo- cratic Party in the coming elections, and there, behind closed doors, a handful of Chicago capitalists and their lackeys, the bosses of the Democratic Party, decided upon the Slate. It. was agreed there that Ed- ward Kelly, the present Mayor of Chicago, who has been selected by the City Council after the death of Cermak, is to be the candidate in the spring elections of 1935. That Governor Horner is to be candidate for governor in 1936, That the well- known anti-labor leader, States At- torney Courtney be candidate for Senator from Illinois in the 1936 elections, What have the masses got to say about these nominations? They were not consulted and not asked. These people were picked for their loyal service to the capitalist class. We can recollect further that Walter Nesbitt, the present Democratic congressman at large, was elected in 1932 for a two-year term in the U. 8. Congress, after the services he rendered to the coal operators in the State of Mlinois, who together with the rest of the Lewis machine put over a wage-cut for the miners from $6.10 to $5 a day. After his two-year term he was dropped. They did not need him any longer. He received no nomination in the last elections and he was defeated very badly when he ran as independent progressive in the Nov. 6 elections. And the Republicans According to the Daily Times, a New Deal paper, Oscar De Priest, Negro Republican, has been dropped by the Republican Party and they agreed two days before the election to support Democrat Mitchell, Negro politician, for the price that the Democrats will support two candi- dates who are connected with the Capone gangsters to be elected to the State Legislature and State Senate. The Republican Party, in all probability, will place Oscar Nel- son, vice-president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, and floor lead- er of the Republican party in the City Council, as the next candidate for mayor. The Republican party wants to gain some votes among the trade unionists, among the workers. They want to place this “labor lead- er” in opposition to Edward Kelly, | the Democratic New Deal politician, to gain some support among labor and at the same time by this div- ision attempt to prevent a large vote for the real working class candidate for mayor, Karl Lockner, | Workers Themselves Must Nominate These things must be explained | in minute detail to the masses of workers and pose this in opposition to the question of how the Com- | munist Party proposes to nominate | the candidates in the coming elec-| tions, The Communist Party pro- poses a working class united front conference in every ward to which) delegates should come from the trade unions, from shops, from or- ganizations of the unemployed, from Negro organizations, women, youth, | fraternal and social organizations, | from the Socialist Party, etc. and in every ward the delegated body of workers and workers’ organizations to nominate a working class candi- date. ‘ ‘We must explain this in a patient, systematic manner to the broad masses pointing out the meaning of working class democracy, versus beurgeois democracy, which is really a@ fig leaf for dictatorship of Mc- Co.taics, Insull, packinghouse bar- ons, railroad magnates and bankers, the robbers of the toiling masses of Chicago. If we will place our elec- tion struggle on such a basis, the working class will understand the meaning of the election campaign as it should be understood and we | can expect a good response. Therefore, the task of collecting 91,000 signatures to place the Com- munist Party candidate for mayor on the ballot will not be too big if we involve broad masses of workers. The question of the candidate of the Communist Party for mayor and the candidates in wards will arouse the | masses and will concretize the issues, sharpen the class relations and will be an opportunity to drive a wedge between the bourgeois parties and the working class and will be a step toward divorcing the working class A Program for Broadest United Front Struggle in Chicago Elections Workers in Wards Must Take Active Part in Nominations from the bourgeois parties. Building the Party We don’t create an illusion that | by one act we will be able to do so. But this act will help us in this |direction. The workers will also be able to see clearly the meaning of the revolutionary way out, they will begin to recognize and realize the importance of the Communist Party and its real role as the vanguard of the working class. It also will mean that the Party will gain prestige, standing and will grow among the masses. This will bring workers into the Party. Building of the Com- munist Party is the most urgent task now—today. It is also quite clear that we must ®The conference will | 4577, fle take further |steps to carry the fight for sub- | district autonomy The call is signed by the follow ing ten locals: Glencoe 2593, Neffs 193, Lansing 3917, Glen Robbins | 4272, Warwood, West Virginia 6232, |Gailord 71, Lafferty 4592, Fairpoint Fairpoint 4407, and Smith- ald 926. Each local is asked to send two delegates and credentials should be sent to Tom Hall, at Fairpoint, Ohio. Telling how the Lewis dictatorship in the union maintains itself by |appointive power, the call of the |locals declares: “Fellow Workers: “The time has come that we arouse ourself on the question of the election of our own officers. At present there are three officials in Bellaire who were appointed by J. L. Lewis. We, the miners, through the sweat of our labor, pay dues and still we have nothing to say as to who should be our officers. These officers in Bellaire were not elected by us and why should they represent us? The miners all over the country are fighting for sub- district and district elections realiz- ing that appointive power leads te & one-man union in which the rank and file has nothing to say. “We have been promised that when we are organized we will have the right to elect our own officers. This promise was like a dream which never came true. “At the last convention it was de- |cided that the International Execu- tive Board will take this matter up but they also failed. This is in di- jrect contradiction to Section 7-4 of the N.R.A. code which grants u: the right of collective bargaining and the right to choose our owt. | representatives.” | | Dismissal Is Refused *To Bayonne Strikers BAYONNE, N. J., Dec. 12—The five unemployed workers who pro- | tested the forced labor on the Bay- onne relief project on Nov. 27, anc | Were arrested and taken _beforc Judge Cullum’s court in Hudsor |county were denied the motion fo: | dismissal, and bail was reducec | from $10,000 to $2,500 each. | The trial is being conducted by | the International Labor Defensc | and the Civil Liberties Union, th: | representatives of these organiza- | tions pointing out that the charge | of “riotous and unlawful assembly’ were ridiculous, that none of thc witnesses of the prosecution knew anything about the case except by hearsay. Workers and organiza- tions have been urged to send pro- |tests to Judge Cullum, Hudson County Traffic Court, Jersey City. demanding the immediate release of these workers. Roston, Mass. | I. B.D. VICTORY BALL Friday, December 14th RITZ PLAZA HALL 218 Huntington Avenue To celebrate Release of Anti-Hanfstaengl Demonstrators Walter Johnson's Orchestra Adm, 360 in advance, 40¢ at door — PHILADELPHIA, Pa, —— EUROPA THEA. “uixsstore 16th Street Now Playing Amkino presents the film epic of the birth and progress of a great hation ee 3 Songs About Bam, Lenin Hear Lenin's Voice for the First Time on the Screen Directed by GZEGA VERTOV Music by SHAPORIN | draw into the election struggle those I. L. D. sections of the working class which are most neglected, namely, the B A Z, A A R women, young workers, Negro masses, whose problems are im- mense, and here, too, concretization ||f FRI. SAT. SUN. of it is necessary, In this article we are not in a position to go into every phase of the Chicago working class problems and how to meet them. We cite a few, to give a general outlook on how to really organize an election campaign. We are learning this on the basis of our set-back in the last elections, and if the set-back in the November elections brings this real- ization we can profit from this set- back. We must not close our eyes to our mistakes and shortcomings in the November elections, We must scrutinize and examine every detail of the last elections for the purpose to make the Spring, 1935, elections such a mass struggle in the city of Chicago, that it will really be a demonstration of the masses of Chi- cago against the New Deal, against capitalism, for the revolutionary way oe of the crisis, for a Soviet Amer- cay December 14, 15 and 16 Peoples’ Auditorium 2457 Chicago Avenue GAMES - DANCING - PROGRAM Admission 10¢ for each night Proceeds for the Defense of Class War Prisoners DETROIT, MICH. International Priricg? Order a ship Meeting Language ions Dannish SUNDAY, DEC. 16, at 2 P. M., Brotherhood Hall, 1775 W. Forest, near 12th St, 4 e Russian Movie “SENTENCED TO HEALTH” will be shown. " e Speakers from National Committee of the I. W. 0. e All members of the I. W. to attend this meetin their friends.