The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 19, 1934, Page 1

NATIONAL WHITE GUARDS ADMIT ASSASSINATION PLOTS AGAINST USSR CHIEFS TO SABOTAGE SOCIALISM EDITION INCREASE THIS FIGURE ! Press Run Yesterday 40,400 Daily .Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Vol. XI, No. 302<>* NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1934 ix Pages) Price 3 Cents ‘ J ‘ { Russian Fascist Publication Confesses Conspiracies To Murder Communist Leaders and Workers Ukraine Terrorist Killed Soviet Consul’s Secre- tary and Wounded Official in Plot—Moscow Communist Party Exposes Agents (See Editorial on Page 6) Twenty-three more white guard assassins sent into the Soviet Union with the express purpose of murdering work: ers, blowing up industrial plants, and killing Communist leaders of the U. S. S. R., were executed, according to latest cable reports from Moscow. This brings the total of those executed, following the assassination of Comrade Sergei Kirov, re- vered leader of the Leningrad workers, up to 103. With the announcement of the twenty-three additional execu- tions, the Daily Worker received translations from the “Fascist,” a White Guard Russian publication, boasting of its organization of mur- der, sabotage, and destruction in the Soviet Union. The “Fascist,” a periodical in the Russian language, issued irregularly, but now appear- ing nearly every month, is the organ of “the General Staff of the Russian Fascists,” and is published in Putnam, Conn. In the March, 1934, issue of the “Fascist,” the resolution of the Supreme Council of All-Russian Fascist Organizations on “building the all-Russian Fascist Party,” we read the following: “In 1934 the organ- AAPECR PEAANU Peat Office Box W 43 Jeu» 26 Aupbas - Jenb poxzenia Bcepoccitickon Pamuctckon Taprtin Russian fascist paper that boasts of conspiracies by white guards and other counter-revolutionists to assassinate Communist leaders and per- form acts of sabotage in the Soviet Union. ization must concentrate its forces for conducting propaganda in Rus- sia. Transfer of propaganda and agitation literature into the US.S.R. remains a central task. AIM TO ASSASSINATE COMMUNIST LEADERS It is pointed out later that the aim of the propaganda is to assassi- nate Communist leaders, to blow up factories, and to shoot down work- ers loyal to the Soviet Union. The purnose of this campaign of slaugh- ter and sabotage is expressly declared to be to impede the development of Socialism in the Soviet Union and to precipitate war to institute a fascist dictatorship after the destruction of the workers’ fatherland. The “Fascist” had connections with the anti-Soviet forces In Poland, Finland, Rumania and Germany, who participated in sending the armed bands over the border who were later executed by the Soviet Union. In fact, the “Fascist” of January, 1934, on page 15, reports one of the incidents of murder: “MURDER OF A BOLSHEVIK. A youth, an eighteen-year-old student of Lvov University, Lemek, arrived at Lvov upon order of the Ukraine terrorist organization FOR THTE PURPOSE OF KILLING THE SOVIET CONSUL, but unfortunately through an error HE KILLED THE SECRETARY OF THE CONSUL and wounded an official. The youth is arrested.” Referring to an interview with the “Rond,” the Berlin organization of the Russian fascists, financed by the Hitler government, the “Fas- cist,” of October, 1933, had the following to say: “Do you carry on open siruggle with Marxism in Russia?—Yes! I hope that in the interest of the work, you will not insist on details.” ACT TO SABOTAGE PRODUCTION In the same issue some of the details are given in “Thesis No. 4” of the General Staff of the All-Russian Fascist Organization: “A constant preparatory agitation must be carried on in the fac- tories and the plants, in trade unions for the purpose of SABOTAG- ING PRODUCTION AND TRANSPORTATION FOR EXPORT. In addition to our general slogan, our slogan in this agitation is: ‘Not a single grain, not a single ten of coal, not a single tank of oil— abroad!” “These 7—the kulak masses (rich peasants) must play a large revolutionary [!] role. The All-Russian Fascist Organization must pay the greatest attention to work among the kulaks.” In the January, 1934, issue of the “Fascist,” on page 9, is reported some more deeds of murder and sabotage committed by its members: “A detachment of the Brotherhood troika No. 6 made a sudden attack on the station Ossipovich. Tanks with benzine for the state farm trac- tors were blown up. During the fire exchange with the red guards, two brothers were killed. Their bodies were carried out.” SEVEN BARGES WITH FREIGHT SUNK “During the Summer, Brotherhood troika No. 5 (the detachment of the Ataman [chieftain] Rukavoi) conducted special operations on the River Pripetii SEVEN BARGES WITH GOVERNMENT FREIGHT WERE SUNK. The workers who were not party mem- bers were put ashore. COMMUNISTS NUMBERING NINE WERE DROWNED.” From a bulletin of the executive center of the Brotherhood of Truth, in “Fascist,” February, 1934, page 9: . “As reported by the Polish press, the red authorities in White Russia (Minsk) succeeded in smashing one of the local secret anti- Soviet active organizations, which Bolsheviks themselves defined as ‘a sect of revenge of Czarism.’ The organization was headed by the Don Cossack Kacharov. It consisted of 300 people out of whom about 20 belonged to the terrorist center, which was killing Communists wher- ever they happened to be. ... The above mentioned organization, accord- ing to the Polish information, is connected with ‘the Brotherhood of Russian Truth’.” To those who cry for evidence of the counter-revolutionary assassin deeds of the white guard Russians, we reply: Here is the proof out of their own mouths. Here is their confession of guilt. Those who were executed in the Soviet Union were proved to be of these bands of Czarist and fascist terrorists. hey were armed in Germany, Poland, Finland and Rumania with revolvers and hand- grenades and sent over the border in their futile attempts by murder and sabotage to try to impede the development of Socialist construc- tion, and to assist the German fascists and Japanese imperialists in their war plots against the U.S. S. R. The latest resolution of the Moscow District Committee of the Com- munist Party points out that these white guard assassins and counter- revolutionary agents sent their agents into the various opposition fac- tions to utilize the former Zinoviev group's (and others) fight against, (Continued on Page 2) 4 C.P. BARRED AT INQUIRY U.S.S.R. Advances Hailed SOVIETGAINS | "ROUSE HATE. OF ENEMIES Izvestia Says Fascists. Cannot Hamper Its Forward March | (Special to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, Dec. 18 (By wireless). —“The shots fired at Comrade | Kirov,” declares Izvestia, Soviet | | newspaper, “make us raise our vigil- | | ance and watchfulness to a high de- gree to single out the terrorist |crimes and to take decisive meas- jures in this field on the basis of | | special decisions for the most rapid | [extermination of the fascist ter- | j rorists.” | | Replying to the capitalist press | | throughout the world which tries to | | distort the significance of the events | | since the assassination of Comrade | Kirov, Iavestia, in its editerial: | “With Firm Step Forward,” de- | clares: | “Yesterday’s resolutions of the | leading Party organizations in Mos- |cow and Leningrad are the most | important documents in our Party | , history during the recent period. |The foreign fascist or pro-fascist | press sing one and the same melody | in different variations: that on the) : streets and towns of the U.S. S. R. | ‘uprisings are taking place; that) within leading circles there is panic; | that there is no sharp change in the | direction of military communism ; and the reign of ‘naked terror’ in ‘reply to the shots fired at Kirov. Workers Approve “Paying no attention to this con- | temptible jackal howl, the bolshe-/| |viks came forth with documents | which fully approve, on behalf of many hundreds of thousands of ad- vanced elements of the working | class, the decisions of the last ple-; |num of the Central Committee. These decisions (abolition of the card system on bread and other) , foodstuff, also re-organization of | ,the political sections and going | | over ‘the usual forms of party or- | | ganizations’ within the machine and | tractor stations): express the tre- ' mendous growth of our resources, of | | our strength and our confidence in | complete victory. | |. “This is the transition, on the | basis of collective farm victories and | | industrialization, to tzemendously | |expanded Soviet trade and the) | strengthening of the ruble with the | further improvement of the whole financial system, the establishment | | of real conditions for economic ac- | counting, for the policy of lower- | ing prices universally, and for the most rapid development of com- | | modity turnover. | Firm Revolutionary Law | “The ‘judicial superstructure’ of this is the most complete carrying out of revolutionary Jaw and order | which is so strongly empbazised by the election campaign for the So- viets. “The treacherous shot fired in cowardice at Comrade Kirov in no circumstances will force us to | change our firmly accepted Party | policy. No matter how much the | fascists and their agents within our ‘country would like to hamper this course of our home policy and ham- per our course for peace in the field of our foreign policy, they will not succeeed. } “The resolutions of Moscow and | Leningrad approve the iron deter- mination to carry out our planned course. The shot fired at Kirov makes us raise our vigilance and watchfulness to a high degree to single out the terrorist crimes and | te take decisive measures in this | field on the basis of special deci- sions for the most rapid extermina- ! tion of the fascist terrorists.” Responsibility of Deviators “The shot at Kirov, as a dis- closure of the fact that his physi-| cal assailant was connected with the scum of the former Zinoviev anti-Party group, deserves the closest attention. The Party, under! the leadership of Stalin, has de- stroyed all counter - revolutionary \Geviations: The Trotzkyites, the \Trotzkyite-Zinoviev bloc, the right- Wing oppertunists, the right and left wing bloc, the nationalist-de- \Viationists, but now the whole im-/ portance of the old Leninist state- jment regarding the danger of tolerating mistakes is particularly jand clearly seen in the light of the! murder of Kirov. “Those who have not recognized their errors sincerely and openly, ithose who concealed their views, | ‘kept them quiet, having changed) their color into Party hues, those | \who put a stone in their bosoms with the view of casting it in the. face of the Party at a suitable) mement—all of them have created an atmosphere wherein a disgust- (Continued. on Page 2) o | | | Vienna Communists Defy Fascist Police In Demonstrations VIENNA, Dec. 18—Leading large open demonstrations in the suburbs of the city, Austrian Communists yesterday distrib- uted numerous pamphlejs and Soviet emblems, and heroically faced the fascist police of the Schusnigg government. The crowd loudly cheered for Bolshevism and a Soviet Austria and booed when the present clerico-fascist regime was de- nounced. On several roofs large wooden Soviet stars were lit. The fear and cautiousness of the police in the face of this ex- pression of the powerful and growing anti-fascist movement was evidenced by the immediate release of 100 workers who had been arrested for participation in the demonstrations. NAZIS DENY SHOT REPORT Austrian Dispatch Said Daughter of Brueckner Fired at Hitler BERLIN, Dec. 18.—Reports that Hitler had been shot by the daugh- ter of Helmuth Brueckner, deposed Silesian governor, were denied here late this afternoon. Today's issue of the Austrian newspaper, the Lin- zer Volksblatt, carried the original dispatch, which stated that Brueck- ner’s daughter and her chauffeur were instantly killed by fascist guards following the shooting. Nazi officials, however, claim that the oldest daughter of Brueckner is five years of age. The cancellation today of fur- loughs of the secret police (Ges- tapo) throughout Germany forecast that Hitler’s extermination of all rivals and “radical” Nazis, now pro- ceeding under the mask of a “moral purge,” would be extended every- where. Many police who were here on vacations have been ordered back to their home towns to re- ceive private orders for widespread arrests, IN 27 STATES FOR CONGRESS Support Grows in All) Sections for Social Insurance | Communist Party De- nounces Maneuvers Of Committee | NEW YORK.—The tremendous} | mass backing of the National Con-| gress for Unemployment Insurance, | which will meet in Washington on| pa he name of the Communist | Jan, 5, 6 and 7, continued to mount |rathawey, editor of the “Dally yesterday as notices of election of worker, yesterday wired to Chair- delegates and local actions in sup-| an iakGoraneat the House Com port of the Workers’ Unemploy-| ment Insurance Bill poured into the| Sore Bane National Sponsoring | tees maneuvers in presenting lying : and slanderous testimony against, Workers’ organizations in twenty- | the Communist Party while barring seven states have thus far elected| any opportunity for an answer to delegates to the National Congress| be made. for Unemployment Insurance, and| ‘The text of the Communist Par- more credentials are coming into|ty’s wire follows: the office every day, the committee | “John W. McCormack stated. ‘ “Committee Investigating “Un- Since during the period of the| American” Activities Christmas and New Year holidays|«touse Office Building most organizations do not meet, Washington, D. C. every effort must be made this week! “The Communist Party vigorously to elect delegates. In cities where protests against the refusal to hear conferences are being held it is nec- essary to get the organizations eected directly, the National Spon- coring Committee stated, otherwise it will be too late for the repre- sentatives at these local conferences |to report back to their groups for | \definite action. activities, denouncing the commit- accomplished through the arbitrary sions, contrary to your publicly an- nounced plans, when you were in- formed of our intention to send a delegation on Wednesday morning to present our reply to the slan- Unless outstanding funds are sent derous and distorted statements to the National Office, 799 Broad- made before your committee by way, Room 624, New York City, at| Well-known reactionaries and pro- once, hundreds of delegates, es-| fessional red-baiters. Your refusal |Pecially from the South, will be un- | t© hear authoritative spokesmen of jable to attend the National Con-| the Communist Party when sup- gress, the Committee said. posedly you are ‘investigating’ Com- munist activities shows up your com- | mittee for what it really is: a tool of the Chamber of Commerce and the National Manufacturers Asso- ciation in their openly announced drive to illegalize the Communist Party and to deport and imprison active Communists as the first step toward cutting workers’ wages, speeding up production, cutting re- lief for the unemployed, and intro- ducing fascist measures for the sup- pression of the workers’ movement a a whole, Your committee started Penna. Miners Unions Act SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. 18. — So overwhelming was the rank and file support for the National Congress |for Unemployment Insurance at a |mass meeting held here Sunday {night by Local 13 of the United {Anthracite Miners of Pennsylania,| |that Thomas Maloney, district | \president, was also forced to de- jelare his support of it. He also jmade a statement that he would recommend all U. A. M. locals to send delegates to Washington. | At the district convention of the \United Anthracite Miners of Penn- \sylvania last February, Maloney op- in line with the demands of the bankers and manufacturers, for whom the Hearst press has spoken MANY GROUPS House Com mittee investigating “un-American” | spokesmen of the Commur®st Party, | adjournment of your committee ses- | I. L. D. Denounces Gag Method Used By House Inquiry | | The International Labor De- fense yesterday wired its protest against the fascist methods of the Dickstein committee. The text of the telegram of Anna |{ Damon, acting national secre- |] tary, follows: |] “John W. McCormack “Committee Investigating ‘Un- American’ Activities “House Office Building “Washington, D. C. “We protest your failure to hear our representatives by hastily closing hearings after ad- mitting lies and slander against International Labor Defense though you knew we were pre- pared to state the position of our organization Wednesday morning. Your gag rule follows suspiciously after our telegraphic request officers of International Labor Defense be heard by your committee. Construe your action as deliberate attempt to hide facts and to facilitate fascist measures against American workers. We will carry our pro- test to the American workers. “ANNA DAMON, “Acting Secretary, International Labor Defense.” NEEDLE UNION EXPOSES LIES Ben Gold in Statement Tells of Winning Fund mittee Suppresses Telegram Sent by Hathaway; Ryan Slanders Communists 3 ® Elks Ruler Attacks ‘Daily’—Immigration Head at Hearing By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 18— Representative John W. McCor- mack, of Massachusetts, fascist- minded chairman of the Dickstein or Special Congressional Commit- tee investigating un-American ac- t les suppressed the telegram sent him by Clarence A. Hathaway, representing the Communist Party, which demanded “full opportunity for a presentation” of the Com-= munist Party position and “a reply to charges of reactionary, anti- working class forces now swarming around your Committee.” Obviou afraid to hear from a Communist Party representative on the many lying, stupid and ridu- lous charges made by employers’ representatives and reactionary Veterans’ officials, McCormack the telegram from other mem of the committee, speeded hearings so that witnesses officially scheduled for tomorrow could testify before the expected arrival of the , Communist Party delegation, and | kept the hearings going until long after the usual noon recess hour. | In conducting What is supposed | to be a public hearing, McCormack | made it clear that he is interested only in the anti-Communist gentry by publicly reading a telegram from Joseph P. Ryan, president of the International Longshoremen’s As- sociation, which attack the Co: munist Party and boasted of s part in breaking the great West Coast general strike. “Is the committee going to give Mr. Hathaway a hearing?” your correspondent asked McCormack af- ter the latter had adjourned the hearing sine die. McCormack Sarcastic out to investigate Nazi and fascist | activities in the United States. Now, | For Jobless Members “Mr. Hathaway has the freedom The false charges of William Of the capital. H can go anywhere Green, president of the A. F. of L.,| he chooses,” McCo:mack hedged in against the Needle Trades Workers | & tone of sarcastic hospitality. Industrial Union were exposed yes-| “But are you going to hear him as Helmuth “‘Sriéckner, who was [posed the Workers Unemployment personally wiped out of the political scene by Hitler and subsequently expelled from the Nazi party, has not been arrested, but spirited away —murdered some believe. Brueckner represented one of the few remaining higher officials of the fascist regime who had become | bitterly disposed toward Hitler for the latter’s “unequal” disposition of favors and huge sums of money and for having failed to carry the Nazi government’s campaign of dema- gogy, “reforms” and “economic re- habilitation” to higher levels. With many public fanfares an- nouncing a new “moral purge,” a clique of the highest Nazi officials, including Hjalmar Schacht, Goer- ing and Goebbels, respectively Hit- \ler’s finance minister, premier and propaganda director, are reported entering upon a second massacre of rival groups bearing as few real “moral” grounds as the “purge” of June 30. most boldly, you suddenly shift your ‘investigations’ to Communist ac- tivities, and, without ever hearing Communist spokesmen, you publicly declare your intention of proposing new laws at the opening cf Congress | aimed at the suppression of Com- | munists. This your committee does jin the name of ‘democracy.’ Like | your prototypes in Italy, Germany and Austria, you cloak your vile attacks on the workers’ movement MANAYUNK, Pa., Dec. 18—One| ang on the workers’ living stand- member of the Socialist Party and ; | several A. F. of L. and independent | Sresotrsoye Gh the mates ot tence trade unions are represented on the | cracy you become the midwife for local sponsoring committee here. | fascist suppression and then open Endorsers of the National Con- | fascist dictatorship. The Commu- gress include the Young Men’s | nist Party denounces your hypo- Democratic Association of the | critical maneuvers and declares its Twenty-first Ward, Italian-Ameri-| geterm'nation to expose them be- can Club, Crusaders’ Catholic Club,‘ fore the masses of the American Glen Rock Club and the Ukrainian peopje, “C, A. HATHAWAY, League of Manayunk. ec ” "The sponsoring committee meets For the Communist Party, U.S. A. ‘Insurance Bill on the grounds that it provides so much for the unem- |ployed that no one would want to | work. As a result of the overwhelming) support of the rank and file, the local sponsoring committee, which jhas already been set up, will visit jall locals for the election of dele- \gates to the National Congress. | (Continued on Page 2) N.R.A. Reorganization erie Daily Publishes Ad Of Scab Store MILWAUKEE, Dec. 18.—The Fed- erated Trades Council of Milwaukee (A, F. of L.) has decided to advise all local unions to place the Boston Store on their don’t patronize list. The Building Trades Council here has likewise taken action which may result in the calling out the car- penters, electricians, painters and linoleum layers who are still work- ing in the store. Other unions are taking steps to call out the meat cutters, tailors and shoe repairmen. Picketing continues at all en- trances of the store, while the sup- port to the strikers, especially through the efforts of the Women Shoppers League, has been so effec- tive that the store’s trade has been hit very seriously. The Socialist Party’s daily paper -| \ GN j | Talks Will Be Opened Strike Truce In Washington, Jan. 9 | terday in a statement of that union, as a lying attack on thousands of |needle trades workers in New York City. The statement issued by Ben Gold, | general secertary-treasurer of the N.T.W.LU, states that Green, to- | gether with Matthew Woll vice pres- | ident of the A. F. of L., made com- | mon cause with the sweat shop em- ployer Albert Williams and the fas- cist police lieutenant James A. Pyke, | in slanderous attacks on the Needle | Trades Workers Industrial Union before the McCormack-Di ein In- vestigation Committee in Washing- ton on Monday. The union, hearing of the committee’s adjournment‘, sent a telegram of protest to John Mc- | Cormack, demanding a public hear- ing in New York for the union and the workers. Workers of the fur department of this union receive unemployment insurance paid for by the employ- |ers. This fund is administered by | the workers’ elected committees and | accounts fully audited and presented | to the employers. The workers pay | union dues to their union of two per | cent of their wages. When unem- | | WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec, 18,—/ Ployed, they are in good standing in in tee usne the question of “labor representa-|the union and are not required to | tion and methods of procedure at stake” will be one of the subjects of open hearings scheduled by the National Industrial Recovery Board By Roosevelt ePREE | to begin on Jan. 9. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 18. These hearings are to be held in egos Roosevelt took a Personal | connection with the coming “reor- hand today in the attempt to con- | ganization” of the entire N.R.A. ai clude a no-strike agreement in the! the reopening of the codes. steel industry, calling a conference hearings will be held on “employ- of members of the Steel Labor Re-| ment, production control, small lations Board. William Green, pres-| business, code administration,” in- ident of the American Federation of ciuding enforcement, and price fix- Labor, and Eugene Grace, steel ing magnate, were also present. ay. The “reorganization” of the N.R.A. These negotiations have been is being attempted by the Roosevelt going on for some weeks. The government along the lines now be- “truce” include recognition of the Mass Rally in Sweden sentation. Green agrees to compul- cession is not made to them. STOCKHOLM, Dec. 18.—At So- United States Steel Corporation and ing laid down by the employers at company union, in the form of | Scry arbitration, but fears that the For Prisoner’s Release All are agreed that in the Amer- detalje a mass meeting in support of Other the government propose that the white Sulphur Springs. “minority” and “individual” repre- rank and file will rebel if some con-_ here, the Milwaukee Leader, in its, ican Federation of Labor steel union the political immigrants was organ- Friday’s and Monday’s issue carried a full page advertisement of the Boston Store. The advertisments in| workers driven out of the union. the Milwaukee Leader are especially | used by the department store own- ers against the strikers as proof that (Continued on Page 2) the rank and file movement should ized which was attended by Social- be crushed and the militant steel ist, Syndicalist and Communist or- ganizations. The rank and file in the Amal-| The meeting demanded the release gamated Asscciation of Iron, Steel of Karl Preuss, a German immi- and Tin Workers opposes the no- grant who at his arrival from Ger- id | | pay dues. This is the true condi- | tion in the industry, the N.T.W.LU. | statement points out in answer to Green's brazen attempt to ciscredit | the union by his slanderous lies that the union “exacts” these funds from the employers. The union has won these condi- tions through militant strikes and | through their organization’s policy | of militant struggle. The statement of the union follows in full: | “The Needle Trades Workers’ In- |dustrial Union has wired a demand to the McCormack-Dickstein In- | vestigation Committee, challenging ithem to conduct a public hearing |in New York on the charges against , the union, presented to them by the |employers, William Green and | Matthew Woll. The union is ready jto produce thousands of workers to refute the slanderous accusations made before the Committee. | Insurance Fund | “It is consistent with Green's and Woll’s reactionary policies that they align themselves with the employ- ers who seek to destroy the unem- ployment insurance fund established in the fur industry in 1932, through the efforts of our union. The fur a witness?” “The hearings on Communism are over. If Mr. Hathaway had come during the hearings we would have heard him,” replied McCormack hypocritically. Why he had failed to read Hathaway's telegram to the Committee, the public and the press, McCormack refused to explain. | Thomas W. Harwick, former U. 8. Senator from Georgia and counsel for the committee, apparently un- | aware of McCormack’s decision to | prevent the Communist Party from being heazd, told your correspondent after the hearing that he thought the public session would be resumed tomorrow or Thursday. The American Legion officialdom, | Army and Navy “Intelligence” (Se- cret Service), the Elks’ “Grand Ex- alted Ruler” and Col. Daniel W,. McCormick, Commissioner of Im= migration of the Labor Department executed the anti-Communist Party line which was recently broadcast by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the highly or- ganized propaganda organ of the big bankers, industrialists and land- lords who are making concerted ef- forts to outlaw the Communist Party as the wedge in the plan to smashing the working class move- - ment. Attacks Daily Worker Hardwick encouraged the anti- Communist witnesses to make the sky the limit. “Just make such statements as you desire about Communist activities,” he instructed Michael F. Shannon, the grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. | Shannon’s attack on the Daily , Worker and “Asiatics and Negroes, ‘not representative of their race” ; brought forth applause from @ | claque of big-bosomed patrician matrons who were observing the | proceedings for their various reace ‘tionary organizations. | He recommended the “investiga- | tion of subversive activities of or | ganizations and individuals by the Department of Justice with author- jity to take the necessary legal | measures used in investigational work and supplied with ample funds ‘and personnel.” “That Congress decree” organizations which “ad- ;Vocate the overthrow by force and violence of the system of govern: | ment guaranteed by our Constitu- | tion to be illegal organizations,” “manufacturers are paying one and | that the mails be closed to “newse one-half per cent ef their payroll | papers or other publications ade« fight policy of its president, Mike Tighe. | many was arrested on the spot and | ‘ put into prison, (Continued on Page 2) | (Continued on Page 2)