The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 28, 1934, Page 2

ng Page 2 es Poindexter Named for Alderman in Chicago Elections) Negro Leader Austrian Fi Aid fo Revolutian Nat Defeated | |. ‘fe Enters Fight On Unity Slate Fight in 3rd Ward to Be for Jobs and Housing for Negro Workers CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—David R Poindexter, militant Negro le of Chicago unemployed workers, out on bail from Joliet penitentiary where he served six months of a five-year sentence, was nominated for alderman of the Third Ward on the Workers’ Ticket at the United Front Nominating Conference at Forester’s Hall on Dec. 23. Poin- dexter was jailed for his activities in the fight for relief. James Hoff- man, organizer of block commit- tees, was nominated for alderman of the Fourth Ward. “While the fight for Negro rights is an important part of our entire election campaign, in these two wards it is our main fight,” declared Poindexter, who is city secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. “We campaign for the right of Negroes to all jobs, to jobs on ele- vated, street car and bus lines, on installation and collection for Bell Telephone. Where Bowman Milk at | 43d and State, and Borden’s at 47th | and Vincennes, are delivering milk to thousands of Negro families, we insist on the hiring of an equal proportion of Negro and white driv- ers. Where the Metropolitan Insur- ance Company, at 47th and Wabash, | is collecting thousands of dollars of premiums weekly in the heart of the Negro territory, we demand the hiring of an equal proportion of | Negro and white agents. Fights for Union Rights “In this campaign we are battling for the right of Negroes to belong to all unions, to the American Federa- tion of Labor unions in their craft. We stand for the establishment of @ special office of the city sealer on the South Side, to inspect food- stuffs and other commodities and put an end to third-rate merchan- dise from all over the city being palmed off here at high prices. demand the right of Negroes to sit on all juries.” The draft program adopted by the conference includes a program for public works, the tearing down of the dilapidated buildings from 47th to 48th Streets and from Dearborn east to the tracks, the building of playgrounds, construction of a model apartment house at 53-54 Dearborn to rent at $4 a room, building of a health center, recrea- tion field, gym and cultural center. Endorsed by Labor Organizations represented at the conference, who endorsed the candi- dates and platform, were the Say Schutzbund Mem- bers in Appeal An appeal for world-wide defense relief for the revolutiona: and peasants of Spain, w ssued by the members of the j Socialist Schutzbund who sur-/| vived the Austrian uprising of | February and are now in the Soviet | Union, was made public here yes- | \terday by the International Labor | | Defense. | Citing the fact that more than} 5,000 were killed by Spanish gov- | ernment troops in Asturias alone | and that more than 80,000 men and | women are now in Spanish prisons, | the appeal says, in part: “The Spanish Revolution has not been defeated. Up to this very day |thousands of Asturian miners are fighting in the mountains against |the merciless enemy which sur-| | passes them in number and in-arms. ; Again and again the masses are | | rising against their torturers. | ;_ “We call upon you anti-fascists! | | You saved us from prison and from |the gallows; save now the victims of Spanish fascism. Tens of thou- sands of Spanish fighters are count- ing upon international solidarity! Intensify the campaign of collec- | tions for the Spanish victims. Or- ganize relief for the prisoners, their | families, and for the families of the | fallen fighters! | “We appeal particularly to our comrades in the trade unions and | social-democratic parties! | “Rally to the united front of soli- | | darity under the leadership of the International Labor Defense. | “In your trade unions and parties |demand the creation of a united | front of relief for the victims. In | every factory, in every organization, in all localities, from committees of | relief, drawing in all anti-fascist |toilers without discrimination as to |their trade union or party adher- | “Your soldarity must dry the tears which are being shed for the thousands of fallen fighters. You | must not maintain silence, you must | not remain indifferent when the | prisoners are perishing in the jails. | “We call upon you! The move- |ment of solidarity with the Span- jish anti-fascist fighters must de- | velop mightily all over the world, juntil the gates of the fascist pris- |ons and jails will be forced open. “Tens of thousands of Spanish I. | L. D. members are risking their lives in organizing the first relief }in the country! You must help them!” | All funds for the victims of Span- | \ish reaction should be sent at once to the national office of the Inter- | jnational Labor Defense, Room 610, | |80 East 11th St, New York City, | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1934 r Spanish CHILDREN OF oR ghters Urge Worker SPANISH HEROES Orphans of Asturian miners who were slaughtered by the fascist troops, who killed their fathers and mothers because they joined in the fight against reaction. Strachey Calls War Always For Profit (Continued from Page 1) fascism our activity that is decisive.” I mentioned here that Sam Kri- ger, a Communist of Bridgeport. been sentenced to 30 di ing an anti-Nazi dem~ ‘out th N rmit on the speech.” | TI could see that the incident | moved him, He replied almost bit- | terly, I thought: “Giving free speech to fascists is like civing free shoot- ing to gangsters. The fascists’ pur- pose is to destroy free speech. Giv- ing them free speech is only to} guarantee its destruction.” About Appeals to Roosevelt I mentioned here that many in| We | best are being murdered, when the this country who denounce reaction and terrorism against the working class. and other fascist develop- ments, make their fight in the form of appealing to Roosevelt and urg-| ing the workers also to appeal to| him as the one who would stop these things. I mentioned, as an example, Norman Thomas’ simul- tanecus denunciation of the ‘Frisco | strike terror and his appeal to Roosevelt to act against it, Strachey countered to this: “To appeal to Roosevelt in such mat- tefS is to appeal to the man who is most responsible for that which you are protesting. The menace of fascism in America comes from American Consolidated Trades/ {0% immediate transmission to the | forces cutside the White House and| Council, Laundry Workers Circle, | Spanish I. L. D., which is conduct- | |ing the defense and distributing re- | from within it. At a certain moment | these two fascist forces coalesce for | International Labor Defense, Un-| lief to the prisoners and their fam- | their common purpose, We in Eng- | employment Council and the Com- munist arty. Robert Minor, of the Central Committee of the Commu- nist Party, addressing the confer- ence, explained that the Commu- nist Party is running candidates for mayor, city clerk and city treasurer, but in the aldermanic elections, the arty endorses the Workers’ Ticket, | and the working class candidates nominated at the various ward con- ferences, Claude Lightfoot and Herbert Newton, now serving 53 days in Bridewell for picketing the Wendell Phillips High School in a demand for the right of Negroes to jobs there, were elected honorary co- chairmen of the conference. Jobless Rise One Percent in Month (Continued from Page 1) creasing seriousness of the unem-| Ployment problem.” Charging that “industry has failed to put men and women to work,” Green ended his announcement with his usual sterile ery that “the responsibility falls on the Government to fin* employment for those who have been denied a chance to earn their bread.” Green, of course, failed to point out that the Government is cooperat- ing with himself, and the dominant bankers and industrialists in op- posing genuine Federal Unemploy- ment Insurance for the present and future unemployed as is provided for in the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, organiza- tion for the passage of which will be the central task of the forth- coming National Congress for un- employment insurance, Green sup- ports Roosevelt in opposition to federal unemployment insurance and for a sub “reserves” plan which would not apply to the totally un- employed. The last six months’ increase in unemployment, according to A. F. of L. figures, is as follows: May, 10,248,000; June, 10,310,000; July, 10,793.000; August, 10,821,000; Sep- tember, 10,950,000; October, 11,039,- 000; November, 11,459,000. What is the situation in the _ Saar? Only the Daily Worker gives the authentic facts! The Daily Worker is the only paper which gives an accurate analysis of the historic events now taking place throughout the world. To | read the Daily Worker regularly | is the best thing any worker can | do for himself. Become a sub- jilies, and to the families of the | workers and peasants murdered by | the fascists. More Unions Join Insurance Fight, (Continued from Page 1) One hundred and ten delegates have been elected from Cleveland. Three or four special busses will be chartered to bring the delegates to Washington. The busses will leave from the Greyhound Terminal Friday, Jan. 4, at 4 pm. Round trip fare, including registration fee, will be $10, Packing Workers Elect Delegate The Packinghouse Workers Indus- trial Union Local 115 elected a del- | egate to the National Congress at the last union meeting and voted $20 for expenses. | Thirty-seven delegates represent- ing eleven Jewish organizations and two Painters Educational Councils elected four delegates to the Na-| tional Congress at a recent city conference. The Slovac section of the Ohio Association for Unemployment In- surance met in an emergency con- ference here last Sunday and voted | that each of the forty organizations represented send delegates to Wash- | ington in addition to those from | the Association. Fifty copies of the | Unemployment Insurance Review | were sold at the conference, Plan Mass Send-Off | NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 27— The New Orleans Unemployment Councils today called upon all work- ers to assemble at Canal and Front Streets Monday morning, Dec. 31 at @ send-off rally to the twelve dele- gates who will leave for the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment Insurance, The demonstration will demand immediate increased cash relief and | the release of the unemployed workers now held in jail for their militant demand for more relief, Send-Off in Newark NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 27—Work- ers here will give the delegates from Essex County to the National Con- gress for Unemployment Insurance @ mass send-off Thursday evening, Jan. 3 at 8 o'clock. The mass rally will be held at Sokol Hall, Morris Avenue. Leaders of the Unemploy- ment Council and of the State Fed- eration of Unemployed and Relief | Workers will speak. The mass meeting, to which all | unemployed and relief workers are being especially mobilized, will also be asked to endorse the general work relief strike call for New Jer- sey, land can see this happening quite | clearly. and surely it is no longer | difficult to see how it happened in | Germany and Austria. Surely, that is one of the lessons of these events.” The conversation veered to the recent events in the Soviet Union, the assassination of Kirov and the| round-up of class enemies. Soviet Enemies There was no mistaking Stra- chey’s meaning here. He spoke sharply and with unmistakable in- tensity. “The murder of Kirov shocked us into the realization that the enemies of the Soviet Union oe et active and dangerous,” he said. I interrupted here, remarking that many who proclaimed themselves friends of the Soviet Union were | willing to join a White Guard meet- ing in New York “protesting the terrorism in the name of the workers’ cause.” “The workers’ government in the Soviet Union,” he spoke intensely, “Ss the one basis for a civilized world. It is not only just, but necessary, that it take the sternest measures against its enemies who seek to destroy it. In this act it is defending one of the most precious things in the world, it is defending workers’ democracy against capital- ist enemies. I can not reconcile professions of friendship with such actions as you described to me here.” This brought us to a discussion of the position of England in relation to the Soviet Union. “British im- perialism,” the said, “is torn by its desire to organize the anti-Sovict | front and its fear of Germany. Be- tween these feelings it attempts to steer its foreign policy.” Bringing our afternoon’s talk to an end, I brought up the subject of the spectacle of hunger and misery which confronts every honest ob- server in all capitalist countries. “Yes, the crisis is bringing these miseries into the homes of millions upon millions. In England we are fighting hunger by hunger marches. The one to London had more than 150,000 workers in it. I see that you are having a National Congress for Social and Unemployment In- surance on January 5. That is the only way to extort, and I use this word advisedly, any relief from the rich and powerful. I see the Com- munist Party is exerting all its energies in this fight, as it always does, leading the struggles of the masses.” “It is curious,” Strachey contin- ued, “that this hunger march of ours produced a Labor majority, the workers thinking that in this way they were advancing their fignt against hunger. Unfortunately, they will get little from the Labor majority. The election of this majority does not lessen at all che need for pressure on the govern- before it takes hold. It is| Chicago ‘Holds United Front ‘Election Rally | CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—Despite the | efforts of the police to block the ,| meeting by closing the K. of P. Hall S for | ‘ation ermit of the Socialist | y, Who had refused a jto them, more than 35 elected dele- Bates representing 25 working class groups held a united front election grounds of “free | Conference here, In addition to the delegates, more than 200 workers were present. The conference was endorsed by two A. F. of L. locals, a carmen’s and carpenters’ local, The report was given by Benja- min Knox, a candidate on a Work- ers’ Ticket in the same ward two years ago. Robert Minor spoke for the Communist Party, and dealt with the’ general economic and po- litical situation in the country. The conference endorsed the Jan. 13th Mayoralty Conference and elected two delegates to it, The high point of the conference was the nomination of the Com- munist candidate, George Racz, member of the Milk Drivers Local 753, and formerly a member of Car- penters Brotherhood, 62. Racz has been working for the Capitol Dairy for five years, and last week, be- cause he was endorsed and asked to run in the elections by workers’ organizations, he was fired. He was unanimously accepted, with tremen- dous enthusiasm, as the candidate for Alderman in the Eighth Ward. The central issue of the confer- ence is the demand for the rein- statement of the candidate on his Job. A delegation of five was elected to visit the Capitol Dairy to de- mand, in the name of the confer- ence, his immediate reinstatement. Debt Accord Expected Soon With U.S.S.R. YOKOHAMA, Dec. 27.—Alexander Troyanovsky, Soviet Ambassador w the United States, before leaving here for America expressed his con- fidence that the debt problem exist- ing between the two countries would soon be settled. This would commence a large ex- pansion of trade between the two countries, the Ambassador predicted. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. — The frank declaration of Ambassador Troyanovsky in Yokohama that he was confident that the Soviet Union and the United States would soon | liquidate their debt problem gave rise here yesterday to the belief that @ formula for settlement had been arrived at and that soon after Troy- anovsky reached Washington the agreement would be announced. Ambassador ‘Troyanoysky’s an- nouncement came on the same day as the arrival of Ivan E, Boyeff in New York to become chairman of the board of the Amtorg Trading Corporation, Soviet trading body in America, During the past few months rep- resentatives of American industry and finance have been visiting the Soviet, to pave the way for increased trade, which they believe will follow on a debt agreement. The Soviet Union, too, has sent to the United States an increased number of rep- resentatives of its state trust. More than forty engineers and purchas- ing agents have visited here in the past few months and more are due soon, Never before has the oppor- tunity to get new readers for the Daily Worker been so great. Get your friends and shopmates to become regular readers of the paper. Get a subscription TO- DAY! ment. This will have to continue if anything is to be won.” I rose to go. Strachey was telling me of his plans for his lecture this evening at the Mecca Temple. The squalls of his six month old son, Charles, broke in on us from an adjoining room, “My domestic du- ties,” he apologized hastily, turn- ing toward the other room, “See you at the meeting on Friday,” I replied. I really wouldn't like to miss it, ==} Kirov Murderer Accuses Consul (Continued from Page 1) arose from “the platform of the Trotskyite-Zinoviev bloc—which was to undermine the authority of the present leadership and to replace it by leaders of our own organi- zation, Zinoviey, Kamenev, etc., who are supporters of changing the present Party line.” Hanik further testified: “Our organization imbued us with the view that difficulties will con- tinue in the country (the achieve- | ments were not taken into account) so long as the present leaders direct the Party. Hence, from these counter-revolutionary positions and views arose the terrorist act which vantsev, who was described by another accused, Tormasoy, as a most definite supporter of terrorist methods, similarly described the feelings which dominated this group. Regarding the terrorist methods of action adopted by this under- ground anti-Soviet group, Nikolaev gave exhaustive testimony: Hoped for Intervention “We could not expect a change in the Party leadership by methods of inner-party democracy. We real- ize that this path was entirely ex- cluded. Hence, one path alone re- mained—the path of terrorist acts. When I shot at Kirov, I reasoned thus: Our shot must be the signal for calling for actions within the country against the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Government.” Not hoping, however, to bring about such actions “inside the coun- try” the group put its stakes directly on “help from the outside,” on armed intervention and assistance from certain foreign governments. The hope for intervention as the only method to overthrow Soviet power, clearly chasacterizes the views of the accused Nikolaev him- self, who did not conceal this from the persons nearest him. The investigation established that Nikolaev, according to a preliminary agreement, frequently visited a cer- tain consulate in Leningrad (the country and the name of the con- sul is not given in the published copy of the indictment for diplo- matic reasons) and conducted nego- tiations with him on the possible forms of help for the group. Niko- laev gave that consul information on certain questions interesting to him. Nikolaev stated in his testi- mony of Dec, 20: Deal With Consul “I indicated that we were always ready to assist the consul with correct information on what was taking place within the Soviet Union. Further, I requested the; consul to give us material help, stat- ing that we would return the money received from him when our finan- cial affairs changed. At our next meeting—the third or fourth in the premises of the consulate—tine con- sul informed me that he agreed to satisfy my request and gave me 5,000 rubles. He said that he could establish contacts with Trotzky if I gave him some letter from the group to Trotzky. I informed Koto- linov of my talk with the consul, giving him 4,500 rubles and retain- ing 500 rubles for myself.” Thus the aims and methods of struggle of this counter-revolution- ist terrorist group in Leningrad completely coincides with the aims and methods of the open enemies of the people—the emigrant White- Guard landlord-capitalist organiza- tions, the “Russian General Mili- tary Union” and the “Brotherhood of Russian Truth” (the Denikinites), who openly advocate terror, sys- tematically sending their agents into the territory of the U. 8. S, R. with the aim of and conducting terrorist acts against the representatives of Soviet power and who committed the murders of Vo- rovsky, Soviet Minister to Poland, and Voykov, Soviet representative assassinated at Geneva, Two Terrorist Groups During this period two terrorist groups were operating in Leningrad. One of them, to which Nikolaey be- longed, was led by a member of the “Leningrad Center,” named Kotoli- nov. The other group, according to Nikolaev, worked under the leader- ship of Shatski. The Kotolinov group prepared the terrorist act against Kirov and the actual per- formance of the murder was as- signed to Nikolaev. A similar task was given to the Shatski group, which acted independently from the first group. Nikolaev testified that the Kotolinov group had pre- pared a terroristic act also against Stalin, utilizing the contacts which they possessed in Moscow. Simul- taneously, Shatski, with his group, also made preparations to kill Stalin. The preparations for the murder of Kirov were conducted chiefly in the Smolny district, while Shatski operated in the district of Kirov’s home. In the summer of 134 Shatski had already made observations of Kirov’s apartments, recording all the movements of Kirov, The pos- sible alternative forms of attack were worked out by Nikolaev and Kotolinoy. According to the testi- mony of Nikolaev, Kotolinov said that “the removal of Kirov would weaken the existing leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, that the former opposition had a special grudge against Kirov in connection with the struggle which he organized against the Leningrad opposition.” The plan of attack, dated Nov. 1 and found on Nikolaev when he was arrested, was worked out to the slightest details, providing even for hindrances and difficulties which he might meet on his path. For a long time Nikolaev and his confederates had made careful preparations to carry out the crime. For several months he practiced shooting and took steps for passing into hiding, in connection with which he prepared 1 Formation of Company NEWARK, torial writers into a company day when the strike committee office for League.” It was further learned that the League will attempt to or- ganize units in other cities of the United States. The registered agent of the organization is Joseph C. Donovan, the only striker who has returned to work, Donovan Aubrey L. Pierce, Jack Boyle, Walter L. Winn and Fred A. Webster. The four latter are “trustees” of the organization. In their statement they say the j League proposes to unite editors, ‘ sub-editors, editorial writers, re- write men, reporters, photographers, artists and retouchers. The four trustees were former Guild mem- bers but proved to be strikebreak- ers. The strike committee, after point- ing out that such a move was to be expected and that its strikebreaking character would be publicized, par- All-Scab Union Formed By Publisher to Break of Fact That Publishers Are Trying to Destroy Newspaper Guild J., Dec. 27.—Rumors that L. T. Russell, publisher of the Newark Ledger, is organizing his scab edi-| breakers have filed incorporation papers at the county clerk’s | the “American Editorial¢- The following are the five, all of! Newark, who filed the papers:| company union, the type of em- Union Is Confirmation! union, were confirmed yester- learned that five of the strike- | asta — | ticularly in towns where the Ameri-| can Newspaper Guild is not yet or- genized, states: “The formation of the American} Editorial League by four former Guild members now on the Ledger) staff, and one strikebreaker, rep-| resents an obvious attempt by L. T. Russell, publisher, to form a ployee organization which has been thoroughly discredited. Joseph Don- ovan, the registered agent, was the last Guild man to join the strike and: the only one of the strikers to go back to work.” Russell’s initiative in forming the company union is a further con- firmation of the fact that Russell is holding out in face of a tremen- dous decrease in the circulation of his paper, and with consequent great financial losses, only because he is backed by powerful newspaper in- terests who want to smash the American Newspaper Guild. blank forms and stamps of various government institutions. Faked Documents With the aim of covering traces of the crime and concealing his confederates, and also with the aim | of masking the real motives of the murder of Kirov, Nikolaev prepared a number of documents (a diary and applications for various insti- tutions) in which he endeavored to depict his crime as an act of per- sonal despair and dissatisfaction, owing to an alleged difficult mate- rial situation and as a protest) against “the unjust attitude toward @ living person by various govern- ment officials.” Nikolaev himself admitted the falsity and fictitious- ness of such a version, explaining that he concocted this version by a preliminary agreement with mem- bers of the terrorist group, who de- cided to devict the murder of Kirov as an individual act and thus con- ceal the real motives of the crime. In his testimony of Dec, 13 Niko- laev directly stated: “I should have depicted the mur- der of Kirov as an individual act in order to conceal the participation of the Zinoviev group in it.” This circumstance is also confirmed by the fact that Nikolaev, as was estab- lished exhaustively during the proc- ess of the investigation, decisively | and systematically rejected any pro- posal to find work for him on the grounds that weak health and the necessity for study, or any other cir- cumstance which he professed, pre- vented him from starting work. Killer Well Off The investigation established by the testimony of a number of wit- nesses, including that of Nikolaev’s| mother and wife, that Nikolaev did not suffer any material want and likewise his family was not in want. The absence of any material dif- ficulties for Nikolaev is also shown by the fact that he occupied a well- furnished and big flat and had rented a country house at Sestro- retski, a resort on the shores of the Gulf of Finland. The material situation of Nikolaev and his fi- nances cap be judged also by his own testimony on receiving con- siderable sums of money from a certain consul. Nikolaev directly states in his testimony: “I informed Kotolinov that I de- cided not to obtain a job during the | period of preparation for the act so’ that I should have enough free time to carry out the murder of Kirov. Kotolinov approved my decision.” The _ investigation considers proven that in the summer of 1934} in Leningrad an underground counter-revolutionary terrorist group, consisting of former mem- bers of the Zinoviev anti-Soviet bloc, was organized and had the) aim of disorganizing the leadership of the Soviet Government by ter- rorist acts directed against the lead- ers of Soviet power, attempting to change the present policy in the spirit of the so-called Zinoviev- Trotzkyite platform; that the ac- cused Nikolaev, Kotolinov, Myas- nikov, Shatski, Mandelstam, Soko-| lov, Zvezdov, Yuskin, Rumyantsev, Antonovantonov, Hanik, Tolmazov, Levin and Sositsky were members of this underground counter-revo- lutionary terrorist group; that this group was directed by the illegal terrorist “Leningrad Center,” con- sisting of the accused Kotolinov, Shatski, Rumyantsev, Mandelstam, Myasnikov, Levin, Sositsky and Nikolaev; that the counter-revolu- tionist terrorist “Leningrad Center,” on the grounds mentioned above of criminal aims and also of the quoted motives of vengeance against Sergei Kirov, member of the Presidium of the Central Ex- ecutive Committee of the U. S. R., member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and secretary of the Cen- tral and Leningrad Committees of the C. P. S. U., who had ideologi- cally and politically smashed the Leningrad group of the former Zinovievites, worked out the plat and organized the. murder of Sergei Kirov, which was carried out by Nikolaev on Dec. 1. Nikolaev fully admitted his guilt. Kotolinov pleaded guilty to belong- ing to the underground counter- ‘regulation or construction will be one of its leaders. While denying his direct participation in the mur- der of Kirov, Kotolinov, however, admitted that as an active member and the leader of this group he bears responsibility for the crime. Shatski pleaded not guilty, but is implicated by the testimony of | Nikolaev, Kotolinovy and others of the accused. Sokolov pleaded guilty to being a member of the under- ground terrorist group, denying | direct participation in the prepara- tions for the murder of Kirov, Zvezdov fully admitted his guilt. | Yuskin denied belonging to the group, but nevertheless admitted that he knew of the preparations to murder Kirov, Antonov fully ad- mitted his guilt. Rumyantsev pleaded guilty to belonging to the underground group of the former Zinovievites. Mandistam pleaded | guilty both to belonging to this group and to being a member of the “Leningrad Center.” Tolmazov Pleaded guilty to belonging to the | above mentioned group. Levin; pleaded guilty to being one of the leaders of the Leningrad un- derground group of the former Zinovievites, Hanik and Myasnikov also pleaded guilty on the same charge. Sositsky pleaded guilty to belonging to the “Leningrad Center” and to knowing the terroristic methods of the members of the un- derground anti-Soviet group of the former Zinovievites. The social position of all the ac- cused was that of office workers and students, former members of the Communist Party expelled for be- longing to Zinoviev’s anti-Soviet group and reinstated after their hypocritical repentance, Their crimes come under clauses 58-8 and 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the R. S, F. 8. R. According to the decision of the Central Execu- tive Committee of the U, 8. 8. R., dated December Ist, they will be tried by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U.S. 8. R. The indictment is signed by Dep- uty Public Prosecutor of the U. S. S. R. Andre Wishinsky and endorsed by Public Prosecutor of the Soviet Union I, Akulov. Monopolists’, Profits Safe In Power Plan WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—Con- fronted with the recommendations of government engineers for a na- tion-wide coordination of all elec- tric power production, President’ Roosevelt. yesterday hastened to! make it clear that whatever steps the government will take in utility, i entirely within the limits of co-) operation with the Wall Street private monopolies. i Discussing the report submitted | to him by the Mississippi Valley commission of the P. W. A. on elec- tric power, Roosevelt also made it clear that the localities will prob- ably have to bear the costs of the utility construction. The report submitted to Roose-} velt by the engineers paints a re-| markable picture of the immense. electric resources which are going) to waste under the present set-up of capitalist monopoly. “The production and distribution of electricity, more than most other] 47 S./ factors, demands a unified national system,” the report states. But, the report goes on to re- assure the Wall Street monopolies that “it should not be difficult to reconcile the public and private in- terests involved . . .” meaning the protection of monopoly ownership and profits. A picture of actual degradation of living standards of the rural population was given by the report which showed that 5,000,000 farms have no electric service at all, only 800,000 farms were electrified, and of these only 650,000 had “high | born and for supporting Democratic Workers’Enemies | Exposed David L, Jones, of Dearborn, Mich. has been expelled by the Michigan District of the Commu- nist Party for betraying the inter- ests of the working class in Dear- 2s SRNR IT Party candidates in the 1934 elec- tions. David L, Jones admitted, in a letter to the District Committee, Democratic candidate running i the primaries, Swiacki, for which he received pay, He stated “that this constitutes direct support to the Democratic mechine who are the enemies and exploiters of the working class; and that such an act can only be construed as dew parture from working class prin-|) ciples and from the Communist. Party. The Party would be justi-) Such actions not only violate the principles of the Party but serve to aid the Republican and Demo- cratic Parties who, Domain, are sold body and soul to the exploiters of the workers.” into consideration his opportunistic past and give him a further op- portunity to show in practice that he could be trusted by the Party and the workingclass, L. Jones, continued secretly and, in the last part of the recent cam- paign, Democratic candidates, for which work he received pay and the promise of a job. Jones has, there fore, shown that he is not to be | taken at his word. In this election campaign, he con<_ tinued the same treacherous acti< vities which were evidenced in the campaign of 1933, eandidate for Mayor. At that time, he negotiated with Democratic poli- ticlans to secure their support for his candidacy in return for support which he was to give for the Demo- cratic candidates to the city coun~ cil. Because of the vigilance of the workers, however, Jones was not able to carry out such an agree- ment at that time. But now he has completely gone to the class ene- mies. Jones joined the Communist Party in 1933. Prior to this time, he was in Flint and worked with the local politicians and formed part of the McKeighan machine. He was arrested as a bootlegger in Flint and was released on parole for two years. Before Flint, he lived in Pontiac where he was a chiropractor. Jones has proven himself to be a characte:ess, opportunistic job seeker, ready to sell himself to th highest bidder, one who is not to’ be trusted in any respect. The Communist Party in ex- pelling him from its ranks calls upon the workers of Detroit and Dearborn to be on guard against this tool of the capitalist class. The Communist Party calls upon the auto workers and in particular upon the Ford workers and upon all honest and class conscious workers, to rally around the Communist Party and to answer the betrayal of Jones by joining the ranks of the Party of the working class—~ the Communist Party. District Committee Michigan District COMMUNIST PARTY OF U.S. A. Noted Lawyer Is Endorsed As Gui DETROIT, Dec, 27, — Maurice Sugar, noted labor attorney, has be- come a candidate in the non-par< tisan elections for judge of the Recorder's Court, to be held here in March. Sugar was requested to run by a group of professionals and ine tellectuals at a meeting here Friday night. He has been endorsed by the Detroit and Wayne County Federa- tion of Labor and the Mechanics Educational Society of America, and is also receiving the support of left- wing organizations. Sugar is one of the outstanding labor attorneys in the country and has been identified with the labor movement for 20 years. He has been attorney for the International Lae bor Defense in a number of ime portant cases, The most recent of these was the frame-up months ago of James Victory, a Negro..worker who was accused of having slashed a white woman. the course of this trial, Sugar effect+ ively exposed the frame-up | and the monstrous national | sion of the Negro people, and, back: by mass pressure, won the acquital Victory. Sugar is active in the American League Against War and Fascism, What is the historic signifi- cance of the National Congress for Unemployment and Social In- surance, which opens in Wash- ington on Jan. 5? The Daily Worker tells you! No American worker can afford to be without the accurate information on the subject which the Daily Worker gives. See to it that every worker you know becomes a reader of the Daily Worker. If you are em-« reyolutionary group and: to being power” service, ? ployed, get a subscription for an riend, that he put up placards for the | not only | generally, but especially in the Ford © Nira mE fied in expelling me from its ranks... | | 1 In j his letter, he also stated that he © realized his mistakes and asked ~ that the District Committee take © Nowithstanding this letter, David openly to work for the | in Dearborn, © when he ran as the united front —