The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 20, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1934 Page 3 “OMMUNIST PARTY LEADS FREE SPEECH FIGHT IN CLEVELAND W orking Class sroupsOppose faseist Edict Demand CityAccord Full Protection to Relief Marchers Saturday Bv Sandor Voros (Daily Worker Ohio Burena) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Des. 19. — “Respensibility for provecation at Saturday's city-wide relief march will rest with Mayor Davis,” as- serted I. O. Ford, former Commu- nist Party candidate for Governor, before the legislative committee of the City Council at a public hear- ing yesterday afternoon. I. O. Ford, | who polled close to 17,000 votes in the last election, speaking in the name of the Communist Party, sup- ported the Krewson resolution pro- | testing the removal of the free speech rostrum from Public Square. Exposing the economic back- grounds of the attack on the civil rights of the people and claiming it as the first sten towards abolish- ing free speech in thé entire city of Cleveland, he served notice on the Mayor that the Communist Party is giving its complete support to the city-wide relief march of the un- employed, under the leadership of the Unemployment Councils, Small Home Owners’ Federation and other working class organizations this coming Saturday, Dec. 22, at 1 p.m., starting on Public Square. At the hearing the Mayor’s sup- porters were conspicuously absent. The city chambers, however, where the meeting had to be transferred owing to the large size of the audi- ence, were filled with people who expressed their enthusiastic ap- proval of the Communist Party fight for free speech. In the name of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Walter Dicks vehemently attacked Mayor Davis's fascist.move and stated that the Negro people of Cleveland will fight together with the white work- ers to preserve their civil rights. H. Stasfurt, representing the Workingman’s Sick and Death Benefit Lodge of 60,000 members, a German founded organization with the majority of the members American-born, called to the com- mittee’s attention that Lavalle, seféty director, speaking before his organization, stated that the pres- ent city administration is opposed to fascism and this same city ad- ministration now intends to take the same fascist steps as they do in Nazi Germany. John Roman of the Uj Elore, Hungarian daily, and in the name of a protest meeting of 1,000 Hun-. garians held last Saturday, pre- sented a resolution demanding the free speech rostrum remain on the square. Resolutions were read from the St. James Literary Forum and from Julius B. Cohn, a Davis-appointed member of the City Planning Com- mittee, who resigned his post in at- tacking the Mayor’s action, protest- ing the intended removal of the free speech rostrum, and a resolu- tion from the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Spanish War Vet¢rans uphold- ing the Mayor’s attack. After other speakers, including the Socialist Party representative, were heard in favor of the Krew- son resolution, William F. Eirick, city service director, in an outburst of patriotic demagogy, disclaimed that the Mayor intended to abolish free speech, but demanded that the rostrum be removed nevertheless. Following this the hearing was or- dered continued Monday, Jan. 7, at Philadelphia, Pa. Corliss Lamont will lecture on “The and Religion,” Frida: at Musicians Hall, Admisison 30c at Mass Meeting and send off for Dele- gates to National Congress for So- cial and Unemployment Insurance, Friday, Dec. 28, 8 p.m. at Broadway Aréna, Broad abd Christian streets. Speakers: Herbert Benjamin, Mother Bloor, William N. Jones, Fretheit Ge- sangs Farein, Workers’ Harmonica Band. John Reed Club presents Michael Gold, author of ‘Jews Without Monty,” on “The Crisis in Modern Literature” Thursday, Dee. 20 at 8 p.m. sharp at Musicians’ Hall, 120 N. 18th St. Adm. 30c. H. M. WICKS lectures on “Origin and Evolution of Religion,” Friday, 8 p.m. sharp at Workers School Fo- rum, 908 Chestnut. This is a Marx- ist-Leninist analysis of this question. Admission 25c. Unemployed 10c. Detroit, Mich. Dance at “Rainbow Gardens,” 6515 Chene 8t., Friday evening, Dec. 21. Jimmie Davenport and his 13-picce Harlem Orehestra will play for dancing from 8 p.m. until dawn. Auspices, Seottsboro Defense Comm. Chicago, Ill. MARTIN of PROF. LA\ Northwestern University will speak at Pen and Hammer Foruin, 20 B. &t., Chicago, on Sunday eve- 23, at 8 p.m. is: ""Read—But Don't Believe analysis of Chicngo newspapers. Ad- mission 15 cents. Rochester, N. Y. INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE concert and ance Saturday, Dec. 22, 8 p.m. at Lithuanian Hall, 575 Joseph Ave. to celebrate opening perinanent office by LL.D. Subscrip- tion 15 cents. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Detroit, Mich. ‘Wm. Weinstone, District Organizer of the Communist Party will speak “Karl Marx: His Life and Works Thursday, Dec. 20, Maceabess Alicito: P John Reed " ored by Gib at Barat Aamishion 280. East St. Louis, Mo. | | | | j | maneuvers. The above picture shi Women’s Shoppets League brough MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dez. 19—The Milwaukee Leader, daily newspaper published by the Socialist Party on Dec. 17 catries another full-page ad- vertisement of the Boston Store, whose employes are on strike. This advertisement is direct strikebreak- ‘ing propaganda, and consists en- tirely of an appeal “To the Public” to help the Boston Store break the strike. The Milwaukee Leader ad, printed on page five, states, “The present strike was called at the instigation of professional organizers from out- side Milwaukee, at a time calculated to do the greatest damage to the Boston Store. It was openly stated by these paid organizers that no de- partment store would dare face a strike at the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. The Boston Store IS facing this strike and is continuing to do so while pickets parade at its doors.” The ad claims that “a minority of our | employes started picketing the Bos- , ton Store.” | The strike is called “unnecessary and unjustified” in the advertisement in the Sccialist paper. The strikers are termed “misguided employes.” Tells of Sellout Effort Regarding the fact that the strik- ers have rejected an unsatisfactory “settlemént” offered the strikers, | WORKERS AID STRIKERS WHILE SOCIALIST PAPER AIDS STORE _AREON = District 18 of the Communist Party. talist class will first attack the | Communists, Communists|\|.abor in Three States Bid for Unity In Milwaukee! Ask Rank and File of Socialist Party for Immediate Action -—— | MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 19.—| Socialist rank and file members in| A call is being mailed out to every , Wisconsin are being circulated with | jocal of the A. F. of L., Trade Union a call for a united front struggle} Unity League and independent against war and fascism, issued by | unions of Greater New York, Con- |mecticut and Northern New Jersey for delegates to the Interstate Con- “This and other experiences, in| ference in Newark on Jan. 27, to Germany, Austria, Spain should | mobilize the united efforts. of the | prove to us that although. the capi- | iabor movement against the “run- away” shop menace. heer The arrangements for the con- Socialist | ference are being pushed by a pro- _Will also | yisional committee with represen- 4 italist terror | tatives of five unions, most affected following,” the Call|by the moving of shops to escape union control. A number of A. F. of L. locals have already expressed readiness to join in the move, ac- cording to the committee. Three hundred workers of shops other working class organizations, like the Party and trade unions, feel the blow of capi immediately warns, It contrasts the expressed sym- pathies of the majority of the So- cialist Party membership for the | united front with the action of the Boston meeting of the National| .. es s t Executive Committee of that Party | ie SO hoes omc One in rejecting the united front pro- | octicut towns, to escape union con- posals of the Communist Party in} 1 bin Irving Pl 15 Irvi favor of a united front with capi- | Sinker ainda: pe Nalini pena | tality paetenis aiid “pactise, ich dorsed the fight now initiated to| Interstate Conference To Be Jan. 27 to Rally Unions Against Inreasing Menace to Worker Organizations the Independent Shoe and Leather , to conduct the fight against Strikers at Boston Store in Milwaukee have been picketing nearly two week: attempts of the leaders of the A. F. of L. and Labor Board officials to break the strike through arbitration tributing relief the women marched side by side with the pickets and later marched through the store shouting slogans to the workers and customers urginy them to leave the store. S. P. Paper Hides Scab Ad With Show of ‘Impartiality’ ¢ teas Jas They have rejected ows a group of women who organized to help the strikers win. t hot coffee and sandwiches for distribution to the pickets. The After dis- the advertisement states, “According | unions point out that the “offer” to the public press reports, even the| of the store is so small that all the| leaders of organized labor, with the | interests of the workers at heart, have pleaded with the pickets to go back to work on the terms suggest- ed.” This refers to the fact that union officials tried to get the strik- | ers to accept the sellout agreement and they rejected it almost unani- mously. The ad continued, “The strikers have refused these terms. They have | disregarded the advice of their more | responsible leaders.” The demands of the strikers are termed “unrea- sonable and destructive.” The store} ad claims that more than two-thirds | have gone back to work and that the pickets are “annoying the shop- ping public and the employes who| have remained at work.” In an attempt to show “impartial- | ity” between the strikers and the| Boston Store, the Milwaukee Leader prints also a full page ad of the| three unions involved in the strike —the. clerks, building service em- Ployes and truck drivers—in the | same fssue, Unions’ Demands Listed The unions gave the demands of | the strike of $20 a week for women and $25 a week for men; for rec- ognition of the three unions. The | true.”, workers rejected it. They show the big increase of profits gained by de- partment stores, as an answer to} the store’s plea of inability to pay} more. The Federated Trade Coun-| cil fully supports the strike, th | unions declare, and quote a recent statement of the Council to prove | this. The Milwaukee Building| Trades Oouncil has called on allj building workers in the store to join | the strike, the ad states. The charge of the Boston Store, that the strike was called by out-/ siders, is branded as “entirely un- “The workers themselves voted to strike and voted to con- tinue to strike after the measly of-| fer of the store was presented to| them last week.” The store “keeps | quiet about the dozens of profes- sional strikebreakers it has import- ed” the union points out. | The strike of the Boston Store employes has aroused the support of the broadest ranks of the Mil-| Waukee workers. Many workers a: on the picket lines and are refusing | to buy at the scab store, | Rank and file Socialists should re- | pudiate the strikebreaking act of the Milwaukee Leader in printing a full page ad against the strikers. Danville Court Clears i Ann Burlek, Jane Allen at the local police court yesterday. The charges were so patently false that the authorities did not dare to go through with the trial in the face employment Insurance, to be held in Washington, D, C., January 5,| appeared in court ready to conduct as the LaFollette Progressives, Up- ton Sinclair and Govornor Olson of Minnesota. The Boston meet- ing of the N E. C. postponed any negotiations for a united front with the Communist Party until the next convention of the Socialist Party, but decided to immediately | undertake negotiations with the LaFollette Progressives, etc, “The Socialist Party member- Ship,” the Oall declares, “must now decide which road to follow— unity with the forces of capitalism or uhited action with the forces fighting for the destruction of capitalism.” Pointing to the achievements already made in forging the united front anti-Fascist struggles of So- cialist, Communist and non-Party workers, the Call declares: “The united front of the working class and not class collaboration with the enemies of the working class should be the watchword of all real Socialists.” follow and strike every “runaway” | shop. | The meeting was called on the initiative of the following pro- visional committee of five, repre- senting the five unions which | opened the drive against the “run- away” shop menace; Ralph Page, lof the Independent Smoking Pipe Makers’ Union; George Martin, of \are on strike in all these towns Opens Broad Campaign Against Runaway Shops Held in Newark Workers’ Union; Irving Levit the Steel and Metal Workers dustrial Union; M. Perlow, o: Furniture Workers’ Ind Union, and Alexander H. Kolkin of the Knit Goods Workers’ Union. Speakers included Page, Martin, Levit and three strikers represent- ing “runaway” shops on strike in of the smoking pipe and knitgoods in- dustry, Kolkin was chairman. The workers gave unanimous en- dorsement to the following propos- als submitted by the committee of five: That two members of each of the five unions be added to the provisional committee of five, to make a permanent body of fifteen away” shops; to endorse the Int state Conference to take place Newark on January 27 and call upon all A. F. of L. and other locals to send delegates in support of the fight; to call another mass meeting next Monday at 11 am. at Irving Plaza. A decision was also made to send telegrams to the Mayors of Summit, Rahway, Jersey City and Union City, all in New Jersey and Shelton, Connecticut, demanding the right to picket and protesting intimida- tion of strikers. “Runaway” shops Reliet Parley. In Pittsburgh To Plan Drive PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 19.—| Delegates from unemployed organ- izations, trade unions and fraternal | Youth Rally Maps Fight | * | On Fascism ANN ARBOR, Mich. Dec. 19.— About 600 delegates from 250 youth and student organizations, convened and beneficial bodies will assemble | in the Regional Youth Congress held in National Slovak Hall, 518 Court | here last Friday, Saturday and Sun- Place, Pittsburgh, Saturday in a|day, and adopted a common ae conference on unemployment and | ft niece wt agibans ot social insurance called by the Un- | the interests of the youth, The employment Councils of Western | Congress elected eight delegates to The Call offers an eight-point program around which all workers can unite in the fight against fas- cism and imperialist war and in defense of the rights of the work- ing class. Pennsylvania in preparation for the Toledo Jobless *siona Congress in Washington | Jan, 5-7, Rush Nationa On the agenda of the local meet- jing will be reports on the activities | of various groups in support of the Congress Plans | Workers’ Unemployment and Social | Insurance Bill, the struggles of the TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 19, — The unemployed workers’ organizations | Toledo City Council, which endorsed | for adequate relief, and the need the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- | for intensification of the drive here ance Bill last spring, has granted the | for enactment of the Workers’ Bill | use of the Civic Auditorium for @| in view of the present wage-cutting mass send-off meeting for the To-| and part-time employment sched- , ledo delegates to the National Con- | ules of the big steel and coal em- gress for Social and Unemployment | ployers. Insurance. The meeting will be held unday, Dec. 30, at 7:30 p.m, | Calls for the local conference Otto Brach, secretary of the Cen-| Were issued along with those for the tral Labor Union has send a letter | National Congress to every A. F. of to all locals of the American Fed-|1- trade union in the se rbalget gr eration of Labor in Toledo calling | Patt of the work Saturday will be upon them to boycott the congress | the completion of arrangements for on the grounds of it being “Com-| transportation of delegates to} munist dominated.” Speakers in| Washington. some cases are refused admittance| It was announced yesterday that | to the locals. |the city delegates from fraternal | Despite the pressure from the/| organizations connected with the A. F. of L. officials, the following | Federation for Social Insurance will | tions; and endorsed the Workers Un- the National Youth Congress to be held in Washington, D. C., on Jan. 4 and 5. Delegates were present from 57 cities and towns in Michigan, with a combined membership of over }.150,000 young workers and students. They represented trade unions, farm groups, church organizations, Dem cratic Clubs, Y.M.C.A.’s, Y.W.C.A.’s, the Young Communist League, the Young People’s Socialist League, high schools, colleges, boy and girl scouts. community centers, etc. Al- though representing organizations of widely differing programs and political tendencies, the delegates were, with few exceptions, finally united on the basic issues of the | struggie against war and fascism, against the New Deal program of | militarization of the youth, together with cuts in educational appropria- employment Insurance Bill, H. R. 7698, and the Farmers Emergency | Bill. | The resolution on Youth in In-/| dustry declares that the New Deal} “has not improved the status of the | youth nor in any way indicated a/ solution for the young generation} | their own defense. Police Lieuten-| locals have endorsed the Workers’ attend the local conference. of Framed-Up Charge (ot the angry protests of Negro and| | white workers who packed the court | ,TOom, in response to an appeal is- | DANVILLE, Va., Dec. 19—The sued by the local Unemployment charges of “‘bad fame and charac- | Council. | ter” against Ann Burlak, natidnal| Jne Allen and Ann Burlak, who His subject | jill textile workers’ leader, Allen, local worker, were dismissed When Samuel Leibowitz, for- merly associated with the Inter- national Labor Defense in the Scottsboro Case, first made public announcement of his renegacy there was an immediate zespense from the southern ruling class. This | Tesponse came in the form of a re- doubled reign of terror against the Negro masses and labor organiza- tions in the South. Sensing what they believed to be @ weakness or a split in the mass movement for the defense of the Scottsboro boys, K. K. K. bands and government fovces of the Southern states set loose a series of raids on the homes of militant Negro workers, acts of violence against the Negro beatings and lings, the most fsrocicus of which was the well advertised and pudlic- ly planned lynching ab Marianna, Fin. The terror is still running wild in the vicinity of Maranna, while the threat of te:ror hangs low over the whole South. Case Net Isolated From Broad Struggie These acts by the southern ruling class serve to clarify two principal aspects of the Scottsboro Case which have not as yet been suffi- lent!y appreciated. The Scotts- boro case is not sitnply a dramatic incident of persecu‘ion, {solated from a}l other aspaets of the cpp7e:- sith o7 the Negro people. It takes place within the sathe social en. vironmert whieh produces lynching, jim-cféwismn, terror, degradation and ostracism of the Negro masses. And séconily, arising trom this fact, the Seottsboro Case, bec2use of the mass movsment it has aroused, is the pivot, the central point a:ound which the whole struggle for Negro and Jane) sponsoring Committee of the Na-| | is touring the state for the National | | tional Congress for Social and Un- rights rages today. It is reccg-, nited as such by the ruling class and its responsible _ representatives, Thomes Knight, Jr., state prose- cuter of the nine Scottsboro boys. | rode to the office of Lieutenant- Governo: of Alahama in the recent election on a frankly anti-Negro and anti-Communist issue. A num- ber of southern governors were elected on a heavily weighted “white-superiority” platform. The resurgente of the K. K. K. and other terrorist organizations in the South is directed against those masses who, inspired by the Scotts- boro mass fight and given a pro- gram by it, ate struggling against mass evictions on the countryside, the relief cuts which have resulted in practically no relief, and other onslaughts ubon the living condi- tions of white and Neg:o toilors. Necd’ess to add, the Scottsboro Case ; has been the principal foundation for a growing rebellion of the Negro masses in the North as well. Fight Against Lynching If the fight for the release of the Scottsboro boys has not been suffi- ciently and quickly enough broad- ened to engulf larger masses in the struggle and to include other issues of civil rights, we have ourselves partly to blame. Everyone knows that at the prcsent moment the Negro masses throughout the coun- try ave greatly aroused by the rapidly multiplying persecuticns and attacks. The s‘ruggle against lynching and for civil rights ts a; most pressing issue with them. The recent picksting of the National Conference against Crime in Wash- ington by Negro students and teaches, usually so reticent when it comes to public action of this kind, ant Mayberry told the court, how- ever, that the police department thought it. best to dismiss the charges. The Chief of Police, who, had received numerous protest tele- | grams and letters from workers’ or- | Banizations all over the country, ; Educational Society contributed $20; day should write to Bill Doyle, sec- | training in the schools, and an end | Unemployment Insurance Bill dur- The main report will be given by ing the last two weeks: Street Car- | James Egan, representing the na- | men, Metal Polishers, Mill and Ele- | tional arrangements committee for | vator Workers, Glass Cutters League | the Washington conference. | of America, Painters and Decorators,| Organizations desiring informa- and the Bakers. The Mechanics| tion concerning the meeting Satur- | | of today,” and that “the New Deal} bas brought security to a small minority of industrialists and bank- | ers.” The Congress demanded the abo- lition of the C. M. T. C., the R. O. T. C. and all forms of military) sneaked out of the court room be- i towards sending a delegate to Wash- | retary of Arrangements Committee, | to discrimination and oppression of | fore the case was called. By JAMES to demand action against lynching indicates how deeply all sections of the Negro masses are moved. It is on the basis of this vital interest that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peovie together with a number of middle class and liberal organizations is carrying on a campaign for the Wagner - Costigan Anti - Lynching Bill, holding mass meetings, carry- ing on a petition drive, etc. Al- though the N. A. A. C. P. lost much of its prestige among the Neg:zo masses because of its Uncle Tom role in the Scottsboro and Crawford Cases, it now stands good chances of regaining at least some of this prestige at the expense of the mili- tant and revolutionary movement. N. A. A. C. P. Reform’sm This does not mean that the N. A. A. C. P. has lest its Uncle Tom- ism. The Anti-Lynching Bill it) supports and attempts to get the masses to support is essentially a measure to “save the face” of the Roosevelt Administration, which despite all its beautiful promises, has not only done nothing to stop lynching but has intensified those conditions, such as the differential wage of the codes, which give rise to it. It is sufficient to point to two} main conditions of the Wagne:- Costigan Bill to show that in itself, Other things being favorable (such | as the willingness of the federal | government to stop lynching), it not and cannot serve as an anli- lynching weapon. In the fitst place, the death penalty is only conditional: it sets the penalty for lynchers at from 20 years imprisonment to death, leaving it entirély to a jury in a southern state to decide which it ington. S. ALLEN shall be, taking for granted, first, that the guilty are arrested and second that such a jury finds them guilty.) In the second place, lynch- ing is treated “by definition,” not as a reality. The Bill says not a word about the conditions which give rise to lynching, nothing at ail about the whole series of persecu- tions and discriminations which are of the same, although less violent, order as lynching. But even more important is the whole manner in which the N. A. A. C. P. and other supporters of the Bill would have the masses believe that an anti-lynching bill can be }enforced. The illusion is created and spread that by winning over a few congressmen and by holding a few conferences with church and liberal groups the Bill can be forced through a “New Deai” Congress and be put into life. With Roosevelt in such serious need for a liberal cloak with which to cover mass pauperi- zation especially in the South and under the pressure of wide protest against such lynchings as at Marianna, there is some possibility of such a bill being passed by the next Congress. But this would simply be a gesture, another sta- tute to be listed in the morgue with the Civil Wa> amendments. Methods of Anti-Lynch Bill Whether an effective bill against lynehing is passed and enforced depends primarily upon the mahner | in Which it is forced upon a fodsral congress. If the passage of an ci- fective bill comes as a result of a/ nation-wide mass movement in which the masses are fully aware of their own role in forcing it through, then there 18 a basis for its enforce- ment. For it comes as a result of 1524 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh. ‘the Negro people. Struggle for Negro Civil Rights Spurred by Scottsboro Case | mass pressure, organized and aware; mass campaign, having at its cen-| of the pitfalls of constitutional illu- | ter the struggle fo: the Civil Rights sions and ready to demand and fight for its enforcement at the/ first opportunity. But this means rousing and organizing a mass movement, sweeping broad masses of both whites and Negroes into it. This is something neither Wagner, Costigan nor the N, A. A. C. P. de- sires. It remains for us to do it. The already large Scottsboro defense movement is the stating point for such a campaign, for it is already aware of everything that has to be} done and is already involved in a} struggle for civil rights. We also! have a bill, clear of the illusions which the N. A. A. C. P.-supporied | Bill, is immediately set into motion. j As already shown in Cleveland, | where the City Council was forced | to pess an anti - discrimination | statute as the result of a movement initiated by the League of Struggle | for Negro Rights and the I. L. D./ after Mrs. Wright, one of the| Scottsboro mothers, had been re-| fused sérvice in a local restaurant, immediate and local struggles for Negro rights can serve as the lever for developing a nation-wide mass | campaign for the Civil Rights Bill. A strenuous struggle against dis- crimination in the unions should be the basis for involving trade union- | ists in the campaign. The Bill must be brought before trade union bill fosters. It is the Civil Rights | podies, f-aternal organizations, Bill, a draft of which was already) iogges, churches, etc, for official presented to President Roosevelt by) action. On the basis of local the Scottsboro March to Washing- ton afte: the first Decatur trial. As its name implies, this Bill presents clearly the connection between lynching and the general oppression of the Negro masses and raises all the social issues so keenly felt by the Negro masses today, It pro- vides the death penalty for lynchers. | It is the instrument around which the whole Negro people will rally once it is properly presented and explained. Fight For Civil Rights But we have not yet taken up this tatk with the energy it deserves. This is the present necessary task not only in ¢onnection with the Scottsboro case but also with regard to the fight for Negro rights. We stand in danger of tripping on the next step in exténding the Negro liberation movement unless a broad Struggles and affiliations the force | can be created which can bring about the passage of the Bill as} the victory of the mass movement. | DEC. 31 si | Daily Worker N. J. Assembly Votes to Back Newark Guild Resolution Is Response To Broad Support ven Strikers J., Dec. 19.—So is the mass support beh k editorial kers of the New: Ledger at the State Assembly of New Jersey last night passed a resolution endorsing the efforts of the American Newspaper Guild to obtain recognition, and better conditions for editorial workers. The resolution does not mention the Ledger strike, but in a general way cites the aim of the Guild to obtain recognition, the right of col- NEWARK, N. Tgaining, and raise the of living of editorial resolved,” the resoluti “that the Hc of A obtain recognition and s overworked, underpaid newspaper- men and women in the state of New Jersey a living wage, reason- able working hours and some measure of security in their em- ployment.” After being addressed by repre- sentatives of the strikers, the Un- ion County Labor Council, meeting the same evening, went on record endorsing the strike of the Ledger workers. The council represents 50,000 workers in an area which includes much of the circulation of the Ledger. All delegates were in- | Structed to report to their locals that the Ledger is on the unfair list. Meanwhile strikers and many sympathizing organizations are going ahead with preparations for the mass labor parade on Dec. 23, | which may prove to be a record demonstration for Newark. More than 20,000 trade unionists in the immediate vicinity are expected to take part. Delegations from chap- ters of the Guild in other part: the country are expected to ar for the march. The parade will begin at 3 p. m. from Washington Park. Young German Worker Faces Deportation SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 19. —Otto Richter, militant young worker arrested during the West Coast longshoremen strike, is in imminent danger of bi deported to Hitler Germany, where he faces certain torture and death. Federal Judge St. Sure last week denied a petition by the Interna- tional Labor Defense attorneys for a writ to reopen the case. The writ was based on the traditional right of political asylum. An I. L. D. motion for a ten-day ; Stay in the execution of an order for revocation of Richter’s bail and for his re-arrest was also denied by the federal judge. Richter’s state- ment from prison, following his ar- rest in the strike, calling on the workers to vote Communist, was introduced as evidence against him by the prosecution. Richter is 20 years old and has a revolutionary record in Germany as a member of the *“oung Com- muist League of Germany. In the light of the bloody record of Hit- ler’s murder crew there can be no doubt of Richter’s fate if he is handed over to the Nazi butchers. The Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born and the LL.D. are urging all mass organizations and | individuals to rush protests at once to D. W. McCormack, U. 8. Labor Department, Washington, D. C., to Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, and to President Roosevelt. In getting signatures for the ballot on the Workers’ Unemployment insur- ance Bill (HK. Y59S), Speak to the voter about the Daily Work- er and ask him to subscribe, An increased circulation of the paper 1s imperative ror the organiza- tion of workers around the fight for unemployment insurance. . Philadelphia, Pa. The STEVEDORE Cast will appear at the \vorxer CONCERT WORKER FRL, DEC. 2ist Boslover Hail 8 P. M. 701 PINE ST. ot— Juanita Halil, G. Harry Bolden, Annis Davis, Esther Hall—all introduced by LEIGH WHIPYER, Master of Ceremonies, HEA! JAMES W. FORD and MOTHER BLOOR Red Vaudeville by Nature Friends Dram Group, English Workers Chorus, Chalk talk by Al Lavone Admission 25e with ticket; 30¢ without — Cleveland, Ohio — NEW YEAR'S EVE. RED PRESS MASQUERADE BALL PROSPECT AUDITORIUM 2612 Prospect Avenue DANCING — GOOD ORCHESTRA FAMOUS SOVIET MOVIE Admission at door 30c, with ad 25c ARRANGED BY DAILY WORKER, MORNING PREIHEIT and YOUNG WORKER