The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 25, 1934, Page 3

wattY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1934 Page 3 DELEGATES MAP INSURANCE FIGHT AT PITTSBURGH PARLEY’ Local ‘Unions Give Support To Congress Committee Makes Plan to Send Delegates to Washington By Tom Keenan PITTSBURGH, Pa. Dec. 24.— Eighty-one delegates attended the district conference on unemploy- ment insurance in Walton Hall Sat- urday to lay plans for broadening the campaign for delegates to the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance in Washington on January 5 and complete arrange+ ments for transportation to the cap- ital. Seventy-two organizations, with & total membership of 210,000, were represented ‘The tabluation of the arrangements committee showed 72 official delegates now registered for ; the national conference. Twenty-three locals of the Unem- ployment Councils sent one delegate each, of which 18 now electéd will | make the trip to Washington; nine | local unions, representing a mem- bership of 5,709, sent 12 delegates to the meeting here, eight of whom are Washington delegates; the other 46 delegates represented 41 different fraternal and beneficial associations, ll of them delegates to the National Congress. Egan Reports James Egan, district representa- tive on the national arrangements committee, made the main feport, citing the permanent character of the present need for unemployment insurance ard outlining the mobil- ization already carried through in the district. Egan pointed out the terrible con- ditions and actual starvation of those on reliéf in Allegheny County, the red tape of the welfare set-up, the police terror and brutality with which the employers meet demands of the uhemployed workers, and the railroading of leaders whi¢h has sent Phil Frankfeld to jail for four years. Herbert Benjamin, representing the Committee for the National Congress, supplemented the appeal for broad representation, tracing the national picture of relief- and wage- cutting which faces the workers to- day, ahd outlining the plans already laid for the Washington meetirig. Resolution Backs Bill After broad discussion by various delegates, a resolution was adopted to “endorse the principles of un- ‘3 cyment and social insurance as outlined in the call for the National U_ 3708s,” and to “carry out the de- c s of the National Congress for this territory,” Other resolutions ralled for release of all political pris- cers, and condemned the public re- lations office for reftisal to recognize the committees of unemployed. A committee of 35 was set up to carry on the work of making final atrangements for the Washington trip, with headquarters at 522 Court Place, Pittsburgh. Round trip to Washington from Pittsburgh will.cost $6.25 per dele- gate, with 200 delegates needed to charter the train, For this reason delegates are urged to pay for theit reservations as soon as possible at the above address. In Washington, expenses will be $1.25 or $1.75 per day for board and lodging, délegates being free to choose which class of lodging they desire. Train tickets will be good for return anytime within seven days after date of issue, in case delegates intend to stay over for the Unem- oyment Council National Conven- ion, Jan. 8 and 9. Soviet Film Showings Will Raise Funds For New Jersey Delegates In order to help defray the ex- penses of the New Jersey delegates to the National Congress for Unem- ployment and Social Insurance, the United Aftrangements Committee has atranged for the showing of a Soviet film in New Jetsey towns during the next two weeks. Ad- mission to the film is 25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children. All profits will be turned over to the New Jersey délégation for their expenses. “Laughter Through Tears,” a Yiddish dialogue film with English titles, will be shown as follows: Monday, Dec. 24, Perth Amboy, Washington Hall, 179 Fayette Street, 8 p.m.; Tuesday, Dec. 25, Plainfield, I. W. O. Hall, 224 West Front Street, 8 p.m; Wednesday, Dec. 26, Freehold, Russian Club, 30 South Street, two showings, 7 to pm. and 9 to 11 pm.; Thutsday, Dec. 27. Asbuty Park, Milberg’s Hall, 711 Main Street, two showings, 7 to 9 pm. and 9 to 11 pm.; Fri+ day, Dec. 28, , Russian People’s Hall, 408 Court Street, 8 pm.; Saturday, Dee. 29, Lake- wood, Wolpin Hall, Fourth Street, 8 pin; 30, New Brunswick, Gorki’s “Mother” will be shown the week following. Y.C.L. Leader to Speak At Detroit Lenin Meet DETROIT, Mich. Dec. 24—The Young Communitt League, in con- junction with other working class organizations, is sponsoring a Lenin, Liebknecht and Luxemburg Youth Concert and Dance on Jan. 18 at the Finnish Hall, 5969 Fourteenth Street, at T o'clock. Gilbert Green, national secretary of the Y. CG. L, will be the main speaker. A fine program and dancing will follow. What is the latest maneuvering of the imperialist powers? Only the Daily Wotker explains what it really means. Read the Daily Werker regularly! Subseribe to the | John Burr, a number of Aldesmen, Daily Worker! Get your shop- nates to read it and subsoribe! day, Ladies’ Aid Hall, 8 p.m.| | 9|one with a suspended seritence and ‘Anti-Fascists jtural and other organizations, to 'son of the. University of Chicago; | Fake Charges Against 10 | Unite Against | Hearst Attack Mass Meet in Chicago Friday to Expose Fascist Papers CHICAGO, Dec. 24—A broad, united front mass meeting, repre- | senting Chicago trade unions, cul- fight the fascist attacks initiated by the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce and the Hearst press against the, working class, will be held here Fri- | day, Dec. 28, at the Drill Hall, Capitol Building, 159 N. State Street. The united front emergency con- ferefice, which was called by the Chicago Workers’ School last week, was attended by 152 delegates, in- eluding 15 local unions, five of them AF. of L.; three locals of the Teach- ers’ organization, the Chicago Workers’ Committee on Unemploy- ment, and the Chicago Labor Col- lege. Urges Repeal of C. S. Law The conference unanimously en- dorsed this meeting, declaring that the attempt to outlaw the Chicago | Workers’ School and to jail its in- structors, was an attack on the en- tire working cless and on all anti- | fascists. It also adopted resolutions call- ing for the repeal of the Illinois criminal syndicalist law, for aca+ demic freedom for teachers, fgr the | release of the niné Scottsboro boys, and to support the mass fight against the Jim-Crow attempt to evict Hetbert Newton and his fam- ily. The meeting Friday will intensify its fight against the Hearst press incitements on the Chicago Work- ets’ School and the American Legion officials, who ate preparing an anti-Communist parade for Jan, 4. 1 To Hear Noted Speakers Thé ahti-fascist mass meeting will be addressed by Prof. A.J. Carl- George Koop, member of Typo- graphical Union No. 16 and of the So¢ialist Party; Dr. Atthur G. Falls of the Inter-Racial Commission of the Urban League; Jolin Werlick, chairman of the American League Against War and Fascism; Robert Minor, of the Communist Party, and Beatrice Shields, director of the Chicago Workers’ School. Mass Pressure Forces Prosecutor to Dismiss ELLENSBURG, Wash., Dec. 24— Fifteen defendants who came to court ready to begin their trials found dismissals awaiting them, the prosecutor uneasy and perturbed by the steady stream of protests, and the judge warning the remaining ten defendants, all charged with ioting during the miners’ strike at Roslyn and Cle Elum last Spring, that theif trials will take place this month “regardless of circumstances.” Just what circumstances Judge Maguire meant he did not say, but ¥rosecutor Short was more definite in his reason for the dismissal of the charges. “Resolutions and protests are pouring in to Judge Maguire and myself with every mail,’ he said with a worried air. “I had no special interest in prosecuting these eases but was only proceeding in accordance with my duty. Jury Frees 4 Workers As Prosecutor Protects Ku Klux Klan Activity OENTRALIA, Wash.. Dec. 24, — After 42 hours of deliberation the jury, trying four workers charged with “rioting,” disagresd on three cases and recommended leniency for the fourth. All four were freed, @ suspended fine of $100. Throughout the trial the des- perate attempts of the prosecutor to keep the Ku Klux Klan out of the case were balked by the defense of Lawrence Selzer, International La- bor Defense attorney representing the four defendants. Mid-West City Council Endorses Workers Bill CASEY, Ill, Dec. 24. — Workers “sre ih response to the Daily Worker campaigh for oné million bal- Aots for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, today sent a copy of the Workers’ Bill to which was at- tached a petition signed by 144 resi- dents of the town. The copy of the Workers’ Bill and the petition had been presented to the City Council which eridorsed the Bill. The letter to the Daily Worker states: “Instead of going out and getting votes for the Workers’ Un- employment and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598, we are enclosint the petition with which we forced the Casey City Council to endorse the Bill, as we feel that this petition is the same as votes.” The petition was signed by Mayor | Communist Party, Lovestone is try- | struggle is being carried on. Renegade Apes Hearst | League, in Attack Against Communist Party By JACK STACHEL I. ips THE first two articles we point- ed out how Lovestone is furnish- ing arguments to the Waldmans and Oneals against the united front of the Socialist Party and the Com- munist Party, and how now, after the N. E. ©. of the S. P. rejected the united front proposal of the ing to prevent the organization of the united front of the local So- cialist organizations and the Com- munist Party, going even as far as blaming the threatened expul- sion of the R. P. C. members of the S. P. at the hands of Waldman on the united front agreement reached ‘py certain leading elements of the S. P. and the Communist Party in the South. Here in this final ar- ticle we wish to show to what depths Lovestone has sunk in the attack on the Communist Party, and how he repeats every argument against the Party that is being made by the most vicious enemies of the Party and the revolutionary move- ment. The Lovestone sheet in its ed- itorial on the “R. P. C. and United Front” says: “And the issues themselves on Uhe basis Of which the ‘united front’ is to be formed? Accord- ing to the Daily Worker, the first issue is the ‘struggle against war | and fastism.’ How is it possible | to have joint action here as long as the official CU, P. insists on hanging on to the narrow and thoroughly impotent American League Against War and Fascism as the ‘united front’ in this field? The indispensable pre-requisite for the cooperation with the of- ficial C. P. in the struggle against war and fascism, it seems’ to us is surely the initiation of a NEW Movement on a new and sound foundation.” Would not readers of the Daily Worker think that this was written by Waldman and Oneal unless they knew that it was written by the great fighter for “unity of labor,” Jay Lovestone? Or perhaps by Abe Cahan? In the fitst place the struggle against war and fascism is not being carried on only through the channels of the League Against War and Fascism. The struggle against the growing menace of fas- cism is being carried through every day in the factories, in the trade unions, in the streets, through the Communist Party directly, through the militant forces in the trade unions, etc. The united front pro- gram of the League is not to be confused with the program of the Communist Party on both the ques- tions of the struggle against fascism | and war. The League is but one of the means through which this i is conceivable that a united front may be organized in specific instances | and on specific issues with organ- | izations and groups that are not af- | filiated to the League. The Com- munist Party does not make a con- dition in such united actions that the organizations which join in the united action must become part of the League. But let us now take up the League. What is the League? Is it really narrow? To be sure we Lovestone Gives Yeoman Service to Gre Aids Reactionary ® are not satisfied with the progress made thus far in broadening the But already it involves numerous organizations, including A. F. of L. unions, 8. P. organiza- tions, liberals, peace organizations, farmers, Negro, student organiza- tions, etc, all of whom accept the minimum united front program of the League. And this composition has been achieved despite the at- tacks made on the League by Green, the S. P. leadership and Lovestone. Does Lovestone believe that unless the A. F. of L. Council endorses the League that it must be “narrow” and “impotent”? Does Lovestone believe that unless the 8. P. offi- cially joins in the building of the League that it can not ve under- taken? That we must not strive to create the broadest possible or- ganization in this field unless we get the support of the N. E. oO. of the S. P.? As for the Love- stonites we would like to ask where was Zimmerman, who, until this day remains a member of the Na- tional Committee of the League? What did he do to broaden the League among the needle workers, even his own local? Represented Broad Front At the very inception of the League the S. P. was invited to join in the building of the League. They even sent delegates to the meetings for a time under the pres- sure of the movement and the rank and file of the 8. P. Why did they withdraw? This Lovestone does not mention. His job is to attack the Communist Party. The 8, P,, N. E. C. again under the pressure of the rank and file sent “unofficial ob- servers” to, the last convention of the League. These “observers” pri- vately had to admit that the con- vention represented a broad united front of workers, farmers, intel- lectuals, students, etc, including large numbers of official delegates from the A. F. of L, unions, and the Socialist Party. Evidently the main reason that the League is “narrow” is that it did not get the approval of Love- stone. If that is the case, the |growing militant labor movement, the growing united front of the masses will remain “narrow.” For will continue in the future as today to be of little consequence in the labor and revolutionary movements. As for us, we shall continue to work with the greatest energy to involve all those willing to struggle against fascism and war into the League. We shall continue espe- cially to work for the affiliation of the A. F. of L. unions and the Socialist organization with the League. The Communist Party does not approach the League in the sense of any desire for mechanical domination. We are sincerely work- ing to unite all those willing to fight for the elementary program of the League even though there may bé differences on important funda- mental questions. In thé course of these mass struggles, the masses will learn of the correctness of the policies put forward by the Party. That this is our approach is rec- ognized by the leading non-Party elements working in the League, trade unionists, intellectuals and others who, by the way, constitute the majority of the leading com- mittee and officials of the League. Here is what the national chairman of the League, Dr. Hatry F. Ward, had to say on this question at the last convention of the League? “I want to speak to the point Rank and F ile Miner Elected As Weighman Balya Gets More Votes Than All Opponents Put Together CENTRAL CITY, Pa., Dec. 24. — Oppesing the ‘united front between the Reitz Coal Company, which operates five mines here, and the appointed officials of District 2, United Mine Workers of America, the miners of Central City local union No. 6410, have elected Mike Balya as checkweighman of Reitz No. 4. The vote for Balya, a rank and file fighter, was greater than the combined vote for his three ov- ponents for the office, showing the eagerness on the part of the min- ers to support a leader who stands for rank and file control of the union, The election of Balya, who with the 800. miners of the Central City local has effectively checkmated every traitorous move by the Lewis | machine to carry out the dictates of the operators, drew an immedi- ate protest from the Reitz Co, and the district officials of the union. * Company Won't Have Him Superintendent R. Lochrie of the Reitz mines issued a declaration on Dec. 13 that “under no conditions will Balya be permitted to function as checkweighman” since the latter Was not an employe of the com- pafiy at the tite of his election. President J. Marks of District 2 immediately parrotted the state- ment of Lochrie in a letter to the local union, notifying the miners that Balya was “ineligible” to run for the position of checkweighman. If anything, these two deajara- tions have strengthened the ucter- mination of the miners that Balya shall take his place on the tipple, Since expetience has taught them that anything which the district of- ficials opnose is pretiy good meti- cine for the miné*s, and vice versa. Struck Twice in His Suppert The entire Central City loc=] hes doctors and ministers and other leading citizens of Casey. 4 ! twice struck to support Balya; onc? to force the company to allow him VOTE of the fears of a good many peo- ple, both in the political and other groups, concerning the domination of this organization by one polit- ical party. I want to say to you that non-political members of the bureau Mave not seen a singic manifestation of any attempt of the domination of this League by one political party. It remains to repeat the slanders cerning the League. The National Congress Let us see what Lovestone has to Say concerning the coming National Congress for Unemployment Insur- ment reached in the South. “What is this National Congress for Unemployment and Social In- surance? Nothing but the latest Puppet organization of the Com- munist Party, just another name for the bankrupt Unemployed vounciis. it 1s merely another ‘Red’ paper organization today and can never in the nature of the case become anything else.” Those who have read the letter sent out by the A. F. of L. Council headed by William Green to the A. F. of L, locals warning them not to elect delegates to the Congress, will note that even William Green did not dare go so far in his slan- der of the Congress as does Love- stone. Because Green knows that thousands of local unions of the A. P. of L. have endorsed the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill and are participating in the work for the Congress. So the Unemployed Councils are bankrupt. The Unemployed Councils that embrace organizationally hun- dreds of thousands of unémployed. Ask the tens of thousands of miners in the Unemployed Councils if it is bankrupt. Ask the tens of thousands of Negro unemployed masses, What audacity, The Unemployed Councils influencing millions that organized the historic March 6th demonstra- tions (1930) involving more than a million and a quarter workers, that developed the fight for unemploy- ment insurance, that rallied millions behind the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, that for about five Lovestone, bankrupt and isola e,| oars have led the struggles of the unemployed throughout the country are bankrupt. How much hatred these people have for the Commu- nist Party, what disregard for the interests of the masses, how low they must have sunk in their service to the enemy to talk like that. And as to the Congress? It is just the “latest puppet organization of the Communist Party” says Love- stone. -Dozens of branches of the Socialist Party have endorsed it. Many city-wide organizations of the Socialist Party, the conference in the South, the New Jersey State Convention of the Socialist Party, hundreds of A. F. of L. locals have elected delegates to Washington, many times that number partici- pated in the local conferencés, but ization of the C. P.” This Congress represents already on the basis of the partial returns of the election of delegates the broadest united front ever estab- lished siticé the formation of the Communist Party, much wider than the Farmer-Labor Party movement, but to Lovestone this is nothing. Goes Green One Better In addition to the trade unions, the S.P* organizations, delegates have been elected not only from the Unemployed Councils but also by e€ of Green, Waldman and Co.,, con-| ance; the second point of the agree- | to Lovestone it is a “puppet organ- | | There can be only one reason. Be- | | with which our readers are already | n and Company; Program To Expel Militant Unionists | Works at High Pressure| [MWA Miners! to Disrupt Unity of the Working Class | |the Leagues and numerous other un- | employed organizations dominated by Socialists, Musteites, delegates | have been elected by national fra- ternal organizations involving hun- dreds of thousands of members| among the Italian workers, Slovak | workers, delegates have been elected from numerous branches of the Elks, Odd Fellows, church organizations, millions are already represented in | the elected delegates, But Lovestone | contributes his share in building} this movement by going Green one better in his denunciations. Why? cause Lovestone is furious that the| Party is able to initiate and develop such movements, while he and his| litle group become more and more | isolated and defeated, | But Lovestone is not finished. He has something more to say. He com- ments also on the point in the agree- | ment reached between the 8.P. com- | rades in the South and the ©.P. on the question of the organization of | the unorganized and the building of the unions. He says: “On what basis—on the basis of | the disruptive union wrecking pro- gtam sponsored by the C.P. in the A. F. of L. unions or on the basis of the program of constructive | union-building championed by the | progressive forces in the unions?” It is hardly necessary to comment at length on this provocative state- | ment intended to make easier the | expulsion policy announced by Green and carried on in the needle trades by Dubinsky and the Lovestonite | Zimmerman. Is this not the reason | given by Green, Woll and Co.,, in their attack on the Communists in| the trade unions? Is this not the| argument used by the Hearst press | and the Civic Federation in their | call for the expulsion of the Com- munists from the unions? Not Lewis and Gorman afe responsible for wrecking the unions in the South and elsewhere, but the Communist Party. Compare this with what) Lovestone wrote about the A, F. of L. bureaucrats and the S.P. leader- | ship when he was still a member of | the Communist Party: As for the} constructive work in the A. F. of L. unions carried on by the Loveston- ites, both Zimmerman and Keller furnish some very good examples acquainted. They are the tools of | the Dubinskys and Gotmans, the| shock troops in the fight against the Communists and all militant work- | ers, Lovestone in his article says te-| garding the Gitlow-Zam grouplet | that Was born in the womb of the} Lovestone group and which now} joined the S.P.: | “Gitlow, Zam and their one-sixth of a bakers dozen, through their | entry into the S.P., have become a small but scurrilous force for | the Right. THIS IS ALWAYS | THE CASE WITH THOSE WHO ARE CONVERTED BACK- WARDS, (Emphasis mine—J.. 8.) Evidently Lovestone was looking | in the mirror but yet his vision was so blinded that instead of secing | himself and but a little more than) & sixth of a bakers dozen he saw WARDS. (Enmiphasis mine—J. 8.) | for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill H.R. 7598 This ballot is sponsored by the Daily .QWorker sett ous conan Tr ory w TON 0 CovmT AnutONAD America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper 50 East 13th Street New York (Cut .out and sign this ballot today) BALLOT I have read the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill and vote © O AGAINST O a OG 2 Vote without delay and return your ballot at once to the worker who gave it to you, or mail it to the “Daily Worker” to be present when the mine scales were tested, the second time when a yellow dog contract was proffered the local. On both occasions the men were induced to return to work only on promise of the company that Balya would be rehired, and both times they discovered they had been tricked after it was too late. It was proven on that occasion that the contract which was to abtogate all Balya’s rights was written by John Ghizzoni, districf board member of the U. M. W. Try to Split Local The Lewis machine has tried re- peatediy to split the Central City Iccal into five parts to make it eesier to handle, but the rank and file is too sclidiy organised for the manelivar to be successful. Practically without exception, they have denounced Marks’ letter on the “ineligibility” of Belya, and a strike may result if he is not allowed to take the scale job. Meanwhile, he has been served with an eviction order to vacate the company house in which he dwells. Miters well acquainted with the constitution of the U. M. W. declare ithat there is no clause to prevent a miner at the time not employed by a certain company from being elected checkweighman, as in the latter capacity he is working, not for the company, but for the men directly. GANLEY TO SPEAK ON AUTO UNIONS DETROIT, Dec. 24. — The new of the automobile companics will be discussed by Nat Ganley, Michigan organizer of the Trade Union Unity | Loague, Sunday at 2:30 p.m, in a talk on “Perspectives for the Auto mobile Workers in 1935.” Ganiey will speek at the Workers Open Forum, 5989 14th Avenue, near Mc- Graw ‘| tial section of Chicago's far South | wage-cutting, union-smashing drive| Lesion, this group is organizing to Chicago Y.C.L Hits Jim-Crow Bid in Schools Leads Struggle Against | Move to Introduce Segregation CHICAGO, Ill., Dec, 24.—Evidence that a small group of reactionaries in Morgan Park, a swanky residen- Side, are prepating an underground campaign to repeal the Illinois statute making Jim-Crowism in the schools a felony, has given rise to @ renewed drive on the part of working class youth, under the leaderthip of the Young Communist League, against the removal of Negro students from Morgan Park High School. Quisi—on the surface—for a few weeks, the Mofgan Park segrega- tion battle has once more flared up and became one of the major strug- gles here against Jim-Crowism. Re- cently there took place a fascist- engineered “student” strike of spec- tacular importance, in which a number of white students, under the urging of leaders of the Amevican Legion, protested against the as- sighment of students from nearby Bevetly Hills, which has a consider- able Negro populaticn, The Chicago statute which makes Jim Crowism a felony was pass3d shortly after the Civil Wat, and specifically mentions the schools. It is against this statute that the re- actionaries ate waging a determined battle. Led by the Rév. Homes C. E. Boblett of the Morgan Park Chris- tian Church, one of the section’s most sncbbish churches, and a small clique dominated by members of the Beverly post of the American bring about a repeal of the law, with the aim cf extending the growinz practice of seg-egation in Chicago schools, The best present you can give any worker is a subscription to Back Workers’ Insurance Bill Maloney Blocks Vote of Three Locals on Congress SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. 24—“Well, | I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. That's all I have to say.” With these words Thomes Maloney, district president of the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania, dismissed a joint meeting called last week by Locals 7, 13, and 18, and thus blocked the chance to vote on sending delegates to the National Congress for Unem- ployment and Social Insurance. The workers present had voted unani- mously to give your correspondent the floor to present the Congress Call, and judging from their re- sponse to the explanation of the superiority of the Workers Bill over jthe fake Wagner-Lewis Bill, it is certain that they would have voted to send delegates. Only four days previous to this, Maloney promised at a called by U.A.M. of P. Local No. 30 (incorrectly reportéd in the Daily | * Worker as No. 13) that he would support the Congress and recom- mend all locals to send delegates. When he was asked before the opening of this meeting if your cor- respondent could present the call, he answered that it was not on the order of business. It was only after @ rank and file member of the union insisted that the question of hear- ing the Call be voted upon, and the body supported him unanimously, that the floor was granted at all. The truth of the matter is that | Majoney is up in the air. The miners are beginning to understand that being sold out and sent to con- ciliation boards is no sweeter when it comes from Maloney than when it comes from John L, Lewis. There is much dissatisfaction and grum- | bling among the miners of North- eastern Pennsylvania, They are be- ginning to look for a way out—of | Maloney’s tie-up with the opera- tors and politicians. Eleven locals from Luzerne County are sending delegates to the National Congress. | Every local in Lacawanna County that was. approached has responded favorably. Maloney, sensing the re- volt, came out in support of the Workers’ Bill and the Congress in order to first head and then be- head the movement behind it. But the revolt continues, and Maloney can’t keep up with it. That is why he blows cold one day and hot the next. 200 Sign Daily Worker Ballot in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Dec. 24— Over 300. Negro and white workers answered the call of the Juniper Unemployed Council Local to stop the eviction of a Negro worker at 525 South Juniper Street, here, last Friday. So determined was this group of workers that the constable tgok one look and retreated. leaving the workers in complete control of the situation. After the departure of the con- stable a mass meeting was held, at Unemployment Local and 200 signed the Daily Worker ballots for the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill. | Pittsburgh WorkersClub To Present ‘Stevedore’ PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 24—The Workers’ Cultural Club will hold a dance and entertainment this Sat- urday night at the International Socialist Lyceum, 805 James Street, N. 8. The affair is for the benefit of the Workers’ Book Shop and School. The Workers’ Theatre League will present “Stevedore.” There will be a recital by the Negto Singers’ Quartet and by other musicians. Dancing to music by a fine otches- tra will follow. All workers and their families and friends are in- vited to attend. WHAT’S O Philadelphia, Pa. Mass Meeting and send off for Dele- @ates to National Congress for So- ¢ial_ and Unemployment Insurance, Priday, Deo. 28, 8 p.m. at Brosdway Arena, Broad and Christian streets. Speakers: Herbert Benjamin, Mother Bloot, William N, Jones, Freihett Ge- Workers’ Harmonica satigs Farein, Band. Naw Year's Eve Dance and enter- tainment Monday, Dee. $1 at Girard Manor Hell, 911 W. Girard Avenue. Gcod crehestra, bar and buffet. meeting | which fourteen workers joined the | Detroit AFofL Council Expels filitant Baker Expulsion Follows Lead- ing Role of Militant in Mass March DETROIT.—Taking their cite from William Green and Matthew Woll, who are collaborating with the Dickstein Committee, the Hearst press and other reactionary forces in a new anti-Red drive, the leadership of the Detroit and Wayne County Federation of Labor, headed by Frank X. Martel, Wed- nesday night expelled William Al- jlan, militant trade unionist, from | the Central Labor body. Allan was a delegate from Bakers’ Union, Lo- cal 20, of which he has been re- | cording secretary for the past five years. The expulsion came one day fter the mass march of Detroit's unemployed, in the preparations for which Allan played a leading role, Allan's expulsion was largely due activity in the Detroit A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Re- lief, which is now actively prepar- jing for the National Congress for | Unemployment and Social Insure ance in Washington Jan. 5-7. The | Congress has been denounced by the A. F. of L. “leaders,” who are | Taising a “Red scare” in an effort to halt the growing support it is | receiving in trade union ranks. Martel Was “Prosecutor” Allan was expelled after a star- hamber trial before a board of ven, composed largely of Martel henchmen, before which Martel ap- | peared as prosecutor. The charges grew out of a lecture Allan had given on the San Francisco strike in the headquarters of the John Reed Club under the auspices of the |Pen and Hammer. Specifically, the | charges were: Slandering the A. F. | of L, leadership, Communist agita- } tion and speaking in a “Commu- | nist hangout.” | Allan, in a 20-minute speech be- |fore the Central Labor body, de- fended the democratic right of all | A. F. of L. members to criticize the |leaders. He pointed out that the John Reed Club, despite the fact that it is on the “Red list” of the A. F. of L. bureaucrats, is not affili- ated with the Communist Party and that the A. F. of L. rank and file committee consists of people of all political beliefs who are united on the issue of a struggle for genuine | unemployment insurance and relief. Attacks Rank and File Martel replied with a vicious at- }tack on the Rank and File Com- mitiee, and then put through a vote to expel Allan. ,This is the first time in several yeats that a militant delegate has been expelled |from the Central Labor Body, al- though Richard Kroon, secretary of the A. F. of L. Trade Union Com- mittee for Unemployment Insur- ance and Relief, has three times been refused a seat in the Central | Labor body, despite repeated eléc- tion by his union, Painters’ Local 37. |Court Sentences Four | After Stopping Eviction; Members of Farm Union TYRONZA, Ark., Dec. 24—Four men arrested by deputy sheriffs and ja group of wealthy planters were | hurriedly taken out of town, charged | with “interfering with labor,” found | guilty and fined $100 each within a | few hours. | The sheriff has admitted that the | Meeting, led by L. M. Mills, an or- |ganizer for the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, was broken up and the four men railroaded to sentences on precise instructions of the land- owners, whose boundless sway is | threatened by the union. The |charges and the conviction are based on state laws intended to-give | the big planters the power to hold | renters in slavery and yet have the | protection of the law. The men arrested with Mills are | A, B, Brooklins, Negro preacher; T. |S. Schulz, relief worker, and R. T. | Butler, Negro school teacher. The men were denied counsél. An ap- peal has been granted, but they are being held in $500 bail until court convenes in February. How can you get more relief? The Daily Worker tells you how! Read the Daily Worker regularly, It is the paper that fights for you! Philadelphia, Pa. MASS MEETING AND SEND OFF fer Delegates to NATIONAL CONGRESS Friday, Dec. 28th, 8 P.M. Broadway Arena Broad afid Christian Streets SPEAKERS: HERBERT BENJAMIN MOTHER BLOOR WILLIMA N. 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