The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 27, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THU DECEMBER 27, 1 934 Ford City Ordinance Makes City Clerk Political Censor DearbornSets Crisis Batters Latvia; |Italian Army |ClevelandC.P. Lose Grip License Fee For Leaflets Fine and Jail Provided for Disregarding Official’s Rule By A. B. Magil DETROIT, Mich., Dec, 26.—The tity council of Dearborn, kingdom of Henry Ford, has just passed a drastic ordinance that practically prohibits all distribution of leaflets by “labor organizations. The ordi- nance declares that no leaflets can be distributed without obtaining a license from the city clerk, the cost of a license being 50 cents a week or $5 a year. But before the license is issued the leaflet must first be approved and, states the ordinance’ “No license shall be issued for the distribution of any circular, hand- bill, advertising matter or other lit- erature that contains obscene, im- moral, scandalous, libelous or trea- sonable statements or any statement the truth of which can not be es- tablished to the satisfaction of the | city clerk.” Under this provision, anl leaflet issued by a workers’ organization ean be declared “treasonable” or “untrue.” ‘The ordinance also aims to prevent distribution of leaflets inside the Ford plant, declaring that no leaf- lets can be circulated without a license “in or upon public property or private property, including auto- mobiles.” The penalty provided for any} violation is $500 plus court costs, or | imprisonment up to 90 days. The Communist Party, the Inter- national Labor Defense and other labor organizations are preparing a| Fascists On Peasant Population (Special te the Daily Worker) ce RIGA, Latvia, Dec. 26—As a result of crisis, unem- ployment and mass impoverishment, the comparatively weak basis of fascism in Latvia, among the peasantry and small business men, is ever decreasing, The promises and demagogic phrases, the “Land of Eternal Peace and Happi- ” etc., proclaimed by the “reno-@- a ” of Latvia, are beginning to) se their influence. Notwithstanding the sharpened t terror, the revolutionary or- ations in Latvia are continuing ir activity and are becoming ever mger. In connection with all) this, the fascists have most brutally worsened the prison regime. The severity of the prison regime, the ill- treatment and various punishments Solitary confinement in the pun- | ishment cells is generally resorted | to in the Latvian prisons. The min- imum term of such punishment is seven days, but often it is 14 and 21 days. Recently, the prisoners | Baumann, Novin, Greenberg, Mesis, | Kuesselev, Kukla, Michelson, Lekmis and others were kept for 21 days | in the punishment cell. Occupies City | In Abyssinia, Mussolini ears Drive’ to Subjugate Entire | Country ADIS ABABA, Abyssinia, Dec. 26. | —Italian Fascist troops penetrated | further into Abyssinia on Christ- | mas in Mussolini’s campaign to/ completely subjugate. the Abys- | sinian masses to imperialist op- | pression and exploitation. The| Italian invaders occupied the Abys- | sinian town of Afdub and have be- | gun the construction of a military | road from Italian Eritrea to Ado and Luerloguki in Abyssinian ter- ritory. have become intolerable since the fascist coup d'etat. The prison au- thorities have been given the ad- ministrative power to prolong the | After his confinement in the pun- | ishment cell, Dums went mad. a prisoner named He had first to be transferred to the prison hospital | and from there to a lunatic asylum. | “resistance,” | months. prison sentences. For the slightest % andeven if writing Punished for Writing materials are found in the cells, the| Not long ago a certain Bossfeld prison administration prolongs the | WS thrown into the punishment cell terms of imprisonment by six | for 21 days because he wrote a note, These measures have al-| and the remaining seven days be- ready come into practice in several | Cause he had hidden this note. On Latvian prisons, and particularly in| the day before he was taken to the | Riga. Thus, for example, the po- | Punishment cell, a warder tapped | litical prisoner Mende, was sen- | Provocatively on the door of his cell. tenced to five years because a note | Bossfeld tapped back an answer—| | the usual means of communication wi d to have been found in Bs, eirppoees te ae among the prisoners—and for this his possession. Sentences Prolonged With the conditions prevailing in| im the punishment cell. Thus this the Latvian prisons, these measures | Worker remained in the dark pun- | signify the prolongation of the sen- | ishment cell 28 days, and lived on rama to Gaal, Reeaues the sen- | bread and water the whole of this | tences can be prolonged several | Period! he was sentenced to seven days more | times. The prolongation of sentences | is brought about also by other | | means. The Latvian prison author- The former deputies of the Work- ers’ and Peasants’ Fraction of the Latvian Sejm are subjected to the ities have begun to bring political) most brutal ill-treatment. Deputy | Italian airplanes are threatening to bomb Abyssinian defense forces stationed at Gerlogubi, the Abys- sinian Government stated yester- day in a new appeal to the League of Nations. Meantime, the League has conceded to Italian pressure withdraw from the press room a} map of Abyssinia made by the} |Italian Geographical Institute at |Bergaine showing Ualual, where | the first Italo-Abyssinian clash oc- curred several weeks ago, well within the Abyssinian frontier ac- |cording to the 1897 treaty. That treaty was signed by Italy and Abyssinia after the Battle of Ad- owa (1896) in which the Abyssin- ian forces overwhelmingly defeated an invading Italian army. The Italian government now claims that Ualual is within the limits of its Eritrea colony, which with other looted territory held by Italy, France and Great Britain cuts off Abyssinia from the sea. There is also in the League Li- | brary an Italian governmental map | ers. determined struggle against this) prisoners to court on the charge of | openly fascist ordinance directed | “conspiracy” against the government | lost the sight of his right eye. He| jorder. The prisoner Levin was re-| Was forced to kneel with upraised | |cently sentenced by court-martial | hands for so long that he lost con- | against the rights of the working class. It has undoubtedly been in- spired by the Ford Motor Company | to additional six years imprisonment as part of the auto manufacturers’ | pecause, according to “evidence,” he program of intensified attacks on| apparently attempted to persuade | the living standards of the workers | several prisoners who were to be set | and on their attempts to organize. | tree, “to set the house of a fascist | ei eda on fire.” It is clear that in the| | prisons where spying and provoca- Ford Expo Ses | tion is greatly applied, such “ev' | u | dence” is easily obtained. By this! onye | fascism wishes to have the ghost William Green new legal procedures continually | before the eyes of political pris- | oners, and thus keep them away | (Continued from Page 1) | from active struggle, | Lapin was so mishandled that he sciousness. The bridge of his nose is injured. There were bloodstains all | over his clothes, which’ were handed out to his relatives. His state of health has worsened to such an extent that the prison authorities have been forced to allow him to| lie on the plank-bed‘during the day time. Deputy Gulbis is near in- sanity. At this moment the political pris- oners in Latvia can be aided only by the proved international solidarity of the toilers of all countries, high time that the American Fed- Fae F eration of Labor officialdom begins ment of the broadest united front to break down the discriminatory | of all the workers of Harlem and practices against Negro workers in|the breaking down of jim-crow | its organizations. For scores of| practices in all A. F. of L. unions. | years now the leaders of the Amer- | A move to organize the workers of ican Federation of Labor have car-| Harlem can only be carried through | ried out the jim-crow policies of |on the basis of the broadest move- the ruling class against Negro work: ers. Eight years ago this write! was expelled from the Chicago Fed- | eration of Labor as a delegate of that body and almost thrown bodily from the meeting for simply rais- ment involving every trade union | and left wing organization that has as its aim the betterment of work- ing conditions, wages, etc., of Ne- gro workers, and on the unification of the labor movement on a class Jane Newton to Speak At Chicago Protest Rally For the Workers School (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Dec. 26—Jane New- ton, released on probation following ton, reelased on probation following the failure of an attempt to rail- road her to the psychopathic ward ing the question of the organiz: struggle basis. tion of Negro workers by the A. F.) “The Workers’ Council was or- of L. and for speaking in support | ganized several months ago through of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car | the initiative of the Urban League Porters which up to that time had|and has been carried forward on been completely ignored by the! the basis of building unions of Ne- William Green and the Chicago/gro workers, organizing the unor- leaders of American Federation of| ganized, establishing more closely Labor. “Since that time something has happened among the Negro work- ers. Through militant actions, largely organized by the left wing and the unions of the Trade Union Unity League, the Negro workers Have made themselves felt in the labor movement, They have par- ticipated in large numbers in the recent struggles throughout the country, in coal and ore miners’ | strikes in Alabama, in the marine strike on the Pacific Coast, at Nor- folk, and in other struggles. Negroes, Whites Fight Together “For eleven weeks now the laun- | dry workers in New York, mostly | the solidarity of Negro and white workers; and to fight the jim-crow | policies of the leaders of the Amer- ; ican Federation of Labor. On this basis only can the Negro workers of Harlem be successfully organized to resist the attacks of the bosses.” Amter Urges | Aid to Parley | | (Continued from Page 1) | therefore, the Unemployment Coun- Negro workers, have been on strike |cils must immediately reach all other and are putting up a militant fight | unemployed organizations as well as against the laundry owners. Great | unions, fraternal lodges, Negro, vet- movements of the unemployed | eran organizations, and other groups throughout the country have taken | in order to mobilize their forces for place, in which Negro workers along |the demonstration. Organizations with their white brothers have been killed. A great movement has arisen around the Scottsboro de- fense, or the leaders of the American Fed- eration of Labor have taken any steps to mobilize the workers in sup- port of the Negro workers? Have they made any attempt to break down the jim-crow practices against the Negro workers? We cannot say that they have. On the contrary, the jim-crow policies have even been carried out against Negro workers by David Dubinsky and the leaders of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union right here in the garment industry in New York. No steps have been taken against the jim-crow N. R. A. codes or the attacks of the New Deal against | Negro workers. Green Rejected Resolution “At the 54th convention of the American Federation of Labor, be- | cause of mass pressure on the part of Negro workers and the growing struggle for Negro rights led by the left wing unions, a resolution was introduced against discrimination of Negro workers. The convention, un- der the leadership of William Green, rejected this resolution. “Nevertheless, Mr. Green, Dubin- sky and Frank R. Crosswaith, who support the jim-crow practices of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, are undertaking, because of the pressure of the masses and the united front activi- ties now being carried on by the left wing and militant unions and the Workers’ Council of the Urban League, to make gestures at the or- ganization of the Negro workers of Harlem. “The organization of the Negro workers of Harlem can only be car- Tied on successfully by the develop- | that have already endorsed the Bill are the first ones to be rallied. On the other hand, the Congress itself therefore new organizations should | be approached for participation in the demonstrations. For Increased Relief | “The demands for these demon- | trations must be linked up with the local demands for higher cash re- lief, higher scales on the relief jobs, for food, clothing, ete., against dis- | crimination of Negroes and foreign bern workers, jobs for young and | Single workers, “New efforts must be made to secure the endorsement of the Work- ers’ Bill by municipal councils, | county boards of commissioners, and | other governmental bodies that have | not yet endorsed the Bill. “In those localities where local | has aroused tremendous interest and | “Can we say that William Green | after mass exposure of the role of Chicago courts as instigators of at- | tacks on Negro people, will speak jat the mass meeting Friday eve- | ning, Dec. 28, at the Capitol Build- ing, 159 North Street, called to pro- test the fascist attacks against the | Chicago Workers School. Many prominent speakers, such as Arthur G. Falls, Professor A. J. Carlson, Robert Minor, John Wer- lick, George Koop, Morris Fine, and | Beatrice Shields will add their | voices to the mighty movement de- veloping in Chicago to beat back the fascist onslaught against work- ing class organizations. Jane Newton's visit to her hus- band, Herbert Newton, in the Bride- well jail, where the Negro Commu- nist leader is serving a sentence for participating in a struggle for jobs for Negroes, disclosed that brutal treatment, beating, manhandling, and rotten food are the lot of work- ing class fighters imprisoned here. The order issued by a Chicago court for a mental examination of | the white wife of a Negro worker is @ typical expression of the growing | fascist tendencies of the American {ruling class and its agents and hangers-on. One has only to re- ;member that in Hitler Germany, the Nazi hangmen are today ad- vocating penalties up to execution for so-called “Aryans” who marry Jews, to realize the sinister import of the action of the Chicago court. The court’s action dramatically raises three issues: (1) The ques- tion of who are the enemies and oppressors of the Negro people, (2) of the fate of the Negro people | united fronts have been established, | under a fascist dictatorship in this | Chicago, Youngstown, etc., the mem-| country, and (3) of the necessity bership of the other unemployed for the most determined, relentless organizations must be drawn into | and united front struggle by Negro the demonstration and into further! and white workers and the masses united front activity. | of the Negro people against fascism. The united front does not end on, Enemies of Negro People Jan. 7. On the contrary, the Jan. 7 demonstrations and the preparations | must be a stepping stone towards a continually broadening united front especially of the unemployed organ- izations, in the struggle for the unification of all unemployed or- ganizations into one. “These days should be made notable by the distribution of masses of literature—leaflets, explaining the National Congress; sale of the pam- phlets of the National Unemployed Councils, the Unemployment Insur- ance Reviews; post cards, ete. “Let us make Jan. 7 a formidable backing up of the demands to be presented to Roosevelt and the United States government,” Who are the enemies and oppres- sors of the Negro masses? This question is daily answered in the experiences of Negro workers with the jim-crow relief bureaus and the departments of city and national governments, {n the refusal of state and federal governments to safeguard the constitutional rights of the Negro peoples and to punish the lynchers of Nesroes, in the established policy of Big Business of refusing employment to Negroes | 88 clerks, ete, or in any other capacity than porters, messenger | boys, scrub women, ete. It was dramatically answered in the monstrous frame-up of the in- nocent Scottsboro boys and in the . if / f of Abyssinia issued by the Italian | Colonial Office in 1935. This map took the 1908 treaty changes into | consideration but it, too, shows | Ualual more than 100 miles inside Abyssinia, Rallies to Back Jan. 5 Congress. (Continued from Page 1) forward by Green and the Roose- velt administration. | “In one instance,” Benjamin con- tinued, “the proposal was brought |forward in a local union to put | through @ reversal by a motion to support the Wagner-Lewis Unem- | ployment Reserves Bill. But when | questioned, the union local presi- ;dent could not define the provi- sions of the Wagner Bill. This! | Proves how lightly these people take {the matter of unemployment in- ‘surance which is a life and death ‘question to the workers.” | Broad Movement | | In Pittsburgh, Youngstown and | | Cleveland, Benjamin reported that |a broad mass movement has been | developed behind the National | Congress and the Workers’ Bill. On the other hand, desperate efforts have been made by some A. F. of L. leaders and others to stem the | Sweep of this movement. Counter- ing this, the workers are expressing a greater determination to support the Workers’ Bill and the National Congress. Benjamin cited the case of one A. F. of L. Bus Drivers local union, where when an attack was made upon the Workers’ Bill, the mem- bership reconsidered the matter of election of its delegate, and de- cided to send two instead of one. “In Washington, also,” Benjamin said, “the president of the Federa- tion of Government Employes has been forced to withdraw charges against the N. R. A. Local 159 and Compels City | To Rent Hall Lenin Memorial Mec ing Will Be Held in | Public Auditorium | | CLEVELAND, ©,, Dec. 26—After| 28 @ deputy on the Moscow Soviet, is being inducted into long negotiations the Cleveland city | administration has reluctantly | agreed, under mass pressure, to rent the Public Auditorium Ballroom for | the Communist Party Lenin Mem- | orial mass meeting on Sunday, Jan. | 20, at 2:00 p.m. The renting of the city-owned Public Auditorium is a definite vic- tory for the Communist Party es-| pecially after Mayor Davis publicly | announced his intention of forbid- | ing free speech and of “driving the Communists out of the city.” W. W. Weinstone, member of the | Central Committee of the Commu- | nist Party will be the main speaker, and an excellent revolutionary pro- | gram will round out the afternoon. Admission will be 25 cents at the loor, and 20 cents in advance. Un- | employed with cards will be admitted | for 10 cents. bd A tremendous mass turnout is ex- pected to pay tribute to Lenin’s memory and at the same time dem- | onstrate to Mayor Davis that the) Communist Party will fight to the) utmost for civil rights for the work- | Sendoff in Phila. Tomorrow (Continued from Page 1) tional Congress for Unemployment | Insurance has arranged for bus transportation from all points in} New Jersey for the delegates to the| Congress. The busses will leave from the West Street, Newark, Friday, Jan. 4 at 11 p. m.; from the Jack Lon-| don Club, Elizabeth, at 12 mid-| night; from 11 Plum Street, New| Brunswick, Jan. 5 at 1 a. m.; and) from Trenton at 2 a.m, The busses will arrive in Washington, Satur- day morning, Jan. 5 at 8 o'clock. Fare for the round trip will be $6. | Tag days to raise funds for the) National Congress will be held on Saturday and Sunday, Dec, 29 and 30. All organizations have been asked to send their members to the following addresses to obtain col-| lection supplies: 53 Beaver Street, ! 105 Jackson Street, 358 Morris Avenue, and 516 Clinton Avenue, Mass Meeting Planned BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 26.— The red scare raised by William Green against the National Con- gress for Unemployment and So- cial Insurance is fast being over-| come here as committees ap- pointed in trade~unions to “investi- gate” bring back favorable reports. Delegates to the congress were elected by the Bricklayers over the protests of Robert Moore, president of the State Federation of Labor. Other unions are beginning to co- operate and are holding back en- dorsements until they investigate. Top officials of the A, F. of &. could not get local unions to refuse out- right and they compromised on “investigation.” A mass meeting for the Congress will be held on Friday, Dec. 28 at House. Local speakers include A. L. Bowers, international organizer of Local 91, Blacksmiths, Drop- forgers and Helpers; Joe Strange, Secretary Dairy Employes Federal Labor Union 18477; A. Thorp, sec- retary Lodge 46, Switchmen’s Union of North America, Dr. H. A. Elku- rie, prominent Birmingham physi- cian, and E. A. Bradford, editor of Inducted as Deputy In Moscow Sov (Special to the tet Daily Worker) Negro Shock-Brigader (Linen Plant Workers Vote 'To End Strike Southbridge Wool Mill MOSCOW, Dec. 26.—-Robert Robinson, American Negro| LHreatens to Close worker elected by thousands of fellow-workers to serve Doors Next Month 7 p. m. at the Jefferson County | his high office. In the immense hall of the district Soviet, Robinson, a/ specialist working in the Gauges Grinding Section of the Tool Shop | in the giant First State Ball-Bear- ing Plant n Moscow, steps on to the} platform and faces the numerous} voters who have gathered to send) their best shock brigader to the) Soviet. He is nervous, this slim, bespec- | tacled young specialist. Modest and retiring by nature, it is sémething of an ordeal for him to be the cen-| ter of attraction of so great a crowd. | But the attention of the workers and the tremendous feeling of re- spect they have for him as a sincere and conscientious worker rapidly disperses his first feelings of nerv- ousness, Net a sound is heard as his biog- raphy is read. The life of a Negro born of poor parents stzikes Soviet workers very deeply, and everybody | present listens intently to every word of this story of. struggle of a Negro worker who has had to face exploitation and humiliation as a result of race prejudice. A Story of Struggle Robert Robinson was born in Jamaica, West Indies. His father was a plantation worker and his mother a laundress for a family which owned a big industrial con- cern. Robinson was allowed to enter this factory as a great concession and at the end of six years became a qualified tool-maker. He yearned to study and become an engineer in the United States and finally man- aged to get to where he erroneousiy expected to find conditions easier. Though a qualified tool-maker, the only work he could get was in the Ford plant in Detroit as a WORCESTER, Mass., Dec, 26.— Strikers of the Stevens Linen Com- | Pany, voted to return to work and laborer. He persevered, studied and|to accept the recommendation of improved his technique by studying | the State Board of Arbitration and Beisaiaty ih ee or al pimeulties. | Conciliation, according to an an- automobile delegation came to the "ouncement by the United Textile Ford plant, and invited him to work | Workers here yesterday. The vote in the Stalingrad Tractor plant. | V@S 261 for acceptance to 51 against, He accepted the invitation and came | ane TORE REAR SON prowiaes) 10F, to the Soviet Union, working for |® six-month agreement, that all some time at the Stalingrad Plant | workers be rehired without discrim~ then he went to the Ball-Bearing | imation, recognition of the union, Plant, where he has worked since 1932. Robinson’s Achievements His skill and conscientious atti- attention of the best cadres of shock workers in the plant. Saving of thousands of rubles have been effected by the plant as a result of the many rationalization proposals that the Negro specialist has introduced, and a fine group of young Soviet workers’ who are now highly skilled gauge grinders have been trained by him. The spirit of conscienciousness in his social duties, and the desire to undezstand the Soviet system of economy is finding expression in the political studies that occupy him in an evening school, tude to his work soon attracted the | displayed in his work also prevails | | and compulsory arbitration, SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 26, —Although the workers of the Hams ilton Woolen Mills here were ordered |to return to work by the national office of the United Textile Workers, the company announced Monday that it will decide on whether the plant will remain permanently closed or reopen at a stockholders’ meeting January 15, The U.T.W. officials in forcing the workers to return on the company’s | terms explained that they do so in |the “interest of saving the plant from moving out.” This was in ac- cordance with the recommendation of the State Board of Arbitration | and Conciliation. | Election meetings are concluding | with unweakened activity. The! average attendance of the electors Workers’ Ire Grows in Moscow is 96.2 per cent. Accord- ing to figures of Dec. 23, 1,879 deputies have been elected the Mos- cow Soviet, including 1,252 workers, 271 engineers, scientists, artists, doctors, 53 students, 99 housewives, 19 handicraft men, etc. 1,252 are} members of the Moscow Soviet for the first time. Forgeries Charged | in Cohoes Relief! (Continued from Page 1) Hiller in a written statement dated Aug. 10. Referring to the bills for medi- cines, Hiller wrote: “My refusal to pass drug claims was due to the fact that in every instance patent and proprietary medicines were prescribed by the few pharmacists who shared in this! business. ., The pharmacist who re- ceived the bulk of the relief business was P. H, Spillane, who is related to Dr, Noonan, one of the physi- | cians paid by the City of Cohoes.” | Hiller’s report was equally clear | on the question of the sales of shoes to relief clients. On this it said: “A number of claims for shoes, running into a considerable amount of money, were presented by the! Lindsay Shoe Co. This firm was} owned by a woman connected with the Board of Education during the | 1933 City Administration and the , business was being conducted by a} clerk who misled people from de- tecting the real owner.” Of coal orders, Mr, Hiller stated that a Cohoes company, “the firm of T, Marsolais and Co., presented claims which were most startling. On their March claim I was com: Pelled to detach over one hundred relief orders on all of which ap- peared forged recipients’ signatures. Food orders, Mr. Hiller found, were also padded—to the benefit of one the Birmingham World, a large his letter attacking the Congress.” continued attempts of the Alabama rulers and their courts to legally murder these boys despite over- whelming proof of their innocence. However, the venomous hatred of the Negro people by the ruling class, its use of its courts and other instruments to maintain the op- pression of the Negro people, is | even more completely bared in the | recent developments in Chicago around the attempt to evict Herbert Newton, Negro Communist. leader, from his home at 615 Oakwood Boulevard. Evicted Because Negro On the landlord’s complaint that Newton was a Negro, Judge Green of the Municipal Court of Chicago, | issued an order for the eviction of Newton and his family, and the white woman, Harriet Johnson, with whom they shared the apart- ment. When the white tenants of the building rallied to Newton's defense and declared a rent strike against the chauvinist landlord, the court ordered the arrest of the leaders of the rent strike. When the furniture of the New- tons, thrown on the streets by the bailiff and police, was returned to the apartment by white and Negro workers of the neighborhood, the Chicago “Red Squad” was sent into ‘action, It raided Newton’s home, jend arrested Jane Newton , her baby, and two young white workers found in the apartment. And now the court and the entire Chicago capitalist press, with the | national Hearst newspaper chain | leading the pack, have launched a Negro newspaper, | Mental Test’ for Jane Newton Another Sign | of Growing Trend Toward Fascism in U. S. By CYRIL BRIGGS frame-up campaign against Jane Newton in an attempt to have her legally adjudged insane. She mar- ried a Negro, therefore she must be out of her mind—this is the fascist, anti-working class reasoning of the boss courts and other institutions of jim-crow capitalism. Hearst’s Chicago American, leader of the fascist attack on the Chicago Workers School, in a front page story on December 15, declared that “Jane Emery Newton was Chicago's problem today.” What Kind of Problem? Why is Jane Newton a problem for Chicago’s ruling class? The Hearst press answers that her quest for a fuller life has “brought her at 26 to poverty, to Communism, to estrangement from her family, riage, and to the threshold of jail.” | @mphasis mine.—C. B.) In other words Jane Newton has earned the hatred of the capitalist class and is at the threshold of jail because she dared to espouse the cause of the working class, and further defied the race hatred edicts of the ruling class by mar- tying a Negro worker! Can there be any doubt, in the light of these developments, in the light of the experience of other minority groups with fascist dicta- torships, that the fate of the Negro |Masses under a fascist dictatorship in this country woud be a tremen- dous increase in persecution, fiercer national oppression and bloody po- groms that would make their con- ditions still more horrible? to miscexenation in a third mar-j jor another local merchant. Three or four milk dealers would often! most reactionary imperialist ele-| ments of capitalism, seeking a way out of the capitalist crisis at the expense and misery of the toilers. Fascism menaces the whole toiling | population, and particularly the Negro and Jewish people. To gain a foothold and. succeed for a time Fascism must fan all the chauvinist hatreds of the most backward sec- tions of the white population, This is the purpose of the notorious decision by the Chicago court against Her- bert Newton and his wife. This is the purpose of the feverish anti- Negro and anti-labor activities of the White Legion and Ku Klux Klan bands in the South which, because of the local strength of the white superiority theories of the ruling class, is a fertile breeding Place for Fascism. It {s because the Negro people stand to be crushed by Fascism that they must see the situation clearly, and realize who are their enemies and who are their friends and natural allies in the fight for Negro liberation and against Fas- cism and imperialist war. Fascism can be defeated only by | the broadest united front struggle of the workers, Negro and white, and all anti-fascists, fighting under the correct leadership of the van-' guard of the working-class, the Communist Party. The Communists are the best fighters for Negro liberation, for the day to day de- mands of the masses, and against Fascism because they are the most relentless enemies of capitalism, supply the same family with milk, a local office manager, J. D. Amyot, who seemed to have the greatest consideration for the milk dealers. “When Mr, Amyot was asked why | he had issued milk orders after they had been issued by the older clerks,” Hiller writes in his report, “his re- ply was that he did not want any milkman to lose business on the route.” According to Charles C. George, former head of the local 'T. BE. R. A, | organization in Cohoes, a similar situation exists in the near-by cities of Troy, Albany and Amsterdam— all of them almost in the shadow of the executive mansion of Gov- ernor Lehman, Relief Foods Spoiied Food spoilage—whether because | of maladministration in the: local distributive apparatus or a fear of competing with private business— | also occurred in Cohoes, Mr. George informed the writer. “In the spring of this year,” he said, “a batch of meat was not distributed and be- came unfit for human consump- tion.” Recent revelations of the spoiling of hundreds of thousands of pounds of potatoes in New York City caused a public sensation, readers will re- member. Reports that the same thing has happened to relief foods in other communities up-state are common. So much for these lesser phases of the relief situation. Tomorrow we will discuss some of the impli- cations of the situation in the light of the forthcoming National Con- gress for Unemployment Insurance in Washington, Jan, 5, 6 and 7, (To Be Continued) Call for Protection Of Prisoners (Continued from Page 1) a swamp near Ellaville, Ga., after Police Chief W. B. Souter of that town had been killed in a fight with arresting on a charge of stealing a pair of overalls. The Negro is said to have shot Souter with his own gun. Police raids and mass arrests of Negroes followed. Dotson is one of many who fled the town. After his capture, Dotson was said to have becn removed to an un-| known prison “for safe keeping.” Night Chief of Police Pilcher, how- ever, stated that “there is a In its protest wire, the L.S.N.R. demands that the Nogro citizens be deputized and armed for self-pro- tection, NICHOLLS, Ga., Dec. 26—In the face of bullets, dynamite and tear gas, an armed Negro worker de- fended himself in a log smokehouse for three and a half hours on Christmas Day against an attack ‘by a lynch gang, led by police offi- cers. He was only forced out of the building when the structure was fired. Stepping out with his hands in the air, he was brutally shot | |down. The police have refused to; reveal the nature of his wounds, but rumors are current that he was fatally wounded, He was sought for fighting a white man. GREENVILLE, 8. C., Dec. 26.— Negro workers attending a Christ- mas celebration in a Negro school house six miles South of Greenville, | defended themselves when threat- | ened by State Highway Patrolman E. D. Milan, who forced his way into the school house with drawn gun and insulting remarks, 4 ‘ eee Over Kirov Killing (Continued from Page 1) toilers against direct their gaze toward the Party, toward Stalin and unanimipusly demanded that the government mete out 4a stern punishment to these das- tardlv and renulsive miscreants. Mercilessly to crush the counter- revolution, which has raised its hand against the leaders of the Party, against the Socialist fatherland— such is the menacing resounding echo of the voice of tens of millions of people. Resolution Demands Shooting The workers of the Moscow face tory, “Krasni Proletari,” expressing the general oninion of the toilers of the country, state in their resolu- tion: “We demand the shooting of the murderers of Kirov, of these per- sons who have sunk to treachery to the fatherland and to terror. By the murder of Kirov they have attempt- ed to bring about a change in the present policy of the Pariy, in the spirit of the so-called Zinoviev- | Trotzkyite platform.” Sargon of this platform is | Well-known from the entire history lof the struggle of the former Zinoviev-Trotzkyite opposition against the Party. This was the | platform denying the possibility of | the construction of socialism in the |U. 8. S. R. This was the platform lot capitulation to the bourgeoisie, The realization of this platform | would have signified the loss of all the gains of the revolution and the jrestoration of the capitalists and jlandlords, The former Zinoviev- | Trotzkyite opposition repeetedly | attempted to push the Party from ‘the path along which Lenin and Stalin led it to victory. In this at~ tempt the Zinovievites made unpre~ cedented contemptible attacks against the Party, encouraging a third force, namely the relics of the bourgeoisie and the kulaks, with hopes for the collapse and the weakening of the Party, for under~ | mining socialist construction, Each | time, after each defeat, the Zino- vievites expressed repentence, promised to remain loyal to the Party, to fight for its line and observe its discipline.’ But they always broke these promises in the most disgusting manner, They re+ newed their treacherous activity ‘against the Party and the Soviet |Government, thus encouraging and ‘inciting the most cowardly deeds Fascism {s the dictatorship of the |# Negro whom he tried to beat while | among the worst of their colleagues, ‘who went as far as white-fascist terrorism and foul murderous at~ tacks upon the best individuals among the working class. Masses Rally Around Party For this reason the toiling masses of the U. 8. S. R. cannot speak calmly of the former Zinovievs Trotzkyite opposition. For this Pos |reason the masses hurl curses at sibility they will give him the works,” | those who nourished this gang of frantic enemies of the socialist fatherland. The toilers of the So. viet Union, who are overjoyed at every success of their great and powerful country, are filled with anxiety toward it and are merciless toward its enemies. The whole ‘idea of their struggle is to remain ‘faithful, to the last drop of their blood, to the cause of socialism, courageously and tirelessly to ime prove the ‘life of the people, to make it happy and abundant, and ‘to infect the proletarians of all capitalist countries with their ex- ample, The dastardly murder of Kirov still further increases the love of | the toiling masses for their Social- ist Ris goa a them around the , around the great Stalin still stronger awakens in them the feelings of vigilance and watchfulness towards the class enemy, toward all relics of de- feated anti-Soviet groups. In reply to the enemy’s onslaught, the creas tive enthusiasm of the toilers of the U.'S. S. R. rises stronger and their. labor in behalf of the sotialist fatherland will become still more Powerful,