The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1934 Illinois Communists Map Broad Unity Plan in Election’ Red Nominees Red Front Grows in Spain As Anarchists Join Alliance To Lead Fight On New Deal Will Support Workers’ Tickets Wherever They Are Formed CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 20—In a resolution defining the relation of the Communist Party to the Work- ers’ Ticket in the coming Spring elections of 1935, the District Com- mittee declared that the Communist Party will support the Workers Ticket wherever it exists in the state, but that this support must al- ways take place with the under- standing that the Communist Party always acts as a fully autonomous party with its own revolutionary program. In entering the united front elec- tion ticket, the Communist Party will concentrate its fire against the | New Deal, the policies of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor leaders and the leadership of the Socialist Party, the District Committee de- clared. The full statement follows: RESOLUTION ON THE WORKERS’ TICKET IN ILLINOIS (Adopted by the District Commit- tee, Communist Party, Dist. No, 8 Dec, 8 and 9, 1934) The District Committee of the Communist Party, District No. 8, declares that in the Spring, 1935, municipal elections in the State of Illinois, the Communist Party has the task of developing, organizing and leading broad united front elec- tion struggles. It must unite around the burning issues confronting the workers and toiling masses in each and every community all the workers in the shops and mines, or- ganizations of the unemployed, lo- cals of the Socialist Party, Negro mass organizations, youth, women, | all other working class organiza tions, organizations of veteran: small home owners, small deposi- | tors, etc. To accomplish su¢h unity in the industrial and mining communi- tiés, we can enter into the election campaign on the Workers’ Ticket Where a base for such & broad united front exists. Workers’ Ticket No Substitute Under no circumstances is the Workers’ Ticket to be a substitute for the Communist Party ticket. This means that in localities where We are not in a position to develop; broad mass united fronts with th trade unions, organizations of the unemployed and other working class organizations, there shall be no Workers’ Ticket, but the Communist Party shall enter into the municipal elections on its own program, with its own candidates, developing united front for the support of the Party platform and candidates, ap- pealing to the masses of workers to support the Communist Party in its struggle to establish the united front. Where the Workers’ Ticket is es- tablished, the Communist Party has the task and duty not only to par-| | Street monopoly direct control of the N.R.A. codes ticipate and be part and parcel of the Workers’ Ticket, but also inde- pendently develop election struggles, | directly by the Communist Party by | leading struggles, organizing mass; meetings, issue leaflets, in support of the Workers’ Ticket and bring forward the Party program. The Communists who are nominated on the Workers’ Ticket must carry the campaign as Communists. Under no circumstances can the Communist Party enter into the united front on a “citizen's,” “pro- gressive,” or any other similar tick- éts, which blunts the class charac- ter of the election struggle, nor can the Communist Party be committed to the policy of supporting any kind of “progressive,” “liberal,” or so- called labor candidates. The candi- dates, who are to be nominated on the Workers’ Ticket, should be known militant workers, members of working class organizations, workers from the shops or mines, trade unions, unemployed organiza- tions, members of the Communist Party or Socialist Party, United Front for C. P. In the city of Chicago, in the al- dermanic elections, united front working class conferences are to nominate working class candidates in the so-called non-partisan elec- tions. It is our task to have such united front ward conferences to endorse the Communist Party ticket | in the city elections, Karl Lockner for Mayor, Samuel T. Hammers- mark for City Treasurer and Her- bert Newton for City Clerk. All the united front conferences in the State of Dlinois at which the Workers’ Ticket is to be established and candidates nominated in all wards in the city of Chicago, shall be combined with big mass meet- ings which shall conclude the con- ferences and the decisions, platform and candidates set by the confer- ences shall be endorsed by such Mass meetings. The main task of the Communist Party where it enters as the Com-| munist Party in the elections, or together with other working class organizations in the Workers’ Tick- et, is to center the attack upon the New Deal, upon all kinds of social demagogues and such movements as the “third party,” the policies of the Socialist Party leaders, the policies of the bureaucrats of the American Federation of Labor, Railroad Brotherhoods, and the Progressive Miners of America, who are preach- ing non-partisan policy, “reward your friends and punish your ene- mies,” which means supporting the “capitalist candidates of the Repub- lican and Democratic parties. Concentration Tasks The ‘ask confronting the Party in| the Spring elections is in the course f the elections to carry out con- centration tasks in the shops and trade unions, | _ $ Blows of Fascism Weld Working Class Unity Against Reaction The silence of censorship hangs over Spain. Louis Sirval, the last journalist caught trying to get news of the truth, was immedi- ately taken to the local barracks and there murdered by an army officer. Here, smuggled from Madrid, is the true picture of what is hap- pening in Spain today. It shows a capitalist government fighting with all the savage wea- pons of fascism against a working class front, which not only is un- broken, but is growing stronger day by day. (London Daily Worker) | MADRID.—“Make concessions to the Right-wing Socialists now, be- | fore it is too late. The united front jis growing fast. When the full united front of the working class parties against us becomes a reality we shall all be done for,” This is the significant advice be- ing given today in Madrid to the | Lerroux government by bourgeois political leaders. | These leaders have realized, and jin the cafes of the capital and the lobbies of the parliament building they make no bones about the fact that the suppression of the revolt at |the beginning of October has not | brought the expected “triumph of | fascism.” Nor has it, as was expected, re- | sulted in the breaking of the united | front of the Socialists and Commu- nists. On the contrary. The united front (Workers’ Alliance) is now receiving support from the im- mensely powerful Anarchist Union organizations, which formerly most bitterly opposed the revolu- tionary policy suggested for the Workers’ Alliance by the Commu- nist Party. | In Saragossa, one of the two main Anarchist strongholds, the rank and file of the Anarchist unions has within the past couple 1 | | i | | (Continued from Pag cial reference to jobless relief. | Catering to the widespread demand for some kind of unemployment insurance, declare for the plan of “insurance reserves” to be paid for by the workers and to apply only at some | distant future and for very brief pe! | cynically, the employers state, “no plan of unem- ployment reserves can be of any immediate help in | relieving the present problem as there must be a | considerable time for the accumulation of reserves. There is, therefore, ample time for Coupled with their proposals through “voluntary agreements in these planks of their program are thus seen to con- tain all the elements of further against the whole working class, a profits through deepening the misery of the masses, a drive to smash trade unions an | drive to solve the crisis at the majority of the population. * * IS not now clear from this plan class faces the most determined mines, to build trade unions, organ- ization of the unemployed, the Communist Party, Young Commu- nist League, to lead and develop struggles of the workers in the shops, in the trade unions, unem- ployed, Negro masses, young work- ers, women laborers and poor farm- mers. The adoption of the election plat- forms concretely meeting the needs and problems of the masses. These platforms must be centered about the struggle against fascism and war, for the right of the workers to organize, to strike, assemble, against the attempt to suppress the Com- munist Party, for the Workers’ Un- employment and Social Insurance | Bill, H.R. 7598, for increase of wages, | for shortening working hours, etc. Basing ourselves upon such de- mands and leading workers in strug- | gle for these demands, the Commu- |nist Party can be victorious in the elections, can elect tis candidates for Mayor, for aldermen and therefore make further advances in struggle against capitalism, for the destruc- tion of capitalism, for a Soviet America. In every case where the Workers’ ticket is to be put up, final ap- proval rests with the District Com- mittee. West New York Y. C. L. Honors George Calissi UNION CITY, N. J, Dec. 20— An official weloome at a banquet and dance has been arranged by the Young Communist League here for George Calissi, who has been re- leased from jail after serving 110 days for distributing leaflets adver- tising a National Youth Day meet- ing. The event will be held at the Workers Center in West New York, 309 Seventh Street at 8 p.m. to- morrow. The Finnish Workers Club in Staten Island, N. ¥., held a party for the Dally Worker and col- lected $16.80. Send your dollar bill in to help the “Daily” go over the top. ~ charity, all this to be achieved by “confining un- employment relief to an indispensable minimum for | all emergency expenditures next year...” with espe- | of weeks made a clean sweep of the old reformist bureaucrat lead- ership. The new leaders have al- ready responded to the demand of the rank and file by announcing their readiness to enter the Work- | | ers’ Alliances, | The Anarchists are producing a | number of illegal papers in Madrid. | To anyone who knew the Anarchist | | | Press before the revolt the change | today is staggering. | Then they were full of the most violent attacks on Communism— “the red Jesuits’—as they used to call them. Today all attacks on} Communism and Communists have been completely dropped. Searchlight on Spain Here is another episode which| | turns a searchlight on the position | in Spain today, As is already known, immediately | \after the revolt the government | proceeded to raise a huge fund for! the purpose of making a general! “bonus” distribution to _ soldiers, | military police, Civil Guards and) others used in the struggle against | the workers. | Big corporations, banks, electrical | companies and others — including | the biggest smuggler operating in Spain, and several American corpo- rations—gave large sums. The government, knowing the real state of mind of the soldiers, thought the bribe would not be big enough. So they proceeded to start | a subscription list among all gov- ernment employes, as for instance Post office workers, Exactly copying the trick used by the Nazis in raising money, they did | not—and dared not—actually an-| nounce that the subscription was compulsory. They simply said that lists of all those who subscribed would be kept and published, This was a clear threat to every- one who might be unwilling to subscribe. It shows very signifi- cantly the similarity between fas- cist methods in Spain and in Ger- many. Nevertheless, the Madrid rail- waymen, who are government em- ployes under special emergency AN EDITORIAL e 1) This is what to the coming Unemployment in Washington. the employers riods only. Very investigation.” for giving Wall Unions Retain Strength, | Defy Government, Despite Terror legislation, actually refused to subscribe. They announced they would raise a subscription not for the armed forces but for the or- Phans of the miners killed in As- turias, This open defiance of the govern- ment by the Madrid railway men is an amazing example of how the union organizations have main- tained their strength and their fighting power despite the “crush- ing” of the revolt. Methods of Attack The government has two methods of conducting its attacks on the/ unions. One is direct military and police action, involving arrest ang murder of union leaders, and the closing of union headquarters. The other is starvation. All the formerly outstanding lead- ing Socialist politicians and union leaders in Madrid are at this mo- ment in jail. Scores gf union secre- taries throughout the country have been shot. All over the country | union branch headquarters have | been forcibly closed. The Communist Party leaders in Madrid, better trained in revo- lutionary work, are—with one ex- ception—still at large and carry- ing on intense and immensely suc- cessful revolutionary activity among the Madrid workers, A significant fact is that the Socialist unions are now developed to the point where they are able to work effectively, despite the closing of their headquarters and the condition of partial illegality. It is notable that when the po- lice tried to seize the unions’ funds, they found that the Spanish Social- ists had learned from the unhappy and scandalous example of the Ger- man Social-Democrats, whose funds fell an easy prey to the Nazis, In Spain, on the other hand, the funds had been properly concealed, and the police found the cupboards bare. Big Business Presents Its ‘United Front’ Program It is not clear how crying is the need for united action by all workers of whatever union or party, in defense of the daily, elementary needs of themselves and their families? gives such added importance now National Congress for Social and Insurance, to meet on Jan, 5 to 7 This Congress now becomes the immediate focal point of every working class force in the country, organizing to meet this new challenge of the Wall Street employers! ‘This Congress will draw up the program of the working class, the program that will formulate the immediate needs of every worker in the country. It will challenge the miserable “reserves” plan of the employers with its own plan, the Workers’ Un- each industry,” employment Insurance Bill H, R, 7598! It will chal- upon by the country’s most powerful employers for the 74th Congress that American labor in the trade unions, that the entire American working living standards in this generation? fascist reaction drive to increase strike for better from the govern! id wage | 3, a expense of the of action agreed attack upon its lJenge the employers with the demand for a 30-hour week, with no cut in pay! American working class the right to organize and It will demand for the conditions without any hindrance ment or the employers! Our class enemies have their “united front!” Socialist and A, can there be for delaying our own working class unity against the enemy? Build the united front! Congress for Social and Unemployment Insurance! Support the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill for Federal unemployment insurance, to be paid by the government and the employers! F, of L. workers! What reason Support the National ‘Bankers to Confer With Roosevelt (Continued from Page 1) ing the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, calls for the most drastic attack on wage scales and unions since the years following the last war. The program calls for the removal of all relief questions to the locali- ties and private charity, with wage soales on government relief projects to be “substantially below private industry.” Advocating the continuance of the N.R.A. codes in a modied form that will take care of the needs of the monopolies without any interference from government officials, the pro- gram calls for “voluntary associa- tion” of the various groups within each industry,.as well as more “flex- ible” provisions of price-fixing and hour regulations. | A call for the firm establshment of open shop condtions all over the country is sounded in the provision calling for the “guarantee of the right to refrain from joining any labor organization.” Company unions are advocated also in the provision demanding a “collective bargaining through direct, representation chosen without co- ercion from any source,” Wages are atiacked as being too high now the plan demanding “low construction costs necessitates the femoyal of artificial restraints in- creasing costs whether of material or labor.” Wages were also attacked in the provision stating that “do- mestic production costs lessen the ability to compete in foreign trade.” The ruthless slashing of all gov- ernment relief expenditures was called for in the next twelve months, Emphasizing that the removal of some of the old N.R.A, restrictions does not in any sense mean the lessening of monopoly control, the program calls for continued estab- lishment of “fair trade practices” regarding prices and competition, meaning continued protection of monopoly, Relief Workers Made To Seab InSummit,N.J. SUMMIT, N. J. Dec. 20—De- mands that the city administration stop forcing relief workers to scab at the Feifer Slipper Company, where there is a strike, and that the City Council endorse the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill, were presented to the City Council and Mayor Snooks Tuesday night by a joint delegation of the Summit Local 2177 of the United ‘Textile Workers Union, A. F. of L., and Local 23 of the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union, a New York independent organization which is conducting the strike. The strike has been on for more than four weeks, when the company moved its plant from New York in the hope of “running away” from ied i labor and union condi- The delegation of strikers headed by Sam Ziebel and Irving Glass demanded that the city administra- tion turn over the list of unem- Ployed who are scheduled to work in the Feifer shop to the union, that the police do not interfere with the strike activities and that the city council endorse the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill. Have ‘you secured a new sub- seriber to the Daily Worker? 400 Strikers Tie Up Frisco Ocean Liners Strike of Bargemen Is Solid After Four Weeks SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dee. 20.— Thousands of tons of freight are piled on the docks here as ranks of \the 400 striking bargemen remain solid, seriously tying up docks of major steamship lines. Operation of river steamers to Sacramento and Stockton has been completely sus- pended. The Panama-Pacific, Grace, Luckenbach and American- Hawaiian lines are among those most seriously affected. The bargemen, members of the International Longshoremen’s Union, are entering the third *week of their strike for 85 cents per hour j and $1.25 for overtime. A proposal of the employers for 66 cents per hour was turned down by the strikers. Their present wages are 50 cents per hour with no increase for overtime. The workers agreed to call off a previous strike when the Regional Labor Board promised ac- tion that was never forthcoming. County Heads Change Ruling On Marchers (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 20,— “Let them march to Washington. That's where the relief money comes from.” ‘This was the reply made today hy County Commissioner Gorman to the committee arranging Saturday’s relief march when the committee demanded that the County Com- missioners call a special meeting to receive a delegation of the march- ers. In spite of dodging and an out- right refusal, the Commissioners finally were compelled to call the special meeting for Saturday under the pressure of the intense mass} preparations being made for the march. The Commissioners will meet at 2:30 on Saturday to receive a dele- gation of unemployed workers and to discuss with them taxes and the allocation of relief funds. This will be the first time that such a meet- ing has taken place, Tens of thousands of leafiets have been distributed, and relief stations are being picketed in the mobiliza- tion for the march which will start from the Public Square at one o'clock on Saturday afteznoon. A fieet of trucks has been enlisted to transport workers from outlying neighborhoods to the scene of the demonstration, The demands of the relief march- ers are: Forty dollars emergency cash re- lief for families and $15 for single workers for Witter necessities to be paid before Christmas. Increase of $1 in relief, cash rent for all unemployed. Public investigation of discrimina- tion against Negroes. Representation of the unemployed on the Relief Board. Immediate suspension of pay- ments to bankers till the passage of the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill, Immediate stopping of all evic- tions and foreclosures, Protest Urged Against Trial For Rakosi Indictment has ‘been brought against Matthias Rakosi in Buda- pest and his trial is expected almost immediately, according to informa- tion received here by the Inter- national Labor Defense yesterday, Rakosi is still held in jail by the Hungarian government, though the eight and a half year term to which he was sentenced in 1925 expired some months ago. The indictment against Rakosi, it is now learned, lists every execu- tion of counter-revolutionists car- ried out during the rule of the So- viets in Hungary, and charges him with murder in each case, He is also charged with “counterfeiting” because the Hungarian Soviets seized the banknote printing press and issued their own currency. He is charged with responsibility for every arrest made during the pe- riod of Soviet rule. Death by hanging the state for Rakosi The I. L. D. has called for the organization of the broadest cam- paign, directed in protest to the Hungarian embassy at Washington, and to the Hungarian consulates throughout the country, demanding the freedom of Rakosi. An inter- national campaign in 1925, it was pointed out, forced the military court which originally tried and sentenced him to death, to with- draw its verdict and sentence and turn him over to a civil court, which imposed the prison sentence Rakosi has now finished serving. A number of People’s Commissars under the Hungarian Soviets, who are Social Democrats, are now liv- ing in peace and quiet in Hungary, it was pointed out, while Rakosi. who has alzeady served eight and a half years of inhuman torture, is named as “chief instigator” and “accomplice,” and is to be tried for the actions of the revolutionary goy- is demanded by i. ernment of Hungary fifteen years ago, Biro-Bidjan (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRO-BIDJAN, Dec. 20 (By wire- less)—The first Congress of Soviets of the first Jewish Autonomous Region in the world opened here on Dec. 18. Over three hundred delegates, from every section of the Region, from the collective farms and the new construction works, were pres- ent at the Congress. Numerous delegations from all the vari ous Republics and Regions of the Soviet Union came to bring greetings, and congratulations poured in. from thousands of organizations and in- dividuals. Greetings to the histori- cal Congress also came from New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Warsaw, and from every other big city in the world. The Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Government, through its President, Mikhail Kalinin, sent a telegram hailing the formation of the Jewish Autonomous Region as one of the great gains of the October Revolution and as a new proof of the unswerving Leninist- Stalinist national policy. The tele- gram said: “The All-Russian Central Execu- tive Committee expresses full con- fidence that with the international fraternal aid of the toilers of the whole country, under the leadership of the Communist Party, the Jew- ish Autonomous Region will secure great victories on all fronts of socialist construction.” Region Actually Formed in 1928 The history of the Jewish Auton- omous Region is older than the act of its formation. Actually it began in 1928, when the Soviet gov- ernment made a decision to set aside the Biro-Bidjan district of the Far East for population by toiling Jews, Even this decision foresaw the possibility of the conversion of the district into an autonomous Jewish national territorial unit if the experiment of colonization gave favorable results. The experiment has fully justified itself. During the past six years the economic physiognomy of Biro- Bidjan has been completely trans- formed. Scores of scientific re- search expeditions have studied and described the exceptional natural wealth of the region—forests, iron, magnesite, coal, gold, graphite, furs, fish, and fertile land. The exploita- tion of this wealth has already Begins First Session With 300 Delegates Congress begun, In six years the population has almost doubled. The sown area has increased over two and a half times. The sown area of the col- lective farms is 98 per cent of the total peasant sowings. Thanks to the organization of machine-tractor | stations and the improvement of | agricultural methods the harvest has increased. i A particular fact which requires | mention is the great increase in bee-keeping, which possesses un-| usual prospects here. The number | of hives has doubled since Jewish | colonization. Industry Also Advanced Along with agriculture industry has also advanced. Twelve saw- mills, six woodworking factories, and a railway tie plant are already working in the Region. A number of factories in light industry are | being built—a clothing factory, a/ wheel factory, etc. The growth of industrial cooperation, the finding of trained cadres among the Jewish handicraftsmen, has been especially noted. Thirty-five industrial artels are working, already producing goods valued at 7,300,000 rubles. Cultural construction, in connec- tion with the general economic rise, has widely developed. During the last few years in the Region scores of new cultural institutions have been built—schools, hospitals, kin- dergartens, nurseries, libraries, etc, A Pedagogical College was opened and an Agricultural Institute for Scientific Research specially trains cadres of Jewish specialists for the Region. A Jewish theater opened | recently, receiving new premises in the regional center. The correct materialization of the national policy of the Soviet Union and the fraternal collaboration of the toilers of all nationalities in the Region opens tremendous perspec- tives for its further construction. In 1935 the Region will receive a new inflow of 12,000 Jewish colonists and will conduct the further con- struction of agricultural, industrial and national-cultural projects. House-building will develop widely in 1935. The completion of the program of construction for the forthcoming period will completely transform the city of Biro-Bidjan, converting it in the near future into an advanced industrial and cultural center, not only in the Region but in the entire Far Eastern territory. Green Assailed For His Stand (Continued from Page 1) to 26 weeks and exclude whole groups of workers, such as govern- ment employees and domestic and agricultural workers. ... ” Invites Inspection of Lists Anderson invited “all persons in- terested” also to look over the list of sponsors of our congress, which includes not only the radicals on whom Mr. Green tries to concen- trate attention, but hundreds of or- ganizations making up a representa- tion of the cross-section of the whole American population, Hitting the Congress’s Workers Unemployment and Social Insur- ance bill proposal for Federal Un- employment Insurance for the pres- ent and future unemployed at the expense of the employers and the government, Lubin and Hill de- clare that the scheme whereby “contributions” are made by the workers, employers, and the goy- ernment, provides “excellent checks and balances.” The two new deal- ers assert also that “no system of unemployment relief can complete- ly escape the danger of demoralizing some of its beneficiaries,” although “for every British worker demoral- ized, a score may owe their self- respect and personal integrity to national unemployment insurance.” N.R. A. Hinders Union Vote (Continued from Page 1) radio priest and organizer of the new potentially fascist movement, the National Union for Social Jus- tice, was one of the two nominated. Some of the workers showed their contempt for the whole business by voting for Santa Claus, Babe Ruth and Herbert Hoover. Thee elections were officially boy- cotted by the A. F. of L. lead- ers They bear full responsibil- ity for foisting this company scheme on the workers because they helped negotiate the infamous Washington settlement of March 25, under whose provisions the elections are being held. The militant Auto Workers! Union, affiliated to the Trade Union | Unity League, has called on all legitimate trade unions to form a united front to combat the new. employer - government drive to; smash genuine labor organization. To prevent the splitting of the trade union vote, it has urged all production workers to vote for the A. F. of L. and all tool and die makers for the M. E. 8. A, 9,000 New Homes Built in Don Basin (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 20. (By Wireless). —-Nine thousand families of work- ers and specialists ere bh in the new apartments built in the Don Basin in the first eleven months of 1934, sed employment and Social Insurance that the Bill would receive his! Unions Override Green on Congress (Continuea from Page 1) Bid- in a house to house canvass. deford is a textile town. Minnesota Conference Meets ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 20. — A united front conference held last night at the Labor Temple, and at- tended by delegates from sixteen A. F. of L. locals, as well as other: unions and organizations, endorsed | the Workers Social Insurance Bill and the National Congress for Un- to be held in Washington, D. C., on Jan. 5, 6, 7. In addition to the large A. F. of L, delegation, there were delegates from three Farmer Labor clubs, the National Farmer Labor Federation, the industrial unions, the Unem- ployment Councils, the Communist Party and three fraternal organi- zations, Boston A. F. L. Locals Elect BOSTON, Mass. Dec. 20.—Car- penters Local 157 of Boston and Painters Local 623 of Chelsea have added their endorsements to the coming National Congress for Un- employment Insurance and elected delegates. Painters Local 11, the largest in Boston, has likewise en- dorsed the Congress. The Lynn Jewish School has elected official delegates, A committee which visited the State office of the Socialist Party were told by A. B. Lewis that ‘while the Socialist Party wholeheartedly supports the Workers Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill, it does not sponsor the National Con- gress. Lewis sent letters to the Amelgamated Clothing Workers Union and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and other A. F. of L, unions in which So- cialists are in the leadership, stat- ing their endorsement of the Work- ers’ Bill, and informing the unions to act independently. The Malden sponsoring commit- tee wrung from Congressman Arthur D. Healey, lip-service and verbal support to the Workers’ Bill. Congressman Healey said that he was “in favor of legislation along | the lines” of the Workers’ Bill, and “consideration and attention when Congress convenes.” NEW: » N. J., Dee. 20, — The Ukranian Toilers Organization Yed- nist, here endorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. Each member pledged to collect twenty- five ballots in the Daily Worker drive to obtain one million votes for the Workers’ Bill. A conference of all Ukranian or- ganizations here will be held Thursday, Dec. 27, at 7:30 p. m., at 59 Bescon Street, for the pur- pose of clecting delegates to the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance, Buffalo Conference Sundey BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 20, — A Ledger Parac: Is Postpone, Until Jan. 6t, Strikers Move De‘ Ahead to Allow 2 Union Vote NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 20.—' make possible a record mobilizatiy of labor here for the mass para in support of the Ledger strikes, originally scheduled for Dec. 23, th! arrangements committee postpond { the demonstration to Jan. 6. jj was found that many large union had not had a chance to meet ans) arrange for a full participation dt their membership. The committe) estimates that 35 locals with membership of 23,000, all marching is their goal for January 6. In answer to the latest statement ‘ of Lucius T. Russell, publisher o the Ledger, that he has a full staf . and has “nothing to mediate,” th: strike committee states that as soor' as the strike was called the pub- : lisher sent out a flood of telegram: ; asking for scabs to the managing ; editors of many newspapers, who immediately obliged with about 40 ‘ About 15 newspaper men refused to! scab upon learning of the true con- ditions, but of those turning out? the Ledger now the strike commit< tee states: “The Ledger is now in- adequately manned by a sorry bunch of second-raters and the / paper shows it.” A check on the‘ circulation made by the strike com- mittee shows a drop of between 40 and 50 per cent. Russell’s recent attempt to rally } mass support with posters stating that he employs only union labor, displaying the names of the six printing crafts in the shops was also hit by a resolution adopted at the Allied Printing Trades, which gives full endorsement to the strike of the editorial workers, 3 Newspaper Guild Tells ., Richberg Labor Board Is Partial to Bosses In a letter to Donald Richberg, made public yesterday, the national officers of the American Newspaper Guild reaffirmed the Guild’s posi- tion that no serious consideration of the demands of its members could be expected from the N.R.A. The letter signed by Broun, Jona- than Eddy, Robert M. Buck, and Morris Watson, is in reply to Rich- berg’s charge that letters sent to him by the Guild have been “insult- ing.” The Guild letter said, in part: “We asked for some assurance that you would desist from actions prejudicial to our interests as wage earners. We received from you @ letter completely dodging the issue, alleging that had you seen fit to meet them we would have been in- capable of understanding. “We have no desire to enter into a stooping contest with a gentleman who is always ticing his shoe when there is duty to be done. We are more concerned with the honest ad- ministration of your office than with your dignity. “Your failure to answer our ques= tions, coupled with your hostile re- ply, makes it plain to everyone what sort of impartial finding can be expected from a body directed ex- clusively by yourself.” Students: Get your classmates to read the Daily Worker, fore- front in the fight for academic freedom, aainst compulsory mil- itary training, etc. Ask them to subscribe! electing delegates to the National Congress for Unemployment Insur- ance will be held here Sunday after- noon at 2:30 o'clock at the Teck Theatre Building, 760 Main Street, third floor. The conference is to include only members of fraternal orders. Waterbury S. P. Represented WATERBURY, Conn., Dec. 20.— Two delegates to Washington were elected at the Conference for Un- employment Insurance held at the Y. M. ©. A. last night. “A com- mittee consisting of Joseph Nygren, Progressive party leader of Nauga- tuck, Attorney Perry Gracerstein and John W. Ring, Socialist leader, was appointed to contact various‘ organizations in the city to arrange for the election of delegates. Another meeting has been called for Thursday, Dec. 27, at which names of delegates will be an- nounced and details of the sendoff meeting will be arranged. The sendoff mesting to provide funds for the trip will be held on Jan. 2, Organizations represented at the conference were: the Russian Mu- tual Aid Society; Association of Lithuanian Workers; Lithuanian Sick and Death Benefit Society; Steel and Metal Workers Union; Communist Party; Young Commu- nist League; International Labor Defense; Order of Moose; Chamber of Commerce; International Jewelry Workers Union; New England Order of Protection; Society of Argen- tina; Italian Sick and Death Bene- fit Society. Shoe Workers Elect (Special to the Daily Worker) Mass., 20.— Packers and Treers Local Number Nine of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union today elected an official delegate to the "National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance. The union has a membership of over 1,000. Great enthusiasm on the part of the membership grested the Call to the Congress and the election of the delegates, while other locals conference sponsored by the Inter- nev‘onal “Worers Order and the Sons of Italy for the purpose of 2 are expected to follow the action of the Lasters and the Packers and Treezs, the two largest shoe locals here in electing official delegates, , ey