The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 19, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, EW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1934 Cleveland Jobless Complete Plans for Huge Relief March (.P.[sBarred (N.R.A. BACKS SLASH Homeless Men Win Partial Aid Demands Mass R ally Saturday Will Precede March To Court House CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. e thousand leaflets roclamations setting nds of the unemployed being distributed here in prepara- tion for the mighty demonstration and m march on Saturday, Dec. 22, for Winter relief. All the Unemployment Co pect Avenue, Room 469-X, he Small Home and Land Federation, 4323 Lorraine ne, for these leaflets. The march will assemble at Pub- , Saturday at 1 p.m., and | program of demands, These de-| mands set forth: | 1, $40 emergency cash relief for families and $15 for single work- j| Cunning and hangman's psychology | fascist Germany as an indication ‘i haelmann Is Tortured, _ Says Former Red Editor Tells of Brutal Acts of Nazi Jailers in Prison Hells MOSCOW, Dec. 18.—‘“The low of the ‘People’s Court’ must not be underestimated for an _ instant Ernst Thaelmann may urdered | without warning, after a sccret trial | ’ will be a emphasized f Werner Hirsch here. Former editor-in-chief of the Rote Fahne, Communist Party or- | gan of Germany, Werner Hirsch | cited his own experiences in the prisons and concentration camps of of Thaelmann’s own suffering in an article in Pravda, newspaper of he Communist Party of the Soviet Jnion: Shifted 18 Times “During the 18 months of my im- prisonment, I changed my ‘lodging’ Chicago Conference Rallies Wide Defense For Workers’ School: the laws for the oo. (Special to the Daily Worker) CHICAGO, Dec. 18.—Presenting a broad united front against the fas- cist attacks initiated by the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce and the Hearst press against the working class, 152 delegates, representing Chicago trade unions, cultural and other organizations, attended the emergency conference called by the | Chicago Workers School, and held last Saturday afternoon at 505 So. State Street. The conference declared that the attempt to outlaw the Chicago Workers School and jail its instruc- A high point in the conference was the reading of a letter from ja rank and file member of the | American Legion, repudiating the | fascist resolution adopted by its | Americanization Committee Confer- | jence in Bloomington, Ill. Robert Minor, representing the | Communist Party, made a powerful | appeal for working class unity against the growing fascist attacks, A broad, represéntative commit- | tee was elected to co-ordinate the | anti-Pascist campaign under the di- jrection of the American League | | (Continued from Page 1) | vocating or encouraging or affiliated | with any organization advocating | or encouraging the overthrow of| government by force and violenc: that it be “a felony for an ind vidual to publicly or secretly ad- vocate, promote or encourage the overthrow or change of our form of | government by force or violence,” | that Congress “make clear and cer- of all aliens advocating the over- throw or change of our system of | government by force and violence | and make certain the impounding pending deportation,” and revoke “the naturalization of any natural- ized citizen who advocates the over- throw or change of our government by force and violence.” “There Ought To Be a Standing” | Shannon agreed with Samuel Dickstein, vice-chairman of the committee, “that there ought to be a standing on un-American ac-| tivities to which all bills dealing} with this subject will be referred} and which weuld work with the TEXTILE Anti-Labor Bills Drawn In California LOS ANGELES, Cal. Dec. 18— got together last Saturday with southern California legislators to map out an anti-working class pro- gram for the next session of the State’s law-making bodies, as |southern California rail workers ex- | pressed their sympathy with the | demands of the workers of the Pa- cific Electric Railway for a strike growing disgust with Roosevelt's national mediation board. The legislators were given their orders by speakers at a meeting of ® At Inquiry IN WAGES OF NEGRO WORKERS |Permits $2 Cut Because | Negroes ‘Need Longer Training’ | By Carl Reeve The N.R.A. has once more taken a@ stand approving discrimination {against Negro workers. In a vicious statement on the de- without bail of any such aliens Local financiers and manufacturets ‘cision on the Central Weaving and Spinning Corporation of Fayette- | Ville, N. C., the National Industrial Recovery Board (N.R.A. press re- lease No, 9085), exempts this firm from the minimum wage provisions for a period of six months, This firm |employes mostly Negroes. The min- imum wage for these Negro workers code wage of $12 for the South, to $10 a week. | The statement of the Industrial Priest Urges More Planes For ‘Defense’ | Coughlin ‘in Favor of Building Large Fleet | For War Purposes By A. B. MAGIL (Special to the Daily Worker) ROYAL OAK, Mich., Dec. 18— Father Charles E. Coughlin, radio ' priest and organizer of a new fas- cist-tinged movement, the National | Union for Social Justice, today de- |clared in favor of building up a large air force for “National De- fense. “I think we should have one plane for every mile of coast line,” he said. | This would make a total of 4,883 planes—even beyond the War De- | partment’s present demand. | Coughlin also revealed that he is |on that system, as a result of their WS Teduced from the cotton textile | Teceiving inside information con- cerning the Senate Munitions In- | quiry from Senators Vandenberg }and Nye, “and others.” This indi- Appeals Board now upheld by the) cates that the radio priest has di- | De) mt of e,” i Recover; .| rect connections with Government ors for Winter necessities to be |22 times. On 16 occasions I was | Against War and Fascism. -sesharaueeeclbis td nt |the Economic Council of southern y Board, contains the follow paid before Christmas. 2. Increase of $1 in relief, cash rent for all unemployed. 3. Public investigation of dis- crimination against Negroes. 4, Representation of the unem- ployed on the Relief Board. 5. Immediate suspension of pay- ments to bankers till the passage of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. . 6, Immediate stopping of all evictions and foreclosures. Side by side with the demonstra- tion, Friday and Saturday have been set aside as penny collection days to finance the sending of the Cleveland delegation to the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment Insurance, which will be held in Washington Jan. 5-7. As the support for the demon- stration grows day by day, a cam- paign announcing that “nothing can be gained by demonstrations” has been launched in the local news- papers. However, already impor- tant concessions have been wrung from the welfare department. In addition to promises of granting partial demands, the single men have forced a public investigation of the conditions in the Welfare | Lodge. | Following the demonstration at Public Square, a huge march will | be held, proceeding up Buclid! Avenue to Ninth Street, North on Ninth to Superior Street, West on Superior to Ontario Street, and} North to the County Court House, | There a public open hearing on the demands of the unemployed will be held with Cuyahoga County Relief Administration officials, city and county officers and the unemployed. ' Hail Advances Of Soviet Union (Continued from Page 1) beaten until I lost consciousness; as a result I have become deaf in one e A blow with a knuckle-duster caused the loss of an eye. $ Braschwitz, a former official of the criminal police of bi; . Who joined the Nazis, pointed out Hirsch to the Brown Shirts as an object for their especial hatred. “Ever since that day I was kept in prison, at first in the Alex- anderplatz, afterward in the Ler- therstrasse. On April 13 I was taken to the Karl Liebknecht House on the pretext of an exam- ination. .. . I do not know whether | it was a coincidence or not, but! Braschwitz received me in the very | room which I had used as a study When I was editor-in-chief of the Rote Fahne.” After a volley of oaths, Brasch- | witz left the room, and his place | was taken by a group of Storm/| Troopers, who beat Werner Hirsch for two hours and a half. Hirsch tells of the blows, threats and humiliations which he had to suffer | for several months; finally, in Sep- | tember, he was transferred to the! concentration camp at Branden- | burg. “House of Death” “This camp was a sort of rallying place for everyone who was coarse, brutal, sadistic or unnatural. There was a building there which the pris- | oners had nicknamed ‘the house of death.’ It was in this building that the body of a militant Communist of Brandenburg, Gertrude Piter, was found naked and violated.” Werner Hirsch was kept shut in the basement of this “house of death.” | “We were beaten unmercifully at least twice a day and often during |the night.” The torturers used a | leather thong loaded with powdered | steel. | “Theelmann, and thousands of other anti-fascists, are being tor- | tured exactly with this treatment, |and even worse. In the world-wide | agitation for the release of Ernst Hirsch concluded, | tors was an attack on the entire working class and on all anti-Fas- cists. It unanimously endorsed the anti-Fascist mass meeting called for Friday evening, Dec. 28, at the Drill Hall, Capitol Building, 159 North State Street, and adopted resolutions calling for the repeal of the Illinois criminal-syndicalist law, for academic freedom for the teach- ers, and for the release of the nine Scottsboro Negro boys. The con- ference also voted energetic support to the mass fight against ti.. jim- ctow attempt to evict Herbert New- ton and his family from 615 Oak- wood Boulevard, and against all violations of the rights of the Ne- gro people, Ohicago’s trade unions were repre- ; Sented by delegates from 15 local | unions, including five A. F. of L. locals, three locals of the Teachers organizations. Delegates were also | Present from the Y.W.C.A,, the Chi- cago Workers Committee on Un-/ employment, and the Chicago Labor College, despite the refusal of its Board of Directors to join the fight in defense of working class institu- | tions, schools, press, ete. Conspicuous by its absence was the Socialist Party, before whose State Committee a delegation of workers had appeared with an ap- peal for support of the united front. The anti-Fascist mass meeting Friday night will be addressed by | Prof. A. J. Carlson of the Univer- | sity of Chicago; George Koop, mem- |ber of Typographical Union No. 16 and of the Socialist Party; Dr. Arthur G. Falls, of the Inter-racial | Commission of the Urban League; |John Werlick, chairman of the American League Against War and Fascism; Robert Minor, of the Com- munist Party, and Beatrice Shields. (Special to the Dally Worker) TOLEDO, Dec. 18.—Sixty-nine ac- credited delegates from 49 organiza- tions, and represtnting more than 7,600 men, women and youth of To- ledo and Northwestern Ohio, con- vened Sunday afternoon at the YM. | C.A, Auditorium in the first Toledo conference of the American League Against War and Fascism. The trade unions predominated at the conference. The Mechanics Educational Society was not only the largest union organization affi- | liating with the conference, but the! largest single organization repre- sented as well. Of the A. F. of L. unions, the Bricklayers, the Cloak- makers, the Street Carmen and the} Women’s Trade Union League were | the largest units represented. Two) Greek letter fraternities sent dele-| gates. Plot Against White Guards Admit Assassination U.S.S.R. Leaders. (Continued from Page 1) Dickstein repeated his now famil- jar plea ‘to “penalize” the “natural- ized or native-born citizen” engaged in “subversive” activities, but Shan- California, These orders called for more drastic laws against strikers, and particularly against the Com- munist Party. Harry Bayette, Amer- non would not take a stand on the ican Legion leader, called for laws “native-born” angle. |supporting the program of the Le- Col, John Thomas Taylor, legis-' gion, the U. 8, Chamber of Com- lative representative of the Amer- | merce and the Elks to “eliminate ican Legion and lieutenant-colonel |Communists and Communist propa- the correct Bolshevik, revolutionary program to impede and hinder the proletarian dictatorship. “The abominable cunning agents of the class enemies,” says the Moscow District Committee’s resolution, “the cowardly scum of the former Zinoviev anti-party group, have torn Comrade Kirov from our ranks. We will stamp out every one of the vile counter-revolutionary | Thaelmann,” PET RTE “ : i - ing scum of rogues and scoundrels | “there is a powerful lever for the) cieinates, if one uses moral lan-/ Overthrow of fascism in Germany | guage — fascist agents, if one uses the language of politics. “Tt would be very naive to regard this political banditism only from the viewpoint of a mere individual act. It is a question of its connec- tion with the opposition to social- ism on the part of internal coun- ter-revolution, which is linked up with fascism abroad. The class enemies within the country are de- tachments of scouts and sappers of altogether.” Social Insurance Gets More Support | (Continued from Page 1) | every Monday night at 3863 Terrace | A conference will be held! followers of the Zinoviey anti-party.” “Pravda,” official organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in an editorial on this point declares: “Agents of the class enemies within the party are not yet wholly | exterminated. Concealing their beastly hatred of Soviet power and party, the class enemies and their agents, smashed in open political | battle, are resorting to the most bloody meihod in their struggle against the Soviet regime—the method of isolated terrorism. The assassina- tion af Smolny completely unmasks the maiicious enemies of Lenin's party and the working class—the vile dregs of the former anti-party Zinoviey group.” While Algernon Lee speaks on the same platform’ with the Czarist white guards, who openly announce their aim of astassination and terrorism in the Soviet Union, the Social Democrats in Norway pay (Reserves) in the Chemical War- | fare Service, presented Homer Schallaux, “the national director of | Americanism” for the Legion, and Dr. Thomas H. Healy, assistant dean of the Foreign Service School of Georgetown University (controlled by the Catholic Church hierarchy) and chairman of the national de- fense committee of the Legion. Taylor did not take the stand. “Taylor is not going to speak,” one of his associates informed your cor- respondent. “His job is to try and put over the damn legislation.” Attacks Cannery Union Schallaux, who lives at 777 North Meriden Street, Indianapolis, Ind., told the Committee of “the indus- trial unrest on the Pacific Coast} caused by Communist agitation.” He attacked the Cannery and Agri- cultural Workers Union as “backed by aliens.” Ninety-five per cent of “those taking par in he Brawley, Cal., [Imperial Valley] strike were | aliens,” he said. He added that! “practically all the violence in the| Pacific Coast strike was carried on | by Communists,” despite widely published documentary proof of police and employer thuggery and the officially published Imperial Valley report on the violation of Constitutional rights of strikers by the employers’ vigilantes. George K. Brobeck, the legislative representative of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U. S., declared that “we have no gumshoe activ- itles because we believe that vet- erans can attend to these things in the open and by definite action.” He charged that the Veterans Na- ional Rank and File Committee act “as Communists” and recommended “legislaion enaced o make Com- munism illegal in this country . ..”; the “immediate deportation of alien Communists”; the “closing of Com- munist summer camps for chil- dren”; the ‘“finger-printing and photographing of aliens” and “ox- clusion of all aliens unil Americans have had time to get employment.” “You recommend this for the native-born as well as the natural- ized citizen?” Dickstein asked Bro- beck encouragingly. “Yes.” Ray Kleinberger, Police Commis- sioner of Los Angéles, came from | ganda.” “Communism is going to be sup- Pressed in the United States,” de- clared Boyette. “In California we are going to do it by lawful meth- ods, but unless it is stopped one way it will be stopped another,” he crease of the fascist violence of vigilante bands and police against the working class and its organiza- tions, with a renewal of the raids and mass arrests which were ini- tlated by the bosses and their agents during the San Francisco general strike and the West Coast long- Marine Workers Industrial Union was raided by vigilantes and office furniture destroyed. E. V. Latham, assemblyman from Alhambra, is considering introduc- ing several new tax meéasures against the working class, including an increased sales tax, and a “per- small business men. A. G. Amold, secretary of the Economic Council and secretary of the Los Angeles Chamber of Com- merce proposed a resolution calling {on Governor Merriam to take up With National Relief Administrator Hopkins the question of redistrib- uting unemployed families who are on relief. are obliged to go ahead with an in- vestigation which does not go be- yond the circumstances of the case.” Ryan's telegram to Chairman McCormack read as follows: “Regret meeting our Atlantic Dis- trict Executive Board being held | New York prevents me from ap- pearing before your committee stop Stated, clearly threatening an in- | shoremen strike. On the very night | jthat the Economic Council met, the )San Pedro headquarters of the sonal” income tax hitting at the’ ing scarcely veiled attack on Negro! | Workers, and upholds the Jim Crow, | | lily-white superiority position of the | lynchers, “The workers in the ap- Pellant’s plant may require and de- | serve a somewhat longer peyiod of training in order to obtain normal | efficiency. The recognition of this | fact implies nothing derogatory to! their native ability or their capacity | for development. It implies merely a realistic and honest appreciation of conditions which would have proved an equally formidable barrier to the progress of any other group of employes similarly situated.” The decision is that for six months an increasing number of the employes are to receive the code wage minimum of twelve dollars un- \til at the end of the six months period ninety per cent must get the code wage. During the six months period, the minimum is reduced to ten dollars a week. Board upheld the discrimination against Negro workers. The motion picture code authorities refused to intervene in a case brought before them by Negro motion picture pro- jectionists employed at theatres lo- cated in the Negro district who are getting less pay than white projec- tionists. The Board cynically told these Negro workers they could work out the wage scale themselves with their , employers. The operators used the | @xcuse that they paid lower wages ;to the Negroes because the “Negro | district is very poor.” The N.R.A. lorder thus sanctioned the’ lower wages paid the Negro projectionists, and gave them no redress but their own organized strength. The N. R. A. recently dismissed Myra Callas, a Negro member of the Recently the California NR.A.| sourves, Talked at Press Conference Coughlin’s statements came in the courses of a press conférence in the basement business office of his Shrine of the Little Flower, his million-dollar church built with scab labor. Asked by your correspondent whether he was against big war appropriations, he said: “Absolute- ly,” but immediately went on: “You know, Russia’s got it on us like a tent. They're not spending any | money on a navy; they’re building an air fleet. That's wnat I'm in favor of. Ample defense is what we need) The Constitution is a won- derful document. We never use the word ‘Offense’ in the Constitution; all it talks about is National De- fense.” | When it was pointed out to Coughlin that he has declared him- | self against all war, he said: “Tn theory, yes, but let's be prac- tical; we're dealing with fallen hu- man nature, aren’t we, and we're talking about a defensive war.” | Supports Imperialism | When questioned further on his conception of ‘defensive war,” Coughlin made it clear that he stands for the Monroe Doctrine, | that is, he supports American im- perielist domination of Latin-Amer- joan countries and the policy of miJ- itary intervention to maintain Wall Street's oppressive rule. Only a moment before the priest had characterized the Senate muni- tions investigation as “the greatest movement toward neace the world hes seen in two thousand years.” He subscribed to the taking-the- profits - out-of-+war vrovaganda, under cover of which the Rooevelt Government is going ahead with in- National Federation of Federal Em- ployes, who has protested many times against the N.R.A.’s discrim- ination against Negroes. She was | dismissed without any definite charge against her and without a Changes Subject hearing. Coughlin also contradicted a ‘The rank and file in the American! number of statements he had made | Federation of Labor unions should} in a talk in the chapel next to ae | at once protest against this discrim-| church last Tuesday night. In tha! tensified war peparations. but when asked to comment on the President's recent conference for the mobiliza- tio nof all war resources, he shrewd- ly refused to discuss it. Our organization has never claimed | ation and Jim Crow of the N.R.A.! talk he had introduced an anti- Communist influence was respon- every port on West Coast struck to be released of an intolerable situa- tion on system of hiring men stop the night after strike had been called Communists in San Francisco injected themselves into situation complicating it to such an extent that strike was prolonged for a much longer period than would have sible for strike on Pacific Coast | \against Negro workers. This discrim-| Semitic innuendy when he ended ination is winked at by William! a discussion of usury by mimicking |Green and his machine, which at/ a Jewish accent. 4 |the last American Federation of La-| Last Tuesday night he had de- ‘bor conyention killed a resolution’ clared that 6 per cent should be ‘against discrimiz.ation in the Amer-| the maximum interest allowed on jican Federation of Labor unions! loans; but today he had renee against Negro workers, The demand’ all about that and said 4 per cent |for equal treatynent and equal pay | should be the maximum. ‘and conditions for the Negro work-| Last Tuesday he said the Govern- ‘ers, and against Jim Crow or any|ment had made a deal with the |discrimination should be pushed by | bankers; today, “The new meat all workers to achieve solidarity of , biker, a er shi ie a ey ma ~ | financiers.’ nie eamaet ee the policies of the Roosevelt Gov- tribute to our slain comrade, Sergei Kirov. Ole Colbjornsen, one of the leaders of the Norwegian Workers’ Party, writing in Arbeiderbladet, official ofgan of the Party, declared: a still very strong army—the world | Street. : | counter-revolution. Their terrorism | Thursday evening, Dec. 20, at 3863) against the representatives of So- Terrace Street. All individuals and| viet power and the Party is the| organizations have been asked to the Coast, apparent! blic ex- | P&M necessary stop I can say how- PP WBE EUpUS ER sven: Ghat. f06 past five years the. pense, to present the Committee | ; with “65 eehibies gathered by Ko | Communists have been very active | ‘2° Los Angeles Police Department on | Atlantic Coast seeking to dis- ers’ living standards, continuation of the mass terror|attend this conference, which will against the fighting workers snd peasants. Therein lies the chief/ ‘essence of things.’ “Our enemies Will not succeed in any of their plots: With firm cool- mindedness and in exemplary order, | the iron ranks of the Party are! closely welded around Comrade) Stalin as our great country marches | toward the solution of its next great | tasks. And fully conscious of its historic mission, the working class, will march forwatd with firm step, | mercilessly destroying all its ene- miés, all traitors and evildoers. All | take definite steps for the election | of delegates to the National Con-| gress. S. P, and Miners Represented | BELLAIRE, O., Dec. 18. — Two, official Socialist Party delegates, representatives of eighteen locals of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, delegates from thirty-two fra- ternal groups and one representa- tive from a large co-operative move- ment met here last week to make local plans in support of the Na-| | tional Congress for Unemployment | to your posts! No mercy to cri-/tnsurance. In all, 172 delegates | minals! No mercy for murderers | Pa | Yepresenting 53 organizations with or thelr inciters! No mercy to base |, “combined membership of 15,000, were present, | | ‘The main report was made by Oscar Guynn, president of ULM. | W.A. Local 3917. The conference So C l a l 1 8 t Daily | endorsed the National Congress ae the work of the National Congress, the conference established a feder-| | ated body of one delegate from each £2 SGA EES | organization, the “labor movement is not giving) hile the keynote of the local serious backing to the strikers.” conference was the mobilization of a! Women’s Wear Daily, national mass movement to force the enact- organ of the women’s apparel retail! ment of the Workers’ Unemploy- establishments published in NeW ment Insurance Bill, every delegate York, declares in its Monday issue; raised the question and formulated “It is interestin, to note that proposals for struggle around the whereas the Socialist Daily in Mil- immediate needs of the unemployed | waukee, which has a circulation of jn Ohio Valley. | about 40,000, refused to accept pub- | | lic utilities advertisments during thot strike last spring and printed cela sles condemning the street (Continued from Page 1) | More Support from the South | BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 18.—/ “The murder of Kirov has deprived the Soviet state of one of their best men and greatest statesmen. . Besides Kaganoviteh, he was no doubt the most important one among the new leaders, He grew with his tasks and had a happy pract! ical grip. He was an arduous soul working with the greatest enthusiasm for the accomplishment of the mighty tasks. Kirov was a man of really great accomplishments of whom there are not many. His death is a grievous loss for the young and large workers’ republic.” Every worker should stand solidly behind the proletarian dictator- | ship of the Soviet Union in its drive to literally exterminate these vile murderers and saboteurs of Socialist construction. Negro and white workers, attending the regular meeting of the Tarrant City Relief Workers League, enthu- siastically endorsed the National Congress. Secretary Thorpe of the Switchmen’s Union, spoke on the Workers’ Bill and the program of the A. F. of L, rank and file. CHICAGO, Ill, Dec, 18—A large delegation of Chicago trade union- ists is expected to attend the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment Insurance, Special round trip train fares to Washington have been ar- ranged at $16, and bus fares at $9. A large percentage of the 51 unions which endorsed the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill are ex- pected to send représentatives to the Congress. Twenty from Denver DENVER, Colo., Dec. 18.—A house on wheels will carry 20 or more delegates from here to the National Congress for Unemployment and car company, it has followed an en- nt policy in connection joston Store strike. Its articles in this situation have been virtuelly as impartial as those in the other newspapers and it has continued to carry advertisements Of the Boston Store. To some this appears confirmation of the belief that the strike against the Boston Store does aot hav. the widespread sympathy in organized labor circles in Milwaukee as did the strect car strike.” However, the workers of Milwau- kee, including maay active Social- ists, have shown their support of the, strike by boybotting the store. “As labor director of the Highlander | Social Insurance. The delegation Folk School, I will be glad to do | will leave on Jan. 1, after a monster |everything I can ... in support of | ithe Workers Unemployment Tnsur- | ance Bill,” writes Zilla Hawes, labor | |secretary of the South for the So- |cialist Party. “Since we now ap- |parently have an official united |front in the South, it is all the |more urgent that we work together on such issues as this,” Hawes con- tinued. | Representatives of the local spon- soring committee here, who are touring the South to enlist support for the National Congress, report widespread endorscment of the Con- gress among the Negro people. Last Thursday night, about 100 send-off banquet. Several A. F. of L. delegates, representatives of in- dependent unemployed organiza- tions, Spanish fraternal organiza- tions and the Unemployment Coun- cils are included on the delegation. Four or five delegates to the Con- gress from Utah will travel with the Colorado delegation. Sponsors for the Congress in Den- ver are: Dr. C. H. Holmes, N. A. A. C. P.; Catl Michaelson, delegate to the Building Trades Council; Ed iicCormick, president, Relief Work- éts Protective Union; Richard Al- lendér, Unemployment Councils: Carl Eiberger, Boilermakers Union; |Henry Brown, president, American Workers Union Local 1. Conference in Portland PORTLAND, Me. Dec. 18.—A mass conference on thé National Congress for Unsmployment Insur- ance will be held here in the Pyth- ian Temple on Thursday evening, Dec. 27. All local workers’ organ- izations have been invited to at- tend. Mutual Aid Elects Delegate McKEES ROCKS, Pa., Dec. 18— The Russian Mutual Aid Society has elected one delegate to the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment Insurance. STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Dec. 18. —The Monessen section of the Finnish Federation has endorsed the National Congress for Unem- ployment and Social Insurance and elected a delegate to the congress. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 18. ~The conference for the support of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, re} ting a total membership of 719 people, which has just met here, endorsed the Workers’ Bill and the National Congress. The Conference was composéd of the following organ- izations: Polish Workers Club and Polish Women Progressive Club, Polish Chamber of Labor, Polish Branch of the International Labor Defense, Polish Branch 3532 of the I. W. ©., Polish Falcons Club and | Tax Payers Association. Spread the Daily Worker Among Your Shopmates, Communists.” No Committee mem- ber questioned Kleinberger about his department's well known operations on behalf of the various anti-union. employers’ organizations, Wants More Laws Commissioner McCormack speak- ing officially for the Labor Depart- ment, virtually pleaded with the committee to recommend the en- actment of more stringent laws so that it will be easier to deport for- eign born labor leaders. At the Present time, he explained, he could | deport only for anarchism or over- | throw of the Government, he de- clared: “We have tried to determine, with- out much success, to find to what extent the alien is responsible for labor disputes. We find that most of the people in labor disputes are American citizens.” He pointed out that “in San Francisco 373 persons were arrested as aliens. Each case was investi- gated. Of the 373, 272 were proved indisputably to be citizens. Of the 111 aliens, 14 were deported and of | that 14 only 1 was deported on rad- ical grounds.” “This data is sufficient,” Mc- Cormack continued, “to raise in the mind of tte committee as to whether we must grope for the ;Source of radical activity.” Refer- ting to the employer and govern- ‘ment raids duting the West Coast ‘strike, (participated in by the La- bor Department), McCormack de- |Clared that “out of 448 persons ar- rested during the strike only 1 was found to be deportable under the existing law.” Defends Deportations He said: “We are frequently charged with deporting labor lead- rupt our organization using effort | to prevail upon our membership to violate the agreements with the New York Shipping Association but our men have paid no heed to them.” “(Signed) Joseph P. Ryan, President of the ILA. Brigadier General Alfred T, Smith, officer in charge of Military Intelligence and a member of the ‘War Department General Staff, tes- i | tified that “the interest of the War Department has mainly to do with its (the Communist Party) effect |on the military services,” He de- ernment had nothing to do with the increase in million-dollar incomes, and lauded Secretary Ickes for @ ten-billion-dollar public works plan ‘as “right down our alley.” Needle Union Exposes Lies (Continued from Page 1) before the committze with slander- | ous charges against our union was Police Lieutenant James A, Pvke. Lieutenant Pyke has a notorious and the fur dressers and fur dyers record of intimidation and false ar- \three per cent to this fund. The | rests, Numerous workers have \total receipts of the unemployment | brought charees through the Amer- insurance fund is $111,478. Of this ican Civil Liherties Union against |amount $70,840 have been disbursed | y,ieutenant Pyke for illegal searches, as payments to unemployed mem-'' prutatity, illeval arrests and intimi- clared that the “effect of Commu-|Pers of the union. A reserve of nist propaganda on the armed forces has been negligible’ and urged the Committee “to make it a felony to ask any member of the armed forces to violate his oath.” Commander V. L. Kirkman of Naval Intelligence, testified as the spokesman for the Secretary of the Navy. He presented “exhibits” which, he said, show “the advance of mutiny, rebellion, disobedience and assassination.” Shannon attacked Sam Darcy, who was the Communist candidate for Governor of California. “Sam Darcy of California, and all the other Sam Darcys,” he said, “who appeared upon State ballots all over this nation in the November elcc- tons, merely used the ballot as one of many ways of advertising and flaunting a subversive and destruc- tive international movement. Sam Darcy is not a California problem— he and his prototypes are symp- ‘. Lieutenant $40,638 is at present in existence. Pred sotdehe amine Pyke toes before the investigation Payments to unemployed workers | committse with charges of ‘stron [are being made by a specially clect- sym’ methods he is only citing his ed committee of workers who have own record, as @ brutal, viclous tool ,the exclusive rights to administer °°") x z the fund. of the employers, “The charge that such payments “™he workers in the fur industry jare ‘exacted’ from the employers is| Mave fstablished a record of ja absolutely untrue as the employers | markable achievements through ee have concluded contracts with the ¢fotts of our union. At the heich junion, agreeing to make such pay- | of the crisis, when Mr. Green and iments. Naturally the employers | Mr. Woll were advising the work- were not particularly happy when | ¢'s to grant wage cuts, our un’ ‘on the workers, through their organ- | secured wage increases and shor‘*r ‘ized power, obliged them to estab- | hours for manv thousands of w-rk- lish an unemployment insurance ers and established an _mnemplov- fund. Neither are they happy to mént insurance fund. This is the pay a living wage which they also | reason whv the employers r-24 the claim is ‘exacted’ from them by the reactinnery oMictels of the A. ™ 7f | workers, |. soak ta use the Dickstein The-s- |, “The charge that the unioh Is. titption Committee tn dettver a bi-Ww exacting’ a two per cent assessment | acetnst our rnion, whink woul? he from the workers {s ridiculous. The a Mow ncainct all of the orqanived dues payments of the fur dressers and yne“conized workers in this and fur dyérs amounts to two per ontrv,” jcent of their weekly earnings and ha telegram of the Needle Trades toms of a national disease that is When they are unemployed, they do being allowed to grow and spread Rey feed anything and are still con- 5i unchecked by official action of our Federal Government.” Shannon had nothing to say about the murdering of workers by California fascists, ets during times of labor untest. It is true we are likely to deport labor | leaders during times of unrest but ‘not because the infotmation brought to us by the other side (the employ- ers) that he is a Communist, an- archist, etc. Once we are put on notice as to the alleged status of an alien we must proceed with depor- tation, without consideration that he may or may not be a labor lead- ler. Ifa police organization reports to us that they have an alien we 4 War Vessel Revealed Smuggling Nazi Books KIEL, Germany, Dec. 18, — ‘The naval vessel “Karlsruhe,” which is on a foreign cruise, is carrying 300 copies of Hitler's book, “Mein Kampf,” destined for distribution at the ports touchei at by the “Karls- ruhe,” according to the Kicler Neuesten Nachrichten, good standing members of the union. If membership dues Payments constitute a crime, than every existing union organization is |committing this ‘crime.’ Remarkable Record “Mr. Albert A. Williams, an em- Ployer, who testified against the union before the committee has his own reasons for fighting the union. This firm has been an open sweat- shop for 117 years and it was our union that broke the stubbornness of this employer and compelled him. to recognize the rights pf the work- ers and to grant them union wages and union conditions. “Another witness who appeared Workers Industriel Whion protest- ing against the sudden sdjournment | of the hearing, declared: “John W. McCormack, “Committee Investigating American” Activities, “House Office Bui'ding, “Washington, D. C. “We protest against adjournment, without giving our Union oppor- tunity to testify and refute slan- ferous charges of employers and William Geen period demand public hearing in New York for Union and workers “une “BEN GOLD, “Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union.” “General Secretary-Treasuret —