The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 18, 1934, Page 6

Ca Nee a ee pe Page 6 Daily <QWorker CRWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING €@., ENC., 5@ E. 15th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. y s: “Daiwork,” New York, N. ¥ Washington Room 954, National Press Building, National 7910. mL lath ington, D. C. Telephone Midwest South Wells St., Room 705, Chicago, hone: Dearborn 3981. Subscription Rates: except Manhattan and Bronx), 1 year, 96.00; 30 $2.00; 1 month, 0.98 cents and Canada: 1 year, $9.00; $2.00. monthly, 75 cents. ar, $1.50; 6 months, 75 cents TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1934 ‘Reforming’ N.R. A. HE “amendments” proposed by the N. R. A. Labor Advisory Board to the Re- covery Act, are reminiscent of the empty promises made by President Roosevelt to workers when the Recovery Act was in June, 1933. At that time, Roosevelt made the same demagogic promises to labor of higher ter hours, and union recognition. hese promises were not fulfilled. Now in the rganization” of the N.R.A., history repeats it- self and y Board, headed by Wil- liam Green, proposes “amendments” designed to reconcile the workers to continuation of the N.R.A. and to serve as a cloak for the carrying through by the N.R.A. of the real program of Roosevelt—of a sharp attack on the workers living standards. The Labor Advisory Board has no power what- ever in the N.R.A. setup. It was created by Roose- velt to “advise” the N.R.A. on labor questions, in order to create the illusion that the workers had some form of representation in the N.R.A. A few A. F. of L. leaders were put on this board. It has not in any way done anything to better workers’ conditions. Six “amendments” are proposed by the Labor Advisory Board “1) To give power to a special board, on which labor has equal representation, to impose labor codes on industries which have not voluntarily presented acceptable codes, to amend any code, and to apply section 7-A to any industry, trade or group not yet codified. “2) Specifically provide for separate minimum wages for common, semi-skilled and skilled labor in codes, “3) Give labor equal representation with management on all code authorities or any other administrative bodies concerned with codes, in- eluding the Recovery Board. “4) Include proper legislative provisions for enforcement legislation, such as the existing ten regional compliance boards, and a program of mass enforcement through which inspection of establishments will supplant investigations of complaints. “5) Open codes upon the initiative of the La- bor Advisory Board, and impose amendments where the necessity has been clearly justified. “§) Provide government agency with manda- tory power to collect detailed statistics from each industry on employment, wages, payrolls, produc- tion, income, costs, profits, and other data to aid in long range industrial planning.” The Labor Advisory Board has made similar proposals often in the past. It is not probable that these six points will be incorporated in the reorganized N.R.A. But even if all six points were accepted by Roosevelt and placed in the N.R.A., this would in no way turn the N.R.A. into an in- Strument for labor. The N.R.A. would still remain the weapon whereby the employers prevent strikes, cut wages, introduce speedup, smash unions, and in- stall the company union. These six proposals would not change the basic Purpose or activities of the N.R.A. as the instru- ment of the employers. They are simflar to the famous section “7-A,” similar to the promises of Roosevelt to reduce hours and increase wages. Section 7-A and Roosevelt's promises, vagueiy and ambiguously worded, have themselves been turned by the N.R.A. administrative bodies and code authorities, which are in the hands of the em- Ployers, into anti-labor weapons. Section 7-A, has led to company unions, and was used. as the basis of the infamous anti-union “merit clause” in the auto code. The six points of the L. A. B. would be similarly used. The Labor Advisory Board itself admits that the N.R.A. has done nothing for the workers. The Labor Advisory Board speaks of “the outstanding failure of the N.R.A. to achieve.the objectives for labor” and declares “it is practically impossible to put the benefit of such experience into effect” (ex- Perience with labor provisions of code). The Labor Advisory Board admits “wage abuses” and other anti-labor effects of the codes. The proof that in spite of section 7-A, and of Roosevelt's rosy promises, the N.R.A. has not bene- fitted the workers is seen in the recent survey of the National Industrial Conierence Board. Out of 226 employers questioned, sixty per cent admitted that “relations between employers and employes” have remained unchanged; 25 per cent thought they have become ‘less satisfactory” and only fifteen per cent declared conditions “improved.” The Labor Advisory Board has as its chief func- tion to keep the workers frém striking or from any struggle for better conditions, to maintain the illusions of the workers that they can “reform” the N.R.A.; to make the workers believe they can “cap- ture” the N.R.A. from the hands of the employers, that they can “fight inside the N.R.A.” The workers are, beginning to see that the N. R. A. no matter what its ambiguous promises and demagogic coloring, is the weapon of the employers, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUBSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1934 set up to attack the unions and the workers’ living conditions. By remaining in the N.R.A. apparatus, the A. F. of L. leaders are aiding the employers to put through their no-strike, compulsory arbitra- tion, company union, wage-cutting schemes. Only the united front of the rank and file to control their own unions, to prepare and carry through strike action, and to fight for unemploy- ment insufance, can benefit the workers and better their conditions. The New Deal Speeds War Preparations ECRETARY OF WAR DERN lives up | to his title. He catches the spirit of the New Deal, in his annual report to Pres- |organzations. It is especially use-| ident Roosevelt, and calls for intensified war preparations. Dern wants 50,000 more soldiers, 2,000 additional officers, and the air force built up to 2,320 planes. Besides, Dern requests another slice of the war funds. He asks for $60,000,000 for “army housing construction.” This usually means forts, jaiis for soldiers who refuse to obey their officers, fine quar- ters for the general staff and more dog-houses for the men. There are two points in Dern’s report descriptive of the New Deal, its war preparations and its de- velopment of fascist attacks against the workers who resist the “benefits” of Roosevelt’s attack on labor. Dern thinks most highly of the recent strike- breaking service of the National Guard. He also has @ lot to say about the C. C, C. camps. In the event any worker may be foolish enough to ask how do the C. C. C. camps come into the though army officers were by sheer accident placed at the head of the camps, the boys are there really to build up their health and morale, But from Assistant Secretary of War Woodring, some time ago we had the admission published in “Liberty” that the C.C.C, camps were the first step towards conscription and war mobilization, and that they were also designed as possible sources for the fascist armies to be used against labor. Dern truly breathes the spirit of the New Deal. Greater war preparations and intensified fascist moves are the major emphasis of his report. The Enemies of the Soviet Union Howl E VEMIES of the Soviet Union are driven to desperate straits these days. Socialist leaders like Algernon Lee have to hob-nob with those who want the Czar back. The Saturday Evening Post, unable to continue its ancient and hoary tales of starvation in the Soviet Union, publishes pages of drivel about Elsie Dins- morskaya, and the “Soviet mind.” The mud-slingers are discovering that their fist- fulls of dirt do not seem to make any impression on the gigantic industrial giants springing up in the land of Socialism. This makes them all the more furious. They raise their shrieks to an hysterical pitch hoping to drown out the laughter of happy people and the hum of Socialist advance in the USSR. For example, you will never see the New York Times, nor the New Leader, nor the Russian white guard newspaper heariline such prosaic facts that come out of the Soviet Union: * In September, 1934, the output of the blast furnaces of the Soviet Union exceeded that of the U.S.A. The U.S.A. in that month produced 905,143 tons of pig iron. The Soviet Union 916,800 tons. Every branch of industry in the Soviet Union exceeded the output of 1933 by far. Just a few examples of the achievements over last year: but- ter production increased by 202 per cent; iron ore by 149 per cent; silk by 121 per cent; coke by 140 per cent; knitting by 119 per cent; electric power by 131 per cent—and so the figures go, leaps ahead in the production of the means of life, and the means of producing the means of life. That's what makes the enemies of the Soviet Union howl. Socialist construction and collectivi- zation sweep ahead (the Soviet Union is the largest, producer of tractors and agricultural machinery in the world, by the way). The foul soil in which capitalist exploitation could have the slightest breeding place is being sterilized, Besides, the Soviet Union has strengthened the armed force and the power of its proletarian dic- tatorship for the defeat of those foes who, by assas- sination or war, may hope to stop this onward rush of Socialist construction. Whose License Plates? eee COUGHLIN, the radio priest, was pinched the other day for speeding. That is unimportant! What is remarkably important is the fact that the license plates of Coughlin’s car were made out in the name of a large automo- bile manufacturing company whose name was not divulged in the capitalist press! So even in this casual, accidental incident, the money trail that binds this dangerous hypocrite to his capitalist masters stares one in the eye. The capitalist employers are taking such good care of this man that they provide him with a private car. How frightened they must be at his weekly “at- tacks” on the rich! The series just completed by Milton Howard ex- amining the wage-cutting, capitalist reality that lies behind ail of Coughlin’s “radical” speeches should be the starting point for a stubborn, per- sistent fight against this Wall Street-supported priest who is helping to pave the way for American fascism, Court Holds Jane Newton (Continued from Page 1) Later, when she appeared in Judge Green’s court with the I. L. D. at- torneys, Ben Myers and Hart E. Baker, to have the sentence vacated, She was arrested for “violation ot Probation” and sent to the Psycho- pathic Hospital. Hearst Enters Case The Hearst press, which is carry- | ing on a rabid fascist incitement against the labor movement, and the Chicago Workers School in par- ticular, has entered the case with a vicious attack on the Negro people, and the lie that Jane Newton be- came interested in Communism while attending the University of Michigan. Chicago Workers School and the National Student League. The case is creating tremendous excitement on Chicago's South Side, an excitement reflected in the col- umns of the Chicago Defender and other Negro papers. 1 | workers attended a protest rally last | Tuesday night at the Lily Star Bap-| tist Church, and voted unanimously | to picket the home of the landlord, |Dr. Mitchell, and to send delega- |tions to Mitchell; Tittnger, the thur Mitchell, Congressman, the mayor and Judge |Green to demand a halt to the at- |tacks on the Negro people. NAZIS ARM JAPANESE IMPERIALISTS SHANGHAI, Dec. 17.—Arriving at Hsinking, the capital of Manchu- kuo, a certain Captain Breithaupt, German engineer, is now negotiat- ing with the Manchurian govern- for large consignments of soya beans. Breithaupt will next go to | Japan to arrange for the sale of | Zeppelins with the directors of avia- | tion in that country, Hundreds of Negro and white! Democratic leader of Ward 2; Ar-| Democratic Negro} | ment for the exchange of Zeppelins | This lie is intended to; back up Hearst’s attacks on the Wide Boycott Launched _ Against New Nazi Plan on Winter ‘Charity’ BERLIN, Dec. 17.—The fact that several Nazi officials concerned with the Winter Relief fund have been involved in numerous cases of corruption which have lately taken |Place has encouraged workers to | make a stand against the innum- \erable collections now being forced upon them, Leaders of the Nazi Party are seeking to overcome this opposition by means of threats, |Menaces and terrorism. Sprenger, chief city official of Hessen, proclaimed that “niggardly | contributors must be publicly pil- | loried.” Several provincial papers | are publishing the names of “boy- cotters,” and pamphlets are being distributed bearing the demand: “Give your reason for refusing to contribute” or “Why have you given so little? We are coming tomorrow | to get your contribution.” Party Life | “Party Organizer” Helps Solve Many Burning Problems | | By REBECCA GREC= Uae December issue of the “Party Organizer” should be read by every Party worker. At all times |the ‘Party Organizer” is valuable in guiding the work of the leading | committees in districts and sections, of unit bureaus, fractions in mass ful in supplementing the personal |direction of the higher to the lower bodies, of the leading committees to the Party membership, individu- jally and collectively. Party organization—the units, to make them more self-reliant in the jorganizational application and exe- jeution of the Party policies. Provid- ing a medium for the exchange of experiences of the Party in the vari- jous districts and sections, industries, |spheres of mass work, the “Party jOrganizer” contains several articles on the recruiting drive which dis- cuss the present status of the drive, and methods of overcoming some of its weaknesses. The editorial by F. Brown discusses the direct re- sponsibility of the leading commit- tees in supervising the drive and give concrete directives on the next steps. Concrete experiences, par- ticularly on building the Party in the course of mass work, are dealt It helps to} develop the initiative of the basic CAST YOUR VOTE AG with in the articles by the organi- | zation secretaries of the Pittsburgh | and Cleveland concentration dis- tricts. Especially significant are the experiences in the Pittsburgh dis- |trict coal fields, where definite suc- | | cesses are being won in building the | left wing in the miners’ union, and where our comrades are leafning that to carry on mass work with- out at the same time building the Party and the Y. C. L., developing & solid Communist core among the masses, is ike building a house on sand—it is in constant danger of collapse. How the Party can grow in the course of struggle is described also in an instructive article on the or- ganization of a shop nucleus dur- ing a shipyard strike in Staten Island, New York, where personal contact and the leadership our Party gave these workers in their jfight, brought militant workers into jour ranks, To strengthen the recruiting drive throughout the Party, our comrades should acquaint themselves, through |the “Party Organizer,” with these experiences in recruiting, in build- ing shop nuclei. The new offensive and anti-labor drive of monopoly capital now planned against the | masses With the full cooperation of the Roosevelt administration, de-' mands of us that no time shall be lost in establishing closer bonds with the masses in the factories, the | trade unions, the unemployed and other organizations of toilers. This demands that we intensify all our efforts to build the Party so that we may lead the masses effectivey in the struggle against fascism and war, for unity of the working class in the struggle against the capitalist offensive. The agit-prop section of the! “Party Organizer,” a new feature, makes the publication doubly valu- able as a guide in the execution of our tasks. There has been evident throughout the Party a certain ne- |glect of agit-prop work, Especially | jin this field of our activity we are confronted with lack of forces and jweakness in cardres due, in part, ! to a lack of understanding, and an \underestimation of the role of agita- tion and propaganda in the revolu- , ‘the o iginal drawing ‘of WHO'S NEXT? Burck takes second place today, $15.50 toward his credit. Chorus are the lucky winners today Lurek will gt The Ukrainian Workers’ INST HUNGER! = i 2 ris his cartoon , having raised Ukr. Workers’ TOTAL , ghest contributor exch day towards A. Loyd, Detroit ....... A. Schevartz . ! Previously received ... Anton Novack .sccssescsssseereeesese S 1,00 ee his quota of $1,000, 2.00 Chorus On ii Eve of the Third Year Of the Second Five Year Plan Article IT. | Py Cape Nordwick in the Arctic, where a Soviet scientific expedi- tion had found signs of oil some time ago, the first drilling equip- ment has now been set up. A power station is already functioning and the geological and topographical work has already been completed. The presence of petroleum has also been determined in Kochvenikov Bay, Southwest of Nordwick. The conjecture that there are large oil- bearing districts in the Arctic are thus being confirmed. Cape Nordwick in the Arctic Ocean is situated at 74 degress lat- itude and 11 degrees longitude, not far from the place where the camp of the Chelyuskin Expedition was driven by the ice. On _ July 24 an expedition left for Cape Nordwick on the ice- breaker “Russanov.” Koslov, the di- rector of the Leningrad Petroleum Institute, headed this expedition. The expedition consists of 74 peo- ple and is well equipped technically. The prospecting is being carried on at Cape Nordwick under the Peculiar conditions of the polar night. |tionary movement. Yet, especially today, the neces- sity of deepening the class con- sciousness of the workers and rais- ing it to higher political levels, at the same time strengthening the ranks of our Party ideologically so that we may be better equipped to lead the masses. makes imperative a broadening and intensification of all our agitation and propaganda activities. The agit-prop section in the “Party Organizer” will aid to clarify the meaning of agit-prop work, will bring forward effective methods of mass agitation, of Party and work- ing class revolutionary political ed- ucation. It will undoubtedly help to igive agit-prop work its proper place jin our activities and campaigns, and asist in developing agt-prop cadres organically connected with the mass work of our Party. Hence the importance of the arti- cle by V. J. Jerome on the Plan of Prepartion of the National Agit- Prop Conference. It discusses the agenda of the conference, raises the questions of developing mass agita- tion, inner Party education and gen- eral workers’ education, the role of our press and literature, etc. It thus lays the basis for a much needed discussion in the districts, sections, and units which will lead to a strengthening of agit-prop work all along the line, There is an excellent article on shop papers in a concentration sec- tion in the New York District, giving a fine analysis of the role of the paper, the character of its contents, the relation of political to economic questions, the influence of the paper in Party recruiting. By concrete examples the article shows what can be done when serious, systematic at- tention is @lven to shop papers—im- portant instruments in penetrating the factories and rooting ourselves among the basic sections of the pro- letarian masses. Two good articles on developing the sale of literature and building a literature apparatus, citing ex- periences in New York and Cleve- land, are also contained in this issue. This brief examination of some of the contents of the December issue of the “Party Organizer” shows the ‘importance of this Party publica- tion as an aid in our organization and agit-prop activities, and the need of its wider circulation among our Party membership, On the barren shores of Lake Balkhash in Soviet Central Asia an enormous copper smelting plant is being built. The first construction work has already completely altered the appearance of the shores of the lake. Life has penetrated into the wilderness. Ten thousand people already live in the newly arisen town. Thirteen kilometres of rail- way tracks have been laid, a saw- mill is in operation and two brick factories which produce 35 million bricks a year. Machines that have | ;mever yet been seen here—dredgers and cranes—are at work. A tem- ‘porary power station with two tur- bines of a thousand kilowatts each is functioning. The work of putting in a water system is nearing com- pletion. Dining rooms, schools, a talkie-cinema and an excellent club have been built. A New Textile Giant In Tashkent, the main city in Soviet Central Asia, a new enorm- ous textile combinat which meets the demands of the most modern technique will be completed by the time the Seventh All-Union Con- gress of Soviets. A spinning shop with 111,000 spindles, a weaving shop with 3,264 looms and a finish- ing factory have already been com- pleted; a central heating system is being built. At first the combinat will supply 61.5 million metres of light weight fabric a year. A New Ore Shaft In the “Karl Liebknecht” mine in the iron ore region of Krivoirog (Ukraine) a new shaft is being com- pleted which will supply over 1.6 million tons of ore annually. The } mine will be put into operation in the beginning of 1935. ‘ A Rare Case | ‘Twenty-two year old Zena Mala- | yev, the wife of a railway freight loader in Naltchik, North Cauca- sus, gave birth to quadruplets—two boys and two girls. All four chil- dren are of normal weight—514 to 8 pounds and all of them are alive and well. The local Soviet placed a new large flat with all the necessary equipment at Comrade Malayev’'s disposal and the Peoples Commis- sariat of Health of the RSFSR. decided to grant Malayev a subsidy of 200 rubles a month for his chil- ' dren. “The Secret of My Youthfulness” | A short time ago the renowned professor Vassily Williams, mem- ber of the Academy of Science, was decorated with the Order of Lenin, by the Soviet Government for his outstanding work in the field of agronomy and for his vigorous struggle for the socialist reconstruc- tion of agriculture on the occasion of the 50 years of his scientific, pedagogical, social and political activity. Professor Williams is now 71 years old. An outstanding authority on knowledge of the soil and professor in the Moscow Agricultural Insti- tute, he still works energetically in scientific fields. Some time ago Professor Williams was visited by an outstanding Brit- ish scientist in the same field and during the course of the conversa- tion the latter expressed his amaze- ment at the youthfulness, the ener- gy and the capacity of the old sci- entist for work. “You have retained all the quali- ties of a young scientist,” said the) British professor. | “Do you know’—replied Williams ness obviously lies in this.” i Professor Williams first saw the light of day in the gloomy period of serfdom. His father, an American, | ,married a Russian peasant girl who | ‘was a serf. Williams always lived | jthe active revolutionary fighters. —“I have three revolutions behind | but at a rapid me and I actively participated in Goldberg especially went into detail them. The secret of my youthful-'on the building up of Sverdlovsk for the revolution. The confines of the bourgeois school were too nar- row for him. He always strove to} bring science out of the laboratory on to the fields and to use revolu- tionary methods in agronomical science. | “In October, 1917,” says Williams, “my free, creative, scientific work for socialism began and since then I have become rejuvenated.” When the October Revolution broke out Williams was already a scientist of world reknown, one of the most eminent specialists on the properties of the soil. He immedi- ately placed himself in the ranks of In 1923 Professor Williams was decorated with the Order of the Red Banner and given the title “Hero of Labor” in view of his scientific and social merits. If one visualizes the work of this man, one can hardly believe that he is already more than seventy years |World Front j———_ By HARRY GANNES ——' | Wall St. Bill Collectors General Butler Talks What He Doesn’t Say | | is a disappointed bill collector \for Wall Street in colonial countries. He makes all this (clear in a speech (a full steno- graphic report of which is in our possession) delivered at Mecca Temple, New York, Dec. 14. The Major-general who was chosen as the most likely candidate for American Hitler, but turned the job down, believes the use of the army and navy for bill collecting should stop. Nevertheless he has no objection to American capitalists continuing to pile up bills of profit and interest against the Latin American people. “For 33 years and four months,” says Butler, “I served on the active list of the Marine Corps, the great- est bunch of bill collectors this na- tion ever had. And we spent our time going down to South American countries. Somebody went down there and thought it desirable to in- vest a lot of capital where you get a big return. And they sent down an agent to see a President of a South American country, got a loan, and gave as security a railroad or coffee Plantation. Well, after two or three years the railroad and coffee plan- tation don’t pay. So the Marines are sent down to put the President out because he can’t live up to his word. I have been on nine such bill collecting expeditions. You go down there with your men; then you take over the railroad and run it. Then you have a new election, a plebis- cite—that’s the State Department word for it. You conduct the elec- tion so your man wins.” ee oe \ rua asked why he continued to be a bill collector for Wall Street for 33 years, Butler replied, during the question period, that he did not know any better until he got out of the service. There are a lot of things which the General only now sees that were exposed and fought against by the Communist Party in the U. 8. while he was collecting bills for Wall Street. And there are still many more which the Communist Party is cognizant of concerning which But= ler is still blinder than a bat, Particularly, the Roosevelt gov- ernment is now preparing not only for a bill collection jaunt, but for | the most criminal imperialist war to enlarge the territory on which it hopes to collect future bills in China and Latin America. For example, the devil dog Major- General in his racy, popular and forceful way is just brimming with annecdotes of war preparations in other times. Yet he seems to be dumb when it comes to Roosevelt's war preparations, his $2,000,000,000 expenditure for a war that will make all of the General's bill col- lecting ventures when rolled into one seen like a wet firecracker. Sie eye ERE are some of Butler's stories about past graft in war expen- ditures: “You know in the world war there were 35,000,000 pairs of shoes. made for 4,000,000 soldiers. Aid if you've seen those hobnailed shoes you know they last enough for ten |Years. These patriotic shoe-makers made 35,000,000 pairs of shoes. Twenty million mosquito nets for old. | “T still want to live to see the day when the collective farm fields will yield 50 centners per hectare,” ; the old scientist recently declared at a meeting of students. i An American Journalist | The “North China Daily News,” an English newspaper in Shanghai, publishes a letter from Harbin con- taining an interview with an Amer- | ican journalist, who came to Har- bin after a trip through the U.S.S.R. | The American journalist enthusi- astically describes the successes o! the Soviet Union. He points out the tremendous development of heavy and light industry and especially mentions the establishment of trac- tor plants. With regard to the num- ber of tractors manufactured—said he—the U. S. S. R. occupies first place and has even surpassed the U.S.A. In describing his impressions of Moscow, he says: “Moscow grows not daily, but hourly. New houses shoot out of the earth like mush- rooms after rain. Buildings are erected not at a European pace, American pace.” and Khabarovsk. “Such a develop- ment of industry and agriculture is taking place in the Soviet Union as is not to be found in any other country in the world,” declared the journalist in conclusion. Stress Need for _ Scottsboro Fund, (Continued from Page 1) ° been revealed, the Red Cross spends on overhead from its collections. In making this appeal for funds, the I. L. D. made public a statement of Mrs. Ida Norris and Mrs. Janie Patterson, mothers of the con- demned boys, giving the I. L. D. sole authority to collect funds for their boys’ defense, and appealing to all well-wishers of the boys to con- tribute to the fund. The mothers’ statement, in legal form, follows: “STATE OF NEW YORK : “COUNTY OF NEW YORK: ss.: “CITY OF NEW YORK : “IDA NORRIS and JANIE PAT- 'TERSON, being each duly sworn, say: “We are the mothers of Clarence Norris and Haywood Patterson, re- boro cases, In these two cases the International Labor Defense, through its attorneys, Walter H. Pollak and Osmond K. Fraenkel, have obtained a stay of the execu- tion of our boys from December 7th to February 8th, ard have also filed petitions and briefs for the review of the convictions and death sen- tences in the United States Su- preme Court. No other organiza- tion nor any other attorneys have taken any legal steps whatsoever for the protection of the lives of our boys or for their legal defense, and consequently no other organization or attorneys have been put to any expense in defending our boys against the death sentences im- Posed, “The necessity for funds to cover the application for review by the United States Supreme Court is great and immediate, and we urge all persons who are well wishers of the Scottsboro boys to send con- tributions immediately to the Inter- national Labor Defense to pay the expenses in fighting for the lives “(Signed) JANIE PATTERSON “Sworn to before me this 3rd day of December, 1934. “(Signed) FAY SIEGARTEL “Seal and Stamp, Notory Public.” 4,000,000 men in France — where there are no mosquitoes! $675,000,- 000 worth of wooden ships that wouldn't float! A billion dollars worth of airplanes that couldn’t get off the ground. .. During the war they bought 144 forty-eight inch wrenches—and there is only one 48- inch nut in America, up at Niagara falls. .. They rode around on freight, cars for a year trying to find some use for them. There was a $16,000,- 000 freight bill shipping them |around trying to find a use for jthem!”" eer koe BIOW there are several comments, quite appropriate, the general could have made but didn’t. For example, Roosevelt's closest friend, Vincent Astor, denied his war millions were made out of arms and ammunition. It may be quite right. But it certainly was made out of the war, out of shedding the blood of millions of workers. Mosquito net manufacturers would deny, until they are blue in the face, that they manufacture war material, but how many \millions did they make out of the war. The same is true with shoe manufacturers, and hundreds of others, What we would like to hear from General Butler is how much is Vin cent Astor, and his class, making now out of the billions spent by Roosevelt for future slaughters in order to help Wall Street collect millions in tribute in the world markets? $7 STILL NEEDED! Can't some enterprising readers scrape $7 together so that Gannes can reach his $500 quota and enter All funds for Scottsboro-Herndon defense should be rushed by: tele- graph, air mail and special delivery to the national office of the Inter- national Labor Defense, Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, New York City. Anti-Union Pact Is Sought (Continued from Page 1) is delaying its action on request of the union for elections at the Du- quesne, Pa., and McDonald, Ohio, plants of the Carnegie Steel Com- pany, a United States Steel Cor- poration subsidiary. But it has al- ready been indicated that the Car- negie Steel Company, in event elec- of our innocent sons. spectively, now in Kilby Prison un- der sentence of death in the Scotts- “(Signed) IDA NORRIS tions are granted, will not yield its list of employees, but will take the matter to court for an injunciiun , \ & the Hall of Fame along with Gold, Ramsey and Del? Anonymoss .... -$ 50 Previously received 492.91, Total to date . $493.41 to prevent elections. The maneu- vers to delay action aim particu- larly at giving the automobile and steel industry a free hand to work at top speed to fill orders for this season before the threatened strike breaks out. Conferences between Amalga- mated officials, William Green, president of the A. F. of L., and steel companies have been going on for the past few weeks. Facts came to light recently that the chief con- cern at these conferences is the tre+ mendous growth of the rank and file movement within the steel union; that all negotiators agree that the aim is to avoid a strike through an attack against the rank and file movement, but the formu. Jation for such a “truce” has appare ently not yet been agreed to AJOR - GENERAL SMED- )444 LEY BUTLER admits he