The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1934, Page 3

men to disqualify the local vote. s DAILY WORKER, MAJORITY OF VOTE F-ER.A. Drops CAST FOR NOLKER> _ IN UMWA ELECTION Rank and File of the Union Prepares to Block | Attempts of Pat Fagan’s Clique To Steal Nolker’s Vote By Tom PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 20.—As rank and file represen- | tatives scour District Five of Keenan the United Mine Workers for full, authentic results of last Tuesday’s balloting, preparatory to blocking the obvious attempt of Pat Fagan to steal the election, reports are being brought in of the Lewis machine’s maneuvers to stem the tide of votes ,; ‘east in favor of Charley Nolker, | rank and file candidate for presi- | dent. | Miners report that in Logans Fer- | ry, scene of last summer's strike, where Fagan revoked a charter and then set up a new local under ap-/| Pointed officials to blacklist forty- | one militants, the entire vote was) thrown out. One hundred and fifty | ballots over the number of voters | were stuffed into the box by Lewis! Three To One for Nolker Tellers of Curtisville No. 3, where Nolker holds the office of local union chairman, told of an attempt by a crowd of drunken Lewis hangers-on to break into the union hall while the votes were being tab- ulated. Nolker’s local registered 149 votes for him and only 47 ballots for Fagan, Many outlying locals were still to | be heard from, but of the thirty lo- cal unions where results have been obtained, and which include most of the larger mines of the district, well over a three-to-one majority of the vote favored Nolker and the rank and file slate. Sworn duplicates of 25 locals gave Nolker 4,272 votes to only 1,287 for Fagan, but in the face of this the Lewis candidate brazenly an- nounced to the press, before the counting of votes had begun, that the entire slate of Lewis incumbents had been returned to office by “ma- jorities as high as 6,000.” The rank and file committee is well aware that Fagan will use every trick known to the Lewis election stealers, from the ringing in of “blue sky” locals to outright altera- tion of ballots, to return himself to office, but this time he will face a complete, notarized check-up to show that a majority was registered by Nolker. How well grounded were John L. Lewis's fears that any candidate of the rank and file might oust him if allowed to appear on the interna- tional ballot, is shown in the ex- tremely low vote cast for president in large locals of the fifth district. Totals of 14, 28, 12, were common in the tabulated results of local unions with memberships of 150, 600 and 460. This mass boycott of the interna- tional presidential balloting is a striking indication of the far-reach- ing resentment against Lewis's long-term sell out reign, which one miner expressed by scribbling “No want you” under the U. M. W. czar’s lone candidacy. The next meeting of the rank and file committee will be held on Dec. 30 in Ellsworth, when a final check- up on the district vote will be pos- sible. The Fagan machine fakers have been invited to appear and partici- pate in a debate at the Ellsworth meeting, and miners from all over the district are looking forward to the occasion. The last public ap- pearance of Fagan at a meeting of the Vesta local union prior to the election was almost disastrous for the district president. WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. Corliss Lamont will lecture on “The Soviet Union and Religion,” Friday, Dec, 21, 8 p. m. at Musicians Hall, 120 N. 18th St. Admisison 30c at door. ‘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 ‘Arena, Broad and Christian streets. Speakers: Herbert Benjamin, Mother Bloor, William N. Jones, Freiheit Ge- sangs Farein, Workers’ Harmonica Band. H. M. WICKS lectures on “Origin and Evolution of Religion,” Friday, 8 p.m. sharp at Workers School Fo- rum, 908 Chestnut. This is » Marx- ist-Leninist analysis of this question. Admission 25¢. Unemployed 10. Detroit, Mich. Dance at “Rainbow Gardens,” 6515 Chene St., Friday evening, Dec. 21. Jimmie Davenport and his 13-piece Harlem Orchestra will play for dancing from 8 p.m. until dawn. Auspices, Scottsboro Defense Comm. Chicago, Ill. PROF. LAWRENCE MARTIN of Northwestern University will speak at Pen and Hammer Forum, 20 E. Ontario &t., ‘cago, on Sunday eve- Dec. at 8 p.m. His sub; is: “Read—But Don't Believe’. analysis of Chicago newspapers. mission 15 cents. Rochester, N. Y. INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE concert and dance Saturday, Dec. 22, 8 pm. at Lithuanian Hall, 575 Joseph Ave., to celebrate opening permanent office by LL.D, Subscrip- tion 15 cents. Cleveland, Ohio Hear the Auville’s Entertainment and Dance, Sunday, Dec 23, 7 p.m. at 920 E. 70th St. Aus. Sec. 2 C.P. Newark, N. J. Michael Gold will lecture on “The Crisis in Modern Literature” at Jack Dec, 21, 8:30 p.m. Adm. 25c. Ques- tions and discussion will follow. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER East St. Louis, Mo. Unemployment Reserves Hit By A.F.L. Head Opposes Scheme Backed by Green as Menace to Trade Unions BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 20.—“Any system of unemployment reserves will be an absolute menace to the trade union movement,” Robert J. Watt, secretary of the Massachu- setts Federation of Labor declared | this week in a speech before the Boston Central Labor Union. Watt pointed out that the recent convention of the American Fed- eration of Labor did not differen- tiate between genuine unemploy- ment insurance and unemployment reserves, Watt presented factual material on unemployment to the convention of the American Federation of La- bor on Oct. 9 in which he pointed out that on the basis of a careful house to house canvass undertaken by the Massachusetts Department of Labor, at least 14,000,000 were unemployed in the United States exclusive of those working on gov- ernment projects. In the report it was pointed out that if F. E.R. A. and P, W. A. workers were included in an estimate of the total unem- ployed, the figure would be about 16,800,000. While Watt scored the position taken by William Green in support of the Wagner-Lewis Bill and other fraudulent schemes, he did not spe- cifically support the Workers Un- enplopaent and Social Insurance “Under a system of ‘unemploy- ment reserves,” Watt declared, “each employer sets up reserves of his own and the employee is tied to that boss if he is to benefit un- der the plan. While this might not be a hardship for the permanently employed worker, of what benefit would it be to the garment worker, the ‘building trades mechanic, or other seasonal occupational classes of workers?” Watt did not point out that un- der any system of “unemployment reserves” the present unemployed do not benefit by one penny of ben- efits, and that under such a scheme the worker, by having the cost of the reserves either taken directly out of his envelope or by increased prices of goods, pays the entire ben- efit himself. The last set-up was specifically endorsed by William Green in the leading editorial in the December “Federationist,” of- ficial organ of the Executive Com- mittee of the American Federation of Labor. Unemployed Leader Arrested in Kenosha KENOSHA, Wis. Dec. 20.—Mike Kunza, militant leader of the Ken- osha Relief Workers Association, was railroaded to 90 days in the County Jail by Municipal Judge Calvin Stewart, at the conclusion of his trial last Friday. Kunza had been arrested twice in recent weeks on “disorderly con- duct” charges, for fighting for decent relief. He had gone to the clothing department in the court house to see that those waiting for clothing were being properly cared tor. The police, in each case, had not dared to arrest him in the presence of the workers waiting in line, but waited to get him alone. President Roosevelt and Secretary Wallace are at the present time try- ing to persuade the sharecroppers ;| and tenants in the South to forgive them for the lies that they told them before and during the acre- age reduction program of the A.A.A. which was started in 1933, In the South, the poor farmers had not the faintest idea as to what the A.A.A. was all about. The A.A.A. employed fascist methods and legal- ized force to carry through the “plow-up” campaign in 1933. The “plow-up” campaign of 1933 oper- ated as the preparatory campaign to carry through the further reduc- tion of cotton acreage in 1934 and 1935. The beginning of the acreage reduction program of the A.A.A. in 1933 took the form of forcing farm- ers to plow their cotton under whether they liked to or not. The acreage reduction program this year, 1934, was modified, in form, but not in principal. Realizing that the poor farmers opposed plow- Benefit quet, Sunday, Dec. 23, 7 p.m., at Yociss Hall, 537 Collinsville dmission to banquet, 25¢ per ing under cotton in 1933, the A.A.A. promised them cash pay to not plant cotton on the most of their land and rent it to the government. In i |Jand which they have rented to the Pay Minimum In Arizona Attorney-General Rules) State Law Does Not | Apply to Projects PHOENIX, Ariz. Dec. 20,—Ari- zona’s minimum wage law does not apply to public works jobs on which Federal Emergency Relief Admini- | stration Funds are used, Attorney- General Arthur T. LaPrade ruled last week in an opinion addressed | to T. H. O'Brien, chairman of the State Welfare Board. An earlier opinion made by the attorney-general held that because F, E. R, A. money became State re- lief funds after allocation by the Federal government, wages were to be paid in accordance with the | State minimum wage law, which | | provides for 50 cents an hour on all; Public Works projects. | LaPrade's reversal came after a jconference with Governor B. B.| Moeur, ex-Klansman (who ordered | | police to attack the picket line of | Striking F. E. R. A. workers two months ago), and Florence Warner and T, H. O’Brien, who represented the F, E. R. A. and the State Wel- fare Board of Arizona. LaPrade's decision to abandon F. E. R. A. minimum wages in Arizona follows a recent order by F. E. R. A. Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, who ruled that the 30 cents an hour minimum rates no longer apply to work relief jobs. Immediately fol- lowing Hopkins order, relief wages! were slashed in many States in the South. Bayonne Anti- Fascists |Rout Khaki Shirt Group Who Try To Hold Rally BAYONNE, N. J., Dec. 20—Kight | carloads of Khaki Shirts, bearing | out of town license plates, who were scheduled to hold their first public meeting in Bayonne Monday night, were greeted by a heavy lock on the door leading to their meeting place and by a determined group of counter-demonstrators led by the Bayonne Branch of the American League Against War and Fascism. Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Anti-Fascist workers united to keep the fascists from securing a meeting hall and routed them out of town. The day before the meeting Khaki Shirts had spread several thou- sands of leaflets throughout Bay- onne calling upon the general public to attend the first “public mass meeting of the Khaki Shirts of America, Inc.,” which was to be addressed by representatives from other branches throughout New Jersey. \800 Workers Leave German Labor Front DORTMUND, Germany, Dec. 20. —How the fascist “Labor Front’ is being battered down by decisive strike action on the part of the workers is admitted in the last is- sue of the Westfaelische Zeitung, a Nazi sheet. A total of 800 workers employed in a metal working factory of Dort- mund drew up a series of demands for better conditions and laid them before the management. The man- agement refused to consider them, and the workers resigned in a body from the German Labor Front. The conflict took on such proportions that the authorities hastened in alarm to call in the district.man- ager of the Labor Front. It was found that the factory had no cloakroom or toilet facilities, that the workers were obliged to eat near their benches, etc. As a sop to the workers, the district manager caused the technical manager of the factory to be arrested. PACE TO SPEAK DETROIT, Dec. 20.—The meeting of the recent relief cuts and the significance of the coming National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance will be discussed by John Pace, secretary of the Michigan District of the Unemploy- ment Councils on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Workers Open Forum, 5969 14th Ave., near McGraw. His subject will be: “Which Way Out for the Unemployed?” this, the A.A.A. tries to lure the poor farmers into believing that the gov- ernment is willing to make amends for making worse their already miserable conditions, The acreage reduction program of the A.A.A, brought about the de- struction of the normal existence (such as it was) of over a :aillion agricultural toilers in the South, who, at the present time are denied j adequate relief by both the land- jlords and the government. The Bankhead Act (cotton control Act) operates as an Act of limiting the number of bales of cotton that @ poor farmer is allowed to gin and sell without paying Gin Tax, It is an Act of federal taxation, imposed upon poor farmers’ cotton for the main purpose of extracting funds (in the form of legalized tax) with which to pay off the rich planters fer the government under the 1934 A.A.A. Contract. It is also an Act to ex- clude poor farmers cotton from the market, and therefy give the big Planters the full chance to place their cotton on the market and en- joy the relative increase in cotton H.R. This ballot is sponsored by the Daily ,AWorker emer onaus comment mary America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper | 50 East 13th Street New (Cut out and sign this ballot today) BAL I have read the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill and vote FOR C] Name VOTE for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill 'W YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1934 Page 3 RLY RETURNS INDICATE VICTORY FOR MINERS’ CANDIDATE 7598 ‘H4cnos oF Cowwoner eTbasareRAbd LOT AGAINST O Address Vote without delay and return your ballot at once to the worker who gave it to you, or mail it to the “Daily Worker” | Shoe Workers Rally For Concerted Drive On ‘Runaway Shops’ Members of Shoe Union a Form of Old Class-Collaboration Plan “Runaway shops” are not only moving to other cities to avoid operating under union conditions but are forcing their employees to buy between $100 and $500 of com- pany shares as a condition of em- ployment, members of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union have proved to the New York Regional Labor Board. At a hearing before the New York Regional Labor Board Monday, one of these combined schemes as practised by the Colonial Shoe Company Inc., of Jersey City was exposed by a delegation of strikers headed by I. Rosenberg, secretary of New York Local 23 of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, independent. Firm Moved From Brooklyn The company, the delegation had shown, had violated its agreement with the union by moving its plant from Brooklyn, N. Y¥., where it operated as the Colonial Shoe Com- pany. The firm tried to show that the old concern is no longer in exist- ence and that the New Jersey Col- onial plant has nothing to do with the Colonial Company in Brooklyn, The union, represented by Attorney | Joseph Tauber, proved that the Jer- sey Colonial corporation has the same officers as the Brooklyn com- pany and that the shares issued by the concern, asa “cooperative” shop, is nothing else but a job buying scheme. The latter part of the scheme, which makes buying shares in the “cooperative” a condition of em- ployment, according to union repre- sentatives, and supposedly makes the workers “partners” in the busi- ness, is nothing but a worse form of the old “American plan.” Moved to Escape Union ‘The motive was clearly established that the firm has gone through the change in name and moved to Jer- sey City in order to pay lower prices and operate an open shop. The strike against the company, in which more than a hundred and fifty workers are involved, is con- tinuing full force and regular pick~- eting is taking place. Simultaneously the union has been conducting a strike for sixteen weeks for similar reasons in the “run away” shops of the Restfull Slipper Company in Jersey City, and in the Feifer Slipper Company of Summit, N. J., for the last four weeks. Both companies recently moved from Brooklyn. All “co- Expose Move to Institute operative” sweat shops are being picketed at the same time, union leaders declared. Strikers Call for Support Delegations of workers also vis- ited shoe stores selling the products of these shops and called on them to stop buying sweat shop mer- chandise. Some have responded favorably. Workers of numerous shops and factories are registering their re- | sentment to these methods of the manufacturers by extending their support to the Colonial workers. The following resolut ion was adopted yesterday by the workers of the Diana Shoe Company, the Warner Shoe Company and the Prime Shoe Company, all of Brook- lyn, N. Y.: “We, the shoe workers of Diana, Warner and Prime Shops, assem- bled at a meeting on Dec. 7, 1934, unanimously denounce the action of the Colonial Shoe Co. employers for locking out over 150 workers by| moving their plant to Jersey City, | N. J., in order to escape the exist- | ing union agreement and to under- | mine the living standards in the industry through the employment of cheaper labor. “We further denounce the un- | heard of demands of these employ- ers who, as a condition of employ- ment, propose not only a reduction | in wages, but also stipulate that each employee must buy shares to the amount between $100 and $500. “We further denounce the Jersey City landlords and the city authori- | ties who give sheltér and assistance | to such manufacturers. “We the shoe workers of Diana, | Warner and Prime Shops, realizing | that the heroic struggle of the | Colonial strikers is our struggle, their victory our victory, therefore pledge to our union, the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, and to the Colonial strikers, our moral, physical and financial sup- port until the final victory. “We further call upon the work- ers of the Boot and Shoe Workers Union and the United, as well as the workers of different industries, organized and unorganized, to sup- port the Colonial strikers in their struggle. “Copies of this resolution to be sent to the N. R. A,, to labor organi- zations, Jersey City authorities, and | Colonial strikers. “The Shop Committee of Diana, Warner and Prime Shoe Shops.” PLAN BENEFIT IN PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 20—An entertainment and dance will be held in the International Socialist Lyceum, 805 James St., North Side, on Saturday night, Dec. 29, for the By ALT prices and forces the small farmer to sell to the local landlords at home and receive the lowest non-market prices, The dissatisfaction of the poor farmers in the South to the Bank- head Act, is manifested in the burn- ing of a bale of cotton by a white tenant in Bullock County (Alabama) while snother white tenant in the same county thre-: a bale into a creek rather than pay the Bank- head Gin Tax which was fifty per cent of the cotton market price. Now, with the more than a million croppers, tenants and farm workers facing hard cold and worse misery, Secretary Wallace, who told them that acreage reduction would better their conditions, placed before them the following statement: “Even with the plow up campaign of 1933, and the almost 15,000,000 Rere? 13° 1b ¢7 production this year, the Uni (tates and the world still has one of the largest carry-overs on record.” Now, the poor farmers in tht South can see clearly that Mr. Wall- ace, Mr. Roosevelt and the A.A.A. have simply lied their way through benefit of the Workers School _ Songs by the “Bratstvo” singers and by a popular Negro quartet, and sketches from “Stevedore” by the Workers Theatre League will be ‘Calls For | the ; work was being done by the agents | | tured one-sixth of the world’s land | against Communism, On Militants Talks at Phoenix Club;| Asks Outlawing of Communism PHOENIX, Ariz. Dec. 20.—Call- | ing for use of forceful measures | against the militant workers in Ariz- | ona, Frank E. Flynn, deputy United | States attorney, told members of | “Dons’ Club” that insidious of Communism. | “Any movement that has cap- | cannot be ignored, however unsym- pathetic we may be in America,” Flynn said, “The Communists will stop at nothing to attain their goal, | unless they are curbed by forceful | methods.” The club voted to authorize its | board of directors to prepare formal | endorsement of the movement | as launched locally by the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce and other fascist civic | groups. | U 8. Attorney Flynn has devoted | before local clubs and lodges on the | dangers of Communism. The State Committee of the Communist Party has issued several challenges to him to debate the issue with an official representative of the Party. This has been refused on the grousds | that Mr. Flynn “prefers to speak before his own audience and the Communists can speak before theirs.” PHOENIX, Ariz. Dec. 20.—A course in “The Evils and Practices of Communism” has been offered for the second semester at the Brophy College in Phoenix, which | is operated by the Catholic Church. | Support in Struggle On Evictions Sought In Canvassing Drive PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec, 20— Every militant working class or- ganization here is mobilizing its forces to canvass every home in the} Philadelphia area on Sunday, Dec.} 23, in the fight against evictions and to enlist the widest possible support | for the National Congress for Un- employment Insurance. Already the Unemployment Councils, the Com- | munist Party and various language | and cultural groups have swung their entire membership into line for the day set apart. by the coun- cils as Anti-Eviction Day. } All workers’ centers have been set | up as supply stations at which workers have been requested to ap-| ply for material on the National! Congress—tag day collection boxes, | supporters’ stamps, and other mate- | rial—leaflets setting forth the fight against the evictions which hover | over thousands of the unemployed here, and supplies of the Daily Worker ballot for the Workers Un-/ employment Insurance Bill, Wide | distribution of the postcards de-/| | manding enactment of the Workers’ Bill and to be sent to President Roosevelt is also planned. Canvassing of the working class homes by the Unemployment Coun- cils will call upon ail employed and} unemployed workers to join the councils in the fight for increased | relief and for the passage of a city ordinance against evictions. Youth Congress Plans Pushed in Cleveland clears | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 20.—A Cleveland Arrangements Committee of six members was set up here by | the recent Regional Youth Congress | to push plans for the National | Youth Congress to be held at Wash- | ington, D. C., Jan. 5 and 6. The local Congress voted to send a large delegation to the National Congress at which representatives of hundreds of thousands of youth will meet to put into action the program adopted at the first Amer- ican Youth Congress, against war and fascism, militarization of youth in the colleges and C. C. C. Camps, industrial discrimination and the slashing of educational appropria- tions. Increase the circulation of the Daily Worker. Get one new sub- part of the program. ACKSON up till now. Mr. Wallace at last has admitted that the New Deal gov- ernment has dono nothing to pro- vide real relief for the poor farmers in need and for the thousands that are evicted as a result of the acre- age reduction program of the A.A.A. His statement reveals the fact that the government has not given cloth- ing to the unemployed workers in the cities and to the unemployed farm workers and croppers, If this had been done, then why is there more cotton stored up in the ware- houses in the United States than has ever been before? The growing unity and tadical- | ization of the toiling Negro and white farmers in the South, and! particularly, the sharpening anger! of the millions of oppressed Negroes in the Black Belt against the black | jack blows of the A.A.A. and Bank- | ‘head Act, have wedged panic and fear into the fat hearts of the A.A.A. Officials in Washington and the southern landlords. When almost a, thousand croppers and farm work- | ers, under the leadership of the Share Croppers Union in Alabama, refused to pick landlords cotton for scriber a day! Southern Share Croppers Pauperized by New Deal Program Jess than $1 a hundred pounds and pledged full support to the striking textile workers in the Black Belt, frightfully, the A.A.A. officials in Washington teared the folowing ad- mission: “The southern tenant prob- lem, involving both Negro and white, has caused the A.A.A. trouble since the first cotton reduction program in 1933.” | The Share Croppers Union has | drawn up a petition opposing the continuation of the Bankhead Act for 1935 and demanding that it be repealed. The petition also has the purpose of securing signatures. The Signatures will operate as votes against the Act. The Share Crop- pers Union is preparing to send a delegation of sharecroppers, tenants, farmers and farm workers to Wash- ington to place before the Wash- ington officials the following de- mands: 1, Discontinuation of the Bank- head Act in 1925. Repeal. 2. Immediate cash and adequate | winter relief for all poor farming people in netd of food, clothing and other necessities. 3. Repeal the Agricultural Adjust- U. S. Attorney/PROSECUTOR BALKS War AT DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Sacramenta Trial Judge Would Modify Old Document by Inserting Word “Lawfully”’ Into Section Upholding Revolution By Jack Crane (Special to the Daily Worker) SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 20.—The prosecution vig- orously objected yesterday to a quotation from the Declara- tion of Independence on the right of the people to alter or to overthrow government, at the trial here of the 18 workers charged with violating the California Criminal Syndicalist On Relief Job Centralia, Il., Workers himself to a number of addresses| Demand Full Rates for! Street Paving (Special to the Daily Worker) CENTRALIA, Til, Dec. 20—A general sympathy strike may de- velop by tomorrow here, in support of the demands of the Hod Carriers’ Union, that street paving projects should be worked with union men, at union rates. The city authorities are attempting to pave the streets with relief labor, having placed 50 men from the relief rolls to work under police guard. The Central Trades Council, on Tuesday, called a strike on the paving projects demanding 72 cents per hour and control of the job by the Hod Carriers’ Union. The un- employed organizations in this city are wholeheartedly behind the hod carriers’ demands. The Trades Council issued a warning yesterday that unless the demands are granted a general strike of all unions in the city, in- cluding the two locals of the United Mine Workers will follow within two days. The workers in the city are displaying a splendid spirit of soli- darity fully determined to carry out their decision. Relief Worker Killed In Pit By Landslide CORNING, N. Y., Dec. 20—Un- dermanning of a relief project here caused the death of James Garnett, 42-year-old worker and father of five children, living at 397 Wood- view Avenue, and injuries to Ray- mond Fish and Robert Northrup. The three were caught in @ land- slide at the Deckerton gravel pit last week. Great indignation has been aroused among the men, who claim that they were forced to do the work that required fifty men with only fifteen. Gornett was caught under twenty- five tons of frozen earth when the side of the pit in which the men were working caved in, his chest was crushed in and his lungs punc- tured by the slide. Raymond Fish was shoved under a truck by the frozen earth and suffered a bad bruise on his hip. Both he and Northrup, who was also injured, were badly shocked. Five-Day Mine Strike Ended in Renton, Pa. | RENTON, Pa. Dec. 20—Seven hundred and fifty miners employed by the Union Collieries Coal Co. here ended a five-day strike this week with submission of their grievance —the demand for daylight shift for one section of the mine which had been ordered to work nights in vio- lation of the contract—to the dis- trict and National Labor Board. The contract provides that single shifts shall work daylight, but U. M. W. A. district representatives appeared at a meeting Sunday and advised the men to return to work under the company’s order. The miners forced the company, however, to promise to suspend the practice of deducting back rent from the pays of miners working part time. 4. Immediate passage of Farmers Emergency Relief Bill. 5. Equal right for Negroes. 6. For the right of all poor farm- ers in the South to organize. @Law. Hod Carriers Fight forUnion The prosecution, in objecting to the quotation, which was put in the form of a question by the defense to a prospective juror, declared that it was for their advocacy of this right that the defendants were be- ing tried. The quotation cited from the Declaration of Independence declares: “That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends” (the rights of the people) “it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its pow- ers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” Judge Dal M. Lemmon upheld the objection of the prosecution and again emphasized the role of the |courts as a bulwark of capitalist oppression of the majority of the | population by modifying the quo- tation from the Declaration of In- dependence by inserting the word “lawfully” before abolish. | Leo Gallagher, International Labor Defense attorney, questioned prospective jurors in the fifth spe- cial panel called on Tuesday, whether they would be prejudiced against defendants if they found that defendants advocated the use of force by the working class against the illegal violence of city and county authorities against workers on strike for better condi- tions. The prosecution objected, but was overruled by the court, marking the first ruling by Judge Lemmon in favor of the defense. Although two regular jury panels and four special panels have been exhausted, the jury is far from selected. The prosecution has chal- lenged every worker or possible sympathizer on the panels, while the defense has fought a relentless battle against the attempts of the Prosecution to get police officers and stool pigeons on the jury. Sacramento papers today heralded | the presence of “Red” Hynes of the notorious Los Angeles police “Red Squad,” who is expected to give “expert” testimony on Communist activities in California Negro Farmer Asks Aid Against Landlord To Protect Earnings BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec, 20.— The local office of the International Labor Defense has received an ap- peal from Ruben Norwood, a Ne- | sro share cropper of Greenville, | Miss., to help him against the rob- |bery of his crops and violation of his contract by his landlord, O. J. Dunn, of the same town. | Norwood, who has a family of seven. to support, was promised | Wages of $13 a month for the labor jof his family on the landlord’s crops, and received that amount for |five months. Now, however, the | landlord has discontinued the wages and, in addition, seized all of the cotton and part of the corn raised by the Norwoods on the plot they cultivate on a crop-sharing basis. The landlord also claims that the Norwoods owe him a balance of $5, thus tying the family to the land- lord’s lands, as under the Missisippi law a share cropper cannot leave his landlord while owing him | money. Philadelphia, Pa. —, The STEVEDORE Cast will appear at the Xyornen CONCERT WORKER FRI, DEC. 2st Boslover Hail 8 P.M. 201 PINE ST. ——Meet— Juanita Hall, G. Harry Bolden, Annis Davis, Esther Hall—all introduced by LEIGH WHIPPER, Master of Ceremonies HEAR JAMES W. FORD and MOTHER BLOOR Red Vaudeville by Naturé Priends Dram Group, English Workers Chorus, talk by Al Lavone Admission 25¢ with ticket; 30c without — Chicago, Ill. — The Theatre Union of New York and The Drama Union of Chicago present stevedere Dynamic Play by PETERS and SKLAR SELWYN THEATRE, Dearborn & Lake Sts. Special Matinee For the COMMUNIST PARTY Performance TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25th 3 PRICES: 40c to $1.50 : Chicago Workers School, 505 South State St.; Tickets On Sale: fFreineie, ses w. Rocsevet Rd.; Workers Book Store, 2619 y. Division St.; Rovnost Ludu, 1510 W. 18th 1b Woee 2457 W. Chica) -; Communist Party, 101 South Wells St.; International Labor Defense, 171 '. Madison St.; Trade Union Unity League, 1703 W. Madison St.; |. Halsted St, ment Administration.