The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 22, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1934 Page 3 SCOTTSBORO RALLY PIERCES MISSISSIPPI JIM-CROW BARRIER WHITE AND NEGRO WORKERS PROTEST FRAME-UP OF BOYS Mass Meetings in Pennsylvania and Delaware Pledge Support to I.L.D.—Civil Liberties Endorses Legal Defense Action OXFORD, Miss., Dec. 21—Smashing through the jim- crow edicts of the Mississippi white rulers, 150 Negro and white workers and croppers held a Scottsboro protest rally here and adopted a resolution protesting the frame-up of the boys and demanding their unconditional release. Representa- tives were present from the Com-@ munist Party, the International TALE agin: the Toung Gomme AFL Leader | In Cleveland Dies at Home League. (By the Daily Worker Ohio Bureau) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 21— T.S. Farrel, 56, reactionary secretary of the Cleveland Federation of La- Rally in Washington WILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 21.— Foliowing up the signal victory of Wilmington workers in breaking through the police terror in this private State-domain of the Du- Pont munition interests by holding a successful Scottsboro demonstra- tion here last month, the local branch of the International Labor Defense is arranging another Scotts- boro rally for December 23, at 2 o'clock. The meeting, which will be ad- dressed by Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the Scottsboro boys, and Mother Bloor, will be held at the National Theatre, 810 French Street. COATSVILLE, Pa. Dec. 21. — More than 300 persons, Negro and white, crowded into the Elks Audi- torium here to welcome the Scotts- boro Mother, Mrs. Ada Wright, and pledge support to the mass and legal fight, led by the International Labor Defense, for the lives and freedom of the nine innocent boys. Civil Liberties Supports Defense The American Civil Liberties Union has endorsed the legal de- fense of the Scottsboro boys by the International Labor Defense, it was announced yesterday by the na- tional office of the ILD. The endorse- | ment was made public by Roger Baldwin, director of the A. C. L. U., at the Washington Conference on Civil Liberties held last week under the auspices of the Union, | and was greeted enthusiastically by most of the delegates in attendance. The conference passed a resolu- tion endorsing the mass and legal fight led by the I. L. D. for the re- lease-of the nine boys. Pittsburgh Mine Local Joins I.L.D. in a Body PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec, 21—The Export Local of the United Mine Workers, No. 5747, voted unani- mously to join the International Labor Defense in a body, last Sat- urday. - Carl. Hacker, district organizer of the I. L. D., was invited to speak to the local, which has a membership of more than 400, and the decision was made following his talk on the necessity of setting un an adequate defense apvaratus in the local as part of the mass defense movement of the I. L. D. Over 200 members werer_ present. The U. M. W. local in Westmore- land City has also invited Hacker to speak on defense at their next meeting. The Export local has already en- dorsed the National Congress for Unemployment insurance and elect- ed a delegate. | NAZIS ROUND UP SAAR VOTES TIENTSIN, China, Dec. 21—The Chekiai Agency communicates that numbers of Germans of Saar origin who have been living for several years in China have left for Europe in order to take part in the pleb- iscite of Jan. 13. WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. ‘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, Preiheit Ge- sangs Farein, Workers’ Harmonica Band. Soviet Satirical Film ‘Two Thieves’ shown twice at Workers School, 908 Chestnut St., Saturday evening, De- cember 22, at 7:30 and 9:30, Short talk on religion, introducing picture. Adm. 25¢. Chicago, Ill. PROF. LAWRENCE MARTIN of Northwestern University will speak at Pen and Hammer Forum, 20 E. Ontario St., Chicago, on Sunday eve- ning, Dec. 23, at 8 p.m. His subject is: ‘“Read—But Don’t Believe’—an analysis of Chicago newspapers. Ad- mission 15 cents. ¥. Red Party with Bob Minor and Louis Getlitz, Interesting, Educational, Monday, Xmas Eve., Dec. 24, 8:30 p.m. at 1332 N. Campbell St. Aus- pices: Sec. 9. Come and have a swell time. Newark, N. J. Workers School of Newark, hold a Dance and Enie: Saturday, Dec. 22, 8:30 p.m. at LW. ©. Center, 516 Clinton Ave. Speaker, A, Markoff. Adm. 25¢. Rochester, N. Y. INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE concert and dance Saturday, Dec. 22, 8 p.m. 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. 79th St. Aus. Sec. 2 C.P. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER East St. Louis, Mo. Benefit Banquet, Sunday, Dec. 23, 7 p.m., at Yociss Hall, 537 Collinsville Admission to banquet, 25¢ per | | bor, implacable enemy of the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill, and staunch supporters of Mayor Harry L. Davis frankly anti-labor administration, died on Wednesday in his residence in Shaker Heights. Shaker Heights is a high class residential district. One of Farrel's last official acts was to write a state- ment of his opposition to the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill. One of the staunchest supporters of Mayor Davis, Farrel had a long record of opposing every militant move threatening the interest of the employers and tending to im- prove the interests of the working class. He gave unconditional sup- port to every reactionary move of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy as a personal friend and close intimate of both the late Samuel Gompers and William Green, He became an official member of the Davis cabinet in 1916 as City utilities director which post he later | changed to one on the Board of; Election till the entire Board of Election was ousted for fraud by the Secretary of State in 1928. | The day before his death he sent. a letter to the Washington Con- gress Ohio Sponsoring Committee | in which, basing himself on Green’s edict, he categorically and sarcas- tically refused any further “letter writing marathon” on the subject ofthe Worker's Bill. full follows: “Mr. Frank Rogers, 942 Prospect Ave. Rm 469 X, Cleveland, Ohio. “Dear Sir:— “In replying to yours of the 13th, without desiring to discuss in detail the merits of the Unemployment Insurance Plan, I am herewith en- closing copy of letter received from the American Federation of Labor in connection with their attitude towards the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance which I think is self explanatory and will avoid you and I getting into any letter writing marathon, “Yours respectfully (Signed) THOMAS S. FARREL. Secrtary Cleveland Federation of Labor. Sugar Company Plant Barred To Executives By Strike Pickets BILLINGS, Mont., Dec. 21.—in their determination to keep the plant of the Great Western Sugar Company here shut tight, striking workers announced yesterday that from mow on neither the plant’s firemen nor any of the company’s executives would be permitted to enter the refinery. The workers have been on strike two weeks, demanding a ten-cent an hour increase, a union shop and the increased wages must begin from last October 2. “We have withdrawn the con- cession we have made of letting the firemen remain on the job and we His letter in| Right to Visit Jailed Leader Councils Lead Fight) Against Renewed Police Terror PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 21—A delegation of eleven workers today visited the Blawnox Workhouse to demand that Phil Frankfeld, Un- employment Council leader, now serving a two-to-four year term | there, be recognized as a political prisoner, with the right to receive any publications or literature which he desires and to be visited at least once a week by his wife and infant son. The committee requested they be allowed to meet Frankfeld, but were refused permission by Warden Braun, at first on the grounds that “the laws of the state” prohibit such visits. Later, however, Braun ad- mitted that he is allowed consider- | able leeway in deciding questions of that nature. He declared that he “would not | bar the door to Frankfeld’s wife and child,” and promised to admit work- ing class literature or publications to the prisoner if they met with of- ficial approval. Frankfeld now re- ceives the Daily Worker on condi- tion that he hands it back to the jailor after reading it. Has Lost 30 Pounds Braun was informed that Frank- feld had already lost 30 pounds in the dust-infested rag shop of the workhouse and the committee de- manded that he be removed to a position less detrimental to his health, / Braun agreed io do this if “an examination by the jail’s physician showed he needs to be moved.” In an interview lasting over an hour, the committee’s questions brought out the position toward the working class of a jail warden who was once an A. F. of L. leader. Braun was once an official of the Brotherhood of Painters, and “didn’t approve” of the jailing of fellow- unionists, but now, as he puts it, “Well, one changes with one’s vo- cations.” Whether it is a change from former views or not, Braun stated today that he stands for the protection of private property rights above human rights. Shoe Workers Thensend | Cash on Relief Jobs HAVERHILL, Mass., Dec, 21— Grocers are charging 20 to 40 per cent more on orders furnished to the unemployed than to others, David S. Bancroft of the Unem- ployment Council of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union charged before a meeting of the Welfare Board. Bancroft, demanded that the workers on relief should receive cash instead of scrip, and that arguments to the effect that the unemployed were irresponsible and not fit to handle money were put forward by the welfare depart- ment simply to give moral justifi- cation to their relief slashing star- vation plans, Workers on relief here are sup- posedly free to choose the grocer they wish to patronize. Bancroft |explained to the Board of Public | Welfare that some grocers give the unemployed credit beyond the value of the scrip they present, and that then the unemployed are obliged to trade only with the one store. | 34 Blast Furnaces | Closed in Germany | BERLIN, Dec. 21.—The world’s records attained by Soviet metal- lurgy disclosed in recent statistics published there stand out by con- trast with the frozen blast furnaces and the general retrogression of metallurgy in fascist Germany. The number of blast furnaces in the Reich are as follows: 182 blast furnaces in 1929, as against 148 at the end of 1934; 34 abandoned or Scrapped. The figures for the United States are: 354 blast fur- naces in 1929; 262 at the beginning of 1934; 92 abandoned or destroyed. Have the Daily Worker mailed intend to shut the plant down! tight,” the strikers said. PITTSBURGH, Pa. Dec. 21— Mass pressure of rank and file mem- bers of the Amalgamated Associ2- tion, which has been expressed in an indignant rejection of the com- pany union agreement whereby the Iron and Steel Institute seeks to force a six-months “truce” on the steel workers, forced Mike Tighe and A. F. of L. top leaders to turn down the latest proposal of the steel em- ployers, made in Washington under the “personal supervision” of Pres- ident Roosevelt. Meanwhile, the Steel Labor Board continues to delay action on pend- ing demands for reinstatement of blacklisted steel workers and gov- ernmen t-supervised elections in plants of the major steel companies, in hopes that a “truce” can be en- forced without bucking the U. S. Steel Corporation. Many cases, notably those of the Duquesne and McDonald plants of Carnegie Steel Co, have beem “pending” now for over eight months but the Board -is by no means averse to further stalling. Same Old Plan The proposals of attorneys for the steel trust were essentially the same as those offered to Duquesne em- ployees three weeks ago—the com- pany would recognize mill commit- tees of the Amalgamated as “col- to your home, Become ® sub- ' seriber! lective bargaining representatives” of only those workers belonging to the A. A. reserving at the same time the right to deal with “minor- ity groups” of employes, namely company unions, Under such an agreement, “col- lective bargaining” for the Amal- gamated workers would mean sim- ply the hearing of their demands by company officials, following which the office door would be po- litely opened and the union com- mittee would be ushered out with either a refusal or the ignoring of their requests by the company, as the workers’ share of the bargain- ing arrangement. Committees from the company union, on the other hand, would be welcomed with open arms by the company officials, their demands (the company would see that they were not too serious), would be promptly granted, and the company stool-pigeons could then spread the news through the plant of their successful negotiations with the management. Aimed to Break Union Thus the outside union would be broken, the workers lured away from it by the spectacular work of the company union, and when the ‘employment to reach 2,000,000 by Jobless Win ees VOTE ee | for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill H.R. This ballot is sponsored by the Daily,QAWorker America’s Only Working 50 East 13th Street New (Cut out and sign BALLOT I have read the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill and vote FOR OC] Name 7598 | Class Daily Newspaper York this ballot today) AGAINST O Address . City... Vote without delay and return your ballot at once to the worker who gave it to you, or mail it to the “Daily Hillsboro Miners Open Mass Fight to Abolish Illinois Anti-Red Law Repeal of Criminal Syndicalism Law Is De- manded In Resolution Passed By Local of Progressive Miners of America HILLSBORO, Ill., Dec, 21—The trial of the 14 leaders of the strug- gles of the unemployed in Mont- gomery County is set for Jan. 7. Among those who are charged with violation of the Criminal Syndicalist Law are members of the Village Board of Taylor Springs, members of the Progressive Miners of Amer- ica, Communist Party, Unemploy- ment Councils, International Labor Defense, and one member of the Young Peoples Socialist League. This trial aroused the miners and other workers throughout the state of Illinois, especially members of the Progressive Miners of America, who are passing resolutions de- manding the repeal of the criminal syndicalist law and the quashing of the charges against the arrested leaders of the workers. Local 42 of the P. M. A. in Hillsboro, at a re- cent meeting, adopted the follow- ing resolution: “Whereas: The Progressive Miners of America, at their Second Consti- tutional Convention held in Gilles- pie, Illinois, on Sept. 17, 1934, adopted a resolution for the repeal of the Criminal Syndicalism Law; and, “Whereas: State Senator James Monroe of Collinsville, Illinois, is going to introduce a bill in the next General Assembly for the repeal of the Criminal Syndicalism Law; and, “Whereas: As a result of the struggles of the unemployed and part-time workers of Montgomery County in an effort to secure a higher standard of relief for them- Worker” selves and their families, fourteen workers, five of whom are Progres- | sive Miners, have been arrested and are to be tried in January under the Criminal Syndicalism Law; therefore, be it “Resolved: That Local Union No. 42, P. M. of A., Hillsboro, Ill., goes on record asking for the repeal of the Criminal Syndicalism Law and for the quashing of the charges against those arrested under this law; and be it further “Resolved: That a copy of this Resolution be sent to George Hall, State’s Attorney, Hillsboro, Ill., and to the Editor of the Progressive Miner. “(SEAL) ALBERT HALEY, Pres, TED CRIHFIELD, Rec. Sec,, L. U. No. 42, P. M. of A., Hillsboro, Tilinois,” Similar resolutions have been adopted by a number of other locals among them local union of the P. M. A. No. 15 of Springfield, Tll.; Lo- | cal Union No, 18 of Staunton, Ill; and Local Union No. 30 of Farming- ton, Il, The International Labor Defense, which leads the defense, appeals to all working class organizations throughout the State of Illinois to adopt similar resolutions, and send | them to George Hall, State’s Attor- ney, Hillsboro, Ill., and to Governor Horner, Springfield, Til. All funds for the defense should be forwarded to the Chicago Office of the Inter- national Labor Defense, 1703 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill. Unemployment Shows Sharp Rise in France | As Wages Are Slashed PARIS, Dec. 21.—The rise of un-| employment in France continues at an accelerated pace while the gen- eral economic situation among the | workers is becoming worse. Unemployment statistics just is- sued, covering the week ending last Saturday, show a rise of 9,658 over the previous week and 115,223 over the corresponding week in 1933. The government figures of those totally unemployed is registered as 384,841, but it is generally agreed, even by conservative authorities, that the actual total is about four times the official figure, i.e., 1,500,000. Reliable observers here expect un- the end of February. Unemploy- By TOM KEENAN the company union at their own sweet leisure. The Duquesne workers, with their president, Wm. Spang, flatly re- fused to consider suh an “agree- ment” when the proposal was broached to them, seeing it for the company union document which it was, so that Tighe could do nothing but echo their stand. A clash with the steel captains is the last thing in the world which Tighe and Co. desire The A. A. head has openly declared himself “against strikes on general prin- ciples.” So that while he goes through the maneuvers of refusing such a sellout agreement or “truce,” Tighe and the international officers are doing their best to betray the Stseel workers into believing that the Steel Labor Board will bring them manna from the sky. Eight months of procrastination by the old N. R. A. Labor Board and the new body have brought not one peep from President Tighe protest- ing the delay. Moved to Stop Strike When a strike threatened in the steel industry last spring, the A. A. top leaders and Wm, Green turned their undivided attention to pre- venting a walkout. They are still A. A. lodge had been sufficiently decomposed, the company could take back what litile it had granted concentrating on the same job. The steel workers are demanding ment figures such as these are un- precedented, and in view of the mass suffering which will be wide- spread this winter, leaders of the united front of Socialists and Com- munists are already warning that the reactionary Flandin administra- tion will attempt to utilize some fas- cist scheme of militarizing the great numbers of the unemployed similar to the C.C.C. camps in the United States under Roosevelt. As an indirect but certain bar- ometer of the wage-cuts now being effected all over France may be taken the fact that while retail prices have dropped five per cent the cost of living fell only one per cent. The industrial production index is pursuing a steady trend, even in the war industries. Bankruptcies have reached an all- time record and carloadings have ‘For More Pay Newspapermen Win Demands Cleveland N ews Signs| Contract With the | Guild Local | CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 21.—The| Cleveland Local of the American | Newspaper Guild yesterday signed a one-year contract with the Cleve- | land News, covering 100 editorial | workers as well as office boys and | apprentices, which provides for) union conditions. | Reporters, editorial writers, re- | write men, copy readers and photog- | raphers of four years and more ex-/ perience are to be paid a minimum | of $40.00 a week. Those receiving | | between $40.00 and $50.00 a week| prior to December 15 will receive a | 10 per cent increase. A 40-hour, fiv day week is guaranteed. Any em- | ployee who has been with the paper for more than nine years is to re-| ceive three months wages in ad- vance, The contract is considered an im- portant victory in the Guild's fight HOPKINS COVERS . RELIEF CUTS WITH CHRISTMAS CHEER Jobless Should Feel Better This Year, Says Ad ministrator, But Forgets That Their Presents Consist Largely of Slashes in Relief WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 21.—“If I were unemployed and broke this Christmas I'd feel better about it than I would have during other Christmases in the past five years. And that would be because of the man who is in the White House and his devotion to the needs of the people who have had — = tough breaks,” Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Emergency Relief Adminis- trator, declared today at his regular weekly press conference. Obviously, Hopkins’ dispatching of yuletide sentiments, the midst of the big-business-administration wage-cutting campaign and shortly after his own order eliminating the 30 cents an hour minimum on work s, to the unemployed heads ies whose numbers have ins creased: more than a million since last year, is merely a sample of thé Jobleia Marck: For Cash Rent In Cleveland CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 21 With foreclosures and evictions by the thousands scheduled for Jan- uary, Mayor Davis and Safety Di- to force the newspaper publishers! rector Layelle, at the request of a downward | to grant union conditions. (Daily Worker Ohio Bureau) | DAYTON, O., Dec. 21.—A new chapter of the American Newspaper | Guild was formed here last Sunday afternoon when 21 newspapermen signed application cards and organ- ized the Dayton Newspaper Guild. Newspapermen of all the Dayton papers—Herald, News, Journal, Re-| view (weekly) and Dayton Labor Union (trade union journal)—are among those enrolled. Inspired by the heroic struggle carried on by the Guild in the New-| ark Ledger strike, the Dayton news- | papermen received with great en- | thusiasm the Guild's delegates from | Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. | The organizational plan outlined by W. M. Davy, executive secretary of | the Cleveland Newspaper Guild and organizer of the Fourth Region of the Guild, met with enthusiastic response. The constitution, with only minor changes, was adopted | forthwith. Curt Lovely of the News, who acted as chairman, was elected pres- | ident; Jimmy Henry of the Herald, | secretary-treasurer; and Jean Whit- | aker of the Review, vice-president. The newly elected Executive Board, comprised of the three} | officers and two representatives of each unit, drew up plans to or-| ganize the rest of the newspaper- men in Dayton into the Guild. Heinz Neumann Held | By Swiss Government} Heinz Neumann, former leader of | the German Communist Party, has | been arrested in Switzerland, and is being held for. extradition to Ger-| many, according to a cablegram re- ceived here today by the Interna- tional Labor Defense. Wide protest against the deter- mination of the Swiss government | to violate the traditional right of asylum by sending Neumann to Germany, where he faces imprison- ment, torture, and lynch-trial for his leadership of anti-fascist activi- ties, was called for by Anna Damon, acting national secretary of the In- | ternational Labor Defens. | Protests demanding freedom and | right of asylum for Neumann} should be addressed to the Swiss | | consulates in Chicago, Cincinatti, ; Denver, Los Angeles, New Orleans, | New York, Philadelphia, San Fran- | cisco, and to Marc Peter, Swiss} minister to the United States, at Washington, D. C. The Swiss Consulate in New York jis at 468 Fourth Ave., and is tele-| phone number is BOgardus 4-5256./ The Daily Worker is the best collective organizer among the workers for better living con- ditions, adequate winter relief, against lay-offs, wage-cuts and stretchout. An increased circu- | lation will insure more widespread struggles for these demands. Get your friends, your shopmates, to | declined sharply. Steel Workers Force Leaders to Reject N. R. A. Truce promises made by Roosevelt. They are demanding action, and the sen- timent is a movement which has the broadest support of rank and eg steel workers all over the coun- ry. How large is ths growing resent- ment can be judged by the “per- sonal intervention” at this point of President Roosevelt, Last spring the rank and file movement in steel was so obviously disorganized that ‘Wm. Green was considered capable of breakng up the threat of a walk- out. Now, however, it has reached suh proportions that the President himself has stepped in, to try and repeat his efficient performance of Jast winter in breaking the auto strike and saddling the auto work- ers with just such a company union agreement which the steel workers are now offered. Relief Groups Set Up A major source of the growing strength of the rank and file in the A A. is the new orientation toward the large section of unem- ployed or part time steel workers. The establishment of relief com- mittees in each lodge of several of the most important districts is drawing the latter category of steel workers into a solid unity with the employed, and has pulled many into the union who would not otherwise the fulfillment of some of the false have joined read the Daily Worker regularly! | | But even with this additional strength, the maneuvers of Tighe and Green with the steel companies present a constant danger to the | workers. Whole districts have) passed unanimous resolutions against the onclusion of any “truce” with the steel captains, but the bur- den of Tighe’s objection to truce proposals is a demand for “major- ity rule” only. Demands for hgher wages and shorter hours are not raised, The utmost vigilance is needed to Preyent Tighe and Green from) signing a contract such as the steel | companies have made before with unions—a contract with individuals as heads of the union, instead of | with the approval of the union! membership This is the type of | |small home owners in many Political puff which appears 's0 delegation of 25 bankers and insur- | "esularly in speeches written for Jim Farley. ance company representatives head- |ed by C. W. Shimmon of the New York Life Insurance Co. promised @ reign of police terror against those resisting evictions. The Un- employment Council and the Small Home and Landowners Federation are mobilizing their forces for cash rent and to prevent all evictions and foreclosures. Lavelle told the committee of bankers that he would issue orders to the police to prevent meetings before the homes of those evicted and arrest all who try to interfere with the evictions. Complaining about the fact that the Unemployment Council and in- stances prevented evictions and re- | peatedly moved back evicted ten- ants or small homeowners, many banks have applied for injunctions to stop the moving back of the in- tended victims’ furniture. The Unemployment Councils and home owners plan emergency meet- ings to counteract this new ma- neuver for wholesale evictions and | will make this question of stopping | all evictions and foreclosures one | of their central demands in tomor- | row’s city-wide mass relief march. Dr. G. O. Vennesland Dentist 4816 N. Western Avenue LOngbeach 0757 Chicago, Ill. Newark, N. J. MASQUERADE BALL... Gives by Newark Hungarian Workingmen’s Home SUNDAY, DEC. 31 Laurei Garden 457 Springfield Avenue Music by Bodai’s Gypsy Orchestra Tickets 35¢ in advance, 45¢ at door Hopkins took issue with the vague reports stating that the leading bankers and business men now favor direct rather than work relief. Al- though he didn’t know whether the bankers’ plan proposed to give less direct relief than the $20 a month national average for a family of four and a fraction people, Hopkins agreed with a reporter that “direct relief would set up a class opposed to work.” He hastened to add however, that “the unemployed don't like to get relief.” There is every reason to believe that the conferences to be held in the near future between the rep> resentatives of the bankers ‘arta business men and the White House will come to a conclusion on the re= lief program satisfactory to big business. Hopkins, in referring to the bank- |ers who have just returned from White Sulphur Springs, declared: “Apparently these people think that the only thing the Federal govern- ment should do is to loan govern= ment funds to the railroads.” H6wW his Federal program differs fun- damentally from that of the bankers Hopkins did not say. Philadelphia, Pa. MASS MEETING AND SEND OFF for Delegates to NATIONAL CONGRESS Friday, Dec. 28th, 8 P.M. Broadway Arena Broad and Christian Streets | SPEAKERS: HERBERT BENJAMIN MOTHER BLOOR WILLIMA N. JONES FREIBEIT GESANGS FAREIN WORKERS’ HARMONICA BAND — Cleveland, Ohio — NEW YEAR’S EVE. RED PRESS MASQUERADE BALL PROSPECT DEC. AUDITORIUM 2612 Prospect Avenue DANCING — GOOD ORCHESTRA 31st FAMOUS SOVIET MOVIE Admission at door 30c, with ad 26c ARRANGED BY DAILY WORKER, MORNING PREIHEIT and YOUNG WORKER MON. DEC, 24th PHILADELPHIA, Pa. MORNING FREIHEIT Masquerade Ball XMAS EVE ERCANTILE HALL - Broad & Master Sts. Three Prizes Given for the Best Costumes _ GOOD DANCE ORCHESTRA Tickets can be gotten through all Workers’ Organizations) and at the Freiheit Office. eo GRAND BOOK BAZAAR and EXHIBIT Greast Assortment of Marxist- Leninist Literature at 20% to 50% off CELEBRATE THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF INTERNA- TIONAL PUBLISHERS 1924-1934 Sunday. Dec. 23, 2:30 P.M. Chicago Workers School 505 S. State St, — Admission 15¢ ATTENTION! CHICAGO Revolutionary Theory To the Masses Three Brief Lectures: “The Formative Period of Marxism” EUGENE BECHTOLD “The Iskra Period and the _ Rise of the Bolsheviki” VICTOR MALMQUIST “Transforming Imperialist War into Civil War and the “Conquest of Power” BEATRICE SHIELDS 3rd ANNUAL agreement which John L. Lewis con- cluded with steel companies for the | captive mines last year, and which | paved the way for the company | “Brotherhoods” of the coke fields. | In short, “peace,” almost at any | price, is the line of Green, Tighe, | and the Steel Labor Board. Only the organization of the rank and file of the Amalgamated will pre- vent a sellout and uphold the in- | terests of the steel workers, their | demand for action, for recognition of their union and the betterment of conditions and wages in the steel mills z BAZ NEWARK, STATE-WIDE AAR Given by N. J. DISTRICT COMMUNIST PARTY Sat., Sun., Mon., Dec. 29th, 30th, 31st Krueger’s Auditorium, 25 Belmont Ave., Newark SATURDAY NITE MASQUEBALL | Admission 40¢ | SUNDAY EVE. SOVIET NITE Admission 25¢ MONDAY APT. BANQUET, Adm, 50c MONDAY NITE Combination Ticket 75¢ CHILDREN'S DAY | Admission 15¢