The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 25, 1934, Page 1

e FINOREASE YOUR BUNDLE ORDERS AND SPREAD THE DAILY WORKER! Press Run Yesterday - - Sorc i Sa WN NN RE Vol. XI, No. 307 FACTORIES FIRE 126,000 - 40,200 Entered as second-class ma‘ =n Daily Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S. tter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SECTION OF COMMUN DECEMBER 25, 1934. IST INTERWATIOWAL ) PRICES RISE AMID MISERY, DATA SHOW Profits for Corporations Soar With Growing Fascist Tendencies NEW YORK.—A survey of the economic and political results of the New Deal indicates that the posi- tion of the majority of the popula- tion has ben made worse, the profits of a handful of corporations have been greatly increased, with an in- creasing tendency toward fascism in the Roosevelt government mani- festing itself, Dr. Harry F. Ward, of Columbia University, stated yester- day in a report issued by the Metho- dist Federation for Social Service. In a bulletin which goes to churches all over the country, Dr. Ward charged that Roosevelt's New Deal has failed to give the people a single benefit which it promised, and has on the contrary, assisted only the big Wall Street monopolies. To confirm his charges, Dr. Ward. quoted the following figures on profits: “The net profits of 402 industrial companies have risen from $47,380,- 000 in the first half of 1933 to $355,- 870,000, a 600 per cent rise, in the first half of 1934, while the stand- ards of living for the masses “con- tinuelly fall’.” Quoting leading Roosevelt spokes- men, the report shows that the purpose of the New Deal was, from the first, to save capitalism and capitalist profit. “This is the pur- pose of fascism elsewhere,” the re- port declares, Giving a picture of the widespread ruin and poverty which the New Deal has effected among the people, the report continued: “Some 9,000,000 families live in homes that conservative investiga- tors call substandard. The people's culiural standards lag. Hundreds of rural schools have been closed; tens of thousands have been reduced to only two and three months in a year; 5,000,000 unemployed youths have been trained for a type and standard of living that is not avail- able to them.” The report then showed that of the huge government expenditures tetaling more than six billion dol- Jars in the R.F.C. alone, hardly one- tenth went to the masses. Lower living standards of the masses all over the country has been one of the most noticeable results of the New Deal, the revort charges, giving instances of the recent milk survey which proved that more than 14 per cent of the country's families get no milk at all, and that the miseries of unemployment are great- er than before the New Deal. than before the New Deal. The cost of living, as instanced in the prices of retail food, has ad- vanced more than 28 per cent since last Avril, the report shows, with the Roosevelt government adding to this burden by its policy of destroy- ing crops and enforcing lower pro- duction. Ohrbach,Klein Strikers Plan Mass Meeting New York workers will voice their protest against the arrest of 120 strikers of the Ohrbach and Klein department stores and the injunc- tion against mass picketing obtain- ed by the Ohrbach company, at a mass meeting on Thursday evening, at Germania Hall, 16th Street and ‘Third Avenue, ‘The mass meeting, which will be arranged jointly by the Trade ¥rion Unity League, the Office Yorkers Union and the United fcnpcil of Working Class ‘Women, will be addressed by outstanding militant trade unionists. The list of speakers includes Rose Wortis, secretary ot the Trade Union Unity Council; M. Koretz, of the Needle ‘Trades Workers Industrial Union; Dora Rich. of the United Council of Working Class Women, and Gert- rude Lane, secretary of the Office Workers Union and chairman of the strike committee. Yesterday morning, Justice Louis Valente. hearing aplication of the Ohrabch company for making the injunction against mass picketing permanent, postponed final decision until tomorrow morning, Repre- senting the department store is Milton Eisenberg, notorious injunc- tion lawyer, who has obtained such writs in many cases. Yesterday afternoon, when shop- ping crowds pouring through Union Square were at their height. strik- ers held a mass meeting on Union Square, opposite the Ohrbach store, and spoke to thousands about work- ing conditions at Klein’s and Ohr- bach’s. Picketing wes maintained unin- terruptedly all day yesterday at both stores 2 Supports Cap italists! in Move to Keep Workers Poor By Si Gerson | The country was seized by the| Yuletide spirit yesterday. Those that | weren't seized by it simply didn’t | go to the department stores, that’s | all. Or maybe they didn’t go to Palm | Beach, the Berkshires or even to the Junior League dance last night. These socially-minded young ladies held, if we are to believe the society ‘columns of The New York Times, “a supper dance .., in the crystal room of the Ritz-Carlton. The proceeds will provide gifts of food and clothing for the destitute in the Yorkville section of the city.” Who says capitalism has no heart? Yea, verily, it has, and it bleeds regularly every Christmas Eve for the poor. That Upswing You didn’t receive benefits from | |the business upswing? You poor man you! Then the social agencies will| take care of you. The New York Times says in that restrained and decorous fashion for which it is so | justly famed: “Public and private social agen- cies began yesterday to bring Christmas cheer to those who did | not receive benefits from the bus- | iness upswing that distinguished this year’s pre-holiday trade from that of other years of the de- pression.” The Democrats—who never forget Christmas or Election Day—were also pervaded by the spirit of the| rubicund old gentleman, Santa Claus. Over in the 12th Assembly | District, where the boys have been having rather tough going of late years what with the Seabury in- vestigation, the Fusion gang chisel- ing in on them, the Communists and what not, there was a little party on Sunday night at the club- house of the George W. Thompson Democratic Association, 498 Third Avenue, for 500 children of the good voters. “Toys and candy were dis- tributed.” . Republicans may have lost the last elections but not their sense of dignity and propriety. The Ivy Re- publican Club, 1,300 First Avenue, ran their Christmas party on Sun- day night to 2,500 neighborhood kids —which gives them something like a 5 to 1 majority over their Dem- ocratic neighbors in the 12th A, D. Pride and Prejudice Let no one dare say that those, who rule us have no feelings for the | finer things. Pride and prejudice came in for consideration, too. The | Charity Organization Society began | | to issue gifts of money in the last few days. “In accordance with the policy of the organization,” says the New York Times with that delicacy and tact that stamps it as immortal in the halls of journalism, “money was provided to the heads of distressed families to permit a family Christ- mas aS spontaneous and personal as possible.” But if anyone thinks that the residents of Park and Fifth Ave- nues are going to be hoggish about this business of credit, they. simply don’t know our best people. There may have been feudal lords in other days who insisted on distributing Jargesse to all the vassals and then foot the bill themselves—but not our patricians! In order to make the family Christmas of certain of our indigent citizenery who didn’t pull out of the stock market in time as “spontaneous and personal as pos sible,” the workers were “permitted” to contribute. Nor have the miracles ended with the Immaculate Conception, the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection. The miracle of spontaneous good cheer, well-organized and not-too- well paid was demonstrated last night under every window from Riverside Drive to Broadway on 106th Street by volunteers from the drama division of the Bureau of Emergency Relief. Over in Jersey City the Medical Center’s seventy-five foot Christmas tree is ablaze with 5,000 amber, blue and white bulbs. The switch was thrown by Mayor Frank Hague, a gentleman with a prowess for throwing a lot of things, from switches to elections. Peace On Earth Down in Washington the deadly monotony of discussing civil and military mobilization plans will be interrupted by a city-wide homage to Santa Claus. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt: will be particularly busy, What with the Girl Scouts singing Christmas carols under her window and her appearance at the Central Union Mission and the Salvation Army to distribute toys and food baskets for needy families, There is little need to labor the point, but we consider this one of the most potent arguments against Communism. What, we ask indig- nantly, is Mrs, Roosevelt. going to do if people ercn’t ging to be poor? (Continued ou Page 2), ‘ v } |Press Calls Santa Denounces Reds As Godles s Miracles Saar United Front Increases Prospect Of Defeat for Nazis SAARBRUECKEN, Dec. 24,— The exposure of leading mem- bers of the fascist “German Front” as Saar Frenchmen, the routing of the German Secret State Police, and the founding of the Christian-Social People’s League, as a united front against annexation of the Saar by Nazi Germany have increased the prospects of victory of the anti- Nazi united front. They have also had a strong effect on the “Deutsche Front,” bewildering and disrupting it. In ‘Homburg alone 246 mem- bers have resigned from the German Front within the last few days. In St. Ingbert 86, in Volklingen over 50, in Neunkir- chen and Merzig several dozens. The fact that 70 clergymen at- tended the inaugural meeting of the Christian-Social People’s League has caused a large num- ber of other Catholic priests in the villages to emerge from the reticence which they have main- tained up to now on the plebi- scite question. The anti-fascist women’s meetings in particular are crowded. SOVIET FLAYS INVASION LIE Manchuria Story Fabrication and Invention (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 24 (By Wireless). --Reports issuing from Manchurian sources which state that the Soviet army has erected a steel-concrete fortification along Manchurian ter- ritory were branded in today’s newspapers as characteristic inven- tions of circles. The report about a Red Army de- i tachment penetrating Manchurian territory, after which it was sur- rounded and cut off from Soviet connections by Manchukuan troops; also the story concerning the flight of Soviet airplanes over these so- called “fortifications” on Man- churian soil was described by Tass, Soviet News Agency, as a pure fab- rication deliberately intended to aggravate Soviet-Japanese rela- tions, Demand Punishment (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 24 By Wircess). —The toilers of the Soviet Union are grecting with tremendous in- dignation the discovery of the counter-revolutionary terrorist group consisting of the dregs of the Zinoviev opposition group. At numerous meetings recently held in the factories of Moscow, Leningrad, Kharkov, Kiev and other cities the workers of the U. S. S. R. unanimously expressed their class hatred of the dastardly fascist gang which murdered the beloved leader of the Leningrad proletariat and their inspirers. With one voice the workers everywhere demand of the Soviet Government a ruthless punishment for all dastardly murderers, traitors and betrayers of the cause of the working class. Militant Workers Get Long Terms in Japan TOKYO, Dec. 24. — In line with the growing provocatory attitude of Japanese imperialism toward the Soviet Union, the autocratic gov- ernment of Japan is everywhere slashing at workers’ organizations, sentencing militant workers to long terms, and generally beating down all resistance to the anti-Soviet war Program. Typical of the ferocious govern- ment persecution is the sentence of life imprisonment passed on Shoichi Ichikawa, a leading member of the Communist Party of Japan, on Dec. 9. Five and ten year sentences are handed down frequently, as hap- pened on the same date with Quichi Tokuda and Kazuo Fuku- moto, both Communist function- aries, Two renegades, previously sen- tenced to 12 years imprisonment, who had foresworn any future ac- tivity in the interests of the work- ing class, were pardoned. After the militant trolley-car strike of Oct. 3, in Tokyo, in which 12,000 work- ers were involved, Isamu Miyaouchi and his wife, Aki Yamamaio, who aided in the conduct of the strike, were seized and thrown into prison. You know neighbors who should read the Daily Worker. Ask them to subscribe! certain Manchukuan | AUTO UNION “MEMBERS. JOIN AF. L. |Tool and Dye Makers Are Urged to Join the M.E.S.A. DETROIT, Dec, 24.—In line with its recent decision to urge all pro-| duction worker to vote for the A. F.| of L. and for tool and dye makers for the Mechanics Educational So- ciety in the Cadillac elections, the Auto Workers Union has called up- on all its members to join these two unions as a step towards a | Strong industrial organization in the auto industry, | In a statement-the union has de- |clared that it leaves the field as an organization, but pointing to its history of leadership in struggles which has resulted in many substan- tial gains for the workers in the in- dustry, the union declares, “We are confident that the fighting tradi- tions and principles of the Auta) Workers Union will live on in the! | activities of the rank and file in| | these unions.” | The statement has pointed out | that the new attacks of the auto- | mobile manufacturers make espe- | cially necessary a solid front against | the company unions. | The statement follows in full: | Conditions Worse 1, The conditions against which | the automobile workers. were pre-| pared to go out on a general strike! |Iast Spring instead of becoming etter have become worse. The Roosevelt government, with the full) support of the top leaders of the A. F. of L., prevented the general strike, established an agreement in Washington which ditched the wage demands, strengthened the open shop “merit clause” and the com- pany unions i The Auto Labor Board has con- sistently carried out the policies of | the employers and even now is carrying through fraudulent elec- tions aimed to generally establish the company union “works councils” as the sole representatives of labor in collective bargaining. Under the | sthoke screen of these “democratic elections,” and “investigation of conditions by Roosevelt,” coupled | with such demagogic phrases as “guaranteeing stability in the in- dustry and job security through the spreading of employment,” “an an- nual wage for auto workers,” etc., | the auto manufacturers have started a new fierce attack against the workers’ living standard. Money| wages are being cut; real wages are! declining; the speed-up is being in- tensified; the permanent army of | jobless auto workers is being in-| creased; the industrial spy system and company unionism is being} strenghtened and discrimination | continues unabated. | 2. The intense competitive strug- gle for markets between the auto manufacturers makes them all the more united in their attack against labor. There is complete unity in | the ranks of the employers on the question of reducing the cost of producing automobiles at the ex- pense of the workers. In face of this situation the need of one solid mass union for the auto industry is greater today than ever before. The Auto Workers Union was founded in the hope of building up such a union. The Auto Workers Union was once a part of the American Fed- eration of Labor. But when the A. F. of L. top leaders tried to break up our organization into a number of separate craft unions the mem- pership decided to withdraw from the A. F. of L. and to form an in- dependent industrial union.. Led Many Struggles For many years the Auto Workers Union led militant struggles in the automobile industry. Substantial gains were made by the workers in (Continued on Page 2) |National Guard Head | contributed $800,000 |showed that more than $2,000,000 | P. W. A. gets around to approving | ANTI-LABOR CONGRESS USE STRESSED BY MILITIA Asks Bigger Army Against Workers WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. The National Guard was described as a leading military defence against | “dangerous” domestic “infections,” | in the annual report issued: today by Major General George E. Leach, chief of the National Bureau of the National Guard. Calling for more funds and in-| creased equipment, Leach boasted of the use of the National Guard troops in “suppressing or prevent- ing civil commotion,” referring to the use of the National Guard in| strikes, The report shows that the Na- tional Guard consists of 136,000 men in the infantry divisions, 11,263 in the cavalry divisions, with other di- visions bringing the grand total to 184,791 men, not including the 13,144 in the National Guard Reserve. $13,844,000 for Drilling The buildng up of this military! machine as an instrument of vio- lenc against the masses was re- vealed in the figures showing ex-| penditures of $13,844,000 for drills| alone with $9,162,000 additional for| equipment. It is significant that the N. R. A.| through its} War National Guard Bureau. _ The report also shows that dur- ing the recent strike wave, Congress | appropriated funds for 10,000 new gas masks for use in chemical at- tacks against strikers, doubling the number of gas masks in the service. Further as preparation for “sup- pressing civil commotion,” the Na- tidhal Guard has been authorized to obtain 152 airplanes, with 113 planes now ready for instant action. During the year, 144 new light machine guns were obtained, the type particularly used in strikes be- cause they can be moved quickly, | The report also shows that the Na-| tional Guard has been “equipping | itself with adapters for all light | field artillery guns which have! added materially to mobility and ef- fectiveness of this arm.” The military character of many of the P. W. A. appropriations was | revealed in the report, which | was allotted to the National Guard through the P. W. A, with $6,640,- | 000 more expected as soon as the | the request which has ben placed with it by the War Department. It was also revealed that the Na- tional Guard is rapidly mechaniz- ing its artillery to increase the speed of its movements. 60 Motor Tanks A startling announcement was the figure showing the National Guard in possession of 60 motor tanks, with “motorization of the 15-m.m. artillery to be completed by | Public Works funds by the first part of the fiscal year 1935.” The total annual appropriation for the National Guard was re- vealed as $34,284,000. Testimony at the Nye Senate in- vestigation showed that Leach, writing recently of E. C. Goss, Lieu- tenant Colonel in the Reserve Corps and president of the Lake Erie Chemical Company, purveyors of gas and machine guns to the tex- tile employers in the resent strike, said that “Goss and his products are the best insurance against so- cial disorder that I know.” Especially large concentration of troops was reported in New York, California, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Georgia, all centers of growing mass unrest. The report indicates an increase in chemical warfare equipment, the type used more and more frequently | in strikes. Gebert Urges By Bill Gebert District Organizer, Communist Party, Chicago District Two of the most important cases which have ever been taken to the highest courts of the United States are pending there now. The lynch verdict against Clarence Norris and Haywood Patterson, two of the nine Scottsboro boys, is now in the United States Supreme Court for review. The 20-year chain gang sentence against Angelo Herndon, which is a sentence of death by slow torture, is before the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia. These two battles, conducted by the International Labor Defense, strike at the very heart of the most brutal form of oppression by the American ruling class—the oppres- sion of the Negro people. They are | the spearhead in the struggle to smash the feudal chains about the necks of a whole people. Behind Scottsboro Fund Drive More Speed The price which the ruling class of America sets for the right to make a legal fight against these lynch verdicts is tremendous. To cover the simple costs of fulfilling the requirements of the courts, and the incidental expenses of organiz- ing a mass campaign around the fights in the courts, an enormous sum is required. Six thousand dollars is needed by the International Labor Defense— now. ‘ The working class and its allies must see this through—now. I ap- peal to the masses of Chicago espe- cially, Negro and white, to make a supreme effort, and to make it without delay. : Raise money in your unions, among your shopmates and neigh- bors, in your mass organizations, and rush it to the International La- bor Defense, 80 East Eleventh Street, New York, N. Y., for the! Scottsboro-Herndon fight | |masses and TO NATIONAL EDITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents ON INSURANCE MEET AS JOB LOSSES RISE AND PAYROLLS FALL Enemies of U.S.S.R. Flayed at Kirov Rally 5,000 Workers at the St. Pledge Defense of Nicholas Palace Meeting the Soviet Union Against All Foes By Cyril Briggs Farm Employment Hits | Lowest Level in Past 12 Years WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 24.— A further slump in jobs throughout the country and a deeper slash in average wages paid heralds the sixth Winter of the crisis. Farm employment dropped to the lowest point for Dec. 1 in twelve years, according to the Bureau of Agricul- tural Economics are the ghastly facts about unemployment hese Five thousand persons crowded into St. Nicholas Palace, | Wich will confront the delegates 66th Street and Broadway, Sunday night in a mighty ex-| pression of solidarity with the Soviet Union and in tribute to the assassinated Soviet leader and veteran Bolshevik, | *tee-day Sergei Kirov. The large audience unanimously pledged their unswerving measures support to the stern? taken by the Soviet their government to smash the international band of | cowardly assassins who engineered the murder of Kirov as part of a| terrorist plot against the trium- phant advance of Socialist con- | struction in the land of the prole- | tarian dictatorship. | By their stormy applause as the speakers outlined the gigantic achievements in Socialist industry and agriculture in the U. S. S. R., | the abolition of unemployment and the solution of the National Ques- tion, and by the collection raised to | help the Friends of the Soviet Union spread the truth about the land of the Soviets, the assembled workers, intellectuals and profes- | sionals gave their answer to the| latest campaign of slander against | the Soviet Union. Indignant boos against the Hearst press and the Jewish Socialist Forward, and against the open alliance of certain Socialist Party leaders and the renegades from Communism with white guard elements in this city (Cooper Union meeting, etc.) gave notice to the imperialist war- mongers and their white guard allies and other agents that large sections of the American population were determined to defend the So- Union. The assassination of Kirov was due to the tremendous achieve- ments of the Soviet Union, driving | the enemies of the Soviet Union to | acts of desperation, Clarence (Continued on Page 2) POLICE MOB | ILD. RALLIES BRIEF FILED Join With Hoodlums| To Stop Scottsboro Meetings on Coast LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 24.— Five Scottsboro protest street meet- ings were smashed by police in one| evening here last week. Police and gangs of hoodlums were mobilized at each of the five announced meet- ing places, The Workers Laboratory Theatre | corps, after five unsuccessful at- tempts to present the play, “Murder in Scottsboro,” at the meeting places, finally led a parade with “Free Scottsboro Boys,” and “Free | Herndon” banners flying, down| Central Avenue. | At 86th Street and Broadway, the; workers grouped around the meet- ing prevented it from being smashed while the play was pre- sented, and speeches made by speakers from the International | Labor Defense and the Scottsboro | Action Committee. “ BELDEN, N. D., Dec. 24.—Letters urging the Farmers Union and the Holiday Association to join in the campaign to free the Scottsboro boys have been sent by Arvo Husa, state secretary of the United Farm- ers League of North Dakota, it was announced today. The letters, addressed to the state | secretaries of the two organizations, | enclosed a ¢opy of a call to action | on the Scottsboro case which has been sent to all United Farmers League locals, with a request that similar letters be sent to all locals of the Farmers Union and the Holi- day Association. Saarlander Is Cheered In Theatre for His Jibe, At Nazi Terror Camps, SAARBRUECKEN, Det. 24—| During a presentation of “Wilhelm Tell” at the Municipal Theatre here, at the moment when an actor play- ing the hero’s role was declaiming the famous speech of liberty, a| member of the audience called out: “You'd better look out. After Jan.! 13, you may be thrown into @ con- centration camp for saying that.” | The audience, electrified by the remark, cheered, while pamphlets containing an appeal for the strug- gle against brown-shirt tyranny and for the maintenance of the status quo were distributed in the audi- ence. What is the latest maneuvering of the imperialist powers? Only the Daily Worker explains what it really means. Read the Daily Worker regularly! Subscribe to the Daily Worker! Get your shop- MOONEY CASE Decision on Writ Plea to U.S. Court Expected Early Next Month WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 24.— The most voluminous brief to be filed with the U. S. Supreme Court in years was submitted to the clerk of that court today by Attorney Gen- | eral U. S. Webb of California in answer to the habeas corpus plea of Tom Mooney against his illegal imprisonment despite overwhelming proof of his innocense. The trial judge who convicted Mooney in connection with the Preparadness Day, 1916, bombing, has admitted that Mooney was convicted on per- jured evidence, as have several State officias and the Wickersham Commission, appointed by Presi- dent Hoover, The brief is an appendix to a smaller one filed last week It con- tains 459 printed pages. The court is expected to announce action on the case about Jan. 14. News Writers Pay Tribute To deSouza WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Mes- sages of condolence to the family of Daniel de Souza, 35, president of the Washington Newspaper Guild who here today by organized newspaper- men in many cities. The writer met his death while on the way to Newark with an auto load of toys for the children of the Newark Ledger strikers. The acci- dent occurred near Hyattsville, Md., | when the car in which de Souza was riding, hit a truck stalled on the highway. William Peake, the driver, also a member of the Guild, was injured, but was discharged after being treated at an emergency hospital. De Souza, one of the most active leaders of the Newspaper Guild, was one of the members of the delega- tion, headed by Heywood Broun, na- ticnal president of the Guild, which walked out in protest from the re- ‘cent N.R.A. hearing in Washington. A simple funderal under the au- spices of the Newspaper Guild was held today. He is survived by a wife and two children. NEW YORK. — National leaders of the American Newspaper Guild, at 49 West 45th Street, described de Souza as one of the most prom- ising and devoted workers the Guild had. “His loss will be keenly felt,” one of the officers said. “He died, mates to read it and subscribe! _ St” his duty—on a Guild mission.” to the historic National Congress | for Unemployment Insurance when it convenes here on Jan. 5 for a session. In the month of November, 126,- 000 factory workers alone lost their jobs as employment dropped 1.9 per cent and wages were slashed 2.5 per cent on the average, acc ng to the latest report by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. 200 to Leave from Chicago CHICAGO, Ill., Dec. 24, — The rank and file of the Railroad Em- ployes National Pension Ass scored a victory when the } Board was forced unanimously endorse the Workers Unemploy- jing here last week. The evaded the question of dele; the National Congress on | cuse that “There is no money.” The Chicago arrangement com- | mittee has announced that it ex- | pects to send a delegation of more | than two hundred to the Washing- | ton Congress. Among the delegates | most recently elected are those from | Painters Locals 275 and 273 repre- senting 1,950 members; Carpenters Local 181 with 1,000 members; Bakers Local 2 with 1,500 members (the largest A. F. of L. Bakers local in the coun! as r United Front which includes sixty organizations, and many other A. F. | of L. locals, fraternal, Negro and unemployed organizations. | The Chicago Committee espe- cially requested that all groups | speed the election of their delegates jand notify the committee at once. Special rates have been arranged for the delegates, nine doilars for | the round trip by bus and sixteen dollars by train, | Central Labor Union Acts | EASTON, Pa., Dec. 24—The Cen- tral Labor Union of Bangor, the Unemployed Citizens Leagues of | Easton and Bethlehem, and the | Societa de Luccia are among the | latest organizations here to send delegates to the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance. | Twelve delegates were chosen at a recent conference of forty-three Hungarian organizations with a combined membership of 20,000 in Lehigh Valley. U. T. W. Organizer Elected SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dec. 24.— | The local conference for the Wash- j ington Congress on Unemployment | Insurance elected two A. F. of L. {workers to attend the National | Congress, Seymour Allen, chairman of the | legislative committee of the Perkins Gear Union and Leslie Richards, lorganizer of the United Textile Workers and well known Socialist | who has been active in the fight for the enactment of the Workers’ Bill, will represent the local group jat the National Congress, Workers {from the Springfield Rifle Company were represented at the local con- | was killed in an automobile accident | ference, | last Saturday night, were being sent | | Philadelphia Send-Off Friday PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 24— Winding up a successful campaign |for the National Unemployment | Congress, a mass send-off meeting will be held Friday evening, Dec, 28, at the Broadway Arena, Broad and Christian Sts. More then 125 delegates have al= ready registered and more creden= tials are pouring in every day. Among those already registered are delegates from 20 A. F. of L. locals, 12 from independent and T. U. U. L, unions, with many from cultural, fraternal and political organiza- tions. ‘ The Polish Beneficial Association with a membership of 38,000 has | passed a resolution through its Na= tional Executive Committee endors- ing the Workers’ Bill and request< ing the congressmen from Pennsyl- vania to support it when it comes up in Congress. The Radio and Television Work- ers in the Federal Labor Union 18368, have elected a delegation of ten to represent them in Washing- | ton. A special request has been issued |by the sponsoring committee call= ‘ing on all delegates to report to (Continued on Page 2) | Room 707 in the Flanders Building - one might say, in performance of | » MORE